How to Heal Eczema Naturally & Brainwash Your Man to Be Healthy | Dr. Ana-Maria Temple, MD

about exima drugs like dupexant?

- You trying to get my blood to boil. - Number one thing is that it's called the biologic. - When in fact, it is an massive immunosuppressant. - It knocks off a branch of the immune system from working.

“- What do you tell new moms who are wanting to do no vaccines?”

But then they're starting to get worried about RSV and so they're wondering, "Well, should I at least get the RSV vaccine?" - Okay, we're gonna say no to a vaccine. The RSV vaccine is a solid now.

Here's a fact that is gonna just upset everybody. 90% of children on the age of one get an antibiotic in their lifetime. And most often, it's your infections. - And the number one antibiotic for your infections is a moxisolant. - And what is a moxisolant guys?

Red 40. (gentle music) (upbeat music) - Have you been wondering, "How do I brain wash my husband?"

I mean, not just on any topic, but specifically on how to turn him into a mocha king. This episode is for you. It's also going to expose why Exima is not a skin problem. It is a warning sign.

And most parents are being told to silence it instead of heal it. My guest teaching us how to brain wash our husbands in a good way for the betterment of the health of them and our family. And also heal your child's exima as well as chronic ear infections. What they mean, how to heal them naturally.

What about peptides for children?

“Did you know that children can be taking peptides as well?”

Why sound machines are detrimental to your baby's well-being? The problem with most wet wipes on the market today and what to use instead and so much more by the way. You are going to love this episode. It's with Dr. Enemaria Temple,

a holistic pediatrician from Charlotte North Carolina. She's on the show. You are going to love her personality. She is so funny and easy to listen to. It's going to be your new favorite episode.

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for the show. Tell me the episode that you still can't stop thinking about. Please welcome Dr. Enemaria Temple to Culture Pop the Haryon. Our parents being misled by standard of care advice that's actually outdated.

I would say yes because there's so much data out there on exima, for example, on vitamin D and the relationship between vitamin D and exima and no doctors are talking about it. And when that's brought up by parents,

are there any labs that we can do for exima? The overarching answer from traditional physicians and Western medicine is no, and that's simply not true. I've never heard that. What's the connection between vitamin D and exima?

So vitamin D is an important nutrient that we have in our body. And our body actually uses sunlight to convert vitamin D from one form to another, which is a usable form for the body. And the body uses vitamin D to build strong bones, strong skin,

strong brain, many of the organ systems. And when the vitamin D levels are too low, the skin can become inflamed. Wait, so okay, does this impact other things besides exima

“as well as fluently your brain, your immune system?”

I mean during COVID, there was tons of studies on how do we prevent COVID? What vitamins can we take during COVID? Vitamin D came up over and over again as the powerhouse to prevent getting a viral infection.

We've shown that in influenza and RSV in the common cold and flu that vitamin D levels when they're adequate in the body helps the immune system prevent major infections. What are the biggest changes in pediatric medicine

that you've witnessed since you first became a doctor?

Oh gosh, well, you know, when I first became a doctor, that was like, "Uh-huh, it's in the house and in three." (laughing) We don't have to tell both of you. And then I had a massive life shift in 2016.

My family and I, we quit our jobs and we moved to New Zealand and we lived in New Zealand for a year and a half where I decided that I was going to practice medicine differently. I was like, "I'm no more. "We're going to do a different."

And they gave me one our patient appointments at Wellington Children's Hospital. We're in an hour appointment, I was able to really dig deep into the root cause of kids' illnesses and we were really getting to the matter at hand.

And so by the time that I came back into the US, I was doing it differently. So by then I came with a different, complete, different mindset and different shift in what I was doing. So yeah, medicine has changed significantly.

So you ended up kind of falling into this more holistic mindset by accident just because at the hospital, you were working at New Zealand. They did medicine differently.

Well, actually, I learned differently

“because my children were covered in eczema”

and they dealt with seasonal allergies and asthma and ADHD and chronic constipation and recurrent ear infections. And now it's 2007 and I was tired of the same answer which was more meds.

Like for my son who couldn't go out for an Easter egg hunt because his eyes would swell shut and his tears would stream down his face and his body was covered in hives and he would rip his skin off so we couldn't go outside.

When I took him to the doctor, the answer was, we've run out of medications. He was on five allergy medicines at that time and they said the only next option is allergy shots. But he was two years old.

- She's. - And for my daughter for her asthma, they're like, well, she can just continue her and help steroids because those are working for eczema, they're like, well, the topical steroids.

For her allergies, they're a resultekin for constipation. They were like, "Meralax, daily is working fine." And don't worry. She's gonna outgrow her chronic ear infections.

By the time we got to my kid with ADHD and chronic sinus infections, I stopped hand attention.

“That's when I became shifting my thought”

into what I'm gonna do. I just got to put it in practice in New Zealand about 19 years later into how I can do it differently for other families. - So what was the shift that you made

with your own kids and your family when they're dealing with all of these issues that you notice the biggest difference? - Well, you know, and probably a lot of people can relate to this is after I went to that doctor

visit with my three little ducklings on a doctor's table and I was like, why are my children all having so many chronic meds? What is happening? And the answer was, you know, more meds

and so I felt unheard. I felt dismissed. I felt like a crazy person. 'Cause there was no other answer. And I didn't know what the answer was.

I was five years into my medical practice at that time. I walked out of that doctor's office and I was speechless. I was like, this is how people walk in and they walk out with no answers

but the mama warrior took over. And she was like, oh no, oh no, no, no.

“This is not the rest of these children's story.”

I don't know how the story is gonna go but I know the ending and the ending is, we're gonna figure this out. These kids are not gonna need medicines and they one day are gonna be the examples

by which other families are gonna heal their children. So a week later with this new mindset, I went to my kids elementary school where the nutritionist was giving her talk and you know, I walked in and I was like,

I'm the pediatrician. And I know what she's gonna talk about, right? And it was there on a Tuesday morning, 730 in the morning freezing my butt off

in a first graders classroom that the fog lifted

and I realized the root cause of my children's chronic disease. All that the lady talked about was sugar. And I had no idea how much added sugar was in my children's breakfast, lunch and dinner. I was giving them strawberries at lunch

and I was giving broccoli a dinner. So I felt that was giving a whole rounded meals. I did not realize the impact of added sugar. And so that night I came home after my clinic in my stilettos and walked into the pantry

and I threw out the cinnamon toast crunch, the lucky charms, the popdarts, totester struittles, the chicken nuggets, chocolate milk, you name a garbage. We were eating it.

And that is when the big change happened. Unfortunately, I became an outcast in my own family 'cause my husband, who is in the hospital surgeon, and I fought over food over the next five years. - Whoa, hold on.

- Five years. Okay, wait, I need to know how this ends and then I want to get into it. So is he now, has he come around? - He's a convert, he's now in a puzzle.

- Oh, cause it, cause it, complete brainwashing. - Okay, so this is honestly, I feel like I could do a whole episode with you on this because so many of the women in my audience are struggling with this.

They have seen the light, they're all in tomorrow. They are wanting to change the grocery list, they're wanting to spend more on grocery so they're spending less of the doctor's offices and their husbands are like,

"What the heck are you doing? "I hate this, I'm not on board." And so, what did you do to get him on board? - Most of the people are like, "Oh, my kids are picky, "I'm like, I bet your husband's pickier

"and more annoying. "I will tell everyone this to make everyone, "because, you know, when they see me coming "and if they see my social, like, "oh my god, "she's just eating like this."

And everyone eats like this and it's amazing, I'm like,

"yeah, that's because I didn't have Instagram in 2007. "For you guys to see at the dinner table "and I'm not making this up, "I would make this meal and there would be a box of cheeses "on the ground next to my husband

"who's six foot five, he's a big dude. "And he would lean over and grab crackers "and then eat them in between his bites of food." - And then the kid to be like, "Well, we want crackers and he's like,

"but no one can see me, I'm like, "They're not blind." - Yeah. - We could all see you, that you're eating crackers, that you're holding next to your chair under the table. This is what I had to work with.

And he was like, I have, I can eat whatever I want to,

I work hard for the money.

“I can eat whatever that, and then it was like,”

"Why is our grocery bill going high?" So, but here's my approach. I knew that going hardcore was not gonna end well

because he always, let me taste something

among orthopedic surgeon, man. There's a lot of ego at play. And he's right all the time in his mind, right? So I was like, well, if I come in hot, it's not gonna go.

So I, you know, I was like, Jedi mind tricks, and I'm a patient, perseverant woman. I will sit and wait, and I know I will outlast everyone's willpower.

And so I was like, okay, you know what? I'm gonna go with the kids and the kids where like, "Hey guys, we're gonna have smoothies." And our smoothies are going to be ice cream, literally vanilla ice cream, strawberries,

and milk, and who wants a ice cream strawberry for breakfast? And they were like, well, that's amazing, mom's lost her mind, I'm like perfect. But what happened is I got them to buy into the smoothie.

For the husband, I was like, we're gonna do smoothies and I want the Vitamix, by the way, we fought over the Vitamix. He's like, it's just a blender, I'm like, stir. (laughs)

It's not just a blender, anyway.

Finally convinced him to get the blender.

That was like year one of change. Get the Vitamix from Costco. And so I'm making smoothies, and then the kids are eating, drinking the smoothies, and then over time, I started like,

removing the ice cream and replacing it with yogurt, and then I started replacing it with Greek yogurt, instead of the vanilla yogurt and all the added sugar, maybe a little raw honey, that's unfiltered. Maybe some dates, and then the milk became oat milk,

and then it was like mangoes, and then it was vegetables, and the smoothie took this shape. And over time, my husband started going like, okay, well, that's not so bad. But I didn't ask him to have a smoothie,

I didn't give him a smoothie, the kids, and I were eating a smoothie, and he's like, maybe won't kill me to have a smoothie. So then he's drinking a smoothie, and he was still eating the cereal as a kid started,

not eating cereal because I was making the smoothies more protein rich and more nutritionously dense, so then that, and I bad and say, don't eat lucky charms. - Yep. - That was just for the interest story.

