June 11, 2025 • 8 mins
Dr. Jim Keany, Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Bill about RFK Jr firing the entire US vaccine committee, British doctors prescribing poo pills, and cold plunges… are they actually good for you?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Moving to doctor Jim Keeney.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jim, chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center
in Long Beach and a board certified er doctor.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
All right, Jim, good morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh right now, you knew i'd go there. No, No, First,
I'm going to do something that's even more important. And
this is a shocker that I'm not going to go
to the British poop pills, which I'll tell you about
in a minute. Or Jim will the story yesterday of
Robert Kennedy Junior firing the entire US Vaccine Committee after
(00:39):
he promised he would not to get Bill Cassidy's Senate vote.
Who happens to be a doctor and actually doesn't believe
in the anti vaccine crapola. How important of is this
and what is going to be the fallout?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah? I mean, so this committee, the Advisory Committee on
Ammunization Practices or A six. You know, they are the
ones that kind of come alongside almost every other organization
to advise them on vaccines. Right, So the FDA approves
vaccines after looking at safety and efficacy, but ACIP makes
the recommendation that the FDA approves.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Then they come.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Alongside the CDC. The CDC implements national vaccine programs and
ACIP recommends those schedules and what happens on those schedules. Sorry,
I'm getting a call, so you're probably hearing a bunch
of cutouts. You know, the state and local health departments
align with acip's recommendations. Private insurers pay for they're required
(01:40):
to pay for the ACIP guidelines. So this is going
to impact, you know, what's paid for. Schools follow their
their vaccine recommendations, and free vaccine programs are based on
their recommendations as well. So a big impact in the
world of you know, vaccines. And so you know, he's
(02:00):
trying to say that we're embedded with a system of
an industry aligned with pro pharma ideology, and you know
that a or may not be true to some extent,
but you know, to undermine the entire process by dumping
everyone all in one shot, I don't know about the
wisdom of that. To get a new new committee in
(02:21):
there that have not done that function before, that's definitely
going to disrupt.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, let me ask this.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He is saying that there's all kinds of conflicts, which
I'm hearing there is not. As a matter of fact,
they have guardrails to make sure that doesn't happen. But
he accuses these people somehow being completely biased.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And he's going to be putting in non biased people.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know, you're in the medical community and you read
and you hear the buzz. Does anybody doubt he's going
to be putting in less qualified people and people who
are in fact politically motivated to follow the RFK full.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, I mean, if you've been educated in this area,
you are going to be biased towards the fact in
a good way, in an informed way, that vaccines work. Right,
So the problem is anyone who actually has read the information,
who understands how vaccines work, who understand what the world
looked like before vaccines were introduced, they are going to
(03:23):
be in his mind, I would imagine biased, And so
anyone educated is going to be out. So yeah, I'm
concerned about who if he has to do a wholesale
replacement what he's planning on doing.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Here, Yeah, can't wait for that one. All right, let's
take a break and we're going to come back. And
of course, a topic that you put in that you
know was right up my alley, and.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Tell you all about that. How's that for a tease?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
We'll be back with doctor Jim Keeney.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right, back we go, doctor Jim Keeney, chief medical
officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach,
and Jim, of course we're going to be doing this story.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
British doctors are now prescribing.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Freeze dried crap in uh in capsule form actually known
as what now crap souls and Neil you came up with?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And also ash spirin and what else is this? Is
this for the poscription? Yeah, there's the there's the aspirin.
