Thanks for the Yacon write up, Mike. The serendipity... I'd actually sent that initial email to you the night before (Thursday evening my time, 15 hours ahead of west coast). You were probably drafting last week's edition at the time. Arrow arrives Friday AM for me, so I begin reading about Wegovy and when I saw the results I was like, that's remarkably similar results...so I dig deeper and sure enough, looks like GLP-1 could be the common denominator and so in a sense, perhaps we have two studies...
Like you and other smarty pants, I'm unvaxed. Pretty certain I had the 1st round C late Jan / early Feb 2020 right after arriving in Thailand (via China, on airplanes packed with Chinese). It was uncomfortable, but just weird as respiratory goes. Nasal stuff is my usual course of worst symptoms and there was almost none of that. Coughing and lots of phlegm.
3-day deal for me and I got symptom relief by having a nice Thai-lady pharmacist make "Mucinex" for me by using the active ingredient plus Tylenol.
I'm fond of telling people that for me, I've had worse hangovers.
There was no testing at the time and plus, C was just becoming reported on. A few months later testing became available and just out of curiosity, I tested neg (not detected) on PCR and positive on antibody.
I've had stuff pop up like fever and cough a few times since, always mild and lasts a day, maybe 2. So, I'm not even curious anymore.
But the expats and Thais in my circle (many many)? First, all but a few fellow expats are vaxxed. 100% of Thais I know are vaxxed. AZ was the most commonly available and some have Pfizer boosters.
I know of no serious adverse reactions amongst anyone, nor have I heard of any (Rawai, south Phuket is pretty small and nobody is more than 2-3 acquaintances removed from anyone else). Similar to your golf clubs I suppose.
However, everyone I know vaxxed has had covid since vax, including my GF and her pfizer-boosted sister. Both in bed at the same time. Not so bad for either of them and not even remotely close to my GFs case of dengue (quite common here...4 types of it and you can get all four, no cross immunity). She was high fever for 4 days. Amazed I haven't had it (so far as I know...though I did a 48-hour bedridden gig last March. Who knows?) since I get a half-dozen mosquito bites daily.
The more telling thing, at least to me, is a good number of people I know personally seem to be coming down with something very regularly. One fairly young girl (27) seems to text me a photo of her latest round of meds almost weekly.
I once visited Thailand some years ago. At a travel agency in Bangkok, I asked the Thai girl behind the counter if she could escort me on a city tour and asked her for her mobile number so I could call her to make arrangements.
She gave me a big smile, nodded her head and said, "Sex sex sex, wan free sex for tonight".
I replied, "Wow, you Thai women really are hospitable!"
A guy standing next to me who had overheard our conversation tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Don't get too excited. What she really said was: 6-6-6-1-3-6-4-2-9."
Well, of course, it depends on context and the person.
Farang (F̄rạ̀ng ฝรั่ง) is most commonly used, the informal or slang word. Chāw t̀āng chāti (ชาวต่างชาติ) is the formal word for foreigner. F̄rạ̀ngk̄hī̂nk (ฝรั่งขี้นก) ads an adjective that's derogatory.
It translates via Google Translate to guava poop, 555. But it basically means a foreigner who does not have the appearance of white, well-dressed, and rich...but, you know...'worthless and low-class.
I've never heard it used, but it's the equivalent to the derogatory stuff we all have. I can remember in the 60s my grandmother usually referred to Mexicans as "drunk Mexicans."
Hi,Dr Eades! I'm interested in trying the Yacon syrup, but I didn't see if there were any drug interactions. I do take metformin for type2 diabetes. Do you know of any interactions with that?
I have no experience with patients on Yacon syrup. Only my wife and myself. I don't know of any interactions with metformin, but you should check with your own doc to make sure.
Another enjoyable Arrow. Is the next issue the anniversary issue (104/52 weeks - 2 years!) Hard to believe, but have read and enjoyed them all. Thanks.
Typo: In some instanced your license to practice might be threatened.
