Vitamin D Cut Intensive Care Risk 90%: The Study Washington Buried | Dr. Daniel Stock

Dr. Daniel Stock is a functional family medicine physician practicing in Indiana. He spent years employed by a hospital system before complaining about its interference in his practice cost him the job, and he has run his own direct pay functional family medicine practice full time since 2017, accepting no third party payment of any kind. He describes the arrangement simply: the only person who can hurt him financially is his patient. Key topics in this episode: Why he stopped taking money from insurers, employers, drug companies, supplement companies, and laboratories, and what that changed about his patients' trust The placebo controlled, randomized, double blinded trial on activated vitamin D that cut intensive care admissions by about 90 percent, published roughly two months before the first vaccine Why the cost matters: about 30 dollars over the counter, with side effects lower than placebo His charge that the federal response was not to ignore that trial but to pay for a badly designed one and use it to declare the question settled The hydroxychloroquine study he says used eight times the dose he would prescribe and started a week into the illness The hierarchy of evidence, and what it means when a physician is told to discount the strongest study in favor of the weakest What he calls the financial gun to the doctor's head, and why doctors in the third party payment system are punished for thinking Reading Anthony Fauci's Senate testimony as a physician who studies body language and neurobiology every day Robert Malone as the counterexample: what it looks like when someone handed a microphone speaks more carefully rather than less Why he refused to give the Indiana legislature a pass when it could have overridden the governor with a simple majority The laws he says made all of it possible and remain law today What to do right now: the highest deductible policy you can carry, the rest into a health savings account, and a provider outside the system The data on direct primary care, including about 60 percent fewer surgeries and lab work at one third to one tenth the insurance price Timestamped breakdown: 00:00 — Cold open: the lessons Dr. Stock says we all need to learn 00:35 — Meet Dr. Daniel Stock, direct pay functional family medicine physician 06:47 — Why practicing outside the system left him free to read the data in 2020 09:03 — March 2020: the practice that never closed 12:28 — Inside the hospitals: a week on a ventilator with no fluids and no nutrition 14:54 — The activated vitamin D trial: about 90 percent fewer intensive care admissions 19:04 — The vitamin D trial he says was funded to fail 23:50 — Why doctors inside the system are punished for thinking 27:24 — The hierarchy of evidence, and being told to ignore it 28:10 — Reading Anthony Fauci's Senate testimony as a physician 35:16 — Robert Malone and the power of a microphone 37:22 — Why he will not let the Indiana legislature off the hook 44:06 — Your government is for sale: the laws still on the books 46:45 — Get your money out of the health care system 49:19 — How to find a direct pay doctor near you 52:30 — Closing Links: jennybethshow.com | teapartypatriots.org The Jenny Beth Show is a production of Tea Party Patriots Action, hosted by Jenny Beth Martin.