Dr. Jeff Golini, PhD
If you're eating vegan because you feel sorry for animals you may want to avoid this show. Or be prepared to have to evaluate why you ignore the undeniable facts of conventional and organic farming. PLUS Thanks to Alisa for sending this information. Most adults over 50 are on an average of 7 pharmaceutical drugs. The rate of car accidents and fatalities related to those accidents in mature drivers has been on a steady rise. It turns out polypharmacy is playing a role in this phenomenon. And it's not going to get better any time soon.
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[00:00:00] Hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio after excuse me. I have a sore throat together today. And so I will be using my mic kill button often when I clear my throat so you don't have to live through that but just know that if it sounds like I Disappeared for a second like this.
[00:00:51] I was just clearing my throat Let Me Clear My Throat in an in it. Okay. So we have a great show planned today during the first half hour. We have signs for [00:01:00] humans. We're going to give be avoiding science so much and looking at logic actually recently on a Joe Rogan episode Ted Nugent talked about the realities of being a vegan from a moral standpoint.
[00:01:12] We're going to critique some of his comments and and examine that with dr. Jeff golini and just a minute then later in the show. I'm going to tell you about. A study that was just published by the Automobile Club of America. They're saying that older adults are having more car accidents because of polypharmacy.
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[00:01:51] You will pay five dollars for shipping. That truly is the shipping charge. That was one of those moments where I cleared my throat just now [00:02:00] because dr. Jeff believes that no one should buy anything until they tried it. I hope I didn't lose him. Hold on a. No, okay, he still there. I hear a phone off hook somewhere in this building and that's because he doesn't he believes that no one should buy anything until they try it.
[00:02:17] So he gives away the six of their top-selling products absolutely free to get you to try them so you can make a logical decision. So check them out show him some love. This is science for humans with dr. Jeff golini. I have phones off hook in my head. Dr. Jeff. Oh, no, that's not good Carl. No, that's not a good sign as.
[00:02:38] You might need a little bit of steak or something. Then. I know I can't eat red meat right now until my iron levels get down. That's my pop. Oh shit. Yeah. I know. I know I know but it's okay, you know what, you know not eating red meat for six or eight months. When you have a eating at least a pound of it a day for the past 20 years.
[00:02:55] It's not a bad thing. It's okay. No. No, so, dr. Jeff [00:03:00] sends me this clip. He says check this out and it's Ted Nugent on Joe Rogan show. And you know Ted Nugent is a polarizing personality either love him or you hate him and that varies at different times of the year because he may say something you hate.
[00:03:17] He may say something you love but one thing about Ted Nugent is, you know exactly where he stands on everything cuz he's blunt force trauma honest and he talked about the moral side of veganism recently on The Joe Rogan show. And dr. Jeff got such a kick out of it. He says listen to this. And we both agreed like granted the way he delivers things maybe a little insightful when I say into I mean he kind of insights anger and people you can't you can't really argue with this Konya.
[00:03:48] Dr. You can't and I thought it'd be a great discussion because as you and I know we don't have a problem with what people eat. It's the cult that [00:04:00] goes behind it that they just go way off in the left field, you know well and there's something else that we need to talk about to put this in perspective.
[00:04:08] So I did a an interview with dr. Frank mid loner. About raising beef and it's real contribution to greenhouse gases, which is negligible and it's real contribution to harming the planet which again it actually helps the planet and he said less than 1% of the world population of vegans. I said, what about India don't know Indians are not this certain sects of Indians in India that a vegans but by and large the country is an omnivorous country.
[00:04:44] And so the idea that less than 1% I mean this is an example of the tail wagging the dog and this only happens because of media agendas really because they're promoting this as like the way to be less than [00:05:00] 1% of the population actually vegan. And it's a new phenomena this guy David Watson Watson back in 1944 in England developed co-founded the vegan society, and it was first just about non-dairy.
[00:05:17] You know, let's not. Exploit animals. Okay, you no good cause I mean nothing wrong with you know animal activists, but that was that was really the whole intent of it, you know it then progressed into the 50s and then of course more recently the the vegan this Society even renamed their mission.
[00:05:39] And I thought that was kind of funny because it used to be veganism was a way of living which seeks to exclude all forms of exportation. Now, they say exclude, as far as possible and practical practicable. What does that mean? Yeah, right exactly. Exactly. And but the reality is that [00:06:00] veganism. For moral reasons has been around since the biblical time because there are several passages in the Bible where they refer to those who choose not to partake of the flesh as the week WEA K week people in society back then and their primary reason for not eating.
