 Greetings friends. This is survival doc. Today I'm going to talk about something that is very personal. I'm going to talk about some of my own issues, some of my own health problems. Now I'm 55 years old and as a 55 year old man I suffer from more challenges with my health than I did when I was 20 or 30 years old. Now I'll let you know a little bit about my own personal philosophy. I do not use medical doctors at all. Only as a last resort to say if I have an accident on my motorcycle and I've got broken bones and and I'm bleeding profusely sure take me to the medical doctor to patch me up. That is what they're good for. They're good for accidents and injuries. But as far as just treating chronic illnesses to me medical doctors are nothing but pushers for the pharmaceutical company. Everything they do is determined by the pharmaceutical company and it's all for profit. Most of the prescription drugs that are prescribed are just totally useless and a lot of them cause more problems than than they help. Now as a disclaimer here let me say that I'm not encouraging anyone to stop taking your prescription meds and so do not stop taking any of your prescription meds because of anything that I say. I'm just going to explain to you what I do and then I believe that my listeners, watchers are mature enough to where they can make their own decisions but if you're on prescription medicine talk to your doctor if you want to get off of it or make your own decision but don't do anything because of what I said. I will not take any responsibility for any problems that you might have if you decide to take any of the advice that I give in my videos. As a 55 year old man one of the problems that I've had for for some time now is prostate problems. Benign prostate hypertrophy or as a swollen prostate this benign condition it's not cancer. Swollen prostate which makes urination slower slows down urination makes it more difficult. In extreme cases what can happen is it can actually shut down the urine flow entirely. That is a very very bad situation obviously of if you can't urinate not only is it very painful but if urine backs up it can cause kidney failure and actually can result in death. I mean so it is a serious condition. Now I don't use medical doctors I have not been to a medical doctor in 20 years. I haven't taken any type of prescription drug and so far back I can't even remember. I think I took an antibiotic one time because of an infection but even last time I did go to a medical doctor I considered it a mistake and I didn't get the prescription that they gave me. I do use herbal medicines. Now one thing that I have found for my prostate is it's a product called men's formula and the reason I want to show this to you is because I want to talk about some of the ingredients in this formula. This has but because my intention is that during a worst case scenario during an emergency if we're not allowed if we can't get our medical supplies or if I can't get my herbal supplies and one reason I mentioned this formula is because one of the ingredients in here is saw palmetto berries. It also has pumpkin seeds. Now pumpkins are something that I can grow. Saw palmetto is really the main ingredient and I looked into growing my own saw palmetto just so I wouldn't be dependent on buying these commercial products in case I can't. The government's actually trying to prevent us from buying herbs that's what codex alimentarius is about. They want to stop us from buying herbs so that they can keep us on their cellar, their dangerous prescription drugs. I looked at saw palmetto, I looked at growing it myself. It grows in Florida really well and I found out that I can't really grow it in Missouri. Alright it's just the climate it gets too cold here and I just could not grow saw palmetto. If I could grow it I couldn't it probably wouldn't produce berries and it would die. Unless I protected it would die every winter because our winters are way too cold here. Alright so I was I've been looking at things that I could do say if I no longer am able to buy my prostate formula. What are things that I can grow or even better what are things that grow naturally in my area that I might be able to harvest from the wild to help me with my health condition and I mentioned the prostate formula and the prostate problems because that is something that is that's really the only health issue that I have other than some knee pain due to past injuries that I've had to my knee and problems like that. I've been pretty fortunate of course I live a healthy lifestyle. I don't drink alcohol don't use any kind of drugs at all not even prescription drugs. I exercise. I choose healthy foods whenever possible but I'm not perfect. I grow my own food whenever possible. I can't really afford to eat nothing but organic foods because they're so expensive so I do eat a lot of foods from the grocery store. When I grow my own I grow organic and I try to produce as much of my own food as I can because it is certainly healthier and more natural. I raise my own meat so I don't have to deal with antibiotics and chemicals that are in the meats that you buy from factory farms. I try to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. I get a lot of fiber how I keep my bowels moving regularly every day. I mean there's some things that I do that a lot of people will ignore that help me prevent diseases so I don't have to deal with a lot of problems that people a lot of people do have to deal with and I've also just been fortunate not to have a lot of problems but a lot of you out there own prescription drugs and the whole reason for making this video is to ask you what are you going to do if you can't get your prescription drugs anymore due to some type of crisis some time some type of emergency disaster what if you can't get your your drugs well there are a couple things you can do one is you can stockpile a lot of your drug what are you going to do if