I made a huge oversight and forgot to specifically search for DMSO results from Iran while doing the foreign component of the final DMSO search once the US declared war on Iran. This was a massive oversight because Iran cut the nation's internet, and there are going to be about 150 DMSO studies which be impossible to access or view until it's restored and the servers it were on come back (somewhat similar to how Ukraine was one of the most common places doing DMSO research, but it all stopped once the war started).
I am working on the English only results of the final search (non-english, besides from Iran, are done) and am now at 2016, so hopefully by the end of the week 2025 will be finished.
I also have a 17,724 page document of Chinese Studies which needs to be run through AI and pared down (China's database is terrible, so the only functional way to work with it was to run each page of results for "dmso" through AI to flag possibly relevant studies, then copy and paste the sometimes lengthy summaries given for each of them into a word document, then subsequently sort that document). This looks like a lot, but I think it will be much faster to go through than a lot of other things I've had to do and people are helping me on it.
I feel I may have still skipped some foreign spellings of DMSO, and I may need to re-go through ~30,000 results at some point in the future, but outside of that, I think the hardest part of the project is done and most of the relevant literature on DMSO has now been compiled in one place.
Beyond that it is still a bit surreal the current war with Iran is taking place, and while there were a lot of signs this was going to happen (e.g., Trump mobilizing a war fleet to go there) I fully admit I never imagined this would happen (which goes to show I live in a bubble too). That said, on February 17th, in a reply to Trump's daughter celebrating the Chinese New Year, one commenter noted that years of the Fire Horse correlate with wars, violent revolutions, and major natural disasters, and I was continually thinking about that until the war started.
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If you trust in the medical boards and so called "medical experts", that's your first and biggest mistake. You've got a lot of learnin' to do, grasshopper.
Outlawed. you have missed excellent information and dialog. You should just shut up and what you don't like to read respond to in a responsible, adult, respectful manner or just plain get lost!!!
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I think we all know who the actual retard is! Copying & pasting your nonsensical tripe ad nauseum is certainly not going to change my opinion at all.
I work FIFO in the outback, but keep a medical kit handy. In that is a bottle of 49% DMSO.
Funny how what you claim is a poison actually worked on spider venom for me! I got a wolf spider bite on my left thigh at the crib hut. That night back at camp, after my shower I put DMSO on it. Next morning all the pustules were gone, no headache or fever!
Spider bit completely gone in less than 3 days.
I am definitely no retard, not stupid & quite better educated than you are. My comment to you: grow the eff up & please disappear. Your ignorance is appalling.
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Are you able to think of anything different than above? Obviously copy/paste something given by your bosses which you don't understand. Copy/paste is easy, understanding is hard.
medical authorities warn that DMSO is not for general human consumption or self-treatment for several critical reasons:
Industrial vs. Medical Grade: The vast majority of DMSO sold in hardware or health food stores is industrial-grade, intended as a solvent or degreaser. These products often contain unknown impurities or toxic contaminants—such as pesticides—from the manufacturing equipment.
Dangerous Absorption: DMSO is a powerful "carrier" that rapidly penetrates human skin. If industrial-grade DMSO or skin that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned comes into contact with it, the DMSO will pull those toxins, bacteria, or chemicals directly into your bloodstream.
Organ Toxicity: Chronic use or high doses have been linked to potential damage to the liver and kidneys. Studies in laboratory animals also showed that it can cause abnormal changes in the lenses of the eyes, which led the FDA to restrict its use in the 1960s.
Red Blood Cell Damage: If injected or used inappropriately, DMSO can cause hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells), leading to severe blood disorders.
Interaction with Meds: Because it increases skin permeability, it can cause your body to absorb dangerously high levels of other medications you may be using, such as blood thinners or steroids.
Thanks so much for all your hard work! I’m sure you know about AlterAI which is so much more honest than ChatGPT about health info. Not sure how you use AI to retrieve info but thought I’d mention.
Stop listininig to this fucking QUACK and Fucking SCAMMER!
DMSO is a fucking POISON!
YOU all idiots are RETARDS!
medical authorities warn that DMSO is not for general human consumption or self-treatment for several critical reasons:
Industrial vs. Medical Grade: The vast majority of DMSO sold in hardware or health food stores is industrial-grade, intended as a solvent or degreaser. These products often contain unknown impurities or toxic contaminants—such as pesticides—from the manufacturing equipment.
Dangerous Absorption: DMSO is a powerful "carrier" that rapidly penetrates human skin. If industrial-grade DMSO or skin that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned comes into contact with it, the DMSO will pull those toxins, bacteria, or chemicals directly into your bloodstream.
Organ Toxicity: Chronic use or high doses have been linked to potential damage to the liver and kidneys. Studies in laboratory animals also showed that it can cause abnormal changes in the lenses of the eyes, which led the FDA to restrict its use in the 1960s.
Red Blood Cell Damage: If injected or used inappropriately, DMSO can cause hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells), leading to severe blood disorders.
Interaction with Meds: Because it increases skin permeability, it can cause your body to absorb dangerously high levels of other medications you may be using, such as blood thinners or steroids.
The author of the Substack "A Midwestern Doctor," which writes under the title The Forgotten Side of Medicine, remains anonymous and does not publicly disclose their real name, specific medical credentials, or licensing information.
The following points address the concerns regarding the author's qualifications and the legitimacy of their claims:
Anonymity: The author uses the pseudonym "A Midwestern Doctor" to share what they describe as "dissenting" medical views. This lack of transparency makes it impossible for readers or medical boards to verify their education, residency training, or current board certifications.
Contradictory Identity Claims: While some external sources or social media posts may suggest names like "Anna White" or "Gavin 't Lam," these are not officially confirmed by the Substack itself, and no verifiable medical license exists under the specific brand name "A Midwestern Doctor".
Scientific Criticism: Medical experts and science communication platforms, such as Vaxopedia, have flagged the author's content for misconstruing medical history and spreading misinformation about established health practices, including vaccinations and chronic disease management.
Comparison to Disciplined Doctors: Other physicians who have used similar platforms to promote non-standard treatments have faced real-world consequences. For example, the American Board of Internal Medicine recently revoked the certifications of doctors Pierre Kory and Paul Marik for promoting ineffective COVID-19 treatments.
Monetization of Misinformation: Reports from the Center for Countering Digital Hate highlight that anonymous or controversial health newsletters on Substack generate millions of dollars annually by targeting audiences skeptical of mainstream medicine.
Are you not anon? Your words are wasted on me about Midwesterndoc. As far as I trust anyone in the med profession, I trust her above nearly everyone else. She can remain anon. Doubtful you can chase away anyone who reads her stack from her. I don't wish you luck, Your efforts are pitiable.
