Acetaminophen (also known as Tylenol & Paracetamol) is one of those innocuous medications that many people take daily, thinking it’s totally safe. However, much research begs the question of this drug’s long-term safety. In this episode, Dr. Frederick Schurger and Dr. Beth Bagley discuss this drug, its side effects, and possible alternatives to get you back to health. And yes, this will be an ongoing series of discussions of many over-the-counter (OTC) medications that people often think are harmless. So, settle down and tune in to this conversation to start learning more about these drugs that may not be as safe as you thought they would be.
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Are All OTCs Safe? Part 1 – Acetaminophen
Dr. Bagley, how are you?
I am well. How are you doing, Dr. Schurger?
I am doing well. For everyone who hasn’t realized, Dr. Bagley and I have been chatting for about half an hour at this point.
At some point, we were like, “We should start this episode.”
Part of it was because we were like, “What are we going to talk about?” We are like, “We are going to talk about planning. We are going to talk about these next couple of times.” We have some great ideas. Hopefully, we will have a couple of good interviews here over the next few episodes. We have some people we are going to reach out to. No spoilers. We want them to come.
As we were going through the list, I was thinking, I have some great research for going back to ’99 from Dr. Dan Murphy who has been compiling chiropractic and chiropractic-related research since 1999. On a weekly basis, sometimes he’s got extra stuff and all the odd stuff. Some of it is directly related to chiropractic. Some of it is related to health. Just a wealth of knowledge. I started going through that. We were like, “What topic are we going to talk about?” Acetaminophen came to mind.
That’s also known as Tylenol, for people who don’t know that term.
Paracetamol if you are in Europe. Yes, if you are at the hospital, but Europe uses paracetamol.
It’s all the same chemical.
It’s curious because it’s one of those over-the-counter medications that people rely upon. People don’t realize that a lot of them are allergic to it. That’s an issue if you need a good and strong painkiller.
They consider it safe because if taken properly, it probably is very rarely somewhat safe, but there are side effects that people need to know about.
I don’t know about you, but I think, I’m not going to say because I’m not 100%, but a couple of years ago, Illinois passed a law that said that over-the-counter meds can be recommended by chiropractors. I took a step back and said, “No, I’m not going to do that.”
This one, you probably wouldn’t recommend.
Quite honestly, when that law passed, the Catch-22 is, as chiropractors, we don’t put anybody onto any medications and we will not take anybody off of any medications, first and foremost. Quite honestly, now that I have it under my license, at the very least. We are going to talk about research. We are not going to make any recommendations for anybody who’s reading this. I never figured that we were giving medical advice because we are chiropractors. We don’t give medical advice.
As chiropractors, we don't put anybody on any medications, we do not and will not take anybody off any medications. Never. Click To TweetTo the point, we need to understand what some of these medications do, because they might have other problems. A lot of people ask the same thing about their supplements, “Is this going to interfere with this, that, or the other?” Sometimes they do. We are going to talk about a supplement that used to be a medication that’s now a supplement again that will interfere with medications and properly interfere with too much Tylenol.
When you said Tylenol, my first thought went to a study that came out in 2019. Looking back now, there’s a study in 2016 that had to do with empathy. Everyone was like, “What? Empathy?” That’s like caring about other people. You can empathize with a person. You can see it from their perspective. It’s what a narcissist can’t do. Narcissists cannot empathize with someone else. They can pretend to, but they don’t.
In 2016, the study came out and I didn’t know about this one until now because I had just heard about the second one in 2019. When someone has prolonged use of Tylenol, they have trouble with empathizing with other people’s pain. I was like, “Incredible,” because the study that I was looking at and had talked to patients about was, “If you take Tylenol too often or often enough, you will have trouble empathizing with other people’s happiness.” Both are equally bad.
In general, they were studying those two traits, but empathy is a pretty important human quality, especially for doctors and hospital workers. Also, for humans to interact with each other and have good relationships with each other. You could be inadvertently taking a medication that is affecting your ability to interact with your loved ones and with the people you want to have relationships with, and making it harder for you to do that. All of the studies that we are going to talk about coming up will also explain to you why there are other things going on, but that one gets to me. One of my goals as a chiropractor is to help people relate to other people in their lives. You do that through the nervous system.
