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I feel like I just did 4 years of biochemistry every time I read one of your articles. Very valuable info here, and it makes sense to me (amateur medical researcher lol). Also an industrial engineer/software coder from the days of common sense. Zeta potential changes, perhaps instantly disrupting ATP transport is causing instant death (instant energy shutoff). Sludging may explain why "waking up dead" is happening to the injected - lying down for extended time, gravity, sludging.

It's a doctor like you MidWestern, who is keeping my faith in medicine from dropping to zero.

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Thank you : )

ATPs effects on all of this are a really complex subject (Gerald Pollack has elucidated some of it).

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Thank you so much for this. I’m a huge fan of Gerald Pollock and so was pleased to see you mention him here.

Can you please expound on the specific daily lifestyle strategies for raising zeta potential?

So far it sounds like: sun exposure, plenty of minerals from an alkaline diet? grounding, avoid aluminum...

Love your work, thanks again!

❤️❤️❤️

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Thank you.

I will go into those topics in the future, but theres a lot to them (including things you likely have not realized about gel-state water), so they will have to wait till later.

Every time I write something there are 10x things I want to cover but can't. What I am basically trying to do is cover the things that need to be covered in each topic in sufficient detail so I don't need to cover them again or rewrite the article in the future and can reference it instead.

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Get yourself a skipping rope or mini trampoline and have several jump sessions as day, preferably outside in fresh air and sunshine. This boosts your EZ water (4th phase ala Gerard Pollock) in the cells and thereby improves the ZP. Also, eat your water, so lots of fresh fruit and veg.

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How about this ...

Consume no sugar or processed foods - none.

No seed oils.

Lots of whole foods - meat fish veg fruit nuts... ideally organic

Exercise daily.

Don't smoke - limit booze

Take supplements - D C magnesium etc...

Do your best to avoid bad stress... I find a useful strategy to be to not give a f789 about anything because it could be much worse ... and at the end of the day everyone will die... also I gain comforting in knowing if things got so bad they were intolerable ... I could head to Dodgy St and buy a dozen Oxycontin tabs... wash them down with a glass of fine whisky... and solve the problem.

I accept that these are not conventional strategies... but they work for me.

I also mostly retired at 42 when I realized civilization was on its last legs... I can appreciate that not everyone has that option

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Intuitively, I feel that temporarily changing it may be easy but effecting a constitutional change is much more of an integrative realignment in our being. I didn't say that was difficult, but it will meet resistance of habits we have yet to recognise and release, and so persist in.

The capacity to hold and maintain charge in biological terms, is more likey to be in the realm of biofield resonance within the body as between the body and its energetic environment.

So of course there are outer things that are part of this, but without the inner thing will not hold - such as to be defined in lack of vitality seeking boosters!

One clue to this was revealed to me in the account of Mannel Ballister's account of his journey from heart transplant theatre to energy healing, via an understanding of the helical heart and its electrical role as regulator and mediator.

The still point of the turning (polarised) world is not itself 'charges' but is the source and true nature of all charged interactions/exchanges. Our froth-mind is very busy - even to the exclusion of what is essentially guidance and support from within.

To think that I am proposing 'thinking about' thinking is the trick of a mind that frames EVERYTHING alive to thinking as if to know, control or understand.

I see that as a polarised flip of Mind-as-Awareness to limit or focus within the imagination of its own thinking as a substitute for a real relationship. Wishful thinking as a bias, that becomes a habit, a way of perceiving, responding and suffering in its own terms.

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Welcome to the club! Feeling the same about the Doctor!

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on wednesday, coffee and covid reported on the following:

Finally! I’ve been waiting FOREVER for someone to do a comparative blood study of jabbed versus unjabbed blood, and yesterday, the Epoch Times — which has been tearing the vaccines a new one lately — ran a story headlined, “Study Found ‘Foreign Metal-Like Objects’ in 94 Percent of Sample Group of Symptomatic People Who Took mRNA Vaccines: Italian Doctors.”

The sub-head explains, “Among a study sample of over 1,000 people who developed symptoms, researchers found ‘graphene-family super-structures’.”

