00:00If ivermectin worked against COVID, we would love it. But the studies that people are relying
00:10on are not good data. It primarily has been used to treat parasitic infections, but there
00:22is a hypothesis that it might have some anti-inflammatory benefit, and it might have some anti-viral
00:28benefit as well. The way that ivermectin works in parasites is that it targets the neural system.
00:36It actually paralyzes the digestive system of a parasite. The traditional way that ivermectin
00:41would work wouldn't really work on a virus because it doesn't have the same makeup as a parasite.
00:53Turns out I got COVID. So we immediately threw the kitchen sink out of all kinds of meds,
00:57monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone, everything.
01:07If you were so confident with it, why take the monoclonal antibodies? Why take the prednisone?
01:12You wouldn't need to if ivermectin was a miracle cure.
01:14I've had a lot of backlash from Joe Rogan fans, especially recently, for saying,
01:18oh no, he didn't push it. He gets experts on and they talk about the data. Well,
01:24he's had more experts on talking about ivermectin and alternative treatments to COVID than he has
01:29had from the legitimate scientists behind the vaccine, which indirectly pushes the agenda.
01:46This is what happens when y'all want to be fools and use our damn stuff.
01:50Everybody loves a conspiracy theory. So I completely see where they're coming from. Now,
01:56everybody can meet on a forum or a social media and say, oh, I thought that as well.
02:01I'm not getting vaccinated. I'm not a sheep. That's selfish. Oh, but instead,
02:08I will take a deworming drug. Isn't that meant for horses? Yeah. Yeah.
02:20There is a human form, FDA approved, and if you take the dose from the human form,
02:30then the side effects are probably going to be mild. The common side effects, yeah, diarrhea,
02:36headaches, rash. Now, that's if you take the recommended dose.
02:43Don't take ivermectin if you plan on driving, operating heavy machinery,
02:48or if you're wearing your good pants. What we're seeing that's very concerning is people
02:52using the animal ivermectin, which comes as a paste or a liquid. If you try and self-medicate
02:58with animal medication, then, you know, you're putting yourself at risk of overdosing. We've
03:02seen people have seizures. We've seen people have real adverse neurological events and
03:09those will put you in hospital.
03:28The studies that have been quoted by people who support ivermectin are all what we call
03:32retrospective. So that means that they're looking back at things. And when you look back,
03:37you're more likely to have confirmation bias because you think that ivermectin works for COVID.
03:53Oxford University did a meta-analysis of 10 studies. Meta-analysis is really the pinnacle
04:00of evidence-based medicine. So that's an analysis of all of the good trials that are out there.
04:05Their conclusion from doing the meta-analysis of these 10 studies was that there was no benefit
04:11whether you used ivermectin or placebo.
04:23The clinical trials for the vaccines have been through hundreds of thousands of people,
04:28if you include all the trials all over the world for the different vaccines.
04:33So that's evidence and that's robust evidence. Unfortunately, I think people have such a
04:38mistrust of authority and now medical authorities come into that subgroup. My message in social
04:45media is just look at where the sources are coming from and try and think for yourself.
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