My husband's blood pressure had gone way too high for a period of time, prompting a vast overreaction from a very highly regarded cardiologist (insert eye roll) who immediately wanted him on some very sketchy drugs. My gut was that it was his migraine meds causing it, which she said was not possible. Turns out, it was indeed possible. We got him on a CGM and went on a simple whole food low /no sugar eating plan, no caffeine/alcohol, exercise, sunlight, cold plunge, sauna, you name it. He lost 30 lbs and got rid of literally all of his health problems over 8 months (he still has high cholesterol but has no blockages so we don't really worry about that anymore). After 25 years of migraines, hasn't had one in two years now. He also rehabbed his frozen shoulders to streamline position with a stretching program on Youtube. The body desperately wants to heal itself.
You mention that the blood pressures people report to you vary widely. Absolutely they do. But this actually points to a gap I notice in the anti-medication narrative: What do we do with the person whose blood pressure genuinely is 180/110, who has a family history of stroke, and whose lifestyle changes alone haven’t moved it?
The current system over-treats some people. Agreed. But does the critique account for the person who legitimately benefits from medication? Or does focusing on the over-treatment problem risk swinging too far the other way?
I think the thought is to treat the individual with an individualized plan (NOT the standard of care) and get to the root cause of the problem WHY is this happening, not HOW can we get it to stop. It's like putting a piece of duct tape over the service engine light so you don't have to see that the engine needs servicing. If we don’t see it, it doesn't exist???
My hubby and I were both put on BP meds years ago. Apparently, I had three office visits where mine was slightly elevated, and I didn't even know. After the 3rd visit, I got home, and the doctor's office called to say that they forgot to tell me I need to go on BP meds. Like a dummy, I just followed orders. After a few years and research on our end, my hubby and I got off of meds. We changed our diet ~ added more cayenne and garlic daily, and we replaced our table salt with Celtic. No thanks to the doctors. In fact, they both acted a bit surprised when we told them. (Different doctors at different facilities…same reaction.)
The point is, medication may be useful in emergency situations, but rarely should they be used long-term. Otherwise you end up on more medications because of all the damage the first one has done after years of use. (Oh, our poor livers!) However, it is not profitable for the healthcare system to first try natural ways of fixing the problem, such as diet and lifestyle. If after trying and natural remedies don't work, then maybe a medication is needed. But again, WHY IS THERE A PROBLEM TO BEGIN WITH?
As usual, it's profits over people. Don't fix/cure…just mask the symptoms to get the desired results.
BTW, the word “doctor” means TO TEACH in Latin. Doctors no longer TEACH their patients how to be healthy. They are basically the middlemen for the drug cartel.
I would love to know the YouTube video you used for frozen shoulder I’ve been doing much better but anything additional would help to heal my frozen shoulder completely
Im sorry, he doesn't remember exactly what it was, and as it turns out it was not Youtube, it was a social media account with instructive reels, either Tiktok or Instagram. There are a zillion of them. If you put "shoulder mobility" into either platform's search bar I'm sure you'll see a whole lot of helpful info. The key is just to start moving, as much as you can without pain, take it slow and do it every day. Good luck!!
As a current patient being treated for hypertension, this article is an eyeopener. Eleven years ago, at 60 YO, I was diagnosed with high BP and prescribed HZT. I only took it for a couple of weeks with no follow up GP visit, deciding that I was too young for frequent doctor visits to be my new job as I had seen so many in my age group doing. Life went on, Covid happened, and my skepticism of the HC industry only reinforcing my decision to stay away from doctors, even though my Doc is an old school GP that actually still does home visits. At 69 YO, I started losing my cognitive ability and feared Alzheimers and dementia were creeping up on me so scheduled a doc visit. My initial BP was 220/100 ! After a few minutes, it dropped back to 160/85, being attributed to white coat syndrome.
At one point after that I was on 5 different BP drugs when I read a Mercola article on sleep apnea and suggested to my doc that I should be tested whereupon the results showed that within a five hour span, ( the finger monitor fell off) I had stopped breathing 250 times with my blood sat down in the low 80s. Testing showed that due to that low oxy sat I had developed secondary polycythemia. Discovering a cause, I requested a gradual reduction in the drugs I was on until now, I'm down to two with decreasing BP and the excess red blood cell problem having been resolved with judicious use of a CPAP machine.
That's most of my story, and hopefully, anyone reading it will recognize the seriousness of sleep apnea and take the appropriate steps.
Stop listininig to this fucking QUACK and Fucking SCAMMER!
DMSO is a fucking POISON!
YOU all idiots are RETARDS!
medical authorities warn that DMSO is not for general human consumption or self-treatment for several critical reasons:
Industrial vs. Medical Grade: The vast majority of DMSO sold in hardware or health food stores is industrial-grade, intended as a solvent or degreaser. These products often contain unknown impurities or toxic contaminants—such as pesticides—from the manufacturing equipment.
Dangerous Absorption: DMSO is a powerful "carrier" that rapidly penetrates human skin. If industrial-grade DMSO or skin that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned comes into contact with it, the DMSO will pull those toxins, bacteria, or chemicals directly into your bloodstream.
Organ Toxicity: Chronic use or high doses have been linked to potential damage to the liver and kidneys. Studies in laboratory animals also showed that it can cause abnormal changes in the lenses of the eyes, which led the FDA to restrict its use in the 1960s.
Red Blood Cell Damage: If injected or used inappropriately, DMSO can cause hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells), leading to severe blood disorders.
Interaction with Meds: Because it increases skin permeability, it can cause your body to absorb dangerously high levels of other medications you may be using, such as blood thinners or steroids.
My brother is dealing with this. However his sleep apnea is part obstructive and part central. The O2 does not help much. He is working to get the implant for the central sleep apnea. Until then they are maintaining him with blood draws.
Being honest with medical history also encourages BP hallucinations. I stopped taking BP meds 5 years ago, but at my last teeth cleaning, the dental hygienist measured BP after asking whether I still took BP meds.
She nudged me that 140 was too high, and I told her in a polite way to STFU. She didn't get the hint, though, and later cajoled me with a rehearsed speech after I elected to not get a flouride treatment, lol.
Yeah, at my last couple of dental cleaning visits I got the fluoride lecture also. I asked, "Can you name one other product which we are advised to scrub inside our mouth (a permeable mucous membrane) two or three times a day, but which is so poisonous that the toothpaste tube says to call poison control if you swallow more than a pea?" The hygienist answered, "No, but you are supposed to spit it out!"
