Stay Out Of The Hospital

A hospital may very well be the last place to go if you want to stay well (and alive)! Did you know that medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in the United States? The best thing to do is to steer clear of the hospital, whenever possible.

Dr. Andrew Kaufman is a self-proclaimed “recovering physician” and skeptic of allopathic medicine. Today, he explains how to equip your household to avoid hospital visits and extended stays. He offers tips for building your home first aid kit and explains how even high fevers and appendicitis need not be cause for alarm (or a trip to the ER). He covers how to shore up your health, so the hospital needn’t be your go-to, in the first place. He also describes just what to do if you do end up in the waiting room with a stack of papers to sign and a strong interest in protecting your medical freedom and sovereignty.

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Episode Transcript

Within the below transcript the bolded text is Hilda Labrada Gore and the regular text is Dr. Andrew Kaufman.

Introduction

After heart disease and cancer, medical malpractice is the leading cause of death in the United States. How can we prevent going to the hospital in the first place? Also, if we do end up there, how can we better advocate for ourselves and safeguard our health? This is episode 478, and our guest is Dr. Andy Kaufman. He is a self-proclaimed recovering physician who broke all the rules to leave a privileged career and mainstream medicine.

He’s an outspoken advocate for our health and a frequent speaker on topics related to natural healing, economics, law, education, and science. In this episode, Andy offers practical ideas for avoiding hospital visits and stays. He tells us how to build a home first aid kit and what to include in it like bentonite clay, an enema kit, and more. For example, he explains that many health concerns like diarrhea, fevers, cuts, and even appendicitis can be handled at home, and allopathic medical professionals don’t have all the answers, and they don’t even know the cause of a lot of illnesses.

He reminds us that overly processed foods can lead to all kinds of sicknesses, as can the toxins in our foods. He goes into detail about red dye 40, for example, and biosolids that are found in our soil and end up in our food and our bodies. Finally, Andy provides a simple solution for advocating for your rights when you come into the hospital and are handed a clipboard full of papers to sign.

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Welcome to the show, Andy.

Thank you so much for having me back.

This topic is critical. What to do if you end up in a hospital and how to avoid getting there in the first place. I can’t wait and I want to start with a story. Can you tell us about the story of your son? What happened to him?

He was at a sleepover at his friend’s house. I think this was when he was around eight years old. They were horsing around in the basement and I guess there was some furniture there that was in disrepair. He fell and slid down and there was this metal bar sticking out of a recliner chair, and it impaled him in his back. It was a pretty deep gash near his spine. I think the mom who was hosting the event was freaking out, but I rushed over there. I said, “Don’t call an ambulance, because he was stable. Blood wasn’t everywhere.”

When I looked at it, it was not a simple little scrape. It was a pretty deep cut. It was interesting what happened. I didn’t want to get involved in a hospital emergency department so I took him to an urgent care that I had been to before with my family. This was years ago when I was still using the medical system and they were uncomfortable suturing the wound. They said because he was a kid and it was near his spine, they were like, “We should go to a pediatrician.” We knew that it didn’t go into the spine because there was no spinal fluid in the wound.

I went to the hospital to have a pediatrician do it, and they had a trainee, a resident do the suturing and she was not very skilled. It was awkward and it didn’t look great and we had to wait hours and hours for this to happen. Later on, we got this crazy bill for $3,000. It was two bills. A separate bill from the doctor and then another bill from the hospital.

Assessing Medical Situations

I want to hear what happened, but even this little short encounter shows me something that you have, Andy, that not all of us have. That is the wherewithal in a crisis situation to advocate for what you want. Most of us see something serious and immediately rush off to urgent care or to the hospital thinking we need to get an expert to look at it. How do we know when it’s time to do that and when it’s not?

It can be challenging and I was at an advantage having medical knowledge being a physician at the time but I’ll tell you that I didn’t exercise what I wanted or advocate for myself nearly as strongly as I’ve learned to do now. I signed documents that I didn’t know what I was agreeing to, for example. I could have just demanded that the attending physician do the procedure and not let the trainee do it but I didn’t do those things. Also, I thought, “I could stitch him up myself,” because I knew how to do suturing, but now I know you don’t even need to do that. I could have handled this whole thing at home and probably had a better cosmetic result from what I’ve learned subsequently.

