Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Apple

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey y'all, welcome to today's show.

[00:00:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Today is we're continuing our series on medicinal trees that we can use as herbal medicine

[00:00:09] [SPEAKER_01]: and this is going to be a big one. This is malice or apple and

[00:00:14] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a huge family. I mean there are 41 varieties of

[00:00:19] [SPEAKER_01]: apples that have been

[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_01]: documented use in herbal medicine. Now among these

[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_01]: none

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_01]: essentially are native to America. We only have crab apples that are native to the Americas and we have two native crab apples in my region

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_01]: the southern crab apple and sweet crab apple, but of course Europeans brought over tons of apples.

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Our ancestors grew apples like crazy and the main reason they grew them was to make apple cider hard cider

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_01]: you know it was

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_01]: wine grapes don't grow well in America and

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_01]: apples do

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_01]: really well. In fact

[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_01]: you know I've discussed before how

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_01]: well where I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_01]: we've got the Blue Ridge Parkway, we've got you know, I guess two national forests and

[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_01]: lots of state land

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and then just over the ridge is the Tennessee Valley Authority and

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know how many

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_01]: you know tens of thousands of people were forced off their land to create

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_01]: this tourist paradise. This

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_01]: you know it was the

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Vanderbilts were behind the national forest that they wanted to have basically private forestry for their use and they did

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_01]: and

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_01]: the TVA I mean their whole towns at the bottoms of those lakes, you know, so this is pretty bad in a lot of ways

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_01]: good in some ways, you know

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_01]: but

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_01]: wherever you go you don't wander around the woods or you go out in the park where whatever you're gonna do

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_01]: you're probably gonna find an apple tree and that's a really good indication at some point there was a house there

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_01]: That was somebody's homestead

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Now of course birds will carry seeds and all that so it's not, you know, hard and fast rule

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_01]: but

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_01]: It is, you know very light off in the case and if you look around, you know, I found, you know old marbles or

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Pipelates I mean various things, you know out in the woods like that and oh, you know 10 cups

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And usually there'll be an old spring there people who put their their houses by spring and you might find an old

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_01]: well house or a spring house, I mean and

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_01]: You know a little 10 cups still hanging there that's been there for 100 years

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe longer 200

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Probably not 200 but yeah, actually there were a lot of tens myths in

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_01]: In east Tennessee it so there yeah, it could be much older than that old glass bottles and jars

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_01]: You know some of those things are quite collectible. So definitely

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Keep an eye out for such things. I mean you never know you might find old coin or something

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great place to do metal detecting which is illegal in the

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_01]: National forests and on the parkway, so you're gonna have to check your rigs and everything

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_01]: but anyway

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_01]: There are so many apples

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_01]: And

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_01]: You know who knows what the oldest apple is apple seeds are

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Really unique in that they don't grow true to the original tree

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_01]: If you had a bush or apples and you save the seeds from each one

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm first of all, they have to be stratified which means they have to go through cold and then warm before they're

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Just proud but um, maybe I mean out of like two 300 seeds

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_01]: One or two are gonna be true to that variety

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_01]: The rest are all gonna be genetically different

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_01]: So you're just

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I can't even begin to count the number of heirloom apples we have in

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, especially where I live. There's actually an orchard that's

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Specialized in the heirloom apples. I think it's in ash county if I remember correctly could be a leg gaining

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, it's one of the um

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Northwestern North Carolina counties really neat and they do some of those apples just fantastic. I love the uh,

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Pippins. I love the um,

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Arkansas blacks and there's so many and they're usually tart and crisp and you might call them cider apples

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what they were grown for, you know, um, some are they all make great pies, you know, uh, but um

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Those that we see in the store now are just

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of run of the mill. So when I'm talking about um,

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_01]: medicinal use of apples some of this is going to fly across the board

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And some of it's really going to be more for your heirloom apples or the native crab apples

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Which are malice, you know, they are actual apples

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_01]: so um, deus coradis was

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_01]: You know ancient greek he wrote of uh, I guess

