01.09.25 - Episode 162 Parasite Protocols, Thyroid Health, and The Truth About Iodine Deficiency

The humble mineral iodine might be the most overlooked yet critical component of your health puzzle. Dr. Lodi takes us on a deep dive into why this forgotten element deserves our attention, explaining how iodine deficiency undermines thyroid function and consequently weakens our immune system.

Most of us are walking around with suboptimal iodine levels due to depleted soils and diets lacking in sea vegetables. The consequences? Our thyroid glands substitute other halogens like fluoride and bromide when creating hormones, resulting in molecules that measure as T3 and T4 but lack the biological activity necessary for health. "If you don't have a healthy thyroid, you won't have a healthy immune system. It's impossible," Dr. Lodi emphasizes, highlighting the fundamental connection between these systems.

Restoring proper iodine levels requires a thoughtful approach - typically 25mg daily for at least a year. This restoration process creates a paradox where supplementing with iodine can temporarily suppress thyroid function, requiring simultaneous support with natural thyroid hormones. The medical establishment's puzzling "iodophobia" has created unnecessary fear around therapeutic iodine use, despite its historical safety record when properly administered.

Beyond iodine, Dr. Lodi addresses practical questions about parasite protocols, vertigo treatment, and the mechanics of ketogenic diets. He explains the difference between dizziness caused by dehydration versus inner ear disturbances, offering specific solutions for each. His discussion of chronically fermenting cells (CFCs) provides a refreshing perspective on cancer, emphasizing the body's innate healing capabilities when properly supported.

Throughout the conversation, Dr. Lodi reinforces the value of community support for healing journeys. The various groups with

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Chapters

• 1:34 Introduction and Community Check-in
• 3:03 The Forgotten Mineral: Iodine's Crucial Role
• 6:32 Thyroid Function and Iodine Deficiency
• 15:14 Community Groups and Resources Overview
• 18:58 Approaching Parasite Protocols and Detoxification
• 31:02 Alternative Cancer Therapies Discussion
• 37:35 Dealing with Dizziness and Vertigo
• 46:03 Weight Loss, Ketosis, and Managing Cachexia
• 1:01:18 Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:47

If anyone knows what's going on in the world, tell me. Buenos noches, saludos. And so, anyway, we're in the show. So, anyway, I'd just like to mention I just saw someone had sent a message. Real quick I'm going to easily answer.

Speaker 1: 1:07

This Is EBV Epstein-Barr virus, from a mosquito parasite. No, the general rhetoric that we're told by the Rockefellerian group, as the Rocky and his boys, is that it comes from intimate contact, kissing, sexual activity, or just being very close to somebody, and first of all, do viruses exist? This is the first question. Being very close to somebody and first of all, do viruses exist? This is the first question. The second question is, if they're not, if whatever's happening to us is not viral, what is happening to us? So that's a whole whole story that we need to get into, but not right away, not today. So let's do this, let's look at and all of these people are waving Fantastic man, let's find our questions. Okay, and go there and get started. Okay, so questions will be under questions. Are they in the team? There we go. That's the link for the question. Okay, there we go. Cool, here we are. Sorry, we're in that delay. Come on, it's working. Okay, there we go. We're gonna get rid of this one anyway.

Speaker 1: 2:17

Um, you know, I wanted to comment on, uh, a little bit on, um, where'd it go? Iodine, let me just comment on that really quickly because uh and I'll I'll make a, a, um, a short video, if I can. How do you make a short video on something that's so complicated? It's very difficult. But anyway, iodide is like the forgotten mineral, and it's not a mineral in the sense that sodium and magnesium are minerals, because by definition they're called transition metals and they carry a plus charge. Of course they can't remain in that position at all, so they immediately have a negative charge to hang out with. Sodium gets chloride, which is negative, and magnesium can get chloride. They don't need two chlorides. They can get oxide or bromide or fluoride. They can all act kind of the same. But iodide is at the bottom of the largest of the halogens and the halogens are bromide, fluoride and chloride. Chloride, fluoride and bromide and then iodide. They all have the same activity, they're just larger. Each one is larger than the other.

Speaker 1: 3:36

That's one of the problems with our thyroid is that the thyroid gland, when it's producing thyroid if there are no iodides around which happens quite often since we live in an iodide-deficient soil and we don't eat seaweed. So unless you're japanese and you need a traditional diet with a lot of seaweed, you won't be getting iodine. You don't get the iodine as you cannot make t3 and t4 because they rely on iodide, and so what they'll use is something that's just as available or just as a that fits chemically for that reaction, and that would be the bromine, fluoride or chlorine. So you'll have your T3, maybe one, if you're lucky, one iodide and maybe two fluorides or bromine and the fluoride and the T4 might have two chlorides and the fluoride and the bromine or whatever. So they still measure as T4 and T3, but they don't have the activity because the wholeide and the bromide or whatever. So they still measure as T4 and T3, but they don't have the activity, because the whole idea of the thyroid hormone is to deliver iodine to the cells, which has multiple effects so, and one of them is control over the immune system. So if you don't have a healthy thyroid, you won't have a healthy immune system. It's impossible, but I don't know if this has been talked about, but I wrote about it years ago, so I'm going to rewrite this paper on it. So you should understand it, because it's the most really forgotten. And in fact there was a paper written called Iodophobia Medical Iodophobia, because for some reason doctors are afraid to use it and that has to do a thyroid function and all that. So we'll go into that with the paper. But just to let you know that I died.

