Aug. 11th How to Reduce Painkiller Use by a Whopping 68%, Dr Ross Pelton, Pharmacist, Author and Nutritionist

‘How to Reduce Painkiller Use by a Whopping 68%” 
and
“Dr Ross Pelton, Pharmacist, Author and Nutritionist - Explains Why the American Medical System Fails to Deliver Healthcare”

Episode Transcript

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a little bit later in the hour. We're going to
be joined by doctor Ross Pelton. Doctor Ross Pelton is
a very renowned pharmacist, clinical nutritionist, and author of a
dozen books, and boy, I cannot wait to in him

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because he's going to be sharing with us some information
that you may be completely unaware of as it relates
to pharmaceutical drugs and the healthcare system that we have
in the United States and how bad it really is,
and why it's so important for you and your family
to learn about taking better care of yourself through proper

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lifestyle choices and decisions so that you don't have to
face needing crisis sick care, which has a whole long
list of risks associated with it. Now, we're going to
begin this hour before we introduce you to doctor Ross Pelton,
the pharmacist, with some information about how to reduce your

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risk of needing painkillers. Painkillers are important, let's face it.
I mean, if you have a broken bone, or you
get into a trauma accident, you have a tooth extraction,
better be prepared to reduce your pain in some manner
or another so that you can rest in quiet, down
maybe even go to sleep well. A recent study analyzing

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more than one hundred and fifteen million patient records from
academic health centers, offers insight into how people who are
suffering from pain, any kind of pain, can greatly reduce
their need for taking risky painkilling drugs. And you're going

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to find out how risky these drugs are when we
get the pharmacist on the program a little bit later
in this hour. Now, there was information published in recently
in the British Medical Journal about a study showing that
adults receiving conservative, non drug form of healthcare we're less
likely to be prescribed popular opioid painkilling drugs, which can

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be highly addictive and highly dangerous, even though they come
in hand to when you're in severe pain and there's
no other game in town. Well, the recent information is
now showing that those people receiving chiropractic care, we're able
to reduce their opioid prescription usage or need for lower

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back pain by a whopping sixty eight percent that according
to a new study. The research highlights how spinal adjustments
delivered by doctors of chiropractic or chiropractic physicians can significantly
reduce the dependency on opioid pain killers such as the

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often prescribed tramadol and all tram and all tram er
and other potent opioid drugs which are highly addictive. Many
of you have heard about the opioid crisis we're having
in the n States right now, mostly perpetuated by the
medical profession who dulls them out, hands them out like candy.

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The question becomes, could spinal adjustments delivered by a chiropractic
physician replace the need for these painkillers. Well, recent research
suggests that chiropractic adjustments can significantly alleviate low back pain
and reduce the need for these classes of drugs we're

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talking about opioids.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Now.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Millions of Americans suffer from a condition that you may
have heard of, you may have had in the past,
a condition called sciatica. It's a type of a pain
that can radiate down from your lower back area, through
your pelvicary and into your leg. Now often caused these
sciatica conditions are often caused by spinal bones and misalignments

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that cause compression or inflammation of the spinal nerve of
the siatic nerve, and can result in pain, can result
in loss of sensation, and can also impair motor function.
The discomfort typically follows the path of the nerve extending

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from the lower back area, And if you've had this before,
you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
You you kind of.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
It's a searing, sometimes burning, sometimes deep related pain and
depending on which nerve branch it's affecting, it can go
down the back of the leg, it can go down
the side of the leg, it can go down the
front of the leg. And so many people who have
lower back pain and or sciatica, they will naturally gravitate

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toward their medical doctor's office and are looking for relief.
And what they typically will get is a prescription of
some sort. Could be ibuprofen, could be NAP, person be
some type of an ani inflammatory, but it also could
be a opioid drug, for which these are highly highly addictive. However,

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the concerns have grown about drugs like tramadol and other
opioid drugs in terms of long term usage and the
adverse side effects and especially the risk of.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Dependency of these drugs.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Well.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
A recent study analyzing more than one hundred and fifteen
million patient records from academic health centers offers new insights,
and this was published.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
In the British medical journal Open.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
The study shows that adults receiving chiropractic spinal manipulation for
newly diagnosed sciatica are less likely to be prescribed opioid
drugs like trama doll in the following year than those
receiving standard medical care, which has little or no benefits