I said, we'll just eat the smoothie, and when you don't know the smoothie, you can eat the lucky charms, but I knew they would become filled on nutritionally dense food,

and they're gonna not wanna eat that, so it was not a no-culture. I was like, sure, but first to this. This is genius. - Right, and it was just a small thing,

and then I was like, a start of replacing the crackers. Hey, guys, instead of cheese,

“that's how about I was a back-to-nature at that time.”

These are real ingredients. We're just if you can't eat it, don't eat it. We're gonna work on these ingredients for my patients, guys. I need you to taste these crackers. Over time, we had all these crackers,

so my husband would be like, oh, let me try that cracker, you know, let's see how bad that cracker is. And then the kids and I would watch it documentary, it was food ink.

- Oh my gosh, so funny, you bring this up. This was the documentary that Radicalize me. - Really? - Yes. - Food ink is right?

- Yeah. I mean, I just was like, hey, guys. - Hey, I fed up, food ink and that was our next one. - Mm-hmm. - This is why we're like, yeah.

- Yeah, I know. - And so we did food ink again. It was just the kids and I, he was not invited to the show. But then he comes lurking. He's like, what are you guys watching?

- It's always the dad.

The dad is always like, what is this crap you're watching?

- Yeah. - And they'll sit there and they're like, but they're watching it. They're judging it, but they won't leave. - Correct, correct.

- This is documentary, so it's very, it's a lot of learning. And John is all about facts and learning. And he's like, very cerebral. He's like, I wonder what this is. But, you know, well, broaching away with like a skeptical eye.

And then he was like, oh, grass fed. Okay. And so all of a sudden he starts thinking, just a little tiny different. Maybe we have a little less fight over the meat

that I'm purchasing. And then we do fed up. And the kids have a, they were like, a paul guy. We can't believe you let us eat that much added sugar.

“Like, what kind of mother left their kids eat this sugar?”

- I was like, I'll take it. That's fine, that's fine. And so because they're talking now, he's thinking. But it wasn't like he changed. But I'll tell you the change that happened.

It was five years into this whole thing. He got so sick. So sick, we were going to France. And he is coughing, he's a disaster. He's coughing a blood.

I'm putting his pants on. He's a six foot five manned animation. It's really hard to put pants on this giant man. And I was like, we're going to urgent care 'cause tomorrow we're going to Paris.

So you either stay home and I'm no joke. I'm like, we're not gonna, oh, we're almost there. Oh, sorry dude. - Yeah, you're safe. - We're home.

- Yeah. And so we take into urgent care that he has double pneumonia. His action levels down. He puts on antibiotics. Yep, he comes to France.

He's a little, I think, I'm just died on the plane there 'cause he felt so sick. But he's like, well, I'm gone, I'm like, okay. No mercy, we walk nine miles. I'm like, that's your problem dude.

And he came back and he's like, okay. Why is no one else sick? Why am I the only one that sick? - Wow, yes. - And I was just like, I had no idea.

- I don't know. - It's weird. So I didn't go into a lecture. So there's whole journey. There was no lecturing.

There was like, you should do this.

- You gotta live by example. I just shut it. I talked to the kids. They're my little apostles. They're my little learners.

“They don't have a choice on this, right?”

- Yep. - I'm changing their diet. We're doing our thing. You do your thing guy. - You're good, but he started changing.

Officer and he's reading men's health and like sending me photos of what they recommend for breakfast, which is tons of vegetables and good protein. Then he listens to, in defense of food by Michael Poland because he loves audiobooks.

Then he gets onto a podcast that's a dude talking about dude things, about nutrition. And all the sudden he's like, "Hey, did you know "that cereal was not the same." - So he comes a human bro?

- Yeah, yeah. - Totally. Totally.

- He goes always like, "Do you know what?

"I'll call was bad for you. "I'm like, "Really?" - Wow. - No, I had no idea. - So he was kind of like,

and when I talked to my mom, I'm like, "Do not lecture, do not talk at them, "do not try to convince them of anything. "He has to become their idea."

“He's like, "Guys, in my big fat Greek wedding."”

Literally, that's the mom's quote. She's like, "We have to make sure it becomes his idea "and then he's on board." - Yes, true, or words were never spoken. And so it was just, I kind of dropped things.

Like, you watch documentaries with your kids. You listen to a podcast in the card with the kids. You talk to your kids. You just do not involve, you don't, you know, with teenagers, I always go,

I'm like, you act like teenagers or ferrocats. You don't go at a teenager. You don't go try to hug them. You don't go like, "Would you do a school "with going on, how things going?"

'Cause they hate that. You act a loof. And then they come see you. They're like, "Wait, do you want to know about my school day?" Oh, that's so interesting.

Tell me more. - You're that fine. - It's the same thing with the husbands. Just leave Malone. And you do you work out, you do your water,

you do your skin. My husband was made fun of me and my skin for the longest time. Guess who was putting products. And he's like, "Wait, what are you doing?"

So should I, right now, you think red nails? I'm like, "Oh, this is great."

So this is an amazing success story.

I love that you said, "Don't become a culture of no."

“- Yes, that's really important, I think.”

- Yes, because otherwise, it becomes so negative and it becomes contentious. And it becomes you versus the children or you versus the husband. So another example when we went to change the diet

to snacks, and I'm all about small changes. You cannot change everything in one day. It's not sustainable, you lose your mind, everyone's upset. But when we did in the snack phase, I was like, "Sure, you guys can eat your cheetos and Doritos,

but before you do that, you have to eat a fruit or vegetable." And they're like, "Ah, that's fine, you don't need to. Then you're not hungry, you don't need anything." 'Cause no one needs snacks, only Americans need snacks. Turns out the rest of the world doesn't need snacks.

I don't know what's with us, but apparently we're all gonna die. If we don't have snacks. And so the kids were like, "Fight, I'll eat it at all." A little bit at all. And then they would eat their cheetos and cheetos

and whatever. And then over time, then I started changing out those snacks and got rid of food coloring, whatever. But it was very gradual and very slow. And so then when they would come home from school,

the record's so hungry and if I was home from work, I would have a shark could re-platter ready to go on the counter. Because it doesn't matter what you tell me, picky your children are, how much they complain. When foods is cut up for them, right in front of them,

with a nice presentation, they will eat it so good. But if it's not there and they have to open the silver box, known as the refrigerator, they can't. They become blind, they don't see it. You know, you could have the strawberries cut up in the fridge

and they will mold. They cannot see it, this is blinding object.

I'm always like, "This is phenomenal."

And that happens with children, especially with teenagers. And kids are gonna go to the pantry 'cause it's easier to grab a snack. That's already in a package. But if they're intercepted by delicious food sitting

on the counter when they walk in, they'll eat it. 90% of the time. - It has been, too. I think the husbands will eat it, 'cause you know what, what do it's like,

things that are easy and are ready made for them. - I have not had anybody break down how to brainwash your husband so well on this show. - On my next part. (laughing)

- I'm making a shirt. - Everybody's talking about peptides for adults. Are you on peptides? - I'm on peptides, actually. - Okay, so I haven't started this yet.

I really want to. What are you taking and why? - Okay, so I tried the injectable ones and my body was said, "No thanks." - Okay.

All these bruises and like fat thickening. And I'm a thin person and it was, I mean, I look like a disaster. I look like I was shooting myself up with like all kinds of weird needles.

So my body was like, "No thanks." So I do capsules and I do BC 157 and TA1 and I do them for hand arthritis. I'm 52 years old and arthritis is runs in my family, despite all the anti-inflammatory things

that I do in my life. They're still a component to inflammation. So I've been using peptides and you know what? I've used those two for a couple of months.

for like a month or two because I'm like, "Ah, by the time I ordered them, do they do anything?" And my hand pain came back. - Okay, I need to get this for my mom

“'cause she's struggling with arthritis pains”

right now with her hand. - Yeah, so I restarted them. - Arthritis pain gone. - Interesting. - Yeah, but again, right, you can be just one thing.

It's a combination of things. We got to do the anti-inflammatory diet. We got to watch her stress. We got to sleep. We got to deal with our stress

with all the different things. And then you add peptides to the whole thing. - So people are raving about peptides for adults, but you are the first person I've ever seen talking about peptides for your kids.

What peptides should we be giving our kids? What do they do? What are they for? How do you do it? - I'll tell you, peptides is like,

when you're in the AP course. Peptides are for the folks that already have done the foundation.

- Yes, because the problem is,

they have been listening to culture about the hearing for a while. - They are good. They implemented nutrition. - They're my star students.

- The star students who've done the nutrition. The kids are outside. Their screen times are limited. The kids are sleeping. They're pooping every day.

They're exercising. They're moving. I just, I cannot reiterate enough

“because we're a culture that has supplement foam.”

And so I will sit and talk about nutrition if you were like, so what? - You know, I'll talk about sardines. - Yeah, sardines omega-3s. And vitamin D and people are like cool.

- So what supplement should I take? - I'm like sardines people that are like, right, that's gross. What supplement should I take? Because when it comes to peptides,

the peptides are not going to work. If the foundation is weak or broken. So for my kids with eggsama, I will do the BCP 157 and KVP. And it's a fabulous combination.

I only use one place where I will get the powders or the capsules. It's integrative peptides that I've talked to three different peptide gurus. Like the gurus, this is what they do.

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And then the thymogen 1, TA1. That's for global inflammation for kids as well. - So when you say a powder, is it like a flavored thing you put in water? - Yes.