The study published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research last month, and is titled “Dark-Field Microscopic Analysis on the Blood of 1,006 Symptomatic Persons After Anti-COVID mRNA Injections from Pfizer/BioNtech or Moderna.”

Out of 1,006 patients analyzed, researchers found only 58 had a normal blood profile. In other words, 95% of the thousand patients had abnormal blood following the injections. The researchers had access to pre-injection blood samples so were able to accurately compare the patients’ blood before/after.

The study explained the visible differences:

The right side image shows the same person’s blood one month after the first dose of Pfizer mRNA ‘vaccine’. Particles can be seen among the red blood cells which are strongly conglobated around the exogenous particles; the agglomeration is believed to reflect a reduction in zeta potential adversely affecting the normal colloidal distribution of erythrocytes as seen at the left. The red blood cells at the right are no longer spherical and are clumping as in coagulation and clotting.as seen at the left. The red blood cells at the right are no longer spherical and are clumping as in coagulation and clotting.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/coffee-and-covid-wednesday-september

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The article “Dark-Field Microscopic Analysis on the Blood of 1,006 Symptomatic Persons After Anti-COVID mRNA Injections from Pfizer/BioNtech or Moderna.” is compelling. The provided link https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/47/80 has been taken down. I did download the article to PDF.

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wow. good for you for downloading it. any suggestions as to how we might get the article at this point?

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found it. I just went to the journal itself, it's listed in the contents, clicked on that, and it came up. I also downloaded the pdf once it came up.

Here's a link: https://www.ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/47

And here's a link to the journal: https://www.ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/issue/view/4

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I added this reference. Thank you. I have seen a lot of similar ones but that one was more comprehensive.

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question is how do we remove the graphene, as i believe its very small and sharp as glass wonder how the immune factors we have could remove them

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Assuming it is there (I have not yet seen proof that it is) the only way I could see to get it out is with a good external blood filtration system. A few people I know have tried that with some degree of success.

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From my listening to various doctors and scientists there seems to be a lot of confusion as to what are in these injections.... like the many rabbit trails create around the JFK assassination.

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The video associating the bio-field tech of graphene oxide (called hydroxide in the vid) with razor blades, and the props of blood, victims and other emotional triggering, would benefit from a sober analysis!

So first - you don't yet KNOW it is in fact inside you (via spiked agenda or other means of stealth). Or in every batch.

Second, you don't KNOW it persists in the body.

We don't KNOW its effects in the body.

So beware our own reactions don't set the trap we cant escape!

But nanotech uses naturally bio-field energy & communication and is touted to ba able to operate crude means of augmentated bi-tech - such as signalling when meds have been taken. the hydrogel of its delivery system is toxic.

But nearly all the 'science' about it is itself part of a marketised, weaponised mindset.

Discerning truth from lies is impossible if we have already reacted to lies as true - becausethen we only see what our defences allow.

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You may believe so, but I view beliefs and this includes placebo & nocebo - as the pivotal terrain for the installing of such an operating system as mRNA injections and any other system of external dependency on magical interventions.

Likewise guilt-based fear of Divine Retribution, or against curses that strike a fear that then consumes the victim.

My reason for posting was in part to draw awareness to emotional manipulations presented as news, leaks or claims to fact. They are so easy to see when not reacting to the movie aimed at you.

Then to see we are our own projector, gaslighter or manipulator - in terms of a consciousness we usually look out from instead of looking at.

So yes not knowing is a pause in which to not only ask, but to draw our question from an integrity of being rather than being framed by emotional reaction.

Regardless whether they work as stated or sold or invested in, I see the wish to hack and control in the germ and gene models. I also see it in old Bible story.

Old themes play out in new clothes.

I haven't read a lot about Plagues but fear can feeds itself while opportunism can capitalise on destruction or even poison the well.

Perhaps I woulkd better have used beliefs rather than lies.

"Discerning truth from lies is impossible if we have already reacted to beliefs as true - because then we only see what our defences allow.

