Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in
Speaker 1: partnership with I Heart Radio. Neither fury of tongue nor
Speaker 1: truculence of pen can discredit my observations, which are capable
Speaker 1: of analysis and demonstration. A man named Dr Albert Abrams
Speaker 1: once said about his work. His medical contemporaries once considered
Speaker 1: him to be quote a clever, money mad neuropath, according
Speaker 1: to the Jewish Museum of the American West. But what
Speaker 1: makes Abrams a bit different than other con artists will
Speaker 1: meet this season is that though he was dismissed within
Speaker 1: the medical community for quackery and fraud in his time,
Speaker 1: he probably wasn't really a guy running a con, at
Speaker 1: least not on purpose. He truly believed he was revolutionizing
Speaker 1: the way physicians diagnosed their patients, and today he's considered
Speaker 1: the father of radionics. Well, come to Criminalia. I'm Maria
Speaker 1: Tramarqui and I'm Holly Fry, So let's get to know
Speaker 1: a little about Albert Abrams. He was born in San
Speaker 1: Francisco in eighteen sixty three. He earned his medical degree
Speaker 1: from the University of Heidelberg, Germany's oldest university, in eight
Speaker 1: two and took additional graduate courses in London, Berlin, Vienna,
Speaker 1: and Paris. In eighty three, he returned to San Francisco
Speaker 1: to open his own practice. He's noted in more than
Speaker 1: one written instance as having quote exceptional intelligence and productivity,
Speaker 1: and he quickly built up a large and prosperous practice
Speaker 1: in the city. Abrams, though, diagnosed his patients through an
Speaker 1: unconventional method. He mapped out various areas of residence and
Speaker 1: dullness in the human body through controlled percussion, or, to
Speaker 1: put it a lot more simply, he would tap and listen.
Speaker 1: His solid reputation as a physician afforded him opportunities to
Speaker 1: lecture on an number of medical subjects, and that led
Speaker 1: him to a position as a professor of pathology at
Speaker 1: Cooper Medical College from eighteen ninety three to eight. During
Speaker 1: his tenure there, Cooper Medical College referred to him as
Speaker 1: quote our talented young professor. Abrams, though abruptly submitted his
Speaker 1: resignation on May sixteenth. It was accepted by the Board
Speaker 1: of Directors of the college on November fifteenth that year, but,
Speaker 1: as medical historians have noted, it was curiously received and
Speaker 1: approved without the usual expressions of appreciation for services during
Speaker 1: his time at the school. There was no thank you,
Speaker 1: There was no good luck. It's generally believed among experts
Speaker 1: that due to the nature of his work, he was
Speaker 1: asked to resign his position. Abrams may have had a
Speaker 1: good reputation among his patients, but his work was considered
Speaker 1: very controversial in the medical community. A decade of experiments
Speaker 1: and research led Abrams to ellop to basic theories. The first,
Speaker 1: all matter radiates energy, and each element or compounds radiations
Speaker 1: differ from the radiation emitted by any other element or compound.
Speaker 1: The characteristics of each of those radiations are dependent upon
Speaker 1: the molecular constituents of whatever material is involved. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: take organic compounds. They belong to one of four classes
Speaker 1: of molecules, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. Every single
Speaker 1: molecule would have a unique energy I D. And his
Speaker 1: second theory goes like this, The radiations emitted by different
Speaker 1: types of matter of a living organism can be detected,
Speaker 1: can be differentiated, and can be measured by a trained
Speaker 1: practitioner using relatively simple instruments. The whole concept was based
Speaker 1: on the idea that all of us humans and all
Speaker 1: other life on Earth are part of the planet's electromagnetic field,
Speaker 1: and that each living being has its own unique identity
Speaker 1: or electromagnetic frequency. In the early nineteen hundreds, Abrams developed
Speaker 1: and wrote about a physical treatment called spondul the therapy
Speaker 1: or spinal reflexology, a kind of combination of chiropractic and
Speaker 1: osteopathic practices that used controlled percussion, so either that would
Speaker 1: be a practitioner's hand or a plex or instrument to
Speaker 1: perform reflex stimulation. It was also around this time Abrams
Speaker 1: began to expand on his two theories and began to
Speaker 1: claim he could detect what he called energy frequencies in
Speaker 1: his patient's bodies. The idea here was that a healthy
Speaker 1: person's body would have certain energy frequencies moving through it
Speaker 1: that define it as a healthy body. An unhealthy body,
Speaker 1: in comparison, would develop other different or distorted energy frequencies.
