After Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced two “measles-associated” deaths and called for vaccination, Lancaster County’s coroner said his office recorded no deaths caused by measles. The dispute has drawn scrutiny to Shapiro’s undisclosed financial ties to vaccine manufacturers and a pending regulation that would expand his health department’s authority.

-Brenda Baletti PhD

First, here is much of Brenda Baletti’s excellent August 27 article that was published by Children’s Health Defense:

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro stood in Lancaster County on Tuesday and announced two “measles-associated deaths” — the first the commonwealth has reported in 35 years — calling them “preventable” and urging residents to get vaccinated.

Within a day, the county’s own coroner publicly disputed the state’s characterization.

On Tuesday, a Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) press release reported two measles-associated deaths in unvaccinated Lancaster County residents. The department initially withheld the individuals’ ages, medical circumstances and immediate causes of death, citing privacy concerns.

On Wednesday, Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons said on X that the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office had recorded zero deaths caused by measles — only one death of a person who tested positive for measles.

The coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that one of the deaths involved a newborn who died shortly after birth from a lacerated spleen. Measles antibodies were present in postmortem testing, but Diamantoni said the death was not caused by measles.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a “measles-related death” as a death in someone with a positive measles test that occurs within 30 days of a measles rash onset “and is not due to other unrelated causes” such as trauma. The WHO standard raises questions about how the Pennsylvania health authorities classified the infant’s death.

DOH spokesperson Neil Ruhland told The Defender that the department classifies a death “measles-associated” if “laboratory or epidemiologic evidence of measles is present,” even when the medical certifier or coroner doesn’t find measles was the immediate cause.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Debra Bogen said on X both individuals “tested positive for measles” and that DOH is not required to report deaths to coroners. The department has not disclosed any information about the second death.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Shapiro sparred over the announcement. Shapiro blamed Kennedy and the Trump administration for circulating vaccine “misinformation.” He declined help from the federal government with the ongoing measles outbreak.

After the conflicting claims from DOH officials and the coroner’s office made headlines, Kennedy said on X that Shapiro’s announcement of two measles deaths on Tuesday appeared premature and may have been “altogether fabricated” by one of his staffers hoping to score a political win.

Kennedy called Shapiro’s Tuesday press conference “a replay of the Democrats’ COVID playbook: fearmongering, misinformation, finger-pointing, and the weaponization of infectious disease fears for political gain.”

Pennsylvania has deep financial ties to vaccine industry

At the podium on Tuesday, Shapiro didn’t disclose his administration’s extensive financial relationships with vaccine manufacturers specifically, and the pharmaceutical industry broadly.

Investigative journalist Sayer Ji documented roughly $5.5 billion in public and private investment in commonwealth-backed pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies under Shapiro, including about $300 million in direct support from Pennsylvania.

That total includes a $10.65 million grant Shapiro personally announced to flu vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur on June 26 — 60 days before the Lancaster press conference — and $21 million in commonwealth support for a GSK vaccine-manufacturing expansion in Lancaster County itself.

The GSK expansion project is just minutes from where the press conference was held. Ji reported that the project is “the largest Commonwealth-supported economic development project in Lancaster County history.”

Additional commonwealth-backed investment has gone to Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson/Janssen Biotech, Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories (also in Lancaster County), and Innovate in PA 2.0, a tax-credit program supporting startup capital and a statewide clinical trial network.

On Oct. 1, 2025, Shapiro signed an executive order stating that Pennsylvania “manufactures more than one-half of all vaccines administered in the United States.”

The order was intended to position the state to maintain its own vaccine guidance independent of federal recommendations, should the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alter the childhood vaccine schedule.

DOH and governor work to expand health department powers

While the reports of measles deaths drew national attention, the Shapiro administration was separately advancing a proposed rewrite of the commonwealth’s communicable and non-communicable disease regulation.

The draft regulation was published Aug. 8, with public comment open through Sept. 21 — meaning the two unresolved measles deaths became national news 17 days after the regulation’s publication.

The proposed rule would significantly expand the DOH’s authority. The proposal includes expanding the list of reportable diseases from 52 to 125 and adding an open-ended “emerging disease” category.

It also calls for broadening immunization-reporting requirements and formalizing access to medical records, facilities and schools during investigations.

Provision 27.60 of the proposed regulation gives the DOH authority to order disease-control measures — like masking, social distancing and vaccine mandates — for disease “prevention, containment or mitigation.”

Researcher James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D. said the proposed rewrite appears specifically designed to give the state the legal authority that it lacked to implement such measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Link to Brenda Baletti’s full article: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/coroner-contradicts-pennsylvania-health-officials-measles-did-not-cause-newborn-death/

Celia Farber noted that there is a pattern: Pennsylvania is waging a WAR on the Amish, on exemptions, on religion, on home schooling, and on home births. Here are some excerpts of her August 28 article, including fascinating posts by the Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons, and the link to Celia’s full piece at the end:

It wasn’t just a little deceptive, a little wrong. Its entire proto-premises were wrong; the thing it said happened had not only not happened but could, in fact, not happen.

There is no such thing as a newborn baby dying of measles, at birth, vaccinated or not.

Infants are not “vaccinated” for measles or anything else within hours of birth, especially while dying of a ruptured spleen—a claim I also would like to know more about. Any time they are less concerned with this family’s “privacy.”

We’re starting with the alleged infant, as the alleged second “individual” may be a ghost or hallucination.

RED PSY OP FLAGS ON STEROIDS

“I’ve received no information from any of them.”

“You don’t just get to say that this happened, and then everything else around it is top secret.”

—Josh Parsons

Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons, in this 4 minute clip, walks through his investigation, and his futile attempts—repeated calls over several days— to get any replies (not even stonewalling) from:

—Gov. Shapiro’s office

—LGH Penn Medicine (Shapiro was there, on the ground, on the 25th.)

—Brian Pasquale, Director Of Public Safety (was at least reachable, said he had no information.)

Those who did speak to Parsons, at length, were officials at the coroner’s office, and the coroner himself—Dr. Stephen Diamantoni. They all said no measles deaths had occurred.

Josh Parsons’ corrective commentary on X here.

Parts of it here:

No Such Thing

In another post, Dr. James Thorp called a ruptured spleen in a newborn after delivery is “extremely rare.”

But let’s allow that it happened.

How did this particular baby (boy? girl?) who died at birth, at home, die of something so extremely rare, and how was it targeted for a propaganda campaign? Why are the parents vanished, along with all details, as all the propaganda operators bray like mules in the press but refuse to speak to the County Commissioner, or quote the findings of the Coroner?

The rest of Celia Farber’s article is here:

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/battleground-lancaster-the-measles

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One of the oldest proven therapies in medicine is sunlight exposure, which effectively treated the 1918 influenza, tuberculosis, and various other diseases.

A large epidemiological study discovered that women with higher solar UVB exposure had half the incidence of breast cancer, and men half the incidence of fatal prostate cancer. This 50% reduction greatly exceeds the effectiveness of current prevention and treatment approaches. Likewise, unnatural light has been repeatedly observed to worsen cancer outcomes.

A 20 year prospective study of 29,518 Swedish women found that sunlight avoiders were 60% more likely to die overall (and 130% more likely to die than the highest sun exposure group).

The following is a must-read article, which is foundational to your family’s health. A Midwestern Doctor explains the truth about sunlight, which modern medicine has obscured for decades. With great thanks to AMD for their amazing research and writing, as always:

Dermatology’s Crusade Against The Sun

Untangling Dermatology’s Massive Skin Cancer Scam

By A Midwestern Doctor, June 25 2026

Story At a Glance:

•Sunlight is crucial for health, and avoiding it doubles mortality rates and cancer risk.

•Skin cancers are the most common cancers in the U.S., leading to widespread “advice” to avoid the sun. However, the deadliest skin cancers are linked to a lack of sunlight.

•The dermatology field, aided by a top marketing firm, rebranded themselves as skin cancer (and sunlight) fighters, becoming one of the highest-paid medical specialties.

•Despite billions spent annually, skin cancer deaths haven’t significantly changed.

•Since skin cancer removals are so profitable, the dermatology profession has not only hyped up sunlight hysteria but also buried a variety of effective and affordable skin cancer treatments.

I always found it odd that everyone insisted I avoid sunlight and wear sunscreen during outdoor activities, as I noticed that sunlight felt great and caused my veins to dilate, indicating the body deeply craved sunlight. Later, I learned that blocking natural light with glass (e.g., with windows or eyeglasses) significantly affected health, and that many had benefitted from utilizing specialized glass that allowed the full light spectrum through. This ties into one of my favorite therapeutic modalities, ultraviolet blood irradiation, which produces a wide range of truly remarkable benefits by putting the sun’s ultraviolet light inside the body.

Once in medical school, aware of sunlight’s benefits, I was struck by dermatologists’ extreme aversion to it. Patients were constantly warned to avoid sunlight, and in northern latitudes, where people suffer from seasonal affective disorder, dermatologists even required students to wear sunscreen and cover most of their bodies indoors. At this point my perspective changed to “This crusade against the sun is definitely coming from the dermatologists” and “What on earth is wrong with these people?”

The Monopolization of Medicine

Throughout my life, I’ve noticed the medical industry will:

•Promote healthy activities people are unlikely to do (e.g., exercising or quitting smoking).

•Promote unhealthy activities industries make money from (e.g., eating processed foods or taking a myriad of harmful pharmaceuticals).

•Attack beneficial activities that are easy to do (e.g., sunbathing or consuming egg yolks, butter and raw dairy).

Much of this issue appears rooted in the controversial history of the American Medical Association (AMA). In 1899, the struggling organization revitalized itself by offering the AMA seal of approval to manufacturers who simply disclosed their ingredients and advertised in AMA publications. This strategy boosted AMA’s advertising revenue fivefold and its physician membership ninefold in a decade. For example, the AMA widely encouraged cigarette smoking, even when it was known to be dangerous:

The AMA then monopolized medicine by establishing a general medical education council, that allowed them to become the national accrediting body for medical schools, effectively eliminating the teaching of competing medical practices like homeopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, and, to a lesser extent, osteopathy, as states often denied licenses to graduates from “low-rated” schools.

The AMA then further solidified this monopoly by having the media widely promote AMA campaigns against “medical quackery” (e.g., treatments they couldn’t buy the rights to) and mobilizing the FDA or FTC against competitors. Many remarkable medical innovations hence were successfully erased from history and part of my life’s work (which I am slowly trying to introduce here) and much of what I use in practice are the therapies the AMA erased from history.

These monopolistic tactics never stopped. For example, after Dr. Pierre Kory testified to the Senate about using ivermectin to treat COVID-19, he faced intense media and professional backlash. Professor William B. Grant, then emailed Kory, stating that the same thing had been done to vitamin D research for decades.

The Benefits of Sunlight

One of the oldest proven therapies in medicine is sunlight exposure, which effectively treated the 1918 influenza, tuberculosis, and various other diseases. The success of sunbathing even inspired the development of ultraviolet blood irradiation.

Given its safety, effectiveness, free availability and lack of a lobbyist to protect it, it’s hence plausible that those aiming to monopolize medicine would seek to restrict public access to it. Medicine’s campaign against sunlight has been so effective that many are unaware of its benefits, including:

1. Mental Health: Sunlight is crucial for mental well-being, notably in conditions like seasonal affective disorder, but its benefits extend further, as unnatural light exposure disrupts circadian rhythms.

2. Cancer Prevention: A large epidemiological study discovered that women with higher solar UVB exposure had half the incidence of breast cancer, and men half the incidence of fatal prostate cancer. This 50% reduction greatly exceeds the effectiveness of current prevention and treatment approaches. Likewise, unnatural light has been repeatedly observed to worsen cancer outcomes.

3. Longevity and Heart Health: A 20 year prospective study of 29,518 Swedish women found that sunlight avoiders were 60% more likely to die overall (and 130% more likely to die than the highest sun exposure group). Notably, smokers who got sunlight had the same mortality risk as non-smokers who avoided the sun as the greatest benefit of sunlight exposure is a reduction in death from cardiovascular disease.

Note: the link between losing natural light and conditions such as infertility, diabetes, cancer, poor circulation, depression, ADHD, and poor academic performance is discussed further here.

Skin Cancer

According to the American Academy of Dermatology, skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, with current estimates suggesting that one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime. Approximately 9,500 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with skin cancer every day.

The Academy emphasizes that UV exposure is the most preventable risk factor for skin cancer, advising people to avoid indoor tanning beds and protect their skin outdoors by seeking shade, wearing protective clothing, and applying broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher.

The Skin Cancer Foundation states that more than two people die of skin cancer in the U.S. every hour, which sounds alarming. Let’s break down what all this means.

Note: a key reason why skin cancer is “the most common cancer” is that it’s highly visible and easily diagnosed through simple full body skin examination. In contrast, detailed autopsies routinely uncover many undiagnosed — and often harmless — internal tumors that people carried at the time of death without ever knowing.

Basal Cell Carcinoma

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer, making up 80% of cases, with about 2.64 million Americans diagnosed annually. Risk factors include excessive sun exposure, fair skin, and family history. BCC primarily occurs in sun-exposed areas like the face.

BCC rarely metastasizes and has a near 0% fatality rate, but it frequently recurs (65%-95%) after removal. The standard excision approach often doesn’t address underlying causes, leading to repeated surgeries and potential disfigurement.

While BCCs can grow large if left untreated, they aren’t immediately dangerous. Treatment is necessary but not urgent. Alternative therapies can effectively treat large BCCs without disfiguring surgery.
Note: since the COVID-19 vaccines came out, I have heard of a few cases of BCC metastasizing in the vaccinated, but it is still extraordinarily rare.

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common skin cancer, with an estimated 1.8 million cases in the U.S. Its incidence varies widely due to sunlight exposure, ranging from 260 to 4,970 cases per million person-years. Previously thought to be four times less common than BCC, SCC is now only half as common.

Unlike BCC, SCC can metastasize, making it potentially dangerous. If removed before metastasis, the survival rate is 99%; after metastasis, it drops to 56%. Typically caught early, SCC has an average survival rate of 95%. Around 2,000 people die from SCC each year in the U.S.

Note: unlike more lethal skin cancers, it is not required to report BCC or SCC. Consequently, there is no centralized database tracking their occurrence, so the official figures are largely estimates.

Melanoma

Melanoma occurs at a rate of 218 cases per million persons annually in the United States, with survival rates ranging from 99% to 35% depending on its stage when diagnosed, averaging out to 94%. However, despite only comprising 1% of all skin cancer diagnoses, Melanoma is responsible for most skin cancer deaths. In total, this works out to a bit over 8000 deaths each year in the United States. Since survival is greatly improved by early detection, many guides online exist to help recognize the common signs of a potential melanoma.

What’s critically important to understand about melanoma is that while it’s widely considered to be linked to sunlight exposure—it’s not. For example:

• Patients with solar elastosis, a sign of sun exposure, were 60% less likely to die from melanoma.

• Melanoma predominantly occurs in areas of the body with minimal sunlight exposure, unlike SCC and BCC, which are linked to sun-exposed regions.

• Outdoor workers, despite significantly higher UV exposure, have lower rates of melanoma compared to indoor workers.

• Many sunscreens contain toxic carcinogens (to the point Hawaii banned them to protect coral reefs). Conversely, existing research indicates widespread sunscreen use has not reduced skin cancer rates, and in some cases increases it (e.g., a 2023 UK study of over 470,000 people found that frequent sunscreen use was associated with a 1.9-to-3.9-fold increased risk across all four skin cancers studied—BCC, SCC, melanoma in-situ, and invasive melanoma).
  Note: It’s worth pausing on how the 2023 study’s authors handled their own result. Having found that frequent sunscreen use tracked with more skin cancer, they did not consider that their model might be wrong. Instead they labeled it a “paradox,” proposed that sunscreen users must be getting more sun, or not reapplying enough, or buying sunscreen after their diagnosis, and then concluded the data “demonstrate the importance of adequate and frequent sunscreen use.” This is the same reflex behind the “French paradox,” the puzzle of why the French have less heart disease despite eating more saturated fat, which was only ever a paradox if you assumed saturated fat caused heart disease to begin with (an assumption resting on a far shakier foundation than the public was led to believe, as I covered in my article on the manufactured war on cholesterol that was used to push toxic and ineffective—but lucrative—statins upon everyone).

• •A mouse study designed to study malignant melanoma found mice kept under simulated daylight develop tumors at a slower and diminished rate compared to those under cool white fluorescent light.

• There has been a significant increase in many areas from melanoma, something which argues against sunlight being the primary issue as it has not significantly changed in the last few decades. For instance, consider this data from Norway’s cancer registry on malignant melanoma:

Note: in addition to these three cancers, other (much rarer) skin cancers also exist, most of which have not been linked to sunlight exposure.

The Great Dermatology Scam

If you consider the previous section, the following should be fairly clear:

•By far the most common “skin cancer” is not dangerous.

•The “skin cancers” you actually need to worry about are a fairly small portion of the existing skin cancers.

• Sunlight exposure does not cause the most dangerous cancers.

In essence, there’s no way to justify “banning sunlight” to “prevent skin cancer,” as the “benefit” from this prescription is vastly outweighed by its harm. However, a very clever linguistic trick bypasses this contradiction—a single label, “skin cancer,” is used for everything, which then selectively adopts the lethality of melanoma, the frequency of BCC, and the sensitivity to sunlight that BCC and SCC have.

This has always really infuriated me, so I’ve given a lot of thought to why they do this.

Note: since the pharmaceutical industry ultimately revolves around drug sales rather than drug development (e.g., significantly more is spent on marketing than drug development^1,2,3,4) you will routinely see clever but deceptive linguistic tricks used to promote a wide swath of drugs.

The Transformation of Dermatology

In the 1980s, dermatology was one of the least desirable specialties in medicine (e.g., dermatologists were often referred to as pimple poppers). Now however, dermatology is one of the most coveted specialties in medicine as dermatologists make 2-4 times as much as a regular doctor, but have a much less stressful lifestyle.

A relatively unknown blog (Robert Yoho uncovered¹) by Dermatologist David J. Elpern, M.D. at last explained what happened:

Over the past 40 years, I have witnessed these changes in my specialty and am dismayed by the reluctance of my colleagues to address them. This trend began in the early 1980s when the Academy of Dermatology (AAD) assessed its members over 2 million dollars to hire a prominent New York advertising agency to raise the public’s appreciation of our specialty. The mad men recommended “educating” the public to the fact that dermatologists are skin cancer experts, not just pimple poppers; and so the free National Skin Cancer Screening Day was established [through a 1985 Presidential proclamation].

These screenings serve to inflate the public’s health anxiety about skin cancer and led to the performance of vast amounts of expensive low-value procedures for skin cancer and actinic keratosis (AKs). At the same time, pathologists were expanding their definitions of what a melanoma is, leading to “diagnostic drift” that misleadingly increased the incidence of melanoma while the mortality has remained at 1980 levels. Concomitantly, non-melanoma skin cancers are being over-treated by armies of micrographic surgeons who often treat innocuous skin cancers with unnecessarily aggressive, lucrative surgeries.

A 2021 journal article provides additional context to Dr. Elpern’s remarks:

Skin cancer screenings began at the community level in the 1970s. The first nationwide public skin cancer screening program was started by the American Academy of Dermatology in 1985 after the rising incidence and mortality rate of malignant melanoma gained increasing attention in the early 1980s. In the early years of the program, President Ronald Reagan signed proclamations creating the “National Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection Week,” and the “Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week,” and the total body skin examination became the gold standard for skin cancer screening.

Note: this article also shares that the American government has long been extremely doubtful of the value of these screenings and the dermatology field has faced continual challenges to surmount this obstacle they’ve had to lobby for solutions to.

This heightened awareness led to a dramatic increase in skin cancer screenings and diagnoses, fueled by fears instilled in the public about sun exposure. Alongside this massive sales funnel, there was a significant expansion in the incredibly lucrative Mohs micrographic surgery, promoted as a gold standard for treating skin cancers due to its precision and efficacy in sparing healthy tissue. However, critics (correctly) argue that Mohs surgery is often overused, driven by financial incentives rather than clinical necessity, contributing to immense healthcare costs (e.g., the rate of use of Mohs surgery among Medicare beneficiaries in the United States grew 700 percent between 1992 and 2009¹ in 2012 over $2 billion was paid out for Mohs surgeries¹).

Note: we frequently see patients who developed complications from these surgeries.

The commercialization of dermatology was further amplified by the entry of private equity firms into the field. These firms acquired dermatology practices, sometimes staffing them with non-physician providers to maximize profitability. This trend raised concerns about quality of care, with reports of misdiagnoses and over-treatment, particularly in vulnerable populations like nursing home residents—to the point the New York Times authored a 2017 investigation on this exploitative industry.

Moreover, the shift towards profit-driven models in dermatology has sparked ethical debates within the medical community. Some dermatologists have voiced concerns over the commodification of skin cancer treatments and the erosion of traditional doctor-patient relationships in favor of more transactional interactions. Despite these challenges, dermatology remains a lucrative field, attracting both medical professionals and investors seeking financial gain from skin care services.

Many in turn are victimized by these exploitative practices. The popular comedian Jimmy Dore for example recently covered the Great Dermatology Scam after realizing he’d been subjected to it.

After Jimmy Dore’s segment, this story went viral, and as best as I can tell, was seen by between 5 to 10 million people. A few weeks after Dore’s segment, two surveys were released highlighting an “epidemic” of insufficient sun protection which the New York Times (like clockwork) then covered. Since it was such a classic medical propaganda piece, I will quote a few lines from it:

Two new surveys suggest a troubling trend: Young adults seem to be slacking on sun safety.

14 percent of adults under 35 believed the myth that wearing sunscreen every day is more harmful than direct sun exposure

Young adults are often unaware of what sun damage looks like and how best to prevent it,

Ultraviolet rays — whether from tanning beds or direct sunlight — can damage skin and cause skin cancer, which can be deadly

Experts said that Gen Z is uniquely susceptible to misinformation about sunscreen and skin cancer that has proliferated on social media platforms like TikTok.

Generously apply — and reapply — sunscreen. UV rays can damage skin even when it’s cloudy or chilly, so experts recommend wearing sunscreen every day.

Likewise, due to the recent public attention on the 2023 study showing sunscreen made you more likely to die from skin cancer, a similar media campaign emerged which investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson aptly summarized today:

Note: I must emphasize that some skin cancers (e.g., many melanomas) require immediate removal. My point here is not to avoid dermatologists entirely but to consider seeking a second opinion from another dermatologist as there are many excellent and ethical dermatologists out there.

Changes in Skin Cancer

Given how much is being spent to end skin cancer, one would expect some results. Unfortunately, like many other aspects of the cancer industry that’s not what’s happened. Instead, more and more (previously benign) cancers are diagnosed, but for the most part, no significant change has occurred in the death rate.

The best proof for this came from a study which found that almost all of the increase in “skin cancer” was from stage 1 melanomas (which rarely create problems and which the authors attributed to diagnostic drift rather than an actual increase):

Another study illustrates exactly what the result of our war on skin cancer has accomplished:

Finally, since many suspected the COVID vaccines might lead to an increase in melanoma (or other skin cancers), I compiled all the available annual reports from the American Cancer Society into a few graphs:

Conclusion

Dermatology needed a villain to justify its business model, and it chose the sun. As such, vast amounts of money were made while we were left to pay the price of being denied one of the most essential nutrients for health. However, while these predatory practices have continued with impunity for decades, things have now changed.

COVID-19 made the medical industry’s greed too visible to ignore, and people are now questioning practices that went unchallenged for decades. If an article like this had been published in 2018, few would have seen it, but instead, for more than two years, Dermatology’s unconscionable war against the sun has become a viral topic that is now routinely discussed in the health community and attacked by the mainstream press. This is a historic shift and like you, I intend to do all I can to make the most of it.

Author’s note: This is an abbreviated version of a full-length article about Dermatology’s Disastrous War Again the Sun that also discusses safer ways to treat or prevent skin cancer (most of which can be done at home) and the nutritional approaches which make it possible for the skin to tolerate and be nourished by longer sun exposures. For the entire read with much more specific details and sources, and those approaches please click here. Additionally, a companion article on the importance of natural light can be read here, and one on the remarkable therapeutic properties of ultraviolet blood irradiation here.

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https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dermatologys-crusade-against-the

G-d willing, we are very excited to invite you to tonight’s Lev Aharon Bikur Cholim information and support gathering for integrative treatments for cancer. Our previous events were thank G-d amazing, helping new patients who were considering adding natural protocols to their cancer regimen to hear from and connect with experienced, successful users, and start benefiting themselves.

And now, finally we’re doing an event where men can participate as well! G-d willing, it promises to be all of the same and more. This time, it’s in Deal NJ, and we’re also having speakers discuss the importance of the mind-body connection and emotional healing.

G-d willing, the world-renowned inspirational speaker Rabbi Jonathan Rietti will be in live attendance and will talk on the above topic!

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I’m republishing this brilliant essay by Unbekoming which will answer your questions.

The Guards Who Love You

An Essay on Why the Evidence Doesn’t Wake Anyone Up

By Unbekoming, July 6

Link to original article: https://www.unbekoming.com/p/the-guards-who-love-you

We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented.

Christof, The Truman Show

I. The Cocoa Box

In Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, a man raised on a live-broadcast set from birth discovers his entire life has been staged for a television audience. Late in the film, the following scene occurs.

Meryl stands at the kitchen counter with her back to her husband. He is coming apart. He has spent the morning trying to name what he cannot name, that people are lying to him, that his marriage feels staged, that the town he was born in has a border he was never allowed to cross. He is looking at her the way you look at a piece of evidence.

She turns from the counter. She smiles at no one standing in the room. She picks up a box of cocoa, holds it toward a camera her husband cannot see, and begins to read the label.

“Why don’t you let me fix you some of this new Mococoa drink? All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artificial sweeteners.”

The scene lasts perhaps ten seconds. It is the moment the film gives away its whole architecture. Meryl is a paid actress. She knows she is lying, and has known since day one of her eight-year contract. What the film gives away in this scene is not the lie itself but the recital-quality of the lie, the fact that a person paid to deceive for eight years cannot improvise when the target starts asking questions the schedule does not accommodate. Nothing in the scene is addressed to Truman. The whole performance is aimed past him at something he cannot see. And Truman, for one half-second, sees this.

The paediatric office runs the same scene daily.

The paediatrician stands in front of the mother with a laminated schedule. She recites the interventions due at this appointment. Two months. Four months. Six months. Twelve. The recital is competent and warm, delivered with the eye contact and vocabulary of care. The mother, exhausted, holding a baby who was crying five minutes ago and will cry again in ten, receives the words as care.

The recital is not addressed to the mother.

The recital is addressed to the framework that trained the paediatrician: the guidelines committee, the continuing medical education modules, the package inserts drafted by manufacturers’ legal departments, the licensure board that will remove her right to practise if she deviates. She is not lying. She has not memorised a script written by anyone she has ever met. She has been fed the words over a decade of training and a career of professional maintenance. This is Meryl’s scene. The cocoa is the schedule. The camera she is reading to sits behind the mother’s shoulder, behind the exam-room wall, in a conference room in an office building in a suburb the mother will never visit.

And the mother, if she is present, catches the half-second. It comes and goes in a blink. Something is off. The words are not quite pointed at her. The concern in the paediatrician’s voice is real but it is aimed somewhere she cannot see. The mother files the observation under the mind’s largest category of small observations, I am being paranoid; I am tired; I am overthinking this, and the appointment continues.

The horror of The Truman Show¹ was never the dome. The dome was a construction budget. The horror was the speed at which a human being who has been handed evidence of a false reality returns the evidence and rejoins the day. Truman does it in the film’s opening minutes. A stage light stamped SIRIUS falls from the sky and lands at his feet. The car radio explains it before he can finish the question forming in his throat. He hands the star back to the studio grip and drives to work.

The paediatric office runs on the same schedule.

The star that falls in the paediatric setting is small. A rash after the two-month appointment. A change in the child’s sleep. A cry that sounds different. A regression the mother has no language for. The explanation arrives before the question can finish. Normal reaction. Developmental phase. Sensitive child. Correlation is not causation. Every child is different. Second dose is due next month. The mother, who has been prepared for a decade to receive these explanations as care, receives them as care. She hands the star back and drives to work.

This essay is about why the evidence of the false reality does not wake anyone up. It is about a mechanism the film named with more precision than any medical journal has managed. It is about the guards who love the captive, and why their love, real and sincere and meant every syllable, is the most effective wall the paradigm ever built.

Sea Haven Is Really Nice

The cage in the film is beautiful. Pastel storefronts. Weather that behaves. Fences painted every spring. Neighbours who wave. A wife who cooks. A best friend who arrives with a six-pack when he is needed. A job that pays. A mother who remembers the anniversary of the father’s death. The town is called Sea Haven and it is designed to be missed.

The genius of the design is that Truman is never told no. He decides not to leave. He decides the water is dangerous. He decides Fiji is too far. He decides his wife is enough. He decides the job is fine. Every decision looks, from the inside, like his own. The engineering happens upstream of the decisions, in the fear installed in childhood, in the poster at the travel agent, in the sudden traffic and forest fires and chemical leaks that appear the moment he tries to leave. The town does not restrain him. The town persuades him to restrain himself.

The paediatric paradigm is designed the same way.

The waiting room is warm. There are crayon drawings on the walls. The receptionist knows the child’s name. The nurse weighs the child with a gentleness that is genuine. The paediatrician bends to the child’s level and asks how she is feeling. The office is clean and lit and calibrated for a mother arriving with a small human she is trying not to break. The office is not a prison. Nothing about it looks like a prison. That is the design.

The people inside the office are not lying. They are the guards, and they love the captive. The paediatrician chose this profession because she wanted to help children. She trained for over a decade. She has read the studies she was assigned to read, attended the required conferences, and completed the ongoing education modules that ensure her licence remains active. She believes the schedule she recites reduces suffering. She has never been shown the studies that would trouble her belief because the studies she reads are the studies that would not. The information environment that produced her is closed at the top. She does not see the ceiling. She sees only the walls she is inside of, and she believes the walls are the world.

This is the mother’s guard. It is the paediatrician the mother chose because a friend recommended her, because the office was close, because the paediatrician answered questions patiently, because she was warm. The mother did not choose a captive. She chose a warm, competent, well-trained doctor. She is correct. The doctor is exactly what the mother chose, and also, without either of them knowing, a captive of the same paradigm.

Behind the paediatrician stands a second guard. The mother’s own mother.

The grandmother trusts paediatrics because the grandmother’s children, this mother and this mother’s siblings, survived their childhoods on the schedule of that generation. The grandmother received the same recital from her own paediatrician thirty years earlier. She followed it. Her children lived. The grandmother experiences the schedule as the thing that kept her children alive, and she experiences her daughter’s hesitation as a slight against her own care. When the daughter asks a cautious question, the grandmother’s response, often gentle and often expressed as concern for the grandchild, is a defence of her own history of mothering. The grandmother is a guard. She loves the captive. She does not know she is guarding anything.

Behind the grandmother stands a third guard. The mother’s friends, arranged in a small tribe around a playgroup or a mothers’ group or a school gate. The tribe operates on a shared vocabulary. The vaccines are done. The schedule is followed. The child is protected. The mother who has done all this is a good mother. The mother who has not is a suspicious mother. She has read something. She has been on the internet. She is one of those mothers. The tribe does not have to say any of this out loud. The mother knows the vocabulary because she grew up in it. She hears the pause when she hesitates. She feels the temperature change in the room. She is a guard for the other mothers, and the other mothers are guards for her. None of them are lying. All of them love their children. The whole apparatus runs on love.

