Engaging in Meaningful Conversations: Monthly Community Discussion (Part 9)

All right, hello everybody and welcome to Geopolitical Trends, where truth matters. Excited to be with you as always for our community conversation. You know, I always enjoy those ones here because it's unstructured. You just sit back and chat, and that's the whole idea of why I— when I decided to do this is because sometimes it's just nice to get to learn more about each other. So anyway, hope you had a— hope your day is going well. And let me see who is here in the community. First of all, Willie Holman, good to see you as always from West Memphis. For those who do not know, Thunderbolt, as always, good to see you. So we'll wait for everybody to show up, whoever can make it. Uh, Truth Seeker, good to see you. Dr. Stewart is not here yet, he will be here soon. So Alistair O'Ken, good to see you. Q757E, Timeline Dunkley from New York City, good to see you as always. So it is gonna— funny how, uh, in YouTube, I'm sure you guys know this, when I log in, each time I log into the, uh, uh, uh, live stream, it doesn't reflect the exact number of people attending. So it takes, takes time for it to show up and Mike Damore, good to see you as always. Sal Canales, good to see you. Uh, being American, I see the hypocrisy and lies from the entire West. BRICS will prevail. Uh, speaking of that, I'm glad you mentioned that one, Sal, even though I'm not going to be talking geopolitics, but I'm glad you mentioned this because I'm gonna do a video for you guys next week. I haven't decided yet, uh, whether to do it tomorrow or not, about Thailand and BRICS. It's a major— given the infrastructure that is going on, which China is financing and funding and helping Thailand and so forth. I like what Carl said yesterday. I mean, it will be now just a matter of time before you could take a speed train even from China, maybe all the way to— or from Thailand all the way to Singapore or something like You know, you can just get an idea of how this is going to be very major. So I look forward to that. As a matter of fact, I think I am hoping to be in China. I'm planning on going to China next year. I will provide you the detail. There is someone already— for now, I'm not going to disclose the name yet till I get his or her approval. They said they will be willing to support the, the trip to China. Of course, I'm going to run it by the community as well because my first trip to China was because of the community, except this time I am going to different locations. I'm going to head out to— I'd like to go to Xinjiang for a reason. I like to go to Tibet for a reason because I want to be on the ground, see with my own eyes where things are versus what the media is reporting. And I will report on it from the ground, straightforward, as they say, straightforward from the horse's mouth, because I'll be there. I'm saying it's like when they used to say, uh, some analyst here saying, oh, the Chinese economy is going to collapse. I was there and I saw there. I didn't see any signs whatsoever of a declining economy. You know, I can, uh, for us here in the US, I can see a slowing down. Do I see the collapse of the economy here in the US?

No.

It won't. It's not. There's nothing there. But you can see the, the, the how slowing down that is. Same thing I want to do for China. And I am also might add to that itinerary a trip to Indonesia because of what I see coming into that part of the world. So I'll fill you in later on, guys. We'll talk about all this one here. So, uh, Stephen Murphy, good to see you. Juan Horn, good to see you. Haven't seen you for a while, Juan. I hope all is well. Uh, let me see who— uh, Ken Law, good to see you. British Columbia, Vancouver, that is. Good to see you too. Dave H, good to see you. Uh, uh, Babes Bebot, good to see her. Hello, watching. Wow, look at guys where this individual watching from, from Doha, Qatar. So good to see you, Babes Bebot, good to see you. Qatar.

