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SOLUTIONS TALK #3: Address pain, injury, inflammation and more with DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide)
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Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is an amazing substance the potential of which few people are aware. It is an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-fungal, and so much more. Listen to today's Solutions Talk to find out more about this substance.
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Transcript
Introduction
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Hello and welcome back to Solutions Talk on Connecting Minds podcast number three.
What is DMSO?
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Today I'm going to talk to you about what I would empathically call a miraculous substance. DMSO. DMSO stands for dimethyl sulfoxide.
00:00:31
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I've got a couple of books on it. I'm just going to read little bits and pieces that are kind of dog-eared in the books to give you an overview of what DMSO is and how you can use it in specific sort of situations where you may need, let's say you have an injury, an acute injury, some type of inflammation that is getting out of hand.
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or some type of pain.
Acquisition and Availability of DMSO
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So first of all, what is DMSO? Let me just discuss a little bit what is DMSO. So it comes from tree lining, which is an important component in plant cell walls.
00:01:23
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So this is basically DMSO is a byproduct of the craft method of pulp and paper production, also called the sulfate process. So this is literally a, so it's a byproduct of the pulp and paper manufacturing process, right? So it's a natural compound. And actually I've got a couple of liters of it. I got it from Amazon. You can get this stuff.
00:01:53
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from Amazon. I got 99.9% pharmaceutical grade DMSO in a glass bottle. When you're buying it, it needs to be in a glass bottle for reasons I'll explain a little bit later. That's really all you need to know, I suppose, about... We don't really need to get into too much of the chemistry
00:02:18
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of what it is, right? It's like, if you look at your supplements, like you might have MSM, methylsophono, methane. You know, you might have NAC, N-acetylcysteine, glycine. It doesn't really matter. You don't have to be a chemistry sort of buff to understand the exact molecular structure and the biochemical mechanisms of how these things work.
00:02:47
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What I'll tell you is, so I have a couple of books here that I bought, because when I was digging into DMSO, I've heard good things about it from various sources, and I was trying to find information on the internet, and it was very hard to find stuff on YouTube or articles that were useful. And it's funny how that happens.
DMSO Usage and Benefits
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This information seems to be very hidden. No, not hidden, but difficult to find.
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digging into distilled water and its potential benefits or does it leach minerals from your body and stuff like that. I was trying to get into it and the first few pages of most search engines were just full of BS, you know. So it's funny how that happens. I don't know how that happens. So I managed to find a couple of books off Amazon. One is called Healing with DMSO by Amanda Vollmer and the other one from Dr. Morton Walker.
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It's called DMSO, Nature's Healer. How to use DMSO to relieve pain, increase circulation, repair tissue damage and fight degenerative diseases. Listen to this shit, this man. How to use DMSO to relieve pain,
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increase circulation, repair tissue damage, and fight degenerative diseases. Can you believe this, right? I honestly don't know how this stuff has not been criminalized or made available only through gatekeepers like your doctor or whatever. I don't know. And I wouldn't be surprised if it does happen. Maybe if there's a big sort of resurgence,
00:04:35
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or a big movement of people spreading this information, maybe they will do something about it. But there's been, I believe, more than 100,000 studies done on DMSO. So I read these books quite a while ago. It was last year sometime. And the way
00:04:54
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I had the bottle of DMS so I buy a lot of stuff that I kind of will research and I have like a little, a few bits and pieces that are on the back burner always. But what happened was I injured my back kind of putting the baby in the car. It's just a really awkward process of bending in various ways and moving weight.
00:05:17
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And then, you know, clipping the seatbelts. It's a very awkward, one of the most awkward sort of movements you're going to be doing, I suppose, as a human being. You know, it's a very awkward movement. So anyway, I had already some type of issue in my lower back with the ligaments.
