Sharing our "Why" is often painful Fighting everyday to overcome years of inaccurate and misleading propaganda about cannabis is stressful. Especially when we experience so many Miracles first-hand. Justin Benton and Dan Humiston discuss how the battle has taken an emotional toll on them personally and what motivates them to continue their mission. Produced by PodConx Justin Benton - https://podconx.com/guests/justin-benton https://101hempinnercircle.com/ www.themiracleplant.org info@101CBD.org Join Our #HealTheWorlders Messenger Tribe at https://bit.ly/TheMiraclePlant_Messenger
Sharing our "Why" is often painful
Fighting everyday to overcome years of inaccurate and misleading propaganda about cannabis is stressful. Especially when we experience so many Miracles first-hand. Justin Benton and Dan Humiston discuss how the battle has taken an emotional toll on them personally and what motivates them to continue their mission.
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https://101hempinnercircle.com/
Join Our #HealTheWorlders Messenger Tribe at https://bit.ly/TheMiraclePlant_Messenger
Justin Benton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to the Miracle Plant Podcast, where we discussed this miracle plant with so many names and how it's helping people and. Many extraordinary ways. Today we are taking a tangent. We are taking a left turn, which we've taken a lot of lefts and a lot of rights, uh, here on the Miracle Plant Podcast because that's the journey that we're on.
You know, as we all know, in March of 2020 that we all, uh, had to take a left or, you know, we were sitting dead red on a fast ball and wouldn't, you know, there's a 12 to six curve ball coming right. Starting out at our chin and going across the plate, and that was March of 2020 and we had to, you know, pivot or transition or be flexible or adaptable to what we were doing, what our mission was, which is to reach a billion people by 2025, about the power of this miracle plant in the raw form to pay it forward.
Today we're gonna talk about things that we don't usually talk about here on The Miracle Plant Podcast. You know, we got Dan here hummus soon. He is joining us. Uh, [00:01:00] co-host and, uh, he, uh, and I were talking a little bit before we went live about, you know, we're positive, upbeat people. We like to motivate, inspire, and we're on missions and, you know, we're on the same mission, obviously, to talk about this plant and talk about how it's helped so many other peoples and how it can continue to help, you know, millions and millions and more people, you know.
But today we're gonna talk about, you know, some of the tough things that happen as entrepreneurs. That, you know, maybe, um, I would shield 'em cuz I, I don't want, uh, , I don't know. I don't, there, it, it, there is a lot of hard stuff that goes on with being any type of entrepreneur, but especially in the hemp and the cannabis space, there are some unique challenges.
And, uh, I guess I've, I've really been studying and it's been coming across my. About being more open or more vulnerable, and I wanted to share maybe some more of those insights that, that might help you and your journey or, or help, help you want to come along with us on our journey, uh, as we [00:02:00] reach a, a billion people by 2025 about this miracle plant.
So, uh, you know, first and foremost, the thing that comes to mind for me is, and first I wanted to welcome you, Dan, to the show. So how you doing this? Fine. I'm doing great. A little bit nervous about where we're going on this one. , you and me both, man. We'll see where it takes us. So, uh, but the first thing that I, that comes to heart, uh, that comes to mind is, Um, you know, and I, and I've kidded about writing a, a, a book about this and I know I could, if it was, if I, if I made the time and, and I thought it was the right way to use my time.
Is that in the hemp, you know, industry? We've had some pretty major, uh, challenges. You know, obviously w the miracle was that we found the raw whole plant, essentially juicing the plant is what was allowing my son's brain to. Uh, from the severe diagnosis he got later on in when he was around three years old.
And, you know, it was so amazing if, if you've heard our story before, how we saw other [00:03:00] people using it for complicated autoimmune diseases with, with tremendous success is what they told us and we saw with our own eyes. And so that's when we decided to start the.org. Um, of many names, and, and that's part of the challenge.
Look, I'm out here in ca in California and there was this beer called 8 0 5, which was actually a rebranded Firestone Beer. And, but they bought it and they called it 8 0 5 and it got popular. And so with that kind of as my inspiration, 8 0 5 s the area code out here in Ventura County. And so, but that kind of inspiration, when I was trying to think of a real simple name that people would understand, cuz remember all I was trying to do was put up a little sign on a store so people that heard our story could get, get access to the same products and the things that we did to help my son with autism.
