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My name is Ryan Boulda as most of you would know.
I'll be the first one to admit I am very late on this week's episode and last week's
episode which I apologize for.
I have had some personal things come up, some of which has not been very fun to deal with.
I'm better late than ever though right?
At least I hope so.
It's been a while since I got to do an episode by myself which I'm kind of excited for since
I haven't been able to do it in so long thanks to all you wonderful guests that I've had
on the show.
I always appreciate the guests who came on the only the best herbs podcast.
I never thought I would have so many people involved in this.
The funny part is I don't think a lot of people even know how many guests and how many...
I go through the list of people that we've had on the show and I'm amazed that we've
had so many people who have been interested in what we're doing.
So I just want to say if you've been a guest on the show thank you so much.
It takes times like the ones I'm going through to really put things in perspective and see
all of the collaboration and efforts that people have put in towards just trying to
be helpful I guess.
Just trying to be helpful with the show and that tells me that we're on the right track,
that we're doing things right, we're making a difference, we're getting the word out there
and people are receptive to it.
We had our giveaway that I haven't gotten to address.
We've had our three winners so congrats to them.
I didn't get to address that in last week's episode so congrats to the winners.
I know that they posted their winnings and whatnot.
We had to redo our community pretty much but it's like flourishing now.
It's doing better than ever so we got our public group now.
You can find it as the only the best herbs, podcast, community and store.
The store of which is then the last part in getting this going.
However, I think that people will be pleasantly surprised with what we have to offer once
we get everything locked and loaded.
So I alluded to the fact that I am doing this episode solo.
I was supposed to do the last week solo but I'm not such a great guest that I had to put
them on the show right then and there when I had the opportunity.
Go listen to that if you know what I mean, go listen to episode 2 of season 3.
Like I said man, we've had so many awesome guests on the show so just thank you.
Thank you so much to everyone.
Sometimes when you're going through a hard time it really puts things in perspective
for you and I really appreciate it.
So does everybody else at our company, Surgeons LLC.
It means a lot, it speaks volumes in my opinion.
In the community I've talked about doing more live broadcasts in the group which I really,
really want to do at least once a week.
I'm hoping to get it started soon.
I don't like giving dates anymore because not hitting those dates makes me feel personally
not very good.
So I'm going to try to stay away from that as much as possible unless it's already done
and it's already set in stone.
But yeah, we're going to talk about some things today.
We're going to jump right into it right now.
Today we're going to talk about how traditional medicine and we're going to talk about its
role in preventing and treating emerging and reemerging diseases.
Obviously, it is not very a secret anymore on how traditional medicines are being looked
at as the standard of which modern medicine is using to get more ideas, understand these
diseases and even how to treat some of these diseases in the future as we've already been
doing since man-made medicine has been made available.
These diseases have been threatening human health all around the world.
We've been doing a lot of efforts and research that have enabled us to overcome, I would
say, most of these diseases through the use of antiviral and antibiotic agents, a lot
of which are discovered and not discovered.
Now we've talked about microorganisms before and how they have the capability to adapt
and even mutate over time.
Antibiotics and antivirals, they become less and less effective.
I am not a doctor.
So there are a lot of challenges in treating these infections such as failure of the microorganisms
to respond to therapeutic agents has led us to more chronic infections, complications,
and even worse losses of life.
That's been the problem about a lot of these antibiotics and antivirals is sure it works
short term.
In the grand scheme of things, these organisms, they mutate.
If you can remember, not so long ago, we had COVID-19, right, and the pandemic.
I can't tell you how many different antibiotics, even the shot, for example, you know, there
has been a lot of, what did you have to get, like, a shot and then like three or four booster
shots or something crazy like that.
Like it was ridiculous and then there was just a shot, that shot.
And you know, we get down this endless, endless time warp of shots.
And before we got any further than that, I think people started to catch on that, hey,
this isn't working.
It's like it, you know, just like they've been having problems for a long time.
It's no secret that we need a more potent, effective, and versatile therapy.
Needs to help us prevent and stop the old and newly coming of diseases.
Because we all know that there's going to be more in the future.
And we haven't even began to scratch the surface on the ones we are currently facing right
now.
Most of the pharmaceutical agents currently use can be traced to their origin because
of natural products, one way or another or form.
