The Pennies-a-Dose Hormone Doctors Say Fights Covid and Cancer Stem Cells | Redacted — Transcript

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1. 0:00Melatonin has been shown to help people
2. 0:02recover from COVID, has been shown to
3. 0:04slow the proliferation of cancer, and
4. 0:07help healthy people lower blood
5. 0:09pressure, recover better from exercise,
6. 0:12reduce inflammation, and yet the media
7. 0:14will tell you none of this. I'm going to
8. 0:16show you evidence for it because for
9. 0:19some reason the media ignores it. Funny
10. 0:22thing about that though because as soon
11. 0:23as researchers started to realize that
12. 0:26melatonin was helping people recover
13. 0:28from COVID, the media started maligning
14. 0:31melatonin with headlines like this.
15. 0:35And this.
16. 0:37And this.
17. 0:39And this.
18. 0:41Now, around the same time that the media
19. 0:43began to report the dangers of
20. 0:46melatonin, researchers started to
21. 0:48publish studies showing that melatonin
22. 0:50could help people recover from COVID
23. 0:53either by speeding up recovery or by
24. 0:57helping people to avoid the ICU. This is
25. 1:00one such study again showing that
26. 1:02patients who took melatonin when they
27. 1:04had COVID had a higher rate of clinical
28. 1:06recovery, lower risk of going to the
29. 1:09intensive care, and lower mortality.
30. 1:11Now, I studied hard during the pandemic
31. 1:14and I knew none of this. No mainstream
32. 1:17media reported this that I can find.
33. 1:20Now, why would the media malign
34. 1:23melatonin but then not report when there
35. 1:26is positive evidence that it can be a
36. 1:29curative? Could it maybe be cynical
37. 1:31question, but is it because melatonin is
38. 1:34not available for patent and therefore
39. 1:37not a profit generator potential for big
40. 1:40pharma? Well, indeed melatonin cannot be
41. 1:43patented because it is a naturally
42. 1:45occurring hormone produced by the human
43. 1:48body. That means the molecule itself is
44. 1:51not patentable for a new invention. That
45. 1:54means pharmaceutical companies generally
46. 1:56cannot obtain exclusive rights to
47. 1:59melatonin itself. They could, if they
48. 2:01wanted to, patent novel formulations and
49. 2:04delivery systems or manufacturing
50. 2:06processes, but not melatonin itself. So,
51. 2:09the financial incentive is very
52. 2:11different. A company investing millions
53. 2:13of dollars in clinical trials may have
54. 2:16difficulty recovering that investment if
55. 2:18a competitor can sell the same
56. 2:20inexpensive molecule without funding
57. 2:22that research. And in fact, melatonin is
58. 2:25very cheap. This is the brand I buy at
59. 2:28Walmart. You can see here it's about 10
60. 2:30to 15 cents per pill. So, is it
61. 2:33surprising that Big Pharma and the media
62. 2:35don't report on it as a curative? Now,
63. 2:38before I get to what is known about
64. 2:40melatonin and cancer, let us quickly
65. 2:43explore why melatonin is a curative, not
66. 2:46just for cancer and COVID, but possibly
67. 2:48many things. Most people think of
68. 2:51melatonin as the hormone that puts you
69. 2:53to sleep, and it is that, but also more.
70. 2:55It's also a powerful anti-inflammatory
71. 2:58and antioxidant. Now, when babies are
72. 3:00about 4 months old, they start to make
73. 3:03melatonin in order to establish a day
74. 3:05and night rhythm. Before that, if you've
75. 3:07ever had a baby, you know, they just
76. 3:08sleep around the clock. As we get older,
77. 3:11our brains release melatonin in response
78. 3:13to darkness that signals to the body
79. 3:16that it's night time, but after you turn
80. 3:1840, you make less and less. Now,
81. 3:21melatonin does so much more than help
82. 3:23put us to sleep because there are cells
83. 3:25throughout the body that have receptors
84. 3:27that respond to melatonin for a variety
85. 3:30of biological functions. Our cells'
86. 3:32mitochondria, the tiny little
87. 3:34powerhouses that produce energy, also
88. 3:37can make melatonin, potentially
89. 3:39stimulated by near infrared light.
90. 3:41Melatonin acts as a powerful
91. 3:43antioxidant, helping protect cells from
92. 3:46damage while supporting their ability to
93. 3:48produce energy.
94. 3:51Melatonin is also a powerful
95. 3:52anti-inflammatory by helping regulate
96. 3:55the body's immune responses and helping
97. 3:57protect cells from oxidative stress,
98. 4:00which can damage DNA, impair
99. 4:02mitochondrial function, and contribute
100. 4:05to chronic disease. Now, I like to think
101. 4:07of melatonin as the nighttime version of
102. 4:10vitamin D. Now, most of us know how
103. 4:13important vitamin D is for fighting
104. 4:14cancer and all-around health, and our
105. 4:17bodies make it from the sun. Well,
106. 4:19melatonin is made from darkness. So,
107. 4:22it's kind of like the Batman to vitamin
108. 4:25D's Superman. One fights during the day,
109. 4:29is made from the sun, the other is born
110. 4:32in the darkness, comes at night. You
111. 4:35like that? I made this image with AI,
112. 4:37makes me laugh. So, that's why studies
113. 4:39show that melatonin can lower blood
114. 4:42pressure. Studies also show that
115. 4:45melatonin increases antioxidant defenses
116. 4:48and reduces DNA damage in athletes.
