#1048 – The Expat Files: Water Filters, PCR Tests, and Stem Cell Treatments

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[00:00] South of the border down Mexico way That's where I fell in love when the stars above came out to play and now that I wonder Hello there all you ex-pat wannabes I'm Johnny Mueller and you're listening to the expat files living in Latin America the show that tells you just what it's like to live Workplay and or retire down here in Latin America It's a mix of the good the bad the ugly and the great and it's all right here. So let's get started All right Let's first talk about some important stuff and then we'll dip into that hate mail bag again You guys and gals out there do like it when I dip into the hate mail, don't you? Hey, that's what makes life interesting, huh? And I've got a thick enough skin. I could take it

[00:45] I don't mind after all we talk about the good the bad the ugly and the great, right? All right first an email from mr. M. He says Johnny. What kind of water filter to use again Please send me the link also Would you personally take a PCR test to get to your destination plan B's whatever your thoughts, please? If you can give me some advice on this as soon as possible That would help because I'm in Mexico now and we'll have to leave soon. All right. Thanks for that. Mr. M first the PCR thing Hey, I've already had the stick up my nose a few times already because I travel quite a bit, you know Sure, I'm totally against it, but you can't travel without it. It's now a universal airline rule They've made it kind of impossible to get on a flight without it and Mike asks if there are any concerns You should be aware of DNA, etc. Well, I'd say you have the same worries and concerns If anyone slams a wooden shish kebab stick up your nose, it kind of hurts

[01:34] It ain't no fun on top of that you end up having to pay for a test. That's been proven to be worthless I'm sure you're all aware that the guy who invented the test who got a Nobel Prize for it name is Kerry Mullis He died a couple years ago He said in many interviews and written statements that it should never be used to diagnose illness It only shows if there are broken pieces of DNA or RNA In fact, you can go to prn.fm Click on Gary null show and download those live interviews for yourself where he comes right out and says Dr. Anthony Falsy who's been around in the WHO and CDC for a long long time He says he knew him and worked with him personally and says he's a lying BS er But you're never gonna hear those audio clips in the lamestream media where Falsy and Bill Gates have been turned into canonized saints

[02:23] So I'm asking you did you know those two little facts that the guy who invented the PCR test said that it should never be used to diagnose illness and he said falsies a lying untrustworthy BS er a Nobel Prize winners saying that falsy is a fraud even way before this cove idiot thing. How about that? So anyway in that email, mr. M's asking about my favorite water filter I'll send that to you mr. M By the way for those of you who are not using a water filter or who think you're okay by buying bottled water Well, the latest stats are pretty revolting get this coming out of the mouth of the CEO of a company called blue land a plastics recycling company She said in an interview just yesterday that the average American eats about a credit cards weight and volume

[03:10] Worth of plastic every week in the form of microplastics that are in our water and food And why wouldn't that be since she said 14 billion pounds of plastics are dumped into the ocean each year Where's she at? There's one kind of microplastic that can't be eliminated at all and millions of tons have accumulated on the surface of the earth and in The air and it comes from something you never think about Tires and brake linings. That's one big reason why some years ago. They eliminated asbestos in brake linings Because you know when you're down to metal on your brakes, you know when the brakes wear out What do you think the brake linings went they were microscopically sanded down so to speak every time you hit the brakes and they got Swept up in the atmosphere. I mean look every time you replace your tires. It's because the other ones went bald, right?

