Thank you so much. Interestingly, I automate hospitals (PACS, EHR, etc.) and work with a LOT of doctors. My wife had a very strange disease, hyponatremia (sp?), low salt, that the very top neurologists at U of Chicago Medical School, Northwestern, and then on to experts at Mayo never diagnosed. It took a naturopath locally to figure it…
Thank you so much. Interestingly, I automate hospitals (PACS, EHR, etc.) and work with a LOT of doctors. My wife had a very strange disease, hyponatremia (sp?), low salt, that the very top neurologists at U of Chicago Medical School, Northwestern, and then on to experts at Mayo never diagnosed. It took a naturopath locally to figure it out. At her worse, she couldn't even walk across the room or cut her food. Now she is fine.
In fact, Mercola reported June 17, 2022, that “according to a 2011 Health Grades report, http://hg-article-center.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/7b/de/dc25d2c94d25ad88c9e1688c9adc/HealthcareConsumerismHospitalQualityReport2011.pdf the incidence rate of medical harm occurring in the U.S. is estimated to be over 40,000 harmful and/or lethal errors daily; in 2014 10.5% of American doctors admitted they’d made a major medical mistake in the last three months; and in 2016, Dr. Marty Makary published a report showing an estimated 250,000 Americans die from medical mistakes each year — about 1 in 10 patients — making it the third leading cause of death, right after cancer and heart disease.”
Starfield herself died of medical error, reported her husband, also a doctor: Her June 2011, death her husband attributed to the adverse effects of the blood thinner Plavix taken in combination with aspirin. However, her death certificate makes no mention of this possibility. In the August 2012 issue of Archives for Internal Medicine2 her husband, Dr. Neil A. Holtzman, writes, in part: "Writing in sorrow and anger, I express up front my potential conflict of interest in interpreting the facts surrounding the death of my wife, Dr. Barbara Starfield ... Because she died while swimming alone, an autopsy was required. The immediate cause of death was 'pool drowning,' but the underlying condition, 'cerebral hemorrhage,' stunned me ...Barbara started taking low-dose aspirin after coronary insufficiency had been diagnosed three years before her death, and clopidogrel bisulfate (Plavix) after her right main coronary artery had been stented six months after the diagnosis. She reported to the cardiologist that she bruised more easily while taking clopidogrel and bled longer following minor cuts. She had no personal or family history of bleeding tendency or hypertension. The autopsy findings and the official lack of feedback prompted me to call attention to deficiencies in medical care and clinical research in the United States reified by Barbara's death and how the deficiencies can be rectified. Ironically, Barbara had written about all of them."
Similarly, Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, MD, in Does Healthcare Produce Health? writes “People die in their quest for medical care. The numbers of these deaths vary. In the 2015 issue of Best Hospitals from U.S. News & World Report, an article on patient safety disclosed that one analysis "put the number of preventable deaths alone each year at 440,000." In 2016, a study by surgeons at Johns Hopkins University presented medical error as the third leading cause of death in America. The New York Times reported in 1998 that over 100,000 people die each year from adverse drug reactions. Yet, media attention to the roughly 500,000 treatment-related deaths a year in the U.S. is scant.” The Covid malfeasance is not unique.
Thanks. But that's the key point... they all missed it. We're talking Mayo, Northwestern, U of Chicago. Or maybe they took it (I don't remember now) and misinterpreted it. Key point is that medicine is part art, part science, IMHO. This was also about 12 years ago, perhaps things have changed relative to panels, etc. That part I don't know...
It seems that Western (Rockefeller) medicine is mostly enforced ignorance medicine. It is also enforced sick care and shuns even outlaws health care. Healthy people are not profitable but the sick certainly are.
Look at pix of Rockefeller. I think it was Lincoln who said anyone over 40 is responsible for their own face. His is the look of hell being put into flesh
What I've seen in recent years is that the new crop of GPs pretty much ignore labs. Family members have Kaiser who haven't had a CBC or Comprehensive Metabolic Panel in over 10 years of going in regularly for their annual check up. It's all about flu vaccine, mammogram, and now COVID vaccine. When they have had elevated or low labs, they dismiss it as irrelevant or NBD. Most recently, family member went in with acute abdominal swelling, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea. She had done labs through LabCorp due to time it would take to get an MD appt. Platelets were over 600 along with elevated neutrophils. GP dismissed it as a flu or stomach bug. Turns out it was ovarian cancer. Elevated platelets and neutrophils should have immediately been a red flag for some sort of acute infection, inflammation, or cancer.
My daughter (in her thirties) had hyponatremia from continuing to drink her gallon of water a day while she was away from her breast-feeding baby. She was taken to a small hospital in rural Pennsylvania where they immediately recognized the problem and got an IV into her right away.
I’m so glad to read this. My mom had a stent installed several years ago after they nicked her carotid artery while trying to clean it out.
They prescribed plavix and a full grain of aspirin. After a few months of ridiculous bruising, I reduced her aspirin to a low dose, still keeping the plavix.
She continued to bruise terribly and bleed a great deal when any little cut happened. I finally completely eliminated the aspirin.
Just yesterday I told her that I’d like to get blood work checked comparing her now and then switch to strictly aspirin and check it again.
I have a bit of irregular heartbeat, afib, but not bad. But rather than aspirin, I use nattokinase, which the Japanese eat a ton of; lubrokinase is also good. Mercola.com sells that, and natto you can get online. I use NOW foods. Garlic - Kyolic brand - also thins the blood. But then if you are taking RXs, you need to make sure you don't mess that up! If you have a good doctor they might be hip to this stuff. I usually now look for D.Os. first....