So it's got like the BCP 157 and KPV. It's got acromencia, it's got inulin. It's got a couple of different things that work on the gut microbiome and on the amino acids that we need to decrease inflammation.

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“What's your parents' know about doing parasite testing on kids?”

Yeah, so when it comes to parasites, that is also the rave. That is the rave. Everyone is like a Lewis dog parasites and I'm like, are we eating process foods?

'Cause if we're eating process foods, we are not a parasites. Again, this is where extra credit we've done all the things. If we go back into evolution and how we used to live, we used to live on farms.

On farms, you live with the animals and the poop and the cow poop of the dogs and the sheep and you play in the dirt and you kind of wash your hands but kind of in a really wash hands and then you eat.

So we're filled with parasites when we live on a farm. And you have parasites in your bacteria and your fungi. The human body is made to work in harmony with all of these things.

It's in our modern world where things are off balance.

We can never give it of all the parasites.

We can never give it of all the bacteria or all the candida. If anybody goes, and then we're gonna get rid of everything. That's not true. All you're trying to do is decrease the bad guys.

So the good guys are, there's more good guys and less bad guys. But parasites are not all bad. In some things, so I treat autism.

“I treat alopecia totalis which is when the kids lose”

all their hair, I treat pandas. And we will use parasites for that. It's the egg of the rat tape worm. It's called helmetic therapy. And where we have the children in just parasites.

Oh really, yep. And so because parasites and bad bacteria will be in quotes on a podcast. You know, I'm doing quotes guys. Bad bacteria and candida.

And also the reason they're in our microbiome is in order to exercise and work the good guys. The good guys need to be stimulated. So they're on cars.

We're not falling asleep. They're not bored.

They're like always protecting us.

But they need the bad players in order to stay vigilant and protect and create antibodies and know what's up. And so not all parasites are bad. So some people are, you know, 'cause they're like, and then I did this cleanse

and look was in the toilet. Sometimes what they see in the toilet is actually the lining of the intestine. Because the lining of the intestine is a long, slimy group.

And that looks like a worm. So we want that. We don't want to remove the lining of our intestine. I'm seeing some people are doing such aggressive things to their kids' bodies that in the thing they're successful

but they're just stripping the lining of the intestine. Well, how do you know if it's really a parasite or if it's intestinal lining? Exactly, most parasites move. So are you against doing parasite cleansers?

No, I am pro doing all the basics. And we're not getting where we need to. The body is not able to rebalance itself when we do the basics, such as an, you know, X-Mail, whatever chronic illness we're dealing with.

Nutrition is gonna be micronutrient replication. We start talking about vitamin D, but there's zinc. There's omega-3s. We gotta do the gut microbiome. Are we on digestive enzymes if we need to?

Are we doing some herbal supplementation? Are we using the proper probiotics for whatever the issue is? And now we do only stress or pooping every day. Are we exercising?

“Are we outside doing all the things we talked about?”

That, normally, fixes the body. You don't need to go to the peptides. You don't need to go to the parasites. If that doesn't fix the body, okay, now we might need a little extra help.

And then we do specific parasite cleansers. And there's gotta be specific symptoms to it. It's not like, well, they're just not talking. Okay, that's not, that doesn't give me an idea of this as a parasite or not.

I'll give you an example, one of my patients, we're doing great. Everything was coming great. Neurological inflammation during the day, her behavior, she was stormed.

Air doctor, she's ripping curtains off the wall when she's going into an episode. All that has amazing. This is a child with autism. Child with pandas.

Neurological inflammation. Okay. And that child's doing great. Night time, we just can't get hold on the symptoms. And at night time, she wakes up and has fits

where she has to be taken on a car. She's four on a car ride to fall asleep by the way, she loses her mind. That gives me the impression, oh my gosh, after everything we've done, everything is gone better.

We just can't fix that. That sounds like parasites. And so we're working on that. And we started parasite cleanse, a kid lost her mind.

Unfortunately, it sounds bad, but it's good. That means we are where we need to be. When we have, that we've basically triggered the body because we are now killing the parasites. So now we have to, I'm creating now a protocol

to do that a little gentler. Okay. Kirk's I'm a reaction, when you actually give a supplement or a medication to treat something and the opposite happen.

So for example, I will treat kids with egzema, with flukanasol, and the egzema gets worse. And the parents are like, oh my God. I'm like, no, that's good. We're killing the yeast.

When the yeast dies off, it irritates the skin more. We are where we need to be. Now we just gotta be prudent about all the other things we do to support the system. So we kill the yeast without triggering too many flers.

the parasite cleanse, what did you tell the parents? Well, we stopped and we're gonna go on a low histamine diet. 'Cause again, it's a long story and how, you know, but the child reacts to histamine. So we're gonna go on a low histamine diet.

“Which low histamine diet, what does that look like?”

That is a very restrictive diet.

And I always tell people,

I'm like, before you do any restrictive diets, please work with a functional nutritionist. When people do restrictive diets on their own, most of the time they end up with orthorexia, which is fear food.

And the children end up eating such few foods that is actually becoming, you're doing the opposite. You can't heal when you're eating like three foods. Yeah, so low histamine diet is gonna be, you know, a few think of a shark who to reward.

Everything on a shark who to reward is high histamines. Col cuts, smoke cheeses, nuts, red wine. Okay, I hope the children are not drinking red wine. But the highest histamine food on earth is red wine. For all my adults who drink red wine and turn red,

I have so many adults who drink wine and they're like, I get blotchy. It's like, 'cause you're having a histamine reaction. - Whoa. - To the red wine, that's not a good sign.

And so those things left over, so high histamine foods, spinach, strawberries, avocados bananas. So whenever we want to remove a food out of a diet,

we always have to have a replacement.

So my family's, my patients, my clients, when they're like, I think that spinach is causing an issue.

“I'm like, cool, what are you gonna replace it with?”

You can be just, I'm not gonna give them spinach. The right answer in that case would be kale, kale is a low histamine food. So, but you have to be cognizant when you remove dairy, what are you replacing it with? When you remove gluten, because that has fiber,

that has a lot of good nutrients. What are you replacing it with? You can't be like, I'm just not gonna eat dairy. I'm not eating gluten, I'm not eating eggs. I'm not eating nuts, I'm not eating soy.

I'm not eating corn. Then we're gonna need four foods. - That's, yeah. - And it's usually processed foods. - Yep, that are horrible.

- For an adult who's struggling with pandas, what are like the first three things you would tell them to do? Number one, it's gonna be stress. I tell you, if it's pandas, if we're dealing with exima in adults,

name a condition, a cancer. Number one, two and three, stress, stress, stress. In the American culture, stress is the most underrecognized toxin. The number one skip chapter in my exima program, this stress and anxiety chapter.

We've had to rename it overwhelm, because everyone's like, we're not stressed. I'm like, wait, your children are scratching themselves to bloody messes at night, and you're not stressed. Get out of here.

- Yeah. - Folks with pandas, the people are screaming, they're losing their mind, they're having these horrible texts. You're not stressed, get out of here.

So stress, number one, two and three for my adults. Number two, not gonna be anyone's fan. Alcohol, gotta go. Like zero alcohol. View dealing with pandas, alcohol cannot be in your life.

And number three, process foods. I was saying nutrition, 'cause we got to do process foods, lower sugar, and eat whole foods. But that's a big one. - Yeah. - Number three.

- Are we breaking a child's immune system every time we pop a fever? So, right, doctors and nurses, we have created a fever phobia. And because every time there's a child has a fever

and if you call your doctor's office, the first thing they'll tell you, give them Tylenol motron. - Yep. - If you take them to the ER,

the first thing they give you, Tylenol motron. And we have become, just not educated, or I don't even know the right word about the human body, right? The human body creates fever because it's under attack.

And when we have fever, the body mounts an immune response. It's more efficient, more effective when we're doing fever. An example I like to use is, okay, let's say your child is exposed to influenza. Here comes flu.

The flu virus cannot live on its own. It has to live in the human body. And it uses the human body to replicate itself. It uses us as a photocopy machine. So the flu virus and its 50 friends come into your child's body

and you start to use the body as a photocopy machine to make more copies of itself so it could live. The human body doesn't like that. So it says, what's up? Hold on, we're on our invasion.

Let's raise the thermosat. When it raises the thermosat, the child gets shivering and starts shaking, they can turn pale. Their hands and feet are a little blueish. They're like, I'm just so cold, I'm so cold.

That's the body trying to make the muscles move really fast to raise the temperature. The body raises temperature 103. The parent panics 103. Oh my gosh, this is horrible.

But the body is like, no, 103. I'm turning the photocopy machine off. Now the flu virus cannot replicate itself anymore. And now I'm making a ton of antibodies. And now the 50 guys that came into invade

maybe it's 200 now. But now at 103, the body's made a million antibodies. And now it's kicking the flu virus's booty. So when you've got a new mom that I know you get these,

and they're new baby, they've never had a kid before,

“has a high fever, and they're calling you Dr. Tepel?”

Yeah. There's a fever. I mean, what is the number you're like, okay, that's worth calling your doctor.

Like, what's the number? 105. Okay.

“I don't want to give a number, but no one,”

they're like, I didn't need a number.

I'm like, fine, 105. Okay. 105, you're like, okay, let's do a fever reducer. Not because of brain damage, not because of organ damage, because the parents can't deal anymore.

If your kids had 105, what would you do? They did, and I didn't do anything. So I just comforted them. I took one of my kids, and he was laying on me. He was a hot potato, and I took them to the doctor's office.

Just to make sure, I don't treat my own kids. And just to make sure there's nothing else going on. Hey, listen, I'm cool. Just look at him, make sure I'm with an objective eye, because I tend to be like that, fine.

Make sure nothing's going on. They wouldn't let me leave the office until I gave him Tylenol. Oh, stop it, I got bullied at my own private practice office to give my child Tylenol. I was a key spine.

