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The Dangerous Myth of "Cancer Free" · Intellectual Medicine

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If you've had cancer and you make it to five years, that's
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great, but it's a false comfort to think that it's cured.
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To ignore a potential risk is to amplify its possible occurrence.
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Here's what we know. There's such a thing called
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delayed relapse. The big deal?
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That's not good because when it comes back, it comes back in a
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burst. It doesn't come back
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incrementally. I advocate for complementary
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supportive anti cancer therapies.
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Why? Because cancer cells are pretty
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easy to kill when they're little cells.
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Your immune system is trying to do it every day.
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That's why a lot of us don't get cancer, because our immune
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system is winning the battle. The objective is to give you
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that advantage. Medicine is full of false
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comforts of doing things to make you feel better about the way
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things are, even if it doesn't affect the outcome.
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Now I'm talking about what should you do if you've ever had
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cancer. OK, so here's what we know.
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You're cancer prone. How do we know that?
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Because you've had cancer? The environment you came out of
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correlated with the cancer occurring, whether it's breast,
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prostate, lung, colon. Therefore it would be logical to
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examine environmental milieu, genetics, a small part of it.
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Oh, by the way, now you're the genetic vector, now you're the
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family history. You know, you're the one with
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the cancer. It's not your fault, but it's
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less compelling to dig into a genetic predisposition when in
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fact you've already had the disease, all right, just 'cause
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you're prone to something that mean it's going to happen.
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In fact, there is this phenomenon of reaction to the
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event such that you're healthier than you would have been if it
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never occurred. I see it all the time in the
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patients and my Pederuti protocol for prostate cancer.
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They get the fear of God in them and they're focused.
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Nutrition gets better, repurposed drugs are on it.
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They're less likely to progress in that or other diseases.
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So let's talk about the false comforts, OK?
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One of them is if you've had cancer and you make it to five
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years, that's great, but it's a false comfort to think that it's
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cured. I'm not being pessimistic.
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I don't want you to live with a cloud over your head.
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But to ignore a potential risk is to amplify its possible
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occurrence. Here's what we know.
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There's such a thing called delayed relapse.
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It's a big deal. There was a study published in
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the New England Journal of Medicine specific to breast
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cancer looking at delayed relapse.
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We're talking about women who made it to five years cancer
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free. Yeah.
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Ring the bell. I'm good. 13% of women with
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level 1 breast cancer, that's the earliest possible cancer
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that could be discerned. 13% of them had a delayed relapse from
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5 to 20 years. That's not good because when it
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comes back, it comes back in a burst.
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It doesn't come back incrementally.
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Think about this. Cancer is a cellular disease.
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You have your your breast cancer removed.
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Some cells spill out of the mix. That always happens 100%.
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That's why they sometimes will treat hormone.
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Sometimes they do radiation. I advocate for complementary,
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supportive anti cancer therapies.
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Why? Because cancer cells are pretty
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easy to kill when they're little cells.
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Your immune system's trying to do it every day.
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That's why a lot of us don't get cancer, because our immune
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system's winning the battle. The objective is to give you
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that advantage. So you're doing these imaging
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studies. What's what's odd to me, I think
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this is a paradox that they do the studies looking for
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recurrence of cancer and they stopped doing them after five
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years. So two ways to look at that.
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Why did you stop doing them at five years when this delayed
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recurrence is a real thing? I told you it's 13% for level 1
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breast cancer. If you have a level 2, that
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means if some lymph nodes are involved, the relapse, daily
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relapse rate goes up over 30%, closer to 36%.
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That's pretty darn high now when it comes back because it's
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spread at a cellular level. Think about these little seeds
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in the in the wind, they're planting in the bone, the liver,
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they're planting elsewhere. I've heard this too often.
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It's disturbing to me. Everything was great.
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Everything was great. She had cancer 20 years ago.
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Her back hurt. They did an imaging study and
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the cancer was everywhere. That's because the seeds all
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spread at the same time 20 years ago, and it took them that long
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to grow up to be tumors. Now, if we know it's a cellular
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disease, we know you're prone to it, then you should take in
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action. Now here's the stuff you can do
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on your own. I don't care what the cancer is.
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These are universal recommendations.
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Percent body fat. For the love of God, get focused
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on this, whatever it takes. It doesn't matter if you're
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vegetarian, carnivore, however you achieve it.
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Lower that percent body fat. For women, threshold I like to
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see is below 35. Ideally below 30, but maybe you
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can't get there. Depends on your body type.
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For men, we like to target below 20.
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This is one of our admonitions for prostate fighting cancer
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like a man. For the breast cancer, perhaps
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even more compelling. A direct correlation.
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More fat, more cancer. Fat reduction, less cancer.
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All right, check that box. I don't care what it takes.