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to a person who has sciatica. Now, SATKA has a
number of reasons why, but usually you see with sciatica
an entrapment, some type of an inflammatory process that's associated
with or around the spinal canal. There's no drug in
the world that's going to move a bone back into
place into its proper position. They're therefore relieving the pressure

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on the disc, the nerve, the lymphatic supply, the blood supply,
the cerebral spinal fluid, all those things that are associated
with the elements coming out of the spinal canal. You're
not going to see any kind of medical care ever
address that because it can't.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Well.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
We might relieve it temporarily, but it's not going to
deal with the underlying reason for And this is why
it's so critically important when you have back pain that
the doctor of choice in the care of any form
of back care back paint it needs to be a
chiropractic physician because when you have that, you're going to
have a less us the need for drugs in general,

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and especially the less likelihood of being placed on these
opioid drugs. Now, this finding challenges traditional pain management strategies
and highlights the potential effectiveness of chiropractic spinal adjustments in
providing relief without the risks linked to long term pain
relief of this class of medication. But most people, you know,

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they because they're not aware of, or they've never had
any experience with, or they've heard some bogus information about
how you know, the risk of getting chiropractic care might
not be for them. That often is the factor that
dissuades them from even looking into it. The most effective

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way to manage spinal problems, especially spinal misalignments associated with
lower back and other areas of the spine including the
neck is and has been shown for years decades to
be and these are in clinical studies and open clinical studies.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
How chiropractic care exceeds the.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Ability to relieve pain and not have to have somebody
worrying about opioid addiction. And further, if that doesn't work,
of course, a lot of people go to back surgery,
which is unnecessary and that can be a whole nightmare
in and of itself. Back surgery is just a horror
story waiting to happen. About forty percent effective, which means

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sixty percent disaster waiting to happen. So if you've got
back problems, especially satika, you need to find a qualified
chiropractic physician.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
That's your best bet.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
All right, I want to encourage you to stay tuned.
Coming up as our special guest, doctor Ross Pelton. You
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for his expertise and now not only for his expertise
in his area, but also being such an open mind
healthcare provider. His name is doctor Ross Pelton. He is
considered and has been named the natural pharmacist, the natural pharmacist.

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He is also a clinical nutritionist, health educator, and he's
authored twelve books. Among doctor Pelton's past recognitions, he was
named one of the top fifty most influential pharmacists in
America by American Druggist magazine for his work in natural medicine.

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And with that, let us welcome to the program, doctor
Ross Pelton. Good day to you, Doctor Pelton.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
Hello, doctor Bob. It's a pleasure to be on with
you and your listeners.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
It's great to.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Hear your voice again. Ross, thank you so very much
for joining us. I know you have a very busy schedule.
Let's just jump right in here, sir, and for the benefits,
for the benefits of listeners who are hearing for the
very first time, the term the natural pharmacist. Please explain
the difference between a natural pharmacist and an unnatural pharmacist

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or a typical pharmacist.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
Please, Well, doctor Bob, I call myself a recovering pharmacist.
I counted pills in drug stores for a lot of years,
but along the way, I got interested in health, and
I used my background in pharmacy, in medicine and biochemistry
and physiology and anatomy to really interested in what we
call natural medicine, natural healing properties, and knowing and understanding

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what the body needs in order to be healthy and
the function correctly. And so that became kind of my
career path and my passion helping educate people about how
to have their body work well and heal naturally.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
And I'm sure that as you went through your training
to become a pharmacist, I'm sure that they mentioned pharmacognacy
and how the many of the drugs that we have
available today originated in plants and herbs and then we're.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Synthesized and so forth.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
But I don't think the average person realizes that they
think they're all they're all originating from petrochemicals, right.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
And drug companies have really made billions and billions of
dollars on making weird manufactured drugs that have never existed
before in nature, but many of them are founded from
natural products. You're absolutely right, and so we get a
lot of our medicines from nature, and for hundreds of

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thousands of years, nature was the sole source of medicines
and healing properties for people.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
And you know classic example, correct me if I'm in correct.
Heres is common aspirin and how it was derived from
what the bark of a tree or something with solicylation
of a willow bark, and then they figured out a
way to synthesize it so they could crank up the volume.
And here we have common aspirin coming from the.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Willow bark right exactly.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
And that's just one of probably thousands, tens of thousands
of examples of how these miracle drugs came to be.
Is that someone studied what they were doing in nature
and tried to figure out what medicinal properties they had,
and then they tried to reproduce it so they could
mass produce it and make it efficient and clean and deliverable.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
I take it that's true, doctor Bob. But when they
mass produce it and give it to people in very
high doses, it's not the way it occurs in nature,
and it works very differently. You get much more more
side effects when you have this high concentration. It's just
like vitamin C itself, or just vitamin C and an orange.

