Welcome to the final day of the summit.
In this fascinating lesson from best-selling author Anthony William, aka the medical medium,
you'll learn about the critical impact that excessive blood draws can have on the immune
system and overall health.
This is going to be one of the most important talks you have ever heard in your life.
If you're somebody that's concerned about anything to do with health, anything to do
with wellness, anything to do with your well-being, your physical state, your emotional state,
you're going to want to listen to this.
Do not miss out on a single word because it's that critical to learn and understand.
this isn't going to be just about, hey, you know, eat better here or, you know, try this therapy or
do this. No, this is not just life changing, life altering. It's life saving. So what I'm about to
tell you, get out a pen, paper, get your computer out, write notes. Learning this is critical.
We're talking about blood draw. That's right. Blood draw. Getting your blood tested, getting
your blood drawn. Something very important to know is that your immune system isn't just in your gut.
You'll hear it out there every day out there. You'll hear immune systems in your gut. It's all
in your gut. This doctor says it's all in your gut. This health professional says it's all in
your gut. This article talks about it being all in the gut. The truth is that's a trend,
but your immune system isn't all in your gut. It's not in your intestinal tract. Your immune system
is in your bloodstream, in your bloodstream, all throughout and around your body. And then you have
your lymphocytes. That's a big part of your immune system too. But overall, the largest part of your
immune system is your bloodstream. It's the immune cells traveling through every organ,
residing in your bloodstream, circulating throughout your body. And guess what? When
you get a blood test, that immune system of yours gets depleted. You start losing immune cells fast.
Now, it comes down to a very important point to remember. When we get blood work,
we don't just get a little bit of blood taken from us. We don't just get a tiny bit.
we get a large amount removed from us. Now, in your life, think back. When's the last blood test
you had? Do you have a condition? Do you have a symptom? Do you remember getting blood drawn at
some point? Was it five vials of blood? Was it 10 vials, seven vials? But do you remember getting
blood taken from you? And was it a lot? People with Lyme disease can get 45 vials of blood taken
from them. People with autoimmune can get 10 to 15 vials taken from them in one shot.
Full vials of blood. Now in that blood is your immune system. So when you get your blood drawn,
a large part of your immune cells, boom, are gone. And when that happens, your bone marrow goes into
overdrive to produce more immune cells. Your body's going into overdrive to produce more immune cells
as fast as possible, but that just doesn't happen overnight. It doesn't happen with a glass of apple
juice or a glass of water or a little bit of food. It doesn't restore from that right away. It could
take months to restore your immune system, the loss of immune cells when you get your blood drawn.
now some people get three or four full vials taken but even then it's too much now first of all i
want to just clear the air about something because i believe in getting your blood taken i believe in
getting blood drawn and getting blood work i believe that your doctor should be looking at
your blood seeing if there's any clues or understandings or any kind of thing that they
can use for diagnosis or nutritional deficiencies as well but there's a safe way of doing it
as of right now there are people out there that have lost their lives because of getting
continual blood drawn lots of blood draws and the reason why that happens is because when you're
already compromised and your immune system is already compromised and you already have a symptom
you're dealing with or a condition you're dealing with, what happens is it can worsen
when we get blood drawn from us continually. Why is somebody dealing with fibromyalgia and RA
and autoimmune? Why is somebody dealing with Hashimoto's thyroiditis? Why is somebody dealing
with some form of deep depression or anxiety? Why is somebody suffering with pain all over their
body, tingles and numbness, aches and pains, twitches and spasms, pain in their teeth, their neck,
their face, migraines, brain fog. Why is somebody suffering from severe fatigue where their arms and
legs feel like lead and they can barely push through? Why are people dealing with those
symptoms plus even more? There are people out there, and you might be one of them, that has
over a hundred symptoms and most every one of those symptoms is neurological.
And what this does is it leads us to doctors. That's right. We're looking for answers. We need
support from our doctors. We need support from our healthcare providers and the practitioners
that help us and healthcare professionals. And they want to get you better and they want to see
you get better. And one of those things that they need is blood from you. They need to have your
blood taken, your blood drawn so they can get a window and so they can get some clues and so they
can see what's going on in there. But as they're doing it, they're drawing your immune system out.
They're drawing our immune system out. And when that happens, that we're already sick and we're
already dealing with fatigue and aches and pains and tightness of the chest and tingles and numbness
and ringing in the ears and tinnitus and vertigo and balance issues. And I can name hundreds of
symptoms right now, but we're already dealing with that. As we're getting blood taken from us,
precious immune cells, our white count, precious immune fighters are being removed out of our blood
at the same time. And then we end up getting triggered and we end up going into flares.