To have a better life in general. If you can’t empathize, you are not going to be able to interact with people in any meaningful way.
If you can't empathize, you're not going to be able to interact with people in any meaningful way. Click To TweetI’m thinking about a lot of elderly people who take Tylenol on a daily basis. What is that doing for their relationships with their family? What is that doing for their mental health? The implications in this are honestly huge. It did come out in the news mainstream media when that 2019 study came out, but it slowly went and it’s gone. People don’t think about it anymore.
Of course not, because it’s Tylenol and it’s a major brand. I know Tylenol, I want to say GlaxoSmithKline maybe. It’s been a while since I have looked it up. One of the thoughts that I had regarding that, as you were talking about this empathy thing, is some of the young men, especially. I see it more in young men than I see it in young women. They seem disconnected from the world.
It’s Johnson & Johnson.
We won’t get into who has that study. That could go on for a long time, but we shouldn’t. I’m curious because I hate to use on the spectrum for some of these young men and women, but they seem they have a disconnect. Maybe some of it is they are not autistic, but they are a little on the spectrum that they just have a hard time interacting with people. The question in my mind because we have been taught that Tylenol is safe, it’s an easy pain killer.
It’s safe and effective.
It’s safer than aspirin. We should do another episode on aspirin.
We could, but we are not going to. Not right now.
We shouldn’t. The Tylenol thing begs a question, “How many of these young men and some young women as well are having this disconnect from other people, friends, and family? How many of them are on Tylenol?” It’s like, “I take about 3 or 4 of these a day.” We were joking last episode about my brother who, I don’t remember which one he takes that he considers Skittles.
I’m going to guess it’s Advil because of the shape of a normal Advil.
It could be but it could be something else that he’s taking. That’s interesting. That’s curious. I’m going to go down through the list. I got a dozen articles probably here. Let’s start with this 2006 study. Do you know where your 2018 study was? Do you know what journals those came out of?
Yeah, I can tell you in a second. The 2016 study was on social and cognitive effect neuroscience. It was September 11th. It looks like it was published online on May 5th. I got that on the NCBI. If someone’s looking for that, it’s, “From painkiller to empathy killer: Acetaminophen reduces empathy for pain.”
The article that I have here is that the government considered adding a stronger warning label for Tylenol. First off, it can be deadly. If taken more than recommended even once can cause liver failure. This is going back to 2006. This is nothing new. People understood that taking more than 4,000 milligrams of acetaminophen per day is too much.
If you ever do this, and you are starting to have an overdose, let’s go down the list and see what we have for the overdose. Alcohol is going to make it worse. Here’s the other thing. It’s in every medication that you are taking. If you are taking a cold medication or something for your fever, they almost all have them.
Already in them. Yes. It’s like a cold and painkiller. That is such a good point. You might not even know that you are going to overdose because you are already taking it.
It’s because you are taking a couple of them. It’s even worse if you combine it with alcoholic drinks. This is all hitting liver toxicity. A person may feel fine, maybe just nauseated a day or two before the crisis hits. ER doctors can treat, and they do treat acetaminophen overdoses fairly regularly. I went through it and found something. The search I did on my record or my database of these articles was on glutathione production. I then went through and said, “Which ones are the acetaminophen articles?” I found a half dozen or so of them.
Before we go over the ER, somebody out there is like, “What are the symptoms of it?” I looked it up. Abdominal pain, irritability, generalized weakness, loss of appetite, jaundice, which is yellowing skin, mostly, you could see in your eyes first, I believe, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. That could be that you are already sick and you are taking something. All of a sudden, you are getting worse and you are thinking, “Well then, I’m going to take some more.” I can see why people would overdose on this. In the ER, what do they give them?
They give them something called NAC.
They do this intravenously in the ER.
NAC is N-acetyl cysteine. This is a precursor to your antioxidant. We don’t make vitamin C. We have talked about this before, but as human beings, we don’t make our vitamin C. I think almost all other mammals do. There might be one other that doesn’t. We make glutathione instead. That is our natural antioxidant. NAC is the direct precursor for it. By taking NAC, you are boosting your glutathione. This helps clean up the liver and helps clean up the acetaminophen that is in your system. This is one of the best supplements that you can get. I have both now. This is a powder that I get from that. I have one for molecular, and then I have a pill form that’s from Protocol for Life, also a brand.