And so I said 1 0 1, like the 1 0 1 cb. It's the 1 0 1, it's the highway out here. It runs right up from Burbank all the way to to Seattle. [00:04:00] It's the west coast. And that's all my ambition ever was, was to go meet every store on the one oh. Um, chiropractors and things like that, health food stores, and that's what I did.
I would travel up and down the 1 0 1 talking with. . And so that's how the, the mission got started. Well, it was 1 0 1 cbd.org because it was cbd, which, you know, people could Google search and find us on their local seo. Real simple. My wife Molly, uh, is an expert in, in local SEO and things like that. So that's just how we set it up.
And then I went back to business. I've been in sales and marketing, helping companies and entrepreneurs with their marketing and sales for. My entire life, you know, going on, gosh, almost 30 years now, which is kind of crazy to say. Um, I don't feel much older than 27. But anyways, uh, so that's, that's what happened.
But, And, and the different name changes is part of the challenge of being in hemp. Um, so then CBD got like, you know, blacklisted and [00:05:00] banned and we had accounts shut down on Facebook accounts and Google accounts and YouTube accounts and Instagram accounts, and we'd start new accounts and those would get shut down and ads would get, I mean, I'm dealing with it right now today, like this morning , I'm dealing with that.
And so we changed the name to 1 0 1. You know, and obviously we're not just cbd, it's the whole plant. There's a hundred cannabinoids plus in every plant. And so hemp is really the plant. So that's what we actually went and got a trademark. And so getting a trademark is usually something that you can go to LegalZoom and you can get a trademark for like 8, 600, 800 bucks.
Uh, it takes a few months. You gotta jump through a couple hoops. Well, because it had hemp on it, and the government's so paranoid about, uh, whatever, uh, this, this, uh, miracle plant, and by so many, That, uh, it took us over 18 months. Many, uh, rejections. We had to say that it was just for a topical. We had to do all kinds of crazy stuff that no one else had to deal with, just to get our own brand trademarked.
Don't even [00:06:00] get me started on the process that we've had to go through to get, uh, the extraction method and the patent and all those kinds of things. It's because the word hemp, which is totally legal as of 2018, in fact 2014 as. Uh, made it, uh, super clean in, in the Farm Bill of 2018 that we've had to deal with just nonstop.
Then they started, I think it was US Bank or Bank of America. I always get those two confused. In fact, my wife had a account with one of them, I forget which one, and I walked into the other one one time to deposit a check for her, I think. And they looked at me like real crazy. And I was like, what? I'm just dropping it off for my wife or.
And they're like, you're in the wrong place or something. I was like, Hey man, you guys' names are way too close. But anyways, I think it was US Bank. And so US Bank was the first company to take a stand and, and this was actually before 2018 if memory serves me right. And they said that they would, they would back a hemp and, uh, What was the name?
Avalon Elevon Avalon. I think it was the credit card, uh, [00:07:00] company that was a part of that. And so all of us CBD companies, we were using a real bank to take our, our, our credit cards. And that was really the main only option that we had. And it was so exciting. And I'll never forget, I was at a Tony Robbins, uh, event.
I think it was, uh, unleashed the power within. In LA and I got an email, I checked, I was on like cloud nine. You know, you're pumped up at a Tony Robbins, you're like, you know, just a real fun experience. You do a fire walk. I highly recommend it if, uh, if you're looking for some positive mojo in your life.
Anyways, I, I go on lunch break or something. I'm walking around. I check my email mistake and basically I got an email saying that our merchant account was being shut down. And it wasn't just ours, it was all cbd. Uh, they were actually pulling the plug on the entire, uh, operation. And so, uh, it was definitely a shock to the system and we didn't have any.
Real backup merchant accounts. There was [00:08:00] like these crazy high risk, high interest rate just, you know, cowboys out there that just nothing was real reputable. And so, um, it took a few months for them to wind it down. Well, they got pressured, right? They got pressure from, from, you know, people in dark suits and in in dark.
Uh, they pressured the CEO of US Bank to, to shut it down. You know, whether they got the lawyers involved or the politics involved, but they were pressured to shut it down. Um, because think about it again. Anything they can do to slow down the progress of Americans we're talking about here. I mean, look at the Safe Banking Act still hasn't passed.
Anything they can do to slow down the progress of Americans, waking up, taking the red pill of the matrix, or if you're old like me, Alice Wonderland, the red pill to wake up, that the, that the system is rigged against you when it comes to your health. And then we can talk about other things. But let's stay [00:09:00] focused on health.
