#984 - Yvette d'Entremont

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Five, four, three, two, oh, what's happened?

Jamie went, three thousand. How are you? What's going on?

Yvette d'Entremont (0:10)

Doing good. How are you doing?

Joe Rogan (0:11)

Good. Welcome.

Yvette d'Entremont (0:12)

Thank you for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Thanks for coming on. You wrote an article, and I tweet, let me tell you about my chiropractic journey.

I had a podcast that I did with my friend Steve Rinella a few weeks back. Gotcha. And he has a brother that has a herniated disc real bad, and he's got atrophy in one of his arms because he's got a pushed nerve and the whole thing, bulging disc.

Yvette d'Entremont (0:32)

Not fun.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Not good, yeah. And we got to talk, and then I said, look, that guy's got to do something about it right away because the more time you spend with an atrophied arm, the longer it takes to rehabilitate that.

It's a pretty common injury with martial artists.

Yvette d'Entremont (0:46)

Yeah, that's something, get yourself to a physical therapist.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

Yeah, right away. And get an MRI, and then spinal decompression, the whole deal.

Yvette d'Entremont (0:54)

Do everything you can, science-based, absolutely.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

So he goes, what do you think about chiropractors? And I go, so I say, I think chiropractors are bullshit.

And then he goes, really? I go, yeah, I go, I've just had bad experiences with it, and then I've read some things about it being bullshit. And then I got home after the podcast, and I smoked joint. And a lot of times when I smoke pot, I feel bad about some of the things that I've said.

Yvette d'Entremont (1:20)

I rarely do. Do you?

I smoke more than the average scientist. My boyfriend is director of R&D at a pot lab. Oh, there you go.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Pot science.

Yvette d'Entremont (1:31)

There is some pot kicking around on a regular basis.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

Well, we get it free from a bunch of people. I have to tell people at shows, and no disrespect to people that offer it to me, I'm like, please don't give me any pot.

I can't take your pot. I have too much pot.

Yvette d'Entremont (1:44)

We have a similar problem.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

So anyway, I smoke the pot, and then I go, God, maybe I'm a dick.

Maybe I was rude, because I know people that are chiropractors, and I know they're nice people, and I know they mean well. And I'm like, maybe I'm a dick for...

Yvette d'Entremont (1:57)

I think that's accurate. I think they mean well.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

Some of them, sure.

Yvette d'Entremont (2:00)

Yeah, I think they're wrong, but they mean well.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

So I go, maybe I was being a dick. So then I Google chiropractic, and then I start reading. And I spend hours and hours reading about the history of...

I'm going to say this in big air quotes, chiropractic medicine. And I go, holy fucking shit. But not only do I not feel bad now, now I'm angry.

Yvette d'Entremont (2:26)

I don't feel bad at all.

Joe Rogan (2:28)

And this is to all you people, and I've got a ton of messages from chiropractors that I'm sure are nice folks. And they're really upset because they like this podcast. And they're like, you know, you're shitting on my business.

You have to understand. I'm sure a lot of you mean well. I'm sure a lot of you do well. I'm sure a lot of you try really hard to help your patients. And I'm sure a lot of you incorporate a lot of other stuff, like massage and cold laser and real science into your therapies.

But the origin, the original guy who created Chiropractic Medicine was a complete, total bullshit artist.

Yvette d'Entremont (3:08)

Fucking whack Joe.

Joe Rogan (3:09)

This guy right here, this character.

Yvette d'Entremont (3:12)

Daniel David Palmer.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

He's a magnetic healer in Davenport, Iowa. I mean, the whole thing is 100% horseshit.

Yvette d'Entremont (3:22)

And this article that we wrote, we sent this through... I mean, normally my articles, they go through at least two editors, give or take. This one we put through, I believe, three editors, a fact checker, and our lawyer to make sure that we were bulletproof on it, because we wanted to make sure that we didn't say anything that could get us sued, basically. And a lot of the information from this came directly from his book, from his own book. So we weren't taking anything out of context. One of the quotes on how Chiropractic started came directly from the book. And he, after cracking a half deaf person's or a deaf person's spine, depending on the retelling...