not for everyone, just for a subgroup of the population.
In this case study experiment on a lean mass hyper-responder on a ketogenic diet, Oreo cookie supplementation lowered LDL-C by 273 mg/dL over 16 days, a 71% drop, as compared to a smaller 137 mg/dL peak reduction, a 32.5% drop, with 6 weeks of high-intensity statin therapy. These findings are consistent with the lipid energy model and highlight the need for further studies on this unique lean mass hyper-responder population.
None of @RobertKennedyJr 's views "have any value whatsoever," say the media. But even the author admits RFK's right about fluoride, raw milk, and the danger of Big Pharma. Elites are freaking out because they know RFK will hold them accountable for their gross abuses of power. pic.twitter.com/wHFbRTzVC0
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 14, 2024
Incredible man who invented an ultra simple hydration formula for people with cholera - 0.5L water, 1 fistfull of sugar, 1 pinch of salt. Number of kids dying of diarrhea fell by 90% even as population went up 70% https://t.co/Ln0hXWiw55
— Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 (@aaron_renn) November 10, 2024
Incredible man who invented an ultra simple hydration formula for people with cholera - 0.5L water, 1 fistfull of sugar, 1 pinch of salt. Number of kids dying of diarrhea fell by 90% even as population went up 70% https://t.co/Ln0hXWiw55
— Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 (@aaron_renn) November 10, 2024
The treaty is a fraud of course LINKThe proposed "Pandemic Treaty" is NOT designed to prevent the next pandemic. The World Health Organization has failed to address the obvious fact that regulatory agencies around the world have been captured by pharmaceutical interests. In fact, they are profiting from it. >LINK< It is designed to enable a small group of well-positioned people to profit from the next pandemic.
More here. The WHO's "Prequalification" and "Emergency Use Listing" Racket Are products that are approved, "Prequalified" or listed for emergency use (EUL) by the World Health Organization truly "safe and effective," or is this just another corrupt, money-making racket? James Roguski Nov 07, 2024 Share Leave a comment Type your email... Subscribe Are you aware that the World Health Organization has “prequalified” 272 vaccines? They charge over $100,000 per vaccine! In order for “health related products” to be part of the United Nations procurement system, they must be “prequalified” by the WHO, which charges substantial one-time and ongoing fees in return for their “prequalification.” A “racket” is defined as the act of creating demand for a “service” through extortion or intimidation when such a “service” would not have been needed otherwise. A “racketeer” is a person who engages in organized criminal activity, typically for financial gain.
“Racketeering” is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.
Is the WHO ethically and financially liable for the harm that results from the products that they “prequalify?” Or does their money-making scheme enable them to create an illusion of safety and effectiveness while redirecting blame to the Responsible National Regulatory Agencies? Click on the links below for details: https://extranet.who.int/prequal/vaccines/fees-prequalification https://extranet.who.int/prequal/vaccines/prequalified-vaccines
If manufacturers want their products to be eligible for procurement by United Nations agencies, they must submit to the World Health Organization’s scheme to have their products “prequalified.” The “Pandemic Agreement” is NOT designed to improve health and there is absolutely no evidence that it will prevent future pandemics.
It is actually a corrupt business deal that is designed to dramatically expand the Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex (PHEIC) around the world. It is simply NOT acceptable to spend tens of billions of dollars to increase Big Pharma’s profits under the guise of “sustainable financing” for “geographically diversified local production” to ensure “equitable access to pandemic related products” to combat “pathogens with pandemic potential.”
Hallucinogens; The latest fad.
the latest: Curing anorexia.
psychologically this is a way to cope when the environment is oppressive: an obessive compulsive behavior because by your diet you can at least control one thing in your life (see how both Sisi and Princess Diana's anorexia started because of the oppression not of their marriages alone but the court life pressures on them).
I posted this answer:
I always suspect these studies because they are done
to prove the hallucinogen works.
They also have selected participants:
For example, devout Christians would not take
hallucinogens, but might enter into a study of faith
healing for depression etc.
(for which there are a lot of anecdotes that it works).
So where are these studies?
Ironically, the advocates often cite AmerIndian healing
ceremonies, but ignore the ceremonies are about
communal prayer for the person.