Speaker 1: 5:21

It's very important. It must be restored to healthy levels and that takes at least a year not taking 25 milligrams a day. But then you're getting more iodine in your system than would be necessary for an active maintenance. An active maintenance would be 12.5 milligrams but you're not at maintenance yet because you haven't reestablished or established for the first time healthy levels of iodine. So for that reason you'll be taking 25 milligrams a day, just so that it doesn't take for the next 10 years and that can and will suppress thyroid hormone output. So, being aware of that and being aware that you've got two simultaneous goals Number one is to restore healthy thyroid function, which requires that you fill up the deficit of iodine, because that's part of the final molecule in C3 and C4. And secondly, it is to maintain a healthy thyroid level functioning while you are busy restoring iodine supplies to the body.

Speaker 1: 6:31

And you can only do that by taking something exogenous and outside a thyroid, and I always use natural thyroid hormones. Natural because they have T3 and T4 in them and that they're derived from animals. So those of us who are philosophically or morally or ethically opposed to killing animals will probably have a hard time taking these. They're called glandulars because they come from the glands of either sheep or cows I think that's it sheep or cows, and pigs, I'm sorry, are they might come from other mammals, which actually illustrates one important fact, and that is the functioning of the human body. Its structure and functioning, its anatomy and physiology is very similar to all mammals, producing the same kinds of hormones. Hormones are the way the body talks to itself, same with peptides and all the other products, which is why, for example, when insulin was first discovered, they were using insulin from a pig, and so it was. In order to extract it, you have to remove the thyroid glands of a pig or whatever animal. So that's the ethical dilemma. So, if that is a real problem for you, the choice is getting the synthetic versions of both the T4 and T3 and then putting them in the proper ratio. And the T4 is easily obtained, and it's the only thing that most doctors ever prescription, they ever write for when it comes to thyroid, levothyroxine.

Speaker 1: 8:17

Now, when it comes to thyroid, I don't know. Let me just review this for you. When it comes to thyroid, the active aspect is the T3. The T4 is inactive, in other words, it's a precursor, pre-hormone, and it circulates and when a cell needs it it'll grab it. Take off one of the iodines, it goes from T4 to T3. Now it fits. That's how that works. That's why you need to take iodine, in spite of the fact that it will probably lower your thyroid output and make you more hypothyroid than you already were. And the way you combat this is by doing your basal body temperatures in the morning. That's, to take the appropriate times for you to increase or not increase, whether you're taking enough thyroid hormone or not, enough thyroid hormone or not.

Speaker 1: 9:17

Okay, the thyroid hormone that we usually look at are the, the porcine ones from the us, which are westroid and uh, well, no, anyway. Uh, from new zealand it's thyrovans, but basically these are glandulars, as we said. All All right. So come on. Where are we? Come on there, we are Very good, all right. So now someone has mentioned they take a nascent thyroid. That usually refers to only the iodine. So remember the Lugol's in 1820, I think it was Armour. That's right, sandy, thank you. So it's Armourour, that's right, thank you. So it's Armour. Thyroid, westeroid, thyrovans all right, are the main ones. I'm sure there's other glandulars. They provide you the T3 and the T4.

Speaker 1: 10:04

Now, yeah, lugol, who was a chemist in 1820, divided Lugol's solution and the problem was is, in order to make the solution, you have to have double the amount of iodide than iodine, because iodide is water-soluble and iodine is not. So what happens is that, if you were to Because you really need more iodine than iodine, because iodine, which is just molecular iodine, which is two of them together actually what that does is destroy CFCs. It destroys bacteria. It also is a cofactor involved in healthy estrogen metabolism, which is very important. So, yeah, that's it. So that's why you'd use Lugol's, so you can get both. Now you're not going to get them in the proper solution because, in order to sustain solution, you have more iodide because it's water soluble, right? So that means that Lugol's will be giving you more iodide to the thyroid, causing it to decrease its output. If we could somehow find a way to reverse it so that there was more iodine than iodide, it would be great. It's not chemically possible in that form.

Speaker 1: 11:25

Let's get on with the show. All right so, as we mentioned every week. All right so, as we mentioned every week, just a quick orientation, if you're new, first time watching this, is that we don't use the word the astrological sign for people who have tumors. We refer to that situation as exactly what it is, which is chronically fermenting cells. So if you have chronically fermenting cells in the breast, pancreas, colon, liver, brain, they're chronically fermenting cells. And we use that word because that word is helpful, makes us feel good, gives us a purpose, a reason, a way out of this dilemma, and because you know what it is, you know how to deal, deal with it. So it does all sorts of wonderful things like that. So, anyway, um, and, and if you currently have cfcs, then our an oasis of healing in arizona, is that we're in our 20th year now, really wonderful. It's not because I'm involved with it and you know I I founded it, but because, um, it it looks at all aspects of human nature that need to be dealt with when you're ill with anything, and that's the body, mind, spirit, continuum. You can't ignore any. Excellent, so you can call them All right.

Speaker 1: 12:48

So now and then, as you all know, we have three groups called the. What is it called? The Dr Lodi community? And in the Dr Lodi community are three groups. One is the health and healing group. It was formerly called Inner Circle but we've changed it. The Inner Circle sounded good at first but it sounded sort of elitist and it really is the community. So if you're in any group the health and healing group, parasite group or CFC groups the community that forms because you have access, there's a telegram chat group that's private to everyone. Who's members and what's shared on there is amazing and most people that are on there have been dealing with whatever situation it is parasites or CFCs or whatever for quite a long time and they've got lots of experience and they share that experience. So it's amazing what goes on there and it means that you have more than just one person to consult. You have a lot of people to consult and trust. So it's fantastic in that regard.

Speaker 1: 13:54

So there's those three groups and you can just go to our website, drlodycom. That's drlodycom, get on the website and then you can join. So if you're on Twitter, of course what you're looking at now is drthomaslodymd. If you're on the new TikTok, you're also looking at dr thomas lodi md. If you're on the new tic toc, you're also looking at dr thomas lodi md, but I don't know we're on. I don't think we're. We're able to stream on tick tock and for all the rest it's instagram, facebook, youtube, linkedin. Um, it's all at dr thomas lodi. There's no md at the end. It's only for the x and tic toc that they have dr lodi md. Thomas lodi, md x and tixcom, dr Lodi, thomas Lodi. All right, and you can also go to the website and stream, which is drlodicom slash live. So let's check out the questions here.