Hence the top-down indoctrination to 'bio-insecurity' as the undermining of natural vitality, equilibrium, relational fulfilment etc

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I am not a doctor but you might try fasting, it can detox some stuff

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I'm vaxx free but had hoped the graphene would degrade over time and or maybe elements of our immune system or maybe enzymes or something the body makes could break them down and cleanse these from the body

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Lipid chemist here. I’d never thought to hear a MD talk zeta potential, and relate it to blood viscosity. It’ll take me some more time to fully process this connection, esp with my other influences / interests with Chinese medicine, a qigong style that explicitly targets the kidney meridian, and nail-bed capillary flow microscopy.

However, what I am surprised to NOT see here is consideration of the lipid nanoparticles, where the central ingredient is a *cationic* lipid. If zeta potential does play any physiological role, cationic LNP would be bad shit. This may be esp true if they are not complexing mRNA, and simply floating as “positive charged shells”. Perhaps this is related to their long known toxicity (the lethality of these delivery systems on repeated dosage was the limit for their use as pharmaceuticals, and pivot by Moderna to vaccination which was supposingly single/two-dosed). Maybe there is something related to inflammation-inducing capacity as well.

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Given your background, if you have the ability to read through this and provide critical feedback, I would really appreciate that. Everything I know here was self taught, so I most likely do not have the same degree of knowledge you have in this area and I most likely omitted a few key points.

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I’m slow, so probably no progress for awhile. But we (the literature) apparently know a lot about cationic lipids / zeta potential / cytotoxicity, little of which is re-assuring. Which makes it atrocious for regulators to let pass the statement that “it’s just mRNA and lipids” and no need to conduct a whole variety of studies.

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Could you send me any examples of those?

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I've thought the cationic LNP's were what makes people have the immediate acute reactions and why you can see instaneous clotting in blood when you mix it with the vaccines. In Pfizer's IND that was leaked, they said the LNP's had a neutral zeta potential (which argues against that), but I think the PEG group still makes them functionally create that effect.

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I’m not sure that I’ve come across this Pfizer IND. Do you have a link?

(50% cationic lipid… that’s a very high loading for neutral zeta potential. And then, these LNP certainly will not remain homogenous throughout their whole dwelling time in the body.)

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I downloaded a copy of them when they were originally leaked, but from doing a quick look I can't actually find a website posting them now.

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Is this the Pfizer IND that you're looking for? https://tinyurl.com/36cpa685

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So from their impact on Zeta potential, LNP's all by themselves (i.e. without the mRNA) could be causing some of the serious side effects from the jabs?

Do we know what Pfizer and Moderna used for the placebo injections? Were they just saline, or were they everything that's in the jabs with the mRNA removed? That is, did the placebos contain LNP's?

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I read the placebo was LPN without the mRNA, so not a true placebo at all.

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Vax studies never use a true placebo — they use either another vax or the vax Unser study minus the “active ingredient,” in this case, the mRNA. Results of vax studies are, therefore, exceedingly misleading, and why you often see SAEs in the control group. It’s a giant scam.

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Turtles All the Way Down does a good job of covering the placebo scam in a thorough way, and one that is accessible to the layperson.

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aarrgghh!!! the corruption is so vast, so all pervasive, and has been going on for so long... I can only hope that this time they have completely blown it, the damage is too big to hide anymore.

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if true, that's another fraud perpetrated by the killers.

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Google vanessa schmidt krueger transcript english for a summary of all studies regarding LNPs

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Thanks Carolin for the pointer. (For everyone else, see: http://enformtk.u-aizu.ac.jp/howard/gcep_dr_vanessa_schmidt_krueger/ ) She come to this from a different angle than me, but holy shit, I’m aghast that this hearing occurred 2021-01-30. This all could have been nipped in the bud.

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I read through it and cited it.

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So, I am just a lay person, but I thought I read from various Frontline Doctors and scientists that truncated RNA proteins in the shots may cause prion misfolding once injected. I copied this from the article Centotre embedded above:

VSK: It may be non-viable if the protein is not formed – BioNTech has to check that now because one can make the proteins visible using a specific technique, and then one can see how large the proteins are. They are divided up according to their size, and if truncated proteins are made due to shortened pieces of RNA, then one sees that because new shorter proteins are formed. In their analysis they have seen various bands, i.e. various protein sizes, and the EMA Committee would like to know from BioNTech whether these various sizes all belong to the same protein or not – whether they are other proteins – shortened proteins that perhaps have no effects at all, and what percentage of the correct protein that we want to have is actually in the vaccine dose. How much is being made.