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There's a lot of things along with vitamin C in
an orange, the fiber and other compounds that are really
import But when you just give high concentration of vitamin see,
you miss all the other components in nature.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
It kind of reminds me of how we supersize food
in this country as well. You know, if a little
is good, a lots better, let's take more.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yeah, that's what I call the evolution of mankind from
Homo sapiens into Homo obese.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Oh my gosh, I gotta tell you, since you brought
it up, you opened up a cat recently, doctor Pelton.
And by the way, ladies and gentlemen, doctor Pelton and
I have been friends for what more than twenty years,
at least the years, yeah, and I've interviewed him a
number of times. And this last week, doctor Pelton, as

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I shared with you, we celebrated my wife and I.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
My wife, Cheryl and I are fiftieth.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Year wedding anniversary and I rolled into that seventh decade
of life all in the same week. And my daughter
also and her husband celebrated their wedding anniversary as well.
So I'm just we're just coming back from all of
that partying and karaoke and oh and you might even

(19:10):
hear just a little bit of raspiness in my voice today,
and so if you do, you'll know where it's coming from.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Well, doctor Bob, I know that you just had a birthday,
but you are not old. You've just been young for
a very long time.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
I like the sound of that. I like the sound
of that.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
And you know, when I was when we were in
the Caribbean, we saw, of course, I used to live
in the Caribbean. I went to medical school in that
area and I we were talking to a person and
I said, oh, look, there's a KFC down here. We
think it was Bonaire or Kirasol or one of those.
And one of the people who lives there, and he says, well,
you know what KFC stands for, don't you? And I

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said no, what he said, keep the fat coming, you know.
So I guess he was referring to as the tourists
that are on these Caribbean aisles who are looking for Greece.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
There it is, can see all right, let's get back.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Actually, there's an average of over four thousand fast food
restaurants in every state in the United States. It's just
one of the biggest sins against mankind the way we'll
relying on ultra processed foods.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
And it's killing people, all right, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
It is the cause of obesity and being overweight and
all the problems that are associated with that, from heart
disease to stroke, to certain forms of cancer, to diabetes,
you name it. When we come back from this break,
we're getting ready to take doctor Pelts and I'm gonna
ask you about a Bloomberg healthcare efficacy Index the United States.

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They're basically saying, in this index, compared to a list
of fifty five countries, that we pretty much suck. And
I'm gonna get your opinion of that when we come
back from this break. So, ladies and gentlemen, stay with us.
You're tuned into the Doctor Bob Martin Show.

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Are you waiting on a line? Next take? Are you
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Speaker 5 (21:07):
How are you waiting to the time is night by?

Speaker 2 (21:13):
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Speaker 4 (21:19):
Don't you beat another man? Why? What are you well?

Speaker 3 (21:27):
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(22:09):
who's a clinical nutritionist, health educator, and an author of
twelve books plus he was named one of the top
fifty most influential pharmacists in America by American Druggist magazine
for his work in natural medicine. All right, doctor Pelton,
Before we took the break, I started to say that

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according to a Bloomberg Healthcare Efficiency Index, the United States
was near the bottom of the list of fifty five
countries that they examined rated for their healthcare. We see
longevity going down here in the United States. Dropping like
a rocket seems of late, Yet we spend the most

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on healthcare or sick care than any other country on
the planet.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Why is this occurring in your opinion.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
And how and what changes need to be made?

Speaker 5 (23:07):
Well, Doctor Bob our healthcare systems based on the profit
motive and not based on giving people the best health.
I think that emergency medicine in the United States is phenomenal,
but we're totally failing in our ability to treat and
or prevent chronic degenerative diseases. And that's really the big message.