117. 4:51Studies also show that it reduces
118. 4:53inflammation. Studies also show it
119. 4:55improves general cardiovascular health
120. 4:58in several cardiac markers. Okay, in a
121. 5:01minute I want to talk about what is
122. 5:03known about melatonin and cancer, but
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167. 6:47Now, here is what is known about
168. 6:49melatonin and cancer. Studies have shown
169. 6:52that people with cancer are prone to be
170. 6:55low in melatonin. And in fact, people
171. 6:57who work night shifts are prone to more
172. 6:59cancers, and this is thought to be one
173. 7:02reason for that. For example, flight
174. 7:03attendants are more prone to breast
175. 7:06cancer, possibly because of the frequent
176. 7:09time zone changes, exposure to light
177. 7:12overnight, which can again lead to low
178. 7:14levels of melatonin. But scientists have
179. 7:17actually been studying melatonin to
180. 7:19treat cancer for decades. Here's just
181. 7:21one example of research dated all the
182. 7:23way back to 2002.
183. 7:26You would think you might have heard
184. 7:27some rumblings of this by now, but I
185. 7:29think most cancer patients have not.
186. 7:31Well, how? How do researchers think that
187. 7:33melatonin can cure cancer or treat
188. 7:35cancer? One theory is that it decreases
189. 7:38the glucose from metabolizing in cancer
190. 7:41cells.
191. 7:42Uh other research suggests that it stops
192. 7:45cancer stem cells. I think most cancer
193. 7:47patients are told that doctors can
194. 7:50either kill or radiate or get rid of
195. 7:52cancer cells through chemotherapy or
196. 7:54radiation. What you're not told is that
197. 7:57chemotherapy and radiation can then
198. 7:59fortify cancer stem cells. So, while you
199. 8:03can kill what appears in your scans, you
200. 8:06can't be sure that cancer stem cells are
201. 8:09not going to just be seated and grow new
202. 8:12cancers in your body. That's why a lot
203. 8:14of people have their cancer come back
204. 8:17because of the stem cells that just grow
205. 8:19it anew. Well, melatonin, like
206. 8:22ivermectin and mebendazole, are thought
207. 8:25to target cancer stem cells.
208. 8:28Uh another theory is that melatonin can
209. 8:30inhibit the Warburg effect. Now, cancer
210. 8:33cells often reprogram the way they
211. 8:35consume sugar to fuel their rapid
212. 8:38growth. This is known as the Warburg
213. 8:40effect, and researchers have found that
214. 8:42melatonin can interfere with this
215. 8:44process in certain cancer cells,
216. 8:47potentially disrupting their energy
217. 8:49metabolism, making it harder for them to
218. 8:51survive. And, in fact, scientists have
219. 8:54discovered multiple ways that melatonin
220. 8:56has anti-cancer activities. Uh this
221. 8:59chart was published in Dr. Paul Marik's
222. 9:01book, uh Cancer Care.
223. 9:04But, also, yes, melatonin helps you
224. 9:06sleep. It puts me down like horse
225. 9:08tranquilizer. I have to take the baby
226. 9:11version, the 1 mg, because I am very
227. 9:13sensitive to it. Known side effects
228. 9:16include morning drowsiness, and some
229. 9:17people report bad dreams. Uh usually
230. 9:20they're the kind of dreams that I wake
231. 9:22up mad at my husband. Otherwise, it's
232. 9:25safe, maybe not for my husband.
233. 9:27Melatonin has such low acute toxicity
234. 9:30that researchers have been unable to
235. 9:33establish what's called an LD50
236. 9:35in animal studies. That means that they
237. 9:37literally have not been able to kill an
238. 9:39animal with it, no matter how much
239. 9:41they've given it.
240. 9:43Although those animals, you got to
241. 9:44wonder how well they slept after these
242. 9:46high doses of melatonin experimentation.
243. 9:49Now, I personally am mad that I didn't
244. 9:51know about this earlier because
245. 9:53sometimes my kids get a cold or a flu
246. 9:56and I don't want to give them a PM
247. 9:58medicine with a Benadryl because
248. 10:01Benadryl is very drying and usually that
249. 10:03makes their flu symptoms worse the next
250. 10:06day. All this time, I could have been
251. 10:08giving them a melatonin not only to help
252. 10:10them sleep, but to reduce the
253. 10:11inflammation that causes them such
254. 10:13discomfort when they're sick, but I
255. 10:15didn't know this because I was listening
256. 10:18to the media say that it was unsafe for
257. 10:20children or caused heart disease. I also
258. 10:22heard in some of my natural healing
259. 10:23groups that melatonin was made from cow
260. 10:25vomit. It is not. I'm sorry that I told
261. 10:28you that, Mom. Uh and the media, again,
262. 10:32you know, kept me away from melatonin
263. 10:34because of all these scary headlines.
