FENBENDAZOLE & ARTEMISININ I The Common Sense MD I Dr. Tom Rogers

In this episode of The Common Sense MD, Dr. Rogers talks about two over-the-counter medications that could be effective in causing the regression of various cancer tumors.

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hi this is Dr Tom Rogers at the common
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sense MD coming to you with the weekly
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podcast today I want to talk about
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something that's controversial
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um somewhat and something that patients
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ask me all the time about an alternative
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treatment for cancers
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as you know we've made tremendous
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strides in treating heart disease
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cancers not as much so
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one thing I will tell you we're going to
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talk about
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fenbendazole otherwise known as Finn bin
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it's a treatment that um
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a lot of people are looking at for many
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different types of cancer in addition to
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the traditional types now I want to
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disclose that this is not medical advice
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that I'm giving through this podcast
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it's medical information you get medical
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advice when you come into my office or
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you see your own doctor so when it comes
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to cancer treatments you know you want
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to do everything you can to cure the
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cancer
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um and obviously I'm all for traditional
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treatments of cancers whether it be
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surgery chemo therapy radiation
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um but there's also additional
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treatments that may be helpful to you
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because I've seen it I've seen it in my
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practice I've read about it I've
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researched it and I think if you use a
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combination
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approach certainly unless you have
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something very straightforward that's
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easily curable say like by surgery then
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you should look into it at least
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especially if you've been giving a poor
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prognosis and or you know they say
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nothing is going to work then you ought
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to pull out all the stops in my opinion
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and again we we're talking about maybe
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cancer prevention as well I think it's
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we're very close to getting genetic
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testing that can predict what type of
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cancer that you may be very vulnerable
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to as a matter of fact they're out there
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already they're not covered by insurance
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but they're available so we'll be
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talking about more of those later on in
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future podcasts but in any event so
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let's talk about
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fembendazole
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a close relative of mobendazole which we
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use to treat pinworms in kids the thing
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about mobendazole the human medicine or
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at least human form of it it's very
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expensive so what's usually used in
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these cases are finbendazole which you
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may know as a dog dewormer it's kind of
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hilarious but it is a dog dewormer but
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you can get it over the counter it's
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very inexpensive and there's a lot of
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people that use it and get great results
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from it this drug has been around since
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1974. it's used worldwide like I say
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it's over the counter it's inexpensive
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um it definitely
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kills parasites but it's also
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people think that it's very effective as
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an anti-cancer agent and I have seen it
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used in patients with good results with
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virtually no side effects and remember
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there's no medicine in the world that
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doesn't possibly have a side effect but
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this one's really really low but it's
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it's really been shown to be effective
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in causing regression of various tumor
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types
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also used in combination with other
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traditional approaches like chemotherapy
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and radiation it won't interfere with
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them
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um so you're talking about a repurposed
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drug you know in the last three years
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we've talked a lot about repurposed
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drugs that have worked
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um as a complementary anti-cancer
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medication
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it really appears to work in a very
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similar fashion to a lot of the
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chemotherapeutic drugs without the side
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effects or toxicity
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um
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however like anything repurposed drugs
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there's not a ton of human
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experiments with it there have been but
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there's nobody that's gonna because it's
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over the counter it's cheap there's
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there's no big Pharma company that's
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going to carry out double blind
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placebo-controlled trials on this thing
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so and you know plus you may not have
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the time to to have one of those run if
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you're dealing with cancer
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um now these are pills that you can get
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over the counter you can order them
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it has limited absorption in the gut so
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you have to take them with food as a
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matter of fact some people just take the
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capsule and sprinkle it over their food
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and eat it that way so the bio
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availability of this has definitely
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increased by eating food with it
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um
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under five percent of people will get a
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little stomach discomfort from it
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um if you took a higher dose of it like
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maybe a little loose stools now people
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with severe liver or kidney problems you
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have to you know they have lower
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excretion rates of any drug so you have
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to watch their liver function test and
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that's easy to do
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um
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so you watch that and if it does I
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haven't seen it do that but if it does
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you just stop it and it reverses within
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a couple weeks
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um
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the protocol
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um
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it can be varied
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most people have heard of this guy named
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Joe tippins who really got the ball
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rolling with fembendazole he was a guy
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who had metastatic small cancer of the
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lung and was told there was nothing they
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can do just go ahead and die but he was
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talking with a veterinarian friend of
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his and who had seen this work in some
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animals for cancer so he tried it and
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you know he's still cancer free I think
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this was back in 2017 that he took the
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medicine and he's still cancer free
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so with no evidence of any recurrences
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so the original protocol was to take
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this for three days and take four days
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off
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um and they didn't cause any problems
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um for prolonged use I mean you can use
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this thing indefinitely really because
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you don't develop a tolerance to it
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um it suggested that you do take some
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other things with it to increase the
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effectiveness of it milk thistles one
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curcumin's one CBD drops or another
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they seem to have concurrent effects
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with the fin Bend if you take them that
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way
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how does this stuff work
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that's really interesting you really get
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into a lot of chemistry with this but it
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really works it really cures a parasite
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by selectively blocking the synthesis of
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microtubules
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microtubules are part of the the
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structure of a cell that allows passes
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of things to get into the cell to do
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their work including chromosomes
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including cancer really cancer is a
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disease of mitosis mitosis is
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replication and as you know cancer cells
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just keep dividing and dividing and
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dividing very rapidly
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so what this does it it blocks these
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tubules
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selectively and stops mitosis or cell
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division
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kind of like taxol and vincristine do
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that are chemotherapeutic drugs so they
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found out that that's the way it kills
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the parasites but also exhibits a
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similar effect against cancer cells so
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the street turns out there's three main
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mechanisms that the fin bin works and
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one is by the induction of apoptosis
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which is program cell death and it works
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by cell cycle or rest just like we were
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talking about through these inhibition
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of these microtubules
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the second way it works is inhibition of
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glucose uptake in cancer cells malignant
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cells are known to have an enormous
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glucose uptake that's why I tell
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everybody that has cancer there's a
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couple things I would immediately do one
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I would go on a ketogenic diet the
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s