I have a secret. I may have talked about this already, but when COVID was all big, this was one of the supplements a lot of people were trying to get. It was harder to find because everybody was ordering it. We had a nice supply at my house this. What I found out is I was taking this as a general supplement, taking it when COVID was going around rampantly. I happened to have a few extra glasses of wine one day. The next day, usually after drinking wine is not a good day. I did not have a hangover. I was like, “Could it be related?” I had no idea. I looked it up. Yes, this is related, because when you have a hangover, what happens?
Your liver is unhappy and your liver is trying to decaf from all that. You are tanking your glutathione in the process.
You are. Honestly, I’m not trying to tell people to go drinking and all that stuff, but if you are going to be going to a wedding or something that you are going to have a couple of drinks, this is a great supplement to have on hand.
Here’s the other thing. During COVID, there was this big old ban on a lot of natural supplements. NAC was one of them. There was another one. A lot of people, when they started talking about vitamin D and the benefits of vitamin D along with the potential. The people at the time who seemed to have the worst symptoms had significantly low vitamin D levels.
However, vitamin D levels in and of themselves, if they are below 30, you are in poor health. Anything you can do to get them up higher and higher. Again, we have talked about this a couple of episodes ago. The upper level of vitamin D in your blood is somewhere up and around 150 nanograms. Don’t quote me on that, but it’s high.
Most people think, “As long as you are over 50, then you are in at least a good spot.” Maybe more research is necessary. NAC is an immediate hit. Giving someone who’s sick, vitamin D is great. It’s like saying to the person whose house is burning down, “Let’s get you a cup of water to put that out.” As opposed to the fire hose that you need to address the problem.
It is a long-term solution. It could even be better analogized that giving a person whose house is burning down new lumber to rebuild is the wrong time. It’s the right message, but it’s the wrong timing. NAC is the fire hose coming at you trying to solve the problem immediately. People who are sommeliers or whatever that fancy word. People like to go drinking wine. They are trying to taste. They have an afternoon of drinking and sipping these little wines throughout. They want to enjoy a glass at the end of it maybe, but they are trying a bunch of wines along the way. They will take NAC to help prevent them from having problems down the line.
Again, it’s nice to have. Here’s a bonus while we are talking about NAC. There is some benefit from working out and taking some NAC, but not the day that you are doing it. Now is my workout day. I did a bunch of kettlebell snatches and I didn’t destroy my hands. I’m going to try not to do that.
You weren’t doing it hard enough.
No, I was taking my time. I got to the point where I was like, “One more set will break what was broken open another layer deep.” I didn’t want that. Now would not be the day to take this. Sunday and Monday were my days off and I made sure to take this and I took extra. Last time, my legs were still so sore that every time I tried to stand up from sitting for any period of time, I wanted to cry. Self-inflicted, obviously, but still that helped. NAC is good for your off and your recovery days when you are not pushing yourself to workout hard.
Not so good, because you want a level of inflammation after a workout because that’s what is breaking down and rebuilding your muscle tissue and making everything stronger. If you went right for the NAC, you are going to end up blunting that response and you are not going to get the muscle building that you want in the long term.
Not that you would be recommending to anyone reading how much they should take, but if you were after a workout a day or two later, how many would you take?
I will take maybe two of these a day.
How many milligrams of those?
This one is 1,000 milligrams. This one is 600 for a quarter teaspoon.
This one is 500.
I will take a dose if I know that I have a rough day or I had a rough workout on Saturday. My new workout schedule is Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. On my off days, I can gauge. It’s like, “I will take this in the morning as I start going through my normal supplements. At lunch, maybe I will remember to take one of these. Maybe if I’m still feeling rough at dinner, I will take one more.” I’m gauging it. There is not a strong, hard, and fast prescription. People who have a lot of inflammation, maybe they need more. I want to say I have seen recommendations up to 3,000 milligrams a day, but be careful and gauge it
Do your research. Talk to your chiropractor or doctor about that.
Talk to your doctor about it.