00:05:41
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and one day something just snapped, crackled and popped kind of in my lower back when I was putting my daughter in the car seat and that's what made me kind of open up these books that I already had but I hadn't really dug into and I popped open the bottle of DMSO because what DMSO can be used for is to not just alleviate pain
Potential Risks and Considerations of DMSO
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but it can actually help speed up the process, the healing process, right? So I use that on my back two or three times a day. I'll take about, I think it was two, you only need like two, three milliliters of the substance and you need about that much, basically you need to dilute it with distilled water, right? Or very clean water, ideally distilled.
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I just applied it with a cotton pad to kind of the area around my low, the injury side, basically. And it, oh my God, it worked so well. I tell you how well it worked and I had to stop using it because it dulled the pain so well that a bit later on that day, you know, an hour later, I was like, oh God, I feel great, man. So I started doing like some lunges, some stretching. It's like, oh fuck, I feel amazing.
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And then a few hours later when it wore off, I was like, oh shit, dying of pain again. Like I could barely move. Like my whole body is twisting and contorting to protect the site of injury. Just horrible pain. So it actually works almost too well. So you have to be very careful how you apply it. Like if you apply it to a very mobile movable joint, you can actually allow yourself into a false sense of security.
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injuries yourself even more. So in fact, in this book by Dr. Morton Walker, DMS All Natures Healer, they talk about how it worked. When they were doing a lot of this kind of research back in the 90s, I believe, and they were using it for sports injuries. And in fact, it worked so well that a lot of, again, like I said, a lot of like these athletes, they would feel so much better.
00:08:05
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And then they would start training normally, like a couple of days later before, like, let's say, spray an ankle had, you know, had a chance to heal and they would just destroy themselves because, because they thought they were better, but they weren't. The pain was dull, but the, the, the healing process takes time. So anyway, but yeah, they were using it for like a swollen ankles and
00:08:36
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rotator cuff type shoulder injuries like in baseball players and stuff like that. Amazing thing, right? But what is even more amazing is that yes, it helps with pain, but it actually helps the healing process along which has to do with the it's a sulfur containing so dimethyl sulfoxide it contains sulfur and sulfur is one of the
00:09:04
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I think it's the third or fourth most abundant compound in the body. So it's super important in like structures in the body. So it contributes to the healing process. It doesn't just dull pain, which is, we're talking, this segment of the podcast is about solutions and there's better
00:09:28
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solutions to pain in some cases than just taking ibuprofen or painkillers. You could be taking something that helps alleviate your pain, but also is helping the body to heal itself faster. So I'm going to get into the major therapeutic properties
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of DMSO. So I'm going to go into 16 here from the one book, the DMSO in Nature's Healer book. So it blocks pain by interrupting conduction in the small C fibers, the non-myelinated nerve fibers. So it blocks pain, let's just say. It is anti-inflammatory.
00:10:13
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It is bacterial static, fungi static, and virus static, so it just kind of stops the activity of fungal and bacterial type stuff. So again, many benefits there. Internal and external. I've been taking it internally and I'll talk to you about that a bit later.
00:10:34
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transports numerous pharmaceuticals across membranes, not just pharmaceuticals, actually. If you go on Amazon, you will see that they sell DMSO with magnesium chloride. As you may know, magnesium chloride on its own is sold as a spray, or you can make the spray yourself. I make it myself with distilled water.
00:10:59
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When you spray magnesium chloride on your skin, it allows obviously for that magnesium to get absorbed. And it's really helpful for tight muscles. Again, it can help with pain, but most definitely like sports injuries, tight muscles. Like if I do a lot of walking and I haven't walked in a while or up hills and stuff, my ankles,
00:11:24
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or my calves rather get super stiff. So that really helps kind of basically speed up the recovery process. Really amazing. And when you couple that with the DMSO, it just, the DMSO basically, it transports the great carrier of things across the skin or internally.
Advanced Applications of DMSO
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Other things, it's amazing.
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at is so it reduces the incidence of platelet thrown by in blood vessels. So you know platelet thrown like thrombosis this kind of stuff it can actually reduce this platelet aggregation. It has a specific effect on cardiac contractility by inhibiting calcium to reduce the workload of the heart.