And magic mushrooms don't make you hallucinate
like LSD but merely give you a mild high that makes
you feel like you are part of the entire world. For people
with existential loneliness, this might indeed help them,
but without helping them connect with their family and
society, other problems will result.
Mother Katherine Drexal, a nun who pioneered schools
for minorities, once participated and noted that
the mushroom gave her the same feeling as she
got in deep prayer after taking the Eucharist.
This needs to be examined but probably won't be.
or as one commenter noted:
We saw TB in Africa, but it was still a major problem when I worked in the IHS. Mainly from poverty. this is a Canadian film
Of course it spreads via close contact. When you read about deaths in boarding schools for the indigenous remember some are from TB.
with a rare form of tuberculosis sparked concern and legal action in Louisiana. Now approximately 200 students and staff members at a Georgia high school have undergone tuberculosis testing after a possible exposure on campus.
the article then quotes a local public health doc who says that TB is treatable, so hopefully it is not a case of drug resistant TB.
when I adopted my kids, my oldest had a chest x ray to check if he had TB to be cleared for a visa. The youngest was exempt, because his tb skin test was weakly positive because he got a BCG immunization. However, years later when applying for a job at a nursing home, he was retested and the test was strongly positive. Chest X ray was negative so he was given a course of INH to lower the chance of relapse.
When I got back from Africa, my test was strongly positive, and my chest x ray was negative, and so I too had to take INH for a year.
And our granddaughter Ruby tested positive here in the Philippines and it had to be verified she was on INH before she could get a visa to study in the USA.
Heck, I was required to get a Chest X ray to get a long term visa for the Philippines too. So it's not just the USA, but good medical practice...
How serious could cases of undiagnosed Tuberculosis be?
in 1970, a worker in the US congress cafeteria was found to have open TB,
:WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) —Arrangements were made to day to test members of Con gress and about 14,000 Capitol employes for tuberculosis. The action was taken after health officials learned that two Senate restaurant workers died of TB in recent months and that four other active cases of the contagious disease had been found in the Capitol complex.
until HIV hit, few US doctors had seen cases of TB.
I worked for the US PHS, and American Indians had a high risk because of poverty/crowded living conditions. So there was a debate if we should treat everyone with a positive TB test: The risk of hepatitis had to be weighed against the risk of TB relapse. We finally compromised: Treated the younger under 30s, but later we started treating those with diabetes, which also lowered their resistance to TB.
one of the problems with TB is that like other germs it is becoming resistant to medications: people inadequatly treated, people with HIV or poor immune systems who don't clear the germ with treatment etc..
And then there is the problem of seeing mild cases in people with TB scars: Often all you see is a subtle thickening of the cavity scar. I once picked up a case of this in Mescalero, and we transferred the lady for diagnostic bronchoscopy. Initial tests were negative, but the culture did grow multi drug resistant TB.
so we had to put her on a complicated regime. Luckily we were IHS so we arranged for a public health nurse to administer the medicines twice a week. Alas, after six months, the patient developed signs of liver toxicity, either from the drugs or because of alcohol/illicit drug ingestion (she was a known alcoholic but had been sober for a few years when all this happened), but before we could arrange a recheck to see if she still needed the drug, she disappeared.
Finally, one more TB story: Tuberculosis killed several of our relatives including Lolo's father. When he started medical school he was found to have active tuberculosis. Luckily for him, streptomycin had been found to cure TB, and he got some from the local Americans (Legally because he was a veteran, or on the black market? I never asked) and his TB was cured. The bad news? Streptomycin is toxic to hearing, and he had to wear hearing aids.
some educational lectures here: First the history of TB, the second on treatment.
Via Instapundit:
Yahoonews:
A student sick with tuberculosis could have exposed hundreds at a Georgia high school, amid an alarming global spread of the disease. Local public health officials identified the infected student at Walton High School, in Marietta, the Cobb County School District told USA TODAY in an email. The student with the bacterial disease had contact with about 200 students and faculty, prompting public health officials in Cobb and Douglas counties to conduct tuberculin skin tests Tuesday, according to Valerie Crow, a spokesperson for the local public health department, said.
article notices an upsurge since Covid hit: But doesn't ask two questions: How much is from immune supression from covid or covid vaccine, and how many cases are in migrants who never were screened for TB (required for immigrants).
this article notes that a lot of the upsurge is from unscreened migrants.
this PLOS article is about TB in various migrant populations.
