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COVID-19 immunizations, masks and immune support; A functional medicine perspective. · Intellectual Medicine

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  Hello everybody. Its dr.
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  Steve had a routine. You're listening to the
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  intellectual medicine podcast, the place where we use our
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  thought process and information to guide us in how to form
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  opinion and take action. Today.
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  I'm going to be talking about covid, Delta the immunization
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  face masking and we're going to draw a connection between Botox
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  and face masking and the war in the Middle East and the
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  immunization. We'll show you how things
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  connect and help guide you towards a manner of thinking
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  that can help inform decisions, you know, intellectual medicine
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  is specifically about processing data and applying it in real
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  time in a manner that supports our best health, which begs
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  definition, what is health and that is a variable depending on
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  what we value. So it all comes down to a point.
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  Philosophy and this is the missing element from our current
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  raging debate about the immunization and what actions
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  are worth taking and which are not.
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  So this pivots on philosophy and it starts by stripping away some
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  core facts and unless you are ilk unless that is you are
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  inclined toward a rather extreme position.
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  Here are some facts, fact number one.
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  The viral pandemic is a real phenomenon.
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  Amin on. Its Origins are not important in
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  this moment based upon this conversation.
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  We're going to focus on the issues at hand.
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  I'm not going to dive into its Origins and whether or not it
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  was hatched in a lab as a particular cabal against the
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  Western Society. The fact is it's here.
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  Look, I'm a family doc and I do functional medicine, anti-aging
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  therapies. I am pushing boundaries of human
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  Wellness in a manner to keep us vibrant.
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  That means the essence, the core being of my practice is somewhat
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  theoretical and experimental, but here's the facts that we
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  deal with everyday in our world. People get old and they suffer
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  adverse consequence and people die the questions then turn to
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  what can be done. So let's look at these pandemic.
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  People have died from this virus irrefutable.
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  Let's look at another fact. Some people have died from the
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  immunization that to is relatively irrefutable.
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  It's uncommon. It's rare that somebody has an
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  anaphylactic reaction leading to immediate death, but that can
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  happen for people to ignore. That fact is to undermine
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  credibility. I'm not implying that the
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  immunization is a terror on to society and health at large.
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  There are some people who I feel that way.
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  I'm not one of them but rather we have to weigh risk versus
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  benefit and that requires a bigger stage.
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  So we've established one fact that people are dying from the
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  virus. We've established another fact,
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  some people are going to die from the immunization and or
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  suffer negative consequence. Here are some other facts as
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  well. This pandemic.
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  This virus is likely to be with us in some way, shape, or form
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  for as long as we are alive. Coronavirus is not brand new
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  folks. It's been around.
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  Since before you were born. It causes what we refer to as
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  the common cold. That is certain strains of it.
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  It's not to imply that those strains of the same as the ones
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  at play, but merely to reflect back the fact that it will be
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  with us. And if we continue to culture
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  healthy people on a random basis will continue to find it.
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  And if we continue to ascribe significance to that, as in a
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  totally healthy person, that harbors of Iris, Is in at-risk,
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  human to the rest of society, it paints us in a difficult box.
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  And this is unprecedented. The idea that we're culturing,
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  otherwise healthy people and trying to decide Public Health
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  mandates. Based upon that information.
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  It would be like culturing people for Clostridium.
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  Difficile. No, c-diff is a natural
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  inhabitant of the gastrointestinal tract.
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  If it grows in disproportionate, Numbers.
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  It can make you sick if it's present in a small amount as it
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  frequently is you'll never know that.
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  It's there. It just exists.
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  So a lot of what's happening in the pandemic is theoretically
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  based the problem. Some of us have is when it is
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  framed as Stone fact, that is irrefutable.
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  So, let's go back to the immunization.
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  It comes down to this. If you have volition, that is
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  free. Will should you get the shot?
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  Or not. And that comes down to risk
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  versus benefit and that comes down to Afghanistan versus
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  America. What am I talking about?
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  In a broad sense, any one individual can take an action
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  strictly based upon their well-being.
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  Is it in your best interest? If you're a 28 year old healthy
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  person to be immunized. What's your risk?
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  If you get infected, probably not that great.
