Chemotherapy and Immune Cells: NK Cells and T Cells

But let me tell you something profound and very simple.

Something profound is as follows. When you get chemotherapy, let's talk about cancer, for example.

When you get chemotherapy, the first thing it wipes out is your red blood cells. You have anemia, and there's a drug for that called Epogen.

The second thing it wipes out is cells called neutrophils that prevent infection, and there's a drug for that called Neupogen.

But the most important thing it wipes out is a drug, is your NK and T cells, and that's called lymphocytes.

It turns out the only thing that protects your body against cancer is your lymphocytes, meaning the NK cells and T cells.

So that's why I'm saying what is simple and profound, meaning that we now know that anybody getting chemotherapy, anybody getting radiation, within a day or two, you wipe out the only cells that matter, i.e. the cells that kill cancer.

And, um, for thirty-five years, we've never had a treatment for that.

That is where I'm going down the line when we t-t-talk about long COVID, because when you have viral infection, the first thing you wipe out, the, the virus is smart. It wipes out the T cells and the NK cells.

But you know, the irony is that you need Epogen and Neupogen because of what we've done to the patient. We've given them chemotherapy.

Of course. And we, we... At the same time, what we've done to that patient is actually wiped out the cells that matter, the NK and T cells.

So my fight for the last twenty years is, here's a surgeon from South Africa, this doctor working on pancreas transplant, and talking to oncologist, and he says, "Everything we've been doing so far has been wrong.

We've actually treated cancer wrongly."