My jaw just dropped because what’s coming to mind is Eustace Conway. I don’t know if you’ve heard of him.

I know Eustace.

I heard him talk one time and he said that he sutured up his own wound. I want to say almost with a shoelace. It was crazy stuff and it was blowing my mind.

Anyone who grew up on a farm knows that farmers will just take a regular needle, thread, and sew up their own cuts because there’s no time to stop your work and go seek medical attention. This is the tradition of the pioneering culture and spirit in this nation of our European settlers. This is how we would deal with things like this. Now, we are so dependent on doctors that we have lost many of these skills.

Let’s say that we don’t have those skills, which as you point out, we’ve lost it. Many of us don’t have them in the first place. Where do we begin with assessing a situation, whether it’s a crisis or a chronic one? Let’s say a stomach ache. Let’s say we’ve had it for 24 to 48 hours. How do we know when it’s time to call in a professional and get some of that input that they might have more experience in than we do?

It’s highly dependent on the knowledge that you have and the skills because, in that situation where you talked about like an acute gastrointestinal illness with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, there’s no situation in which you need to go to the hospital for that condition. You can do all the things that you need to do at home. Even hydration, if someone can’t swallow, let’s say they’re too nauseated and every time they try to drink water, they throw up, we think the only option is to traumatize and drive a needle into that person’s arm and give them IV fluids.

Actually, we can absorb fluids through an enema, many liters of fluids. Especially if we’re dehydrated, we can absorb them readily. We can treat dehydration, which is the main thing that could be life-threatening with that kind of illness at home by using enemas or by drinking, depending on what the symptoms are. There are many other things we could do in that situation.

When we have an illness like that, generally the reason why we’re purging, we’re vomiting, we’re having diarrhea, or perhaps both, is that our body is trying to expel something. You could think of diarrhea as our internal pressure washer system that cleans out the inside of our colon and flushes out whatever is not supposed to be there as causing harm.

If we use a binding agent, which are natural substances, things like activated charcoal, zeolite, bentonite clay, and we swallow those, and by the way, this is the same thing they do in the hospital. Those things will absorb the poisons in our gut, and then our body won’t need to have violent vomiting and diarrhea because it’ll be sequestered and we’ll stop having those toxic effects on our GI tract.

How can we begin to reacquaint ourselves with what we can do ourselves at home?

I am trying to develop a curriculum for this. I also have courses and workshops where I teach these skills and it starts with some basic knowledge. You can look at this in different categories of emergencies that you might deal with and even some mainstream training can be very effective. It could also be slightly modified to use natural materials.

For example, there are courses that you can take to learn how to control bleeding and these are given to law enforcement officers, for example, because they may have to deal with a gunshot wound. They teach you how to apply tourniquets and also they use a chemical material to help stop the bleeding for deep wounds or profusely bleeding wounds. However, you can also use natural things. For example, cayenne pepper can stop bleeding and so can zeolite. You combine that kind of training similar to CPR training.

I will say that this brings up one condition that you would want to go to a hospital to get help with, and that is when you have a bleeding artery. You’ll be able to know that because the blood will be spurting out of it with every pulse or every heartbeat. In that case, that’s when you would use a tourniquet if it’s on a limb and you would use other kinds of pressure dressings temporarily if it’s on the trunk, for example.

You then would go to have a surgeon conclusive to tie that off definitively, which is something that you can’t do. The tourniquet can save your life, but if it can’t be repaired surgically, then you could end up losing that limb or anything to the tourniquet. There are some situations where you would want to go to the hospital. Once you’re there, you have to be prepared to make sure you get only what you want but most of these things, even things like a gunshot wound could be completely treated at home if it doesn’t involve a bleeding artery.

Building A First-Aid Kit

If we were putting together our first aid remedy kit, you’ve already mentioned some of the things we should include in it like bentonite clay, activated charcoal, zeolites, gauze, and things for tourniquet or stopping bleeding, and maybe needle and thread. What else should we have in it, do you think?

