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Thursday, 29 June
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How can universities and journals better work together on research misconduct? Retraction Watch
When it comes to delays in correcting the scientific record and less-than-helpful retraction notices its not uncommon to see journals blaming universities for being slow and less than forthcoming, and universities blaming journals for being impatient and not respecting the confidentiality of their processes. So in 2021 and 2022, a group of university research integrity officers, journal editors and others gathered to discuss those issues.
In a new paper in JAMA Network Open, the group recommends specific changes to the status quo to enable effective communication between institutions and journals:
(1) reconsideration and broadening of the interpretation by institutions of the need-to-know criteria in federal regulations (ie, confidential or sensitive information and data are not disclosed unless there is a need for an individual to know the facts to perform specific jobs or functions), (2) uncoupling the evaluation of the accuracy and validity of research data from the determination of culpability and intent of the individuals involved, and (3) initiating a widespread change for the policies of journals and publishers regarding the timing and appropriateness for contacting institutions, either before or concurrently under certain conditions, when contacting the authors.
We asked Susan Garfinkel, the associate vice president for research compliance at The Ohio State and the corresponding author of the article, some questions.
Retraction Watch (RW): The group recommends broadening institutions interpretation of the federal concept of need-to-know. Did it consider broadening beyond journals?
Susan Garfinkel (SG): The working group was composed of RIOs and journal editors and publishers, so the discussions focused on issues relevant only to...
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Wednesday, 28 June
21:54
Does Intermittent Fasting Work? Science-Based Medicine
New research, same old narrative.
The post Does Intermittent Fasting Work? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.17:00
Truly devastating: Four journals wont get new Impact Factors this year because of citation shenanigans Retraction Watch
Clarivate, the company that assigns journals Impact Factors, this year will not give four journals updated versions of the controversial metric used by many institutions and publications as a shorthand for quality.
The journals will remain indexed in Web of Science, but wont have an Impact Factor for this year in Clarivates 2023 Journal Citation Reports.
According to Clarivate, Marketing Theory, a SAGE title, has been suppressed for self-citation. Three other journals have been suppressed for citation stacking, sometimes referred to as citation cartels or citation rings. The other journals are as follows:
- Genetika (the Serbian Genetics Society)
- Bioscience Research (Innovative Scientific Information & Services Network)
- Bioinspired, Biomimetic, and Nanobiomaterials (ICE Publishing)
Jelena Milasin, president of the Serbian Genetics Society, told Retraction Watch that Clarivates decision not to give Genetika an Impact Factor this year was truly devastating. Milasin also disputed that the journal had participated in a citation stacking scheme:
We tried to explain to the Clarivate staff that we were absolutely unaware of the situation with the citations and that Genetika did not have any kind of relationship with the journal Bioscience Research nor with authors of cited and citing papers (we never heard of that journal). We neither had any influence on the editorial policy of the Bioscience Research journal nor the authors decision which papers to cite. Also, none of the papers published in Genetika in 2021 and 2022 cited any art...
13:12
What Really Caused The AIDS Epidemic? GreenMedInfo
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Was the AIDS epidemic caused by natural processes? Or, were the experimental oral polio vaccine campaigns conducted between 1957-1960 in Africa on over 1 million inhabitants to blame? Believe it or not, the debate is far from over.
[This paper was originally titled "A Strange Case of Certainty" and republished with the author's permission.]
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11:06
Renal-protective roles of lipoic acid in kidney disease. GreenMedInfo
PMID: Nutrients. 2023 Apr 1 ;15(7). Epub 2023 Apr 1. PMID: 37049574 Abstract Title: Renal-Protective Roles of Lipoic Acid in Kidney Disease. Abstract: The kidney is a crucial organ that eliminates metabolic waste and reabsorbs nutritious elements. It also participates in the regulation of blood pressure, maintenance of electrolyte balance and blood pH homeostasis, as well as erythropoiesis and vitamin D maturation. Due to such a heavy workload, the kidney is an energy-demanding organ and is constantly exposed to endogenous and exogenous insults, leading to the development of either acute kidney injury (AKI) or chronic kidney disease (CKD). Nevertheless, there are no therapeutic managements to treat AKI or CKD effectively. Therefore, novel therapeutic approaches for fighting kidney injury are urgently needed. This review article discusses the role of-lipoic acid (ALA) in preventing and treating kidney diseases. We focus on various animal models of kidney injury by which the underlying renoprotective mechanisms of ALA have been unraveled. The animal models covered include diabetic nephropathy, sepsis-induced kidney injury, renal ischemic injury, unilateral ureteral obstruction, and kidney injuries induced by folic acid and metals such as cisplatin, cadmium, and iron. We highlight the common mechanisms of ALA's renal protective actions that include decreasing oxidative damage, increasing antioxidant capacities, counteracting inflammation, mitigating renal fibrosis, and attenuating nephron cell death. It is by these mechanisms that ALA achieves its biological function of alleviating kidney injury and improving kidney function. Nevertheless, we also point out that more comprehensive, preclinical, and clinical studies will be needed to make ALA a better therapeutic agent for targeting kidney disorders.
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The efficacy of alpha-lipoic acid in the management of burning mouth syndrome. GreenMedInfo
PMID: Health Sci Rep. 2023 Apr ;6(4):e1186. Epub 2023 Apr 3. PMID: 37021013 Abstract Title: The efficacy of alpha-lipoic acid in the management of burning mouth syndrome: An updated systematic review of randomized controlled clinical trials. Abstract: BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) causes burning or uncomfortable feelings in the oral cavity without any obvious injuries. This condition's etiopathogenesis is still unknown, consequently, BMS management is very challenging. Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is a naturally occurring potent bioactive compound that has been found to be useful in the management of BMS in many studies. Therefore, we conducted a comprehensive systematic review to investigate the usefulness of ALA in the management of BMS based on randomized controlled trials (RCTs).METHODS: Different electronic databases, including PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, were extensively searched to find relevant studies.RESULTS: This study included nine RCTs that matched the inclusion criteria. In most studies, ALA was given at a dose of 600-800mg/day, with up to two months of follow-up. The majority of studies (six out of nine studies) indicated that ALA was more effective in BMS patients than in the placebo-controlled group.CONCLUSIONS: This comprehensive systematic review provides evidence of the positive outcomes of the treatment of BMS with ALA. However, more research might be needed before ALA can be considered the first-line therapy for BMS.
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What's All the Noise About Coffee? Articles
Editor's Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published April 18, 2018.
According to the National Coffee Association1 more Americans drank coffee in 2017 than they had in the past four years. This represents a reversal as gourmet coffee brews gain popularity, especially among younger consumers. In an online survey, National Coffee Drinking Trends2 reported coffee drinking was up from 57% in 2016, reaching 62% of the general population in 2017, with the most pronounced increase in gourmet coffees.
The beverage of choice has been coffee for a number of years, far outpacing other beverages, including bottled water, soda and tea by nearly 50%.3 Dark-roasted coffee has specific health benefits related to its high levels of antioxidants.
For instance, several studies have found lower mortality rates in individuals who drink coffee compared to those who don't drink coffee at all.4,5 Another found those who drink moderate amounts were less likely to have calcium deposits in their coronary arteries.6
The likely culprit behind problems drinking a cup of joe rich in phenols and antioxidants stems from the creamers and sugar added, the pesticides sprayed on the crops or improper roasting, which increases the risk of toxic acrylamide levels. The reasons people are hooked on coffee are not consistent, but here are some interesting coffee statistics:7
- 31% of coffee drinkers brew coffee in the morning before any other morning behavior
- 65% of coffee drinking happens with breakfast
- 55% would rather gain 10 pounds and 52% would rather go without a shower in the morning than give up coffee
- An astounding 49% would give up their cellphones for a month before giving up coffee
Judge Rules Acrylamide in Coffee Requires Cancer Warnings
In 2018 media attention was focused on a judge who ruled coffee must come with a cancer warning in California.8 Despite a long list of health benefits, one ingredient found in coffee has caused Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle to rule in favor for the Council for Education and Research on Toxics.9
The group first filed a lawsuit in 2010 seekin...
