➡ On March 4, 2026, the speaker announced that musicians Brendan, Mike, and Jude will perform at the New Biology Experience in Virginia. They also discussed the unreliability of DNA testing, citing examples of inaccurate results from companies like 23andMe. The speaker questioned the validity of these tests, especially when they claim to match a person’s DNA to relatives from generations ago. Lastly, they discussed the difficulty in diagnosing diseases like measles, suggesting that many symptoms are common to various illnesses, making accurate diagnosis challenging.
➡ The text discusses the confusion around identifying measles and the effectiveness of vaccines. It also talks about the atom theory and the use of technology to visualize atoms. The text then moves on to discuss the discovery of giant viruses and their potential impact on understanding viral infections. Lastly, it discusses the potential health benefits of apricot seeds, particularly in relation to cancer treatment, and the controversy surrounding this topic.
➡ The text discusses the potential health benefits of eating apricot seeds, which contain vitamin B17, and the use of a herbal treatment called EC act for serious illnesses like cancer. However, the author warns against taking synthesized vitamin B17 due to its decreased effectiveness and potential side effects. The author also discusses the history and health of Native Americans, debunking common myths about their demise. Lastly, the text explores osteoporosis, explaining that it’s a condition characterized by decreased bone density, but questioning the common belief that fractures in older people are solely due to this decreased density.
➡ An elderly woman with thin bones fractured both hips just by standing up, revealing that her bones were so thin they were barely visible on an X-ray. However, her arteries were heavily calcified, suggesting that the minerals meant for her bones ended up in her arteries instead. This led to the realization that low bone density might not be the sole cause of fractures, as previously believed. High doses of vitamin D3 and calcium, often recommended for osteoporosis, might actually accelerate artery calcification, potentially worsening the condition.
➡ A woman was diagnosed with osteoporosis after trying to lose weight by starving herself, which led to her developing Hashimoto’s disease, a condition that affects the thyroid. Her doctor prescribed her synthetic thyroid medication, which helped her feel better but accelerated her osteoporosis. She sought help and was advised to eat nourishing food like bone broth, stop taking the thyroid medication, and do exercises to build muscle. After following this advice, her osteoporosis and Hashimoto’s disease were resolved, demonstrating that maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle can prevent and treat such conditions.

Okay, welcome everybody. Thanks for joining me. Another Wednesday, sorry webinar today, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. And as always, I appreciate everybody’s support. And I just heard that we did get our hundred thousand followers on Facebook. So that’s thanks to the effort of a lot of people. And that’s a milestone for us, for whatever that’s worth. Okay. I have a lot of stuff, a little things I wanted to talk about today. But the first is a sort of exciting news that I’ve heard that Brendan, Mike and Jude, three musicians who I played some of their songs, like the Hallelujah song and unpopular ideas.

They will be joining us in Virginia at the New Biology Experience. And I think the agenda is to have them play two short concerts, like after dinner where there’ll be maybe some dancing. And they’re actually going to do like a singing workshop, I believe, on Saturday. I’m not sure about the schedule and the agenda, but anyways, there will be live music, three really wonderful musicians. So you’ll be able to sing and dance and meet friends and all the other things. So there are still places to sign up, room to sign up, and I’m sure that will be in the show notes.

Okay. And so I had a number of little things to go over. The first is a lot of people have been asking me about Tourette’s, and probably at some point, I’ll put my two cents in. The only thing I’m going to say right now is I actually was sent a clip from Saturday Night Live, I guess, and they referred to a paper or something, I don’t know, claiming that 97% of the women on Long island experience repetitive offensive outbursts, which actually explained a lot about my grandmother. So just so you know, it’s a. Apparently that form of Tourette’s is very common, especially on women in Long Island.

Okay. Okay. So that was the first one. And I’ll probably get back to Tourette’s at some point and other neurological diseases. So the other thing that a lot of people have been asking me about because I’ve been banging on about DNA and how it’s not reliable, it’s not hereditary, it’s not the hereditary material. And all the flaws of the DNA makes protein and DNA is a double helix model. And everybody comes back to with, well, how do you. How do I explain the 23andMe and all these sites that tell you about your heredity and sometimes give amazing results that are allegedly looking at your DNA? So let me just play a few things that will maybe help explain a Little bit about that.