But I'm not a doctor, don't play one on TV, and in fact don't even watch doctor shows on TV, so check out those links above rather than my layman ideas.... of course, they do sell stuff, but there is a LOT of free info, and they all seem legit.
AMD , such an important and thoughtful essay . The things I see in triage that put the patient in triage / emergency department that were caused by another physician is mind boggling . Also , The patient that gets a million dollar workup with no answers and honestly, just sitting down, taking the time and listening to the patient long enough .. .. many times they tell you what’s wrong . Physicians are so quick to give medication for cholesterol ( one of my pet peeves) and never discuss the components of a healthy lifestyle. Happy Friday !🤗
"Cholesterol" (lipids) one of my peeves too. I'm a layman, but got interested enough to read (some) of "the literature" especially about statins, but also HDL, LDL and such. Imagine my surprise when, in a nutshell, I learnt that statins really do reduce "bad" numbers (usu. LDL) the incidence of cardio-vascular "events" every so slightly. Problem is they hardly move the needle at all with all-cause mortality.
My latest humorus find is this study. To save time, I recommend you open the pdf version which I'll comment upon below.
Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and All-Cause Mortality according to Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Level in the Elderly, a Nationwide Study”
It discusses what they call the "LDL-C paradox." For reference, consider that current medical wisdom holds that any LDL reading above 100 indicates a risk for CVD disease (which may be true, but again -- isn't the overall death rate a more important metric?)
Exhibit A:
Look at the table on P. 726: note how incidence of all-cause death drops, dramatically, as LDL levels rise.
Exhibit B:
Now look at graph C on P. 728: Non-statin users showed a significantly higher death rate, the lower was their LDL. Elsewhere in the text, the "paradox" applies most strongly to the non-statin users who were relatively health (no diabetes, existing heart disease, etc.) Taking this data point as presented, it shows a lower all-cause death rate, in fact dramatically less, at least in a certain patient cohort (non-statin takers), in fact their LDL was far higher than the supposedly ideal level (100).
Assuming the study data had integrity, this "paradox" or anomaly alone would lead an impartial judge to posit that the lipid/cholesterol hypothesis has flaws. I'm far from an expert, but some of the newer research indicates a more nuanced view of lipids. As I understand it, HDL is not universally "good," nor LDL "bad." The new metrics may be particle size, the presence and potential damage done by oxidized or glycolated HDL/LDL, and so forth.
In the broader issue, it is far from clear that a high-fat diet is evil. There never was consensus about that and it appears even after more than half a century the evidence is far from supportive of that case. Yet, it's been academic, government and medical dogma for decades that saturated fat is "bad" and should be reduced.
As study authors say, "more research is needed." That's often true. But you, dear reader, can do alot of that yourself. There are usually other similar papers, indeed a ton of them, that you can wade through or at least browse, and perhaps gain perspective on the issues.
I concur - and Dr Zoe Harcombe torpedoes the drivel about cholesterol and animal fats very adroitly too.
Agree 100% about RRR vs ARR - a very big fraud also trotted out with MRNA experimental GT CV19 drugs......Dr MK confirms there is no (proven) connection between cholesterol and CVHD and that epithethial cell damage is a far stronger indicator ( how odd - such an action is also a factor in said vaccine induced damage); studies which determined the former are decades old and ignored., surprise surprise - his 3 books are an education how poor your GP can be..... and how beneficial is the (indolent and allegedly unhealthy ) lifestyle of the French ..
No surprise that statins trials concentrated on whether they lowered cholesterol - which they did - but never on reducing mortality which they don't. UK NICE determined cholesterol should be "5" - from a study in US that was funded very substantially by......you guessed it.
UK GPs do not study nutrition and diet to anything other than a token amount......and yet dispense pills by the truckload. QED.
Relative risk is almost always deployed by pharmaceutical companies to make numbers look significant when they aren't. Another tactic is to use surrogate endpoints (such as cholesterol) instead of the actual desired outcome.
I only have a high school education, and even I have learned enough to do rudimentary critical assessment of some scientific studies.
I am in the UK; left school at 18..now have two professional qualifications.one currently benchmarked to a Masters degree.
When people understand that RRR is a comparison between those of the SAME "injected" cohort who did and did not experience the "virus", for example, which the drug trial PI reports as "efficacy" , rather than a comparison - ARR- between the control and placebo groups to demonstrate TRUE efficacy of the injected vs the non injected, they should rightly feel totally conned and become very very angry. This should/will increase by a factor of one hell of a lot when they realise this is the way Big Pharma has fraudulently conducted trials, among many many other criminal practices, for decades. When they THEN realise that the Health Regulatory agencies have known about this , again for decades, actively participated in the cover up and in the case of UK MHRA Chief drug enabler Raine, told barefaced lies that "no corners were cut", their anger should be such as to fire them into action.
A cursory review of Pfizer's trial reports/trial PI's conduct since 2019 tells you everything - but why do you expect when you allow a business which has been fined to the tune of many bns of $ prior to 2019 to take 100% control of the trial metrics for an experimental GT mRNA drug which uses two elements, LNP/ induced production of Sp 1/2 - both proven toxic humans years before 2019 - purely for profit?
"It was never about health". Like you, I do not consider myself blessed with great knowledge - but by dogged effort, IQ ~125/130, and very bad personal experience, I know the fraud of "surrogate endpoints". Trust in authority died some time ago - and will never ever return as long as I have breathe in my lungs
In a Dark Horse podcast, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying have explained how even saline will give that 83% efficacy rating by using the not-officially-vaccinated-until-two-weeks dodge. This wasn't original to them, but it was a very illuminating conversation.
"Eat Rich, Live Long" by Ivor Cummings & Dr Jeffrey Gerber summarizes the research on cholesterol, insulin, metabolic disease etc. and 1/3rd of it is about how readers can apply the research to their lives. I highly recommend it.