264. 10:36But what do they mean when they say here
265. 10:38melatonin poisoning? Well, when you look
266. 10:41at the actual CDC report, they mean
267. 10:43mostly nothing. They report that
268. 10:45children who overdosed on melatonin,
269. 10:48over 80% of them who accidentally took
270. 10:50it, had no symptoms at all. Nothing.
271. 10:53They probably slept for a long time, but
272. 10:55that was it. Uh children may
273. 10:57accidentally get into it because it
274. 10:59tastes like candy. It comes in berry or
275. 11:01mint flavors. But according to poison
276. 11:03control, five children were put on
277. 11:05ventilators and two children died, but
278. 11:07again, when you look at the CDC report,
279. 11:10they could not establish that melatonin
280. 11:12caused those deaths.
281. 11:15So, you got to wonder, how is it that
282. 11:17scientists have failed to kill animals
283. 11:20with industrial strength melatonin
284. 11:23and yet two small children died from one
285. 11:26consumer grade bottle? It kind of defies
286. 11:29logic and in fact, the CDC doesn't even
287. 11:31make that claim. So, are these really
288. 11:33melatonin deaths? I don't think we can
289. 11:35say that.
290. 11:36The other five children that were put on
291. 11:38ventilators, again, we don't know. The
292. 11:41CDC doesn't tell us how much they took,
293. 11:43what their symptoms were, and whether
294. 11:45they had pre-existing conditions, or
295. 11:47even how old they were. So, those are
296. 11:50important details if we're really going
297. 11:51to understand how children who overdosed
298. 11:53on melatonin got put on a ventilator.
299. 11:56And in fact, if we then compare
300. 11:58melatonin to the safety protocol of say
301. 12:01children's Benadryl, well, unlike
302. 12:04melatonin, uh the ingredient in Benadryl
303. 12:07is called diphenhydramine, and those
304. 12:10overdoses can cause seizure, dangerous
305. 12:13heart rhythms, and even death. A study
306. 12:16published by the American Academy of
307. 12:17Pediatrics found that 20% of reported
308. 12:21intentional pediatric Benadryl
309. 12:23ingestions resulted in critical care
310. 12:25admissions. Now, compare that to just
311. 12:281.2%
312. 12:30of reported pediatric melatonin
313. 12:32ingestions involving serious medical
314. 12:35outcomes. It's funny that we don't see
315. 12:37more scare headlines about Benadryl,
316. 12:39right? Now, what about heart disease?
317. 12:42Because that became a part of the media
318. 12:43cycle recently, too, that melatonin
319. 12:46causes heart disease. Well, that came
320. 12:49from an observational report from the
321. 12:52American Heart Association. I trust them
322. 12:55about as much as I trust Congress, but
323. 12:58follow-up studies have not been able to
324. 13:00validate that. And again, a systematic
325. 13:03review of 63 clinical trials showed that
326. 13:06melatonin actually improves heart
327. 13:09health.
328. 13:10So, should you take it? Well, obviously,
329. 13:13I can't tell you that, and you should
330. 13:14not get that information and advice from
331. 13:16a podcaster and a journalist. You should
332. 13:18research this yourself. I will say that
333. 13:21I take it, and I do give it to my teen
334. 13:23athletes. And I am going to suggest that
335. 13:25you scroll back through this video and
336. 13:27review the studies I've shown you that
337. 13:30melatonin can be beneficial in healthy
338. 13:32and sick people. If you're a cancer
339. 13:35patient and you had not been recommended
340. 13:37melatonin or had not had this
341. 13:39conversation with your doctor yet, I'd
342. 13:41be pretty mad if they had this
343. 13:43information about better cancer outcomes
344. 13:46and you hadn't been told yet. Now, Dr.
345. 13:48Merrick in his book says that cancer
346. 13:51patients can benefit from as much as 20
347. 13:54to 30 milligrams per night. I think that
348. 13:56that I would sleep like Sleeping Beauty.
349. 13:59That seems like a really high dosage,
350. 14:00but he says you should start with 5, 10,
351. 14:02and see how much you can take. Uh
352. 14:05so, you know, talk to your doctor about
353. 14:08it. Look into this. And then again, join
354. 14:10me in hating the media for maligning
355. 14:13melatonin and not telling me about these
356. 14:16important benefits. So, again, in
357. 14:19conclusion, I am furious that the media
358. 14:21has maligned melatonin but not told me
359. 14:24that there's potential to be a curative
360. 14:26for COVID, colds, and flus, and general
361. 14:29wellness support. I am mad that there's
362. 14:32no media cycle around its massive
363. 14:34promise
364. 14:35for cancer patients. Uh I am also quite
365. 14:38sure that there is a profit-driven
366. 14:40reason for this. So, look into it for
367. 14:42yourself and if it works for you, sweet
368. 14:45dreams.
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