So many people do. They don't realize it. They get some blood drawn and now they're in a crisis state.
Two weeks later, three weeks later, a month later, they're in a crisis state when they had blood drawn.
Because what happened was they were already sitting on the edge, death by a thousand cuts.
They were already in a weakened state.
They're already dealing with symptoms and conditions.
And because of that, they're going to the doctors even more.
And the phlebotomist is drawing more blood.
And when they're drawing more blood, they're taking more of the immune system from this person, from our bodies.
And when they take more of the immune system, what happens?
We get worse and we get sicker.
And so here's how it goes.
if someone's dealing with some kind of autoimmune situation, they're dealing with a problem,
weakened immune system already. Low-grade viral infections, high-grade viral infections
are happening. Toxic exposures, toxic heavy metals, plus viral infections keeping people down.
And whatever you think, hey, you know, maybe it's this or maybe it's that, or I'm told it's this
and that whatever it is, regardless, their immune system is compromised.
Their immune system is already struggling.
Autoimmune means your immune system is already struggling.
So you go in and you get some blood drawn, you get some blood work,
they take out five, six, seven vials of blood out of you.
And in that blood is your precious immune system,
the very thing protecting you, the very thing keeping things out of your way that are harmful.
We lose a part of our immune system every time we get our blood drawn.
And what happens then is as we get a little sicker each time and we're not bouncing back
because it happens to millions of people, they're not bouncing back after they get their blood drawn.
They end up calling their doctor. They're like, look, I'm not feeling good. I'm feeling a little worse. I'm feeling not great. I don't know. I think I'm having more body pain. I feel like I'm having more problems. And the doctor's office says, come back in here. We want to do some more blood work.
so now you're getting more blood work and another five seven eight ten vials 12 vials are taken from
you and then you're kicked down another notch it happens to so many people they're kicked down
another notch and then when they get kicked down another notch because a huge part of their immune
system was just removed again many immune cells were just removed again they're having another
flare-up. They're having a rise up of their Epstein-Barr, rise up of shingles, simplex 1, 2,
cytomegalovirus, having a rise up of strep, bacteria. And as these bugs are rising up,
our bone marrow is going into overdrive. Our body is trying to produce immune cells as fast as
possible. We're already, though, in a weakened state. That's why we even have autoimmune. That's
why we're struggling. That's why we're sick to begin with. We're already having immune system
problems. And so now our body's going into overdrive and it's trying to produce more,
more and more immune cells. And by the time it just starts to catch up just enough and you're
feeling sicker from that big old blood draw, you call the doctor's office again. And then they say,
well, you know what? We're worried about you. Rightfully so. They're worried about you. They
care, but we need more blood work or we need to send you to a specialist. We don't know what to
do with you anymore. So then you're off to a Lyme disease doctor or a multiple sclerosis doctor or
just some specialist, a pain specialist or some other type of doctor or a neurologist. And then
that specialist orders 20 vials or orders 15 vials. And they don't say, hey, you know what?
last month you already had seven or ten vials of blood removed so we're going to be cautious let's
give you some time we're going to have maybe we can take a little bit of blood but they don't do
that they don't say hey we're worried about how much blood you have had drawn in the last six
months during your sickness they just erase that and they order fresh blood because it's a fresh
doctor and it's a fresh neurologist or doctor a specialist and they order a whole new round of
blood. And now it could be anything, 12 vials and there are 15 vials. It could be more than that.
There are people that have gone to Lyme doctors and had repeatedly 40 or more vials of blood
removed on each visit every couple of months. And recovering from that kind of blood loss is not
easy when you're compromised and struggling. It's not even easy if you're not compromised and
struggling. Think about how much immune system was removed during those big blood draws.
There's an endless cycle of we better order more blood that occurs when we're getting sick.
After general blood tests, specialists may come in and order a lot more blood,
wanting an extensive window into anything that they can uncover and find. No one's counting.
No one's saying, hey, whoa, wait a minute.
We're removing a lot of blood from you right now.
Blood that your body needs because you're fighting an infection.
So if you're somebody that's struggling, that right there does not exist.
They don't say, whoa, we're taking too much blood out.
We have to be careful.
We should only remove a little bit at a time because we don't want you to get worse.
But that doesn't happen.
No one's doing that.