Back to Tylenol.
Let’s wrap up this one here. That was the dangers and the stuff that they were recommending.
To reiterate, Tylenol overdose or too much Tylenol is the number one cause of acute liver failure. That’s pretty darn serious.
Too much Tylenol is the number one cause of acute liver failure. Click To TweetIt’s not just liver failure. We were talking about that. Is it liver or kidney? Is it the kidney or the liver? Quite honestly, I have heard both.
I have too, but I don’t know if that’s true.
Here it is. Another one that Dan Murphy put together for us. This was a 1994 John Hopkins research study in the New England Journal of Medicine that said, “Risk of kidney failure associated with the use of acetaminophen, aspirin, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.” This goes back to 1994 they were acknowledging that this was causing kidney failure. Again, too much is a problem and a lifetime of taking this stuff. If you read what it says on the outside of the bottle, this goes back to my brother’s joke about Skittles, it is not designed to be taken every day for the rest of your life. It is for short acute relief of pain. It says that on the bottle or something to that effect.
When you start taking it longer, you are going to have other problems. As this article suggested, “For some increased risk of end-stage renal disease was as high as 220%,” which is a lot. I don’t get excited about percentages in a research study until we start getting into the hundreds or the thousands. The reason I say that is because so many of these research studies are looking at something called relative risk. They are not looking at absolute risk.
For instance, I will use this as a quick example, my favorite study on colon cancer causes a 100% or is it a 50% increase, either way, your risk of eating meat causes a 50% increase in colon cancer. That’s a relative risk. It sounds big, but what’s the absolute risk? The absolute risk without the meat is somewhere around 4.7%. With the meat, it’s about 5.3%. The question is, “What is your risk for colon cancer?” It’s only about 5% either way. I’m going to go eat my steak, which I have some over here yet to finish eating. No, I won’t share it with your kids.
What about me? I’d like some steak.
I would, but the internet doesn’t work that way.
Willy Wonka had a vision.
Exactly, and we do not have that. That’s one. Another New England Journal of Medicine article from 1997. “Acetaminophen ingestion accounts for 12% of all patients hospitalized with drug overdoses.” This gets back to what we were talking about. How do they treat it? Acute liver failure. This is where the NAC comes back. If you think of your medication as being as effective as Skittles for your pain, don’t take it. You are not doing so well.
This was a 2004 article looking at Vicodin when that was supposed to be the thing, except that causes heart disease and heart attacks. That was a big problem because you had other problems. Not only the liver was having too much. The liver dies, and then it causes heart failure and other things. That one was a mess. This is a handful of things. Do I have any others? Never exceed 4,000 milligrams a day.
What if you are a 105-pound woman? That might kill you but whereas a 230-pound man with it.
Yeah, because that is a major problem. I suppose the upside is, we aren’t seeing 105-pound women as much as we are seeing 180-pound women. That’s not good either but for different reasons. Still, the bigger issue is, what other stuff are you taking when you are not feeling well? You might be taking the aspirin, but you might be also taking some NyQuil, some Sudafed, or some Alka-Seltzer.
They could have it mixed in. It’s like acute cold and flu. It’s probably going to have this in it.
We keep on going down the list of all these problems. This one is interesting because it can add to hypertension. How many people think they have high blood pressure and they are taking something that has acetaminophen in it, and that causes more problems? Again, the list goes on of these problems. This was hypertension in women. These get into the weeds a little bit, but remember, anything that I’m sharing here is all journal articles. You can go to these journals. I’m not going to put them all in the show notes here. I don’t need to do that. Make sure you are looking.
This one is out of the American Journal of Medicine, March 2010. Analgesic use and the risk of hearing loss in men. We are getting into the NSAIDs, aspirins, and acetaminophen. Men who were taking these pain meds were having an increased risk of hearing loss. That’s not good either, so in all ages, aspirin was increasing hearing loss by 12% to 33%. More than two times a week was the consumption.
Look at the acetaminophen. More than two times a week.
For over 50 men, there was a 99% increase in hearing loss. It doesn’t mean you are going deaf from taking acetaminophen, it just means you are having hearing loss.
You are hearing is impacted. I did not know that one.