This is the crux of the problem, same as economics: "If you lined up in a straight line all the PhD economists in the world, they still couldn't come to a conclusion."
Medical care properly is an art, not a science. The Bible says for a good reason, in Ps. 139 "I praise you because I am *** fearfully and wonderfully made...**** "
Thanks for putting the reference in. It is by doing stuff like this that we will overcome the massive evil that the vile Soros, Schwab, ad nauseam have put in place
The world also seems have forgotten the lesson of Dr. Barbara Starfield, MD., of the Johns Hopkins School of Health, and her study published in JAMA, 2000, the well-known (at the time) US Healthcare Third Leading Cause of Death. Basically, the US medical system is the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer, killing, at time of study in 2000, 225,000 people a year, including 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries,7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals, 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals, 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals, 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines. The Alliance for Human Research Protection, which advances voluntary, informed consent to medical intervention has a summary of this here, as does the Society for Iatrogenic Awareness in its article Medical Errors: Still the Third Leading Cause of Death. Then, of course, since we need to lock down the world for Covid, perhaps we should permanently lock down the world – and particularly one of the big drivers, illegal immigration – over tuberculosis. In 2019 there were an estimated 1,418,000 deaths from TB. There’s just gotta be some way for Fauci and the WHO to milk this one! Or as Dr Travis Harding MD says, pandemics are about control, so they can keep us busy and preoccupied while politicians do other things with the other hand (exactly what magicians do.) Masks have zero to do, per Dr. Travis Harding, MD, with getting or passing the virus and the countries with the highest vax rate also have the highest, “by far,” Covid spread.
In fact, you are hurting your immune system by not having continual, normal exposure as you lock yourself down from normal interactions. Basically, they are just using this all to make money off of you he summarizes.
I get salt in my diet. I try not to go overboard. I purchase the pink Himalayan salt to cook with and add to my food. The typical table salt I hear has been stripped of too many minerals.
Yes, regular bleached salt is bad news. Pink Himalaya or Utah Redmond is good. We also use Celtic sea salt, but due to microplastics, moving to the pink.
I haven't examined Himalayan. However, Redmond (Utah) "Real Salt" is full of rust and sand. Someone gave me a bag because it was grinding down what was left of his teeth. I dissolved, decanted, and dried it. Labeled it Whitemond salt.
Pretty much already posted what I know about it. They mine it near Redmond, Utah; sand, rust, and all. Somewhat sticky, so must have some other minerals such as calcium and magnesium. I took the supernatant to dryness; no attempt to recrystallize pure sodium chloride.
We’ve just been through a year of near-hellish conditions with the side effects of Metformin! How many millions in N America take this medication? You know, I believe all the gluten-free and non-dairy products are being consumed by people who just need to stop taking Metformin, which causes real bowel (loose stool) issues, and doctors don’t even mention it as a side effect. Our GP and naturopath did not seem to make a connection between the hydrating effects (and miserable diarrhea) from Metformin. It took a gastroenterologist to suggest stopping that diabetic pill (forType 2). The new alternate is Jardiance and (along with berberine) seems to be effective without destroying our lives. I am so tired of trusting the new medical professionals.
Metformin has also been reported with some brands to have what goes into rocket fuel. You can probably just web search (please! Do NOT use vile Google!) for "metformin rocket fuel"
I take Metformin not for blood sugar, but for IGF-1, which is sky high. take 2 pills a week not a day. Curious to know, high level, what side effects. Now, one thing re. blood sugar, try time restricted eating (try to go 16 hours with no food) and **get off the seed oils*** (do a search on youtube for Dr. Chris Knobbe, lineolic acid) DUMP canola, soy, peanut, corn, safflower, grapeseed, sunflower and only use a GOOD brand olive (most are adulterated, California Olive ranch is a good brand - when opening, put a drop of astaxanthin - cheap, use the one from the pluvalis something or other algae, not the petrochemical derived one - NOW brands is good in to prevent oxidation). Use avocado (also only a good brand, as it is often adulterated) coconut, or ghee (clarified butter)
What is ignored is that metformin has immune suppressing activity. Gut pain being dominate because of enlarged lymphnodes. BMS pulled the brand years ago, but then came back with new massaged studies and it was re-introduced.
Thank you for your input. I know you cannot diagnose over Substack (though maybe these days that might be better!!!) but I'm only taking one tab (maybe two) per week of metformin. I picked this idea up from Doctor from Cornell med school talking at a conference (I automate hospitals for a living, PACS, EHRs, etc) . My own endocrinologist (I am in Naperville/Aurora IL area, DuPage Medical Gp, now Duly... and totally into the Big Medical stuff now....) said there is still not a lot known about IGF-1, except of course it is a growth agent - good for kids, not for someone in his 60s. Mine was up around 290 or so. I had a bit of a bout of cancer 5 years ago (fine now), but don't want any more "surprises." It's now half that doing 1/wk metformin, 3x/week berberine, walnuts (below) and time restricted eating, among other things. But again, I know you can't diagnose over substack!!!!
Another article said about walnuts and IGF-1 "they could have an extraordinary secret weapon against cancer: a trio of potent antioxidants that include tellimagrandin, juglone, and morin. Not only do these compounds reduce oxidative stress and inflammation that can trigger cancer, but studies have shown that they can suppress levels of a hormone known as IGF-1, which researchers say plays a key role in breast cancer. Research seems to support the cancer-fighting powers of walnuts. In one animal study, scientists found that the equivalent of two handfuls a day of walnuts cut risk of breast cancer by 50 percent.7 And, a study published in the International Journal of Oncology reported that morin has strong anticancer activity against human colon cancer cells.