I never—

I passed through, I think. I never been in town. Like Francis Tango, as always. Ali Starukin, as always. Ali from Amsterdam, uh, wow. Um, I have a family visit from Amsterdam right here. They decide come spend Christmas with me here. So I'm always grateful to see the family from Holland coming over here. So, uh, Hank NG, good to see you. By the way, Hank, thank you so much for your comment about the, uh, the fighter, the 6G generations. Uh, that's because it was a comment on the video yesterday, and someone made it very, very smart comment, somebody who must know about aviation. I don't, so that's why I wanted to run it, uh, by you since you have an understanding. So thank you, guys. If you get a chance to go back to the video I did yesterday with Carl Zah and look at the comment and look for the comments from Hang in G, He made a comment to my request— not a request, but rather to my question that I put for him, and he answered it. Thank you so much, uh, uh, uh, Hangin' G. Uh, Joan Hayes, good to see you from— look where this from, anybody can guess. Well, yeah, of course the flag will give you South Africa. Good to see you. Uh, uh, who else is here? Zara US, good to see you, Zara. And as always, uh, uh, One Horn, you're asking, uh, let me share this with the community. Uh, one, good evening, Dr. O. Your thoughts on the tariff Trump threatened against BRICS nations? Yeah, it's, it's, it just hypes. I'll tell you this right now. And when I do the, the video next week on Thailand and BRICS, I'm gonna highlight this one more. But as of now, It's all bravado, no more nor less. I want you guys to know this one here. So, so I'll be talking about this as we move forward. So now, uh, first of all, before I forget, let me let— or let you know, if I may. I posted something on the community, but that's for members because I always— it's, it's fair to be, uh, to do something for the members. I posted my upcoming analysis that I did regarding China and the US. It's worth watching once I release it within the next 48 hours, if not sooner. So, but just for the community members, for them to know that I posted that for them. So now let me ask you a question, because that's what we are here for, to, to learn from each other. So I'm going to ask you a first question. It's, what have you learned with me throughout the year? Don't tell me you are just sitting here listening to what I have said, because if you didn't learn anything, it's more— it's a problem for me. That means I am not giving you the right information or something, you know. I just— and you don't have to answer, guys. This is just food for thought, just to think about out loud. Uh, what have you learned, uh, with me throughout the year? And second thing, second question, that is, is what would you like to see me do differently next year, 2025? Uh, your feedback, your input, your insights is always very crucial to me and important. This is why I always, uh, uh, get your, uh, your insights as to the topics you would like me to cover and so forth, because your opinion matters to me. Simple as that. So third question I'm going to ask you is, and this might be slightly different, see What do you want— what you— what do you want to accomplish next year? What is one of your objectives? You know, you can share if you feel comfortable enough. Uh, good to see you as always, and, uh, it was a Merry Christmas. I hope you had one too as well. Good to see you. Uh, what do you want to accomplish next year? So, uh, I have my own goal for me personally, but for you Uh, oh my gosh, I see someone here, someone I communicate with privately. Good to see you as always. Very, very good. I'm so excited you're here. I'm so excited. So, and thank you for your last, uh, uh, uh, uh, note. And, and I, I think I didn't respond to it yet. I'll get to it.

