Vitamins, Herbs and Supplement Benefits – Cancers, Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Liver Health, Coronavirus, Colds / Flu, Inflammation, Joint Health

Massive compilation of various herbs and supplements and their enormous health benefits. Will be updated with new info regularly. To search for a specific condition / illness, press “ctrl + f”

Vitamin D

• Overall, the reduction in risk of acute respiratory infection induced by vitamin D was on a par with the protective effect of injectable ‘flu vaccine against ‘flu-like illnesses. – Vitamin D works just as well as the flu vaccine, and without any potential side-effects.

Cat’s Claw

• 2001 in vivo study demonstrated that the bark of cat’s claw (Uncaria tomentosa) prevented the growth of human breast cancer cell line MCF7 by having antimutagenic and antiproliferative effects on the cancer cells.
• Leukemia: specific alkaloids having significant potential to not only stop cancer from continuing to grow, but also killing the cancer cells themselves.
• 2001 study looked at the effects of using a water-soluble cat’s claw extract (250 and 350 milligrams per day) for eight weeks on adult volunteers who had previously received chemotherapy. There was a significant decrease of DNA damage and an increase of DNA repair in both cat’s claw supplement groups compared to the non-supplement group.
• Cat’s claw extract increased the ability of skin cells to repair the DNA damage done by UV light. Researchers conclude that cat’s claw extract should be considered for use as a natural sunscreen.
• Cat’s claw has also been shown to inhibit platelet aggregation and blood clot formation. This means that cat’s claw could likely be helpful in warding off heart attacks and strokes by not only decreasing blood pressure and increasing circulation, but by also inhibiting the formation of plaque and blood clots in the arteries, heart and brain.
• Alkaloid called hirsutine has been found to specifically act at the calcium channels of the heart and blood vessels as a calcium channel blocker. Calcium channel blockers also widen and relax the blood vessels themselves, which helps blood flow in a healthy, smooth manner.
• Immune boosting: (Uncaria tomentosa) was given to subjects for eight weeks. They found that this supplementation significantly elevated subjects’ infection-fighting white blood cell count. Researchers also observed a repair of DNA, both single and double strand breaks.
• herpes-fighting ability of cat’s claw is associated with its polyphenols working synergistically with its oxindole alkaloids or quinovic acid glycosides.
• Cat’s claw, specifically Uncaria tomentosa, is believed to be able to help fight the inflammation associated with Crohn’s. A dosage of 250 milligrams per day is a recommendation for Crohn’s sufferers.

Dandelion root

• A 2011 study out of University of Windsor in Canada treated skin cancer cells with dandelion extract and found that it started killing off cancer cells within just 48 hours of treatment.
• Another study in Oncotarget showed that dandelion root extract was able to kill 95 percent of colon cancer cells within two days.

Aqueous dandelion root extract induced programmed cell death (PCD) selectively in > 95% of colon cancer cells, irrespective of their p53 status, by 48 hours of treatment. The anti-cancer efficacy of this extract was confirmed in in-vivo studies, as the oral administration of DRE retarded the growth of human colon xenograft models by more than 90%

• Other research has shown that dandelion root may aid in the treatment of leukemia, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer.
• A 2017 study found that dandelion root was able to effectively stop the growth of gastric cancer cells. It did this without damaging the growth of noncancerous cells.
• In one study, rabbits were fed a high-cholesterol diet and supplemented with dandelion root. Dandelion led to a reduction in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad LDL cholesterol as well as an increase in beneficial HDL cholesterol.
• High in antioxidants, which may account for its many potent health benefits.
• One study by the Department of Food and Nutrition at Chonnam National University in the Republic of Korea showed that the extract of Taraxacum officinale prevented damage to the liver caused by alcohol toxicity in both liver cells and mice.
• Especially effective against certain strains of bacteria that are responsible for staph infections and food-borne illness.
• Dandelion could possess powerful antimicrobial properties, which can help block bacterial growth to prevent skin infections.

Coronavirus vaccine and cancer link via suppressed immune system

[The] BNT162b2 vaccine also modulated the production of inflammatory cytokines by innate immune cells upon stimulation with both specific (SARS-CoV-2) and non-specific (viral, fungal and bacterial) stimuli. The response of innate immune cells to TLR4 and TLR7/8 ligands was lower after BNT162b2 vaccination. [Emphasis added].

They continue:

[W]e observed a significant reduction in the production if IFN-α secreted after stimulation with poly I:C and R848 after the administration of the second dose of the vaccine (Figure 1H, 1I). This may hamper the initial innate immune response against the virus, as defects in TLR7 have been shown to result in and increased susceptibility to COVID-19 in young males (Van Der Made et al., 2020). These results collectively demonstrate that the effects of the BNT162b2 vaccine go beyond the adaptive immune system and can also modulate innate immune responses. [Emphasis added].

Three concerns are raised by the above.

1. The ability of the immune system to fight viruses has been diminished; specifically, the ability to fight SARS-CoV-2 may be affected;
2. Vaccine-induced innate immune tolerance may affect other vaccines; and finally
3. What other parts of the immune system may be affected.

Clinical clues?

On social media and online magazines we are now seeing reports of patients with worsening cancer following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination; headlines like the following:

‘Healthy’ Mom Dies Of Cancer, Allegedly Thought She Just Had COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects

This Woman’s COVID Vaccine Side Effect Led to a Stage 2 Breast Cancer Diagnosis

In the articles above, any causal effect by the vaccine is quickly dismissed, and one patient praises the vaccine for saving her life:

Moseley noted that she had a routine mammogram scheduled in July. But if she hadn’t been vaccinated in April and discovered the swollen lymph node, her cancer could have grown before it was detected. “The COVID-19 shot, I’m gonna say-as much as COVID sucked-it saved me,” she told the Des Moines Register.

A benign, swollen lymph node caused by the vaccination alerted her to check for signs of cancer, which she found. A doctor explains this phenomenon in the Lifestyle section of News.com.au:

Dr. Laura Esserman, director of University of California San Francisco’s Breast Care Center, said women were confusing swollen lymph nodes after the vaccine for signs of cancer.

For Moseley, it was fortuitous: She had cancer.

There is a genuine concern over an increase in cancer, not from vaccination, rather as a result of lockdown and limited medical access. However, others are not convinced by the prevailing narrative and suspect that SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is contributing:

Dr Ryan Cole, a Pathologist, in a recent presentation, stated that he is observing a 20 x uptick in endometrial cancer, and increases in other cancers post SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.

And even more concerning: a senior consultant with decades of diagnosis and treatment at a dedicated cancer hospital described to a journalist off the record that all his vaccinated cancer patients were coming out of remission; and that cancer was jumping between organs, spreading at a speed that he has never seen before (pers. Comm.).

At this stage, these reports are anecdotal but if they reflect a hitherto hidden change in the nature of how cancer is affecting patients post vaccine, then what would be the mechanism? And to what degree might it be obscured, even if just initially, by the expected increase in morbidity and mortality as a result of lockdown and limited medical access?

This would be an interesting intellectual exercise were it not for the original question that did not seem to be adequately asked and answered: but what would be the consequences of switching off that important early warning system?

The answer to that may just be echoing the embryonic observations of doctors such as Ryan Cole.

The Mechanism

A clinical clue, albeit reported in low numbers at the moment, possibly supporting the work of Dominguez-Andres et al, and may be immunologically linked to Dr Cole’s observations, appeared as reactivation of Varicella Zoster Virus after vaccination for Sars-Cov-2:

Seven immunocompetent patients aged > 50 years old presented with herpes zoster (HZ) infection in a median of 9 days (range 7–20) after vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. The occurrence of HZ within the time window 1–21 days after vaccination defined for increased risk and the reported T cell-mediated immunity involvement suggest that COVID-19 vaccination is a probable cause of HZ. [Emphasis added].

The data were consistent with the vaccine causing changes to the immune system that made the recipient more vulnerable to developing a herpes zoster (HZ) infection.

Furer et al in Herpes zoster following BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a case series published in the Journal of Rheumatology also reported:

Potential mechanisms that might explain the pathogenetic link between mRNA-COVID19 vaccination and HZ reactivation are related to stimulation of innate immunity through toll-like receptors (TLRs) 3,7 by mRNA-based vaccines. TLR signalling has been implicated during reactivation of herpesviruses, a process essential for these viruses to maintain themselves in the host. Defects in TLR expression in patients suffering from diseases caused directly by herpesvirus infection highlight the importance of these signalling pathways during infection and eventual disease progression. The vaccine stimulates induction of type I INFs and potent inflammatory cytokines, which instigate T and B immune responses but may negatively affect antigen expression potentially contributing to HZ reactivation.

Both aforementioned studies implicating parts of the immune system post SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in HZ infection. One might say: well, those studies have a significant number of older patients; the first study had a mean age of 77yrs, and they have other health problems, and there may be other explanations. For example Methotrexate, a widely prescribed drug for immune mediated inflammatory disease that may be associated with older age, has been questioned in the past for its effect on HZ infection with some studies supporting a causal role, and others not. And more recently, Methotrexate significantly hampered the immune process post Pfizer vaccine for Sars-Cov-2. But the patients in the reactivation study did not appear to be on that drug.

We must also note that HZ infection has also been observed in Covid-19 cases, and not just the elderly:

While there have been cases of varicella-zoster virus reactivation due to COVID-19 or COVID-19 vaccine inoculation in older individuals with pre-existing conditions, this case report describes the first case of varicella-zoster virus reactivation on a healthy, young male in the absence of pre-existing conditions. The mechanisms underlying varicella-zoster virus reactivation in patients with COVID-19 are unknown and should be further characterized. [Emphasis added].

