Based Camp - The Medical System Is No Safer Than the School System

00:00:00.000 Any normal parent would pull that up, look at it, and be like, 4.4 million.

00:00:03.680 I don't know what three means.

00:00:04.500 But I'm not getting any alerts.

00:00:05.880 I'm not being told by anyone.

00:00:07.480 It must be fine.

00:00:08.660 So it must be fine.

00:00:09.220 We weren't really paying attention or taking ownership of it ourselves.

00:00:13.000 Instead, we were like, oh, if no one's telling me anything's wrong, I guess nothing's wrong,

00:00:17.300 which was apparently a really bad approach.

00:00:19.460 I don't know why we didn't assume that this was also happening with the medical system,

00:00:22.480 but the focus of this system is not on patient outcomes.

00:00:26.260 It is on bureaucratic compliance and ass covering and justification of bureaucratic structures.

00:00:34.040 What I want to do here is take this opportunity for not just for our family,

00:00:38.180 but for the network of families that makes up our community.

00:00:42.220 This is something you can join if you're like, my family would benefit from this.

00:00:45.620 But what we also need to make this realistically implementable for us

00:00:49.420 is like-minded medical professionals who are interested in-

00:00:54.660 Providing concierge medicine.

00:00:55.860 A new type of telehealth, basically, where they're much more like a thesis advisor.

00:01:02.160 By that, what I mean is the patient can't just decide on anything themselves.

00:01:05.960 They need to then take all of their research to the doctors, say, here's this study,

00:01:10.200 here's this study, here's this study.

00:01:11.620 And I think as a result, given the symptoms or given this, I should be prescribed X,

00:01:16.500 which again creates reasons for value-aligned families to group together and support each other

00:01:24.420 as the bureaucratic infrastructure of our society is beginning to break down.

00:01:28.600 Because it is.

00:01:29.600 It's not just the school systems.

00:01:31.380 It's not just the infrastructure that's falling apart.

00:01:33.600 Civilization is essentially falling apart around us.

00:01:38.200 Would you like to know more?

00:01:39.600 Hello, Simone. 0.69

00:01:41.560 We are coming into this episode.

00:01:43.280 I will start with mentioning an ask for anyone who fits this criteria and doesn't make it to the end of the episode.

00:01:47.460 But we are looking for values-aligned individuals with MDs, so value-aligned doctors.

00:01:55.380 And we're likely going to create a list for different states for our listeners to directly contact them.

00:02:00.220 But obviously, we would really love one either outside Pennsylvania, but preferably within Pennsylvania due to some prescribing laws.

00:02:07.500 But the reason we need to make this ask is that we have completely lost faith in the, I guess I'd call it bureaucratic medical institutions in the United States and largely in the world.

00:02:22.440 Because I lost faith in the NHS when I was living in the UK.

00:02:26.060 And I was like, at least in the US because it was profit-driven, et cetera.

00:02:28.780 And now I have realized that I should have been putting as much stock in these institutions having my children's best interest at heart as I had put in the school system having my children's best interest at heart.

00:02:43.120 And that these institutions, in their own way, have become as corrupted and as useless as the public school system and are becoming increasingly more so as time goes on, to the extent where if your kids are going to just an average doctor down the road, I would say that I would not trust that they are safe.

00:03:05.740 So do you want to go into the events that led us here, Simone?

00:03:08.700 Well, sure.

00:03:09.840 Yes.

00:03:10.280 It all started with a bat that we found crawling around in our yard.

00:03:15.660 Octavian ran up to Malcolm and said that our dog, the professor, was barking at something scary.

00:03:20.620 And Malcolm, being the ever-attentive dad, did not dismiss this and went outside to check on the kids and saw our dog barking at what seemed like the ground.

00:03:29.540 But it turned out that when he looked closer, there was a bat crawling along it.

00:03:34.220 And so we put the bat in a giant goldfish box and put a sign on it that said live, potentially rabid bat, called the government, found the government testing location.

00:03:47.760 Malcolm drove forever to drop off this live bat, which a government bureaucrat was pretty dismissive about.

00:03:55.200 I know they were like, oh, okay, I'll put it with the mail.

00:03:57.720 And I was like, don't put that with the rest of the mail.

00:03:59.280 It was a live rabid. 0.95

00:04:00.740 And I told them when I dropped them off, this is a live, potentially rabid bat.

00:04:04.500 And there was a, I wrote on the, on the box.

00:04:06.860 Yeah, no, the lady was like, oh, okay. 1.00

00:04:08.580 And then she said it was the rest of the packages.

00:04:10.480 And I was like, excuse me, ma'am.

00:04:11.920 I said, that is a live, potentially rabid bat.

00:04:15.620 And then she seemed to have this moment of recognition where she goes, oh, and then she picks it up and takes it to the back room.

00:04:22.400 And we thought nothing of it when we dropped it off because what are the odds?

00:04:25.700 Actually, we know the odds that this was going to be a rabid bat.

00:04:29.700 The odds were about 1% or even less than that, that this would be a rabid bat.