There is like a really big potential of these products and a lot of it has not been realized.
We have numerous natural resources, most of which have not been explored or analyzed.
This means we kind of need to continually support each other and research and do all
this analysis of ancient treatments, explore it's like full potential, right?
We need to keep digging and digging.
And we need to use those to offer maybe an alternate or, you know, we talk about this
all the time.
But this is like the whole point of the show is to have that extra option.
You know, we have our company, which I'll talk about later, but you know, that's our
whole, our whole thing is to give people another safer option in the event they are not trying
to go the pharmaceutical route, narcotics route, things of that nature.
So going back to COVID-19, it kind of, it kind of took the world by surprise, I would
say millions of people died, destroyed the economy.
And just a lot of people were miserable.
Given that almost all the nation suffered in some way, scientists worldwide came together
finally, and we have yet to have a comprehensive cure.
However, there are many antivirals and vaccines that are being used currently with verifying
the degrees of success.
Vaccination of the disease is only measured to avoid its, you know, its most intense effects
can be modulated using multiple vaccines that have been developed and also with natural
supplements working hand in hand.
Right.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we had communities from all over the world who have been advised
to adhere to these health protocols and their local communities to avoid getting infected,
transmitting that virus to others.
And we've came up with this nutrition-based intervention, and it has shown to play a very
big role in preventing and managing these infections.
A lot of them that affect the respiratory system.
When I start talking about things like this that sound very medical, I don't mean any
disrespect to doctors out there who've put in a lot of work.
I'm just like to put that out there.
I'm not here trying to claim I 100% know what I'm talking about.
I'm just going over studies that have been done.
And I always want, I always want healthcare professionals to know that I am taking this
very seriously.
It's not a joke.
Just showing some support in some little way will add to the credibility of this show.
So if you have a problem, like if you feel like, please refer to our email because we
love to hear feedback.
I know that I've been kind of getting really scientific, probably more than I normally
do.
But that's for a reason.
And I'm not claiming to be a doctor by any means.
I try to say that as much as possible.
But here's a couple, how do I put this?
Here are a couple statistics that might, you might want to look at.
So approximately 25% of the contemporary drugs that are out there are derived from plants
and 60% of the anti-infectious drugs in the market and under development are of natural
product origin.
75% of liver disease patients in the US and Europe consume herbal medications.
Now this is a really interesting one because in Germany alone, the use of a natural herb
is called Sillimarin and it is a complex antioxidant natural product.
And its total value in Germany alone has surpassed 180 million.
So there is definitely some type of interest in this natural herb and I think it is something
we may hear more about here in the United States pretty soon.
My whole point, infectious diseases are really serious and natural products should be studied
more which seems to be some of the European countries focus right now which is really
cool.
So that's my really scientific data and explanation of the infectious diseases and natural products
and supplements to treat them.
I would look more into that if you are interested.
I use the NCBI.gov.
I use them to get a lot of my information.
I use PNC.
I use, I mean I use a lot of different resources so look into that.
I mean ask AI.
I mean I ask AI sometimes and it helps, it definitely helps me out.
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My whole point, my whole rant with all the scientific stuff is the whole point is the
whole point of the show.
We talk a lot about fun topics.
We talk about cannabis.
We talk about microbials.
We talk about herbs that make you feel good.
We talked about elderberry.
We talked about turmeric.
We talked about, we talked about a lot of fun topics I guess.
And which is kind of the direction we are about to head right now.
I'm not sure if a lot of people have heard of the new hemp-derived THC product.
It's called THCA and it is very interesting cannabinoid.
For THC as heated, it is a non-psychoactive property of the hemp plant.
But once it is smoked, burned, put under heat, it turns into THC.
However, it is at four times the potency of your normal THC molecule.
That allows THCA to not be sold on the open market federally.
It has the one psychoactive abbreviation of THC.
But however, it is completely different.
Non-psychoactive.
They are looking into possible uses and treatments with the use of THCA and its non-psychoactive
form.
So it's not all about getting high.
Although we know most of people are going to look at this and see all the white crystals
on it.
Because its flower looks very, very extraordinary.
I would look it up right now.
The flower is just caked in white crystals and it almost looks unreal.
