The Better Question: Is It Really a Parasite Problem?

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I would never invite you to my house to come stay for the weekend and ask you bring a sleeping bag and have you sleep in the foyer of my home. And that's the same with parasites. They're not sitting by the exit or entrance door. There are deeply embedded in tissues, organs, glands. Their hiding, their stealthy. Though trying to detect them just by looking at the stool, especially unprovoked without any sort of supplementation to rid of them, it's kind of like chasing your tail. Welcome to the resiliency method, the truth about healing.

I'm Dr. Erica and we are here to uncover the root causes keeping you stuck. Together we'll restore your energy, your focus and your resiliency so you can finally heal, regenerate and feel truly alive again. Parasites were found in the Siberian permafrost. Scientists warmed them up. They came back to life. Carbon testing confirmed they were over 40,000 years old. If parasites can survive that, then they can live inside of you. And they probably are. Welcome to the Resiliency Method, the Truth About Healing podcast.

I'm Dr. Erica. And today, Dr Drew Kidder is joining me for this important conversation. Now Dr Kidders is a chiropractic physician with over 20 years in clinical practice, extensive postgraduate training in functional medicine and clinical nutrition, and currently serves as the vice president of execution at Cellcore Bioscientists. He's one of the most respected names in foundational health. really, instead of asking, have I been exposed to parasites? Our really is, are you asking if my body has a resilience to keep that exposure from becoming a problem?

And today we're breaking down why stool tests miss most parasites, why killing without first opening drainage pathways makes things worse, and why the real question isn't how do we kill the parasite, but why was this body susceptible in the first place? Now, if you've ever thought parasites are only happening in developing countries, well, this episode is going to challenge that idea. And also, If you want to explore a parasite protocol approach, we have one called the Core Reset Protocol. It's available at www.DrEricaOnline.com.

and see the show notes for more details. Welcome back, everyone. Today, I'm excited to bring you Dr. Drew Kidder. He is a doctor of chiropractic and also works with Cellcore Biosciences. welcome to the Show, Dr Kidders. So excited. to have you here today. Thanks for having me, Doctor Erica. This is fantastic. Yeah, and today we want to delve into a really big topic and try to get this somewhat consolidated in the context of understanding some of the biggest

Why parasite exposure is common 3:04

challenges that a lot of people have with their health. And that is specifically around parasites. Now, Dr. Kidder, most people hear the word parasites and they really think that can't be me. That's like in third world countries. Um, that's not something that really should be a part of my health picture at all. I live in America, right? Why do you think one of the biggest misconceptions that people can have about their health? Oh my goodness. You know, first of all, I think you should have music when you say parasites.

It's like, don't don don, you know? Super intense because it's an intense topic, right? It is a topic that a lot of people don t like talking about, and your point like Unfortunately, I think we've unintentionally created this false belief that parasites are something that only affect people in developing countries, right? Third world countries. Those with poor hygiene and poor sanitation. And the reality is parasites, are part of the natural world, we share our environment with them every single day.

we look at exposures. I always used to kiddingly say, and within Cellcore we have kidding said over the years, you want the greatest parasite test? Put these two fingers on your pulse on the opposite wrist. And if you have a pulse, so you a parasite, right? And I say that kidding. It's not truthful, but the reality is we exposure to parasites all the time. And that exposure can come from contaminated food. It can from untreated water, right? Do you ever swim in any body of water that's not a chlorinated, brominated pool?

You know, do you swim rivers and lakes and ponds and all of that? So, you know water in our drinking water can also be, a source, undercooked meats. Mm-hmm. Hats, right? I have pets. We all love those of us that have cats. they go outside, they're in an environment that they may have exposure. They come right back in. We love on them. they walk on our carpets, They may jump on her furniture. we repeatedly tell them to get off the furniture, but they get back up. And so we're exposed through, you know, through our pets.

