you're listening to an archived cabal concept podcast after listening to the show check out the most upto-date podcasts available at Steven cab.com slmp podcasts or search directly on iTunes and now welcome to the cabol concept where board certified naturopath and Integrative Health practitioner Dr Steven cabal shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life-altering illness and given no hope for Recovery it was only after studying and traveling all over the world did he discover how to combine ancient ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art naturopathic and functional medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life it's time to discover how to get well lose weight and finally feel alive again and now here's your host Dr Steven [Music] cabal happy you could join me here today for this Total Wellness Tuesday where I want to go over the nine specific herbs you can use in order to help eliminate parasites from your body whether you have them or not like whether you know you have them whether you've been tested or not so the reason why I wanted to bring up this topic today is that on episode 887 of the cabal concept I actually talked about the four cleanses that everyone used to do hundreds of years ago that we hardly ever do today and on 928 I spoke about the specific parasite protocol that we've been using now for many many years in my private practice so that takes you through it step by step which supplements to use how to test all of those things what I want to do today is I would actually just like to give you a lot of those foods that you can include with the parasite protocol or just start to use proactively in order to help eliminate a lot of the microbes that might be there in the first place because a lot of these specific herbs that I give you were always given to us in nature and by nature to eliminate all types of pathogens many times they're specific to parasites but it could also be for yeast overgrowth it could be for other types of uh worms besides specific parasitic based worms that you know feed off of you it could be for h pylori it could be for bacterial overgrowth so I love being able to read articles like this be able to pass the information on to you and also see that it work from a very science-based perspective so although the these herbs are always used in ayurvedic based medicine and we use them a lot overseas I'm going to share one in particular that we used all the time in Sanka it was the first time I'd ever seen it used and extremely extremely bitter but it worked incredibly well and so that's why I can't wait to share that with you today it was actually the basis for this particular podcast but the funny thing is this is the more you look at all the things that they did 6,000 years ago and then you look at the current research of what's coming out now you're like well I mean I just wish that we could just open up these old ayurvedic textbooks and traditional Chinese medicine say hey they already have this quote unquote cure for that they already have this specific quote unquote treatment for this and again you know that unless you're a licensed medical doctor you're not treating curing or diagnosing disease but I'll tell you this any person no matter who you are you can begin to understand what Humanity has been doing since the dawn of time and I actually don't believe that we've ever been given any type of disease of the body that we weren't also given some other type of plant to use in order to use that for medicine now there's a couple caveats to that people don't know if oh well it's because we kind of coexisted and and came up that way whether we were given that it it totally up for you and Up For Debate and argument for however you want to look at it I look at it like this we came everything came from the earth we are literally substance from the earth and so I want you to understand is all of these things make sense they're synergist for us you know when to use them and not when not to use them at the same time we're now though we're really just now over the last maybe 200 years we're creating synthetics and especially since the 1950s at a rate that is much faster that's ever happened we have Plastics we have over as I always say 77,000 man-made synthetic chemicals in the environment now it is these chemicals that our bodies are not equipped to deal with because the human body is equipped to deal with things in nature but not man-made synthetics and that is why we do need to look at new types of healing modalities which are using higher dosages of certain supplements and vitamins and all of these things not forever but for a period of time in order to rebalance the body and that's because the strength of things like Plastics and pesticides are much stronger than anything you can get nature and the reason is that they're concentrates they're literally if you look at as like an extract basically cuz a lot of these things actually do come from nature they're made in the lab but they're extracted from natural things you know if we just take a Statin drug for example a Statin which a lot of people use for cholesterol well you could use red yeast rice you could use that because it is an extract of that now I'm not telling you to do that because again I can't provide you with how to cure treat or diagnose disease but what I can tell you is this hopefully a little bit more beneficial how you got there in the first place what to do to correct those underlying imbalances which makes the need for certain types of medications null there's just not a need a healthy body is not overweight a healthy body is not sick a healthy body is aging gracefully does it age yes does it age at the same rate as your friend who's not doing those healthy things most likely not most likely not so that's what we're looking at right now we're helping people get well we're helping them lose the weight just to reach their right ideal body weight not too thin not too overweight their ideal body weight and that we're helping them live longer stronger I do not want to perpetuate what's currently going on with conventional medicine where we're keeping