[00:06:25] Animal flesh was they felt sorry for the animals. So this phenomenon of moral veganism has been around since since the beginning of time. Beginning of 12 and actually when you when you look back at the Bible stories, it was because these animals were being sacrificed to Idols so they didn't want to partake of any idolatry and you look at a story of David when King Nebuchadnezzar came in and he took over he was taking countries and he would take the elect.
[00:06:57] Well long story short. David [00:07:00] said look, I don't want to eat this me. Give it a try. Let me just eat vegetables and fruit me and my guys and watch what happens in six weeks tell us if we don't look healthier and he did you know, I mean, that was the story was, you know, he looked healthier than the guys eating from the king's table.
[00:07:18] So again, like you said, it isn't something new, you know, there's nothing wrong with plant-based diets. I mean, I incorporate as you do a lot of plants and in my diet, but I don't push on anybody what I eat. I don't say you need to eat this way or you're wrong or you're killing the planet and I want to just before we get into the clip.
[00:07:40] This was something that just busted me up. So I'm watching some videos of some of these. Way left vegan people in this guy's talking about his main cause is eating animals It Isn't So Much the animals. It's the fact that. Animals are killing the [00:08:00] ozone and I thought okay, where's he going with this and he just goes on and on and on given statistics about how many cows there are and they produce the CO2 gas and that's what killing the ozone.
[00:08:11] That's all I got to say. He jumps in his big four-wheel-drive truck and drives off. I'm like dude. It's the gases where we started burning fossil fuels that's what is killing the ozone not these cows. Right, right. Right, and that's what fragment lot of puts points out. He actually does the science and shows the actual carbon footprint of raising cattle versus other things in our invite the way one of the things that depletes ozone are the.
[00:08:47] Chemicals they spray to kill bugs and fungus on crops Mill hundreds of millions of pounds of this stuff is sprayed every year. You don't hear anyone who's fighting [00:09:00] the animals have bad for climate change and raising animals a bad for climate change. Talking about the fact that the thing that has the biggest impact from an agricultural standpoint is the stuff that gets sprayed and goes up into the air and gets I mean no one talks about that.
[00:09:17] It's like I'm thinking of myself. So, you know, it's happening. You're just choosing not to mention it because it doesn't fit your agenda. As far as possible or practical let me ask you a question. Charl. Do you think that some of these activists? And and it's few and far between because most people who are vegetarian vegan.
[00:09:38] It's more for health reasons, you know, that seems to work for them. They want to do it. God bless them. Do you think these guys are really naive to how farming is done similar to what we heard in the video interview or do they just want to turn their heads? It's yeah, it's the latter. It's it's willful ignorance.
[00:09:59] So [00:10:00] ignorance is to ignore something that's obvious to you. Ignoring doesn't mean you're stupid. It means that there are obvious things there that fewer critical thinker you would you would say. Oh I see them but there's a trend for people to win battles at all costs in this environment today and they believe that the only way to help animals is to not eat animals and they ignore the fact that they are leaving a bigger footprint on the ecology.
[00:10:32] The Flora and the fauna, then the people who raise cows and slaughter them, but you look at these guys and gals and they're all over the board when they're talking, you know, they start out where you know slaughtering cows and they show you pictures that they have feelings and stuff. Okay, you know, I mean I can appreciate that but then they go on oh, you know, you shouldn't hurt any living creature.
[00:11:00] [00:11:00] And then I think about well, you're kind of being a little bit of hypocritic critical because you say you won't wear anything leather because it comes from cows yet. You won't use anything that has been tested on animals. Well, what do they do about their medicine? Oh Pharmaceuticals have been tested on animals.
[00:11:20] Yeah that don't nobody in the pharmaceutical industry going. Hey these weren't these aren't been tested on humans first. Yeah, exactly and are they do they only eat organic? Even if they do even if they do eat organic, even if one here's the thing, what is the fertilizer made of our they're vegan farmers?
[00:11:41] It's really let's trace this back. You know, I mean most of the vegetarian or organic farmers are using animal waste fertilizer. Yeah. Yeah, and you go. Okay. Well, we're only using mulch from trees. Okay. Wait a minute now. You know those trees [00:12:00] how do they grow they grow from animal Refuge that died around the trees.