Stanford doctor hailed as ‘intellectual freedom’ leader for challenging gov’t on COVID-19
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Jay Bhattacharya received the American Academy of Sciences and Letters’ top intellectual freedom award on Wednesday for resisting attempts to politically control his scientific work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The academy presents its annual Robert J. Zimmer Medal for Intellectual Freedom to a scholar “who displays extraordinary courage in the exercise of intellectual freedom,” according to its website.
when Covid hit, I watched numerous government news conferences by Dr Blix et all, but this wasn't mentioned. The disturbing part of these conferences is when Trumpieboy suggested stuff (UV light to disinfect stuff, using antiseptics became the drinking bleach hoax, ignoring that certain mouthwashes did cut your risk of covid, HCQ and Ivermectin which was quickly debunked and he was ridiculed) but I never heard about the questioning of the shutdown, which was proposed by Dr. Jay..... More shame me.
Malaria Vivax acquired in Arkansas.
In September 2023, a 10th U.S. case of locally acquired malaria was diagnosed, in Arkansas. ...This represents the 10th autochthonous case identified nationally in 2023, after 20 years without recorded local mosquitoborne malaria transmission in the United States. ...The patient had no reported history of international travel, blood transfusion, organ transplant, or other bloodborne pathogen exposurethis type of malaria, unlike the more dangerous Falciparum Malari, can be dormant for years. The original source was not found. Of course, a person with a fever and symptoms might not go to the doctor, and one wonders if it was in a local who traveled in a malaria area, or in the unscreen migrants who are entering into the USA en mass.
P. vivax and P. ovale are traditionally thought to occupy complementary niches, with P. ovale predominating in Sub-Saharan Africa and P. vivax in the other areas; but their geographical ranges do overlap.
Refugees that arrived from Congo since October 2023 To Arkansas: 108
the southern USA was a malaria area in the past, so those mosquitoes are still there. The local public health dept did start spraying in the area where this case was found.
The real danger might be seen in this case: Dengue Fever in California.
Dengue has an incubation period of 4 to ten daysand is spread by a different mosquito.
Most cases are mild or subclinical, so may not be seen by a physician.
in the recorded case, another asymptomatic case in the same neighborhood was detected. And they swifty started to do anti mosquito spraying etc.
The real danger is that it could continue to spread via asymptomatic or mild cases.
mosquito eradification is especially important since the same mosquito spreads Zika virus and yellow fever.
and remember: one reason for the establishment of the US Public Health Service was the Yellow Fever epidemic that killed thousands in Philadelphia in 1793
history: https://careers.publichealth.iu.edu/blog/2018/10/12/a-brief-history-of-the-public-health-service/
PHS had its origins in the system of marine hospitals to treat sick sailors: In July 16, 1798 the fifth congress passed an Act which was signed by the second President of the United States John Adams. Signed into law the “Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen”. The Act authorized the deduction of twenty cents per month from wages of seamen, for the sole purpose of funding medical care for sick, and disabled seamen, as well as building additional hospitals for the treatment of seamen.This originated in 1798.
The Cass Review damns England’s youth-gender services The largest review ever undertaken in the field of transgender health care is out. It is damning of practices that were commonplace in England until recently and remain widespread in other countries, notably America.
One would think that the Cass commission would have settled the problem, but here in the US the Biden/Harris administration is continuing to push the agenda.
and the poster child for pushing this is Dr Levine, who got her job by being openly trans, even though she promoted the policy to admit infectious covid patients into Pennsylvania nursing homes, which resulted in an estimated 20 thousnd dead elderly. (while removing her own mom from a nursing home to keep her safe).Newsweek article here.
How bad is it? Well, when Andrew Sullivan, a well known gay activist/political commentator, dares to point out the fraud and lies behind this government policy, and cries shame to the Gay community for it's silence in this matter,, you know that maybe the truth behind this fraud/fad may stop being censored by the MSM..
headsup from Imstapundit who notes:
ANDREW SULLIVAN: Rachel Levine Must Resign: A case study in politics and ideology overruling science. With chi ldren as victims. “The broad contours laid out in the brief were already known. But, with discovery, the specific details of private, internal emails make this medical scandal even more vivid.”....