So let me share my screen. So this one I have to share the sound and share. And here’s the first one. See if I can get this to play. Let’s see what would happen if I sent my pet lizard DNA into 23andMe. And so with the help of my wife, we extracted enough saliva to send off in the mail. We were so excited to see the results. After about three months, we were shocked. My lizard was 51% Ashkenazi Jewish. He was also 48% West Asian. This was really interesting. They also gave us a little bit of his background and his history, what he liked to eat, etc.

Let us know which animal cna we should send in next. Well, okay, so that was the first one. And maybe that’s why he had a lot of internal conflict, that lizard, because he was part Ashkenazi Jew and part Iranian. So here’s the next one we found. This was from a journal called Biology. DNA testing could not tell the difference between human and dog DNA. Apparently there’s a lot of companies that will test the saliva of your dog and tell you what sort of breed it is. And this is thanks to a friend who found this. And here’s another one.

Dog DNA company insist that human DNA is actually an Alaskan malamut. So these people sort of like the lizard story set into a dog DNA company a sample of their own saliva. Interestingly, people would they refer to this. They. They sent their DNA in, but obviously they didn’t send their DNA and they sent their saliva in. So that’s the case here. Dog DNA DNA company said the person’s saliva was actually from an Alaskan malamute. And there was a third one, which I don’t have the slide here. Apparently somebody did the same thing and sent their own saliva and they told them they were a cocker spaniel.

And I don’t think I even want to get into that. So apparently there’s some flaws in the methodology of the DNA stuff. And the other thing that really struck me as interesting is a lot of people say they found that I, you know, I have certain DNA, I’m from a certain region, and. And I’m related to a, you know, somebody four generations back. And they even sometimes show you a picture of that person from three or four generations previous. Then you look sort of like that person. And sometimes you have the same habits, like you like to eat spaghetti or something.

And they say, how could that be? Besides that they matched your DNA. So it sounds impressive at first until you realize that there’s no possible way they could have tested that person from three or four generations ago. So they had no sample from them, they had nothing to test. So if you think about it, how can you match something of some thing, somebody, something who has never been tested, how do you claim or how do you demonstrate that you match your great, great, great previous Uncle Fred, who has never actually had his DNA or anything from him tested? And as far as I can see, you can’t do that.

And so how what they’re using to claim that that’s true, what they call proprietary information. So I don’t know what they’re saying, but the whole thing seems like pretty shaky business as far as I can see. Okay, there’ll be more on DNA. And if anybody finds similar stories or contradictions like this, please let us know and send them to us because I think I’m going to start a file of the fantasy of DNA testing. Okay, the next thing, as I said, I would talk just for a minute, which I keep going on about, but this is such an important subject because it gets to the heart of whenever you see these vaccine debates or whenever you see these conversations of the freedom community, so called scientists, doctors or interviewers or luminaries, so to speak, who are trying to debunk the no virus position they always bring up.

So how do you explain measles or that there’s less measles than there was now? And so what I’ve been saying all along is the question to ask is how do you know there was measles? How do you know? How does a doctor, you’re a doctor, you’re telling me that measles was higher prevalence before 1963, when they started the shots, then after, and that could only be because of the so called vaccine. So how did anybody know there was somebody had measles as opposed to some other sort of rash and fever disease before there was these molecular tests which are all dependent on the existence of the virus.

So let’s forget about molecular tests and say how did they know? Because all these vaccine studies were done before there was these molecular diagnostic tests. So they must have had some way or, or else the whole thing is a bunch of hooey. So let me show you some quotes that I happen to run into this week. So this is one. Whoops. So there’s a word, morbiliform, it means measles like. And there are lots of viruses that can cause a rash that looks like a measles rash in children, said Teresa Flynn, a pediatrician in Raleigh and The president of the North Carolina pediatric association, in 30 years she’s never seen a case of measles.

Now some people will say that this is a appeal to authority kind of fallacy, but actually what I’m doing here is this is a hostile witness, right? This is a, a pediatrician who’s president of the North Carolina State Pediatric Society. So if there’s anybody who A should know and B is claims to be an authority on measles who believes that there is such a thing as measles, therefore should be able to defend the diagnosis of measles. Says you can’t tell from the rash if it’s measles or not because a lot of so called viruses can cause the same thing.