I think we have to talk about this by the type of problem, but certainly, a few other things that you would add as you’d want to have an enema kit. You’d want to have a source of distilled water and either salt to make saline or a saline that you make ahead of time and keep in a glass or steel container for a variety of applications like to clean out a wound or to rehydrate with an emergency enema. You’d want to have some healing solvents like turpentine, DMSO, and castor oil for various applications. You’d want to have a milk thistle and possibly acetylcysteine and some form of vitamin C. I prefer dried acerola cherry powder but those would be for poisoning emergencies, for example.

Do you have all these things in a kit at home? I’m curious.

I have all these things not necessarily in a kit, but I have an area in my house where all these natural healing supplies get stored so we can always find them.

Reliance On Modern Medicine

I imagine that would give you a sense of confidence and the experience that you have, the knowledge that you have, that you can handle situations on your own. I think in some ways we’ve been programmed to believe that we need to outsource our care to the people in the white coats. That’s why when we do end up in an emergency situation and a hospital, we sign all the papers quickly. First of all, we’re in a distraught state most likely, but also we think, “They know more than we do, so we better just go with whatever they think is best.”

I think that the last point you made is the most salient because let’s consider the example of caring for a child. We know that children sometimes get sick, and if they eat a lot of processed food and get all their shots, they’re going to be more but parents generally will take certain actions. They’ll know if their kid gets a cold, they might give over-the-counter medicines, which by the way will delay or block healing or they will give medicines for a fever that will take the temperature.

They have a certain degree of knowledge, but when certain things happen, they get nervous. They will go and seek that professional advice but the thing is, in most of those situations, the doctor has absolutely nothing to do. There’s nothing they can do to change the situation. All they’ll do is give you additional knowledge, which may or may not be accurate.

However, if you have that knowledge on your own, then you can handle the situation. For example, let’s say that you have a child with a high fever. You know that high fevers can be dangerous, but you may not know the exact number to start worrying, and you may not know how to handle it other than just giving ibuprofen or Tylenol. What if your child has a seizure? I guarantee that virtually every parent if their child has a febrile seizure, they’re going to be calling 911 and going to the hospital.

There’s absolutely nothing they are going to do at the hospital other than tell you your child had a febrile seizure. There’s no increased risk of any serious illness after that. Just go home and give plenty of fluids. If you had that knowledge, you could handle it yourself. The important knowledge about a situation like that is how do you keep the child safe during the seizure so that they don’t injure themselves or injure else? If you know a couple of basic things about that, it’s not difficult to achieve, but there’s no way you’re going to get to the hospital in time to deal with that. You’re going to have to deal with it on your own no matter what. This is the kind of knowledge that will help you be prepared for these situations.

Many people had the experience that you were describing of going to the doctor and being told, “We don’t know what’s going on.” One time, I went with my daughter and she had this rash. As we were sitting in the room waiting to be seen by the doctor, it was creeping up over her entire body. The doctor certainly didn’t know what caused it. Neither did I, but I was as scared as the mom. I was trying to see what they could tell me. I’m pretty sure they prescribed some kind of hydrocortisone cream or something to help the itching go away but they didn’t understand the root cause, nor did I. I think there’s a sense in which we need to understand the limits of modern medicine as well.

I think medicine is pretty open about this and they don’t know the cause of hardly any illness at all. They’ll tell you that they suspect it might be this or might be that and oftentimes they say, “It’s probably a virus.” They say that for things like type 1 diabetes. They also say, “It’s your genes,” and things like this but they can’t point to a particular gene or any kind of certainties about that. There’s no test that can tell you. No one has any explanation for any of these illnesses. They can’t even tell you what causes diabetes or other simple things. The things that they do tell you that there is a cause, if you go and look at the evidence, you’ll find out that 9 out of 10 times, that’s not true.

What are you thinking of when you say that?

I’m thinking of things like pneumonia, strep throat, or any infectious illnesses.

The virus has become the convenient scapegoat that they point to when they can’t determine what’s going on.

It was already that way. I was practicing medicine long before COVID came about. Every year during cold and flu season when you’d be at a primary care office or you’d be at the emergency department of the hospital, people are coming in with colds and flu symptoms. Every year, sometimes people have some symptoms that are slightly different or they’re sick for a little bit longer than they expect, or something unique about it. There could be a rash, for example. That’s happened with my kids before.