Speaker 1: By considering each organ and tissue to have its own vibration,
Speaker 1: when vibration change, it signaled disease was developing. He said
Speaker 1: he could cure people by, as he called it, balancing
Speaker 1: discordant frequencies. Abram's continued to expand his theories on how
Speaker 1: the body emits electromagnetic radiation. He began to claim that
Speaker 1: disease could be diagnosed and treated by applying electromagnetic radiation
Speaker 1: to the human body through an electrically powered device, and he,
Speaker 1: as we'll talk about in a moment, went on to
Speaker 1: invent those devices. His assumption was that external application of
Speaker 1: electromagnetic energy could cure the body's energy field and in
Speaker 1: turn cure the patient's disease. His experiments and discoveries went
Speaker 1: on to be known as radionics. Radionics is also called
Speaker 1: electromagnetic therapy and the Abrams method. Electromagnetic therapy is a
Speaker 1: form of energy medicine, and the idea has been used
Speaker 1: in medical treatments for thousands of years. In traditional Chinese medicine,
Speaker 1: for example, magnetic energy has been used on acupuncture points.
Speaker 1: Minerals called load stones were used to treat many health
Speaker 1: conditions in the tenth and eleventh centuries because of their
Speaker 1: natural magnetic qualities. The biological effects of low frequency electromagnetic
Speaker 1: radiation on the human body have been studied since the
Speaker 1: sixteenth century, but electromagnetic therapies have never been mainstream. Today's
Speaker 1: research in the field is based on the belief that
Speaker 1: every cell in the human body contains its own unique
Speaker 1: electromagnetic energy, and that the unique energy wave can be
Speaker 1: detected before any physical symptoms of disease appear. Sounds familiar, right,
Speaker 1: and that's because it's basically the theory Abrams was working on.
Speaker 1: But still today there's no consensus on whether the effects
Speaker 1: are physiologically significant. We're going to take a break for
Speaker 1: a word from our sponsor. When we return, we'll talk
Speaker 1: more about how Abrams went from well liked professor to
Speaker 1: facing accusations that he wasn't even a real doctor. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Criminalia. Abraham's caught a lot of crap from
Speaker 1: his peers, and although that probably felt terrible, it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to have slowed him down. Let's talk about his inventions.
Speaker 1: During the nineteenth century. At the time Abrahams was beginning
Speaker 1: his practice, some pretty big advancements were being made in
Speaker 1: medical equipment. Magnetic insuls were invented, as were new tools
Speaker 1: such as the stethoscope, laring scope, the medical thermometer, and
Speaker 1: the X ray. Abrams did not invent the X ray,
Speaker 1: but he demonstrated the value of it in cardiac diagnosis
Speaker 1: in but shortly after by the end of the eighteen nineties, Abrams'
Speaker 1: colleagues began to point out and greatly discussed what they
Speaker 1: considered to be his growing eccentricities. Abrams was experimenting with
Speaker 1: the increasing popularity of using electricity and using it in
Speaker 1: medical practice with his own magnetic and electrical inventions, and
Speaker 1: that right there was unheard of. He used diagnostic data
Speaker 1: gathered through the use of his devices, of which he
Speaker 1: built about a dozen. That data was analyzed by Abrams
Speaker 1: or by a trained practitioner who detected and measured abnormal
Speaker 1: frequencies while looking for changes in the energy and body
Speaker 1: of the patient, radiations that could be caused by, say,
Speaker 1: a tumor. Operators used abrams as devices to determine the
Speaker 1: location of the disease in the body, and some devices
Speaker 1: also suggested which remedy should be prescribed, such as a
Speaker 1: specific vitamin. His devices, as well as those invented by
Speaker 1: practic sisuers who came after him, were later updated with
Speaker 1: the capability to broadcast, as he called it, forms of
Speaker 1: low energy to treat, for instance, the frequencies of remote patients.