[00:12:04] So, you know, you got you got to be either all in or All Out start. That's a great Point. That's a great point. You know, what they do is they pick and choose what they choose to believe. Let's listen to this 45-second clip because. I don't think anybody has put it as brutally eloquently as Ted Nugent.
[00:12:24] Listen to this if you really. Want to kill the most things be a vegan because the farmers who protect your beans. Kill everything I kill one animal per arrow in order to grow tofu. You have to kill every ground squirrel every vole every shrew every snake every Turtle every frog every bird every rabbit anything that gets in that bean field.
[00:12:52] I'm either going to plow and dismembered which is why the crows in the and the seagulls follow the the combine to come Isaac. [00:13:00] And then if anything does survived my first Slaughter, I'm going to come in with man's Santa when poison the not of everything so you can have a tofu salad and not be responsible for any death you
[00:13:14] it was he was quite colorful at that interview. I was kind of shocked. Well, you know, and that's what he's good at. I mean he is good at being shocking even his music was shocking. But but how can you argue with that? Like Okay, so let's let's. Let's put aside. I'm sorry. I had to cut my throat the fact that it's NRA gun-toting Ted Nugent, which I have no problem with I'm a member of every no NRA but my point is a lot of people like, oh, he he's a hunter.
[00:13:42] He's NRA. He's the evil. He's the toxic masculinity. So let's let's have those words come out of anybody else's mouth anybody that you respect because it's true. Because yep, if you have a Hundred Acre Farm, you have to clear that hundred acres. So the nothing interrupts [00:14:00] this mono crop culture that you're about to Endeavor.
[00:14:04] And that means you have to kill everything below ground. Yep, everything above ground and keep them dead while you grow this crop. Yep, and I have had numerous conversations with Farmers, you know across the country not just here in Montana. So you can't say well it's only Montana Farmers about this particular subject.
[00:14:25] And you know what Ted said is absolutely right? So, how can you. Activist for cows and pigs and then care nothing about voles and groundhogs and rabbits and squirrels birds. I mean anything that comes into those crops. These farmers are sitting out in the backyard with shotguns, you know, shooting the crows and shoot the magpies rather getting into the.
[00:14:52] They open season up on animals that start to overrun areas then you know, they open I mean anything that comes out here, you know the deer get into [00:15:00] the corn they kill the deer. I mean, you know, it's on the property. It's completely legal. You don't have to have a license, you know. So the reality is that if you're a vegan for health reasons like and between you and me becoming a vegan for health reasons is like becoming a ketogenic diet.
[00:15:18] ER for health read. Yeah, it's not about what you're eating. Now. It's what you're no longer eating. That is the Magic in why the diet helps you but let's just. Let's just assume you're a vegan for your own personal health reasons. God bless you go on with it go on with it until it stops working and if never stops working go on with it for your entire life, but if you're a vegan.
[00:15:40] Because you think it puts you on the moral High Ground because you know, they love to use this this this term vegan sent sent to sentient animals like animals that have feelings sent you how can you kill sentient animals you're killing sentient animals, you're just one arms-length further away from it than me.
[00:16:00] [00:16:00] Exactly. And and the other thing is, you know, I went gluten-free for personal reasons. I don't push it on people. Don't push it on me telling me I'm doing something wrong and you're doing something right? You know, that's the other thing that really irritates me. Like you said if you're going to do it for health reasons or you know, you want to eat vegetables because it's cheaper.
[00:16:24] Knock yourself out whatever works do it, but don't take a stance and you know, go eliminate all the other things that are part of what's Happening, you know, do you burn natural gas? Well, where does the natural gas come from? Yeah, dick dick. What decomposed animals? Yeah. I mean it isn't just a plant matter.
[00:16:46] It's everything so I mean don't tell me I'm not going to wear a belt because of this. You don't know whether those animals died naturally or they died from somebody shooting the same way is, you know some leather you don't know if those animals died [00:17:00] naturally. So what's the difference? I've always thought it would be funny for all the vegans and Peeta to go to Africa and stop the lions and tigers from eating antelopes and teach them to be vegans because that would solve the whole problem because none of them would ever come back they become fully and another thing I was thinking about this sporting it.