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If you have to go on a GL P1 drug, Ozempic, semaglutide,
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tirzepatide, you're better off using the drug at percent body
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fat than avoiding it out of fear.
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Do not do this on your own. Make sure you have some
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guidance. The drug alone is not going to
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be sufficient. You need nutritional behavioral
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change, right? OK, I have a book coming out
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pretty soon for that purpose that'll help you, but in the
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meantime, get some guidance. All right, so we got that part
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under control. The next part, physical
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activity, 100% whatever the cancer conditioning is going to
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have value. The next part.
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Supplements matter. They do matter.
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They can help. Vitamin C in particular, I like
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2000 milligrams a day. Vitamin DI like to get the blood
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levels above 50 that correlates with a potential decreased risk
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of subsequent relapse. Here's a big one.
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If you have access to it and you've had breast, pancreatic,
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colon, liver, other malignancies.
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Not talking about prostate right now.
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It's a different kind of an animal.
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You guys know that it's a different disease.
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Once a month high dose intravenous vitamin CI.
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Love this For those patients, 50,000 milligrams intravenously
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administered has a pro oxidative effect.
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It turns into hydrogen peroxide when it gets in proximity to
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cancer cells that kills them. It's safe for your cells because
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your cells make lots of catalase, an enzyme that
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neutralizes hydrogen peroxide. So think of it this way.
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Imagine you've got 2 million cancer cells floating around in
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your body. You get the IV infusion of high
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dose vitamin C. It whacks half of them.
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And now you're down to 1,000,000.
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Great, they're going to rebuild. But then you're going to whack
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them again next month and next month and next month.
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And you maintain that once a month infusion indefinitely
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because it's safe, because it's got possible benefit.
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Because of my clinical practice, my patients that thrive and are
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outliers is what they've done. That woman with pancreatic
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cancer, eight years, the breast cancer 10 years.
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This is part of the equation. How about repurposed drugs?
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They may have a role here. You're going to need a doc to
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help guide you. So I like that part.
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I don't like false comforts. I don't like if you've had
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cancer, the every three month CAT scan your whole body thing.
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Why do I not like that? Ionizing radiation is a
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carcinogen, and the whole body CAT scan is a lot of radiation.
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Is it possible that by being compulsively looking for cancer
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relapsing, we're actually increasing the likelihood that
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it will relapse? It's possible.
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The next question to ask is, but is it important to catch cancer
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early? It's another one of the false
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comforts, people. You look at an image, you see a
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shadow. Is it make a difference
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regarding your survival? So there's some studies that
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shed light on this. They've never really, really
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evaluated that part of the question.
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I'm not aware of any study they've done where they've taken
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out lung cancer, breast cancer, and they said, OK, we're not
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going to do any imaging now. We're just going to let you go
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and if you get a symptom, we'll look at it.
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Otherwise, we're going to March on.
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Compare that to the every three months, let's do a CAT scan, CAT
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scan, CAT scan. Depending on the cancer, this
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sometimes is the protocol. One study looked at frequency of
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CAT scans after removal of lung malignancy and they have high
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frequency and low frequency. They found no difference in
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mortality between the two groups.
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All right, So if we could do it less frequently, maybe every six
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months instead of every three, maybe once a year instead of
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every six. If we could do it less
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frequently and have no increased death rate from the malignancy
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itself, maybe we don't need to do it at all.
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Maybe we wait and see if a symptom occurs.
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Will the cancer be a little more developed if it occurs?
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Possibly, but it doesn't necessarily mean the outcome
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will be different. This is very hard to separate in
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people's brains because they all think I'll get to it early.
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You know about prostate cancer, You absolutely never want to go
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dig it in the gland looking for it.
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You don't jab trocars in there. You're stirring the pot, you're
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spreading the cancer and you're doing nothing to help prevent
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you from dying of prostate cancer.
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So no, we do non invasive assessments with PSA testing,
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with MRI. We do non radiation non surgical
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treatment through my protocol with repurposed drug lifestyle
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and supplement safe. No compromise in vitality has
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potential to keep cancer contained whether it's prostate
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in some cases the secondary prevention dynamic.
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Here's another false comfort imaging and biopsying organs
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with potential for to rule out potential cancer, where the
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cancer itself is not a risk at all.
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Now I'm talking about things like thyroid.
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So the thyroid glance, it's right here, people, check your
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mind right now. Good, no nodules.
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You see how easy that is? A good doc with good palpatory
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skills can determine if there's a lump there.
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What if there is? Sometimes an ultrasound's
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recommended. Not a bad idea.
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Take a look at it. Get a baseline.
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Suppose the ultrasound shows an isolated nodule.
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There may be a recommendation to do a needle biopsy to see if
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it's cancer. Do not do a needle biopsy.
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People. Just stop right there.
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There's several reasons the spread of cancer is real.
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When you stick needles in cancer, it is logical.