60% of Calories Are From Ultraprocessed Food for Many People Articles
Ultraprocessed foods contribute to premature death.1 But despite the steep health risks, 61% of Americans food intake comes in the form of highly processed foods and drinks. The amount is similar in Canada (62%) and the U.K. (63%).2
These foods, though convenient, will slowly chip away at your vitality, causing your mental and physical health to suffer. How many ultraprocessed foods are on your plate daily? To get an idea and eliminate them its important to first understand what, exactly, an ultraprocessed food is.
Ultraprocessed Foods Have Few, if Any, Whole Ingredients
Food processing spans a wide array of definition, such that a sliced apple, apple juice and apple-flavored products can all be described as processed but with vastly different effects on your health. The more processed a food is, generally speaking, the worse it is for your health.
Packaged foods with long ingredient lists, including things you wouldnt find in your own kitchen, are examples of ultraprocessed foods. Writing in Frontiers in Nutrition, one team of researchers explained:3
The definition of ultra-processed foods has varied over the years and has not always been consistent. Ultra-processed foods were initially defined as industrial formulations with fats, sugars, and salt added during preparation, alongside other substances not used in normal cooking.
Unprocessed foods were defined as those that were either fresh or that had gone through minimal processing (drying, freezing, pasteurization, or fermentation) mainly to make them safer, accessible and palatable.
While there are a number of systems that attempt to classify foods based on processing, the NOVA classification system is the most common. Its aim is to classify all foods according to the nature, extent and purposes of the industrial processes they undergo. Though not without controversy over its categories accuracy,4 NOVA defines food categories this way:5
- NOVA1 Unprocessed or minimally processed foods, primarily the edible parts of plants or animals that have been taken straight from nature or that have been minimally modified/preserved.
- NOVA2 Culinary ingredients, such as salt, oil, sugar or starch, which are produced from NOVA1 foods.
- NOVA3 Processed foods, such as freshly baked breads, canned vegetables or cured meats, obtained by combining NOVA1 and NOVA2...
Wuhan Scientist Thrown Off Roof Articles
Over the years, its become clear that science can be a very hazardous occupation. According to witnesses, a Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) scientist by the name of Zhou Yusen was thrown to his death off the labs roof in May 2020, just three months after hed filed a patent for a COVID vaccine.
The timing of the patent filing is perhaps as curious as his death. According to some experts, the data included in the patent suggests hed been working on the vaccine prior to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, which authorities have insisted was a previously unknown virus of zoonotic origin. According to a June 18, 2023, report by The Sun:1
Zhou Yusen, 54, died in May 2020 while working for the People's Liberation Army and alongside Wuhan scientists ... including Shi Zhengli dubbed batwoman for her work on coronavirus in bats ...
U.S. investigators have now revealed that Zhou may have had knowledge of the lab leak long before it was released to the world. Vaccination experts told investigators that it would have been impossible to generate the data Zhou had in the patent for the vaccine unless he had been working on it for at least three months.
This could mean scientists in Wuhan were working on a COVID-19 vaccination in November, before news of the virus had left China. The first case of COVID was reported in Wuhan in December 2019 but the World Health Organization did not declare a pandemic until March 11, 2020.
It means the vaccine patent was filed just a short time after China first admitted there was human-to-human transmission of COVID and two weeks before a pandemic was officially declared.
Basically, if Yusen worked on a COVID-19 vaccine no later than November 2019, that would further strengthen the claim that SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab, and subsequently escaped from that lab. In addition to that, we also have new evidence linking SARS-CoV-2 to Chinese bioweapons research.
SARS-CoV-2 Linked to Bioweapons Research
According to an investigation2 by The Sunday Times Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott published June 10, 2023, scientists at the WIV were working in close collaboration with the Chinese military to create a new mutant coronavirus shortly before the COVID pandemic began:
Investigators who scrutinized top-secret intercepted communications and scientific research believe Chinese scientists were running a covert project of dangerous experiments, which caused a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid-19 outbreak.
The U.S. investigators say one of the reas...
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Alpha-lipoic acid ameliorates doxorubicin-induced cognitive impairments. GreenMedInfo
PMID: Neurochem Res. 2023 Aug ;48(8):2476-2489. Epub 2023 Apr 5. PMID: 37017891 Abstract Title: Alpha-Lipoic Acid Ameliorates Doxorubicin-Induced Cognitive Impairments by Modulating Neuroinflammation and Oxidative Stress via NRF-2/HO-1 Signaling Pathway in the Rat Hippocampus. Abstract: Chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment (CICI) is a common complication associated with the use of chemotherapeutics. Doxorubicin (DOX) is a reactive oxygen species (ROS) producing anticancer agent capable of causing potential neurotoxic effects via cytokine-induced oxidative and nitrosative damage to brain tissues. On the other hand, alpha-lipoic acid (ALA), a nutritional supplement, is reputable for its excellent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic activities. Consequently, the objective of the current investigation was to examine any potential neuroprotective and memory-improving benefits of ALA against DOX-induced behavioral and neurological anomalies. DOX (2 mg/kg/week, i.p.) was administrated for 4 weeks to Sprague-Dawley rats. ALA (50, 100, and 200 mg/kg) was administered for 4 weeks. The Morris water maze (MWM) and novel objective recognition task (NORT) tests were used to assess memory function. Biochemical assays with UV-visible spectrophotometry were used to analyze oxidative stress markers [malondialdehyde (MDA), protein carbonylation (PCO)], endogenous antioxidants [reduced glutathione (GSH), catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px)] and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity in hippocampal tissue. Inflammatory markers [tumor necrosis factor-(TNF-), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and nuclear factor kappa B (NF-B)], nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor-2 (NRF-2) and hemeoxygenase-1 (HO-1) levels were estimated using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In addition, reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels were measured in hippocampus tissue using 2-7-dichlorofluorescein-diacetate (DCFH-DA) assay with fluorimetry. ALA treatment significantly protected against DOX-induced memory impairment. Furthermore, ALA restored hippocampal antioxidants, halted DOX-induced oxidative and inflammatory insults via upregulation of NRF-2/HO-1 levels, and alleviated the increase in NF-B expression. These results indicate that ALA offers neuroprotection against DOX-induced cognitive impairment, which could be attributed to its antioxidant potential via the NRF-2/HO-1 signaling pathway.
08:44
Effects of alpha lipoic acid supplementation on serum lipid profile in patients with metabolic syndrome. GreenMedInfo
PMID: ARYA Atheroscler. 2022 Jul ;18(4):1-8. PMID: 36817351 Abstract Title: Effects of alpha lipoic acid supplementation on serum lipid profile in patients with metabolic syndrome: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Abstract: BACKGROUND: Alpha lipoic acid (ALA) is considered a strong antioxidant with anti-inflammatory properties. Moreover, a number of previous studies have shown its lipid-lowering properties. Therefore, we designed this study to investigate the effects of ALA on lipid profile in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS), which can lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and premature mortality.METHODS: A total 46 patients with MetS were randomly divided into two groups. They received either 600 mg ALA (n = 23) or 600 mg placebo (n = 23) for 12 weeks. The body weight, height, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), fasting blood sugar (FBS), hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c), and blood pressure (BP) were assessed at baseline of the study. Physical activity level and dietary intake were assessed at baseline and end of the study. Serum lipid profile including triglyceride (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and total cholesterol (TC) were measured before and after 12 weeks of intervention.RESULTS: Baseline characteristics were similar in the ALA and placebo groups (P>0.05). However, there were statistically significant differences in plasma levels of TG (-36.8242.48 versus 6.1525.04 mg/dl, P = 0.001) and TC (-8.9120.65 versus 10.8422.97 mg/dl, P = 0.01) after 12 weeks between the ALA group and the placebo group. Yet, there were no statistically significant differences in plasma levels of HDL-C and LDL-C after 12 weeks between the ALA group and the placebo group.CONCLUSION: The results suggest that daily supplementation of 600 mg ALA for 12 weeks may improve the lipid profile in patients with MetS.
