Hey Mike! Really ... enjoyed? (NOT quite the word) your bit on Chauvin. I have struggled with my own... disconcerting thoughts and will definitely watch as you suggest. Please let me add what I have found to be a HUGE counterbalancing 'weight' in the event.
I respect the absolute HELL out of Dr Pierre Kory (head of the FLCCC) and have followed him since 2020... He is a senior and very respected pulmonologist and intensivist (well, he WAS, until he spoke truth about covid and Ivermectin!) He has run ERs in NYC, and is -- he wrote when I challenged him once -- VERY experienced in dealing with fentanyl ODs and drug addicts... After he mentioned in passing somewhere, that HE had been asked and served as the expert medical witness (as he had done before many times, been an expert witness) in the civil trial that resulted in the taxpayers giving various blood-related people TWENTY-SEVEN MILLION dollars! The so-called ghetto lottery!
(A TV-bit that absolutely infuriated me: in conjunction with the (wrongful, in my view) criminal trial not yet even being OVER, the cops had not been found guilty, and yet the 'civil authorities' doled out the cash winnings! The media interviewed a woman who was discussing that her teen son, standing next to her in the video, DID NOT EVEN KNOW that Floyd was his father, and Floyd had never been around as the kid grew up! So, quite the unexpected bit of change, eh? Clearly, 'buying off' the 'black community' did NOTHING to stop the rioting and burning and destruction -- worldwide!)
And, when I challenged Kory's medico-legal determination that it was, in his medical determination, the restraint position *in total*, (rather than the supposed "knee on the throat," which we all can see did NOT occur) that had resulted in in his support of the 'police caused' not mainly drug caused. (I am, I'm sure, somewhat misrepresenting Kory's very careful expert witness report.)
In his excellent book, which I strongly commend to you, "War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic" (by Dr. Pierre Kory and Jenna McCarthy; pub. June 2023) he provides an entire chapter on the Floyd 'affair' in his doctoring life, but his being asked to serve, his personal thoughts and feelings about it (including how difficult it was to have to watch the death over and over and over, from every body cam and phone video, to ascertain what was present or absent that could be medically pertinent).
(I DO try to ... stay open minded ... that Kory had provided the expert medical view (and he is an absolute expert, no qualms there!) -- but I'm pretty sure the medical review leaves out entirely the POLICE procedure view and effects. These three young cops (well, young to me!) have had their lives destroyed because of malign media, evil lawyers (notice it's ALWAYS the same race-hustling lawyers who show up to inflame the public by lying and mis-presenting information that is not yet even determined?! -- and threaten the civil authorities?), and so very very many folks HOPING to prevent or lessen rioting and burning by accepting lies and misleading / wrong direction-pointing!
Anyway, I commend to you Kory's expert witness reports; and his book (both for the larger tale of his involvement -- and for his EXCELLENT contemporaneous reporting of (oh hey! THE SAME) lying and mis-representation and flat-out world-wide EVIL that was used to herd literal BILLIONS into accepting poison-vaxxx and total tyrannical control!
I was surprised to learn Kory participated in this fiasco. I read about it a month or so ago and couldn't believe it. Despite my respect for Kory and how he stood up to the medical mainstream during the Covid fiasco, I've got to go with the pathologist on this one. He's the one who actually looked at the body and did the tests. Kory looked at videos from all kinds of positions to come to his conclusion. He had no way of knowing how many drugs Floyd had on board and when he might have died from them. The close-up video shot in The Fall of Minneapolis clearly shows Floyd throwing back some pills to keep from getting tagged with possession. Those were probably the ones that did him in.
There is an old joke in medicine that goes like this: Internists know everything, but can do nothing. Surgeons know nothing, but can do everything. Pathologist know everything and can do everything, but only after it's too late. Like all jokes, there is some truth in this one. Pathologist don't have to guess. They have the body. And they have time to do all the tests necessary to figure out a cause of death. In the George Floyd case, the pathologist went against everything everyone wanted to hear. In Kory's case, as I understand it, he was paid by the family (grifters) for his opinion. Medical experts generally give the opinion they are paid to give.
True that (about Kory) but from what I read in his book, he also didn't look at the body cam videos the police were wearing - he saw what we all saw in the media - which was pretty much "not enough."
I'm sure the body cam videos were made available to the mainstream media, which chose not to show them. Then, again, looking at how the chief of police lied through his teeth in court, maybe they weren't made available.
{shrug} I hate to be defending Kory in this... but he has 'saved' serious MASSIVE users of drugs: tolerance CAN keep what is an absolutely fatal amount for a small-time user or new user; but old-druggies can (and do!) ingest boatloads, trying to call back the high.
(Saw a vid of a NYC nurse who described a patient she'd had whom they had vented; so they had 'put him under,' as one must. But he KEPT waking up and pulling out the vent... so they'd sedate harder and heavier... and shortly thereafter he'd be pulling out the vent. NO ONE is supposed to be able to overcome (what I think of as a curare-analog!) so much sedation -- but it turned out that this WAS a long-time VERY high level druggie; They couldn't keep him under!)