How about gardening and travel? Do you ever go to outside of the US? You know? How bout insect bites? We know there are certain, exposures via insect bite. Even handling the soil, getting our hands, our fingers, or feet in the soil, going out barefoot, the exposure isn't unusual. Really, I think, Dr. Erica, a better question is, have I ever been exposed? And I'm sorry, you know, it isn't, have I ever been exposed? It's more of the, does my body have the resilience? Do I have to ability to keep that exposure from becoming a problem?

Absolutely. So, we're exposed to bacteria and viruses every day. Why do we not always get sick? So we're opposed to parasites all the time, but doesn't mean we always gets sick. So yeah, that's a misconception that, you know, oh, That can't be me. I live in the United States. Yeah, absolutely. And you often say it's not just about the parasite. It's about The Host. Tell us more about what you mean by that. It's really, I would say, probably one of the most important concepts, most misunderstood concepts because functional medicine, integrative functional root cause foundational medicine asks a different question.

We ask instead of saying, how do we kill the parasite? We also say, why was that person susceptible to the parasite in the first place? Two people can have identical exposures. One gets sick, the other one never develops symptoms. Why is that? You know, because susceptibility matters, you know. We look at what's the status of our immune function. What is our, the health of or microbiome, right? That good balance between good bacteria, bad bacteria. You what about that microbiom diversity, having good overall flora.

Things like stomach acid, bile flow, our nutritional status. You know the impact with our involvement with the thymus gland and the status of the Thymis gland also creating such an immune suppression for the individual

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that these things are allowed to overtake too. Yeah and you know we always talk so heavily about mitochondria so what's the health of people's mitochondrion and Is it also exposure to other things that are causing that suppression of their immune function? What about general inflammatory status within the body? Heavy metal toxins, things like that. Heavy metals, mold and mycotoxins, environmental toxins. The glyphosate, the atrazine, all of those things. Our goal should really be to not just kill the parasites, but look at why we were susceptible to the parasite in the first place.

What is that immune status and how do we support the terrain so the body becomes much less, you know, of a welcoming environment, if you will. Let's just stay here for a second in terms of the context. We're talking about clinicians like you and I that acknowledge that parasites are a problem or some of these things that are disrupting the terrain are problem for people. And I always, I don't know about you, but I feel like those are the best doctors when it comes to recovering health because they have that in their purview.

and they're acknowledging some of these external factors like toxins, like you said, mycotoxins, mold, parasites, heavy metals, you know, some, of, these things that are in, we've all been exposed to some extent into some combination, usually a unique combination for the individual. But I think that that's really important to just stay there for a second and really highlight what we're talking about is a clinician that acknowledges these things and the presence of things over someone that might just be looking at labs to say, hey, you're B vitamin deficient.

Let's give you a B-vitamin. What would you say about that, Dr. Drew? Yeah, I that super, super important. we've gotten into this world of, again, however we want to coin it, integrative functional root cause, you know, foundational medicine, because we don't want that approach of the allopathic model, which is so commonly a pill for every ill, right? You have elevated cholesterol. Don't worry, there's a drug to lower it. You know low hormones. We can give you something, for that. we're not looking at the whole system.

We're now looking the fact that the human body is not designed to be these isolated systems. They work cohesively. So to your point, you know, it's Is someone more, again, susceptible to a parasitic infection because their general immune status is dysfunctional? Is it because they are exposed to other toxins and toxicants? Are there other metabolic issues that are going on? And oftentimes, a parasite infection may be that For some people, that last resort, oh, I've addressed all of these other things, but I haven't addressed parasites.

And guess what? That can be that switch for so many people that the patients will say, no one ever talked to me about that. Absolutely. It's huge, right? And a lot of times, too, some of the things if you're trying to do heavy metal cleanses, you are on the right track. You're going more to that root cause, the foundation. However, If they're still parasites, they can carry some of those things as well. And so you really, it's really hard to overcome. We see clinically that it is one of the first things we need to address for the majority of people.