The one thing that people have to learn to protect themselves, the one thing that they need to know so they can advocate for themselves, so they can look out for themselves, is there's empowerment in taking control over how much blood is being drawn.
this is a lifesaver for so many that's why this information is so critical
if you're somebody that's compromised and you're dealing with a condition or symptom
and you're struggling there's a way to get your blood tested and get your blood drawn
that can get the job done for your doctor and for you and at the same time protect you
your immune system, your body, and your life. And we can go into that a little bit too,
but we got so much to cover right now. The immune cells in your blood aren't all that's lost with
blood draws. Critical electrolytes are needed in your blood, and that's another piece of
information, piece of the puzzle that so many need to know.
electrolytes that keep our nervous system intact functioning really good our brain strong
and where do these electrolytes even come from do they just appear out of nowhere
even if you drank an electrolyte based drink it would take hundreds of those drinks just to get
those electrolytes back where they need to go after so much blood drawn so when we when we
consume electrolytes, they need time to find their way to where they're even needed. So what happens
is if someone gets their blood drawn out of their body, it's not like you can just drink this
electrolyte drink really quick and it'll all go back into where it needs to go. It takes time.
There's a delicate balance in our bloodstream. Nowhere is this diagram out there, nowhere is
this chart of how to protect yourself with your blood draw. Nowhere is there a chart on a wall
somewhere at the doctor's office that says if you get more than seven vials of blood taken,
you're going to want to make sure you drink this. You're going to want to make sure you drink this
or do this. You're going to want to rest. You're going to want to, there's no chart out there.
It doesn't tell you how fast you'll build your blood back up. If you're somebody that there's,
there's no chart that if you're somebody that got 10 vials of blood drawn, it doesn't say on some
chart on some wall at the doctor's office. 10 vials of blood means you'll have this many weeks
that will take time to build up your immune system, your bone marrow to produce immune cells,
and your blood to get a balance of electrolytes to your brain and your brainstem.
None of that will be there for someone. It's completely ignored or not understood at all.
and so many people suffer from this very thing.
What I recommend asking your doctor
is let's do a minimum blood draw.
Ask the doctor, hey, what can we do
just to do a minimal blood draw
for the needed test that you need?
And asking if it's possible to come back periodically
saying to your doctor, can I come back in two weeks?
When can you have me back to get some more blood taken
so I don't have to take a large amount at once?
That's one option all on its own.
And I'm going to cover a few more things
you can ask your doctor to protect yourself.
Some important pieces of information
you just don't want to miss.
What happens to people who get too much blood drawn
is they weaken and weaken over time. The sicker they are, it creates a vicious cycle.
I'll never forget the story of a couple where they both had Lyme disease and they both ended
up bedridden completely because they were getting 25 vials, 30 vials of blood and 44 vials of blood.
that exact number 44 periodically removed and it got to their got to the point with their
condition and their symptoms where they were so bad off that they were bedridden and the doctor's
like we don't know what else to do for you we just don't know what to do for you we've already done
the antibiotics we've already done every single supplement we can think of we've already done
you know the therapies we've already offered you we've already done the hyperbaric oxygen chamber
we've already done all of these things and even nutritional IVs but we don't know why you're
getting worse and worse and worse and what happened was they're both bedridden completely bedridden
long term very long term
and it wasn't until they stopped getting the blood drawn
did they start healing?
Did they start recovering
and getting their life back?
This is probably one of the most important things
for you to know in your life.
And maybe you don't need to know now today,
but knowing it is critical regardless
because you might know somebody
that's in a jam and they're in a situation.
Let's talk about bloodletting a little bit.
Back in the old days, especially the 1600s and the 1700s,
bloodletting was popular in conventional medicine.
I don't know if you guys remember that or recall that part of history.
You got sick and they cut you and drained your blood into a pan.
It wouldn't actually help you recover.
In conventional medicine, they eventually learned that.
First, it took a while for them to learn the lesson.
back then if you didn't heal from a first round of bloodletting you'd get cut again and bleed into
a pan again a few days or weeks later if a doctor saw you and you weren't getting better you'd get
cut and bleed into the pan again eventually people would get so sick from bloodletting that they died
so it was this vicious cycle the doctor comes back to your house the doctor sees you you're
not getting better, but they've bled a quart or two quarts of blood into a pan. You were just
trying to recover from the bloodletting. And back then, that's what would happen. The patient
wasn't just up against their sickness or what was keeping them down with how they got sick
or what was causing them being sick. They had to battle the bloodletting. So it's like when
the doctor came in, the bloodletting is now the biggest enemy in that moment. It's like it wasn't
the infection they were fighting, it was the bloodletting. Whether you like hearing this or
not, whether you believe it or not, some entity in the medical industry knows that the modern day
practice of drawing excessive amounts of blood is similar to the historically outdated practice
of blood letting. So I think we have to understand something that's really important too.