He's so febrily, he's hot, I'm like, of course he's hot, because his immune system is kicking booty right now. Anyway, but I want to go back to the example with a flu virus, because what happens when we give kids Tylenol and Motron or any fever reducer, whatever, homey-op things you want to do,

when you lower the temperature, the body's immune system slows down, the photocopy machine gets turned back on, the flu virus is like sweet as and is like replicating itself. Now you have a million flu particles. The, you only made a thousand antibodies.

Now you're child this sick for two weeks and now you're annoyed, because you have, if you let the fever do its thing, the kids are going to be sick or for less time. What are your opinions as a pediatrician on the changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule?

Fun fact, I've already made most of the changes eight years ago. So I am on board one of the first thing that the CDC changes were that the hepatitis B vaccination at birth should be a discussion rather than an automatic thing.

And forever, never, I was like listen,

this hepatitis B vaccine was started in the 1996. When we had a massive epidemic of hepatitis B and hepatitis B leads to liver cancer. So in my book, it's one of the first vaccines for anti-cancer. And we had, and we couldn't get it on a control.

There's so many people infected with their chronic hepatitis B carriers. You can never get rid of it. La, la, la, la, la, they gave it to the babies. Newborns because that's able to decrease the rates. Cool. Also, in the 80s, the rates of getting hepatitis B

from a blood transfusion was like one and three. One and three, if you had a blood transfusion. Now it's one in 65,000. Wow. Huge changes. Now we're screening moms for hepatitis B when they come in,

when they're pregnant or when they're coming to the hospital. So we know the moms hepatitis B status generally speaking. And I was like, I don't, I don't understand if the mom has antibodies. If the rates of blood transfusion, because that was the thing. If your child needs a heart something or a blood transfusion in the

neonatal intensive care unit or car accident, you don't want to be in that spot where you can get hepatitis B from a transfusion. Cool. Got it. Now we don't have that anymore. Right? That is like so incredibly rare. And I was like, I don't understand why we have not changed those recommendations.

Now, if you come into the newborn or sweet and you have not had prenatal care, we don't know your hepatitis B status. That's a different story. And that should be a protovary differently than a mom who said prenatal care. We know hepatitis B status. That's a different conversation. And we're not having different conversations. We're just doing one size fits all.

So I really excited that the CDC has brought up to that to the attention where we're having conversations that we need to question this and really have a more individualized approach rather than a one size fits all.

“What do you tell new moms who are wanting to do no vaccines?”

But then they're starting to get worried about RSV. And so they're wondering, "Well, should I at least get the RSV vaccine?" Okay. If we're going to say no to a vaccine, the RSV vaccine is a solid no. Why? It is fast-tracked. I call it's a no-fee. Like, when I saw a come on the market, I called them.

And I said, "Hey, so I see that this vaccine is fast-tracked."

And that never sits well with me. You don't fast-track a vaccine.

And then I said, "Well, so how many times have we given this vaccine with other vaccines?" The answer was, "It's not a vaccine, it's a monoclonal antibody." And I'm like, "Okay. Let me say that one more time." How many times have we given it with other vaccines? And they only a few times that they actually studied it with other vaccines,

even though it's recommended to be given with other vaccines. I'm like, "Okay, that's no." And they show that there are side effects when you give it with other vaccines. The kids get sicker more often when you combine the vaccines than when you give it alone. I was like, "Well, can I have the raw data?"

Oh, they're like, "Oh, absolutely." That was two years ago. You still haven't gotten it? They're never going to send you the raw data. So that is a no. That is a no.

“What if that's the only vaccine you get on the whole childhood schedule?”

How do you feel about it? No, it's not needed. Okay. It's not needed, vaccine? I'm all pro-listen. I am pro-listened as a vaccine.

I don't want to have a child that has a chronic hepatitis B carrier,

we're probably going to have the hepatitis B carriers come around the block again. But the RSV vaccine, and by the way, I'm speaking as a mom who my second born, was hospitalized with influenza in 2006 on Christmas Day, with RSV New Year's Day home oxygen from RSV. So I'm not taking it lightly. I'm not saying RSV is nothing.

But even knowing what I know now with what I had gone through, I still wouldn't have given RSV vaccine to my third born. If your child gets RSV, you know, the worst is that what you're on, you're in the hospital for a couple days. It's a respiratory stuff and you're an oxygen.

The treatment for RSV is a lot of time and oxygen.

“Okay. And then the worst thing that could happen if the,”

if you have a vaccine injury from RSV is what? I've not administered the RSV vaccine. So I don't know because I don't refuse to carry it in my clinic. So it's just, I mean, I don't know. I can look like a lot of different things.

It could look like a lot of things. It could look like neurological issues. It could look, certainly it could look like autism. It could look like horrible reflux. It could look like recurrent headaches, like recurrent rashes.

It could look like exima, many different things. It's just, I don't have, you know, when you look at a lot of the research, I've been practicing medicine for 30 years and I'm very big into my clinical observations. Because I'm like, you can take data and you can flip data and you can statistically change data to make it do whatever you want it to do.

My clinic, what I see in my clinical practice is like right in front of me. You know, and so that, but when it comes to the RSV vaccine, because I've not given it now, the synergists, which is the RSV vaccine that was long ago in babies and the NICU, who are born very early with major heart issues, major long issues. I'm not, that's not what I'm talking about.

We are talking about the RSV vaccine in a healthy, formal told, who has no chronic issues. That's what we're talking about. What if a baby was born prematurely?

“The very premature babies that are very fragile, and that's a conversation that you need to have”

with your doctor on it. What are the other things that are happening with the baby? What is their neurological status? It's not as simple as like, okay, well, they're preemie, so we're going to do the RSV vaccine. I'm very big into, I need to talk to each one of my families.

What are their expectations? What are their fears? What are their out-expected outcomes? And what are their risk benefit? Everything has a risk benefit.

Tyler knows risk benefit. RSV vaccine has a risk benefit. It needs to be discussed, not a blanket statement. Why should parents not be afraid of measles? The number one side effect of measles, just like any other virus, ear infections.

Second side effect of measles, like any viral infection, pneumonia. Third dehydration. What we hear in the news is brain inflammation. Yes, that can happen, absolutely, but that's very rare. Death, that can happen, very rare.

“Also, you know what's giving your kids brain inflammation?”

Cheetos, soda, but they're never talking about any of that in the news.

No, we're not, you know, what else? People die more, a children die most of, car accidents. How about drowning is in our backyard pool? We don't have to make the news. They're just not making the news, you know, because people are so afraid of measles.

I did a little number research, because whenever we get paranoid about an illness, I'm always like, but we get the numbers, like, let's get numbers. Instead of fear, let's look at the numbers. I'm my miss quote by a couple of, you know, digits. So they're with me, but in 2025, there are 2,256 cases of measles in the United States,

about 285 hospitalizations out of those. The majority was for pneumonia respiratory stuff. The second was dehydration, and the third was isolation or quarantine. Three people died out of that in 2025. Out of all those, two kids, one, six, one, eight, and one adult.

And I don't have information on, because I always want to know what were their conditions,

what were there's nutrition, like what, I need more details than it's just like we're all going to die. So those are the numbers that we're dealing with. And when the media is coming in, they're coming in hot, scaring everybody. I'm like, right, and so now we're having a conversation. Now we're having an actual conversation.

Are you okay with measles? Or you okay with a vaccine? And as a parent, neither answer is wrong. I am tired of people shaming other parents who are, I have parents who cannot walk out of their house.

They're not going to go on a plane because they're so terrified of measles. That's unbelievable. You're crippling your kid in other ways when you're doing that. Correct. But I need people out of the house.

I need people traveling. I need people to live in the world. And I'm like, and also if we look at the side effect, the measles vaccine, when it's given on its own without other vaccines in a child who doesn't have any chronic issues, side effects are very minimal.

When we look at people that are having side effects to vaccine, because I go a lot of the conferences with a lot of people that are vaccine endured.

I'm always asking, tell me more about that story.

Not because I want to not believe them because I want to learn as a doctor.

How many vaccines were they given at that time? What were the symptoms beforehand? Do they have any other symptoms with any other vaccines? How were they before that? Because a lot of people would just say, they were verbal.

They were talking. They had the MMR vaccines. They're not talking. And that's very bad. I'm not saying no. But most of the time, I was saying 90% of the time,

that MMR was given with other vaccines. That child had other reactions to vaccines previous to that. The body was already suggesting that there's a situation on their hand. There were other developmental things, or there are other recurrent infections.

Maybe the child was always irritable.

They were all, maybe they had symptoms of pandas, maybe they had eczema. And no one paid attention to it. It's not a big deal. You can just give vaccines. What were the other circumstances?

“So, you know, that's why I paid attention to what else is happening to the child before”

doing a vaccine. And what is our expectation of this? How many childhood illnesses are really just nutrient deficiencies? The majority of them are nutritional deficiencies. We are overfed in undernourished in the United States.

Our children are chubby and they're malnourished. They're fat and they're actually starving. Exactly. They're immune system is starving. They're skin is starving.

Their brains are starving. And the chronic issue in like 15 years ago, the rates of chronic disease were 1 in 20. As of last year, they're 1 in 2 according to the CDC. That's 50 percent. And a lot of parents are like, oh, no, we're not dealing with chronic disease.

I'm like, um, okay. If your child has, because you know, they're these things like major things like we don't have cancer. Or we don't have, like, if your child has eczema, seasonal allergies, food allergies, ADHD, anxiety. Your child is a chronic disease.

If you are using an over-the-counter medications on a daily basis on your child, they have a chronic disease. Yeah. The abnormal has become normal. And while like, you know, it's just normal for a kids to have eczema.

“It's just normal for a kids to have seasonal allergies.”