Therefore, both Covid-19 infection and SARS-CoV-2 vaccination have been associated with HZ infection. How many others have had a similar reaction but have gone unidentified?

Indeed, the mechanism needs to be characterised, and does it involve dysfunctional toll-like receptors? The above studies think so and blame the stimulation of specific toll-like receptors.

Toll-like receptors do play an important role in herpes infection; and TLR2, 3 & 9 specifically in Varicella Zoster infection; and any potential change in their function may therefore impact the body’s ability to control HZ infection.

Although, research has not demonstrated post vaccine effects on TLR2 and 9 (please see below for TLR3), we are reminded of the statement made by Dominguez-Andres et al regarding the other toll-like receptors:

The response of innate immune cells to TLR4 and TLR7/8 ligands was lower after BNT162b2 vaccination.

They did also reported changes in TLR3, more specifically involved with Varicella Zoster infection but did not meet statistical significance:

TNF-α production (Figure 1B-1G) following stimulation with the TLR7/8 agonist R848 of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from volunteers was significantly decreased after the second vaccination (Figure 1C). The same trend was observed after stimulation with the TLR3 agonist poly I:C (Figure 1D), although the difference did not reach statistical significance. [Emphasis added].

We can see from the above research that scientists are concerned that parts of the immune system are being negatively affected both by Covid-19 infection and SARS-CoV-2 vaccination that may be leading to reactivation of Varicella infection. Stimulation of toll-like receptors has been suggested, but the implicit design of the mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is such that they will stimulate certain toll-like receptors less; TLR 7 & 8 are RNA sensors and would be affected by Uridine changes to vaccine mRNA. TL4 would not.

Regardless, researchers have demonstrated that The response of innate immune cells to TLR4 and TLR7/8 ligands was lower after BNT162b2 vaccination. And that’s not good for the innate immune response.

Immune Dysregulation

The immune system is highly regulated with interconnected paths that immunologists are still discovering, and by changing one part you affect another. If SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is changing something in our immune system, be it via changes in vaccine mRNA code and negatively affecting toll-like receptors or by other means, what else does it change in our immunity?

We have already seen a clue to that in the research we have covered but to expound let us consider the following:

Lynn et al describe the importance of toll-like receptors in Impact of Polymer-TLR-7/8 Agonist (Adjuvant) Morphology on the Potency and Mechanism of CD8 T Cell Induction:

Small molecule Toll-like receptor-7 and -8 agonists (TLR-7/8a) can be used as vaccine adjuvants to induce CD8 T cell immunity. [Emphasis added]

InvivoGen summarising Craft et al (2005) & Reece et al (2005) support that finding:

The ability of TLR7-8 agonists to activate DCs and thus elicit Th1 and CD8+ T cells responses can be exploited to enhance the efficacy of vaccination. [Emphasis added]

From those authors, we see an important connection between toll-like receptors, dendritic cells (DC) and T cells, specifically CD8 T cells.

Toll-like receptors activate dendritic cells, eliciting a response from CD8 T cells. CD8 T cells are established as a vital part of the immune system’s defence against infection but also cancer.

Fu and Jiang in Dendritic Cells and CD8 T Cell Immunity in Tumor Microenvironment explore the complex interplay further and reveal the importance of dendritic cells in the role CD8 T cells play in fighting cancer:

While direct presentation of tumor antigens onto their MHCI by tumor cells play an important role in effector function of CD8 T cells, cross-presentation by professional antigen presenting cells in particular DCs are required for prime naive CD8 T cells and sustaining the cytotoxic immune responses. [Emphasis added].

If, as the authors state, that toll-like receptors are required to activate dendritic cells, and dendritic cells sustain T cell cytotoxic killing against cancerous tumours, then what happens if those toll-like receptors are not working so well?

An uptick in cancer? And infection?

The toll-like receptors 7 & 8 are described in the literature as important in eliciting the vital CD8 T cell response. With that in mind, let us remind ourselves what Drs. Weissman and Kariko wrote in 2005 in Suppression of RNA recognition by Toll-like receptors: the impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA:

We show that RNA signals through human TLR3, TLR7, and TLR8, but incorporation of modified nucleosides m5C, m6A, m5U, s2U, or pseudouridine ablates activity.

That very technology is being used in SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: It switches off TLR 7 & 8 signalling, that the immune system needs to fight infection and cancer.

Summary

Changes to key parts of the mRNA code in SARS-CoV-2 vaccines may be causal in changing the innate immune response via toll-like receptors. Toll-like receptors are important components in defence against infection and downstream effects may also include inhibition of CD8 T cell response. CD8 is a vital part of the immune system’s ability to eradicate infection and cancer. Those changes may be reflected in recent reactivated Varicella Zoster infections although specific mechanisms are unclear at the moment. Anecdotal reports of significant uptick in cancer presenting to medical consultants may be consistent with aberrant toll-like receptor and dendritic cell changes leading to an inhibition of the anti-cancer CD8 effector response. Further data are required but the prospect of an altered CD8 response to infection and cancer is very concerning and should prompt urgent investigation.

One might be forgiven for asking: surely someone must have cautioned against doing that? And isn’t that why new drug/vaccine products are supposed to be thoroughly tested before they are given to large populations?

Coronavirus Vaccine Scientific Studies – Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE), Spike Protein, Vaccine Enhanced Immune Escape, Ivermectin

Research results of past vaccines for sars-cov1 that used the spike protein:-

Journal article from 2004 on autoimmune disorders from Sars-cov1 vaccine that also focused on the spike protein: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2004/12/sars-vaccine-linked-liver-damage-ferret-study

Journal article from 2005 on autoimmune disorders from Sars-cov1 vaccine that also focused on the spike protein: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15755610/

Journal article from 2012 on autoimmune disorders from Sars-cov1 vaccine that also focused on the spike protein: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0035421

Journal article from 2020 on autoimmune disorders from Sars-cov vaccine (can’t figure out if they’re talking about cov1 or 2): https://jvi.asm.org/content/78/22/12672.abstract

Journal article from 2020 explains why immune disorders happen with covid vax, because human and Covid19 proteins are similar: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589909020300186

Antibody Dependent Enhancement:-

Journal article from 2005 shows evidence that sars-cov1 vaccine, that also focused on the spike protein, caused ADE when subjects were challenged with different strain: https://www.nature.com/articles/news050110-3#ref-CR1

Article explaining how ADE works in Sar-cov1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2538-8

Article explaining the potential for ADE in Covid19: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2538-8

Another article that speculates on the potential for ADE in Covid19: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32920233/

Article from 2021 explains that there is evidence that covid19 is able to kill macrophages by using antibody dependent mechanisms: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.22.432407v1

Studies about the spike protein:-

How the virus uses the spike protein to enter human cells: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02039-y

Article on how the Covid19 spike protein crosses the blood-brain barrier: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096999612030406X?via%3Dihub

Japanese article on how the Pfizer vax is associated with brain hemorrhaging (lending credence to the hypothesis that the spike proteins are crossing the blood brain barrier in some people): https://joppp.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40545-021-00326-7

Article on how AstraZeneca is associated with blood clots in the brain (lending more credence to the hypothesis that the spike proteins are crossing the blood brain barrier in some people): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104840

Article on how the Covid19 spike protein binds to the ACE2 receptor of our platelets to cause bloodclots: https://jhoonline.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13045-020-00954-7

Article explaining that blood clots from the spike protein interacting with our platelets are associated with both COVID-19 infection and vaccination: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003648

Article explains that just the S1 subunit of the spike protein can cause platelets to clot: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.05.21252960v1

Article with evidence that spike proteins do end up circulating in the blood, when they’re not supposed to, they’re supposed to be anchored on the cell membranes: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab465/6279075

More evidence that spike proteins do not stay on the cell membranes but end up circulating in the blood. This study aims to explain the blood clots caused by the J&J and AstraZeneca adenovector vaccines, they claim that the DNA isn’t properly spliced and the spike protiens end up in the blood causing thrombosis when the spikes attach to the ACE2 receptors of the endothelial cells: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-558954/v1

Article on how the spike protein can cause neurodegeneration: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X2100499X?via%3Dihub

Journal article with evidence that the spike protein by itself can damage cells by binding to ACE2, causing the cells mitochondria to lose their shape and break apart: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.318902

Article on how the spike protein in vaccines can cause cell damage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7827936/

Article that when the spike protein binds to the ACE2 receptor it causes the release of soluble IL-6R which acts as an intracellular signal which causes inflammation (see the first paper for evidence that the spike causes the release of IL-6R and see the second paper for an explanation of how soluble IL-6R causes pro-inflamatory intracellular signaling: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33284859/ And https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491447/

Spike protein by itself causes cell damage by eliciting a pro-inflammatory response: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41375-021-01332-z

Biodistribution data:-

Pfizer animal testing document that was obtained by Dr. Byram Bridle through a FOI request to the Japanese government which shows the biodistribution of the lipid-nano particles throughout the bodies and organs of the test subjects. This is evidence that the lipid nanoparticles do not stay in the injecton site, but instead travel all throughout the body (go to pg 16/23 for the charts showing biodistribution over the course of 48hrs): https://files.catbox.moe/0vwcmj.pdf