So even on their own terms they can’t tell you who has measles and who doesn’t. Now here’s another one. Most US clinics and hospitals have never experienced measles cases, says Patsy Stinchfield. Interesting. Patsy Stinchfield, a former president of the national foundation for Infectious Diseases and nurse practitioner. So if there’s anyone who should be an authority on what is and isn’t measles, it should be our friend patsy. She called CMS’s immediate jeopardy penalty for Mission Extreme given the virus can be so difficult to identify. And she says, quote, in the middle of winter right now measles looks like every other viral respiratory infection that kids come in with.

In other words, Patsy can’t tell who has measles and who has some other viral respiratory infection, which must have been the case with everybody who claimed to have measles in before 1963, in which case all of that data is useless because they had no idea who had measles and who didn’t. And these people don’t even know how to bring up the complex spots which as I’ve said over and over has actually been disproven to be related on their own terms to the measles virus. So again, it’s not that I’m saying there is a measles virus, but I’m saying these so called authorities, the people who allegedly should know what a case of measles is, are clearly saying they have no idea, nor does anybody else, nor does anybody in the freedom community have any idea.

And so we should stop talking about that Vaccines work to help reduce the incidence of measles or vaccines are the best protection against measles or measles is a important childhood disease or anything about measles, because nobody knows who has measles and who doesn’t and just to say that quote came from this, the the article was in the KFF Health News national newsroom in depth journalism, et cetera from North Carolina or whatever that’s worth. Okay, moving on. Now we’re getting into some science news and I happen to be sent a few pictures by a friend who thought these would be interesting stuff to look at.

And these are all things that I’ve been talking about a lot. I’ve been talking about the two Adam worldviews. There’s the Adam Adam of this, of the Bible, of the scriptures, which is the story that all traditional people, all indigenous people, not necessarily Adam, but that all that we see, all of life, all living beings were a creation or maybe a co creation of a supernatural spiritual being interacting with what we call the earth. And there is a wisdom behind it, there is a direction and the species are distinct. They don’t morph or evolve in one into the other.

That’s all sort of evolutionary nonsense. And the other which I have been claiming is a essentially a mockery of the first, which is like most things. So their intention is to mock that story. So they call it the atom theory A T O M. And so the. Then if you go asking so can you show me a picture of an atom or all that an atom does, even though some of the luminaries in the atomic theory worldview say yeah but if you looked at an atom you’d never see an electron or a nucleus or anything. So finally these guys and I’ll show you who this is, show us a picture proving once and for all that you can actually see an atom.

So there it is. You’re looking at a crystal at a magnification of. It doesn’t say, but this is an atom. And so how did they do this? Because we of course always want to know the method section. So here’s what they did. So it’s always starts with a. The wonderful news about how much progress we’ve done in science and especially the great scientists at our world’s leading universities, funded by the money confiscated from the people of this so called country. So this is from quarks to quasars. We’ve reached the limit of how clearly atoms can be seen.

Stop the presses. Time for a celebration. A team of physicists at the prestigious I put that word in Cornell University created the most detailed image of atoms ever recorded. The image shows the atomic structure of Prasio Dymium Ortho scandate at magnification of 100 million. I don’t think I pronounced that word. Right. But you know what I mean. What looks like a blur isn’t a flaw in the resolution. It’s caused by thermal motion. Atoms never stop vibrating, even in a solid crystal. The level of clarity was achieved using a technique called. Rather than photographing atoms directly, tychography fires electrons at the sample and maps how they scatter as the beams move.

Computers reconstruct the atomic structure. Hang on a minute. You mean they have to put this through a computer and they get some shooting of alleged electrons and then the computer reconstructs this into an atomic structure from the interference pattern so they’re not actually seeing it. Wait a minute. They said this was a picture? No, it’s a computer reconstruction. A method similar to how telescopes use light diffraction to image distant galaxies. Oh, well, that makes me feel better. The bright paired blobs in the image are precio atoms. Single bright spots are scandium. Not scam. Scammedium. Scandium. It’s not a scam, Dion.

It’s a scandium. The faint red dots. Oxygen. Oh, that’s what oxygen looks like. All of them locked in near perfect lattice. The researchers believe this may be the final word in resolution at this scale. Physics itself sets the limit. We’ve reached a point where the image is as sharp as nature allows. Thanks God we can do it. Thanks God for computers who can reconstruct the atomic structure from blebs of light from shooting of God knows what with using Tycho graphi on ortho scam date molecules. Thanks God for that. Okay. And finally in science news, we have the discovery of giant viruses.

