203: Debunking Dr. Ardis & Nicotine Nonsense – Remote Energy Wellness by: JOSEPH WILLIAM BAKER®

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYuN9-Bhn0

Tuesday, June 17th, 2025

Dr. Garrett Smith
Testimonials: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ykyX6QttR096C6LoJA6yGXiNXt48fLwAbyF1gBAWSQA

Links for today’s show: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JCxJh6f-UWYhh3yLOG7_qcMRKFZQ4hWDyZ59GuPbKZg

Testimonial #1

UPDATE 5/30/25
5 months into low vitA

April and May were filled with ups and downs. Mostly small ups, but the downs were always discouraging, because who doesn’t want to feel better rather than worse?

Supplement learnings:

no citrates for me. Induces insomnia and intense itching at night
topical vit K helps drain lymph nodes that have been swollen since February
I crave oral magnesium and potassium, so I take it three times a day with meals
magnesium chloride + potassium bicarb foot baths have greatly helped with sleep
activated charcoal bath is not for me. Dried out my skin way too much. Maybe will try again in the future when my eczema is completely healed.
activated charcoal (1/2tsp) in a glass water bottle got me through some rough “downs” where I was dumping bile between meals. I still use it overnight, but now I am adding 1/8th tsp of AC to my electrolytes at meal times and not consuming AC between meals.
B1 is sulfur based, and I am detoxing sulfur. I took a big dose two days in a row that totally cleared up the eczema on my arms and then proceeded to get crippling kidney pain on the third day. It felt like active labor contractions on my kidneys. 🙂 no more B1 for me.
I am still taking B9 and B12 and they seem to be helping, not hurting
zinc oxide + shea butter is still the GOAT for eczema flares. Jojoba oil seems to make flares worse.
too sensitive to take 1 drop of molybdenum at the moment.
breaking down 1 selenium capsule into 10mcg doses has been working, although it does seem to have increased bile production/dumping. I take it before bed because it makes me sleepy. The symptoms are manageable and I am sleeping better overall, so I will continue.
zinc niacin salve is great. A little goes a long way for me. Experiencing a niacin flush for the first time felt like a fun science experiment. Using it after a protein rich meal mitigates the flush symptoms.

Lifestyle learnings:

hot showers are still the best remedy for an eczema flare, especially at night. I haven’t been exposed to urishiol, but it sounds like I have a similar experience to those who get relief from using extremely hot water to give anti-histamine relief.
eating lots of protein is a chore but absolutely necessary to minimize cholestatic bile dump symptoms and minimize symptoms in general.
Big 6 lymph massage in the shower or before bed is an easy, effective way to keep things moving
life has a lot of variables, and I can’t control everything. Rolling with the punches and finding ways to minimize negative reactions to the environment and non-ideal mealtimes on busy days is just going to be part of this journey.
minimizing intox is easy when you realize how awful the physical repercussions are. Sometimes you just gotta hurt bad enough to want to change 🙂 I still think my stubborn personality needed to hit rock bottom to buckle down and make this detox happen. And I still wouldn’t wish these symptoms on anyone! Make the changes before you need to make them.
space weather is a real thing, and I am very sensitive to it right now. I wake up 10-20minutes before an alert comes in on my phone and get a big bile dump (day or night) when the sun is really flaring. Talk about feeling like hot garbage 😁

Improvements:

even less brain fog than in March. It does come back when I’m pushing detox too hard, but I’m learning to spot it earlier.
I can be outside for hours now instead of minutes and still sleep at night
I can sleep on a pillow (my skin was way too weepy and hot from bile dumping to use a pillow for months)
I have energy to do normal household tasks like wash the floors and carry big loads of laundry
I have the mental bandwidth to think about others and ask how they are doing
face completely healed up from eczema for a couple weeks. I then got some retracing to dermatitis around my mouth, eyelids and bridge of nose, but it’s like a different kind of rash than before and less inflamed. I applied topical steroids to these areas in high school.
the skin on my face started producing its own oil again, first time since January! I never thought I would be so happy to get whiteheads again 😂
neck and chest are 80% healed from eczema. The skin is still very dry and tight. It is thick in some places and thin in others. I’m confident that it will follow the pattern of healing that my face did, too, and be healed up in the next month or so.
arms and backs of hands are moving through the eczema “healing cycle” now too. I believe they have passed their worst flares and are now beginning to heal. The zinc niacin salve is helping with this process.
torso is also beginning to heal from eczema. It seems to be a few weeks behind my arms, but it never flared as badly as my arms did. I never put topical steroids on my torso, so this may be why.
bowel movements are consistent every morning. Sometimes going twice a day 🥳😁
sleep quality is slowly improving. I still have itching at somewhat predictable intervals throughout the night, but for a while a the end of April and beginning of May I was sleeping from midnight to 5:15ish without any serious itching. I hope to get back to that soon, when the space weather clears up.

Food:
I cut back even more on my food choices as I became more aware of what helped and hurt my healing process. I’m slowly adding some things in.

99% organic
90% home cooked, fresh food to limit histamines
1-2lb ground beef
occasionally subbing in chicken because beef was causing some stomach bloating
store bought lamb seems to be too sulfurous for me, but I do eat some lamb that my husband butchered from a local farmer
brown + white rice noodles
brown rice + quinoa noodles from Trader Joe’s
Stacey’s organic flour tortillas
nixtamalized corn chips
sourdough crackers (can’t do sourdough bread for some reason, only crackers)
white rice, soaked in charcoal before cooking
banana bread, Lia Miller’s recipe, subbing 1/2tsp psyllium husk in 3tbsp water for egg whites, avocado oil for olive oil, and 1/2c sugar instead of 1-1/2c.
iceberg lettuce
peeled cucumbers
1-3 apples a day, less if I’m feeling detox symptoms
minor figures oat milk with organic coffee (no vit a or vit d added)
occasional squirt of lime on food (lemons seem to cause more histamine issues)
occasional Trader Joe’s organic burger buns with avocado oil for “condiment”
avocado oil on noodles
no more meat stock, rye bread or sourdough. The person who was making rye bread for me started using molasses so I can’t handle it anymore. Too many histamine issues at this point. Looking forward to adding all these back in the future.

In progress:

tried utilizing zeolite (ZeoCharge) to help with mitigating detox symptoms due to the crazy space weather this past week. Seems to be helping calm down the eczema flares, somewhat reduce itching, and improve sleep quality. I took extra magnesium to make sure I keep having regular BMs. Had a spicy BM the second day after using it, and I haven’t eaten spicy food in 5 months. That’s a good sign that bile is getting out of my system!!
mixed some hyaluronic acid into my body lotion. Seems to help keep areas that are truly just dry skin moist. Seems to make eczema worse.
started adding a pinch of baking soda to my electrolytes. My drinking water is RO, so it might be helping balance the pH and helping with stomach bloat. I haven’t tested this, just going off how I feel.
vit K may be causing teeth sensitivity. Going to take a break for a week and see.

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Overall, I’m seeing progress and dialing in what supplements and foods work for me.
Thank you to everyone who has replied back to a question or posted about about they’re learning. I learn from you all every day.
Having access to office hours has been invaluable in trouble shooting issues, and I’m so grateful to Dr Garrett Smith, Kelsey Kenney, and Hope Tipton for their support.

I’m so grateful for my support system, my family who helps with my son on my rough days, the people who pray for me on a regular basis and my Lord Jesus who comforts me and walks beside me through this whole thing. I’ve never been more grateful for all the blessings in my life.

Onward and upward 🙂

Teresa Wright (received permission from Wardee as well to use their names)

On Wardee Harmon’s private group…she made a comment on copper and if you have thyroid issues you have copper toxicity. She told how she got off her thyroid medication here. She also has a course on explaining different diets and Love Your Liver is discussed in that course….i have tried several times to get off my thyroid medication to no avail…and I am thankful to say I am now off of them because of being here. I am so thankful I found LYL 🙏🙏🫶🏻🫶🏻❤️❤️

Testimonial #3

An eczema success story on the low vA lifestyle.