Uh, but thank—

good to see you. Good to see you, Jency, New York City. So Yeah, what do you guys— what do you want to accomplish next year? That's something just to think about. And here is my reason for asking you that question. And again, I will never tell you something that I don't do myself. And the reason I ask you that question, because I've always— for me, at the end of the year, I ask myself, what have I accomplished for the past year? You know, because if I am in the same position as I was a year before, that means I haven't moved forward. That's not a good spot to be in or at. It's problematic. So you always— for you guys, just as an advice here, for always, you guys, gauge your things for you by yourself. Don't let others, by the way, tell you no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't need others. You can figure that out on your own. Always gauge your progress for where you were a year before. And if you noticed nothing has changed, for example, uh, let me just give you a quick example, uh, even your health, which we're gonna be talking to Dr. Stewart about some key, key stuff, uh, regarding the chronic disease like Parkinson's and so forth. Uh, health-wise, if you notice you are having more energy, you are in a better shape, you sleep well, you, you manage your intellectual, uh, energy as far as you can multitask and so forth. And you compare that to where you were year before. Year before, you were watching, let's say, TV too much. You were on the iPhone too much. You were hardly ever going for walks. When I say walks, I'm talking about 30 minutes minimum, or 4, or even an hour walk, and so forth. If you know, you will be able to gauge the difference yourself. So, and that's usually how you will know whether you are moving in the right direction or not, or not. And this is not just a health stuff, but also your intellectual capacity. That's why I asked you. Oh, here is my guy, my guy. This Assad Iqbal. Good to see you as always. Good to see you, Assad. I'll tell you about this gentleman later on at some point. So good to see you, Assad. Uh, uh, who else is here? Fareed Amal. Good to see you. Uh, Ali, there are some new names here. I I didn't see. So, all right, let me see from a note from Francis Tango. You're a doctor. Oh, I learned a lot in geopolitics. Now I look at geopolitics differently. Anyway, thanks for all the information, Dr. You're most welcome. Well, I'm glad, I am glad you were able to, uh, uh, share that with— because to me, as always, as a, as an educator You know, I always used to ask my— when I was used to teach at the university here in the US, and I hope to do this in some institutions in China, because really, I don't know why I am so attracted to teaching at Chinese university. I don't know why. That's like the same way I felt when I was walking in Shanghai. You know, you feel this kind of energy. Literally, I can't explain it, guys. You know, I felt it, but I can't explain it. So, so I am hoping to, uh, uh, to do that as well. So teaching to me has always been the idea of, you know, do my students, uh, uh, got enough of what I need to share with them? And as a matter of fact, I hardly ever put it on the students, I put it on myself. Did I give them 110% efforts or no? Because it was anytime when I used to teach, come home, you know, have my dinner at 6:30, do what I need to do, and I'm ready for bed at about 2100 hours, I'll ask myself, why have I accomplished today? Especially when it comes down to teaching, did I give 110% to my students? And I, and I used to ask them, usually the, the feedback I get at the end of the semester, you know, they do the teachers, the professor's evaluations and so forth. And there are some out there if you If you go to ratemyprofessor.com, uh, once again, let me, let me type it for you guys. Should you ever want to do that, ratemyprofessor.com. That's right there. You can, you guys, you guys can check it out. Type in my full name and it, it pull out all that comment. And it was very interesting to just learn about the perspective of students. So And same here with you guys. We are building this community. Yeah, we are building. Do you know I crossed over 91,000? So we crossed 100,000. And, and the fact that it's community that is built with the support, your support, that, that, that means a lot to me personally. And it's all about, you know, uh, why are we here for? Why are we here for? So, so this is what Oh, Ali, I like that one. Ali, that was very interesting. What's on the menu today as far as topics, right? So very, very interesting. Uh, of course it's sad. You all know what happened. Uh, you all know what happened with the Korean airline, the Boeing, then the 182 people that died. You know, sad to see, but again Boeing 737. Let me think. So that's, uh, uh, just the idea of how, how things are. So, uh, Juan, let me see what you wrote here. I learned to see through the smoke when it comes to geopolitics. I also learned how important resources and territory is. Thank you. You're most welcome, Juan. I'm glad, uh, you know the channel was of value and importance to you to acquire something from that. So, uh, uh, let me see this one here. I think, oh David, it will be surely a complete different experience if you could teach in China. I think it is a good idea, but you have to be careful about what you say regarding politics. Not 100% free. Well, it's the idea what I teach. It has not— I see your point and I understand that. And on the other hand, my objective will be to help the students sort of broaden their intellectual understanding of global issues. You know, how the government inside China deals with its own affairs and my business. You know, same thing for any other country. And when I provide insights, whatever, it's not about criticism of that country. Like, for example, when I talk to Professor Anna Malindog, and I asked the question, do you think President Marcos should resign? I'm an outsider, I have no say into the internal matters of the Philippines, but as an outsider looking in, I, I asked the question to someone who is from there. So it would be the same arguments regarding China and the Chinese government, you know, as far as criticizing them If the criticism is constructive, I think they will be okay with it. It's when it is destructive, negative one, that is. And like what we heard, the clip that I shared with you yesterday from, uh, uh, what's his name, uh, Chung, Michael, uh, uh, what's, what's his name? I forgot his name, that I extended the invitation and he never responded back. Yeah, Michael Chung. And, uh, because he criticizes the Chinese government negatively, very, very, very bad, has been for the last a decade or so. So my objective will be different. My objective will be different. So, and I know how to relate to students. Remember, I used to teach here, so I have a better understanding of, uh, of, of how it works. But, but I look forward to— oh yes, Gordon Chang, thank you so much. Truth Seeker, thank you so much. I did email him. I, I, I did email him, never heard back. And all I wanted to, uh, provide him the platform here, but I will ask him some tough questions because I will not put him in a spot, whatever. I don't do that, got you question. I don't do that kind of stuff because I'm not— I don't think like that. But I will provide the logical questions that can challenge his assumptions regarding what he has been stating. The same thing applies to any other analyst here that says the Chinese economy is collapsing when in reality it is not so. So, so that's, that's what I intend to do. Uh, but as far as the, uh, government, no, because I will be teaching international relations, uh, and China is just part of that global system. Then, uh, Hangin G, I see your comment here to Alex Tarokin. Thank you so much for explaining this one. It's kind of very, very— again, aviation in my thing, so I don't understand this one. Has to do with the, uh, with the, the, the 6G fighter jets, the, the new technology that is. Now let me see something, uh, uh, I, I want to ask you a question. Hold on.

Ah.