You know, we all know the side effects. In fact, I just saw this study that came out. What was it, 41. Um, 41 million Americans of the water they tested so far are drinking pharmaceuticals. They cannot get the pharmaceuticals out of the water table, so it is literally in our water. We are drinking pharmaceuticals now because there's been so much that we have had.
And so again, anything that big pharma can do to slow this train down. Now look, if you can't beat 'em, join them. They've got their patents in place. They're playing the, the game with the FDA and doing everything they can to keep us from, from just selling this product like we would at a farmer's market.
In fact, as I live in Ventura, California, we have two or three farmers' markets here in. To this day, it is December 14th, I believe, 2022. [00:10:00] And I cannot sell my CBD oil or topical or anything. Uh, in, in, in, in the farmer's market in Ventura, California, they, they will kick, they have threat. Someone actually sold our cbd.
They put it with raw honey, which is. and they threatened, they made 'em take it off and they said if anybody ever charges sell any cd, CBD in this farmer's market, they will kick them outta the farmer's market. And that's the . Here we are, we are talking about a plant folks that, um, you know, I could go a lot of directions with this right now, but we are talking about a plant that is proven to help children with seizure.
over and over and over again. I've seen it with my own eyes. We've all heard this well, most of us have heard the stories. I've seen it with dogs, adults, children. I've seen it. I've heard the stories. I've seen the tears, I've had the hugs. So even if that's all that this plant did, which [00:11:00] modern Western medicine is completely bamboozled?
They put 'em on all these horrible drugs that make them mood altering or lazy or gain weight or aggressive. All this garbage that they prescribe people, uh, in my opinion and uh, here we are. That we have a plant that can help. Let's just say that's all that it did was help children with epilepsy. And there is forces out there that sell a drug.
GW Pharma sells a drug called Epidiolex, which uh, sells annually for $32,500. And that's the whole insurance system. That's the whole healthcare system. And because it's made from an isolate with other fillers and garbage in there, it's only 39% effective. Whereas with, you use the whole plant with all the properties of the plant, all 512 plant constituents, uh, the effectiveness is, you know, definitely in the 90 percentile [00:12:00] is what I have seen.
In fact, I can't tell you an an instance where I have not heard that it didn't work. No one's ever come to me and say it didn't help. Uh, whether it was reducing, um, epilepsy seizures, or whether it was just getting rid of them entirely. In fact, we had our, our guest on last week, and, and she was, she, she had, she was interesting that she was kind of, you know, Stacy Shami.
She was kind of on both sides of the fence, which I found interesting. Uh, I'm glad we had her on. Um, but you know, even she didn't really understand. She thought that it didn't work for certain seizures or there needed to be more sta tests. Well, that's, that's the, that's the Western medicine, um, approach to things.
Well, we need more research. And that's a talking point that big pharma's been pushing forever. Especially to doctors and things like that. Uh, which, you know, research really, if you wanna talk about research, this plant dates back 8,000 years. Uh, if you want, you know, evidence, uh, that it's been dated back in Oriental Medical Journals, uh, healing people, helping people, uh, [00:13:00] for numerous, numerous conditions, uh, over 8,000 years.
So, and, and you know, and here's the sad but true, uh, story. A friend of mine who's. Uh, a mastermind I'm with, uh, in, he, uh, he, we had talked earlier in the year in 2022. Uh, his daughter, uh, had, um, brain cancer, had a tumor, and we had talked and, you know, I was like, Hey, let me get you some, I'm gonna send you some.
And, uh, you know, his, uh, when he talked to his doctor about it, after he heard my story with my son and his brain, uh, he talked to his doctor about it and his doctor. , let's hold off. Let's hold off on the CBD oil. Uh, we don't know, there's not enough research. Uh, or we, we, you know, let's try this first.
Basically, you know, stopping him in his tracks and when you're talking about your four year old daughter, you know, and you don't know what to do and you [00:14:00] trust whatever the doctor says. Um, that's what they did. And then he called me back, uh, about two or three months ago. And he said, uh, Hey man, um, we're kind of in dire straits here.
And, um, you know, is, can you get me some of that CBD oil? Because when he talked to his doctor this time, the doctor said, well, I we're kind of out of options here. This might be a good time to try CBD oil. And this was two or three months ago. So he calls me and I, we rushed some product over to him, send him like a bunch of products.