Speaker 1: 14:43

For those of you who have been watching the human diet webinar series, we had to postpone last Friday's, which would have been the third part, the third program, which was what does the research say, until this coming Friday. My Friday is your Thursday, sorry, your Thursday afternoon and what we're saying is what does the research say? What your doctor says, you know what your friends say, you know what the prevailing opinions are, but you don't know what the research is, because by knowing what the research says, you've studied it and you you can answer it yourself and you need to know, because it's kind of important and one of the things that we're going to do with the dr lodi community is we're going to improve the uh, you know what you enjoy the experience, because the experience has been been fragmented. We didn't really have a coordinator for that, so we're going to have someone who specifically coordinates all the different groups and and it allows everyone to have a relationship with that person, to answer questions and all that. We're going to have videos of summarizing what's available, etc.

Speaker 1: 15:50

Because a lot of people weren't taking advantage of the fact that, if they were unable to see it live, you can watch a replay, or a big part of what's available is the weekly Zoom meetings, and we have weekly Zoom meetings two days a week, Soon to be three days a week, and that's where we can have direct interaction. You can ask direct questions and it's really worthwhile. And then, of course, where we can have direct interaction, you can ask direct questions and it's really worthwhile. And then, of course, we already have, as you know, a movement specialist, darren. He's a kinesiologist. And then we have Vanessa, a nutritionist, yoga coach, health educator. And then we have Donna, who's been eating uncooked vegan food for 35 years now, so she gives guidance on how to make that transition and how to be happy about it. How to be happy about it. It's got to taste good, period Anyway. So that's it, and we're improving that. So I hope to see you all there, because that's how we can interact.

Speaker 1: 17:18

See the format on Sunday night. I can't interact, I wind up doing it anyway. There's no fear of. I don't make it at all, unless you have a specific allergy or something, something to it. All right, so here we are, so here we go.

Speaker 1: 17:40

Let's get our questions. First question from Charlie Regarding breast CFCs. Greetings, doc. Is it better to do a detox before going on a robust three to seven day fast? Is it okay to sleep with onion beneath the feet at night during a natural detox protocol or while fasting? Can ivermectin be taken during a protocol, a detox protocol, and what is your recommended dose for taking fenbendazole and ivermectin? All right, so pretty interesting questions.

Speaker 1: 18:16

So, really, the first question is is it better to do a detox before going on a robust three to seven day water I'm imagining you mean water fast. Yes, yes, yes, if you could do that, that would be good. But if you can't do it that way because of whatever reasons, it's okay. Yes, if you could do that, that would be good. But if you can't do it that way, because of whatever reasons, it's okay. But you know that would be ideal. And of course, if you're doing a water fast, a true fast, then you don't really take any supplements or medicines unless they're a medicine that you have to take, in other words, if you can't just abruptly stop them. So if that's the kind of medicine, you'd have to still take it. But it's very different than doing a juice cleanse where you can still take the ivermectin and fibmenzo and whatever all the other antiparasitic.

Speaker 1: 18:58

So the other one was is it okay to sleep with onions beneath the feet and can ivermectin be taken during a detox protocol? Well, the problem with pregnancy is that the only study on animals, because it would be unethical to give a pregnant woman something potentially dangerous, just get information that it's dangerous and that would actually make it unethical as well. So the question was so the other one was can ivermectin be taken during a pregnancy protocol, and is it recommended to take fedbendazole along with ivermectin? So yes, as we've mentioned many times the anti-worms, which are the anti-albuminics the triad that I think works very well is ivermectin, and one of the benzobidazole is benvendazole or bevendazole or albendazole. The third one which I think should be my close in mind unless you've got specific situation where you think you have a flat worm in your liver from eating raw fish in southeast asia, then you'll want to change to prasikantel, so that's the worms, and then the protozoa can be kept at bay, not causing problems, by using a tindazole metronidazole but tindazole is better in this regard.

Speaker 1: 20:25

But also there's a drug called nidazoxonide which goes by the brand name of Lilialina, and it's an amazing drug because it actually eliminates CFCs, but it also is both worm and antiprotozoal, so very important. And so the doses can be depending on weight and age and all that. But usually for an adult, ivermectin is 12 milligrams three times a day, medbenadol is 222 milligrams three times a day, or the medbenadol is 500 milligrams three times a day, and the niclosamide is 500 milligrams three times a day and the nitoxanide is 500 milligrams three times a day and the nidazoxam, nidoxanide, nidoxanide is 500 milligrams three times a day as well. And then there are antifungals included which are fluconazole and or nystatin, and fluconazole can be 103 times a day, or it could be. There's two different ways. The doctors write it in the US 150 or 200 milligrams, so the nice statin would be 500,000 units because it's in units three times a day. So you've got that. No, it's recommended when you're doing a water test not to be doing anything other than not to be taking anything other than water and the prescribed medicines. That would cause you damage if you quit them abruptly and didn't wean. So hold on a moment, let me just go flag that up.

Speaker 1: 22:01

So the next question is from Annette. She goes hi, stop the meds, as instructed to take an antifungal by day three. Flare-up was up so intense I had to start the meds again. Can you recommend a rotation protocol so parasites are never without meds, or a five-to-two schedule each week because of the adverse reaction to a three-day, three days off?

Speaker 1: 22:29

Well, in your situation, annette, that doesn't happen with everyone. Most people can take a week off and it's helpful in biology because we always want to give our bodies a break from whatever we're introducing to it, because in nature, nothing is every day except breathing. But I mean nothing is everyday except breathing. But I mean nothing is everyday. Nothing is available everyday, which is why animals don't eat all the time and they won't eat until they find food. They run into food that fits within their instinctual parameters.