VF: The small proteins: could they simply have no function, or might they produce some other effect?

VSK: I assume that they would then be without function.

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In addition to what was discussed here, I tried to cover a lot of this in my previous post:

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/what-do-we-now-know-about-hot-covid

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-Another Qigong practitioner/Chinese Medicine student here, who validates positive effects from these methods after studying with a Grandmaster from China (reversed food allergies and some deficiencies), also studied Blood Chemistry/Biochemistry with Dr. Bryan Walsh, BS in Bio/Chem... Chinese Medicine is Holistic-not Reductionistic: its' view connects all the systems and is subtle but also functions at the biophysical/biochemical level. There are Healing Sound Vibrations that are associated with every organ (think EKG, EEG), done with deep breathing, when in harmony become like a symphony. Looking for studies on the effects at the biophysical/biochemical level...

-From this Substack and the commenters, I have found beneficial everyones' different expertise...

-I've been trying to locate when and in what antibiotics Lipid Nanoparticles were added-I had bad reactions that were beginning stages of Stevens-Johnson syndrome to Sulfamethoxazole TMP and other rxns to other antibiotics.

-Intermittent and Calorie Restricted Eating/Fasting, Detox with cruciferous vegs, Lymphatic Drainage techniques, Thermoregulation Effects (Sauna and Wim Hof techniques) HIIT exercise, and weight-bearing/body-weight and heavier weight training might also enter into the Zeta potential...A whole new world of possibilities opened up, thanks to your article...

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That's wonderful! You have a great background for entering this field as an excellent healer?

If you get the chance, please read what I wrote here on bactrim; the issue is with the sulfamexazole itself and this was known by the manufacturer.

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-sudden-death-syndromes

Also, would it be ok if I linked to your comment as an example of this happening?

Lastly, do you have any studies you can link to that show how healing sounds affect EKGs and EEG?

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With only a BS in Bio/Chem; I look to the work of researchers with further credentials to supply validation. 'Autodidactic perpetual student' describes most of my education in various areas. From a "Jill-of-all-trades-but-master-of-none perspective"; I can see the forest and invite others to see the trees. Where I dabble, but have no expertise and no mathematical-proof background, is at the Quantum Physics level of Biophysics, specifically piezoelectricity of the semiconductor status in liquid crystalline matrix -which can act like a vibration chamber (interstitum and fascia within cavities of living systems?) From those with the background; I seek proof of the effects of Qigong, vibrational healing of sound/waves/light/fluids, etc.

From my experience, the restorative balance of Heart-Mind-Universe, (Heaven, Earth, Humanity) and spiritual nature of Healing haves been downplayed in modern practice; yet I find this is where the Healing occurs (in addition to somatic Energy Psychology methods,one being Grandmasters' Yi Jing Yi Heart Methods). Just sharing ideas for others to also consider, as all our experiences bring a wealth of contributions.

Because I value so many and feel I will leave out so many more; I hesitate to mention just a few sources that are part of my learning library that inform the scientific basis, with study references, for energy medicine. For science-based studies, here is a beginning: James L. Oschman, Mae-Wan Ho, Richard Gerber, Robert O. Becker, Frances Ashcroft, Gerald Pollock, Bessel van der Kolk , and many more...

As for the SJS rxn to Bactrim: when reported to my MD; it did not end up being recorded in my record(neither were other things I mentioned from rxns to other antibiotics). When I worked in Case Management; the boss Bureaucrats stated that if it wasn't documented; it did not occur. The electronic system had also listed someone elses' date of a routine procedure, not mine, and other wrong info. From my experience, AI electronic medical management is not my idea of optimizing health, much less documenting a path toward it( what my Case Management job did). What is: Many spiritual traditions (not dogmatic religion), Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, the Ba Zi & 5 Element Theories, Harmonizing Heaven, Earth, Humanity & yin yang balance of nature, and other traditions that are sustainable in nature(American Indian, Vandana Shiva, etc.).

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Just as a quick yes no, can I link to your comment as an example of SJS following bactrim?