The number one defense against all pathogens is a vibrant and strong immune system. Maintaining a strong immune system through out life ensures a long life. When there are lifestyle issues and nutrient deficiencies then health issues develop, then it is more difficult to beat cancer and other health issues. Google: "Lifestyle Medicine: A brief review 2017" and learn. That's why I embrace "N2E+ for Life". There is a blood testing company called "www.spectracell.com" that tests for nutrient deficienes. Sad to say I learned it was bought by the chinese in 2017. They are forward looking and understand the value. I address some of these issues on my substack. thomasabraunrph@substack.com
Many thanks - great information. Will do more checking. The patient was on four pills per day…far too many, it seems. Yet, his blood sugar was regulated. We use mostly evoo and avocado oils. Ta!
Cool. Check out time restricted eating (I just have a nice green tea for breakfast, or some lemon in seltzer, which is not enough calories to do anything. Your body then uses stored fat for fuel, not sugar, and you become metabolically flexible. But do check out Dr Chris Knobbe at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM Of course, this may or may not work for you, but a lot of this stuff costs little to nothing, just lifestyle change...
Take a look at greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com, and drjockers.com. I read them all, very helpful. I also take berberine - no probs with blood sugar, but something a bit related called IGF-1 (insulin growth factor 1), so trying berberine for that. My endocrinologist said they really don't know much about IGF-1, but I did find a doc from Cornell Univ. who said they were using Metformin for this, so I tried it (2 pills per week, NOT 2 per day as prescribed) and my IGF-1 is down by half (this MAY be related to cancer). Problem is, some brands of metformin - not all apparently - have rocket fuel residue in them. You could probably search for "metformin rocket fuel" to find out the brands. As noted below, PLEASE dont use vile, evil, disgusting Google or Chrome. Instead use Brave.com browser, which has its own search engine, or use Ecosia, SwissCows, Presearch, Freespoke. DuckDuckGo and StartPage not recommended any more, as probably go-opte.d
Blaise Vanne- I also have this condition (low sodium in blood) but I do not have any issues from it (yet). If I may ask: what type of treatment did the naturopath suggest? Electrolytes? My doctor just keeps telling me to drink less water, and use more salt. One problem for me is that I do not like salt very much.
"Side effects may include suicidal ideations or shooting up your local high school with a rifle." Just some gallows humor there.
Unless I'm mistaken, the old FAA regulations (I'm talking about well before the Cvoid-19 "vaccines," when they had rigid standards for things like the heart health of pilots) were quite strict. There was a whole list of prescription drugs which precluded one from even flying private craft, and I think psych med was one of the disqualifiers. I imagine standards for commercial aviation were stricter yet. Slipping standards seem to be a feature of our modern society. That's probably great if you're a woke social justice warrior fighting for"equity," or even to address staffing shortfalls, but not so much for the overall benefit and safety of the public.
Look into humic and fulvic acid. Or maybe a clean liquid multi mineral solution. I'm sure there's something safe and effective available that won't cause more problems than it solves. Been meaning to get me some of that humic and fulvic acid. Food grade Diatomaceous earth is a good multi-mineral product too. I forgot about the mineral copper and the Vitamin A (retinol) combination. I recently watched a video with Dr. Mercola and another doctor stating how people are told they have an iron deficiency where they may actually have a copper deficiency, which I hear isn't usually tested for.
I guess you're talking about the humic and the fulvic acid. If that be the case. I guess it could be one of those things that may work better for someone who has milder health issues to deal with. I'm sure that you and many doctors have learned or discovered through research or experience that different medicines work differently in different bodies. I like the way Dr. Lamm put it a couple of years ago. "One man's medicine is another man's poison.
Thanks Genevieve (beautiful name! If we had had a girl, that would have been a top choice!) Of course salt is the main RX for this - but NOT "regular," bleached salt, which is bad news. Rather, Celtic sea salt, or better Himalayan (or Utah) pink salt, as no microplastics. Her problem was that she was drinking FAR too much water. So it was pretty much just the salt. Someone else in this thread mentioned issues with the Redmond pink salt having sand (see below). I hope he/she can provide more details on that.
But I wonder if you might like the sea or pink salt better? It does taste a little different. Then, if it were me, I would check out sites like greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com, or drjockers.com, I would also just do a web search (Please! Get off "first do do only evil" Google and their Chrome! Brave.com is a good browser with search engine, or use search engines Presearch, Ecosia, SwissCows or Freespoke. Startpage and DuckDuckGo are questionable. Search for hypoleutremia (sp?). If you are near the Chicago area, I can put you in touch with a good naturopath.
Thank you so much. Interestingly, I automate hospitals (PACS, EHR, etc.) and work with a LOT of doctors. My wife had a very strange disease, hyponatremia (sp?), low salt, that the very top neurologists at U of Chicago Medical School, Northwestern, and then on to experts at Mayo never diagnosed. It took a naturopath locally to figure it out. At her worse, she couldn't even walk across the room or cut her food. Now she is fine.
Dr. Leeman Henry, PhD, Univ. of Edinborough reviews the same issue here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rem6zmyNZA (40 min unfortunately) and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEAWyfuEWY&t=52s . Of course there is the famed study by Dr. Barbara Starwood, MD, out of Johns Hopkins, finding a couple decades ago that almost a quarter million die every year from medical caused death. https://iatrogenics.org/responsibility/72-societalimpact/280-medical-errors-still-the-third-leading-cause-of-death I believe this is also on JAMA, where it was originally published. Ironically Starfield probably died from a medical error.