00:12:15
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It acts as a tranquilizer even when simply rubbed into the skin. It enhances antifungal and antibacterial agents when combined with them. So again, it increases the, so let's say you have some type of fungal thing on your skin or some type of bacterial infection in the gut. If you, let's say, take some oregano oil, for example, or some other bacteria
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herb or essential oil or whatever extract. If you combine it with DMSO, it can help enhance their effects. It is a vasodilator, so it dilates blood vessels. It inhibits the release of colonasterase. It tends to soften collagen by its peculiar cross-linking effect. Some of these, you know, are
00:13:16
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I don't fully understand the exact mechanisms and why it's, how it could be useful, but I'll just go through them all. It stimulates various types of immunity. It is a potent diuretic, especially when administered intravenously. It brings about interferon formation in the organism. It stimulates healing of wounds. That's a good one. Then from the other book, I'll talk a little bit more about the effects. So it's Major Actions, just a book by
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Amanda Vollmer, hitting with DMSO. So DMSO's activities. So it has antimicrobial properties. It is a muscle relaxant. Increases production of white cells and macrophages, important cells for the immune system. Increases cell membrane permeability, allowing for removal of toxins. Is radio protective, reducing the mutagenic and lethal effects of X-rays.
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Jesus, I'm reading these and it just makes me want to go downstairs and do a shot of it. And I will, I will have to actually, I will, because I have an empty stomach right now. It's the perfect time to do it. Inhibits cholinesterase enzyme from breaking down acetylcholine, an important neurotransmitter. That's very interesting, right? It has a lot of implications for if you're into new tropics and improving
00:14:48
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your mental performance, a lot of the new tropics will be like choline based, so they will supply choline or acetyl groups for your body to be able to build acetylcholine. And some of them will have some type of cholinesterase inhibitor that will
00:15:12
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basically inhibit the enzyme from breaking down the acetylcholine, so you have more of it circulating, right? And acetylcholine is important for cognitive function learning, all sorts of sort of things that you would associate with mental performance. So this, I have forgotten, this is actually pretty awesome. Listen to this now. It is an excellent heavy metal detoxifier.
00:15:35
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binding to aluminum, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, and nickel, and eliminating them through urination and sweating. This is so fucking epic, man. I'm getting super excited about this. I wasn't taking it for a while, but I still have tons of it. I think I have like a liter bottle. I have an open, then another half of a liter left in the other one. So I'm going to start pumping this stuff a couple of times a day again. What else?
00:16:03
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It is an effective pain killer, as I mentioned already, blocking nerves, conducting pain signals, but you have to be careful because sometimes pain has a function and that is to protect. Basically, if a movement is painful, it means your body's trying to signal, don't do this until it stops being painful at least. And yeah, so it is bacteria static, meaning it inhibits the growth of bacteria.
00:16:34
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Listen to this now, this is mad. Exhibits cryo protective properties, helps preserve stem cells, bone marrow cells and organs, protecting against injury from freezing during organ transportation and protects against damage during interstitial cystitis and cancer radiation therapy. And both of these uses are FDA approved in the USA.
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Reduces inflammation and swelling by affecting inflammatory chemicals. Improves blood supply to the injured areas by dilating blood vessels and reducing blood viscosity. Increases delivery of oxygen to the cells. Potent free radical scavenger.
00:17:25
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transporting these substances through excretory organs, so free radicals or reactive oxygen species, as you may have heard of them being referred to. These are things that basically injure our cells and they contribute to inflammation, the aging process, things like that. DMSO is transdermal.
00:17:56
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easily penetrating the skin and blood brain barrier and enters the bloodstream. So again, that what I was talking about, it's useful to move substances you want moved through through the skin, protect cells from mechanical damage more rapidly than pharmaceutical drugs has a calming effect on the nervous on the central nervous system. And yeah, act as a carrier for other drugs and supplements. That includes things like chemotherapy and not that you want more anyway.