At age 90 my mother had medications for heart failure, breast cancer and osteoarthritis. She decided to stop all of them except paracetamol for pain. She died drug free age 97!
I've been realizing the problem of chronically high cortisol. This makes blood vessels stiff and thins out the smooth muscle that makes blood vessels work. Smooth muscle is vital for proper blood pressure.
Anyone with belly fat has high cortisol. It isn't that hard to fix.
Since I've been addressing this with a cortisol reset, blood pressure has been falling, not just for me but for my students.
I expect to have fully normal blood pressure within a few months.
structured meals that are satisfying, starting very close together. That lowers cortisol, then spacing them apart in greater intervals. Nothing works like this does.
Thanks. I had to quit keto because it had become basically a starvation diet. On keto, cortisol the stress hormone is used to create glucose from the liver. Not very good way to generate energy. There is a clue to high cortisol!! Just eat glucose containing food. ! Fat is satiating. Fat does not have enough real nutrients. I started balanced meals with plenty of good carbs, including fresh fruit. No skipping meals and it took time to even be hungry enough to eat. My metabolism was soooo broken. It’s been 3 years in august healing from this. But much better now and eating properly. More food did lower cortisol. I like your process. I had to force myself to eat but now I’m properly hungry and NO cravings. I did gain some weight but it stopped with good real energy production. I’ve always been a more anxious gal so I still have work to do. working on sleep. I have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis but that’s under control and food helps.
My father had a heart attack back in 2000. His doctor, at the time, put him on various things, including a statin, sans Vitamin D, and an angiotensin receptor inhibitor or blocker - I forget which. In recent years he'd be standing, talking, and just drop in his tracks. I took a look at his meds, knew his BP was low, and discovered the ARB/ARI. I had my sister, a nurse of 30years experience, go with my father to have his meds reviewed by his GP. The bastard had never done any sort of audit/review. As a consequence, my Father was taken off the ARB/ARI but the GP did not get him off the statin. I ensured that he was taking Vitamin D, though.
So yeah, a prime example of the over medication to which you referred.
Friend of mine went through a period where she had very high BP - regularly 180 systolic. At one-point she was on six different BP meds and she was only in her early 30s at the time. She was overweight so there was a bit of a dismissive attitude - if she really wanted to do something about it, she could. It turned out she had Conn's Syndrome. Surgery removed the tumor and voila, BP down. It took a couple of years though. Too few are curious about the underlying cause.
To add my little bit of knowledge to the understanding of the heart, about 30 years ago Goethean Scientists in Switzerland tried to argue that there was a separate biological force driving the blood. The reasoning was that in all physical pumps - both centrifugal and positive displacement (like pistons) - the peak pressure precedes the peak flow. But in the heart peak flow comes first.
I now believe they did not look closely enough. Suppose a child is playing by a stream 1 inch deep. The child dams the stream with bricks 4 inches high. Some water spills through the gaps and around the edges but the water builds up and eventually overflows the bricks. The depth of water is its pressure. It was 1 inch water gauge and now it is 4 inches water gauge.
Pressure is created by *impeding* a flow. A centrifugal pump accelerates the inlet water and throws it at the casing. The casing impedes the flow and that is where the pressure builds rapidly. By analogy the heart is _not a pump but the impeller of the pump. The aorta and pulmonary artery generate pressure by impeding the flow. Therefore the heart contains no significant pressure and that is why the apex of the heart (pointy bit at the bottom) is paper thin. It does not need to resist a zero pressure, only stop the blood spilling out.
If you watch the Helical Heart video on youtube you see that the heart is one continuous, helical band of muscle. When it beats it wrings like a dish cloth in a plastic bag, driving the flow of blood from the apex upward toward the arteries.
Actually it was over 100 years ago that Rudolf Steiner taught that the heart is not a pump. Dr Thomas Cowan's "Human Heart, Cosmic Heart" goes into detail on this. Another doctor has been researching this more recently as well, Dr. Branko Furst's book is also an exploration into this, "The Heart and Circulation." My own layperson's question has always been, if the heart is a pump, then how does the developing fetus have circulation before the heart develops?
Thank you for that. I have a vague recollection that RS also mentioned all animals live for the same number of heart beats. This number was known to the Ancient Greeks as it also had astronomical significance. But I forget.
Over the years I too have read some of the same from different sources.
From most of the sources, their main conclusions were that the heart regulates blood flow, it doesn’t produce it. If the heart was actually a pump it would not be strong enough to pump the blood completely through the legs and arms.
I have an irregular heart beat, (diagnosed many years ago) and a low heart rate. Now at 71 years of age my resting heart rate is in the high 40’s to low 50’s. When I was younger it was lower than that. My BP is usually 130-140 over 80-90, I’m told borderline high. Many years ago my doctor asked me to wear a heart monitor for 24 hours and after I did that he said my BP is ok and not to worry. He has now passed away and now docs have told me it is too high. I refuse to take blood pressure meds.
I have noticed that when I have been exercising my heart rate is higher (obviously) and BP is lower but doctors tell me there is no relationship between heart rate and blood pressure. My personal opinion is that they are wrong. Btw I don’t take medication for anything with the exception of Advil for headaches and Aleve for occasional back pain and I have very little faith in the medical field. Oh and I also refused the experimental injection for COVID.
I was interested in this, so I asked Grok, which agrees with you: “In summary, while not the same metric, resting heart rate and blood pressure show positive correlations in many contexts, with higher HR frequently associated with higher BP and increased long-term risk. Individual patterns vary, so tracking both under medical guidance provides fuller insight into cardiovascular health.”
My mother was told she had high blood pressure at the age of 84 and put on medication. Her blood pressure remained the same "high" numbers for several years, so the doctor put her on a second medication - one in the morning and one in the evening. Her BP remained the same "high" number (she was told to take her BP using an at-home BP monitor and it was always the same). So finally, at age 90 she was put on a third BP medication. Her BP remained the same "high" number but she dutifully took 3 BP medications daily -- one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one in the evening -- even though it seemed to make no difference. Those 3 were the ONLY medications she was on during her lifetime -- she took about a dozen vitamins / minerals daily and was healthy otherwise and didn't see a doctor very often. She died the day after her 97th birthday.
Doctors seem to think they can predict the demise of persons who are not on medication (like my mother's best friend who died of statin-induced myopathy after being on Statins for a number of years) and that pharmaceuticals will keep everyone alive forever.
News Alert! The leading cause of death is BIRTH!
Of course Big pHarma is trying to cure that (birth) as well!!
