Measles cases in the U.S. have raised concerns, but experts explain that the number of cases is relatively small. While measles is highly contagious, staying hydrated and taking proper precautions can help prevent complications. There’s also debate around vaccinations, the role of immigration in spreading diseases, and how media coverage can sometimes make outbreaks seem bigger than they are.
The focus also shifts to hidden toxins in everyday foods and their impact on long-term health. Simple steps like supporting liver function and being mindful of what we eat can make a big difference. There’s an emphasis on staying informed, asking questions, and making choices that support overall well-being.
Highlights of the Podcast
00:01 - Introduction
00:33 - Understanding Measles & Its Spread
01:25 - Measles Outbreak – How Big Is It?
02:31 - Reported Measles Death – What Really Happened?
03:10 - Symptoms & Treatment
06:10 - Vaccine Debate & RFK Jr.'s Role
08:49 - Food Toxins & Health Risks
American Medicine Today Host [00:00:00] Welcome to American Medicine Today. I'm Kimberly Bonati alongside Ethan Youker. Measles is one of the most contagious viruses in the world and is currently spreading around the United States. And West Texas happens to be experiencing the largest outbreak. Here to discuss how concerned we should be is Dr. Matt Chalmers, biochemical expert and best-selling author of Pillars of Wellness. Welcome to the show.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:26] Hey, thanks for having me!
American Medicine Today Host [00:00:27] Certainly. So first off, can you explain what causes measles and how it spreads?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:33] So measles is caused by a virus, just like a cold or anything like that. Uh, and then it's very, very contagious. You can actually, you can actually catch it from someone who doesn't even have symptoms yet. And so that's one of the reasons why it's so contagious is you might not know you're sick and give it to other people.
American Medicine Today Host 2 [00:00:48] Now, I know when we were discussing this a little bit before we went on, when I I've been hearing about measles, you know, this outbreak for the past couple of months, I want to say, if not longer than that. And initially, I thought to myself, measles? I mean, that's that's a childhood disease. And most of us have been vaccinated against it. Like, why am I concerned about this? Then as the weeks have gone by and months have gone by, it's making more and more headlines. As Kimberly just said, big outbreak in West Texas. Why the resurgence of measles? Because all of a sudden it got my attention and I thought we gotta be talking about this on the show.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:25] Well, so one of the big things I want everybody to understand when they hear outbreak, they think big numbers. According to the CDC, if three people have measles, it's an outbreak. So just let's get our numbers in alignment here. One of the reasons that I think that this is becoming bigger and bigger news is because RFK is starting to ask questions about the science of that of vaccines in general. And so people are trying to really discuss these things more and more and bring it to, you know, put to the forefront of of people's minds.
American Medicine Today Host [00:01:56] So let me guess there were four people and that made it, you know, the largest outbreak ever.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:03] It's not it's not a giant. It's not a giant outbreak. There's not 1000s and 1000s of people with it. It's a very, very small number.
American Medicine Today Host [00:02:11] And one of them we were hearing at least had it was a measles death, but it was an infant, I guess, that was given an active vaccine while they had measles, which I think is something that should never have happened in the first place.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:31] we're getting conflicting reports that what I'm hearing is that the child had RSV and had pneumonia and while they were in, the doctors vaccinated the child for measles and then the child died and what ends up happening is that when you inject a live virus measles and then you test for measles after the vaccine, you're going to find measles in their system. So whether the child had measles when they came in or not, it's being reported as a measles guys.
American Medicine Today Host 2 [00:02:58] What specifically are the symptoms? I mean, again, I haven't heard about this disease really since I was a kid. And I think with measles, isn't it almost like don't they get spots all over their body and things like that?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:10] Yeah, it's similar in to the chicken pox, you're going to get spots all over the body, you're going to itching, it's going to be you're gonna feel fatigue and kind of like you have a cold and you have a rash. So as far as general population, that's about all you really need to get a recognized
American Medicine Today Host 2 [00:03:26] And if you start to show symptoms, I mean, should you immediately be tested? Should you take a vaccine? Are there other ways to treat the symptoms, to get over measles? Or, because as Kimberly said, it's one of the most contagious viruses in the world, but like what's the mortality rate and how concerned should you be if you start to experience symptoms?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:47] Well, so the mortality rate's really low. It's, the CDC shows it's three in a thousand people, but they don't die of the measles. They die of dehydration. Two thirds of the people die from dehydration. So as long as you can get an IV, drink some water, get a colonic irrigation, you're gonna be fine. As far as, if you notice that you have it. don't go outside, like, don't be around other people. And then if you've been around people like two or three days before him, call them and tell them, hey, I just came down with the measles, you know, stay at home, kind of check yourself out for a day or two and see kind of how it goes. It's not, I don't want people to get all super scared. I know that people tell you if you get the measles, you're gonna die. That is not the case at all. So it's not as scary as people are making it out to be. It's just gonna be a couple days of irritation.
American Medicine Today Host [00:04:29] Now, do you think what they're calling this influx has to do with these anti-vaxxers?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:37] I wouldn't say it has anything to do with the anti-vaxxers. If there's any reason that we have an increased amount of measles or any communicable diseases, it would be probably from the illegal migrants that have come across the border, these millions of hundreds of thousands of people who've come in, they caught brought all their diseases with them. So if there's anything, I would not say it's the anti-vaxxers. Most of your, most of the people who are not taking vaccines are very health conscious. They're keeping themselves clean, the supplementation, their diets are good. Usually what we're going to see is we're going to see this disease brought in by people who are coming from third world countries.