[00:17:16] This is this is kind of funny. The vegan companies do you think that everybody works there is vegan. I guarantee you got some guy sitting in lunch room now having a big old ham sandwich ha ha. Oh right. Now I just heard the sound of vegan heads exploding. I better come on. Will you can discriminate and and say we're only hiring vegans that's against the unemployment.
[00:17:42] Yeah, and do you know if they have leather upholstered chairs in their offices or they use a naugahyde? So in other words it's sitting on dinner. No, or nobody can come in wearing a bell. Why you going to keep your drawers up? It's just Sinha was thinking about and I was thinking about all right, if they're in the United States of America, they got to have pest control.
[00:18:00] [00:18:00] So they're not going to kill the mice. They're just going to let mice run rampant through their food facility. Right, right. Oh, well, that's different. They're mice Carl. They don't have feelings. Well, you know, there are some vegans that say if it doesn't have a face that's what that some vegans justify eating certain things because they don't have a face quota.
[00:18:18] Well, you know, there's now all types of Offspring from vegan because everybody, you know, puts their agenda into it. Well, you know, it's okay to do this, but not that what I think what they mean by doesn't have a faces doesn't have expression like fish is okay. See fish doesn't child man. I think I seen some fish that got some expressions and they're ugly.
[00:18:38] Yeah, you're funny. I mean, you know, if you really look at it. Yeah, but it's selected selective veganism is from a moral standpoint from the fact that you're not hurting animals is a farce because and you have in order to stick to your guns on that. You have to select which facts you're going to agree with in which [00:19:00] fact you're going to ignore.
[00:19:02] Yep. Do you think they're down at the animal shelter adopting these animals? Are they just talking? You know what? I mean? Yeah, they're throwing people's fur coats. That's they're doing if you're going to yeah, if you're going to be behind a cause, you know be. Part of the solution not just another problem out there, you know and I'll bet most of these people aren't trying they aren't opening up animal shelters.
[00:19:25] And again, I you know, I don't like to see, you know dogs and cats and you know things happen, but I mean, you know, that's the way the laws of nature work. I mean food was put on this planet for humans. We are we are the Masters, you know, we've got to survive and our bodies can burn anything for fuel.
[00:19:46] Not that everything is going to be healthy. But where are you actually doing something where you can make a difference, you know, let's take a quick commercial break. We'll pick it up on the other side because this is a very timely discussion because as you know, I just bought my [00:20:00] son his first high-powered hunting rifle.
[00:20:03] Yes, and I actually was thinking about this this morning before we decided not this this but the idea that I was going to introduce my son. To hunting stay tuned we'll be right back. Ma'am, I throat feels horrible.
[00:20:21] I'm going to try to talk welcome back to science for humans. Today. We're addressing the science put forth by Ted Nugent that the entire moral argument for veganism is destroyed when you understand that growing crops kills more animals. And I know vegans will dismiss this as a lie. But if you don't you go you go find the crop of something growing close to you walk through it and see how many happy birds you hear singing and how many squirrels you see dancing and how many [00:21:00] chipmunks is.
[00:21:00] She running into holes in the beds of the of the crops and how many crows you see sitting on? Corn plant, I mean crows Open Fields of corn then I'd swarming ask yourself. Why because the farmer doesn't really good job of killing everything before he grows your plants that make you feel morally Superior to people who are omnivores when you're just lying to yourself.
[00:21:28] You just lie. If you're a vegan for moral reasons abandon it do something else eat cardboard. That's actually this is funny during the break. Somebody said. Hey, dr. Jeff check this out. And I watch this quick little video of this guy and his whole stance was Raising cows were cutting down trees and were killing rainforest because they take up so much room.
[00:21:52] I got to. Farming take up more room than catalog. Of course it does and and listen, you know where [00:22:00] cattle you know where cattles graze Open Fields and Hills. Yeah that you can't grow anything on anything. Yeah and Anna, you know, what water they drink. They drink pond water by and large Farmers can't afford to bring sister and water in for cows to to drink.
[00:22:17] They drink they drink they walk into the water and they bathe in it they drink from it. They they we are using land that is unusable. It's called Uh narrable land to raise cattle. And guess what there is you ready for this? There's 574 million Acres of uh, narrable land. That is still not used that we could raise cattle on that that land is just it's just sitting there.