00:04:35.080 So we thought, okay, great, better safe than sorry.

00:04:37.060 And then wait.

00:04:37.880 And the 24-hour period passes of exposure.

00:04:40.220 So, by the way, if you ever are exposed to rabid animal, it is very important that you, especially if you've been bitten or you've been in a scenario in which potentially spit or brain matter from the bat has gotten into your mouth or an open wound, within 24 hours, you have to get a rabies vaccine.

00:04:59.900 Or the odds of you contracting rabies and then dying from it, because if you actually contract rabies, it is 100% fatal.

00:05:06.780 It is a brain virus.

00:05:07.660 You are going to die. 1.00

00:05:08.800 You have to go.

00:05:09.820 So, we're a little nervous about the 24-hour period passing before knowing that this bat was tested.

00:05:14.880 Government's taken a while, but we're like, yeah, government bureaucracies.

00:05:17.360 What are you going to do?

00:05:18.360 And then finally, at the end of the day on Friday, we received this message that the bat was rabid.

00:05:24.460 The bat was rabid.

00:05:25.380 It was a rabid bat. 0.98

00:05:26.480 And we asked them.

00:05:27.580 We grilled our children.

00:05:29.040 And our eldest son, who's old enough to report on these things, insisted that nobody touch the bat except for the professor.

00:05:34.020 It was the middle son who can talk competently.

00:05:37.660 And, you know, I went out there immediately.

00:05:39.220 I do not think that there was, like, the odds of exposure are incredibly low.

00:05:44.160 But now we know we have rabies in our yard.

00:05:46.500 So, we're like, okay, it's good that there was no exposure.

00:05:50.020 The dog notified us.

00:05:51.800 God bless the professor.

00:05:52.980 Dogs are amazing.

00:05:54.840 Yes.

00:05:55.280 So, bless the professor.

00:05:56.680 Because it was right next to their playground, right?

00:05:59.020 At the base of their slide.

00:06:00.180 Like, literally, if one of them had gone down their slide of their little play fort, they would have butt first right on top of the bat.

00:06:07.160 But we're like, okay, so we know there's rabid animals in our yard now.

00:06:10.340 We should get, because there's the big rabies shot that you can get, which is the post-exposure shot.

00:06:15.200 And that seemed like over the information we have.

00:06:19.460 But the course of action here would be, okay, don't get the post-exposure vaccine, but get the prophylactic vaccine.

00:06:26.640 So, the prophylactic rabies vaccine is for if you are going to be encountering animals with rabies or if there's, like, rabies in your area.

00:06:34.240 It provides some boost, but it's not as severe as the post-exposure vaccine.

00:06:38.460 Go through our ordeal attempting to get the prophylactic rabies vaccine.

00:06:42.400 And keep going, this isn't the only story.

00:06:44.320 They're the rabies story, and then there's another story that happened immediately afterwards that was even more obscene.

00:06:50.280 So, we call our kids pediatric practice, which is one of those, it's many doctors, many nurses.

00:06:56.920 There's no one doctor.

00:06:57.960 It's not this tiny family practice.

00:06:59.840 We do that because we think that, ideally, we thought they functioned better, had better resources.

00:07:05.200 And they tell us, oh, okay, we'll send this message on to a doctor, because we could only call them on Saturday.

00:07:10.480 The office was closed when we first learned of this, and that we wouldn't be able to get an answer from them until Monday.

00:07:16.960 And then they would look into it on Monday, which is bad, because when you're trying to get vaccines for your kids who've been potentially exposed and also just prophylactically protect them, you want to do it as soon as possible.

00:07:26.740 So, that was already pretty bad.

00:07:28.280 Then on Monday, we call again.

00:07:29.580 And this was their emergency line, by the way.

00:07:31.980 Yeah, this was their emergency line.

00:07:33.380 Okay, continue.

00:07:34.240 Yeah.

00:07:35.020 And then, so we...

00:07:36.480 Oh.

00:07:38.120 Here we go.

00:07:38.460 Sorry.

00:07:38.700 Then, on Monday, we called them multiple times, saying, hey, our kids were exposed.

00:07:43.600 This is really urgent.

00:07:44.360 This is a big deal.

00:07:45.320 We really want to get those vaccines ordered.

00:07:47.860 If you have to get them in, obviously, you don't have them in stock.

00:07:50.160 Long story short, to not make the story boring to our audience, we eventually learn that legally, whoever owns them won't let them prescribe rabies vaccines.

00:07:59.380 Or order them.

00:08:00.080 Yeah, under no circumstances are they to give people rabies vaccines.

00:08:04.800 And what they just told us repeatedly, every single time, was go to an emergency room.

00:08:09.900 We call the emergency room.

00:08:11.300 And the emergency room says, oh, we don't give prophylactic rabies vaccines.

00:08:14.900 So, already, they're basically telling us we have to lie to them if we go, if we want to get vaccines.

00:08:19.780 But they do have the vaccines if we want them.

00:08:21.580 But we have to pay an emergency room fee.