This is a great article and thank you for writing it. Neither in this article nor in your older blood pressure one have you mentioned ARBs, such as Losartan. As I take Losartan I would be grateful if you could comment on their effects, pros and cons, as you have done for ACE inhibitors.
Thanks for asking this question. I too take 50 mg Losartan daily. Not diabetic or overweight, age 79. I was on benazepril (ACE) for 18 years (!) at 20 mg. My white cell count was showing up too low so my PCP wanted me to go to a hematologist. I didn't, but found on the internet (yes, where your PCP will tell you that you can't believe everything you read there-ha!) at medical sites that ACE inhibitors can cause low white cell counts. When I shared the info with my PCP she switched me to Losartan. After several months blood count now okay. Now I just have peripheral neuropathy which has been slowly developing over the last 5 years. Cause? Who knows. In the last 20 years never got any vaccines. Never a flu shot. Great comments and questions from everyone! We're just trying to help ourselves and our loved ones stay healthy. Blessings to you all.
Check out the Root Cause Protocol. Mineral dysregulation causes our symptoms. We’re taught to fear copper toxicity but most have inadequate levels of unbound copper. Peripheral neuropathy can be a symptom of copper dysregulation.
I was going to ask the same thing, as I am on Valsartan. I have read that essentially they do the same thing, by blocking a particular hormone, but the difference between ACE and ARB is where/how that hormone is blocked. I would really like to hear the Midwestern Doctor’s thoughts on ARB’s.
Ditto that re ARBs. I've seen AMD post variations on this article several times and I always hope it's been updated to include ARBs but no luck so far. I've been on anti-hypertensives since age 40 (now 75). Had adverse side effects from ACE inhibitors and Beta blockers but the ARB (Losartan) has been free of side effects. I tried going off of it but my pressures climbed slowly but inexorably up to the 150+/100+ range at which point I chickened out and started them again. Pressures now in the "normal" range most of the time but occasionally I get hit with a bottoming out for no apparent reason, down to 70ish/40ish - bad enough that if I don't lie down I'll faint. Otherwise healthy, not obese or diabetic. No other chronic conditions, just hypertension. Would appreciate more info on ARBs.
Why would you not mention and I know that you know this because of your post about sunlight. UVA Light is the solution along with NIR light and UVB. NOW REMEMBER uva and uvb need skin contact as UVA light stimulates nitric oxide production which is a vasodilator and lower BP. why no mention of this is mind boggling?? Of course ophthalmologist and dermatologist demonize sunlight so everyone e stays inside and scrolls like zombies and get atropic bone white skin. Go outside and ground to the earth and never miss another sunrise. Build a solar callus to the sun so you can handle more UVB AND Your mitochondrial chronic disease will magically disappear and you raise your the hormone D In your body.
I experience blood pressure spikes. My doctor gave me a low dose (5mg) prescription which I cut in half and only take as needed. I received a call from the pharmacist telling me my blood pressure prescription was due to be renewed. I told her I only took it as needed and did not need a refill. She admonished me for not taking the medicine every day as prescribed. I explained to her that what I put into my body was my decision, not hers, and that they have become the largest drug pushers the world has ever known, so don't ever call me again. That ended that.
Lisinopril. My bp would spike at times around 160-170. I have a machine to check it, but I could tell when it was spiking because I would get a pressure type headache, especially around my eyes. If my bp was around 150-160, I would cut a 5mg in half, so I was only taking 2 1/2 mg. If it went past 160, I would take a full 5 mg. It wasn't very often that I would have to take it for many days in a row because after a day or so of meds, it would stabilize near normal. So I only take it when my bp spikes. The side effect I experienced when taking it for more than a day was coughing. I checked on the side effects and lo and behold, coughing was one of them. Hope this helps you.
do you take 2.5 mg lisinopril everyday, then take the full 5mg dose for a couple days if bp spikes up; then go back to 2.mg everyday? *OR*
do you take the 2.5mg every few days? I am trying to understand, cuz i got prescribed combo drug: ca channel blocker5 mg and ACE inhibitor40mg (not lisinopril tho. i shouldve had doc prescribe sep drugs instead of combo). Just trying to figure out what you are doing to SAVE yourself. Even tho our meds aren't exactly the same our vision (to reduce side effects) is the same. I AM SO SICK of these docs who don't listen, just give meds, & explain nothing! And do not educate themselves. thank you 😊
Hi there. No, I do not take them every day. That's what the pharmacist was admonishing me about. I only take them if my bp is spiking, which isn't every day. I only take 2.5mg if my bp spikes at around 150-160. If it's over 160, I'll take a full 5mg. Otherwise, no drugs for me.
Stop listininig to this fucking QUACK and Fucking SCAMMER!
DMSO is a fucking POISON!
YOU all idiots are RETARDS!
medical authorities warn that DMSO is not for general human consumption or self-treatment for several critical reasons:
Industrial vs. Medical Grade: The vast majority of DMSO sold in hardware or health food stores is industrial-grade, intended as a solvent or degreaser. These products often contain unknown impurities or toxic contaminants—such as pesticides—from the manufacturing equipment.
Dangerous Absorption: DMSO is a powerful "carrier" that rapidly penetrates human skin. If industrial-grade DMSO or skin that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned comes into contact with it, the DMSO will pull those toxins, bacteria, or chemicals directly into your bloodstream.
Organ Toxicity: Chronic use or high doses have been linked to potential damage to the liver and kidneys. Studies in laboratory animals also showed that it can cause abnormal changes in the lenses of the eyes, which led the FDA to restrict its use in the 1960s.
Red Blood Cell Damage: If injected or used inappropriately, DMSO can cause hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells), leading to severe blood disorders.
Interaction with Meds: Because it increases skin permeability, it can cause your body to absorb dangerously high levels of other medications you may be using, such as blood thinners or steroids.
everything on internet is suspect and leans in favor of pharma; webmd is suspect. pls stop posting over and over. We're thinking you have dmso derangement syndrome.pls stop.
DEADLY MEDICINES AND ORGANISED CRIME: HOW BIG PHARMA HAS CORRUPTED HEALTHCARE
"The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. Blatant lies that—in all the cases I have studied—have continued after the statements were proven wrong."
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Current update on the DMSO project:
I made a huge oversight and forgot to specifically search for DMSO results from Iran while doing the foreign component of the final DMSO search once the US declared war on Iran. This was a massive oversight because Iran cut the nation's internet, and there are going to be about 150 DMSO studies which be impossible to access or view until it's restored and the servers it were on come back (somewhat similar to how Ukraine was one of the most common places doing DMSO research, but it all stopped once the war started).
I am working on the English only results of the final search (non-english, besides from Iran, are done) and am now at 2016, so hopefully by the end of the week 2025 will be finished.