Behind the friends stands the school nurse, and the paediatric receptionist, and the health visitor, and the pharmacist who prints the label, and the government campaign that pays for the poster on the wall in the surgery. Each one is warm and competent, and each has been fed the words. None of them, at any point in the chain, is standing in a room where a lie is being spoken. The lie was manufactured somewhere the guards never went: in a boardroom in Kenilworth, New Jersey; in an office at the CDC; in a contract signed in 1986² that removed the injection from the ordinary tort system and gave it a Special Master and a compensation fund. The lie was manufactured decades ago and passed down a supply chain of professionals who do not know they are inside one.

This is why the paradigm is unassailable from the outside. The guards work for free, mean every syllable of what they say, love the captive, and are themselves, most of them, captives, trained and credentialed and paid to hold each other in place inside a town whose edges none of them can see.

III. The Wound Installed Early

The film’s cruellest revelation arrives forty minutes in.

Truman is thirty. He has a wife and a job and a mortgage and a fear of water so total that he cannot cross a bridge without hyperventilating. The fear is presented, throughout his life, as a fact about him. Truman is afraid of water. Everyone in Sea Haven knows this. His wife knows it. His mother knows it. The travel agent knows it, which is why the poster on the wall of the travel agent’s office shows a plane being struck by lightning under the caption IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU.

The film then shows how the fear was installed.

When Truman was seven, the director staged his father’s drowning. A small boat. A sudden storm. The father is pulled overboard and vanishes into the water in front of the child. The child screams. The child watches. The child grows up with an installed terror of the substance that is the only route out of town.

The fear is not a fact about Truman. The fear is a decision made about Truman in a control room before he could form sentences, and executed by adults who loved him or who were paid to look as if they did. The genius of the installation is that Truman remembers the trauma. He knows exactly why he is afraid. The memory is real. The father died. The water killed him. The memory obscures the design.

The paediatric parallel is Charles Richet.

Richet was a French physiologist who, around the turn of the twentieth century, sailed with Prince Albert of Monaco and became interested in the toxin secreted by the Portuguese man o’ war. Back in his laboratory in Paris, he injected dogs with a solution derived from sea anemones. The dogs tolerated the first injection. Weeks later, he injected the same dogs with a second, much smaller dose. The dogs died within minutes, collapsing in what he described as a violent, systemic reaction, disproportionate to any dose that had been survivable the first time. He named the phenomenon anaphylaxis, from the Greek ana (against) and phylaxis (protection). Injection, in his own coining, created the opposite of protection.

Richet received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1913 for this work.³

The finding is not obscure. It is the founding observation of an entire subfield. It is taught in medical school in the sanitised form of anaphylactic shock, the acute allergic emergency that requires an epinephrine injection. What is not taught is Richet’s larger claim. The injection route bypasses the routes by which the body ordinarily meets foreign proteins, through the gut and the surfaces of the airway, where those proteins are broken down and introduced gradually before they reach the bloodstream. When a foreign protein arrives directly in the tissues, the body registers it as an insult and stores the record. A second exposure, even smaller than the first, produces a larger response than the first. The mechanism was quickly replicated in other species, and by 1920 it was uncontroversial in the physiological literature.

Then it was buried.

The mechanism was buried because it implicated injection itself. If the introduction of foreign proteins through the skin creates sensitisation, and if sensitisation produces increasingly severe responses to subsequent exposures, the current schedule, which administers more than two dozen doses of injected material in the first two years of a child’s life, is a schedule of manufactured sensitisation. The modern schedule is not identical to Richet’s experiments. Most childhood injections now contain aluminium adjuvants, added to the formulation precisely because they amplify the body’s response to the injected material. What Richet demonstrated with unadjuvanted protein alone has been intensified by design, not softened. The conditions the establishment now gathers under labels of autoimmune and atopic, from eczema and asthma to coeliac disease, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and a lengthening list of chronic inflammatory conditions the child now carries for life, are the body doing what Richet’s dogs did. The response is not a malfunction. The body is doing what a body does when foreign proteins are repeatedly forced into its tissues. The label autoimmune renames Richet’s mechanism as a fault of the child and thereby exonerates the injection.

The wound was installed early. The wound is not a fact about the child. The wound is a decision made about the child in a control room before the child could form sentences, and executed by adults who love the child or who are paid to look as if they do.

Truman remembers his father’s drowning. The mother remembers the two-month appointment, the four-month, the six-month, the twelve. The memories are real. The interpretations were provided in the same room where the memories were made. Truman’s terror of water was framed to him as an ordinary trauma response to an ordinary catastrophe. The child’s eczema is framed to the mother as a curious sensitivity, unfortunate and unrelated. The framing obscures the design.

The injection is the first wall the child encounters. It arrives before the child can speak or consent, and the guards are gathered around it to help the child mistake it for the world.

IV. Everybody Would Have to Be In On It

Late in the film, Truman and his best friend Marlon are drinking on an unfinished bridge overlooking the sea. Truman is falling apart. He is trying to explain what he has begun to notice: the loops in the traffic, the woman on the bicycle who circles the same block, the rain that follows him and only him. He is asking Marlon whether any of this is real.

Marlon leans in with the tenderness of a lifelong friend. He puts his hand on Truman’s shoulder. He looks him in the eye and says:

“The last thing that I would ever do is lie to you.”

The film then cuts to Christof, the director and maker of the show, speaking that exact sentence into an earpiece hidden in Marlon’s ear. Marlon says the words a half-second after Christof feeds them to him. Marlon’s face, when the words leave his mouth, is a face wet with real tears. He believes what he is saying. He has always believed it. Marlon is Truman’s oldest friend. Marlon loves him. Marlon is on script. All three are true at once.

The sentence Marlon delivers is the most dangerous sentence in the film. The danger of the sentence lies elsewhere than in its truth or falsity. It is the only sentence in Truman’s life capable of holding the entire architecture together. If Marlon is telling the truth, if the last thing his oldest friend would do is lie to him, then everything Truman has begun to notice must be explained a different way. His wife’s odd recital, the looping cars, the rain that follows him, the elevator opening onto a backstage corridor, all of it has to be explained in a way that does not require Marlon to be lying. Because if Marlon is lying, then everyone Truman has ever loved is lying. The wife. The mother. The travel agent. The neighbour who waves. The teacher who told him there was nothing left to explore. Everyone would have to be in on it.

That sentence, everybody would have to be in on it, is the wall.

Evidence is not what the wall is made of. Truman has evidence: the traffic loops, the elevator, the rain. He is a man with a pile of evidence sitting on a bridge with the man he loves most in the world. The wall is made of the cost of accepting what the evidence would mean. And the cost is: everyone in the story has to be either lying or fooled. Truman’s brain is being asked to accept a betrayal so total that the mind, any mind, will pay almost any price to avoid it.

Leon Festinger described the mechanism in 1956.⁴ He had spent the winter of 1954 embedded with a small Chicago group whose leader had predicted a specific date on which a flood would end the world and a flying saucer would rescue the faithful. The date came. The flood did not. The saucer did not. Festinger expected the group to disperse in embarrassment. The opposite happened. Most members intensified their belief. They went out into the streets and began recruiting harder than they ever had before the prophecy failed. The disproof was fed into the machine and came out as fuel.

Festinger’s explanation was that the group had, by the day of the prophecy, invested too much to leave. They had quit jobs, left spouses, given away possessions, and told everyone they knew what was going to happen. The truth, when it arrived, arrived with a bill. The bill was: everything you have given up was given up for nothing, and everyone you told is now looking at you. The mind chose the smaller, kinder story. A new message arrived through the leader, that the faithful had been so faithful that their light had spread through the earth and God had spared it from destruction. Belief ate the disproof.

The paediatric case runs the same mechanism.

To accept that the injection is what changed her child, the mother must accept a bill she cannot pay. Her paediatrician was either lying or fooled: the one whose name she wrote on the forms, whose office she drove to for years, whose kindness with her child she watched with her own eyes. Her own mother, who counselled her through the appointment schedule, was either lying or fooled. The same must be said of the friend at the playgroup, the health visitor, the school nurse, the government campaign, the paediatric guidelines committee. A chain of women whose warmth was real, whose love for her child was real, whose competence was real, delivered her child into a harm they did not know they were delivering. And she carried her child into the appointment herself. She signed the consent. She held the child down. Whatever happened, happened because she brought the child to the room and permitted the intervention.

That is the cost, and it is the bill the mind flinches from before the mind registers the flinch. The mind’s response, in the moment the bill arrives, is not to disagree with the evidence. Its response is to declare the bill impossible, and to conclude, instantly and without articulation, that the evidence must therefore be something else. The smaller, kinder story arrives with the speed of Marlon’s tears. Developmental phase. Sensitive child. Correlation is not causation. Every child is different. The mother’s own oldest friend, sitting on an unfinished bridge with a can of lager, looks her in the eye and says the last thing she would ever do is lie to her. She means it, and so do the paediatrician and the grandmother, which is what makes the cost unpayable and the wall unbreachable.

The paradigm relies on love, administered on script, by people who do not know they are on script.

This is why the evidence does not wake anyone up. The evidence walks into a room already occupied by a marriage, a friendship, a mother-daughter bond, a decade of trust in a doctor, and a self-image organised around being a good mother. It is asked to defeat all of that at once, cannot, and is rarely even given a hearing. The mind flinches at the cost and hands the star back before the question can finish.

V. The Star That Falls

The film opens with a star falling out of the sky.

A stage light stamped SIRIUS drops from the fake heavens and shatters on the pavement in front of Truman’s house. He walks over. He picks up a piece. He turns it over in his hand. The label is stamped into the metal. He is holding a component of the sky. Then the car radio comes on and explains, without pause, that an aircraft has been shedding parts in the area. The explanation is thin. The explanation is nonsense. The explanation does not have to be good. It has to arrive before the question can finish forming.

Truman gets in the car and goes to work.

That scene is the whole film. The paradigm does not depend on a shortage of stars. Stars fall constantly. What the paradigm depends on is that the explanation reaches the citizen faster than the question can finish. The morning and the commute are both scheduled. The radio is on. The star is heavy in the hand for perhaps four seconds. Then it is handed back.

The paediatric star falls without a stamp. It falls as a rash after the two-month appointment. As a fever that lasts longer than the pamphlet said it would. As a change in the child’s eyes. As a night the mother does not sleep. As a milestone that does not arrive. As a diagnosis handed down years later by a specialist who does not ask what happened in the first two years and would not chart it if asked. In each case, the mother is inside a schedule. The paediatrician answers before the question finishes. Behind her voice, other voices have already begun answering, the grandmother’s and the friend at the playgroup’s, each response arriving before the previous has finished. The mother, exhausted, does not have four seconds to hold the star. She has to get the child into the car.

The essay ends where every essay in this project ends. There is no argument that beats the guards. There is no evidence that clears the Festinger bill. What there is, and what has always been available, is the half-second.

The half-second is what Truman has in the kitchen with Meryl before she picks up the cocoa. It is what he has on the bridge with Marlon before he lets the sentence pass. It is what he has in the car with his wife before she starts naming the appointments she has scheduled for their weekend. In each of these moments an explanation is arriving faster than the question. Truman has the option of holding the star for one more second before he hands it back. Not to argue, not to escape. Only to hold.

He does not do this until the film’s final act. And even then, he does not hold the star because he was argued into holding it. He holds it because the cost of continuing to hand it back has finally exceeded the cost of holding it. His marriage is already gone. His best friend is already on script. His mother is already on script. There is nothing left to preserve. He climbs into a small boat and sails toward a wall that everyone in his life has told him is the horizon.

This is not a strategy anyone can be given.

What can be given is the practice of the half-second. When the paediatrician answers a question before the question is finished, hold the answer in the hand for one more second before setting it down. When the grandmother reassures with a story about her own children thirty years ago, hold the reassurance for one more second before receiving it. When the friend at the playgroup pauses before answering a question about the schedule, notice the pause. When the child’s eczema is called a sensitivity and the schedule for the next appointment is placed in the mother’s hand at the same moment, notice that two objects arrived in the hand simultaneously and that the one calling itself an explanation had the shape of a distraction. None of these is proof or grounds for a fight. Each is a half-second that was previously unavailable. A half-second is not much. Enough of them accumulated in the same body, and the body begins to notice what the paradigm has always relied on the body not to notice: that most explanations arrive early because most explanations are not answers to the question.

Truman’s exit is not the moment he climbs into the boat. Truman’s exit is the moment he begins to hold the star longer than the schedule allowed.

The paediatric office is a kitchen with a paediatrician reading from a cocoa box. The mother has, if she is present, a half-second before the recital ends and the schedule for the next appointment is placed in her hand. She does not need to leave, and she does not need to know what she thinks. She needs to hold the star.

The star has a part number stamped on it.

She turns it over. She does not hand it back. She carries the child out of the office with the star still in her hand.

Unbekoming notes:

Author’s Note

The reading of The Truman Show that runs through this essay, the cocoa box scene as the film’s whole architecture, Marlon on the bridge as the guard who loves the captive and is fed his lines in real time, the falling star with SIRIUS stamped on it, the Festinger cost as the mechanism the film named, is drawn from Chase Hughes’s video It’s Worse for You, published on his channel in June 2026. The medical application is my own. Hughes’s video is not about medicine.

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Fifty years ago, it was recognized that vaccines could kill a child. There was a cause-of-death code that coroners could list on the death certificate if they believed the child had died as a result of vaccination. This code was removed in 1979. Therefore, vaccines officially can never kill anyone again.

Google even admits it:

A little over a year ago, two innocent toddlers, a beautiful and healthy set of twins, were killed by their vaccines. Their mother, Andrea Shaw, tried to warn the doctor that her husband, the twin’s father, had suffered a bad reaction to a flu vaccine. She was ignored and the doctor gave the babies the flu vaccine and other vaccines anyway. They got horribly, deathly, sick. Their mother brought them to the ER. They were acknowledged and recorded to be suffering from post-vaccine illness. They were sent home. The doctor said to give them Tylenol. A week later their mother found them cold. 😭

Dr. Pierre Kory MD reviewed the Shaw twins’ medical records and found that they had died from vaccination. I published about it last year: https://truth613.substack.com/p/what-mass-vaccination-has-done-to

Andrea Shaw, together with other plaintiffs, filed a RICO lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatricians, for promoting the vaccines that killed her children as “safe,” despite possessing full knowledge of their dangers. Here is the link to her court filing: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/aap-lawsuit-complaint-redacted.pdf

Last month, Andrea gave birth to a new baby, and five days later, on June 30, with unimaginable cruelty, she was torn from her husband and newborn, arrested and held without bail, on the charges that she murdered her twins and therefore poses a risk to her newborn. Since the official party line in that vaccines cannot kill, the mother is blamed. She is, of course, not the first bereaved parent whose child was murdered by vaccines to be falsely accused of killing a beloved child/children.

In fact, there are actually eight other documented cases on record of twins who died at the same time shortly after vaccination. In some instances, the parents were also accused, (but later exonerated.)

Sayer Ji published a listing:

“… the medical literature — peer-reviewed, publicly indexed, largely ignored — contains at least eight sets of twins who died together in tight temporal proximity to vaccination before the Shaw twins made nine. Every one of these cases involved the same pattern: healthy children, routine vaccination, silent death within days:

The 1946 Werne and Garrow case is particularly important because the U.S. Institute of Medicine — an institution not known for its skepticism of vaccination — concluded in its 2003 Immunization Safety Review that “the evidence favors acceptance of a causal relationship between diphtheria toxoid- and whole cell pertussis vaccine and death due to anaphylaxis in infants.”

The 2007 Balci case is even more directly relevant to the Shaw twins. Fifteen-week-old identical girls in Istanbul received a second dose of DPT, first dose of hepatitis B, and second dose of oral polio. They developed fever on Day 1. Their mother administered acetaminophen per pediatric guidance. Two days later, both were dead in their crib, supine, no signs of struggle.[11] The Turkish Institute of Forensic Medicine ruled the deaths “consistent with SIDS.” The parallel to Payette is exact: vaccines + post-vaccine acetaminophen + simultaneous death of twins within days.

Here I am presenting further excerpts of articles which have been published about the Shaw case. Please read on for more details about the heartbreaking story and the mechanisms of action by which vaccines cause sudden death.

From Brenda Baletti PhD for Children’s Health Defense, July 1: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/andrea-shaw-idaho-mother-twins-died-8-days-after-vaccinations-charged-murder/

Police in Payette, Idaho, arrested Andrea Shaw on Tuesday afternoon, more than a year after her two children — fraternal twins Dallas and Tyson Shaw — were found dead at their home on May 1, 2025, eight days after receiving their 18-month vaccines. Police charged Shaw with two counts of first-degree murder. Shaw said doctors ignored her when she warned that the twins’ father had previously experienced a bad reaction to a flu vaccine.

The Payette Police Department said the arrest follows “a lengthy and thorough investigation” and said it would have no further comment regarding evidence in the case. “Future information will be presented through the judicial process,” officials said.

Shaw alleges that her twins’ deaths were caused by the vaccines they received at a routine doctor’s appointment.

Nurse Angela Wulbrecht, an advocate for people injured by vaccines and who has been supporting the Shaws, told The Defender she was “ shocked and heartbroken” to learn of Shaw’s arrest.

“Over the past year, I have had the privilege of walking alongside Andrea and her family after the unimaginable loss of her twin babies,” Wulbrecht said. “I have witnessed a mother’s profound grief, unwavering love for her children, and determination to seek answers.”

Andrea gave birth to a new baby, born three weeks prematurely, on June 25, Shaw’s attorney Joseph Filicetti told the local KTVB7 news station. Her husband is caring for the newborn while she is incarcerated.

Shaw told physician of family history of adverse vaccine reaction

The details of the Shaw twins’ story are laid out in court documents that are part of the lawsuit against the AAP. Andrea and her husband Nathaniel also shared their story in May 2025 with CHD.TV.

According to Andrea, she and her mother-in-law say they warned the twins’ pediatrician that there was a family history of adverse reactions to the flu shot.

However, the pediatrician dismissed these concerns. Nurses administered the flu vaccine along with hepatitis A and DTaP shots on April 23, 2025. The twins had previously received most routine childhood vaccinations, including their 1-year shots.

Within hours, Andrea said the toddlers became lethargic and ill. The next morning, their lips were blue, and they struggled to move. Andrea took the twins to the emergency room and told the doctor they had received three vaccines the day before.

The treating physician in the emergency room diagnosed them as suffering from “post-immunization reaction, initial encounter.”

The babies remained symptomatic over the days that followed. A week later, on the morning of May 1, Andrea found both children unresponsive. Police and paramedics were called, and investigators immediately focused on the parents. Andrea and Nathaniel told CHD.TV that the police immediately treated them as suspects.

Rather than investigating Andrea’s vaccine concerns, the Payette Police Department opened an investigation into her.

Medical industry ignores vaccines as possible cause of SIDS

When infants under age 1 die suddenly, and a cause can’t be determined, the deaths are typically classified as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). SIDS is the third leading cause of infant mortality in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

BW: What the system ignores is that there was no such syndrome as “SIDS” before routine vaccination of babies became a thing. Yes, of course, throughout history it did happen, but sudden infant death was so rare that the U.S. government didn’t even keep records on it until 1973. Look it up:

Mechanisms by which vaccines can cause sudden infant death are understood by honest doctors and investigators who have made studies of the subject, but ignored by the medical establishment, which is built on the vaccine industry.

In “The Century of Evidence Vaccines Cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome,” A Midwestern Doctor brings an overwhelming amount of carefully documented proof establishing that childhood vaccines are the culprit. AMD explains how vaccines trigger microclots, which cause stroke. The entire article is a very important read: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-century-of-evidence-vaccines

The article summary:

•Since at least 1933, the medical community has known that vaccines cause infant deaths. To conceal this, those deaths were renamed “crib death” and then “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” (SIDS), eventually being attributed to infants not sleeping on their backs.

•This revisionism is not supported by the existing evidence nor the historical changes in the frequency of SIDS. Most recently, SIDS rates have had an unprecedented decrease in tandem with the COVID-19 lockdowns reducing vaccination rates.

•The vaccine most strongly associated with SIDS, DPT, was protected for decades by the government despite knowing a large body of evidence around the world showed it killed infants—particularly when an inevitable hot lot was released. Eventually, so many injury lawsuits were filed that in 1986, the government had to give blanket immunity to the vaccine manufacturers.

•This article will concisely review the vast body of evidence showing vaccines cause SIDS and reveal the mechanism modern research has now repeatedly proven causes vaccines to trigger infant death.

A bit more from AMD’s article:

•James Howenstine, MD in 2003 stated:

The incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome has grown from .55 per 1000 live births in 1953 to 12.8 per 1000 in 1992 in Olmstead County, Minnesota. The peak incidence for SIDS is at age 2 to 4 months, the exact time most vaccines are being given to children. 85 % of cases of SIDS occur in the first 6 months of infancy. The increase in SIDS as a percentage of total infant deaths has risen from 2.5 per 1000 in 1953 to 17.9 per 1000 in 1992. This rise in SIDS deaths has occurred during a period when nearly every childhood disease was declining due to improved sanitation and medical progress except SIDS. These deaths from SIDS did increase during a period when the number of vaccines given to a child was steadily rising to 36 per child.

Note: it has always astounded me that the medical profession knows SIDS peaks at exactly 2, 4, and 6 months of age, but cannot connect that to childhood vaccines being given at the exact same time.

Giving multiple vaccinations simultaneously (e.g., hexavalent vaccines containing DTP + Polio + Haemophilus Influenza B + Hepatitis B) has also been repeatedly shown to increase the risk of SIDS. For example:

•When GSK’s hexavalent vaccine hit the market, SIDS cases were observed, eventually prompting a 2005 study of Germany’s adverse event database that found an increase in SIDS cases was associated with the vaccine.

•A 2011 study of Italy’s adverse event database found hexavalent vaccines increased the risk of infant death 2.2 times in the 14 days that followed.

•A judge then forced GSK to release their confidential safety data which showed 90% of reported infant deaths occurred immediately following vaccination (again strongly suggesting an association).¹,²

•A later confidential 2015 report GSK gave to European regulators showed almost 52.5% of vaccine-linked deaths occurred within 3 days of vaccination, 82.2% within seven days, and 97.9% within ten days.¹,²

•A 2012 VAERS analysis of all reported infant deaths found that infants who received twice as many vaccines at one time were roughly twice as likely to die or be hospitalized.

Similarly, since all infants receive the same vaccine dose, premature infants (being smaller) effectively receive a higher dose. In turn, that analysis also found the youngest infants were the most likely to die following vaccination.

Note: after publishing, I learned that sudden and unexpected infant deaths following vaccination are now being hidden in VAERS by no longer classifying them as SIDS.

Respiratory Arrest

Infants can experience a cardiorespiratory event, such as an interruption of breathing or a significant slowing of the heart rate, following vaccination. In many cases, these events require CPR, and had the infant not been monitored at the hospital when it occurred, the infant would have likely died. This has been proven by decades of hospital studies (e.g., I summarized 13 trials,^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13} including a 2025 one, here) of premature infants that all showed:

•Roughly a third of premature infants experienced a cardiorespiratory event (e.g., respiratory arrest) following vaccination (whereas virtually none did beforehand), and about a third of those then required respiratory support.

One of the greatest dangers with vaccines is that they cause blood cells to clump together, creating microstrokes in smaller blood vessels. Certain parts of the brain are more vulnerable to this, and as such, specific cranial nerves (e.g., 6 and 7) will frequently display observable deficits after vaccination (e.g., the eyes turning inwards). Since a key area of the brain for ensuring automatic breathing is very close to the nuclei for the commonly affected cranial nerves, breathing is likely affected by those microstrokes as well.

Dr. Andrew Moulden was a pioneer in this field, and tragically was found dead at home in Canada in 2013 after speaking out about his findings. Here is a quote from Dr. Moulden:

Through my extensive research and my work throughout the years, I have discovered that vaccinations are causing impaired blood flow (ischemia) to brain and body from clinically silent to death. These are strokes – across the board for all of us. I have reason to believe that all are being affected and all vaccinations ARE causing the overwhelming rise in autism, specific learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, sudden infant death, gulf war syndrome, dementia, seizure disorders, some cancers it would appear, and much much more.

-Dr. Andrew Moulden MD PhD in a 2009 interview

I wrote about Dr. Moulden’s work here: https://truth613.substack.com/p/why-do-all-vaccines-cause-harm-exploring

Dr. Pierre Kory MD, who frequently is called on to testify in court about cause of death, published last year about the Shaw twins case and the proven mechanisms that can result in SIDS: https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/medical-record-review-of-the-twins

Dr. Kory:

MY IMPRESSION AS TO THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF THE SHAW TWINS

IMPRESSION: Sudden death from severe apnea caused by recent vaccination at 18-month wellness visit. The underlying pathophysiology was likely due to micro-strokes and/or neuroinflammation in the respiratory control center in the brainstem, with micro-strokes caused by “blood sludging/clumping” from loss of zeta-potential due to the inflammatory and or hypercoagulable components of the vaccines.

The deaths occurred on the night of Day 7 post-vaccination, a time when apnea episodes spike post-vaccination as per this carefully done study from 1991.

In that study, they placed a sophisticated microprocessor under the mattresses of infants to precisely measure their breathing patterns before and after pertussis vaccination. Know that apnea = complete cessation of breathing and hypopnea = overly shallow or slow breathing. Note the y-axis measures these episodes in the… 1000s.

From Miller: “The data revealed that pertussis vaccination caused an inordinate increase in episodes where breathing either nearly ceased or stopped completely.”

One of the most damning and disturbing aspects of the data presented above is the frequency of apneas in the days leading up to vaccination - minimal and stable, setting an inconsequential background rate. Then, suddenly, vaccination occurs, and there is a tripling of the apnea/hypopnea rate on that day. However, this is nothing compared to 2 days after vaccination, when the rate literally explodes, only to rapidly decrease and then explode again on days 5-7. Although the graph above ends on Day 7, the study found that these episodes continued for several weeks post-vaccination before returning to baseline.

In a recent discussion with Steve Kirsch, he astuteley pointed out that the bimodal pattern of deaths indicate that it is likely that two different pathophysiologies are occurring - I would hypothesize that the early spikes are from acute neuroinflammation in the brain stem and the later spikes from “micro-clotting” or “blood sludging” leading to brain stem ischemia (the arteries in that region in infants are very small and or tortuous). Or vice versa. Doesn’t matter, this is the reason why infants die at such high rates on these days, because it strongly correlates with the dates of deaths observed post vaccination. In a review of all infant deaths reported to VAERS from 1999 to 2019:

• Of the 2605 infant deaths, 58 % clustered within 3 days post-vaccination and 78.3 % within 7 days post-vaccination.

• Of the 1048 SIDS cases, 51 % clustered within 3 days post-vaccination and 75.5 % within 7 days post-vaccination

…. it is worth noting that these associations have been reported repeatedly in smaller clusters of observations by astute researchers and pediatricians over the past 100 years.

Sayer Ji presents another detailed analysis of how vaccination can induce sudden death: https://sayerji.substack.com/p/the-shaw-twins-didnt-suffocate-they

Sayer Ji:

The Cytokine Storm and the Vulnerable Brainstem

The mechanistic evidence for vaccine involvement in infant death does not depend on twin cases. It has been reconstructed in molecular detail from three converging bodies of evidence: cytokine physiology, brainstem neuropathology, and cardiac conduction pathology.

The cytokine cascade. Foreign antigens introduced via vaccination activate the innate immune system within hours, producing interleukin-1β, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-α, and interleukin-2. In infants, these cytokines cross the immature blood-brain barrier and act directly on the medullary serotonergic (5-HT) neurons that regulate respiratory chemosensitivity and auto-resuscitation from apnea. Kinney and Thach’s 2009 New England Journal of Medicine review of the neuropathology of SIDS documents that impaired 5-HT signaling in the medulla is the single most consistent postmortem finding across SIDS cohorts.[^15] Vege and Rognum showed as early as 1999 that SIDS infants exhibit elevated IL-6 in cerebrospinal fluid, with the identical topographic distribution — solitary nucleus tractus, spinal trigeminal nucleus, arcuate nucleus — in both SIDS cases and non-SIDS infants dying of acute infectious illness.[16] The physiological effect: prolonged central apnea, inhibited arousal from hypoxia, failure to auto-resuscitate.

The brainstem lesion. Ottaviani, Lavezzi, and Matturri, working at the University of Milan, published in Virchows Archiv in 2006 a detailed neuropathological analysis of a three-month-old female infant who died within hours of hexavalent vaccination. Serial-section examination of the brainstem revealed bilateral hypoplasia of the arcuate nucleus. The cardiac conduction system showed persistent fetal dispersion and resorptive degeneration. The authors concluded that the case “offers a unique insight into the possible role of hexavalent vaccine in triggering a lethal outcome in a vulnerable baby.”[17] They subsequently expanded their series to 110 SIDS cases, finding that 13 (11.8%) had died within 1–7 days of hexavalent vaccination, and in one case identified acute encephalitis of the tractus solitarii nucleus in the brainstem — a finding, they noted, that cannot be explained by developmental abnormality alone.[18] Zinka et al. in Munich independently reported six additional cases of unexplained sudden infant death within 48 hours of hexavalent vaccination the same year.[19]

The regulatory signal. Von Kries et al., analyzing German pharmacovigilance data, found that in the second year of life — precisely the Shaw twins’ age range — the standardized mortality ratio for sudden unexpected death within one day of hexavalent vaccination reached 31.3 (95% CI 3.8–113.1) and within two days 23.5 (95% CI 4.8–68.6). The authors, writing in the European Journal of Pediatrics, described these findings as “a signal for one of the two hexavalent vaccines which should prompt intensified surveillance.”[20] The European Medicines Agency’s response was to withdraw one of the two hexavalent formulations (Hexavac) from the market — while simultaneously insisting there was no evidence of a causal relationship. The Italian PLoS One case series subsequently found a 2.0-fold risk ratio (95% CI 1.2–3.5) for sudden unexpected death in the seven days following first-dose hexavalent vaccination.[21] Kuhnert et al. reported a 16-fold risk elevation following the fourth dose of penta/hexavalent vaccine.[22]

The population signal. Goldman and Miller’s 2011 analysis of 34 developed nations found a Pearson correlation of r = 0.992 (p = 0.0009) between the number of scheduled infant vaccine doses and the infant mortality rate.[23] Nations requiring more doses have higher infant mortality. Their 2012 VAERS analysis showed that infants receiving five to eight vaccines simultaneously — precisely the Shaw twins’ exposure — had a hospitalization rate ratio of 1.5 (95% CI 1.4–1.7) and a mortality rate 50% higher than infants receiving fewer.[24] Hooker and Miller’s 2021 Toxicology Reports analysis of 2,605 VAERS infant death reports over three decades found that 58% occurred within three days of vaccination and 78% within one week — a temporal clustering the authors described as “highly suggestive of a causal relationship.”[25]

The picture that emerges is not ambiguous. It is a coherent, cross-decade, cross-methodology body of work spanning pathology, epidemiology, VAERS analysis, ecological correlation, and pharmacovigilance signal detection.

Sayer Ji goes on to implicate Tylenol as making a dangerous post-vaccine window even more potentially lethal.

Brenda Baletti PhD summarizes Sayer’s research here: https://.org/defender/sayer-ji-idaho-murder-indictment-institutional-pattern-refusing-admit-vaccines-can-cause-infant-death/

Tylenol depletes body’s principal antioxidant defenses

While some researchers have for decades suggested there is a link between vaccines and infant deaths, Ji presents new evidence — not widely discussed until recently — that acetaminophen, or Tylenol, acts as an “amplifier” to the vaccine mechanism that can be deadly for some infants.