people alive longer we're keeping them alive longer but they are decrepit 50s 60s and Beyond people's joints hurt they're in constant pain they have brain fog they have no energy they're using alcohol to help them sleep or a cockta of medicine they're using a cocktail of medicine to for their digestive system and then they're using caffeine and stimulants to wake them up that is not how the human body is meant to function and I'm telling you right now that you and I we have the opportunity to pass on information that can change people's lives that the things that we learn that we understand to be true because not only do they make sense from an actual scientific standpoint but they make sense from a common sense and from an ancestral standpoint where this is how it's always been done and the reason why it's always been done this way is because it's the correct way there were thousands and thousands of years of human evolution and movement to be able to figure out the right thing to do at the right time so I just want to pass on you know around nine maybe I'll give you a couple more herbs to use that are specific that you can use to kill a lot of microbes in your gut and I want to go over those I want to start with the one that I found out about over in Sri Lanka when I was there for my first internship I was opened up to A Whole New World I literally I think I became a very different human being when I spent some time overseas and I spent quite a bit of time overseas and what it allowed me to do and I've said this before is understand perspective I mean I was not I mean I was in a couple very high-end clinics okay I I was but for the most part these were very very remote and very desolate that's the best way I could say it in terms of or even depraved based conditions I mean a lot of the conditions that I was subjected to because I was in the same Clinic as anyone else that they were they were not ideal they were very much away from our Western base mentality and I I'll sa that for another day as to what those situations were like but I'll tell you this I gained a tremendous amount of respect I had a and I also somehow right I somehow which I know how but I gained a tremendous amount of gratitude because it takes a lot of jux toos jux to position in life allows you that gratitude right I was actually having this chat with my daughter just earlier today and she was saying oh I just wish it could be sunny all the time because it was a little rainy you know as we're hanging out and the truth is this is that I said to her I said yeah but you wouldn't be able to enjoy all the sun if we didn't have a little rain every once in a while and she looked at me kind of half getting what I was saying still wanted to be sunny but still you know she just turned sick so what I look at is this is is the understanding that one is people are doing tremendous things all over the world and often times um even without our western-based modalities and and the ability to even use all these great tools so again when I was over in Sri Lanka and I was in this very nice clinic and we were using papaya papaya for everything we were using papaya for a digestive based because it has so many great enzymes in it but we were using the seeds we were using the seeds and I had never I'm like you're going to feed people papaya seeds like this doesn't even make any sense and they said no we're giving them the seeds and I said okay and they called it deworming and I like well only time I've ever heard of deworming before is for my dog you know like isn't that what you do for an animal and they said well this is something that we've been doing once or twice a year and I talked about that again that's why I do hope that you listen to the shows on parasites a lot of people don't know this but but one in four people that's the minimum one in four people 25% of the people people in the world have a parasite and it's not just overseas it's not you can get a parasite from salad bar from water you can get it from undercooked meats or sushi I mean that's an easy way to get a parasite or fish in general so please do check out episode 262 I'll try to link these up today just go to Steven cal.com 977 I believe is today's show let me confirm that stepen cell.com 977 but the three previous shows on parasites were this 262 Steven cal.com 262 the seven signs you may have a parasite please check that out a lot of people mistake the signs for a parasite 887 was the four cleanses to do yearly number 887 and 928 was our actual parasite protocol I just gave it to you I said this is exactly what we do this is exactly how we do a parasite protocol and this is why I believe that everyone should do one just at least I just say just once a year or every couple years I mean because the chances that you might get exposed to a parasite are pretty good and the downsides of doing the parasite protocol are basically nil so when you look at that it's obviously easy but I want to give you some foods that you could add in at least once a week that begin to kill a lot of these microbes as well so one thing that we did and again you don't have to run out and do all these things right away was that we gave the papaya seeds so I said all right I'm going to start eating papaya with the seeds and it's actually a nice way to do it because the seeds are so bitter they're actually spicy and when you eat them it is those seeds not the papaya itself not the Flesh of the fruit that helps to kill worms and tapeworms so when you're in a lot of these countries where there's parasites just in the water it's a great thing to do so I knew that I could have been exposed to all these things so you could you best be sure that when I was over there I was eating plenty of papaya seeds as well besides doing the other things that I'll be sharing with you today so papaya seeds is an absolutely amazing one and you can obviously just buy Papaya at a grocery food store so a lot of these things are not a lot of these things all the things I'm going to share with you today are very simple to do and you can pick them up anywhere here's what I'm going to tell you though papaya over 90% right now