Inevitably, this is what every doctor says. They might do a couple of tests and they come back negative for the very few things that they could test for and then they’re like, “It’s just a virus. It’s probably a virus. It’s the virus that’s going around this year.” It’s a catchall phrase that you can say, and it’s believable because of our common knowledge, but there’s no evidence for it. They have no explanation for what’s going on with these illnesses.

Coming up, Andy talks about how to avoid the hospital altogether. Using your diet as a foundation for your health. He also offers a very simple and practical tip for how to handle yourself at the hospital when you’re given a stack of papers to sign.

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Nutrition And Health

Now, I want to go back to something you said. You said that if a child is eating a lot of processed foods, it makes them susceptible to sickness. What is the role of nutrition in safeguarding our health?

That does not make them susceptible actually. That can cause the illness itself. Many of the illnesses are due to toxins in food and they can come from a variety of sources, but they’re much more prevalent in processed foods. I’m sure that your audience has gone to the store and read some labels. If you start practicing label reading, your vocabulary is going to go into all these terms you never heard of which are names of chemicals that have a variety of sources. Many of these things are hidden in plain sight. For example, if on the ingredient label, it says something like yeast extract, that means MSG or monosodium glutamate. You have to be educated to figure this out.

I know that you did a video that I watched not too long ago on even a red dye. Some people might say, “It’s no big deal. It’s just to make the Pop-Tart red,” or whatever but these things can cause all kinds of distress in the body.

Red 40 is an azo dye. It’s a very interesting story about how the whole pharmaceutical industry got started. When the chemical industry first got going, which the pharmaceutical industry is one sub-sector of, one of the biggest commercial successes was dyes for textiles, fabrics, decorating, paints, and such. It was because the natural pigments that had been used to make all those things before were somewhat limited in the color palette, the brightness, and such.

When they were starting to make synthetic chemicals, they noticed that they could make things of very bright colors. They were using them as dyes in all kinds of applications. Some of these also cause a lot of toxicity. If anyone wants to look into Paris green, which was used in a lot of decor, they contained arsenic and turned out to cause a lot of illness and eventually been banned.

They also used these dyes to stain biological specimens to look at under the microscope because it was hard to visualize a lot of detail without using stains or dyes. They noticed that some of the stains led to the death of some of the microorganisms. They assumed that they were targeting the microorganisms only not realizing that they were actually toxic to all life, just more toxic to the microorganisms.

They then basically started making derivatives of these dyes as antibiotics. The sulfa drugs, for example, are also derived from azo dots just like red 40. We don’t know the full toxicity of this compound because there’s a very limited requirement to test the safety. Many dyes have been removed from use because they’ve turned out to be cancer-causing, etc. There is significant evidence of some problems with red 40 in particular.

People may have heard about it with respect to childhood behaviors and tension, but also it’s been shown to be essentially stored in our gut and be associated with gut inflammation as well. If people have those kinds of issues like inflammatory bowel disorders or irritable bowel, it could be related at least in part to red 40.

Many chemicals and food additives are approved by the Food and Drug Administration because they don’t have the bandwidth or they don’t take the time to get to the bottom and see how this could affect people. They just label it with GRAS or Generally Regarded As Safe and stick it out there until issues start to crop up.

You made an excellent point, and this is a key thing to know about. I don’t believe that the FDA doesn’t have enough manpower because if their mandate is to review all food additives, they would increase their staff to get that done. You’re right. It’s this GRAS bypass of the law that allows the food manufacturers to get away without conducting any testing of many of these food additives.

This is Generally Regarded As Safe and essentially, even if they make a brand new compound, they can designate it as Generally Regarded As Safe even though they have no data whatsoever to show that it’s safe because it’s safe until proven otherwise. This is what allows manufacturers to essentially put cancer-causing agents as ingredients in the food. If they cause cancer, they also cause other illnesses. We can’t trust the food additives that any of them are safe.

We can’t trust that any of the food additives are safe. If they cause cancer, they also cause other illnesses.

I read something that blew my mind. I think it was in a book called Electric Body, Electric Health, or something like that. The book says that our cells vibrate. We’re energetic beings and they’re sending out sounds or tones. When they take human cells and put something foreign to the cells that isn’t regarded as positive like a toxin like what we’re describing, the cells would scream before they died. They put the cells in ethanol and the cells were screaming. I bet cells are screaming all over the place right now and we just can’t hear them.