Speaker 1: 23:06

Alright, so for you. Apparently, if you go more than two days, you can do two days, but if you go more than two days, you can do two days. If you go more than two days, then you wind up getting an extreme flare-up, and so I don't know, I wonder what the flare-up was. But keep in mind that you should be doing the liver detox protocol right that we've talked about, and let me show you one other thing here. There it is, let's see. No, that's not. I'm not going to spend time looking for it, I can't find it. And so what I was looking for is, during the whole period you should be taking the liver detox protocol, and the reason for this is that each of these medications all require very similar actions by the liver to neutralize them, which means your liver is working on four or five medications daily, right, and so it can get tired or exhausted in one area, and then you see a flare-up of enzymes. And don't worry about the liver, because the liver is the most resilient and restorative organ in our body. You can donate two-thirds of it to a sibling and it'll grow back. No other organ does that. It's very similar to a lizard's tail, so it's a very regenerative organ. It doesn't mean it should be abused, it just means that it's a very regenerative organ, not like our kidneys or our stomach or lungs. So that's that.

Speaker 1: 24:33

And here's Don. Don says I'm 87 and in good health, other than the return of my prostate CFC after 10 years. I feel that I'm doing well for my age and I am active. I can do most things that I do at 70. My wife and I are still together after six, five years Fantastic. I am not left with many options to treat the CFCs. My last PFC was TSA was 0.20.

Speaker 1: 25:01

I mentioned an holistic approach like FedBen or Ivermectin, but need a protocol. Can you help me? Absolutely. If you go to our website, drlodycom drlodycom and I think it would be good for you to join the CFC group which would deal specifically with that you and I can speak twice a week because you'll have access to all the meetings and we can talk about your current situation, the progress and all that. So that's a very, very important way to do it. In fact it's the only way. But your PSA was 0.20, so it sounds like you must have had a surgery. Anyway, that's how you do it. So please Don join. There's a parasite group in there, all right.

Speaker 1: 25:46

So this is Laura, and Laura says I want all the details on parasite detox and heavy-man detox for me and my children. Well, all the details. You can get all the details if you join the Health and Healing Group. But short of that, the only difference between adults and children are the amounts you would use if you were using, for example, part of your detox protocol included a parasite cleanse and the antifarasitic medication, right, which I just went over, actually, with the former question. But the other thing is that with children the dosages would be different because it goes by body weight and all these drugs are actually safe for children. They're given to children worldwide because the conditions that we've identified, such as roundworm and flatworms and all the worms that are well-known, pinworms and all that are worldwide, and so these medications are taken for people all over the world.

Speaker 1: 26:48

And then there are specific and unusual parasites, like onchoceriosis, where it gets into the eye, or you take ivermectin. So it really depends on what you've been, laura. So what's been your recent exposure and are there any symptoms, et cetera, to really come up with appropriate protocol, any symptoms, et cetera, to really come up with appropriate protocol. And then, as I said for the children, we'd have to decrease for body weight. But so with the parasite detox it's on the website but also the heavy metal detox, the way you detox from it is you stop eating them. So you've got to watch out for the food that you're eating. And then the way that we eliminate it on purpose, not by some bodily mechanism, is through different chelation agents. So there is the calcium disodium, edta, or just the EDTA, and a lot of times the EDTA is exchanged for calcium EDTA or just the EDTA, and a lot of times the EDTA is exchanged for calcium EDTA, which is a good idea in terms of its ability to give it fast and all that, and it's equally as effective in removing the metals. But you don't get the extra benefit of really adjusting the thyroid, because it naturally adjusts the thyroid. So, laura, yeah, someone was making my attention, bringing my attention to All right, very good. Okay.

Speaker 1: 28:18

Now this is a question from Jen and it's called Alternative CFC Therapies. Have you heard of Dr Pat Soon-Shiong? He's a former UCLA professor and medical doctor and a CFC researcher for over 30 years. He has a theory that people who cannot clear the COVID virus or vaccine develop long COVID, which suppresses our immune system, which leads to CFCs. He said it destroys killer T-cells and other protective measures in our body. He has developed BioShield which clears the virus and puts it on the CTC and other things. I listen to him speak on a daily show and other shows. He talks exactly like you, dr Lodi, in regards to cancer and the standard of care. He is a technician with glioblastoma, hiv and other diseases with great success. All right, so well. Sounds amazing. I don't know the fellow, but it sounds amazing.

Speaker 1: 29:23

However and this is a very powerful however I don't think you would have to worry about clearing the COVID vaccine because I don't think it exists the COVID bacteria virus and, of course, the vaccine and developing long COVID. We found out that the only people that develop what they're calling long COVID are people who have been vaccinated or injected. So that's what we're finding. So in that regard, I'm not sure, maybe his explanation would be a little bit different on what he's doing, so we'd have to hear that. But it's usually a simple thing that you do once or twice a week or something, but it's quite complicated to understand. So I'd love to hear that.

Speaker 1: 30:12

So right, if you can actually so, if you actually cause any damage to the immune system, you're actually helping the CFC. So it's a very you know whether or not there's theories, and theories are opinions. People don't have the knowledge, because if you have the knowledge about something, it's no longer a theory. So but what I love about it is that it actually does restore the strength of our immune system. So it is interesting that he's injecting people daily with glioblastomas, hiv and others with great success. So I'd love to find out what that is. I would definitely look up Dr Pat Sun Shion. It sounds pretty amazing.

