Edge of Cannabis Medicine Matthew Myro Steve Bate Interview

I am Matthew my row and this is the edge of cannabis medicine podcast and today's guest is Steve Beit Steve spent most of his career in information technology and real estate however with the terminal cancer diagnosis he began using cannabis oil and survived a diagnosis that no one else has survived it actively works on local state federal and international levels for the awareness of cannabis benefits Steve thank you for so much for being on the show welcome Matthew it's good to hear you it's good to see you and it's really good to be on the show I really appreciate that yeah great to have you here and good enough health to be able to do it it's a it's a pleasure well the the health ride has been quite interesting and I'd love to get into that and talk about actually the benefits of cannabis and in trying to understand the endocannabinoid system which is a science that we really haven't delved into as we should medicinally and that's one of the things that you know I had to do personally and one of the reasons I'm here as far as trying to you know gain that knowledge understand that knowledge and apply it and also what we've done it khon kaen with my partner dr. Mitchell Davis now Schulman and dr. Davis is probably one of the top I'd say five cannabis doctors in the country at this point based on you know what we've experienced and how we've experienced with now well over a thousand true medicinal cannabis patients with the average age being you know close to 70 years old yeah well let's let's get into that a little bit later first I would just if you could share your story with cancer and how you found this amazing survival with cannabis oil well internal interesting it's only been three years actually three years ago this month I was diagnosed with to stage for advanced terminal cancers mantle cell lymphoma as well as non-hodgkins small b-cell lymphoma which was diagnosed at 39% of my bone marrow so I was at the point where you know you know you'd have catastrophic failure of an organ my spleen was so massively swollen and there really you know it wasn't a lot that they could do as a matter of fact I was told I was you know not treatable they wanted to put me in an experimental program now having done research on well cancer and you know survival on what really is the survival both of my brothers had also had lymphoma eight years earlier I had I did a bone marrow transplant for my brother Stan at Johns Hopkins and knowing what the chemotherapy did for him and my oldest brother he's gone through three chemo therapies and Estelle said stem cell transplant for lymphoma also so here's three brothers that had lymphoma and going back to when the bone marrow transplant was going to be done at Johns Hopkins I went up for my first hematological visit as far as you know looking at my blood and checking on matches and I said to them before the eve - keenie blood I said aren't you one of the topic research facilities in the world my two older brothers have a rare form of lymphoma that seems to be growing and you gotta beYOU know we're talking ten years ago and lymphoma was a very quick growing cancer so here's two older brothers eight and twelve years older than me that had this rare form of lymphoma so I said before we start this to evaluate doing the bone marrow transplant for my brother would you want to know if either I'm going to get it or I'm not going to get it based on the fact yet three brothers two of which have this the third which is myself who are still alive we can do research so lo and behold the head of research comes down and says you know we've done a lot of rest we've done a lot on lung cancer I'm on prostate we really haven't done much on lymphoma so you know instead of taking you know six units of blood they took twelve or fifteen we're gonna send all over the place you know so I did become a porcupine so I kind of enlisted for that but at the same time what was quite interesting is seeing how the chemotherapy was treated it was really taking away the cancer or destroying you pretty much and not putting anything back so what I realized before I went into a chemotherapy that was you know probably not expected a survival but even more than that hey if I'm gonna survive I'm gonna have a good life you know I don't want to be a vegetable I don't want to dis barely survive you know I want to have a quality of life so the other part of getting chemotherapy seemed that the first thing that that the patients would experience was like metal dripping off their teeth it had this metal taste that not only would have the you know first you're gonna get beaten nauseous it's gonna ruin your taste buds probably forever and you're gonna have that taste you're never really gonna want food or enjoy food and this isn't something that's really talked a lot about you know it's more of the diseases itself or you know the chemotherapy that would probably kill you more than the disease is statistically so I realized I needed to be able to want food to have a balanced body where you know I could get nutrition because money get nutrition there's nothing I could do and that's how I looked at it so I literally you know I went to the physician that was going to give me the chemo and he's like look you see five oncologist they'll give you six opinions because there's really nothing you know we can say that's been done its work and I went through an extensive are chop therapy you know it's 12 hours of chemo and the regimens were extremely intense but I started taking the Rick Simpson soil or the full extract cannabis oil that actually Rick Simpson had taught someone that how to do this years ago and they'd had many many patients that had used their strain and their their particular extract and so I started that before the chemotherapy and lo and behold Tony I as I told the doctor I said I'm going to use some cannabis therapy during this needless amigos war you know I don't agree with smoking during you know the chemo because you know how it might affect your lungs said well I'm not talking about smoking I'm talking about taking an extract in a gelatin capsule and you know having uh getting my blood levels up to a point where you know I think it could be beneficial getting through the chemotherapy and for survival well I went into chemotherapy hungry that was not nice first of all you know it's a good you know you're very depressed and you're told you're terminal and nothing can be done but you can't say that the cannabis isn't a nice mood enhancer as far as if you feel more pleasurable because usually if you're hungry and you want food you feel more pleasurable and you know so I would come into the chemotherapy you know is positive as anybody you know an attitude is you know a huge for that so yeah if you're down and you're depressed you don't have any mood enhancement how do you have a good attitude and you know when you have when you're happy and you have a good attitude you want to go out and have a nice meal right you know you want to enjoy the quality of life and to me I can a collie life is you know eating nice tasting great food you do enjoying it with friends communicating so I literally get into the chemotherapy hungry from the rick simpson soil and they tell me that there is a menu that they give cancer patients if they could but nobody uses it because part of the hospital where i was had a hotel with room service and they'll deliver free food you know group service to the cancer patients they're getting chemo so i said okay great give me the menu i ordered like everything on the menu and they said well you can all are only harder for yourself not all the people that are there as i'm sitting this room by myself getting chemo you know that's what I want they asked like you take one of the entrees off which happened to get this you could take off the hard-cooked egg I said a hard-boiled eggs about rate well pretty funny and yes that would be an entree and you know it was you know the best outcome you could possibly have I know when I finished that chemo the person that was the infusion Asst he said you know nobody's ever been diagnosed with what you were diagnosed anytime anywhere and or what you're endured and walked out alive and I looked at her and I said yes and with a smile and you know that was pretty much you know what I went through as far as the chemo and it did some maintenance for toxins and that brings us up you know closer in time on my diagnosis was only three years ago so this is quite recent and so are you totally free of the cancer at this point well on March 9th of 2020 the PET scan showed no cancer well I'm extremely grateful that you're healthy and then you're able to be on the show and been looking forward to it for quite some time so thank you hey well now is the time so let's take this day one forward right absolutely absolutely well thank you so much Steve and we'll just keep praying for your continued betterment well we'll be well be our I'll be alright if I can you know help others and hey you know we're in Delray Beach Florida comp can and you know we lady I really tried dr. Davis and what he's done and where we are you know in the last few years and in our own you know testimonials and through patience and real medicine so yeah I'll make sure that you make sure to link to link to the calm can website and the show notes so if there's any folks listeners in Florida they can come check you out there yeah all right it's okay I like it okay I really appreciate it it's not a great day and everybody out there hey just keep up the attitude you know we're all here together so thanks again for everything it's good to be here take care my solo you