[00:22:45] Nothing's happening with it. I was in Venice Beach quite a few years ago after I moved out and there was a guy with a position down at the beach. He wanted us to sign it. He said the cheese companies were ripping us off with Swiss [00:23:00] cheese because we pay the same amount per pound as we do with other cheeses yet.
[00:23:04] This has got holes in it, so they're cheating us. That's a joke, right? Is that a Joe? No, no. No, it was not the do was very passionate. I had a long conversation with him because I was interested and it just tells you how people get off on some stupid tangents. They do know research. This guy didn't even research that by the pound, you know?
[00:23:28] Yeah doesn't matter about the layer. Where are these vegan guys like this guy saying that you know cattle kill more rain forest because of the amount of land than anything. That's why he's a vegan and they just don't do any research and they talk very ignorant ignorant. You know, you did some research and has some statistics and least talked intelligent.
[00:23:50] Then you make a good cause for whatever it is you're promoting but and don't talk off the cuff where you don't know what you're talking about. So this one. I was driving to [00:24:00] the studio and I was pondering my decision to buy my son chase a high-powered hunting rifle and he and I are going to plant some hunt plan some hunting trips together and I want to give him the gift that I got a long time ago from my father and that is the love of guns.
[00:24:19] Mmm. I've been an NRA member since I was 16 years old and. But I also want to take it a step further. I want to take him hunting. I never got to hunt with my father. My father really didn't like hunting but he enjoyed shooting and so hunting was a big part of my life growing up all through my 20s.
[00:24:37] When I first moved to Las Vegas, I was still hunting and then I gave it up once I had children. I got rid of all my guns. I had no time to hunt and I didn't want guns in the house. When I got divorced I started buying guns again, and so I decided to buy my sunchaser thirty-aught-six a Savage Axis with the scope in a 3006 Cal because that's a very [00:25:00] versatile Carol caliber.
[00:25:01] You could put a hundred twenty-five grain heads in there and hunt deer. You can put 220 grain head in there and hunt Moose. And so this morning I was thinking I wonder if I'm doing the right thing by buying him a gun and wanting him to hunt. What if we get out there and we shoot an animal and he freaks out so I had that discussion with them.
[00:25:20] He said no he goes. I really been thinking about this for a long time. I've always wanted to go hunting. I'd like to try it. So I realized something else my son lives in, California. Like if he starts telling people in California that he's hunting. You know the majority of California's going to ostracize him and and I thought you know, that might be a good thing actually because maybe he'll meet people that are more grounded and within the firearm community in California than some of these these whack jobs.
[00:25:48] Yeah. Yeah. I hear you, you know, you know in Montana they have a rule. It's kind of an unspoken rule, but you don't shoot anything that you're not going to eat, right [00:26:00] and the majority of the locals here they hunt for food. You know, they aren't hunting to put a deer head. You know, that's that's the far extreme people.
[00:26:10] You know, when you look at Hunters on a hold their hunting to feed their families. That's why they have rules. You can only shoot so many you have to have tags. But do you know that talking about wasting you know that there's no rules for wasting crops? Yes, don't they listen? There are people who grow crops and destroy him just to get the subs the subsidy from the government.
[00:26:35] I mean cuz a lot of the veganism about you know, we're wasting nature, you know, and I thought man I saw some videos recently with the amount of tonnage of crops that get thrown out for one reason or the other and it's just you know, it's kind of sickening that there's always a double standard to something, you know, and you and I are willing to look [00:27:00] and debate and listen to Somebody's.
[00:27:03] These guys are not there. So strong-headed that they're right and everybody else is wrong. And I think that's what makes for bad representation of even being a vegan. Yeah, you know if I went out being a vegan I wouldn't want to tell anybody. I was a vegan because of those idiots, you know. No doubt.
[00:27:23] I mean oops, I'm sorry use the I word that's not dr. Jeff doesn't talk like that. You're right. You're right. I was surprised I'm surprised to hear you talk like that. Dr. Jay. I'm sorry, but you know, they just irritate because because they're the ones who start this whole thing by telling us where evil where bad we're stupid for eating, you know animals and and they automatically believe they're on the moral High ground with us and they're not they're idiots.
[00:27:49] They are they're ignorant their ignorance. Bring the fact that animals is still dying so that they can eat their kale. They're ignoring that fact and that's you know, what [00:28:00] that's just disingenuous. Tell me you're a vegan because you feel better eating vegan. I say more power to you, but tell me you're vegan because you feel sorry for Animals.