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Corticosteroids, antibiotics, and insulin show less. Sorry, sorry. Let me reread that. Acts as a carrier for all other drugs and supplements and increases their
Health Conditions DMSO Can Address
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effects. For example, chemotherapy, corticosteroids, antibiotics, and insulin show less undesirable effects and can be used in much smaller quantities. Has antino-seceptive properties, meaning that it reduces the sensitivity
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to any dangers or harmful stimuli is non-toxic and has an unquestionably safe therapy profile. Okay, super epic. So what can you use it for? I'll just go over a few things that it can be used for. So in my case, I've taken it internally, so with a little bit of apple juice.
00:19:22
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And you honestly feel really good. I don't know, I could take a lot of supplements and stuff and do different things.
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all the time. So it's hard to say when a specific thing is itself causing the whatever improvement or whatever else. But you do feel good. Like I feel good when I when I drink it. But I don't know. It's hard to really quantify that. But so I've also used it obviously on my injury. I've used it on a shoulder injury like not so much an injury more a little bit of a muscle strain. It definitely helps.
00:20:02
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What other stuff? So I'll go through the list here of things you can use this for. So aches and pains, as I was talking about, it can be used for burns, for headaches and migraines, osteoarthritis and arthritic type pains as well, carpal tunnel syndrome, frozen shoulder injuries of various kinds, tendinitis,
00:20:27
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It can be used for eye health. So some people dissolve, I believe it's 70, 60 to 70% solution in distilled water or DMSO. And then they apply every morning, they apply it to their closed eyelids. So they close their eyelids and apply that with like a cotton pad and they swear by it. It's good for
00:20:55
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Oh, another thing you can use it for that I've actually used it as a mouthwash and you dissolve basically two units of water to one unit DMSO to one unit, what's it, hydrogen peroxide.
00:21:17
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you swish that like a mouthwash for a couple of minutes. And it basically allows the hydrogen peroxide to penetrate into your gums. It just cleans out and kills bacteria and stuff like that. It's really good for that. It's also good for very skincare type things. A lot of women have reported, you know, a lot of, not just women. I mean, I'm sure lots of guys are doing it as well for skincare. It can actually stimulate hair growth. It's good for hemorrhoids as well. Some people have,
00:21:46
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had amazing success in addressing their hemorrhoids, cold sores and persistent shingles. And it can even be like with a doctor's help. It can be used intravenously and it has been used intravenously, but it only has specific things that it's been kind of quote unquote approved, FDA approved for. I forget which those are, but most people won't be using it for
00:22:16
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for that kind of stuff. Most people, when they buy it, they'll be using it internally or diluting it with a bit of water, distilled water, and using it on their skin or hair or whatever. So in the other book, the MSL Nature's Healer, there's other stuff. So obviously we covered sports injuries and stuff like that.
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and I did touch on arthritis. And these kind of osteoarthritis type pains, it's really good for, but it's also been used in mental disabilities and head and spinal cord injuries, right? And there is some stuff about cancer, but again, I just wanna talk for a more general audience, obviously, you know,
00:23:16
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I don't want to get into more obscure topics right now. This has a lot of benefits for the everyday type of person that, you know, people have pains, have injuries, muscle strains, just a need to detoxify harmful chemicals and metals.
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fungal and bacterial type of over growths and infections.
Best Practices for DMSO Usage
00:23:48
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So it's really useful for all of those. Yeah, so just a, I'll add a couple of more things. Of course, if you want to use this, you will need to do a little bit more research. I'm just, this segments, it's about bringing things to your like,
00:24:07
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to your radar, you know what I mean? Like in your purview. It's not about being a complete resource on how to use DMSO, for example, in this instance. The quickest way to, if you want to use DMSO, obviously go on Amazon, get the stuff. And the book Healing with DMSO by Amanda Vollmer, I think it's a short book. I think it's a great little introduction. It's about 130 pages long.