Right. If not really a hundred percent of them really. And it's something that is a linchpin to allowing the body to really heal effectively. And that's what we're talking about. If you get to the root of these foundational things, you're unleashing that already innate intelligence in the Body, which is designed to heal, right? And, like you said, a pill for every ill, we can move that that viewpoint even over into the holistic natural medicine or functional medicine world and still stay at that.

You know symptom level you know that where we're dressing and we using supplements or herbs but we still at a medicinal level. with the body and we're treating some of the symptoms, maybe albeit without a drug or a surgery, great, that's a win. However, you're still staying at chasing every symptom that comes about rather than going deep enough into the foundation and really trying to address what's got this body disrupted at an organ tissue gland mitochondrial cellular level. For sure, yeah, I usually do expand that to go, we go from this allopathic model of a pill for every ill to a supplement for ever symptom.

Yes, right. But it's natural, but we're still chasing symptomatology instead of understanding why that symptom is present in the first place. And how, oh, don't worry, you're not sleeping well, will give you melatonin. Oh, Don't Worry, But It's Natural, it safe. You bring up a really, really good point when we look at how parasites can even harbor other infections, other toxins and toxicants. How often do people go, Oh, I went on this detox to address the fact that maybe through lab work or whatever, someone identified that there was some level of toxic burden.

So we're going to do a detox, but then. they ebb and flow they feel better for a while but they never fully resolve and is that because potentially you've eradicated a lot of that toxic burden

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in the body overall but if those parasites are harboring toxicants as well, you're never fully resolving. Because as those parasites go through their life cycle, they may be releasing more heavy metals. Well, let's talk about that, that you said the operational word there is life-cycle, right? And really gestational. And that's one of the challenges. You know, a molecule of mercury isn't necessarily going to reproduce, but a parasite can. Sure, sure. Yeah, lets talk that for a second. That's part of that equation.

Right. Well, it is because even that points even back to testing and how, you know, I've always had the motto. I loved testing, right? Test, don't guess. And I ran when I was in clinical practice, comprehensive tests on my patients, but When it comes to parasites, there are a lot of different types of tests that can be done, right? We look at the fact that we can do PCR testing, we could do O and P, OVA and parasite testing. That's more visual examination. We can look antigen testing all of those, but where are we looking at those in the life cycle of a parasite?

Right, right. And a lot of the parasite tests conventionally are stool tests too. So that's like, you're looking for the evidence, as I always say, at the front door or the back door, and ultimately, I would never invite you to my house to come stay for a weekend and ask you bring a sleeping bag and have you sleep in the foyer of my home. And that's the same with parasites, they're not sitting by the exit or entrance door. They're, you know, deeply embedded in tissues, organs, glands. Their hiding, their stealthy.

And so trying to detect them just by looking at the stool, especially unprovoked, without any sort of supplementation to rid of them, it's kind of like chasing your tail. Well, it is, because that's a great point. You look at what percentage of parasites are solely based within the digestive system versus those that are blood-borne, those who have migrated to the tissues, and we're never going to pick up on it. That's only one piece of the puzzle. I use mechanic issues. If you got an engine problem, does looking up the tailpipe fix?

Is it going to identify that engine problems? No, you're probably looking at the wrong route of that. You have to look at specificity of what you are using to test and sometimes multiple forms of testing may be necessary. Yeah, and what are your thoughts on PCR testing for parasites? Again, tool, right? I will say our testing modalities have improved significantly, but you're looking with that, you are looking at the genetic material, we learned a lot more about PCR testing over the past six years with some other thing out there.

So, good source, not the tell-all. So no different than antigen, antibody testing, serum testing. You know, all of that. So they're good tools, but guess what? It doesn't replace. It does not replace a good exam in history. What is the patient's symptomatic expression? They may present with all these symptoms that we say may be associated with parasites, But if you ruled out the other potential causes of some of those symptoms as well. What are some of those symptoms? Let's go into that next, Dr.

Drew. What would you say are the things that people should be looking at as potential signals? Oh, my goodness. It's everything, right? Parasites rarely announce themselves as a flashing sign of, you know, parasites are present. Instead, they kind of contribute to patterns within the body. You may see people with persistent bloating. Right. Not that occasional bloating that, oh, it may be something that I ate or I may being dealing with a little bit of a gastrointestinal bug, something like that.