Hi guys I’m Andres, 20yo and live in Belgium. Since I was a baby I’ve had some eczema in my armpits and the back of my knees but I just used topical steroids to get rid of them because I thought I was just born like that and nothing could really fix it (the problem was just not serious enough to look into it).

From 15-18 I started getting more eczema in my neck, on my back and slighty in my face. Now it started to bother me, so in the period of life I got more into hEalTh stuff. Going to the gym almost daily, trying to bulk up and make muscle while nourishing my body (unknowingly I was destroying it).

Then in the winter of 2023 I started carrotmaxxing for a tan which absolutely messed up my liver because I started getting red spots in my face, neck and shoulders. Really itchy, dry and irritated skin started to appear with it. It was a very difficult period not being able to go to the gym anymore, not wanting to go out with friend and I started slacking in school aswell (basically self-isolation caused by the physical pain + insecurity).

Fast forward 1 year my eczema spread like the plague, covering my whole face, upper body and legs. Mental health & confidence on an all-time low, a life no 20yo would ever want to live. In this period I tried everything; herbal teas, cutting gluten, dairy (good thing) & sugar (good aswell), biohacking (lots of stuff that messed me up even more), immunosuppressants … you name it. But I continued to eat lots of foods high in vA & copper. Eating up to 6 eggs/day was the main thing that allowed my eczema to get worse and worse. I see this 19th year of my life as a very important lesson and pivotal moment where I had to go through the pain to learn the truth.

Then I stumbled upon Dr. Smith’s approach to healing and I could say it absolutely gave me my life back for which I’m super grateful, that’s why I’m also writing this post to share with the world what this has done for me and hopefully to inspire others aswell. (feel free to share my testimonial!!).

I’ve been following the LYL principles consistently for 4 months now, this is what I currently do, eat and take:

Diet follows 95% of the LYL principles
Daily supplements: 360 – 400mg NA, 400mg Potassium Gluconate, 200mcg Selenium, 22mg Zinc Pic., 200mg Lactoferrin, topical Magnesium oil, topical Zinc
using refined shea butter to moisturize dry spots
walking 10k steps daily & doing moderate exercise 3-4 times/week
using vibration plate & massage gun to enhance lymph flow

Again I want to thank you Dr. Smith for doing what you do and let this be fuel to continue changing people’s lives. You are appreciated!

PS: if you are struggling with anything skin-related just ask me and I’ll try my best to help or give my experience🫶

Love Your Liver Livestream #203 Links

Ardis LOVES “vitamin” A

The Dr. Ardis Show | Why Dr Ardis Loves Vitamin A | Episode 10.23.2024 – The Dr. Ardis Show Podcast – Podcast – Podtail: https://podtail.com/podcast/the-dr-ardis-show-podcast/the-dr-ardis-show-why-dr-ardis-loves-vitamin-a-epi/

Did You Know Selenium Reverses Heart Disease in Pigs and Humans? – America Out Loud News: https://www.americaoutloud.news/did-you-know-selenium-reverses-heart-disease-in-pigs-and-humans/

“Hello and welcome, healers, to another edition of Looking for Healing Radio, where pharmaceuticals are not medicine, but love always is.

[…]

(regarding BPH treatment) 300,000 international units of vitamin A. Absolutely. As beta carotene.

[…]

(regarding cancer treatment) Try to overdose on beta carotene. It’s almost impossible, which is vitamin A. First sign is dry skin at about an equivalent of vitamin A at 300,000 international units per day is what you should do.

[…]

(regarding autoimmunity and cancer treatments) He mentions beta carotene taken with vitamin E can be taken as much as 600,000 IU units, that’s vitamin A. This will be of significant benefit in cancer therapy, programs especially carcinomas.”

[…]

(regarding canker/cold sores treatment) Treatment should include…vitamin E at 800 to 1,200 international units a day, B-complexes at 50 mg each, and vitamin A at 300,000 international units as beta carotene. I actually love all those recommendations.”