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Dear Midwestern Doctor.... My nursing practice included working in CV ICU and Neuro/Trauma ICU over the course of 30 years. I was also a Clinical Research Associate, monitoring clinical trials for Sanofi and a research nurse clinician at a Midwestern medical school. Since the advent of this plandemic, I have almost given up on traditional medicine and am ashamed to have been part of the pharmaceutical industry. I cannot thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and expertise. I don't understand all of your writings but still learn quite a bit. You have inspired me and given me hope for the future of health care. Thank you for that.

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Thank you! As someone who worked with ICU patients for a long time, did you see any correlates to what was described here with your severely ill patients?

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I have been retired now for almost 4 years so I will have to think about this for awhile. I took care of many septic patients which continually flashed through my mind while reading your article. Will get back to you.

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Blood sludging causes tachycardia and low O2 sats. I think it also increases the respiratory rate, but that is harder to say with certainty.

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I was thinking along the lines of the coagulation with sepsis and fluid resuscitation with normal saline prior to starting norepinephrine and vasopressin. Patients are definitely tachycardic, vasodilated, with low O2 sats. Paients were usually intubated. We used to monitor SvO2 with REF's and later Vigileos which would allow us to spot trends the patient needed more NS and also to see if they were heading to multiple organ failure. Very, very sick patients that were a lot of fun to care for. The REF's gave a lot of technical information that allowed for timely interventions. Also checked cortisol levels if patients weren't responding to gtts as anticipated. I' m trying to absorb the article you wrote and apply it to my fading memory of details in unusual responses to care.

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Got it. I believe this process also plays a key role in sepsis. I forgot to mention but blood sludging increases blood pressure, and when it is treated reduces it.

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Interesting that sludging would increase blood pressure!

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A friend was told when getting a routine blood draw to check glucose levels etc. that he had “covid blood”. He said what? She declared we call it “black blood” (really its dark purple). He was stunned and realized he prob had covid 3 weeks earlier when he felt poorly for several days that he thought had been caused after an invasive dental procedure. Wondering if this is common? I have only seen it mentioned once despite being on many blogs and reading voraciously about covid etc.

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I see it and others do too. I have also heard of cases where the blood draws are not possible even from the largest veins because the blood is so thick or clot prone, and in some cases they needed a few months of treatment before they could get a blood draw.

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I worked as a RN in a COVID ICU at the very beginning of the pandemic and I distinctly remember drawing blood off ART lines or IJs and seeing white looking particles floating in their blood, it was the weirdest looking blood I had seen. Interesting enough with the Delta wave of COVID I didn’t notice that anymore in the blood of my patients.

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Another seemingly IMPORTANT adverse effect that Drs are not mentioning!!! Is it typically short term after Covid infection and/or jab nthe person I mentioned had 3’shots. He went from borderline diabetes to diabetes 2. He also had another worse case of Covid in May. Of 10 days. In addition to the infection in Jan. After the Jan infection.

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Could the thickness of blood be the cause of arrhythmias after injection of the 'shot'?

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Yes. That was a key point of this article. It's not the only cause, but I believe it plays a major role.

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Thanks. Wanted to confirm as I was hospitalized with afib/heart failure 3 months after second injection. Made complete recovery (I think).

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Thank you for sharing! It is good to hear that you were willing and able to see through the deception your work had previously forced on you. Similar epiphanies are rare among people who have devoted a lifetime to something as harmful as Western "Medicine." I am happy for you! :)

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This is an AMAZING article! Thank you so much for this pertinent information. The world needs more doctors like you.

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Thank you.

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The Vax that Biden just invested 2 Billion? To destroy the populace more.

Tested on 8 rats.

This has to stop now!

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I don’t really know how to express my appreciation for your writings. I am your remedial reader, I read your stack multiple times constantly looking up definitions and wishing I had taken a different educational path. When I get your message – please know that you have made it simple enough for the general non-medical masses if they choose to do a little homework. As Einstein said, “If you can’t explain it simply you don’t understand it well”, your writings certainly meet that measure.