Speaker 1: 30:52

So here's a new name SNF, or a name, not a new name. She says Hi, I stopped meds as it constructed to take FN31. That day follows by day three. Flare-up was so intense. This is very similar. So can you recommend a support or rotation schedule so parasites are never missed on a 5-2 schedule because of the severe adverse reaction to three days off of the drugs? That's really odd, because prior to taking the drugs were things very severe and then. So anyway, annette, I hope you're on the Parasite Telegram group so we can talk directly, we can interact. So if not, join it, because you've already paid for it by being a member, so it's a free, definitely get on that. So here are some comments on different platforms.

Speaker 1: 31:47

Is creatine good for women, for strength, strength in bones, health? Or if you've had CFCs, thank you. Well, creatine is a natural product that we produce for that purpose. The answer is no. It's not a dangerous or deleterious thing. It's a pretty natural substance. And this is from Charlie. He says greetings. What's the discount code for the CDC group? Oh, wow, I'm not sure of the discount code for the CDC group. Hopefully someone's going to post it soon. So now that you've asked this quite formally, I hope it gets answered on our chat, because I don't personally know that this kind of thing. I'm not sure if it works. All right, so now are we? The next person would be Viada and her question is hello, the US tells I've got polyps and gallbladder.

Speaker 1: 32:51

I would like to take anti-parasitic treatment. I've already got the home ivermectin and Vermox. I still don't have Prasequant. My family doctor would certainly refuse to support me in this treatment. Should I take any substance like NAC or probiotic? So yeah, you've got to join the Parzai group really, because this is important, and get all the details you can. But unless you have a specific reason for taking Prezai Quanto. You don't need it. You can take Nyclosam 500 milligrams three times a day and that you can get quite easily from nyclosamcom.

Speaker 1: 33:26

And there was another one. What is that? It's All Science. I'm not sure what that is, but anyway, that's uh, I wish I knew off the top of my head. I'm sure I'll get answering the chance, but that one's very important because you can get almost anything you need there without a prescription. So that's, wow, very helpful.

Speaker 1: 33:43

So now this is so. The us tells us I've got problems in the gallbladder. I'm like I've already got sort of I still don't have polyps. Okay, so you understand that. Should I take any supplements like NAC or probiotic while taking this treatment? And absolutely, and the protocol for the liver support during this, as we've gone over is alpha-lipoic acid, silymarin milk thistle. Gone over is alpha-lipoic acid, silymarin milk thistle and some source of vitamin B1, thiamine and alpha-lipoic acid. Oh yeah, I said that Alpha-lipoic acid and the NAC, n-acetylcysteine, and N-acetylcysteine is just a single amino acid which you can get at Sprouts or Whole Foods or any like that, or online anywhere. So those are all easily obtainable without having to see a doctor. It's crazy. So these are from Instagram.

Speaker 1: 34:39

What is the safest scan to show if CFCs are active in the body? Well, yeah, none of them are without safety concerns. None of them. Even a simple x-ray or maybe an ultrasound would be without safety concerns. But the thing that we need to be aware of is that we want to make sure that whatever we're doing is going to give us the results that allow us to see what we're looking for us to see what we're looking for. So sometimes we'll find we have to do things that carry some risk, but again, we weigh the risk and decide what's necessary. So if your conventional doctor or even alternative doctor has concluded they don't know how to work with you therapeutically unless they have this information, then you're in a situation where you have to do it now. The best scanning for cfcs I think it's a pet along with the ct they do at the same time, and that is because you see the anatomy precisely where, exactly where it's located and what its dimensions are, and and you also see the activity level, which is essential to know because that's your baseline. And after you've been treating for six or eight weeks, you'll notice that then you'd want to see have we diminished the size but not the activity, or the size and the activity, or just the activity. Anyway, that's very important to know.

Speaker 1: 36:08

The second question is how does a detox from metals and parasites naturally a four-year-old well? Are you sure your four-year-old has parasites? And so, with your four-year-old, what you want to do is just make sure that you're feeding it very healthy food, because it has you, because four-year-olds have a very high nutritional requirement of the breed at which they're growing. So you can use smoothies, the fresh nut milk with chia seed, using it to make a chia seed Instead of what we use to make a chia seed porridge. But instead you take a couple tablespoons of the chia seed, grind them up and put them in the milk nut milk, add two handfuls of spinach and then whatever else you want pineapple, coconut, strawberry, apple to make it delicious. And that would be a daily thing, because if you put a child on a juice cleanse, they're going to feel like they're starving. You're not going to be able to reason with them at three years old, and fortunately you can be. You can require that of your children, but you should do it in a way that helps them understand what they're doing and do it with them. It's always best to do the green juice cleanse or juice cleanse with them, so they see that you're both doing and you're okay and that you understand how they're feeling and that sort of thing. So it's always very important to do that if you can, all right.

Speaker 1: 37:37

So, uh, do you have any thoughts about getting the shingles vaccine? The answer is nay, and then after the second thought, nay, and then after third, you've got to understand that it doesn't even make sense to get a shingles. The other ones don't work. If you know that they don't work, you might think it makes sense. But shingles is the recurrence of a chickenpox, which, in a sense, recurrence is that the exosome or virus that they call it, hangs out in the spinal column, probably the roots. The roots are where the peripheral nerves come out of the spinal column and they only come out or get active when the person is stressed, right. So that's either physical stress, stress or, you know, emotional distress, and over a period of time. So physical would be like they had a period of time in their lives where they just were not going to bed until two or three in the morning and they found themselves drinking alcohol or other things at night, not getting sleep, other things at night. Not getting sick, just in a continuous time like that will weaken the immune system which allows that breakout to occur.

Speaker 1: 38:58

All right, so that's the exit, what I wanted to share with you and I don't use the word vaccine, because they're not vaccines. None of them are. They do not do what they claim. They do not do what they claim. We have a vaccination program that was developed by God and it's in our bodies and it works extremely well, and it has for millions of years. And isn't it odd to consider that? How the heck did we all survive, including animals and all that, when there were no vaccines around? How did we make it here? And, in fact, think about this who invented vaccines? The unvaccinated? The whole thing is a bizarre scam. Don't get locked up in it, Just get out of it.

