Amanda Head
Appearances
Ask Dr. Drew
Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
We don't want to make for bad or contentious TV interviews. And obviously, that is not what you get with President Trump. The Oval Office these days is like the principal's office for global leaders. And you can come there, and it can go one of two ways. It can go the way of Bibi Netanyahu and Javier Malay, or it can go in the direction of Zelensky.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
And I think he expected it to go one way, and maybe it went a little differently.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
I'm sorry, guys. I didn't bring a crew. It's just little old me. But next time I will plan on doing some type of simulcast.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
I do. And then I have my own show at six o'clock. But Viva, I married into a Canadian family. They are a mixed family when it comes to any type of, you know, 51st state situation, whether it is just one province or all of them. What do you hear from your Canadian friends?
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
Yeah, I was talking to Peter before we came there. I was telling him I married into a Canadian family. And one of the things that they said was the biggest issue is that Canadians by nature are so polite.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
So when it comes to any type of hard conversations about what's going wrong in Canada, you know, if there is a hard conversation to be had about, you know, what is the trade imbalance between our two countries? What does the U.S. provide to us that we should be doing for ourselves? But they're so darn polite. So I think so many of them took issue with President Trump's directness in that.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
And, yeah, here we are.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
I have to tell you guys, at Winnipeg's Richardson Airport, my husband and I flew there to be with his family. We trade off on Christmases. And it was the first time we had seen this. He was in the men's bathroom and found a box of tampons at Richardson Airport. And he took a video and showed it to me afterwards. And I was so proud of him.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
He took the little basket and he just dumped it in the trash. And that was the first time I saw it in Winnipeg. And I thought, my gosh, this place is doomed. And this was two or three years ago.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
There is a Ruski toughness and mentality that is apparent in that story.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
Yeah. Before I go, I will say I've always had this perception of Canada, even since I married into a Canadian family, that, you know, everybody has that friend who has that longstanding relationship back and forth and they intentionally leave something at their house so that there's there's still a piece of that relationship they can go back to.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
That's what Canada feels like to me, because I know you have your own constitution, but you still have the Royal Bank. You still have royal ballets. There's still this this abusive relationship passed with the crown that they're just there.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
That's right. Thank you so much for having me. Take care. Bye-bye, guys.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
That's brilliant. And thank you, Drew. Who's Dr. Drew? Where is he? Dr. Drew. Dr. Drew.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
I know, and I appreciate that. Listen, if we're going to be talking about the Maha movement, when you're talking about Maha, I know it's not one of the stipulations of it, but I'm pretty sure a requirement of being healthy ever or again is not getting burnt to a crisp by lightning.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
Yeah, you know, there were a lot of starkly revelatory items that President Trump talked about, and I'll give you some of those statistics in a moment. But Dr. Drew, what was interesting to me as I was hearing you tell your story about what you went through with prostate cancer and what you're currently going through, I was thinking to myself, you know,
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
At a time when our medical and our health and our pharmaceutical industry is so distrusted right now, then they want to heap this on, you know, creating even more skepticism around, you know, did he know? Didn't he know? Did they test for PSA? Did they not? Who didn't examine him? Who did examine him?