I also have a 17,724 page document of Chinese Studies which needs to be run through AI and pared down (China's database is terrible, so the only functional way to work with it was to run each page of results for "dmso" through AI to flag possibly relevant studies, then copy and paste the sometimes lengthy summaries given for each of them into a word document, then subsequently sort that document). This looks like a lot, but I think it will be much faster to go through than a lot of other things I've had to do and people are helping me on it.
I feel I may have still skipped some foreign spellings of DMSO, and I may need to re-go through ~30,000 results at some point in the future, but outside of that, I think the hardest part of the project is done and most of the relevant literature on DMSO has now been compiled in one place.
Beyond that it is still a bit surreal the current war with Iran is taking place, and while there were a lot of signs this was going to happen (e.g., Trump mobilizing a war fleet to go there) I fully admit I never imagined this would happen (which goes to show I live in a bubble too). That said, on February 17th, in a reply to Trump's daughter celebrating the Chinese New Year, one commenter noted that years of the Fire Horse correlate with wars, violent revolutions, and major natural disasters, and I was continually thinking about that until the war started.
(That post can be found here https://x.com/MidwesternDoc/status/2027663113605030267 )
Remember that God is the orchestrator of it all…..pieces seem to be falling into place….Revelation.
Absolutely!
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If you trust in the medical boards and so called "medical experts", that's your first and biggest mistake. You've got a lot of learnin' to do, grasshopper.
For some reason I believe that you are getting paid by big Pharma to write that comment.
Outlawed. you have missed excellent information and dialog. You should just shut up and what you don't like to read respond to in a responsible, adult, respectful manner or just plain get lost!!!
All of the above is why I trust A Midwestern Doctor.
So you want this valuable source of info to be fired from his job and cancelled???
Would you consider publishing a booklet version of your DMSO research that could be purchased by our patients?
DMSO is a fucking Poison!
You are a fucking RETARD!
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Big Pharma must be paying you very well to keep spewing your poison.
Outlawed has been clearly "Invaded by the Body Snatchers".
Try it and you might learn something rather than just yapping.
I think we all know who the actual retard is! Copying & pasting your nonsensical tripe ad nauseum is certainly not going to change my opinion at all.
I work FIFO in the outback, but keep a medical kit handy. In that is a bottle of 49% DMSO.
Funny how what you claim is a poison actually worked on spider venom for me! I got a wolf spider bite on my left thigh at the crib hut. That night back at camp, after my shower I put DMSO on it. Next morning all the pustules were gone, no headache or fever!
Spider bit completely gone in less than 3 days.
I am definitely no retard, not stupid & quite better educated than you are. My comment to you: grow the eff up & please disappear. Your ignorance is appalling.
I just applied DMSO gel to the skin over the skull near the left ear of an Iranian friend with left Bell's Palsy and pain yesterday.
He says now that it "burned for a little while, then the pain subsided a lot".
;-)
You are RETARD!
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So you are getting rich from big pharma for all these comments.
You Protest Too Much.
You are a real piece of sh..t. What are your esteemed qualifications to make so much noise.!
His qualifications, most likely is that he is getting paid by big pharma to spew his lies.
The hazards of war.
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Are you able to think of anything different than above? Obviously copy/paste something given by your bosses which you don't understand. Copy/paste is easy, understanding is hard.
Would you consider writing a bit about the similarities, differences, helpfulness/unhelpfulness etc of MSM (methylsulfonylmethane) v DMSO?
medical authorities warn that DMSO is not for general human consumption or self-treatment for several critical reasons:
Industrial vs. Medical Grade: The vast majority of DMSO sold in hardware or health food stores is industrial-grade, intended as a solvent or degreaser. These products often contain unknown impurities or toxic contaminants—such as pesticides—from the manufacturing equipment.
Dangerous Absorption: DMSO is a powerful "carrier" that rapidly penetrates human skin. If industrial-grade DMSO or skin that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned comes into contact with it, the DMSO will pull those toxins, bacteria, or chemicals directly into your bloodstream.
Organ Toxicity: Chronic use or high doses have been linked to potential damage to the liver and kidneys. Studies in laboratory animals also showed that it can cause abnormal changes in the lenses of the eyes, which led the FDA to restrict its use in the 1960s.
Red Blood Cell Damage: If injected or used inappropriately, DMSO can cause hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells), leading to severe blood disorders.
Interaction with Meds: Because it increases skin permeability, it can cause your body to absorb dangerously high levels of other medications you may be using, such as blood thinners or steroids.
WebMD
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Thanks so much for all your hard work! I’m sure you know about AlterAI which is so much more honest than ChatGPT about health info. Not sure how you use AI to retrieve info but thought I’d mention.
Does DMSO help manage blood pressure by healing arteries?
Stop listininig to this fucking QUACK and Fucking SCAMMER!
DMSO is a fucking POISON!
YOU all idiots are RETARDS!
medical authorities warn that DMSO is not for general human consumption or self-treatment for several critical reasons:
Industrial vs. Medical Grade: The vast majority of DMSO sold in hardware or health food stores is industrial-grade, intended as a solvent or degreaser. These products often contain unknown impurities or toxic contaminants—such as pesticides—from the manufacturing equipment.
Dangerous Absorption: DMSO is a powerful "carrier" that rapidly penetrates human skin. If industrial-grade DMSO or skin that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned comes into contact with it, the DMSO will pull those toxins, bacteria, or chemicals directly into your bloodstream.
Organ Toxicity: Chronic use or high doses have been linked to potential damage to the liver and kidneys. Studies in laboratory animals also showed that it can cause abnormal changes in the lenses of the eyes, which led the FDA to restrict its use in the 1960s.
Red Blood Cell Damage: If injected or used inappropriately, DMSO can cause hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells), leading to severe blood disorders.
Interaction with Meds: Because it increases skin permeability, it can cause your body to absorb dangerously high levels of other medications you may be using, such as blood thinners or steroids.
WebMD
WebMD
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I'm sending you from Europe that YOU ARE A BIG IDIOT; you have a fish brain.
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Scientific Criticism: Medical experts and science communication platforms, such as Vaxopedia, have flagged the author's content for misconstruing medical history and spreading misinformation about established health practices, including vaccinations and chronic disease management.
Comparison to Disciplined Doctors: Other physicians who have used similar platforms to promote non-standard treatments have faced real-world consequences. For example, the American Board of Internal Medicine recently revoked the certifications of doctors Pierre Kory and Paul Marik for promoting ineffective COVID-19 treatments.