And maybe bugs the wrong word, but, you know, gastric intestinal virus. alternating constipation and diarrhea without any type of dietary changes, unexplained fatigue, just randomly, oh my goodness, I'm really, really fatigued. I wake up and think I slept well, but I am dragging by nine or 10 o'clock in the morning. Iron deficiency can be a marker that is commonly seen with parasitic infections. Yeah, I've even seen high ferritin in the context of, and hemochromatosis patterns are a lot of times, oftentimes parasitic in nature, stored deeply in spleen and the liver.

Yeah, for sure. You know, you look at the other, other things when we talk about labs, we kind of typically will run, basophils, eosinophil, neutrovils. Elevated eosenophiles can be a sign of a parasitic infection. Skin issues, right? Skin Issues are always one of my least favorite, especially in more of the allopathic world because from a dermatology perspective, Skin issues, oh, just put something on the skin. It'll be fine, right? I'm a firm believer that, you know, skin issues are an external manifestation of an internal problem.

My job, baby. Yeah, sure. Gosh, every time I see somebody with cystic acne, I just want to walk up to them and give them my card because I know how troubling that is for people and just like so evident, really what that Yeah, I mean, the sleep disturbances, that itching, you can look at more so in children, right? But what's one of the hallmark signs of like pinworms, anal itch? Again, going back to a history, if all of a sudden you're seeing a patient that's presenting and they're expressing some of those symptoms, have you recently traveled?

And it's not always just traveling. internationally it can be traveling domestically that maybe your exposure was different right did you go on a lakefront uh you know vacation with your family that you were in a body of water that may have been exposed so yeah that none none of those symptoms prove parasites but when enough of the puzzle pieces kinda begin fitting together it you know they deserve consideration as part of. Are good comprehensive work up to go maybe it could be parasites. Yeah. And a lot of people are getting onto the ivermectin buzz and bandwagon and saying that, you know, ibermctin should be used for everything.

What are your thoughts on that? Especially in terms of, your representative of a supplement company that... And I'm kind of a believer of, well, every drug is really created from some kind an herbal blueprint anyways, just that it's been patented and changed into chemical form so that some people can make a real lot of money off of them, right? But ultimately, the body always recognizes and utilizes things of nature most effectively, which you guys have, I think,

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one of the best lines out there for dealing with parasite infections, among other things, mitochondrial function, things like that. But what are your thoughts, Dr. Drew, on that topic in particular? Because every time you turn around, if anybody knows anything about what happened six years ago, some of the clinical results, there was some indication that those things helped. And ivermectin is a anti-parasitic drug by nature. Are you tied to treatments, protocols, and gurus who promise results but don't deliver?

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And I don't agree with that, right? I think very often a lot of things can point to unresolved parasitic issues, but it's not as though that's the only cause. So to migrate to something, again, we're still looking at a more unnatural substance while effective it's just interesting to me that you know people even take a prophylactically going oh i'm just. It's good right now what would we say if someone said that they were just taking propholactic penicillin. We'd go, oh, that's good, because maybe you're keeping some of the harmful bacteria at bay, but in the meantime, what are you doing with your good healthy bacterial flora?

How much dysbiosis are creating? So while there are not a lot of studies showing negative impact of ivermectin, We don't know long-term, right? And certainly don' long term and it was never designed to be something that was taken on a consistent basis or people now that say, well, I just do, you know, that. Once a month or once a quarter, that type of thing. So again, has its utility highly, highly effective, but potentially at what other cost and are there more natural alternatives, as you said, using, you know, herbal extracts and everything that we know are very effectively anti-parasitic.

Yeah. And I think what we're also talking about is a drug that's formulated in one particular way. What we see from working with parasites often is each individual might be harboring them in different locations inside the body. So you want to be able to evaluate too for adequate drainage support of the parasite as you kill something off in the Drainage is essential so that you don't have symptoms of die-off. And I'm not convinced that the drugs themselves are actually specific enough to support the body in that way.