you run out of your drug I think the best strategy is to not take prescription drugs as much as possible all right now again I'm not telling you not to take drugs if you have a drug that you need to take if you had your thyroid gland removed and you have to take thyroid hormone if you stop taking your thyroid hormone and you don't have a thyroid gland you're going to die all right so what I'm telling you is something that you have to just think about you might not be able to get off the prescription drugs if you're in a situation like that then you know y'all your only choice is to stockpile your drugs all right but then you have to ask yourself what are you going to do if your stockpile runs out but for a lot of us a lot of the drugs that we take are unnecessary cholesterol drugs do far more harm than good in my case I don't think anybody should be taking statin first of all high cholesterol is not the dangerous thing that they make you believe that it is your cholesterol is is necessary I believe the statins actually cost more harm than good drugs like that they love to give you because when they put you on something like a high cholesterol drug or diabetes drug or a high blood pressure drug it's something that they could put you on for life and that's what the pharmaceutical companies love they make billions of dollars that's what they spend all the research on it's producing drugs they don't produce drugs that will cure diseases they're not very many there's not very much profit in that they want to produce drugs that they can put you on and keep you on for the rest of your life and most of these drugs are just not necessary diabetes like type 2 type 2 diabetes a lot of people on diabetes medicine diabetes is a preventable disease I'm not gonna get into that today and if you if you want to be lazy and just take your diabetes medicine that's fine but there you could also look into ways that you could just improve your health for one thing with diabetes type 2 lose a lot of weight get a lot of exercise eat right all right but there are a lot of things that you can do to get off of your drugs or but my advice is to just try to stay off drugs as much as you can look for herbal alternatives and I have the herbal alternatives that you look at prefer things that grow wild in your own area like I said Sao Palmetto is something that I depend on for my prostate gland but it grows in Florida I can't grow it here I'm looking for wild alternatives if I have to hit the woods I don't think I'll ever have to leave my home and hit the woods but you never know it could happen and I've had to hit the woods there are a lot of herbal medicines out there that if you know about them you can find them now one thing I've talked about in this video is a bed straw the reason that I am thinking so much about bed straw or cat tweet is another word for it it's because I have heard that it is a great product not only for not a product but a great herb not only for a great beverage like a coffee substitute beverage but I have heard that it is a great remedy for a swollen prostate and I discovered that this bed straw grows all over my yard I have it growing in my front yard I have it growing around but beside my garage I've got it growing as a weed in my garden Emerson said that a weed is just an herb whose benefits we don't yet understand and I've also heard people say I don't know if this is true or not but I've also heard people say that oftentimes the herbs that you need will are the one actually some of the weeds that are growing around you that's sort of a mystical way to look at it I don't know about that but they do say there are people who believe that the herbs that you need are often the herbs that are growing around you and I know in my case one thing one reason I really looked at this bed straw is because I definitely need something for my prostate and it's growing all over the place not only growing in my yard but anytime you walk out into the the woods I find it all the time so it is something that grows locally here so I'm really excited about bed straw now what I recommend that you do is that you learn what is grows naturally and grows wild in your area and the way that I approach it is I try to identify the plants first of all I have a lot of good books here here's a good book the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers it helps you identify wildflowers and it has just about everything not everything but just about everything that grows in North America it's got great pictures great descriptions to help you identify there's all kinds these are called field guides best way to identify a new herb is to identify its flower because a lot of herbs have similar looking leaves but if you if you can catch the herb when it's flowering or if you're watching a plant wait for it to flower then when you find the flower you can look it up in a field guide like this and identify the herb well I recommend that what you do is you identify everything that's growing wild that you can it grows wild in your area now not all of these herbs that you identify are going to be useful but a lot of them will be you'll be surprised at how many are useful or some of them make great food their emergency survival food or in a lot of them are great herbal medicines but the first step is to identify find out what's growing in your area or once you identify a plant you know what you're dealing with then do some research and find everything that has been written on that plant you'll be amazed almost every flower that I have found if you research it out almost every type of plant that I have found every type of herb that I found has some type of history as herbal medicinal herbal use here's another book I picked this up in the library for they were throwing the library or storing this out so I picked it up for like a quarter screen floor of Missouri the reason I show this is I live in Missouri and I think it's also helpful