Famed “left the reservation” Pulitzer-nominated reporter Jon Rappoport’s interview with Starfield here https://newswithviews.com/Rappoport/jon100.htm
In fact, Mercola reported June 17, 2022, that “according to a 2011 Health Grades report, http://hg-article-center.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/7b/de/dc25d2c94d25ad88c9e1688c9adc/HealthcareConsumerismHospitalQualityReport2011.pdf the incidence rate of medical harm occurring in the U.S. is estimated to be over 40,000 harmful and/or lethal errors daily; in 2014 10.5% of American doctors admitted they’d made a major medical mistake in the last three months; and in 2016, Dr. Marty Makary published a report showing an estimated 250,000 Americans die from medical mistakes each year — about 1 in 10 patients — making it the third leading cause of death, right after cancer and heart disease.”
Starfield herself died of medical error, reported her husband, also a doctor: Her June 2011, death her husband attributed to the adverse effects of the blood thinner Plavix taken in combination with aspirin. However, her death certificate makes no mention of this possibility. In the August 2012 issue of Archives for Internal Medicine2 her husband, Dr. Neil A. Holtzman, writes, in part: "Writing in sorrow and anger, I express up front my potential conflict of interest in interpreting the facts surrounding the death of my wife, Dr. Barbara Starfield ... Because she died while swimming alone, an autopsy was required. The immediate cause of death was 'pool drowning,' but the underlying condition, 'cerebral hemorrhage,' stunned me ...Barbara started taking low-dose aspirin after coronary insufficiency had been diagnosed three years before her death, and clopidogrel bisulfate (Plavix) after her right main coronary artery had been stented six months after the diagnosis. She reported to the cardiologist that she bruised more easily while taking clopidogrel and bled longer following minor cuts. She had no personal or family history of bleeding tendency or hypertension. The autopsy findings and the official lack of feedback prompted me to call attention to deficiencies in medical care and clinical research in the United States reified by Barbara's death and how the deficiencies can be rectified. Ironically, Barbara had written about all of them."
Similarly, Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, MD, in Does Healthcare Produce Health? writes “People die in their quest for medical care. The numbers of these deaths vary. In the 2015 issue of Best Hospitals from U.S. News & World Report, an article on patient safety disclosed that one analysis "put the number of preventable deaths alone each year at 440,000." In 2016, a study by surgeons at Johns Hopkins University presented medical error as the third leading cause of death in America. The New York Times reported in 1998 that over 100,000 people die each year from adverse drug reactions. Yet, media attention to the roughly 500,000 treatment-related deaths a year in the U.S. is scant.” The Covid malfeasance is not unique.
Important information - thank you!
The most basic blood panel should reveal hyponatremia.
Thanks. But that's the key point... they all missed it. We're talking Mayo, Northwestern, U of Chicago. Or maybe they took it (I don't remember now) and misinterpreted it. Key point is that medicine is part art, part science, IMHO. This was also about 12 years ago, perhaps things have changed relative to panels, etc. That part I don't know...
It seems that Western (Rockefeller) medicine is mostly enforced ignorance medicine. It is also enforced sick care and shuns even outlaws health care. Healthy people are not profitable but the sick certainly are.
Look at pix of Rockefeller. I think it was Lincoln who said anyone over 40 is responsible for their own face. His is the look of hell being put into flesh
What I've seen in recent years is that the new crop of GPs pretty much ignore labs. Family members have Kaiser who haven't had a CBC or Comprehensive Metabolic Panel in over 10 years of going in regularly for their annual check up. It's all about flu vaccine, mammogram, and now COVID vaccine. When they have had elevated or low labs, they dismiss it as irrelevant or NBD. Most recently, family member went in with acute abdominal swelling, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea. She had done labs through LabCorp due to time it would take to get an MD appt. Platelets were over 600 along with elevated neutrophils. GP dismissed it as a flu or stomach bug. Turns out it was ovarian cancer. Elevated platelets and neutrophils should have immediately been a red flag for some sort of acute infection, inflammation, or cancer.
That is amazing...
My daughter (in her thirties) had hyponatremia from continuing to drink her gallon of water a day while she was away from her breast-feeding baby. She was taken to a small hospital in rural Pennsylvania where they immediately recognized the problem and got an IV into her right away.
I’m so glad to read this. My mom had a stent installed several years ago after they nicked her carotid artery while trying to clean it out.
They prescribed plavix and a full grain of aspirin. After a few months of ridiculous bruising, I reduced her aspirin to a low dose, still keeping the plavix.
She continued to bruise terribly and bleed a great deal when any little cut happened. I finally completely eliminated the aspirin.
Just yesterday I told her that I’d like to get blood work checked comparing her now and then switch to strictly aspirin and check it again.
I’d like to eliminate any side effects of plavix.
I would check out Drjockers.com, greenmedinfo.com, or mercola. com
I have a bit of irregular heartbeat, afib, but not bad. But rather than aspirin, I use nattokinase, which the Japanese eat a ton of; lubrokinase is also good. Mercola.com sells that, and natto you can get online. I use NOW foods. Garlic - Kyolic brand - also thins the blood. But then if you are taking RXs, you need to make sure you don't mess that up! If you have a good doctor they might be hip to this stuff. I usually now look for D.Os. first....
But I'm not a doctor, don't play one on TV, and in fact don't even watch doctor shows on TV, so check out those links above rather than my layman ideas.... of course, they do sell stuff, but there is a LOT of free info, and they all seem legit.