We get on the phone with him and his wife and we can hear his daughter in the back. And we, we do our best. We give the education, we talk about the product, how to take it, everything that we possibly can. But unfortunately, uh, it was too late. And so she actually passed away Uhhuh
a couple weeks ago, and, uh, her name was Clara.[00:15:00]
And again, you know, that's, you know, I feel for my friend and his wife and his family,
and that's why it's, um,
so important
that we keep coming on this podcast and we keep talking and we keep educating people. Because they need to be educated. Doctors need to be educated. Doctors need to be trained about the endocannabinoid system, uh, that we've known about since the early nineties. They need to understand what this simple plant can do and to tell parents not to take a plant oil, a plant.
Broccoli [00:16:00] don't eat broccoli cuz it might affect the poison, the, the chemotherapy that we're coursing through your, your child's veins or the radiation that we're shooting through their veins or through their body. It's ridiculous. It's a tragedy that, that doctors have been, and I don't fault the doctors.
I fault the system. It is rigged. Folks, do your own research. I always say that. Go do your own research. Get out there and dig and trust your instincts. Who do you think writes the questions on the medical exams? Who do you think writes the co, the, the books? Who do you think trains our doctors? These days, who do you think who has the most to [00:17:00] gain and who has the most to lose?
I'll let you do your own research cuz I've done mine. So again, we're talking about vulnerability and um, you know, this ride has not been smooth. It's not been easy. A lot of people ask. , you know, how do you, how do you, how do you do it? How do you keep going? You know, my estimation is about 80% of the CBD companies are gone based on what I've seen.
And, uh, I always tell people, whether it's in CBD or hemp or cannabis, it comes down to one word, comes down to your why, comes down to one question, how big is your why? And, uh, that's it. I mean, and that's, that's advice for anybody in any walk of life of what you're. You know, look, as we can, as we've discussed here on this, on today's episode, you know, you, we only have so many days, the average, uh, [00:18:00] American, or just human, uh, has about 30,000 days.
Uh, that's, that's on average, you know, about 75 years. And, you know, actually I have some friends that have like calendars where they, they literally have like all 30,000. In a calendar and they just have it all laid out and they check the day off and what they did. And like for me, every day feels like a whole new life.
Like I try to live every day like it's a life. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a lifetime in a day. Yesterday was one of those days. Just lots and lots going on, and business and family and, and staying as grateful as you possibly can, even when maybe some things don't go the way you had hoped. But just continuing to stay focused on, on what you have, not what you don't have.
Uh, you get what you focus on. And so, uh, again, uh, just being vulnerable and open and, and talking about, um, the ups and the downs of this journey. Um, that's what today's episode's about. So, uh, I hope [00:19:00] these insights of, you know, maybe lent you to learn something or we have a shared value, um, because we need help.
I mean, look, before March of 2020, , we had a very direct path to reaching a billion people and to having the type of impact that, that we need to have. So these doctors, so the mass media, so just people in general get a, a real good understanding about this plant. And look, we've got a lot of reprogramming that we have to do, uh, because of the reefer Madness, because of the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act because of Nancy Reagan.
Just say no policy to all the damage, you know, some of the political, you know, uh, refugees and, and the political, uh, you know, prisoners that are still locked up, you know, even though they've talked about, you know, pardoning, federal offenses and things like that over this plant. [00:20:00] Um, It, it's, it really is a tragedy in, in many different ways that, um, it can, and, and we just have to continue to keep talking about it, keep showing these examples, um, and at and at some point, um, my hope and my, my goal is that when a family comes to a doctor looking to this doctor for what to do with their loved ones, especially their children, And, and I know we've made some progress, but we've not made enough to, when the doctor says, go for it, you know, it isn't gonna hurt anything.
It's just the plant . You know what I mean? And maybe we're five years from that and maybe we're five months from that. Um, but that's part of my why. Cuz we, we, we, we are on, we are involved with these families. You know, we get to see, um, this happen. Um, you know, cancer was, [00:21:00] the, um, was the, was basically the, the final thing that, that pushed me, um, to go all in with, you know, the Miracle Plant.
The Miracle Plant Podcast, you know, 1 0 1 C B D was, you know, when, when Godron, uh, the, the German lady, um, you know, used. Our product to help heal herself on her own accord. She went through chemo, she went through radiation. She said I'd rather die than do that again. And, uh, when she got a clean bill of health, just using our oil and eating right and exercising and just living a holistic, uh, life.