"instanced" should be instances
(too bad you can leave comments next to the area where the typo appears so it is easier for you to locate and resolve - kind of a pain to have to copy the text, scroll to the end of the Arrow, leave a comment and then work your way back up to where you left off reading - just my $.02)
Shouldn't that be "too bad you can't leave comments . . ." - to which, btw, I kind of agree, but then I can see people editing his stuff all over the place, probably not the best plan.
In November/December 2020 the BBC news and other media outlets were stting that the mRNA 'vaccines' will not prevent you getting Cov-19 nor from transmitting it to tohers, it MAY, I repeat MAY reduce symptoms if do get infected. By early 2021 when the shots were rolling out around the world the injuries were there for all to see. By mid year and onwards in 2021 it was becoming very clear that a push was on for boosters to the original 2 shot deal - and still no protection and a transmission risk and shedding was becoming a question. By mid to late 2021 it was becoming very clear that a booster shot was a high risk activity and likely to reduce any immunity dramatically. PEOPLE JUST HAD TO DO THE HOMEWORK THEMSELVES - Or wing it on little worthwhile official information.
After one jar I did not get any effect at all from yacon sirup.
Few weeks ago I caught cold and took tea with honey and noticed almost sudden curb in appetite. First I thought, this is because of general malaise, but once I recovered I tested it again and honey still gave me same appetite-suppressing effect.
Now I need to figure how to align it with low carb lifestyle
The bivalent study had also "baseline charasteristics".
Total 51011 persons, out of which 20689 persons have had covid ; 40,56 % of all.
Received min 1 injection 44592 pcs i.e. 87,42 %, which leaves 12,58 % unvaxed.
Earlier infection OR injection 46340 pcs i.e. 90,84 %, deduct the above.
It remains 3,43 % of unvaxed previously infected; obviously they had no previous injection.
That means 27,23 % infection rate of the unvaxed.
Cmpr to vaxed 44592 pcs, of which covid infected 18941 pcs.
The vaxed infection rate is thus 42,48 %.
So the unvaxed entered the fall study with 27% covid history, while vaxed entered with 42,5% covid history. And the history kind of repeated itself; novax group fared better than any vax group during the bivalent fall study. Dose dependently, even that.
Maybe we could abreviate the "safe and effective", by dropping the "effective" for now.
Thank you for the information you openly share within your newsletters. I can also confirm that I have had at least two bouts of Covid whilst unvaxed. Albeit the second Covid was no where near as symptomatic as the first. I live in the UK where Ivermectin is not as freely available, do you know of alternatives that can be purchased over the counter in the UK? Recently my father passed suddenly - days preceding his death I asked him to seriously consider not getting his vaccine booster. The night after he had received this booster he passes away with a heart attack. Dad did have more than one comorbidity so we will probably never know for sure what actually caused him to die when he did. Keep up the newsletters please, I do look forward to them.
Saddened to learn about your dad. I think you are correct in that you will never know what the actual cause of death was unless he was autopsied. Which I'm assuming he wasn't.
I don't know of any OTC substitutes for Ivermectin. I doubt you can get hydroxychloroquine over the counter there, but it would probably be even better.
The best thing you can do is not have comorbidities.
Curious - you have somewhat reported with delight that Fauci & CDC director have been vaccinated 3 or 4 times but have been infected several times. An understandable shot at the efficacy of the vaccine. But, for instance, if Fauci et al were vaccinated, then got Covid, vaccinated again but again were infected with Covid, why in the world would you be surprised that your wife was infected again? Your initial take was that the first infection would provide complete immunity, despite the glaring fact that Fauci et al have have experienced multiple infections. Which you gleefully reported. Why would Fauci’s initial infection not provide the immunity you heralded?