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It is biologically inevitable. It is an act of delusional
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denial when doctors tell you otherwise.
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The other point is that you could do another ultrasound.
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Thyroid, kind of like the prostate, is one of those organs
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that if cancer occurs, it's slow moving.
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Thyroid is a bit unique in another regard.
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Different from prostate and other cancers, the treatments
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for thyroid, metastatic thyroid cancer are quite good.
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So while I don't advise doing nothing, then doing sequential
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ultrasounds makes sense because if you delay the diagnosis, it's
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not likely to matter at all, but it's likely to save you a lot of
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hardship. So in Korea, they made it a
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national initiative to make sure that they got out there and the
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ultrasound thyroids. We're going to get rid of
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thyroid cancer, we're going to lower the death rate from
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thyroid cancer. We're going to have a National
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Health initiative. We're going to ultrasound
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thyroid glands, and they did. And the rate of thyroid cancer
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diagnosis, you look at the graph, it skyrocketed.
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Thyroid cancer diagnosis went through the roof, but the death
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rate from thyroid cancer didn't. Budget didn't change a bit, even
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though they're now harvesting thyroid glands.
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No change. Why not?
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Because most of these thyroid cancers are indolent, taking the
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thyroid out surgically causes harm without benefit.
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Sound familiar? Yeah.
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Kind of like the prostate story. There are better ways to
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maintain best health. When you take out a thyroid
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gland, just like the prostate, there is collateral damage.
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The parathyroid is another gland that sits right next to the
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thyroid. Very hard to distinguish it
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because it looks the same. It's not uncommon for that to be
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destroyed or damaged during surgery, and when that happens,
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you have problems maintaining adequate calcium levels.
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The rest of your life needs medical management.
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Get low calcium, which can be cardiovascular complications.
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The other thing I've seen happen, which is tragic damage
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to the nerve that goes to your vocal cord current.
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The recurrent laryngeal nerve sits near the thyroid.
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If that gets whacked by the surgeon accidentally, you walk.
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You talk like this. Yeah, I'm a hoarse voice arrest
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of your life because your vocal cord is now paralyzed.
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How awful. All that misery.
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Surgery. A hardship.
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No benefit. None.
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Based upon the studies we have. Right.
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At least not in the early stages.
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So you leave thyroid nodules alone.
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You assess them with an ultrasound once a year.
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If it goes from 1 to 2cm, you know, maybe taking action, maybe
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that's the time you consider having the thyroid nodule
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removed. But you don't do a biopsy.
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Why would you? It's going to give you poor
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information. It's going to potentially
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disseminate disease and it's not going to settle the issue.
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You still got the nodule. If you ever are in that
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position, you do not go to your friendly general surgeon who
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took out your appendix to look at your thyroid.
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Highly specialized. You hop on a plane if you have
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to. You go to a place where that's
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all the dude does most of the time or the lady does most of
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the time, take it out thyroids. And you want the person who's so
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busy that they really don't want to operate on you at all because
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they got too many cases right. We do not want the overlying
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impulse of financial gain to cloud this picture.
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So false comforts can happen by biopsies of a prostate.
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They can happen by surgical treatment of a prostate.
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Oh boy, I had my gland removed. Not have to worry about dying of
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prostate cancer. Not false.
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The likelihood of dying is the same if you never had the gland
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removed based upon the best studies.
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How about breast cancer? Hey, I got it to five years.
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I'm good to know. You're not, You're not, you're
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not. Do not be passive with a looming
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threat over your shoulder. Don't live in paranoia, but
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don't let go of the wheel. You want to live the anti cancer
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lifestyle the rest of your life. Vitamin D control, percent body
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fat control, exercise activities, positive mindset,
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and if you have access to it, for some of you, intravenous
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vitamin C. Fantastic false comforts abound
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in medicine. The imaging studies that we like
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to lean upon generate revenue. They give us an objective result
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we could share with a patient that gives them a sense of
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comfort. Now remember, we should do Ekgs
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as part of the annual physical. They don't do that anymore.
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Why? It made no difference.
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It wasn't showing us anything of value.
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It gave false comfort. You know, I, I was asked
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recently what which wearable device do I like the best?
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I said I like my Rolex. It's pretty how how to use a
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wearable device. What do I I want to check my
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heart rate. Oh, my goodness, it went up.
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Oh my goodness, it went down. Oh, look at that.
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There's a spike. There's an X.
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Stop staring at your navel, folks.
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You could tell if your heart's not right.
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You don't need a watch to tell you what your rhythm is 24/7.
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Now it may be different if you've got bona fide card
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carrying vascular or rhythm disorders.
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OK, you're a different class. I'm talking about average folk
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without any pre established heart disease.
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Nothing I don't like Another false comfort.
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Those sleep watches y'all are wearing right?