AMD , such an important and thoughtful essay . The things I see in triage that put the patient in triage / emergency department that were caused by another physician is mind boggling . Also , The patient that gets a million dollar workup with no answers and honestly, just sitting down, taking the time and listening to the patient long enough .. .. many times they tell you what’s wrong . Physicians are so quick to give medication for cholesterol ( one of my pet peeves) and never discuss the components of a healthy lifestyle. Happy Friday !🤗
"Cholesterol" (lipids) one of my peeves too. I'm a layman, but got interested enough to read (some) of "the literature" especially about statins, but also HDL, LDL and such. Imagine my surprise when, in a nutshell, I learnt that statins really do reduce "bad" numbers (usu. LDL) the incidence of cardio-vascular "events" every so slightly. Problem is they hardly move the needle at all with all-cause mortality.
My latest humorus find is this study. To save time, I recommend you open the pdf version which I'll comment upon below.
Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and All-Cause Mortality according to Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Level in the Elderly, a Nationwide Study”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35255552/
It discusses what they call the "LDL-C paradox." For reference, consider that current medical wisdom holds that any LDL reading above 100 indicates a risk for CVD disease (which may be true, but again -- isn't the overall death rate a more important metric?)
Exhibit A:
Look at the table on P. 726: note how incidence of all-cause death drops, dramatically, as LDL levels rise.
Exhibit B:
Now look at graph C on P. 728: Non-statin users showed a significantly higher death rate, the lower was their LDL. Elsewhere in the text, the "paradox" applies most strongly to the non-statin users who were relatively health (no diabetes, existing heart disease, etc.) Taking this data point as presented, it shows a lower all-cause death rate, in fact dramatically less, at least in a certain patient cohort (non-statin takers), in fact their LDL was far higher than the supposedly ideal level (100).
Assuming the study data had integrity, this "paradox" or anomaly alone would lead an impartial judge to posit that the lipid/cholesterol hypothesis has flaws. I'm far from an expert, but some of the newer research indicates a more nuanced view of lipids. As I understand it, HDL is not universally "good," nor LDL "bad." The new metrics may be particle size, the presence and potential damage done by oxidized or glycolated HDL/LDL, and so forth.
In the broader issue, it is far from clear that a high-fat diet is evil. There never was consensus about that and it appears even after more than half a century the evidence is far from supportive of that case. Yet, it's been academic, government and medical dogma for decades that saturated fat is "bad" and should be reduced.
As study authors say, "more research is needed." That's often true. But you, dear reader, can do alot of that yourself. There are usually other similar papers, indeed a ton of them, that you can wade through or at least browse, and perhaps gain perspective on the issues.
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is an excellent source for cholesterol-skeptic reading.
Looking at the raw data from a big statin study was where I first learned about how relative risk is used to misrepresent pharmaceutical efficacy.
I concur - and Dr Zoe Harcombe torpedoes the drivel about cholesterol and animal fats very adroitly too.
Agree 100% about RRR vs ARR - a very big fraud also trotted out with MRNA experimental GT CV19 drugs......Dr MK confirms there is no (proven) connection between cholesterol and CVHD and that epithethial cell damage is a far stronger indicator ( how odd - such an action is also a factor in said vaccine induced damage); studies which determined the former are decades old and ignored., surprise surprise - his 3 books are an education how poor your GP can be..... and how beneficial is the (indolent and allegedly unhealthy ) lifestyle of the French ..
No surprise that statins trials concentrated on whether they lowered cholesterol - which they did - but never on reducing mortality which they don't. UK NICE determined cholesterol should be "5" - from a study in US that was funded very substantially by......you guessed it.
UK GPs do not study nutrition and diet to anything other than a token amount......and yet dispense pills by the truckload. QED.
Relative risk is almost always deployed by pharmaceutical companies to make numbers look significant when they aren't. Another tactic is to use surrogate endpoints (such as cholesterol) instead of the actual desired outcome.
I only have a high school education, and even I have learned enough to do rudimentary critical assessment of some scientific studies.
I am in the UK; left school at 18..now have two professional qualifications.one currently benchmarked to a Masters degree.
When people understand that RRR is a comparison between those of the SAME "injected" cohort who did and did not experience the "virus", for example, which the drug trial PI reports as "efficacy" , rather than a comparison - ARR- between the control and placebo groups to demonstrate TRUE efficacy of the injected vs the non injected, they should rightly feel totally conned and become very very angry. This should/will increase by a factor of one hell of a lot when they realise this is the way Big Pharma has fraudulently conducted trials, among many many other criminal practices, for decades. When they THEN realise that the Health Regulatory agencies have known about this , again for decades, actively participated in the cover up and in the case of UK MHRA Chief drug enabler Raine, told barefaced lies that "no corners were cut", their anger should be such as to fire them into action.
A cursory review of Pfizer's trial reports/trial PI's conduct since 2019 tells you everything - but why do you expect when you allow a business which has been fined to the tune of many bns of $ prior to 2019 to take 100% control of the trial metrics for an experimental GT mRNA drug which uses two elements, LNP/ induced production of Sp 1/2 - both proven toxic humans years before 2019 - purely for profit?
"It was never about health". Like you, I do not consider myself blessed with great knowledge - but by dogged effort, IQ ~125/130, and very bad personal experience, I know the fraud of "surrogate endpoints". Trust in authority died some time ago - and will never ever return as long as I have breathe in my lungs
Yet another dodgy technique…
In a Dark Horse podcast, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying have explained how even saline will give that 83% efficacy rating by using the not-officially-vaccinated-until-two-weeks dodge. This wasn't original to them, but it was a very illuminating conversation.
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"Eat Rich, Live Long" by Ivor Cummings & Dr Jeffrey Gerber summarizes the research on cholesterol, insulin, metabolic disease etc. and 1/3rd of it is about how readers can apply the research to their lives. I highly recommend it.
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Thanks for this.
This is the crux of the problem, same as economics: "If you lined up in a straight line all the PhD economists in the world, they still couldn't come to a conclusion."