Speaker 1: After nineteen o four, his colleagues began to consider his
Speaker 1: ideas to be more like the writings of a quack
Speaker 1: or a charlatan than of a knowledgeable physician. His peers
Speaker 1: began to claim his work indicated he didn't have any
Speaker 1: understanding of how the human body works, and despite his
Speaker 1: medical degree, that he was not a real doctor. Between
Speaker 1: eighteen ninety one to nineteen twenty three, so pretty wide
Speaker 1: swath of time, Abrahams authored several books on medicinal techniques
Speaker 1: and related subjects. He was a Fellow of the Royal
Speaker 1: Medical Society of London, the Honorary President of the American
Speaker 1: Association for the Study of Spondlo Therapy, and President of
Speaker 1: the American Society of Psychophysical Research. In ninety two, he quote,
Speaker 1: disease is an aberration of the electron structure, a change
Speaker 1: in the otherwise uniform flow of electrons constituting the field
Speaker 1: of energy which is radiated from the physical organism. Abrams,
Speaker 1: as we've said, believed he could diagnose diseases such as cancer, syphilis,
Speaker 1: and tuberculosis through electromagnetic analysis rather than relying on traditional
Speaker 1: methods stethoscopes and jars of leeches and the like. He
Speaker 1: promoted his ideas through lectures he gave across the United
Speaker 1: States and Europe, as well as through his own writings
Speaker 1: and in newspaper advertisements. He also established clinics in cities
Speaker 1: in both the United States and Europe, and in London,
Speaker 1: for instance, his practice featured an electric sign in Trafalgar Square.
Speaker 1: These clinics, they were a huge success and he made
Speaker 1: a good bit of money from them. Though the medical
Speaker 1: theories on which those clinics operated were rejected by abrams
Speaker 1: peers in the medical community, the public seemed to see
Speaker 1: things differently. He continued to lecture, and his lectures continued
Speaker 1: to attract curious audiences. He received favorable mentions by well
Speaker 1: known figures outside of the medical community, including up In Sinclair,
Speaker 1: author of the well known novel The Jungle, which was
Speaker 1: an expose of the appalling conditions inside the meat packing industry.
Speaker 1: Abrams expanded on the idea that different diseases caused tissues
Speaker 1: to vibrate at different frequencies with the development of various instruments.
Speaker 1: We've hinted at these devices already, so let's actually talk
Speaker 1: about them. One of his first inventions was called the Reflexiphone.
Speaker 1: Was this black box with instrumentation used to measure those
Speaker 1: different vibrations. He also experimented with magnets, and he wrote
Speaker 1: about the idea of using them to cure health issues
Speaker 1: such as gastro intestinal ailments. His next invention was basically
Speaker 1: an updated reflexiphone. The dynamizer, as he called it, was
Speaker 1: basically another black box with plenty of knobs and dials
Speaker 1: and wires, and Abrams claimed that he could diagnose the sex, race,
Speaker 1: and disease of the patient, including the patient's religion, and
Speaker 1: that included patients he had never met. So to do so,
Speaker 1: he just required a single drop of blood. Oh but wait,
Speaker 1: not so fast. That drop of blood needed to be
Speaker 1: taken while the patient was facing west very important instructions.
Speaker 1: The blood was then placed on a piece of paper
Speaker 1: and mailed to him for evaluation. As Abram's described it,
Speaker 1: he would then place the paper into the dynamizer, which
Speaker 1: would feed information into other machines he had invented for
Speaker 1: this process. Those other machines were known as the rio
Speaker 1: stat dynamizer, the vibratory rate riostat, and the measuring riostat.
Speaker 1: He aimed for his machines to not only suggest treatment,
Speaker 1: but transfer medication to those who needed it, such as
Speaker 1: prescribing quinine to treat patients suffering from malaria without ever
Speaker 1: needing to see that patient in person. Abram's also invented
Speaker 1: a device he called the asilic last, working with the
Speaker 1: idea that diseases had their own vibrations that could be
Speaker 1: picked up from an electrical device. This instrument was as
Speaker 1: previous devices designed to identify energy waves. The asilic last
Speaker 1: was an electrical instrument used for generating oscillations. That sounds confusing, probably,
Speaker 1: but think of it like this. Think of it like
Speaker 1: how a pendulum swings, and how that looks. It was
Speaker 1: used to reverse diseased frequencies by aiming those frequencies back
Speaker 1: at the affected tissue, so you see how that swing
Speaker 1: is happening. In doing so, Abrams believed he could remove
Speaker 1: disease from that tissue. The reaction was something Abram's called
Speaker 1: the electronic reaction of Abram's simplified as e r A.