There's also the putnacillin, there's the Lexa pooh, all kinds
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Now this goes on and on. I mean, Neil took
this one, now, is uh? I mean, as ridiculous as
it sounds, Is there any efficacy here?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Oh? Absolutely, and efficacy Over a long period of time
people have have done this, uh and it works. So
in the past what they would do is, you know,
you grab a family member who is otherwise healthy, you
get a fecal sample from them, and then with a
colonoscopy or a rectal tube, you insert the stool into
(05:05):
the patient, and that has cured one of our more
difficult infection, secure seed deficile. It's in the name, it's difficult, right,
ceed deficile and it'll get rid of it. There's a
lot of other things we've noticed when people do this
in the past, is people with metabolic syndrome. The metabolic
syndrome gets better, weight loss gets better. Lots of different
(05:26):
things improve when you improve the microbiomes. So there's bad
bacteria in your gut, and remember that you know all
the bacteria have DNA. Those DNA produce proteins. Proteins are
how things get done in the body. They're the communication,
they're the things that the building blocks. So when you
have an alien protein in your body that's kind of
(05:48):
taken over and doing things that shouldn't be done that
can lead to bad health, like metabolic syndrome. So it's
actually really interesting they're taking up in this case though,
because that's a process right to put a rectal tube
in and everything. They're trying to create capsules that are
safe that have been processed so you don't have any
kind of coinfections or any other weird bacteria or anything
(06:10):
riding along. Freeze dry and put them in a pill
and then you can just swallow the pill.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Or you can swallow a Chipotle burrito. That seems to
work too.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It might work equally as well, but you know, it's
kind of a Russian roulette. You never know what else
you're going to get in the burritos.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Doctor, By the way, that was a great news story
too about Chipotle burritos, which they did straighten out at
some point.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I just wanted to confirm. Are you saying, Doc, that
if I swallowed a capsule full of pooh I would
lose weight?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah. There's been people that have lost weight because there
is a microbiome that's associated with weight gain and there's
a different microbiome that's associated with remaining thin. So when
if they've done that where they've taken even twins who
one's obese, one thin, and they take the stool sample
out of one and put it in the other and
the other one gets thin. Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, And those capsules, by the way, you get thin
because you throw them, throw them up and everything else.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, that is fascinating. Is there basically is this
on the upswing or does there.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Have been a recent study that shows that this has
more efficacy and or it just works and it's just
a great product concept.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I mean, we've been talking about it for a while
because I'm pretty convinced right that the microbiome is a
significant part. We all were all looking at our DNA,
which maybe has you know, hundreds to a couple thousand genes,
and meanwhile we have tens of thousands of genes riding
along in our bodies through these microbiome and so I
really do believe that we can probably more greatly impact
(07:51):
our health by effect in the microbiome. So it's been
going on for years, but this is another study trying
to make it more mainstream and more every day.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
All right, Jim as always, Uh, thank you, we'll talk again.
I'll probably call you in a couple of days with
some malady that I have just to make my life miserable.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, and thank Cono for playing the original during my segment.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, thank goodness for sure.
All right, Moving to doctor Jim Keeney.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jim, chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center
in Long Beach and a board certified er doctor.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
All right, Jim, good morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh right now, you knew i'd go there. No, No, First,
I'm going to do something that's even more important. And
this is a shocker that I'm not going to go
to the British poop pills, which I'll tell you about
in a minute. Or Jim will the story yesterday of
Robert Kennedy Junior firing the entire US Vaccine Committee after
(00:39):
he promised he would not to get Bill Cassidy's Senate vote.
Who happens to be a doctor and actually doesn't believe
in the anti vaccine crapola. How important of is this
and what is going to be the fallout?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah? I mean, so this committee, the Advisory Committee on
Ammunization Practices or A six. You know, they are the
ones that kind of come alongside almost every other organization
to advise them on vaccines. Right, So the FDA approves
vaccines after looking at safety and efficacy, but ACIP makes
the recommendation that the FDA approves.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Then they come.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Alongside the CDC. The CDC implements national vaccine programs and
ACIP recommends those schedules and what happens on those schedules. Sorry,
I'm getting a call, so you're probably hearing a bunch
of cutouts. You know, the state and local health departments
align with acip's recommendations. Private insurers pay for they're required
(01:40):
to pay for the ACIP guidelines. So this is going
to impact, you know, what's paid for. Schools follow their
their vaccine recommendations, and free vaccine programs are based on
their recommendations as well. So a big impact in the
world of you know, vaccines. And so you know, he's
(02:00):
trying to say that we're embedded with a system of
an industry aligned with pro pharma ideology, and you know
that a or may not be true to some extent,
but you know, to undermine the entire process by dumping
everyone all in one shot, I don't know about the
wisdom of that. To get a new new committee in
(02:21):
there that have not done that function before, that's definitely
going to disrupt.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, let me ask this.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
He is saying that there's all kinds of conflicts, which
I'm hearing there is not. As a matter of fact,
they have guardrails to make sure that doesn't happen. But
he accuses these people somehow being completely biased.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And he's going to be putting in non biased people.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know, you're in the medical community and you read
and you hear the buzz. Does anybody doubt he's going
to be putting in less qualified people and people who
are in fact politically motivated to follow the RFK full.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, I mean, if you've been educated in this area,
you are going to be biased towards the fact in
a good way, in an informed way, that vaccines work. Right,
So the problem is anyone who actually has read the information,
who understands how vaccines work, who understand what the world
looked like before vaccines were introduced, they are going to
(03:23):
be in his mind, I would imagine biased, And so
anyone educated is going to be out. So yeah, I'm
concerned about who if he has to do a wholesale
replacement what he's planning on doing.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Here, Yeah, can't wait for that one. All right, let's
take a break and we're going to come back. And
of course, a topic that you put in that you
know was right up my alley, and.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Tell you all about that. How's that for a tease?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
We'll be back with doctor Jim Keeney.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right, back we go, doctor Jim Keeney, chief medical
officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach,
and Jim, of course we're going to be doing this story.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
British doctors are now prescribing.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Freeze dried crap in uh in capsule form actually known
as what now crap souls and Neil you came up with?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And also ash spirin and what else is this? Is
this for the poscription? Yeah, there's the there's the aspirin.