You can find a pair of old blue jeans on somebody that was murdered in a grave 50 years ago, 60
years ago. If they take that cloth and they find blood that's the size of a grain of sand,
they can still test a myriad of things with that alone they could still test so many different
things in that blood just that dehydrated leftover little grain of sand drop of blood
on a pair of old blue jeans
but what happens is when you get your blood drawn you'll hear it all the time out there we need to
make a serum. We need this is the way it works. Think about it with infants, with babies. How are
they able to test a baby's thyroid? A full battery of tests with pediatric size vials,
of blood. And why do they need so much more from an adult? That's a good example of how
inconsistent it all is. For many people struggling with a symptom or condition, depending on its
severity, it can take anywhere. This is important right here. This is a critical piece of information.
It can take anywhere from two to six months or even longer. It's like your blood's bank account
is being drained. And before you can get enough money back into savings, more is taken.
So before you can get enough blood back into savings, more is taken. That is, before you can
get enough immune system back into your blood, in time, more is taken. And then the sicker you get.
Because a large portion of your immune system, like I talked about before, and remember this,
it's not in your intestinal tract.
It's in your bloodstream throughout your entire body.
That's your biggest, biggest, biggest place
for your immune system.
It's in your bloodstream.
It's there so it can stop an infection
because guess what?
Sepsis, blood infections,
that's how people are so susceptible, more susceptible.
You scratch yourself, you scratch your skin,
you get a cut, you cut your finger with a piece of glass, you step on a nail.
Anything to do with blood infections occurring, that's the scary part right there. That's why
your immune system is in your blood. That's why the majority of your immune system is in your
blood and in your organs. If it wasn't, people would get, they would die of sepsis way more than
they do it would be like you cut your arm deep enough and no antibiotic would help and you would
die of sepsis because you have to have your immune system in that bloodstream it's critical that it's
there because it is there and it's where it's mostly at it's not in your gut yes we have immune
cells in our gut yes we have immune cells in the lymphatic vessels around our gut in our torso and
And our torso is the bigger part of our body.
So we are going to have more immune system there.
But really, more immune system is actually inside the bloodstream,
traveling all through the torso and everywhere else.
Another piece of information that I just want to remind everybody,
the more blood taken and then the sicker you get,
because a large portion of your immune system is taken from you,
the more blood testing is called for to solve the mystery.
Because chronic illness is still a mystery.
It still is out there.
No matter how many experts think they have it pegged,
it's still a mystery leading to the,
we better order more blood
because we just don't know what's going on.
Because it's still a mystery.
So it always leads to,
we better order more blood. This is the vicious cycle I mentioned earlier.
Many people have a hard time bouncing back from the continual cycle of blood draws.
Some may never bounce back. They may never bounce back. When someone gets a bad cut,
for example, from a broken glass injury or mishandling a knife and they lose a lot of
blood is traumatic to the body. The shock alone from losing what would equal 10 or 14 vials of
blood is traumatic to the body. Even a less aggressive cut on the body that leads to blood
loss can equal seven small full vials. That blood loss would be traumatizing for the body.
The person would need time to recover when they get a bad cut and they drain that much blood is
drained from them. And yet we draw this amount of blood out of people without question. We say,
oh, drink some fluids later, eat some food, build your blood back up, acting confident that it'll
happen within a few hours. We'll see here in two weeks. We'll draw some more blood.
That's how, that's how alarming all this can be. When you go to a new doctor or a specialist,
they'll want to do it all over again and again and again and get a whole new round of blood panels
regardless of when the last blood draw was.
We lose a substantial part of our immune system every time
unless there's small blood draws for individual tests
separated out over multiple doctor visits instead of trying to get it all done in one swoop.
And that's another thing that happens.
Some doctors will be like, look, we want to get it all done now.
Let's just get all the tests we want now.
Let's just do one big blood draw.
They may not say it that way.
They'll just say, look, let's order all this.
You'll be like, okay, sure.
And they do one big, all in one swoop, one big blood draw.
Here's another thing that's interesting, nutritional deficiencies.
How many of you guys have had blood drawn for nutritional deficiencies?
like you're getting your nutritional count your nutritional profile done
and what people don't realize is the blood they draw to run a nutritional deficiency
profile the blood they draw is different than if they drew it a day later or they drew it hours
later it would look entirely different so the blood they draw and they send to the lab
would look entirely different than if they took blood again from you an hour later.