More from Sullivan's post:
An internal email from the Hopkins team concluded that there was “little to no evidence about children and adolescents.” Many WPATH members, we discover, also knew the studies would “reveal little or no evidence and put us in an untenable position in terms of affecting policy or winning lawsuits.”
Italics mine.
so who dares to be a whistle blower>
....
if the Cass investigation blow the whistle in the UK, it was a court case that got evidence of the fraud in this type of surgery
other words, WPATH knows full well that their transing of children has little to no medical evidence behind it.
so why is this Pope is going out of his way to get photo ops with activists pushing this?
And why have US Catholic hospitals have been found to be doing this type of surgery (which is forbidden under Catholic law which forbid removing normal organs for social reasons). But at least the Catholic bishops are trying to stop it. LINK
This fad started after I retired to the Philippines and stopped practicing medicine, but you know, in 40 years of being a physician, I never saw a case. Maybe because I worked with the poor, and the fad seems to be ore common in upper middle class white folk. Or maybe it is because of the autism epidemic means these kids are more vulnerable.
Millions of Pounds of Ready-to-Eat Beef, Chicken Recalled Due to Listeria Affected products may have been used in ready-to-eat products that are “on store shelves or in consumers’ refrigerators or freezers,” or available for use by restaurants and other establishments.
almost every week, we read about similar food recalls in the USA. Imagine how common such things happen in other countries.
this is an important issue, since a longer shelf life means more food. How do you keep food safe and cheap? One answer is Chemicals that prolong shelf life but keep food cheap enough for ordinary folks (especially here in the poorer areas of the world). RFK Jr points out these cause long term health problems but hey, the cost benefit ratio means well nourished poor people.
Food recalls not only mean less food available to eat, but foods contaminated with common germs are a big health risk.
Germs cause diarrhea. Usually from the 4 F problem (contaminated FOOD (usually from not being stored correctly...the poor here don't have refrigerators), FINGERS, (not washing hands), FECES (fertilizer not washed off of vegetables, also contaminated water from poorly placed latrines) and FLIES (that carry germs on their feet that land on your food).
So how do you stop bacterial contamination of meats and cheeze and fresh vegetables? Keep it clean, wash your hands, store it properly.
But for countries where food processing plants (not local farmers a mile away) supply your food, one overlooked answer to contamination is radiation to kill germs.
Here is an article about it in the journal Foods in 2023 which is actually discussing using radiation to prevent food contamination with pathogenic germs:
But first they note that this high tech expensive technology should not be the main way to stop food poisoning:
It is essential to note that irradiation is just one aspect of a comprehensive approach to ensuring the microbial safety of meat. Other interventions, such as good manufacturing practices, hygiene controls, and appropriate storage and handling practices, are also crucial for reducing the risk of contamination
but for food processing plants, radiation is another way that could help:
Irradiation has been studied extensively for its efficacy in reducing microbial contamination of meat. By exposing the food to ionizing radiation, the latter reduces or eliminates harmful microorganisms that can cause foodborne illness. Previous research showed that irradiation could effectively reduce levels of pathogens such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli as well as levels of spoilage organisms, leading to improved microbial safety and a reduced risk of foodborne illness.
another technical article discussing not only radiation but UV light Ozone microwaves etc. And how these technologies might help not just with bacteria but with viruses.
this is a news report summary of using radiation from eight years ago:
this is a lecture from MIT from 2019,...It is more technical but he is a good teacher that makes it easy to follow his arguments..
at three minutes in, he notes that you often find small bugs in rice.
We find this is a problem: we grow and sell organic brown rice to upscale supermarkets in Manila and nearby cities. There is no way our small business could afford to radiate the rice to kill the bugs, so we use more traditional ways to keep our rice from spoilage.
When we package the rice, we sift the rice so the small bugs fall through the screen, and then blowtorch it lightly to kill the eggs that didn't detach (and would result in live bugs months later) but not enough to harm the rice.
We also pack it in vacuum bags which extends the shelf life and keeps it dry so it doesn't spoil as quickly.
But then our rice is organic, i.e. no insecticide, and it is brown rice, meaning it has a limited shelf life so it is eaten before the tiny surviving eggs hatch.