Medical care properly is an art, not a science. The Bible says for a good reason, in Ps. 139 "I praise you because I am *** fearfully and wonderfully made...**** "
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Thanks for putting the reference in. It is by doing stuff like this that we will overcome the massive evil that the vile Soros, Schwab, ad nauseam have put in place
Thank u S D … it’s all angled into big pharmas’ pocketbooks. …,like a giant cash register.
I don’t think plavix is meant for long term use.
Well, apparently in killed Barbara Starfield..
The world also seems have forgotten the lesson of Dr. Barbara Starfield, MD., of the Johns Hopkins School of Health, and her study published in JAMA, 2000, the well-known (at the time) US Healthcare Third Leading Cause of Death. Basically, the US medical system is the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer, killing, at time of study in 2000, 225,000 people a year, including 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries,7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals, 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals, 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals, 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines. The Alliance for Human Research Protection, which advances voluntary, informed consent to medical intervention has a summary of this here, as does the Society for Iatrogenic Awareness in its article Medical Errors: Still the Third Leading Cause of Death. Then, of course, since we need to lock down the world for Covid, perhaps we should permanently lock down the world – and particularly one of the big drivers, illegal immigration – over tuberculosis. In 2019 there were an estimated 1,418,000 deaths from TB. There’s just gotta be some way for Fauci and the WHO to milk this one! Or as Dr Travis Harding MD says, pandemics are about control, so they can keep us busy and preoccupied while politicians do other things with the other hand (exactly what magicians do.) Masks have zero to do, per Dr. Travis Harding, MD, with getting or passing the virus and the countries with the highest vax rate also have the highest, “by far,” Covid spread.
In fact, you are hurting your immune system by not having continual, normal exposure as you lock yourself down from normal interactions. Basically, they are just using this all to make money off of you he summarizes.
I get salt in my diet. I try not to go overboard. I purchase the pink Himalayan salt to cook with and add to my food. The typical table salt I hear has been stripped of too many minerals.
Yes, regular bleached salt is bad news. Pink Himalaya or Utah Redmond is good. We also use Celtic sea salt, but due to microplastics, moving to the pink.
I haven't examined Himalayan. However, Redmond (Utah) "Real Salt" is full of rust and sand. Someone gave me a bag because it was grinding down what was left of his teeth. I dissolved, decanted, and dried it. Labeled it Whitemond salt.
That's depressing. I looked into this a while back and thought it was the best salt on the market.
I still think it's the best salt. If it had sand in it I would think I would have noticed by now. Crunch, crunch.
Can you provide more details on Redmond? Would love to find out more details.
Pretty much already posted what I know about it. They mine it near Redmond, Utah; sand, rust, and all. Somewhat sticky, so must have some other minerals such as calcium and magnesium. I took the supernatant to dryness; no attempt to recrystallize pure sodium chloride.
Thank you. I may contact Redmont to inquire further.
We’ve just been through a year of near-hellish conditions with the side effects of Metformin! How many millions in N America take this medication? You know, I believe all the gluten-free and non-dairy products are being consumed by people who just need to stop taking Metformin, which causes real bowel (loose stool) issues, and doctors don’t even mention it as a side effect. Our GP and naturopath did not seem to make a connection between the hydrating effects (and miserable diarrhea) from Metformin. It took a gastroenterologist to suggest stopping that diabetic pill (forType 2). The new alternate is Jardiance and (along with berberine) seems to be effective without destroying our lives. I am so tired of trusting the new medical professionals.
One of the less appreciated side effects is it lowering testosterone
Metformin has also been reported with some brands to have what goes into rocket fuel. You can probably just web search (please! Do NOT use vile Google!) for "metformin rocket fuel"
I take Metformin not for blood sugar, but for IGF-1, which is sky high. take 2 pills a week not a day. Curious to know, high level, what side effects. Now, one thing re. blood sugar, try time restricted eating (try to go 16 hours with no food) and **get off the seed oils*** (do a search on youtube for Dr. Chris Knobbe, lineolic acid) DUMP canola, soy, peanut, corn, safflower, grapeseed, sunflower and only use a GOOD brand olive (most are adulterated, California Olive ranch is a good brand - when opening, put a drop of astaxanthin - cheap, use the one from the pluvalis something or other algae, not the petrochemical derived one - NOW brands is good in to prevent oxidation). Use avocado (also only a good brand, as it is often adulterated) coconut, or ghee (clarified butter)
And yes, berberine is very good for blood sugar
I use greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com and drjockers.com for a lot of my info.
Kind regards, Jim
What is ignored is that metformin has immune suppressing activity. Gut pain being dominate because of enlarged lymphnodes. BMS pulled the brand years ago, but then came back with new massaged studies and it was re-introduced.
I am not a fan of metformin.
Thank you for your input. I know you cannot diagnose over Substack (though maybe these days that might be better!!!) but I'm only taking one tab (maybe two) per week of metformin. I picked this idea up from Doctor from Cornell med school talking at a conference (I automate hospitals for a living, PACS, EHRs, etc) . My own endocrinologist (I am in Naperville/Aurora IL area, DuPage Medical Gp, now Duly... and totally into the Big Medical stuff now....) said there is still not a lot known about IGF-1, except of course it is a growth agent - good for kids, not for someone in his 60s. Mine was up around 290 or so. I had a bit of a bout of cancer 5 years ago (fine now), but don't want any more "surprises." It's now half that doing 1/wk metformin, 3x/week berberine, walnuts (below) and time restricted eating, among other things. But again, I know you can't diagnose over substack!!!!