genetically modified please do not buy genetically modified foods I'm just telling you that from the perspective that we are right now human guinea guinea pigs for GMO Foods keep in mind these are not even Foods they're called genetically modified organisms not Foods organisms and the reason is that we've actually altered the cell of the fruit itself or whatever the GMO food may be now we're having GMO salmon what happens is we don't know what that's going to do to the DNA we don't know what that's going to do when we then eat it right because we're used to eating things that W natural from the earth and so when we genetically modify them and we put some type of virus or heavy metal into it in order to modify that thing it can cause potential issues so let's just go for non GMO that's all all right the next one one of my other favorites like hands down these are a bunch of my favorites so I'll give you some of my favorites some that aren't my favorites cloves cloves are amazing they are a superfood like a true superfood and I know it's not really a food but these are all super substances why don't we go with that but cloves are absolutely amazing and we used a ton of them more in India than anywhere else and especially in the south of India when I was in Kerala and I was specifically in trandum and when I was there there's malaria there's tuberculosis there's all sorts of things and then of course there's viruses and parasites and all sorts of things you can be exposed to so one thing that we added a lot to the food was clove and you know I lik the taste of clove but after a while I really started to enjoy it so it was like okay in the beginning but clove is something you could add to Coffee to tea to rice based bowls and dishes it's a nice warming type spice as well a really really great one and it's it's really it's a multivariant based antimicrobial so it helps with parasites it helps with viruses it helps with bacteria it helps with yeast helps with malaria and believe it or not it actually helps with toothaches and toothache based pain it's pretty remarkable cloves are one of my favorite herbs out there we use them on our candid protocol and um we use them with our parasite as well so just one to keep in mind big big fan another one raw pumpkin seed now I've spoken about this before raw pumpkin seeds all right these are just your your papitas or pumpkin seeds however you want to look at them these are one of the best foods maybe I'll go to the next one right after this because I'm giving you my top parasite Foods right now so pumpkin seeds so we don't have these in our formula our parasite protocol formula we ask people to use this in addition right CU they say oh do I have to follow a food list you don't have to follow a specific food list when you're on the parasite protocol however there are foods that you could also add that could be very beneficial so you can throw some raw pumpkin seeds right into your smoothie in the morning or you could have those as a mid-afternoon snack or maybe with dinner however you want to do them but raw pumpkin seeds have always been known have always been known us overseas to be anti-parasitic and really and kill the parasitic based eggs as well so the reason why our parasite protocol works so well is that we know the life cycle of a lot of these parasites to be around 21 days or so but then we also know that the eggs need time to hatch and so we have to keep going and so we do another 21 days so our parasite protocol of 6 weeks Works remarkably well and um one of the reasons it works so well is we're incorporating a lot of these things but we're getting the eggs and I know that sounds kind of gross to think about but we're also killing those at the same time it pumpkin seeds helps with that you know to a tremendous degree so you know for pumpkin seeds a/4 cup half a cup a day really simple that you can do chew them up really well break them down and remember it's the outer layer shell of that pumpkin seed that green shell of a pumpkin seed in the papita that's going to help with the killing right we talk about as like oh lectin and all these things are bad well you know you always have to ask for who you know you can't make these blanket statements because we're talking about some high lectin Foods right now right but at the same time the lectin are going to help on these things specifically kill parasites and microbes so bad for who you know that's what you have to ask all right so the other one that was going to tell you that we use all the time and if you only went with these then I think that would be absolutely phenomenal honestly phenomenal and that's garlic fresh garlic so all you need to do is peel it that's it and what I want you to do after that is I want you to peel the garlic and then I want you to just smash it so roll it with a rolling pin or just push down with it what I do is I put it on a bamboo cutting board and then I take a mug a ceramic mug and I just push the mug straight down and it smashes the clove of garlic and then I'll just swallow the garlic and I won't chew it and I won't do anything else with it and I do that before bed and that is an amazing way to clean out your gut the allisin the acids from the garlic the sulfur all of those things will help to kill viruses to kill bacteria to kill candida and to kill parasites if I didn't name that already now we do not use garlic and we don't use onion if someone sibo or they do have fungal-based overgrowth we use it for the parasitic based and the reason we don't is garlic is also a very powerful Prebiotic right so you say Well it kills fungus at the same time yes but we don't have to use it that's what people don't understand is that you have so many things at your disposal you don't need to use all of these things so what we do is after 6 to8 weeks then we add garlic back in after we've already done a lot of removal of the candid overgrowth and bacterial overgrowth and if you don't know what I'm talking about it's called our candid and bacterial overgrowth protocol and for those people with bloating and gas and beling and nausea and IBS I mean it works just so phenomenally