Not your normal sign viruses. And these viruses may be more alive than we thought. It encodes part of a protein making toolkit of cells and it infects the amoeba. So here you see a illustration of a Mimi virus. Actually had a cousin named Mimi. So maybe she was a computer recreation of this giant virus and it affects amoeba. So you can see the amoeba, or maybe it’s a virus and it raises questions about how it evolved. So then you go down to. Some of the genes encode proteins, components of the machinery for translation. The step that turns genetic information into proteins.

In cells, translation is carried out by structured called ribosomes, otherwise known as rib of the body, otherwise known as imaginary disproven structures, but never mind, because that’s where it happens. And is initiated by molecular assemblies called initiation complexes. To determine whether giant viruses possess a comparable system, Max Fels at Harvard Medical School, praise be, and his colleagues examined what Happens inside infected amoeba and how the Mimi virus manipulates the host machinery once infection begins. Actually, this does remind me of my cousin Mimi, who is very manipulative. And so maybe she had a viral infection. So the team isolated ribosome.

I would love to see the paper that describes that from infected cells and identified viral proteins associated with them. This was the first hint that they could be the factors we were looking for. And by the way, then they always finish with, this may seem like ridiculous, esoteric stuff, but these will actually give us huge information about how viruses redirect the host protein synthesis during infection, allowing us new insights into worldwide prevention of viral infections. So watch your behind, because they’re coming after you yet again with the Mimi virus. All right, I don’t know how much more I can do with this stuff, but there you go.

All right, science news and DNA. What more could you want? So now let me get to some of the concerns that people had. The first one was, what do I think about apricot seeds Otherwise sometimes referred to as laetril, sometimes also referred to as vitamin B17. So first of all, this also gets into the question of. Of what are you seeing? And what did they see that made anybody think there was some use to eating apricot seed, apricot pit seeds, or apricot seeds that are pits or you know what I mean? And you can actually go to the store and buy allegedly authentic hunza apricot pits.

I actually did that for years where I ate three or four bitter apricot seeds pretty much every day. I would chew them and then eat them. And this came from observations of people in the mountains of the Himalayas who seemed to do better. And maybe it was had something to do with their water or their lifestyle or their overall diet, but they also had an unusual habit of eating apricot pits or apricot seeds every day. And so this became a object of scientific interest. People talked about this, and they would give these apricot pits to people who had what we call cancer.

And some of them got better. The next thing, obviously, that happened is they would make extracts of apricot seeds, and they would give those in a sort of medicinal form, and they even gave it iv. And then there was the famous study of that got Ralph Moss, a sort of journalist guy, fired from Sloan Kettering. When Sloan Kettering did a trial of using apricot seed extracts intravenously in cancer patients, and they ended up doing a lot better than the ones they gave chemotherapy to, they had very few, if any Side effects. And he reported on that even though they sort of buried the research and decided never to do the research again.

And they buried it. And then he blew the whistle and said this is what happened. And then they fired him. And then he spent the rest of his career exposing what he thought was medical nonsense. The next step then, which is almost always the death blow to a natural medicine. So let me stop there for a minute and I say, I think that eating apricot pits or apricot seeds is actually probably a good thing. I think they have a lot, I wouldn’t eat many of them because they have a, what we call a kind of cyanide effect, but something like three to four a day and maybe a few more if you have been diagnosed with some disease like cancer and forget about what they allegedly have in it because as always, the next step is okay.

So we saw that was a simple observation that eating apricot pits, apricot seeds helped certain people and maybe even helped other people. It’s hard to say. But have fewer kinds of disease. That’s almost impossible to say. But anyways, these healthy people, one of the things they did was eat apricot pits seeds every day. And then when some of the times they got sick and they ate a few more and they got better. And so that then was sort of tried in a, in a more formal setting and it seemed to help without any problems. So the next thing that the scientific community always does is it asks the question, so what do apricot seeds have in them? And then they come out with a atom theory based answer which is they have a vitamin called vitamin B17 and that’s hard to get.

And apricot pit seeds are the richest source and that’s why they work. So we don’t need to go through the trouble of eating the apricot pits or seeds. And so we’re just going to synthesize vitamin B17 and then we give that to people and as pretty much always happens predictably, all that does is it decreases the effectiveness. So now it doesn’t work, which was probably the whole point to get a, a medicine now that they knew wouldn’t work. And it increases the side effects. And you started seeing people who get what they would sort of refer to as cyanide poisoning.

