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April 13, 2026 20 mins
Dr. Lee Merritt joins the show to break down a story about a 17-year-old girl who drank SEVEN ENERGY DRINKS A DAY!!!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great friend of the show, doctor Lee Merritt, joining us
on the Chris Baker Program. Good afternoon, doctor.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Merritt, Hey, thanks for having me back.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well, always a pleasure to talk to you. You and
I set this town on fire and we will continue
to do so.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I do appreciate your time. I do appreciate your time.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
I want to talk to you and get your opinion
of Energy Drinks and the reason I'm bringing this up.
First of all, I've been here in all kinds and
reading terrible things, but I don't know who to believe anymore,
and so I thought, well, I'm going to call doctor Merritt.
And this actually story comes from a seventeen year old

(00:43):
Texas cheerleader who died and the doctor said, yeah, we examined.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Her and her heart was enlarged.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Failed from massive caffeine overload caused by drinking US and
he names the brand of US Energy Drinks. Doctor, So,
just out of curiosity, what do you know about the
Energy drinks and what are your thoughts on them?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, I'm going to have to be in full disclosure
here that I drink them myself, not in big doses
like she's talking about. But I don't like coffee, so
I have one in the morning, you know. But I'm
going to tell you just to start with that story,
let me just say that she was a student. Okay,

(01:30):
she's seventeen years old. They don't mention her vaccine status.
And given the amount of energy drinks being done in
this country, I'm, first of all, I'm suspicious that this
is just now a surface in this you know, beautiful gal,
it's just and my heart goes out to the family.
I don't want to sound insensitive to their loss, but

(01:52):
let's just be honest. We're now we're talking science and medicine,
and the thing of it is, you can't have you
heard any other big cases like this. I mean, yeah,
every once in a while somebody overdoses on almost anything.
But this is just a little suspicious. What we do
know is that this whole narrative that young athletes, and
trust me, she's showing up like a cheerleader. A cheerleading

(02:14):
is a very athletic sport. This whole idea that young
athletes can suddenly have heart enlargement and sudden death didn't
used to be the narrative when I was in medical
school in the seventies. Now we started seeing and let
me just point about what we saw in COVID vaccine era.
You know what happened is we started seeing these soccer

(02:35):
guys dropping over on the field and they were from
heart attacks, heart problems. And so I started looking at
the data and I went back to eighteen I was
eighteen ninety five, I believe it, No, eighteen eighty five
to nineteen ninety five, that's one hundred years of data
of cardiac of death on the field. The fife of
the FIFA people, the European soccer professional leagues. They don't

(02:58):
keep track of all soccer plays that died, but they
do keep track of on field deaths. And it was
very interesting to note that from eighteen ninety five to
eighteen eighty five to nineteen ninety five, one hundred ten years,
the death rate was zero to three per year, and
I could only count three or four cardiac desks. It
was all running into another player, hitting the goal post,

(03:21):
having a goal post fall over on you, being electrocuted.
I can't believe how many lightning storms take out sucker
players apparently, but not very many, but not these cardiac desks. Okay, now,
the year I looked at This was a year we
were seeing them drop over. We had twenty one deaths
and we hadn't even gotten halfway through the year yet.
From these back after the vaccine roll. But the other

(03:42):
thing I noticed was beginning in nineteen ninety five and
going on forward, it went from zero to three deaths
to three to ten deaths and they were almost all cardiac. Now,
let's just ask ourselves what changed around nineteen ninety five, Oh,
in the in the golf first time at the time
the first golf warrant about nineteen ninety one was when

(04:02):
adjuvants for vaccines became profitable, made vaccines profitable, So the
ajuments made it easier to make these vaccines. They became profitable,
and everybody was getting it. We're getting more childhood vaccines,
and the flu vaccine was being given yearly, even to
young people, which is a very toxic you know, that's
one of the more toxic vaccines. The number one reason

(04:23):
for gien barret and for payout by the government of
the vaccine commissions. So in any case, I'm just I
can't prove that that's what's doing it, but it shouldn't
have been looked at. Where are all the sports medicine,
you know, gurus that are supposed to be paying attention
to this. There's something very odd happening when suddenly the
death rate goes up on the field and the narrative