well but anyway that's neither here nor there but garlic as part of an anti-parasitic based protocol absolutely fantastic used again for not hundreds of years thousands of years and it's literally as easy as crushing it or if you want you can even juice it juicing it would allow you to have less of the Prebiotic based fibers and sugars and so it feed candida or just again like as a Prebiotic less my thing is this I just like to use that whole food you know I look at it almost like a seed crush it swallow it like a supplement like a capsule and then do that a half hour to an hour before bed so you don't lie down right away and allow that to go to work and it will go in and it will kill that bacteria that's something that my great great aunt that I remember used to do when she started to feel ill and she came from the old country she came from Italy and that's something always when they kind of make fun of I don't know what it is like Italian homes or whatever and you see the garlic hanging from like the clothes of garlic literally hanging in the kitchen that's literally what my great Grand's house looked like and she passed that on of course to my grandmother who essentially she raised for the most part so um yeah I mean but this is amazing right there's a reason why it's been handed down from Generation generation all right so those are the four main ones we used I want to give you a couple others cucumber seeds never something that I've used before very interesting though when I was looking at the research just about a teaspoon or so of cucumber seeds what would that mean maybe eat a half a cucumber a day that's it and that would allow you to help to kill some of the tapeworms very specific to tapeworms for cucumber seeds so I love seeing that I thought that was really really interesting I wanted to bring that to you as well couple other things that I do all the time are ginger ginger all the time literally so here's the thing about Ginger I've seen a little bit of research that it may help kill parasites I wouldn't use ginger specifically to kill parasites but I would use it at overall for helping to acidify the beginning part of the digestive tract to then allow it to because of its minerals and all that to help balance the pH and the rest of it but it's so good it's like really so great for producing strong stomach acid to not allow you to then get parasites in the first place because remember if you have strong enough stomach acid you're going to help kill the parasites as they begin to enter your body so that was something that I learned many years ago and that's why when if I I typically did not eat any type of animal protein or fish protein when I was overseas if I wasn't really sure where it was coming from that's just what I chose I thought it was a smarter deal and the eggs would never be over easy they would be scrambled or just cooked through if I had the opportunity to get those for some other type of protein but what I want to say is this is that I would try to take betane HCL it's not something that I take all the time but I would take betane HCL and pepsin to make sure that I wouldn't uh that I would have enough heat in my stomach to not get all that and then when possible I'd have ginger tea ginger tea is something I bring on planes I BR I just bring it all over the place and such a great great product so big fan of that helps get rid of a lot of mucus as well in the stomach as well as in the intestines which is a very kafa based disorder as well another great one love doing this I do this all the time when I'm not feeling well cayenne pepper cayenne pepper is a absolutely potent antibacterial and antifungal and I would even say anti-parasitic because there's great research on it the other thing is there's so many people dealing with mold toxicity we're going to be talking a lot more about mold toxicity here's the deal with mold toxicity one of the things that helps to eradicate molded fungus and yeast in the body is cayenne cayenne pepper it's good for the cardiovascular system helps dilate the blood vessels so one thing you could do is you could literally mix together some ginger some cayen some lemon some oregano oil I haven't even mentioned oregano oil and even some turmeric so turmeric is there is actually some older research no new research that I've seen that it might be pretty good turmeric at um helping to get rid of some worms and parasites as well I certainly wouldn't use it for that I mean you can use turmeric as an amazing anti-inflammatory but some chemical compounds possible could there could be some crossover again I'll always give you the honest truth I simply you know turmer can be kind of touted as an antiparasitic I wouldn't use it at that not for sure I would not I already gave you a lot of my favorites I'm going to give you one more in a moment but cayenne pepper I mean I'll tell you I was just traveling last week and I was feeling under the weather and I had some very important interviews to do some very important video shoots that I had to be on for I was doing shots all day long and not of alcohol I was doing shots all day long and they contain turmeric lemon ginger parsley oregano oil and cayenne and they burned when they went down it burned the back of my throat worse than any alcohol you could imagine right but I did that because for me my Achilles heel is the air nose and throat for sure like always I mean I'm I was the science infection kid that was I would nickname myself that because nobody grew up with more science affections than me I mean there so much so that our literally our family physician gave us zpacks to have inside of our house that is no lie that's no lie inside of our little towel closet outside of our bathroom we had Zacks ziyon antibiotics ready to go at the first sign of Sniffles I mean that is one way to try to destroy your renade immune system by taking antibiotics every time you have a cold now I start to feel run down I pound these things in my body all day long of course I'm doing our adult immune protocol at the same time I'm doing my extra vitamin C all of those things but I'm also using the best of nature I believe in