08:37
Alpha-lipoic acid as adjunctive treatment for schizophrenia. GreenMedInfo
PMID: J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2023 Jan-Feb 01;43(1):39-45. PMID: 36584248 Abstract Title: -Lipoic Acid as Adjunctive Treatment for Schizophrenia: A Randomized Double-Blind Study. Abstract: BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: There is evidence for low endogenous antioxidant levels and oxidative imbalance in patients with schizophrenia. A previous open-label study with-lipoic acid (ALA), a potent antioxidant, improved patients' negative and cognitive symptoms and markers of lipid peroxidation. Here we report the results of a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study to verify the response of patients with schizophrenia to adjunctive treatment with ALA (100 mg/d) in a 4-month follow-up.METHODS: We conducted a 16-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of ALA at 100 mg/d dosages. We compared negative and positive symptoms, cognitive function, extrapyramidal symptoms, body mass index, and oxidative/inflammatory parameters between placebo and control groups.RESULTS: We found no significant improvement in body mass index, cognition, psychopathology, antipsychotic adverse effects, or oxidative stress and inflammation in the experimental group compared with placebo. The whole group of patients improved in several measures, indicating a strong placebo effect in this population. A surprising finding was a significant decrease in red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in the group treated with ALA.CONCLUSIONS: The decrease in red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelet counts requires further investigation and attention when prescribing ALA for patients with schizophrenia.
08:13
Arizona Whistleblowers Expose the Human Sex Trafficking Business at the U.S. Border Medical Kidnap
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
A new documentary titled Cages Epic Human Trafficking Truth has just been published featuring whistleblowers from Arizona revealing the horrors of human sex trafficking that are happening every day at the U.S. Mexican border, where the U.S. Government is working together with Mexican drug cartels to allow this horrible sex trafficking enterprise to flourish inside the United States.
This business of human sex trafficking, and specifically pedophile child sex trafficking, is today one of the most lucrative businesses, if not THE MOST lucrative business, in the U.S. economy.
The money that is brought in through human sex trafficking buys lawyers, judges, law enforcement agencies like the FBI, and elections.
And this documentary, which I have annotated down to just under 17 minutes, deals just with the sex trafficking by Americas wealthy with women and children coming across the border, and does not even address the larger exposure of child sex trafficking being exposed today from Jeffrey Epsteins network which has been documented by Whitney Webbs work, and the current U.S. Virgin Islands case involving Epstein and the U.S. financial system.
This is on our Bitchute channel, and will also be on our Telegram channel.
Watch the full documentary, which is 2 hours and 15 minutes, here.
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08:13
Arizona Whistleblowers Expose the Human Sex Trafficking Business at the U.S. Border Vaccine Impact
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
A new documentary titled Cages Epic Human Trafficking Truth has just been published featuring whistleblowers from Arizona revealing the horrors of human sex trafficking that are happening every day at the U.S. Mexican border, where the U.S. Government is working together with Mexican drug cartels to allow this horrible sex trafficking enterprise to flourish inside the United States.
This business of human sex trafficking, and specifically pedophile child sex trafficking, is today one of the most lucrative businesses, if not THE MOST lucrative business, in the U.S. economy.
The money that is brought in through human sex trafficking buys lawyers, judges, law enforcement agencies like the FBI, and elections.
And this documentary, which I have annotated down to just under 17 minutes, deals just with the sex trafficking by Americas wealthy with women and children coming across the border, and does not even address the larger exposure of child sex trafficking being exposed today from Jeffrey Epsteins network which has been documented by Whitney Webbs work, and the current U.S. Virgin Islands case involving Epstein and the U.S. financial system.
This is on our Bitchute channel, and will also be on our Telegram channel.
Watch the full documentary, which is 2 hours and 15 minutes, here.
Comment on this article at...
08:00
Happy Hour with Pastor Nathan Branim Dr. Tenpenny
06-27-2023 Audio Version here: If you prefer to watch rather than listen, click on the video below: https://drtenpenny.b-cdn.net/2023/06-27-23-HHr-Pastor-Nathan-Branim.mp4 About my guest: Nathan Branim served in the United States Marine []
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Arizona Whistleblowers Expose the Human Sex Trafficking Business at the U.S. Border Health Impact News
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
A new documentary titled Cages Epic Human Trafficking Truth has just been published featuring whistleblowers from Arizona revealing the horrors of human sex trafficking that are happening every day at the U.S. Mexican border, where the U.S. Government is working together with Mexican drug cartels to allow this horrible sex trafficking enterprise to flourish inside the United States.
This business of human sex trafficking, and specifically pedophile child sex trafficking, is today one of the most lucrative businesses, if not THE MOST lucrative business, in the U.S. economy.
The money that is brought in through human sex trafficking buys lawyers, judges, law enforcement agencies like the FBI, and elections.
And this documentary, which I have annotated down to just under 17 minutes, deals just with the sex trafficking by Americas wealthy with women and children coming across the border, and does not even address the larger exposure of child sex trafficking being exposed today from Jeffrey Epsteins network which has been documented by Whitney Webbs work, and the current U.S. Virgin Islands case involving Epstein and the U.S. financial system.
This is on our Bitchute channel, and will also be on our Telegram channel.
...
07:30
Exclusive: Researcher has ceased employment at university amid investigation and retraction Retraction Watch
A neurology researcher in Australia is no longer employed at his former university in the midst of a research misconduct investigation, Retraction Watch has learned. And the work of a co-author at another institution also is being assessed for possible research misconduct after sleuths alerted the university to comments on PubPeer about potential data issues in his papers.
The retracted article, Changes in Cathepsin D and Beclin-1 mRNA and protein expression by the excitotoxin quinolinic acid in human astrocytes and neurons, was published in Metabolic Brain Disease in 2014 and has been cited 13 times, according to Clarivates Web of Science.
The journals editor-in-chief, Gregory Konat, retracted the paper because several of the western blots appeared to be duplicated and he no longer had confidence in the results, according to the retraction notice. The six authors are researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Macquarie University and St Vincents Hospital in Sydney.
All but one of them agreed with the retraction; first author Nady Braidy, a senior research fellow at UNSWs Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, did not respond to correspondence from the editor, according to the notice. The corresponding author, Gilles Guillemin, is no longer employed as a neuroscience professor at Macquarie University as the institution investigates some of his work, Retraction Watch has learned. Guillemin is a Member of the Order of Australia.
Anonymous commenters on PubPeer first pointed out potential data anomalies in the paper in September 2021. Two Australian researchers, Simon Gandevia, deputy director of NeuRA, and David Vaux, an honorary research fellow and retired deputy director of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, contacted the editor of Metabolic Brain Disease to ask for an investigation into the paper in October 2021, citing the PubPeer comments. (Vaux...
07:11
Alpha-lipoic acid as an antioxidant strategy for managing neuropathic pain. GreenMedInfo
PMID: Antioxidants (Basel). 2022 Dec 8 ;11(12). Epub 2022 Dec 8. PMID: 36552628 Abstract Title: Alpha-Lipoic Acid as an Antioxidant Strategy for Managing Neuropathic Pain. Abstract: Neuropathic pain (NP) is the most prevalent and debilitating form of chronic pain, caused by injuries or diseases of the somatosensory system. Since current first-line treatments only provide poor symptomatic relief, the search for new therapeutic strategies for managing NP is an active field of investigation. Multiple mechanisms contribute to the genesis and maintenance of NP, including damage caused by oxidative stress. The naturally occurring antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is a promising therapeutic agent for the management of NP. Several pre-clinical in vitro and in vivo studies as well as clinical trials demonstrate the analgesic potential of ALA in the management of NP. The beneficial biological activities of ALA are reflected in the various patents for the development of ALA-based innovative products. This review demonstrates the therapeutic potential of ALA in the management of NP by discussing its analgesic effects by multiple antioxidant mechanisms as well as the use of patented ALA-based products and how technological approaches have been applied to enhance ALA's pharmacological properties.