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You wonder how you slept last night.
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How do you feel today? It's normal to wake up at night.
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The watches are notorious for being marginally accurate and
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not necessarily clinically correlating.
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I don't need a watch to tell me if I slept OK, right?
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My body will tell me that. False comforts.
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You can spend a lot of money chasing false comforts.
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We talked about mammograms recently.
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Another false comfort. My mammogram was normal.
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OK, I mean, it's better to be normal than not normal, but it
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doesn't protect you from what we care about death from from
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breast cancer. The evidence of its merit
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regarding avoiding death from breast cancer is thin and comes
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at a high price. I share this with you, not to
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diminish everything to do with medicine, but so that you can
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become a thoughtful, a question asking type of a person.
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It's your health, it's your body, it's your choice.
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You now have the ability to research things on your own.
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Hey, Doctor Pedriti says that maybe mammograms aren't really
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helpful to prevent death from breast cancer.
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Check the research out. It's there.
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Make your own decisions. Get good counsel.
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I'm not talking about the counsel that comes from the
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person doing the mammograms. You know what they're going to
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say or the conventional doc that is just following the bread
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crumbs that were laid in front of them.
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That's why we like protocols. That's why we like paradigms
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that structure us on flow charts.
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We don't have to think. Here's the flow chart.
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Doc Pederuti was handed down to you from corporate.
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Here's the flow chart for the annual physical.
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You ever have one of these? Have you fallen lately?
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Do you feel safe in your home? Look, it's, it's not that those
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issues are unimportant. It's just that they should be at
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the discretion of the patient and the doctor may not be
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relevant to everybody, may not be the best use of your time,
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but it's a false comfort. Somebody's getting a box checked
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somewhere. So we don't lean on conventional
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medicine. We don't lean on FDA approved
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treatments. The healthcare industry is not.
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It's a disease intervention phenomenon.
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And what's the main priority of every hospital, of every clinic,
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of every corporate health entity?
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Fiscal solvency, That comes first.
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Please spare me the lip service about how patient care and
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safety are #1 no, they're not. They're number two.
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Number one is make sure you put the lights on.
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And to do that, by golly, we got to take care of healthy people.
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We got to make them believe they need us.
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There's not enough sick people to generate profit.
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So let's get out there and do bone density studies and label
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people osteopenic so we can do more bone density studies and we
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can give them drugs. So let's get out there and check
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cholesterol so we can label them as having hypercholesterolemia.
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Totally healthy people now have been labeled and medicalized.
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Now they need an ongoing follow up, blood testing and oh, by the
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way, maybe some other imaging studies as well.
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Sound familiar? Is this the treadmill we're on?
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If we're on it, it's by choice. We don't have to be.
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Yeah, people may look at us sideways, but you're going to
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live better if you live the way you want to live.
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Health vitality, life extension does not come from a hospital,
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emergency room or medical clinic.
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By and large, there they are when you need them.
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Catastrophic illness, acute infectious problem, antibiotics.
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I'm not dismissive of conventional medicine.
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I'm just skeptical of their exaggerated claims for health
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and privacy of your vitality. So process some of these
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thoughts, team. Make a plan for your health.
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Here's what I hope. I hope next year you wasted all
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your money on health insurance because you didn't need it.
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Speaking of, you got to keep some cash aside to spend on your
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health. The sad paradox is that
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sometimes the damn insurance costs so much it absorbs all
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your discretionary income. That's a tough thing to manage.
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So I'm I'm of Medicare age, which means I can buy all those
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stupid supplement things. I didn't buy any of them because
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I don't value any of them. You never know what's not
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covered until you try to use your health plan and find out
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what's not covered. Good luck reading it.
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It doesn't happen. There are more holes in it than
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Swiss cheese, so I've opted out. I save my money.
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I put it. I don't put it in my pocket.
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I spend it on my ELF. What happens if you need a
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prescription doc? I pay for it.
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There's a bazillion generics out there.
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It's not expensive. What happens if I need an
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imaging study? I pay for it, you do the right
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study, it's cheap and most of them you don't need in the 1st
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place. It's different if you have a
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chronic illness like diabetes, like autoimmune diseases.
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I get that with the rest of us. They're selling us false
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comfort. That's the theme today.
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False comfort, fear driven false comfort.
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I have my mammogram who thank God I'm good.
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I've got the the Cadillac plan for my health insurance.
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It cost me 3000 a month, but by golly, everything's covered
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really well. Here's to being healthy.
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Here's to not needing healthcare.
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Here's to avoiding doctors, hospitals, and emergency rooms.
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Here's to doing your own homework and doing your
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proactive effort to stay well if you've had cancer, to prevent it
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from coming back. Those answers can be found, just
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not in the conventional office in most cases.
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Till next Time Team. Thanks for listening and I'll
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see you on my podcast. Bye now.