As our city modernizes, we have modern supermarkets now that have the same standards of US supermarkets (and higher prices than the traditional markets AKA Palenkes).
But our cook usually buys fresh food every day at the Palenke down the street.
What is a Palenke? An open air market with small vendors selling their wares.
This video by a local comedian is about the wonderfulness of the Filipino Palenke.
there is an experimental vaccine for the Marburg virus.
this is from the WHO site:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/marburg-virus-disease
Marburg virus disease (MVD), formerly known as Marburg haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. The average MVD case fatality rate is around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 24% to 88% in past outbreaks. Early supportive care with rehydration, and symptomatic treatment improves survival. There are currently no approved vaccines or antiviral treatments for MVD, but a range of vaccines and drug therapies are under development. Rousettus aegyptiacus, a fruit bat of the Pteropodidae family, is considered the natural host of Marburg virus. The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through human-to-human transmission. Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks.
there was an outbreak in Zimbabwe when I was there according to this site. But you know, we had isolated cases of severe hemorrhagic fever of unknown origin, so I wonder if this was marburg not diagnosed.
apparently it ccan spread person to person but this requires contact with body fluids.
Once introduced in the human population, Marburg virus can spread through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g. bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids. Health-care workers have frequently been infected while treating patients with suspected or confirmed MVD. This has occurred through close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced. Transmission via contaminated injection equipment or through needle-stick injuries is associated with more severe disease, rapid deterioration, and, possibly, a higher fatality rate. Burial ceremonies that involve direct contact with the body of the deceased can also contribute in the transmission of Marburg virus.
Lassa fever is another hemorragic disease in western Africa.
Yes there is an Ecohealth link: Poor guys they were wanting to investigate these diseases but because they were behind the Wuhan debacle they didn't get their funded.
Ecohealth also wanted to place a multimillion dollar lab here in the Philippines and was stopped when the local senators found that the grant was from the US Dept of Defense, not from the HHS or another civilian health department.
via Tea At Trianon
The CIA was paid to lie to you about Covid. From the House Oversight Committee, we learn in a bombshell report that “The CIA was paid to change its assessment on the origins of Covid-19.” If this whistleblower testimony is validated, the U.S. government has deliberately violated the Covid Origins Act. The government also refused to provide a list of names of scientists who fell ill while working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab, even though they were aware of who these scientists were.CIA was paid to mislead the public on Covid. pic.twitter.com/FRwmmZ7k2S
— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) September 16, 2024
From Instapundit:
that article is useless. For more information check the actual CDC article LINK
The article states:
During March 13–July 19, 2024, among a total of 111,856 SARI patients identified, 100,260 were excluded because of missing influenza RT-PCR results (70,055); ineligibility or not being in a vaccine target group (14,245);
Italics mine....so most folk with flu like symptoms were not tested at all: meaning the study was based on a small subgroup.
This evaluation suggests that while only one in five SARI patients had received the 2024 influenza vaccine, those who were vaccinated were at significantly lower risk for hospitalization from any influenza virus infection, including the predominant influenza A(H3N2) and influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 subtypes.
huh? One in five of the small subgroup had gotten the vaccine. Were they tested in the ER or doctor's offices?
Although South American countries prioritized young children, persons with comorbidities, and older adults for vaccination to prevent influenza illness complications, the documented influenza vaccination coverage levels (21.3%) were below pre–COVID-19 norms
The study was from South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. But most of the data comes from Brazil. And it is about one strain of Influenza A, not Influenza B.
These countries have a growing middle class but also slums with malnutrition and drug use. And farmers and slum dwellers and working class folk don't go to hospital unless very sick: If you are old you might just die at home. So the shot might help a bit, but this study is deeply flawed. the study does show that the flu vaccine works a bit.
Summary: Get the shot if you are high risk. I am unsure about the data in children: I did see a few severe cases of children very very ill in the 1998 epidemic, but they were ill with secondary staph pneumonia.
I also should note that one rural clinic where I was filling in for another doc did collect data on anyone who met the fever etc. criteria: this was to alert the CDC if there might be an epidemic going around. But we didn't check the blood test to affirm it was infuenza.