Whereas if you have some kind of herbal-based program that's actually accounting and bringing in herbs to help with drainage and opening pathways, that is probably your most beneficial route. in that process. But I think it's also interesting to note, Dr. Drew, and this kind of goes back to the frequency that we started with, you know, people that used ivermectin during that time period six years ago, they did see some resolution and recovery from a virus. And I think that's a really important distinction to make that I don't think a lot of people really point out, you know, is that it's not that ivermectin necessarily in my mind is an antiviral as much as it is a indication that so many of us are dealing with some level of immune suppression from parasite infections.

So as soon as that goes in, in some way, either herbal or drug, there is some recovery and some support for the immune system to take some of that burden down and now you can overcome that virus more easily. That's worth noting, right? I mean, because it does really speak to how potentially pervasive we're talking in terms of the population. Yeah. And you know, you touched on something really important that, making sure that we're up regulating drainage pathways, right? That are commonly overlooked.

We may look at the fact that want to just kill, kill kill the parasite, but it's not just a matter of killing the parasites because what happens if we do not support drainage, if were not opening up those pathways with first of all the bowels, making sure that people are having regular bowel function, that we have adequate kidney and liver function that, we proper lymphatic, you know, because as you said, parasites may be living in tissues. They may have been impacting us at the cellular level. And if we're impacting that cellular debris, if our lymphatics system, If the glymphatic system the brain is not able to move those toxins that are released by parasites and the byproducts through our elimination pathways, we're just going to continue to be sick.

We're going continue create a system, a pro-inflammatory system as well, because killing off parasites can add more inflammatory burden to our body as. Well, so going back to making sure that we prep the body to be able to properly eliminate. We oftentimes talk about you don't flush a clogged toilet, right? If there's waste there, you can't just continue to add to it without opening up the drains to allow the flow of that. Again, that's your lymphatics, your liver, or your kidneys, and your bowels.

Also making sure that we have the mitochondrial support at the cellular level, allowing those organ systems to do their job. Absolutely. You can't send out the army if you really don't have a lot of mitochondria energy. So to take on something like a chronic parasite exposure, you need to have some energy to do that. And just grabbing a product off the shelf and trying to willy-nilly it, and then trying do do it over and over again. Because it's worth mentioning that doing anti-parasitic cleanses over, those are really cold and a drug is especially cold.

Any time that there's a chronic cold situation, you can aggravate it more or chronic deficiency situation, I should say, you can aggravate the cold retention in the body by continuing to overdo parasite cleansing, killing, kill, and killing. So it's really important to note that too. That's part of the strategy you want, but then you eventually want to get the to where, like you said, we can recover organ, tissue, gland, recover mitochondria so we get body elevated so it is not a perfect place for these things to overcome.

Yeah, don't create that beautiful host environment because that's something that I always say too, is that we are amazing hosts. for parasites. They will do, back to your point about the fact that parasites can absorb other toxins and toxicants. Why do they do that? Is that ultimately a protective mechanism by the parasite? Because they know they're doing really well living off of you. So if they are absorbing that toxin so that you're not impacted negatively, that's a win for them. And we could go into the whole how parasites can create cysts, how they can be involved with, maybe not create biofilm, but they could be intimately involved

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in biofilms in our body as a protective mechanism. Some of the crazy, when you really look at, again, outside of bowels where everyone thinks that all parasites reside, you see the published documented cases of people who thought they had been diagnosed with a liver tumor. A brain tumor, and they actually have surgery to remove that tumor only to find that that was a cyst encapsulating parasites. And if people don't believe it, if I was screen sharing, I would show the cases of the brain tumors, the liver.

The breast cysts. Again, I don't want people to think that in any way I'm alluding to the fact because I think it can be a muddy topic that people go, oh, parasites cause cancer. No. Can they contribute to it because are they causing immune suppression like we've talked about? Yes. But it's more of the misdiagnosed tumors that people have that can actually be cystic forms of parasites. Let's talk about that for a second. What a cyst really is, you mentioned the word encapsulate, right? The body's designed to survive.