As I remember, Kory has said (and it is in his book) that the pathologist who did the autopsy had NOT handled seriously massive druggies; and there is, additionally MUCH controversy (and damned little actual data/research) on just what IS a fatal dose of a variety of drugs.
(Not-so-trivial aside: can't remember who said it -- but apparently the Pharma co. that PATENTED oxy or fentanyl (I *think* it was oxy: old brain losses details...) ALSO patented all of the NON-addictive versions, so no other Pharma could MAKE non-addictive version! THEY MEAN TO KILL US!)
MarciaT, I'm not sure that's so... He may not have gotten ALL the body cams; but I believe he was not just using 'stand-arounds' video. And, I think, the lawyers would get discovery or whatever of "the other side's" materials.
And Kory is (well, WAS!) one of the LEADING pulmonologists and intensivists on the planet, which is why *I* have such... mixed feelings. I've read and watched everything he has put out (yeah, I'm obsessive and aspie). I have a lowish-level (albeit emergency medicine) medical background, and have kept generally abreast of medical news over the decades. I have found Kory to be -- medically -- sound.
(I roll my eyes and sigh about him thinking he is now 'not a liberal.' He jokes that every time he felt he had come SO far away from liberalism and the brainwashing he had undergone and is FINALLY "awake!"; he's suddenly whacked with some OTHER thing he always thought was true that turns out to be entirely false and manipulative... So I distrust him some in some areas... Alas for my angry feelings, in medicine, esp. pulmonology and intensive care... I trust him.
I DISlike that he did much research into the police procedures for restraint... and that factored into his witness statements: a LIBERAL is likely to be ... squeamish ... about the use of force in police work. So, I TRUST his medical opinion, while distrusting his ... other ... opinions.
He holds it was NOT Chauvin's knee (as is CLEAR in the various vids), but rather the overall position Floyd was HELD in: Kory even attributed MORE of the 'causes of death' to the cop sitting/kneeling on Fld.'s BACK, holding Fld.'s diaphragm pinned over the curb so Fld. could NOT roll or move to a position where he COULD draw a deep-enough breath to maintain life. The other cop holding his legs down -- also prevented any rolling for movement in order to draw breath. So, concatenation of LEGIT restraint processes resulted in a bad end.
You know how when you get whacked in the solar plexus by a hard-hit ball -- and you CANNOT draw a deep breath? Multiply THAT by you can barely draw ANY breath at all because you're pinned on the curb? AND you're filled with multiple drugs?
I furious at the g.d. burn-in-hell 'civil administrators' who threw many millions of TAXPAYER dollars in an ATTEMPT (that ALWAYS fails) to buy the negroes to not riot. I'm furious at the malign and suborned DAs and judges who BREAK the law and misapply the law and work very hard to SCREW police officers. I'm furious at the malign, suborned, and just stupid police administrators who throw their cops to the sharks TRYING to stave of riots -- that never works!
I'm (still and probably always will be) trying NOT to be angry at Kory's participation in this lynching... because if *I* need an expert witness with his skill, experience, and knowledge -- HE is who I would call! Dammit.
Hi. Mike - another home run! Glad to hear you're from a long line of Border reivers - one of my favorite Faulkner novels is The Reivers which won a Pulitzer in 1963. It's also the last one he wrote after which he "broke the pencil." His other "winner" - that I'd more aptly call a "pullet surprise" - was A Fable. He thought it was his masterpiece, an opinion not everyone shares. (Annoying autocorrect - it changed reivers into rivers - and reverse.)
From what I've read about Fauci's visit to the CIA, he went there without signing in; doesn't that mean he could deny the visit and not be in contempt of congress or any judicial proceedings? The bugger.
Re: UPF - what I would love to know is what "natural flavors" are: i.e., what can they put on a label under the term "natural flavors" that we might not want to ingest? My guess is lots of things and it's the dose that allows them to use that umbrella term, but it's used on so many things that otherwise seem okay I'd really like to be able to find out what is actually in it.
A cardiologist I once saw told me, when I brought up dense LDL versus light, fluffy LDL, that there was no difference in LDL numbers and that I shouldn't "spend a lot of silly money" trying to figure out which I mine was, but that I should avoid red meat and saturated fat. It was the only time I saw her.
That bad-lip-reading video is, as Joe Rogan would say, dope. Can't wait to show it to my British husband who despairs everything about the royal family, especially their vast numbers, all of whom taxpayers support.
Will definitely watch The Fall - maybe with a glass - or four - of neat scotch.
I had completely forgotten about Faulkner's The Reivers. And I read it years ago. But that was before I knew I was from Borderer stock. Now I'll have to read it again. Thanks for mentioning it.