Another article said about walnuts and IGF-1 "they could have an extraordinary secret weapon against cancer: a trio of potent antioxidants that include tellimagrandin, juglone, and morin. Not only do these compounds reduce oxidative stress and inflammation that can trigger cancer, but studies have shown that they can suppress levels of a hormone known as IGF-1, which researchers say plays a key role in breast cancer. Research seems to support the cancer-fighting powers of walnuts. In one animal study, scientists found that the equivalent of two handfuls a day of walnuts cut risk of breast cancer by 50 percent.7 And, a study published in the International Journal of Oncology reported that morin has strong anticancer activity against human colon cancer cells.
The number one defense against all pathogens is a vibrant and strong immune system. Maintaining a strong immune system through out life ensures a long life. When there are lifestyle issues and nutrient deficiencies then health issues develop, then it is more difficult to beat cancer and other health issues. Google: "Lifestyle Medicine: A brief review 2017" and learn. That's why I embrace "N2E+ for Life". There is a blood testing company called "www.spectracell.com" that tests for nutrient deficienes. Sad to say I learned it was bought by the chinese in 2017. They are forward looking and understand the value. I address some of these issues on my substack. thomasabraunrph@substack.com
Did your homework!
Question is what to take for high IGF1, which is implicated in cancer? I take 1 tab once or twice a week (not per day)
Excellent, thx for this update
Many thanks - great information. Will do more checking. The patient was on four pills per day…far too many, it seems. Yet, his blood sugar was regulated. We use mostly evoo and avocado oils. Ta!
Cool. Check out time restricted eating (I just have a nice green tea for breakfast, or some lemon in seltzer, which is not enough calories to do anything. Your body then uses stored fat for fuel, not sugar, and you become metabolically flexible. But do check out Dr Chris Knobbe at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM Of course, this may or may not work for you, but a lot of this stuff costs little to nothing, just lifestyle change...
Kind regards, Jim (aka "Blaise")
That approach works quite well!
Take a look at greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com, and drjockers.com. I read them all, very helpful. I also take berberine - no probs with blood sugar, but something a bit related called IGF-1 (insulin growth factor 1), so trying berberine for that. My endocrinologist said they really don't know much about IGF-1, but I did find a doc from Cornell Univ. who said they were using Metformin for this, so I tried it (2 pills per week, NOT 2 per day as prescribed) and my IGF-1 is down by half (this MAY be related to cancer). Problem is, some brands of metformin - not all apparently - have rocket fuel residue in them. You could probably search for "metformin rocket fuel" to find out the brands. As noted below, PLEASE dont use vile, evil, disgusting Google or Chrome. Instead use Brave.com browser, which has its own search engine, or use Ecosia, SwissCows, Presearch, Freespoke. DuckDuckGo and StartPage not recommended any more, as probably go-opte.d
Or Yandex!
Watch out for metformin and your liver .. berberine .. please read for yourselves .
I guess they forgot the old saying if you hear hoofbeats think horses, not a zebra.”
Yet another example of how many in the medical profession have forgotten how to observe and apply reason to their analysis carefully.
Yikes.
I’m happy to hear that you’re loved one is OK.
Blaise Vanne- I also have this condition (low sodium in blood) but I do not have any issues from it (yet). If I may ask: what type of treatment did the naturopath suggest? Electrolytes? My doctor just keeps telling me to drink less water, and use more salt. One problem for me is that I do not like salt very much.
SSRIs also cause hyponatremia.
"Side effects may include suicidal ideations or shooting up your local high school with a rifle." Just some gallows humor there.
Unless I'm mistaken, the old FAA regulations (I'm talking about well before the Cvoid-19 "vaccines," when they had rigid standards for things like the heart health of pilots) were quite strict. There was a whole list of prescription drugs which precluded one from even flying private craft, and I think psych med was one of the disqualifiers. I imagine standards for commercial aviation were stricter yet. Slipping standards seem to be a feature of our modern society. That's probably great if you're a woke social justice warrior fighting for"equity," or even to address staffing shortfalls, but not so much for the overall benefit and safety of the public.
Look into humic and fulvic acid. Or maybe a clean liquid multi mineral solution. I'm sure there's something safe and effective available that won't cause more problems than it solves. Been meaning to get me some of that humic and fulvic acid. Food grade Diatomaceous earth is a good multi-mineral product too. I forgot about the mineral copper and the Vitamin A (retinol) combination. I recently watched a video with Dr. Mercola and another doctor stating how people are told they have an iron deficiency where they may actually have a copper deficiency, which I hear isn't usually tested for.
That is part of the root cause protocol. It's helped some of my patients and not done much for others.
I guess you're talking about the humic and the fulvic acid. If that be the case. I guess it could be one of those things that may work better for someone who has milder health issues to deal with. I'm sure that you and many doctors have learned or discovered through research or experience that different medicines work differently in different bodies. I like the way Dr. Lamm put it a couple of years ago. "One man's medicine is another man's poison.
Hopefully you're not still using processed table salt
Thanks Genevieve (beautiful name! If we had had a girl, that would have been a top choice!) Of course salt is the main RX for this - but NOT "regular," bleached salt, which is bad news. Rather, Celtic sea salt, or better Himalayan (or Utah) pink salt, as no microplastics. Her problem was that she was drinking FAR too much water. So it was pretty much just the salt. Someone else in this thread mentioned issues with the Redmond pink salt having sand (see below). I hope he/she can provide more details on that.
But I wonder if you might like the sea or pink salt better? It does taste a little different. Then, if it were me, I would check out sites like greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com, or drjockers.com, I would also just do a web search (Please! Get off "first do do only evil" Google and their Chrome! Brave.com is a good browser with search engine, or use search engines Presearch, Ecosia, SwissCows or Freespoke. Startpage and DuckDuckGo are questionable. Search for hypoleutremia (sp?). If you are near the Chicago area, I can put you in touch with a good naturopath.
Kind regards....