[00:28:11] I say you are good at lying to yourself. That's what I say. Yeah. And you know what that that I think that was a whole just behind us having this you you kind of summarize it right there. That's it brother. It's all about being, you know, be people always talk about you know, these gurus say, oh be in the moment be in the moment be will be in the moment also means not to lie to yourself about what's going on.
[00:28:35] That's what being the moment is is all about. Dr. J Man great discussion. Thank you, man. Have a good one, brother. Talk to you later. I'm going to take one quick quick commercial break when we come back going to talk about a study. That was just published by the Automobile Club of America.
[00:28:48] Actually AAA. I think that's the Automobile Club of America and saying that. The reason that seniors are having all these car accidents is because of polypharmacy. This is really [00:29:00] interesting stay tuned. So I predict a hundred years from now. We're going to look back at this time. and realize that it was a very very dark period for health in general not just because of.
[00:29:13] the misinformation about what good nutrition is purposeful misinformation not because. People are slow full and don't want to move and become obese and gigantic know those things are bad. But those are not going to be viewed as the real dark spots of today. What's going to be viewed as the real dark spots of today is the pharmaceutical agenda and it's exploitation of human beings and putting people on drugs for stupid reasons, and I'm not talking about people have legitimate illnesses.
[00:29:49] But, you know putting a person on a Statin drug in their 30s to quote-unquote protect them from heart disease, and then they develop Alzheimer's disease. I know exertion. [00:30:00] Who has been taking statin drugs without being diagnosed with high cholesterol? Because he didn't want to develop high cholesterol and today he's in an institution because he's he's developed all the.
[00:30:17] known side effects of taking statin drugs for long periods of time which are increased insulin resistance and dementia. So we're going to look back a hundred years from now go. Wow, you know, this was a dark time where people were told that this was the right thing to do by their doctors are well-meaning doctors because doctors have no say-so anymore in the standard of care.
[00:30:43] They can they can only follow instructions. They can't do what they think they need to do for a patient. That's partially our fault because if somebody saw a doctor on Wednesday and died of a heart attack on Thursday, somebody wants to sue the doctor. I'm not saying that there aren't doctors who [00:31:00] have made mistakes and deserve suing but not but we are today.
[00:31:04] We have pooped in our own mess kit with the way we handle medicine because everybody's looking for a way out. Oh, I'm going to sue somebody because of this. But anyway, that's a different story. So AAA. Published a study today the 28th of November 2018. They have been doing research on aging and driving some time.
[00:31:29] Now one of the things that kind of bubbled up to the top. Is the prescription of potentially inappropriate medications to mature drivers? And the study found that a list of what they consider potentially inappropriate medications for adult drivers. Because one of these will impair a drivers reflexes mental acuity.
[00:32:01] [00:32:00] Ability to drive the car ability to see a car reflexes. So we just one of these and what they're saying is that they are seeing. Many many older people. according to the American geriatrics Society 2015 Beers Criteria study. when they looked at the number of accidents and they triangulated it for the types of drugs.
[00:32:27] These people were taken they found that if you were taking one of them you had a pretty high risk, if you were taking two of them. You had a more increased risk if you taking up to 5 or more of these. Your increased risk of car accident was three hundred percent and that's significant. That's three times.
[00:32:47] Now. Remember older people already have some reflux and cognitive issues. We're all going to get them. I'm sure I'm getting already and just don't realize it because the good thing about getting them as you don't see them in yourself because your own brain is evaluating your [00:33:00] performance and your brain is the problem.
[00:33:03] But if these if seniors are taking up to 5 or more of these they're pretty much going to have a car accident. Just a matter of when not if the top potentially inappropriate medications include benzodiazepines, which are given for anxiety narcotic medications, which give them a pain. Non benzodiazepine hypnotics, which are basically a fancy way for saying an antidepressant.
[00:33:36] And sleep medications if you have a relative who's in their 60s and 70s and moving up and they're taking one or more of these drugs. You need to sit down have a talk with them and their. Because the possibility of them having a car accident changes to probability and then it's a matter of just when are they going to [00:34:00] have this car accident?