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Antidepressants: From a Hidden Withdrawal Scandal to the Chemical Imbalance Row Mad In America
From The Herald Scotland: Today, selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the most commonly used form of antidepressants but, as a Panorama documentary this week highlighted, there are signs that history was soon repeating itself. A confidential Pfizer memo leaked to the programme showed that the drug company, which manufactured the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline), had been aware that some patients were exhibiting signs of dependence back in 1996. In a document written ahead of a meeting with Norwegian regulators in 1996, officials for the pharmaceutical giant noted that we should not volunteer to describe the withdrawal symptoms but have an agreed list prepared in case they insist. These included sensory disturbances, sweating, insomnia, nausea, agitation, anxiety.
By 1998, Harvard medical school researchers were raising the alarm after their own research found that more than 60% of patients who took sertraline or paroxetine (brand name Seroxat) for between four months to two years would experience withdrawal symptoms after stopping, including severe and lasting harm in a small group of patients. For some it was easier to stay on the medication permanently than suffer the side effects of trying to stop.
Despite these red flags, the message from psychiatry over the next 20 years remained that withdrawal from antidepressants was mild, self-limiting and tends to resolve over a week. For many patients that will have been the case, and for many others the benefits of taking them have been nothing short of life-saving.
But it is also true that campaigners who tried to draw attention to a darker side of antidepressants were shouted down, dismissed, or accused of pill-shaming. Doctors, psychiatrists and academics sometimes speaking out only after direct, personal experience of withdrawal were gaslit as cranks or met with outright hostility. All too often questioning the efficacy of antidepressants was conflated with diminishing the seriousness of depression itself as an illness.
Yet a growing number of patients and medical professionals including here in Scotland refused to be silenced.
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06:02
Alzheimers disease vaccine beginning clinical trials Skeptical Raptor
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.
The pharmaceutical company AC Immune SA has received FDA clearance to proceed with phase 1 and 2 clinical trials for its anti-amyloid beta vaccine for the treatment of Alzheimers disease. If the results of the clinical trial are positive, this may become one of the most important treatment options for Alzheimers disease. Even though this Read More Alzheimers disease vaccine beginning clinical trials
06:00
Ep 490 Fatigued and Tired. No energy. Tune in. Dr Ron Unfiltered Uncensored
The canary in the coal mine could be the connection between the mitochondria and the thyroid. Tune in for some solutions.
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Alpha-lipoic acid alleviated fluoride-induced hepatocyte injury. GreenMedInfo
PMID: J Agric Food Chem. 2022 Dec 21 ;70(50):15962-15971. Epub 2022 Dec 2. PMID: 36459405 Abstract Title: -Lipoic Acid Alleviated Fluoride-Induced Hepatocyte Injury via Inhibiting Ferroptosis. Abstract: Fluoride is widely used in agricultural production and food packaging. Excessive fluoride in water and food is a serious threat to liver health.-Lipoic acid, a natural free radical scavenger, has hepatoprotective properties. However, the protective effect of-lipoic acid on fluorohepatotoxicity is uncertain. The aim of this study was to investigate the mechanism of ferroptosis in-lipoic acid preventing fluoride-induced hepatotoxicity. Five-week-old ICR mice were treated with sodium fluoride (100 mg/L) and/or-lipoic acid (200 mg/kg) for 9 weeks. The results showed that-lipoic acid attenuated fluoride-induced damage to liver morphology and ultrastructure. Moreover,-lipoic acid alleviated fluoride-induced iron accumulation, increased oxidative stress, and elevated lipid peroxidation in the liver. In addition, the mechanism study found that-lipoic acid prevented fluoride-induced ferroptosis through the System Xc/GPX4 axis, lipid peroxidation axis, and iron metabolism axis, but it was interestingly not regulated by mitochondrial free radical axis in the hepatocytes. Altogether, this study indicated that-lipoic acid prevents fluoride-induced liver injury by inhibiting ferroptosis, which has potential implications for the prevention and treatment of fluoride-induced liver injury.
05:32
Where Are the Good Doctors? GreenMedInfo
There is a widely held belief amongst patients that doctors should be solely working for the patient's personal good health. This is a myth.
05:31
Where Are the Good Doctors? GreenMedInfo
Originally published on www.orthomolecular.org by Sarah
Myhill, MBBS
05:17
Oral NAC improves endometriosis-related pain and the size of endometriomas. GreenMedInfo
PMID: Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Mar 7 ;20(6). Epub 2023 Mar 7. PMID: 36981595 Abstract Title: Efficacy of N-Acetylcysteine on Endometriosis-Related Pain, Size Reduction of Ovarian Endometriomas, and Fertility Outcomes. Abstract: BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a chronic, estrogen-dependent, inflammatory disease, whose pivotal symptoms are dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, and chronic pelvic pain (CPP). Besides the usual medical treatments, recent evidence suggests there are potential benefits of oral N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on endometriotic lesions and pain. The primary objective of this prospective single-cohort study was to confirm the effectiveness of NAC in reducing endometriosis-related pain and the size of ovarian endometriomas. The secondary objective was to assess if NAC may play a role in improving fertility and reducing the Ca125 serum levels.METHODS: Patients aged between 18-45 years old with a clinical/histological diagnosis of endometriosis and no current hormonal treatment or pregnancy were included in the study. All patients received quarterly oral NAC 600 mg, 3 tablets/day for 3 consecutive days of the week for 3 months. At baseline and after 3 months, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia and CPP were assessed using the Visual Analog Scale score (VAS), while the size of the endometriomas was estimated through a transvaginal ultrasound. Analgesics (NSAIDs) intake, the serum levels of Ca125 and the desire for pregnancy were also investigated. Finally, the pregnancy rate of patients with reproductive desire was evaluated.RESULTS: One hundred and twenty patients were recruited. The intensity of dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia and CPP significantly improved (
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N-acetylcysteine decreases myocardial content of inflammatory mediators preventing the development of inflammation state and oxidative stress. GreenMedInfo
PMID: Int J Inflam. 2023 ;2023:5480199. Epub 2023 Mar 11. PMID: 36941865 Abstract Title: N-Acetylcysteine Decreases Myocardial Content of Inflammatory Mediators Preventing the Development of Inflammation State and Oxidative Stress in Rats Subjected to a High-Fat Diet. Abstract: Arachidonic acid (AA) is a key precursor for proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory derivatives that regulate the inflammatory response. The modulation of AA metabolism is a target for searching a therapeutic agent with potent anti-inflammatory action in cardiovascular disorders. Therefore, our study aims to determine the potential preventive impact of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) supplementation on myocardial inflammation and the occurrence of oxidative stress in obesity induced by high-fat feeding. The experiment was conducted for eight weeks on male Wistar rats fed a standard chow or a high-fat diet (HFD) with intragastric NAC supplementation. The Gas-Liquid Chromatography (GLC) method was used to quantify the plasma and myocardial AA levels in the selected lipid fraction. The expression of proteins included in the inflammation pathway was measured by the Western blot technique. The concentrations of arachidonic acid derivatives, cytokines and chemokines, and oxidative stress parameters were determined by the ELISA, colorimetric, and multiplex immunoassay kits. We established that in the left ventricle tissue NAC reduced AA concentration, especially in the phospholipid fraction. NAC administration ameliorated the COX-2 and 5-LOX expression, leading to a decrease in the PGE2 and LTC4 contents, respectively, and augmented the 12/15-LOX expression, increasing the LXA4 content. In obese rats, NAC ameliorated NF-B expression, inhibiting the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines. NAC also affected the antioxidant levels in HFD rats through an increase in GSH and CAT contents with a simultaneous decrease in the levels of 4-HNE and MDA. We concluded that NAC treatment weakens the NF-B signaling pathway, limiting the development of myocardial low-grade inflammation, and increasing the antioxidant content that may protect against the development of oxidative stress in rats with obesity induced by an HFD.
