Medicine on the Joe Rogan Experience

“We know that somewhere between 50 to 70% of all ICU alarms are either unnecessary or ignorable.”

Walker claims that 50 to 70% of all ICU alarms are either unnecessary or can be ignored, disrupting patient sleep in the one setting where they most need rest to heal.

“There is a 168 percent increased risk that they will get into a car accident.”

Walker claims that medical residents who finish a 30-hour shift face a 168% increased risk of a car accident driving home due to being underslept.

“Junior residents working a 30 hour shift are 460 percent more likely to make diagnostic errors in the intensive care unit relative to when they're working 16 h…”

Walker claims that medical residents working traditional shifts (roughly 13 hours, garbled in transcript) are 460% more likely to make diagnostic errors in the ICU compared to residents working shorter shifts.

“One in five medical residents will make a serious medical error due to insufficient sleep. One in 20 medical residents will kill a patient because of a fatigue…”

Walker claims 1 in 5 medical residents will make a serious medical error and 1 in 20 will kill a patient due to fatigue-related error.

“It's insane. And the fact that it won the Nobel Prize for for efficacy in humans yeah in humans yeah it was wild it was just wild they had to do it”

Kennedy invokes ivermectin's Nobel Prize as if it bolsters ivermectin's case as a COVID-19 treatment, when the prize recognized its efficacy against parasitic worm infections, not any antiviral or COVID-19 effect.

“So why are there no fenbendazole clinical trials for cancer? The answer seems rather obvious. It's very cheap, it's safe, and it seems to be effective, very ef…”

Rogan reads and endorses a viral claim that fenbendazole (a dog dewormer) has proven, effective anti-cancer mechanisms in humans and is being suppressed from clinical trials because it's too cheap for pharmaceutical companies to profit from.

“This was developed in France in the 80s, and then the FDA approved this in 2004. So 2004 was approved in the U.S.”

Baker states the reverse shoulder replacement device was developed in France in the 1980s and received FDA approval in the U.S. in 2004.

“He calls it tension myositis syndrome, and he explains the mechanism of how it works one friend of mine he was in his late 20s uh played a lot of basketball ha…”

Weil recounts Dr. John Sarno's theory that back pain (tension myositis syndrome) is caused by repressed emotion, and describes a friend whose herniated-disc pain vanished after reading Sarno's book, avoiding surgery.

“There was one called ichthyosis, which is like the whole skin gets covered with this calloused, tarred tissue. Yes. And it went away through hypnosis.”

A speaker describes a case where a young man's severe skin condition (ichthyosis) reportedly disappeared through hypnosis.

“My own doctor, my own doctor said hydroxychloroquine is fantastic if you catch it early. He goes, it really stops the propagation of the disease if you catch i…”

The speaker claims his personal doctor said hydroxychloroquine is highly effective and stops COVID-19 propagation if taken early.

“I had psoriasis and that's gone. And I had peripheral uveitis, which caused my right eye to be full of floaters because there's inflammation on the bottom prod…”

Peterson claims his all-meat carnivore diet cured his psoriasis and resolved his peripheral uveitis (eye floaters caused by inflammation).