Addendum to the above link. This blog post provides easy to understand information (with pictures) on the make-up of the lipid nanoparticles used in the Covid19 vaccines. It shows that the pharmaceutical companies could have designed them to have targeting ligands on the outside, so that the nanoparticles would only transfect the muscle cells. But instead the vax was designed with PEG polymers on the outside, so that the immune system will not be able to pick them up and put them in the trash. The PEG is what Byram Bridle says is the reason the vaccine travels throughout the body and since it does not have targeting ligands, it can transfect any type of cell: https://www.cas.org/resource/blog/understanding-nanotechnology-covid-19-vaccines

Vaccine Enhanced Immune Escape:-

Evidence of cov2 immune escape: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/science.abi7994

Article from 2015 that explains how imperfect vaccination (like the Pfizer and moderna that require at least two shots to be effective) can create immune escape variants: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198

Article from 2021 explains that unless vaccination is done quickly, there will be a high probability of escape mutants: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95025-3

Studies on covid recovered:-

No benefit from vaccination of previously infected individuals: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v2

Covid19 infection produces long lasting immunity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4

Second article that covid19 infection produces life long immunity: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

More evidence that covid19 infection produces long term immunity: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.19.21255739v1

Vaccine efficacy:-

Article explains how vaccine manufacturers have used relative risk reduction to determine that vaccine efficacy is ~90+%, however they should have used absolute risk reduction which would tell us that the vaccines will only reduce total covid cases by ~1%: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00069-0/fulltext

Addendum to the above information. This video from 2013 explains the difference between relative and absolute risk reduction in a very simple way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K30MGvOs5s&ab_channel=TerryShaneyfelt

Article from 2005 explains that antibodies to the S-protein and the M-protein are effective in neutralizing the sars-cov1 virus. However, the sars-cov2 vaccines only target the S-protein. This is evidence that the vaccine manufacturers could have chosen to make a superior mrna vax that produced two types of antibodies, but chose to focus narrowly on just the S-protein: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16544518/

Antibodies from vaccines start to drop within 6 months, get ready for endless boosters: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03777-9

Ivermectin:-

Meta-analysis on the efficacy of Ivermectin in treating Covid19: https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Abstract/9000/Ivermectin_for_Prevention_and_Treatment_of.98040.aspx

A double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled trial shows that Ivermectin is able to cure covid within 6 days for most people: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.31.21258081v1

More evidence that Ivermectin treatment leads to much faster recovery from Covid19: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.26880

An NIH study reveals that a five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33278625/

Ivermectin stops replication of covid: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011

Ivermectin has anti-viral properties: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3888155/

Ivermectin has anti-viral properties against covid: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-020-0336-

Ivermectin binds to Covid19 proteins to block the virus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996102/

Evidence that Ivermectin can be effective as a prophylaxis, Mexican frontline healthcare workers were given Ivermectin as a preventative and zero got sick with covid, whereas 58.2% of the control group who did not take Ivermectin got covid: https://www.buongiornosuedtirol.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Nota-Journal-of-Biomedical-Research-Safety-and-Efficacy-Iota-Carrageenan-and-Ivermectin.pdf

Ivermectin safe to give 12mg per day for 5 days: https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712%2820%2932506-6/fulltext

Ivermectin safely administered 60mg per day for 6 months: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10428194.2020.1786559

Fluvoxamine:-

Fluvoxamine helps in covid treatment: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33180097/

Covid leads to long term inflammation, useful for long haul Covid19 treatment: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33391730/

Fluvoxamine has anti-inflammatory properties that can help treat covid: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.652688/full

Fluvoxamine targets sigma-1 to stop covid replication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33403480/

VAERS:-

Analysis on the VAERS death data shows that in 86% of reports the vaccine cannot be ruled out as a causal factor in the death of the patient: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352837543_Analysis_of_COVID-19_vaccine_death_reports_from_the_Vaccine_Adverse_Events_Reporting_System_VAERS_Database_Interim_Results_and_Analysis

Addendum to the above link. OpenVAERS is a site that allows you to easily read VAERS reports and breaks down the numbers. The reports seem to be a lot of people who have comorbidities or are old, but there are also some really eye opening cases where young people experience horrible side effects. Read for yourself and make up your own mind about what the vax is doing to your fellow Americans: https://www.openvaers.com/openvaers

Non-Academic Articles:

Frontline Covid19 Critical Care Alliance:-

FLCCC Alliance I-MASK+ Protocol for Prevention & Early Outpatient Treatment Protocol for COVID-19: https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mask-plus-protocol/

FLCCC Alliance I-MASS Protocol for Prevention & At Home Treatment Mass Distribution for COVID-19: https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mass-protocol/

FLCCC Alliance MATH+ Protocol for Hospital Treatment for COVID-19, for use by professionals: https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/math-plus-protocol/

FLCCC Alliance iRecover Protocol for treatment of Long Haul Covid-19: https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-recover-protocol/

FLCCC Alliance list of Ivermectin friendly physicians: https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/how-to-get-ivermectin/

Legal information:-

Know your rights, you have a Right to Try off-label or experimental medications (remind them if your doctor is reluctant to prescribe you Ivermectin or Fluvoxamine): https://www.fda.gov/patients/learn-about-expanded-access-and-other-treatment-options/right-try

Know the law, the compromised U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that employers CAN require vaccination as a condition of employment (this ruling will have to be challenged in a court of law, so do not approach your employer with the false attitude of having the higher legal ground, they will likely dismiss you since the EEOC is backing tyranny): https://www.eeoc.gov/wysk/what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-ada-rehabilitation-act-and-other-eeo-laws

Know the law, the compromised Department of Justice has said that vaccine mandates are legal: https://www.yahoo.com/now/doj-says-legal-mandate-covid-173600309.html

Legal information about vaccine exemption status state by state (know your rights in your state before you approach an employer): https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx

Can’t sue vaccine producers: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-compensation-lawsuit.html

Even the blood sucking lawyers are saying they won’t take your case if you want to sue the vaccine manufacturers for a vaccine injury, they’re completely protected: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/black-hole-covid-vaccine-injury-claims-2021-06-29/

PCR test:-

It seems that the PCR test that we’ve all been using cannot discriminate between a covid infection and a flu infection. It has therefore had its EUA revoked by the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html

History/news about mrna vaccine manufacturers:-

Pfizer are criminals who plead guilty to misinforming the public about side effects to their drugs and bribing doctors. They paid 2.3 billion in fines: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pfizer-settlement-idUSTRE5813XB20090902

“In the Army I was expected to protect people at all costs,” Kopchinski said in a statement. “At Pfizer I was expected to increase profits at all costs, even when sales meant endangering lives.”: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pfizer-whistleblower-idUSN021592920090903

Pfizer are so evil that they caused the deaths of children by using incorrect dosages of the control drugs to make their own experimental drug look better: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/11/pfizer-nigeria-meningitis-drug-compensation

Nigeria sues Pfizer for $7bn over ‘illegal’ tests on children: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/05/health.healthandwellbeing1

US Supreme Court rejects Pfizer Nigeria lawsuit appeal: https://www.bbc.com/news/10454982

Pfizer in $486 million settlement of Celebrex, Bextra litigation: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pfizer-lawsuit-idUSKCN10D1D8

Pfizer settles foreign bribery case with U.S. government: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pfizer-settlement-idUSBRE8760WM20120807

Pfizer intentionally destroyed the control groups in their trials for the covid vaccine, which means we’ll never know how effective the vaccine actually is: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/969143015/long-term-studies-of-covid-19-vaccines-hurt-by-placebo-recipients-getting-immuni

J&J are criminals who knew for decades that they had asbestos in their baby powder, but did nothing. Had to pay 4.69 billion in fines: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/

And of course, J&J is trying to use shady tactics to avoid paying those fines for their baby powder: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-j-j-exploring-putting-191612383.html

Moderna has never been able to get a drug or vaccine approved by the FDA, they were chosen by Trump because the CEO said they could get their experimental gene therapy vaccine made in the fastest time, no animal trials were done: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/us/coronavirus-moderna-vaccine-invs/index.html

Moderna executives sold tens of millions of dollars in stock in Sept, a couple months before deploying the vax to the public. Why would they sell off right before their big success? Did they know the product was garbage?: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/908305074/bad-optics-or-something-more-moderna-executives-stock-sales-raise-concerns

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel explains that they designed the vaccine in just two days: https://v.redd.it/p83r1m7zzgd71

Pfizer makes billions in revenue and profit: www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/business/pfizer-covid-vaccine-profits.amp.html

Pfizer makes even more money because of boosters: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-raises-estimates-2021-sales-covid-19-vaccine-335-bln-2021-07-28/

Vax companies making billions: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/06/from-pfizer-to-moderna-whos-making-billions-from-covid-vaccines

FDA:-

One third of new FDA approved meds had safety problems, the system is broken: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/09/527575055/one-third-of-new-drugs-had-safety-problems-after-fda-approval

A second source confirming that one third of new FDA approved meds had safety problems: https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/health/fda-approval-drug-events-study/index.html

Improperly testing medication and medical negligence has led to tragedy in the past:-

Learn from the past the Thalidomide tragedy occured because doctors pushed an unsafe drug: https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/thalidomide-tragedy-lessons-drug-safety-and-regulation

Learn from the past, the Tuskegee experiments: https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

Even CNN agrees the rushed vaccine is a stupid idea (but only while Trump was president): https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/01/health/eua-coronavirus-vaccine-history/index.html