Speaker 1: 39:38

Wow, okay, so I feel like my legs are wobbly and I can't walk far, wow. Well, I would like to know a lot more about your current situation, to understand it and respond. That's why it'd be really helpful to ask this on one of our Zoom meetings. If you were to join the group, you could join the health and healing group so that you're being exposed to some form of toxicity. So you really need to know that. Is there a chronic illness around that or it's just developed out of? You were fine and now you just have wobbly legs and can't walk.

Speaker 1: 40:21

Now when you say wobbly legs, do you mean, are they also deformed? Are they deformed in that they're skinnier than they normally are? Are they also deformed? Are they deformed in that they're skinnier than they normally are? It's an obvious problem by anybody who saw, and so I'm imagining you can't walk, but because they're so wobbly you can't bear any weight to support stepping. So I would like to know the context of what's going on, how long it's been going on and where are they. And I found when they did a scan and so anyway. So you started out this sentence with saying I feel like my legs are wobbly. So it would be really helpful if you could send in some of the imaging to me so I could look at it and see what I can see thus far and decide whether or not something else is necessary and also, with that, give a brief medical history so I can know where you're, at what context this is all happening. So it could help. All right. So now the next question. Let me see this Brighton. I don't see it All right. So now the next question Let me see this Brighton. I don't see it All right. Okay, so here's thoughts on catzilla.

Speaker 1: 41:40

Stage one triple positive, did four months taxol lepectomy and still small residual. So these let's see. I have not heard of this particular. It's trastuzumab. Trastuzumab is also called Herceptin, but I never heard the brand name of Catecyla. But anyway, that's what it is.

Speaker 1: 42:03

It's a monoclonal antibody that binds to the HER2 receptor on cells and the HER2 receptor is on all cells anyway. All cells have a HER1 through HER5, also called epidermal growth factors. But what they're finding is that it's upregulated and therefore people with CFCs not everyone, but you'll find that their HER2 is positive, for some reason it's just that one that's upregulated, not the other ones, and so they've developed a monoclonal antibody that attacks that. Remember, a monoclonal antibody is an antibody that's been made by your body to something that they're aiming for. So it's got a place perhaps in the entire program that you might have for healing, but it's got a.

Speaker 1: 42:59

So there's pretty much what's called immunotherapy nowadays, with CFCs are fundamentally two kinds with CFCs are fundamentally two kinds. One is the monoclonal antibody part and the other is the PD-L1 blockers, called checkpoint inhibitors. But so with HER2, what's interesting too is HER2 is not only with breast, it can be found with colon, it can be found with, so it's not only breasts. So, very important to understand, but they don't usually look for it, which is odd. But anyway, again, what is preferable to understand is that HER2 is going to be positive on a group of people regardless of. There's no way to know which people are going to be HER2 positive or HER2 negative.

Speaker 1: 43:52

But if you understand that that's just that your epidermal growth factor number two has been upregulated and that you're therefore, because what the epidermal growth factor says is, when it gets stimulated, it causes growth. It's just one of the mechanisms that continues the growth of a tumor, just one of them. Basically, if we're doing what we always talk about, which is removing all the reasons why tumors occur, which is through our detox, and we're targeting the CFCs with non-toxic therapies based on their metabolism and we're reawakening the immune system, then we're doing all that we really can, or all that's really necessary as well, really necessary as well. So so the question, so so, so my thoughts on the cats silla are it really okay? So, since this is not such a dangerous medication. They all have poison.

Speaker 1: 45:00

But it's really even more importantly that you make the decision based on your feeling and sense of things. So a lot of times when people ask this kind of question, their feeling is they shouldn't, but they have another deeper feeling that says but I have to, I'm afraid if I don't, and that's a conflict within based on not having enough knowledge. So that's where you that you've got to really investigate it. So what you need to understand is you know what are the, the, these epidermal growth factors, why are they on cells, etc. And then, secondly, what is the advantage to cfcs by up regulating to have more of it around? And then you have to understand the different therapies, how they're produced and what they, which we're talking about monoclonal antibodies, and then what's their direct action on the tumor that is considered the goal, and what are the other actions that could not be, that could be considered adverse, or are there other positive effects? Because it's something you have to decide. And the reason I say that is because if you took my advice or anyone's advice on what to decide and yet you still had an internal conflict, then that internal conflict will really greatly inhibit healing.

Speaker 1: 46:27

So why do I feel like and this is from on the Instagram I can't really see, there's no names. Why do I feel like the floor is moving below me? Well, if you feel like that, there's really two forms of dizziness. When we use the term dizziness, we're referring to being lightheaded just like oh, I'm dizzy, I'm going to fall right. Or being on a boat where the floor is moving. Things are spinning.

Speaker 1: 46:56

They're both called dizzy, but they're two different phenomena. The first one is usually due to severe dehydration or something else that's caused volume depletion, volume of blood, and dehydration is a probably the most common. So if that happens, when you stand up, you don't have enough blood volume that, even though the arterioles in your legs kind of clamp down to keep the blood up there flowing up there and not go down into the legs, if you're severely dehydrated or you've had blood loss or anything like that, you won't be able to do that. So you'll stand up and you'll feel really lightheaded and you need to sit down again. All right, so that's one. The other one is an inner ear, not a middle ear, not an outer ear, but an inner ear problem. And what the inner ear is. It's on three different planes and they're kind of like these hollowed out stone constructed of stone. Whatever they are, they're these hollowed-out tubes that have in them little hairs that form a part of the floor and as they are moved they produce an electrical signal that goes to the brain and gets interpreted.