Nature Wins Breathe-Free (90 Count) – The Dr. Ardis Show: https://thedrardisshow.com/nature-wins-breathe-free-90-count/?searchid=3177507&search_query=breathe+free

Doc’s Healthy Kids Chewable Multi-Vitamin – Berry Flavor (60 Count): https://thedrardisshow.com/ardislabs-kids-multi-vitamin-60-count?searchid=3177523&search_query=healthy+kids

Orange urine with Clear Skin Complex (used to contain “vitamin” A), see image

Ardis Loves Virus Theory

Ardis’ Nicotine Protocol:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I9te2Fi4vaZsg8YpRUtoT3GGmPYN-3Sm/view
https://store-r9hsenkogm.mybigcommerce.com/content/The%20Dr.%20Ardis%20Show%20-%20How%20To%20Use%20Nicotine%20Protocol.pdf

SARS-CoV-2 spike ectodomain targets α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors – Journal of Biological Chemistry: https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(23)01735-0/fulltext

Liver Damage and Exposure to Toxic Concentrations of Endogenous Retinoids in the Pathogenesis of COVID-19 Disease: Hypothesis – PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8392079/

Ardis Loves Ivermectin, an Insecticide/Pesticide

Dr. Bryan Ardis, DC: MALAYSIA STUDY ON IVERMECTIN! – The Dr. Ardis Show – Podcast – Podtail: https://podtail.com/podcast/the-dr-ardis-show/dr-bryan-ardis-dc-malaysia-study-on-ivermectin

Dr. Ardis: How to Get Ivermectin in the Hospital and Avoid Acute Flacid Myelitis in Children

Brighteon: https://www.brighteon.com/7226fc29-5ad8-476e-b616-0d470da2ea7c

May 22 – Was Rashid Buttar Poisoned? – henrymakow.com: https://henrymakow.com/2023/05/may-22-was-rashid-buttar-poisoned.html

Dr Buttar Has Died- Did The Ivermectin He Promoted Kill Him? He Never Did Tell People Its Risks..: https://odysee.com/@TimTruth:b/dr-buttar-death:9

Ardis Pushing the Drug Calcium EDTA

Nature Wins EDTA (2oz): https://thedrardisshow.com/nature-wins-edta-2oz/

Edta: Health Benefits, Side Effects, Uses, Dose & Precautions: https://www.rxlist.com/supplements/edta.htm

Depletion of intracellular zinc from neurons by use of an extracellular chelator in vivo and in vitro – PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12486088/

Genetic toxicology of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) – PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6406880/

Toxicity of bean cooking media containing EDTA in mice – PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32564678/

That zincing feeling: the effects of EDTA on the behaviour of zinc-binding transcriptional regulators – PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1133908/

Changes in Zinc Metabolism During the Use of EDTA | SpringerLink: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-0723-5_26

Depletion of essential elements by calcium disodium EDTA treatment in the dog – PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1609432/

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Is Nicotine Toxic?

Nicotine – Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine

The Plant Alkaloids – https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/the_plant_alkaloids.pdf

See images from World Book Encyclopedia

Nicotine Analysis in Several Non-Tobacco Plant Materials: https://sciendo.com/article/10.1515/cttr-2016-0008

6 Foods You May Not Have Realised Contain Nicotine | Haypp UK: https://www.haypp.com/uk/nicopedia/facts/6-foods-you-may-not-have-realised-contain-nicotine

Tobacco and its evil cousin nicotine are good as a pesticide – American Chemical Society: https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2010/acs-presspac-october-27-2010/tobacco-and-its-evil-cousin-nicotine-are-good-as-a-pesticide.html

Nicotinoids – ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9781483227382500125

Is Nicotine Addictive?