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  What's the risk of humanization? Maybe you're not going to feel
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  so good for a week, a few days. Maybe something worse in all
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  likelihood. You'll blow through the
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  immunization. Like I did.
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  Yes. I got my immunization with no
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  problem. But it's a bigger platform.
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  You have to ask this question as you contemplate, whether or not
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  you or your children should be immunized you believe in only
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  taking an action based upon your individual benefit.
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  If that's your soul reflection, then it informs a decision, a
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  bit differently. Therefore if the sole decision
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  is what's right for my 16 year old son.
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  That is what's his risk of not getting immunized versus getting
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  immunized. It's a debatable point, the risk
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  to a twelve sixteen year old. My son, my 16 year old who's
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  totally healthy from getting the virus pretty damn small.
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  Maybe it's a few days of school will be out of school.
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  Be sick like the flu, the likelihood of hospitalization
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  approaches zero. The likelihood of death
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  approaches zero and yet I had immunized because there's
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  another part of Conversation folks, would you do something
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  and put yourself at some risk, albeit small for the betterment
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  of the country at large or mankind, or your neighbor, or
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  your grandmother, or your parents?
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  Would you take that risk? Let's look at it from another
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  perspective. I've got a thousand bucks in my
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  wallet. Okay.
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  I really don't, but suppose I did, would I be better served?
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  Personally, me to spend that money on my own interests or
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  giving it away. Away.
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  Society at large, May benefit for me, giving it away, but
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  it'll come at a price that is a thousand dollars to me
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  personally. Now, let's go to Afghanistan.
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  Let's go to the Middle East. Let's go to.
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  Let's go to the first as its storm.
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  Would a young American going to fight Iraq in the first Desert
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  Storm. Be better served, if you just
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  stayed home he or she Is the risk greater personally to go
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  into the war or is it better to stay at home?
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  Obviously, it's better to stay at home.
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  If all you're looking at, is your personal risk, but
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  theoretically, by going into that war.
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  And offering the risk of possible death, theoretically I
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  will make America a more secure place my children, my
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  grandchildren, the people, I love will live a better life.
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  That is Jen that is selflessness extended on a, on a real extreme
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  level. I would make the same argument
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  for those of you contemplating, the immunization.
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  There is a bit of a war going on.
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  It's called this pandemic. Now we can rage and we can
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  debate about how we should react.
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  Should we quarantine? Should we not?
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  Let's put that aside in this moment when an immunization is
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  available. It's right there on the shelf.
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  And the question in the immediate term is should you
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  take it or not? So, I had my immunization.
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  I'm a doctor. I'm a vector, I'm exposing
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  people everyday. My responsibility, my
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  willingness to tolerate personal risk is significantly Greater by
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  virtue of the oath. I took to become a physician.
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  We owe it to our patients. We owe it to the people.
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  We come in contact with, to minimize the possibility that we
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  will cause them harm at every level.
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  Even if there's a certain modicum of personal risk.
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  I got the immunization. I work.
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  The next day, I felt fine. We'll talk more in a moment
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  about other elements of self-protection and my children
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  got immunized. Their risk is small.
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  I told you that, but I believe in the sense of a communal
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  benefit. The more people look at
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  immunized, the better. It's going to be for Society at
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  large whether or not it actually cuts off propagation of this
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  virus is not unknown. It's a theoretical construct.
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  When we look at the rates of penetration of the virus, it is
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  theoretically possible that if more people get immunized, the
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  virus will have less of a safe haven in which to mutate.
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  It's an unproven Theory, but the logic is pretty sound and we're
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  starting to see it play out a bit.
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  When you look at the states that have higher Transmissions versus
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  those, that don't and it correlates with the
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  immunization. So, we have to look at that
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  broader peace, folks. And if you choose not to get
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  immunized. That's okay.
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  It's free. Will we're a country that values
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  freedom. And I am not a dogmatic probe
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  Axor. In fact, I was against the
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  mandated human papillomavirus, and I still am in the state of
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  Rhode Island because it's not a vector that's transmitted
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  through the air. It's different than this
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  pandemic, which can clean people regardless of their personal
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  behaviors. An aerosolized infection is just
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  a riskier animal and therefore the benefit of an immunization
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  ticks up a notch. And we have to ask ourselves
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  that question, would we be willing to expose ourselves to
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  some degree personal risk, and I've heard the argument made.