Speaker 1: Abram's kept detailed notes of the sounds different diseases made,
Speaker 1: and he calculated the resistance in olms of a range
Speaker 1: of diseases and disorders. These were known in his work
Speaker 1: as radionic rates and ohm. Just to brush up on
Speaker 1: our terminology, here is a measurement of electrical resistance simple
Speaker 1: as that. The original Acila class was a long rectangular
Speaker 1: black box with three rotary switches for adjusting radionic rates,
Speaker 1: a switch button, lightbulb, and four binding terminal posts. It,
Speaker 1: along with his other inventions, have since become known as
Speaker 1: black boxes, while yes, they were literally black boxes. In
Speaker 1: scientific terminology, a black box is a device, or a
Speaker 1: system or an object that produces useful information without revealing
Speaker 1: any information about its internal workings. In Abrahams promoted his
Speaker 1: new e r RA system with a new book titled
Speaker 1: New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment, and by more than
Speaker 1: three thousand doctors were using his e r A technology.
Speaker 1: But things weren't actually great. We're going to take a
Speaker 1: break for a word from our sponsor, and when we return,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about how the medical community began to target
Speaker 1: Abrams and his work. Welcome back to Criminalia. The end
Speaker 1: of Abram's career brought both his downfall as well as
Speaker 1: a rise of followers also seeking to understand electromagnetic therapy,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that actually happened after his death
Speaker 1: in ninety two. The British Royal Society of Medicine published
Speaker 1: an unfavorable report on Abrams as well as his theories
Speaker 1: and his practices, and as you may imagine, it had
Speaker 1: negative consequences on his work. It wasn't until the nineteen
Speaker 1: thirties when Dr Ruth Drowned, another pioneer in electromagnetic therapy
Speaker 1: picked up where Abram's left off, and it's Dr drown
Speaker 1: who renamed the e r A system to the more
Speaker 1: common term radionics. Abrams's work went on to find a
Speaker 1: home with George de Laire, Galen, Heronymous, Malcolm Ray, David Tansley,
Speaker 1: Peter Kelly, and others, including the umbrella of the American
Speaker 1: Association for Medico Physical Research today that is, medical physical Research.
Speaker 1: Although considered a joke by those practicing traditional medicine, Abrams
Speaker 1: was not alone in this field of study. Russian born
Speaker 1: scientists and engineer George Lakowski developed the radio cellulo oscillator
Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties. His theory was that every living
Speaker 1: human being radiates and amidst electromagnetic frequencies. He believed living
Speaker 1: beings had what he called quote a dynamic equilibrium of
Speaker 1: all cells, and that the harmony of multiple radiations reacted
Speaker 1: upon one another. Lakowsky also believed that disease in the
Speaker 1: body was the result of an oscillatory disequilibrium of a cell.
Speaker 1: He described that as the struggle between microbic radiation and
Speaker 1: cellular radiation. So then, under his theory, if microbic radiation
Speaker 1: became dominant, disease was present, but if cellular radiation was dominant,
Speaker 1: then the body was healthy. He, just like Abrams, was
Speaker 1: a controversial and antagonized figure in his time, despite having
Speaker 1: actually had a small amount of success with his treatments.
Speaker 1: Also in nineties, American scientist doctor Royal Raymond Rife invented
Speaker 1: the Rife Machine, a device built on the work of
Speaker 1: Abram's and the theory that's sending an electrical impulse identical
Speaker 1: to the cell's unique electromagnetic frequency could kill cancerous cells.
Speaker 1: The instrument, like Abram's inventions, I mean, it was considered
Speaker 1: a bunch of whui in the nineteen twenties, but when
Speaker 1: it was tested on sixteen terminal cancer patients in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty four, Rife claimed his machine cured fourteen of those patients.