[00:34:00] When are they going to have not move fast enough or make a bad decision and make a left turn and not realize how far oncoming traffic is away from them and end up in a T-bone accident. Or put the car in reverse and look forward and hit the gas pedal and hit somebody behind them. I mean all of those things that we laugh about like, you know, mr.
[00:34:24] Magoo type stuff. Those things are happening in greater and greater number you mean we you know every now and then you hear a story about some elderly person who who gets up on a sidewalk and plows through 40 people before realizing there on the sidewalk and. What we never see in any of these types of accidents, but we never see in any of these types of accidents what we never see in mass shootings is transparency on what drugs were these people taking?
[00:34:59] And [00:35:00] that is not by accident. That is an agenda that it I'm sure it cost a lot of money from the pharmaceutical industry not to have that stuff circulate. There was a guy that was doing radio shows earlier in the year. He actually. discovered information that obviously he had to stop now. I know why because of HIPAA.
[00:35:27] But who he paid and how he paid and what he paid to the people who were closest to a shooter in a mass shooting in the past decade and he shows the drugs that they were on. I tried to have him on the show and then he mysteriously disappeared and then his website disappeared and I know why I found out because he's like tied up in lawsuits for HIPAA now.
[00:35:52] How did you know that how did you find that information? Who do you're not allowed to see it's really interesting. The [00:36:00] pharmaceutical industry has protective mechanisms in there that they position as being protected for us because of insurance companies while we don't want your insurance company to find out that you have this and that that's all Bs insurance companies know.
[00:36:13] Hypnotize your hands for talking about stuff that you want to talk about. That you know about maybe for your mom or your brother or somebody who passed away that you know polypharmacy was at the root of it. Because they would have to sign a authorization for you to talk about their their their Pharmaceuticals and health.
[00:36:35] So elderly people having more car accidents and it's going to have more car accidents more and more and more car accidents simply because. the number of drugs that they're on today. And a lot of times. these drugs shouldn't be mixed at all. You say several. What what how what how can a doctor [00:37:00] prescribe to things that are contraindicated for each other?
[00:37:05] Because doctors don't know anymore. They can't know, you know, there was a time where a doctor had a. a quiver of drugs that he went to throughout his practice but today. There are new drugs being launched every day and people are walking into doctors offices and asking for them before the doctor even knows what it is.
[00:37:26] These doctors don't know what they're prescribing anymore and whether or not it's contraindicated with the drug that just came out three years ago that he's been putting he put you on three years. They don't they can so the hope. Is that the. Pharmacist catches it he a doctor doesn't care if you know, well if I prescribe something wrong, I worry about the pharmacy will catch it but.
[00:37:51] When you launching so many drugs so quickly all the time. You don't learn about contraindications until stuff is out in the real world because the [00:38:00] pharmaceutical companies don't test once they find out a drug Works. They don't go now. Let's see if it works with these other 16 drugs that people have been taking a lot of not I don't do that.
[00:38:12] Right, we find out that they're contraindicated after there's events. Once it's been deployed on the population and then the pharmaceutical and she starts getting phone calls about how things happening and then they realize oh, well, you can't use it with that blood pressure medication. They send out a circular they warn everybody the doctors don't see it.
[00:38:29] They don't pay attention to it because they feel like the pharmacist will see it that's his job or her job. And then the pharmacist is supposed to catch it. But if it's relatively new. Information you may be one of those quote-unquote unlucky test people. That creates the burden of evidence that this drug should not be taken when you're taking that drug.
[00:38:58] And a lot of these drugs [00:39:00] that have effects on anxiety and depression and their hypnotics and their pain relievers, they overlap in their effectiveness and they amplify the effectiveness of each other. So they're not necessarily contraindicated. It's not like it. So if you take a benzo. With an SSRI which they that's a common thing to take right people usually have depression have anxiety issues.
[00:39:26] So they give you a Xanax throughout the day to take for your anxiety and then a lot of times they'll have you take your antidepressant before bed so that they say you sleep better and those are not necessarily contraindicated because you know, they're going to make you drowsy, you know, that's the that's their job.
[00:39:47] And so it's not like there's no you take a blood pressure medicine and a heart rhythm Ed and you rushed to the hospital with a super slow heartbeat and they go can't do that anymore. You got drowsy. Oh, that's what [00:40:00] those drugs are supposed to do supposed to make you drowsy the supposed to make you numb a little bit.