Um, that was when that was the thing, right? Then I was like, oh my gosh. Like, first of all, it healed my son and helped my son heal with diet and, and, and raw ham. But now it's, it's, it's getting rid of tumors, , and then like, go Google that. Like even big pharma can't get rid of that. You know, maybe you have to go a couple pages past, you know, some of the stuff they control, like [00:22:00] WebMD, but, but you know, keep scrolling down.
Go to pub med.gov type in C B D space tumors or cannabis space tumors. The research keeps coming out and coming out, and some of it's been around forever, you know, decades. Um, and uh, you know, it's not even until, I think like this year we just passed something, uh, Biden signed something allowing us to.
Research cannabis this year. I mean, it's just ridiculous. Uh, I mean, look what other plant is out there, that we know scientifically proven shrinks tumors. I mean, straight up. There ain't no two ways about it. Just Google it, man. And I would go to pubbed nd and pub med.gov. Uh, is is the website. And, and go find, go look at the research.
Um, many other countries have found this, and like I said, we've actually been using this plant for thousands upon thousands of years, um, for many, many [00:23:00] different things. Um, it is, you know, some people kind of joke or kid like, you know, I keep seeing this, this word panacea . It's, you know, oh, it can't be this, it can't be that.
Well, it's the, it's the closest thing to a panacea I've ever seen. Uh, especially if you're in, in a bad situation. Um, Well, that's, that's, that's my mother there. Dan, I'll let you, uh, weigh in or pop in and, and, uh, share any thoughts or insights or comments you had. Uh, Justin that's, I feel so bad for, for Claire's family.
That's, that's just devastating and it's unfortunate that we have to have, we even have to hear those stories anymore because I'm not saying that it solves every problem, but it's one problem that could. I don't know. It just seems like there's a lot of tools available that aren't being used. And the doc, what was [00:24:00] doctor that we had on was we talked about just William Courtney, Dr.
William Courtney. Yeah. Dr. Courtney just says, just. , you know, just take it outta your garden and put it in your salad. Just eat it. It's not, it's, it's just like lettuce or broccoli or anything else. Just put it in there and it's just, you know, it's just one more, it's the nutrients and the, the benefits that you're getting from it.
We don't know exactly how it works. I mean, we, you know, we think we do, but, but if, like I said, it's one tool in the toolbox and why it's not being, In every instance because there, while there may not, they may be able to argue that there's no research that shows that there's benefit. I haven't seen any research that shows that it's, there's, there's any, there's any negative aspect of it.
So, I mean, like you can, I would kind of use that as my reverse. Okay. Well, there's no ev but there's no evidence to say that it doesn't, that it's damaging or it's going to be [00:25:00] disruptive. So if you're, if, if it's life or death, why not try everything? That's, that's, that's my opinion. And, and I. It just makes me sad when you, when you hear stories of people, I love the stories of, of the success of people saying that, Hey, I did this and I'm cancer free.
Or, Hey, I did this and my child doesn't have any more seizures, or My child is, is not on the spectrum anymore. Or just all these great stories that we hear of are regularly in our podcasts. That's what I wanna hear more. But it's still sad when you, because we're not, we still hear the, the stories I got there too late.
I I didn't do it. I should have tried it. You know, and it's like young people, it doesn't, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, they're, they're, it's, it's just unfortunate that they're taken from us way too early. . And, and that's why we do what we do, because we don't wanna hear, ever hear those stories again. [00:26:00] And, and I think that the more people that hear what we're doing and what other people like us are doing, and help us help to spread the word, um, you know, it's gotta come up from the masses and it's gotta come from the root.
You know, we're, we're, we're the, we're the grassroots, we're the ones that are, are, are, are, are sharing this, this story. However, may, however way we can possibly. It's not easy to get to a billion people, Justin, but I mean, following your leadership. Um, I mean, I, I think we're gonna, we're gonna get there and I just, I try to stay optimistic and, you know, I, I, uh, I always think that, you know, maybe I, there's this great story, I, I pulled it up while we were talking because I, I just think this is such a, so appropriate to what we're talking about, but there's this.