Natural flavors are just that. The compounds that give various foods their flavor are extracted from those foods and sold as natural flavors. These same compounds can be made much less expensively in the lab, but if they are made instead of extracted, they have to be called artificial flavors even though they are exactly the same chemical. Kind of like natural vitamin C versus ascorbic acid. Both are exactly the same product.
I spent ten minutes looking for where I wrote "hone in" and couldn't find it. I'm sure it's there, but I am overlooking it. Where exactly did I write it?
Mike - "control (or command) f" gives you a little box at the top of any text to type whatever it is you're looking for - much easier than trying to read it all. You were talking about MD and her finding the allulose bitter.
So am I on a Mac - whatever you have on the screen for text (comments like these, the Arrow, a newspaper article) hold down the command button and hit f - when voila! - an admittedly tiny box comes up in the upper right corner (right below all the tabs you have open) that says begins with or contains , then has a skinny little rectangle to put your phrase in, and it will show the number of places it's found and you can go to any or all of them using the arrows after the box. It tells you the number of times it's found and they're highlighted in the text. Try it - it's GREAT! (like Tony. . . )
You don't have to click on the text - you put what you're looking for in the box that pops up at the top of whatever text you have open (on my Mac the box shows up on a white bar right under all the tabs I have open in the upper right hand corner). Use your keyboard to open the box by holding down the command button and hitting the f button. Does that help?
Ah, okay. I figured it out. I'm using Chrome, so it comes up on the upper left on that browser. I tried it on Safari, and it does come up on the right. Thanks for the tip. Now I know.
As far as I know, one can hone in on something . . . in this case, bitterness: according to the web, "home in is to direct attention while hone in is to perfect a skill."
I know people accept “hone in” these days to mean the same thing as “home in”, but in my book “hone” remains a transitive verb only, meaning to sharpen something already quite sharp. I work for a company that makes homing systems, so I’m sensitive about this one :)
LMHR! Loved your whole newsletter, as usual. Thanks to you, I've known for many years a high HDL to TG ratio meant fluffy LDL cotton balls bouncing around, but my various relatively intelligent (got through med school) but ignorant doctors believe I am about to drop dead of a heart attack. Naturally, I used this to get the particle test I do not need.
Oh, and my TG were a bit high this time - usually lower, but HDL 96, TG 73! ESR 3 and CRP less than 1. Total cholesterol 410 (yay! protective in women like me - over 50). And LDL-C 305.
Anyway, of course LDL-P was pattern A, though head of endocrinology (they send the biggest pain in the ass to the top guy!) said it was a problem because I have "a lot of particles." But note ESR (sed rate test I learned about from you) of 3 (usually lower, but now in menopause so maybe that). And CRP of less than one. And blood pressure that's usually something like 114 over 65. And lean and healthy. Athletic.
So, the notion that I would have oxidized LDL - with zero signs of metabolic syndrome - just doesn't compute.
Anyway, thank you -- without all I've read from you over the years, I'd probably be fat and sick. (Sick in the bad way!) -Amy
You could use your lipids for a transplant, they're so good. The more I ponder on it, the more I believe low-trigs and high-HDL are simply markers for good metabolic health. I don't particularly think they do anything in terms of protection, but they are as they are when one is metabolically healthy. The one big thing that puts me off of the LDL causes problems is that those with familial hypercholesterolemia (really high LDL levels for a lifetime) live longer than do those without FH.
Thanks -- so happy to hear this. Laughing, too! I am horrified by how so many people with stats like mine are led to believe they need to be on statins.
I've been following this very passionate woman, @holmanm, who's just great on explaining the issues with statins -- that's what she talks about pretty much daily. Because of that, I see all these horror stories from people put on statins who tweet to her. It's really tragic.
source document citation for the “Low Carbohydrate Diet Outcomes” chart: Diamond DM, Bikman BT, Mason P. Statin therapy is not warranted for a person with high LDL-cholesterol on a low-carbohydrate diet. Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Obesity. 2022;29(5):497-511. doi:10.1097/MED.0000000000000764
The truth about Floyd has always been available for those who were interested enough to learn it. No question that Chauvin ands the other officers are martyrs to the "mob". That the Chauvin trial judge acted in the way he did was beyond despicable; he should be criminally prosecuted for his rulings during the proceedings designed to deliberately deny Chauvin a fair trial.
The Chauvin case is instructive for another reason as well - it tends to demonstrate the correct actions for the individuals to take in the event that they find themselves on the receiving end of an impending "political prosecution".
I agree the judge was beyond despicable. But I don't know how Chauvin could have done anything to save himself short of leaving the country the day after it all happened.
As far as "saving himself" you are probably correct. However, as the Deep State seems determined to place him in a prison situation where he is certain to be murdered all of us who "will not comply" can draw the appropriate conclusions as to the proper course of action to take when they come for us. Totalitarian regimes rely on the acquiescence of the citizenry in order to function - particularly in the case of the US fedgov faced with a citizenry exercising their rights under the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. Solzhenitsyn made this point explicitly in "Gulag Archipelago".