[03:56] What do you think all that rubber? It's not really rubber. It's some synthetic rubber Technically plastic where do you think it goes in the air and it lands on plants in the soil and you breathe it Of course and even if you're using hepa H EPA filters in your house As soon as you walk outside you bathe in that microplastic dust all over again and really almost no one's finicky enough to use a Hepa filter as a regular mask when you go outside Those things are really expensive and they clog in a hurry. You'd have to change it every hour or so They become useless though. Thankfully in just recently many car companies, especially upscale car companies like Tesla. They actually have a hepa filter Recirculation system for the air conditioner and vents some other high-end cars have it too Hey, I'm not saying we all have to get hepa filters everywhere. We go. I don't want to go off that deep end I'm just saying you fight the battles

[04:42] You know you can win like the battle against having micro plastics ingested through your water and food supply And here's what you need to know whatever water purification system you have you'll need to have a carbon block filter in that system That'll get rid of the organics and chlorine pesticides herbicides and most of the fluoride and something that people almost never think about but really should if you have a carbon block filter in Line it'll eliminate all those synthetic hormones chemicals and additives that we eat That eventually go down the drain like those millions of prescription pill residues that are processed through your body like birth control pills Even Viagra and practically any organic that ends up going down the crapper and eventually making it into the water table again You know what? I mean water just doesn't evaporate disappear. It's recycled. You've got the same water We've had for millions of years in fact

[05:29] We're drinking the same water the ancient strength and the Neanderthals and dinosaurs to just like Eric gets Recycled and more importantly you have to pay attention to the specs on your filter system Your system has to have filters that remove particles at least down to 0.2 Micron that'll filter out all the regular crud cyst viruses and bacteria as well as all Microplastics because they have diameters that go down to around 2 microns And if your filters go down to 0.2 microns, you're filtering things that are 10 times smaller now If you're really up on this subject, you'll know there's also plastic particles called Nanoplastic particles they can be so small they slip past a 0.2 micron filter And those might well be the most damaging particles of all because they pass through cell walls

[06:18] However, if you have a good carbon block filter in your water supply, it will absorb or adsorb a DS or be most any and all organic particles and Plastics are by definition organic by the way The definition of organic is a substance that's linked with carbon atoms All plastics are derived from petroleum products and petroleum by definition is basically just configurations of long and short chain Now here's what I find strange if you ask anyone on the street who's never taken a bunch of chemistry courses That'd be like 99% of the population if you ask them the definition of organic and they've heard that word Millions of times they still don't get it, right? They'll almost always think for a second and say it has to do with life. Sure It's a building block of life, but it ain't life. So people are confused

[07:06] Organic molecules are molecules that have a carbon bond in them a carbon atom. That's it That said the bad news is according to recent studies this year in 2021 67% of all fish tested in American supermarkets No, that's not at the piers where the stuff's coming in fresh talking about supermarkets and chains like Walmart and Costco By the way, and this is sort of revolting they get most of their fish and seafood from China and Indonesia So anyway, they report that 67% of the fish tested have measurable amounts of microplastics And in the same study, they showed that 93% of bottled water from 11 different brands showed Microplastic contamination at an average of 325 microplastic particles per liter

[07:54] Hmm so much for calling bottled water pure water That's the term that you was here in Latin America for bottled water agua pura pure water, which is anything But when it might interest you to know one of the biggest bottled water producers in the world is Nestle They own dozens of brands worldwide. And if you look at the bottles, you'll see the tiny little Nestle logo somewhere Well as it turns out Nestle is and another company called ghetto Steiner from Europe contain the most microplastic particles per liter at 930 and 807 microplastic particles per liter. Hmm. Yum. Yum. Hey friend pass me a bottle of that Gatorade will you? Hmm some friend Oh and analysts say about 20% of that contamination comes from the processing plant no matter how safe or non-toxic

[08:41] They tell you the plastic bottle or container is and remember as soon as the Sun hits bottled water No matter what kind of plastic it is the microplastic Concentrations in the liquid in the container immediately start to elevate and then of course you drink it down Oh, and did you know since this Covidia thing in the US they use a hundred million masks a week Gee, now, where do they go when they're finally used up now? These masks are made from polymers such as polypropylene polyurethane polycryonyl nitrite polystyrene polycarbonate Polyethylene and polyester most of which end up in landfills But also a good percentage of them end up in the ocean In fact a report by oceans Asia an organization researching marine pollution confirms the presence of vast Quantities of masks of different types and colors in most specifically the Western Pacific Ocean