Because the vaccine makes your body product the spike protein part of the Covid virus. The spike protein is the part that mutates the fastest, which is why the vaccines can't keep up with it. A Covid infection in the unvaccinated generates an immune response to both the spike protein AND the nucleocapsid. The latest paper I saw showed the nucleocapsid has changed only ~10% since SARS-CoV-1. Which means it doesn't mutate rapidly. Contracting Covid generates antibodies against both the S-protein (spike) and the N-protein (nucleocapsid), so that is why the unvaccinated who get Covid should have greater immunity than those who get their immunity from the jab. Of those who have gotten jabbed and get Covid, they only develop antibodies to the N -protein in 40% of cases, whereas those who are unvaxxed develop them almost always. My wife's post Covid test showed strong antibodies to the N-protein six months after she was first infected. Which is why I figured she couldn't get it again.
More politically appropriate phrase: Standard rule, general rule
Reason first phrase is bad: Although no written record exists today, this phrase is attributed to an old British law that allowed men to beat their wives with sticks no wider than their thumb."
This was a very famous joke in a cult classic movie that was popular when I was growing up.
Thanks for the Yacon write up, Mike. The serendipity... I'd actually sent that initial email to you the night before (Thursday evening my time, 15 hours ahead of west coast). You were probably drafting last week's edition at the time. Arrow arrives Friday AM for me, so I begin reading about Wegovy and when I saw the results I was like, that's remarkably similar results...so I dig deeper and sure enough, looks like GLP-1 could be the common denominator and so in a sense, perhaps we have two studies...
Like you and other smarty pants, I'm unvaxed. Pretty certain I had the 1st round C late Jan / early Feb 2020 right after arriving in Thailand (via China, on airplanes packed with Chinese). It was uncomfortable, but just weird as respiratory goes. Nasal stuff is my usual course of worst symptoms and there was almost none of that. Coughing and lots of phlegm.
3-day deal for me and I got symptom relief by having a nice Thai-lady pharmacist make "Mucinex" for me by using the active ingredient plus Tylenol.
I'm fond of telling people that for me, I've had worse hangovers.
There was no testing at the time and plus, C was just becoming reported on. A few months later testing became available and just out of curiosity, I tested neg (not detected) on PCR and positive on antibody.
I've had stuff pop up like fever and cough a few times since, always mild and lasts a day, maybe 2. So, I'm not even curious anymore.
But the expats and Thais in my circle (many many)? First, all but a few fellow expats are vaxxed. 100% of Thais I know are vaxxed. AZ was the most commonly available and some have Pfizer boosters.
I know of no serious adverse reactions amongst anyone, nor have I heard of any (Rawai, south Phuket is pretty small and nobody is more than 2-3 acquaintances removed from anyone else). Similar to your golf clubs I suppose.
However, everyone I know vaxxed has had covid since vax, including my GF and her pfizer-boosted sister. Both in bed at the same time. Not so bad for either of them and not even remotely close to my GFs case of dengue (quite common here...4 types of it and you can get all four, no cross immunity). She was high fever for 4 days. Amazed I haven't had it (so far as I know...though I did a 48-hour bedridden gig last March. Who knows?) since I get a half-dozen mosquito bites daily.
The more telling thing, at least to me, is a good number of people I know personally seem to be coming down with something very regularly. One fairly young girl (27) seems to text me a photo of her latest round of meds almost weekly.
My reply is "AGAIN!!!???"
Thanks for the email that put me on notice about the Yacon plant and the syrup. I'm eager to taste the root whenever I can get my hands on one.
Every now and then, a cool thing just comes along, stars align, that sort of thing.
I've told the whole story in a blog post that's Arrow-eque in length. Public access.
https://www.freetheanimal.com/2022/12/very-expensive-wegovy-weight-loss-drug-duplicated-by-a-cheap-andean-tuber.html
I once visited Thailand some years ago. At a travel agency in Bangkok, I asked the Thai girl behind the counter if she could escort me on a city tour and asked her for her mobile number so I could call her to make arrangements.
She gave me a big smile, nodded her head and said, "Sex sex sex, wan free sex for tonight".
I replied, "Wow, you Thai women really are hospitable!"