Speaker 1: 48:16

So when you were a child and you would spin around on purpose fast and then stop, and it was fun because you were still spinning. But you're spinning in the opposite direction and the reason is because the fluid was going this way while you were going this way and then when you stopped, when you just stopped and kept going it, it caused you to feel it's called vertigo instead of dizziness, it's called vertiginous. You felt vertigo and fortunately that doesn't last very long. As soon as you know your body's, the fluid stops flowing. But there are many people who wind up getting chronic vertigo, which can be a real problem, and there are actually websites and groups that you can join for that. So I don't really know.

Speaker 1: 49:03

So it sounds like for you it's just beginning and since you're focusing on the fact that your legs can't you can't walk because your legs are wobbly it sounds like that whatever the subjective feeling in your head is not significant. So you've got to find out which one it is. So you've got to go to a doctor or any kind of clinician that's able to help you figure that out and then, once you know, then you'd be best to go to a holistically alternative medicine type of person in your area who would have the ability to evaluate you and treat you appropriately. And you can look in your journals, you know We've talked about this before the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, I'm sorry. And there's also the American Academy of.

Speaker 1: 49:58

What is that one called? I don't know why it's something. Everything's in Chinese, what I'm trying to get an image. Anyway, it's called the American College for the Advanced Medicine, also called ACAM, and the reason it's important is because everyone who's trained through there, who's been trained by them and they're very good, it'll be on their website as having been trained, and you can pretty much be assured that they were trained well for this, whether or not they remember and they do it correctly, and all that is one thing, but the fact that they were trained well. And I'm looking here right now, and so one of the notes here is let us find an integrated physician near you. So you'd click on that. All right, so I don't have your name but the floor moving under your feet.

Speaker 1: 50:47

As I said, it sounds like it's early on in the condition and if you're focused mostly on the legs moving around, if you're focused mostly on the legs moving around and you're not really talking about an experience that's going on in your head and that there are no associated symptoms like nausea because if you were on a boat like that you would be nauseous, so none of that is happening Then you should maybe go to I don't even know if there are any holistic or, alternatively, reminding oncologists, but you can go to. I don't even know if there are any holistic or, alternatively, reminding oncologists, but you can go to any kind of doctor. Because the treatment for vertigo, first of all, is finding out what's causing it, what kind it is and what's causing it, and eliminating that cause. But it also involves detoxification and everything that we do. But in the meantime, if the subjective feeling is so powerful that you actually get nauseated by standing up and walking if you ever get to that point then it's really important to treat it and there's a treatment for it. It's not available in Thailand for some reason, but you can order it from the US and, I'm sure most other countries use it because it works and it's important and basically it's from the class of medications called phenothiazines. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1: 52:09

So the medication, the phenothiazine, that would block there are actually two that would block the nausea associated with this kind of sensation, because imagine if it was really active and you couldn't not be dizzy. It would be a bummer. So it's used for that. It's both the promethazine, which is commonly used, and the chloroparasine, which is basically the other common one. So they block that and you just do them for short periods. You don't do them for prolonged periods, because these types of medications, if you do them for too long, you can get kind of bizarre psychological effects like you'll use. I think I've never gotten a clear answer from people who are doing it, but it's like they're seeing bugs or things, seeing things like that, and that's no fun. You don't want to get that way. So you don't take them for long periods, but they will turn off the nausea associated with that, because it's hard otherwise, the nausea associated with that, all right, so anyway, so the lesser medication that's used in that situation is called meclizine, and meclizine M-E-C-L-I-Z-I-N-E that's usually 25 milligrams, probably three times a day, and you could be up, go, go up as necessary and down as necessary. So what it does is that it actually. It actually allows you to take control of what you're doing, rather than having someone else tell you what you what to do, and I always prefer that. Okay, so, anyway. So meclizine, 25 milligrams, anywhere from one to four times a day, actually stops the spinning. That's fantastic, not just the nausea associated with it, but it stops the spinning and it's in the same drug category, you'll notice. It ends with Z-I-N-E and you just get meclizine and I've never seen it not work on people. So, 25 milligrams a day, we're up to one to four times a day.

Speaker 1: 54:18

So here's the next question, and again I don't quite have the name. The question is stage four or five years into local recurrence on same breast, other parts, stable surgery. So usually other parts, stable surgery. Stage four, stable, five years in local recurrence on same breast, other parts stable surgery. Stage four, stable. Five years in local recurrence on same breast, other parts, stable. Okay, so anyway, when you say other parts, I'm assuming that you mean you might have secondary locations of tumors like metastasis, and so there was a local recurrence on the same breast, other parts stable, and the question is surgery. Right, so you've had a local recurrence on the same breast where apparently I guess some surgery was done, either a lumpectomy or a mastectomy, I'm not sure you know. You know the lateral mastectomy, so, anyway, a local recurrence just means it's growing on, usually on the scar, and that's not unusual on the scar or around it, because actually, as it's being removed, the stem cells get out and that's basically it. And remember, our job is to not make the body a hospitable host to stem cells, meaning that the soil they land in just is not compatible with them becoming strong, but it is compatible with us becoming strong, healthy and vibrant. And then, what's an appropriate email for reaching out to podcast interviews? Oh well, thomas at drlodycom, t-h-o-m-a-s at drlodycom would be an appropriate email. Or hello at drlodycom. Somebody's scraping my window.

Speaker 1: 56:04

This next question is I'm losing lots of weight on a keto diet and with the breast hormone therapy, one thing is to keep energy. So you're losing lots of energy or lots of weight on a keto diet? Well, that's going to keep energy. So you're losing lots of energy or lots of weight on the keto diet? Well, that's going to happen because the keto diet actually the goal, and I think we've talked about this several times when one gets into a state of ketosis, which means that they have predominantly ketone bodies being made, which are breakdown products of fat, and they become the central part of metabolism. When that's happening, you're in a state of ketosis and of course that would happen if you're not eating enough carbs, because carbohydrates will turn on the glucose metabolism. So if you're not eating carbs and you are eating fats, that will turn into ketone bodies and since you're not eating carbohydrates, your body will be breaking down your own fats which is why we have fat into ketone bodies. So the ketone bodies will be used for fuel. They'll provide energy to the cells.