Vaccinated individuals can still get and spread the virus:-

Fauci himself stated that the goal of the vaccines was never to prevent transmission but to reduce symptoms: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fauci-vaccines-will-only-prevent-symptoms-not-block-the-virus-195051568.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9iZ3IuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHpd0YtfC5w7hWq2OGxSM8G8GkGugdwzlwYoMYfUdd-dFniY0-qB_1RoBrkyZdQRgHzAU_qQROzd_EfBwk1vzVv6hO0c46fOMmw8nmc4p3eEnwMvqhlJfcrpXOXccvSEjvfwwY1yl6PBdgYtJoPQvzxWK-4BPZ9PidUbDMTK4L6b

CDC finally admit that vaxxed people are still shedding high levels of virus when they get infected and therefore must wear masks again: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/cdc-to-reverse-indoor-mask-policy-to-recommend-them-for-fully-vaccinated-people-in-covid-hot-spots.html

Vaxxed people are spreading the delta variant: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/561994-top-health-expert-says-vaccinated-people-are-spreading

Higher COVID Rate Found In Counties With Higher Vaccination Rate: https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/video/5827277-higher-covid-rate-found-in-counties-with-higher-vaccination-rate/

Double vaxxed politicians getting and spreading covid: https://nypost.com/2021/07/20/sixth-texas-dem-tests-positive-for-covid-after-fleeing-state-to-block-gop-voting-bill/

Double vaxxed hospital workers getting covid: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/31/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine?type=styln-live-updates&label=coronavirus%20updates&index=0#covid-san-francisco-hospital-delta

Piers Morgan gets covid after double jab: https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/piers-morgan-covid-positive-162254643.html

Iceland covid data shows majority of covid cases are fully vaccinated: https://www.covid.is/data

In the UK, the Health Minister stated that 60% of the people admitted to the hospital for Covid19 are double vaxxed, after some concerns were raised, the Health Minister later corrected himself to say it is 40% instead: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/60-people-being-admitted-uk-hospitals-had-two-covid-jabs-adviser-2021-07-19/

Thousands of vaccine failures in Massachusetts: https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/07/13/massachusetts-breakthrough-coronavirus-cases-71-fully-vaccinated-people-have-died-268-hospitalizations/amp/

CDC admits that 74% of positive cases in Barnstable County Massachusetts were fully vaxxed: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm7031e2_w

Vaccine failures resulting in hundreds of hospitalizations in Illinois, who knows how many thousands of vaccine failures were required to reach this many hospitalizations in Illinois: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/159-dead-593-hospitalized-in-illinois-breakthrough-covid-cases/2560611/

CDC started pursuing asymmetric reporting of covid cases in may 2021, they will not investigate mild cases of covid in vaccinated individuals. This creates the narrative that this is a pandemic of the unvaxxed: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/health/cdc-coronavirus-infections-vaccine.html

Bloomberg reports that CDC stopped tracking vaccine failures just as the delta variant was emerging: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/cdc-scaled-back-hunt-for-breakthrough-cases-just-as-the-delta-variant-grew

CDC warns COVID-19 may be a few mutations away from evading vaccines: https://nypost.com/2021/07/27/cdc-covid-19-may-be-a-few-mutations-away-from-evading-vaccines/

Hope for freedom:-

There is hope for freedom yet, New Hampshire governor signs bill that makes it illegal to mandate vaccines for access to public services: https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/07/25/new-hampshire-covid-medical-freedom-bill/

Senator Rand Paul tells the people to resist: https://v.redd.it/k8p3msb957g71

South Carolina won’t let the CDC force masks on children: https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-south-carolina-a2e56ca0f753d67e5f55c49f6b8612c2

Mexico president says he won’t jab kids to push boosters just because the money grubbing assholes in big pharma say they are necessary, he’ll wait for the scientific proof: https://www.rt.com/news/530770-mexico-hostage-vaccines-pharmaceutical-companies/

Oklahoma republicans stand up against vaccine mandates: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/31/oklahoma-republicans-vaccine-mandates-nazi-persecution-jewish-people

Reasons for Coronavirus Vaccine Hesitancy (With 50 Scientific Studies) – Reddit Mirror

[repost without crosspost to avoid NNN quarantine for non-reddit users. absolutely fantastic information worth scouring through to better understand our current crisis. all credit to /u/covinfo1999  and please post here additionally from now on as I’m sure this sub will appreciate your hard work!]

Covinfo Data Dump:-

The current Covid19 vaccines have several problems. I would say that there are 9 main areas of interest:

• the spike protein appears to be cytotoxic.
• the emergence of immune escape variants.
• the potential for antibody dependent enhancement.
• the potential for autoimmune disorders.
• the narrow design focus of the vaccines.
• the fact that alternative treatments are available to both prevent and treat covid.
• they are trying to jab everyone, even people who have recovered from covid and do not need the jab.
• there are a growing number of severe reactions to the vaccines but this fact gets very little coverage in the press and sometimes it even gets outright censorship.
• the potential for long term unknown side effects and the potential impact of this on national security.

I will present a brief overview of each issue and then provide scientific data below for support (except for 9. which is more a discussion based on a logical assessment of future risk).

1. The spike protein of the virus, that is also being utilized in the vaccines, is damaging to our cells through 3 mechanisms. The first is that when the spike protein binds to the ACE2 receptor it causes the ACE2 to send signals to the mitochondria within the cell which destroys the mitochondria, eventually killing the cell. The second is that when the spike protein binds to our ACE2 receptors it causes the ACE2 to send signals to other cells which increases the amount of pro-inflammatory agents in the blood. This inflammation damages the tissues. The third way is that when the spike protein binds to the ACE2 of the platelets in our blood, it causes them to clot. Now, the vaccine manufacturers did take steps to make the spike protein more safe. The spike protein has two parts an S1 subunit and an S2 subunit. The S1 is the part that connects to the ACE2, and the S2 is the part that opens up like a knife stabbing the membrane and facilitates fusion between the membrane of the cell and the envelope of the virus. With the vaccines, they modified the S2 subnit so that it could not open up and jab into the cell membranes if it connects with any ACE2 receptors. They thought this would make the spike protein safe, but this assumption is false and if they had taken the time to do more research before rushing to production they would have found that out. It may seem like the jabby bit is what damages the cells, but actually the major damage is caused by the S1 connecting to the ACE2 receptor. Just the S1, by itself without the S2, causes the ACE2 receptor to start the cell signaling processes that cause the mitochondrial damage, the pro-inflammatory response, and the blood clots.

Studies on the spike protein:

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Coronavirus vaccines and pregnancy: CDC manipulated study data to show the Covid-19 Vaccines are safe for Pregnant Women when in reality 4 in 5 suffered a miscarriage

However, when reading the small print of table 4, in which they claim just 104 / 12.6% of 827 completed pregnancies resulted in miscarriage (spontaneous abortion), we can see that the numbers they have presented are extremely misleading.

This is because of the 827 completed pregnancies, 700 / 86% of the women had received a dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccine during the third trimester of pregnancy. The third trimester of pregnancy is from week 27 – 40, and it is therefore impossible to suffer a miscarriage due to the fact they are considered as occurring prior to week 20 of a pregnancy.

This means just 127 women received either the Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccine during the first / second trimester, with 104 of the woman sadly losing their baby.

Therefore the rate of incidence of miscarriage is 82%, not 12.6% as presented in the findings of the study.

It is impossible for anyone vaccinated during the third trimester to suffer a miscarriage in respect of the parameters set in the study. A pregnancy loss in this case would be considered a still birth, occurring after week 20 of pregnancy.

Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug (Ivermectin)? Ivermectin fights 21 viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19. A single dose reduced the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in cells by 99.8% in 24 hours and 99.98% in 48 hours

The Food and Drug Administration claims to follow the science. So why is it attacking ivermectin, a medication it certified in 1996?

Earlier this year the agency put out a special warning that “you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.” The FDA’s statement included words and phrases such as “serious harm,” “hospitalized,” “dangerous,” “very dangerous,” “seizures,” “coma and even death” and “highly toxic.” Any reader would think the FDA was warning against poison pills. In fact, the drug is FDA-approved as a safe and effective antiparasitic.

Ivermectin was developed and marketed by Merck & Co. while one of us (Mr. Hooper) worked there years ago. William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering and developing avermectin, which Mr. Campbell and associates modified to create ivermectin.

Ivermectin is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. Merck has donated four billion doses to prevent river blindness and other diseases in Africa and other places where parasites are common. A group of 10 doctors who call themselves the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance have said ivermectin is “one of the safest, low-cost, and widely available drugs in the history of medicine.”

Ivermectin fights 21 viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19. A single dose reduced the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in cells by 99.8% in 24 hours and 99.98% in 48 hours, according to a June 2020 study published in the journal Antiviral Research.