The Shaw twins, like many children who experience post-vaccination fevers, were treated with Tylenol on the advice of their doctor.

Drawing on recent work by William Parker, Ph.D., Ji argued that acetaminophen depletes glutathione, one of the body’s principal antioxidant defenses, at the same time that vaccines increase oxidative stress through immune activation.

The combination of vaccination-induced inflammation and acetaminophen-related glutathione depletion created what Ji described as a synergistic toxic reaction capable of damaging vulnerable regions of the brainstem.

He pointed to evidence from a 2008 study, which found that children given acetaminophen after the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine were about eight times more likely to develop autism compared to children given ibuprofen or no analgesic.

A National Institutes of Health-funded study that measured acetaminophen in umbilical cord blood also found infants with higher levels had a 3.6 times greater risk of being diagnosed with autism.

Since the 1980s, physicians have routinely recommended acetaminophen following childhood vaccinations without recognizing what Ji argues are potentially dangerous interactions between the drug and vaccine-induced immune responses.

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May G-d cause Andrea Shaw to be released to her family very quickly, and may the true murderers - those who manufacture, promote, and legislate these deadly products- be publicized and punished.

May G-d protect every child from harm.

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So many women have been asking us about DEXA scans and the dangerous bisphosphonate drugs. I am republishing A Midwestern Doctor’s deep dive into the topic. The wonderful thing about reading this article by AMD is that you will also get an education about many other foundational health topics which are explored here along the way. The link to the original article is at the end.

BY A MIDWESTERN DOCTOR

MAY 04, 2025

Story at a Glance

•A gradual weakening of the bones which predisposes one to fractures is one of the most common and significant consequences of aging. Presently, to address it, we wisely try to head off bone loss in our younger years and routinely scan the density of aging bones so that a large volume of patients can be sold drugs to increase bone density.

•This approach is misguided because the data from those scans often does not correlate to the actual strength of the bones and because simply increasing bone density often creates brittle bones that fracture under stress. Additionally, the most commonly used drugs to address bone density are notorious for their side effects.

•Anytime a large drug market exists (e.g., presently osteoporosis affects around 20% of women over 50), the medical industry will dismiss any approach to the condition which does not result in it being able to sell large amounts of lucrative medical services.

•Because of this, there is relatively little knowledge of the actual causes of osteoporosis or the most effective ways to restore the strength of the bones. The causes and treatments of osteoporosis will be the focus of this article.

The years I have spent studying the medical industry have made me appreciate how often economic principles can allow one to understand its complex and contradictory behavior. For example, I believe many of the inconsistencies in medical ethics (e.g., “mothers have an absolute right to abort their children” and “mothers cannot refuse to vaccinate their children because it endangers their child’s life”) can be explained by simply acknowledging that whatever makes money is deemed “ethical.”

Sales Funnels

In my eyes, one of the most important business principles for understanding medicine are sales funnels, a method of selling products where you initially cast a wide net, and then successively cast smaller nets for increasingly expensive products after catching your initial customers.

Note: the term “funnels” is used to describe how the sales pipeline gets narrower as you move to more expensive products.

I typically see two types of (often overlapping) sales funnels in medicine.

The first works by normalizing giving an “innocuous” drug to broad swathes of people and then selling increasingly expensive pharmaceutical drugs to treat the complications many experience from those drugs. One of the most insidious ones affects many of our girls and is one I’ve repeatedly tried to draw attention to:

Note: a good case can be made that many of the chronic illnesses our children suffer from now (which are very lucrative to “treat”) are a direct consequence of the ever increasing number of vaccines in the marketplace.

The second funnel works by recasting “preventative medicine” and “promoting health” as the task of screening for each person for conditions they are at risk for. The results from these universal screenings are then used to justify selling them medical services (e.g., drug prescriptions). Once that screening becomes normalized, the industry will then pivot to expanding the funnel and having far more services be sold. For example:

•What constitutes a “safe” blood pressure has been continually lowered, and as a result, more and more people are put on blood pressure medications. This in turn has created a variety of problems (discussed further here). For example, the elderly (due to the arteries calcifying with age) need a higher blood pressure for blood to reach the brain, and many hence suffer lightheadedness and catastrophic falls from their blood pressure being lowered.

•Since we started mass cholesterol screenings, what constitutes a “safe” cholesterol has also been continually lowered by the corrupt committees who create the guidelines doctors follow to practice medicine. For example, a widely used calculator which determines ones risk of a stroke or heart attack consistently concludes people are at a high risk of a heart attack and must urgently start statins, yet almost no doctor in practice knows that a 2016 study of 307,591 Americans discovered the calculator overestimates their risk by 5-6 times. Similarly, most doctors aren’t aware that beyond failing to benefit patients (in contrast to natural therapies which do improve heart disease), statins are also immensely dangerous drugs (discussed further here).

Note: the folly of this approach is highlighted by a trial which found removing on average 2.8 non-essential drugs from the elderly at one facility caused their 1 year death rate to go from 45%-21% and their hospitalizations that year to go from 30%-11.8%. As far as I know, there is no intervention on the market which offers a benefit comparable to this.

Radiographic Screenings

One of the common ways mass screenings are done is through giving lots of patients X-rays and then funneling those with abnormal imaging into being treated.

For example, women over the age of 50 are advised to get a mammogram every two years so that their deadly breast cancers can be identified and the women can be saved through early treatment for the cancers. However, whenever these screening programs are studied, they are found to not provide a net benefit because:

•Fast growing cancers (the ones you want to catch) will rarely be in the early stage at the exact same time someone gets a mammogram. Conversely, these cancers are normally noticed by doctors or patients (due to the sudden changes they create) and hence are radiographically evaluated independently of the mass screening programs.

•Slow growing cancers (which are unlikely to endanger women) are typically the ones which get caught.

•False positives are quite common with mammograms.

•A positive mammogram result is extremely psychologically stressful and frequently results in a variety of harmful treatments being performed on the women (e.g., having their breasts removed).

Peter Gøtzsche in turn conducted an exhaustive review of the evidence on routine mammogram screening which should have ended the practice (it can be read here). However, his data (which was widely publicized) had no effect on these screening programs. Many (myself included) believe that was because radiologists make so much money from mammograms they have an inherent need to justify the necessity of this routine screening.

Note: many medical specialists depend upon repeatedly performing the same billable service (e.g., vaccinating a child, performing a female pelvic exam, or reading a mammogram).

DEXA Scams

Another universal screening practice for women are dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans, which calculate the density of bones and hence are believed to be a proxy for bone strength. It is then compared to the average bone density of a 30 year old, and a statistical method is applied to determine how far away their density is from that value which then produces their T-score. Every medical student in turn is taught that a T-score of 0 to -1 is normal, -1 to -2.5 is on the way to being bad (osteopenia) and a T-score that is -2.5 or worse means your bones are weak enough that you have osteoporosis and must urgently begin treatment for it.

If you take a step back, a few questions should come to mind.

First, since bones naturally become less dense with age, most people will have bones that are less dense than those of a 30 year old. In turn, the current of management of osteoporosis accepts that bone loss is inevitable and reasonably tries to prevent that loss early on since it is so much harder to regain it later in life.

Hence, many people due to the normal process of aging will have osteopenia or osteoporosis. Consider for example what this study concluded was the average T-score by age of Italians.

Note: if, for instance, the average T-score for a group is -2.5, this will mean a lot of people within that group (half of them) will have a score below -2.5 and conversely, at lower “averages” even more will have osteoporosis. Additionally, T-scores are calculated utilizing the standard deviation of the bone densities in 30 year olds, a value which can be up to 50% smaller than that of older adults (making it much easier to pass the -2.5 threshold).

Second, how accurate are the scans? As it turns out, there is actually a great deal of variance in DEXA scan results depending on which machine is used, how the operator performs the test and what bones are measured, with studies often finding a 5-6% difference in bone density depending on where the test was done. More importantly, since the T-score is based off standard deviations, a 5-6% difference in bone density can, in turn, change the T-score by 0.2-0.4 (which equates to a decade of bone loss) and hence tip many over to an osteoporosis diagnosis.

Note: a similar issue exists with blood pressure, as the stress of being a doctors office often creates enough of a BP elevation for people to be erroneously diagnosed with hypertension and started on blood pressure medications. This condition, in turn, is euphemistically known as “white coat hypertension,” applies to 15-30% of hypertension diagnoses, but rarely is corrected.

Third, is there any point to repeatedly doing them? As it turns out, a study of 4124 older women found that once an initial DEXA result was obtained, there was no additional information of use gained from repeating the study over the next 8 years. Nonetheless, many guidelines often recommend getting a scan every 1-2 years, and likewise, Medicare pays for one every 2 years. As these scans typically cost between $150 to $300, that quickly adds up.

Fourth, do the scans accurately reflect bone strength and the risk of fractures? While they are generally predictive of the risk, they are not as accurate as is commonly believed. For example, this study found the osteoporosis status of a patient (determined by their T-score) frequently did not match what was directly observed within bones under a microscope. Similarly, this study found that when bones were deliberately weakened, Dexa scans underestimated how much strength had been lost.

Note: a cheaper method of diagnosing bone strength (which does not expose patients to ionizing radiation) is beginning to be used in Europe. It works by sending ultrasound waves into bone and then analyzing the spectrum created by those waves to assess the health of the bones. As the attached presentation shows, it accurately predicts bone density, and additionally, predicts bone strength. In short, this may be a dramatically superior approach to Dexa scans, but it is unlikely we will see it enter regular use in the United States for at least a decade due to how heavily invested many already are in performing Dexa scans.

Note: the story above in the comment is discussed in more detail in this NPR article. Additionally, after publishing this article, I learned that of a 2011 book that exposed the DEXA scam and provides many more compelling references arguing against their diagnosis.

Bisphosphonates

Once a patient is diagnosed with osteoporosis (and in some cases after an osteopenia diagnosis), the first line treatment is to start a bisphosphonate and continue it for up to 3-5 years depending on if the drug is administered intravenously or orally.

Note: the bisphosphonates include: Alendronate (Fosamax), Risedronate (Actonel), Ibandronate (Boniva), Zoledronic Acid (Reclast), Zoledronate (Zometa, Aclasta) Pamidronate (Aredia) Etidronate (Didronel), Neridronate (Nerixia), Tiludronate (Skelid), Clodronate (Bonefos, Loron)

A variety of factors influence the development of bone. Two of the most important ones are the cells that build bone up (osteoblasts) and the cells that break bone down (osteoclasts). Bisphosphonates in turn concentrate in the bone and work by disabling or killing osteoclasts. This thus leads to bone density increasing because the balance of bone production shifts towards building them up rather than breaking them down.

Unfortunately, there are two problems with this approach.

1. Bisphosphonates are notorious for having a large number of side effects. Commonly recognized ones include:

• Irritating the stomach and inflaming or eroding the esophagus (which can sometimes lead to esophageal cancer). This side effect is common enough that it leads many patients to not want to continue the drugs.

• Severe bone, muscle and joint pain throughout the body.

• Osteonecrosis (death of bone tissue) within the jaw. Since so many people have been affected by this (e.g., Kaiser found 0.1% of users were affected), class action lawsuits have been filed against the manufacturers for this debilitating illness (which revealed Merck’s private discussions about it). This appears to be a result of bisphosphonates concentrating in the jaw reducing the jaw’s ability to repair itself by around 90%. Remarkably, the American Dental Association even cautions its members to avoid working on patients who are taking a bisphosphonate (presumably due to the liability created by their increased risk of harm from a dental surgery).

• Triggering flu like symptoms when injected.

• Occasionally causing unusual fractures in the hips.

• Roughly doubling one’s risk for atrial fibrillation

• Low blood calcium levels (hypocalcemia can often be quite problematic).

• Fatigue, nausea and lack of strength.

• Declining kidney function.

• Inflammation of the eyes.

• Poor healing of bones after fractures.

• Increased risk of fractures
  
  Note: this is an understandably controversial side effect fraught with conflicting evidence, given that its the opposite of what the drug is supposed to do, but there is now enough evidence that it is acknowledged these drugs increase the risk of certain types of fractures.

To illustrate, a January 2008 FDA alert, warned physicians that all bisphosphonates may cause:

severe and sometimes incapacitating bone, joint, and/or muscle (musculoskeletal) pain . . . [which] may occur within days, months, or years after starting the medication, and in some patients, may not resolve even after discontinuing the medicine.

Note: we also find a variety of other significant issues occur. For example, we’ve seen many patients on bisphosphonates develop bone spurs in the jaw (which can be quite challenging for them to deal with). Similarly, a study of individuals who have had fractures after 3-8 years of bisphosphonate usage discovered that they had almost no new bone formation occurring.

2. The way bisphosphonates work is very different to how the body was designed to build healthy bone, and in effect, much of the bone they leave you with is “old bone” that easily fractures (e.g., in a threadabout this article that was seen by over 4 million people, many reported highly unusual fractures from these drugs).

Note: a variety of other newer drugs exist to treat osteoporosis. These drugs are often more effective at producing stronger bones, and often don’t have the same significant side effects seen with the bisphosphonates, so quite a few of my colleagues use them. Unfortunately, those drugs tend to be much more expensive and each one still has its own set of side effects.

Physiologic Momentum

One of the most remarkable aspects of the human body is its ability to gradually adapt to whatever circumstances it finds itself in. Conversely, one of the primary challenges one faces when dealing with a chronic illness is that typically by the time the symptoms of the disease emerge, the maladaptive physiologic process that gave rise to those symptoms is firmly established within the body and hence quite difficult (and time consuming) to shift.

For example, Alzheimer’s disease typically is a result of the processes which create neurons slowing down and being outpaced by the processes that destroy them, hence leading to an increasing neuronal loss and an increasing loss of neurological function. In turn, the only method which has ever been proven to treat Alzheimer’s is to simply reverse that equation and have neuronal production outpace neuronal destruction. Unfortunately, since a drug can’t be made to do that (rather it requires changing one’s lifestyle) the industry has instead relentlessly focused on drugs which eliminate the plaque the brain forms to protect its neurons from injury. Thus all we have to show after decades of spending billions each year to find a cure for this disease are expensive plaque targeting that have a wide range of side effects and are useless for actually treating Alzheimer’s disease.

One of the most important adaptive processes in the body is how it accommodates to the stresses and loads placed upon it. For example, the reason why weight training “works” is because muscles being stressed through overexertion gives a signal to the body that it needs to build more muscle.

However, while the adaptive process with muscles is frequently recognized, many others are not. For instance, the body continually remodels the soft tissue which connects the body together, and as a result, when someone experiences a pharmaceutical injury which damages the body’s ability to rebuild those tissues, they are likely to subsequently experience a critical structural failure.

This is most well known with the fluoroquinolone antibiotics, as the drugs (which have a high degree of toxicity to the mitochondria that fuel tissue buildup in the body) frequently cause tendon ruptures to occur over a month after the drugs are stopped. Similarly, we also observe many of the other more dangerous drugs on the market over time (even if stopped) will cause the soft tissue of the body to become compromised (often to a degree which significantly impacts the patient’s life), which in part may be explained by the fact the cells that create connective tissue have abundant mitochondria.

Note: a more detailed discussion of the treatments for ligamentous laxity (hypermobility is a condition that disproportionately affects the individuals who are the most sensitive to their environment and being injured by pharmaceuticals) can be found here.

Bone Remodeling

An adaptive process also continually reshapes the bones so that their architecture is arranged to optimally bear the loads placed upon them. In most cases, we never think about this process because it just works as intended. However, in certain cases, we do recognize where it has gone awry.

For example, since the bones depend upon the weight of gravity for the signal to be built up (via the electrical currents that are created when bone is compressed), that signal is lost in low gravity environments. Because of this, a longstanding problem in space travel was the rapid bone loss astronauts experienced (e.g., in 6 months they lost 6-10% of their bone density, which put them at a high risk for fractures once they returned to normal gravity and typically took 3 or more years to recover from).

Because of this, while we typically only focus on the cells which build bone, the reality is that the osteoclasts are also immensely important, as their destruction of bone is what allows bone to assume the shape which best allows it to effectively bare the weight of gravity. In turn, when they are blocked by a bisphosonate, bone density increases, but the bones that form are much more brittle and inflexible. Our dislike of those drugs in turn comes about from how frequently we encounter the pathologic changes they create in our patient’s bones (e.g., we find that while compressive strength may be increased, bone mobility is not, and that is often far more consequential for the patients).

This in turn highlights a common problem in medicine. Frequently doctors are trained to focus on treating numbers (e.g., reducing a “high” cholesterol) under the belief that correcting those numbers creates health. Much of this comes from the fact it’s much easier to conduct a study that assesses benefit through the change of a value which is assumed to be good (e.g., a vaccine creating the target antibodies) than it is to evaluate if an actual improvement occurs for patients (e.g., a decrease in the total number of people who died—which in Pfizer’s studies did not occur despite the fact “lifesaving” antibodies were consistently being produced).

In short I would argue that while bisphonates may be effective at improving a DEXA score, they aren’t necessarily good at improving health.

What Causes Osteoporosis?

Since bone metabolism is linked to many other processes in the body, a variety of things can affect it. In turn, I find that colleagues who focus on treating a specific aspect of the body are often able to provide proof their area of focus is the primary determinant of bone health. This hence makes it quite challenging to establish which area is in fact matters most. That said, there are a few factors of particular importance.

1. Mobility—since bone growth depends upon the signals generated from loading weight on the body, a good case can be made that our increasingly sedentary lifestyles are responsible for the continual increase in osteoporosis occurring in America (e.g., one study found sedentary postmenopausal women lost 2.26% of their bone mass in a year, while those who did a weight training program instead had a 1.17% increase). Additionally, sunlight exposure has been shown to increase bone density (along with providing many other critical health benefits), which further illustrates how problematic being sedentary inside can be.

Note: the contribution of immobility to osteoporosis also touches upon another challenging aspect of chronic diseases—often there is a self perpetuating downwards spiral since many of the causes worsen the others (e.g., osteoporosis increases immobility, poor circulation [which is commonly seen in chronic disease states] also creates immobility and immobility simultaneously impairs fluid circulation).

2. Hormones—in a previous article, I discussed the severe dangers of drugs like Lupron which work by disabling the body’s production of sex hormones. One of the most common side effects observed from them is a significant weakening of the bones, which commonly leads those injured by the drugs to remark that they “have bones like an 80 year old” (e.g., you will hear reports of a 30-year-old leaning against a wall with their arm and that bone snapping or them learning they need to get dentures). Furthermore, in many cases these effects are often delayed, which again illustrates how a disruption of the remodeling of bone can ripple out far into the future.

Note: we have also seen cases where patients were prescribed high levels of aromatase inhibitors (drugs which prevent the conversion of testosterone to estrogen) which then appeared to trigger bone loss.

This in turn argues that hormones play a vital role in bone health, and in turn, the hormonal medicine field frequently prescribes estrogen to older women to compensate for the loss of estrogen which accompanies menopause, partly under the belief that hormonal supplementation can hence prevent menopause.

However, while supplemental estrogen appears to help prevent bone loss, we don’t focus on this approach because:

•Excessive and unbalanced estrogen frequently causes cancers. While this is a contentious topic in the hormonal medicine field (e.g., many doctors who prescribe hormones insist any link between estrogen and cancer is hogwash), we have personally seen numerous cases where a patient was started on estrogen and then developed a severe cancer—especially if they were given too high of a dose. As such, in cases where we feel estrogen is necessary we take multiple precautions to do it in the safest manner possible.

•In our experience, the most important thing is not the bone’s density, but rather its elasticity and mobility. When healthy bones are subject to a loading stress, they bend to accommodate that stress and then spring back into their original shape, whereas if a bone is brittle, once it begins to bend, it will break.

The primary hormone which imparts elasticity to the bones (and induces osteoblast activity) is progesterone, and like estrogen, it declines with age—particularly after menopause. In turn, we find that appropriately supplementing progesterone (which unlike estrogen is almost never dangerous), is highly effective at preventing fractures within the body.

Note: osteoporosis, while rarer, also occurs in men. We find that for men, increasing testosterone levels can also help with bone loss, however the magnitude of benefit is not as much as is seen with other hormonal interventions.

3. Inflammation—many of us have observed that patients with chronic inflammatory diseases tend to be at a greater risk of osteoporosis. In turn, the mechanism to support these observations exists as the cytokines classically associated with those inflammatory disease states (e.g., TNF-α and IL-6) have been shown to activate key receptors (e.g., RANKL) which cause osteoclasts to dismantle bone until the underlying disease which is generating those cytokines is addressed.

4. Minerals—since bones are composed of minerals, this suggests bone strength is dependent upon the dietary intake of minerals. Our own experience has been that supplementing with the correct minerals is often what restores bone health, so I am inclined to believe this is indeed a critical point.

Since mineral deficiencies appear to be such a common issue, we’ve tried to identify what may be responsible for this. Presently we believe the chief culprits are:

•A stomach acid deficiency (since stomach acid is often necessary to absorb dietary minerals). Two of the most common causes of this are acid blocking medications (which have been repeatedly shown to cause osteoporosis) and the tendency for stomach acid to decline with age (which may in turn explain why osteoporosis increases with age).

Note: a more detailed discussion on the critical importance of stomach acid (e.g., a stomach acid deficiency is one of the most common causes of acid reflux and of autoimmunity) can be found here.

•The chronic depletion of essential micronutrients and minerals from the soil due to industrial agricultural practices (it’s a huge problem) and the removal of the mineral rich components of food when they are processed (e.g., when changing a whole grain into a refined grain).

•The tendency for the widely used herbicide Roundup to behave as a chelating agent which binds essential minerals in the soil (particularly the +2 cations like magnesium) and hence prevents them from entering our bodies.

5. Water Fluoridation—Fluoride was originally added to the water supply because it was a toxic waste product numerous industries needed a liability free way to dispose of. Since fluoride was known to increase bone density, this was used to argue that it could protect our teeth, and hence that it could instead be viewed as a vital nutrient. These attempts were initially unsuccessful (as fluoride has a wide range of toxicities), but eventually, since fluoride was needed to produce the original atomic bombs, for national security reasons, the government relented and added fluoride to the water supply.

Unfortunately, like the bisphosphonates, while fluoride increases bone density, the bone that forms is less healthy and able to function normally. In addition to many of my colleagues believing they’ve observed this harm within their patients, this has also been demonstrated both by numerous studies linking fluoride to osteomalacia (a condition where the bones soften and hence are more likely to fracture) and by numerous studies finding that administering fluoride increases rather than decreased one’s fracture risk. Conversely however, since osteoporosis is defined not by fracture risk but rather by the loss of bone density, I don’t feel fluoride (which increases bone density) could be the primary culprit for the increasing osteoporosis rates.

Note: some of the newer research shows that fluoride decreases rather than increases bone density.

6. Pharmaceutical Drugs—In addition to the hormone blockers (e.g., Lupron) and the stomach acid blockers (e.g., Prilosec) other pharmaceuticals have also been shown to significantly increase the risk of osteoporosis, particularly the glucorticoid steroids like prednisone (the vast dangers of which are discussed here). To illustrate—taking them doubles one’s risk of a fracture (and even more so for a vertebrae), at typical doses they cause a 5-15% loss of bone each year, and in long term users, 37% experience vertebral fractures (additionally, high dose steroid use increases the risk of vertebral fractures fivefold). Glucorticoid bone loss in fact is such a common problem that treating it is one of the few official indications the FDA provides for bisphosphonates.

Note: other drugs are also known to compromise bones. Opioids for instance have been show to delay the healing of fractures or spinal fusions and when used chronically, to lower bone density and increase the risk of a fracture by 4.13 times,. Some of the other drugs which have also been show to weaken bones include the thiazondones (which are used for diabetes), SSRI antidepressants, the anticonvulsants(which were initially developed to treat epilepsy but are now used for many other conditions), Depo-Provera, and the previously mentioned aromatase inhibitors.

7. Environmental Toxins—as the following links show, variety of widely pervasive environmental toxins (e.g., organophosphates, Bisphenol A, aluminum, cadmium and nicotine, lead, mercury, triclosans, along with many other persistent organic pollutants) can inhibit bone formation and are linked to osteoporosis.

Note: drinking soda has been shown to significantly increases one’s risk of osteoporosis and fractures.

At the same time however, I’m not completely sure these points paint the full picture because the most ancient medical texts in the world also discussed osteoporosis (at a time when, for instance, Roundup and Acid Blockers did not exist)

In addition to these mechanisms, there are a few others I suspect cause osteoporosis but I have less evidence to support those claims. In the final part of this article, I will list those mechanisms and our preferred protocols for treating osteoporosis (some of which, such as the minerals are quite simple, others like hormonal management are a bit complicated, along with some that are a more out of the box or that can be done in your younger years to head off a critical loss of bone mass in the future).

BW: I could not copy the rest of A Midwestern Doctor’s article, containing the protocols, because it was for their paid subscribers only. I highly recommend that you do take out an inexpensive paid subscription to AMD - even for just one month. It’s definitely worth it. Here is the link to AMD’s article above, which you can click to subscribe to them (not to me.)

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I’m republishing this very important article by AMD. A huge percentage of the population, especially the elderly, is on antacids, and virtually nobody realizes that they increase risk of death by 19% and cause many chronic health problems. So please share this information with those you care about. The link to the original is at the end.

BY A MIDWESTERN DOCTOR

JUNE 10 ‘26

Story at a Glance:

•Many commonly prescribed medications are given to patients despite the risks often outweighing the benefits.

•Acid-suppressing drugs are among the worst offenders, with their overuse fueled by a lack of understanding about the crucial role of stomach acid throughout the body or that acid reflux is due to too little stomach acid (as the stomach acid of digestion gives the stomach’s opening a signal to seal and not let any more food in).

•Deficient stomach acid causes many chronic health problems (e.g., macular degeneration, a myriad of autoimmune disorders such as asthma, and less overt forms of reflux that cause many common diseases of the ears, nose, and throat such as allergies, coughs, and sinusitis).

•Acid blocking medications cause a variety of severe side effects, including a 19% increased risk of death and a comparable increase in cardiac events, kidney or liver disease, numerous infections, and bone damage.

•Thankfully, many safe natural treatments can effectively address acid reflux and many of the complications of a chronic stomach acid deficiency.

In the U.S., 66% of adults are estimated to have at least one prescription, and the average person has nine filled annually. As an awake physician, one of the most depressing aspects of my work is seeing patients, especially the elderly, weighed down by numerous prescriptions that frequently do more harm than good.

For example, as I showed here, statins provide a negligible benefit (e.g., at best, taking them for five years extends one’s lifespan by 3-4 days) but create significant side effects such as severe muscle pain and cognitive impairment for 20% of users.

This tragic situation is best demonstrated by a 2007 study which showed that simply discontinuing the least necessary prescriptions resulted in a 23% reduction in the death rate and an 18.2% decrease in hospital referrals. Sadly, since the trend in medicine is always to have people on more drugs, data like this has had no effect on the practice of the overprescription of medications.

Over the years, I’ve asked dozens of holistic doctors which widely prescribed drugs they consider to be the most unnecessary and dangerous, and in addition to statins, three frequently make their list:

•NSAID painkillers (discussed further here).

•SSRI antidepressants (discussed further here).

•Stomach acid blocking PPIs (the focus of this article).

Acid Reflux

Your stomach contains acid that it uses to digest food (primarily by turning on powerful enzymes that digest protein). When the stomach is digesting food, the acid should stay inside the stomach, but sometimes, it leaks back up into the esophagus (your throat) because the muscle that seals the top of the stomach (the LES) fails to fully seal. Since stomach acid is irritating, it frequently creates an unpleasant condition known as heartburn when it refluxes into areas like the throat that are not resistant to its acidity.

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a very common condition, estimated to affect 20% of adults (ranging between 18.1% to 27.8% of adults in the USA), is slightly more common in women, and those numbers have been gradually increasing globally.

In addition to overt acid reflux, another condition is silent reflux (laryngopharyngeal reflux), where minor reflux occurs without causing overt heartburn. It is often the root cause of a variety of other symptoms, such as:

•Allergies

•Asthma and reactive airway diseases

•Burning in the mouth or on the tongue

•Chronic sore throat

•Ear pressure and ear infections

•Frequently feeling like you need to clear your throat (and sometimes cough)

•Post-nasal drip

•Sensation of a painless lump in the throat

•Sinus issues

While most medical conditions are overemphasized to sell more prescriptions, silent reflux is not, and it is quite rare for me to meet an otolaryngologist (ENT) who recognizes this is the root cause of their patients’ symptoms. Fortunately, silent reflux is highly responsive to lifestyle changes (e.g., not eating at night), and those measures frequently produce profound improvements for patients.

Why Stomach Acid Is Essential for Your Health

Subtle distortions frequently occur in science, creating a false conception of reality that conveniently allows a profitable industry to exist. For example, stomach acid is largely viewed as unnecessary and thus frequently possible to justify eliminating with acid suppressing medications. In reality, it has numerous vital functions:

Protein Digestion: Amino acids, the building blocks of the body, are obtained from protein. Without sufficient acid, proteins can’t be properly digested, leading to significant nutritional deficiencies, impaired energy levels, mood or cognitive function, and food sensitivities from undigested foreign proteins entering the bloodstream.

Sterilizing the Stomach: Acid is a barrier to harmful microbes, preventing them from entering and infecting the digestive tract. Those with low stomach acid are thus at higher risk for severe foodborne illnesses and hospital-acquired infections.

For example, one study found that ventilated patients who received an acid blocking medication (which was not as powerful as the newer PPIs) were twice as likely to develop pneumonia and 60 percent more likely to die from hospital acquired pneumonia. Similarly, a Clostridium difficile infection is the leading cause of hospital-associated infectious diarrhea. It has a considerable impact on the length of a hospital stay and its costs—those on PPIs were found to be twice as likely to develop this condition. Furthermore, one large review of septic patients found those on PPIs were 4.3% more likely to die than those not on PPIs.

Note: the largest review that has been done so far of PPIs and COVID-19 found PPIs increased a COVID patient’s risk of dying by 77%.

Many of the issues with acid suppression are best illustrated by how they alter the normal bacterial flora of the gut. For example, to quote the manufacturer of one PPI:

Like other agents that elevate intragastric pH, omeprazole [Prilosec] administered for 14 days in healthy subjects significantly increased the intragastric concentrations of viable bacteria. The pattern of the bacterial species was unchanged from that commonly found in saliva. All changes were resolved within three days of stopping treatment.

Nutrient Absorption: Many (myself included) believe one of the primary causes of all the chronic illnesses we see today are widespread deficiencies of vital nutrients. Much of this deficiency comes from:

•Industrial agriculture (which nutritionally depletes the soil)

•Chelating herbicides such as Roundup (which sequester essential minerals like manganese)

•Food processing (which removes many vital nutrients from food)

•Impaired absorption of the nutrients that remain.

Note: manganese deficiency is a root cause of many debilitating conditions, such as hyper-mobile connective tissue disorders (which make individuals much more sensitive to environmental toxins—for example, patients with ligamentous laxity are much more vulnerable to vaccine injuries). Fortunately, with appropriate manganese supplementation,& these conditions often significantly improve.

Poor stomach acid levels hinder the absorption of critical minerals and vitamins. Beyond making individual amino acids available, certain vitamins (e.g., B12) depend upon stomach acid for absorption, and many minerals bound to plants (e.g., iron) will only separate and become absorbable in an acidic environment.

Note: this is a key reason why stomach acid deficiency is particularly problematic for vegetarians.