PIerre Kory (who you praise) has a chapter in "The War on Ivermectin" about George Floyd. He was brought in as a medical expert to review the cause of death. It is fairly technical, but he had no doubt that asphyxiation was the cause of death. Might be worth re-reading and reconciling with this documentary information.
You wrote: "NOVA group 4 foods are not modified foods but formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives, with little if any intact Group 1 food"
Lately, I've been looking with misgivings (and a bit of sympathetic horror) at the "sudden" massive push in the low-carb/keto world of bamboo flour as a substitute for legit-avoided grains... Bamboo is GRASS!!! Grass is food for ruminants, NOT humans!
On the other new thing: if you'd like to try a small quick allulose recipe useful for many purposes: this caramel sauce is very quick and easy to make and INSANELY good! “Serious Keto” has done a video (5 min.): “Keto Caramel Sauce - Only .1g Net Carbs per Tablespoon” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g980jhFVBfs
GREAT in morning cawfee, great licked off the spoon! I don’t make / eat low-carb desserts or pancakey stuff – so I have no use for it there. But – as a wee spoon of deliciousness now and again: boyo! It hits the sweet spot!
'Serious Keto' (Steve) also did a video testing our fake/modified sugars called "Kitchen Science - Keto Sweeteners and Caramelization" (8 min.) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkLCgFn6yVY)
Yeah, me neither -- the whole 'bamboo' flour thing JUST showed up in the past couple weeks? Month? But, SO many people are SO desperate to have 'some mind of bread-like objects, that they'll leap before looking.
I've been on a deep dive into "chaffles" -- from: cheese waffles -- a totally viral 'new' thing. Company named "Dash" has a huge number of products, beginning with the mini waffle maker (makes 4" waffles). The MAIN "low-carb, keto, carnivore' entre' began as chaffles: 1 large egg, 1 half C (or C) of ground low-moisture mozzarella cheese. (Or other cheese, the moz. is identified as least 'cheese tasting' in the waffle.) Mix well, the MiniMaker heats up in a couple minutes, put HALF your 'batter' in, close lid, cook for a few min. then pull it out and put the rest of the batter in.
O.M.G.! HUNDREDS and hundreds of videos, lots of folks making "white bread" chaffles (my lunch to day was two grassfed (thin) burgers on some "carnivore" bread). Someone has made a carnivore Oreo waffle (!) and, of course, YT is filled with recipes for chocolate ones, and cinnamon ones, and and and... Then Dash has expanded... Mini griddle. Mini PIE maker. Mini Waffle BOWL maker! Eggbites maker. Mini Bundt maker. 1-cup rice maker. Some other company is now making a "stuffler" -- yup, two waffle sides and your innards, all in one go!
There's a sharp gal who has named her YT channel "Counter Cooking" -- and folks who live in tents or travel in RVs or have no kitchen or camp whatever are snapping them up like crazy!
<G> On allulose? Tastes STELLAR! They do warn that SOME folks will have "digestive" issues if they leap in too deep at first. But others say they started slowly and their guts seem to have adjusted fine
Very interesting the link to the study about hyper responders on low carb diet…I’ve been waiting for more info to become available about that. My BMI is low (17.5) and soon after I adopted very low carb/keto/paleo way of eating in 2007 my lipid profile went from conventionally normal to very high total cholesterol eg 8.2 (317) with high LDL eg 4.89 (189) high HDL 3.16 (122) and very low triglycerides 0.32 (28) …those results are the most recent ones but they’ve been similar for 17 years now as I have continued doing this way of eating. My lipid levels are tested every six months along with a load of other blood tests due to age….GP, endocrinologist and cardiologist all accept these levels as okay for me because the ratio of the total cholesterol to HDL is in the protective range. I’ve also had several CT angiograms (for an unrelated reason) and those angiograms have incidentally shown no coronary plaque or calcium.
I would still like to know more about this as I’d like to know what else affects the individual numbers. (I know Dave Feldman has done/is doing a lot of research on this in his Cholesterol Code website.) It’s quite clear that the triglycerides are a reflection of carbohydrate consumption, but what about HDL ? Once my HDL went up to 3.9 (151) and I would love to know why that was - I’d like to get it up to 4 ! But really it would be good for the majority of the medical profession to know that LDL can be benign, and probably mostly is so even in those people who do not have this type of lipid profile.
It would be nice for the medical profession to understand that LDL elevation in lean people who go on low-carb diets is meaningless. The statin manufacturers have them all brainwashed to believe any elevation of LDL is a harbinger of an impending MI, so they all panic when they see it. There are a lot of non-thinkers out there.
A low triglyceride reading in combination with a high HDL is a sign of metabolic health. The opposite is a sign of the opposite. LMHR pretty much all have low trigs and high HDL, making LDL levels meaningless.