So I would never do vitamin B17 even in a pill form or certainly not IV. I did use Laetril extract that I got from Mexico probably 35, 40 years ago with some cancer patients. And it wasn’t a proper controlled study. So I don’t really know what happened, but it didn’t seem to do much. And so then I abandoned it. And I would just tell my cancer patients through the years to go to the, or go online. There’s places you can buy organically grown seeds and eat somewhere between three and six a day, which is also what I did for years.

And I can’t say whether that helped or not, but that’s what I did. I also want to put in a plug here and this is, I would say premature and even tentative, but if you’re looking for sort of herbal treatments to help with certain serious diseases, and in one of the ones I’m thinking of in particular is this quote, cancer diagnosis, I would investigate what is called EC act, which is the backwards of this nurse, Renee Cassie, who allegedly got this formula from the native Americans who thought they knew how to treat this disease. And it was a combination originally of four herbs and then the real formula was probably eight.

And they were ground up and drank at a fairly significant amount every day for anywhere between three and six months. And I have seen personally and heard many stories through the years and of course not everybody, nothing always works on everybody. But of people with significant illness, including cancer, who have had a, a pretty dramatically improved outcome from the very diligent use of ec. What I didn’t know until two weeks ago and somebody in the comments, just to show you that I actually do read the comments, pointed me to a website called genuineesiac.com and they make a good case that they have a product which is as faithful to the original formula as possible.

And it’s sort of nasty tasting slurry. And so we’ve decided to do that, my wife and I, for at least a month and maybe six months just to see what if anything, I notice from drinking the original EC act formula. And it’s too soon to know, but I will report back if I notice anything in a few months. Okay, that’s that. That’s herbal treatment of serious illness. So next question people asked, which is common, why did native people die if it wasn’t from that? They put smallpox virus into a blanket, which by the way has never been shown to be the case.

And in fact they tell us that the smallpox virus would never survive on a blanket. And that’s never been shown to be the case. And you hear that over and over again. They all died from measles because they didn’t have immunity. And we know that can’t not possibly be true. I just want to say that the best reference Source of so what actually happened to people is our good friend Don Lester wrote a book on this. So what I think it’s called why People Get Sick or what makes people Sick. And I think she went through the whole case of what happened to the Native Americans and why did they die.

And it’s sort of the usual things, but not like necessarily EMF type usual things and not pesticides, but social displacement. A lot of them were outright murdered and starvation and a whole lot of other just normal things that happen to people when they’ve been annihilated and abused in various ways and marched off and put into different camps and all kinds of things which should never happen to anybody. And I think they went into very good detail about what actually happened. So I would refer you to that for a more definitive, in depth, specific look at what happened in that case.

But it certainly wasn’t measles or smallpox. Next question is something that I’ve dealt with before but probably would be good to deal with again, which is somebody asked what about osteoporosis? And their doctor recommended them getting a DEXA scan, which is otherwise called a bone scan, to see whether, where they are in the osteoporosis spectrum. So this actually is one of my, I don’t know, favorite stories or one of the earliest stories in my career that really got me thinking about this whole disease categorization and testing and all that. And so this goes back at least 40 years when I was working as an ER doctor, when I had, I mean, I was suspicious before that.

I was suspicious before I went to medical school, but it was, it would have been hard for me to put it into words. And so this was a case that really helped crystallize what we’re talking about with diseases and the value or not value of tests. And so there were two cases that really taught me about how to think about osteoporosis. And again, it’s. I’ve said this many times. Often the things I learned came from listening and observing patients. And now people who comment. Most of the things that I’ve decided to do, like this genuine EC act, or at least have decided to try out, came from the story of a person who actually tried it, did better, knew a lot of people who tried it, checked it out, then they asked me about it and I check it out and see what I think.

So this was a story from a patient. So what do we mean by osteoporosis? So osteoporosis means. So there’s first of all, osteopenia which is you could say mild osteoporosis. And then there’s osteoporosis, which is more severe. And that means a decreased mineral density of the bones. So the bones are basically two things. They’re a proteinaceous matrix, like a gel. And then there a. Then there’s minerals, calcium, phosphorus and other minerals which are laid down on top of the proteinaceous matrix. One way to think of this, it’s like you’re like building a house and you have a two by four wooden frame and then you put bricks on the house.