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We aren't focusing on how to teach people how to
be healthy so that they can slow down the process
of biological aging.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
I get that. I want to, you know, I want
to elucidate a little bit on that.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
It's sort of like if somebody has a hangnail, they
really ought to go into a hospital because if they do,
they may run into worse situations. There. There are conservative
things that they can do without having to apply crisis
intervention to it. The classic example is my grandmother. When

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I was growing up, I think it was about twelve
years of age. She went to a hospital to have
hemorrhoid surgery. All right, and She was probably sixty sixty
five at the time, and unfortunately, as a result of
the hemorrhoid surgery that she had, she developed pneumonia in
the hospital and over a period of two weeks, I'm

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sitting there at her bedside at age twelve, watching her
drown in her fluids as she dies day over day,
and I'm looking at that, going, what's wrong with this picture?
Grandma went in for a butt problem and she's got pneumonia.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
How did this happen?

Speaker 5 (24:46):
It's the medical establishment and they do it all the time.
We just treat everybody with drugs to treat the symptoms
rather than teaching people how to prevent the problem to
get healthy.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, speaking of that, you know, according to a doctor
Alan Rose's you may have heard of him. He's a
worldwide vice president of genetics at Glaxo Smith Klein, the
big pharmaceutical company. He's also an academic genus geneticists at
Duke University. He says, the vast majority of medical drugs,

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both over the counter and prescription ninety percent of the time.
Ninety percent of these drugs only work thirty to fifty
percent of the time when people who are taking them.
Would you concur with that. I mean, if you think,
just think about that for a minute. He's saying that
all medical drugs, almost all of them, ninety percent of them,

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only work less than half of the time.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Is that possible.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
It is possible, doctor Bob. And you probably know I
wrote a book titled the Drug Induced Nutrient Depletion Handbook
to teach physicians and pharmacists and other healthcare professionals nutrients
are being depleted by all the drugs that are taking
so that they can at least try to prevent some
of these problems from happening. So I've been preaching this
message for a long time.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, this is.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Old hat to you. How would people be able to
get a hold of some of the things that you're doing,
your website, your newsletter, things that they can tie into
so that they can turn around health problems that.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
They may be having going on right now. Maybe they
want to make that change.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Maybe they want to change their ways so they don't
end up in crisis management for a problem that ought
to be handled in a conservative way.

Speaker 5 (26:31):
Yeah, doctor Bob. Listeners can get in touch with me
and my blog at natropharmacist dot net. A tremendous amount
of health related articles there and a lot of different
topics that can be helpful for people.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Okay, that's great, Natural pharmacists, ladies and gentlemen, dot net
naturalpharmacist dot net to get a hold of the work
that doctor Ross Pelton is doing currently. Also, I read
there's a doctor and I'm not sure how to pronounce

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his name exactly. Doctor Yawa Nonja a medical physician, scientist, writer,
and Stanford University professor. He charges that as much as
ninety percent of the published medical information in medical journals

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that medical doctors read and rely on is flawed or
far or fraudulent by design.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Do you agree with that possibility?

Speaker 5 (27:34):
Conflict of interest? A lot of these people that write
these papers in the scientific literature are being paid and
they have vested interests in some of the companies that
are producing the product. So that's another big story you
just brought up, the oh, the unreliability of a lot
of the scientific literature that gets published.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, and so, ladies and gentlemen listening right now, when
you hear the FDA pronounce something safe and effective based
on everything that you know, doctor Fauci says, or some
other figurehead like this, you know I am the science,
Believe the science.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
You remember that on the COVID medocal.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Here you have the general public relying on the CDC,
the FDA, the NIH to make sure that safeguards have
been put in place so that if a product such
as a drug gets rolled out into the marketplace, it

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has been looked at thoroughly, it's safe and effective. And
here you're finding out Now maybe you already knew this,
and we're just confirming it with our special guest, doctor
Ross Pelton, pharmacist, nutritionist, author of twelve books. He's confirming
it that so much of the information that medical doctors
rely on is flawed and or fraudulent by design. And