00:08:24.680 The last time we did this, because we were actually exposed to a bat that was in our house while we were asleep, so we don't know if we were bitten or spit on or something.

00:08:31.880 We had to go in and get them.

00:08:33.340 We paid over $10,000 in emergency room fees.

00:08:36.360 And then the question is, if it had been a real bat exposure and some family was trying to do the right thing, talk to their doctors first, they would have dismissed them for a week before giving them the answer that they had just decided legally they don't want to give out these vaccines. 0.90

00:08:53.620 Yeah.

00:08:54.060 That is enough time that somebody would be past the period of which a post-exposure vaccine would help them, and they would die.

00:09:04.180 Oh, and we called urgent care clinics.

00:09:07.880 We called every possible channel we thought we could call.

00:09:12.680 They would maybe have them.

00:09:14.440 But it gets worse than that.

00:09:15.540 It gets worse than that.

00:09:16.340 So then, less than a week later, our little girl goes in for her 18 months, and she gets a lead test.

00:09:23.460 And I tell her, if there is any lead in her system, and I was very direct about this.

00:09:27.520 We actually have evidence that I was direct about this that we'll get to in an instant.

00:09:31.060 But give me a call if there is any lead in her system at all.

00:09:34.640 Okay?

00:09:35.340 We don't get a call, of course, because they don't care.

00:09:38.320 They genuinely do not care about the well-being of our kids.

00:09:40.680 But Simone was able to proactively look up what the results of the test were.

00:09:45.660 And it was 4.5.

00:09:47.480 Now, the number at which we would get a call would be 5.

00:09:50.300 That's where they legally have to call us.

00:09:52.880 However, 4.5 is more than twice the national average.

00:09:57.420 Which is around 1.6.

00:09:59.120 Yeah.

00:09:59.700 At that age.

00:10:00.320 This is when you're talking about long-term IQ effects.

00:10:03.340 And we need to do something about it.

00:10:04.960 And we have developed our own plan to work this out.

00:10:08.020 And our kid will be fine.

00:10:09.060 But they wouldn't have told us.

00:10:12.060 They would not have told us.

00:10:13.800 And they were going to not tell us.

00:10:16.180 This is horrifying.

00:10:17.540 But it just shows that they're not legally required to.

00:10:19.460 They're not going to do it.

00:10:20.340 Because they are not looking out for your kid's long-term best interest.

00:10:23.840 And then I told someone, I was like, there must be something new in the house.

00:10:27.320 Because they would have told us with our other kids.

00:10:30.300 Because we went and we found the old medical records.

00:10:33.460 They even had a doctor's note.

00:10:34.800 Dad is very concerned about lead.

00:10:36.660 He wants us to tell him if any comes up in the test.

00:10:40.260 Yeah.

00:10:40.500 Like literally it said in clinical notes from previous appointments.

00:10:43.020 When our kids got lead testing.

00:10:45.180 Dad requested a call with results.

00:10:49.080 Not even if they were above the threshold.

00:10:51.540 Just any result.

00:10:51.980 So I assumed that they were not.

00:10:53.780 They know lead at all.

00:10:55.380 We go back and we look at the old results.

00:10:57.780 Three.

00:10:58.440 Twice the national average.

00:11:00.620 So now we're at this state where it's four years.

00:11:04.240 And when you know something like lead.

00:11:06.160 And the effects of lead in IQ.

00:11:07.620 This, now we've got to be like, oh, we won't give your kids the type of stuff associated with getting lead out of their system, etc.

00:11:13.920 Unless they're over certain numbers.

00:11:15.040 We're just like, you know what?

00:11:16.380 We can no longer trust the medical system anymore.

00:11:19.840 And also because you would probably ask if you are looking at the results of your appointments.

00:11:24.440 Why didn't you identify the three?

00:11:27.260 Like when it was at three.

00:11:28.360 Oh yeah.

00:11:28.760 Why didn't we identify this?

00:11:30.000 So the way they sent the results didn't send markers.

00:11:33.160 It didn't send national averages.

00:11:35.320 It was literally nothing.

00:11:36.600 It was just three.

00:11:39.140 And it was just four point five.

00:11:40.440 Yeah.

00:11:40.540 And it also included a little tooltip icon in the online system that they have.

00:11:46.120 Clicked through to it and it basically said a disclaimer.

00:11:49.620 But it didn't actually provide information on ranges, what the national averages are.

00:11:53.820 You put that into, you then searched for national averages.

00:11:57.420 You went through AI, everything like that. 1.00

00:11:58.880 And you're like, oh shit. 0.99

00:11:59.720 Like this is actually a problem. 0.99

00:12:00.720 But any normal parent would pull that up, look at it and be like 4.4 million.

00:12:05.200 I don't know what three means.

00:12:06.020 But I'm not getting any alerts.

00:12:07.400 I'm not being told by anyone.

00:12:09.000 It must be fine.

00:12:10.000 So it must be fine.

00:12:11.600 And now we are at this point where I'm like, okay.