It's kind of like adults. You know, I'm 45. So of course I have blood pressure issue. I mean, it's not normal to have blood pressure issues. It's 45.

You know, I have cholesterol issues. Christian, I'm 50. It is not normal to have cholesterol issues. It's coming in America. Yes, but it's not normal.

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And we love that. What is the blind spot that conventional pediatricians have on the zinc? The blind spot on a lot of the micronutrients

is that we were never taught that in school.

“It was not until I started digging like, what else could there be?”

And I was like, hold on. I was in New Zealand. And I was waiting for my visa so I could start working. And I was starting to study functional medicine. And I realized that I was searching things

with the, I was giving the wrong, I was asking the wrong questions. I would go, what are the common things about eczema? But, and it's like genetics, your dog, the environment. And I was like, okay, I'm not asking the right questions. I was like, okay, is there a link between vitamin D,

deficiency, and eczema? Boom, the PubMed search just like blew up on stuff. Is there a relation between constipation and eczema? Boom, PubMed blows up. It's how we asked the question.

So all of a sudden, I was like, well, then let me keep asking questions. And I went vitamin D, then I went zinc, then I went iron B12. You know, vitamin C, magnesium. I was like, all these nutrients that I'm hearing about all the time that we should have enough in our food.

But we don't because our processed food is garbage. It's embarrassment that we even call it food. And so because we have these deficiencies, but because we weren't taught, and when the kids get referred to a dermatologist, and the specialist says there's no labs,

the pediatrician then says, ah, there's no labs. If the specialist says there's no labs. Obviously they would know, oh, they went to Hopkins, or they went to Mayo Clinic, or they studied at Boston Children's. They say there are no labs.

Therefore, me, the pediatrician, is going to say there's no labs. That was what the blind site is. And it's not until I've started digging and going, wait a minute, look at the data, look at the data of the kids that are deficient, and look at the data when you replenish and what happens with the children's

score, I'd score at is a number system that we use globally to give a number to the symptoms that children have. The higher the score, the more severe asthma, the lower the score at the less severe at the asthma. So if your child has a zinc deficiency,

how could that maybe be showing up in their health? Like what symptoms? For a lot of kids, it shows up in the little white lines on their nails. Oh, yeah. And that would be adults too, right?

And that's adults too. So white lines on the nails, indicates a zinc deficiency. Brittle nails, brittle hair, exima, and or skin, like an inflamed skin, would be my top things for zinc. What is causing chronic ear infections in your child?

And how can you treat it naturally? Here's a fact that is going to just upset everybody. 90% of children under the age of one get a nanobitic in their lifetime. 90% and most often, it's your infections. And the number one antibiotic for ear infections is a moxisilin.

And what is a moxisilin guys? Red 14. Oh my God. I know. I know.

I told I was going to upset everybody. So wait a minute. So when we're getting all of these food deaths out of the food supply, whatever's not going to apply to medicine? Not necessarily.

Okay, that is a huge issue for parents that they need to be aware of. I know. So yes, so the pink, when your medicine is colored pink,

“that you have to give to a four month old,”

you're just giving red dye to a four month old. Not okay, what do parents do? Request for your antibiotic to be compounded. They can compound a moxisilin. No, it's not going to be covered by insurance,

but you can get a compounded without food dies. And how much is that cost? Like if you had to guess 25 bucks. So it's not like crazy. No, it's not like 500 bucks.

Yeah, yeah. What is the way to treat it naturally? Then if you've got a little newborn baby with an ear infection.

So first, we have a nanamine.

So babies are small. And there's a tube from our inner ear that goes to our nose, called the use station tube. And in babies, it's very small compared to adults. It's also flat as compared to adults.

As our head grows, that tube starts pointing downwards. So now you have gravity and they open up. So now it pulls down.

And anatomically, babies have smaller faces. Smaller airway. One little bugger gets them all congested versus us adults. We have like more room in our face. Smoking is a huge issue. Passifiers are a major

issues to ear infection. I know, what are you talking about? Passifiers. And as people are like, oh, but I'm using like a silicone. It doesn't matter if it's a silicone.

It is the pacifiers change the way the baby breathes and the way the baby, like anatomy and the way the pressure in the use station tubes. So chronic pacifier use is a risk factor for recurring ear infections. Oh my gosh.

Daycare tendons, it is. Mama's got to do with Mama's got to do. I'm just saying I'm just putting a fact out there. That daycare just because they get a lot of recurrent infections.

“Like, okay, okay, but also dairy, what process foods?”

So now the Mama's are gonna go, but I'm nursing my baby. So they're not eating process foods. You're right, the Mama who is nursing the baby cannot eat the process foods. The Mama's got to eat whole foods. Added sugar.

So in Mama's who are nursing their babies and they're recurring your infection. The Mama has to have zero grams of added sugar. And I know that includes honey and maple syrup. I'm sorry to be the bear.

I'm just a messenger. Fruts do not count because that's all. Everyone goes after the fruits, I'm like, no, people. I know they're freaking out about their Starbucks or their dunk in. Yeah.

Yeah, like me in one Starbucks is 26 grams of added sugar. So that is going to go through the breast milk to the baby boom, recurring ear infections. Dairy is next. Dairy is just an inflammatory, even.

Yes, Mama's that are drinking dairy or doing creamers. Even if it's raw, even if it's organic, even if you know the cow personally.

And you've petted it in the dairy, the dairy protein is what the problem is.

That can affect and cause recur issues with the immune system. And the problem about dairy is because people get been doubtta shaped, especially my Mama's that are like, but it's cheap. And I know the goat and whatever. I'm like, okay, cool, the promise we have so much dairy in our diet.

If you write, I don't eat that much dairy. I'm like, really, okay, great. So at the next family function, be dairy free. Tell me how many foods you can eat. Mm-hmm.

And everybody's like, oh, my own that's right. Can't have cookies, can have an appetizer. You can have the main can of the mashed potatoes.

“You can't have the turkey because it's buttered up, right?”

Like, when you start the really looking how much dairy we eat, you know how people are not intolerant to Brussels sprouts. Yeah, because we don't eat Brussels sprouts morning, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack. No, but we eat a cheese stick, creamer, butter, ice cream, yogurt, delicious. So dairy is a huge, and by the way, grandma's across the world,

they're like, we know it. We've said this forever when a kid has congestion, just remove the dairy because it makes the snack thicker, and it impedes the immune system from working properly. Mm-hmm.

So those would be my top things. Can mold in your environment also cause chronic ear infections in your child? Oh my gosh, yeah, let's open up that can of worms. Yeah, okay, of course. Yeah, absolutely.

And people think that they don't have mold. I mean, that's just, they're like, well, when was your house build? They're like 1935. I'm like, okay, until it's tested for mold, you have mold, right? My office is built in new builds.

Well, that was my next one. My parents are like, yeah, but my house is only four years old.

It's a million dollar home.

“I'm like, get, fun fact, mold doesn't care about your income.”

And how much is spend on your house? Moll likes your humidity, and as the mold experts like to say, in the past, our houses were very drafty and leaky, and we were like, my, and now our homes are built so well, except now we trap mold.

Now they become mold boxes. Because when they're drafty, the mold goes in and out. Like leaves, when it's built so great that there's no drafts, the mold stays. And so I have parents who are like, we don't have mold,

then I may come test, I test the child, the child has high mold levels. They test the home and they're like, oh, mg. When they connected the HBC unit, they connected a wrong. So their humidity and/or humidity was 70%. For four years, guess what, they have mold.

You have mold and bad hair. Yes, especially in the south, like, southeast. Yeah, so we have, so that, then we have, I had a mom,

they were like, in the multi-million dollar home, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, there's mold that your child did not have Xima until 18 months old when you moved into this house. Yeah. And they opened the wall and it was black mold in the child's bedroom wall. Oh, my God.

Not anywhere else, an oftentimes, I have kids with asthma. I like hospitalized every month for asthma in the ICU and I'm like, mold and they're like, no, I'm like, yes, they look and mold and often it's in the vent and in the vent that is blowing on the child's bed. This has happened numerous times in my clinic.

And once we get that, the symptoms significantly improve. We got to do some other stuff, too. But yes, so you're to answer your question. Yes, mold again, very hidden.

Well, and I understand why you really want to be denial about mold.

“Because if that is true, you have to move or you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars,”

you know, sometimes fixing damage. Also, getting rid of everything that has open pores or whatever in your home, which is like the majority of your things, right? So that's why I have people working with mold specialists.

Yeah, we're never going to get rid of mold 100%.

We're always going to be, we're going to have some mold. It's a matter of decreasing the mold significantly that your immune system takes over. So a lot of times, so I don't, I mean, depends on about it, as obviously. But you don't necessarily need to move out of every home. You don't have to throw everything that has to be pretty bad.

Right. But it is very daunting, and it is very expensive, for sure.

“So with chronic ear infections, how are you, how are you healing naturally?”

Okay. So first, if you're 80% of children's ear infection, 80% do not need antibiotics. It's a really great fact to keep in mind. If your child has 104 fever, they're puking, they won't keep anything down at them in the ear infection. They're going to need treatment. They're super sick. But if your child is 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 102, there may be a little fussy, but not too bad.

We can wait or my favorite. They don't even have fever. You don't even know they have an ear infection. You just go for a checkup and there is an ear infection. We do not need to treat that.