Speaker 1: Two remaining were also cured, but it was noted they
Speaker 1: had also undergone some other type of treatment as well. Today,
Speaker 1: the Rife machine is used by some to help treat
Speaker 1: conditions like lyme disease, and newer studies suggest that certain
Speaker 1: types of electromagnetic waves may affect tumor growth. The American
Speaker 1: Medical Association joined Abrams's peers to discredit his theories. They
Speaker 1: called him quote the dean of twentieth century Charlatan's about
Speaker 1: his dynamizer. They wrote, quote, the mysterious energy from the
Speaker 1: patient's blood sample or other specimen passes from the subject's
Speaker 1: forehead to the subject's abdomen. Where this mysterious electronic emanation
Speaker 1: sets up certain changes is in the hollow organs, which
Speaker 1: may be detected by percussing the subject's abdomen. Dr Abram's
Speaker 1: claims to be able to tell by this means whether
Speaker 1: the individual whose blood is being tested is suffering from syphilis, sarcoma, carcinoma,
Speaker 1: typhoid fever, malaria, gonorrhea, or tuberculosis, and if so, suffering
Speaker 1: where the diseased area is located. He can also diagnose
Speaker 1: pregnancy and the paternity of the fetus by the same method.
Speaker 1: The A m A. In an attempt to discredit Abrams
Speaker 1: and his inventions, also wrote quote. The absurdity of his
Speaker 1: devices was demonstrated at various times by sending some of
Speaker 1: Abram's disciples specimens of blood purported to be from patients
Speaker 1: who were ill, but we're actually taken from animals. A
Speaker 1: given example was of a sheep. One sheep was diagnosed
Speaker 1: with hereditary syphilis, which a helpful e r A practitioner
Speaker 1: offered to or for two hundred and fifty dollars. Chickens
Speaker 1: were also diagnosed with syphilis, both from samples of their
Speaker 1: blood as well as samples of red ink. The foul
Speaker 1: were also offered a cure for two and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: So this was not the best show here for Abrams.
Speaker 1: Abrams's inventions were sold to operators, and some operators began
Speaker 1: claiming that they could make a medical diagnosis from a
Speaker 1: person's signature, and it didn't matter whether that person was
Speaker 1: living or dead. Of this, the A. M a replied quote.
Speaker 1: When the autograph of Samuel Peeps was tested, this famous
Speaker 1: diarist was alleged to have suffered from congenital syphilis. The
Speaker 1: autographs of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe gave
Speaker 1: the same result. It wasn't just the A m A
Speaker 1: that was anti Abrams and anti electromagnetic theory. The period
Speaker 1: viewed medical journal The Lancet also reported that blood from
Speaker 1: healthy chickens sent to your A practitioners had been diagnosed
Speaker 1: with major diseases. Scientific American and the American Medical Association
Speaker 1: spent ten months and thirty thousand dollars investigating Abram's E
Speaker 1: r A devices. It's panel of scientists concluded quote analyzed
Speaker 1: in the cold light of scientific knowledge, the entire Abrams
Speaker 1: matter is the height of absurdity. The so called electronic
Speaker 1: reactions of Abrams do not exist, at least objectively. They
Speaker 1: are merely products of the Abrams practitioner's mind. At best,
Speaker 1: it is all an illusion. At worst, it is a
Speaker 1: colossal fraud. Abrams died of pneumonia on January four, at
Speaker 1: the age of sixty one, fifty one Sacramento Street, his home,
Speaker 1: after several days of fighting a bronchial pneumonia infection. According
Speaker 1: to his friends, the doctor had correctly predicted the exact
Speaker 1: date of his death by application of an electronic test,
Speaker 1: scooching ahead on the timeline of it to ninety two.
Speaker 1: The US Court of Appeals found the American Medical Association
Speaker 1: guilty of suppressing new medical technologies, including electromagnetic therapy, in
Speaker 1: favor of pharmaceutical companies, and it took roughly four decades
Speaker 1: after his death for the US Food and Drug Administration
Speaker 1: to crack open his black boxes. Why no one did
Speaker 1: the sooner is kind of a mystery, but a report
Speaker 1: in Beaver County Times explained, quote one type produced a
Speaker 1: magnetic field, as in a vacuum cleaner or doorbell. Another
Speaker 1: was a low powered transmitter generating radio waves on the
Speaker 1: short wave band used by police or taxi cabs. That
Speaker 1: there was really hardly much to write home about. E
Speaker 1: r A disappeared almost entirely from the medical community, but
Speaker 1: the idea, but hind it continued to evolve over the decades.