The Big Vitamin D Mistake – Kids need 1000 IU, Adolescents need 3000 IU and Adults need 8000+ IU Every Day

Since 2006, type 1 diabetes in Finland has plateaued and then decreased after the authorities’ decision to fortify dietary milk products with cholecalciferol. The role of vitamin D in innate and adaptive immunity is critical. A statistical error in the estimation of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin D was recently discovered; in a correct analysis of the data used by the Institute of Medicine, it was found that 8895 IU/d was needed for 97.5% of individuals to achieve values ≥50 nmol/L. Another study confirmed that 6201 IU/d was needed to achieve 75 nmol/L and 9122 IU/d was needed to reach 100 nmol/L. The largest meta-analysis ever conducted of studies published between 1966 and 2013 showed that 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels <75 nmol/L may be too low for safety and associated with higher all-cause mortality, demolishing the previously presumed U-shape curve of mortality associated with vitamin D levels. Since all-disease mortality is reduced to 1.0 with serum vitamin D levels ≥100 nmol/L, we call public health authorities to consider designating as the RDA at least three-fourths of the levels proposed by the Endocrine Society Expert Committee as safe upper tolerable daily intake doses. This could lead to a recommendation of 1000 IU for children <1 year on enriched formula and 1500 IU for breastfed children older than 6 months, 3000 IU for children >1 year of age, and around 8000 IU for young adults and thereafter. Actions are urgently needed to protect the global population from vitamin D deficiency.

Chemical giants Dupont hid dangers of “forever chemicals” in food packaging – 6:2 FTOH linked to kidney disease, liver damage, cancer, neurological damage, developmental problems and autoimmune disorders

Chemical giants DuPont and Daikin knew the dangers of a PFAS compound widely used in food packaging since 2010, but hid them from the public and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), company studies obtained by the Guardian reveal.

The chemicals, called 6:2 FTOH, are now linked to a range of serious health issues, and Americans are still being exposed to them in greaseproof pizza boxes, carryout containers, fast-food wrappers, and paperboard packaging.

The companies initially told the FDA that the compounds were safer and less likely to accumulate in humans than older types of PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals” and submitted internal studies to support that claim.

But Daikin withheld a 2009 study that indicated toxicity to lab rats’ livers and kidneys, while DuPont in 2012 did not alert the FDA or public to new internal data that indicated that the chemical stays in animals’ bodies for much longer than initially thought.

Science from industry, the FDA and independent researchers now links 6:2 FTOH to kidney disease, liver damage, cancer, neurological damage, developmental problems and autoimmune disorders, while researchers also found higher mortality rates among young animals and mothers exposed to the chemicals.

Had the FDA seen the data, it is unlikely that it would have approved 6:2 FTOH, said Maricel Maffini, an independent researcher who studies PFAS in food packaging. And though Daikin may have broken the law, it and DuPont, which has previously been caught hiding studies that suggest toxicity in PFAS, are not facing any repercussions.

“Those things shouldn’t happen, and if they do then there should be consequences, but oversight is lax,” Maffini said.

In 2020, the FDA reached agreements with some major PFAS manufacturers to voluntarily stop using 6:2 FTOH compounds in food packaging within five years. But documents show that the FDA first became aware of DuPont’s hidden study in 2015, and public health advocates say a 10-year timeline to reassess and remove the chemical is unacceptable.

Moreover, the FDA phase-out only applies to 6:2 FTOH compounds, and does not include other similar “short chain” PFAS, raising questions about whether the agency is fully protecting the public from the class of potentially toxic chemicals.

“I think people need to be able to rely on the FDA to turn science at the agency into real action, and right now that doesn’t seem to be the case,” said Tom Neltner, chemicals policy director with the Environmental Defense Fund. He and Maffini obtained the companies’ studies and related documents from Daikin’s website and the FDA through Freedom of Information Act requests.

The 6:2 FTOH compound is part of a newer generation of “short chain” PFAS that were designed to replace older and supposedly more harmful “long chain” PFAS. The industry claims that short chain compounds are uniformly safe and “practically non-toxic”. However, independent researchers like Erika Schreder, science director for Toxic Free Future, have found that PFAS, regardless of chain length, accumulate in the environment and humans, and are toxic.

“The fact that we continue to uncover evidence that the current-use PFAS have similar toxicity to the [long chain] compounds that have been phased out makes a strong argument for regulating harmful chemicals like PFAS as a class,” Schreder said.

In a statement to the Guardian, an FDA spokesperson defended the agency’s handling of 6:2 FTOH, noting that the studies “do not demonstrate an imminent health hazard” and more studies were needed to draw concrete conclusions about its safety, and that of other short chain PFAS.

Daikin and Chemours, a company that in 2015 was spun off from DuPont’s PFAS division, did not respond to requests for comment.

DuPont hides alarming new data

Industry reports and communications among the FDA and PFAS producers between 2008 and 2020 show how a sequence of inadequate chemical safety analyses, hidden studies and lax oversight created a scenario in which Americans continue to be exposed to the dangerous compound in food packaging.

The 2008 6:2 FTOH studies that DuPont submitted to the FDA monitored the impact of high exposure levels to the chemical on two generations of lab rats. The animals suffered kidney failure, liver damage, mammary gland problems, mottled teeth and other issues. However, DuPont and the FDA felt that humans’ exposure would be much lower and, with little supporting evidence, believed that the short chain PFAS would not accumulate in human bodies, Maffini said.

She called such studies on PFAS “inaccurate and inappropriate” because the chemicals are toxic at “extremely low levels” and are known to accumulate in animals’ bodies.

Dysfunctional US healthcare system where nurses are doing work of doctors – midlevels – www.midlevel.wtf

This is an issue that has been brewing quietly in the background for the past decade, but has gone into overdrive the past five years. As someone who grew up with several physicians in the family, and who eventually went on to Medical school (even if only to abandon it afterwards ), this is an issue I hold close to my heart and one that I’ve researched as thoroughly as I can as it affects not only my former colleagues and friends, but all of us in this country, especially the most vulnerable, the poor and the uninsured.

It is no secret that most Americans aren’t exactly well versed in Biology, Medicine or in the Medical system itself, and that is likely by design – it is easier to manipulate your population into denying itself their rights to socialized Healthcare if they have no idea what Healthcare even is, what a physician actually does, what Medical education entails, what other members of the medical team do, and why and when they should go to the hospital.  People in America are afraid to call ambulances because they can’t pay, they leave their friends to overdose and die on the streets because they’re scared to be arrested, they have their children drink bleach because they read on Facebook that it cures autism, they spread black salve on their tumor because they can’t afford chemo and their $20 a session by correspondence “dr” chiropractor told them it works, etc.

This country has no scruples whatsoever when it comes to Healthcare because it sees Medicine as a Business, not as Science or Art. This is important because it’s this ignorance that allows for the issue I’ll discuss to even happen – if everyone was better informed, this shit would never happen.

This country sees physicians as slaves and/or providers of services, not as physicians and healers who spend their entire lives consistently studying and improving themselves and dedicating themselves to helping others. Patients are customers. The system treats residents and students like nothing more than warm bodies they can use to squeeze more money for more profit for the hospital’s shareholders and an extra % more for the CEO’s yearly bonus or the University’s budget. It’s a clownworld system that has been in place for decades that no one has dared to do shit about because it’s “worked” and because after 15yrs you could “at least” earn a good salary to live a good life and have a family (after paying back you 250-400k debt once your 3-7yrs on 30k salary as a resident are over).

Well, those days are about to end, too. And now patients are going to die for it. Let me explain. If I don’t make sense or this is all over the place, I apologize, ESL is hard and there’s many ideas in this post.

I will start by outlining what it takes for your average kid to become a doctor and what the politics is like – this is kinda important, so bear w me.

So, your regular kid will need a perfect to almost perfect GPA (especially nowadays), a very competitive MCAT score, thousands of hours of community/volunteer service that is relevant to their degree, hours of research experience and to charm some asshole during interviews. This shit by the time they are 21 years old. Once they are in Medical school, you can count on these kids having about 30 classes not by semester, by module. It is not just excessive, that shit is inhumane. My first year was bad, but by year 3 (when you’re about to touch people), half your friends have had a nervous breakdown – or 5. Then you have Step 1, and that score pretty much determines what residences you can hope to match into once you finish school. It’s insane pressure. Then you finish. Some people never fucking match, then it’s just over.

Suicide is actually common, but talking about your mental health and admitting you are suicidal might be shooting yourself in the foot. Many cases of kids just not getting ahead once that happens – regardless of the “legality” of that. Many such cases.

Once you match, shit starts. Intern year is the worst. Everyone treats you like shit. Older residents treat you like shit, attendings will be a crapshoot, but you can count on nurses treating you like a fucking moron, every time. It’s just a thing, everyone knows it happens. The medstudent and the intern are fucking idiots, right 😒 Then you progress – until you’re chief resident then an attending, when you FINALLY start making money and paying off debt.

Residents work 80-100hrs, for 30k. 🤡 Residency can last 3 yrs (IM, psych, OB) to 7yrs (some surgical specialties). Some docs will then go on for Fellowships (2years) afterwards. Throughout this entire process, there’s Step 2 and 3, plus various Boards of the different specialties. Adding up the years, that’s 15+ years of education, 250k dollars of investment, a LOT of mistreatment.

And, of course, being the cash cows of the hospital or hospital group or hospital owned practice or related leech staffed entirely by cons *ltants, MBAs and bus *ness school failsons.Those groups are themselves entirely owned by our friends from Priv *te Equ *ty groups ✨

The people making the rules and running the hospital, the administr *tion heads, CFOs and CEOs aren’t physicians as you’d think would be the most logical; they’re generally nurses with administration MBAs 🤮, so Karens with 2yr courses and PTA mom personalities. No fucking joke, that’s literally the stereotype for a fucking reason. These people have 0 loyalty to the physicians and 0 knowledge of medicine; their loyalty is to the shareholders – and they fuck the students in the ass without lube consistently, as they can’t complain or they risk losing their spot. The CEOs are generally financebro aholes who failed upwards or random soulless cons *ltants from an unrelated field, they run the entire thing with 0 regards to patient or staff safety.