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This study attests to the nephroprotective effect of C. papaya leaves against mercuric chloride-induced toxicity. GreenMedInfo
PMID: ACS Omega. 2023 Jun 20 ;8(24):21696-21708. Epub 2023 Jun 5. PMID: 37360438 Abstract Title: Mercuric Chloride Induced Nephrotoxicity: Ameliorative Effect ofLeaves Confirmed by Histopathology, Immunohistochemistry, and Gene Expression Studies. Abstract: The present study analyzes the efficacy of the ethanolic extract ofleaves (ECP) against HgCl-induced nephrotoxicity. The effects on the biochemical and percentage of body and organ weight against HgCl-induced nephrotoxicity in female Wistar rats were studied. Wistar rats were divided into five groups with six animals in each group: control, HgCl(2.5 mg/kg b.w.),-acetylcysteine (NAC 180 mg/kg) + HgCl, ECP (300 mg/kg b.w.) + HgCl, and ECP (600 mg/kg) + HgClgroups. After 28 days of study, animals were sacrificed on the 29th day to harvest the blood and kidneys for further analysis. The effect ECP was analyzed by immunohistochemistry (NGAL) and real-time PCR (KIM-1 and NGAL mRNA) in HgCl-induced nephrotoxicity. The results revealed that the HgClgroup showed prominent damage in the proximal tubules and glomerulus of nephrons and enormous expression of NGAL in immunohistochemistry and KIM-1 and NGAL in real-time PCR compared to the control group. The simultaneous pretreatment with NAC (180 mg/kg) and ECP (600 and 300 mg/kg) reduced renal damage and expression of NGAL in immunohistochemistry and KIM-1 and NGAL gene in real-time PCR. This study attests to the nephroprotective effect of ECP against HgCl-induced toxicity.
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Most Dementia is Driven by Diet, Not Genes GreenMedInfo
The ApoE4 Exaggeration
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Castor Oil: A Panacea for Arthritis, Sciatica, Endometriosis, and Back Pain and More Healthy Holistic Living
Over the centuries, the humble castor oil has been used extensively in traditional medicinal systems across the world for its remarkable healing properties. Known for its affordability and underrated benefits, castor oil has proven to be an effective remedy for ailments such as arthritis, sciatica, endometriosis, and back pain. However, it is not limited to these alone; this natural elixir boasts an array of health benefits, from enhancing immune function to acting as an anti-fungal, anti-viral, and antibacterial agent, thus proving invaluable in treating an array of skin conditions.
Understanding Castor Oil: An Ancient Remedy
Derived from the seeds of the Ricinus communis plant, castor oil is a veritable goldmine of fatty acids. Ricinoleic acid, which forms over 90% of its composition, is the potent ingredient responsible for its unique health benefits. This exceptional fatty acid is relatively rare and not easily found in many other substances.
Historical records reflect the medicinal use of castor oil in
Ancient civilizations such as Egypt, China, Persia, Africa, Greece,
and Rome. Its use also spread across 17th Century Europe and the
Americas, revealing its age-old popularity.
...
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Black Cumin Plus Vitamin D Equals a Top Antiviral Combination GreenMedInfo
The remarkable clinical versatility of Nigella sativa
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Black Cumin Plus Vitamin D Equals a Top Antiviral Combination GreenMedInfo
Originally published on www.orthomolecular.org by Max
Langen
The remarkable clinical versatility of Nigella sativa
03:04
Get Your One Health Token From the World Health Organization GreenMedInfo
The World Health Organization and their "One Health" approach are coming for the world's food systems, aiming to meld them with health and medical fields
03:00
Q&A: How Can We See ADHD From Another Angle, and What Can We Do For Our Kids? Mad In America
In 1987, after my son Connors first-grade teacher told me that he had ADHD because he stuffed his unfinished school work in his desk, I decided to wait and see how second grade in a new school went.
When school started, Connor made new friends, got along with his teachers, and seemed to be completing his work, but things rapidly declined when he stuck his foot out and tripped a classmate. I was called to the school office where I found a scared looking Connor.
I didnt mean to hurt him, Mom, he told me, and I apologized right away. As we were leaving the building, Connors teacher said his classmate was fine, but she was tired of Connors antics, so I assured her wed talk to Connor and hed do better. But the principal had other ideas. He approached me as I was leaving and said, Either you medicate that boy or I will.
At that point, our story followed the same trajectory as many of the parents stories I read today. Connors pediatrician gave us a checklist to fill out with a home component and a school component. I didnt have much to report on the home front, but Connors teacher had some concerns, so the doctor recommended we start him on Ritalin for impulse control.
We told Connor hed be taking some pills to help him pay more attention in school, but when he asked me one night, Will those pills make me better? I felt a heavy...
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Preparing For Baby Age of Autism The Rebel Alliance!
Note: Yesterday, I was texting with
a former in home staff who is now an Occupational Therapist for
Birth to Three and school-age children. She is overwhelmed with
work. Birth to Three cannot keep up with the referrals. Schools are
dithering with pencil holding. We've been writing about the
denigration of childhood health since our inception in 2007. We've
lived it. We see it. We lament it. And we MUST do something about
it. Below, is an introduction to Dr. Cindy Schneider MD who offers
pregnancy preparation counseling to families. An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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The best time to prepare to have a healthy pregnancy is while
you're still in your mother's womb. If she could have known what we
know now, your lifelong health trajectory could have been altered
for the better, and so could that of your children. Through changes
in our DNA called epigenetics, some genes are expressed while
others are silenced in response to environmental and nutritional
variables. Are you prone to heart disease, diabetes, autism, or
ADHD? While genetics plays a role in determining these fates,
environment may play an even greater role. What your mother ate,
drank, smoked, and breathed during her pregnancy with you changed
the expression of both her genes and yours, often in a way that can
be passed down to future generations. Likewise, lifestyle changes
you make today will not only benefit you and your baby, they may
even affect your grandchildren.
As an obstetrician, Dr. Schneider helped thousands of women improve their health before, during, and after pregnancy. Her research into genetic vulnerability to environmental toxins and nearly three decades of experience helping individuals with autism allows her insight that few other physicians have. It is her belief that many birth defects and neurodevelopment delays can be prevented with proper prenatal counseling.
Although she no longer practices obstetrics, she takes great joy in working with women to achieve the highest level of health possible before conception and throughout their pregnancies. Our Preparing for Baby program involves a detailed medical history, family history, assessment of risk factors, and laboratory testing. Nutritional and metabolic testing will be recommended and genetic testing may also be indicated.
Is your pregnancy five years or more in the future? It's not too soon to begin to prepare! Too many women wait to make healthy changes in their lives unt...
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Club Random with Bill Maher Excerpts with RFK Jr Age of Autism The Rebel Alliance!
Anne Dachel has made an unofficial
transcription of salient points from Robert Kennedy Jr.'s interview
with Bill Maher under the assumption the YouTube video will be
pulled down at any moment.
By Anne Dachel
The following is a part of the two hour conversation between
entertainer Bill Maher and presidential candidate,
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The first hour of the talk
was about Kennedys position on vaccines and failure of our
government to ensure this product is safe. He explained that
vaccine makers were given immunity from liability in 1986 BECAUSE
vaccines were unavoidable unsafe, and some people were going to be
injured. He said that because of corporate capture, there was no
real oversight from our federal health agencies. Pharma literally
has oversight over itself. He stated that results from the CDCs own
study showed that vaccine injury was NOT one in a million, as we
were often told, but one in 37. He cited a 2000 study from Johns
Hopkins that showed that vaccines ARE NOT responsible for a huge
drop in deaths from infectious disease. It was instead better
nutrition and improved sanitation. He asked the question: If
the explosion in the autism rate from one in 10,000 to one in every
34 children today is NOT linked to coincidental tripling of the
vaccine schedule, then, what is the cause? He once again pointed
out that officials have never done vaccine safety trials, yet he
has over 450 studies that DO SHOW A LINK between vaccines and
autism.
June 25, 2023 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0dQD1Z6j60
Go to 20:33
Maher: If you're going to make this campaign happen, the one thing that they're never going to stop talking about is vaccines. 60 Minutes quoted me saying in 2009 or something, I wouldnt get a flu shot. You came out of the gate at 20 percent because theres just a lot more pe...
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Report Release: Why Are PFAS in My Kale? Alliance for Natural Health USA Protecting Natural Health
The federal government doesnt seem to think PFAS contamination of our food supply is a concern, but independent testing from ANH-USA tells a different story. We need to act now to ban PFAS. Action Alert!