the best of everything I'm using orthomolecular medicine and I'm using the best of natural you know based medicine as well and you know what it worked it worked and it worked fast I could feel right away I'm doing these shots start to feel better and within 36 hours my immune system was robust it was feeling great I was actually commenting to my wife I said I've never been this healthy like I've never been this healthy that I could recover that quickly from an illness and I was just you know not like proud or anything just so happy because I was so sick for so long and even when I got better it's like I had to do so much work to keep myself there but now I mean honestly just being honest I haven't gotten enough sleep lately I have not I've had the launch of our Integrative Health practitioner certification I've been traveling all over like literally all over the United States and I've been on planes I've been exposed to sick people coughing in my face I have not been in the best place but yet I staying pretty robust and healthy you know knock on whatever you want to say around me but and again I'm not going to try to take advantage of that I'm going to try to get now sleep and all those things these things do work they honestly do I would not pass them on to you so big fan of that and just a couple more let me just give you one more that we use in our parasite support formula as well it's called par Pro support all right in par Pro support you'll see something that has actually been used in the Amazon it's been used in ayurvedic medicine it's been used in tral Chinese medicine and so whenever I see it like being carried across continent meaning that it's been working for everyone for thousands of years and say okay if everyone in every form of medicine except for conventional medicine is using it probably makes sense right we probably do it and so when you look at that like I just a lot of times I'm saying I love the science but it has to use common sense as well and that is the green holes of black walnut so that's what you want to do you actually look at these shells you look at the green hulls and what these have been done is they've you don't swallow these so please don't don't do that right don't try this at home you be actually you would crush them down to a powder okay and you could take them as the powder that which is what we do we feel it's more powerful or you can take it as a tincture and we actually include that as well but we like the powder too and what this does is it helps everything from overall toxin elimination the liver detoxification uh balancing blood sugar but it helps with pin worms tapeworms other types of parasite and yeast we use it in both our candida protocol as well as our parasite protocol call and an amazing product like literally an amazing product so that is what we do if you want to learn exactly how to do the whole protocol you're welcome to it's completely up to you to look at that we have we also add other things such as sweet wormwood which is a must if you're using a parasite based product or protocol olive leaf extract is not a must but it's a great one to have in there and we use bofilm disruptors I'm not going to go through that today of why we use those but just these are some amazing ones that again even if you're not doing doing a parasite based protocol just doesn't have to be a daily basis a weekly basis to begin to start to clean out the digestive tract to make sure that that it's harmonious that yes there can be some bacteria living down there and there should be and yes there can even be some parasites believe or not some synergistic ones that work with the body but you cannot let the inmates run the Asylum as we like to say you need to make sure that gut Flora which is the bacteria is balanced that there's more good bacteria the negative based bacteria and that will help with everything from mood to weight loss to the ability to re-regulate the Sarcan Rhythm for overall immunity right I mean it's 80% of your immune system is located no one's disputing that 80% of the immune system is located in and around the digestive based tract so please do check out episode 262 for the seven signs you might have a parasite episode 887 for the four cleanses to do yearly and episode 928 for the how we do our parasite protocol which will tell you about the stool test which stool test to run you can run it right at home to see if you might have parasites it tests for hpylori it tests for bacterial overgrowth in the gut really really amazing lab and then of course there's always the organic acids test which looks at the candida overgrowth and the claustrum dvl overgrowth I'll link all those up today so the three podcasts previously I'll link up the parasite protocol I'll link up the kid andal overgrowth protocol and I'll link up those lab tests my goal is just to Simply give you every place that you could to start Maybe just with the nine herbs or foods that I mentioned today right or maybe it's to run a lab test or maybe it's to go right into a protocol or maybe it's just to think about it right gather more information however you want to do it I'm good with that I just want you to eventually learn but then take action I want you to begin to heal yourself try things for yourself pass it on to others that's what it's all about thank you so much for tuning in to another cabal concept as always I appreciate each and every one of your listens and if today's show is helpful do feel free to share it with anyone else you believe it could serve before you go I wanted to share a personal story with you the real reason I began to get well finally is because I figured out what was wrong with me and that might seem pretty obvious but I went from Doctor to doctor for over 2 years before discovering at home functional medicine lab testing these are the labs that enabled me to finally figure out what was wrong with my hormones blood sugar electrolytes and gut health and once I knew what was wrong I could then follow a proven plan in order to rebalance my body from the inside out this is why I believe so strongly in 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