Speaker 1: 57:07

But when you say you're on a keto diet, you know often people think they are and they're doing it, but they're not really measuring anything to know if they are. They are and they're doing it, but they're not really measuring anything to know if they are. You know, so like they at least once a day doing your ketone bodies and your glucose. To figure out your glucose, the ketone index, your gki, and usually you want that to be less than 1.0. It's hard to achieve just on food, even if you're eating all fat. So in spite of what you're eating, you probably have to do one to two days a week of just water only, just to keep you in a generalized ketosis, and so ketosis will obviously prevent the. It prevents the.

Speaker 1: 57:48

In order to get into ketosis, you have to not have the carbs, so there'll be no stimulus to produce fat, and so body weight will come down for that reason and because you're breaking down the fat to be used for fuel. Yeah, so that's why you're losing weight, which is not only perfectly fine but actually something you want to happen, unless you've reached the point where you're cachectic, where your body's actually consuming itself. If that's where you get to the point is you've got to stop, because cachexia is, it can be very nasty. It's way different than catching a cold or anything like that or anything that's going to involve one organ system, because cachexia involves the whole body. It really evolves from the fact that people don't want to eat or can't eat.

Speaker 1: 58:36

So in order to work with someone with that condition, you would work with them due to the causes, each separate part. So if they can't eat because they're nauseous, or they can't eat because there's an obstruction or whatever it is, you have to deal with that If they don't want to eat, in other words, they have no appetite. If you have the luxury, the best thing to do is wait and see how long it would take for someone to get an appetite. And if you didn't want to wait that long, you can just have everything ready when they come over and eat. But it's it's difficult. So that's where the use of cannabis comes in. Cannabis is very important for stimulating appetite.

Speaker 1: 59:13

Um and um. It also have a will have a beneficial effect. If anyone gets nauseous from eating and sometimes it's just that the person hasn't eaten enough over time so their GI system isn't working that well but usually to get cachectic it's usually in someone with stage 4 that has gone to multiple areas and is causing major biochemical alert systems on different parts of the body, which is exhausting the immune system and so the tumor metabolism our body gets turns back mainly to a tumor metabolism. So that's the way to deal with it. And you know, the other thing we use with cachexia, as we've mentioned many times, is um. We want to heal the gut right, um, and so we're going to use the glutamine, which is the primary fuel for enterocytes, small cell intestines, and it's a fuel for cfcs. However, it's also the necessary fuel for lymphocytes, which actually turn out to be the cells that turn to become natural killer cells and T cells activate that actually gobble up and eat tumors. So when you look at all the risks and benefits, the risk of using it is far outweighs the risk of not using it, because you have to adapt, adjust to the fact that a certain therapy cannot be used by you. So we're gonna find other ways of achieving the same thing. There are many different ways of getting the same thing. We've got several in Arizona.

Speaker 1: 1:00:52

Your thoughts on parasite cleanses Should we all do one per year? Yeah, I think we should all do, initially a good long one to make sure that we've got them all, and then I think a one-year daily maintenance would be great. You'd still be shocked if you could manifest anything, but a lot of people me for instance looking came out anywhere. So if you want to see something it's usually people who have obvious worms and stuff that they could see all the time and then they'd stop seeing them or they diminish significantly then that's noted. Otherwise it's really hard to know what benefit you're getting. But yes, once a year is fantastic, but actually what you mean is a maintenance. So you've already done an intensive first year, which could be three to nine months, depending, or a year, and now the maintenance would be depending on how long that one was, how long your initial one was, can be anywhere from 14 days up to two weeks, up to eight, twelve weeks, and usually the longer the better, because it does multiple beneficial effects and can change the metabolism of the tumor, is not central, so it's very good.

Speaker 1: 1:02:07

Now, ben is all criticized lately. Cfc is coming back worse after first success Again. I think we talked about this last week. Please send me what you're seeing in that regard and then I'll read it and then we can talk about it next week. But send me whatever you're seeing about criticizing Finn Vincente.

Speaker 1: 1:02:27

It was criticized before it was, before Joe Timmons used it. It was called a dog D-word or a horse D-word, things like that, and they didn't recommend it at all. They said it was dangerous and all that. A dog D-Wormer or a horse D-Wormer or things like that. They didn't recommend it at all. They said it was dangerous and all that for humans. Well, it turns out it's not. Some were dangerous than the other ones and I've had hundreds of people on all the different Benzimidazoles, especially fenbendazole, and the reason is because fenbendazole has gained such popularity because of Joe Tippins, and other people have followed in his doing exactly what he's doing, with great results. But it's not that the others wouldn't work right, and researchers were not being offered grants to do it either. However, joe Tippins came in and had already done it himself, and it showed an incredible effect. So that's how it came to be.

Speaker 1: 1:03:28

Otherwise, the medical world focuses on fenbenazole and albenzol, and I'm not quite sure why but I mean why they decided that these are human and those are animal, but they're not. As I pointed out earlier, when we're talking about mammals, we all have very similar bodies Four-chambered heart, two lungs, four limbs, gastrointestinal tract Pretty much the same, except there are different refinements and adaptations to different parts of the central nervous system, which is brain and spinal cord, as well as the peripheral nervous system. All right, you guys. Green medicine All right, you guys. I'm sure in the chat there's somewhere that people are telling us all the answers to our questions. Anyway, I apologize for the late start today and I'll see you tomorrow at the meeting. Is it tomorrow? Yeah, tomorrow my morning, your night for the meeting, if you're in that group, okay, all right. Sawadikap and aloha, aloha.