to get books like this that are in your area from your area the book of wildflowers this is another book that I picked up in the library trees of Missouri again I live in Missouri so I'm looking for reference books that are specific specific to my area trees are actually a lot of trees that have I showed you a juniper tree with juniper berries on it which is a herbal medicine a lot of trees actually have medicinal value mushrooms of North America now think about mushrooms is our poisonous mushrooms out there before you eat mushrooms though make sure that you know what you have there and with with mushrooms you might want to not not just rely on a field guide but you might also get some expert I'd recommend you get some expert advice people who really know before you eat the mushrooms because there are poisonous mushrooms are these these are just some of the books in my library I also have a lot of herbal books I have probably a hundred herbal books the herb book and once you identify the plant you can look up this book is not really good at identifying the plant but it does tell you what uses the plants how and I have a lot of these books and and one book you might not find the plant in the first book that you come across you might some plants some do not have wide known uses and so you might have to look keep looking do some research on the internet but there are a lot of good herb reference books out there some of these are older books they draw on knowledge from people of past generations or they draw on Indian Indian knowledge a lot of knowledge that actually has been lost but it's amazing all of the wild plants that grow out there that do have some type of medicinal value so if you ever do have to hit the woods or if you're if you're living in the woods you may have a lot of herbal knowledge but the herbal knowledge may be of herbs that grow in China you may be an expert on Chinese herbs well you know what you're not going to find any very many Chinese herbs growing local if you live in North America I recommend what you do is you get back to nature learn what grows in your area learn to identify a weed when you're walking through the woods and you see an herb growing there know what it is all right this is something that you need to start working on now you don't want to wait till the crowd hits the fan before you start learning this knowledge this is something that it takes time to learn and you want to start learning it now and there's a lot to cover you're not gonna you're not going to learn all of it in a short period of time but every little bit that you learn could help you if you just start with one plant just go out of in your yard it's amazing the things that grow in my yard that I have identified I've identified a lot of wild foods that I can eat as emergency foods a lot of these wild foods are not real palatable palatable to me but I found out that they're great foods to feed to my animals so I can feed it to my animals and then turn that turned it into high quality protein slaughtered animals and then I have meat to eat I just have a small property in a suburb area and that is just absolutely amazing once you learn how to identify these plants but every time it's just amazing how much is out there but every time I see a weed growing in my on my property I don't immediately just poison it or cut it down what I do is I allow it if it's not something I'm familiar with I allow it to continue growing I watch it try to identify it I'll allow it to flower because it's easier to identify when it flowers when it flowers I'll get one of my reference books I'll identify what it is and almost every single time if I if I read once I find out what it is if I research it out I found out that this thing does have some medicinal value so what are you gonna do when you can't get your drugs anymore and what are you gonna do when the government outlaws herbs and so it's not so easy to ship herbs in from other states or from other other countries you may end up relying on the herbs that are right there in your area so my first advice is to avoid drugs whenever possible learn alternatives and rather than get on prescription drugs and most prescription drugs are out there just to make drug company profits okay let's face it most prescription drugs are not out there to help people mostly far more harm than they do benefit all right they're out there because drug companies made billion-dollar profits they like to develop and patent drugs that they can push you on and keep you on for the rest of your life like high blood pressure medicines they love cholesterol drugs makes it make some billions of dollars try not to get on these drugs if you if you avoid doctors and if a doctor gives you a prescription doesn't mean you've got to fill it and get on that drug you know first of all talk to the doctor about it ask if you really need to be on it if there's something that you can do to prevent having to take this drug generally the doctor won't know anything about what you can do I mean diabetes type 2 is one of the easiest things in the world to prevent but ask your doctor what you can do for you'll get almost no advice you have to do a lot of this research yourself but try avoid doctors unless you need to if you need to see your doctor avoid drugs unless you have to have drugs if you and don't stop taking a drug because of anything anything that I say do your own research avoid drugs find herbal alternatives and I've durable alternatives that you find I've durable alternatives that you find try to find herbs that you can grow yourself so that you're not dependent on herbs shipped in from far away and try to find herbs that you can find in the wild where you live so that if you are completely cut off from your drugs and you're completely cut off from your herbs you can go out and find the medicines that you need in the wild this is survival doc reminding you be prepared or be prepared to be pleased