Dr. Lodi breaks off the questions to ask the live chat to define the word disease, and reads the answers back: "an attack of a foreign entity in your body", a genetic mutation. He takes each apart and says nobody can define it, because there is no thing there. High blood pressure and insulin resistance, on his account, are adaptations to how a person lives, and what runs in families, he says, is the diet, not the disease. The question that leads into it is forty years of Lyme arthritis and painful joints. He separates acute inflammation, which he says is healing by another name, from chronic inflammation, which he calls a response to an assault that does not stop. On his account "we're all pretty much inflamed", and what he blames is cooking: heat, he says, turns food into something the body no longer recognizes. He cites Luigi Fontana's work on long term raw vegan eaters whose C reactive protein came back almost undetectable. He asks for a long juice cleanse, colon hydrotherapy, movement, and boswellia, ginger and curcumin. Two questions get sent for emergency care. A five year old vomiting for two days: the danger he names is dehydration, and if it has not resolved by now he says an emergency room or urgent care center for fluids. Asked if a severe breast lymphedema with infection warrants the emergency room, he says yes. The rest of the written questions: a lymphoma that followed anti rejection medicine, a listener wanting off a rheumatoid arthritis drug, and a couple who suspect parasites behind bloating and low iron, where he goes into stomach acid. The live chat stretch moves quickly, through a cavity in a wisdom tooth, lowering blood pressure, where he puts fasting first and adds "the best meal you ever had is the one you didn't eat", how he says B17 works and why he says the oral form can be fatal, and cryotherapy against radiofrequency ablation. He ends by agreeing with a commenter that fixing the gut fixes everything, then a worry that eating well only feeds parasites. "They don't want kale," he says. "We are dinner." Covered in this episode A five year old vomiting for two daysLyme arthritis, painful joints and chronic inflammationWhat he says a disease isBreast lymphedema with infectionLymphoma after transplant rejection medicineBloating, low iron and stomach acidWhat he says is the best way to lower blood pressureB17 and why he says the oral form can be fatalCryotherapy against radiofrequency ablationSend us Fan Mail Join Dr. Lodi's Inner Circle membership and unlock exclusive access to webinars, healthy recipes, e-books, educational videos, live Zoom Q&A sessions with Dr. Lodi, plus fresh content every month. Elevate your healing journey today by visiting drlodi.com and use the coupon code podcast (all lowercase: P-O-D-C-A-S-T) for 30% off your first month on any membership option. Support the show This episode is the audio of Dr. Lodi's free Sunday Night Live, where he answers health and cancer questions sent in by viewers. He goes live every Sunday at 8pm New York time on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Send your question in before the show: https://drlodi.com/contact-dr-lodi/livestream-qa/ Follow Dr. Lodi YouTube: youtube.com/@DrThomasLodi Facebook: facebook.com/DrThomasLodi Instagram: instagram.com/drthomaslodi TikTok: tiktok.com/@drthomaslodimd