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Two or three varieties of apples, but he just classified them as

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_01]: um, honey apples or cider apples

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Must apples they were often called because must is a wine making term

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And crab apples or wild apples now those would have been many different types of apples

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_01]: He just kind of grouped under crab apples, but of the sweet apples. He said

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_01]: They soften the intestines and drive living creatures from them

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean they help get rid of worms and they actually can't help get rid of worms

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_01]: There but he said they were bad for the stomach. I mean they actually thought that raw apples would upset the stomach

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why but that's a really common ancient belief

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_01]: So they really were used for cider more than just about anything

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And after being pressed you might take the leftover pressings and make a pie or some bread with it or something

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Which is delicious by the way

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And of the crab apples he said they were similar to the other apples, but very astringent

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And um, you could use them as a stringent using unripened apples eating them to help with like diarrhea

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Or bleeding anything you might need an astringent for now by about 1080 ad

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_01]: St. Kildegorne von Bingen was very fond of apples

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_01]: She said a person whether young or old who suffers from fogginess in his eyes for any reason

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Should take the leaves of the tree in the springtime before it produces fruit

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And when they first come out they're tender and healthy

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And she said they should he should pound these leaves and express their sap

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And to this at an equal measure of the drops to the flow of the grapevine

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_01]: So great sort of the thin sap that runs out of a grapevine when it's cut

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_01]: That was another thing she really liked to use

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_01]: He should place these in a metallic jar at night when he goes to bed

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And he should moisten his eyelids and eyes with a feather dipped in a bit of it

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And this 1080 ad so you would apply such an ointment with a feather, you know

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Then he should sprinkle the crushed leaves with a bit of the drops that flow from the grapevine and place them

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Over his eyes

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_01]: He should hold this on with a cloth

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And sleep on it if he does this often the fogginess will be driven from his eyes and he will see clearly

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_01]: It's very interesting, you know what did that help prevent maybe cataracts or something?

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: But that stringent quality would very much like when you use like viscine eye drops or something

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Just tighten the tissue a little bit, you know, it helps you see a little clearer

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know who knows

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Old herbals are a little hard to decipher sometimes, you know, but um

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_01]: She said that uh anyone who has pain from an illness of the liver or spleen

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Or a bad stomach or migraine should take the shoots from the apple tree and place them in olive oil

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Warm them in a little jar in the sun and if he drinks this often when he goes to bed

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_01]: His head will be better and presumably his liver and such too

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, let's see she used the blossoms in the springtime

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And made a lintiment out of it so it was good for shoulder and joint pains and such

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And she said the fruit of the tree is gentle and easily digested eaten raw. So she disagreed with Greek

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_01]: uh herbal

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_01]: practice in that regard a lot of

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Modern authors have said that she got her learning of herbal medicine from the greek tradition, which is absolutely false

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_01]: She didn't speak greek

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_01]: She really was sick a lot as a child and was fairly illiterate most of her life

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And um, she says that she was taught herbal medicine directly from uh, Jesus and and angels

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_01]: So and there are so many stark differences in what she says

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Then what the greeks say that you cannot in any way say it's the same system

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Even though some of the similar terms were used at the time. They would talk about humor and such

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_01]: But of course apples are very popular in england and by um 1500s

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Gerard said roasted apples were better than raw for digestion

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And it was delicious. You know

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_01]: He liked to roast them by the fire with spices and that's in some honey and of course, that's great

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_01]: um, he said apples be good for a hot stomach

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And would strengthen the weakened feeble stomach apples are good for all informations or hot swellings

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_01]: But especially for such as are in their beginning

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_01]: And for that he would actually use sliced apples as a poultice outwardly applied

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Which makes a ton of sense the um, well if I'm seeing there. There's a stringent properties

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to help with inflammation and then it's cool. You know because they're a well moist cooling fruit

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_01]: He said the juice of apples

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh is sweet and uh mixed in compositions with other medicines is good for

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Timpering melancholy humor, so um, don't really know what that means. Anyway

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Like mice and ointment made of the pulp of apples with pigs grease