[00:40:06] So contraindications don't really show up like traditional meds that literally send you to the hospital fighting for your life when they used together. These just impair your ability to function in your life accurately. And if you're already older like me 60 and 70 and 80 and you're taking these drugs and you're trying to remain.
[00:40:31] Independent you want to drive it may not work. You may have to find a workaround and get rid of that drug. And why wouldn't you why wouldn't you want to feel better and not be numb to life stay tuned. We'll be right back. I know when I go home tonight. I'm going to be using some thymosin alpha 1.
[00:40:55] Yeah, I this feels like a cold but it's in my throat. [00:41:00] Just that tickle. I get I do get this probably every other year. Usually happens earlier as the summer is changing to winter, but I got it now. the bottom line is that that I want people to take away from this discussion is. If you have older adults in your life, your parents are still alive.
[00:41:24] It's important to have this discussion with them. Just tell them about the study don't to that's it. Just tell them about the study, you know, and and in the right up it says some people see a number of Physicians and Specialists. So they may not know that they are taking a harmful mix of medications until they put the entire list together.
[00:41:47] One of the doctor said, And again, this used to be the job of the pharmacist, but they can't even keep up on this stuff anymore. So have this discussion with your mom your dad your uncle your aunt [00:42:00] your your your spouse if you know your spouse is on a bunch of medication and some of those fall into that hypnotic listing antidepressants anxiety.
[00:42:10] Lytx have this discussion because.
[00:42:16] Some of these car accidents that they talked about in this study. They were massive. I mean these people not only died in the car wreck, but they took like nine people with them, you know when they cause a pileup on the highway. And if you have this discussion with your family member or the person that you're thinking of right now who may be on some of these medications like Ambien is another one Ambience horrible.
[00:42:43] There are people who get up in the middle of the night and drive to Atlantic City and Gamble and then go home and go to sleep and don't remember it on Ambien that now that my friends is friggin scary and I did heroin when I was a kid, okay. And I would never use Ambien. That should tell you [00:43:00] something.
[00:43:00] That should tell you something. Yeah, I mean some of these drugs that they're putting on people today. It's just shocking and I'm telling you. I wish I could live for 200 years just so I can see a hundred years from now when they look back and go what the f were people thinking taking all these pills not challenging the doctor not saying to the doctor BS.
[00:43:24] It's crazy. All right, that's it for today tomorrow. We have the ReNew Life RX show. I may be doing a show on Friday. I may have dr. Matt Andrew down here. I want to talk about iron. I cannot talk about iron enough. I'm going to make a statement right now. To try to crystallize the idea of iron in your body.
[00:43:46] There is a if you unless you're a woman if you're not a woman. If your man. There is iron in your body from a hamburger that you ate when you were 10 years old. Think about [00:44:00] that for a second. I have people who talk about iron they go. Well, you know, I just I just stopped eating red meat and everything.
[00:44:07] I better that is complete bull donkey. The iron doesn't leave your body and only 22 micrograms in a liter of sweat and unless you're bleeding because you are an MMA fighter. The only way to get the iron out of your body is to manage it give blood donations get it tested ferritin and T IB C which is direct iron because it's aging you unnecessarily it's causing you problems unnecessarily in keep in mind.
[00:44:41] You're gonna have to get your iron levels down for a good year to reverse some of these symptoms that may be related to iron in your body. So don't expect to go. Yeah, my blood work came back. Why don't I feel better now? You have to wait for the tissue to release the iron back into the blood. So, you know, it's like osmosis right blood puts it [00:45:00] in their blood has a lot in the blood put it in there put it in their office and the blood doesn't have a lot.
[00:45:05] It takes it out. It takes it out. But the research on iron is fragmented no pun intended. It's all over the place from everything from hypogonadism to hypothyroidism to liver cancer to ulcers in the stomach. I mean, it's when you look at this you got to be like me Ron Peta laughed at me I said, you know.
[00:45:27] I get I get hooked on a topic and all of a sudden it's the reason for everything. I said, you know Iron is the reason the wall. The reason the wallpaper is peeling in my bathroom and he laughed really hard. He laughed really hard. But I'm telling you man. It's been ignored too long. It's time to start paying attention to iron intake we getting a lot of iron today and it's accumulating and it.
[00:45:53] Causing us to have crappy lives later in life. I see you tomorrow. Thanks for listening today.
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