There's also the putnacillin, there's the Lexa pooh, all kinds
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Now this goes on and on. I mean, Neil took
this one, now, is uh? I mean, as ridiculous as
it sounds, Is there any efficacy here?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Oh? Absolutely, and efficacy Over a long period of time
people have have done this, uh and it works. So
in the past what they would do is, you know,
you grab a family member who is otherwise healthy, you
get a fecal sample from them, and then with a
colonoscopy or a rectal tube, you insert the stool into
(05:05):
the patient, and that has cured one of our more
difficult infection, secure seed deficile. It's in the name, it's difficult, right,
ceed deficile and it'll get rid of it. There's a
lot of other things we've noticed when people do this
in the past, is people with metabolic syndrome. The metabolic
syndrome gets better, weight loss gets better. Lots of different
(05:26):
things improve when you improve the microbiomes. So there's bad
bacteria in your gut, and remember that you know all
the bacteria have DNA. Those DNA produce proteins. Proteins are
how things get done in the body. They're the communication,
they're the things that the building blocks. So when you
have an alien protein in your body that's kind of
(05:48):
taken over and doing things that shouldn't be done that
can lead to bad health, like metabolic syndrome. So it's
actually really interesting they're taking up in this case though,
because that's a process right to put a rectal tube
in and everything. They're trying to create capsules that are
safe that have been processed so you don't have any
kind of coinfections or any other weird bacteria or anything
(06:10):
riding along. Freeze dry and put them in a pill
and then you can just swallow the pill.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Or you can swallow a Chipotle burrito. That seems to
work too.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It might work equally as well, but you know, it's
kind of a Russian roulette. You never know what else
you're going to get in the burritos.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Doctor, By the way, that was a great news story
too about Chipotle burritos, which they did straighten out at
some point.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I just wanted to confirm. Are you saying, Doc, that
if I swallowed a capsule full of pooh I would
lose weight?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah. There's been people that have lost weight because there
is a microbiome that's associated with weight gain and there's
a different microbiome that's associated with remaining thin. So when
if they've done that where they've taken even twins who
one's obese, one thin, and they take the stool sample
out of one and put it in the other and
the other one gets thin. Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, And those capsules, by the way, you get thin
because you throw them, throw them up and everything else.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, that is fascinating. Is there basically is this
on the upswing or does there.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Have been a recent study that shows that this has
more efficacy and or it just works and it's just
a great product concept.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I mean, we've been talking about it for a while
because I'm pretty convinced right that the microbiome is a
significant part. We all were all looking at our DNA,
which maybe has you know, hundreds to a couple thousand genes,
and meanwhile we have tens of thousands of genes riding
along in our bodies through these microbiome and so I
really do believe that we can probably more greatly impact
(07:51):
our health by effect in the microbiome. So it's been
going on for years, but this is another study trying
to make it more mainstream and more every day.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
All right, Jim as always, Uh, thank you, we'll talk again.
I'll probably call you in a couple of days with
some malady that I have just to make my life miserable.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, and thank Cono for playing the original during my segment.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, thank goodness for sure.
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