"that is the most widely prescribed drug in this country and I believe in the US also. But the list of problems acrewing from long-term use is beginning to grow and is serious cancers, dementias. But t..."

"accounts in what is called complimentary medicine, but you're also one of the most respected herbal practitioners in the world. You've been doing this for more than 50 years. I've actually never spoke..."

"Territories in Canada and so and Alaska, you would probably not have very many plants to choose from, but for most other people, they surrounded by plants. That's their world. I think, you know, cuz I..."

"What is it that that you know from the 50 plus years of work that you've done working with plants as a form of medicine that the average person on the street doesn't know how close we are to being to ..."

"Why why should anyone care? You know I have ibuprofen at home. I have medicine that I can have in the the cupboard. I have, you know, cough syrups if I get sick. If I get the flu, I have some flu pill..."

"How many patients have you seen in your"

"career, do you think? Thousands of patients, I would say upwards of 10,000 each for an hour or so at a time to start with. So we get deep into the story and then rolling on at any one time I've got 20..."

"patients that you've worked with that stand out to you that you're most proud of or that were Eureka moments in your own sort of journey? Most of my stories are like journeys. So you see little steps ..."

"I think a second ago you pointed at the stomach when you said that we treat down here. Yes. Is that really the place to start to understand? Well, it's place to start plants cuz that's where you that'..."

"say, eat the rainbow, just get those colors in. But yes, I mean, as you can see, if I start talking about the gut, I'm not going to stop for the next month. On that point of antibiotics, they the mech..."

"cancer of the bowel very closely linked to the state of the microbiome. Okay. So, are there alternatives on this table or in the world of plants to antibiotics that I should maybe also consider um ins..."

"don't The interesting thing is that there's no burning. You can actually have full madras level uh chili and no harm will be done to your lining because there's no burning going on. What you're doing ..."

"effect it's having. If you're starting a business that means you're one person doing the workload of probably about 50 people. When I first founded this podcast I had no idea that I was about to step ..."

"Why what's wrong with g is it is the aroma you give out afterwards. So you know your your friends will be very polite but they'll rather wish you hadn't. Um and some people find that it does upset you..."

"How do you think about chronic pain? There's so many people living with a variety of different types of chronic pain. It affects 51.6 million people, I believe, just in the US alone. And the most comm..."

"They they used to do that back in the day. Oh yes. Yeah. I mean, if you go to North America, the native populations would regularly use Cayenne as their salve for bad joints. In Europe, it was mostly ..."

"take anti-inflammatories and I had another one telling me something else about the inflammation that actually I didn't want to combat the inflammation because it was doing its job and so I it's quite ..."

"You talk about eating your rainbow. Yes. What does that mean? Means as many colors as you can fit in. Um, literally because each color is cause is produced by a constituent of plants. Many of them we ..."

"What is your diet? Are you mix a vegan? Do you eat meat? Yeah. have um you know I just have a broad range of most humans have eaten which is a mixture of things. Uh I do obviously many of my patients ..."

"we were discussing before we started recording that I'm currently on a ketosis diet. The keto diet. Keto diet. Yes. Which basically means that I'm extremely low carb in my diet. Yes. Basically consumi..."

"My girlfriend, she's doing keto as well and she noticed that her menstrual cycle became more regular. Yes. Which she was like shocked by it. And she's really done a lot of AB testing over the the last..."

"then that can disrupt the hormone. So someone like your girlfriend might find that switching to a keto diet abolishes or reduces that disruptor. Yeah. Yeah. I was just reading some stats on that said ..."

"So if you're trying to have kids, which we are now, I guess you want to remove the uh if that's a factor, I would be looking at reducing your sugar intake at the very least. Yeah. I mean, we spend I s..."

"still right on the edge of my tongue? It's like it's it's more so basically for anyone that can't see what we're doing cuz you're listening on audio. He put a little drop of this uh solution echania e..."

"Do you do you think that um things like water fasts, people are doing a lot of these sort of water fasts and these sort of 7-day prolonged fasts are effective medicines? Uh my usual answer when I'm fa..."

"And at the start of the conversation, you referenced that you deal with a lot of cancer patients. So I think you said one/3 about a third of my a quarter maybe a quarter to a third yeah are living wit..."

"I'm pretty sure that the cardiovascular diseases are the single biggest killer. Yes. Still cardiovascular in the west we're talking about so developed countries catching up I'm afraid in other parts o..."

"Spices as in as in the ginger, the cinnamon we talked about, but here's turmeric. And this is something we don't usually see in but if you can see there's in fact if you cut that with your knife there..."

"Okay, so my microbiome is really the processing center for many of these things. And if I have a bad gut microbiome because I've been eating the wrong foods and I haven't had diversity of plants, then..."

"Answers your earlier question, doesn't it? And there's a lot of uh lots of studies that show that it's effective for people that have things like arthritis and joint pains. Yeah, that was leaving the ..."

"time on this podcast, but she's always like two, three years ahead of what then someone really really smart comes and tells me and I spend those two or three years in denial. I'm like, what the is she..."

"as literally. Yeah. So this is So we've got some green tea here. Yeah. And you're talking to me about the association between green tea and Alzheimer's which is really exciting. Yes. Um there's quite ..."

"We haven't talked much about cholesterol. No, you haven't brought it up. Cholesterol is a type of fat made in your liver which travels in your blood and can be found. What is um for anyone that doesn'..."

"What is the most important thing that we didn't talk about that we should have talked about? Well, I suppose I didn't mention much about the omerazole um because that that I've never heard of this bef..."

"Simon, thank you. Um, we have a closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest not knowing who they're leaving it for. The question left for you is, "Our w..."