[09:31] Bordering guess where surprise surprise Indonesia in China. Thank you. Dr. Falsy By the way, have you noticed masks showing up in the garbage everywhere and along roadsides and in gutters, too So bottom line is we all have plastics embedded in us something that our ancestors just two or three generations ago Never had to consider or deal with and according to Arizona State University in an ongoing study on micro plastics in humans Well, the bad news is they found micro plastics in not only every human But in every tissue from humans that they've ever sampled my advice fight the battles, you know, you can win Don't eat any fish coming from China or Indonesia and skip the bottled water unless it's in glass or stainless steel So again, if you want the details on my very high quality very inexpensive water purification system

[10:21] Send me an email the expert files at gmail.com You can put the whole thing together for under a hundred bucks and for all you guys and gals out there who send me emails asking about reverse osmosis Systems, you know, they're around 150 to 300 bucks. Are they worth it? Sure in the short term They work like gangbusters lots of maintenance problems though, but they work great the first year or so I use them myself, but they never stand the test of time not to mention if you got any kind of chlorine in your system At all, it'll eat the membrane. You won't even know it That's why reverse osmosis systems have a carbon filter ahead of or in front of the reverse osmosis membrane To pull out all the chlorine before it gets there Well, that means if you don't replace that charcoal filter regularly and in a lot of places in the states where water is heavily

[11:08] Clorinated like around Chicago your carbon filter will get depleted in a hurry And before you know it the reverse osmosis membrane is destroyed and you won't know it until it's too late And one of the telltale signs is your water starts tasting or smelling like chlorine again That means you've been drinking crap water for a while and didn't even know it Then you got to replace both the carbon and the RO filter and that could cost you up to a hundred bucks Another big problem is that there are many reverse osmosis systems out there and their parts are not interchangeable So you could end up with an orphan system then when you got to replace the all-important RO filter They don't make them anymore. So my advice unless you're a tinkerer Skip it and go with the three-stage ceramic and carbon block filter system like I have it's much less complicated to put together in Very minimal maintenance too and it uses generic 10-inch filter canisters. You can find those everywhere

[11:58] You can get this stuff on Amazon in all the big pool supply outfits better yet the workhorse filter the ceramic filter You can keep cleaning over and over again It'll ask you 10 or 20 years if you're careful ceramic is fragile And if you drop it while you're cleaning it you'll crack it or break it and then you'll have to get a new one I've done that even so replacements only 30 to 50 bucks. Okay moving on now. You remember a couple of shows ago I read an email from a listener orthopedic surgeon who kept telling me to shut up about stem cells I'm sure you recall that one it generated tons of email. Well in the interest of equal time Let me read his response to my response I now think you're gonna find the rest of this show very interesting since I've been getting absolutely Deluged with emails from people asking about stem cell treatments in Latin America and why you should come down here to get them

[12:48] So today you're gonna get the full scoop and I mean the full scoop on stem cell treatments here in Latin America So let's start by reading part of dr. G's letter. He says Johnny. Thanks for presenting my email on your show 15 minutes of anonymous fame was truly more than I could ask for Still I don't agree with you fully because there are some points you present that may not be accurate in the stem cell Discussion while there are some data that suggests stem cell therapy may work in early arthritis as you say This is almost always temporary relief for lower grade arthritis These are not patients who have their joints replaced, which is a procedure for end-stage high-grade arthritis There is no evidence that stem cell treatment for advanced arthritis works I do agree with you and no doubt you will tout this on your show and you really should that it is worthwhile to explore all

[13:36] Non-surgical options with your doctor prior to agreeing to any kind of surgery And then he gives me a website from the American Association of hip and knee surgeons that he says will help me see his perspective In other words the usual stuff from the medical industrial complex if you know what I mean Then dr. G says the other beef I have with you Johnny is that you say surgeons make a handsome profit from knee and joint replacement surgery And then he gives me some links and some facts about how doctors are reimbursed for this which I won't go into But he makes a good case that they don't make a hell of a lot of money from that But somebody certainly is because it's a billion dollar plus industry a year that didn't even exist some 25 or so years ago Anyway, then he says as always Johnny I appreciate your show and I continue to urge you to present the facts about arthritis treatment and surgeon reimbursement