Independent
testing conducted by ANH-USA has found kale samples
purchased at grocery stores across the US to be contaminated with
dangerous PFAS chemicals. ANHs report builds on an increasing body
of evidence telling us that the pervasive contamination of our
world with PFAS chemicals is producing a public health disaster.
The EPA and the FDA have demonstrated that they are not responding
with the kind of urgency that is required to deal with this public
health nightmare. We must act now to ban these chemicals.
For some time
now, weve been sounding the
alarm about the extensive contamination of the
environment with PFAS chemicals and what that means for human
health. PFAS, or polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of
chemicals used in hundreds of consumer products. They are nicknamed
forever chemicals because they do not break down in the environment
and accumulate in blood and organs.
Up until the last few years, we thought PFAS was a contained problem you could protect yourself from by avoiding things like nonstick pans, fast food packaging, and microwaved popcorn. But in 2019, the FDA began very limited testing of PFAS in common U.S. food items and found what we believe are alarming levels of PFAS in certain seafood.
This led our staff at ANH to wonder: Are Americans really being told the truth about our levels of PFAS exposure is food?
We decided to test this question with a pilot study that found shocking results. ANH staff purchased organic and conventional kale from local grocery stores in New York (Stop & Shop), Pennsylvania (Weis), Georgia (Publix), and Arizona (Whole Foods). If PFAS were found in kale, one of the healthiest options available at the store, we would have a clear indication of the extent of PFAS contamination in our food supply.
We sent our local grocery store kale to be tested for PFAS, hoping to confirm what the FDA states on their website as of May 31, 2023, we have found that most foods not grown or produced in specific...
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Morning Coffee Jun 27 Dr. Tenpenny
06-27-2023 Audio Track: If you prefer to watch rather than listen, click on the video below: https://drtenpenny.b-cdn.net/2023/06-27-23-MorningCoffee.mp4 In this episode of Morning Coffee with Dr. Tenpenny, we had questions []
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The Real RFK Jr.: Trials of a Truth Warrior Nominated For Plutarch Award Age of Autism The Rebel Alliance!
Please join us in wishing
luck to Skyhorse Publishing and author Dick Russell on this
prestigious nomination for a Plutarch Award for best biography.
Named after the famous ancient
Greek biographer, the Plutarch is awarded to the best biography of
the year by a committee of five distinguished biographers from
nominations received by BIO members and publishers. The award comes
with a $2,000 honorarium.
As an aside, we have been writing about RFK Jr for more than a
decade. Please don't confuse our keeping up with his work and even
complimenting or congratulating him on his work with an endorsement
as a Presidential candidate. We do not and can not endorse.
We know our readers come from all walks of life. Left, right and
center. Thank you.
Note from Author Dick Russell:
Dear friends and colleagues,
I've just received some exciting news, that my latest book -
The Real RFK Jr.: Trials of a Truth
Warrior has been nominated among the finalists for the Plutarch
Award, given annually for "best biography of the year."
And I wanted to let you know a little about why I decided a year
ago to write it. I've known Bobby Kennedy Jr for more than twenty
years, when I was putting together my books "Eye of the Whale" and
then "Striper Wars: An American Fish Story." We were both activists
in protecting the habitats of the amazing gray whales and Atlantic
striped bass and went on to collaborate on other environmental
campaigns. Bobby wrote the introductions for two editions of my
book exposing the fossil fuel corporate giants most responsible for
climate change.
Once he began speaking out about public health concerns, a lot of
people who he'd worked closely with for years shied away from him
and his views were suddenly no longer welcome in the media. During
the pandemic, Bobby was kicked off Instagram and labeled an
"anti-vaxxer" who spread misinformation. I knew from many
conversations with him this wasn't fair or true, that he was an
advocate for safe vaccines and a foe of government agencies being
captured by the very corporations they're supposed to regulate.
So, I decided to write a book that would chronicle his re...
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How to Identify Atrial Fibrillation and What Might Help Articles
Atrial fibrillation (Afib)1 is an abnormal, often rapid, heart rhythm that occurs when the atria, your heart's upper chambers, beat out of sync with the ventricles, the heart's lower chambers. It's a common symptom in those with heart failure or heart disease.
Afib is one of the most common arrhythmias, or irregular heart rhythms, affecting more than 2 million U.S. adults.2 While it sometimes goes away on its own, it can often become more frequent, with episodes lasting longer. Because Afib can lead to serious complications, including stroke and heart failure,3 its important to know what to watch out for and how to help prevent it.
What Is Atrial Fibrillation?
In a healthy heart, contractions occur about once per second at rest. During Afib, however, this increases significantly. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine:4
In a person with Afib, faulty electrical signals make the atria contract irregularly and much faster than normal. The atria then get out of sync with the ventricles. Blood can pool in the atrium, which may lead to blood clots and strokes. Afib that causes the lower chambers to beat too quickly can cause heart failure. Afib may occur occasionally, or it can be constant.
A normal heart beats 60 to 150 times per minute. But during Afib, the atria may contract 400 or more times a minute. The ventricles become overwhelmed trying to keep up with the contractions. They beat faster than they should, and they may not have time to fill with blood and pump blood normally, Johns Hopkins explains. There are three types of Afib:
- Paroxysmal Afib, which happens intermittently and resolves on its own within seven days.
- Persistent Afib, which persists for more than seven days. heart beating normally again.
- Long-standing persistent Afib, which persists for more than one year.
What Are the Signs of Afib?
Because atrial fibrillation causes your hearts upper and lower chambers to work out of sync, your heart may not be able to pump blood to your lungs and elsewhere in your body effectively. Lightheadedness, dizziness and fatigue can result, as can chest pain.
Afib may also feel like your heart skipped a beat or is fluttering or pounding in your chest. It can lead to blood pooling in your chest, increasing your risk of blood clots that may lead to stroke.
The condition is also known to cause heart disease and worsen the condition if it already exists, but sometimes Afib causes no symptoms...
Get Your One Health Token From the World Health Organization Articles
The World Health Organization and their One Health approach are coming for the worlds food systems, aiming to meld them with the health insurance and medical fields. The outcome will be food tokens, medically tailored meals and prescription food programs that both dictate what you eat and have the power to impose penalties if you stray too far off course.
How do you get people to break? Control their food and money, investigative journalist Corey Lynn explains. What is the weapon? Controlling your identity through digital means. The smart phone, QR codes, digital identities, biometrics, AI, and chips are all weapons being used against humanity.1 You can listen to Corey discuss this on Spotify by going to her channel Dig It! Episode #189.2
Are Food Tokens in Your Future?
It was October 2022 when the WHO announced its One Health Joint Plan of Action, launched by the Quadripartite, which, in addition to WHO, consists of the:3
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as OIE)
The Quadripartite will join forces to leverage the needed resources in support of the common approach to address critical health threats and promote the health of people, animals, plants and the environment, according to a WHO press release.4
Echoing this statement, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that a transformation of the worlds food systems is needed urgently, based on a One Health approach that protects and promotes the health of humans, animals and the planet.
Part of this is a new food is medicine agenda, including from the White House,5 which isnt nearly as holistic as it sounds. Instead, food is medicine is the phrase being used to campaign, launch programs, change policies and financing, aggregate data, tie the health care industry in with the food supply, and ultimately screen, track and control people through food, Lynn says.6
It's a smokescreen, under which more people will be ushered into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC), and similar initiatives so digital food tokens can be implemented. This allows for the...
Editor's Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published February 3, 2018.
Moving through life, most have a tendency to accumulate "stuff." You may have drawers full of pictures and mementos, a closet full of clothes you no longer wear or a kitchen full of utensils you can't remember how to use. It is a common human condition to acquire "things" from places you've been or events you want to remember.
You may often crave more room or space to live in, which may mean you're looking for a larger home every 10 years. But, what if you could create more in your life for yourself and your family by living with less?