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  Well, the immunization is experimental.
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  Yes, so is life. So everything that we do every
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  day has a degree of experimental nature to it.
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  If people are arguing that you shouldn't get immunized because
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  of the unknown long-term risks. They're not being honest in
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  their debate. What they're really saying is
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  they don't believe in it period forever because long-term risk
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  is open-ended. The measles mumps and rubella
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  shot. Never got tested for long-term
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  risk with regard to Future reproductive impact on humans.
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  That is a never took a group of two-year-olds immunized in with
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  measles mumps and rubella and then assess them over 30 years
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  to see with their fertility rates were, it's not possible to
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  do that study. Here's another thing you can't
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  do, you can't take any mean ization and then see what the
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  correlation would be in 40 years with regard to dementia rates.
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  Its importance. Possible there are theoretical
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  constructs but in possibilities to discern absolute outcome, so
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  in intellectual medicine, we have to do reflective thinking
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  and make some rational conclusions.
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  Otherwise, we're paralyzed in inactivity.
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  The theoretical construct of what I do every day for my
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  patients, high dose, vitamin C, LED reduction through chelation.
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  There's evidence supporting these Pathways, but absolute
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  proof that eludes most decisions when it comes to our own health.
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  And the health of society at large.
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  We will never know if we would have been better off as a
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  society to not flatten the curb but rather let the virus just
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  burns. Ooh, everybody as fast as it
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  could, let it take some people, people are going to die.
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  And then hope that it goes away. And that those of us that
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  survived the wave will have some type of darwinian Advantage will
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  never know if that approach would have been better.
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  It was, it's a theoretical construct, that wasn't put to
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  the test in part, because we're an empathic society.
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  When we consider it a bit inhumane to willfully, expose
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  large populations, but it's not irrational.
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  I remember when I was a kid when somebody got chickenpox.
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  Everybody came over hung around Little Johnny so that the
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  chicken pox would burn through the neighborhood fast my sisters
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  and I we all got it within a week of one another.
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  It came. It went we survived, not,
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  everybody survived chicken pox. Some people got sick and died.
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  But nevertheless people are going to get sick and die from
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  viral illnesses. Be at the flu covid.
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  I'm not being Cavalier. I'm simply balancing reflection.
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  So when somebody tells you the immunization is safe.
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  It's a relative statement. A better way to say that.
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  Is that the immunization appears to be very low risk?
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  And that's the risk to benefit ratio of immunizing versus
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  waiting to get infected appears to favor being immunized.
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  That is a more balanced way to frame this discussion.
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  And if somebody says, I don't want to get immunized, then
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  they're saying in essence my well-being supersedes that of
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  everybody else's all the people. I may be in contact with and I'm
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  making this decision in my own self interest.
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  And that's okay. After all, we live in America
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  and for the most part, we accept individual prerogative above
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  mandates. Now, we're getting to a point
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  where a mandate may be coming with regard to children in
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  school. When the Pfizer immunization
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  games full approval from the FDA and gains full approval for
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  children. It will be hard to argue against
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  mandating enemas, ation for kids to go to school.
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  And here's why what's that? I know you're some of you are
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  recoiling. Yes.
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  I'm a functional doctor, but look at the bigger picture
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  suppose. You're the parent of that child.
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  With diabetes with an immunologic weakness and you
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  want them to go to school fully, but there's a risk because of
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  transmission that risk can be diminished.
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  If not nearly obliterated by Universal immunizations.
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  So there is a rational reasonable argument to be made
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  in favor of that. When it comes to a requirement
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  to enter school and it has to do with protecting the weakest
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  amongst us. Not The individual benefit.
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  Any one person. It's like the Americans with
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  Disabilities Act. Do I need a ramp to go in a
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  building? No, does a ramp negatively
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  affect me while sort of because, you know, there's a rise in
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  expense that trickles down everybody so that ramp that you
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  put in every place, you know, I started gotta pay for that some
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  way. Maybe the price of my cocktail
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  will go up with the restaurant. I don't know.
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  And yet, I like the idea that there are ramps are like the
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  idea that people in wheelchairs have better access.