That’s where you start asking questions, “How safe is this?” It goes back to the US government wanting to say, “Maybe we should have tighter controls for the use of this medication.” It came out at a time when it looked like it was low risk.
I won’t take it, but if you were taking it one time every six months, it probably is low risk. People are buying this over and over, meaning they are taking it over and over again.
It’s in their shopping carts. It’s something that they regularly shop for because it takes care of the problem that they are having.
I also want to come around and talk about kids taking Tylenol.
We are going to hit that. Birth to early childhood. It’s a big question in the world of autism research. This is the Journal of International Medical Research in January 2017. They were looking at what could autism be. About when this study was published in January 2017 a couple of years earlier, the NIH as a group said, “There is no research to tie autism to vaccines.” The question was, “What is happening in these young children? What else might be going on?” Not a vaccine. These kids are going through their normal medical checkups and they are having problems.
They start looking at other questions that might be related. One of them is the use of acetaminophen in babies and young children may be much more strongly associated with autism than its use during pregnancy perhaps because of well-known deficiencies in the metabolic breakdown of pharmaceutical products during early development. This is one of their theories that there might be something else going on.
Is it the mother who’s taking too much? Moms are having a lot of pain, a lot of other stuff, and a lot of stuff moving around while they are pregnant. Could it be that you have a baby Tylenol that you are like, “They have a little bit of fever, let’s give them something?” We could talk about that as nauseam as to why that’s a bad idea. Especially for a low-level fever, up to 103 is usually considered low level for children.
Autism is a complex disorder associated with many factors, including maternal exposure to various chemical substances, maternal diabetes or autoimmune, exposure to the infant to various chemical substances, vitamin D levels of the infant at birth, and then a large number of genetic factors. I think that that’s a concise way to say it’s not always bad luck.
Autism is a complex disorder associated with many factors, including maternal exposure to various chemical substances, maternal diabetes, or autoimmune exposure to the infant to chemical substances. Click To TweetThere’s more going on that we don’t understand. The amount of stuff that they are trying to figure out. These kids that have this, not only why did they get it, but how do we communicate with them? There is some amazing stuff that they are doing to help these young men and women communicate with us because they are stuck behind a wall and they are there. That’s the exciting thing. There’s a documentary called Spellers that came out in 2023. It won all sorts of awards. It’s exciting stuff. In any case, what else is going on?
For someone reading who wants to understand quickly the mechanism that could happen. I don’t know if they still do this, but in the past, your pediatrician might have said, “Give your baby some Tylenol before he comes in because he’s getting as well baby shots.” You give your baby Tylenol or you might do it afterward because they might spike a fever and you were told to do that. The nature of a vaccine is that your body has to detoxify from it. There’s going to be an immune response and detoxification that has to happen for the vaccine to “work.”
The baby’s body is then also inundated with a chemical, Tylenol, that lowers glutathione levels, which is one of the processes of detoxification in the body. Just like if I drink too much alcohol and I need more glutathione, I feel better if I take the NAC. The baby’s body is lower in glutathione because we give them Tylenol, then we inundate them with a toxic substance that the baby has to recover from. It doesn’t have the ability to recover this infant. Now there’s a reaction and the body will go into this cascade. There’s lots of evidence of the cascade that can happen.
This is a possible way that the link between Tylenol vaccines and brain changes. Whether we want to call that autism or spectrum disorder. There are lots of other brain changes that can happen. ADD or ADHD. Do we have 100% proof? No, I don’t have, but it makes sense. I was on my Facebook feed and it was like, “Did you take Tylenol during pregnancy, and now your child has autism? Sign up for our lawsuit.” There’s stuff that’s come out. There’s obvious proof because lawyers are circling.
They are ready. Getting to your point about what you are discussing, what’s curious is, of the places in the world that are similar to us in the vaccine schedule, Cuba is right there. Cuba is very unique because the percentage population with autism in the US is 298 times higher than in Cuba. Cuba has a compulsory vaccine.
They don’t have a choice. They have to take it.
There is no religious exemption down there. There is no medical exemption. They are all getting it. Here’s what you were talking about how parents are advised to give prophylactically five days prior to the childhood vaccines. Cuba is not approved. Acetaminophen and Tylenol is not an over-the-counter product. It is not an over-the-counter product in Cuba. It has been since 1959 in the US.