First thing is, if they're in pain, there are several things for pain, warm packs,

garlic, oil, ear drops. There's ear massages. It's called craniosacrotherapy. You can do look, check it out on YouTube. Super simple. You pull down on the ear lobe down, like, about 30 seconds. You push the middle, bumpy thing. It's called the triggers. And like, where you, you would pierce it. You push that for about 30 seconds. And you lift the ear, like, uh, by where you'd pierce the cartilage. And at the top of the ear, you pull that for about

30 seconds. You do that. I usually do it on both ears. The kids love it. I have, like, rim, bunches, toddlers who just hate me because they're toddlers. And I'll put them in my lap, and I'll do these maneuvers. And they're like, "Puddy." They're like, "Oh, we love Dr. Tampo, I'm running out. You love me now." But now when I check your heart, but anyway, so there's like craniosacrotherapy. You can YouTube it and that helps de-clock the

use station tubes. You can use ibuprofen. And I'll use ibuprofen because three nights of ibuprofen is way better than than 10 days of antibiotics. Yeah. Over six months of age, I prefer ibuprofen to acetaminophenortylinol because Tylenol has been associated with eczema, and other chronic conditions when he's used regularly or even just a few times. And then I actually use, uh, affron, which is or sinex, which is an affron nose spray. And I have

people that are like, it's so upset that I say that. And I'm like, but that opens up the nose and they'll use station tubes and gets everything cleared up. And again, three nights of affron outperforms, 10 days of antibiotics. A chiropractor, too, can do it in love with ibuprofen, chiropractor, ozone. There's like ozone syringes that they can put in in the ear. I'm not, I don't have ozone in my clinic, but I have a nurse practitioner that has been that phenomena

with ozone. So I refer to her because she will do ozone therapy for ear infections. My assistant Adolin, she had a really bad ear infection. I said, go to my chiropractor. And she went and he did a little adjustment to open up her tubes and her, she was, like, better than next day. Yeah, totally. She had been battling it for many days. And I said, go to the chiropractor right now. Oh yeah. So I made her go. Yeah. I refused to do antibiotics. I'm going to

have a horrible sinus infection. I did chiropractor. I did acupuncture, craniosacroseropy. My husband was like, it's enough. Just take the antibiotics. I'm like under no circumstances. And yeah, my body. Okay. My body did it. I just needed a couple rounds of all that stuff. If you do have to give your child

“antibiotics. What is the best protocol to heal their gut after antibiotics happen to good people?”

And we're not like last year. Literally, I think everyone had walking pneumonia. I'm not even kidding. I think everyone had walking pneumonia. The amount of antibiotics I prescribed last year for walking pneumonia because all my holistic natural remedies we were getting nowhere. So sometimes antibiotics happen to good people. And we, by the way, antibiotics have saved many lives. So we don't want knock on those. When you're taking antibiotic, if you can get a diet number one, die free if possible.

We already discussed that a moxicillin has red diet. Just ask your pharmacist if your antibiotic has artificial food diets. One, two, you can do pectin recipe. No, not a supplement. This is where

people come in with a supplement. Pectin recipe is basically apples in a little bit of cord

apples, peel them, core them, put them in a little bit of water with some raisins, a little bit of cinnamon. You boil simmer them for about 20 minutes. You make apples sauce. You take that with your antibiotic. The pectin protects your gut from antibiotic damage. And it's called pectin. It's a pectin

And it's no sugar added. So that helps protect. I use often say doing a probiotic.

“That you take. So let's a lot of times antibiotics are two times a day. So take your antibiotics”

in the morning and a night to a probiotic in the middle of of taking the antibiotics. Okay. I'll often say depending how long the antibiotics adding a probiotic and also maybe sackbeat. That's another type of probiotic that prevents yeast from coming because a lot of times after having antibiotics, the yeast, the candida, likes to rare it's ugly head. As a pediatrician, what is wrong with the majority of baby wipes on the market? So many chemicals. And it's

to me chemicals on the diapers, so many chemicals on the wipes. And I mean, we're using it on the most sensitive area. And you know, people often don't realize that the skin is a living, breathing organism is our largest organ. And whatever we put on the skin gets absorbed, whatever we put on the vagina gets absorbed, whatever we put on the penis, those are like really delicate areas. So we want to use stuff that is just water and you know, maybe grapefruit seed

“extract. You're recommending parents by dry baby wipes in ad water. You could do that or there's”

water, they're literally water wipes. Oh, okay. There's water with grapefruit seed extract. Okay. It's a fantastic. Should we be saying no to steroid creams for Agsyma? So I use steroid creams as part of a treatment plan. And here's why, because obviously we got, oh, you're natural doctor. Here's, I'm a holistic doctor. Holistic is very different than natural. Holistic means I'm looking at the skin, the person wearing that skin, the people surrounding the person with the skin,

their culture, their environment, all the things, looking at everything that we need to do for the

skin. Steroids have a role in a place. But here's how they, we do that. The problem is we have

used an acute care medication. You have poison ivy, right? poison ivy puts steroids on it. And the poison ivy goes away because it's from a plant that is a skin issue. Exhumates an internal issue. Comes from the gut. It comes from deep within, but it shows up on the skin. When the skin is open to nature and it's raw and it's bleeding and it's cracked. Well, that increases the risk of food allergies and risk of environmental allergies. So if natural approaches don't help close the skin,

sometimes I always use steroids in the form of doctor errands and a very specific protocol to close the skin so I get the immune system away from the skin and to the center. Because if you're child is a raw wound, their antibodies are at the, they're in the periphery. The antibodies are over here. On the outskirts waiting for the pollen, the dog hair, the peanut, the egg, because

they're always under attack. So when we close the skin, the immune system comes down and now we

can heal from within. Now the immune system's like, okay, you were saying because otherwise it's too distracted. So Exuma is an internal, internal gut issue. Yes. It is not something that your child is using on their skin as causing it. Correct. Okay. I mean, can you use an alcohol sanitizer and cause inflammation of the skin and then you stop and your skin is better? Yes,

“that's what we're talking about. We're talking about the people that are doing all the things.”

They've tried a thousand loathings. That's what I'm saying. Unlike listen, if you've spent between two and four thousand dollars on loathings, you have chronic exima and is the issue's not a loathing deficiency. It's from within. If your medicine cabinet looks like Sephora, you have chronic exima and you need to heal from within. In your practice, what are you finding is typically the root cause of severe exima? I usually refer to our bodies as a cup of inflammation.

We're giant cup. And in that cup, when you get in like the cup gets full, that's when we see exima. We'll start with genetics, genetics, load the gun, the environment pulls the trigger. So we may be given those genetics, but it doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to get exima. It's not like a hundred percent of the time that you get those genes that they're going to turn into exima. So we have genetics mold we are ready, touched upon. Then we talked about nutrition,

food, additives, preservatives, food coloring, processed foods, added sugar, dairy, gluten. Sometimes we have food allergies. Stress, environmental toxins, dust mites. Dust mites are one of the highest

environmental pollutants. And 60 to 80 percent of people suffering from exima have a dust mite

allergy that we need to discuss and we need to remediate. How do you remediate that? On Amazon, the allergies is my favorite company that is a pillow cover and a mattress cover. It can be one that's just elastic. It has to be a full zippy thing. It's got to zip the whole way around because dust mites live in our mattresses in our pillow cases. That's disgusting. And guess what does my seat? Skin? Yep. And what happens when you have exima? You shouldn't skin all day. And so the dust mites are

like yay Thanksgiving. Peace! And you can get rid of them. So you've got to incase the pillow cases and the mattresses in that will reduce the amount of dust mites. If the kids have lovies,

If you have wall-to-wall carpet, consider doing hardwood floors with a throw rug or vacuum on a regular

“basis, including under the bed dust mites and the walls. And the walls, rate if you can wipe”

them down, but if you can vacuum under the bed, because a lot of people vacuum around the bed, because, you know, yeah. But I want to talk about series one more thing. The misconception is that series are the answer to eczema. Steroids help us in the immediate time to help decrease the inflammation so we could retrain the immune system and then we're done. Series are not a long-term solution. It is a no-cute care medication. I just wanted to say that because I don't know. I don't

want to be well. Oh, now we're going to use that. No, no, that is a time in a place and then we're done with it. When you've got somebody that has a chronic case of eczema in your office,

how are you working backwards to find the root cause? Like, what are the first foods you're

telling them to eliminate from their child's diet? Yes. And it's like that. So we start with,

“you know, a lot of people try a bunch of different things, but they go in different ways.”

I call it eczema-wackable. And they're going to do, like, remove dairy for two weeks. And then they're like, "Ah, that didn't work." So then now we're off to a lotion that we heard in a podcast. And then that didn't work. So then we're off to zinc. We heard about zinc. Zinc, she said zinc, so they'll do zinc, but they're skin got worse. So they'll stop that. So we go eczema-wackable. Okay. So the way things work for the body in order to heal, we got to start from the top with nutrition to your point.

And we can't start and stop. We got to keep going. So removing processed foods, get rid of artificial food, dyes, preservatives. If you can't rate it, don't eat it. Then we're going to do added sugar. Less than two years old, zero grams of added sugar. Over two years old, you have a sugar budget. 24 grams of added sugar. So it's not like no, you can ever put cookie. You just can't have six cookies or cookies in gatorade and a birthday cake.

“You have to delegate, designate your sugar budget. Dairy has to be replaced, not removed, gluten,”

replace, not removed. Then blood work. What are micronutrients? Vitamin D is in RBC. A CBC. What is our iron levels? What is our total IDE numbers? What is our B12? What is vitamin A? What is vitamin E? So we got to look at our micronutrients. We do lab work for most other illnesses. We need to also do them for our skin. So we got to look at the micronutrients because I do use vitamin D Omega-3s zinc, et cetera, in my protocol. A micronutrient that is not talked about as

called L histidine. L histidine is an amino acid that the body, which is a skin moisturizing factor. The filagrin is a protein that lives in our skin, filagrin uses L histidine to make skin moisturizing factor to make moisture as a skin. So we can actually, because our skin is able to moisturize itself from within. So L histidine is a fabulous one. There are a lot of people overlook. We have to be on probiotics. We got to work on gut healing. Digest events. If we have dyspiosis, which means too many

bad guys, great food seed extract, over earthy urbals that are going to balance our inner gut bacteria and yeast, we need a topical protocol. Yes, no Xmas, not a lotion deficiency, but we have a microbiome on our skin. What are we doing for the microbiome on our skin? 90% of people with Xma are over colonized by staff warriors. Staff warriors is annoying. It like vomits this enzyme on the skin, which breaks the skin and opens up the skin. So we want to get rid of that guy.