00:12:15.800 And we had already been moving to this system this year was in our house, which is to move

00:12:19.980 to Ezra scans, which we've talked about before.

00:12:22.280 These are for about $1,500.

00:12:25.520 You can get a full body scan.

00:12:26.840 And they've got centers in major cities across the US and they are incredibly detailed in

00:12:32.860 terms of finding stuff.

00:12:33.900 Yeah.

00:12:34.060 Basically they don't own the machines.

00:12:35.760 They don't own the machines, but they basically are able to book a slot for you with various

00:12:40.080 practices.

00:12:40.580 That's why they're able to do this in many locations.

00:12:42.620 And then their team goes inch by inch through your body and analyzes them, providing preventative

00:12:47.700 healthcare, especially when it comes to cancer.

00:12:49.580 Our plan is to basically get those.

00:12:51.400 We also emailed Emigal, who's the founder of Ezra and cause he's one of those quantified

00:12:56.480 self, really conscientious health people.

00:12:58.320 And we're like, okay, what blood tests do you order?

00:13:00.640 Because we know what like Peter Atiyah orders.

00:13:02.920 We know all these other things, but we want to know what you order and how you keep track

00:13:07.140 of it because he's that kind of person who's just going to know.

00:13:09.980 And so he gave us, and we can put this actually in the comments or the description of this video,

00:13:15.600 this blog post that he shared on all the blood tests that he orders.

00:13:18.920 And also he has a spreadsheet template, which we now have copied and we'll be using where

00:13:23.260 you can keep track of your results over time so that you are personally tracking and charting

00:13:27.320 your health because of HIPAA laws in the United States, at least it's really difficult for

00:13:31.040 you even to gain access to your medical test results and for them to be portable anywhere.

00:13:36.100 So you don't have one comprehensive place to look at all of your medical information.

00:13:39.000 You have to create that for yourself.

00:13:40.780 So our plan was personally for us, for you and me, Malcolm, that we're going to do an Ezra scan

00:13:45.960 every other year because they're crazy expensive, but we should probably do it because

00:13:48.900 cancer and to do comprehensive blood panels that we ourselves using AI analyze because

00:13:55.200 no one else is going to do it.

00:13:57.140 We just have to get a doctor to order it and try to get as much of our insurance to cover

00:14:00.720 it as possible, which is not going to be a lot because we have a high deductible plan

00:14:03.820 because we're not wealthy people.

00:14:06.100 That's where we were, but we didn't do it with our kids because we're like, well, our pediatric

00:14:08.920 practice, they care about kids.

00:14:10.760 No one's going to care about the best interest of kids.

00:14:13.320 Now I have learned they literally care nothing about your kids.

00:14:16.220 Here's what we learned.

00:14:17.260 And this is the, this is ridiculous because it's the same thing that we knew about the

00:14:20.380 education system.

00:14:22.160 It's the same thing we knew about the governmental system.

00:14:24.640 I don't know why we didn't assume that this was also happening with the medical system,

00:14:27.380 but the focus of this system is not on patient outcomes.

00:14:31.280 It is on bureaucratic compliance and ass covering and justification of bureaucratic structures,

00:14:38.760 which is what you talk about in the Privacy's Guide to Governance all the time.

00:14:42.100 But yeah, patient outcomes, not at all the focus.

00:14:46.360 I love the way you worded it, which is the medical system is not built around outcomes.

00:14:49.380 It's built around liability and bureaucracy.

00:14:52.100 And that is what's driving decisions within the industry right now.

00:14:56.160 And that is not your best interest.

00:14:57.960 That's not in your kid's best interest.

00:14:59.420 But also let's talk about for me, right?

00:15:01.240 You look at something like naltrexone, which is basically banned in the United States and is

00:15:06.280 incredibly useful.

00:15:07.720 Yeah, there's literally a cure for alcoholism.

00:15:11.760 There's a cure for alcoholism, but doctors don't prescribe it because liability.

00:15:16.600 And really the only liability is that naltrexone, by the way, is just, it's a little hard on your

00:15:20.740 liver.

00:15:21.100 And obviously if someone's an alcoholic, their liver has already gone through.

00:15:23.880 Well, it's actually partially AA has really lobbied to prevent it from becoming common.

00:15:28.300 And we could do a whole separate video on that.

00:15:30.280 Yeah.

00:15:30.520 Other solutions to alcoholism, because then people become a quote unquote, a dry drunk,

00:15:34.460 which means they didn't solve the real issues that led to alcoholism, which for them is

00:15:38.520 a lack of their religion, which means it's a religion, right?

00:15:43.000 If there's a medical solution to alcoholism, which the original founder of AA said he was

00:15:48.080 founding this as a stopgap until a medical solution became available.

00:15:51.720 And now they're the solution that works in 83% of people who try it.

00:15:55.140 The Sinclair method, it allows you to, if you want to keep drinking when you want to,

00:15:59.660 just not be addicted anymore.