Urban Dictionary: nic-fit: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nic-fit

A study of pyrazines in cigarettes and how additives might be used to enhance tobacco addiction | Tobacco Control: https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/25/4/444#ref-17

(???) Conditioned sucrose aversions produced by naloxone-precipitated withdrawal from acutely administered morphine – PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9408206/

Nicotine Self-Administration in Animals: A Reevaluation: Addiction Research & Theory: Vol 10, No 6: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1606635021000041753

Dissociation of Tolerance and Nicotine Withdrawal-Associated Deficits in Contextual Fear – PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4000688/

CA2494743A1 – Flush niacin used as oral supplementation for treating withdrawal in a smoking cessation program – Google Patents: https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2494743A1/en

Nicotine Turns Into Nicotinic Acid via Oxidation

Association of niacin intake with constipation in adult: result from the National Health and Nutrition Examination – PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10523733/

Is the post-COVID-19 syndrome a severe impairment of acetylcholine-orchestrated neuromodulation that responds to nicotine administration? | Bioelectronic Medicine | Full Text: https://bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42234-023-00104-7

NIACIN AND NICOTINIC ACID | JAMA | JAMA Network: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/254218

The biosynthesis of nicotine from nicotinic acid: Chemical and radiochemical yields – ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0003986160904677

Methods to Produce Nicotinic Acid with Potential Industrial Applications: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/15/3/765

The oxidation of nicotine with sodium hypochlorite. Identification of some of the products formed, and a rationalization of the pathways by which they arose | CORESTA: https://www.coresta.org/abstracts/oxidation-nicotine-sodium-hypochlorite-identification-some-products-formed-and

(PDF) Separation identification and determination of nicotinic acids and nicotinamide in cigarette tobacco and smoke (Part-I): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297860737_Separation_identification_and_determination_of_nicotinic_acids_and_nicotinamide_in_cigarette_tobacco_and_smoke_Part-I

US2409345A – Process for the preparation of nicotinic acid – Google Patents: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2409345A/en

Ardis Sells Nicotinic Acid as Copper Nicotinate

Bio-Active Copper (30 Count): https://thedrardisshow.com/bio-active-copper-30-count/

FDA work – BDLbiochem: https://web.archive.org/web/20230130044421/https://bdlbiochem.com/fda-work/

The Dr. Ardis Show | The Anemia Deception w/ Morley Robbins | May 28, 2025 – The Root Cause Protocol: https://therootcauseprotocol.com/dr-ardis-show-052025/

Nicotine and Parkinson’s

Transdermal Nicotine Treatment and Progression of Early Parkinson’s Disease | NEJM Evidence: https://evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/EVIDoa2200311

Chronic high dose transdermal nicotine in Parkinson’s disease: an open trial – PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17941858/

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Ardis Recommends Toxic Patches

Acrylates – Safe Cosmetics: https://www.safecosmetics.org/chemicals/acrylates/

Nicotine polacrilex – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_polacrilex#cite_note-4

CAS 25087-26-7 Poly(methacrylic acid) – Alfa Chemistry: https://www.alfa-chemistry.com/product/poly-methacrylic-acid-cas-25087-26-7-496323.html

Ion-exchange resin – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-exchange_resin

Nicotine by Rugby Laboratories NICOTINE patch: https://fda.report/DailyMed/2dd4cbda-5c46-4655-b69d-21b7d2e912cf

RUGBY NICOTINE POLACRILEX GUM, ORIGINAL FLAVOR- nicotine polacrilex gum, chewing: https://fda.report/DailyMed/1fc88637-4329-486e-82ab-19eeb06080a6

Lucy nicotine (lozenge) Lucy Goods, Inc.: https://www.drugs.com/otc/1286329/lucy-nicotine.html

Lucy Gum ingredients – LUCY Knowledge Base: https://help.lucy.co/article/zii0mp8gc7-lucy-gum-ingredients

Step 1: 21 mg Nicotine Patch | NICODERM® Canada: https://www.nicoderm.ca/products/step-1

CVS Health Nicotine Transdermal System 7mg Patch, Step 3, 14 CT – CVS Pharmacy: https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-nicotine-transdermal-system-7mg-patch-step-3-14-ct-prodid-1170342

PT141 a peptide sold to women for libedo.

Search for PT141 and Anhidonia

2:08:24 GHK Copper binding peptitde