Remember COVID and the PPE shortage? Entirely, squarely on the shoulders of hospital admins, who, ofc, weren’t there lmao, they were happily working from home and shit, and the shortage never extended to THEM, no. They’re inportant.The Katrina hospital disaster response shit, for those who remember? The admin said good fucking bye and the docs almost went to prison for murder because they had to compassionately ease the pain of some of the patients. No one heard shit from the admins, because they obviously got the fuck out the second it started raining, lmao. This isn’t new, Hospital admins are soulless. The only physicians that EVER get anything out of those ghouls are surgeons, because surgeries are the sacred golden cash cows of the hospital, and you can’t survive without surgeons.

Other physicians can be discarded.

This isn’t widely known, but several attempts at unionizing, especially by resident docs, have been squashed. Obviously, it’s hard for them to even try, for several reasons: the class position of most residents is on average middle to upper class; most poor kids can’t afford medschool and a full time job, or the education it takes to even make it to school, that makes it so they have 0 knowledge of how to organize a union and the residents can’t afford to shake the boat, they’re thousands in debt, if they get kicked out of residency, it’s over – the skills aren’t translated into other jobs easily, and the hospital admin is VERY oppressive of them. The older docs simply don’t want to put their careers and families at risk.

This is slowly changing though, as a bunch of docs are seeing their spots being filled by other “providers”. A lot of new docs are scared of wtf they’ll do in a decade when their specialties go to shit and their spots are filled by midlevels. All that money and education and shit taking for absolutely nothing.

Now wtf is a mid-level?

Often a nurse, with a Masters or a “””doctorate””” (Jill Biden level), or not a nurse at all, but with a new ass Masters they made up less than 10yrs ago that somehow allows them to practice something that isn’t Nursing OR Medicine, but convoluted enough to make the hospital money.

A nurse administers meds, does bedside care, coordinates care with the physicians, wound care, take bloods, etc. They don’t practice medicine, they practice nursing. To graduate you need an associate degree or a bachelors- depending on the hospital you can work on the same capacity, and generally specialize in an area. They’re invaluable to the Healthcare team.

What’s happening is, in the US they’ve created mid-level categories; Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Physician Assistants (PAs) and Certified Nurse Anesthecists (CRNAs), and I’m sure there’s some new ones cooking. The justification, of course, was Idpol 🤡🌎

It was all about creating a role to fill a need in poor rural communities ravaged by the opioid epidemic where no doctor wanted to live, to fill the gap in the inner city where minorities experience RaCiAl BiAsEs in Healthcare and no access to primary care because no young student wants to do Primary care, to provide care to mentally ill patients in mostly mInOrItY communities 😭😭😭 to improve the dIsPaRiTiEs, etc. Obviously, that never happened.

They became a “separate but equal” role to PCPs (🤡), then they became a cheap alternative to physicians to run ICU floors (🤡^2), then they started opening fucking pain clinics and overprescribing opiates, but “it’s okay because they’re physician supervised”, and now it’s transformed into a monster where they have a fucking entire lobby dedicated to them practicing independently from ANY supervision AT ALL – and get this, they’ve gotten it in some states.

Now, take a seat, this is great:

To become an NP? The requirements:

• YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BE A NURSE. There are DIRECT ENTRY Masters of Nursing NP programs 🤡 They’re also 100% ONLINE
• 8 semesters
• 500 hours of “clinical experience”, which amounts to “shadowing” another NP, which can be done “remotely” via Zoom.
• You can also be a DNP, a “doctorate”, without thesis, ofc.
• pass the National exam, that isn’t, of course, even close to the MCAT or Steps of Boards.
• you can then choose your specialty like Pokémon, and change if it doesn’t suit you, on the job. That is a “perk”.

The new “fad” now is pain and ketamine clinics. 5k a session per patient in packets of 10 sessions each. 🤑 bo$$ babe!☆°

I’m not fucking joking. Now, if you go to a hospital, or if you call your insurance group to find a specialist, say, a new psychiatrist for an appointment, they will tell you something like “you will be seen on day x with PROVIDER y”, and that’s because now everyone is a “provider”. It’s not doctor anymore, because °☆♡everyone is equal♡☆°.  Then when you arrive, you get to see Ms Karen, Psych DNP, who will give you Lithium for your sads, Xanax for your anxiety, Ambien for your lack of sleep sometimes, Adderall for your sleepy, and some other shit that interacts with some other shit, but it’s not her fault – she never took pharmacology or biochemistry, how the fuck could she even know??

A hospital will hire 5 NPs for the price of 1 doctor. And they are. And the idiot who pays for it is you and your loved ones. Literally, you pay the SAME amount for “Dr” Karen, DNP as you would for Dr Chad, MD/MBBS/DO, and the fucking hospital/clinic pays her less and pockets the difference 🤡

Don’t you feel better for like, having helped eliminate those awful, awful Healthcare DIsPaRiTiEs? ✨ 🌠

Oh, and get this: because they aren’t doctors, they are lawsuit proof, kinda. It’s an iffy area, still. Malpractice attnys are salivating, tho. However, new laws need to be written and regulations made.

As it stands, if one of them kills you, too fucking bad. The doctor “supervising” them gets fucked, and the Healthcare group/hospital owned practice/leeches/ghouls get sued, their insurance is who pays, Ms Karen provider is shielded. Amazing. Ms Karen is governed by the Board of Nursing, that knows 0 about Medicine. When this shit has happened in the past, they haven’t done shit, they’ve said they DON’T KNOW how to discipline because Medicine is BEYOND THEIR SCOPE (no. fucking. shit.) and Karen, DNP was practicing beyond hers. No, this isn’t comedy, this shit is real, UNREGULATED, and guaranteed to be happening in your neighborhood hospital and at your PCPs clinic.

Also, their organization (of course they have a fucking organization, the grifting never ends – the AANP) hardcore lobbies them to practice Medicine, while insisting they practice Nursing and yelling at doctors demanding they be recognized as equals and also demanding they be allowed to be unsupervised and be able to open clinics. Guess who fuels some cash monies to their coffers on the DL, something physicians don’t have, (since the AMA is CUCKED beyond belief and FUCKING NEVER stands behind docs, it’s fucking sad): PE firms 💅🏻

Oh, you want to weep? Read this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/private-equity-firms-now-control-many-hospitals-ers-nursing-homes-n1203161

Now, why would pr *vate equ *ty firms be so invested in funding for lobbying for NPs? 🤔

I’ll let you r *tards figure that out by yourselves – what I CAN say, is that when I slaved for PE, other than fucking prisons, our targets were lots and lots and lots of suburban hospitals, urgent cares, trauma centers and ERs. The more debt, the better, the easier to negotiate the terms with the ret *r- I mean, with their current obviously very, very smart MBA filled group of genius overhead 🧩 Tbf it was quite satisfying to see their Karen PTA adm *ns and fat BBQ Kevin cons *ltants getting the boot or their overinflated salaries cut in half or being replaced by mid 20s NYC kids in suits.

It is, however, very fucking sad to know they’d simply fucking cut off old attendings bcs “cost” or ROI, or straight up just let go of physicians or nurses because of some stupid new algorithm or whatever. That’s what PE does after takeover with any new acquisition, they neuter you. And every single place Bl *ckstone acquired, they got one of their groups to run, and their groups hired a shit ton of midlevels to staff them.

They made SO much fucking money with Covid, it’s obscene.

STONKS.

Meanwhile, your regular primary care/internal medicine resident can’t fucking get a fucking break. Imagine being 250k+ in debt earning 35k in a big city. Imagine being offered even less to go to rural buttfuck Alabama with 0 guarantee of a job afterwards because the hospitals are fucking closing. Clownworld. You want to do internal med or be a primary care doc in your community, but your fucking community is being taken over by midlevels and your hospital treats you like shit. You’re thinking, maybe I should do psych?

Oh, fuck, but there’s only so many spots and you don’t match, wtf. Here’s to another year of…ABSOLUTE FUCKING PANIC.

Yet, the government won’t open more spots for some fucking reason and hasn’t in DECADES and won’t increase your hunger wage slavery salary while even state schools increase tuition, because they CAN and because they bow to research hospitals that plunge the knife into their poor students and twist for good measure.

Meanwhile, that PA that misdiagnosed that patients pneumonia now makes 180k a year and only went to school for like, 3 years with 0 debt.

💀💀💀

I know I am not just beating a dead horse here, I am being a horse necrophiliac at this point, but I really just want to drive this home, just how insane the entire thing really is; there are actual Facebook groups (yes, Facebook) where PAs and NPs go to post asking about what others think the diagnosis of their patients is, while on the consult. They post the poor SOB’s test results (because fuck HIPAA lmao) with screenshots so the other powerful bo$$b43bs can offer their opinions on diagnosis. During the fucking consult. While the fucking patient probably waits inside the consult room. Like can you fucking imagine this shit?!!

You have endless drivel about criticism of midlevels being muhsohjeeknee due to Nursing being a feeeeeeeemale profession, somehow. About “you must hate the poor and minorities” over the access to Healthcare propaganda crap, the “doctors are elitist asshole rich creeps”, I mean, choose your poison.

And then, IMHO, the worst because it’s the most dangerous, you have the nurse anesthetist, which are like NPs but they run anesthesia in the OR “under the supervision” of an anesthesiologist. The anesthesiologist is still supposed to induce and to take you out, and in theory, this is only supposed to occur in simple procedures.

