Ivermectin's Role in Cancer Treatment

Ivermectin back in the news, and of course it's something we've talked

about a lot

here. Obviously, w- a lot of people have become very familiar

with

ivermectin, obviously through COVID.

Um, and obviously you've been on the show

and talked about it as far as parasite

cleanses. Uh, and now promise with cancer treatment

is out there.

And yesterday, I believe it was, the First Lady of Florida, Casey DeSantis,

Ron DeSantis's wife, said that she made an announcement of a $60

million

cancer innovation fund. And she says in support, in

a part, will support research into the benefits of

repurposing,

um,

j- j- genetics, uh, like, uh, like ivermectin to

fight cancer.

And, uh, we understand that ivermectin cream

is now also being talked about to be

used in a variety of skin problems. Talk, so talk to us about all of this.

Yeah, this should happen. You know, we went through a pandemic.

It's almost like going through a, a space program.

There should be spinoffs. And ivermectin was probably the best

spinoff

of the pandemic. Very useful drug. Originally an anti-parasitic.

I used it prior to the pandemic largely to treat scabies, but now it's

antiviral.

And, um, I think of great interest are the preclinical studies

showing it's anti-neoplastic. And a recently

announced UCLA and Cedars-Sinai in, in LA

are launching a big cancer clinical trial of

ivermectin in a variety of solid organ cancers.

So ivermectin and benzos offered by the wellness company.

It, it's certainly fine to use it off-label.

We're studying the use, by the way, when people sign up.

But people are adding this to their cancer chemotherapy regimens right

now, into radiation therapy and other treatment.

Because, you know, who wa- Somebody has cancer, who wants to

wait when the drugs are this safe and this available?

Absolutely. That's the first thing people always say

when you have it.

A- most people re- first reaction is, "Just get it out.

Get it out of my body as quickly as possible." And of course, as we know-

Mm

... the traditional methods of, uh, chemo and things like that are, um,

it's like

breaking eggs with hammers. It gets the job done,

but there's a lot of collateral

damage. So studies-

Yeah

... like this are obviously really, really important.

Um, specifically to the cream application, um, are there any side effects

to something like that?

No, unless there's some hypersensitivity to it

itself.

Actually, I prescribed it today for a patient.

There's a whole variety of spike protein or post-vaccine or

post-COVID syndromes now, cutaneous syndromes, where the spike

protein may play a role. It's previously on the market, uh, called

Soolantra, topical ivermectin 0.5 and then 1%

cream. But it is FDA approved to treat acne,

and I think a lot of

people who have that kind of deeper pitting acne are looking for

some solution