Digestive Signaling: Acid stimulates the release of hormones (e.g., secretin and cholecystokinin) and enzymes necessary for digestion. These signals ensure that the pancreas releases the right enzymes to continue breaking down food and that the digestive system functions efficiently. Impaired acid levels can disrupt this process, leading to issues like indigestion and floating stools.

Why would Nature expend so much metabolic energy to provide each one of us at birth (and until at least age forty) with an ample supply of stomach acid and pepsin if it weren’t really necessary for digestion?” — Jonathan Wright MD

The Problems with PPIs

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are the most powerful acid suppressing medications on the market. Initially, PPIs were meant for treating very high stomach acid levels or severe GI damage and rare debilitating diseases (e.g., Zollinger–Ellison syndrome), and their usage was limited to 4-8 weeks. However, once the heartburn market was recognized, PPIs were heavily promoted, and now over 15% of Americans take them.

Since stomach acid is critical for health, prolonged PPI use has been linked to serious health risks such as:

• Increased Mortality: Studies show a 19% increase in overall risk of death.

• Cardiac Events: A 28% increase in the risk of major cardiac events.

• Kidney and Liver Disease: Higher risk of severekidney disease and worsened liver conditions.

• Bone Health: Increased risk of osteoporosis and fractures.

• Infections and Deficiencies: Higher risk of infections like pneumonia, nutrient absorption issues, and low magnesium levels.

• Dementia: A 33% increase in dementia risk.

• Significantly increasing the risk of macular degeneration.

Conditions Linked to Impaired Stomach Acidity

Dr. Wright gained an international reputation for his success in treating challenging chronic illnesses (e.g., macular degeneration). He found low stomach acid was one of the most common root causes of chronic illness.

Low stomach acid is especially common in autoimmune disorders. For example, research in the 1930s showed that over 80% of asthmatic children had low stomach acid and that if given the missing hydrochloric acid, many saw their asthma disappear, especially when allergens were also removed from their diets. Unfortunately, this became a forgotten side of medicine once drugs that could perpetually “manage” asthma hit the market.

In turn, Wright found with his asthmatic patients that if he normalized their stomach acid levels and administered injectable B12, chronic illnesses like asthma could be improved and often cured. Likewise, Wright was also able to draw a clear link between stomach acid deficiency and the following autoimmune conditions (as data existed to support the link and in over half of the cases he saw, low stomach acid was detected):

Note: the bolded conditions are known to be linked to an HLA genetic factor but nonetheless responded to Wright’s protocol, suggesting not only genetics but also environmental factors must be considered in chronic disease. This is very similar to the situation with autism, where many different genetic factors have been partially linked to it, and all of those factors share the common thread of increasing the likelihood that an environmental toxin will permanently damage the body. Thus in both cases, we have a myriad of chronic conditions that are difficult to explain (let alone treat) unless they are each viewed as the manifestation of a few key pathologic processes that must be addressed.

Wright also noted other health issues linked to low stomach acid, such as digestive problems, skin disorders, accelerated aging, depression, and even stomach cancer.

In fact, Wright predicted that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), which reduce stomach acid, would increase stomach cancer rates. Recent studies have confirmed this, showing that PPIs can nearly double the risk of developing stomach cancer (e.g., a meta-analysis reviewing millions of people found a 1.8X increase).

What Causes Acid Reflux?

So far, I’ve tried to make the case that acid reflux is tied to a stomach acid deficiency (something Wright found in over 90% of the thousands of tests his clinic performed), and more importantly, that the presence of reflux should serve as a warning of stomach acid deficiency and that critical parts of your health may also be compromised. Sadly, doctors always assume there is too much acid in the stomach when seeing a patient with GERD rather than measuring the stomach acid levels prior to beginning an acid reducing regimen (e.g., in 30 years of practice, Wright never saw a patient who ever had their stomach acid directly measured by another doctor, regardless of how other many tests their previous doctors had performed to evaluate their GI tract).

All of this comes about because of an important fact that is rarely taught in medical school. The lower esophageal sphincter is pH sensitive and only closes once sufficient acidity is present in the stomach (which makes sense since otherwise food would not be able to get to the stomach in the first place, but once it’s there and being digested, you need a way to keep it from getting back into the throat).

Since GERD is so common, that suggests there is also a widespread deficiency in stomach (hydrochloric) acid. Presently, I believe a few factors are responsible:

• Aging: Stomach acid production decreases with age, particularly after 60. This decline is linked to various health issues, making amino acid and B-12 supplementation crucial for older adults. The increasing prevalence of GERD with age suggests that doctors often misattribute symptoms to excess acid rather than considering a deficiency.

Note: The likelihood of GERD is known to increase with age, which again makes it remarkable that so few doctors consider the possibility that excess acid in the stomach is not the cause of their patient’s symptoms.

• Diet: Stomach acid requires both hydrogen and chloride, which are less present in modern diets. Proper supplementation of these elements can significantly improve gastrointestinal function.

• Autoimmune Conditions: These can attack the stomach’s acid-producing cells, reducing acid levels.

• H. Pylori Infections: This bacterium is known to decrease stomach acid production.

• Energy Demands: Producing stomach acid is energy-intensive. Mitochondrial dysfunction, common in chronic illnesses, may contribute to declining acid levels.

• Medications: Acid-suppressing drugs naturally reduce stomach acid levels, exacerbating the problem.

However, stomach acid deficiency isn’t the only cause of acid reflux:

Physical Pressure: Excess pressure on the stomach, such as from a hiatal hernia, can force the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) to open, leading to reflux. This condition is estimated to affect 55%-60% of people over 50.

Medications and Foods: many medications, particularly ones used to relax muscles like the bronchodilators used to “treat” asthma, certain blood pressure medications (e.g, calcium channel blockers) along with valium, nitroglycerine, and opioids, all relax the LES and thereby allow stomach contents to leak through it.

Additionally, Wright found that some foods, including fats, chocolate, coffee, other caffeinated beverages, mints (especially peppermint and spearmint), sugar, onions, and some alcoholic beverages, can weaken the LES.

Stomach Irritants: Acidic foods, spicy foods, carbonated beverages, and coffee can irritate the stomach and trigger reflux. Patients with lectin sensitivities should avoid high-lectin foods.

Spicy Foods: While spicy and bitter foods can stimulate stomach acid secretion and protect against parasites, they can also irritate inflamed tissues and worsen GERD symptoms in severe cases.

While many of these foods are on the list of items to avoid if you have GERD, Wright uniquely categorized foods into those that weaken the LES versus those that irritate the stomach, providing a more nuanced approach to managing GERD.

Note: one of the most insidious things about this is that PPIs create a dependency for the user as once they begin to stop using them, some stomach acid will return (which is enough to irritate the esophagus but not enough to signal to the LES to close), leading to reflux GERD and hence forcing the patients to resume the PPI to alleviate their symptoms. Sadly this dependency is a common theme in the most commercially successful pharmaceuticals. For example, benzodiazepines were only meant to be used for the short term management of anxiety because they are highly addictive. Still, since they are frequently prescribed indefinitely to patients, many cannot stop using them due to the severe anxiety provoking withdrawals they produce.

Managing Stomach Acidity

Most of the natural approaches for treating GERD and the conditions relating to deficient stomach acidity normally seek to do one or more of the following:

•Reduce the pressure on the stomach.

•Remove stomach irritating foods from the diet.

•Restore the tone of the LES.

•Restore hydrochloric acid production.

•Heal damaged areas of the GI tract (e.g., an ulcer) without using acid suppressing medications.

•Support normal digestive function in tandem with increasing stomach acidity.

Some of these approaches are relatively straightforward and have been mentioned throughout the article. Sadly, however, patients are rarely informed of the natural ways to treat acid reflux, despite them being quite feasible to implement at home.

For example, recently Senator Ron Johnson shared that after learning about this here, he was able to finally cure his longstanding acid reflux.

(BW: The original article contains a short video clip of Senator Johnson explaining how he helped fix his own acid reflux by taking 1 tablet of natural hydrochloric acid daily before his evening meal.)

Senator Johnson’s experience hence illustrates how widespread this issue is, and more importantly, that even for Senators (who should have access to the best possible medical care), simple natural cures remain elusive within the conventional paradigm.

Conclusion

Despite my extensive understanding of the politics behind medicine, I still find it hard to accept that medical science has largely ignored the critical role of stomach acid. This situation highlights how modern medicine often prioritizes sales over scientific evidence.

Fortunately, with the patents for PPIs now expiring, the financial incentive to overlook their harms has diminished. As a result, the medical community is finally starting to acknowledge the risks associated with these drugs.

Author’s note: This is an abbreviated version of a full-length article that takes a deeper look into the above details (e.g., other dangers of PPIs, the methods for naturally treating acid reflux or stomach acid deficiency, and how these protocols were used for a myriad of conditions such as macular degeneration.)

For the entire read with much more specific details and sources, please click here.

BW: Link to AMD’s original article: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/exposing-the-great-acid-reflux-scam

With tremendous thanks to AMD for the inestimable work they put in to bring accurate and lifesaving health information to the public.

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Seeing G-d’s awesome, intricately designed universe tells you plainly that there is a Master Designer.

To think otherwise is simply abandoning all logic. When people do this, they have ulterior motives. Not wanting to be bound by the Creator’s rules for life motivates people to try to rationalize denying Him, G-d forbid. They then feel free to act as they please, no guilty conscience needed.

Studying the intricacies of His creation leads an honest person to greater awareness and appreciation of their Maker.

I received the poster above and a request to publicize it, with the message below, from the organizer, whom I know personally:

I am pleased to share the access details for the upcoming Torah Presentation against Evolution, featuring Professor Daniel Nessim, beginning with opening remarks from Rabbi Eliyahu Brog.

The session will take place this Tuesday, June 30, at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. You can join the presentation directly via Zoom using the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81860437473?pwd=sBBjmZL943Vv93GpgZD5egFjN9BY2b.1

You can also dial in by phone. Please use the credentials below:

Zoom Phone Number: 646-558-8656

Meeting ID: 818 6043 7473

Passcode: 272010

Please spread this invitation far and wide.

Although I do not personally know Professor Daniel Nessim, I do know the person organizing this event, and I know that he is working hard on this project in order to sanctify G-d’s Name publicly.

Please join in spreading the word to whoever may be inspired.

Thank you and G-d bless you!

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Republishing this tragic testimony from Dr. William Makis’s substack. I hope it will save at least one parent from making the same dreadful mistake. https://makisw.substack.com/p/hpv-vaccine-injury-17-year-old-jessica

Our precious 17-year-old daughter, Jessica “Jessie” Ericzon, was taken from us far too soon.

Jessie was a brilliant, healthy, driven high school athlete taking college courses. She had big dreams and a bright future.

When her doctor recommended the Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer protection, we researched it, read the pamphlet, and chose to proceed with the 3-shot series.

- 1st shot: July 2007 – no issues.

- 2nd shot: September 2007 – afterward she developed severe headaches, pain in the lower left back of her head, extreme fatigue, and joint aches. We thought it was from sports training. The doctor called it stress and suggested Tylenol.

- 3rd shot: February 20, 2008.

The very next day she was supposed to be at college class by 10 a.m. Lisa and I came home from work together. The house was quiet, bathroom light on. Lisa knocked and opened the door… and found our beautiful girl gone. She had passed suddenly, just 40 hours after her final Gardasil shot.

The coroner said she died instantly. After 11 weeks, the final report came back: cause undetermined.

We knew in our hearts it was connected. At that time in 2008 there were already reports of deaths and injuries following the vaccine. We’ve since heard from so many other families worldwide with nearly identical stories.

This pain never ends. We share Jessie’s story so no other parent has to live this nightmare. Please research deeply and think carefully before making these decisions for your children.

We love you forever, sweet Jessie. You are missed every single day.
Lisa & Family

Jefferson County, NY

February 22, 2008 — the day our world changed.

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Last Thursday, Dr. Tess Lawrie republished a firsthand account of a recovery from devastating stroke using DMSO and other complementary modalities, as written by a member of Dr. Lawrie’s team, who saved the life of her own ex-husband. Meanwhile, I (BW) actually have a personal account to tell over about DMSO for stroke as well - as thank G-d, a relative of mine experienced a remarkable, rapid and complete recovery from her stroke last spring. Through a Divinely orchestrated series of events, she was fortunate to begin receiving DMSO and Valasta from her family at the hospital within hours of her stroke beginning. Before she got the DMSO and Valasta, the clot-busting medication she received at the hospital had not shown any positive effects and she’d only gotten worse. Her speech was slurred, her mouth was uneven, and it was hard for her to speak. One of her arms didn’t work right. Then the Valasta and DMSO arrived. In the ICU, her family kept applying DMSO liberally to her head every few hours, and administering small quantities of Valasta by mouth. Praise G-d, she started rapidly improving. By discharge home around a week later, my relative was almost completely back to herself. She never required nor received any rehab services at all, and she continued the Valasta and DMSO, added the enzymes Lumbrokinase and Nattokinase, and very soon had a full recovery. Thank G-d there is zero visible disability, and in fact my relative stated last summer that she felt physically better than she had before the stroke. She did mention recently that sometimes she has difficulty with word recall - but it’s minor enough that it’s not something that we can tell from the outside. She said that issue is up and down and that Neuralli probiotic has helped her significantly with it.

By Divine Providence, as I began putting together this article on Thursday, I received a call from a woman who had a stroke a year ago and is still suffering from the effects. Thank G-d, I was able to visit her, bring her DMSO and Valasta, and tell her what else she should try.

I’m republishing Dr. Lawrie’s reprint of her team member’s November 2024 story, as well as some other amazing DMSO accounts here.

Here is Dr. Lawrie’s preface:

I am hearing of so many people with strokes, I thought I would re-share this story of how my amazing team member, Lucy, saved the life of her dear friend following a devastating stroke whilst he was on holiday in Greece. He has come on in leaps and bounds since then.

They said he’d never recover from stroke. They didn’t count on DMSO...

This personal story from WCH team member Lucy shows how natural therapeutic approaches, love and determination work miracles.

https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/they-said-hed-never-recover-from

WORLD COUNCIL FOR HEALTH

NOV 15, 2024

Note: The information below is a personal account and does not in any way constitute medical advice.

It’s past ten on a Sunday night and my ex’s friend is calling me. I’m good friends with Jo, but this is unusual. Something is terribly wrong. I’ve feared this moment, ever since Simon took two doses of the experimental Covid vaccine – and now it’s here.

Jo tells me Simon’s had a stroke on a golfing holiday with his friends in Greece. They’d been at a local hotel, raising a glass to their annual tour. Instead of clinking his glass, he’d just stared into space and one side of his face looked different. Within an hour he was in an ambulance and taken to the nearest hospital.

The news is hard to bear: how am I going to tell Harriet, our 13 year old daughter? Her father is the beat of her heart. It’s the middle of the night and I’m looking at her school uniform laid out for the next day, all organised and prepared, just like her father.

“Mask, mask, mask…”

We get on the next flight to Athens. As Harriet sleeps on my shoulder, I pray he hangs on long enough for her to say goodbye.

After a fraught car ride, we reach the rural hospital where we’re accosted by people saying “mask, mask, mask” followed by “test, you must take Covid test, 2nd floor.” I thank them kindly and ignore their request.

From floor to floor we search, our Greek as good as their English. We eventually find him. Lying on a hospital bed with one eye open, he stares at us, confused. His face is swollen and one side doesn’t seem to be working like the other, but we see the recognition dawn: he knows who we are.

He looks in a huge amount of discomfort: the drip that was attached to him is hanging precariously from the crook of his elbow. We sit with him waiting for a doctor, a nurse, anyone who can inform us as to how he is. Attention comes only when his drip comes out of his arm and he starts bleeding profusely. Harriet’s cries of horror reach the nurses and they rush to stem the flow.

Hours later, we head to the car for some sleep. We tell Simon we won’t be far and will see him in a few hours. We think he can understand us by the movement of his eyebrow. At this point, I am furiously texting my friends, asking for help. Exhausted, I watch support and information pour in from all over the world.

The power of community

One friend, a doctor, recommends infrared light therapy—a treatment routinely used in stroke wards in Russia that could provide hope for Simon. Buying online is a two-week wait but a friend’s friend in Athens arranges for a device to collect the following day.

Another text arrives, this time from a nutritionist friend who tells me Simon should be taking DMSO, a natural substance with far-reaching, proven results. I have some at home, so I arrange for Jo to bring it with her to Simon.

https://amandhavollmer.substack.com/p/dmso-for-strokes

The next day brings fresh horror. When Jo arrives, she sees immediately the hospital is sorely overstretched but when we ask to move Simon elsewhere, the doctors refuse. It’s only when we speak to the insurance company that we discover why. The insurer translates what the doctors had been trying to communicate in the two-minute exchange we’d had with them: that Simon’s condition is too poor for him to moved, and that the stroke is so severe, he will never recover.

The hardest thing I’ve ever done…

My heart breaks yet again and thoughts rush in. He can’t die in this place… how do I fly his body home? How do I tell Harriet her beloved dad, her hero will never be the same again? I break down. With Harriet next to her dad unaware of the news, Jo and I sit on the bench outside the ward and cry.

When I make my way back to Harriet, she asks me if he’s going to be ok. I know the importance of positive energy and how it heals the body. I know that if her energy dips with lost hope, he’ll absorb this and it’ll be downhill from there. I do the hardest thing I have ever done as a mum. I look her in the eyes and say, “He will be ok, angel.” She asks me to promise, and I do. I can’t let her give up hope; by my saying those words out loud for Simon to hear, I know this keeps the positive energy alive for him too.

Determination sets in. I have promised this to my beautiful daughter so now I must manifest his recovery and make a miracle happen. We’re not just leaving him in the hands of Big Pharma and hospital staff who don’t know any better – we’re going to help him in our own way.

Another message has arrived from a colleague whose friend had healed from stroke. She suggests we give Simon essential oils of frankincense and sandalwood - how on earth am I going to find these? The answer comes quickly. My new Athenian friend messages to say she’s collecting the red light device in a few hours. I ask if she can help me locate the oils. “Of course, no problem!” she replies.

Locked out of the ward that night (despite attempting the fire escape), we set to work at dawn the next day.

Our alternative treatment begins…

I start by setting up the red light, pointing it about 30cm from his head and letting it run its set time of 15 mins. Jo and the Greek staff look perplexed.

Then I set to work on the essential oils. The combination makes the toxic chemical hospital smell disappear and it smells like a spa. Simon is now showing little signs of improvement, using his good hand to open his eyes. He can hear us as he raises an eyebrow now and then when we try to tell him a joke. As the day goes on, I move the lamp around his head so that all areas absorb the light.

The nurses are confused. “What is this?!” they ask.

I tell them it’s to help with blood flow to his brain. They shrug, not disapprovingly but with curiosity.

Later, after doing some more research on DMSO, I decide to give it a go. As he’s still nil by mouth, I pour 99.5% DMSO onto my hands and apply it to his forehead and temples. After more research I learn magnesium oil helps too. The local pharmacy sells a magnesium gel so I think, why not? It’s got to be better than none at all.

Progress!

As the day progresses, Simon shows more improvement. His eyes are opening without his fingers doing the work and he’s even able to give us a slight smile. We continually tell him to keep trying, that his mindset will do all the work, that he just needs to believe he will get better.

The hourly routine continues: DMSO, essential oils, red light. We get strange looks but no one tries to stop us.

We see a doctor, a rare sight.

She seems surprised that he is doing so well. He is now nodding occasionally, opening both eyes together, and he’s more responsive. Great! Any progress is a most welcome sign! Is it the additional therapies he’s receiving from us, I wonder?

The unmasked speech therapist that arrives also sees improvements each day. He becomes able to say yes, no, right so far. Over the following days, we continue with the red light and DMSO – when I give him the DMSO mixed with orange juice, the improvements pick up even more.

I learn that blueberry juice and walnut oil can help, so start giving him sips of blueberry juice through the day, and walnut oil-soaked bread, which he’s now able to eat in small bites. I know sound frequencies are important and learn that 528hz can help stroke victims. I find a track on YouTube and play it to Simon as he sleeps.

Jo, Harrie and I take it in turns to be by his side. We hear a new word each day and he can even hum a song and say some of the words to his beloved St Helen’s rugby league tune ‘When the saints go marching in’. Harriet beams from ear to ear.

Then the news comes: we are going home! A medical flight has been arranged just three weeks after the stroke we were told he would never recover from. To think at one point I didn’t think he’d make it back alive.

The triumph of love, hope and connection

Now as I sit with my daughter on our flight back from Athens, I am overwhelmed by the resilience of the human spirit and the power of hope. What began as a nightmarish ordeal became an incredible testament to love, determination, and the healing potential that lies within and around us.

Navigating the chaotic landscape of modern medicine, I discovered that true healing often transcends traditional practices. It flourished in the connections we forge with supportive friends, colleagues, and even strangers who stepped in to offer their kindness and expertise. This experience reinforced my belief in the importance of community—how coming together in times of crisis can create a tapestry of support that uplifts and empowers us.

Through the storm of uncertainty, I learned to trust not only in nature’s ability to heal but also in my own capacity to advocate fiercely for my loved ones. I witnessed firsthand how combining conventional and alternative approaches could lead to remarkable progress, and I am filled with gratitude for the wisdom shared by my friends and colleagues. Their encouragement and guidance became a lifeline during our darkest hours.

As we prepare to embark on the next chapter of Simon’s recovery, I am hopeful.

Miracles can, and do, happen

The journey ahead may still be fraught with challenges, but I am confident that with love, persistence, and the right resources, miracles can happen. This experience has solidified my commitment to championing holistic healing and advocating for those who may feel voiceless in the face of modern medicine.

BW NOTE: This story took place a year and a half ago, in November 2024. As Dr. Tess Lawrie noted in her preface, Simon has made tremendous improvement since that time.

Resources

On DMSO, A Midwestern Doctor has a fascinating and informative series on Substack, starting with the link below:

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-remarkable-history-and-safety

There are several studies on red light therapy as a treatment for stroke, including this clinical trial, this 2016 study, and this article that references research on the positive therapeutic effects of red light therapy for stroke patients.

On blueberries as a therapeutic treatment for stroke: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11203670/

On blueberries and walnuts and their role in treating stroke: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071106122843.htm

Link to the original WCH article: 👆🏼https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/they-said-hed-never-recover-from

HEART ATTACK SURVIVAL:

Here is a fascinating NYT article from back in 1966, telling about animals that survived, due to being administered DMSO, when arteries that supply blood to major portions of the heart muscle were blocked off (simulating a heart attack.) Researchers in 1966 expected DMSO to be used on human heart attack victims with a year … pending FDA approval. Tragically, as they have done with so many other treatments that are “too effective,” the FDA got in the way.

https://www.nytimes.com/1966/03/16/archives/dmso-to-be-tried-on-heart-victims-chemical-helped-animals-survive.html

Stopping Stroke & Stroke Treatment

Obviously, a person who suspects stroke should immediately call an ambulance and go to the hospital. However, in the time until the ambulance arrives and continuing in the hospital as well, there is a huge role for DMSO to play in G-d willing, increasing survival and decreasing disability.

Here are portions of two articles which explain using DMSO for stroke. The second article provides step-by-step guidance.

Like Penicillin, ‘Miraculous’ DMSO Could Change the Lives of Afflicted Millions

https://rescue.substack.com/p/like-penicillin-miraculous-dmso-could

By Mary Beth Pfeiffer

Excerpts:

In 2023, strokes—officially listed as cerebrovascular disease—killed 162,000 Americans, the fourth leading cause of death. But what if there was an effective, readily available drug or supplement to sharply curb that? There likely is one—hiding in plain sight in the medical literature.

As early as 1976, a study of post-stroke rhesus monkeys showed DMSO afforded “significant protection from the severe neurological deficits” compared to “dexamethasone and no-treatment controls.” In following years, animal studies showed DMSO could curb damage when blood supply was cut off to the brain. And, in 2002, a pilot study of people given intravenous DMSO at stroke onset, showed seven of eleven were “improved or markedly improved” up to six months later—triple the improvement of a control group.

AMD and colleagues have long used DMSO against stroke. “We feel it’s a crime it’s not the standard of care,” AMD told me. “So many could be spared from lifelong disability with it.”

DMSO works in both ischemic (blood-clot caused) and hemorrhagic (brain-bleed related) stroke, obviating the need to wait for a CT scan before initiating treatment. AMD believes DMSO should be in every ambulance, where it could be given intravenously to stroke as well as spinal cord injury patients.

Lacking that, there are alternatives. “In the case of topically, I put it over the arteries that feed the part of the brain affected by the stroke,” AMD wrote to me. “I made up the latter approach and I have not seen any data on if this ‘works’ but it seems logically plausible and has worked when I tried it (although IV does more).”

A similar protocol to reverse a suspected stroke, from naturopathic doctor Amandha Vollmer, suggests rubbing DMSO on the neck, head, shoulders and spine, while consuming small amounts in water periodically.

“Given soon after a stroke, DMSO can dissolve the clot that causes the stroke, restoring circulation and avoiding paralysis,” Vollmer writes. “A substance that can stop a stroke as it’s happening is something many might want in their home medicine chest.”

Decades ago, Dr. Jacob gave all his patients a “stroke kit” with a DMSO vial and a syringe. The instructions were provided by his son, Jeff Jacob. They read:

“In the event of a stroke, the entire content of the vial is to be injected into the buttocks as soon as possible. The sooner the better. Do not waste time.”

Here are Amandha D. Vollmer’s instructions, and excerpts from her post:

Link: https://yummy.doctor/blog/dmso-for-strokes/

DMSO Stroke Protocol – Oral and Topical:

DMSO for Stroke GOALS:

Prevent death, remove excess fluids, reduce tissue injury, reduce excessive blood clot formation, reduce swelling, open blood flow to the brain, protect the nerves from damage, control inflammation, aid tissue recovery, and reduce scar tissue formation.

At the first signs of a stroke, if the patient is conscious, administer by mouth (P.O.) a 50% solution of DMSO in water with a little honey or juice every 15 minutes for two hours and then every half hour for two hours. 1/2 ounce (15 ml or approximately 1 tbsp) DMSO (99.995% adjust accordingly if you have a 90% DMSO on hand) in 1/2 ounce distilled or RO water (if you don’t have it use what you have available, even juice, just no tap water) mixed with 1 tsp of honey or other natural sugar, immediately. Give no higher a percentage dose than 50% total concentration of DMSO. Wash the skin with a clean cloth. Rub 1 tablespoon of 80-90% DMSO over the neck, chest, and back, concentrating over the spine, as well as over the temples and scalp if possible. It is also advised to apply magnesium oil over as much of the DMSO-covered skin as is feasible to assist the detoxification effect of the DMSO. If the patient is unconscious, apply the DMSO and magnesium topically and bring some with you to the emergency room to apply more within the next 30 minutes topically. A 50% mixture of DMSO with magnesium can also be applied every hour for the next 3 hours after the first 2 steps of the protocol have been given. More details are below.

To clarify with steps:

1) Administer by mouth (P.O.) 1/2 ounce (15 ml) DMSO in 1/2 ounce distilled or RO water with a little honey or juice added every 15 minutes for two hours and then every half hour for two hours.

2) Wash the skin with a warm, wet, clean cotton cloth. Rub 1 tablespoon of 80-90% DMSO over the neck, chest, and back, concentrating on the spine, as well as over the temples and scalp. This can be strong, producing redness, itchiness, and even hives. Do not be alarmed. It will fade and return to normal. A lower concentration can be applied if you are concerned about skin sensitivity (50-70%)

3) Apply magnesium oil over the body and rub it into the skin well overtop of the DMSO-applied areas.

4) Wipe down the skin again. Apply another layer of 80-90% DMSO over the same areas 30-45 minutes from the first application. Always use clean hands. If you do not wish to touch it (as it is a fully transdermal substance and one that can carry other things with it), apply it with cotton balls or a new, clean natural bristle paintbrush. DMSO will dissolve gloves. You can use pure 99.995% DMSO, however, expect redness, hives, and if used repeatedly a temporary, leathery skin appearance. Again, this will fully recover once the DMSO is halted. To learn everything about DMSO safety, take a flip through my user-friendly book, it’s a handy guide when you need to make a decision about concentration.

5) Use 50% DMSO with magnesium (or just magnesium) every hour, about 12-15 sprays for the next 3 hours after the first 2 applications. Oral magnesium can also be given if the patient is conscious.

6) Reassess and find out what type of stroke has occurred and how severe.

If the patient is extremely tiny in weight, adjust amounts accordingly. This is a protocol for an adult. Doses in a child must be dropped to half or less depending on size. DMSO with magnesium and step 1 (above) oral protocol can be ample if this is all you can manage. Always continually assess the patient for improvement. Use watchful caution with administering. Do not administer in high doses if the person has been consuming alcohol. Stop the DMSO if the patient has a hypersensitivity reaction, like nausea or vomiting. Continue DMSO and magnesium therapy at home, including other healing methods that assist stroke recovery.

Expanded Protocol:

Systemic enzymes: Serrapeptase with nattokinase (clot control, prevents and removes scar tissue)

Internal as well as topical magnesium (hundreds of functions, speeds up responses, liver and hormone support)

High dose vitamin C (rapid tissue repair, tissue integrity)

Vitamin E (tissue repair, blood viscosity)

Potassium (fluid balance, brain function)

MMS/CDS – (tissue recovery, electron lending) available through our private club (info@dmso.club)

Cod Liver Oil (inflammation control, tissue recovery, mitochondrial function)

Niacin (brain recovery, blood flow repair, neuroplasticity support)

Red laser therapy or Terahertz frequency therapy (email support@yumnaturals.net for more info and to purchase) (structures cells EZ water zones, increases electrical potential, nerve and brain recovery, cell communication)

B12 with methylfolate (nerve repair, specifically myelin sheaths)

St. Johnswort botanical (cannot be taken with most prescription medications) (nerve tissue repair)

Also, look into Vitamin D, probiotics, Strauss Heart Drops and CoQ10.

Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is an anti-inflammatory and analgesic compound that holds promise in managing a wide range of debilitating health conditions. DMSO is an approved pharmacological agent in more than 125 countries, and its safety and therapeutic effects are backed by nearly 50 years of research and more than 10,000 scientific articles on its biological implications (1).

DMSO should be used in the treatment of all stroke patients. DMSO has a number of properties that make it valuable in treating any problem involving the brain.

One very important property of DMSO is the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier. It is one of the few products to cross this protective barrier. The blood-brain barrier serves as a protective mechanism that exists between circulating blood and the brain. It protects the brain from substances that are toxic to brain tissue.

There is normally an accumulation of water in the brain as a result of the stroke because the stroke damage breaks down some of the cells. The fluid buildup in the cranium compresses other brain cells resulting in the death of more cells. DMSO actually helps to remove the excess fluid from the brain resulting in lower pressure and less brain damage. There can also be an accumulation of blood that should be removed if it is providing pressure on brain cells. The best way to remove this blood is through the use of DMSO. The DMSO helps other blood vessels take over the work of the damaged blood vessels, thereby potentially saving the life of the stroke victim.

DMSO also protects nerve cells from any disruption following stroke injury. Other products have been used for this, but DMSO provides better protection than the other products. Another important consideration is the fact that there are no harmful side effects when using DMSO. The proper use of DMSO could save the lives of many stroke victims each year.

When the patient has a stroke DMSO treatment should start as soon as possible. Emergency personnel should all be trained in the use of DMSO. Ambulance crews should at least give DMSO treatment topically to all stroke patients when the patient is first picked up. When the patient arrives at the hospital he can have DMSO added to his intravenous infusion. Delay in starting treatment can result in permanent brain damage or death.