A great thing to use is hypoclorous acid. I use active skin repair, but there's many formulations. You are on the best show for that. I talk to reach about active skin repair. I'm like, you could literally come up with almost anything on my active skin repair for that. It is like a miracle product. It is. Yeah. Okay. Back to my big fry Greek wedding because we're going to

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“What is the disturbing warning that parents are not being given about Exima drugs, like dupexant?”

Okay, you're trying to get my blood-pretty boil. All right, so dupex, number one thing is that it's called the biologic, and it's not called an immunosuppressant. When in fact, it is an massive immunosuppressant. It knocks off a branch of the immune system from working. And if you listen to the 10,000 warning signs on your TV when they talk about dupexant parasites and viral illnesses are a side effect because you cannot defend your body from those things when you're on dupexant.

Oh, my God. Exactly. And the studies on dupexant were 109 children in one study and maybe another 90 in another study. We're talking less than 200 children studied on dupexant. The longest study on children for dupexant was one year, 54 weeks. But we put children on dupexant for years to come. And we tell parents it's no big deal. And they're always saying, yes, it just upsets me because the parents are here, we only have data for a year long term. So we only know that it's safe for you.

“We don't know if you're going to get transcutaneous lymphoma, which by the way, that's what's”

happening in adults, that there's a significant rise in transcutaneous T cell lymphoma in adults, which is not a genetic cancer. That's a cancer that adults on dupexant are getting. And they're like, it's blown off like it's not a big deal. It is used. And again, if you

for the immune system with a goal to get off dupexant? Well, yeah, it sounds like a terrible drug to

be on. Right. Big farm is going to come for her heads. That's fine. Correct. Why are those parents on it? Because it's just severe asthma? Was when you go to the dermatologist? I mean, I literally had a dermatologist. These are parents that are going to the dermatologist. They're not going to a pediatrician for asthma because they say skin. They think skin. I have to go to a dermatologist. Correct. But even when they go to a pediatrician, the pediatrician is like, I don't

understand why you're not on dupexant. And the parents are like, is there anything else? They're like, no. Because this big farm a drug has been put out there as like the savior and the doctors have no further thought process than dupexant. Okay. I send a patient to an integrated dermatologist in my town. And we have worked for four years and we've come such a long way. But we still work to do. And the parents are like, we would like to see an integrated dermatologist in the town.

For a second opinion, wonderful. Yes, let's go. They went. They walked in the first thing they said,

why is in your child on dupexant? Are you kidding me? They're like, why? I would never let my child

walk out of the house with his face looking like this. Oh, my God. I'm first of all rude. I made the

“referral. Yeah. So you're like a dupe ahead. That's I'm a pediatrician. That's how you call that”

office and rale them. No, I will tell you that there's no further referrals happening. I was like, what did you say to my family? So the parents, so when they go to the dorms, generally speaking, not all dorms, but majority or allergies, they're just looked, they're just made feel like insignificant, crazy parents, inadequate parents, bad parents, because they're not giving their child a massive enemy or suppressant and that they're asking other questions,

could it be mold? Could it be parasites? Could it be pesticides being sprayed on the lawn?

Could it be all the stuff sprayed on our food in our lawn? Could it be my house? Could it be the

water? Could it be the food that I'm giving my children? Could it be all the stuff that is in my child's school environment? And it's like, no, that's not been shown. When infected has been shown to be a root cause of X amount. What are sleep machines doing to baby's brains? Oh, they're good ones. It's like you're in my head. Well, that's my job. I gotta get a guess. Okay, so they drive me nuts and I'll tell you why we are raising very delicate humans

with raising very fragile humans and before we get into the neurological things with sound machines, we are raising humans that are just, they can't sleep unless we have black out curtains, a sound machine. It's gotta be flu-free this and flu-free that in my own home. We used to send our kids to war. I was like, what is happening? I was like, when my daughter, like, I remember what she would fall asleep on my time to vacuum and then again, everyone talk loud. I was like,

what? And because when you don't realize it, whenever you go anywhere, they can't sleep without a sound machine and the black out curtains and whatever, or the snoozing, oh my god, don't get me started on the snoozing. It's this, this thing that vibrates the kids. So they sleep. So now you're shaking the dude out of these kids when they sleep and then they're like, have sleep issues and then they have neurological issues later on. I can go on anyway. My point to the set is we're on the

sound machines. Okay, so when sound machines can have a beneficial effect when they're used at low decibels and not next to the kids head. Because what parents will do is they put the sound

“machine. It's really loud. I have to look back how many decibels it's that you have to be”

under, but there's a specific number of decibels to be under and three feet away from the kid. Because they usually put them on a car seat, like on the kids face and they're like, why do you mean that you have literal car noise? Like you have road noise that's soothing like airplane. You know what I mean? Right, but because it's like, okay, when we need to make sure that they sleep, I'm like, okay, well, sometimes they don't sleep. So what I'm just a warning,

I do this show before I have kids. Yeah, yeah. It's a warning, warning out there, warning, warning. I'm seeing a lot of fragile kids. My goal when I raise my children is to raise resilient children. And when people are like, you don't know we talk about it. Like, I don't know my kids are 24, 22 and 19 and they're kicking, but I, you know, aside from being in practice for 30 years, I'm like, I raise resilient humans. And I've seen how that works. And I see it in my practice and I'm like,

we're just enabling too many things in our children. And they're just fragile. So we need more noise during naps, not less. We need more noise. We need to talk. They need to nap. They need to be

“in the middle of where you have to put them in a bedroom for them to sleep great. But then you talk”

and you carry on with your day. They're taking the nap. They can be in a quiet silent. If you have dogs, let the dogs bark like that's when the kids sleep. And then they'll sleep anywhere. And then it's fantastic. When I travel with my kids when they were little, they slept anywhere through

car seat on the pack and play. That's annoying enough. I'll talk about all the other stuff that

“parents carry now. What is it telling you if your baby is constantly spitting up? Could the baby”

be eating too much too fast? So when a baby is nervous, if of the mama has a lot of breast milk and has a strong let down reflex, the baby just goes from like a fire hose. And so, and there's stomach, it's like a little tiny ball. And they get like two ounces, like in three seconds. So then they're like spitters because they got so much breast milk and one time. Then I have the pigly wigglies that just gorged themselves on breast milk or on formula. And they operate. And so

they're just too much food. And then I have parents who are like every time the baby cries, they either put them on the boom or they give them for, so they overfeed them. And the baby's puking because they're getting too much food. So say the number one reason is like the let down reflex or their overfed. And then the next thing is the baby's finger gets weaker. So we have a sphincter between our softest to the top of the stomach. There's a sphincter. And babies are

“born neurologically young. And the nervous system is very raw, if you will. And it has to mature.”

As in matures, the sphincter above the belly gets loose in the first four to six months. And then

it tines up. So sometimes it's just simply they eat enough not too much enough. But you lay them down. And that sphincter's loose. So then they're just like puking back up. Because they need a little more time to be in an upright position. So gravity helps them pull them down. But it's not necessarily bad. And it's not horrible reflux. We know it's reflux when they puke in their upset. They're losing weight. They can't sleep. When they eat, they're arching. They're like stiff as a board. Like eating

is uncomfortable. Living is uncomfortable. Sleeping is uncomfortable. That's when we're really discussing reflux. And then there's many things that we can do for that. But before we go to that, there's a lot of other things that that can be we can do with some breastfeeding adjustments, not feeding them as much. Keep them on the upright. And then if they were dealing with reflux,

the first thing is dairy is a number one irritant for baby guts. That if you are dealing with true

reflux, dairy and the mom's diet can upset the baby's belly. Is it a good thing or a bad thing

“if a baby that's a couple months old is routinely sleeping through the night and not waking up to eat?”

Usually it's not because they need nutrients. And so they just can't eat yet as many enough calories and nutrition in the day. Could there be that one or two babies out there that are that can do that? Yes, that's very rare. What I found is that they will do that and then they wake up in four months. And then they're like a nightmare. And the parents are like, they slap the two months. How do you prevent that sleep regression in in four months? Having them on a sleep schedule,

I'm a sleep Nazi. And I keep my kids when they came from the hospital, we were on a schedule. Yeah, they did the cluster feeding, etc. But then I did a cluster feeding before bed and then we worked on making it a few hours without nursing so that we can get used to their bellies being full. And it's a learning learning how to eat. And if you are do things on a relative schedule, you don't have to be like ridiculous. But someone on a schedule, you can get them in a rhythm

because the baby will follow your lead. And then at four months is when babies start producing melatonin in enough quantities that they can get longer periods of sleep. Right around four months and we can start seeing about five hours of sleep, six hours of sleep, etc. So then why are they saying there's a four month regression? Sounds like you would sleep better. But at four months you're also going to a gross part. Okay. And as you go through a gross part, you get hungrier. And when you get

hungry, you start wanting to eat in the middle of the night. And then you nurse the baby and the gross spurt or regression is like a few days. But what happens is that the baby doesn't know that it's a gross spurt. The baby just knows they got fed. And then after they're done with their gross spurt, now they're like, you know, it's cool waking up every four hours because you know, what happens? There's a booby mouth. Wait. So how do you prevent this? So I usually will go,

it's like, if you do it for a couple of nights and it's legit, they're like super starving. After a few nights, you're like, all right. Okay. Now we've got to go back to where we are. You don't need to eat. And especially the super chunky one. So if your baby is like, the 90th present off or their gross charts, they don't need to eat every two hours in the middle of the night. I mean, I have these babies are just like Michelin babies or square. And the mom's like,

they need to nurse every couple hours at nine months old. I'm like, get out of here. This guy's totally working. This is something they do not need to eat that much. They need to get their calories during the day. And at night, we work on sleeping. And we got a train sleeping. And that's hard. So your pro sleep train not co-sleep. You know, you could co-sleep. Okay. You know, you could co-sleep. I'm not a co-sleeper. I don't for me that was not a thing that worked. That was like,

rolling over them to begin with. So that was that wasn't going to work. But the same time, I was like,