This is the basic premise in a popular movement toward minimalism. The minimalist movement began in the 1960s in the art world, when sculptures and paintings began to focus on the art medium and not an overt expression of emotion or symbolism.1 Today, minimalism has become a tool to help you live with greater freedom in your life.2 It is not a set of rules or restrictions, but rather an approach to help reduce a consumer culture that breeds a need for goods.
According to The Minimalists, Joshua Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, minimalism is quite simply "a tool to rid yourself of life's excess in favor of focusing on what's important so you can find happiness, fulfillment and freedom."3
Therefore, you define how much you want to live without and enjoy greater freedom. There are several psychological reasons to declutter your life and bring greater organization to the "stuff" you continue to own, and simple strategies to make the process go smoothly.
How Clutter Affects Your Brain
You may think the decision to buy an item is based on logic, but far more often it is grounded in an emotional response that marketing professionals understand how to trigger. For instance, the mere act of touching an item may increase your emotional attachment to the item and your desire to purchase it.4
In one study researchers found the longer you hold an item, the more you're likely to pay for it. Apple stores are built on the premise that if you can hold, handle and use their product, you're more likely to purchase it.
As you introduce new items into your life, you assign a value to the item, making it more difficult to give it up. Assigned to an item are memories, hopes and dreams, which means that if you get rid of them you may have failed.5 Getting rid of the skinny jeans you haven't worn in years may mean you've given up hope of eve...
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Why Detoxification is Important GreenMedInfo
Visit our Re-post guidelines
Occasionally a doctor or a nutritionist will write an article and express the opinion that people do not need to use special diets or nutritional supplements to encourage the removal of toxins from the body. Their view is that the body has a perfectly designed detoxification system using the liver and our skin to remove any toxins. In theory that may be correct, but in practice it is "dead" wrong, with pun intended. Here are some questions for the misinformed:
07:49
Georgetown University Conference Addresses Invented Diseases & Overtreatment Mad In America
From CounterPunch: When a loved one dies is your grief a psychiatric condition requiring medication? Why is a vial of insulin, once produced for five dollars, now $300? Is the Alzheimers amyloid model accurate in light of weak correlations to actual improved cognitionand new treatments so expensive they threaten to raise Medicare premiums? And finally, does early cancer detection have concerning drawbacks?
These volatile questions characterized the 9th conference of PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center project, held in June.
Created by a two-year grant from Pfizers 2004 off-label neurontin settlementits Warner-Lambert unit pleaded guilty to off-label marketingPharmedOuts focus is to educate healthcare professionals about pharmaceutical marketing practices.
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07:04
From Merck To Microsoft: These Are The Companies That BlackRock Controls The Most Of Medical Kidnap
A week after an employee of the worlds largest asset management company, BlackRock, described how the company attempts to stay out of the media spotlight while buying politicians and profiting off of war (according to undercover footage obtained by the OKeefe Media Group), we thought it worth a look at just what companies does the 34-year-old company have the most control of.
As a reminder, in footage secretly recorded by undercover journalists in New York, a BlackRock recruiter named Serge Varlay explains how the investment company is able to run the world.
They [BlackRock] dont want to be in the news. They dont want people to talk about them. They dont want to be anywhere on the radar, Varlay said.
Varlay told a OMG journalist in the footage that BlackRock manages $20 trillion worldwide (its actually around $9 trillion). Its incomprehensible numbers, he said.
You can take this big f***ton of money and buy people, I work for a company called Black Rock Its not who is the president its who is controlling the wallet of the president.
You could buy your candidates. First, there is the senators these guys are f***in cheap. Got 10 grand you can buy a senator. Ill give you 500k right now. It doesnt matter who wins, theyre in my pocket.
Serge Varlay
BREAKING: @BlackRock Recruiter Who Decides Peoples Fate Spills Info on Companys World Impact
Its not who the president is- its whos controlling the wallet of the president
You got $10K? You can buy a senator"
War is real f***ing good for business #BlackRockExposed pic.twitter.com/DZIy1DuZKF
James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 20, 2023
...
07:04
From Merck To Microsoft: These Are The Companies That BlackRock Controls The Most Of Vaccine Impact
A week after an employee of the worlds largest asset management company, BlackRock, described how the company attempts to stay out of the media spotlight while buying politicians and profiting off of war (according to undercover footage obtained by the OKeefe Media Group), we thought it worth a look at just what companies does the 34-year-old company have the most control of.
As a reminder, in footage secretly recorded by undercover journalists in New York, a BlackRock recruiter named Serge Varlay explains how the investment company is able to run the world.
They [BlackRock] dont want to be in the news. They dont want people to talk about them. They dont want to be anywhere on the radar, Varlay said.
Varlay told a OMG journalist in the footage that BlackRock manages $20 trillion worldwide (its actually around $9 trillion). Its incomprehensible numbers, he said.
You can take this big f***ton of money and buy people, I work for a company called Black Rock Its not who is the president its who is controlling the wallet of the president.
You could buy your candidates. First, there is the senators these guys are f***in cheap. Got 10 grand you can buy a senator. Ill give you 500k right now. It doesnt matter who wins, theyre in my pocket.
Serge Varlay
BREAKING: @BlackRock Recruiter Who Decides Peoples Fate Spills Info on Companys World Impact
Its not who the president is- its whos controlling the wallet of the president
You got $10K? You can buy a senator"
War is real f***ing good for business #BlackRockExposed pic.twitter.com/DZIy1DuZKF
James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 20, 2023
...
06:58
Artificial Intelligence is the New Danger the Government Wants to Protect You Against Medical Kidnap
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
The Hegelian principle of order out of chaos is the principle of creating a crisis that allegedly threatens society, and then proposing the solution to solve that crisis, to achieve some predetermined purpose or purposes.
The COVID-19 Scam is probably the most recent historical example of this principle, as it was a created crisis, by advertising an alleged novel new virus that was going to wipe out humanity, with the proposed solution, the COVID-19 vaccines, with predetermined purposes which included introducing mRNA vaccines into the population who served as guinea pigs, and temporarily rescuing the financial system by bringing in a windfall of funding to the pharmaceutical industry to fight the unseen enemy, COVID-19.
This Hegelian principle is attributed to the political theories of Marxism, and only works when government authorities enforce the solutions to the alleged threats, and it can only work in a society that is divided against each other, otherwise the society as a whole may wake up to the deception and decide to join forces to fight back against the tyrants.
Here is a short clip from Altiyan Childs 5-hour video on the secret ancient religion of Freemasonry where he explains this principle. You can read more about his treatise on Freemasonry here:
Insider Exposes Freemasonry as the Worlds Oldest Secret Religion and the Luciferian Plans for The New World Order
The entire 5-hour video is well worth your time! This is on our Bitchute channel and is less than 3 minutes.
The new threat to humanity that the U.S. Government is currently rushing forward to protect us all from, is the alleged threat from Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The threat of AI is generally published through...
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Artificial Intelligence is the New Danger the Government Wants to Protect You Against Vaccine Impact
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
The Hegelian principle of order out of chaos is the principle of creating a crisis that allegedly threatens society, and then proposing the solution to solve that crisis, to achieve some predetermined purpose or purposes.
The COVID-19 Scam is probably the most recent historical example of this principle, as it was a created crisis, by advertising an alleged novel new virus that was going to wipe out humanity, with the proposed solution, the COVID-19 vaccines, with predetermined purposes which included introducing mRNA vaccines into the population who served as guinea pigs, and temporarily rescuing the financial system by bringing in a windfall of funding to the pharmaceutical industry to fight the unseen enemy, COVID-19.
This Hegelian principle is attributed to the political theories of Marxism, and only works when government authorities enforce the solutions to the alleged threats, and it can only work in a society that is divided against each other, otherwise the society as a whole may wake up to the deception and decide to join forces to fight back against the tyrants.
Here is a short clip from Altiyan Childs 5-hour video on the secret ancient religion of Freemasonry where he explains this principle. You can read more about his treatise on Freemasonry here:
Insider Exposes Freemasonry as the Worlds Oldest Secret Religion and the Luciferian Plans for The New World Order
The entire 5-hour video is well worth your time! This is on our Bitchute channel and is less than 3 minutes.