Immediate treatment is desirable even if the stroke is relatively minor. With a minor stroke immediate DMSO treatment will minimize the possibility of any permanent damage. If it is a major stroke immediate treatment with DMSO can often prevent major permanent disability or death. Brain tissue is very fragile and deteriorates rapidly if it is deprived of oxygen. When treatment is delayed certain brain functions can be destroyed permanently or the patient can die.

Even though early treatment is desirable good results have been obtained when treatment is started long after the stroke.

BW: (Amandha quotes extensive scientific evidence but I don’t have enough space here to copy it all in.)

Given soon after a stroke, DMSO can dissolve the clot that causes the stroke, restoring circulation and avoiding paralysis. Once DMSO gets into the body either daubed on the skin, given in I.V., or by mouth, it permeates the body and crosses the brain barrier, so even taken orally it can improve circulation. Ideally, it should be I.V.

Even though DMSO 40% causes a prolongation of bleeding time, it is still indicated for use in treating embolic or hemorrhagic stroke. DMSO is superior to any other treatment for wounds to the brain where a great deal of bleeding is present (Morton, 1993).

Please see Amandha’s full post with the scientific background information and links to the studies here: https://yummy.doctor/blog/dmso-for-strokes/

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The problem:

Chemotherapy and radiation therapy frequently cause leukopenia (reduced white blood cell counts.) Leukopenia is a serious adverse effect and can interrupt cancer treatment, as white blood cells are critical to fighting infection and a suppressed immune system leaves the patient vulnerable to dangerous infections. Other serious frequent adverse effects of chemo and radiation are anemia (low levels of red blood cells) and thrombocytopenia (low platelets.) This is because all three types of blood cells - WBC, RBC, and platelets - originate from a single type of stem cells called multipotent hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), which are destroyed by chemotherapy and radiation.

Equally concerning is the fact that while a well-functioning immune system is critical to fighting off the cancer itself, the chemo and/or radiation suppresses the very immune system that’s so urgently needed for the cancer battle.

Even Google admits:

Yes, adequate white blood cells (WBCs) are essential. They are the front-line defenders of your immune system, actively identifying, targeting, and destroying abnormal cancer cells. Furthermore, having a robust supply of WBCs is crucial for withstanding standard cancer treatments.

What can be done?

G-d already created solutions:

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were safe treatments which would help keep a patient’s blood cells at healthy levels throughout cancer treatment, and even make the patient feel stronger and healthier? Wouldn’t it be even better if these products also helped fight the cancer, and even made the chemo or radiation more effective?

Well, actually, these miracle “drugs” do exist! In fact, G-d has prepared multiple wonderful, safe, and natural solutions.

For example, in China, it is routine for patients undergoing cancer therapy to also receive injections of an extract from a plant called astragalus, which boosts the effectiveness of the chemo/radiation and reduces its harms to the body. Astragalus has been used in China for over 2,000 years and it works rapidly to increase WBC and platelets.

Astragalus is just one of many ideas that we have collected to help cancer patients maintain optimal health, safety, and energy during treatments. These natural products can G-d willing dramatically assist in maintaining life-sustaining blood parameters during conventional treatment, allowing the treatment to continue without killing the patient. As such, these supportive substances can truly make the difference between life and death.

It is worth noting that there is no conventional medical therapy in existence that is FDA-approved for chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia (low platelet levels.) That is one reason why this collection of safe natural treatments is all the more important.

G-d’s pharmacy beats man’s pharmacy, any day.

Here are seven different blood-cell boosters. They have the added benefits of being cancer fighters, too!

Please read on to learn the many documented and potentially lifesaving benefits of:

•Melatonin • Wheatgrass juice •Papaya Leaf •Astaxanthin •Astragalus •Colostrum •Imunobel Pro

May G-d help that this article be His messenger to help bring healing to all who need it.

•HIGH DOSE MELATONIN

Research indicates that melatonin acts as an adjuvant in cancer treatment, showing promise for mitigating chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-induced myelosuppression. Clinical and preclinical studies show melatonin helps preserve or accelerate the recovery of white blood cells (WBCs), lymphocytes, neutrophils, and platelets.

Clinical trials, such as those on rectal and metastatic breast cancer patients, have found that patients taking supplemental melatonin experience significantly milder declines in WBCs, neutrophils, and platelets during treatment.

See these studies:

https://www.integratedhealthclinic.com/the-protective-effects-of-melatonin-on-blood-cell-counts/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2517357/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11248993/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10231730/

https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/112/11/1241/59268/The-Effect-and-Underlying-Mechanism-of-Melatonin

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7377846/

Melatonin helps protects normal cells from radiation toxicity and DNA damage:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002751079700211X

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5425818/

Melatonin Protects from Radiation-Induced Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12402606

Of course, there is so much research showing how melatonin helps fight cancer in and of itself:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8123278/

Comprehensive article drawing on many studies, on the multitude of benefits of melatonin in enhancing cancer patients’ wellbeing and survival:

https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/2394-4722.2024.05

Amazing study in which 1,000 mg nightly dose of melatonin was effective at halting cancer progression in 54% of end-stage patients:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358670112_A_Preliminary_Phase-2_Study_with_very_High-Dose_of_Melatonin_1000_mgday_in_Untreatable_Advanced_Cancer_Patients_Already_Progression_on_Previous_Palliative_Therapy_with_High-Dose_Melatonin

Here are many studies on melatonin for breast cancer:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11042834/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1043276020301557

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4457700/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4301735/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4301735/

On the benefits of melatonin for blood cancers:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/844487

Melatonin inhibits angiogenesis:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28974455/

•WHEATGRASS JUICE or POWDER

Wheatgrass juice can help patients tremendously with energy, nutrition and vitality, and helping them keep up their blood counts and avoid complications during treatment. Its tremendous benefits in maintaining life-sustaining blood parameters during chemotherapy are supported by these studies: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17571966/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7345549/

If you cannot get fresh wheatgrass juice, you can use a powder, such as Garden of Life Green Superfood: https://a.co/d/05dC5dRo

•PAPAYA LEAF EXTRACT

Here are studies documenting that papaya leaf can help maintain and significantly raise platelet and white blood cell levels.

Papaya leaf for white blood cells:

https://esculapio.pk/journal/index.php/journal-files/article/view/573/435

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6371484/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8170887/

Papaya leaf for platelets:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8753228/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5108100/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6406160/

Two studies presented at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting showed how papaya leaf extract could help people with cancer who develop thrombocytopenia (low platelets) during treatment. Chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia doesn’t have an FDA-approved therapy. In a recent interview, hematologist oncologist Dr. Hanny Al-Samkari emphasized just how widespread this issue is; he and many oncologists see patients with CIT multiple times a day. Despite this, there are no FDA-approved therapies specifically designed to treat chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia (CIT).

https://healthtree.org/blood-cancer/community/articles/papaya-leaf-extract-for-thrombocytopenia

Surprise, papaya leaf also is a cancer fighter!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11467756/

https://ufhealth.org/news/2010/uf-researchers-find-cancer-fighting-properties-papaya-tea

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4734615/

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2019/01/case-reportpapaya-leafdandelion-root-extracts-may-be-effective-in-treating-a-deadly-type-of-leukemia

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2018.01319/full

https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/2394-4722.2018.22

https://www.oatext.com/phytochemical-hematologic-and-anti-tumor-activity-evaluations-of-carica-papaya-leaf-extract.php

Here is a recommended brand of papaya leaf extract: Herbal Goodness https://a.co/d/0hotvi8V

•VALASTA ASTAXANTHIN

There may perhaps be nothing equivalent to astaxanthin! Yes, astaxanthin can help maintain normal blood counts during treatment, and it can do so much more!

Not only is astaxanthin also a cancer fighter itself, but it sensitizes cancer cells to chemo and to radiation, and synergizes with those treatments to make them work better against cancer cells. It does all this while protecting healthy cells from chemo/radiation damage, reversing radiation damage, and boosting energy levels because it helps the mitochondria.

👉🏼Astaxanthin helps maintain healthy blood counts during cancer treatment:

Research indicates that astaxanthin shows promise in ameliorating treatment-induced hematopoietic failure and modulating oxidative stress during chemotherapy and radiation. Rather than interfering with therapy, several studies suggest it may selectively protect normal blood cells while enhancing tumor cell death.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13287-016-0464-3

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13096522/

https://examine.com/research-feed/study/96xpO1/?srsltid=AfmBOooxi4qE5zYoWyaWVucAQNFKZ32jaB6aRxPxNZEOZeheakYuGv0B

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7222357/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12189495/

👉🏼Astaxanthin sensitizes cancer cells to chemotherapy and radiation, making the chemo/radiation MORE effective:

Rather than protecting the tumor, astaxanthin often exhibits a chemosensitizing and radiosensitizing effect. Studies on breast cancer and other tumor cell lines demonstrate that astaxanthin can act as a pro-oxidant in cancer cells while retaining its antioxidant effect in normal cells, making tumors more susceptible to therapy while helping to preserve normal tissue.

It is therefore particularly tragic when people are advised - based on lack of knowledge - not to take Valasta astaxanthin during chemo or radiation. What a mistake! Astaxanthin will actually make the cancer cells MORE susceptible to getting killed by chemo / radiation, which is exactly what you want to happen! Amazingly, it does this while protecting the healthy cells from radiation or chemo harm. Truly G-d’s miracle:

This review details studies highlighting the effectiveness of astaxanthin in sensitizing cancer cells to chemotherapy: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11865706/

Astaxanthin increases cancer cell radiosensitivity: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28475750/

Astaxanthin synergizes with ionizing radiation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38103098/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s43046-026-00352-z

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11865706/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/406344131_Radiosensitizing_effect_of_astaxanthin_on_radiation-induced_cytotoxicity_in_breast_cancer_cells

Astaxanthin inhibits angiogenesis - the process of new blood vessel formation - the critical mechanism by which tumors acquire the necessary nutrients and oxygen to sustain their growth:

https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-024-13401-4

The cancer-killing effects of radiation are improved by the addition of treatments that interfere with angiogenesis, as this article documents: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1550318/

👉🏼Astaxanthin helps protect normal cells from radiation damage, including DNA damage:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cbdd.14321

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42995-021-00095-x

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Antioxidant-properties-of-astaxanthin-and-its-radiation-protective-effect-on-cells-AST_fig10_370102084

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5260077/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28230827/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28027548/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8433905/

👉🏼Astaxanthin helps heal radiation-induced injury:

https://academic.oup.com/rpd/article-abstract/199/17/2096/7237358

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.5c18884

👉🏼Astaxanthin Helps Energize Weak Patients:

In our experience, Valasta brand astaxanthin has repeatedly helped weak and sick patients tremendously to regain their strength and appetite to continue their fight. This is supported by research showing that astaxanthin enhances energy by protecting mitochondrial function.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/15/5/575

👉🏼Astaxanthin as a Cancer Fighter Itself:

Multiple Mechanisms of Anti-Cancer Effects Exerted by Astaxanthin: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4515619/

Effects of Astaxanthin on the Proliferation and Migration of Breast Cancer Cells: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6210693/

Astaxanthin suppresses the metastasis of colon cancer: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6603017/

Astaxanthin Inhibits JAK/STAT-3 Signaling: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4189964/

Astaxanthin Inhibits Proliferation of Human Gastric Cancer Cell Lines by Interrupting Cell Cycle Progression: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4849689/

Astaxanthin inhibits gemcitabine-resistant human pancreatic cancer progression through EMT inhibition and gemcitabine resensitization: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5652142/

Astaxanthin anticancer effects are mediated through multiple molecular mechanisms: A systematic review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1043661819327367

The Promising Effects of Astaxanthin on Lung Diseases, Including Lung Cancer: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33179051/

Recommended brand of astaxanthin:

I strongly endorse Valasta brand astaxanthin. Other brands do not offer the same benefits in fighting cancer. Please be aware that Valasta is sold by the manufacturer (www.Valasta.net) and is not sold on Amazon or Ebay. If found there, it is fake.

•ASTRAGALUS

Astragalus (Astragalus membranaceus) has been used in Chinese medicine for over 2,000 years to support the immune system. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4844899/

Astragalus contains active compounds—primarily Astragalus Polysaccharides (APS)—that stimulate the bone marrow and promote the proliferation of immune cells. Astragalus protects hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow from damage and cell death resulting from chemotherapy or radiation.

Astragalus supports healthy levels of white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Its beneficial effects can be seen very rapidly, even within hours.

Astragalus is also a cancer fighter in itself, in addition to synergizing with radiation and/or chemotherapy to make them more effective, while also dramatically protecting from the harms of those treatments to the body. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12643993/

Astragalus acts as a protective agent for the blood and bone marrow, especially under conditions like myelosuppression (e.g., bone marrow damage from chemotherapy or radiation) or anemia.

From the introduction to a meta-analysis (a review of many clinical trials) on astragalus:

Astragalus Polysaccharide Injection (APS), a standardized Chinese herbal medicine (Approval Number from the China National Medical Products Administration: Z20040086), is widely used in China as an adjuvant treatment for various malignant tumors (Li et al., 2025b). As the main active component of Astragalus membranaceus (Huang Qi), APS exhibits diverse pharmacological properties, including antitumor, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory activities (Zhang and Feng, 2022; Zhang et al., 2025; Shi and Ma, 2024). Its antitumor mechanisms involve enhancing cellular and humoral immunity, inhibiting tumor growth, increasing sensitivity to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and reducing treatment-related toxicity (Li et al., 2020a; Zhou et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2024; Xu et al., 2023; He et al., 2024). In a systematic review, Li et al. reported that APS combined with conventional antitumor therapy improved clinical efficacy, enhanced immune function, and demonstrated a favorable safety profile (Li et al., 2025b). Furthermore, several experimental studies have suggested the potential utility of APS in the treatment of cervical cancer (Xia et al., 2020; Zhai et al., 2018; Elham et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2023).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12643993/

Furthermore, we summarized the clinical applications of astragalus polysaccharides in patients with digestive tract tumors. We summarized the effective mechanism of astragalus polysaccharides on digestive tract tumors, including apoptosis induction, proliferation inhibition, immunoactivity regulation, enhancement of the anticancer effect and chemosensitivity. Therefore, in view of the multiple functions of astragalus polysaccharides in tumor immune microenvironment and its clinical efficacy, the combination of astragalus polysaccharides with antitumor therapy such as immunotherapy may provide new sparks to the bottleneck of current treatment methods.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10517906/

A simple search yields a wealth of results explaining the benefits of astragalus:

The specific mechanisms by which astragalus supports these blood cell levels are detailed in scientific research:

1. White Blood Cells (WBC) & Immune Function

• Cellular Mechanism: APS increases the proliferation and maturation of lymphocytes, neutrophils, and monocytes.

• Apoptosis Inhibition: In animal models with bone marrow suppression, astragalus acts via the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway to inhibit the apoptosis (programmed death) of white blood cells.

• Human Studies: Clinical studies on healthy adults have shown that sublingual administration of astragalus extract leads to a dose-dependent increase in circulating neutrophils, monocytes, and lymphocytes within 8 to 12 hours.

2. Red Blood Cells (RBC) & Hemoglobin

• Erythropoiesis: Astragalus aids in the recovery of red blood cell counts by preventing the destruction of erythroid progenitor cells.

• Molecular Action: Astragalus mitigates inflammatory cytokines that can suppress red blood cell generation.

• Clinical Trials: Research reviews have highlighted that astragalus can improve and significantly increase hemoglobin and red blood cell parameters, particularly in anemic patients.

3. Platelets & Thrombopoiesis

• Megakaryocyte Protection: Astragalus polysaccharides protect megakaryocytes (the bone marrow cells that produce platelets) from radiation or chemotherapy-induced toxicity.

• Colony Formation: In vitro tests demonstrate that APS significantly promotes the formation of colony-forming units of megakaryocytes (CFU-MK), accelerating platelet recovery.

• Human Response: Studies of healthy individuals taking astragalus have measured increases in circulating platelets as early as 4 hours post-administration.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006497119854630

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6268577/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006497118628290

https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/122/21/4216/12438/Astragalus-Polysaccharide-has-hematopoietic-and

https://www.spandidos-publications.com/10.3892/mmr.2020.11653

https://www.yperikon.gr/en/astragalus-membranaceus-skoni-bio

https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/134/Supplement_1/4903/428738/Astragalus-Polysaccharide-Promotes-Hematopoiesis

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Colostrum is highly recommended to patients for its cancer-fighting and nourishing powers by some integrative consultants I know. Colostrum is also high in lactoferrin, which is heavily studied for its anti-tumor properties, including apoptosis and tumor suppression.

Please see this article:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9785718/

A search shows the following fascinating information on the benefits of colostrum during cancer treatment:

• Immune Cell and Lymphocyte Support: A study on acute critically ill patients showed that colostrum supplementation can significantly increase blood lymphocytes and serum levels of CD4 and CD8 protein concentrations, which helps the body defend against secondary infections.

• Modulation of Inflammatory Biomarkers: Clinical trials indicate that bovine colostrum can lower systemic inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein (CRP), Interleukin-6 (IL-6), and Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-α).

• Gastrointestinal and Mucosal Protection: A randomized controlled trial in children with leukemia showed that prophylactic bovine colostrum significantly reduced the peak severity of chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis. Similar benefits in protecting the gut have been demonstrated in pre-clinical models.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464623005091

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12386378/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8228205/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10384749/

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7230051/

Here is a recommended brand of colostrum powder:

Immune Tree 6: https://a.co/d/07jcqJxu

The dose which is recommended by a practitioner I know is 2 tablespoons 3 times a day.

👉🏼Colostrum contains high concentrations of lactoferrin, which is heavily studied for its anti-tumor properties, including apoptosis and tumor suppression:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7175311/

Lactoferrin has been shown to enhance the cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs and activate specific immune cells (natural killer cells and T cells) to recognize and clear cancerous cells.

👉🏼Even more benefits: Studies have shown that bovine lactoferrin and its derivatives can induce apoptosis in human B-cell lymphoma and other cancer cell lines, while sparing healthy cells.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014480010000286

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With heartfelt gratitude to the Creator of the world for providing cures and for opening our eyes to them.

A big thank you to Randy Howe for the foundational research he has given us, which started me off with many of the ideas in this article.

Thank you to all the other people who have made this article possible, sharing information and working to help patients day and night. You know who you are!

L’iluy Nishmas my grandmother, Chava Rivka bas Yair Yitzchak (Evelyn Kozak), whose yahrtzeit is tonight, 3 Tamuz. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113024817/evelyn_chava_rivka-kozak

L’iluy Nishmas my son in law Ahron ben Dovid.

L’iluy Nishmas Moshe ben Esther and Shneur Zalman ben Yosef Moshe.

This article, published on fenbendazole.substack.com, is a huge eye opener for anyone wondering why cheap and effective cures aren’t widely recognized, or prescribed by doctors. It’s a must-read for all, so I’m copying it here with deep gratitude to the author. Please subscribe on his site. Link to original is below.

By Ben Fen, June 7

How the Pharmaceutical Industry Uses “Clinical Trial” Requirements to Kill the Competition

Imagine you want to open a restaurant. The health department requires you to pass an inspection before you can serve customers. Fair enough. But then you find out the inspection costs $200 million — a fee only your richest competitor can afford. And the inspector works for your competitor. And the inspection checklist was written by your competitor. And if your restaurant somehow scrapes together the money and passes anyway, your competitor gets to decide whether the results are published enabling you to open.

That is not a health inspection. That is a protection racket.

That is also, with almost perfect structural fidelity, how the pharmaceutical industry uses the randomized controlled trial (RCT) — the supposed gold standard of medical evidence — to keep cheap, effective, off-patent drugs away from cancer patients who desperately need them.

This is the story of how that racket works, why fenbendazole is an important current example of it, and why the silence of the entire pharmaceutical establishment in the face of documented, industrial-scale fraud is not a mystery. It is a confession.

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First: What Is an RCT, and Why Does It Matter?

A randomized controlled trial is a medical study in which patients are randomly assigned to either receive a treatment or a placebo (or a comparison treatment), and the results are tracked over time. The randomization is supposed to remove bias — if you divide patients randomly, neither group should be systematically healthier or sicker than the other at the start, so any difference in outcomes can more reliably be attributed to the treatment.

In theory, it’s a good idea. In practice, it has become the most expensive marketing credential in human history.

Here’s the problem: running an RCT costs, on average, between $19 million and $225 million (Moore et al., 2018; Coulter, 2024). For a cancer drug trial, the per-patient cost alone averages nearly $60,000. You only get that money back if the drug you’re testing can be sold at a patent-protected premium for years after approval.

Fenbendazole cannot. It’s a veterinary dewormer that has been off-patent for decades. It costs pennies per dose. Any company could make it. No company can own it. No company will spend $200 million to prove it works against cancer, because there is no way to recoup that investment.

So no trial gets funded. And because no trial gets funded, oncologists are told there is “no evidence” that fenbendazole works. And because there is “no evidence,” cancer patients are denied access to a drug that costs less than a cup of coffee per day and has documented remissions in peer-reviewed case reports.

This is not a gap in the science. It is a structural guarantee built into a system designed by people who profit from status quo expensive cancer drugs.

The Good Housekeeping Seal That Money Can Buy

You’ve seen the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval on products in the grocery store. You might think that the seal implies that an independent organization tested the product and confirmed it meets a quality standard. What most people don’t know is that manufacturers pay (in the form of expensive advertising commitments) to receive the seal. It is, in practice, a marketing label dressed up as independent verification. Essentially, the manufacturer bribes the publisher to label its products as superior in return for advertising in those publications.

Fortunately, no one’s life is going to be adversely affected if they bought Brand A toilet paper, and not Brand B, because Brand A had the seal of approval. However, because the RCT designation carries the same perceptual weight on a drug as the Seal of Approval does on toilet paper — only now that seal can have life-or-death consequences.

The “randomized controlled trial” label does not mean a drug was tested fairly. It means someone spent between $19 million and $225 million on a process that the pharmaceutical industry has spent decades learning to manipulate toward whatever result they want.

How thoroughly manipulated? Researchers at Stanford and elsewhere have documented the full playbook. A Midwestern Doctor, writing in a comprehensive analysis of pharmaceutical research tactics, lays out the complete toolkit (A. Midwestern Doctor, 2024):

Enroll only the patients most likely to respond to your drug — and exclude up to 90% of potential participants who might show side effects. Use a “placebo” that itself causes side effects, so that your drug’s harms get lost in the noise. End the trial early if the data briefly looks good — before the real picture emerges. Switch the outcome you’re measuring after you see the data — which was done in 63% of published trials. Present a 1% benefit as “50% more effective” by using relative rather than absolute percentages. Bury the trials that showed your drug didn’t work. Publish the ones that did — sometimes the same positive trial more than a hundred times under different author names.

One olanzapine study was published 143 separate times. An FDA analysis of antidepressant trials found that the published literature made the drugs look 32% more effective than all submitted trials — including the unpublished negative ones — actually showed (A Midwestern Doctor, 2024).

That quote is not from a fringe critic. Marcia Angell ran the most prestigious medical journal in the world for two decades. She said this in 2009, after watching the process from the inside (Angell, 2009). The situation has gotten worse since then.

And here is the most damning part: not one pharmaceutical company has publicly called out another for this manipulation. Not one journal editor has resigned in protest of competitor journals’ fraud. Not one academic medical center has broken ranks to say that the trial literature is corrupted and their competitors’ products’ approvals were bought rather than earned.

If bad actors were the exception in an otherwise honest industry, good actors would have every reason to expose them — to protect their own reputation, to gain competitive advantage, to serve the science they claim to revere. The silence is total. That silence tells you that the fraud is not the exception. It is the system. Everyone who benefits from the system has agreed, implicitly, not to expose it. The good actors, if they exist in any meaningful number, are complicit by silence.

This situation just happened to the Makis et al (2025) Case Reports in Oncology journal article describing three of our case reports that demonstrated fenbendazole can cure cancer. The paper was just retracted in Jan 2026, not due to a scientific error, but due to a fabricated undeclared conflict of interest charge. Relevant to this conversation, not a single Editor from any other journal, not a one, has offered to publish the paper with the declared conflict of interest statement. They all appear to stick together.

The Cartel’s Toolkit: Same Tactics, Different Name

What the pharmaceutical industry has done with the RCT evidence requirement is, in structural terms, identical to tactics that federal antitrust law has already recognized as illegal.

Pay-for-Delay: In 2008, the FTC sued Cephalon for paying four generic drug manufacturers $200 million to stay off the market and keep the generic version of its sleep drug Provigil unavailable. Patients paid billions in unnecessary overcharges. The case settled in 2015 for $1.2 billion — the largest antitrust settlement in FTC history at the time (FTC, 2015). The Supreme Court confirmed that paying competitors to delay entry into the market violates antitrust law.

Patent Thickets: AbbVie’s arthritis drug Humira had its core patent expire in 2016. Rather than allow competitors to enter the market, AbbVie filed 132 additional patents — more than 90% of them in the two years before the core patent expired — covering trivial variations of the drug: different formulations, different dosing schedules, different manufacturing processes. None of these changes made Humira more effective. All of them extended AbbVie’s monopoly. Biosimilar competitors were kept out of the U.S. market until 2023 — seven years after the core patent expired. AbbVie earned more than $200 billion on Humira during this period (Commonwealth Fund, 2025).

Product Hopping: When Actavis’s Alzheimer’s drug Namenda was about to face generic competition, the company tried to pull the original version off the market and push patients onto a new version covered by patents extending a decade further. The New York State Attorney General sued, and a federal appeals court ruled that this “hard switch” was an illegal extension of monopoly power.

The antitrust laws — the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, the FTC Act — exist precisely to prevent this kind of conduct. They prohibit maintaining a monopoly through exclusionary means. They have been successfully applied to pay-for-delay schemes and patent thickets.

They have not been applied to the pharmaceutical industry’s use of the RCT evidence requirement as an exclusionary mechanism against off-patent drugs. The structure is identical. A terminal cancer patient denied access to fenbendazole because it lacks an RCT — when no RCT will ever be funded because fenbendazole can’t be patented — has been harmed by the same exclusionary logic as a patient paying $80,000 a year for Humira seven years after its patent expired. The law that could address this exists. The political will to apply it does not.

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So What Evidence Does Actually Exist for Fenbendazole as a Cancer Treatment?

Here is what the “no evidence” claim actually means in practice: no one has funded a large, multi-center, double-blind RCT for fenbendazole as a cancer treatment, because no patent holder would profit from the results.

Here is what actually exists:

The Biology. Fenbendazole has documented anticancer activity through at least twelve separate mechanisms — disrupting cancer cell division, cutting off cancer cells’ glucose supply, reactivating the p53 “kill switch” that cancer cells suppress, blocking the formation of new blood vessels that feed tumors, and multiple others. These are not speculative pathways. They are the same mechanisms that expensive patent-protected cancer drugs target — and in many cases, fenbendazole hits them simultaneously.

The Case Reports. More than 400 documented case reports of cancer patients self-administering fenbendazole, many showing tumor regression, remission, or stabilization, have been compiled and categorized by cancer type (this Substack; OneDayMD, 2025). In May 2025, three of the cases initially reported in this Substack were formally published in Case Reports in Oncology, a peer-reviewed journal, by Dr. William Makis and colleagues — documenting complete remission in metastatic breast cancer, near-complete remission in metastatic prostate cancer, and remission in advanced melanoma, with follow-up periods of up to nearly four years and no serious side effects (Makis et al., 2025). That paper was subsequently retracted, not for any scientific flaw, but because the editor — who has disclosed financial relationships with GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca and works for an institution dependent on expensive cancer treatment revenues — decided that Dr. Makis had a “conflict of interest” (Supple, 2026). His conflict: he treats cancer patients with fenbendazole. The editor’s conflicts: he takes money from drug companies that compete with inexpensive, off-patent, safe drugs like fenbendazole.

The Prospective Study. In June 2026, a team including researchers from Yale School of Public Health published a prospective study of 197 cancer patients prescribed ivermectin and mebendazole — antiparasitic drugs closely related to fenbendazole — through a U.S. telemedicine platform. At six months, 84.4% reported clinical benefit: no evidence of disease, tumor shrinkage, or stable disease. This is the largest real-world human study of antiparasitic cancer treatment ever published (Hulscher et al., 2026).

That is not “no evidence.” That is extensive, consistent, mechanistically grounded, and growing evidence from multiple independent sources across multiple cancer types. The claim that fenbendazole “lacks evidence” means only that it lacks a $200 million industry-sponsored trial. It does not mean — and has never meant — that the evidence doesn’t exist.

At present, the Best Available Evidence indicates that some anti-parasitic drugs, including fenbendazole, are capable of eradicating or curing many types of cancers. That’s what the case reports show and the science compellingly supports. If this discovery was a monetizable Big Pharma discovery, you would hear about it night and day on all the mockingbird, Pharma-funded media.

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If the Trial Were Funded, It Would Be Rigged

Here is the uncomfortable next question: even if, hypothetically, someone funded an RCT of fenbendazole — what would stop the same industry that has documented means of manipulation from engineering a negative result?

Nothing. The playbook is available. Enroll only the patients least likely to benefit. Compare fenbendazole at a low dose against an optimally dosed chemotherapy. Measure a surrogate endpoint that favors the comparison drug. Add rescue medications to the placebo arm. Stop the trial at the moment the data looks worst for fenbendazole. Switch the primary outcome after seeing the results. Publish the negative finding in every journal simultaneously while burying any positive signal in the subgroup data that was conveniently left out.

A Midwestern Doctor has documented every one of these techniques as standard practice in industry-sponsored trials (A Midwestern Doctor, 2024). The RCT label would guarantee nothing about the fairness of a fenbendazole trial conducted under industry-influenced conditions. It would guarantee only that the process was expensive, complex, and opaque enough that most people would trust the result without questioning how it was obtained.

Think it’s a far-fetched conspiracy theory that pharma would ever suppress a legitimate cancer cure? In my book, Cancer is a Parasite, I prove that pharma did discover that an antiparasitic like fenbendazole cured cancer in 1976. Those involved were so giddy they actually renamed it oncodazole. Shortly thereafter oncodazole was effectively erased from the scientific literature and awareness. I provethis using the published scientific record.

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The Real Precautionary Principle

You’ve probably heard arguments that fenbendazole shouldn’t be used “until we have more evidence” because of the precautionary principle — the idea that we shouldn’t expose patients to unproven treatments.

The precautionary principle is supposed to protect patients from harm. Applied honestly, it has to weigh the risk of the treatment against the risk of not using it.

Fenbendazole has been used in veterinary medicine for decades. It has been self-administered by tens of thousands of human cancer patients. There is no conclusively documented serious toxicity profile. It costs almost nothing. The risk of taking fenbendazole is, based on everything we currently know, very low.

The risk of not taking fenbendazole, for a patient with metastatic cancer who has exhausted standard options, is death.

In this context, the precautionary principle does not argue against fenbendazole. It argues for it. A precautionary principle that demands a $200 million industry trial before a safe, cheap drug can be considered, while simultaneously allowing manipulated trials of expensive drugs to sail through approval, is not protecting patients. It is protecting revenue.

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What Honest Science Actually Looks Like

To be clear: the argument here is not that trials are worthless or that evidence doesn’t matter. The argument is that the evidence hierarchy should be applied honestly — which it currently is not.