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  That's a broader view. One that I support, one that I
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  hope you all will consider embracing as you continue to
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  contemplate the risk-benefit. So, in summary folks, the bare
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  facts are people are dying from the virus.
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  The rate of death from the virus, goes down the more people
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  get immunized, and yes, some people die upon being immunized.
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  We believe that that number will be much smaller than the number
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  of people natively infected from the virus and I borne witness to
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  that in my own practice. I've not seen calamitous adverse
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  effects from the immunization. I've seen bad effects from the
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  virus itself. So, let's back away from Dogma.
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  This is not something that can be tweeted.
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  This is not something that can be instagrammed.
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  There's a Bastion of thoughtless opinion that is being petrified.
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  I encourage you to back off of your pedestal of dogmatic
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  thought. If in fact you're standing on it
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  and balance and consider the various aspects to this
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  philosophical debate and ultimately, To back away from
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  Judgment of others, regardless of where they stand, many people
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  have acquired native infection and have antibodies against
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  covid. Should they be immunized?
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  That's a another question. The evidence doesn't support
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  immunizing. Somebody with positive
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  antibodies against covid. There is very little research in
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  this Arena. It could possibly be negative in
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  its impact. Typically, when you have
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  antibodies against the virus, you're considered immune that's
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  standard medicine. We ought not to deviate from
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  that impulsively because of fear.
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  So, once again, there becomes a moment of personal reflection.
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  So folks, I'm a functional Doc and there's been a lot in the
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  functional medicine community of people against immunizations.
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  I consider it closer to functional medicine than drug
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  therapy. It is a vehicle that allows your
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  own immune system to better defend itself with the aid of
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  stimulation. It's better than waiting to get
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  sick and taking a drug. Other things to support immune
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  function. Briefly.
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  We've got vitamin D. Look, just as the immunization
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  as married vitamin D. Levels have been strongly
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  correlated with decreased rate of infection.
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  And if you're infected decreased severity of that infection, I
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  advocate for blood levels greater than 50 and less than
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  100 for most of you. You can't get there without a
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  high quality supplement. You can't get there from
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  drinking milk and sunshine exposure.
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  I've done hundreds. If not thousands of vitamin D
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  levels on my patients, and it is rare to find somebody above 30,
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  especially if you're carrying extra weight.
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  There is an inverse correlation people with a greater body mass
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  people with more obesity have lower vitamin D levels and not
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  surprisingly a greater risk from covid.
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  So get on some vitamin D supplementation in my I
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  practice, I have a cake 5,000 units per day for the vast
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  majority of people. It's worth Consulting with your
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  own doctor about that detail. Zinc also is a nutritional
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  supplement, that correlates with better immune function.
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  It is one of the most common immunodeficiency contributors to
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  immune deficiency in society. And that is low zinc levels,
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  especially if you're older or vegetarian, there is some zinc,
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  and non animal food. But it's just not that,
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  bioavailable doesn't absorb as well.
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  So, consider getting a zinc level, your target, if it's
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  below 60 below 60 microgram per deciliter your zinc.
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  Deficient. You should do something about
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  it. Well, with a couple of minutes I
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  have left. I do want to share some thoughts
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  about masking. Once again, let's back off of
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  Dogma masking, is neither good nor bad.
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  It just is a thing. And we need to consider risk
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  versus benefit. And here we tie it into Botox,
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  how? So in the world of psychological
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  Health. Now, we start to define science
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  more broadly. Let's go beyond immunologic,
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  considerations and consider Mental Health, social health,
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  psychosocial development. What happens to a child from
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  ages zero to five when the people they look at have masks
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  on and not smiling at them. The answer.
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  We don't know, it's an experiment.
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  It's one that I have fear for there's something called a
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  reflective face Theory. It was a study published
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  actually several correlated patients who received Botox
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  treatment to eliminate wrinkles had a lower rate of depression.
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  In fact, the impact on Depression was equivalent to
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  that of Prozac and one study what an interesting detail.
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  However, is that the wrinkles? That diminish depression are
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  those between the eyebrows. Those ominous elevens that
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  people have as they get older. They make you look angry.
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  They make you look tired. And when people look at an angry
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  face, they reflect that mood back to them.