I don't know if you call it a, a proverb or a parable or whatever you call it about, it's about staying optimistics even when things get [00:27:00] bumpy. And, um, it's, it's about this Chinese farmer who gets a horse, um, just wanders into his yard and the, um, and the people in this, oh my gosh, you're so lucky. That horse, you know, you're so lucky.
And the farmer says, you know, I don't know if that's good news or bad news, who can say? And then the next day, the horse. and the same people go, oh, too bad. That's bad news that the horse left. And the farmer says, I don't know if it's good news or it's bad news. It just is. And the next day, the horse comes back with another horse.
So now he is got two horses. Same thing. People go, oh, good news. He says, I don't know if it's good news or bad news, it's just his news. His son learns how to ride the horse. Playing around on the horse falls off, breaks his. People go, oh, that's really bad news. Your son broke his leg again. He says, I don't know if it's good news or bad news, it's just his news.
The next day the emperor's guards come into town and take all the able the body, body men to go to go to war. His son's got a broken leg, so they leave him behind. . [00:28:00] So you don't know, I mean, you don't know when things are good news or bad news. So as a group, we have to always stay optimistic. I mean, maybe there's a reason why this the word isn't getting out so fast.
Maybe there's some reason that, you know, I can't, you, you, you can't really justify any of these things, and so you just say just, our goal is to stay optimistic. Our goal is to keep play fighting forward and keep making sure that what we're doing. we continue to do, and don't get, don't let these setbacks or seemingly seeming setbacks because they may not be setbacks.
Don't let 'em turn it, don't let 'em stop yet. Don't let 'em get you down and just keep moving forward. every day, just keep moving forward. And Justin, you're the great per great example of that. Every day you just get up and you just keep plugging at it and, and you inspire other people. And that's, you know, I, I, I give you a lot of credit for doing it and I'm.
To be part of this show because that's what we do. We just, hopefully we keep people [00:29:00] moving forward and keep people informed and inspired about this plant because this could be the difference maker I hope. . Absolutely, brother. And I appreciate your optimism and, uh, I know you've, you've, you've, uh, I consider myself a pretty optimistic person and, and you're right there with me.
I, I remember, um, you know, you, uh, we were talking about something, you know, who knows 50 episodes ago, and you were like, Uh, I was getting feisty about, you know, same kind of stuff, you know, marketing, getting shut down, bank accounts, shut down, Citi, uh, you know, trying to shut us down. Just, he guys just can't believe the stuff we have to go through and, and it, it is what it is.
We got a big enough why, you know, and that's okay. Um, but you were like, just look how far we've come in the last 10 years or whatever. I remember you said that. And I was like, yeah, that's true, man. . Like, and, and at the end of the day too, I mean, I, I, I just know how much it could help so many [00:30:00] people. Um, and I know how scary it was when my son had his diagnosis around three and, and, uh, you know, and, and I.
I mean, it's like, and it's not just the CBD oil or the hemp or the cannabis. Look, that's, it is amazing plant all by itself. I mean, and it, you know, you can rub it on, uh, inflammation or pain and the pain goes away, or you have a headache and it can take your headache away. Or, uh, I just ran a half marathon on Sunday with my wife and, uh, my feet, uh, my dogs were, uh, barking.
Let me tell you, it rain. Socks got wet. So I'm running on wet socks and, and um, my hips were out like, oh my gosh. I mean, that's the longest I've ever run in my life. And let's not kid ourselves. I did not run the whole time. But, uh, anyways, there was some yogging as, as anchorman, Ron Burgundy would say. I think it's a silent soft J.
Anyways, um, and. . I just knew when I got home, I, I forgot to take CBD before, right before we took off on the race. My wife's like, did you [00:31:00] take some cbd? I'm like, oh my gosh, it was so early. We had to start so early. I didn't even wasn't thinking. And so, but when I got home, I knew there's like this comfort, like I know, and we just gobbled up some, I think 1600 milligram whatever we had handy and just gobbled it up, man, for the next two days.
Uh, you know, I probably took two or 300 milligrams over the two days and, uh, some lingual. and then I had the roll on, man, . I was just taking a bath on that thing all over my feet and legs and hips and back and everywhere that it hurt. Um, I, I run on the treadmill and when I was training was on the treadmill, but the, obviously the marathon was on concrete.
I'm like, whoa, I don't know how you folks do it. Running on concrete. God bless you. I used to do it when I was a younger man, but, uh, I'll stick to my treadmill or, or, Or a, you know, dirt trail or, you know, anything sand, anything but concrete. But, uh, anyways, it's, you know, it's, is such an amazing plant, just if that's all that it did.