Uh, all right, where did I get this one? Uh, now this one might not work. This might not work. I actually— I'm going to share it with you later on. So, but this is where, uh, uh, I'm, I'm going to look for your questions first, first of all, before I— uh, Kevin James, good to see you as always. Kevin also put some comments, and thank you for sharing your knowledge, Kevin. I greatly appreciate it. Uh, if you guys ever get a chance to— are there any American-born Chinese in the United States military? If so, they should resign before the United States government sends them to attack China. Uh, they might be. I won't be surprised. Uh, I do know that, for example, and I met him, uh, General Shinseki. If you know his background, uh, you know, was born in America and all that, but his ancestors I think from Japan, if I'm not mistaken. Uh, Shisaki. Yeah, so I, I, I don't know exactly as of today. I, I don't know. Uh, all I know is that there are Chinese scientists here, and they've been the subject to some really attacks from law enforcement here, which wasn't right, just because they happen to be Chinese. Like I always say, who's American here? You know, who is American here? A question I always used to ask my students at the beginning of every semester: Who is American here? And you always have 2 or 3 raising their hands. And I said, okay, that's fine. I'm gonna ask you the question again at the end of the semester after I go through the semester talking about the government, the structure of the government, and so forth. Then I'll ask the question at the end and I say, who is American here? Nobody raised his or her hands. Because they understand we all came from somewhere. We all came from somewhere. So, uh, all right, let me see, uh, if there is any other, uh, uh, the Chinese government take constructive criticism willingly, uh, they even ask for constructive critic, uh, but for the unfair and vicious critics, there could be an invitation to a cup of tea. Yeah, I see. As a matter of fact, I am a consultant, so I officially, I can advise a foreign government. You know, Washington cannot dictate to me who I give advice to or not because I don't work for the government. The only difference is I have to, if I am to engage in something like this, you by law here, you have to register as far as you are advising a foreign government. But as far as them telling me what to do, no, I will not even allow it to to begin with. That's why I left Washington to begin with. So I'm officially in a position to advise a foreign government if an opportunity presents itself. So, and I'll do it. So because that's, uh, uh, Francis Tango, take a cup of tea after this, you deserve that. Uh, speaking of tea, I'm glad you brought this up. Uh, let me see if I can, if I can find it. Uh, I, I read today a research, the outcome of a research about, about tea, as to whether, uh, coffee or tea, they are good for your health to begin with. It's because, uh, let me see if I can find the link. Uh, Al Jazeera Health. Yeah. I found it here. Let me, let me share it with you, or just at least, uh, here's what it says. Yeah, does drinking coffee and tea protect you from cancer? A recent study conducted by researchers from the University here in California, LA, and the University of Utah School of Medicine in the US revealed that coffee and tea consumption is associated with reduced risk of head and neck cancer. Ah, that's, you know, what do you guys think? This is with the assumption you're not drinking some coffee that has a lot of sugar in it and a lot of those they do at Starbucks and all that stuff. Same tea. I'll tell you this, and again, this is not about China, but when I was in China, I drank tea the first day, 6 cups of tea. But their tea is prepared differently. I could see the, the, the branches, whatever that was, in the bottom of the pot with the hot water. Drank it, no problems at all. So, and same thing with coffee. Coffee, 1 cup or 2 cups a day should do it, but not that much, uh, uh, because too much coffee, of course, it just, uh, uh between the two. Uh, if, if you know what you are, uh, drinking, you should be fine. So that's, uh, anything you do too much of ain't healthy for you. So, all right, let me go check, uh, uh, oh, Assad, you're saying US, US green tea? Ah, US, we don't have green tea here. Uh, ours, it's all, yeah, the better one from the Asia, at least in my experience. I, I brought tea with me from China here, and that's what I use. But green tea, you're right, I'm one of those. I like green tea better than black tea somehow. I, I, since I can't digest, uh, uh, uh, oh, Army with Harmony with turmeric. That's what I do with my coffee, believe it or not. Put a very tiny, uh, of turmeric. I mix it, then I put cinnamon on it, mix all that, grind. I grind my own coffee and I'll get ready to drink this one. So that's, that's usually what I do. So, all right, let me bring in Dr. Stewart. I think he's right— he is here. Yeah, let me bring him in, then we'll go. He's gonna explain a few things to you guys about, uh, at least for you to understand. Once again, it's all about understanding. Prepare your questions. We'll ask Dr. Stewart. He got some time to spare with us here, which we are very grateful because he's a busy person and he has his own. And I'm going to provide you a link to his websites and all that stuff for you to check it out. All right, let me see. Where is he? Hey, Dr. Stewart.

Hey, good morning, David.

I go to your Ross. I, I drop the titles. How are you?

Okay, let's do that. We've known each other for quite a while.

Oh, you know, let's drop the titles, right? I use the part when I used to go to Washington, DC. Because in DC, it's a big difference if you have a doctor title before your name. They'll address you differently than they do if you don't.

Well, I've reached the age where I don't need other people to verify that I'm— that I know something.

Exactly.

I know something, and I hope to share some of that with you today.

Well, we're very, very excited to have you here because your knowledge is very, very valuable. On behalf of the entire community here, say thank you to you for giving us time. Athenu, look what he wrote. I'm going to share on the screen. Check this out, Russ. Oh, that's Athenu. He's been with us.

Thank you.

He has been with us for a long, long, long time. The same thing with the, with the, uh, so many others. So, so let's get into our conversation here. Uh, uh, oh, let me share this one quickly with the community here. This is from Hanging G. Dr. Wadalu, whenever your next itinerary is ready, please let the community know. I will support your next project in China, ASEAN, Africa, or Latin America.

So, oh, how nice is that?