Obviously, that’s not happening, because of course it isn’t.

CRNAs are also nurses with an extra course. They haven’t gone through medschool, they haven’t gone through residency for anesthesia, they don’t know pharmacology or anatomy or biochem or biophys or neurochem or anything remotely relevant whatsoever to what to do if a patient fucking crashes under anesthesia. So, naturally, people have started to, you know, DIE. You’ll see their lobbying organization (something something grift must go on) cite studies about how the outcomes are “similar to their anesthesiologist counterparts” 🤮, but it doesn’t take an advanced aut *st to find gaping flaws in those ~studies~ prolly paid for by Bl *ckstone and Pal *din Capital 🐀

However, they’re cheaper to the cons *ltants and the ROI is higher than those overpriced, fancy ass anesthesiologists. The soulless ghouls in hospital admin have done the calculations and decided that, even if they sue the “supervising anesthesiologist” who isn’t even there, the payout is worth it, because they can only have that 1 anesthesiologist for like 5 CRNAs and save a shitton and the stoopid patients don’t even know. The CRNA says “I’m rly sry, lmao” and moves somewhere else or opens a pain clinic, Pal *din Capital 🐀 negotiates a payout, everyone (except the patient, I guess, but who cares) is happy.  Stonks 📈

Literally they don’t give a fuck if you die. They have factored in that patients WILL die sometimes due to mid-level’s lack of medical experience and knowledge but it doesn’t fucking matter because that way yields more $$$$$$ to the hospital and the pockets of the shareholders.

I read yesterday about a hospital somewhere where they have fired ALL anesthesiologists and have hired ALL CRNAs. Nothing can possibly go wrong. (It’s on the noctor subreddit, and I’m too into this to look for it, but apparently it isn’t a rare thing).

Now I’ve gotten exactly where I wanted to get with this rambling, convoluted essay. I have nothing against nurses in particular, tbf I respect them a ton and most of them aren’t happy themselves with scope creep – it’s not the best of them that take the NP route, after all. I am LIVID with a system that allows, that cheers for the downgrading and the straight up erosion of patient safety for an increase in profit. A system that throws their physicians and students in the trash. It’s disgusting.

We’re rapidly marching into a future where if you’re wealthy, it’s cool, you’ll see a Dr for your issues, you’ll be put under by an anesthesiologist, you’ll be prescribed an evidence based treatment for your intractable depression, you’ll be operated on by a board certified surgeon.

If you’re poor, though? You can expect to be put under by a CRNA who may or may not have paralyzed or maimed someone, you might be prescribed evidence based treatment for depression or not, since Psych DNP doc Karen never took psychopharmacology or did psych residency, and in 10 years if you have appendicitis you might be getting cut by Provider Certified Surgical Specialist (it’s now a thing in the UK, coming soon to a hospital near you)

Now, you have a RIGHT to advocate for yourself, to ASK for a physician when you make an appointment. When someone puts you in with a provider, speak up. This shit is straight up distopyan and will kill people. Problem is, and this finally ties with my first point, nobody knows any of this; Americans have no fucking clue there even IS a difference between provider and physician. The propaganda that NP and MD is “the same” works pretty fucking well. Installing this 2 tier distopyan system is being ridiculously easy.

I used to laugh when rightoids would go on about population replacement or population culling conspiracies, but it really DOES seem they just want to eliminate the poor.

Socialized medicine has never been farther away than now – this administration will be the WORST thing that has happened to this country in a LONG time.

This is the new reality for the poor and the new middle class – there will be no escaping it, no negotiating anything. Unless you have money to access the 1st tier of Medicine, you’re done.

As it’s becoming true of education now, with the removal of elite meritocracy-based entry schools in favor of “racially based” entry, any and all chances of upward mobility are being slowly eroded. We’re now being more and more entrenched into poverty and there will be no way out for our children. It’s getting bleak out there.

The recent idpol about racial disparities in Healthcare is being used to fuel this shit, too, with the bald faced lies about the lack of PCPs in rural communities, the lack of willing residents in Primary and IM, this absolute bullshit about mid-levels having the same education/experience/capacity as doctors and having been created ESPECIALLY so they could CURE this “disparities”.

It’s a fucking trap. They’re NOT working in these needy areas, they’re not going to buttfuck, Alabama or the south side in Chicago or in primary fucking care or psychiatry in Oakland; they’re in fancy areas doing Botox and fillers, in LA doing ketamine clinics, in good suburban hospitals running ICU floors, and filling anesthesiologist spots in hospitals looking for more $.

If something isn’t done to awake some sort of consciousness in students and in the population that’s being served by this new generation of doctors, everyone loses. Neoliberalism is going to kill everything and everyone and this really is the end stage – this would never have happened even 15 years ago.

RaCiAl DiSpArItIeS my ass. Idpol will destroy this country.

Thanks for reading my unironic seethe treatise.

Sources and further reading:

r/noctor r/residency www.midlevel.wtf

Corruption, fraud, deception, data manipulation, collusion, in the FDA

Lawyers who want to sue drug companies will be drooling over the news that the FDA has “certified” a 2009 letter sent anonymously by FDA staff to President Obama describing “systemic corruption and wrongdoing that permeates all levels of FDA.” FDA is riddled with politics, conflicts of interest and outright corruption, and is, as the letter says, “fundamentally broken.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-corruption-letter-authenticated-lawyers-start-your-engines/

Nine FDA scientists appealed to President George W. Bush and at the time, President-elect Barack Obama over pressure from management to manipulate data, mainly in relation to the review process for medical devices. These concerns were highlighted in a 2006 report[2] on the agency as well.[76]

Hidden conflicts? Pharma payments to FDA advisers after drug approvals spark ethical concerns https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/hidden-conflicts-pharma-payments-fda-advisers-after-drug-approvals-spark-ethical

Then very effective mass marketing takes over, and the FDA devotes only a small percent of its budget to protect physicians or patients from receiving biased or untruthful information. 34 The further corruption of medical knowledge through company-funded teams that craft the published literature to overstate benefits and understate harms, unmonitored by the FDA, leaves good physicians with corrupted knowledge. 5 6 Patients are the innocent victims. https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/risky-drugs-why-fda-cannot-be-trusted

When the FDA finds scientific fraud or misconduct, the agency doesn’t notify the public, the medical establishment, or even the scientific community that the results of a medical experiment are not to be trusted. On the contrary. For more than a decade, the FDA has shown a pattern of burying the details of misconduct. https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/fda-inspections-fraud-fabrication-and-scientific-misconduct-are-hidden-from-the-public-and-doctors.html

Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America is a stunning exposé into the secret world of the FDA, Wall Street, and drug companies. At stake is the health and well-being of all Americans. Adverse reactions, even deaths, are hidden while dangerous drugs are pushed on Americans, especially children simply for profit. https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Your-Health-Exposing-Betrayal/dp/1933927178

FDA documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, revealed that the FDA has been concealing from the medical community and the public serious research misconduct; including fraud, deception, avoidable risks for human subjects — even deaths — that occurred in clinical trials.  https://ahrp.org/fda-conceals-collaborates-in-serious-research-misconduct-fraud-deception-adverse-events/

The Food and Drug Administration has a sordid history of scandals involving conflicts of interests, cover-ups, corruption and congressional investigations. A recent investigation into the approval and continued protection for the controversial sterilization device Essure, depicts classic examples of controversial conduct by the FDA  https://www.ennislaw.com/blog/essure-depicts-classic-examples-fda-conflicts-and-corruption/

former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official pleaded guilty to accepting a $20,000 bribe to expedite a generic drug maker’s application  https://apnews.com/4341009a667c3195829a79728d6774b3

A $1.8 million 2006 Institute of Medicine report on pharmaceutical regulation in the U.S. found major deficiencies in the FDA system for ensuring the safety of drugs on the American market. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Food_and_Drug_Administration

The FDA has been criticised for allowing the use of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in dairy cows. rBGH-treated cows secrete higher levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) in their milk than do untreated cows. IGF-1 signalling is thought to play a role in sustaining the growth of some tumorshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Food_and_Drug_Administration

Dr. Herbert L. Ley, Jr. In an interview to The New York Times, warned the public about the FDA’s inability to safeguard consumers. People were being misled, he believed “The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them – it isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day,” he said.Ley stated that the entire issue was about money, “pure and simple”.[50][51]

In a 2005 interview, Dr. David Graham, associate director of the FDA’s Office of Drug Safety, stated that “FDA is inherently biased in favor of the pharmaceutical industry. It views industry as its client, whose interests it must represent and advance. It views its primary mission as approving as many drugs it can, regardless of whether the drugs are safe or needed”[53][54] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Food_and_Drug_Administration

It also has been shown that oftentimes, the FDA expert advisory panels had direct financial interests in the drugs or products being evaluated.[57] Former Editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, Marcia Angell, has stated that “It’s time to take the Food and Drug Administration back from the drug companies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Food_and_Drug_Administration

‘We knew there were payoffs,” said Roy McKnight, Mylan’s 68-year-old chairman. ”We knew we were being pushed back behind other companies’ applications and discriminated against.” Added Milan Puskar, the company’s 54-year-old president: ”We had to blow the whistle on the F.D.A. The F.D.A. generic division was just totally out of control. The industry was going to fall apart if we allowed the situation to continue.” https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/10/business/exposing-the-fda.html

Critics of the 1992 Prescription Drug User Fee Act argue that industry funding of the drug review and approval process gives pharmaceutical companies, and their lobbying arm, PhRMA, too much… https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/prescription/hazard/independent.html

These sometimes create incentives (for drug firms and their employees) that conflict with the development of knowledge, drug safety, the promotion of public health, and innovation. https://ethics.harvard.edu/pharmaceutical-industry-institutional-corruption-and-public-health

Lies and Deception How the FDA Does Not Protect Your Best Interests. …  https://smart-publications.com/articles/lies-and-deception-how-the-fda-does-not-protect-your-best-interests/

newreport from two researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University, published in the journal The BMJ, suggests many of these medical reviewers go on to work for the drug companies they oversaw while working for the government. https://time.com/4510025/fda-drug-companies-pharmaceutical-industry-medical-reviewers/

More than a quarter of the Food and Drug Administration employees who approved cancer and hematology drugs from 2001 through 2010 left the agency and now work or consult for pharmaceutical industry https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/28/495694559/a-look-at-how-the-revolving-door-spins-from-fda-to-industry

The agency, whose responsibilities include making sure that prescription drugs sold in the United States are safe and effective, receives almost three-quarters of its funding for that work from drug makers. https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2016/12/fda-depends-on-industry-funding-money-comes-with-strings-attached/

If drug companies merely wrote the checks, there might be less cause for concern. Indeed, many federal agencies collect user fees. However, at the FDA, as a study by the Institute of Medicine has observed, the corporate money comes with “strings that are attached.”