During these difficult times I am brought to tears by the kindness and bravery of individuals as yourself trying so hard to be purveyors of the truth. Even the comments are so helpful to my understanding, so a big heartfelt thank you to my substack family. This community is a light in the darkness, reflects the goodness of humanity that cannot be hidden. For me it’s a spiritual experience which feels my heart with happiness and hope to see this goodness.

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One of my hobbies has been trying to find ways to take really complex and abstract concepts and distill them to something that makes sense. I deeply value art but I have no skill in most of the mediums that exist (e.g. I am a terrible drawer) so my venture into that area is with expository writing. The way I heard it described by a very respected ivy league professor is "unless you can describe a concept to a truck driver you don't understand it" and that's why I try to shoot for. One of my major frustrations with the school system was that most teachers kept on throwing information at you, hoping it would stick, and then throwing it again, so as a result, I can recall things I learned in 8th grade being taught again and again through college, and as far as I can tell, since all educational reform (e.g. common core, social justice over academics etc) happened, it's become much worse than I was in school. It was great for me because I taught it to myself the first time after it was shown and then had the time to self teach myself a bunch of other stuff like the history of alternative medicine...but it's a terrible model that causes people to waste decades of their lives in school.

I am really impressed with the quality of the commenters on here. 90% of people ask questions in good faith, are interested in understanding the subject or making sure it's legit and have useful things to share. It's so different from most of the internet and that's a large part of why I reply to the comments on here.

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Your engagement makes it a very real and personal experience. I will be happy to be your "Truck Driver" test ! haha! Have a great Sunday.

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Sorry guys...fills my heart not feels my heart. Why do you only notice those things once you posted!!

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Just use the edit!

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Thanks for all this, fascinating to see the tie-ins with zeta potential, saline solution, and other hospital protocols.

If you don't already have it, Riddick's book is available for download from

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6ho976sob2ac9y/controlofcolloid.pdf?dl=0 Made available by http://zeta-meter.com/

Dr TC McDaneil's experiences are also helpful. His book is Disease Reprieve: Living Into the Golden Years, https://www.amazon.com/Disease-Reprieve-T-C-McDaniel/dp/0738805734/

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Having read all of that, do you think I concisely summarized the key points?

(I tried to but I know I could have done better)

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Yes, well said :-)

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Thank you - great insight and understanding (I'm still working on the understanding). I also follow Igor Chudov, Walter M. Chesnut, Spartacus, & Jessica Rose. Encourage all to conduct due diligence before submitting to an experimental gene therapy, with approx 1% absolution risk reduction, and no long term heath studies. Follow the FLCCC Alliance prevention protocol.

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Excellent investigation and explanation. Since I was reluctantly injected my acupuncturist says she feels blood stagnation. And my eyesight has changed - not terribly but enough to notice. So many chalk it up to getting older, as of late, but I know better. Thank you for all your intuitive work and taking the time to write all of these phenomenal articles.

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As you might guess, blood stagnation (which is the same as blood stasis) is very commonly observed by TCM practicioners after this vaccination.

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Fagonia arabica - any thoughts or experiences?

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I looked it and feel like I should have heard about it before given how well known and researched it is, but the truth is I'd never seen the word prior to you sharing it here.

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30 year family physician here. My 22 year-old daughter with POTS is likely an HPV vaccine injury. Went from a ballet dancer, soccer player, and gymnast to 90% in bed now, disabling fatigue, frequent to daily headaches, nausea, constipation, disabling insomnia, etc. A Lyme specialist believes she also has a chronic Babesia infection. It's so hard to be sure of anything though.

I've concluded that my field, allopathic medicine, has essentially nothing to offer her, and nothing to offer all of my patients with the sorts of chronic issues you address in your article.

My distrust of the medical system began 5-6 years ago as I began to research the effect of diet on my patients with chronic illness (the majority of whom have elevated insulin levels, likely diet driven by sugar), and I ran up against walls of denial and disdain from fellow physicians, who seem to have had curiosity beaten out of them. I have been very interested my entire career in how to promote mental and emotional well-being, as most patients I see suffer depression and/or anxiety. Research into the history of psychiatry in bed with Big Pharma further disillusioned me shortly before the COVID debacle began.