[14:23] Hey, Johnny, maybe someday we can discuss a medical tourism program in Guatemala Now that would be a great plan B again I appreciate you not using my name on the show as always. I enjoy your show immensely signed Dr. G a conscientious North American orthopedic surgeon. Oh, and that's me talking. All right as always. Thanks for that Dr. G now when you say dr. G that there's no real proof that stem cell treatments are a permanent solution to Arthritis or joint pain or whatever allow me to give you some information. You probably don't have so all you listeners out there Pay attention and note that I make not a cent from what I'm gonna say right now I can back up all this information And if you want the details and the videos and the proof send me an email the expat files at gmail.com Because what I'm gonna tell you now 99.9% of the average American public will never hear in mainstream media because it's not what big pharma big medicine big insurance company and

[15:15] Lame-stream media who are funded by those big corporate giants want you to hear so let me answer some of those stem cell questions Everyone's interested in number one our stem cell treatments FDA approved now as much as you might hate the FDA being Corrupted by big pharma and such you still have got 95% of the population who think an FDA approval is the gold standard Hey, my own mother when discussing new treatments, and she's got two PhDs. She'll say sounds good But is it FDA approved now of course Americans and Canadians have some concerns about Treatments in other countries whether it's stem cells or anything else And if you don't think the AMA and the FDA and big pharma aren't worried about all those people flying south of the border for medical Tourism they hate it because it cuts into their bottom line, so they'll diss it anytime they can anyway

[16:03] If you're from the US or Canada you have a preconceived notion that everything that comes out of the United States is the best Right well that used to be true But it's not necessarily true anymore We do the best research But as for practical day-to-day treatments if it's not FDA approved insurance doesn't pay an FDA approval for anything takes years and years And millions of dollars so as far as mesenchymal stem cell therapies go they are FDA approved That's what they're called. You know mesenchymal stem cell treatments Yes They are approved up in the states the differences in what they allow Doctors to do in the US stem cells are allowed to be derived first off from fat tissue So they get it from liposuction and add some collagen and other materials to it Then centrifuge it and spin it out and they're allowed to inject it into a knee or shoulder or with an IV

[16:48] Second choice is taking it from your bone marrow a painful and intrusive procedure You know going right into your bone usually from your hip and the third option is you can take it from umbilical tissue The problem is the amount of stem cells you get in those three particular ways is very low You're lucky to get a hundred thousand stem cells from fat derived tissue and ten thousand stem cells from bone marrow In fact, those are not even considered stem cell therapies because you see the doctor that actually named stem cell treatments a dr Kaplan he'll tell you and he's the worldwide expert that those are really not stem cell treatments though They're marketed as such because less than one percent of the liquid going into the IV or injection Are actual stem cells now those umbilical cord stem cells that are FDA approved our actual stem cell treatments because you can get up to

[17:37] About five million stem cells from an umbilical cord sounds like a lot But when you go overseas to get stem cell treatments That's considered a drop in the bucket almost nothing And the reason why the numbers are so low compared to what you can get outside the US is because outside the states They clone and replicate those stem cells dramatically However, the FDA up in the states considers that an experimental process so it's not approved for regular use So that's the difference as to what they do down here in stem cell clinics versus the US They clone these cells making identical copies in the multi millions So they inject massive numbers as compared to what they can ever get away with up in the states So they take the stem cells from an umbilical cord They can replicate them extremely fast because it's exponential if you know your math that means X squared