“Best available evidence” means exactly what it says: the best evidence that actually exists. Not the best evidence that could theoretically exist if someone spent $200 million. For fenbendazole, the best available evidence is: mechanistically documented anticancer activity, a 400+ case report database, peer-reviewed published case series, and a prospective observational cohort in a major oncology journal showing 84.4% clinical benefit. By the standards applied to observational evidence in cardiology, infectious disease, and every other field where $200 million trials are unavailable or impractical, that evidence base justifies serious clinical consideration.

The most credible published medical researchers of the last generation — John Ioannidis at Stanford, Marcia Angell at the NEJM, Peter Gøtzsche at the Nordic Cochrane Centre — have all said, in different ways, that the RCT literature as currently published cannot be trusted at face value (Ioannidis, 2005; Angell, 2009; Gøtzsche, 2013). Ioannidis showed mathematically that the majority of published research findings are likely false. Angell said she could no longer believe much of what was published after two decades of watching it from the inside. Gøtzsche compared the pharmaceutical industry to organized crime in its systematic manipulation of the evidence base.

These are not outsiders. These are people who built their careers inside the system and eventually could no longer stay silent about what they saw.

— — —

The Bottom Line

You are being told, every time you ask a medical professional about fenbendazole, that there is “no evidence” it works against cancer.

What you are not being told is that the people saying this are told to say this by the same people who designed the evidence standard, fund the trials, publish the results, retract the inconvenient ones, pay each other consulting fees, and rotate through the regulatory agencies that enforce the standard. And that the evidence standard they designed happens to require spending $200 million — money only they can recoup through patent-protected drug prices — before a treatment is considered real.

You are not being told that the largest antitrust settlement in FTC history involved a pharmaceutical company paying $200 million in bribes to keep a generic drug off the market. Or that AbbVie spent $200 billion in revenue that patients and insurers paid because a patent-expired drug was kept under monopoly control through 132 trivial secondary patents. Or that the courts have found these behaviors to be illegal — and yet the identical behavior, executed through evidence requirements rather than patent filings, continues without challenge.

You are not being told that in June 2026, 197 cancer patients treated with related antiparasitic drugs showed 84.4% clinical benefit. Or that this result was published in a peer-reviewed oncology journal. Or that the doctors who published it are not fringe actors — they include epidemiologists from Yale.

You are not being told any of this because the people whose job it is to tell you — the journals, the academic medical centers, the regulatory agencies, the cancer treatment guidelines committees — are financially embedded in the system that benefits from you not knowing.

The question is not whether fenbendazole has evidence. The question is whether you trust the people who decide what counts as evidence.

Given everything documented here, you should not.

Original article link:

Fenbendazole Can Cure Cancer

How the Pharmaceutical Industry Uses "Clinical Trial" Requirements to Kill the Competition

Fenbendazole Can Cure Cancer presents Case Reports of people who have treated their own cancers along with other articles to help understand how fenbendazole works to treat cancer. Previous articles covering other cancers are in the Archives link. This Substack is one of several sources that aggregate Case Reports from those that are self-treating their…

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Background: Together with an MD and with a cancer researcher, I help run two large international support groups for patients who are pursuing repurposed medications and nutritional support and treatment for their cancers, alongside the standard treatment they are receiving from their doctors. Thank G-d, we are privileged to witness many miracles (some of which I’ll tell you about here.) The difference between those patients who are fortunate enough to use integrative treatments and those who aren’t, is often very stark. Sadly, most oncologists still say “no” to people who “request permission” to save their own lives with these adjunct treatments, and many patients will not make a move without their doctor’s permission. Hence, many lives which could have been saved are tragically lost. This painful situation led me to compile a large amount of evidence into an article for brave patients and doctors who will be willing to open their minds and make the choice to live. Please take that road before it’s too late.

Here is the 3-pronged treatment plan which we recommend to use alongside the conventional for every type of cancer:

1) “Randy’s protocol” which consists of 18 items that work synergistically to block all cancer pathways and smother cancer: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vRp7Kf57OYJfM3m4t56AvKQylVMhGVmrPWS9Pl8tNYLMKbndXzK0Duwebg15JdzPZLUCE3wSd7qj5XH/pub?pli=1

2) Valasta (www.Valasta.net), a patented, uniquely effective form of astaxanthin (Patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11065269B1/en)

3) Healthy low carbohydrate “semi keto” diet similar to that recommended by Dr. Richard Urso MD, former head of Orbital Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. (Details at https://randysprotocol.com/)

Thank G-d, these products can help in many ways:

1) Fighting the cancer themselves

2) Helping the conventional treatments work better

3) Helping protect from side effects from the conventional treatments

4) Helping protect from organ damage from the conventional treatments

5) Helping to prevent the conventional treatments from making the cancer more aggressive, as they can do

6) Targeting the cancer stem cells to prevent metastasis and recurrence

Read on further to find almost two dozen amazing stories, thank G-d.

First, G-d willing, here is the PROOF YOU NEED that doctors’ typical advice “take my medicine and nothing else” is based solely on ignorance.

A summary of evidence showing the truth regarding the benefits of cancer fighting and life-supporting supplements DURING radiation and chemo

In memory of/L’iluy nishmas Shneur Zalman ben Yosef Moshe.

With tremendous thanks to researcher Randy Howe, whose investigative work forms the basis for this article.

If you or a loved one have undergone chemo or radiation, you have likely been warned by your oncologist not to take any “antioxidants,” lest they “ruin the effects of the chemo” or “keep the radiation from working.”

There are indeed several items that many experts believe cancer patients should only receive from their diet and should NOT take in supplement form, as they could fuel tumor growth (B vitamins, NAC, glutathione, Vitamin E tocopherols, iron, calcium, and perhaps a couple others - although there may be times that some are necessary.) This caution is irrespective of any treatment that may or may not be taking place.

However, for the most part, your oncologist is just wrong when he warns against supplements. Many supplements, including many “antioxidants,” in addition to being cancer-fighting themselves, will actually enhance the effectiveness of the chemo or radiation in killing the cancer, and at the same time, help to protect you from chemo/radiation’s potentially life threatening harms.

For this reason, the question “to supplement during treatment, or not” is actually a life and death question. The casual ease with which most doctors automatically say “no” - simply out of their lack of deep research on the subject - is a tragedy.

The whole basis for disallowing antioxidants during radiation and chemo is fraudulent.

Here is a summary of evidence showing the truth regarding benefits of using cancer fighting supplements DURING radiation and chemo:

👉🏼 1) A meta-analysis of 50 clinical trials with over 8,000 patients shows improved outcomes in patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation who used antioxidants and other nutrients at the same time:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17283738/

Conclusion:

Since the 1970s, 280 peer-reviewed in vitro and in vivo studies, including 50 human studies involving 8,521 patients, 5,081 of whom were given nutrients, have consistently shown that non-prescription antioxidants and other nutrients do not interfere with therapeutic modalities for cancer. Furthermore, they enhance the killing of therapeutic modalities for cancer, decrease their side effects, and protect normal tissue. In 15 human studies, 3,738 patients who took non-prescription antioxidants and other nutrients actually had increased survival.

It is fascinating that - thank G-d - time after time, I and the team that I collaborate with are seeing the above IN REAL LIFE. We see INCREASED SURVIVAL in patients who are using the recommended protocol, which is full of antioxidants.

Why would this be? Here are some of the reasons why patients who use the recommended protocol of cancer fighting supplements have more successful outcomes:

👉🏼 2) The items in our recommended protocol are very powerful cancer fighters themselves.

Here are just a fraction of the scientific studies out of hundreds, showing the cancer fighting powers of the items in our protocol. You can find many more studies on https://randysprotocol.com/.

👉🏼A few on astaxanthin’s cancer fighting powers:

Multiple Mechanisms of Anti-Cancer Effects Exerted by Astaxanthin: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4515619/

Effects of Astaxanthin on the Proliferation and Migration of Breast Cancer Cells: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6210693/

Astaxanthin suppresses the metastasis of colon cancer: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6603017/

Astaxanthin Inhibits JAK/STAT-3 Signaling: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4189964/

Astaxanthin Inhibits Proliferation of Human Gastric Cancer Cell Lines by Interrupting Cell Cycle Progression: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4849689/

Astaxanthin inhibits gemcitabine-resistant human pancreatic cancer progression through EMT inhibition and gemcitabine resensitization: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5652142/

Astaxanthin anticancer effects are mediated through multiple molecular mechanisms: A systematic review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1043661819327367

The Promising Effects of Astaxanthin on Lung Diseases, Including Lung Cancer: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33179051/

👉🏼 A few of the studies on high dose melatonin’s cancer fighting powers - and these are only the ones that focus on breast cancer alone!

Biological action of melatonin on target receptors in breast cancer: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11042834/

Melatonin: A Potential Therapeutic Option for Breast Cancer: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1043276020301557

Melatonin: an Inhibitor of Breast Cancer: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4457700/

Melatonin and breast cancer: cellular mechanisms, clinical studies and future perspectives: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4301735/

Melatonin and Breast Cancer: A Review Article: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12133437/

👉🏼One more: Here is a study on end-stage “untreatable”cancer patients given 1,000 mg of melatonin nightly. More than half achieved disease control: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358670112_A_Preliminary_Phase-2_Study_with_very_High-Dose_of_Melatonin_1000_mgday_in_Untreatable_Advanced_Cancer_Patients_Already_Progression_on_Previous_Palliative_Therapy_with_High-Dose_Melatonin

Space does not permit me to copy in here all of the hundreds of studies showing the cancer-fighting powers of every single item in our recommended protocol, but now you get the idea.

You can see more studies on https://randysprotocol.com/.

👉🏼 3) The items in our recommended protocol actually synergize with chemo and radiation. This means that they WORK WELL TOGETHER to make the chemo / radiation EVEN MORE POWERFUL against the cancer.

Here are some examples to illustrate the point.

👉🏼Astaxanthin: It is particularly tragic when people are told - on false premises - not to to take Valasta astaxanthin during chemo or radiation - as astaxanthin can actually make the cancer cells MORE susceptible to getting killed by chemo / radiation, which is exactly what you want to happen! Amazingly, it does this while protecting your healthy cells from radiation. Truly G-d’s miracle:

•This review details studies highlighting the effectiveness of astaxanthin in sensitizing cancer cells to chemotherapy: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11865706/

•Astaxanthin increases cancer cell radiosensitivity: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28475750/

•Astaxanthin synergizes with ionizing radiation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38103098/

•Astaxanthin inhibits angiogenesis. https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-024-13401-4

👉🏼•The cancer-killing effects of radiation are improved by the addition of treatments that interfere with angiogenesis, as this article documents: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1550318/

Angiogenesis (the process of new blood vessel formation) is a critical mechanism by which tumors acquire the necessary nutrients and oxygen to sustain their growth.

Impeding angiogenesis means impeding the tumor’s ability to establish an adequate blood supply and restricting its growth. You want to impede angiogenesis. Many antioxidants impede angiogenesis, and in doing so, they enhance the effectiveness of radiation. Here are additional items in our protocol that are proven to impede angiogenesis:

•Tocotrienols form of Vitamin E (in Randy’s protocol) inhibits angiogenesis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18296349/

•Curcumin (in Randy’s protocol) inhibits angiogenesis. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4637299/

•Omega 3 (in Randy’s protocol) inhibits angiogenesis.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022316622153307

•Berberine (in Randy’s protocol) inhibits angiogenesis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21175812/

•Thymoquinone in black seed oil (in Randy’s protocol) inhibits angiogenesis. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S075333221838404X

•Ivermectin (in Randy’s protocol) inhibits angiogenesis. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6982461/

•Medicinal mushrooms inhibit angiogenesis (Turkey tail mushroom is in Randy’s protocol.) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212429225014865

•Melatonin (in Randy’s protocol) inhibits angiogenesis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28974455/

•Albendazole (in Randy’s protocol) inhibits angiogenesis. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10431642/

👉🏼 While on the other hand, treating with radiation alone can unfortunately make a tumor more aggressive:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32432031/

👉🏼 4) The items in our recommended protocol help protect the healthy cells in your body against the harms and damage of the chemo / radiation.

In fact, three of the products that we recommend are protectors against radiation damage to your healthy cells at the same time as they work to kill the cancer: Valasta astaxanthin, melatonin, and DMSO.

Here is information on how these three protect your healthy cells from radiation damage:

• Astaxanthin helps protect normal cells from radiation damage, including DNA damage: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cbdd.14321

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42995-021-00095-x

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Antioxidant-properties-of-astaxanthin-and-its-radiation-protective-effect-on-cells-AST_fig10_370102084

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5260077/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28230827/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28027548/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8433905/

• Astaxanthin helps heal radiation-induced injury: https://academic.oup.com/rpd/article-abstract/199/17/2096/7237358

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.5c18884

• Melatonin helps protects your normal cells from radiation toxicity and DNA damage: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5425818/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002751079700211X

• Melatonin Protects you from Radiation-Induced Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12402606

• DMSO helps protect your normal cells from radiation harm by inducing DNA repair: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360301618334679

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9236762

👉🏼 5) Last but perhaps most importantly, your body NEEDS life-sustaining heavy duty support in its fight! From where should it obtain the energy it needs without wholesome food, sunlight, fresh air, and some powerful supplements?

How heartbreaking that cancer patients are so often denied ALL of the above, as they languish in a hospital bed, consuming sugar-laden unhealthy food, completely lacking sunlight and fresh air, and refused life-giving supportive supplements.

•In our experience, Valasta brand astaxanthin has repeatedly helped very weak and sick patients tremendously to regain their strength and continue their fight. This is supported by research showing that astaxanthin enhances energy by protecting mitochondrial function.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/15/5/575

Here are some additional items which can have tremendously powerful lifesaving benefits for cancer patients:

•👉🏼 Papaya leaf extract or tea can help maintain healthy levels of platelets and of white blood cells. Both platelets and WBC are critical to survival and can be dangerously depleted by chemotherapy, often necessitating stopping treatment. Here is a recommended brand of papaya leaf extract: Herbal Goodness https://a.co/d/0hotvi8V

Here are studies documenting that papaya leaf can help significantly raise platelet and white blood cell levels.

Papaya leaf for platelets:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8753228/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5108100/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6406160/

Two studies presented at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting showed how papaya leaf extract could help people with cancer who develop thrombocytopenia (low platelets) during treatment. Chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia doesn’t have an FDA-approved therapy. In a recent interview, hematologist oncologist Dr. Hanny Al-Samkari emphasized just how widespread this issue is; he and many oncologists see patients with CIT multiple times a day. Despite this, there are no FDA-approved therapies specifically designed to treat chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia (CIT).

https://healthtree.org/blood-cancer/community/articles/papaya-leaf-extract-for-thrombocytopenia

Papaya leaf for white blood cells:

https://esculapio.pk/journal/index.php/journal-files/article/view/573/435

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6371484/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8170887/

•👉🏼 Wheatgrass juice (or powder, such as Garden of Life Green Superfood: https://a.co/d/05dC5dRo) can benefit patients tremendously with energy, nutrition and vitality, and helping them keep up their blood counts and avoid complications during treatment. Its tremendous benefits in maintaining life-sustaining blood parameters during chemotherapy are supported by these studies: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17571966/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7345549/

•👉🏼 Colostrum powder has similar benefits and will boost nutrition, energy, and cancer fighting abilities. Immune Tree 6 is a highly recommended brand: https://a.co/d/07jcqJxu

Colostrum is highly concentrated in lactoferrin, heavily studied for its anti-tumor properties, including apoptosis and tumor suppression.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7175311/

👉🏼Even more benefits: Studies have shown that bovine lactoferrin and its derivatives can induce apoptosis in human B-cell lymphoma and other cancer cell lines, while sparing healthy cells.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014480010000286

Immunomodulation: Lactoferrin has been shown to enhance the cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs and activate specific immune cells (natural killer cells and T cells) to recognize and clear cancerous cells.

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👉🏼 In case you are wondering why none of the above mentioned treatments have progressed to large scale clinical trials the way that cancer drugs do, or become the standard of care in oncology, all you need to do is follow the money trail. The following article explains a lot.

How the Pharmaceutical Industry Uses “Clinical Trial” Requirements to Kill the Competition: fenbendazole.substack.com/p/how-the-pharmaceutical-industry-uses

So what is the source of the deadly misinformation you may have heard from your oncologist or radiologist?

👉🏼 The warning that so many doctors apparently base their “no supplements” policy on was based on a falsehood - link below:

In September 2005, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians published a warning by Gabriella D’Andrea, MD, against the concurrent use of antioxidants with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, several deficiencies of the CA article soon became apparent, not least the selective omission of prominent studies that contradicted the author’s conclusions.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16484715/

Does reading all the above make you upset that cancer patients are routinely instructed by their oncologists NOT to use these lifesaving products? If so, please do something about it! Share this information to save lives!

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STORIES… THANK G-D!!!!!!

Here are many amazing accounts from cancer patients that I have been personally involved with:

•S., a young woman in Europe with HER2+ breast cancer metastasized to her brain, and feeling very sick, was shockingly repeatedly encouraged by her doctors to accept euthanasia. She reached out for help on our group recently, and began Randy’s protocol and Valasta as soon as she received it. Last week, just five weeks after starting everything, S. contacted me with the wonderful news that her new scan showed that the cancer has shrunk! S. is also feeling so much better! You can contact S. through the group, if you join. (The link is below.)

•Amanda, who had Stage 4 breast cancer, wrote the following on May 30 in my group:

“@~Randy Howe and @Brucha Weisberger I just wanted to echo what you said here Randy and share a quick update for Brucha.

“Though I haven’t been able to incorporate every piece of your protocol in, Randy, I added in what I can and have been taking a good chunk of it for about 9 months now and I follow your dosage recommendations. Prior to that I was dabbling in using off-label meds and some of the supplements in lower doses, but increased my dosage in Jan 2025 per Dr. Makis’ protocol, but those dosages were really high. (I had reached stage 4 breast cancer in late 2024 and was scared. I found this group in the spring of 2025). It wasn’t until I added conventional treatments (April 22, 2025) while taking the items from the protocol that my condition started improving. I am now 13 months into treatments of ENHERTU infusions and last month I had 16 radiation treatments on a fungating breast tumor that was almost gone, but stubbornly lingering. I’m eagerly awaiting my next PET scan because my last one in April this year continues to show the only measurable cancer was in the fungating tumor, but my lungs and liver are CLEAR (and have been since December 2025). I am feeling better physically than I have in about 3 years and I have NO side effects from the ENHERTU. The radiation site is almost (~60%) healed and I am 3 days shy of being 3 weeks post radiation treatments. I was told it was going to take at least 6 weeks to heal.

Randy, thank you for sharing your research with us and Brucha, thank you for making this group available. 🥰 I am amazed at how good I feel!”

•Miraculous update from a mother of a child diagnosed several months ago with Burkitt’s lymphoma: Alongside the chemo he received, his mother, C., gave him Valasta, wheatgrass juice, (and celery, carrot, and pomegranate juice), Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Omega 3, daily sunshine and fresh air, organic eggs, only healthy homemade food, and NO sugar. She did not accept all the extra medications they pushed on him, only took the chemo (and 1 anti nausea med out of 3 prescribed.) Thank G-d the child did amazingly well; he was SO much healthier than the other children on the ward, never had a fever and was not nauseous or vomiting, and finished his treatments 3 and half months earlier than expected. The doctors were shocked at how wonderfully he did and how fast his treatments worked!! C. told me that even though a patient has to go through treatment, 90% of the associated suffering can be relieved by using the right things alongside it!!

•This same mother, C., from the story above, is now involved in helping a young woman with leukemia. C. reported: “She was getting platelets daily as it was down to 0. She started the Valasta, and after one week her platelets started rising, first to 2, a day later to 4, and a day later they were 8 thank G-d! She is also taking wheatgrass juice daily, and got off of sugar, starch, and dairy. Her side effects of the chemo were almost nothing by now thank G-d.”

•D., an 18 month old child, was diagnosed last summer with a very large kidney tumor. The aggressive chemo he was given did not shrink the tumor, and brought him to a point where his life was in danger. He stopped eating, stopped smiling, and doctors did not have what to offer to conquer his cancer. Believing they had nothing left to lose, when they were discharged, D.’s parents finally gave him Valasta, as a friend had been repeatedly urging. D. perked up and began smiling, eating, and playing again. Not only did D. “come back to life,” but when they returned to the hospital, the parents were informed that “the chemo started working.” D. continued treatment, now successfully, and continued the Valasta. He was subsequently able to undergo surgery, and the tumor was completely removed.

D.’s story was not over, as doctors insisted on a bone marrow transplant and radiation, to ensure that all microscopic tumor cells were gone. D. got VOD, a complication from the bone marrow transplant that is often fatal. He was in the ICU for two months, not eating, distended with fluid and in severe pain. D’s mother begged the hospital to put Valasta in his feeding tube but they refused.

Eventually, she became desperate and put Valasta in his feeding tube herself. On January 8, I spoke on a 3-way call to D’s mother and her friend, and was informed of the situation. D.’s mother continued to make sure that he got Valasta. On January 12, I received the following messages from his mother’s friend:

“D. had lost 300 grams of fluids since he got back on to the Valasta and smiled yesterday!!!

“The mother just called and said he started eating today!!”

“He hasn’t eaten in two months basically.

Miracles!!!!!!!! Baruch Hashem!!!”

And on January 19, she wrote to me:

“D. is being released from the hospital today!!!!!!! Baruch Hashem!!”

Here is the screenshot:

•A. had Stage 4 uterine leiomyosarcoma a year ago with a grim prognosis and now thank G-d is doing amazingly well, with close to zero cancer in her body. She has been on almost all of Randy’s protocol, Valasta, and the recommended semi-keto (lower carbohydrate) healthy diet. A. reports that she is feeling better than she ever did before, (despite her being on chemo!) and her skin is “glowing.”

•I spoke to the sister of a young breast cancer patient who at diagnosis a couple months ago had been so sick she required oxygen. She had metastasis to her liver, lung, and bones. She started Valasta alongside the conventional treatment and shocked the doctors by her drastic improvement. The doctor told her “You’re a walking miracle” because she very shortly stopped needing oxygen. She’s also eating a healthy low carb diet. Thank G-d she’s feeling so much better. Awaiting results of her new scan.

•M. called me a year ago, right after her husband was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer last June in NYU. He needed to be hospitalized and have a bile duct stent placed. The doctor told M. that her husband had between two months to a year to live. She managed to convince him to get onto part of Randy’s protocol. He has been taking ivermectin, fenbendazole, and about half of the supplements, plus Valasta, in addition to his chemotherapy. I am thrilled to report that thank G-d a year later M.’s husband is currently in good condition. His weight is stable at 195 lb, his color is good, and he goes for walks daily. He has tolerated the chemo quite well. Although he has some liver lesions and needs to continue chemo, his situation is a far cry from what the doctor predicted and the fate of almost every other Stage 4 pancreatic cancer patient.

•Yogesh’s wife had HER2+ breast cancer metastasized to her brain and was very sick when Yogesh contacted me in February 2025, over a year ago. His wife started using Randy’s protocol and thank G-d had tremendous improvement. She continues to do very well.

Last summer Yogesh wrote:

“Her scan reports of 26th June have just come in. Except for 1 Brain small met that has regressed by 44%, multiple others have completely resolved. A left Periscapular active lesion & some minor ones elsewhere in PET CT of 12th March are completely resolved. C is in a ‘metabolically inactive, stable state indicating good partial response to the treatment.’ Drs are quite happy with the outcome. She continues on IVM @ 2mg/kg, Albendazole @ 800mg & all of Randy’s protocol. Will start Valasta presently. @⁨Brucha Weisberger⁩, @⁨Dr. Joel Groden M. D.⁩ @⁨Randy Howe⁩ and all in the group who continue to pray for all of us who have chosen to fight back…words are insufficient to express my gratitude. May God bless you with more power to cause miracles!”

Yogesh’s wife then added Valasta, and Yogesh reported amazing improvement of the radiation aftereffects that his wife had been experiencing.

On November 1 Yogesh updated:

“My wife is mBC, HER2+ ER-PR-. Sharing an update from the MRI & PET CT on 30th Oct. MRI - the single remaining brain mets as of 26th June has now regressed 88% by volume. PET CT - no metabolic activity anywhere in the body - stable disease, good partial response - same as of 26th June. Continuing with Ivermectin 96mg(48+48), Albendazole 800mg, whole of Randy’s protocol + Valasta. The immense support from this group & prayers make it possible to endure & continue on this journey. God bless us all!”

Thank G-d Yogesh’s wife continues to do very well and Yogesh loves helping other patients. You can contact him through our group, if you join.

•Wonderful news that came in recently from an older woman with thymoma, a rare cancer discovered at Stage 4; due to risks because of her autoimmune disease she could not have surgery, and because of low likelihood of benefit she opted not to have chemo. She is on Randy’s protocol, Valasta, diet, IV Vit C, and extra supplements too. THANK G-D she texted me:

“A HUGE THANK YOU FOR YOUR GUIDANCE!!!! I took a PET CT today. There is small improvements. Everyone of the 3 areas the activity has dropped!!! I believe that means that it is dying! One area slightly shrunk. There is no indication of any new growth. I believe that is wonderful news!!! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!”

•A young man, who has a brain cancer similar to GBM, had received a lot of radiation and is on a conventional treatment pill and an anti-seizure medication, and was feeling awful both mentally and physically. He started Randy’s protocol, Valasta, a keto diet, and gallium maltolate, and a few weeks later is thank G-d feeling absolutely AMAZING!!! He is thrilled how he feels back to his normal energetic and happy self. Not only that, but he also got results of his new scan, and THANK G-D his tumor shrunk significantly!

•The wife of a different young man, who has GBM (glioblastoma), reached out in March 2025 (over a year ago) about her husband, who had recently been diagnosed. They quickly started Randy’s protocol and Valasta and THANK G-D I am thrilled to report that he continues to be doing well!

•A newly diagnosed metastasized breast cancer patient with skull lesions, who was in a lot of pain, had come to our May 3 gathering and got the inspiration she needed to start the whole regimen we recommend with Valasta, Randy’s protocol, and diet. After being on this about 3 weeks, she came to the next gathering (May 31) and thank G-d reported that her pain has gone away and that her tumor markers have already gone down!

•H. had Stage 4 colon cancer and was very sick a year ago, after more than 20 rounds of chemo had not done the job. Thank G-d, after she added Randy’s protocol, Valasta, and the healthy low carb diet, H. started doing very well, and was recently pronounced cancer free! You can contact H. through the group if you join.

•G. helped her close relative who had Stage 3 colorectal cancer and is now thank G-d completely well. She used Valasta and many things from Randy’s protocol, including ivermectin, alongside her conventional treatment. G. stresses how the Valasta and the other supplements she gave her relative very clearly kept her bloodwork and liver function excellent throughout her treatments, prevented almost all side effects, and helped her tumors shrink shockingly fast.

• Tzippy, a Stage 4 cervical cancer patient who contacted me a year and a half ago when she was “terminal,” became almost completely cancer free, with her tumors shrinking and disappearing on the scan (which she shared with me), after being on Randy’s protocol, Valasta, and a keto diet. Importantly, she has found that she must maintain her keto diet or her tumors grow back. Tzippy shared some of her story, and photos, on this page:https://www.spotfund.com/story/cab178e4-7acd-4be1-ac2d-3931a3e60172

•Zev, who had been Stage 4 prostate cancer a year and a half ago, with metastases to bones and to lymph nodes, used much of Randy’s protocol, Valasta, and keto diet, did a lot of exercise and got a lot of sunshine, did NOT have side effects from his conventional treatment, and now thank G-d is cancer free. He has shared his story on our group.

•K. contacted me over a year and a half ago about her husband who had Stage 4 prostate cancer metastasized to his bones. After trial and error, what ended up working for him was a combination of Randy’s protocol, Valasta, healthy semi keto diet, and hormone therapy. She was able to cut her husband’s dose of hormone blocker in half, alleviating his side effects, and on this regimen he felt very well, his PSA continued to drop, his metastases disappeared, and thank G-d he became cancer-free.

•Posted recently on my group: “The best way we found to take Valasta is a tablespoon of just one ingredient peanut butter (peanuts) leave enough room for the valasta and pump (we are pumping 15 pumps) on top and open wide! Yes it is messy & at times it gets everywhere. The last lab draw all blood markers are improving. Advanced Prostate Cancer metastatic bone cancer, I believe Valasta has been the heavy hitter in symptoms relief from hormone therapy! Blessings Christina”

•A multiple myeloma patient whose husband David shared her miracle on the group had a very rapid response to an ivermectin protocol last fall and was found a few weeks ago to still be cancer free, thank G-d!

Her husband had posted on November 17:

“Thank G-d. My wife diagnosed with advanced state 3 multiple myeloma, very high risk due to genetics, with 77% bone marrow involvement, with multiple fractures along her spine and terrible rib pain, is seeing miracles with this regimen:

Ivermectin 36mg x 2, fenbendazole 222mg x 2, LDN 3mg X 2, melatonin 80mg x 2, fish oil 2x, black seed oil x 2, tocotrienols 300mg x 2, vitamin c 2000-3000mg, vitamin d3 10,000iu with k2 x 2, papaya leaf extract 2x, milk thistle and tudca 500mg x 2, potassium supplements 200mg per meal, magnesium supplement, zinc 50mg, copper 2mg, selenium 200mg, added Himalayan salt to her diet (she was completely salt free prior) lemon and coconut water, sour soup tea 1 cup per day, tumeric pills 1-2 per day.

As of week 4 on this, and as per pet/CT no cancer found. Blood work also shows metabolic remission, with most blood labs stabilized and pre much in the normal range. She recently starting running again after not being able to do so for over 8 weeks.”

Her husband updated recently, on May 15:

“Sharing Melissa’s biopsy from 2 days ago. Praise G-d.

They’ve only done another biopsy now, 9 months later, but shes shown no cancer found 30 days after being diagnosed with very advanced late stage 3 (multiple myeloma only goes to stage 3) with 77% of her bone marrow consumed and with multiple fractures along her spine with the cancer attacking her back and ribs at that time, then 30 days after starting the ivr/fenben treatment nothing found anywhere BH.”

•L. called me about two years ago regarding her husband, an elderly man with bladder cancer that was supposed to be chronic - “forever.” He used ivermectin, fenbendazole, essiac tea, Valasta, Vitamins D and K, AHCC mushroom capsules, and a few other items. Thank G-d, several months later L.’s husband was found to be cancer free. He stayed on the protocol and thank G-d he remains cancer free today.

•H. had thyroid cancer which had recurred for the 3rd time. The first two times, she had used only conventional treatment. Because of serious side effects that she incurred from the surgery, when it was the third time around, H. decided to use only Randy’s protocol and not have surgery. After about 2 months of the protocol, (to her shock!) her scan was clear. H. is very happy to speak to others whom she can be of help to. You can contact her through the group if you join.

•R., a HER2+ breast cancer, patient, had metastases to liver and lungs and a suspicious spot on bone when diagnosed this past winter. She is on Randy’s protocol, Valasta, and the healthy low carb diet, alongside Enhertu treatment. Thank G-d, R. is watching her tumors melt away so fast that her doctor is shocked, and she is NOT having the expected side effects from the Enhertu treatment.

R. wrote on May 8:

“btw, I’m coming from Dr now. She asked me if I’m having difficulties breathing or heart issues cause heart failure or lung are known side effects with enhertu, I said of course NO. Then she asked about nausea or vomiting or any other symptoms, I said no again! The numbers of liver enzymes are perfect! Everything is so normal and perfect, besides the tumors have shrunk beautifully. Dr was amazed. Sounds to me like she’s trying to understand what’s going on here. Because it doesn’t make sense what she’s seeing. But thank God, I’ll continue the protocol, and she will remain with her questions.....”