The COVID debacle coupled with years of suffering by my daughter started my research into vaccines, which I'd never questioned as a physician. I trusted "the experts" and the mentors I'd respected as I was in training.

Discovering you has given me hope. I have been searching for anyone who straddles allopathic medicine and all other forms of healing (and scientific inquiry in general). I will be studying everything you have written as my own journey to discover truth continues.

It is SO HARD to see patients every day who suffer chronic illness for which I have NO TOOLS to understand or treat. Pharmaceuticals rarely improve their quality of life and they are tossed aside by the medical profession because they are too complicated to sort out.

I've always seen people as impossibly complex systems, which we all certainly are, and reading what you are writing just confirms that allopathic medicine is woefully deficient in being able to cope with that reality, and it is further designed to keep physicians "on the reservation" of status quo, which makes attempting to broaden my ability to improve the well-being of my patients very difficult.

I hope to add a few tools to my repertoire as I pursue the ideas you have presented. It is very hard to see chronically ill patients who have all been gaslit into depression by the medical profession, and for whom I have infinite compassion but limited understanding of how to help them.

Selfishly I hope that I can help my daughter first and foremost, but I have SO MANY patients who have suffered for years with no idea why.

Maybe there is hope.

Thank you.

BTW I am under investigation by my state board of medicine for "unprofessional behavior" prescribing ivermectin with full informed consent by long term patients, none of whom had an adverse outcome (how could they with ivermectin). Hopefully I retain my license, but this is a perilous time to be an advocate for the individual patient.

Side note: a patient of mine with disabling, frequent migraines despite years of standard of care drug prophylaxis developed a DVT about a year ago. She went on Eliquis. At three months, because this was a popliteal DVT, as standard of care I discussed stopping the anticoagulant, which she adamantly opposed. When I asked her why, she told me she'd not had a single migraine since being anti-coagulated. That was one year ago and I believe she has had two headaches in total.

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My approach to all of this has essentially been to not ever pick fights or challenge any other doctors in the area, and I think the issue a lot of alternative people get into is putting out messages that make the other doctors feel challenged; instead I try to focus on being really friendly and interested and supportive to other doctors I speak to and ask my patients not to say I am challenging them. To many people I know who did differently had medical board complaints show up (as medical boards tend to listed to complaints from physicians even if they are spurious, whereas they normally only listen to patient complaints that have a good basis).

Publicly, I focus on promoting areas that I think are really important but not really controversial because they aren't considered by the medical field.

Privately I do projects like this.

In short, my general view is that you have to be extremely careful about what fights you pick because long term you will get a lot more done by not ruffling feathers than you will by picking a hill to die on (as these hills come up all the time). I've seen a lot of parts of the world that have gone much worse than the USA, so I'm generally accepting of the fact things can be really messed up, and instead my focus is on "where can I realistically make the most positive good with what's happening now" rather than "how can I make the world be the way I wish it could be"

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I work very hard to not challenge other doctors. It's a delicate walk when you are a family doctor "sharing" care of a patient with other physicians (especially since I seem to be the only one who really listens to them. I give all my patients at least an hour every visit, and even then its challenging to really help people).

Funny thing about the medical board (funny in a dark doctor sense of humor kind of way) is that the complaint was made by a newly graduated FP who was trolling FB trying to find physicians to report to their respective State Medical Boards for promoting disinformation (aka facts, data, and logic) and damaging the "effort" to "defeat COVID". She was proud of the fact that she'd been influential in getting her local hospital to consider the idea of rationing care towards vaccinated patients if beds got tight in their training hospital. Wow.

The Board began their investigation based upon that complaint alone. Very dangerous times.

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That's a big part of I realized I couldn't be a PCP, dealing with all the specialists you have to refer to that want you to defer their bad advice is really challenging.

I've always found it quite sad how people who are insecure about their belief systems (e.g. following the dysfunctional aspects of western medicine) deal with those insecurities by forcing others to submit to their belief systems. I would argue what she did, especially the pride she showed is evidence of that.

Anyhow hope you appreciated the responses I left to your comment. Great job fighting the good fight. I have to go run an errand now.

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Thanks for being a thoughtful human being.