(04:46):
changes to now it's cardiac. So I'm a little suspicious
that we're not having all the data here because I
just haven't heard that we've had. We've been drinking energy
drinks forever, and energy drinks are, from what I can determine,
I mean, they're kind of an advance form of Coca cola.
But you get caffeine and Coca cola and all the
cola drinks too. You're just getting more in these, and

(05:08):
so that's the number one thing I would say, I
guess the thing I'm not going to say this is
health food. You know, I'm not commanding people run out
and drink. I mean, I think there's you can you
if you take enough caffeine, whether you cake fit, tablets
or anything, you can certainly give yourself an arrhythmiam. I mean,
there's some issues with a lot of caffeine. It makes
you all hyper and you know, lots of things. But

(05:30):
just I'm just not necessarily buying this, Bob there's watching
and I'm going to watch it, But I'm more worried
about things like the Superlows, the ass pertain. You know,
I have to admit in my bad habit in the morning,
I try to find energy drinks that don't have those things.
I don't use an energy drink that has you know,

(05:53):
like occult symbols on it. You know, I think that's
probably not a good thing, and I just don't overdo it.
But I think the real problem that we have is
is the acidity. You know, one of the they're very acid.
They're like I tested one of mine just for fun
and to see what it took to neutralize it. Because

(06:13):
there's been all this idea that we should be more
alkaline in the body, that cancer doesn't like alkalinity, that
you just do better if you're if you're more alkaline.
And I always kind of discounted that because I said, well,
wait a minute, the pH of the blood is about
seven point two. No matter what you do, you can't
you can't that. Your body doesn't let that change very much.
That's not what they're talking about. What they're talking about

(06:35):
is neutralizing the acids that build up in your system
in the cells and in other places, and so for
that you need to be deacidified, putting in some alkaline
something into you to deacidify yourself, and these things are
very acid. So then I looked at my pH of
my energy drink was pH four. Okay, that's not compatible
with life. I mean you have to be like roughly

(06:56):
seven point two. So then I looked at how much
it took of these alkaline drinks, these ones they sell
you in the store, these alkaline waters. I tested them
with my tester and they were testing six. That's not
alkaline at all. And I called a chemist friend of mine,
who said, yeah, I think they're a scam. So I'm
also concerned. On the other side, I don't think those
are helping you very much either. The answer I think

(07:18):
is going to be if you're going to drink a
Coca cola once a while or one of these things occasionally,
and just in life, we probably should be alkalinizing ourselves.
And the way to do it is just taking a
little bit a quarter to a half a teaspoon of
baking soda and putting it some water and drinking it
every day. In fact, I'm drinking mine now.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
But wait a minute, now, And I just heard about
sherpas who were poisoning people climbing Mount Everest with baking soda.
Saw that it would give them the poops and they
could call a helicopter to rescue them in an insurance scam.
So now you're telling me you heard that story too?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Right?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
A lot more?

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, we're talking a little more than a.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Half a time.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, yeah, this is a teaspoon or let me have
a teaspoon to a quarter of a teaspoon. Yeah, no,
this is not that level. Yeah, but I'll tell you
another reason, and I'm not I really haven't looked into
that yet. I just heard that story. But one of
the things is, like I say, we all we all
have parasites, and parasites don't like alfalinity. So if you

(08:22):
did happen to give yourself a bunch of baking soda
all at once and you haven't been treating yourself from parasites,
I can believe it could give you a real uh
pooping session that you wouldn't be happy with. So that
may be what they're they're maybe the sp know that.
I didn't realize it was the shurp is doing it.
I was thinking it was the climbers getting themselves off.

(08:44):
That's one of the funnier stamps, even though it's tragic.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Now, well, nobody died from that, so that's I.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Guess good pilots ahead to get them off of there.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
So yeah, so now yeah, that must Can you help
in a window in this helicopter? I mean, my gosh, sir,
I know you're a big climber at all, but goodness.
All right now, doctor, now you've opened up a whole
new can of worm. So I want to take a break,
come back, and let's talk parasites because now I'm all

(09:19):
freaked out. I got to go home and drink bacon soda.
Now I'm all freaked out, and I'm gonna have paint. No,
I won't because my wife will not tolerate it. She
you know, she calls a lid right after we get there. Anyway,