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that's how these pharmaceutical companies because they fund about fifty
percent of all the work that the CDC does, Doctor Pelton.
I think I read somewhere fifty percent of the funding
to the centers or disease control and quasi prevention comes
right out of pharmaceutical companies.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
So it's sort of.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Like the wolf guarding the hen cage exactly.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
It's really a system that is fraught with problems and
conflicts of interest.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
And I'm not.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Saying that every doctor out there We're not here to
bash the medical profession. There are dedicated men and women
in medicine that save lives on a daily basis and
change the quality of life. But there are things, high
level risks associated with typical conventional medical care that people

(29:52):
need to wake up about. And that's what we're trying
to deliver today right here on the Doctor Bob Martin's Show.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
Um, I'm a bush of number, Simoncible, the one never single.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Minds a power.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Well, we have a unstoppable health educator with us right now,
in fact, doctor Ross Pelton, the natural pharmacist, clinical nutritionist,
health educator and author of twelve books. He's here discussing
with us the sad state of affairs in America compared

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to other countries who spend less on healthcare and sickcare.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
And get a lot more for their dollars.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
We are scrape in the bottom of the barrel, and
as he has pointed out, it's all about the money
following the money trail. And that's sad because the average
consumer is caught off guard believing that it's an altruistic
system that you're you know, the decisions that are being
made on the on behalf of the patients are one

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hundred percent correct. They've all been worked out ahead of
time and there are no risks. Oh boy, do we
have something now? During the break, Dutch Pelton, you tell
me something about the Cleveland Clinic.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Can you share that with our audience?

Speaker 5 (31:37):
Sure, Doctor Bob. Cleveland Clinic for many years has been
voted one of the top hospitals in the United States,
number one cardiovascular, the surgery center. And in twenty sixteen,
Cleveland Clinic organized over one hundred top scientists, physicians, and
other healthcare professionals and gave them the job of researching
the medical literature to find potential game changers in the

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future for medicine. And they ended up with a list
of over two hundred potential new therapies and they narrowed
down to their top ten and had a huge conference
presenting their outcome. Journalists were there a big deal and
they went from number ten to nine eight up to
number one. And the number one therapy that has the

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potential will be a major game changer in the future
using the gut microbiome to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease.
So it does all begin in the gut, as Hippocrates
is credited as saying several centuries ago, and using the
gut microbiome is such a critical topic that people need

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to understand in order to maintain their health. And I
like to use a little cartoon Doctor Bob that says
life is the only game in which the object of
the game is to learn the rules and when it
comes to health. That's a very serious because many of us,
myself included, didn't have good teachers and good role models
when it comes to health. But there's some basic fundamental

(33:07):
rules of health that people need to learn about diet
and exercise in the gut microbiome if they want to
have a healthy aging process.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
So true, I didn't happen to know Hippocrates, but I
sure knew, uh, doctor Bernard Jensen, who I mean fifty
years ago, was saying this same exact information. Doctor Bernard
Jensen is a chiropractic physician and wrote lots of books
about how the gut, how disease, how cancer, how all
these diseases start in the gut, and conventional medicin scoffed

(33:38):
at it. They go, this guy's a quack, he's a
nut case. What are you talking about in the gut.
It's a missing drug dude.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
One of the most important health educators of all time.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
All right, let's move on.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Is it true that nearly seventy percent of Americans are
on at least one prescription drug or more, and half
take tube prescription drugs.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Is this.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
The right statuge?

Speaker 3 (34:05):
It just seems like we're not even even including alcohol
and nicotine caffeine in here, which are all drugs. But
is it true that we are just drug to the gourd,
and yet we don't have anything to show for it
in terms of longevity and quality of life.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
We're a drug taking society and we are getting sicker
by the minute. I say, we now have doctor Bob
an epidemic of epidemics. The health of mankind is going
down the tubes. And just continue taking medications to suppress
the symptoms of illnesses is really one of the major problems.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Brought to you by the AMA, the American Medical Association.
I mean, that's bank for them. It seems it's almost
like planned obsolescence. You know, It's like the same thing
we found that out if you don't make cars, nobody
will buy that. Maybe we just need to shift over
and teach people how to stay healthy and choose the
proper lifestyle choices so they don't get sick in the
first place and need all this crisis management get into trouble.

