Greetings, it's Eric Bakker, the naturopath from New Zealand.
Thank you for coming back to our channel.So we're talking about salicylates.
Okay.
Salicylates are basically chemicals found in plants that ward off insect attack, but
they can also make you sick.
But they're found in massive amounts in various medications.
That's a nutshell.
Now, why did I get salicylate sensitivity is a question.
Did it just drop in your lap like a plague of locusts?
Did it just drop on your head like a big shower or of goodness knows what?
No, it didn't.
It developed in you.
Okay?
The sensitivity developed in you for a few reasons.
Some people are certainly more prone to salicylate problems in others.
If we look at asthmatics or people with autoimmune disease or compromised immune health, can
be more prone to any kind of sensitivity.
But the thing interesting thing was salicylate sensitivity is usually creeps up on you slowly
a bit like a bad marriage.
It starts off good, but then it goes a bit shady, and it goes murky, and then it turns
dark and it gets all gross up here.
And then the whole thing falls over.
That's what happens with a lot of medications on people.
They stay on drugs, the drugs infiltrate the body, they suppress the symptom, but then
they start toxifying slowly the liver and the kidneys, and other organs [inaudible]
but a toxic residue build up.
So they develop side effects.
This is what happens with aspirin.
Okay?
As I mentioned in a previous video in this series in all the years, I practiced many,
many years.
Every single year I would see one, two, three, or four patients, often males they could be
female too, usually 70's, 80's on aspirin every day for years, take an aspirin.
And then the patient would come in and the very first thing they would talk about is
how itchy their skin was or how blocked their sinuses were.
Okay?
Nasal polyps I've seen a few occasions, nasal polyps in these patients.
And yeah, and I looked at the case and I had a very good look at the doctor's visit the
patient had.
I looked at the medication and I put one on one together and it ain't three it's two.
And quickly worked out that the drug was the problem.
I had one guy in his 80's who was furious when he came to see me.
He said, because it was causing him literally suicidal grief because he was just ripping
the skin off his back.
And this guy's on two aspirin tablets a day.
So when I mentioned aspirin, he just threw them in the trashcan.
That was the end of the itchy skin.
But it was also the end of the relationship with the doctor and the end of the specialist.
This guy was hopping mad.
And when I had to look at his back, it was outrageous.
I can't show you photos online of patients or their bodies.
But I've taken pictures for my own records.
And when I look back at those photos, this guy looked like he'd been whip lashed, his
whole back.
Literally on one of those Norwegian kind of movies.
What do they call them?
Those Viking movies where they got someone spread out on a rack and then just whipping
the hell out of his back and his skins all, that's what his back looked like.
It was awful.
And it was aspirin induced.
That's the sad part.
Okay?
So, and this hasn't happened once or twice.
This has happened quite regularly.
So why did you get it?
Well, you took too much salicylic acid.
Okay?
It stimulated your body.
Or you had a higher susceptibility to a lower dose, as many people have.
So it was one of those two.
Before I'm sitting on this chair, nearly all cases I've seen were medication induced.
They weren't brought on by eating mushrooms or eating a tomato or having a couple of mints
in the mouth here and there.
They contain negligible amounts of salicylic acid.
But when you set up that problem already, negligible amounts are enough to stimulate
the immune function.
But the big kahuna is the aspirin tablet you're taking every day because that's the most likely
to cause the problem, or Pepto-Bismol, or a muscle relaxant, or an anti inflammatory.
But just check carefully that it isn't aspirin if you're getting all this itchiness.
Okay?
If I can just help one more person with this information that will be awesome.
Because I can only manage to help three or four every year who came to me.
And they're usually older guys that were so sick of being bounced around from doctor,
to doctor, to doctor with no answers.
So don't you be bounced around.
All right?
So why you got?
Was you were susceptible to getting it for various reasons as we've discussed.
Thanks for tuning in.