00:16:00.820 And Simone, you see me night and day before this, I used to drink at least 45 beers a

00:16:07.680 day or more for years of my life, decades of my life.

00:16:11.560 And people are like, come on, you couldn't possibly, I love it when people are like, you

00:16:14.880 couldn't possibly be drinking that much.

00:16:16.480 And I'm like, you don't know my family history.

00:16:18.920 You graduated with good grades from a Stanford MBA, constantly hammered.

00:16:25.620 Yes.

00:16:25.900 You were never actually hammered or drunk.

00:16:28.000 I think the fact was you drank beer like a man 200 years ago drank beer, which is to

00:16:34.420 say that you drank beer flavored water, AKA Coors Light.

00:16:38.320 And you drank it constantly as though it were water, just like people used to, just like

00:16:43.700 your ancestors used to.

00:16:45.460 And so you never really were drunk because also your tolerance was insanely high.

00:16:49.420 And I never, the only time I saw you drunk was when my mom did that whole wedding thing 0.99

00:16:54.860 and had us get in that shaman circle.

00:16:56.520 Oh, she tricked me into a pagan wedding ceremony. 0.97

00:16:59.160 Yeah.

00:16:59.660 And then you just switched to the hard stuff and you're like, I'm going to just, you drank

00:17:03.500 yourself to oblivion.

00:17:04.480 I don't think you can remember.

00:17:04.740 Well, I didn't like get angry or anything.

00:17:06.120 It wasn't like I got in.

00:17:06.900 No, you were just like, I need to not be here.

00:17:08.420 I was just trying to power through.

00:17:10.840 That's no, there are different types of drinking.

00:17:13.400 There's, there's European drinking, there's ancestor drinking, which is what you did.

00:17:16.800 And then there's frontier medicine where you're like, I need to knock myself out frontier

00:17:21.400 medicine.

00:17:22.000 Get through a pagan ceremony without offending your parents. 0.89

00:17:25.560 Yeah.

00:17:25.840 Yeah.

00:17:26.640 But anyway, anyways, uh, I, I, the reason I bring up the naltrexin thing is I have learned

00:17:32.100 like where I had saved myself from dying.

00:17:34.080 And that almost certainly saved me from dying was outside of the medical profession and

00:17:38.020 something that's not even talked about within the medical profession.

00:17:39.740 And it took you a long time to find that because there were many times where you tried a

00:17:43.140 lot of other types of interventions and they just never really worked.

00:17:45.900 And you always did tons of research.

00:17:47.180 It took forever.

00:17:48.580 And then recently with that ongoing back pain and you couldn't identify what it was.

00:17:52.000 And the doctor should have known that epidurals can sometimes create these and you found it

00:17:57.520 on an AI.

00:17:59.460 Oh yeah.

00:17:59.740 After my C-section, I was for a month for three solid weeks in crippling back pain, like just

00:18:06.840 turning over in bed caused so much pain that I would involuntarily yell, let alone moving,

00:18:13.120 taking care of an infant, being with our family.

00:18:15.200 And at first I thought it was just hormonal changes.

00:18:19.080 And then I discovered it was almost certainly a complication from the spinal epidural that

00:18:24.400 I got, which is just, it's not like anyone did their job poorly, but I'd emailed the practice

00:18:28.280 about this.

00:18:28.840 I'm like, wow, like I can't, I can't move without being in extreme pain.

00:18:32.900 What's going on?

00:18:33.840 They never called me back.

00:18:34.880 They never emailed me back.

00:18:35.980 They never responded.

00:18:36.580 And they told me that was the way that they wanted to be communicated with.

00:18:39.400 So the point being is what are we doing to fix this for our kids, for us, but I don't

00:18:46.120 want to go into all of the maybe more experimental medical stuff that we may be doing as a family

00:18:51.200 because I don't want people like coming after us or anything like that.

00:18:54.160 But what I'm going to be putting together is a document that goes over all of the most

00:18:59.160 cutting edge research out there for different chemicals, different nootropics, how they might

00:19:04.880 affect kids developmentally, things that we can do about the lead and things that start

00:19:09.100 neural development again after I've already found some great options here.

00:19:12.500 And it's still a low amount of lead, but it's way more than we would want.

00:19:16.040 Like it's going to have an effect if we don't address it.

00:19:18.380 And now we recently had a guy come test every part of the house for lead, everything, including

00:19:22.980 the chicken eggs, everything.

00:19:24.460 So we're going to have a full understanding of where this is coming from.

00:19:28.000 Now, good news.

00:19:29.300 It turned out we had all our kids tested in the original multiple results were false positives

00:19:36.220 and that their actual lead levels were much lower in line with the average American lead

00:19:41.880 level.

00:19:42.900 However, this is how we sort of view within our theological system.

00:19:48.380 The agents of providence or God or the future police or whatever word you want to use within

00:19:52.640 our system works is that they find a way to notify us in a way that we just can't ignore

00:19:59.320 that we need to change some aspect of our behavior.

00:20:02.600 And if I don't change my behavior, if I don't go through with developing this new system and

00:20:08.780 all of the other people it may end up impacting, the events still end up happening in this timeline.