On the frame. Bricks on the frame. So osteoporosis is decreased density of the bricks. So the bricks are too thin, the bones are too thin. And that’s something that is measured by this bone scan or DEXA scan. So they’re measuring the thickness, in other words the mineral composition of the bones. So I have never actually looked into how accurate that DEXA scan is, but let’s just say for the sake of argument that it is actually accurate. And so they can tell you how, how mineralized, the degree of mineralization of your bone. Now the first important point is, is the next claim, which is, so why would anybody care about this? Well, obviously because if you’re an older person, or anybody really, but typically an older person, particularly a woman, a female, you don’t want to have a hip fracture, you don’t want to fall or just keel over and have a fractured hip.

And the claim, so we always look for the claim. The claim is fractures, whether it’s your hip fracture or your wrist fracture, happen because of decreased bone density. That is the claim. Therefore, if you do a DEXA scan and find the bone density and it’s low, you will be at increased risk of a fracture and you should do something about that to increase your bone density. So the story that got me thinking about this, there was two. The first one and around this same time. So we’re talking now, this was when I was sort of moonlighting as an ER doctor.

And I’ll just tell the two stories at the same time. One was I had a woman who came to us from the nursing home. So they wheeled her in and they said that she stood up, she didn’t fall and had pain in both hips. So there was no fall involved. This was basically a very thin, emaciated, bedridden, 80s year old woman. And I don’t know if she had other health problems, but it’s not really relevant. So of course my role was to do an X ray and it turns out she had hip fractures, which I had never seen, on both sides at right at the femoral neck, which is the typical high stress point of the femur.

So she had fractures on both hips, both sides. And what was so interesting is her bones were so thin you could barely see them on the X ray. And so on first blush, you would think that corroborates the reason she had these hip fractures. And again, what was so interesting is they were fractures without even a fall. She didn’t fall, she just stood up. Both of her hips from just the, the act of fall, of standing, fractured together, both, both the same place. But what was so fascinating about this X ray was right next to the, the femur, the bone in the upper part of your leg that you could barely see.

All you could see was sort of the faint outline, in other words, the matrix of the bone were two crystalline white pipes about a quarter of an inch to the outside of both of the femurs. And I had never seen that before. I looked at a lot of hip X rays. I’d never seen it. It looked like somebody stuffed a crystalline lead pipe down both of her legs simultaneous, at the same place, same time, both sides, and they were bright white on the X ray. And so my job at that point was to call the orthopedic surgeon who deals with hip fractures and he would admit her to the hospital and deal with, take care of her in whatever way he could.

And so he came in and I said, I showed him the X ray and I said, what are those white pipes? I’ve never seen that before. And he looked at it and he said, those are her femoral arteries. And so I was a smart ass then, just like I still am. And so I said to him, oh, she doesn’t have osteoporosis. She has bad aim. In other words, she missed by about a quarter of an inch. So it wasn’t that she didn’t have enough minerals, it wasn’t that she didn’t have enough calcium, phosphorus, it isn’t that she didn’t have the minerals that would mineralize a bone.

She just put them a quarter of an inch to the outside of where they’re supposed to be. And that was the problem. And now along at the same time, I. And maybe it was even the same day, which was like the world trying to teach me about this situation. I ended up having a baby come in who I think had pneumonia or something. And so we of course had to do an X ray. That’s what we did. And when you do a baby’s chest X ray, you pretty much visualize their entire skeletal system. And what was so striking about this X ray, in which I had never either noticed or appreciated before, is that the bone density of the baby’s skeleton was almost identical to this 80 some year old woman who just broke both of her hips.

And I thought, I remember at the time thinking, well, that’s weird, because in some ways the people least likely to break their bones are newborn babies. And so if the reason for a fracture is simply a decalcification or a low bone density, how come babies don’t break their bones? I mean, you can break a baby’s bone, but. But usually they bend way before they break. And so that got me thinking or wondering even at the time, maybe this is not about the mineralization, maybe it’s about the matrix. And so then I did what I’ve been doing pretty much my whole life, which is I went looking for a study that proved that low bone density was the cause or even intimately associated with fracture, particularly hip fractures.

And I found that there was no such evidence like that. So that was interesting because the whole claim that the reason we’re doing DEXA scans is to find your bone density and the reason we’re interested in bone density is low bone density is the cause and is exactly correlated with, with the fracture incidence. Turns out not to be the case. There is some correlation, which I’ll get into in a minute, but that was not. That has never been proven as far as I could see. I haven’t really looked into it since then, but I was pretty convinced that that was not proven.