Now here's the thing, guys, I didn't say at the beginning, it was Hanging G that sent me that comment earlier, so I didn't want till I have his own approval to share. So it was Hanging G that said he will support the trip. So, but I will share it with the community. And again, because I wanted to go to Xinjiang, I want to go to Tibet, see with my own eyes. So, all right, Russ, let's talk. We want to talk today about some health questions and all that stuff, but since given your background in understanding Parkinson's, can you please share with the community here what is Parkinson's, how it happens?

Let me start with, is Parkinson's really a problem? Well, if you think that 100,000 Americans are diagnosed with it, every new cases are diagnosed every year, then it's a problem. And it is a very significant problem because Parkinson's steals people's quality of life. Hmm.

It's—

wow. I mean, you, you start thinking about 100,000, How come this isn't in any event? Yeah. No one's shouting it from the rooftops except me.

Well, because you have the experience, you understand it very well. Now, what are the causes of this Parkinson's disease?

Let me give you the real lowdown here and make it as simple as— Sure.

Great.

Because it's complex, but here's what we think is really going on. In your body, you produce a particular chemical called glutathione. You say, well, most people don't talk about it, never even heard of it. Well, what happens is that this is a free radical quencher and it goes after the pollutants in the environment and cleanses your body of them. It's produced in your liver. And the ways you get, the way you get this is to eat a lot of leafy green vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. And onions and so on. Something that most people don't eat much of, therefore they don't have the sulfur to build glutathione. Okay, well, so what? Well, the collapse of the glutathione is responsible for every serious illness that human beings face. Parkinson's, cancer, whatever it is, it's actually a collapse of the glutathione system. Your body is not being protected.

Hmm.

And you say, well, that's pretty— yeah, it's serious. All right. When you say, hold it, cancer, hold it, cognitive decline, dementia, Alzheimer's, heart conditions, all of these things are a direct result of a couple of things. The main one is environmental pollution. Oh, you ever heard that before?

Oh, yeah.

Oh yeah, you hear that a lot. And so I've been dealing with Parkinson's for 24 years very successfully. And about 20 years ago, I decided I'm gonna figure out more and more what this is about. So I got a, I went to YouTube and got a map of highly polluted places on the planet, 'cause they have those. And then I got a map of Parkinson's symptoms incidence. They sat flat on top of each other. I'm going, that's not correlational data. That is straightforward. Environmental pollutions and the collapse of the glutathione system are directly resulting in, among other things, Parkinson's disease. And so you have to ask yourself, well, what is Parkinson's disease? Well, for one thing, we're gonna look at it as you're gonna have tremors. It starts, it starts by the way with constipation. And so people don't know that's what's actually starting to happen. And then it goes through tremors, it goes through digestive disorders, it goes to weakness, it goes to paralysis, it goes through a number of terrible symptoms that rob you of your quality of life. I had this, had this happen. I had a person say, come to my office, and they said, I just left my neurologist's office and I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. And he was really shaking pretty badly. And my, and I, I was actually surprised at this. And this person said, and my neurologist said 'Here's what you're up against. You have a neurodegenerative disease, which means you are dissolving inside. Your brain and nervous system are degenerating, and it's continuous. There's nothing we can do about it to stop it. And what you can expect is you will end up in a wheelchair urinating in your pants, and you'll die miserably.' I'm going, 'A doctor said that to you?' And he said, that's exactly what he said. I said, he told you the truth. I would have said it more gently, but that's the truth. What we have is a particular portion of the brain called the substantia nigra, and anyone with Parkinson's knows what that is. It's part of the old, old, old brain that actually controls motor movement. So, and a particular chemical called dopamine is responsible for controlling movement. Here's how this works. You have one thing called serotonin, which just has a number of complex things to it, but you initiate movement with serotonin. And dopamine, you control it. So here's what's actually happening, but you can't see it. Serotonin initiates, dopamine holds it in. And so it looks like a smooth movement, but it's not smooth at all. So now serotonin is initiating movements, but you don't have enough dopamine to control the, those neurons, the those brain cells to give you a smooth movement. So you shake. The serotonin is doing its job, but the dopamine that you're producing doesn't do the job anymore. So we have these terrible symptoms all the way from constipation to you name it, including dementia. Oh, that's really a killer. Now you, now you're losing who you are. Not only can't you move, and not only are you tired all the time, not only you're constipated, but now you're starting to forget people, you're starting to forget things, and you can't follow any treatment program. So we pretty well know what causes it. Now, what to do about it? Boy, does that get tricky. Because what do, what does the medical profession give you?

Medication.