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And rose water is used to beautify the face

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_01]: So hey if you want to put lard on your face mix it with apples

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_01]: The pulp of roasted apples, um

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, you know, he kind of given measurements depending on the size of the apples

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, uh would help with what they call it strangery which was a difficult urination

[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And they do have a diuretic quality

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_01]: The leaves of the tree cool and bind and are good for

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Inflammations so again uses a poultice

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And apples cut in pieces and distilled with the quality of campfire and buttermilk

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Would help take away

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Scars marks and scars even from smallpox and such

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Um crab apples, uh, he said were stronger and the juice being uh more stringent and binding

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_01]: He recommended it be uh mixed with ale or beer and would help with like diarrhea and such

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_01]: uh, colpepper said

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_01]: That's about a hundred years later

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_01]: um, he

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Said that they would upset your stomach if they weren't thoroughly ripe

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you've ever eaten, you know, unripe apples, they definitely cause a little stomach upset

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but if you had to eat them

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Unripe they should be roasted or scalded even basically boiled with some spices and sugar and all that

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_01]: So basically an apple pie filling

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_01]: He said they are very good for hot and byelist stomachs, but not to the cold moisture flatulent

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_01]: The ripe ones eaten raw move the belly a little that means, you know, they have a lot of fiber

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_01]: You know that can help with constipation and such

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_01]: A poultice of sweet apples with powder frankincense removes pains in the side

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_01]: A poultice of the same apples boiled in plantain with plantain and water

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And then mixed with milk and applied can take away fresh marks of gum powder out of the skin, you know the old black powder would

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Mark your skin and it would help remove that

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Boiled or roasted apples eaten with rose water and sugar a little butter is a pleasant cooling diet for fever's complaints

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_01]: So good to help reduce a fever

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Um infusion of sliced apples with their skins on and boiling water

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Spread on a little barley bread with a mace or allspice

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Is a very proper cooling diet in fever. So again apples roasted are good for asthma

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Either raw or roasted boiled or good for the consumptive. That's tuberculosis

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Or in inflammatory conditions of the breasts and lungs

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_01]: The syrup is a good cordial and feigning means

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_01]: cordials or tonics that comfort the heart essentially strengthen the heart or can help with chest pains

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh good for palpitations and melancholy the pulp of boiled

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Apples and a poultice is good for inflamed eyes. So we're back to that application again

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And he recommended being applied either alone or mixed with milk or rose water or fennel water

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_01]: um

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh getting to more modern tradition. Ms. Grieve in the 1930s said the chief

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Dietetic value of apples lies in the malican tartaric acids. These acids are signal benefit

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_01]: To persons of sedentary habits or who are liable to liver derangement and they neutralize the acid products of gout and indigestion

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Hence an apple a day keeps the doctor away is a respective old rhyme and has some reason at it

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_01]: So it makes sense that apples would help with gout and indigestion and all that

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see what she says specifically

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_01]: um

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_01]: She definitely of course recommended apples for their fiber and digestion and um, now she gives a lot of interesting history

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_01]: um, apparently the french found that

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_01]: That the bacteria that caused typhoid

[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't live in apple juice and

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_01]: They really recommended drinking apple cider especially um to help with against typhoid. So that's interesting

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_01]: um

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_01]: She's got a lot of history here. I'm just going to kind of skip through it. Uh, just that um

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh one interesting thing she said is that cooked apples make a good local application

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_01]: That means again a poultice as she was outside for sore throats and fevers and inflammation of the eyes

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_01]: and that um

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_01]: apple cider with uh, horseradish in it was helpful for drops here or

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Retaining fluid and that the actually the bark of the um apple tree

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Was good for intermittent and byless fevers. So like malarial type fevers to the irish tradition

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Which on key hotels is that apples comfort and cool the heat of the stomach?