Speaker 1: Radionics devices were experimented with in agriculture during the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1: It was highly experimental. But let's talk about a company
Speaker 1: that went by the name u K A c O.
Speaker 1: And that company claimed Abrams's technology could kill pests in
Speaker 1: farmer's fields. They contracted with Dalen Horonymous, a follower of
Speaker 1: Abrams's theories, to build them a slightly modified a silic last.
Speaker 1: Their process went like this, and stay with us because
Speaker 1: this is a little bit of an unexpected ride. U
Speaker 1: K a c O practitioners would photograph a farmer's field
Speaker 1: and then apply a small amount of insecticide to that photo,
Speaker 1: yes to the photo. That photo would then be placed
Speaker 1: in the modified a silic last and the device would
Speaker 1: broadcast the term you'll recognized from Abrams's work that treatment
Speaker 1: to the actual field. So here's an example of one
Speaker 1: of these cases from UK CEO reports. Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: a farmer looking to save his corn field from a
Speaker 1: heavy infestation of Japanese beetles contacted the company when insecticides
Speaker 1: were not doing the trick, practitioners used an aerial photo
Speaker 1: of the field with one corner of the photo cut off.
Speaker 1: Insecticide was applied to the photo, and through their radionics machine,
Speaker 1: they broadcast the imagined insecticide treatment over the actual field.
Speaker 1: So the amazing thing is allegedly it got results. And
Speaker 1: that's not just one report from one farmer. Several farmers
Speaker 1: noted the effectiveness of Abrams's electromagnetic theory and agriculture, and
Speaker 1: some ended their use of traditional chemical insecticides in favor
Speaker 1: of these new techniques. So in that particular beetle example,
Speaker 1: both uk a CEO and the farmer Clay aimed between
Speaker 1: eighty and nine of the beatles either died or just
Speaker 1: left the field in reports that were kept by the company,
Speaker 1: that corner that was cut off in the photo was
Speaker 1: the only part of the field where the beetle infestation
Speaker 1: remained at maximum capacity. Is this lucky coincidence? Was there
Speaker 1: something more going on? There are both stories of success
Speaker 1: and failure, both as anecdotal stories and in written documented
Speaker 1: results of the success stories. As you may imagine true
Speaker 1: or not, those reports did not sit well with chemical
Speaker 1: companies who supplied insecticide to farmers, and they actually lobbied
Speaker 1: the United States Department of Agriculture and the two groups
Speaker 1: joined forces. But uk CEO out of business, and they
Speaker 1: did just that through a publicity campaign intended to discredit
Speaker 1: the company and its process in the ice of farmers.
Speaker 1: So much for that continued study will never know. I
Speaker 1: Electromagnetic therapies haven't fallen out of scientific study. A cancer
Speaker 1: treatment known as the magneto mechanical effect of particles is
Speaker 1: today a growing field of research. The idea is to
Speaker 1: connect magnetic, mechanical and electric phenomena in solid materials like tissue,
Speaker 1: and here it's applied to destroy cancerous cells with vibrations.
Speaker 1: In this technique, magnetic particles are injected into a tumor
Speaker 1: or exposed to cancer cells, and a low frequency alternating
Speaker 1: e m F is applied. Not quite Abram's theory, but
Speaker 1: not quite not Abram's theory. In addition, while the US
Speaker 1: Food and Drug Administration hasn't approved magnetic vibrations for the
Speaker 1: treatment of any medical condition, pulsing electronic devices have been
Speaker 1: approved for treating some diseases and are specifically being researched
Speaker 1: for the promise they've shown in relieving symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Abrooms,
Speaker 1: it seems, does live on. We'll never know if he
Speaker 1: ever thought for a moment this might not work but
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep going, or if he was a
Speaker 1: true believer the whole time. We don't know. It's not
Speaker 1: quite clear. But what we do know is that it's
Speaker 1: time for scam sauce. But you got today. So here's
Speaker 1: the thing. The paragraph that really got me here was
Speaker 1: when we were talking about the dynamizer and specifically prescribing
Speaker 1: quinine to people, because as you know, quinine isn't tonic water,
Speaker 1: which gets used in cocktails all the time. I am
Speaker 1: not tonics best friend, but I'm willing to reach out
Speaker 1: in olive branch, and that is what we're doing today.