(09:40):
you can't go wrong with the science.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Farts are funny. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
I want to talk parasites and stuff with doctor Lee Merritt.
All right, so right now, to summarize energy, drinks are
not going to kill you.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Just moderate, right.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
I think moderation, and I think, honestly, we just need
to watch this I don't I think, because isn't it
wouldn't it be nice for them not to have to
admit that this was due to their vaccine. You know,
that's the thing that they don't want out, that is drink.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
You know what, that's a really really interesting question. I'm
gonna have to figure out a way to find an
answer to that. All right, we'll tell you a quick break.
We'll come back with doctor. I'm sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
I have to tell you one thing. Yeah, I used
to have I just I went to a lecture one
time on that about from a gas erenterrologist about platus
as in farts and and that's it was the status
of flatus.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
That crazy doctor humor talking about energy drinks. And now
my email is flooded with questions. Doctor Merritt. Here we go.
Just want to ask you a couple of quick questions
for we got. Ronda wants to know about UH soldier
soldier fuel that apparently troops are drinking right now.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Are you familiar with this?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, I know, I mean I'm not by that name,
but I mean, let's just face it. Forever that in
modern warfare, soldiers have been given uppers, you know, whether
it's been metamphetamine or other versions of that. I mean
coffee the baseline, you know. Yeah, but they're in a

(11:24):
different situation. You know, in their situation, falling asleep can
be deadly. So there's a time I can see the
point there. So yeah, that's not that's not that's not new.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
All right, Well, now let's get that.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
That's the least of my concern of what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I'm quite frankly okay, So let's talk about this parasite deal.
Because you and I had had a nice talk not
long ago. We had breakfast and we were talking about
parasites and cancer and all these other things. So I
just want you to know now I'm all creeped out
about parasites, So.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Don't send me a picture of what comes out in
your in your stool.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I would do that.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
That's prime, how many ideas, because because everybody's got parasites,
when they start treating themselves, you can see not everybody,
but most people see something and they've kind of freaked out,
and they take a picture.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
And they want to send it to you because they
can't believe that everybody else has got the same things.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Like worms crawling out or.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, I mean the story goes, I'll explain that the
story goes is that that before we really had our
vaccine program and before we were on a high carb diet.
Those is I went through one time. Those are the
two things that really make it more probable that you
will have enough parasites to give you a problem. And
for whatever reasons, we want to think that's true, but

(12:58):
it's clearly so to those two things, and the bioweaponeers
have studied that, and the researchers. So when you start
treating yourself, depending on how old you are, whether you
grew up on a farm, whether you around you know,
animals with any sort, you may have more or less
of a parasite load. And some people, I mean, and

(13:19):
I'm going to just as kind of not to be
too gross, but I experienced this myself because I probably
I probably would have had cancer I had. I was
before COVID. I started having progressive night sweats and progressive
night switch where you really soak the sheets.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
That is a.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Sign we think of, you know, we start thinking about
people that are going to get come down with cancer,
even if we can't find the primary source. And that
was me. I couldn't find a primary source. I. You know,
I'm feeling great, but I had this problem and the
first so when you start parasite medication, one of the
ways to do it is to do three days on

(13:56):
and four days off. So I picked a medicine and
I started the three days on and literally within the
first three days all the night sweats went away.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
That really woke me up. Yes, that really woke me up.
But the second thing that happened is I really spent
quite a lot of time on the toilet and it
was not the usual bowel movements. I won't go into
more detail that it was. You know, you really can.
I must have lost two waist sizes.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Are you hitting me?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
No, I'm not kidding you now. Not everybody has exactly
the same thing.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
No, I'm just sitting here thinking, man, parasites are making
me fat.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, well they do. I mean, and it's not fat.
They are actually eating your life's blood. But they're in
the process, they're growing and they're not like they're worms
in the gut. That's one type of parasite. But you
also can see little parasites swimming around in the bloodstream.
And let me just point out that since the nineteen sixties,
there have been researchers screaming to the highest yard arm

(14:57):
that that every cancer patient seems to have parasites in
their bloodstream and in their interstitial tissue, and yet nobody's
been paying attention. Well it's been covered up probably, but whatever.
I'm not going to speak to motive, but whatever it is,
we haven't been talking about it mainstream medicine. Well now
we are, and I can and my own. So when
I read all this and understood a little bit more