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Especially those apples that are somewhat sour

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_01]: The leaves should be laid upon hot swellings and they can be applied to fresh wounds to prevent them from turning bad

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_01]: A crab apple specifically said the juice of crab apples was as good as a stringent gargle for ulcers of the mouth throat

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And uh, good for burns, scalds and inflammation and quints is also in the apple family

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_01]: It's you rarely find quints in the united states. Uh, it's a grapefruit

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Good one to plant more of a bush sized plant

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_01]: A said that quints stops diarrhea dysentery and hemorrhages of all kind

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_01]: strengthen the stomach and stop vomiting now in

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_01]: 1898 apples and and products from the apple tree were actually still used

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_01]: In the uh, the pharmacies doctors would actually use these as prescriptions

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And king's american dispensatory tells us that apple tree bark is tonic and febrile fused

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_01]: A decoction of it used with vanishing intermittent remittant and bylis fevers

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And for convalescence from exhaust exhaustion from diseases

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_01]: It can be given uh

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Indoses of one to four fluid ounces three times a day

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_01]: A strong decoction of the syrup of the sweet apple tree bark has been employed in some cases of gravel

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_01]: It's kidding stones usually can be bladder stones and various things

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Fruit of the apple contains well, we already talked about the malic acid such

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And is useful and healthy in the diet

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_01]: um

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Its indications for an acid are present however, and it is not especially contradicted by

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Rheumatism or dyspepsia. So again, they're saying it's it's good in

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_01]: In the diet for just about anybody but uh easier to digest of course when cooked

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and again, this is from a pharmacist's journal in in 1898

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_01]: It says cider forms not only are refreshing an agreeable drink for patients with fever

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_01]: But actually exerts a salutary medical influence, especially where the tongue is coated deep red brown or black

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I've used cider in which horseradish has been steeped as an effective remedy for dropsy for many years

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And is now used in the preparation of a valuable agent against this disease

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_01]: The compound infusion oh infusion with parsley. So actually interesting cider with um

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_01]: horseradish and parsley both are diuretics. So that makes a lot of sense

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_01]: cooked apples from

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_01]: uh, or good for the eyes aerosol with inflammation sword swollen throat

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_01]: and um

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and they also mentioned this it was actually extracted from the bark. It was called

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: fluoridazine. I think fluoridazine

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_01]: They said it was tonic and anti periodic and had cured many cases of intermittent fever

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Even where quinine has proved ineffectual

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Unlike quinine it is not caused gastrology or upset stomach. So

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I mean in this area of pandemics, uh, I've given you what three four trees now that are very similar to quinine

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Apple seems to be um even superior in some cases. So y'all we will wrap it up there

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_01]: um

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Because basically all the uses throughout history are just repeating the same uses for apples

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Apples are an easy one

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh to use it's easy to identify an apple tree another french tradition is um peeling apples

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_01]: making a pie or you know

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Jelly or whatever you're going to do with the the fruit of the apple to save those peels and drying them

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_01]: And then using that as a tea and it's good for arthritis. It's good for uh as a diuretic

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and it actually has some anti um

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_01]: It can help with blood sugar and some diabetes type issues supposedly, you know, I've never tried it for that. That's part of the french tradition

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: um

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Really good thing to do is learn to use the apples and plant as many as you can be a modern day

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Johnny apple seed because those the apples in the grocery store

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Are nowhere near as good as the heirloom apples that we find out in the woods pretty commonly

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Where I live and and I was good for you either and they've really been soaked in a lot of chemicals

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I have a great cookbook from um, I guess 1940 or so

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And it actually lists over 100 apple varieties. You could expect to find at any grocery store in the united states

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine that now we go in the grocery store. They're three made four or five varieties

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Um time to bring this diversity back in because you know that also protects against blights and insect damage and all that

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And we have the genetic diversity in the food. So anyway, y'all have a good one and I will talk to you next time

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[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: You take full responsibility for your health humans are individuals and no two are identical

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: What works for me may not work for you

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: You may have an allergy a sensitivity and underlying condition that no one else even shares and you don't even know about

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Be careful with your health

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_00]: By continuing to list my podcast or read my blog

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: You agree to be responsible for yourself to your own research make your own choices and not to blame me for anything ever