So it will do some pretty cool things to keep you alive. If it is something that is foreign, it doesn't like, It will put a wrapper around it. So that looks like tumor, cysts, nodule, lipoma, depending on the surrounding tissue and the location of where it's needed, right? It'll use the material resonant to that area to encapsulate. So it is a brilliant design, but the problem with those things is once you have a wrap around something, you also have lack of blood supply, healthy fresh red blood cells coming, bringing in white blood cell and macrophages to help deal with this situation and then over time.

your, you know, that lack of flow becomes an obstruction and becomes more serious. But absolutely. You mentioned the breast stuff. I mean, I also like to put in there too, like endometriosis. polycystic ovarian syndromes. Oftentimes, we're talking easily. I mentioned the hemacrobotosis patterns. There's so many things that we see pretty chronically in our society these days where there has, you know, where clinicians like you and I have identified that. as a part of the picture. Now, you did kind of allude to some of this, but love to hear some additional stories.

And I want to mention for listeners, too, in the show notes, we have access to a core set. We can give you access a Core Set Reset Protocol that we use as part, CellCore's program is inside of there, as well as some pictures of things that have been clinically. So if you're into the gore and you can stomach it, we will give you some access. Because the proof is there, and I think it's important to make this stuff real for people. So, if are somebody that's interested in that. But love to hear your stories, Drew, on what you've seen clinically, too.

Oh, I, you know, think even just not what we have all seen with patient, because it is crazy, once practitioners start addressing parasites on a more regular basis, this thing starts to blow up. Our phones blow-up with all the photos that patients are sending. That's why one of the reasons I love when practitioners do group programs around things like a parasite cleanse is they start sharing them internally as well. You know, I have put enough parasite talks together over the years, and I don't put the pictures in there for shock factor.

I put them in their just as recognition of this isn't just us as a group of woo-hoo's that go, oh, it's parasites. They're documented, right? And even as we said, you know the resilience of parasites I don't know if you saw, there was, I think it was almost 10 years ago now, they found parasites in permafrost in Siberia. Oh, interesting. They put those parasites into a Petri dish and allowed them to naturally warm up. they did some type of carbon testing on these parasites and determined that they were over 40,000 years old.

Now talk about resilience, that those parasites were able to live in incredibly harsh environment, just like in many ways areas of our body that can be very harsh environments that we would think that parasites could never survive. One, what does the body do to wall them off to protect it, encapsulate it create that matrix? But then can they also be very stealth and protect themselves? So I thought that was a crazy story. I've seen the story of, you know, young children who complain about digestive issues to then do some exploratory, I don't necessarily know, surgery, but identify masses of parasites within the digestive system.

We've seen the stories. There was even years back, it was on like the Today Show or one of the mainstream media outlets that was a woman that had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and again, come to find out when they remove that brain tumor, and as they typically do in pathology, opened it up and were like, oh my goodness, this was a mass of parasites. So they aren't, again, not to beat a dead horse, but they're not just in our digestive system like we think, ooh, tapeworm digestive, you know, roundworm, digestive systems.

They have the ability to move systemically. And they do. It's about survival. Good. And then also, I think it's worth mentioning too, because I get a lot of nervous system cases too. A lot times, this stuff is embedded deeply in the nervous tissue. You mentioned the brain, but also even along the entire nervous systems. So think the spine. Then that impacts through neural networks to the major organs and organ systems on the front side of the body, that impacts their ability to thrive and do well too, which then also creates an environment where these things can lay dormant.

So it's all connected and it is all up for grabs if you're dealing with and encountering these You probably are. Now, just to wrap up this conversation, Dr. Drew, what would you say is a better question that people could ask themselves about this particular topic to think more critically? You know, I think it's not just a question, but one thing to remember is we shouldn't address this topic, stop thinking about parasites from a place of fear. because it can be one of those things that people are incredibly fearful of the parasitic topic, right?