It’s been readily available on every drugstore counter for most of our lifetimes. In Cuba, they don’t even know what it is.
They do because it’s a prescription. Acetaminophen for vaccine fever is very uncommon.
They have it, but it’s prescription only.
Generally, they are not going to give it to the kids because they recognize that that fever reaction is the body’s normal reaction to turning on all the stuff and all the mechanisms that they want to happen for the vaccine.
That makes sense. If you have a cold or flu, you get a fever, and that’s turning on your immune system to fight whatever it is. Treating every fever seems so silly in our country.
It does. Especially when we forget the fact that a fever is the body’s response to killing off, identifying, and creating all the antibodies to whatever’s attacking it at the moment. This article goes on to say, “Acetaminophen use appears to be linked to both autism and asthma.” It is curious because both disease incidences rise and fall with the use of acetaminophen. There were three scares about aspirin in the US. One was a rise with aspirin, something called Reye’s Syndrome warning. That was a big deal back in 1980 that I vaguely remember.
They still tell kids not to take aspirin because of that.
Right, and then there were two scares with cyanide-laced Tylenol in ’82 and ’86. They both saw a decrease in asthma after those times.
Everybody got rid of it. They threw it away.
Everybody said, “No, we are not going to bother. We don’t know if it’s safe.” Quite honestly, maybe it never was for these instances.
It’s not as dangerous as cyanide, but it’s still dangerous.
Here’s the short list of side effects that PubMed has indicated the presence of 2,685 articles regarding acetaminophen toxicity. Neurotoxic on brain neurons, maternal use during pregnancy is associated with tetra-genic defects in testicular formation in the gastrointestinal tract. No, I don’t want that. Oxidative damage to proteins, nucleic acids, amino acids, and lipids causes increased mitochondrial and cellular damage and death. Mitochondria are the powerhouse of your cells. If you don’t have any energy, that’s a big part of it right there.
Severe immune abnormalities and immune response depression. Depletion of glutathione that we have been talking about this entire hour. The leading cause of liver failure. We talked about kidney failure. 56,000 emergency room visits each year increased rates of certain blood cancers, prenatal or postnatal increased incidence of asthma. That’s what I wanted to ask. I don’t what that is.
They are not breathing inside. That’s weird.
It is. In any case, this is one of my favorite articles because this asks and answers a lot of questions as to why Tylenol might be a problem in our daily supplement list. This one is curious. I like this because everyone asked about it. “What about CBDs?” How’s that helpful?” Why don’t I bother with CBD? It’s because I’m convinced every time I have taken any CBD, I get nothing. It’s like, “That’s nice.” It’s because my endocannabinoid system is working properly. Different times for a different day, but that’s your internal endocannabinoids and there might be something going on with that. For a lot of people who are having problems, maybe CBD oils are going to be beneficial for these kids.
This is an article active neurobiological experimentalist. Take it for what it is. It is a journal that has been around for a while because they have 70 volumes. I am unfamiliar with this journal directly. This is a 2010 study. They were looking at Reye’s syndrome. Let me see if they have something talking about what Reye’s is because it’s been a while since I have looked it up.
Reye’s syndrome is a rare but serious condition that causes confusion, swelling in the brain, and liver damage. Children recovering from a viral infection such as chickenpox or flu who have a metabolic disorder are more at risk, especially if they have been taking aspirin.
Funny, it’s aspirin. It’s not Tylenol. That was the big thing that switched kids from aspirin to Tylenol back in the 1970s. There are some questions as to whether or not that’s legit or not. I have heard rumors, but I haven’t had a chance to track them down.
Do you mean Reye’s syndrome was maybe a ploy by the Tylenol people?
It wouldn’t be the craziest thing I have heard, especially in what we know now. Isn’t it the worst? We can’t even have conspiracy theories anymore?
They are all facts. They all happen.
They become reality faster than you can debunk them. Let’s see. We talked about that. Another liver warning on this one. That’s hypertension in women. I might as well pop this one. Hypertension in women. In this study, Journal of Hypertension, September 2005. Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and aspirin are commonly used 400 milligrams a day.