Drug and Medical Device Companies Have Outsized Influence on FDA. $700 million in lobbying https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/drug-and-medical-device-com

Telegony: Your Future Children Could Look Like Your Ex, According To Science

A theory that scientists have been trying to test on flies, and named by German biologist August Weissman in the 1800s, telegony claims that when a sperm manages to reach the uterus, it might fertilize immature ovums, after which it is absorbed by the woman’s organism. Then, after a new mate arrives, this old genetic code might be responsible for the baby to have some of your ex’s features.

With a long tradition that can be traced all the way back to Aristotle, it wasn’t until 1820 when the first scientific articulation of telegony was formulated. Some evidence was documented by the Royal Society of London, when Count Morton confirmed two horse offspring had features of the mother’s old sexual partner.

So, telegony was all but dismissed in the 20th century. However, something happened very recently that turned this whole debate on its head. Evolutionary ecologists A. J. Crean and colleagues reported a seemingly telegonic phenomenon in a fly, a member of the species Telostylinus angusticollis.

“As a first step towards disentangling whether the effect is borne by the sperm itself or by accessory-gland products (ACPs) in the seminal fluid, we mated females initially to a male in high or low condition and then re-mated the female to a new male in high or low condition two weeks later. Interestingly, offspring size and viability were determined by the condition of the first male, with no effect of the condition of the second mate. Genetic tests confirm this result holds even when the second male is the biological father of the offspring. These findings suggest the paternal effect is mediated by ACPs, and provide a compelling case for reassessing the possibility of telegony as a valid phenomenon.” — Crean, Kopps, and Bonduriansky.

One year earlier, Henan University of Science and Technology in Xiangxiang, China, published an article on Gene, in which scientist Yongsheng Liu assured there are several considerations that support the theory of telegony. For example, the hundreds of sperm cells that reach a uterus but fail to fertilize an ovum are regularly absorbed by the woman’s body, thus modifying the baby’s DNA.

Microchimerism of male origin

Male microchimerism, the presence of a small number of male cells, in women has been attributed to prior pregnancies. However, male microchimerism has also been reported in women with only daughters, in nulliparous women and prepubertal girls suggesting that other sources of male microchimerism must exist. We speculate that sexual intercourse may be important but other sources of male cells likely exist in young girls.

St John’s Wort – similarly effective as standard antidepressants with fewer side-effects

A total of 29 trials (5489 patients) including 18 comparisons with placebo and 17 comparisons with synthetic standard antidepressants met the inclusion criteria. Results of placebo-controlled trials showed marked heterogeneity. In nine larger trials the combined response rate ratio (RR) for hypericum extracts compared with placebo was 1.28 (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.10 to 1.49) and from nine smaller trials was 1.87 (95% CI, 1.22 to 2.87). Results of trials comparing hypericum extracts and standard antidepressants were statistically homogeneous. Compared with tri- or tetracyclic antidepressants and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), respectively, RRs were 1.02 (95% CI, 0.90 to 1.15; 5 trials) and 1.00 (95% CI, 0.90 to 1.11; 12 trials). Both in placebo-controlled trials and in comparisons with standard antidepressants, trials from German-speaking countries reported findings more favourable to hypericum. Patients given hypericum extracts dropped out of trials due to adverse effects less frequently than those given older antidepressants (odds ratio (OR) 0.24; 95% CI, 0.13 to 0.46) or SSRIs (OR 0.53, 95% CI, 0.34-0.83).

Authors’ conclusions: The available evidence suggests that the hypericum extracts tested in the included trials a) are superior to placebo in patients with major depression; b) are similarly effective as standard antidepressants; c) and have fewer side effects than standard antidepressants. The association of country of origin and precision with effects sizes complicates the interpretation.

Child abuse is 40 times more likely when single parents find new partners – Eradicating child abuse in America would reduce the overall rate of depression by more than half, alcoholism by two‐thirds, and suicide, serious drug abuse, and domestic violence by three quarters.

“children of divorce – and later, remarriage – are twice as likely to academically, behaviorally and socially struggle as children of first-marriage families: About 20 to 25 percent struggle, compared with 10 percent, a range of research finds.”

They are also more likely to be hurt.

In their article “Child Abuse and Other Risks of Not Living with both Parents,” published in Ethology and Sociobiology, Martin Daly and Margo Wilson note: “If their parents find new partners, children are 40 times more likely than those who live with biological parents to be sexually or physically abused.” According to a Missouri-based study of children living in homes with unrelated adults, children are “nearly 50 times as likely to die of inflicted injuries as children living with two biological parents.” These are worrying statistics, both disturbing and scary.

Eradicating child abuse in America would reduce the overall rate of depression by more than half, alcoholism by two‐thirds, and suicide, serious drug abuse, and domestic violence by three quarters. It would also have a significantly positive effect on workplace performance, and vastly decrease the need for incarceration.

Teenage transgender row splits Sweden as dysphoria diagnoses soar by 1,500%

In the autumn of 2018, the Social Democrat-led government, under pressure from the gay, lesbian and transgender group RFSL, proposed a new law which would reduce the minimum age for sex reassignment medical care from 18 to 15, remove all need for parental consent, and allow children as young as 12 to change their legal gender.

Then in March last year, the backlash started. Christopher Gillberg, a psychiatrist at Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy, wrote an article in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper warning that hormone treatment and surgery on children was “a big experiment” which risked becoming one of the country’s worst medical scandals.

In April, Uppdrag Granskning, an investigative TV programme, followed up with a documentary profiling a former trans man, Sametti, who regretted her irreversible treatment.

From Colin Wright

Confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people Up to 2020-04-14

Alzheimer’s – Alternative Treatment, Prevention, Scientific Studies

• There are unexplained links between human exposure to aluminium and the incidence, progression and aetiology of Alzheimer’s disease. The null hypothesis which underlies any link is that there would be no Alzheimer’s disease in the effective absence of a body burden of aluminium.  Based upon the premise that urinary aluminium is the best non-invasive estimate of body burden of aluminium patients with Alzheimer’s disease were asked to drink 1.5 L of a silicic acid-rich mineral water each day for five days and, by comparison of their urinary excretion of aluminium pre-and post this simple procedure, the influence upon their body burden of aluminium was determined. Drinking the mineral water increased significantly (P<0.001) their urinary excretion of silicic acid (34.3 ± 15.2 to 55.7 ± 14.2 μmol/mmol creatinine) and concomitantly reduced significantly P=0.037) their urinary excretion of aluminium (86.0 ± 24.3 to 62.2 ± 23.2 nmol/mmol creatinine). The latter was achieved without any significant (P>0.05) influence upon the urinary excretion of iron (20.7 ± 9.5 to 21.7 ± 13.8 nmol/mmol creatinine). The reduction in urinary aluminium supported the future longer-term use of silicic acid as non-invasive therapy for reducing the body burden of aluminium in Alzheimer’s disease. https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-disease/jad00618

Eradicating child abuse in America would reduce the overall rate of depression by more than half, alcoholism by two‐thirds, and suicide, serious drug abuse, and domestic violence by three quarters. It would also have a significantly positive effect on workplace performance, and vastly decrease the need for incarceration.

Research of people with histories of caregiver abuse and neglect consistently demonstrates problems with concentration, anger, panic, depression, food intake, drugs, and sleep, as well as decreased Heart RateVariability, higher levels of stress hormones, and reduced or impaired immune response.

Traumatic life experiences during childhood and adolescence are far more common than expected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that child maltreatment may be the most costly public health issue in the United States, Eradicating child abuse in America would reduce the overall rate of depression by more than half, alcoholism by two‐thirds, and suicide, serious drug abuse, and domestic violence by three quarters. It would also have a significantly positive effect on workplace performance, and vastly decrease the need for incarceration. The current practice of applying multiple distinct comorbid diagnoses to traumatized children prevents a comprehensive treatment approach. Approaching their problems from a framework of memories of discreet traumatic ignores the fact that the damage affects the brain’s neural circuitry and goes well beyond dealing with discrete painful events. Our great challenge is to learn to utilize the brain’s neuroplasticity to reorganize defective brain circuits.