I liked the discussion of the new LMHR study. I have fit this description ever since I went low carb in 2012. I think high HDL and low trigs are a great indicator of CVD risk. However, people like Attia go on endlessly about APOB being the one and only metric of interest and cite mendelian randomization studies as "proof". For LMHR folks I suspect APOB tracks with LDLc, I know it does for me. It would be extremely helpful if you could critique Attia's logic and show where he may be flawed. He also totally ignores the negative impacts of omega 6 fats and advocates increasing omega 3 fats to compensate. It would be nice if you could address this too, maybe at another time. Attia has a huge audience and it would be great to hear some counter arguments.
Maybe I will at some point. About ten years ago, I decided that the lipid hypothesis was bogus. Since then, I've read as little about it as I could. Forever I read every paper, but nothing was conclusive. And as my favorite quote from the physicist Pief Panofsky goes: “If you throw money at an effect and it doesn’t get larger, that means it is not real.” How many hundreds of millions of dollars have been thrown at trying to "prove" the lipid hypothesis? And it still is just that: an hypothesis. So I decided to start spending my time reading other kinds of papers rather than one bad paper after another trying to prove the lipid hypothesis.
The high APOB hypothesis is a bit different than the lipid hypothesis. Attia and Dayspring claim it's all about atherogenic particle density. APOB proteins mark all the atherogenic particles. When the density is high, they can diffuse thru the endothelium. Malcolm Kendricks thinks this is hogwash and I tend to agree. Hearing your learned opinion would be welcome.
Wired to Eat, by Robb Wolf does a good job highlighting ultra processed food and how the food industry engineers hunger, desire and yearning. It’s an easy read with good old fashioned snarky humor as well.
There was a long period of ongoing wars along the Scots-English border and this resulted in severe social disruption. Institutions, including marriage, education, and religion disintegrated, and the inhabitants just managed to physically survive--taking pleasure where they could.
Some of these survivors did manage to emigrate to the US and ended up in Appalachia, continuing their recent free-wheeling habits. One writer says that this culture is now continuously disseminated in America by coast-to-coast truck drivers.
I appreciate your being able to look at new evidence and change your mind. That's pretty rare.
I'm from a liberal educated family and I had a shock after reading The Coddling of the American Mind and The Cancelling of the American mind, to find that "liberals" can be as anti free speech as anyone.
My oldest sister, who belongs to the Unitarian Universalist Church (mostly white, upper class, well educated) says there is a storm brewing about free speech in the church family. A minister (can't remember his name) in Spokane wrote a series of papers (The Gadfly Papers) raising concern re the limiting of free expression in the name of protecting people. Very similar to the themes of the books I cited. His reward was to get kicked out and so did his supporters, including losing their income, pensions. Since I'm no longer a member of that organization I don't have any skin in the game, but I am curious to see how it plays out.
As we LMHR people say, “I’m not fat, I’m fluffy”.
Nice way to put it.
Hey Mike! Really ... enjoyed? (NOT quite the word) your bit on Chauvin. I have struggled with my own... disconcerting thoughts and will definitely watch as you suggest. Please let me add what I have found to be a HUGE counterbalancing 'weight' in the event.
I respect the absolute HELL out of Dr Pierre Kory (head of the FLCCC) and have followed him since 2020... He is a senior and very respected pulmonologist and intensivist (well, he WAS, until he spoke truth about covid and Ivermectin!) He has run ERs in NYC, and is -- he wrote when I challenged him once -- VERY experienced in dealing with fentanyl ODs and drug addicts... After he mentioned in passing somewhere, that HE had been asked and served as the expert medical witness (as he had done before many times, been an expert witness) in the civil trial that resulted in the taxpayers giving various blood-related people TWENTY-SEVEN MILLION dollars! The so-called ghetto lottery!
(A TV-bit that absolutely infuriated me: in conjunction with the (wrongful, in my view) criminal trial not yet even being OVER, the cops had not been found guilty, and yet the 'civil authorities' doled out the cash winnings! The media interviewed a woman who was discussing that her teen son, standing next to her in the video, DID NOT EVEN KNOW that Floyd was his father, and Floyd had never been around as the kid grew up! So, quite the unexpected bit of change, eh? Clearly, 'buying off' the 'black community' did NOTHING to stop the rioting and burning and destruction -- worldwide!)
And, when I challenged Kory's medico-legal determination that it was, in his medical determination, the restraint position *in total*, (rather than the supposed "knee on the throat," which we all can see did NOT occur) that had resulted in in his support of the 'police caused' not mainly drug caused. (I am, I'm sure, somewhat misrepresenting Kory's very careful expert witness report.)
On his substack, (which, noting a possible conflict: I support financially), Kory provides his expert witness report. https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/expert-witness-testimony-of-the-george
In his excellent book, which I strongly commend to you, "War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic" (by Dr. Pierre Kory and Jenna McCarthy; pub. June 2023) he provides an entire chapter on the Floyd 'affair' in his doctoring life, but his being asked to serve, his personal thoughts and feelings about it (including how difficult it was to have to watch the death over and over and over, from every body cam and phone video, to ascertain what was present or absent that could be medically pertinent).