R. updated on May 20 with PET CT results, thank G-d. The relevant parts are excerpted:

“There is interval decrease in size and FDG uptake of the dominant left upper outer quadrant breast mass currently measuring 2.9 x 2.4 cm, previously 7.0 x 4.1 cm (SUV max 2.5, 12:70, prior 9.3). There is interval nonvisualization of the previously seen FDG avid left axillary adenopathy. There is interval nonvisualization of the previously seen FDG avid hepatic lesions.”

In other words, drastic shrinkage of primary breast tumor, and disappearance of all metastases!!!

R.: “I’m in such a good mood today! I feel I got my life back! Should everyone appreciate life the way I am feeling now, the world would be a more positive world....

“Brucha, if you want, you can share my success on the chat. Since I don’t have access there, but I still DO want to encourage people through my story to go onto the protocol asap whoever is still questioning weather it works or not. You can tell them it’s fresh news from yesterday. And it took not more than 3 months. My doc called me all excited today, she tells me that there can’t be better news than that! Even this little lump that still remained so far has very little activity. Activity measuring before at 9.3, now went down to 2.5 besides the size that’s almost gone. Means that it’s dying away.”

•Last summer, a Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer patient that I will call J. (not her real initial) to protect her privacy, was in her own words, “dying.” She had severe ascites (fluid buildup in her abdomen and lungs), requiring her to go to the hospital every other day to be drained, was down to 80 pounds, and was in terrible pain. For the first time, she seemed to have lost her will to fight. I was extremely worried about her. But she was still willing to try new things. With encouragement, J. began a hormone blocker, two liquid products from Eretz Yisrael, Multi Phenol and Fitox, each containing dozens of cancer fighting plants in nanoparticle form, and RSO (Rick Simpson Oil) plus another cannabis product. J. started improving, her pain went away, and she gained weight. J. did not remain consistently on the cannabis products, but she did add a special myrrh and frankincense resin oil (also from Eretz Yisrael.) She sometimes used Valasta, and is on some variation of Randy’s protocol - I don’t know how consistently. I am thrilled to tell you that J. was in my house yesterday!! She isn’t in pain anymore, looks good, leads a functional life, and doesn’t need to be drained of fluid anymore! J. is not yet “cancer free,” but thank G-d, she is doing amazingly well.

THANK YOU G-D!!!!

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Link to the cancer information and support group that patients and their family / support team can join: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdK9WYRfDHe69ib3leh4OO?s=cl&p=i&ilr=2

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Here is a potential letter that you could modify as needed and share with a doctor, if a patient refuses to take any supportive nutritional products without a doctor’s “permission.” (I only included Valasta and a couple of nutritional products in this letter, having originally prepared it for a very medical-minded family that I didn’t believe had a chance of taking ivermectin and the rest of the protocol.)

Dear Dr. …..

I am close with … and I’m very worried as I’ve been watching…. grow weaker by the day. Based on the experiences of a nonprofit support organization helping hundreds of cancer patients, I want to share this information and ask if you can please suggest the following nutritional support to help strengthen … and improve his body’s health and cancer fighting capabilities, and support him as he begins chemotherapy:

1) Valasta brand astaxanthin has repeatedly helped patients tremendously to regain strength. The organization has seen astonishing results with very sick people. This is supported by research showing that astaxanthin enhances energy by protecting mitochondrial function.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/15/5/575

Additionally, Valasta helps fight the cancer as well as helps patients tolerate the chemo and keep up their blood counts. It is synergistic with any chemo.

Valasta website: www.Valasta.net

The review below details studies highlighting the effectiveness of astaxanthin in sensitizing cancer cells to chemotherapy: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11865706/

The article also explains how astaxanthin can induce apoptosis, inhibit metastasis and disrupt cell growth. Also see: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/9/1949

2) … has been drinking a lot of soda and eating other sugary things.

Perhaps you can mention to him that sugar feeds the cancer and lowers the immune system, and is just making him sicker.

3) Wheatgrass juice or powder such as this product: https://a.co/d/05dC5dRo can benefit patients tremendously with energy, nutrition and vitality, and helping them keep up their blood counts and avoid complications during treatment. Its benefits during chemotherapy are supported by these studies: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17571966/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7345549/

4) Colostrum powder has similar benefits and will boost his nutrition, energy, and cancer fighting abilities.

Colostrum is highly concentrated in lactoferrin, heavily studied for its anti-tumor properties, including apoptosis and tumor suppression.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7175311/

Studies have shown that bovine lactoferrin and its derivatives can induce apoptosis in human B-cell lymphoma and other cancer cell lines, while sparing healthy cells.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014480010000286

Immunomodulation: Lactoferrin has been shown to enhance the cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs and activate specific immune cells (natural killer cells and T cells) to recognize and clear cancerous cells.

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Note: Immune Tree 6 colostrum has been used very successfully, but if the patient requires kosher supervision, Zahler’s now has certified colostrum capsules.

VERY IMPORTANT:

👉🏼 It must be noted that 1) doing chemotherapy or radiation alone, without accompanying support from appropriate nutritional products and repurposed drugs, can often be deadly, AND that 2) it is critical for patients to become informed consumers and self-advocates, because some prescribed chemotherapy treatments are documented to have no benefits and only can serve to decrease lifespan and quality of life.

This Swedish study highlights these two points:

Cancer Drugs Reimbursed with Limited Evidence on Overall Survival and Quality of Life: Do Follow-Up Studies Confirm Patient Benefits? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10480259/

From an explanatory article written about the study:

“A new study in the journal Clinical Drug Investigation finds that many of these chemotherapy treatments are completely ineffective, failing to improve the quality of life or extend the lifespans of cancer patients.

Scientists at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden found that approximately two out of three cancer drugs prove to be useless for patients after examining the eventual outcome on patients in terms of longevity and quality of life measures.

They found that only seven of the 22 drugs had at least one study which showed a clear benefit for cancer patients. Randomized controlled trials on the other 15 failed to show any measurable benefits for those with cancer.

Only one out of the 22 drugs in the study showed an ability to both improve the quality of life and extend lifespans for patients.

Some of them actually make things worse with respect to longevity and quality of life. [For] two drugs, axitinib and everolimus, the pooled effect estimate showed a significant negative impact on OS (longevity)”.

https://fenbendazole.substack.com/p/swedish-medical-report-traditional

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Recording of Lev Aharon Bikur Cholim Interview with Scientist Sam Shepherd, Inventor of Valasta, April 19

https://rumble.com/v78v2ou-can-valasta-help-someone-you-love.html

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Recording of Lev Aharon Bikur Cholim Interview with Researcher Randy Howe, January 2025: https://rumble.com/v6f7l8j-very-important-cancer-treatment.html

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May the merit of the patients who are helped by this information bring an elevation to the soul of Shneur Zalman ben Yosef Moshe, whose yahrtzeit is 23 Sivan.

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EVENT THIS SUNDAY, G-D WILLING

G-d willing, there will be patients at the event who are currently using Randy’s protocol, Valasta, and a healthy low carb diet to enhance their conventional cancer treatments, and benefiting tremendously. They will share their experiences.

WOMEN ONLY PLEASE, & modest dress please.

If you are a woman cancer patient OR you are a woman who has a friend or relative who can benefit from learning about the integrative treatments, please call +1 (347) 447-8570 to RSVP and get the details.

There will also be a wonderful inspirational talk on the power of faith in G-d, by Rabbi Naftali Reich.

Recording

Here is the recording of the amazing talk about faith and prayer given by Rabbi David Ashear at our last event for patients: https://rumble.com/v7a17q2-rabbi-david-ashears-chizuk-talk-at-lev-aharon-bikur-cholim.html

MIRACLE STORIES

Thank G-d, here are some of the wonderful integrative treatment cancer success stories I’ve received recently, which I’ve had the privilege of being personally involved with:

•Miraculous update I got just today from a mother of a child diagnosed several months ago with Burkitt’s lymphoma: Alongside the chemo, she gave him Valasta, wheatgrass juice, (and celery, carrot, and pomegranate juice), Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Omega 3, sunshine and fresh air, organic eggs, only healthy homemade food, and NO sugar. She did not accept all the extra medications they pushed on him, only took the chemo (and 1 anti nausea med out of 3 prescribed.) Thank G-d the child did amazingly well; he was SO much healthier than the other children on the ward, never had a fever and was not nauseous or vomiting, and finished his treatments 3 and half months earlier than expected. The doctors were shocked at how wonderfully he did and how fast his treatments worked!! The mother told me that even though a patient has to go through treatment, 90% of the associated suffering can be relieved by using the right things alongside it!!

•Today I spoke to the sister of a young breast cancer patient who at diagnosis a couple months ago had been so sick she required oxygen. She had metastases to her liver, lung, and bones. She started Valasta alongside the conventional treatment and shocked the doctors by her drastic improvement. The doctor told her “You’re a walking miracle” because she very shortly stopped needing oxygen. She’s also eating a healthy low carb diet. Thank G-d she’s feeling so much better. Awaiting results of her new scan.

•Wonderful news that came in yesterday from an older woman with a rare cancer discovered at Stage 4; due to risks because of her autoimmune disease she could not have surgery, and because of low likelihood of benefit she opted not to have chemo. She is on Randy’s protocol, Valasta, diet, IV Vit C, and extra supplements too. THANK G-D she texted me:

“A HUGE THANK YOU FOR YOUR GUIDANCE!!!! I took a PET CT today. There is small improvements. Everyone of the 3 areas the activity has dropped!!! I believe that means that it is dying! One area slightly shrunk. There is no indication of any new growth. I believe that is wonderful news!!! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!”

•A young man - a brain cancer patient - had received a lot of radiation and is on conventional treatment, and was feeling quite awful both mentally and physically about a month ago. He started Randy’s protocol, Valasta, and keto diet, and a few weeks later is thank G-d feeling absolutely AMAZING!!! He is thrilled how he feels back to his normal energetic and happy self!

•Zev, who had been diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer a year and a half ago, with metastases to bones and to lymph nodes, used much of Randy’s protocol, Valasta, and keto diet, did a lot of exercise and got a lot of sunshine, did NOT have side effects from his conventional treatment, and now thank G-d is cancer free. He shared his update recently on our cancer chat.

•A multiple myeloma patient whose husband David recently shared her miracle on the chat:

He had previously posted on November 17:

“Thank G-d. My wife diagnosed with advanced state 3 multiple myeloma, very high risk due to genetics, with 77% bone marrow involvement, with multiple fractures along her spine and terrible rib pain, is seeing miracles with this regimen:

Ivermectin 36mg x 2, fenbendazole 222mg x 2, LBN 3mg X 2, melatonin 80mg x 2, fish oil 2x, black seed oil x 2, tocotrienols 300mg x 2, vitamin c 2000-3000mg, vitamin d3 10,000iu with k2 x 2, papaya leaf extract 2x, milk thistle and tudca 500mg x 2, potassium supplements 200mg per meal, magnesium supplement, zinc 50mg, copper 2mg, selenium 200mg, added Himalayan salt to her diet (she was completely salt free prior) lemon and coconut water, sour soup tea 1 cup per day, tumeric pills 1-2 per day.

As of week 4 on this, and as per pet/CT no cancer found. Blood work also shows metabolic remission, with most blood labs stabilized and pre much in the normal range. She recently starting running again after not being able to do so for over 8 weeks.”

David updated now, May 15:

“Sharing Melissa’s biopsy from 2 days ago. Praise G-d.

“They’ve only done another biopsy now, 9 months later, but she’s shown no cancer found 30 days after being diagnosed with very advanced late stage 3 (multiple myeloma only goes to stage 3) with 77% of her bone marrow consumed and with multiple fractures along her spine with the cancer attacking her back and ribs at that time, then 30 days after starting the ivr/fenben treatment nothing found anywhere BH.”

•A HER2 positive breast cancer patient, R., had metastases to liver and lungs and a suspicious spot on a bone when diagnosed this winter. She is on Randy’s protocol, Valasta, and the healthy low carb diet, alongside Enhertu treatment. R. immediately started having a wonderful response to the natural protocol, with some metastases vanishing even before she started the Enhertu. And, when she started, the expected difficult side effects from Enhertu never happened!

Here are the updates on R.:

May 8:

R.: “btw, I’m coming from Dr now. She asked me if I’m having difficulties breathing or heart issues cause heart failure or lung are known side effects with enhertu, I said of course NO. Then she asked about nausea or vomiting or any other symptoms, I said no again! The numbers of liver enzymes are perfect! Everything is so normal and perfect, besides the tumors have shrunk beautifully. Dr was amazed. Sounds to me like she’s trying to understand what’s going on here. Because it doesn’t make sense what she’s seeing. But thank god, I’ll continue the protocol, and she will remain with her questions.....”

May 20:

Thank G-d, PET CT results, the relevant parts excerpted:

“There is interval decrease in size and FDG uptake of the dominant left upper outer quadrant breast mass currently measuring 2.9 x 2.4 cm, previously 7.0 x 4.1 cm (SUV max 2.5, 12:70, prior 9.3).

There is interval nonvisualization of the previously seen FDG avid left axillary adenopathy.

There is interval nonvisualization of the previously seen FDG avid hepatic lesions.”

(In other words, drastic shrinkage of primary breast tumor in size and activity, and disappearance of all metastases!!!)

R.: “I’m in such a good mood today! I feel I got my life back! Should everyone appreciate life the way I am feeling now, the world would be a more positive world....

“Brucha, if you want, you can share my success on the chat. Since I don’t have access there, but I still DO want to encourage people through my story to go onto the protocol asap whoever is still questioning weather it works or not. You can tell them it’s fresh news from yesterday. And it took not more than 3 months.

My doc called me all excited today, she tells me that there can’t be better news than that!

Even this little lump that still remained so far has very little activity. Activity measuring before at 9.3, now went down to 2.5 besides the size that’s almost gone.

Means that it’s dying away.”

THANK YOU G-D!!

Here is the cancer chat: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JdK9WYRfDHe69ib3leh4OO?mode=gi_t

Here is Randy’s protocol: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vRp7Kf57OYJfM3m4t56AvKQylVMhGVmrPWS9Pl8tNYLMKbndXzK0Duwebg15JdzPZLUCE3wSd7qj5XH/pub?pli=1

Here is the Valasta website: www.Valasta.net

Please note, I do not sell anything, make any commission, or ever charge anyone for helping with information.

May G-d continue to send healing to everyone!

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I’m republishing this critically important article that was published on The Defender substack yesterday. Link to original: https://tdefender.substack.com/p/former-psychiatric-patient-says-drugs-not-illness-fueled-decline-laura-delano

By Jill Erzen

Years of declining mental health and escalating prescriptions led Laura Delano to a breakthrough: What if her diagnosis — treatment-resistant mental illness — was wrong? What if it was the treatment that was making her worse?

“And once I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it,” Delano said this week on “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.”

A psychiatrist diagnosed Delano with bipolar disorder at age 14 during a single appointment and told her she would need medication for life — a path Delano noted took almost a “decade and a half to kind of extricate myself from.”

She said her experience is not a story of misdiagnosis, but of a mental health system that too quickly turns emotional suffering into lifelong psychiatric treatment.

Her concerns come as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moves to expand awareness of psychiatric drug withdrawal, reduce unnecessary prescribing and place greater emphasis on nonmedication approaches to mental health.

“We’re going to change the labels on these medications,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Delano. “We’re communicating with therapists all over the country to … outline protocols for tapering.”

U.S. facing ‘dire public health crisis’

Delano, author of “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance,” called the situation “a dire public health crisis.”

“We have tens upon tens of millions of people on these medications,” Delano said. Yet few patients are adequately warned about the challenges of long-term use or discontinuation.

A December 2025 report found that 6.1 million U.S. children under age 17 are taking at least one psychiatric drug. Those numbers are one reason HHS is moving to curb psychiatric overprescribing, particularly among children, according to Kennedy.

The agency’s initiative also promotes informed consent, shared decision-making and “a more holistic approach to mental health.”

Delano said her experience reflects the kind of withdrawal and overprescribing problems that federal officials are only beginning to acknowledge publicly.

“I’m just so excited to hear that this is a priority,” she said.

At 14, Delano ‘internalized this notion that I was broken’

Delano said her struggles began at age 13, when “I just fell apart inside.”

By 14, emotional distress and self-harm led her parents to seek psychiatric help because they “didn’t see any options.”

“This psychiatrist, with the best of intentions, told me in one hour, my first appointment with her, that all my anger and irritability were symptoms of mania, and my despair and the self-injury were symptoms of depression,” Delano said. “And I had an incurable lifelong illness called bipolar disorder.”

Delano said she believes most psychiatrists genuinely want to help patients and alleviate suffering. Still, she said the diagnosis led her to see herself as permanently damaged.

“To be told, basically your brain is broken and you’re going to need pharmaceuticals every day for the rest of your life. … It really internalized this notion that I was broken,” she said.

‘The more medications I took … the more my life fell apart’

Over time, two medications became three, then four, then five, Delano said. During the course of her treatment, her prescriptions included Prozac, Depakote, lithium, Lamictal, Abilify, Effexor and Ativan.

“The more medications I took and the more diagnoses I accumulated, the more my life fell apart,” she said.

Looking back nearly 16 years after discontinuing psychiatric drugs, Delano said she now sees much of her deterioration as part of a “prescription cascade” fueled by a system with few safeguards once patients begin long-term medication use.

“It’s so easy to get on these medications, and there’s so few checkpoints for people to pause and reflect,” she said. “Is this still helping me? Is this actually maybe causing me some adverse effects?”

By her mid-20s, Delano said she could no longer work, had become dependent on her family and struggled with alcoholism. Doctors eventually said her bipolar disorder was “treatment-resistant.”

“The only thing I was connected to was my psychiatric treatment and my identity as a mentally ill person,” she said.

Years of treatment conditioned her to interpret her struggles primarily through psychiatric diagnoses, preventing her from questioning whether the medications themselves might be contributing to her decline, Delano said.

“Being on so many medications, especially in those critical formative years of young adulthood, really ended up in the long run adversely impacting me in mind, body and spirit,” she added.

Mental health system ‘actually about control’

Although Delano said she is “not anti-medication,” she questioned the widespread practice of keeping patients on psychiatric drugs for years or decades, when many U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval trials lasted only “six weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks.”

“These medications were really only ever intended for short-term use,” she said.

Delano never second-guessed her treatment in the early years of care. But her perspective shifted in 2010 after a series of involuntary psychiatric interventions that dislodged her “unquestioning faith” in the mental health system.

Until then, Delano said she had viewed the system as compassionate care. But after being compelled into treatment against her wishes, she realized “it’s also actually about control.”

“I just didn’t see this because I had always said yes,” she said.

Around the same time, Delano read Robert Whitaker’s “Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America.” Whitaker questioned whether chronic psychiatric drug use may worsen mental health for some patients.

The book, combined with her own deteriorating condition, led Delano to reevaluate what doctors had labeled treatment-resistant mental illness.

Despite remaining consistently medicated for more than a decade, she said she was experiencing “progressively worsening dysfunction, despair, inability to take care of myself.”

“And it all clicked,” she said.

“Oh my gosh,” she recalled thinking. “What if it’s not treatment-resistant mental illness? What if it’s the treatment?”

The ‘wild, wild west’ of tapering off psychiatric drugs

Delano eventually decided to stop taking psychiatric medications, calling it “the scariest, most overwhelming decision I ever made.”

Neither she nor her doctors understood how to taper safely. “I had no road map. My doctors didn’t support it. They had no idea how to do it.”

She experienced severe symptoms while tapering off the drugs, and realized that many patients misunderstand those symptoms.

“People don’t realize it’s not a relapse of your illness,” she said. “It’s not proof that you need your medications. It’s actually withdrawal.”

Psychiatry has largely failed to acknowledge the physical dependence psychiatric drugs can create, she said.

“All psychiatric medications are psychoactive chemicals, and if you take them consistently, your body’s going to acclimate to them,” she said.

Delano later founded the Inner Compass Initiative, which offers information and peer support for people questioning psychiatric medications or attempting to taper off them.

She said many patients are effectively forced to develop their own tapering methods due to limited medical guidance.

“People have had to become their own pharmacists at home,” she said, describing patients using water mixtures and syringes to make tiny dose reductions. “It’s the wild, wild west out there.”

‘My body was just crying out for help for years’

Delano said her recovery involved far more than simply stopping medications.

“The other thing people need to really, really take seriously is how they’re caring for their body, the food they’re eating, the products in their household, the amount of sunlight they’re getting,” she said.

She linked mental health recovery to nutrition, sleep and environmental factors — themes that also appear in HHS’s recent push toward nondrug mental health interventions.

Delano said it is “absolutely essential” for people preparing to taper off psychiatric medications to support the body nutritionally, including consuming healthy fats and gut-friendly foods, because “the parts of your body that are altered by these medications” require support during withdrawal.

She also described years of chronic health problems while taking psychiatric medications, including metabolic dysfunction, autoimmune thyroid disease and recurring infections.

“My body was just crying out for help for years,” she said.

Now off psychiatric medications, Delano said she no longer sees emotional pain as evidence that her brain is broken.

“People often think my story is a story of misdiagnosis,” she said. “No, no. … My story is a story of the American mental health system working as intended.”

Delano said she now understands suffering as part of being human rather than something to eliminate chemically.

“The objective to living isn’t happiness. It’s not the absence of pain,” she said. “It’s connection. It’s meaning. It’s purpose.”

Watch Delano on ‘The Secretary Kennedy Podcast’ here:

Related articles in The Defender

• ‘Nobody Told Me’: Former Mental Health Patient Calls Out Dangerous Side Effects of Psychiatric Drugs

• ‘Unshrunk’: Overcoming the Downward Spiral of Psychiatric Drug Addiction

• RFK Jr. Calls Out Skyrocketing Use of Psychiatric Meds

• ‘Hidden Epidemic’: She Was 7 When Doctors Prescribed Ritalin — By Age 20, She’d Taken 14 Different Psychotropic Drugs

• ‘Medically Reckless’: AAP Pushes Mental Health Screenings for Kids as Young as 6 Months Old

BW: Please also see this interview with Laura Delano last year on Epoch Times: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/what-the-mental-health-industry-doesnt-tell-you-laura-delano-5855438

Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring MD, whom Laura mentioned in the Epoch interview, helps people taper off of psychiatric medications:

https://taperclinic.com/about-us/

BW: Please see my article today with more resources for finding doctors to help taper off of psychiatric medications:

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This article is packed with many resources for mental health:

Here is the interview that I did on May 17 with Chaim Moshe Steinmetz LISW, and with my unbelievably knowledgeable friend Malky.

Watch here: https://rumble.com/v7a18mc-lev-aharon-bikur-cholim-mental-health-part-1-may-17-with-chaim-moshe-steinm.html

Or listen here to the audio: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mobile/folders/1twuH2_bozHUHnaf4PT5ts_4Wk8Z1iWeL

Also available soon to listen by audio at 929-277-2700.

In the interview:

Part 1: Amino Acid Therapy

Chaim Moshe Steinmetz is a therapist in private practice who uses many highly effective modalities to help clients with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addictions, and more. We spoke about the newest tool in his arsenal, Amino Acid Therapy, which he’s been seeing some amazing results with. He says that Amino Acid Therapy can also be helpful in ADHD, social anxiety, stress, sleep problems, phobias, and relationship issues.

Part 2: Thyroid, Gut, Hormonal Imbalance, and Nutritional Depletion as Causes of Mental and Emotional Health Issues

After talking with Mr. Steinmetz, I spoke with my friend Malky, who is teaching me about how a damaged gut, thyroid insufficiency, hormonal imbalances, and nutritional depletion (all extremely common) can have severe impacts on mental and emotional well-being - and how to get help. Watch our fascinating conversation, including dramatic healing stories we witnessed, on that link above. If you know anyone with postpartum anxiety or depression please do not miss watching this - it will be life changing.

Bottom Line - your mental health is directly related to your whole-body health!

In fact, the book Brain Energy provides a unifying theory, putting every mental health disorder into the framework of malfunctioning metabolism. There are fascinating case studies of schizophrenic and bipolar patients who have gotten completely well by healing their bodies. A common denominator of the stories is a healthy low carb or keto diet and exercise. Read the book: https://a.co/d/00pCOGAU

More Resources and Referals:

•How to reach Chaim Moshe Steinmetz LISW: His website is Chaimmoshesteinmetz.com. Email him at chaimmoshe@chaimmoshesteinmetz.com.

•Referals: For referals to holistic health practitioners (such as for thyroid and gut healing), and for holistic psychiatric referals, email info@chiyus.org.

Here are two MDs that have been vetted by Chiyus.org:

•Dr. Michael I. Gurevich, MD, CAc

(Holistically-Minded Psychiatrist Helping Patients Heal Beyond Medication)

https://www.holisticmd.org/

Call 516-674-9489

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Dr. Robin Ellen Leder MD

(MD that practices functional medicine with a strong focus on healing patients with psychiatric conditions)

https://www.drrobinleder.com/

Office: (201) 525 -1155
Direct Call phone: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday: (551) 298-8799

a.better.alternative.medical@gmail.com

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Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring MD and his team help people taper off of psychiatric medications:

https://taperclinic.com/about-us/

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• The following resource - Hardy Nutritionals micronutrients - was shared with me (by someone who got it from an orthomolecular MD I respect), and looks very promising. The woman who informed me about the website and this product says that it helped someone with bipolar that she knew, and that it has helped a dozen people she knows to transition off of antidepressants. (Please do not do that without professional guidance!)

https://www.hardynutritionals.com/ They offer free consultations. Please give me feedback if you do try the product.

A few screenshots from the fascinating website:

•For further reading:

•Here is a very important interview with Laura Delano, who was diagnosed with bipolar after a one hour visit with a psychiatrist at age 14. For the next fourteen years, she was not really living. Two medications spiraled into five, and Laura became completely dysfunctional. Thank G-d she eventually had a “lightbulb moment” when she finally understood the actual cause of her problems, and set out to rebuild her life.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/what-the-mental-health-industry-doesnt-tell-you-laura-delano-5855438

•This book was recommended by Chiyus.org:

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We just became aware today that there is a terrible bill that is scheduled to be voted on tomorrow.

Bill S3958a would require all New York State summer camps to only admit campers who are up-to-date on all of their vaccines. This bill will be voted on tomorrow May 12.

Below are the key talking points against this Bill, put together by Children’s Health Defense. Further down is the list of key legislators whom CHD believes are the most critical to contact to stop this bill from passing. Please reach out to your networks and encourage them to call today to these legislators and ask them to vote against Bill S3958a.

If you have any questions, you can reach out to Curtis Cost, who is with Children’s Health Defense: 347-335-6455

VACCINE MANDATES FOR SUMMER CAMPS

BILL S3958a

TALKING POINTS

· It requires all summer campers to be up to date on all vaccines before going to a summer camp.

· There have not been any outbreaks at summer camps despite 49 states not having any such requirements!

· California is the only state that has such a law.

· This Bill ignores families who have religious objections to vaccines.

· There are many religion-based summer camps in NY State that oppose mandatory vaccines and will oppose this Bill. So will the thousands of families who send their children to these camps.

· NY is 1 of only 5 states that do not allow religious exemptions.

· Medical exemptions are very hard to get in NY State.

· This places a great burden on summer camps, forcing them to track the vaccine status of campers.

· Summer camp enrollments are down and this bill will make it much worse.

Here is a link to click and send a message to your senators:

https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/AUTISMACTION/Campaigns/137132/Respond

Key Legislators To Contact

Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Senate Majority Leader, D-35, Yonkers, (518) 455-2585, LOB 907, Albany, NY 12447

Gustavo Rivera, Chair, D-33, Bronx, (518) 455-6858, Capitol 502c, Albany, NY 12447

Sam Sutton, D-22, Brooklyn, (518) 455-2754, LOB 809, Albany, NY 12447

Zellnor Myrie, D-20, Brooklyn, (518) 455-2410, LOB 806, Albany, NY 12447

Kevin Parker, D-21, Brooklyn, (518) 455-2580, Capitol 504c

Robert Jackson, D-31, Manhattan, (518) 455-2041, LOB 306

Christopher Ryan, D-50, Syracuse, (518) 455-3511, LOB 946

Lea Webb, D-52, D-52, Binghamton, (518) 455-2170, LOB 848

Samra Brouk, D-55, Rochester, (518) 455-2215, LOB 812

Kristen Gonzalez, D-59, NYC, (518) 455-3250, LOB 817

Rachel May, D-48, Syracuse, (518) 455-2838, LOB 803

Patrick Gallivan, R-60, Buffalo suburbs, (518) 455-3471, LOB 311

Steven Rhoads, R-5, Nassau, LOB 311, (518) 455-3161, LOB 513

Jack Martins, R-7, Nassau, LOB 517, (518) 455-2677, LOB 608

Jake Ashby, R-43, Capitol region, LOB 517, (518) 455-2381, LOB 517

Dan Stec, R-45, Plattsburgh, LOB 408, (518) 455-2811, LOB 408

Autism Action Network shared this message:

Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz, the author of the repeal of the religious exemption from vaccine mandates to attend school, and Sen. James Skoufis (the Brad Hoylman wanna-be) are trying to do more favors for the vaccine industry with S3958a/A3254a, a bill that will require children who attend summer camp to be up-to-date with the required vaccine schedule. This is just another authoritarian bill that undermines parental rights, religious rights, and the authority of physicians to treat patients, for no discernible public health benefit, and further bolsters the Democrats’ position as puppets of the vaccine cartel.

This bill has already passed in the Assembly so we will have to stop it in the State Senate.

TAKE ACTION

https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/AUTISMACTION/Campaigns/137132/Respond

Is there any need for this bill? Are there demonstrable outbreaks in summer camps?

Only one other state, California, requires all campers to be up-to-date with the school schedule.

This bill just adds to the needless and unjust discrimination against people with religious beliefs that preclude some or all vaccinations since New York became in 2019 one of only 5 states that do not allow religious exemptions in 2019.

Medical exemptions are technically allowed in New York, but they are nearly impossible to get, as shown by New York having the lowest rate of medical exemptions of any state, according to CDC.

This bill would also place a considerable administrative burden on camps.

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It seems that the ugly, wicked Sodomites who think they control the world are on to their next power trip. “Hantavirus” is suddenly a big thing, with an “outbreak” of the “highly fatal virus” on a cruise ship, and suddenly, “breaking news” as “first cases discovered” in one country after another.

The playbook is so very predictable by this point that it’s really difficult to imagine that many will be gullible enough to fall for the hoax again.

But, they surely have an evil plan in place, so I have three earnest requests: 1) Pray to the Creator to save humanity from their clutches. 2) Warn everyone you know that the hantavirus scaremongering is a complete fraud. 3) Do NOT go to the hospital, isolate, stop going about your life, or do ANYTHING else they tell you to do! The Sodomite coordinators themselves are the “virus!”

We have nothing to fear from their pretend “threat.” (As Sasha Latypova explains, “the illness exists, it is a poisoning with rat feces, usually in extremely blighted living conditions, with extremely poor hygiene, dirt floors and massive rat infestation.”)

Sasha shows that whatever is “found” in the “tests” for hantavirus is meaningless:

More on that below.

My concern is not about the “virus,” but about a repeat of what they did by covid - somehow they poisoned many people, causing them to develop extreme fatigue, loss of smell, low oxygen saturation, pneumonia, etc. When people went to the hospital, they had a good chance of being killed by lack of proper treatment, by toxic drugs, and by getting put onto a ventilator. Guess what they claim are the only treatments available for “Hantavirus?” A ventilator and an ECMO (heart-lung) machine! That’s why I’m saying that we need G-D’s great compassion, and we need to not comply with their plans.