But the [00:32:00] main thing that I was getting at is, is that, uh, and as we've done our, you know, our heal the world, uh, summits and, and take control of your health, is that it's a Pandora's box for so many people that, that, you know, because we're just, we're just, if, if you, if you just listen to the news of social media or what the mass media.
Uh, the masses want you to do, you know, you, you have an issue. You go to the doctor, you say, Hey doctor, my foot hurts. , you know, what do you think? And then what's the doctor gonna do? We all know, right? Or if you've got a complicated, like aches and joints that la that have been lasting for, for months, now that you've got some like chronic pain, you know, what's the doctor gonna do?
Right? What are they gonna do? Traditional medicine is going to get a prescription pad out and write you a prescription. Now look, there's great doctors out there and there's homeopaths and there's holistic doctors and um, and that's great. And there's, you know, and I encourage you. You know, to, to find a doctor or a medical [00:33:00] team or um, healthcare professionals that isn't aligned with you.
And first thing that you have to do is, is find out what you are aligned with. What is your philosophy? You know, and, and that's why we call it the take back control of your health because people can take a, a little oil or rub on a little topical and it works, and there's no side effects. There's nothing damaging your liver or your, or your stomach lining, and you're just like, you feel better and you're like, that was great , and you're not doing anything negative Now.
Look, when you're young, I was young and when I was in baseball, we would just pop those, it was ibuprofen. and we didn't know we were just dumb kids. Right. And our arms hurt, so we just took them, you know? And when you're young and healthy and your liver can process things and, and you certainly believe you're totally invincible, uh, you know, you get away with that.
And, and, um, but as you, as you get older and, you know, kind of cross that, that usually, that, that number 40, uh, seems to be a, a pretty pivotal one. Um, that, [00:34:00] that you really need to start making better. Uh, to keep your health up and, and make better long-term decisions. And, and that's why it was, uh, you know, it's by taking this pill or not pill, I call it the red pill from, from, uh, Alex Allison Wonderland.
But it's like, okay, so I took a plant and it solved my issue. Like, okay, what else can I do? Maybe I should eat some more salads, right? Or maybe I should check out my drinking water, or maybe I really should go for a walk this morning, or maybe I really should work on my morning routine. Or really, I really need to focus on my sleep.
And a lot of people, once they've solved the pain, if the pain is, you know, aches and pains, Then they can actually sleep better. And once you can sleep better, get a good night's sleep, there's nothing more, uh, healing and homeostasis balancing than a good night's sleep. And again, we all know at this plant, oh, it just happens to help with that too.
So again, um, We'll just keep talking. We'll keep coming on. [00:35:00] Um, you know, I know, like I said, we've taken a lot of tangents on this podcast and, and, and to reach a billion people, we're not gonna do it alone. And I hope, uh, you know, we're going to, you know, I hope by me being more vulnerable or maybe showing some of the, the.
The, the not the happiest of moments on this journey, um, uh, brings you closer to our journey. And, and we need your help. We need help. We need people to speak up. Uh, we need people to, to share the podcast. We need people to, to like trust your instincts. Like if you, if you hear this podcast and there's somewhat a loved one that, that you think needs to hear this, you need to, to copy.
This link and send it to 'em. Don't worry about what they think. Don't worry about what other people's thinks. That's their perspectives, that's their opinions, that's their projections on life. You do what you need to do. You know, I, and, and, and that's just who I am. Look, I'm not telling you how to live your life, but that's just who I am.
It's just like, you know, I, I want to know that I've done everything I can. , um, to help people. And if I have access to information, you know, that, that [00:36:00] I believe is gonna help them. Um, the best approach, this is my, one of my life lessons things, is to ask somebody first if you can. It's such a cool thing to do.
You get their buy-in, you say, Hey, I, I, do you wanna hear my opinion? and nine times outta 10, they'll say, yeah, absolutely. Even if they don't, they'll still say, yeah, but, and one times outta 10 they say no, and then you don't waste your time or energy, and they're not ready to hear that opinion. I think so many of us, we just share our opinions.
Um, just throwing it out there on people and like, look, just get the buy-in. And if you've, and when it comes to someone's health and things like, , you know, sharing a podcast that might talk touch on cancer, or might touch on rheumatoid arthritis or art or autism or some of the things that we've talked about today.