That’s an interesting way of looking at it. I’m sure that they’re evidence of all of the toxicity that they’re being exposed to.

I want my cells to be nice and healthy. I know our audience does too, and you do too. What foods might you recommend that would keep us out of the hospital in the first place?

It’s mostly what foods not to eat rather than what foods to eat. A big part of the problem is that a lot of the things that we think of as food aren’t really food. Anything that’s processed and has ingredients that are not whole food, I would say, would not count as food and would be something that you wanted to avoid. Just go to the outer part of the grocery store, essentially where they have the produce.

Fresh plants and vegetables are certainly our real food. Unless you pick one and only eat that, but you eat a variety instead, then it’s going to be very healthy for you and you’re not going to develop long-term problems. Also, go to the meat section. You might want to not go to your average grocery store because even these products can be grown and raised in such a way that they are poisoned and then the poisons can be passed on to us.

This doesn’t just happen by spraying pesticides and herbicides or by using hormones and antibiotics in the animals. It also occurs when biosolids are applied to the land. That’s something that you need to find out about because that’s essentially toxic sludge that has, at least according to the EPA, over 700 chemicals in it. Many of them are known to be very poisonous and many of them unknown what their significance may be, but probably not good.

Biosolids, I have heard this term before. It sounds so benign though. It sounds like cow manure, which we know is good for the crops.

It is a public relations term. The proper term would be sludge, industrial sludge, or bio sludge. If we’re talking about just having pure manure human or animal that has been treated and composted, that would make an excellent and very safe soil amendment, even if it’s from human waste. However, in our modern toxic world, our human waste contains pharmaceuticals, chemicals from processed food, and many other environmental toxins.

Those are going into the sewage treatment plants but much worse than that is that industrial polluters are dumping their chemical waste straight into the sewage treatment plants as well. They’re encouraged and permitted to by Federal law. This also includes leachate, which is the wastewater that drips through landfills and has been shown to have extremely high levels of chemicals like PFAS or the so-called forever chemicals.

Sewage treatment plants were never designed to mitigate or remove industrial chemicals so they remain in this bio sludge, which is the solids part of the sewage waste. The water part is treated and then returned to a natural body of water but the solids or the sludge used to be incinerated or it had to be put in a landfill and disposed of. Now, they have made a business model to sell it to farmers in a variety of different formulations, including a composted form. However, these products contain tons of toxic chemicals and now they’ve been found in the farmers, the food, and the plants that the farmers grow. Essentially, much of our food is contaminated from this particular enterprise.

How long ago did this start?

This has been going on for quite a while. I don’t know the exact date, but the regulations go back at least to the ’90s.

Now I understand why they call some people orthorexic. They are the people who are so concerned about every little bite that goes in their mouth because maybe we should be that concerned.

It’s very challenging and I would recommend trying to get as much food as possible from local growers that you can develop a relationship with and ask questions like this. You can educate them about bio sludge, biosolids, and other risks that may enter into the food supply then you know what you’re putting in your body, or you could certainly grow your own food.

This problem has gotten pretty far out of control. They’re finding many of these industrial chemicals in our own bodies, especially in fat cells, in adipose tissue. In an article I recently read about this, they said it wasn’t even possible to do a controlled study with these chemicals because they can’t find any subject, animal or human, that doesn’t already have them in their fat.

In other words, as careful as we may be, these chemicals are finding their way into our system. It may be that we are still buying conventional or we are still going to that grocery store you were describing earlier so we haven’t eliminated these toxins from the body.

There are many sources of these things that we’re exposed to. What I’m talking about is even if you think you’re buying good quality food, it can be contaminated with this stuff. For example, there was an investigation done by a journalist where they went to a hardware store and bought compost that was labeled organic compost. You know that people who would be very conscious of these issues might go to their hardware store and buy organic compost and use it in their vegetable garden at home thinking that they’re having a very clean product.

It turns out that even if it’s labeled that way, this product had mostly biosolids in it. It was compost made from biosolids. It was full of these poisonous chemicals. They tested it for PFAS chemicals and found a whole bevy of them, over a dozen. These can make it within in a clandestine way that we might not be aware of even though we have good intentions. That’s why we have to take the extra step to learn this information.