Remember, most people placed on ventilators in the spring of 2020 died.

Here is what I have compiled on “Hantavirus,” from many sources.

My first encounter was a New York Times email last Wednesday, May 6, titled “The Cruise From Hell,” which NYT ever so thoughtfully did not paywall. Clearly, they wanted everyone to read the scare:

NYT cruelly primes for panic while telling you not to panic:

It’s the plot of a horror movie: A mysterious virus creeps through a luxury cruise ship that’s following the spring migration of ocean birds out of the Antarctic. The bug, which can cause lung and kidney failure, isn’t supposed to be able to leap between humans. Except maybe it can? Three passengers are dead, and four more have fallen ill.

The hantavirus crisis aboard the Hondius has been unfolding for nearly a month, and the uninfected passengers have been stuck aboard the whole time.

The ship now sits at anchor near Cape Verde, off the west coast of Africa, and was supposed to sail to the Canary Islands yesterday. Spanish officials said the vessel would need to be inspected before they could decide where exactly it might go. Officials from Oceanwide Expeditions, the ship’s operator, said they had locked down the cruise with “isolation measures, hygiene protocols and medical monitoring.”

The World Health Organization advises against panic. “Based on the current information, including how hantavirus spreads, W.H.O. assesses the risk to the global population from this event as low,” the agency said yesterday.

Still, yikes. Can you imagine?

NYT continues:

I reject all that. I know in my bones that it’s phony. If you are old enough to remember 2020, every single piece of the story above should feel like something you lived through already. Because you did. The “infected” ship seeking harbor (Grand Princess, March 2020.) The forced quarantine. The never-before-heard-of bug, supposedly coming from the animal kingdom, suddenly “jumping between people.” The “symptoms,” which are symptoms of anything. The mind-boggling claimed fatality rate. “There is no treatment” but a ventilator “if things get bad.” The authorities initially assessing the risk as low (thus allowing travel, only to claim later that travelers spread the infection.) And, as you’ll see soon, the fake PCR diagnoses, and the vaccines just about ready to go, even faster than last time.

(What would we do without PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITIES? We ought to be so grateful!)

More familiar, sneaky, NYT fear-priming:

As Celia Farber pointed out, Jake Rosemarin is a paid actor. The Evil Ones employed plenty of those in the 2020 scam. Here’s another one:

The “Raw Egg” panic spreader below is definitely a government agent or bot. He can talk like an authority and spike fear, without having to back himself up with sources. He wishes Covid had been worse:

“Travelers spreading outbreak” again. Hazmat suits again. Contact tracing again. “Staying safe” again:

Why do they reuse the same tired plots? Seriously, they have zero imagination!

Remember, last Wednesday NYT said that hantavirus isn’t supposed to spread person-to-person, but maybe now it is? Well, by Thursday, the Telegraph headlines had already decided that it does! Through coughs and sneezes!

Wow, “science” moves fast! Except it’s fake.

You should know that the Telegraph is making false claims.

There is no reliable study showing “hantavirus” can spread between people. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9574657/

The Hantavirus Vaccines

If you aren’t laughing yet at how gullible they expect us to be, you will be now:

Nicolas Hulscher MPH reports:

… few are aware that there are currently 13 documented hantavirus vaccine and gene therapy programs in active development:

• 6 DNA “vaccines” (US Army / USAMRIID) — many of them “needle-free” jet-injector versions

• 3 mRNA “vaccines” (Moderna + Korea University, Chinese research team, VIDO Canada)

• 2 viral vector “vaccines” (UK institutions + VIDO Canada)

• 1 inactivated vaccine (Hantavax — already licensed and used in South Korea)

• 1 protein subunit vaccine (VIDO Canada)

The US Army hantavirus DNA “vaccines” are not vaccines. They are literally plasmid DNA gene-therapies. Each one contains lab-made circular DNA (plasmids) carrying the hantavirus M-segment genes that code for the virus’s surface glycoproteins (Gn and Gc). When injected (often with a needle-free jet injector or electroporation device), your own cells absorb the DNA, read it like a blueprint, and start manufacturing the pathogenic hantavirus proteins themselves.

Yep, no less than THIRTEEN hantavirus vaccines, just about ready to go, for an illness you’ve never heard of before.

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-vaccine-cartel-and-us-army-are

But their plans aren’t funny:

The PCR Test

To complete the plot, of course, a fake PCR test that is guaranteed to diagnose with hantavirus:

If you like science, read all about it here: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/hantavirus-pcr-test-sequences-repeatedly

Who Says That Anyone Actually Died?

Additional layers of this lunacy to think about:

As Celia Farber pointed out, how do we even know what actually happened on the ship, outside of the media’s breathless reports?

… the dead passengers? They have no names.

If you’re a reporter, you can just say “Dutch man,” “Dutch wife” and “German passenger.”

Did these people really exist? Really die? How would we know?

Spain has now accepted the “infected” ship, as the (murderer) WHO head Tedros requested, and praised PM Sanchez for, gushing about his “meeting his moral duty.”

Sadly, I imagine that Evil Tedros plans to make the place the ship docked into the “locus” of “contagion” theater that he will stage. All he needs to do, G-d forbid, is poison some of the local population. He could do it by spraying from the air. He could put chemicals in the water or the food. Bingo, they “caught hantavirus” from the ship’s passengers.

With a claimed “incubation period” of up to a month (or more) (!!) and an astronomical “fatality rate,” the hantavirus nightmare is a perfect, never-ending tool for totalitarian lockdowns and control.

Here is Sasha Latypova’s article discussing “unconstitutional law” that allows CDC to capture and imprison people (and kill them) without any due process or accountability on pretenses of “quarantine:”

Hantavirus is a fake, don’t fall for it. Republishing Grand Princess Quarantine Orders FOIA, Part 2

The government’s ability to declare pandemics based on nothing enables imprisonment without due process and must be nullified.

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/hantavirus-is-a-fake-dont-fall-for

What do you wish you had known in advance at the end of 2019, in 2020, and 2021?

Now you know it, so scream it from the rooftops:

•Pray to the Creator to save humanity from the evildoers’ plans.

•Do not believe their fear campaigns!

•Do not isolate, lock down, or comply with any of their orders!

•If G-d forbid anyone gets sick, do NOT turn to a hospital for treatment. Do NOT allow yourself or a loved one to be put on a ventilator.

•Do NOT accept injections of any sort!

May G-d protect us from their plans!

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This article was published by Unbekoming on his substack. The link to his original article is at the end. Please see more excellent articles on his site.

The Patient Who Was Never Sick

A man turns fifty. His insurer pays for a screening colonoscopy. He has no abdominal pain, no diarrhoea, no weight loss, no fatigue. He goes in because the schedule says it is time. The pathologist examines the biopsies and reports granulomas and chronic inflammatory changes. The gastroenterologist calls him in and tells him he has Crohn’s disease, a chronic incurable condition that will require lifelong management. He is started on adalimumab, an injected biologic costing roughly forty thousand dollars per year, with documented adverse events including serious infections, lymphoma, hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma, and heart failure.¹ He will inject himself with this drug every two weeks for the rest of his life.

He had no complaint when he walked through the door.

This is not a hypothetical. It has a name in the gastroenterology literature: silent Crohn’s, or asymptomatic incidentally diagnosed Crohn’s. Roughly a quarter of patients with the histological findings have no symptoms at the time of diagnosis.² The treat-to-target framework now dominant in inflammatory bowel disease practice³ instructs gastroenterologists to suppress the tissue findings whether or not the patient feels ill, on the theoretical grounds that future damage might otherwise occur. The retrospective evidence in the establishment’s own journals tells a different story. Grinman and colleagues at Sheba Medical Center in Israel reviewed the records of 2,700 Crohn’s patients in their inflammatory bowel disease registry. They identified 60 patients whose Crohn’s had been discovered incidentally — found during colonoscopy or imaging done for unrelated reasons, in patients with no Crohn’s symptoms. Eighty-eight percent of these patients received no treatment after diagnosis. Of those left untreated, eighty-nine and a half percent had no flare over a median follow-up of four and a half years.⁴ The authors’ conclusion, in their own words: many asymptomatic patients with an incidental diagnosis of Crohn’s disease can probably be followed up without immediate treatment.

The practice continues regardless. A healthy person with no complaint is informed they have an incurable disease, started on a drug that costs more than most cars, and instructed to take it indefinitely. The body that was successfully managing its own affairs is now prevented from doing so.

The case this essay makes is that Crohn’s disease is a modern poisoning with a specific toxin, by a specific route, in a specific population — and that the asymptomatic-treated patient is the clearest window into what the diagnosis actually is. The body in that man’s gut was doing what bodies do when they accumulate something they cannot easily clear. Medicine saw the work and called it disease.

On 13 May 1932, three physicians at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York — Burrill Crohn, Leon Ginzburg, and Gordon Oppenheimer — presented a paper to the American Medical Association in New Orleans titled Terminal Ileitis. The published version appeared five months later in the Journal of the American Medical Association under the title Regional ileitis: a pathologic and clinical entity.⁵ The paper described fourteen patients between the ages of seventeen and fifty-two, all operated on by the Mount Sinai surgeon A. A. Berg. The lesion was characteristic: transmural inflammation of the terminal ileum, granulomas, skip lesions, fistulae. The cohort was overwhelmingly Jewish.

Earlier descriptions of similar pathology existed but were rare enough to be surgical curiosities. Morgagni had noted the picture in 1761. Antoni Leśniowski described it in Poland in 1903. Thomas Kennedy Dalziel, a Scottish surgeon, published a paper in the British Medical Journal in 1913 titled Chronic Interstitial Enteritis, describing the same condition in human patients and noting its histological resemblance to Johne’s disease — a chronic granulomatous ileitis in cattle first described by Heinrich Johne in 1895.⁶ Dalziel’s paper is not cited in Crohn’s 1932 report. The omission would shape the next ninety years of research.

From those fourteen surgical cases in 1932, the disease has expanded into a global epidemic. The 2017 Lancet systematic review by Ng and colleagues documented incidence rates above twenty per hundred thousand per year in parts of Canada and northern Europe, with prevalence exceeding 0.3% of the population in early-industrialised countries.⁷ The Global Burden of Disease 2017 IBD Collaborators estimated approximately 6.8 million people living with inflammatory bowel disease worldwide.⁸ Kaplan and Ng’s four-stage epidemiological framework places Western countries in a prevalence plateau while China, India, Brazil, and sub-Saharan Africa move rapidly through accelerating incidence — a transition the authors link explicitly to the Westernisation of diet, hygiene practices, and pharmaceutical exposure.⁹

The migration evidence makes the environmental signal unmistakable. Benchimol and colleagues documented that second-generation South Asian immigrants to the United Kingdom and East Asian immigrants to Canada acquire host-country incidence within a single generation.¹⁰ Their genes do not change in that interval. What changes is the schedule of pharmaceutical exposures, the food supply, and the injection regimen administered in childhood. The disease is acquired, not inherited.

Genetics deserves its own paragraph because the establishment has invested four decades in pursuing it. The NOD2/CARD15 gene was identified simultaneously by two groups in 2001.¹¹ Twenty-five years and over two hundred and forty susceptibility loci later, the genetic programme has produced no cure and no actionable clinical intervention.¹² The Swedish twin study of Halfvarson and colleagues found 29 monozygotic twin pairs with Crohn’s disease — only nine of them concordant for the disease, twenty discordant for life despite identical genomes. CARD15/NOD2 variants did not explain the difference; the authors concluded that the genetic variants “contribute but do not alone explain concordance of Crohn’s disease in monozygotic twins.”¹³ NOD2 variants are rare or absent in East Asian populations, where Crohn’s incidence is currently exploding. A disease that triples in a generation in Korea cannot be primarily genetic. Gene pools do not change at that rate.

What does change at that rate is what is being injected, ingested, and prescribed.

The Anatomical Tell

Out of roughly twenty-eight feet of small and large intestine, Crohn’s disease begins almost without exception in a small area at the junction of the small and large bowel: the terminal ileum. Forrest Maready, in his 2018 book Crooked: Man-Made Disease Explained, was the writer who placed this anatomical observation at the centre of the argument and assembled the peer-reviewed evidence that explains it.¹⁴ The terminal ileum is not a random location. It is the densest concentration of lymphoid tissue in the digestive tract, organised into structures called Peyer’s patches.

Peyer’s patches function as collection points. Lymphatic vessels drain into them. White blood cells gather there. And because white blood cells transport whatever they have engulfed through the lymphatic system, whatever those cells carry tends to deposit at their gathering points.

In 1987, Shepherd and colleagues at Bristol published a paper in Human Pathology titled Exogenous pigment in Peyer’s patches. They documented dark pigment accumulating specifically in the lymphoid tissue of the terminal ileum.¹⁵ Two years later, Urbanski and colleagues confirmed the finding in a paper titled Pigment resembling atmospheric dust in Peyer’s patches in Modern Pathology.¹⁶ The pigment was metal-containing. It was concentrating in exactly the location where Crohn’s disease begins.

In 2004, Perl, Fogarty, Harpaz, and Sachar — three of them at Mount Sinai, the same department where Crohn worked — published a paper in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases titled Bacterial-metal interactions: the potential role of aluminum and other trace elements in the etiology of Crohn’s disease. They documented a fatal granulomatous enteritis outbreak in horses sharing a common environment, with histology resembling human Crohn’s. Microprobe analysis of the lesions showed aluminium concentrated within the intestinal wall.¹⁷ Mount Sinai’s own pathologists were demonstrating, in an animal model with the same lesion as the human disease, that aluminium accumulates where Crohn’s begins.

Three years later, in 2007, Aaron Lerner published Aluminum is a Potential Environmental Factor for Crohn’s Disease Induction in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, formally proposing aluminium as the environmental cause and cataloguing the major exposure routes.¹⁸ Lerner extended the argument in a 2012 paper in Lupus focused specifically on injected aluminium adjuvants.¹⁹

Then in 2014, a Franco-Swiss research team published the causal study in Mucosal Immunology. Pineton de Chambrun and colleagues administered aluminium to mice at environmentally relevant doses — 1.5 mg per kilogram. The aluminium worsened both chemically induced and genetically induced colitis. Animals receiving aluminium showed increased histological and macroscopic inflammation, elevated myeloperoxidase, IL-1β and IL-17A activation, NLRP3 inflammasome activity, reduced epithelial renewal, and impaired intestinal barrier function — even in animals with no other insult. The lesions included granulomas indistinguishable from those in human Crohn’s.²⁰

The mechanism is not speculative. The metal accumulates at the precise anatomical site where the disease begins. The animal model produces what the human disease looks like at the cellular and structural level. The establishment’s own peer-reviewed literature, in its own major journals, has documented the connection for over twenty years. The Mount Sinai paper appeared in the journal of record for the field. None of this evidence has entered the clinical practice guidelines of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, which continues to state that the cause is unknown.²¹

The Bioavailability Question

Aluminium is the third most abundant element in the earth’s crust. Humans have lived with environmental aluminium for as long as humans have existed. The fact that Crohn’s disease did not exist before 1932 cannot be explained by exposure to environmental aluminium per se. The relevant question is not whether aluminium reaches the body but whether it reaches the tissues that develop the disease.

The answer turns on the route of administration. Aluminium taken in through food and water is poorly absorbed. The gastrointestinal tract is built to keep particulate matter out of systemic circulation. The intestinal mucosa, the gut-associated lymphoid tissue itself, the liver, and the kidneys process whatever fraction crosses the barrier and excrete most of it. The standard pharmacology figure for oral aluminium bioavailability is approximately 0.3% — three parts per thousand of an ingested dose actually reaches the tissues.²² A gram of aluminium consumed in food delivers around three milligrams to the body. The remainder leaves through the stool and urine.

The other route bypasses every one of these defences. Material injected into muscle or subcutaneous tissue is, by definition, 100% bioavailable. There is no first-pass metabolism, no intestinal barrier, no liver filtration before the substance enters the lymphatic system. Aluminium adjuvants in injected products are taken up by macrophages at the site of injection and transported through the lymphatic vessels to their drainage points. The distribution work conducted by Romain Gherardi and Josette Cadusseau’s group at Paris-Est Créteil, using fluorescent nanoparticles that mimic aluminium adjuvant particles, showed transport to draining lymph nodes, the spleen, and distant organs including the brain.²³

The arithmetic is decisive. To match the systemic delivery of a single 0.5 mg injected aluminium dose, a person would need to consume approximately 167 mg of aluminium and have it perfectly absorbed at the published 0.3% rate. The ratio is roughly three hundred to one in favour of the injection. The route matters more than the total quantity.

Where, in modern industrial life, is aluminium delivered by injection?

The answer has been the same since 1932. Alexander Glenny formalised aluminium adjuvants in 1926.²⁴ The diphtheria toxoid containing aluminium hydroxide entered routine use in the early 1930s — the same period in which Crohn and his colleagues identified their first surgical cases. The expansion of the schedule through the twentieth century — pertussis components, tetanus toxoid, polio, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae, pneumococcal, HPV — has steadily increased the cumulative aluminium dose delivered by injection through childhood and into adulthood. The current United States schedule delivers approximately 4.4 mg of aluminium by age six months and over 5 mg cumulative by age six years, depending on which pneumococcal and hepatitis formulations are used.²⁵ Every dose of every aluminium-containing product is administered with 100% bioavailability into a body whose lymphatic system will transport it to the locations where lymphoid tissue concentrates — and the densest concentration in the digestive tract is the terminal ileum.

The temporal correlation between schedule expansion and disease incidence is not subtle. Crohn’s disease emerged as a clinical entity in the same year aluminium adjuvants entered routine paediatric practice. Its incidence has risen alongside every successive expansion of the schedule. It appears in migrating populations within a generation of acquiring the host country’s vaccine schedule. It is rare to absent in populations that do not receive the schedule — the unvaccinated Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities, traditional populations in the developing world prior to vaccination programme expansion, and the entire human species before 1932. The natural experiment has already been run, in both directions. The result is consistent.

The Microorganisms in the Tissue: Firefighters at the Building

Mainstream gastroenterology has spent thirty years on the question of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, known as MAP. The Sanderson group at St George’s London found MAP DNA in 65% of Crohn’s tissue samples in 1992, against 4.3% of ulcerative colitis samples and 12.5% of non-IBD controls.²⁶ Subsequent meta-analyses confirmed the enrichment.²⁷ A phase 3 trial of triple antibiotic therapy directed at MAP — the RHB-104 trial run by RedHill Biopharma — met its primary endpoint, with 36.7% remission on the antibiotic regimen versus 23% on placebo at week 26.²⁸ The establishment has chosen not to act on the finding. Treatment guidelines have not changed.

The terrain framework reads this evidence differently than the establishment does. Béchamp and his successors documented that the microscopic forms found in the body are not fixed entities arriving from outside; they are pleomorphic, shifting in appearance and function according to the conditions of the terrain. The organisms found in healthy tissue differ from those found in tissue undergoing breakdown and clearance — not because new organisms have invaded, but because the body’s own microscopic forms have shifted into the configurations the work of clearance requires.

The MAP DNA found in Crohn’s tissue is not evidence of invasion. The metal-laden, granuloma-walled tissue of the terminal ileum is precisely the kind of damaged tissue that requires the body’s microscopic demolition machinery to attempt clearance. The forms found there are the forms required by the work being done. They are firefighters at the burning building, not the cause of the fire. The RHB-104 trial result fits this reading exactly: suppressing the cleanup crew with antibiotics produces a temporary reduction in visible inflammation, because the demolition work is what was producing the visible signs. The underlying metal continues to arrive. The exposure has not been addressed. The relapse trajectory after the antibiotic course completes is the predictable consequence.

The Dalziel observation in 1913, ignored by Crohn in 1932, points to the same framework. Cattle accumulate aluminium and other metals from the soil and from agricultural inputs. Their lymphoid tissue concentrates these metals in the same physiological process as the human gut. The granulomatous ileitis Dalziel observed and Johne described in cattle is not evidence of cross-species infection. It is evidence that the same toxic mechanism produces the same lesion in any mammal whose terminal ileum accumulates metal it cannot clear. The microscopic forms found in both species reflect the body’s response to the load, not its cause.

The Cascade

The body’s response to accumulated metal in the lymphoid tissue of the terminal ileum is the inflammatory cascade Crohn described in 1932. Granulomas form to wall off what cannot be eliminated. Macrophages and other phagocytic cells concentrate at the site of accumulation. Tissue breaks down and is cleared. The barrier function of the intestinal wall is temporarily compromised while the work proceeds. The patient experiences abdominal pain, altered bowel movements, and the systemic signs of metabolic effort — fatigue, weight loss, mild fever. These are the body’s clearance work made visible. They are not the disease. The disease is the metal that arrived and could not be cleared.

Medicine sees the clearance work and sets out to suppress it. The standard pharmaceutical cascade begins with corticosteroids — prednisone, budesonide — drugs that suppress the inflammatory response without addressing the metal load that triggered it.²⁹ Corticosteroids have well-documented adverse effects: bone loss, glucose dysregulation, infection susceptibility, mood disturbance, adrenal suppression. The patient’s symptoms reduce because the clearance has been suppressed. The metal continues to arrive.

When corticosteroids fail or cannot be tapered, immunomodulators are added. Azathioprine and 6-mercaptopurine — drugs originally developed to prevent organ transplant rejection by suppressing the body’s repair and clearance functions — are now standard maintenance therapy in Crohn’s disease.³⁰ Methotrexate, a chemotherapy agent, is another option. The Beaugerie CESAME study published in Lancet in 2009 documented elevated lymphoproliferative disease risk in IBD patients on these drugs.³¹

When the immunomodulators fail, the biologics are introduced. Infliximab and adalimumab, both anti-TNF antibodies; vedolizumab, an integrin inhibitor; ustekinumab, an interleukin pathway blocker. Each works by suppressing a specific component of the inflammatory and clearance machinery. The package inserts document serious infections, malignancies including hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma, demyelinating disease, congestive heart failure, and reactivation of latent infections.³² Primary non-response — patients who derive no benefit from the first attempted biologic — runs at 20-40%. Secondary loss of response, in which patients who initially benefited stop benefiting, occurs at 20-40% per year of therapy.³³

When the biologics fail, surgery follows. Frolkis and colleagues documented a five-year cumulative surgical risk approaching 30% in population cohorts.³⁴ The surgeons remove the inflamed segment of bowel and join the healthy tissue on either side. The procedure is called a resection with anastomosis. Endoscopic recurrence at the join is observed in 73% of patients within twelve months and 85% within three years.³⁵ Clinical recurrence — symptoms severe enough to require further intervention — affects approximately half of all surgical patients within five years.³⁶ The new tissue at the join inflames in the same pattern as the tissue that was removed.

This recurrence pattern is the closing argument. A genetic disease does not preferentially attack the anastomotic site of a previous surgery; the tissue at the join is histologically identical to the tissue elsewhere in the bowel. A disease caused by something arriving from outside the body — a poison, a metal load delivered repeatedly through ongoing exposure — does exactly that. The new tissue is exposed to the same lymphatic drainage, the same accumulating metal, and the same overburdened clearance machinery. The disease returns at the join because the exposure has not stopped. It will not stop until the source of the metal does.

The acute-to-chronic mechanism Herbert Shelton described nearly a century ago is operating throughout this cascade.³⁷ Acute clearance work is suppressed with drugs that add new toxic exposure to the existing metal load. Symptoms reduce temporarily and then return in altered form, requiring more powerful suppression. The condition is reclassified from acute to chronic. The chronic phase is then attributed to inherent disease progression rather than to the predictable consequence of decades of pharmaceutical intervention. Each step is profitable. None of them addresses what the body is responding to.

The Manufactured Patient

The asymptomatic-treated patient described at the opening of this essay represents the cascade’s logical extension. The patient who arrives with symptoms can at least be said to have presented for treatment. The patient discovered through screening has not. The treat-to-target framework manufactures the customer from a healthy person who would otherwise never have entered the system.

The retrospective evidence in the establishment’s own journals supports watching rather than treating asymptomatic patients with incidental findings. Eighty-nine and a half percent of untreated patients with incidentally discovered Crohn’s had no flare over four and a half years of follow-up.⁴ The treatment continues to be administered because the financial and ideological structure of the field requires it. A gastroenterologist who advises monitoring rather than initiating biologic therapy faces second-guessing from peers, professional society guidelines that endorse aggressive intervention, and the legal exposure of a strategy that does not match the published treatment algorithms. The drug companies that produce the biologics fund the studies, the conferences, the continuing medical education, and the professional society activities that establish what counts as standard of care. The asymptomatic patient is the natural endpoint of a system designed to maximise the number of people on lifelong injected pharmaceuticals.

The cost to the patient extends beyond the financial. Adalimumab and infliximab are themselves administered by injection. Each dose adds to the lymphatic burden the body is already trying to clear. The biologics suppress the clearance machinery, leaving the metal in place while preventing the body from doing the work that would otherwise reduce the load. The asymptomatic finding becomes the symptomatic disease, not because the underlying process was inevitably going to progress, but because the treatment of the finding ensures the progression. The patient is told this is the natural history of Crohn’s disease. It is, instead, the natural history of being treated for Crohn’s disease.

The Reversal Evidence

If Crohn’s disease were a genetic, autoimmune, or otherwise innate condition, removing the body’s exposures would not affect its course. The exposures would have done their work in utero or in early development; the disease would unfold from internal causes regardless of subsequent environment. This is not what the evidence shows.

The strongest evidence in all of paediatric Crohn’s disease management is the exclusive enteral nutrition data. Borrelli and colleagues published an open-label randomised controlled trial in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 2006 in which thirty-seven children with active Crohn’s disease were randomised to either polymeric formula taken exclusively for ten weeks, or oral corticosteroids.³⁸ Clinical remission rates were 79% on enteral nutrition and 67% on steroids, statistically equivalent. Mucosal healing — the actual reduction of tissue inflammation visible on follow-up endoscopy — was 74% on enteral nutrition versus 33% on steroids. The 2019 meta-analysis of eighteen studies confirmed the finding: enteral nutrition produces dramatically better tissue-level healing than corticosteroids.³⁹

The European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition makes exclusive enteral nutrition first-line therapy for paediatric Crohn’s disease.⁴⁰ In the United States, surveys indicate that approximately 4% of paediatric gastroenterologists regularly use it.⁴¹ The official explanation is that the formula is unpalatable and compliance is poor. The actual reason is that the formula is not patentable, the protocol takes weeks of nursing oversight, and the financial return on a six-week course of liquid nutrition is negligible compared to a lifetime of infliximab.

Why does the formula work? The terrain framework gives a direct answer. For six weeks, the patient consumes only the formula. Solid food is excluded. Whatever dietary aluminium the patient was previously consuming — from baking powder, processed cheese, tea, anti-caking agents in pre-packaged foods, aluminium-cookware leaching, and water with residual aluminium from municipal flocculation — stops arriving. The lymphatic system, no longer overwhelmed by daily incoming load, has bandwidth to clear what has accumulated. The granulomatous response can complete its work and the tissue can heal. The healing is real because the cause has been temporarily removed.

The intervention does not address ongoing injection-route exposure. Patients who have completed exclusive enteral nutrition successfully and continue to receive aluminium-adjuvanted injections will, in time, accumulate enough additional metal to require another intervention. The reversal demonstrates that the body remains capable of healing when the exposure is reduced. It does not demonstrate that the disease is cured in any final sense, because the principal exposure route — injection — was not addressed.

The historical clinical literature contains comparable case material. Ulric Williams, a New Zealand physician who practised in the early-to-mid twentieth century, documented the reversal of conditions matching the Crohn’s clinical picture through the removal of refined and processed foods.⁴² His case of a nineteen-year-old woman, treated for ten months by orthodox medicine for what was then called colitis, declared hopeless by two physicians and a specialist, and then restored to full health on six months of unrefined whole foods, is one example among many in his clinical writings. The mechanism Williams described — that processed and refined foods deplete the body’s nutritional reserves and add toxic burden, and that removing these inputs allows the body to repair itself — is the same mechanism the modern enteral nutrition data confirms in randomised trial form. The body heals when the exposure stops.

The Story for a Six-Year-Old

Your body is very smart. When something gets inside it that should not be there — like dust, or paint chips, or tiny bits of metal — your body has little workers whose job is to grab the bad thing, wrap it up, and carry it away to a place where it can be cleaned up. Your body does this all the time. You do not even notice.

In your tummy, there are special collecting spots where the workers bring things they have grabbed. If they bring a little bit of metal, the spot can clean it up. No problem.

But what if the metal keeps coming, and coming, and coming? More than the workers can clean up? Then the metal piles up at the collecting spot. The workers build a little wall around it to keep it from spreading. They keep trying to clean it up. The spot gets sore from all the work.

Now imagine a doctor looks at the sore spot and says, “Oh no, your tummy is broken. We have to give you a strong medicine to make the soreness stop.” The medicine does make the soreness stop for a while. But the metal is still coming. So the spot gets sore again. So they give more medicine. And more. And the medicine has its own problems.

Nobody ever asks where the metal is coming from.

That is the whole story. The tummy is not broken. The workers are doing their job. The soreness is the job being done. If the metal stopped arriving, the workers would finish, and the tummy would be fine.

The metal is coming from shots, and from some foods, and from medicines. Grown-ups have known this for a long time. They wrote it in their big science books. But they have not told the people with the sore tummies, because the medicine costs a lot of money, and somebody is selling it.

That is what Crohn’s disease is.

The Closing Argument

Crohn’s disease did not exist as a clinical entity before 1932. Its emergence coincides with the introduction of aluminium adjuvants into routine vaccination. Its rise tracks the expansion of the schedule, the spread of aluminium-containing food additives, and the cumulative pharmaceutical burden of modern industrial life. It appears in migrating populations within a generation of acquiring the host country’s exposure profile. It is rare to absent in populations that do not receive the schedule. The mechanism is documented in the establishment’s own peer-reviewed literature: aluminium accumulates in the lymphoid tissue of the terminal ileum, where the disease begins. Animal models reproduce the human pathology. The recurrence pattern at the surgical anastomosis confirms that the exposure continues to arrive after the diseased tissue is removed. The intervention that produces tissue healing — exclusive enteral nutrition — works by reducing the incoming load and allowing the body to clear what has accumulated.

The diagnosis of Crohn’s disease is the labelling of the body’s response to a chronic poisoning with the body’s response treated as the disease. The body in the man at the colonoscopy was doing what bodies do when they accumulate something they cannot clear. The granulomas were the wall-off. The inflammatory changes were the demolition machinery. The pathologist reported what was found. The gastroenterologist named it. The drug company supplied the answer.

The establishment has known about the aluminium evidence for over twenty years. Mount Sinai’s own pathologists demonstrated the mechanism in horses in 2004. The mouse work in Mucosal Immunologydemonstrated the causal pathway in 2014. The peer-reviewed literature is in place. None of this evidence has entered the patient counselling that informs a man with no symptoms that he has an incurable disease and must inject himself with a forty-thousand-dollar drug for the rest of his life. The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation continues to state that the cause is unknown.⁴³ It is not unknown. It is unacknowledged.

The case is closed unless someone can produce the unvaccinated population with population-level Crohn’s incidence. Nobody has. The disease arrives where the injections arrive, and not before, and not elsewhere. The man at the colonoscopy was not sick. The body was working. The pathology report was the body’s record of its work. What followed — the diagnosis, the lifelong drug, the manufactured chronicity — was administered to the body that was successfully managing what had been done to it. The cure for the man at the colonoscopy was already underway when the colonoscopy interrupted it.

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