(I DO try to ... stay open minded ... that Kory had provided the expert medical view (and he is an absolute expert, no qualms there!) -- but I'm pretty sure the medical review leaves out entirely the POLICE procedure view and effects. These three young cops (well, young to me!) have had their lives destroyed because of malign media, evil lawyers (notice it's ALWAYS the same race-hustling lawyers who show up to inflame the public by lying and mis-presenting information that is not yet even determined?! -- and threaten the civil authorities?), and so very very many folks HOPING to prevent or lessen rioting and burning by accepting lies and misleading / wrong direction-pointing!
Anyway, I commend to you Kory's expert witness reports; and his book (both for the larger tale of his involvement -- and for his EXCELLENT contemporaneous reporting of (oh hey! THE SAME) lying and mis-representation and flat-out world-wide EVIL that was used to herd literal BILLIONS into accepting poison-vaxxx and total tyrannical control!
I was surprised to learn Kory participated in this fiasco. I read about it a month or so ago and couldn't believe it. Despite my respect for Kory and how he stood up to the medical mainstream during the Covid fiasco, I've got to go with the pathologist on this one. He's the one who actually looked at the body and did the tests. Kory looked at videos from all kinds of positions to come to his conclusion. He had no way of knowing how many drugs Floyd had on board and when he might have died from them. The close-up video shot in The Fall of Minneapolis clearly shows Floyd throwing back some pills to keep from getting tagged with possession. Those were probably the ones that did him in.
There is an old joke in medicine that goes like this: Internists know everything, but can do nothing. Surgeons know nothing, but can do everything. Pathologist know everything and can do everything, but only after it's too late. Like all jokes, there is some truth in this one. Pathologist don't have to guess. They have the body. And they have time to do all the tests necessary to figure out a cause of death. In the George Floyd case, the pathologist went against everything everyone wanted to hear. In Kory's case, as I understand it, he was paid by the family (grifters) for his opinion. Medical experts generally give the opinion they are paid to give.
True that (about Kory) but from what I read in his book, he also didn't look at the body cam videos the police were wearing - he saw what we all saw in the media - which was pretty much "not enough."
I'm sure the body cam videos were made available to the mainstream media, which chose not to show them. Then, again, looking at how the chief of police lied through his teeth in court, maybe they weren't made available.
{shrug} I hate to be defending Kory in this... but he has 'saved' serious MASSIVE users of drugs: tolerance CAN keep what is an absolutely fatal amount for a small-time user or new user; but old-druggies can (and do!) ingest boatloads, trying to call back the high.
(Saw a vid of a NYC nurse who described a patient she'd had whom they had vented; so they had 'put him under,' as one must. But he KEPT waking up and pulling out the vent... so they'd sedate harder and heavier... and shortly thereafter he'd be pulling out the vent. NO ONE is supposed to be able to overcome (what I think of as a curare-analog!) so much sedation -- but it turned out that this WAS a long-time VERY high level druggie; They couldn't keep him under!)
As I remember, Kory has said (and it is in his book) that the pathologist who did the autopsy had NOT handled seriously massive druggies; and there is, additionally MUCH controversy (and damned little actual data/research) on just what IS a fatal dose of a variety of drugs.
(Not-so-trivial aside: can't remember who said it -- but apparently the Pharma co. that PATENTED oxy or fentanyl (I *think* it was oxy: old brain losses details...) ALSO patented all of the NON-addictive versions, so no other Pharma could MAKE non-addictive version! THEY MEAN TO KILL US!)
MarciaT, I'm not sure that's so... He may not have gotten ALL the body cams; but I believe he was not just using 'stand-arounds' video. And, I think, the lawyers would get discovery or whatever of "the other side's" materials.
And Kory is (well, WAS!) one of the LEADING pulmonologists and intensivists on the planet, which is why *I* have such... mixed feelings. I've read and watched everything he has put out (yeah, I'm obsessive and aspie). I have a lowish-level (albeit emergency medicine) medical background, and have kept generally abreast of medical news over the decades. I have found Kory to be -- medically -- sound.
(I roll my eyes and sigh about him thinking he is now 'not a liberal.' He jokes that every time he felt he had come SO far away from liberalism and the brainwashing he had undergone and is FINALLY "awake!"; he's suddenly whacked with some OTHER thing he always thought was true that turns out to be entirely false and manipulative... So I distrust him some in some areas... Alas for my angry feelings, in medicine, esp. pulmonology and intensive care... I trust him.
I DISlike that he did much research into the police procedures for restraint... and that factored into his witness statements: a LIBERAL is likely to be ... squeamish ... about the use of force in police work. So, I TRUST his medical opinion, while distrusting his ... other ... opinions.