I need you to be in your space. So the two hours I get a sleep are solid hours. And you get your solid hours. And then we nurse and then we're back sleeping. But I am a sleep trainer kind of girl and at four months is because that's when the babies may start producing melatonin. We work on learning

“how to fall asleep on our own. I do tolerate crying because here's the thing learning how to sleep as”

hard. Learning how to eat as hard. Learning how to poop as hard. Learning how to walk as hard. It's all hard. Life is hard. And our job as parents is not to make their life easier. It's to guide them to become resilient humans. And so I don't let them cry for like seven hours. But it's when we start to sleep training, we're like, all right, I nurse you, I love mom, I love

you, hug you, but you go on a bed awake. And that's going to cause a little bit of upsetness in the

human. And they cry for like 10 minutes. And then we go pat there. But and then, I mean, I usually just let them cry for 15 minutes and they go to sleep. But I, but I'll tell you, I start from the beginning when I come from this going to be controversial. And so I'm almost going to be upside by those. But I begin training of me and the human right when I came home from the hospital. So I know that they're so cute and cuddly and they're going to look at me and they're just going to run

“my life. And I was like, it's me versus you, buddy. And so what I would do right from the hospital”

when they would start crying, I would set a timer two minutes. So I gather myself, they can gather themselves. Okay, is this really a cry or did you just give gas? Did I finish peeing? Did I finish whatever I was doing? And then I would go of the whole time talking. I hear you, you're say if you're good, mama's coming, I'm just need to finish peeing, you know, or whatever I'm doing. And then I go hold them and then what, but I started training myself. So I don't jump at every time that they cry.

Because sometimes as an as they get older, right when it's a two-month-old, it was like five minutes. It was like four months, like six minutes. It was just so I would just gradually and put six minutes to the most that I would do. Because a lot of times it would be like, oh, squirrel, you know, like all bright lights, or they had a gas, or they just needed, sometimes a nervous system just needs to let out a yelp. Yeah. And then we jump. And so I have mama's who were like carrying their baby

all the time because they're all they cry. I'm like, well, it's okay for you to finish pooping. And then getting them, it's, it's okay. It's okay. If you're getting your tea, get your tea, relax, get yourself situated, and they cry for a few minutes. And the mama's, you know, the mom guilt is like this massive overpowering. Oh, my God. They're so, they were not going to have a bond. I'm like, baby, just because you let them cry for a little bit, doesn't mean that the bond is broken.

As long as you're talking to them, you're not. If you leave them in their room and you let them cry and you go clubbing, yes, we have a problem. Yeah. We're talking about two minutes so you can gather yourself in the baby, gather themselves. But that transit, but what that does, when you get ready for sleep training, the baby knows that you're going to come after a few minutes and they

feel safe. You're not just like, I'm always holding you. I'm never than you cry. And at four months,

you're like, good luck. You know those puffs snacks, yes, they're like air. Yes. Should we never give toddlers that there's a role for them? But we do need to be aware of snacks. So the puffs, their specific puffs, the companies that come up yummy and surrounded kids, yeah, puffs have really good ingredients, really, it's a really, really sourced and all this stuff that they check on it. The problem is that when the children cry or are annoying and fun fact guys, kids are annoying,

I mean, it's okay. Yeah. But it doesn't mean we love them less. They're annoying. And you're trying to do something. And so they're annoying. So what we do is we give them food because when they eat, they stop being annoying. But what we don't realize is then we create a snack culture in our house. And now they expect us to snack every time. Right. Right. That's the thing. I almost feel like I lean towards like no snacks allowed in my house. Oh, and when I say that I mean, they can be hungry

and then it's like offering, okay, let's let's do a protein or healthy fat, agreed, or, you know,

“otherwise there's something like that's what I'm giving as a snack. But I'm not giving like little”

bars and puffs and crackers. Agreed. I'm going to totally agree. And the children, toddlers should be able to make it three hours without needing food. You know, but in our culture, people come into my office and they're like the appointments are now and the kids start crying and the mama is when I need more because they've sent a lot of emails about this. They'll pick out a food, a snack, to get, and literally I'm like, that's I know. And I look at the toddler and I'm like, hey, baby,

it's not a restaurant. It's a doctor's office. We don't eat. And doctor's office is like, what, when did we just start feeding kids in the doctor's office? You know what I mean? And I happen to also have kids with massive food allergies. So that's actually a life threatening thing. The food gets dropped on it. But besides for that, one hour, the child should be able to make it one hour

are there snacks puffs or are there snacks full of protein and fat? Because if a food

a meal or snack, whatever you want to call it, has protein, carbs, and fats, they should be able to make it for three hours. If it's just empty calories like puffy puffs with air, yeah, 30 minutes there's hungry again. And you go, they're hungry. But yeah, because they didn't have an adequate food. Can people hire you to be their pediatrician in Charlotte? Yes, you're taking patients. I am taking patients. And are you within insurance or out of

insurance? I do not take insurance. Let me tell you why, Colette, people get really upset. To four in our visit, where we dip dig into the root cause of your child's exima autism, right? It's going to take some time. The insurance will pay me 25 dollars. And people go, but I pay my insurance. But on my thing, it says that you charge the insurance $300. I can charge the insurance, whatever I want to. You know, pay me 25 dollars. My plumber,

coming to my house, to unclog, to notty unclog, to see what the problem is, is over $300.

And when they come back with whatever, it's $400 and $500. For me, as a pediatrician, to dig into your child's root cause under insurance, $25 dollars. That is offensive. So no, I don't take insurance. So is that why, in the traditional insurance model with conventional doctors, you're trying to get as many people through the door as possible, and you're chilling out prescriptions. Like, just take this, just take this, get me the next person in the door,

“because that's how you're making money. Yes, is by people of your state. That's right. That's right.”

Oh, here's a fun fact. So when I was in, and I was in traditional pediatrics for 10 years. So not only is that they're trying to get you out, like they tried the suits and the hospital is not the doctors. It's the suits that are like, okay, well, you need to see as many patients as possible, like 28, 30 patients a day because insurance only pays us pennies. So we got they also make you refer. So if you have somebody with chronic abdominal pain, they make you refer to gastroenterology.

Because gastroenterology charges more, insurance pays more, thus the hospital makes more. When the gastroenterologist doesn't endoscopy or colonoscopy, that's thousands of dollars that the hospital makes off of them. So they don't want pediatrics. They don't care about pediatrics. They're like, give them a prescription for a moxasome for your infections. And if you can't figure it out, send them to a specialist immediately because that's where the money is,

“that's how the hospital gets paid. Absolutely. It is disgusting. What kind of kickback? If you were”

a regular pediatrician prescribing vaccines and doing vaccines, what kind of kickback do you get for vaccines?

So when I first started working for the practice, the vaccines were state funded. There was no

money and then the state stopped funding vaccines. I don't know why that is. So then they became private. So then we had to buy the clinic, had to buy the vaccines. So you have to buy the vaccines, which is a massive amount of money. And then you buy a wholesale and then you sell it at costs. So if you like anything else. So that's how it was. It was a productivity kind of thing. So the more vaccines, right, you made money off the vaccines, but it wasn't, you were just selling a product.

It wasn't like, like pediatricians are not taught. Okay. Well, the more hepatitis B vaccines and MMR, you have the more money you make. That you just give vaccines. That's not a pediatrician thing. And then now most of the practices are salaried. So you don't, you're just salaried based. That's it. You don't get, like you can give 20 vaccines or 30 vaccines or one vaccines or no vaccines. Yeah, you're salaried. That's nothing to do with it. If somebody's experiencing pressure

from their pediatrician, they're threatening that they're not going to be allowed to be a patient anymore,

“because the doctor doesn't like their parenting choices for their child. What should that pairing know?”

That there's so many options out there. You know, oftentimes we go to the doctor that the insurance company says on our card. And you go, "Pup, pup, pup." And then you don't drive and then they make you feel bad or you're not connecting on the stuff. I'm like, "When we remodel our basement, we get like three opinions or four." Well, for children's healthcare, you just go that pediatrician. Go look at other practices. Go interview other practices. There's not direct primary care

options that are now no longer under the umbrella, the hospital. When you go to a hospital owned practice, the hospital dictates about the vaccines. And the hospital says, "If you don't do the vaccines, they gotta get kicked out of the practice." When you go to a privately owned practice, whether they take insurance or not insurance or direct primary care, they're not answering to the hospital anymore. So you have much more flexibility. What's your Instagram?

DRANA Maria Temple. If you could offer one remedy to heal a sick culture, physically, emotionally, or spiritually, what would it be? A change in mindset. We have to do things differently. What we've been doing over and over again has led to our children being sicker and more fragile and worse than

all kinds of practices are children are going to continue to suffer.

“Dr. Temple, thanks for coming on Culture of Pothachary. This has been great.”

What is the biggest thing you learned from this episode? For me, I'm thinking the sound machines

were huge. That was super helpful. Everything about Exima was super helpful. What to do if you've

“taken antibiotics? The best way to handle a high fever. I mean, all of that plus just how to create”

a culture in your home, where it is easy to transition from being an ultra-processed food family to a culture of Pothachary family. Please talk about this episode. What did you learn? What did

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