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short little introduction. I think it's very well written. There's plenty of information on how to dose it. Yeah, so that's the book you want. And then if you want to get into it more, it's a bigger book. The other one I was reading from DMS All Nature's Healer by Dr. Morton Walker. It's a longer book and it's a little bit more involved. But if you do
00:25:08
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Obviously, if you want to get deeper into it, it's going to enlighten you significantly more. So those are the two books I would recommend. The other thing I just wanted to mention.
00:25:23
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When you're diluting the MSO and using it topically, you need to, first of all, make sure that any skin area you're using it on, it needs to be really clean because if there's sweat and we know that through sweat, toxins come out. So if the air is not very clean, the MSO helps to push the
00:25:54
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the stuff through the skin right so you want to not push in like some toxins and sweat and crap that you've been sweating out or whatever dirt so make sure that the air is very clean that's one thing you have to remember otherwise it kind of stings a little bit it's not really nice a nice feeling it stings and gets itchy
00:26:14
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which it can, even without, that's one of the kind of the effects, sometimes it's a little bit, the air gets a little bit uncomfortable for a while, but it's not a big issue in most cases. And then you want to use distilled water when diluting it, because there's obviously very little in distilled water, there is no, there should be no heavy metals, chemicals and crap
00:26:44
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that can again transdermally cross into your body through the skin because the DMSO is so potent in carrying it through, right? So those are a couple of things. And in fact, this is how I got into distilled water. I was going to use the DMSO. And I had the distiller that I bought the year before, two years ago almost.
00:27:08
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And I just was too lazy to like take it out and learn how to use it and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You have to clean it and filters, carbon filters at the end to whatever else. But because I wanted to use the DMSO for my injury, I had to start using the distilled water and I have not, I've only been pretty much drinking only distilled water since then. So point being is you will need distilled water. Sometimes you can buy it in some areas or reverse osmosis water will also work
00:27:38
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but it's a great opportunity to get into both things. Drinking distilled water is epic. You don't have to, you can still use a little bit of minerals and salt if you think it's leaching minerals out of your body or whatever, but you're starting off with a clean slate and I have solutions talk number one from I think December. I talk about a little bit more about
00:28:07
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with the stealing water and stuff like that and the benefits and how some logistics around it. So please feel free to check that out if you're interested in that. But yeah, those are a couple of things. Also, one other thing I wanted to mention is it does kind of stink because it's got like a sulfur component. So it has this garlicky type of smell. And the thing is, once you start drinking it and using it, it's very quickly, you very quickly stop perceiving the smell.
00:28:37
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But people around you, if they're not using it, they will continue to perceive the smell. And yeah, I had my wife tell me multiple, multiple times when I was using it topically how badly it stinks. And actually I was, one day I decided to put it in my hair because I read that it can help with hair growth and improve hair growth and stuff.
00:29:07
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So I put it in my hair and I remember I was, I believe I was driving our nanny home where I was picking her up or something and I hadn't washed it out of my hair yet because I wanted to let it work its magic for a while. And I just remember there was this awkward silence for the longest time in the car for this very short trip. And, um, later during, I was like, no, I think later on I was like,
00:29:36
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Oh, she looked very uncomfortable. She was probably like, what the fuck? How does this guy stink so bad? How much is this guy rolling around in garlic or something? I don't know. But yeah, so it does smell a little bit. But look, when you think about the benefits, if you're in pain or you have an injury,
00:29:59
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Who gives a damn, man? Unless you work with people in an office, I don't know. You can do it on the weekend then, or in the evening, or whatever else. But to me, these things never matter. So anyway, it's important to know these things because they're important to know so you can plan around if you ever were to use the stuff, how to do it, and so on and so forth. So thank you for tuning into the Connecting Minds podcast.
00:30:28
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and the solutions talk segment. I will talk to you soon. Have a good one.