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  That's the reflective face theory.
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  That when you have a happy face everybody that looks at you
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  smiles back. We know those people.
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  They just look happy. They make us feel good.
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  I like a puppy. No, I thought this theory was a
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  little bit uncertain, but then another study looked at the, the
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  crow's feet around the edges of the eyes.
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  These are the low little crow's feet at the outside of your
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  eyes. That when you smile, they
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  crinkle up. When you treat crow's feet.
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  It does not help your mood and that makes sense because a
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  smiling crinkly face, kind of look sparkly and happy.
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  I like Santa Claus. So, the reflective face theory
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  is relevant to our discussion, because you walk down the
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  street, you see nothing, but these ominous Mass people all
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  day long, it gets you depressed. And if you're in good mental
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  health, you tolerate it. And if you're not, maybe it's a
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  Breaking Point. And if you're a child in school,
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  maybe you become Sullen and withdrawn, maybe your grades
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  sink. These factors folks need to be
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  considered. To what benefit is it when we
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  mask? Uncertain at best.
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  There is no strong evidence that Universal masking does anything.
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  There's theoretical constructs. It seems harmless.
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  It's not masking effects. Psychosocial, well-being and
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  affects people differently. That effect is hard to quantify.
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  We can't do a culture and count heads and say oh today another
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  thousand people became depressed.
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  It reminds me of that old cliche.
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  When you can't measure what matters, you give matter to what
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  you can measure. So we can do a culture, we can
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  count infections but we can't take the psychological
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  temperature of people, I can tell you in my observation.
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  I have seen the collapse of mental health in individuals and
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  they have told me that it correlates with social isolation
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  the lockdown. I believe them.
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  I think it's real. I think it's neglected and we
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  need to be very cautious about these masking mandates.
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  They worry me more than the immunization.
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  I'd say. Immunize everybody mask.
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  Nobody. Look in the best of
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  circumstances and hospitals, where we use these masks.
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  We throw them away. When we leave one room.
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  We put a new one on. We go to the next.
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  We don't wear them from room to room floor, to floor all day
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  long. And oh by the way, hang them up
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  on a coat rack and put them on the next day.
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  We do not do that. Why?
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  Because it's not proven to be beneficial and yet somehow this
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  symbolic gesture has become Dogma in many circles, no
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  evidence of benefit. Significant possibility of harm.
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  This virus is to contagious to be contained with some
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  half-assed mask poorly, worn and contaminated in the process.
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  People touch them constantly. They put them below the nose.
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  So let's just quit with the virtue signaling and the false
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  value of this masking, to ridiculous.
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  Now, here's here's the caveat. And once again, we back off
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  Dogma. Folks, if you're actively sick,
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  put add a mask on if you're coughing, if you have a head
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  cold, put one on, why? Because it's been shown to help
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  diminish your risk of propagating infection to others.
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  It doesn't matter if it's covid or just a head cold.
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  It's courteous, you're hacking away.
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  Put it on the argument that the virion is smaller than the the
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  break in the mask. With a filtering mechanism in
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  The Mask is also misguided because most of these Viruses,
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  cluster, around mucus that can then be captured.
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  So, in summary, mask mandates are of known negative
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  consequence. They can cause harm.
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  They diminish, the ease of learning in a classroom.
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  They diminish social interactivity, they diminish
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  positive, facial reflection, and psychological support.
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  You want to feel good. Have somebody smile at you
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  masking does harm immunization like I say, Plus harm the
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  masking. So, folks.
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  This is an ongoing reflection. I encourage you to back off of
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  the pedestal of Dogma back off of Twitter, back off of
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  Instagram. If you really care about this,
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  keep it personal thought. And way risk benefits, and
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  consider Society at large, when you reflect upon your own
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  pathway, and yes, take your vitamin D and take your zinc.
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  Remember the things we talked about here on my opinions based
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  upon my Research in my own practice review of literature,
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  and observation of society at large.
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  I hope you've appreciated and enjoyed this section and we'll
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  be back again in the near future with more, from the intellectual
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  medicine podcast. Until then.
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  I'm dr. Steve peddireddy.
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  I'm wishing you a hundred and twenty youthful years till next
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  time.