00:20:13.720 So we are now moving to a system of, Simone said, doing the scans, proactively looking

00:20:22.040 at the cutting edge research that's not being implemented into practice yet, developing basically

00:20:27.060 a mixture.

00:20:27.880 I'm already beginning to put this together that will probably bake into some bars for

00:20:31.820 our kids or something like that, or put it in afterwards because it's overheated.

00:20:35.760 It can destroy the active ingredients in a lot of compounds.

00:20:38.340 But we'll come up with some delivery mechanism for our kids.

00:20:42.740 I will make a lot of the information on our research public so other people can use these

00:20:47.680 same things in addition to the Collins Institute, which right now, if you're interested, I need

00:20:51.660 people who can go through it and tell me their feedback because we're back close to launch

00:20:57.080 right now.

00:20:57.560 Um, so let me know anyone who's interested in that.

00:21:01.520 Sorry, I should clarify right here.

00:21:02.760 The Collins Institute is our alternative to the public education system that we have been

00:21:08.900 developing and are close to launching.

00:21:10.800 And also we will be making this sort of medical stuff available.

00:21:14.520 But what we also need to make this realistically implementable for us is like-minded medical

00:21:21.180 professionals who are interested in providing a new type of telehealth, basically.

00:21:27.100 where the, a lot more of the, what the patient is doing is being researched by the patient

00:21:33.660 and then basically being brought and argued to the doctor.

00:21:36.900 Basically the doctor in this system takes on a different role than a doctor historically.

00:21:41.020 They're much more like a thesis advisor.

00:21:44.440 By that, what I mean is the patient can't just decide on anything themselves.

00:21:48.340 They need to then take all of their research to the doctors, say, here's this study, here's

00:21:52.760 this study, here's this study.

00:21:53.880 And I think as a result, given the symptoms or given this, I should be prescribed X instead

00:21:59.640 of here's what's wrong with me.

00:22:01.520 Can you prescribe me X?

00:22:03.780 So to be clear, this isn't just experimental stuff.

00:22:06.220 I, we also, I created a spreadsheet where we are keeping track of basic blood work results,

00:22:12.980 height, weight, blood pressure.

00:22:15.400 Last time we had an eye exam, like last time we've done all the important things, because

00:22:20.000 we realized that also we weren't, because we assumed that the medical system would let

00:22:26.800 us know if something seemed off, we weren't really paying attention or taking ownership

00:22:31.940 of it ourselves.

00:22:32.880 Instead, we were like, Oh, if no one's telling me anything's wrong, I guess nothing's wrong,

00:22:36.900 which was apparently a really bad approach.

00:22:39.540 And it just feels really good now to just plan on not trusting anyone and monitoring our own

00:22:46.040 stuff and making sure here are the vaccines we all are going to need here.

00:22:50.760 Here are, you know, our latest tests.

00:22:52.980 Here's what we're monitoring for each person that seems a little bit out of range, or they

00:22:56.980 could be a warning sign.

00:22:58.280 And here's what we're going to do about it.

00:23:00.500 Theoretically, I could also, once I've refined this massive spreadsheet format where there's like

00:23:05.640 sheets for everyone in the family and like a master, like check-in sheet and a master

00:23:09.400 sheet of here's what resource to use for what, because there are many affordable virtual

00:23:13.880 or urgent care options.

00:23:15.420 There are many affordable alternate options that are not necessarily covered by healthcare

00:23:18.620 that you can use for testing.

00:23:19.820 I can share that too.

00:23:21.360 And so I, what I want to do here is take this opportunity for not just for our family,

00:23:26.920 but for the network of families that makes up our community.

00:23:31.080 This is something you can join.

00:23:31.960 If you're like, my family would benefit from this, let us know.

00:23:35.400 And we are going to try to put together a network that connects like-minded physicians

00:23:39.920 with families in our communities that want to take a lot more personal ownership over

00:23:46.060 their own family's health and be much more aggressive nutritionally and everything like

00:23:51.180 that speaking.

00:23:52.120 And here, what I mean is we are not the type of everything needs to be perfect for our

00:23:56.680 kids sort of family, right?

00:23:58.320 Like breast milk, for example, right?

00:24:00.640 Simone pumped for a bit with this kid, but we're probably not going to be doing that again

00:24:04.400 for the next one.

00:24:05.320 It just slows things down too much.

00:24:06.900 And people are like, oh, this has an effect.

00:24:08.100 We are not about optimizing everything when there are costs to that optimization, i.e.

00:24:14.520 when she becomes fertile again, et cetera.

00:24:16.360 But we are about optimizing for everything when it is a trivial cost to us or our kids or

00:24:25.080 something like that.

00:24:25.680 And there were just so many low hanging fruits out there that I was finding as I was digging

00:24:32.140 into the research here.

00:24:33.240 So I should say that we're not trying to create a network for like over-involved hypochondriacs.

00:24:39.160 That's not the idea here.