Advocating For Ourselves In The Hospital

Let’s circle back to where we were at the beginning. Let’s say someone ends up in the hospital, maybe because of all this toxic overload. How can we begin to advocate for ourselves if we are in that space?

Let me give a brief example and go through the step-by-step of the challenges. Let’s say that you are a woodworker. I dabble in some woodworking, but you were a little careless and ended up running your finger through the table saw. You have the tip of your finger now in a jar of ice and you bring it to the hospital to ask them to reattach it. This is a reason that you would want to go to the hospital. When you get there, even though you know that every minute counts to get that finger reattached, they come at you in your darkest moment with a clipboard and a bunch of forms to sign.

You can’t sit there and read every word of those forms and they’re not going to take you to the operating room until you sign them. What do you do in this situation? It’s best to be prepared ahead of time. However, even if you’re not, you can still handle this situation because they’re going to want you to sign, especially two forms. One is going to be where you guarantee to pay whatever they want to charge you, which of course is coercive. You can’t have a contract for an unknown amount. It’s invalid.

Also, they’re going to have you sign a consent for treatment but on a typical consent form for a hospital, you give up your right to consent for any individual procedure or treatment. You allow the doctors or the treatment team to make all the decisions for you. That means that if you’re going in to get your finger reattached, they can test you for COVID or give you a tetanus shot without asking you because you’ve already agreed to it. They could do it if you’re sleeping. You may not want those things. I certainly wouldn’t want those things.

If you sign those documents and put them under duress next to your name, it will invalidate those contracts. As soon as you’re able to exert your authority, you can renegotiate the situation that you’re there. If you’re in a situation where you plan ahead, you can have your own consent form written out or some language, and you can write it right on there. If they hand you a contract, you don’t have to accept that the way it is. You can cross out what’s on there write in your own terms and then sign it.

Half the time, they won’t even notice this but I would say make a big point of telling them that you’re going to decide on a case-by-case basis to give consent to anything they’re going to do. Even with the surgery, you could say that you don’t want antibiotics. Now they’re going to give you a hard time about that one, but they will do it without it if you’re assuming the risk.

If you ask to speak with the risk management officer for the hospital who’s an attorney, that’s the person that can help you the most because they’re going to realize that if they don’t do what you say, they’re going to have a lot of liability in court and that makes them very scared. If you take that approach, they’re going to give you VIP treatment. I’ve experienced that myself when I tried to accompany someone into the hospital to get an ultrasound and they wanted us to wear a mask and, and get our temperature checked.

I went the risk management route and there was no attorney in the hospital, but the nurse manager took the case. After a bit of back and forth, which was very polite and cordial, they escorted us to a private room with a portable ultrasound unit already there and a technician ready to do the exam. The cashier came to the room to collect payments and we were in and out of there in a very short time, getting private treatment.

It reminds me of a situation with one of my kids who had acute appendicitis and surgery was going to be called for. We met with the surgeon and she was so annoyed as we advocated. I started becoming concerned like, “Is this going to affect her professionalism with my child?” It’s interesting to think about. To advocate for yourself sounds great until you realize, “If it’s not just sewing a finger back on, but something more serious, could this affect how they interact with me as a patient here?”

It’ll make them scared of you because you’re going to sue them if they make a mistake. That’s the way you want it to be but I’m glad you brought up that example. I had my appendix surgically removed years ago as well when I developed appendicitis. Since then I learned that that is one of those conditions you can treat on your own.

My former apprentice, Dr. Grayson Dart, who now does natural healing and has his own practice, developed appendicitis a few months ago. He went to the hospital to get an imaging study so they could confirm the diagnosis, and then he walked out of the hospital and treated himself with water fasting and enemas. He was better in two days.

I didn’t know that was possible. It’s like when people talk about remineralizing teeth. You don’t just have to get a cavity filled. There is the possibility of treating it naturally. There are so many things that we need to remember. I’m so grateful that you’re getting this information out.

I’m not going to give you all the answers to how you do these things, but heart attacks, strokes, or any conditions you can treat at home and have as good or better outcomes than you would have in the hospital, probably better because you don’t have the risk of dying from their procedures.

You can treat heart attacks, strokes, and conditions at home and have as good or better outcomes than you would have in the hospital because you don’t have the risk of dying from their procedures.