Practitioners are fearful in addressing it with their patients because they don't want it to be looked at as some hocus pocus, woo woo, parasites, but then patients clients can be very fearful of the the parasite topic so instead I encourage people to think about like the resilience right here's the reality parasites are real exposure is real but You know, it's so is the intelligence of the human body. Right. That's real. So our goal isn't to become obsessed with every organism that we encounter, that were exposed to.

Our goal should be building a body that is, you know resilient that has the ability to address, you know, these foreign invaders. So what is that? It's healthy digestion. It is healthy mitochondria. it's a strong immune function. All of the things, Erica, that we go, we can't underestimate the power of good sleep and balanced nutrition and movement and stress management. You mentioned the nervous system, right? Not only can parasites be infiltrated within the they can impact our nervous system. Absolutely.

So it was sometimes anxiety and depression and things like that. Can there be a parasitic contribution to that? So I always like to leave people encouraged and I think people should be encouraged that yes, address it. It's something that we should absolutely be aware of, be cognizant of but don't be fearful in addressing it I love that you bring that up for sure because

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you're right, it is one of those things can be overwhelming, but just find the right clinician to work with in that context and something that You can move through. It's an important feature of recognizing in your total health picture. and just find someone that can really help you get through that, get on with it. That's the other thing is I want to stress the importance of moving beyond some of these things to get deeper levels of healing in the body and that's where your power is at people. It's not in worrying about everything you're going to be exposed to or the things that you can't control that are coming at you.

Sometimes in a context of health, we get a little wrapped up in those things. And I love your point, Dr. Drew, in that it really starts here, but you have to start here. You can't just wait around for the shoe or the foot, the other shoe to drop, you know, when it comes to your health. Nobody today gets a free pass when they come to their help. I don't care who you are, I know how good your diet is, how much money you You know, if you aren't addressing the core thing that makes your life determine your quality of life, your health, you're not playing the game at all with all cylinders firing, so get into the driver's seat, right?

Get empowered and take control of the scenario with your help. Don't be a bystander and at the cause of others around you. Phrase I've always used is ignore your Health and it will go away. I love that. I mean, that's reality. And I also want to encourage people too, just the absence of symptomatic expression doesn't mean like we said from the beginning, doesn' mean that there isn't, we know there's always exposure. We talked about all the exposure sources. But I think it's also important for people to maybe consider doing a periodic parasite protocol because if we think about it, Dr.

Erica, We do it with our pets. other cultures do it regularly because of exposure. Again, yes, they may be dealing with, you know, environmental issues, sanitation, hygiene, everything else that may cause increased exposures, but we're not immune to that exposure, so do we want to be preventative? Or do you want wait until the problem manifests and then address it? And work with a clinician that can monitor you for exposure. I think that's an important feature of any sort of good maintenance program with your healthcare practitioner.

And that is the thing too, you don't want to be done with the healthcare practitioners. You want somebody in your pocket on your team, especially high performers know this. They know the importance of having a team of support around them. One of the things that they do is oftentimes have a clinicians like you or I on their bench to help them with their health and dealing with these things. cat find out who that individual is put them there and keep them. They're like this year point, it's not a one and done situation.

And I always tell people when they first come in, I mean, all read the like saddest, like, you know, a list of 25 to 30 symptoms that somebody is sitting in front of me having. After I read them, and by the way, You're the lucky one. Because to your point, Dr. Drew, is people that aren't having a lot of symptoms or feel like their symptoms are low enough that they can manage them day to day are not the lucky ones. Because a person with the symptoms is actually taking action on your health. And back to my earlier point.

Nobody gets a free pass. So if you're not taking actions because you feel you don't have a lotta symptoms, that you-don't-know-what-you-Don't know is your worst enemy. 100%. Yeah. Good. Well, awesome. Thank you so much for joining us today, Dr. Drew. Great conversation. Thanks for having me. We appreciate you being here with us.