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<3

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My present understanding on POTS thing is that with Gardasil it was due to an autoimmune reaction to the beta adrenergic receptors in the brain, but I have also seen countless cases of it emerging from blood sludging (and it sometimes responds to treatments for it). It often also following various complex infections, and I am not sure if they trigger either of those mechanisms or something else. I've successfully treated a few people with POTS but I see very few of them considering how common the issue is.

Moulden made a really interesting point, that the brain has pressure sensors to detect ischemia, but no sensors for flow, and since blood sludging messes up flow while maintaining blood flow, it doesn't set off the adapative response in the brain to blood ischemia. After I learned this, I had a high suspicion this is what occurred with POTS.

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I am seeing increasing numbers of young women with autonomic dysfunction come into my practice.

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I have seen a small enough number that I have not yet been able to establish a consistent pattern in what is wrong or what they need.

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I essentially believe the model of medicine we learn in medical school is really useful (especially for emergent stuff). However, for most complex issues that matter, that knowledge base is necessary but not sufficient to fix a lot of the issues people run into...and the mistake allopaths make is assuming it is sufficient, whereas the mistake alternative care providers (who do not like allopathy) make is assuming it is not necessary.

The fundamental problem with the allopathic model is that it is one of the only medical systems in existence that does not have a concept of "health" built into it, and as a result, there is no coherent framework of how the body maintains homeostasis or repels disease; instead remedies are thrown at specific symptoms and the hope is that they will fix the disease (as a result of the innate healing capacity of the body doing its job)--and there is never a focus on what can be done to augment the innate healing capacity of the body.

My own belief is that a lot of the best medical insights have been developed from having a highly evolved perceptual capacity of what is going on with a patient, but that skillset is not taught at all, so you have to stumble across people who figured it out on their own. I spent years working to develop that, and it is the basis for a lot of what I do (along with a willingness to not accept using a treatment that doesn't work any try a different direction to address the problem). However, I think that mode of medicine is a bit outside people's bubbles, so on here I am explaining the insights I have gotten from it rather than what allowed me to discern all of that.

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I have always been of the mind that the body heals itself if we will stay out of its way. It is the nature of equilibrium. It’s humorous to me that the allopathic prime directive is supposedly “primum non nocere” (do no harm for those not versed in Latin). I’ve rarely seen physicians with the courage to do nothing.

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Yup! Which is largely a product of us assuming a religious role in society and trying to conform to the expectations it entails. I am just another human being and not a god, but a lot of other people in this field don't seem to remember that.

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I am a real human with my patients. No pretentiousness. I share my struggles. I tell them I’m a man who got a white coat for studying hard, but they have much they can teach me, even though they may not think so. I’m just struggling along with them trying to understand what we are all going through living our lives and trying to feel “well”. There are no words to describe the gift we’ve been given to be involved in our patients lives in this way. It is a tremendous responsibility to try to help and not harm.

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One of my big goals in life has been to learn and evolve, and I feel insanely lucky I get to see tons of people who are willing to share their entire story with me and confide a lot of trust, because that has allowed me to have a much larger exposure to the human condition than most people get in their lifetime. Conversely, I think a lot of doctors accrue a lot of negative karma for themselves because of how they abuse that trust and its sad because the doctors don't realize how much that comes back to bite them long term.

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You and I have had the same privilege. SERIOUS privilege. Higher than priests. Everyday I just say “wow” at the end of the day.

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Hello! I really appreciate your sincere comment. I'll try to speak from the heart in the next few responses : )

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Also that's a good example of the migraine concept. The whole thing is so frustrating because all the migraine medication act on cerebral blood vessels and they have MRIs showing migraines are follow spreading depolarizations in the brain which clearly indicates there's an ischemic process going on...but it's never considered and the focus is always on developing new medications to treat some receptor in the brain.

My own experience has been that migraines almost always result from something compressing something in the head or something causing blood, CSF and/or glymphatic sludging in the brain, but even in the integrative field, this possibile cause of migraines is almost never considered.

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Even though I am a 59 year-old guy, when I contemplate what I am up against just trying to help people it really makes me want to cry. Power, money, and ideology are holding us back.

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I think this reply was meant for a different comment I left!

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