Acute illness often isn't infection

How Conventional Medicine Is Ruining Our Kids | Dr. Larry Palevsky

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We’re watching an entire generation of children get sicker, and the medical system still won’t admit it’s out of answers. 

Parents see it. Practitioners see it. And the gap between real-world patterns and the official explanations around childhood illness keeps widening.

In this episode, Dr. Larry Palevsky breaks down the observations that pushed him to question the pediatric model from within. Standard protocols weren’t helping. Some interventions were making symptoms worse. And the infection-based framework he was trained to follow simply didn’t explain the chronic inflammation, neurodevelopmental issues, or immune dysregulation showing up in real kids.

Looking for clarity, he stepped outside the conventional lane—into nutrition, Chinese medicine, chiropractic, reiki, herbology, and other holistic approaches that offered a fuller picture of children’s health. That search opened deeper questions about vaccine ingredients, aluminum adjuvants, immune overload, environmental toxicity, and whether our definition of “infection” actually matches what’s happening inside children’s bodies.

This conversation is for anyone who already knows the system is breaking kids—and wants the language, context, and coherence to understand why, and what truly supports long-term health.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:06:23] The lost art of Clinical Medicine

[00:07:38] The emergency room revelation about ear infections and antibiotics

[00:12:21] Discovering the concept of "the body has the innate capacity to heal"

[00:17:09] Using reiki in the delivery room to save babies

[00:23:24] The pivotal moment a mother asked about mercury in vaccines

[00:26:42] The premature baby saved by fish oil

[00:33:14] Why Dr. Larry stopped vaccinating and started educating

[00:42:18] The troubling science of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines

[01:03:08] Three brain regions where nanoparticles travel

[01:06:29] What sorbitol in MMR might actually be doing

[01:18:21] Why vaccines are "safe and effective" is the wrong debate

[01:24:10] The real contagion theory no one talks about

[01:34:07] Acute illness is rarely an infection

[01:48:42] The 15-year-old diagnosed with autism who actually had addiction

[01:41:59] The autism debate, diagnostic labels, and the dozen causes of brain injury in children

[02:04:26] The parenting advice that sounds cruel but builds resilience

[02:08:40] What "making children well again" actually requires

[02:22:15] Symptoms are just the body doing its job

[02:16:53] The two-part vision: reforming pediatrics and reclaiming allopathic medicine

Resources Mentioned:

Danish Study on 1.2 Million Children Settles the Vaccine-Autism Debate | Article

Can You Catch A Cold? By Daniel Roytas | Book

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