It would be vastly different. The nutritional profile, the deficiencies would shift and be
grave. So when they draw blood from someone, five vials, seven vials, 10 vials or more,
and they're checking for nutritional deficiencies as well as other things, then they go, whoa,
you know you got you're a little low in d you're a little low in calcium you're a little low in this
you're a little low in whatever and they're doing that you're a little low in b12 what happens is if
they took a blood test if they drew blood from you an hour later or just five minutes later or a day
later it would be an entirely different round of stats they would be like oh my god you're really
nutritional deficient, you're in a crisis state. We've never seen anything like this.
What I'm saying is when they drop blood from you in large amounts,
they create a nutritional deficiency. One that you carry with you for weeks and even for months.
And many people, they'll carry it for a month or two. Those nutritional deficiencies, it takes
months to build back up just in time for them to do another blood test to check your nutritional
deficiencies where you'll be completely you'll be nutritionally deficient after that for months
later and the vicious cycle occurs so what do we do about this what do we do how do we protect
ourselves i recommend asking your doctor for the minimal amount of blood needed for a test
and asking if it's possible to come back periodically
so that no more than two or three full tubes of blood are taken per visit.
Ideally, a blood draw should be limited to two to three quarter tubes,
or if you have to, two to three half tubes.
If you notice that the phlebotomists happen to fill the tubes
less than quarter or halfway with blood, even better.
Now, if you request quarter or half tubes, the phlebotomist or blood lab will likely say they can't use them.
And that's something that happens all the time. They'll say that.
They could say they have to have full tubes or they can't run the test or make a serum.
This is not true. A blood lab can test anything using a quarter or half tube of blood or even less.
It happens all the time out there now, ever since I brought the awareness of the blood draw problem out there in the world.
things are starting to change. Find a doctor who will send a quarter or half tubes in.
The blood lab will receive it, utilize it, and do all the testing needed with partial tubes if the
doctor's on board. Even if a blood lab tells a phlebotomist they won't use partial tubes,
if that phlebotomist sends quarter or half tubes in, the blood lab will still accept it and actually
check everything off the box that the doctor wanted and get it done. The lab only needs a
small fraction of blood. In reality, the blood lab only needs blood drops the size of a grain
of rice or a bean. Although they will refuse dosages that small, you can still, still ask
your doctor for quarter tubes and half tubes. If your doctor wants to do five full tubes,
seven full tubes with your blood test ask for five half tubes or five quarter tubes if you can't
ask for less always ask for quarter tubes or half tubes if they want too many tubes taken
you can always ask them you know can i come back and only take some now and come back another
time and divide the tests people are starting to do this now if you want to learn more about
what to do before your blood test, how to prepare for it, what foods to eat, how to get a protocol
before your blood test to help protect you, check out the Brain Saver book, the Medical
Meaning Brain Saver book. This is a life-saving book. This information alone is life-saving.
And if you want to know the protocol too, after you get a blood test, how to help you
get the electrolytes back, how to stabilize, it's in the Brain Saver book. Protocols for before a
blood test, protocols for after a blood test. And there's so much more information I haven't
even finished covering over this topic here. So what you might want to do is you might want to
look at the last time you had blood work, how many vials were taken, so you become familiar with it.
Talk to your doctor.
Get your doctor's guidance on this.
Be open with your doctor.
Talk to your doctor about it all.
Talk to your healthcare provider about it all.
Ask them if it's okay.
If you can do less blood taken at once, quarter tubes, half tubes, all of this is really super empowering.
can help protect you, can even help save people's lives because it already is happening. And I'm
noticing since I've been educating people about this, including doctors for many years now,
and it's been in the Medical Medium book series, I'm noticing there's a change out there.
And I'm hearing that doctors are actually offering
the option of half tubes and quarter tubes for some of their patients who are extra sensitive.
and so I'm seeing it start to change a little bit out there but just know that when you advocate
for yourself and you actually become your own health expert you can look out for yourself so
you can utilize what your doctor offers and then ask your doctor for guidance on this topic ask
him is it okay if I do it this way and see what your doctor thinks there's a very good chance
your doctor will be perfectly fine with it,
help you do it, help you protect you
so you can stay safe and move forward
and keep your healing process going.
It only helps your doctor and healthcare providers
and healthcare practitioners
and your medical health professionals.
It only helps them because as you're healing
or staying strong and not getting sicker
from excessive blood draws,
their life is better.
They're seeing you get better and stay strong.
That alone is all precious.
Anyway, thank you for taking the time out,
listening to the Blood Draw episode right here at Hay House.
And it's an honor to be at service for you guys
and to be looking out for the chronically ill.
Check out Brainsaver, where this information lies.
Learn about it.
There's so much more to talk about with the Blood Draw
and blood donating.
and thank you very much.
God bless you.
See you next time.