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
But President Trump spoke about some of these statistics, and these are, you know— It's hard. I get it that it is very hard for parents to listen to these statistics because there is a parental impetus to protect your children. But the conversation around vaccines and a lot of the issues from vaccines cannot be emphasized enough. Here are some items.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
More than 40% of American children have at least one chronic health condition. Since the 1970s, rates for childhood cancer have increased 50%. In the 1960s, less than 5% of children were obese. Now it is over 20%. So they are talking about the pesticides on our crops. They're talking about the nutrition in our foods and all of these things, the overprescribing of certain drugs for children.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
You know, the emphasis obviously is going to be on the younger population because if you have unhealthy children, those unhealthy children grow up to be unhealthy adults. So if you can target people in the formative years, then that is a huge breakthrough in the health establishment.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
And isn't it amazing that for so long there has been this perception that on the left side of the aisle, they were the ones that were so health conscious, you know, going vegan and caring about all the things that were in their foods. And yet they weren't the ones who made this happen. And drug costs. They weren't the ones to make this happen.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
It was Donald Trump in concert with Jay Bhattacharya and RFK Jr. and all of these folks who are helping lead this movement. I just think it's amazing to see. And I talk to people all the time who consider themselves to be, you know, kind of hippie on this side of things. And they used to be Democrats. And they said, you know, I haven't changed, but the party certainly have.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
I'll miss the Italian cars and I will miss the French wine, but not if it means that I get really cheap prices for pharmaceuticals for my fellow Americans. I actually knew this was happening from personal experience because I used to suffer from debilitating migraines and migraine drugs are some of the most expensive ones on the market when they first get released.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
And I have a sister-in-law who—my family's actually—I married into a Canadian family. My sister-in-law on the northern side of the border was paying just, I think, a $35 copay for her drug. I was paying—I think the ultimate price was about $615 because it was a brand-new drug. Unfortunately, I knew this.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
But this is kind of the theme, Drew, that the American people foot the bill, and they end up getting screwed in the process. And if you find everyday Americans and you take the narrative out of it, you take the Democrat messaging—
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
whether you're talking about the tariffs or the pharmaceutical drugs, if you just present it to them and say, hey, with respect to both of these items, the American people were getting screwed. We should only, you know, this should be reciprocal across the board. And especially with pharmaceuticals, we're developing that here.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
We are placing the risk at the feet of the people who are developing them, the people who are researching them. So we should get the better end of the deal, at least make it equal, but make it even better for Americans. And that's what Trump seems to be trying to do in all of it. Yeah.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
Yeah, and look, I mean, like we said, this movement is somewhat focused on children because you want to raise up a healthy young generation. And true, I mean, you hit the nail on the head. When you look at all of the drugs that kids are prescribed these days, we are over-prescribing for things like ADHD to an extreme and damaging degree. And there are
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
dozens of studies out there that show that that can change your brain chemistry. So you put a child on this and you put them on it at, let's say, kindergarten, so age five, and you have it on them, even if you take them off of that drug in middle school, that's still years of being on this drug.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
And there's just not enough research behind so much of what is new in those drugs, in the vaccine schedule, to know what the implications are 20 and 30 years down the road. And I don't think there's any irony in the fact that you have these people who are sicker, you've got the mental health issues, the chronic diseases, like you just mentioned, Americans are unhealthy.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
But I will say, I feel like that's kind of part of why our medical system, our surgical system is so good is because unfortunately, they've had to deal with this.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
Absolutely. And Drew, that brings into the conversation drugs like Accutane. I mean, that was a new drug that hit the market in the early 90s. Practically every teenage in America, if they had a pimple, they were prescribed with Accutane. And now we know, and it took years to find out, that that can actually lead to higher cases of depression. So it's not even necessarily the psychotropic drugs.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
And Drew, it's like when we were growing up and they were singing the song to us, you know, the neck bones connected to the backbone, the shoulder bone and all of that. They're not making the connection between all of these things. And like you said, you've got medical doctors who are treating one issue.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
They're not trying to heal the issue and they're probably not talking to people on the other person's team. So there's not really an effort in concert to make the person healthier and to heal the root causes of the issue. They're just slapping a bandaid. Yeah, exactly.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
Honestly, you just put yourself in situations where you're not 100% comfortable, then even that builds robustness. We're in an age where if it's cold in your house, you turn on the heater. If it's hot in your house, you turn on the AC. Discomfort does not actually mean that something is damaging you. I was on a kick for a while where I was taking cold showers every morning.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
And I always thought to myself, it's uncomfortable, but it's not hurting me. And I think that we have moved into a place where we are so comfortable. We look for all of the conditions to be perfect. When in fact, you look at our ancestors, they didn't have any environment that was perfect. And we've moved into the place where we over-medicate everything.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
And, you know, even back to the Accutane thing. Rather than treating it with that, focus on, you know, maybe there's a dairy issue. Maybe there's other type of, you know, maybe there's a hormonal issue and focusing on those types of things because your body's not going to produce problems for no reason. There's obviously a reason behind that.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
And I think that that's gotten lost in medical treatment these days.
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
The fallout from journalists or the fallout from everyday people?
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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
I will tell you this from everyday Americans, including one person in particular, a friend of mine who is from South Africa. He is exceedingly grateful that someone is finally speaking out about this and confronting the leader of South Africa about this. I think that South Africa's president came expecting to get the normal presidential treatment, which is, we're not going to talk about that.