[18:24] That means if you start with just two cells two squared is four four squared sixteen sixteen squared is 256 Well, you get the idea in no time in hours. You have millions whereas in the US You're only stuck with the stem cells. You can get from the tissue you've extracted Unfortunately, or fortunately when it comes to results with stem cells, it's a numbers game So for example with autoimmune diseases, they'll inject 300 million stem cells at one of these stem cell clinics down here That's a number you could never achieve with what's FDA approved up in the states And though that might sound like an outrageous number your body flushes out two hundred billion with a B dead red blood cells a day So you really do need a large number of stem cells a couple hundred million to see some results

[19:10] By the way, when's the last time you heard about doctors curing anything in the United States? Nope, they want you to keep coming back time after time a pill for every symptom like my brother who's on 18 Different prescription pills. So then how long can you expect the stem cell treatments to work? Well, nothing lasts forever I mean, you're gonna die right but on a human scale you could call most of these stem cell treatments permanent So the thing is if you could get five or ten more years out of let's say a knee joint I need that your doctor said needs to be replaced artificially Don't tell me you wouldn't go for it or are you one of those tight wise will only do what the insurance will pay for? Hmm so then what's the success rate of stem cell treatments? Well, if you consider the plain loads of professional athletes that sort of secretly fly south of the border to get stem cell treatment

[19:59] It's mostly for knee and shoulder injuries So let's talk about knee injuries in particular and how do you measure that? Well, you measure it with before and after NMR scans And of course by asking the patient himself if he's pain-free and has mobility back after all that's the best Determination of success or failure right now talking with stem cell clinic docs about the type of patients that come with knee injuries I'll tell you they come with arthritis torn meniscus ACL PCL tendon and cartilage damage and most have had some kind of Arthroscopic surgery in the past and the pain and immobility is coming back And of course the success rate does depend on various issues going on For example, if you're near bone on bone with your knee problem, it will take longer to see results But you will see results but for soft tissue damage like meniscus ligaments or tendons pretty much everyone sees fast and good results

[20:51] Though some people have complete regeneration. There's always at least some very noticeable improvement Now there's four different degrees of meniscus tears or damage and stem cells, you know Don't reattach torn ligaments or tendons that would almost always require a surgical intervention And you know stem cell doctors will tell you the toughest thing to cure is destroyed cartilage though It takes more time you often see huge improvements and for people with chronic arthritis stem cells are often considered by the patient to be a miracle Now when it comes to fourth degree osteoarthritis That's usually called bone on bone Stem cell doctors will tell you even if you've got a tiny bit of cartilage left The stem cells will still work and do their thing because they're guiding the cellular repair though It takes much longer than a less severe injury though. Usually within three months people are feeling much better

[21:40] They're out of pain and seeing great results But you've got to have at least a little bit of cartilage for them to do their thing. In fact in many MRI studies They're seeing 50% Regrowth of cartilage tissue in type 4 considered bone-on-bone situations Of course, it depends on the individual and those are the people people with bone-on-bone That often have to come back six months or a year later to get a second treatment But that's it now remember this it's not like a cortisone shot where you feel good for a couple months And you kind of come back get another one and a few months later another one. We're talking about cellular Regeneration and the gains that you get are gains that you keep and if you still don't believe it Why do hundreds of professional athletes fly south of the border every year just to get stem cell treatments?

[22:26] Hey, those professional sports teams have the best orthopedic guys money can buy and if it didn't work Why would they send them down? Oh and the other thing, you know, professional athletes aren't covered by medical insurance They're not gonna cover a guy who beats his body silly for a living and you know That's the main stumbling block for people up in the States They won't do it unless the insurance will pay now regarding bad knees again If you're heavy into sports and running and weightlifting and all that you're continuously putting wear and tear on your joints And maybe you will have to come back in five or ten years and get another stem cell treatment Who cares or you can get that knee replacement. How about that? Another big question is where are the best stem cell treatment centers in the world? Well, there are lots of great stem cell clinics throughout the world and I've analyzed most of them in Latin America Now a lot of Americans who decide to go down south they think about Panama. There's a guy named dr. Reardon