Andy, what do you say to the person who swears up and down that conventional medicine is much better than all this natural stuff we’re discussing and that the hospital is the best place to be when you’re sick or injured?

The medical establishment themselves can see that they’re the leading cause of death because if you combine two studies, one was performed by Johns Hopkins that showed 250,000 people die every year from medical errors. Another study that I can’t remember where it was done from, but another prestigious university, showed that medications are also the third leading cause of death and have similar numbers. If you combine those two numbers, you have beat the leading cause of death according to the CDC in this country. Anyone who says that allopathic medicine results in good outcomes simply hasn’t looked at the evidence.

Closing

I’m so grateful that you’ve brought some of this evidence to the conversation and your own insights and experiences. I want to close now, Andy, with a question I love to pose at the end. If our audience could only do one thing to improve their health or shore it up so they don’t end up in the hospital, what would you recommend that they do?

I would say you should try fasting even for 24 hours. Try just drinking water. You may not feel great during those 24 hours, but afterward, you might notice some things are a little bit better. If you do it for longer, you’ll have much more dramatic results. For example, if you do it for 21 days, it will be permanently life-changing. If you do it for seven days, you’re going to have quite a significant difference.

You should try fasting and just drinking water for 24 hours. You may not feel great during those 24 hours, but afterward, you might notice some things are a little bit better. If you do it for longer, you’ll have much more dramatic results.

Powerful words to end on. Thank you so much, Andy. This has been a pleasure.

Same here, Hilda.

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Our guest in this episode was Dr. Andrew Kaufman. You can visit his website AndrewKaufmanMD.com to learn more. You can find me and more of my resources at HolisticHilda.com. Now, for a recent letter to the editor from our Spring 2024 Journal. Let’s talk bacon fat. It’s not only yummy, but it’s medicinal too.

“About three years of trying several remedies for hot flashes, I tried homeopathy, progesterone cream, and herbal remedies, I finally stumbled upon a bona fide remedy for hot flashes, pork lard from a local farm. This past Christmas season, I had a lingering cough, so I made soup daily in an effort to eradicate the cough. Since I had a tub of pork lard in my freezer, I decided to add that to my vegetable soup to make it tastier. I ate soup daily for weeks.”

“After about one week, I had the most subtle but wonderful realization. I am no longer waking up at 5:00 AM with hot sweats. I also noticed that I wasn’t daily playing on again and off again with multiple layers of sweaters, scarves, and jackets. I don’t remember the exact day when the hot flashes stopped, but they stopped for good. Since I did not change anything else, it must have been the pork lard.”

“I tested my theory by skipping pork lard for a day or two, and voila, the hot flashes were back, not fully only slightly. I resumed my bacon fat regime. This good fat was feeding my body cholesterol to make the hormones I needed. Before eating pork lard daily, I tended to eat Kerrygold butter, macadamia nuts, and whole avocados as my sources of fat, but the pork lard did the trick.”

“Oh lard, It’s gotten such a bad rap that I can hardly share my joyful enthusiasm for it.” Some friends and many acquaintances still consider lard a no-no. It just goes to show that the diet dictocrats have done a number on our culinary culture. I just wanted to share this with any women who suffer from menopausal symptoms. If nothing has worked for you, try pork lard. I hope it will politely dismiss any hot flashes for you, also.” Name Withheld.

Dear, Name Withheld. Thank you so much. This is encouraging. We know lard is good for a lot of things. It’s interesting to learn that it may be good for menopausal symptoms as well. You too can leave us a review or write us a letter to the editor at Info@WestonAPrice.org and just put Letter to the Editor in the subject line. Talk to us on the subject of your choice. Thank you so much for tuning in, my friend. Stay well and remember to keep your feet on the ground and your face to the sun.

About Dr. Andy Kaufman

Dr. Andy Kaufman is a self-proclaimed “recovering physician” who broke all the rules to leave a privileged career in mainstream medicine. Dr. Andy became more and more skeptical of the allopathic paradigm until he finally blew germ theory wide open and became a covid whistleblower. Since then Dr. Andy has been speaking and teaching the truth about medicine, viruses, natural healing, and other important subjects, such as economics, law, education, and science.

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