So that was very interesting. So then I happened pretty soon after that to read another piece of the puzzle, which was a paper saying that people who take high doses of vitamin D3 or vitamin D2 and calcium end up with accelerated calcification of their arteries. So that’s what this older woman had. She had a widespread calcification of the arteries. Now, I was smart enough at the time to take a copy of that woman’s X ray. And so for 20 some years, until I somehow moved to California, and then I lost the X ray, unfortunately, or I would show it to you because it’s so dramatic.

Whenever I would go to talks by the. When the doctors from Harvard would come up to our little hospital in New Hampshire, and so the osteoporosis specialists would come up to talk about the latest in osteoporosis prevention and research. And they would tell everybody, they would tell the people to take high doses of vitamin D3 and calcium. And this was the same with all the patients who came to me and said, I was told with a DEXA scan or I’m wondering or some reason think my mother or grandmother had a hip fracture. And I’m wondering about how to treat osteo or prevent osteoporosis.

And I want to take vitamin D3 and calcium. And I would say, so how’s your aim? And I would ask all these osteoporosis specialists, they’d go on about their Fosamax and their Bisphosphonate, drugs that increase the calcification of the bone and telling people to take D3 and calcium. And I would hold up the X ray and say, how do you know the person’s aim? What do you mean, aim? Well, this is like a quarter of an inch. If their aim is off and they put it in their arteries, you just made them worse. If they put it in their bones, allegedly, then there you made them better.

So how does the body aim the calcium? And as you can imagine, the answer was what I knew it would be, which is, we have no idea. So in other words, you’re giving these people calcium and vitamin D3, you’re giving them bisphosphonate and drugs and they have newer ones, and you’re hoping that that makes the calcium go into the bone and not into the artery. That’s with D3 and calcium. The drugs actually do drive the calcium into the bone, the minerals into the bone. And what I realized then, and one of the side effects is besides bone pain and stomach problems and constipation and diarrhea and belching and reflux, etc.

Because seemingly they take the calcium from the smooth muscle, like your arteries, and put it into the bones. And so allegedly, calcium is needed for the calcium contraction of the smooth muscle. So none of your smooth muscle, like your bowel, doesn’t work and you put it in the bones and that’s supposed to help you not get a fracture. But what I realized then is that if you. Keeping with the analogy of the house, if you have a, a house or a structure and you build it with weak scaffolding, weak two by fours or one by twos or half by whatever.

Some not much of a builder. And so the frame is weak, and then you put more and more heavier bricks on it, what’s going to happen is you’re going to make the house more brittle and more likely just to crumble. And lo and behold, what is the main side effect of these bisphosphonates these drugs that drive the calcium into the bone. It’s a so called pathological fractures which means the bones are brittle and you don’t have an injury but the bone just crumbles. Why does it crumble? Because you’re putting heavy bricks on a weak frame or heavy minerals on a weak matrix and all that does, it doesn’t prevent fractures.

And that’s never been shown with those drugs. All it does is change the kind of fractures now you get so called bone crumbling fractures. And the final story, and I’ve told this also before, that got me to realize this story was I always get the, the story a little bit wrong. It happened 20 some years ago. So this came later. A woman came to me because she wanted help with her osteoporosis, which she was recently diagnosed with on a DEXA scan. So I asked for the story like I always did and when did this all start? And she said, well, it started a few years ago.

And what she remembers is her husband said that he she was getting heavier and that he really likes thin women and she should not get heavier. So as a result of that she decided to go on a low food, not so much low calorie, but overall eating low food vegan diet. In other words, she was attempted to starve herself as a result of trying to starve herself to get thin so that her husband would be happier. She was tired and just didn’t feel good and lethargic. But she didn’t lose weight, which was surprising because she was trying to starve herself.

So of course she went to her doctor, why aren’t I losing weight in spite of eating this low food vegan diet? And he did some tests like they always do. They put your blood in the magic box and the magic box tells you what’s wrong with you. And the doctor said you have Hashimoto’s. That’s an autoimmune condition of your thyroid. You have low thyroid function and that’s why you’re tired and lethargic and can’t lose weight. There’s an easy treatment for this. So we give you synthetic thyroid, also known as Synthroid. And then she took that and lo and behold she got more energy and wasn’t as lethargic.