Monetization of Misinformation: Reports from the Center for Countering Digital Hate highlight that anonymous or controversial health newsletters on Substack generate millions of dollars annually by targeting audiences skeptical of mainstream medicine.
Are you not anon? Your words are wasted on me about Midwesterndoc. As far as I trust anyone in the med profession, I trust her above nearly everyone else. She can remain anon. Doubtful you can chase away anyone who reads her stack from her. I don't wish you luck, Your efforts are pitiable.
How does a subscriber from the UK get access to DMSO? I have a friend who has lung and heart disease and doctors have told him it is incurable.
DMSO is available to order online from Germany and Eastern Europe.
My husband's blood pressure had gone way too high for a period of time, prompting a vast overreaction from a very highly regarded cardiologist (insert eye roll) who immediately wanted him on some very sketchy drugs. My gut was that it was his migraine meds causing it, which she said was not possible. Turns out, it was indeed possible. We got him on a CGM and went on a simple whole food low /no sugar eating plan, no caffeine/alcohol, exercise, sunlight, cold plunge, sauna, you name it. He lost 30 lbs and got rid of literally all of his health problems over 8 months (he still has high cholesterol but has no blockages so we don't really worry about that anymore). After 25 years of migraines, hasn't had one in two years now. He also rehabbed his frozen shoulders to streamline position with a stretching program on Youtube. The body desperately wants to heal itself.
On Individual Variation
You mention that the blood pressures people report to you vary widely. Absolutely they do. But this actually points to a gap I notice in the anti-medication narrative: What do we do with the person whose blood pressure genuinely is 180/110, who has a family history of stroke, and whose lifestyle changes alone haven’t moved it?
The current system over-treats some people. Agreed. But does the critique account for the person who legitimately benefits from medication? Or does focusing on the over-treatment problem risk swinging too far the other way?
I think the thought is to treat the individual with an individualized plan (NOT the standard of care) and get to the root cause of the problem WHY is this happening, not HOW can we get it to stop. It's like putting a piece of duct tape over the service engine light so you don't have to see that the engine needs servicing. If we don’t see it, it doesn't exist???
My hubby and I were both put on BP meds years ago. Apparently, I had three office visits where mine was slightly elevated, and I didn't even know. After the 3rd visit, I got home, and the doctor's office called to say that they forgot to tell me I need to go on BP meds. Like a dummy, I just followed orders. After a few years and research on our end, my hubby and I got off of meds. We changed our diet ~ added more cayenne and garlic daily, and we replaced our table salt with Celtic. No thanks to the doctors. In fact, they both acted a bit surprised when we told them. (Different doctors at different facilities…same reaction.)
The point is, medication may be useful in emergency situations, but rarely should they be used long-term. Otherwise you end up on more medications because of all the damage the first one has done after years of use. (Oh, our poor livers!) However, it is not profitable for the healthcare system to first try natural ways of fixing the problem, such as diet and lifestyle. If after trying and natural remedies don't work, then maybe a medication is needed. But again, WHY IS THERE A PROBLEM TO BEGIN WITH?
As usual, it's profits over people. Don't fix/cure…just mask the symptoms to get the desired results.
BTW, the word “doctor” means TO TEACH in Latin. Doctors no longer TEACH their patients how to be healthy. They are basically the middlemen for the drug cartel.
I would love to know the YouTube video you used for frozen shoulder I’ve been doing much better but anything additional would help to heal my frozen shoulder completely
Im sorry, he doesn't remember exactly what it was, and as it turns out it was not Youtube, it was a social media account with instructive reels, either Tiktok or Instagram. There are a zillion of them. If you put "shoulder mobility" into either platform's search bar I'm sure you'll see a whole lot of helpful info. The key is just to start moving, as much as you can without pain, take it slow and do it every day. Good luck!!
As a current patient being treated for hypertension, this article is an eyeopener. Eleven years ago, at 60 YO, I was diagnosed with high BP and prescribed HZT. I only took it for a couple of weeks with no follow up GP visit, deciding that I was too young for frequent doctor visits to be my new job as I had seen so many in my age group doing. Life went on, Covid happened, and my skepticism of the HC industry only reinforcing my decision to stay away from doctors, even though my Doc is an old school GP that actually still does home visits. At 69 YO, I started losing my cognitive ability and feared Alzheimers and dementia were creeping up on me so scheduled a doc visit. My initial BP was 220/100 ! After a few minutes, it dropped back to 160/85, being attributed to white coat syndrome.
At one point after that I was on 5 different BP drugs when I read a Mercola article on sleep apnea and suggested to my doc that I should be tested whereupon the results showed that within a five hour span, ( the finger monitor fell off) I had stopped breathing 250 times with my blood sat down in the low 80s. Testing showed that due to that low oxy sat I had developed secondary polycythemia. Discovering a cause, I requested a gradual reduction in the drugs I was on until now, I'm down to two with decreasing BP and the excess red blood cell problem having been resolved with judicious use of a CPAP machine.
That's most of my story, and hopefully, anyone reading it will recognize the seriousness of sleep apnea and take the appropriate steps.
Stop listininig to this fucking QUACK and Fucking SCAMMER!
DMSO is a fucking POISON!
YOU all idiots are RETARDS!
medical authorities warn that DMSO is not for general human consumption or self-treatment for several critical reasons:
Industrial vs. Medical Grade: The vast majority of DMSO sold in hardware or health food stores is industrial-grade, intended as a solvent or degreaser. These products often contain unknown impurities or toxic contaminants—such as pesticides—from the manufacturing equipment.
Dangerous Absorption: DMSO is a powerful "carrier" that rapidly penetrates human skin. If industrial-grade DMSO or skin that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned comes into contact with it, the DMSO will pull those toxins, bacteria, or chemicals directly into your bloodstream.
Organ Toxicity: Chronic use or high doses have been linked to potential damage to the liver and kidneys. Studies in laboratory animals also showed that it can cause abnormal changes in the lenses of the eyes, which led the FDA to restrict its use in the 1960s.
Red Blood Cell Damage: If injected or used inappropriately, DMSO can cause hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells), leading to severe blood disorders.
Interaction with Meds: Because it increases skin permeability, it can cause your body to absorb dangerously high levels of other medications you may be using, such as blood thinners or steroids.
WebMD
WebMD
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No need to be a dick.
State your position and move on, Richard.
Citing web md is hilarious!
You have a fish brain.
My brother is dealing with this. However his sleep apnea is part obstructive and part central. The O2 does not help much. He is working to get the implant for the central sleep apnea. Until then they are maintaining him with blood draws.
Read Mercola's info on sleep apnea, it is treatable.