He holds it was NOT Chauvin's knee (as is CLEAR in the various vids), but rather the overall position Floyd was HELD in: Kory even attributed MORE of the 'causes of death' to the cop sitting/kneeling on Fld.'s BACK, holding Fld.'s diaphragm pinned over the curb so Fld. could NOT roll or move to a position where he COULD draw a deep-enough breath to maintain life. The other cop holding his legs down -- also prevented any rolling for movement in order to draw breath. So, concatenation of LEGIT restraint processes resulted in a bad end.
You know how when you get whacked in the solar plexus by a hard-hit ball -- and you CANNOT draw a deep breath? Multiply THAT by you can barely draw ANY breath at all because you're pinned on the curb? AND you're filled with multiple drugs?
I furious at the g.d. burn-in-hell 'civil administrators' who threw many millions of TAXPAYER dollars in an ATTEMPT (that ALWAYS fails) to buy the negroes to not riot. I'm furious at the malign and suborned DAs and judges who BREAK the law and misapply the law and work very hard to SCREW police officers. I'm furious at the malign, suborned, and just stupid police administrators who throw their cops to the sharks TRYING to stave of riots -- that never works!
I'm (still and probably always will be) trying NOT to be angry at Kory's participation in this lynching... because if *I* need an expert witness with his skill, experience, and knowledge -- HE is who I would call! Dammit.
I love the old joke about medicine.
On your poll, I think "Majestic!" should have been "Made me ripple!"
I'll consider it in future polls. But I couldn't find it defined anywhere.
There's always, "fondled my jelly babies," or "rubbed my tic-tacs."
Hi. Mike - another home run! Glad to hear you're from a long line of Border reivers - one of my favorite Faulkner novels is The Reivers which won a Pulitzer in 1963. It's also the last one he wrote after which he "broke the pencil." His other "winner" - that I'd more aptly call a "pullet surprise" - was A Fable. He thought it was his masterpiece, an opinion not everyone shares. (Annoying autocorrect - it changed reivers into rivers - and reverse.)
From what I've read about Fauci's visit to the CIA, he went there without signing in; doesn't that mean he could deny the visit and not be in contempt of congress or any judicial proceedings? The bugger.
Re: UPF - what I would love to know is what "natural flavors" are: i.e., what can they put on a label under the term "natural flavors" that we might not want to ingest? My guess is lots of things and it's the dose that allows them to use that umbrella term, but it's used on so many things that otherwise seem okay I'd really like to be able to find out what is actually in it.
A cardiologist I once saw told me, when I brought up dense LDL versus light, fluffy LDL, that there was no difference in LDL numbers and that I shouldn't "spend a lot of silly money" trying to figure out which I mine was, but that I should avoid red meat and saturated fat. It was the only time I saw her.
That bad-lip-reading video is, as Joe Rogan would say, dope. Can't wait to show it to my British husband who despairs everything about the royal family, especially their vast numbers, all of whom taxpayers support.
Will definitely watch The Fall - maybe with a glass - or four - of neat scotch.
Only one I found (but some others may find more):
And it’s not as bad a some.
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Fixed the typo. Thanks.
I had completely forgotten about Faulkner's The Reivers. And I read it years ago. But that was before I knew I was from Borderer stock. Now I'll have to read it again. Thanks for mentioning it.
Natural flavors are just that. The compounds that give various foods their flavor are extracted from those foods and sold as natural flavors. These same compounds can be made much less expensively in the lab, but if they are made instead of extracted, they have to be called artificial flavors even though they are exactly the same chemical. Kind of like natural vitamin C versus ascorbic acid. Both are exactly the same product.
I did see a “hone in” in there.
I spent ten minutes looking for where I wrote "hone in" and couldn't find it. I'm sure it's there, but I am overlooking it. Where exactly did I write it?
Mike - "control (or command) f" gives you a little box at the top of any text to type whatever it is you're looking for - much easier than trying to read it all. You were talking about MD and her finding the allulose bitter.
I'm still not sure how to do it. Where do I find the text to click on with Control or Command? I'm on a Mac.
So am I on a Mac - whatever you have on the screen for text (comments like these, the Arrow, a newspaper article) hold down the command button and hit f - when voila! - an admittedly tiny box comes up in the upper right corner (right below all the tabs you have open) that says begins with or contains , then has a skinny little rectangle to put your phrase in, and it will show the number of places it's found and you can go to any or all of them using the arrows after the box. It tells you the number of times it's found and they're highlighted in the text. Try it - it's GREAT! (like Tony. . . )
You don't have to click on the text - you put what you're looking for in the box that pops up at the top of whatever text you have open (on my Mac the box shows up on a white bar right under all the tabs I have open in the upper right hand corner). Use your keyboard to open the box by holding down the command button and hitting the f button. Does that help?
Ah, okay. I figured it out. I'm using Chrome, so it comes up on the upper left on that browser. I tried it on Safari, and it does come up on the right. Thanks for the tip. Now I know.