A guy standing next to me who had overheard our conversation tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Don't get too excited. What she really said was: 6-6-6-1-3-6-4-2-9."
555
(That's the ubiquitous way Thais write LOL. 5 is 'ha' so that's what we all write, even all us farang.)
Is it "Farang" or "Farang khi nok" as Thais are known to call some of us Westerners?
Well, of course, it depends on context and the person.
Farang (F̄rạ̀ng ฝรั่ง) is most commonly used, the informal or slang word. Chāw t̀āng chāti (ชาวต่างชาติ) is the formal word for foreigner. F̄rạ̀ngk̄hī̂nk (ฝรั่งขี้นก) ads an adjective that's derogatory.
It translates via Google Translate to guava poop, 555. But it basically means a foreigner who does not have the appearance of white, well-dressed, and rich...but, you know...'worthless and low-class.
I've never heard it used, but it's the equivalent to the derogatory stuff we all have. I can remember in the 60s my grandmother usually referred to Mexicans as "drunk Mexicans."
And so on....
I see. Thanks for the education!
For Christmas I used to always buy my dad a necktie, but now I buy him an Asian hooker.
It's better to buy a Thai that he'll actually use.
You're killin' me.
Hi,Dr Eades! I'm interested in trying the Yacon syrup, but I didn't see if there were any drug interactions. I do take metformin for type2 diabetes. Do you know of any interactions with that?
I have no experience with patients on Yacon syrup. Only my wife and myself. I don't know of any interactions with metformin, but you should check with your own doc to make sure.
Thank you!
Another enjoyable Arrow. Is the next issue the anniversary issue (104/52 weeks - 2 years!) Hard to believe, but have read and enjoyed them all. Thanks.
Thanks. Glad you're enjoying it.
Typo: In some instanced your license to practice might be threatened.
"instanced" should be instances
(too bad you can leave comments next to the area where the typo appears so it is easier for you to locate and resolve - kind of a pain to have to copy the text, scroll to the end of the Arrow, leave a comment and then work your way back up to where you left off reading - just my $.02)
Shouldn't that be "too bad you can't leave comments . . ." - to which, btw, I kind of agree, but then I can see people editing his stuff all over the place, probably not the best plan.
What ivermectin dose & timing do you take?
We took a 3 mg tab per day for five days.
In November/December 2020 the BBC news and other media outlets were stting that the mRNA 'vaccines' will not prevent you getting Cov-19 nor from transmitting it to tohers, it MAY, I repeat MAY reduce symptoms if do get infected. By early 2021 when the shots were rolling out around the world the injuries were there for all to see. By mid year and onwards in 2021 it was becoming very clear that a push was on for boosters to the original 2 shot deal - and still no protection and a transmission risk and shedding was becoming a question. By mid to late 2021 it was becoming very clear that a booster shot was a high risk activity and likely to reduce any immunity dramatically. PEOPLE JUST HAD TO DO THE HOMEWORK THEMSELVES - Or wing it on little worthwhile official information.
After one jar I did not get any effect at all from yacon sirup.
Few weeks ago I caught cold and took tea with honey and noticed almost sudden curb in appetite. First I thought, this is because of general malaise, but once I recovered I tested it again and honey still gave me same appetite-suppressing effect.
Now I need to figure how to align it with low carb lifestyle
I've grown yacon in Qld. Australia; it is too much like Jerusalem artichokes in its effect, e.g. too much flatulence.
The bivalent study had also "baseline charasteristics".
Total 51011 persons, out of which 20689 persons have had covid ; 40,56 % of all.
Received min 1 injection 44592 pcs i.e. 87,42 %, which leaves 12,58 % unvaxed.
Earlier infection OR injection 46340 pcs i.e. 90,84 %, deduct the above.
It remains 3,43 % of unvaxed previously infected; obviously they had no previous injection.
That means 27,23 % infection rate of the unvaxed.
Cmpr to vaxed 44592 pcs, of which covid infected 18941 pcs.
The vaxed infection rate is thus 42,48 %.