[23:17] I believe he did all his stem cell research with a very important group in Texas You can check out his book stem cell therapy a rising tide by dr. Neil Reardon. His clinic is in Panama He's had tons of professional athletes and celebrities go to his clinic in Panama Including Mel Gibson and his dad Joe Rogan. In fact had a show on it with dr. Reardon and Mad Max himself. No, not Mad Maxine Waters Who if I recall had a recent brain scan that showed two spirochetes firing between one neuron though I could be wrong. Anyway, it was Mad Max Mel Gibson not Mad Maxine Waters So you've got Panama then you've got in Colombia a place called bio accelerator where lots of MMA athletes and WWF athletes too just flock down there whose bodies by the time they hit about 35 or 40 are completely destroyed again

[24:08] Why do you think they fly all the way to Colombia to get stem cell treatments? Because they're stupid because they want to throw their money down a rat hole to get a Pablo Escobar t-shirt To hang with Colombian girls. Well, maybe by the way, that particular clinic in Colombia was set up and overseen by dr Corella a famous orthopedic surgeon from the University of Miami Oh and the guy that first developed stem cell therapy and named stem cell therapy. Dr Arnold Kaplan is from Case Western University. Go ahead look him up He is the expert on stem cells. By the way He's the guy that trained up all these American doctors that went down south of the border to start up clinics Just because the FDA wouldn't approve that cell multiplication process Even though it's been proven over and over again that the more stem cells you get the higher the number

[24:56] The better the results and you get faster results too Now what I personally like about the one in Mexico and Puerto Vallarta is The dock in charge there has been working in the stem cell field in the states for something like 14 years And it's a quick in and out flight from the states, too Whereas flying to Panama or Colombia will involve a lot greater cost including the cost of the treatment Oh, and that's the thing I really like about the stem cell clinic in Mexico It's like I have to even a third of the price of the very same treatments you get in Panama and Colombia and they don't cut corners They've got absolute state-of-the-art equipment. You can see that on their website. They've got lots of videos Yep, they walk you through the entire process of how they collect and multiply the cells, man I'm telling you they must have 20 or 30 videos and youtubes on that site explaining practically everything

[25:41] And finally, of course everyone wants to know what does it cost? Well, again, let's talk about stem cell treatments for a bad knee and we're talking about the clinic in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Which has the best deals really you can go on their website and find out the prices for every kind of treatment Anyway, if you're going there specifically for a knee It's two grand and that includes an MRI the day you get there and a complete blood workup Just to make sure you're good to go and if you have a recent MRI and blood work They discount the price so then the next day or the day after you get 25 Million stem cells and inject it into your knee and if you're wondering if you're really getting 25 million, are they real? Are they viable? Well, you get a certificate verified by a third-party lab that they have nothing to do with. It's an independent lab They don't own it. Now again, you can find stem cell treatments all through the United States

[26:31] But stem cells taken from fat bone or umbilical cord though in very small numbers compared to what you get south of the border So yes, they call it stem cell treatment, but it's just marketing So in the states you only get from 1 to 5 percent of the potency Meaning the numbers of viable stem cells compared to south of the border now again If you look up dr Arnold Kaplan from case western university you'll see the data he says in the states you get cell therapy But it's really not stem cell therapy for that. You need millions not tens of thousands of cells again It's all about the cloning and multiplication of stem cells not allowed in the states By the way, if you talk to the head technician, he's a gringo at that place in mexico He'll tell you they got a steady flow of american doctors who come down To get stem cells for themselves and their family members

[27:18] Of course, they don't want people to know their names that would be admitting way too much wouldn't it? So in the end you could believe it or not though I'll tell you as for me if I was ready for knee replacement surgery I'd certainly shell out two grand first and see if those stem cells did the trick You've been listening to the expat files living in latin america If you need some help with your own plan b we can schedule a one-on-one phone or skype consult Just send me an email the expat files at gmail.com And if you want to get on the waiting list for my next week long expat insider seminar in central america Where you're guaranteed to get a two to five year head start on your plan b. Send me an email the expat files at gmail.com Nos vamos