Older women whose usual dose of NSAID was greater than 800 milligrams per day, which is taking it 2 to 3 times a day, which a lot of people do. Had a 120% higher risk of hypertension compared to non-users.
If you get over 500%, you have 100% higher risk. These were younger women. These weren’t even older women.
This is daily use. It is important to say. If you are like, “I took it last week, am I going to get it?” Probably not. This is more for the people that are taking it daily. They are taking it as part of their routine. They wake up in the morning, they pop their pills. At lunchtime, they pull them out of their purse. At dinnertime, they take their final dose so that they can go to sleep tonight. There’s an alternative to this, and I don’t know if we have talked about it. It’s this thing called chiropractic care.
You should bring that up.
Painkillers have their place. If I was to have surgery, I probably would take some painkiller. I would try to get off it as quickly as possible. Would I rather someone take an Advil versus a hydrocodone or an oxy? Yes. I would rather you be on an NSAID than something that you are going to become addicted to. There’s a hierarchy of this stuff. Would I rather you take CBD oil or some sort of cannabis product, versus chronically taking an NSAID? Probably. They are the hierarchy of things.
Even that being said, we have to realize that the alternative is taking care of oneself. The sooner you start taking care of yourself, the faster you will get better. Eating well, exercise, diet, and chiropractic care. It is essential for every human being on this planet to get checked by a chiropractor. There are people who don’t necessarily have misalignments. I have met them. That doesn’t mean three days from now, they won’t fall on a flight of stairs and have misalignments. Getting checked on a regular basis, get your kids checked, and help your body function better. That’s what we are here to do. We are not trying to scare you to death, but a Tylenol should scare you. It’s not great.
I have one more article I want to share. People are going to be like, “I need something now.” This is one last article on NAC that was on experimental closed head trauma in rats. They found that giving rats a dose of NAC following a trauma had a neuroprotective effect. For a lot of people, it’s like, “Does NAC take care of the liver?” No. It’s helping take care of the brain. I’m going to do a quick 150 milligrams per kilogram. Let’s say I’m not weighing in right around 191 right now, which is 86 kilograms, so I could take after a head trauma 13 of these, these are all 1,000 milligrams, so 13,000 of it.
You probably don’t need to take that much.
No. That’s what they were given to help reduce things.
This could be something we recommend to our patients who have head trauma or a concussion.
Head trauma, car accident, or concussion. It might be something beneficial for people who are having long-term side effects and they are still having issues. Three a day is going to be plenty. I will have to go do some digging. The back of my brain says five a day is good.
The other thing you have to watch out for. If you buy these and they smell bad, they are not the real thing. They should not have a smell to them. I have had patients that try to buy them on Amazon and they were like, “They are disgusting.” I was like, “You got China weird stuff. Something is bad in there. Don’t take that.”
I like Ortho Molecular, they are a good company. Protocol and NOW are great companies, they have high standards American companies. They are very strict about the ingredients going into these things. Go to our full script pages. If you can’t find it, shoot us a message. We will make sure you get the link to that
Buy the good stuff. Don’t buy it on Amazon.
Quite honestly, I don’t think this was more than $20.
It’s not expensive.
I can I can pull it up right here, but $25 top. Sometimes I get a special from NOW and I sell them at a special to the patients. Don’t skimp NOW, Protocol, and Ortho Molecular. They are all great products. Make sure you are getting the good stuff. In any case, I think that is plenty for us. I am tempted to go to the fair. They have a $2 entry fee and $5 of French fries. It’s magical curly fries.
As long as they are magical, it will be fine. Make sure to eat some meat to fix it later.
That’s what I’m finishing up here. This little bit here is what’s left of my 2 pounds of meat for lunch after my workout. It is delicious. Dr. Bagley, where are they going to find you?
They can find me in St. Louis, Missouri, or on the west side of St. Louis. We are at PrecisionChiropracticSTL.com.
I’m in Springfield, Illinois at KeystoneChiroSPI.com, but at Keystone Chiropractic. We did a lot. Now, we are planning for the next one. You are lucky we are not doing two back-to-back. We are lucky we are not doing two back-to-back.
I don’t think we have the brain power for it now. Take care, folks.
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