Um, you know, that's what's great about a podcast. You can listen to it while you're driving or a gym or walking or whatever you're doing. Uh, it's a real simple format to pass along. So, You're a part of the journey. Now that you've heard this, we have opened Pandora's Box for you. And, uh, [00:37:00] we hope that, uh, this podcast has, uh, enlightened you on some of the, some of the tougher things that we go through.
Um, and we're willing to keep doing it because we don't want any more stories. I'm tired of, of, of, it's. We don't need to lose one more person. Um, and I've actually lost two, uh, in the last few weeks. Uh, both were brain cancer. Um, and that was our previous episode that was released, uh, today as well. Uh, Dave Woodward and, um, you know, and yeah.
We just need people to try the product and give it a good try. And that's the, the thing that I love most too, is like we were talking about with Gurin and the Can her cancer, um, was that they're doing blood work. . And so when you take the, the CBD oil or the whole plant, not just just garbage that's out there, get something that's representing the whole plant.
You know, we obviously prefer for it to be whole plant and raw, but at the very least, get a whole [00:38:00] plant product. And the best thing you can do is grow it in your backyard and, uh, eat, eat it, throw it in your juice in the morning. But anyways, the, when you take the whole plant and you have the blood work, there's no.
You wanna blow some doctor's minds, you want some proof doc. I mean, we've had doctors that come back to us or come back to our clients and say, it had to be a miracle. And then we've, I can't tell you how many times I've heard it had, it's a miracle. Or they say, uh, we must have the mixed up your blood work.
We must have messed it up. And, and then they, they make 'em take it again. and then it's, it's a miracle or I can't explain it. And then the patient will tell the doctor, well, I started taking whole plant raw CBD oil, CBD a oil, and, and, and that's one of the ways that the doctors are getting educated by their patients, seeing the proof right in front of them.
And some of them are still denying it, and some of them will never, never, ever, ever, , even when they [00:39:00] see it right in front of 'em. And that's okay cuz we can't change their minds. But there are millions of doctors out there and healthcare professionals and a system that we can change. So again, thank you for swinging by the Miracle Plant Podcast.
Any final, uh, remarks before you wrap up? Dave, Dan? Sorry, I was thinking about Dave . No, no. Justin, I'm, I'm, I'm happy to be part of what we're doing in. Like I said, I appreciate you, your, your commitment to this and we're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. It's a community. We're gonna get this, we're gonna get this across the finish line.
It may not be tomorrow, but we are committed. And what's gonna happen? Well, we got till 2025 on, uh, 1231 at the stroke of midnight in Times Square. So we've got some time. And, uh, we're gonna do our darnest to hit that number. And, uh, we are working with the right people in the marketing, uh, digital marketing geniuses like Russell and the Poland Hill Foundation and Daryl Eves, who, uh, was instrumental in, in [00:40:00] getting the chosen out there to reach a billion views.
So we are teamed up with the right people. Trust me, I have done everything I possibly can racked my brains to figure out how I can get that number and shift and raise consciousness about this miracle plant. And it's not just the plant, it's about eating healthy. I'm, I've been talking with crispy cancer, uh, to get him on the podcast.
He's got an amazing thing with juicing and, uh, really aligned with him as well, so, Thank you for coming by and listening to the podcast and sharing your time with us. Uh, hopefully this resonated with you. If it did, please rate it or share it. Um, and I want to thank Dan for all the hard work that he's done.
Uh, I want to wish everyone a happy holidays and a Merry Christmas and, and a happy New year and everything else, and just spending time with friends and family and loved ones. Uh, it is that one time of the year where, especially here in America where we kind of, we exhale and we, and we, and we hang out with each other and we go skiing or, or do whatever it is that we do.
So I encourage you to, to really squeeze those loved ones a [00:41:00] little extra tight. This. This, uh, holiday and, uh, thanks for swinging by the Miracle Plant Podcast. And at the end of every podcast, we say Heal the world, cuz that is the mission here to heal the world and educate the world. So on the count of three, let's say heal the world.
And if you're listening at home, say it with us. Those vibrations get out there further than you can even imagine. So on the count of three, let's say heal the world. 1, 2, 3, heal, heal the world. All right, thanks for coming by The Miracle Plant Podcast. We'll see you next week. Everybody take care and be a blessing.