They give you a medication and the medication has a combination of two things in it. Carbidopa, which I'm gonna explain in real detail, and levodopa. Levodopa is, boosts your level of dopamine. Not enough, but it does do the job. So some people have some initial symptom control. It goes away because the deterioration, no glutathione, the brain is continuing to get worse and worse and worse. It's not just the brain, it's the whole central nervous system. Then we have carbidopa. Carbidopa is added to control the nausea that the levodopa causes in your stomach. But what's the effect? Well, it— here's something that, that's really important to know. There's a particular B vitamin called B6 that actually is the activator in the enzyme systems that build proteins. Proteins in your body such as your heart muscle, all of your muscle tissue, all of your connective tissue, all the linings of your veins and arteries, all have muscle tissue in them. And vitamin B6 is essential for the enzyme systems that build that muscle tissue. Oh, so now we have something called carbidopa that degrades B6. Hmm. And you say, well, people get weaker. Yeah, well, what do you know? So very solid medical research from— it's been across, it's been across a number of medical schools. And really solid research. It not only degrades B6, it shortens your life by 6 years. That's tragic. Also, it hinders your body's ability to produce dopamine, which is what you lack anyway. After the damage is caused by lack of glutathione, there's enough neurons left That if we, if we jack up the num— the amount of dopamine, we can still get those neurons to fire and we can control behavior. It will go from here to here. We can't get rid of it completely. Yeah. Oh, have we tried? By the way, there are only 12 of us in the country that know really how to do this. 100,000 new patients every day, every year, and there are 12 of us. That know how to do this, this particular program. So now we have a, an ongoing tragedy based on the brain damage, based on the medication that's being used. Yes. And that's not the only side effect, but those are— that's the death. Early death is a bad enough side effect. And seen any other, any number of other kinds of treatment programs that have scary results. I saw they did something called brain ablation, and when I read the research on this, I'm going, this, this has to be a joke. They burn tissue in the brain? Yeah, they burn it. And they were actually able to minimize the amount of symptoms by 15%. Well, that means this goes to this. That's still bad symptoms.

Yeah.

But now your brain is permanently burned. And then I saw something called, uh, deep brain stimulation where they put wires down into your brain And that's pretty impressive. It lasts for 2 to 3 years where symptoms are well controlled, then it's all back again as bad or worse than when it started. Anyway, let's give some people some hope.

Indeed, indeed.

You know, it's a— look at, look at programs like, um, Parkinson boxing and any number of those.

Mm-hmm.

Encourage people to do them, but they're not a solution. They might keep, they, they have a minimum positive impact. What we really want to do is increase the amount of dopamine. And you say, well, that doesn't sound so hard. Oh, it's hard.

All right.

Because you have to increase the amount of dopamine exactly to the amount that, uh, people need. And everyone's different. What is it? That's true, David. Everyone's different.

Indeed.

Yeah. So for the last 24 years, I've been dealing with something called the Hintz Medical Food Program. And you go, well, that sounds pretty lofty. Well, it is This is really quite a well-done, quite a done, well-done program. And what we're looking at is dramatically raising the amount of dopamine without, without any, without the stomach upset and without a number of other problems. Mm-hmm. So if we would, if we do a urine test and find out what your dopamine level is, because you're normal and you're healthy, it would be about 675. If we test a person who I've been working with for a while and their symptoms are like 75 to 95% managed, their dopamine level is 40,000. Wow. Going, whoa, that's a lot. Yeah. That's how much damage has actually gone, has, has transpired in the brain. We pretty well know that before the first Parkinson's symptom shows up, The brain has been being, been barraged for at least 15 years, and the damage is cumulative and cumulative and cumulative over that 15 years. And finally the brain gives up, it can't do it anymore. That's when we start seeing constipation and all the other things that come with it. So is there hope? Well, actually there is. If we can catch this early enough, mm-hmm, we have a real opportunity to help people, care for people as they, and help them manage the allow levels of dopamine in their system and manage their symptoms. Is there a cure? Not that we know of. Once there was a big stir for stem cells.

Yeah.

Well, I can't find any sources now they're even doing the research in that area, but with, with over a million people in America having this problem, it sounds like really rich territory for, for universities to do research in this area. But if we have more than a million people buying prescription medications, where's the incentive for those with money to do something different other than selling the prescription medication.

Well, because the pharmaceutical wants people to make them sicker and of course sell the medications and so forth. So any, any, any type of program that will go the other direction, they won't want it to, to sort of emerge to the surface.

That's exactly what we think is going on. So there's no real incentive of the people that have money, the, the research funds to do anything other than continue to sell the medications that are making them billions and billions of dollars.

Yeah.

You know, a couple years ago I was looking at the numbers and for, for the, for depression medication alone.

Yeah.

$26 billion in the United States alone.

Yeah.

And all that stuff does is it, and it only helps 7% of the people who have it, have depression. So 93% of those people are taking those, those medications and it doesn't help them at all.

So, so the people you are working with, uh, uh, are they like too far into this kind of conditions or is, are they at the beginning of it or, or how, how does it work? I mean, without disclosing the confidential, because that's, uh, right, right, right.