So the unvaxed entered the fall study with 27% covid history, while vaxed entered with 42,5% covid history. And the history kind of repeated itself; novax group fared better than any vax group during the bivalent fall study. Dose dependently, even that.
Maybe we could abreviate the "safe and effective", by dropping the "effective" for now.
JR
Hello Dr Eades,
Thank you for the information you openly share within your newsletters. I can also confirm that I have had at least two bouts of Covid whilst unvaxed. Albeit the second Covid was no where near as symptomatic as the first. I live in the UK where Ivermectin is not as freely available, do you know of alternatives that can be purchased over the counter in the UK? Recently my father passed suddenly - days preceding his death I asked him to seriously consider not getting his vaccine booster. The night after he had received this booster he passes away with a heart attack. Dad did have more than one comorbidity so we will probably never know for sure what actually caused him to die when he did. Keep up the newsletters please, I do look forward to them.
Saddened to learn about your dad. I think you are correct in that you will never know what the actual cause of death was unless he was autopsied. Which I'm assuming he wasn't.
I don't know of any OTC substitutes for Ivermectin. I doubt you can get hydroxychloroquine over the counter there, but it would probably be even better.
The best thing you can do is not have comorbidities.
Thanks for replying Dr Eades. No autopsy was carried out at the relief of the family.
Thanks for the clarification
Curious - you have somewhat reported with delight that Fauci & CDC director have been vaccinated 3 or 4 times but have been infected several times. An understandable shot at the efficacy of the vaccine. But, for instance, if Fauci et al were vaccinated, then got Covid, vaccinated again but again were infected with Covid, why in the world would you be surprised that your wife was infected again? Your initial take was that the first infection would provide complete immunity, despite the glaring fact that Fauci et al have have experienced multiple infections. Which you gleefully reported. Why would Fauci’s initial infection not provide the immunity you heralded?
Because the vaccine makes your body product the spike protein part of the Covid virus. The spike protein is the part that mutates the fastest, which is why the vaccines can't keep up with it. A Covid infection in the unvaccinated generates an immune response to both the spike protein AND the nucleocapsid. The latest paper I saw showed the nucleocapsid has changed only ~10% since SARS-CoV-1. Which means it doesn't mutate rapidly. Contracting Covid generates antibodies against both the S-protein (spike) and the N-protein (nucleocapsid), so that is why the unvaccinated who get Covid should have greater immunity than those who get their immunity from the jab. Of those who have gotten jabbed and get Covid, they only develop antibodies to the N -protein in 40% of cases, whereas those who are unvaxxed develop them almost always. My wife's post Covid test showed strong antibodies to the N-protein six months after she was first infected. Which is why I figured she couldn't get it again.
"Bad phrase: Rule of thumb
More politically appropriate phrase: Standard rule, general rule
Reason first phrase is bad: Although no written record exists today, this phrase is attributed to an old British law that allowed men to beat their wives with sticks no wider than their thumb."
This was a very famous joke in a cult classic movie that was popular when I was growing up.
CAUTION: vulgar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0BjpUhPg9g&ab_channel=Thecrazymick
Funny.
Amazon is going to have a run on Yacon syrup. I got mine...
Thanks for the mention of Richard Nikoley, yacon, and the details of your experiment with yacon syrup.
My older son and family are living in Chiang Mai. (It's a small world.)
I'll be sure to pass this part of your newsletter on to my son. He may be able to get the root locally, if he's interested.
I recommend checking out this blog, especially his latest post. He's pretty feisty so might not be to everyone's taste but the information he shares and the conclusions he draws are very worthwhile insights. https://www.rintrah.nl/the-trainwreck-of-all-trainwrecks-billions-of-people-stuck-with-a-broken-immune-response/
And here's Jeff Childers hammering it home in clearer language. I strongly recommend reading this. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-wrong-antibody-monday-december
I had seen the Childers article and the paper in Science Immunology. Not good news for the vaccinated. But was predicted by many virologists early on.