(35:02):
I mean, do you agree that the number one cause,
and I've read this over and over, the number one
causes of death in America is not heart disease or
cancer or accidents or stroke. The number one cause of
death is medical miscare doctors making mistakes or adverse reactions
to drugs or infections caught in the hospital that people
didn't have when they went in there on all, you know,

(35:22):
just right on down the line.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
Yep, hyatrogenic illnesses the term for it, doctor Bob, doctor
caused illnesses exactly.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Also, according to a report which was published by the
American Cancer Society, one out of every two cancers are
caused by six different lifestyles. And if that's the case,
then why aren't doctors making a greater effort to teach
them beyond just you know, not smoking cigarettes and not
getting sunburns those other ones that are causing all the cancer,

(35:57):
And cancer is going up. It will exceed art disease
if it hasn't already. We're talking about people being overweight.
We know that when you're overweighted increases your risk of
having cancer. We know that alcohol and being inactive and
a poor diet, all of those are associated with an
increased risk of cancer. Yet we're not teaching the population

(36:19):
of the United States, and we're not starting it in
kindergarten first grade. We're waiting until something breaks before we
fix it. Which is the I guess the great American medical.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Modo Diet and Exercise, Doctor Bob.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
It is true diet and exercise and lifestyle and paying attention.
Our special guest with us, ladies and gentlemen is doctor
Ross Pelton, pharmacist, clinical nutritionist, author. You can reach him
at naturalpharmacist dot net, naturalpharmacist dot net for the work
he's doing. We're coming right back. It's the Doctor Bob

(36:57):
Martin Show.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
What's Wrong Within, What's Wrong with Gain, What's Wrong within? Concident.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
As you're tuned into the Doctor Bob Martsin Show, we
have a special guest with us, doctor Ross Pelton, Pharmacist, author, nutritionist.
You can find out more about his incredible work on
his website at Naturalpharmacist dot net, Naturalpharmacist dot net. We

(37:29):
just have a few minutes left in the program, Doctor Pelton,
and I just wanted to ask you this question to
stem the unnecessary deaths from medical miscare the number one
cause of death in America that exceeds heart disease and
cancer in non life threatening conditions. Do you use a
pharmacist as scientists, researcher, nutritionist, author? Do you recommend people

(37:52):
seek out care and guidance for you know, from healthcare
providers trained in integrative and functional medicine and like nature
pathic physicians, chiropractic physicians PhDs, doctor of oriental medicine, and
doctors that are MD and d O that are trained
in integrative or alternative medicine.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
You've had doctor Bob functional medicine, complementary, integrative medicine, Natural
paths are some of the greatest educators I know. Those
are the recommendations I make.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Super you know, a study published online and Neurology found
evidence that arthritis or painkilling drugs likely contribute to stroke risk.
I don't think the average person who is arthritis when
they're swallowing their painkillers has any idea that it's raising
their risk of stroke, heart attack, kidney cancer. You go

(38:48):
down the list. These painkillers. They were not designed to
be taken on a long term basis. Worthy It was
supposed to be just a bridge maybe three, four, five,
seven days.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
But yet they're on it for years and years.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
That through Doctor Bob, and it destroys They've got microbiome.
It causes all sorts of problems long term, the pain medica.
I mean, look at the opioidemic. It's off the charts.
It's just such a shame that so many people are
being affected by this drug crisis.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
And I talked about that in the very first segment
of the show this Hour, about how to reduce painkiller
drug use by whopping sixty eight percent. And I'm talking
about opioids like tramadol and all the other stuff out
there that they're thrown at people by simply in the
case of low back pain or sciatica, by simply finding

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a licensed chiropractic physician.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
And that's how they do it.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Now, most people won't get to that because one they
don't know that it exists, or their doctor says, oh no, no, no,
that's dangerous. You shouldn't do that. You might get hurt.
And they're over there writing the prescripts for the opioids, which.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Is amazing hard for me to leave.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
All right, well, it looks like we're rinding out at
the end of the hour. Here your website over at
naturalpharmacist dot net. What will they find over there if
they land on your site?

Speaker 5 (40:16):
Well, doctor Bob, I've got an enormous a number of
articles I've written and posted on my blog on a
wide range of different health topics. One of the really
interesting Monzo just briefly mentioned. Scientists studied a group of
healthy individuals ninety four to one hundred and five years
old looking for the most important thing for healthy aging,
maintain your muscle mass with the number one factor for

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healthy aging, and those healthy elderly people.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Excellent and we recommend that as well in this show.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Doctor Ross Pelton, thank you for joining us.