Oh, for one thing, my entire practice is now on the internet, so it's international, which really—

and I have your website here. I'm gonna share it with you guys. Is this one right?

Oh, that's perfect.

Yeah, check it out, guys, later on. Just check it out because I'm gonna be taking your questions for Dr. Stewart. After he finishes explaining this to you, but check it out later.

So what we're looking at is this Hintz Medical Food program, and it's called medical food because the Food and Drug Administration in the United States said, well, it all comes from beans and seeds, these targeted proteins. Yeah. And so we don't know what to call it. So they called it medical food. God bless them in their wisdom. So Medical Food, how long has it been around? Yeah, about 28 years. I joined them 24 years ago and have dealt with somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,900 people over the course of those years. Wow. Yeah. Typically, typically, not always. I mean, I've had some colossal failures. Yeah. But most, but practically everybody in the 95th percentile shows a very significant improvement. Yeah.

Now who is, who is the person that would be ideal for this, in your opinion?

Person absolutely ideal is they first, they're, they get their very first diagnosis with Parkinson's disease. That's before they put 'em on any prescription medication. They're showing mild symptoms.

Yeah.

Terrible symptoms.

Yeah.

Chances are In, in, by carefully adjusting the amount of serotonin and dopamine over the course of about 5 months, that's what it takes. Yeah. We're gonna control those symptoms at about the 90th to 95th percentile. People get their life back. That's what really motivates me to stay in this. Yeah. It's so satisfying to give people their life back. And they say, I'll give you an example. I was working with a woman who, she had really bad symptoms. She could hardly walk. And we, I worked with her till we got her regulated to perfection as best we could. Yeah. She went to a Parkinson's support group meeting.

Yeah.

At the door, the person said, well, who are you the caretaker for? Because she showed no symptoms.

Mm-hmm.

Then the people in the room were all shaking and doing all the things that Parkinson's people do. And she said, I'm the person with Parkinson's. They were stunned. But she showed, even to people who've been around a lot of Parkinson's people, she showed no symptoms. She got her life back.

Interesting.

And it's so satisfying to have a caretaker say, and I got my husband back. What she didn't say is he was a flat-faced vegetable with no sense of humor, no desire to talk, no desire to do anything. But I got him back. We all cried when, when we did that interview with them. Yeah. So the people who benefit most are the people we catch early on, about the time they've been on the carbidopa thing with Sinemet or some other prescription medication for, for 4 or 5 years.

Yeah.

The damage is so severe that we're gonna get diminished results. Whereas if we get them early on, we're gonna get stellar results most likely. So here's, here's the people it doesn't work for. If a person has dementia, they're pretty far down the, down the road of deterioration. They can't follow a program.

Okay.

Uh, the second thing is if they have some secondary condition like they have cancer or something else. They're, they're too complicated. And so any— we're going to really take a hard look at any other comorbid condition, see if we think we can work with them or not. So those are the— and a person after, after age 76, 77, chances are that this, this, the program is going to have minimal results.

Yeah.

So, but that leaves a whole lot of people. That leaves 100,000 new people every year that don't know this kind of program exists. No side effects. Yeah. Just direct good effects. Oh, great.

Well, because of the, the, the introduction of the medication into the system here, how it works and all that stuff. So let's take some questions, uh, uh, and we just go from there, uh, because I know you're busy and I'll let you go as soon as we answer a few questions here. Uh, let me see here first. Uh, oh, first I want to make a comment here about this particular one here. Medication bought from China? Not necessarily, uh, Dave H, uh, because I'm aware of where the medication comes from— India, Bangladesh. There are other regions where medications comes from. So not all of it generated from, uh, uh, China. So, uh, here's a question here from, uh, Truth Seeker: Is MS a curable disease?

No, sorry to say it, but I've been following multiple sclerosis for some time, and I have been absolutely unimpressed with the efforts that people have made to, to deal with multiple sclerosis.

Interesting.

What happened, I mean, I don't wanna go too technical with it, but what happens is the neurons are damaged at the sending part. 'Cause neurons send neurotransmitters from one to the other. With dopamine, we, we load this up so it receives messages. Mm-hmm. But multiple sclerosis, the sending part doesn't send enough And so there's terrible symptoms. You talk about somebody to degrade your life, multiple sclerosis is it. Okay. Sorry to say that.

There's another question from Army with Harmony. Uh, uh, should those who financially benefited from creating the pollution be financially responsible in the treatment of patients and training of more physicians?

My opinion is yes.

Yeah.

My also opinion is, is that going to happen? No. Yeah. The real, the real point is what quality of life do we wanna have while we're here? And pollution is not our friend. Yeah. It's, it's unpleasant, it's unhealthy. But even with that, if we have enough glutathione from eating all those, those quality vegetables, We're gonna manage it.