00:24:40.460 But it's a network of people who would be using medicine and medication as if the medical

00:24:47.420 industry hadn't frozen 10 years ago in terms of its advancement, which is what happened.

00:24:52.880 And again, I should have known all this.

00:24:54.180 When I look at, I've been looking at more like trans-affirming care stuff and stuff like

00:24:57.460 that now.

00:24:57.840 And it's like if the medical industry was saying people should have been raising alarm

00:25:01.620 bells about this a long time ago.

00:25:04.400 Yeah.

00:25:04.480 One reason I really like putting this together for our community and making these connections

00:25:08.640 for our community is twofold.

00:25:11.260 One is not only does it help make our community safer and help get us access to more sovereignty,

00:25:18.720 more family sovereignty.

00:25:20.440 Two, if we are acting as intermediaries within this, there's not going to be some master list

00:25:25.360 of physicians that public that people can target.

00:25:27.860 It allows us to make connections directly, which is also much better.

00:25:31.700 And three, it allows for an additional source of income for some people within our community.

00:25:37.480 But I guess even four, potentially, is it provides the opportunity for something that could turn

00:25:43.140 into something more formalized as things go down the road, which again creates reasons

00:25:47.860 for value-aligned families to group together and support each other as the bureaucratic infrastructure

00:25:55.460 of our society is beginning to break down.

00:25:57.900 Because it is.

00:25:58.720 It's not just the school systems.

00:26:00.360 It's not just the infrastructure that's falling apart.

00:26:04.160 Civilization is essentially falling apart around us.

00:26:07.420 And only through creating bubbles where we continue to push science forwards, where we

00:26:11.320 continue to push medicine forwards, can we have any faction of humanity hope to continue

00:26:16.780 to thrive at the species.

00:26:18.240 Part of me wonders how other communities that have chosen to essentially go off the grid are

00:26:25.340 handling this.

00:26:25.960 For example, we know lots of people and journalists have covered how the Amish handle

00:26:30.280 medical insurance, you know, that they pool resources, they'll pay towards something, and

00:26:34.400 then the community covers when there's some kind of treatment that's prohibitively expensive,

00:26:38.980 like getting cancer treatment.

00:26:40.820 What I don't know is how they manage their ongoing health, how they decide to get vaccines,

00:26:46.000 how they monitor or don't their various levels of hormones and their growth and their weight

00:26:51.720 and their height and should they be intervening or what do you do when a kid has a rash.

00:26:56.180 I'd be interested in learning that maybe someday we can trot off to Lancaster, Lancaster, however

00:27:02.380 you want to say it, and then see what they do.

00:27:05.040 Talk with some families.

00:27:06.080 I'm very curious.

00:27:06.960 But yeah, I like that idea.

00:27:08.800 I like the idea of promoting any concierge doctor who follows this podcast, who's up for

00:27:14.160 working with values aligned people.

00:27:15.580 And I'm just horrified.

00:27:17.780 These are well-meaning people.

00:27:19.620 The problem is that we're not saying that the people within the medical establishment

00:27:22.940 are malicious in any way.

00:27:24.920 Every doctor that I personally worked with, my pregnancy and delivery and C-section, absolutely

00:27:29.640 fantastic, including like the doctor who did my spinal.

00:27:33.260 They did not do anything wrong.

00:27:35.700 I just had a complication from it.

00:27:37.920 The office that didn't respond to my concerns and requests about crippling pain, they're working 0.96

00:27:44.000 with dumb systems that don't work really well.

00:27:46.260 And what motivation did they have to respond? 0.98

00:27:48.600 If they don't respond, then you go in for a visit and they make more money.

00:27:51.160 The incentive system that's put into place with a lot of these drives behavior patterns.

00:27:56.600 There is no reason to fix a problem like that, like people not responding to patient requests

00:28:01.040 from the perspective of the bosses or the management when the outcome of that is more money.

00:28:07.260 Like with a lot of this, I think that what people get wrong is they think about these

00:28:13.580 big conspiracies, like cancer medications are being withheld or discoveries because

00:28:18.860 institutions can make more money.

00:28:21.040 That's actually a lot harder to do because you have competing medical institutions and

00:28:24.880 one of them had it, they would use it to undercut their competitors.

00:28:28.160 But when you're talking about something like a hospital, no, there isn't really the same

00:28:33.480 competitive pressure for them to get back to you versus getting back to other people,

00:28:36.560 because there's typically only one or two other hospitals in an area that they're competing

00:28:39.680 with.

00:28:40.180 And they're usually not competing on service.

00:28:42.180 The other crazy thing was when you started calling hospitals to try to find out how much

00:28:46.220 a rabies vaccine would cost.

00:28:47.780 And the answer was basically, we can't tell you.

00:28:51.420 What other thing in our society works that way on a random hidden expense?

00:28:55.980 And so it's better for us going forwards to just proactively manage this stuff ourselves

00:29:01.940 and have a network that enables that.

00:29:04.640 And we know that we have an international audience with this podcast and that there are

00:29:09.660 different nations with very different healthcare systems.