Speaker 1: So this is a drink that I'm calling the Dynamizer,
Speaker 1: and it has tonic and it has lots of delicious
Speaker 1: antioxidant property. And you drop a magnet into the bottom.
Speaker 1: There's no magnet in it. There's no trickery like that,
Speaker 1: but there is delicious fruitiness. And I will say the
Speaker 1: the mocked tail version of this is full of delicious
Speaker 1: and good for you fruit. The cocktail has some, not
Speaker 1: as much. First of all, you were gonna juice half
Speaker 1: of an orange. You can do this however you wish.
Speaker 1: I use my same juicer that I used for lemons
Speaker 1: and limes. I just cut the orange down, but whatever
Speaker 1: works for you. And you're going to put that into
Speaker 1: a shaking tin. And then you were going to add
Speaker 1: three quarters of an ounce of strawberry vodka, three quarters
Speaker 1: of an ounce of watermelon vodka, three quarters and three
Speaker 1: quarters of an ounce of or jia or just almond
Speaker 1: syrup if you can't get and then you're gonna shake
Speaker 1: that with some ice, strain it over ice into a
Speaker 1: column's glass, and top it with tonic water. It's like
Speaker 1: I'm drinking in alcohol like fruit salad. I'm really kind
Speaker 1: of and it's really tasty the or ja. Really. If
Speaker 1: you're like me and you do not like the taste
Speaker 1: of tonic, the orja fixes it. Now. If you're also
Speaker 1: like Holly, I do not wish to buy a bunch
Speaker 1: of fruity vodkas, I have an easy fix. Toss a
Speaker 1: few ounces in a small, little mason jar with some
Speaker 1: strawberries overnight. Really a few days is better, and same
Speaker 1: thing with some watermelon for a few days. You can
Speaker 1: even I know people that like to then take that,
Speaker 1: put it in the blender and then strain it out
Speaker 1: so that they get a lot of fruit flavor. I
Speaker 1: usually just muddle mine a little and let him sit
Speaker 1: in the vodka. I'm lazy, but either way works great.
Speaker 1: I happen to have those flavors of vodka on hand,
Speaker 1: so it's easy peasy. But it's really really easy to
Speaker 1: infuse any spirit with fruit right in your own home.
Speaker 1: You just have to wait a couple of days. And
Speaker 1: so if you are doing the mock tail version. You
Speaker 1: can do that kind the same thing. You can mash
Speaker 1: strawberries directly into it and really muddle the strawberry and
Speaker 1: watermelon together with your orange juice, and then when you
Speaker 1: strain it, you're gonna get all of the pulpy bits
Speaker 1: out and you'll still have all of that beautiful, bright
Speaker 1: juice and it's very, very yummy. You can also if
Speaker 1: you want, and I actually didn't do this, but I
Speaker 1: would like to try it, which is that you could
Speaker 1: do this with those fruits whole and put that in
Speaker 1: a blender and make like a little bread blended smoothie
Speaker 1: with it, like a summer mocktail. Yes, which I think
Speaker 1: might be delicious. So many things to try, but basically
Speaker 1: super fruity, good for you. I feel like this is
Speaker 1: a mocktail that at the end of the season, when
Speaker 1: we pick our favorites, I feel like this is one
Speaker 1: will be like the cocktail is great, but this is
Speaker 1: the mocktail. But maybe as a note, we should mention
Speaker 1: that quinine is not something you should take if um,
Speaker 1: you know, you shouldn't be drinking tonic if you are
Speaker 1: pregnant or nursing. Obviously, probably shouldn't be drinking this cocktail either,
Speaker 1: but if you're making the mocktail, keep in mind not
Speaker 1: that either. Or consult your physician. We're not doctors. Drink responsibly.
Speaker 1: But also if there's anything that makes you go, should
Speaker 1: I have that right now, I'm on a medication or
Speaker 1: I'm in a state of things, check with your doctor
Speaker 1: and then if if they say cool, then enjoy a
Speaker 1: delicious sip. Yes, we are so thankful that you are
Speaker 1: hanging out with us this season as we talk about
Speaker 1: scam artists and people who maybe didn't mean to be
Speaker 1: scam artists, like our friend Neighbrahams. But we will be
Speaker 1: right back here next week with more stories just like
Speaker 1: this and more drinks, so we hope you join us.
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