(15:18):
about this, you know, one of the ways we used
to learn medicine was you've kind of learned on yourself.
You experimented on yourself and if you if it worked there,
then maybe your family, and then you branched out or
you waited for the literature to catch up, because good
clinicians are usually ahead of the medical literature and thinking
about how to help people. Wow, So what happened is
I I did the medicine treatment, and I truly I

(15:39):
lost a bunch of weight. And what I but what
happens is it takes a while to get out of
the parasite problem because these things what happens is when
you eat a when you eat your food, and we all,
we all are eating parasites from the food probably, and
it goes most of it just goes through your body,

(16:01):
eliminates the parasite that just passes through you. But a
few of them will stay, and maybe they'll get hooked
into the bowel, and maybe they'll get into your bloodstream,
and then they start reproducing and swimming around. And then
what happens is some of them will get out of
the bloodstream, either from trauma or whatever, however they get out,

(16:21):
and then they insist themselves in your muscle or your brain,
or your river or wherever, and your body then takes
its immune system and just walls these things off. Now,
this leads to a lot of problems.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
I personally think we're going to find.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Out that all, pretty much all of aud what we
call autoimmune disease is in fact parasites swimming around that
getting a ton of cysts in your body, and you
just can't. You keep putting out more and more of
your immune system to try and stop them from growing,
and you become inflamed. I have a feeling because one
of the drugs that we use for autoimmune disease is plaquinil,

(16:56):
whose other name is hydroxychloric one, which is an anti
pair acidic drug.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
So we've all we also know, uh, there.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Is a doctor. There's a doctor in uh. I think
he's in Florida who I'm blank on his last name
right now, I should not McDonald, doctor Alan McDonald's and
he and he he looked at ten dead multiple sclerosis
patients and they all had parasites in the brain and
in the spinal cord in the area that we see

(17:25):
on MRIs to make the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Really
did nobody think what those things were And it turns
out that it's been been in pathology recently. They don't
do uh, they don't look at sparable's spinal fluid, and
they don't do very thin slices of brains and spinal
cords on people that die of such things. So we

(17:47):
haven't really been researching this in a way we should
have been. Wow, and hopefully we will now. You know,
I I'll tell you one I would never have predicted.
I never now I'm an orthopedic surgeon. Don't tell my
hand surgeon friends. But but the we we treat Dupatren's contraction,
it's where you get these lumpy cord like things in

(18:09):
the palm of your hand, and what happens is it
starts dragging down your fingers until you can't put your
hand flat on the table. We know that it's associated
with red wine drinking, which is interesting, which is why
some of the old popes in the thirteen hundreds you
see their pictures, that there was a there was a
schism in the in the what's the doctor Eastern wrote
thedox chairs of whether you blessed with two fingers or

(18:30):
three fingers, and it had to do with some of
them couldn't get all the fingers up, you know. That
was that's what dupatrince does. It keeps your fingers down.
So I was starting to get that. It happened very suddenly,
and I think it was after I'd been doing some
shoveling or something, so I might have had trauma to
the hand, but I started to get dupatterns contraction. Well,
in the course of treating my parasites, I just happened
to use my left hand to mix up the parasite

(18:52):
medicine with some DMSO, which is a molecule that'll take
it into the through the skin, and my dupatrins went away.
I mean, I can't believe Oh man, I just can't
believe it.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Now, I'm telling you, I'm running out of time.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
But I am first creeped out because now I know
there's there's like parasites all running around in my body
having a party or something.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Wow, well you should come with them sometime and we
can look under the microscope.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
That's okay, thing and I'll do that parasite.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
So you and I can get together and we can
look at my parasites.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, well I have to go to Lincoln. I have
a friend of Lincoln that can do it, all right, microscope.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
I'm totally down with that. I got to find out
what I got crawling around. All right, Doctor Merritt, I'm
out of time. You're the best, and we're gonna have
to read. We're gonna have to re engage on all
this stuff because now I'm freaking out.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
All right, God blessed, thanks doctor, thank you.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
All right, there she is the wonderful doctor Lee merrit
on the Chris Baker Show.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Giving you.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Now. I'm all freaked out, Peyton. I just now I'm
itching all over because I know I got these things
embedding into everything and stuff and stuff
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