Yeah.

So that's, that as human beings, that's really the only choice we have. Broccoli, cauliflower, onions, steamed greens, garlic, load up on that stuff. So your body has a fighting chance to take care of the pollution and the free radicals it's gonna produce on its own. Yeah.

Another question from Hairless Apes. Good to see you as always. Does aluminum have anything to do with Parkinson's?

Is, is aluminum toxic to human beings? Yes, it is toxic to human beings. If we have adequate glutathione, it's gonna take care of it. Yeah. It's gonna be an aluminum's gonna be another contributor to the, to the brain damage, especially to the substantia nigra of the brain.

Mm-hmm.

So aluminum in, in terms of food containers is not our friend. So yeah, it's a contributor.

Okay. Uh, well, I'm gonna take 2 more questions here. I'll let you go, Dr. Stewart, cuz you're kind enough to allocate time for us here. I don't wanna abuse it. Here's a question from Thunderbolt. Uh, what do we get from vitamin B17?

I don't know. I know there's B1 through B47 and we need them all.

Mm-hmm.

But any specific ones other than B, B1 or B6 or B12, I don't really know.

Okay. Uh, another question from Truth Seeker. Does our genetic DNA determine what disease we are going to encounter?

Yes and no. What we find is getting— finding that, that things like Parkinson's runs in families, we haven't found a correlation with that. So we'll go, well, hold it, maybe it doesn't, maybe Parkinson's isn't a genetic disorder. Yeah, we don't have any evidence that it's a genetic disorder at this point.

Great.

But other, other diseases are, there are genetic components to it and make us vulnerable, but Parkinson's doesn't seem to be one of them. Great.

Well, uh, guys, if you ever wanna learn more, check out this website here later on. Just check it out because I gotta let Dr. Stewart go, uh, because he's busy, whatever he needs to do. Uh, is this the, the right website, right, Ross?

Yes, that's where to go.

Yeah, guys, check it out, and, uh, I'll be happy to answer whatever questions you have there. Well, once again— yeah, go ahead, go ahead.

Far out of our way to make that website user-friendly. Yeah, it's not loaded with so much science that you can't understand what it's talking about.

Yeah, I'll check it out. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate you coming here to answer some of questions for the community here, and look forward to having you again anytime. Take care, bye-bye. All right guys, hope you— I, I asked Ross, uh, back then, uh, even on Christmas Day, and I asked, I said, hey, do you have time, uh, to come over and share some info with, or answer some questions with community? Say, sure, I'd be happy. I said, well, there is one specific thing that I need, uh, uh, uh, people to learn about. It has to do with that. I need the community to understand and learn about has to do with Parkinson's disease. So anyway, I got one thing to share with you guys before I sign off here. And, uh, and again, I will decide whether to do the live stream for you, uh, on, uh, on Monday, tomorrow, or I don't know about Tuesday, but, but we'll see. Uh, let me, let me first of all share the, uh, uh, let me open up the, the link because this is a good one. I want you just to take a quick listen at it, uh, then we just go from there. All right, let me share screen and present. Share screen. Okay, this one here. I listened to it myself and I found it very, very useful. So I figured the community could benefit from something like this. So here it is. Take a listen, guys.

There are 9 secrets you should never share. 1. Your biggest weaknesses. Some will use them against you.

2.

Your long-term goals. Move in silence. Results speak louder than plans. 3. Your income. It invites jealousy and unnecessary comparisons. 4. Family issues. Keep personal problems within your circle of trust. 5. Acts of kindness. If you brag about them, they lose their meaning. 6. Your next move. Don't give others the chance to sabotage your plans. 7. 7. Relationship problems. Don't air dirty laundry. Protect what's sacred. 8. Past regrets. Learn from them, but don't let others define you by them. 9. Private struggles. Only share with those who've earned your trust. Speak less. Let actions define you. Some—

indeed, indeed, guys. And that reminds me of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius: watch what people do, not what they say. Yeah, it's in action. That's so— anyway, I just wanted to share this with you guys. I wish you a good rest of the day if it's daytime for you, but if it is the evening, wish you a good evening. And I look forward to seeing you next time. Be on the lookout for the video that I'm going to be releasing soon, and, uh, and I, I'll, I'll, I'll talk with you before. I'll put a message for you for New Year's Eve before. I don't celebrate New Year's Eve because I'm, I'm like, I had my share when I was in my 20s. Now just, it's a normal day for me. So, so if you are going to celebrate New Year's Eve, be safe, be careful, be aware of your surrounding and so forth. And I truly wish you a happy New Year, and let's, let's, let's work together towards 2025, makes it a different year or better than the one we already had. So as always, remember, geopolitics impact your daily life in more ways than one. Till next time, guys.

Bye-bye.