American Medicine Today Host 2 [00:05:08] Which makes sense that there's a huge outbreak in West Texas, right? Right there on the border. That would make the most sense. How would you even combat that though? I mean, obviously since President Trump returned to office, we've seen the border crossings just completely drop from like 150,000 a month down to a trickle. So, how are we supposed to monitor and vet these people that are coming through that are possibly carrying these communicable diseases that threaten society of Americans?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:40] If these people come over legally, or they come by and we can stop them and check them at some of our medical checkpoints or anything, that would be very, very beneficial, which is, again, one of the major reasons why we want immigration to happen, but we want it to happen in a controlled manner so we can make sure. Are you bringing disease with you? If you're not, great, come on in. If you are, let's stop that and not let you bring the disease in.
American Medicine Today Host [00:06:03] All right. And and for those who have had the vaccine, do they need to be booster?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:10] Yeah, the idea of the vaccine is that you carry lifelong immunity with it, which is that's one of the things that I hope RFK is going to look into. One of the things we do know is if you ever had measles, which a lot of people have the measles, you do carry lifelong immunity from that. So if you've had the measles, good job, you're safe.
American Medicine Today Host 2 [00:06:27] What are your, not to bring you into politics, but you know, we tend to get political on this program, what are your thoughts on RFK Jr. heading up to HHS? Is it a good thing? Because I mean, the mainstream media, and this is of course somebody who is a lifelong Democrat and then became an independent. So it's interesting to watch how he is covered by the mainstream media. And now he's the enemy, because he's basically part of Team Trump. How do you think he's going to perform in this new role?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:01] Well, I have I have zero doubt that RFK is going to bring a lot of good change. The thing that we really need to look at about especially all of our medications, especially vaccines is we've let vaccines become a religion. You're not allowed to question them. You're not allowed to apply science. Science is asking questions. And we're not allowed to apply science to our vaccines. This is how we got the COVID vaccine. And if you can look at the massive amount of damage that the COVID vaccine has caused to our health and to our population, we need to start asking more questions about everything.
American Medicine Today Host [00:07:29] Mm-hmm, but I thought it was supposed to be follow the science.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:33] Right
American Medicine Today Host [00:07:34] strange.
American Medicine Today Host 2 [00:07:35] But yeah, it's not working out that way. Yeah. Do you do foresee an outbreak of other childhood diseases like whooping cough or mumps or I'm being facetious, but seriously, I mean, could could we see a return of some of these diseases that we were all inoculated against as children?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:54] The thing that worries me is that not that there's so that we would see a resurgence of an actual numbers, but we would receive we'd see a giant influx of the news media coverage. So like, for instance, if you look at the plane crashes, we're actually down this year for plane crashes. But that's all everybody's talking about. And so people think that there's a lot more than normal. So again, like these outbreaks, if there's 10 people with measles, it's a giant outbreak of measles or so I'm a little bit worried about how the news media is going to trump this up trying to scare everybody and to stop asking questions about the medications that we're taking we're giving our kids.
American Medicine Today Host [00:08:26] Mmm, so a little off topic We have been discussing this whole idea of the Girl Scout cookies and how they're finding all the Toxins these glycophates that are in a hundred percent of these Girl Scout cookies here You think you're doing something good supporting these little kids and now we're making ourselves ill any thoughts
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:49] Potentially, yeah. You know, there's there's a giant amount of foods that we need to cut back on. As someone who works closely with dementia and diabetes, the vast majority of the things we're putting in our body create these diseases. And so if we start recognizing these are toxins that are in our food, another thing RFK is looking to do, if we can start recognizing these toxins in our food, and then restrict those foods from us, we're going to be substantially healthier. People go on diets, people tell me all the time, like, I went on carnivore, and I felt so much better. And I'm like, Well, yeah, meat's good for you, but you also radically reduce the amount of toxins you're putting in your body. So that's one of the reasons you feel so much better is because you're just not poisoning yourself anymore.
American Medicine Today Host [00:09:27] and anything that they should be taking supplement wise that helps kind of clean out those toxins.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:33] Um, yeah. So one of the big things I always try to get people to do is really increase liver liver foods. So, you know, your tamarix, your, your, your milk thistles, your methylated B6 getting methylated B vitamins up is a really, really big deal. Um, anything that's going to help clear the body of parasites, uh, is another big one. Um, one of the paracentologists I work with, uh, stated that I don't know if this is exactly true or a little bit overboard, but he said a hundred percent of the people who have animals in their homes have parasites in their bodies. Oh. So. which is every single person we've tested who has animals has parasites and that's a that'll radically pull down your body's ability to you know it'll decrease your immune system pretty substantially.
American Medicine Today Host [00:10:12] Oh, who knew?
American Medicine Today Host 2 [00:10:13] I have six pets at home all because of my wife so we're gonna have a chat when I get home
American Medicine Today Host [00:10:20] Well at least we all know now. Thank you so much Dr. Matt Chalmers for being on the program.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:26] Absolutely.
American Medicine Today Host [00:10:28] Take great care
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