Her thyroid numbers were good and she was happy. But then she went in, I think a routine exam and they did a DEXA scan and she was diagnosed with accelerated osteoporosis which seemingly had happened in the previous six months, around the time that she took thyroid because I think she had had A scan before that, which didn’t show it. And then he said, we should start on these calcium drugs that push the bone. Push the calcium into your bones or you’re going to get a hip fracture. And. And at that point, she came to me, and that was the story.

So, looking at it another way, so what happened? Basically, she had this husband who told her to starve herself, sort of. And so she did, and she started starving herself, which made her feel horrible and trying to lose weight. And her body may be knowing that her bones were susceptible to, you know, being, like, not as healthy as they should. In other words, her infrastructure wasn’t as healthy as it should be. Said no. The reason why your bones are healthy is because you eat good food and you eat the protein. The food. Sorry, not the proteins, the food.

Like gelatin. That’s where you get the pro. The food that makes up your. The matrix of your bone is. You boil bones and cartilage and then you get the gelatin and it’s that gelatin, which is the matrix of your bone. So you eat the gelatin. And she wasn’t doing that. And so her matrix was essentially disappearing. And so her body, in its wisdom, said, we’re not putting heavy bricks on that matrix. And so it basically started decalcifying. Sorry, that’s. I got that a little bit wrong. So. So she was starving, her matrix wasn’t good. And her body said, we have to fix this.

We have to put more weight. Because it’s a combination of eating gelatin from soup broth and the weight of your body on your bones, which maintains the integrity of your bones. So even though you’re starving, we need you. Her body says to not lose that weight, otherwise your bones are going to deteriorate. And so it did that in the only way it knew how, which was to crank her thyroid down. So she felt tired and low metabolism, and so she couldn’t lose weight, so her weight stayed up. That kept the pressure on the bones, so it kept them, her infrastructure, from crumbling.

Then she goes to the doctor who says, you don’t have a strategy to protect your bones. You have a disease called Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism. So I’m going to give you Synthroid, and that’s going to increase your metabolic rate. It’s going to make you lose weight. And lo and behold, what happens is then her bones start disintegrating, deteriorating. Her infrastructure deteriorates because it was the weight that was maintaining, essentially the pressure on her bones now. So that’s why this happened. So how do I know that’s true? So I told her to do three very simple things. One, eat real food, particularly bone broth, because that’s where the matrix food comes from.

So you’re going to nourish your matrix. Two, stop taking the thyroid. Three, build some muscle with some movement exercises, primal movement, doing something with weights, etc. And get rid of your husband and take Quinton plasma because you need the minerals. Or we didn’t have C plasma at the time and come back in six months and she ended up getting another bone scan and her osteoporosis was back to normal. Her bones were back to normal. Her thyroid, Hashimoto’s was completely resolved. She no longer had Hashimoto’s, she got rid of the husband and she was fine after that.

So you could see that just by identifying from the point of view of how would the body react when you try to starve yourself. It would slow your metabolic rate down. We call that, it does that by cranking the thyroid down. Unfortunately, we call that a disease called hypothyroidism. If you make the mistake of thinking that’s a disease and treat it, you give the person a crumbling infrastructure, especially when they don’t move, don’t strengthen their muscle muscles to add weight and take care of the matrix. And that’s exactly what happened. And I think you could demonstrate that by the whole resolution of this situation.

So what causes osteoporosis? It’s a combination of not having matrix food, which is bone broth, and not having strong fit muscles, being underweight and not eating the kind of nourishing food and having the kind of nourishing active life that keeps your muscles intact so you don’t need. And also it’s good to take Quinton or C plasma. The minerals seem to really work well with so called bone density problems. But in general, I would never do a DEXA scan. It’s a useless test. There’s no need to do that. Just keep yourself fit, eat bone, broth, matrix, gelatin, that’s, that’s the same thing as the gelatin in your bones and you’ll be fine.

And there was a final question, which I know very little about. What do I have any suggestions for somebody unfortunately living in a war zone and the stress and the fear and I’ve never had that experience, so I really don’t know what that’s like. The only thing that comes to mind is stick to what’s real and what you can see and the relationships in your life and what you can do to keep your life as real as possible. Listen to as little news or Internet things as possible and. And hopefully things will go okay for you.

But I can only imagine that is a horrible, difficult. And that’s an understatement situation. All right, thanks, everybody again for listening, and check out the new Biology experience. We got 100,000 followers on Facebook, so thanks, everybody for that, and I will see you next week.
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