Being honest with medical history also encourages BP hallucinations. I stopped taking BP meds 5 years ago, but at my last teeth cleaning, the dental hygienist measured BP after asking whether I still took BP meds.
She nudged me that 140 was too high, and I told her in a polite way to STFU. She didn't get the hint, though, and later cajoled me with a rehearsed speech after I elected to not get a flouride treatment, lol.
As s retired dental hygienist, I can attest to effective brain washing that occurs in school. It’s just as biased as any other health specialty.
Thankfully, I “have seen light” !
Fluoride…..eeek!!
Yeah, at my last couple of dental cleaning visits I got the fluoride lecture also. I asked, "Can you name one other product which we are advised to scrub inside our mouth (a permeable mucous membrane) two or three times a day, but which is so poisonous that the toothpaste tube says to call poison control if you swallow more than a pea?" The hygienist answered, "No, but you are supposed to spit it out!"
Maybe she’s never heard of sublingual absorption?
... children swallow as much as they spit out.... Or more !
At age 90 my mother had medications for heart failure, breast cancer and osteoarthritis. She decided to stop all of them except paracetamol for pain. She died drug free age 97!
I've been realizing the problem of chronically high cortisol. This makes blood vessels stiff and thins out the smooth muscle that makes blood vessels work. Smooth muscle is vital for proper blood pressure.
Anyone with belly fat has high cortisol. It isn't that hard to fix.
Since I've been addressing this with a cortisol reset, blood pressure has been falling, not just for me but for my students.
I expect to have fully normal blood pressure within a few months.
Matt, What is your cortisol reset?
structured meals that are satisfying, starting very close together. That lowers cortisol, then spacing them apart in greater intervals. Nothing works like this does.
Thanks. I had to quit keto because it had become basically a starvation diet. On keto, cortisol the stress hormone is used to create glucose from the liver. Not very good way to generate energy. There is a clue to high cortisol!! Just eat glucose containing food. ! Fat is satiating. Fat does not have enough real nutrients. I started balanced meals with plenty of good carbs, including fresh fruit. No skipping meals and it took time to even be hungry enough to eat. My metabolism was soooo broken. It’s been 3 years in august healing from this. But much better now and eating properly. More food did lower cortisol. I like your process. I had to force myself to eat but now I’m properly hungry and NO cravings. I did gain some weight but it stopped with good real energy production. I’ve always been a more anxious gal so I still have work to do. working on sleep. I have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis but that’s under control and food helps.
At least you figured it out. Millions of people are hurting their bodies with keto and low carb and carnivore.
A cortisol reset can work within a few months. One key is thyroid, supplemental T4 and T3 often being essential.
Blood pressure in me went from 155/95 to 130/90 in about 6 weeks. I expect it to fully normalize soon.
My father had a heart attack back in 2000. His doctor, at the time, put him on various things, including a statin, sans Vitamin D, and an angiotensin receptor inhibitor or blocker - I forget which. In recent years he'd be standing, talking, and just drop in his tracks. I took a look at his meds, knew his BP was low, and discovered the ARB/ARI. I had my sister, a nurse of 30years experience, go with my father to have his meds reviewed by his GP. The bastard had never done any sort of audit/review. As a consequence, my Father was taken off the ARB/ARI but the GP did not get him off the statin. I ensured that he was taking Vitamin D, though.
So yeah, a prime example of the over medication to which you referred.
Great article
Friend of mine went through a period where she had very high BP - regularly 180 systolic. At one-point she was on six different BP meds and she was only in her early 30s at the time. She was overweight so there was a bit of a dismissive attitude - if she really wanted to do something about it, she could. It turned out she had Conn's Syndrome. Surgery removed the tumor and voila, BP down. It took a couple of years though. Too few are curious about the underlying cause.
Your last sentence says it all!
To add my little bit of knowledge to the understanding of the heart, about 30 years ago Goethean Scientists in Switzerland tried to argue that there was a separate biological force driving the blood. The reasoning was that in all physical pumps - both centrifugal and positive displacement (like pistons) - the peak pressure precedes the peak flow. But in the heart peak flow comes first.
I now believe they did not look closely enough. Suppose a child is playing by a stream 1 inch deep. The child dams the stream with bricks 4 inches high. Some water spills through the gaps and around the edges but the water builds up and eventually overflows the bricks. The depth of water is its pressure. It was 1 inch water gauge and now it is 4 inches water gauge.
Pressure is created by *impeding* a flow. A centrifugal pump accelerates the inlet water and throws it at the casing. The casing impedes the flow and that is where the pressure builds rapidly. By analogy the heart is _not a pump but the impeller of the pump. The aorta and pulmonary artery generate pressure by impeding the flow. Therefore the heart contains no significant pressure and that is why the apex of the heart (pointy bit at the bottom) is paper thin. It does not need to resist a zero pressure, only stop the blood spilling out.
If you watch the Helical Heart video on youtube you see that the heart is one continuous, helical band of muscle. When it beats it wrings like a dish cloth in a plastic bag, driving the flow of blood from the apex upward toward the arteries.
Actually it was over 100 years ago that Rudolf Steiner taught that the heart is not a pump. Dr Thomas Cowan's "Human Heart, Cosmic Heart" goes into detail on this. Another doctor has been researching this more recently as well, Dr. Branko Furst's book is also an exploration into this, "The Heart and Circulation." My own layperson's question has always been, if the heart is a pump, then how does the developing fetus have circulation before the heart develops?
Thank you for that. I have a vague recollection that RS also mentioned all animals live for the same number of heart beats. This number was known to the Ancient Greeks as it also had astronomical significance. But I forget.
Over the years I too have read some of the same from different sources.
From most of the sources, their main conclusions were that the heart regulates blood flow, it doesn’t produce it. If the heart was actually a pump it would not be strong enough to pump the blood completely through the legs and arms.
Good point. I had forgotten they mentioned that.
Interesting!
I have an irregular heart beat, (diagnosed many years ago) and a low heart rate. Now at 71 years of age my resting heart rate is in the high 40’s to low 50’s. When I was younger it was lower than that. My BP is usually 130-140 over 80-90, I’m told borderline high. Many years ago my doctor asked me to wear a heart monitor for 24 hours and after I did that he said my BP is ok and not to worry. He has now passed away and now docs have told me it is too high. I refuse to take blood pressure meds.
I have noticed that when I have been exercising my heart rate is higher (obviously) and BP is lower but doctors tell me there is no relationship between heart rate and blood pressure. My personal opinion is that they are wrong. Btw I don’t take medication for anything with the exception of Advil for headaches and Aleve for occasional back pain and I have very little faith in the medical field. Oh and I also refused the experimental injection for COVID.