00:29:12.920 But when you have a nationalized healthcare system, you're often dealing with just as bad

00:29:17.280 incentives or possibly even worse, like you pointed out with the NHS.

00:29:20.700 Then there, of course, there are some countries that are great, like South Korea, where you

00:29:24.480 get these comprehensive medical scans.

00:29:26.760 Oh, South Korea is amazing.

00:29:28.440 Oh, I got to talk about a medical experience in South Korea.

00:29:30.320 So I've lived in a lot of countries in the UK, the NHS, anyone, my experience with the

00:29:35.320 NHS, even as bad as all this expensive stuff up is in the US that has me scared for my kids

00:29:40.360 and everything like that.

00:29:42.120 I still pray to God every day I live here and not under the NHS.

00:29:47.000 The NHS, basically, if you get like a flu or something like that, and then you try to

00:29:52.280 book an appointment, the appointment is always three weeks out.

00:29:56.420 So you're always better by the time you get to the appointment.

00:29:59.280 If you have something serious, like I remember once I had something serious and urgent and

00:30:03.300 I called and they were like, don't get all emotional with me.

00:30:06.800 I can't deal with this right now.

00:30:07.980 And they hung up when I was at university and somebody was like dying on the floor in

00:30:12.400 front of me.

00:30:12.940 They're like, sir, you need to calm down.

00:30:16.040 I just don't need to deal with this at 3am in the morning.

00:30:18.880 Hang up.

00:30:19.420 Like what?

00:30:20.640 But there's no consequences to this within the NHS.

00:30:22.680 In Korea, though, they have this system where it's really inexpensive.

00:30:27.120 Like in the US, everything's way too expensive because of the way our insurance system works.

00:30:30.880 And if you just banned the whole US insurance system and made everything out of pocket, it

00:30:34.360 would work much better.

00:30:34.960 But that's the way it works in a lot of the developing world.

00:30:36.860 And so we often get medical stuff done in the developing world when we're in Peru or

00:30:39.660 whatever.

00:30:40.000 But in Korea, it's like in the developing world, but it's also like totally industrialized.

00:30:46.280 So like when you were doing like a test, you would sit down in one booth and somebody would

00:30:52.840 ask you like a series of questions and then you'd get moved to a variable set of other

00:30:57.400 booths where they would do, there was like the blood draw line.

00:31:00.820 It was just like, like you were walking in line and it was a fairly fast line and you'd

00:31:04.800 get the blood drawn and they'd move you through.

00:31:06.660 Like everything was just like lines and institutionalized and it was insane.

00:31:10.840 And then when you would get mildly sick and you'd go to an appointment, they'd give you

00:31:16.360 like these breathers and stuff that had like antithetics in them that were meant to make 0.72

00:31:20.520 you feel better immediately as well as prompt, inexpensive service.

00:31:25.200 It was absolutely insane.

00:31:26.800 And then there's childbirth in Korea where afterwards women get the blood.

00:31:29.840 They go to these resorts, essentially like a spa retreat with your baby where they feed

00:31:34.640 you healthy food and you get massages and yeah, you basically get to chill and then take

00:31:40.340 care of everything so that you can recover.

00:31:43.420 Anyway, I love you today Simone and I really hope that we're able to put this together and

00:31:48.180 that we get enough physicians and we're very fortunate that this happened post COVID because

00:31:52.380 post COVID like in PA, the regulations around people prescribing stuff out of state are significantly

00:31:58.180 loosened.

00:31:58.760 That's still true in a lot of areas.

00:32:00.340 And if you win this race, this can be something that you work on to make it much easier for a

00:32:04.980 system like this to operate without any sort of legal concern.

00:32:08.120 Yeah, I would like that.

00:32:09.260 Yeah, and of course, none of this should be taken as medical advice. 0.98

00:32:13.160 Just disclaimer, because just like everyone else, we just have to cover our ass and worry 0.97

00:32:18.060 about liability.

00:32:19.740 But yeah, I just if any if anyone has made it to the end, please want one if you could

00:32:25.440 subscribe and like this video because it will help the video.

00:32:28.000 But also like actually think about your personal health.

00:32:31.520 Think about anyone in your family and their personal health and maybe consider making a spreadsheet

00:32:36.840 where you just start to internally take ownership of it and track it, because if you think that

00:32:40.960 a doctor is keeping track of that and making sure that you're okay, and then informing you

00:32:44.860 stuff that might be going wrong, you're probably wrong.

00:32:49.180 And we learned that the hard way.

00:32:50.640 So love you guys.

00:32:52.220 And love you.

00:32:52.660 Are you welcome, the very most of all?

00:32:53.880 Are you welcome, the very most of all?

00:32:56.560 Are you welcome, the very most of all?

00:32:57.720 are you welcome, the very most of all?

00:32:59.800 Are you welcome, the very most of all?

00:33:00.980 Are you welcome, the very most of all?

Based Camp - May 23, 2024

The Medical System Is No Safer Than the School System

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