The new threat to humanity that the U.S. Government is currently rushing forward to protect us all from, is the alleged threat from Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The threat of AI is generally published through...
06:53
Powerful study shows cardiovascular risk from drinking alcohol Skeptical Raptor
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.
A peer-reviewed examined over 400,000 medical records which showed a link between drinking alcohol and risk of cardiovascular disease.
06:33
From Merck To Microsoft: These Are The Companies That BlackRock Controls The Most Of Health Impact News
A week after an employee of the worlds largest asset management company, BlackRock, described how the company attempts to stay out of the media spotlight while buying politicians and profiting off of war (according to undercover footage obtained by the OKeefe Media Group), we thought it worth a look at just what companies does the 34-year-old company have the most control of.
As a reminder, in footage secretly recorded by undercover journalists in New York, a BlackRock recruiter named Serge Varlay explains how the investment company is able to run the world.
They [BlackRock] dont want to be in the news. They dont want people to talk about them. They dont want to be anywhere on the radar, Varlay said.
Varlay told a OMG journalist in the footage that BlackRock manages $20 trillion worldwide (its actually around $9 trillion). Its incomprehensible numbers, he said.
You can take this big f***ton of money and buy people, I work for a company called Black Rock Its not who is the president its who is controlling the wallet of the president.
You could buy your candidates. First, there is the senators these guys are f***in cheap. Got 10 grand you can buy a senator. Ill give you 500k right now. It doesnt matter who wins, theyre in my pocket.
Serge Varlay
BREAKING: @BlackRock Recruiter Who Decides Peoples Fate Spills Info on Companys World Impact
Its not who the president is- its whos controlling the wallet of the president
You got $10K? You can buy a senator"
War is real f***ing good for business #BlackRockExposed pic.twitter.com/DZIy1DuZKF...
06:31
Fired OSU postdoc charged with forgery admitted to faking data, feds say Retraction Watch
A cancer researcher who was terminated from one postdoc position and resigned another faked data in multiple papers and grant applications, according to the U.S. Office of Research Integrity.
ORI found that Yiorgos (Georgios) I. Laliotis engaged in research misconduct by intentionally and knowingly falsifying and/or fabricating data, methods, results, and conclusions in three published papers and two applications for grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The findings were based on Laliotis own admissions as well as reports from The Ohio State University and Johns Hopkins University.
As weve previously reported, Ohio State terminated Laliotis from his postdoc position in November of 2021, and he apparently resigned from another postdoc position at Johns Hopkins University that same month. Whether both universities employed him at the same time is unclear.
Laliotis has also been charged in Franklin County, Ohio home to Ohio State with forgery, identity theft, and telecommunications fraud in connection with allegations he created a fake email address in the name of Philip Tsichlis, his PI at Ohio State, and used it to send letters of recommen...
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Is Berberine a safe and effective replacement for Ozempic? Skeptical Raptor
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.
With the shortage of the weight loss drug Ozempic (semaglutide), people are pushing the supplement berberine as a replacement.
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Artificial Intelligence is the New Danger the Government Wants to Protect You Against Health Impact News
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
The Hegelian principle of order out of chaos is the principle of creating a crisis that allegedly threatens society, and then proposing the solution to solve that crisis, to achieve some predetermined purpose or purposes.
The COVID-19 Scam is probably the most recent historical example of this principle, as it was a created crisis, by advertising an alleged novel new virus that was going to wipe out humanity, with the proposed solution, the COVID-19 vaccines, with predetermined purposes which included introducing mRNA vaccines into the population who served as guinea pigs, and temporarily rescuing the financial system by bringing in a windfall of funding to the pharmaceutical industry to fight the unseen enemy, COVID-19.
This Hegelian principle is attributed to the political theories of Marxism, and only works when government authorities enforce the solutions to the alleged threats, and it can only work in a society that is divided against each other, otherwise the society as a whole may wake up to the deception and decide to join forces to fight back against the tyrants.
Here is a short clip from Altiyan Childs 5-hour video on the secret ancient religion of Freemasonry where he explains this principle. You can read more about his treatise on Freemasonry here:
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Summer Staycation or Break? Age of Autism The Rebel Alliance!
Each Summer, we ask readers to chime in
on their children's Extended School Year services, or now that many
of us have adult children with autism, their Summer as an
adult.
Summer for many of us growing up meant a well earned break from
school, a day or sleep over camp, perhaps a vacation (fancy or not)
with family, picnics, a Summer job. Good stuff. Fun stuff.
The seasons can become a blur when you're caring for a loved one
with autism. Tot, to teen to adult. Take the opportunity to tell us
what you have, wish you had, need. XOX
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Horowitz: Confidential Pfizer Document Shows the Company Observed 1.6 Million Adverse Events Covering Nearly Every Organ GreenMedInfo
Over 10,000 categories of nearly 1.6 million adverse events - many of them serious and debilitating - brought to you by Pfizer!
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Horowitz: Confidential Pfizer Document Shows the Company Observed 1.6 Million Adverse Events Covering Nearly Every Organ GreenMedInfo
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Originally published on www.conservativereview.com
by Daniel Horowitz
Over 10,000 categories of nearly 1.6 million adverse events - many of them serious and debilitating - brought to you by Pfizer!
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Nine) Mad In America
Editors Note: Over the next several months, Mad in Gtzsches book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. In this blog, he describes more harms caused by depression pills, including akathisia and its connection to homicide, as well as dementia and sexual dysfunction. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here.
More about SSRIs and SNRIs causing homicide
Some critical psychiatrists believe that the suicide risk has been better documented than the homicide risk. Perhaps so, but the main reason is that SSRIs and SNRIs cause suicide much more commonly than they cause homicide, which is therefore more difficult to prove.
The evidence, which I have described in detail in another book,7:103 is nonetheless overwhelming.2,6,7,21,401,402
The main mechanisms of action are that depression pills
can cause akathisia, emotional blunting and psychosis. Many people
who have committed homicide were, by all objective and subjective
measures, completely normal before the act, with no precipitating
factors; they had akathisia; and they returned to their normal
personality when they came off the offending
drug.135,402
There are numerous reports in the literature and on websites that people of all ages have killed other people or came close to it after having experienced akathisia. Many of these people were healthy and had been prescribed the drug for non-disease-related reasons, e.g. for fun, stress, distress, insomnia, worry, harassment at work, family problems, or economic problems.2,6,277,402
In many cases, the treatment provided by the psychiatrists constituted medical malpractice and contributed directly to the violent actions. I...
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Bee sting with stinger still in place Youd have to look far and wide for someone who hasnt been stung by an insect at one point or another. Its not pleasant in any situation, but bees and wasps can inflict some real discomfort if you run afoul of them. In a small minority of[Read More]
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Doctor Explains Why They Believe Women Definitely Shouldnt Pee In The Shower Healthy Holistic Living
The ongoing discourse regarding whether or not to pee in the shower has spurred a variety of responses. Many individuals argue in favor of this act, pointing towards the significant water savings it yields. However, a medical perspective provided by Dr. Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas, a pelvic health specialist, cautions against this practice, particularly for those assigned female at birth.
In this article, we will explore this issue in-depth, outlining the pros and cons, the health implications, and the significant water savings involved. By the end, you should have a well-rounded understanding of the debate and be able to make an informed decision.
Understanding the Water Saving Argument
One of the most compelling reasons for peeing in the shower is the potential for substantial water conservation. By syncing your daily shower with a single instance of urination, you could save up to 2,190 liters (579 gallons) of toilet water annually. If the entire population of the US adopted this practice, the resulting water savings would amount to 699 billion liters (185 billion gallons) annually. These figures indicate a considerable environmental benefit if everyone were to take part in this seemingly unconventional habit.
But does this habit carry any health risks?
The Health Implications: Understanding Your Pelvic Floor
While the water-saving argument seems persuasive, its essential to examine the potential health implications.
Dr. Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas, a leading expert on pelvic health, addresses the issue in her TikTok video . She explains the potential harm to ones pelvic floor and bladder fitness when peeing in the shower becomes a habit.
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The Pavlovian Association
Dr. Jeffrey-Thomas makes a fascinating compa...