I was interested in this, so I asked Grok, which agrees with you: “In summary, while not the same metric, resting heart rate and blood pressure show positive correlations in many contexts, with higher HR frequently associated with higher BP and increased long-term risk. Individual patterns vary, so tracking both under medical guidance provides fuller insight into cardiovascular health.”
My mother was told she had high blood pressure at the age of 84 and put on medication. Her blood pressure remained the same "high" numbers for several years, so the doctor put her on a second medication - one in the morning and one in the evening. Her BP remained the same "high" number (she was told to take her BP using an at-home BP monitor and it was always the same). So finally, at age 90 she was put on a third BP medication. Her BP remained the same "high" number but she dutifully took 3 BP medications daily -- one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one in the evening -- even though it seemed to make no difference. Those 3 were the ONLY medications she was on during her lifetime -- she took about a dozen vitamins / minerals daily and was healthy otherwise and didn't see a doctor very often. She died the day after her 97th birthday.
Doctors seem to think they can predict the demise of persons who are not on medication (like my mother's best friend who died of statin-induced myopathy after being on Statins for a number of years) and that pharmaceuticals will keep everyone alive forever.
News Alert! The leading cause of death is BIRTH!
Of course Big pHarma is trying to cure that (birth) as well!!
This is a great article and thank you for writing it. Neither in this article nor in your older blood pressure one have you mentioned ARBs, such as Losartan. As I take Losartan I would be grateful if you could comment on their effects, pros and cons, as you have done for ACE inhibitors.
Thank you.
Thanks for asking this question. I too take 50 mg Losartan daily. Not diabetic or overweight, age 79. I was on benazepril (ACE) for 18 years (!) at 20 mg. My white cell count was showing up too low so my PCP wanted me to go to a hematologist. I didn't, but found on the internet (yes, where your PCP will tell you that you can't believe everything you read there-ha!) at medical sites that ACE inhibitors can cause low white cell counts. When I shared the info with my PCP she switched me to Losartan. After several months blood count now okay. Now I just have peripheral neuropathy which has been slowly developing over the last 5 years. Cause? Who knows. In the last 20 years never got any vaccines. Never a flu shot. Great comments and questions from everyone! We're just trying to help ourselves and our loved ones stay healthy. Blessings to you all.
Check out the Root Cause Protocol. Mineral dysregulation causes our symptoms. We’re taught to fear copper toxicity but most have inadequate levels of unbound copper. Peripheral neuropathy can be a symptom of copper dysregulation.
Thank you!
I was going to ask the same thing, as I am on Valsartan. I have read that essentially they do the same thing, by blocking a particular hormone, but the difference between ACE and ARB is where/how that hormone is blocked. I would really like to hear the Midwestern Doctor’s thoughts on ARB’s.
Yes, I've read that too, but don't really know much else.
Try a Brave browser search which I just did.
Ditto that re ARBs. I've seen AMD post variations on this article several times and I always hope it's been updated to include ARBs but no luck so far. I've been on anti-hypertensives since age 40 (now 75). Had adverse side effects from ACE inhibitors and Beta blockers but the ARB (Losartan) has been free of side effects. I tried going off of it but my pressures climbed slowly but inexorably up to the 150+/100+ range at which point I chickened out and started them again. Pressures now in the "normal" range most of the time but occasionally I get hit with a bottoming out for no apparent reason, down to 70ish/40ish - bad enough that if I don't lie down I'll faint. Otherwise healthy, not obese or diabetic. No other chronic conditions, just hypertension. Would appreciate more info on ARBs.
Why would you not mention and I know that you know this because of your post about sunlight. UVA Light is the solution along with NIR light and UVB. NOW REMEMBER uva and uvb need skin contact as UVA light stimulates nitric oxide production which is a vasodilator and lower BP. why no mention of this is mind boggling?? Of course ophthalmologist and dermatologist demonize sunlight so everyone e stays inside and scrolls like zombies and get atropic bone white skin. Go outside and ground to the earth and never miss another sunrise. Build a solar callus to the sun so you can handle more UVB AND Your mitochondrial chronic disease will magically disappear and you raise your the hormone D In your body.
I experience blood pressure spikes. My doctor gave me a low dose (5mg) prescription which I cut in half and only take as needed. I received a call from the pharmacist telling me my blood pressure prescription was due to be renewed. I told her I only took it as needed and did not need a refill. She admonished me for not taking the medicine every day as prescribed. I explained to her that what I put into my body was my decision, not hers, and that they have become the largest drug pushers the world has ever known, so don't ever call me again. That ended that.
your got 5mg rx of what bp med? can I ask what you bp was and how you did after you took that med every few days? thk u.
Lisinopril. My bp would spike at times around 160-170. I have a machine to check it, but I could tell when it was spiking because I would get a pressure type headache, especially around my eyes. If my bp was around 150-160, I would cut a 5mg in half, so I was only taking 2 1/2 mg. If it went past 160, I would take a full 5 mg. It wasn't very often that I would have to take it for many days in a row because after a day or so of meds, it would stabilize near normal. So I only take it when my bp spikes. The side effect I experienced when taking it for more than a day was coughing. I checked on the side effects and lo and behold, coughing was one of them. Hope this helps you.
do you take 2.5 mg lisinopril everyday, then take the full 5mg dose for a couple days if bp spikes up; then go back to 2.mg everyday? *OR*
do you take the 2.5mg every few days? I am trying to understand, cuz i got prescribed combo drug: ca channel blocker5 mg and ACE inhibitor40mg (not lisinopril tho. i shouldve had doc prescribe sep drugs instead of combo). Just trying to figure out what you are doing to SAVE yourself. Even tho our meds aren't exactly the same our vision (to reduce side effects) is the same. I AM SO SICK of these docs who don't listen, just give meds, & explain nothing! And do not educate themselves. thank you 😊
Hi there. No, I do not take them every day. That's what the pharmacist was admonishing me about. I only take them if my bp is spiking, which isn't every day. I only take 2.5mg if my bp spikes at around 150-160. If it's over 160, I'll take a full 5mg. Otherwise, no drugs for me.
thank you very much.😊
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You have a fish brain.
As Peter Gotzche said in his book:
DEADLY MEDICINES AND ORGANISED CRIME: HOW BIG PHARMA HAS CORRUPTED HEALTHCARE
"The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. Blatant lies that—in all the cases I have studied—have continued after the statements were proven wrong."
Peter Gøtzsche, co-founder of Cochrane and former director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre
https://drwojakmd.substack.com/p/insiders-admit-modern-medicine-is-a-fraud