But originally, before I started doing my research into THCA, I thought that this white
crystallized substance that was coating the flower of, I thought that it was added.
I didn't think it was something that they grew.
But you would be very surprised that THCA is actually a natural component to the hemp
plant.
Clearly, there needs to be some type of genetic alterations to make it do that in the first
place.
THCA is grown naturally from the hemp plant.
So it's not an additive.
I guess, supposedly, you could possibly do that.
People I'm sure will do that.
That's defeating the purpose of staying natural and stuff.
So THCA, we're going to dive into that a little bit more.
It needs to be, in my opinion, researched a little bit more.
It's kind of where we're going to go right now.
It's kind of a fun topic, but at the same time, it's kind of a serious topic.
So THCA stands for tetrahydrokinabinolic acid.
Basically it's celebrated for its non-psychoactive properties, which makes it completely different
from THC.
In this raw form, THCA may occur or can occur through a process called decarbaloxiation.
It is a chemical reaction initiated by heat.
So basically, heating it up in one form, some people do dabs, the flour.
Pretty much the only way that I'm aware of with THCA, but just burning in some capacity.
Decarboxylation.
There is a critical place where when THCA is converted into THC, it basically means
the release of carbon dioxide is what that means.
Decarboxylation.
So now that we got a good understanding of THCA and what it means and how we get THC,
now we don't have THC, there's some five important facts to know THCA's psychoactive potential
and therapeutic use doesn't produce psychoactive effects in its raw form.
However, when heated, like we've talked about, it has shown potential and treating conditions
like nausea, seizures, inflammation, and providing neuroprotective benefits due to its interactions
with the CB1 receptors in the body, quote unquote, this is from leaf.
Similar to Delta 9 THC, THCA falls under the same regulatory framework, meaning its legality
varies depending on your local cannabis laws, but it is definitely important for you to know
or be aware of the regulations in your area.
Research in the THCA has suggested its effectiveness in treating a variety of conditions.
In the role of THCA's THC inducing effects, it has been studied for anti-nausea, anti-seizure,
anti-inflammatory, and those neuroprotective properties we were just talking about.
The findings support that and its raw cannabis consumption.
These findings are saying you should add the non-heated version, flour, crystals to uncooked
foods so you can retain its un-psychoactive benefits.
The raw THCA edibles, not with any connection to heat, there are very promising animal studies
on THCA, but human trials are needed to really understand its properties, safety, and to
kind of give us a better grasp on the therapeutic and potential applications.
That's even from the business insider.
Various products and consumption methods are available for THCA, including vape pens,
THCA rosin, the flour itself, that allows for discrete use and to maintain high levels
of THCA until heated, which then induces those psychoactive effects going right to THC.
So those are some five important things to know.
They kind of overlap with each other, but you get my point.
We're trying to say here.
Try adding some raw THCA products to, as a person who suffers with seizures in the past,
seeing the anti-seizure thing kind of peaks my interest a little bit.
Like, I just got to eat some raw THCA flour, like is that what would help me?
Neuroprotective properties.
I mean, that's got to be helpful.
I'm not sure where they're getting all these information from, but it has to be an in-depth
study of some sort.
We have some THCA flour on our website that is going to be available April 4th.
So if you're listening to this right now, it is available.
And it looks really good.
We're going to have pre-rolls available.
And we're also going to have 3.5 gram jars available to the flour.
Last time it did not last long.
The last time we put it on the website.
So definitely, definitely get in on this before we run out again.
Trying to keep the supply steady.
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Doing some lives.
Officially, I'm going to start doing some lives on Saturdays.
On Saturdays, on Saturdays, on Saturdays.
I just got to work up the balls to do it, basically.
So plan for Saturdays.
This episode is being released late, so there's going to be another episode coming out here
in the next day or two.
And then after that, I'm going to try doing lives.
And then hopefully by that time, we're going to have everything caught up to where we need
to be.
Got the live done, got the next podcast episode coming up.
I'll be on track here, so I apologize.
You guys are the best.
I also wanted to talk even about CBDA, which would kind of coincide with the antiviral
things I was talking about in the episode in the beginning.
CBDA is actually an antiviral.
A lot of people use it for the safeguard against COVID-19, so that would also fit.
We are going to cut it off here, though.
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