As far as I know, one can hone in on something . . . in this case, bitterness: according to the web, "home in is to direct attention while hone in is to perfect a skill."
I know people accept “hone in” these days to mean the same thing as “home in”, but in my book “hone” remains a transitive verb only, meaning to sharpen something already quite sharp. I work for a company that makes homing systems, so I’m sensitive about this one :)
LMHR! Loved your whole newsletter, as usual. Thanks to you, I've known for many years a high HDL to TG ratio meant fluffy LDL cotton balls bouncing around, but my various relatively intelligent (got through med school) but ignorant doctors believe I am about to drop dead of a heart attack. Naturally, I used this to get the particle test I do not need.
Oh, and my TG were a bit high this time - usually lower, but HDL 96, TG 73! ESR 3 and CRP less than 1. Total cholesterol 410 (yay! protective in women like me - over 50). And LDL-C 305.
Anyway, of course LDL-P was pattern A, though head of endocrinology (they send the biggest pain in the ass to the top guy!) said it was a problem because I have "a lot of particles." But note ESR (sed rate test I learned about from you) of 3 (usually lower, but now in menopause so maybe that). And CRP of less than one. And blood pressure that's usually something like 114 over 65. And lean and healthy. Athletic.
So, the notion that I would have oxidized LDL - with zero signs of metabolic syndrome - just doesn't compute.
Anyway, thank you -- without all I've read from you over the years, I'd probably be fat and sick. (Sick in the bad way!) -Amy
You could use your lipids for a transplant, they're so good. The more I ponder on it, the more I believe low-trigs and high-HDL are simply markers for good metabolic health. I don't particularly think they do anything in terms of protection, but they are as they are when one is metabolically healthy. The one big thing that puts me off of the LDL causes problems is that those with familial hypercholesterolemia (really high LDL levels for a lifetime) live longer than do those without FH.
Thanks -- so happy to hear this. Laughing, too! I am horrified by how so many people with stats like mine are led to believe they need to be on statins.
I've been following this very passionate woman, @holmanm, who's just great on explaining the issues with statins -- that's what she talks about pretty much daily. Because of that, I see all these horror stories from people put on statins who tweet to her. It's really tragic.
source document citation for the “Low Carbohydrate Diet Outcomes” chart: Diamond DM, Bikman BT, Mason P. Statin therapy is not warranted for a person with high LDL-cholesterol on a low-carbohydrate diet. Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Obesity. 2022;29(5):497-511. doi:10.1097/MED.0000000000000764
Yep, that's it. I thought I had pulled it from a Bikman or Diamond talk, but I guess it was from that paper. Thanks.
The truth about Floyd has always been available for those who were interested enough to learn it. No question that Chauvin ands the other officers are martyrs to the "mob". That the Chauvin trial judge acted in the way he did was beyond despicable; he should be criminally prosecuted for his rulings during the proceedings designed to deliberately deny Chauvin a fair trial.
The Chauvin case is instructive for another reason as well - it tends to demonstrate the correct actions for the individuals to take in the event that they find themselves on the receiving end of an impending "political prosecution".
I agree the judge was beyond despicable. But I don't know how Chauvin could have done anything to save himself short of leaving the country the day after it all happened.
As far as "saving himself" you are probably correct. However, as the Deep State seems determined to place him in a prison situation where he is certain to be murdered all of us who "will not comply" can draw the appropriate conclusions as to the proper course of action to take when they come for us. Totalitarian regimes rely on the acquiescence of the citizenry in order to function - particularly in the case of the US fedgov faced with a citizenry exercising their rights under the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. Solzhenitsyn made this point explicitly in "Gulag Archipelago".
PIerre Kory (who you praise) has a chapter in "The War on Ivermectin" about George Floyd. He was brought in as a medical expert to review the cause of death. It is fairly technical, but he had no doubt that asphyxiation was the cause of death. Might be worth re-reading and reconciling with this documentary information.
I opined on Kory's report in a previous comment.
You wrote: "NOVA group 4 foods are not modified foods but formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives, with little if any intact Group 1 food"
Lately, I've been looking with misgivings (and a bit of sympathetic horror) at the "sudden" massive push in the low-carb/keto world of bamboo flour as a substitute for legit-avoided grains... Bamboo is GRASS!!! Grass is food for ruminants, NOT humans!
On the other new thing: if you'd like to try a small quick allulose recipe useful for many purposes: this caramel sauce is very quick and easy to make and INSANELY good! “Serious Keto” has done a video (5 min.): “Keto Caramel Sauce - Only .1g Net Carbs per Tablespoon” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g980jhFVBfs
GREAT in morning cawfee, great licked off the spoon! I don’t make / eat low-carb desserts or pancakey stuff – so I have no use for it there. But – as a wee spoon of deliciousness now and again: boyo! It hits the sweet spot!
'Serious Keto' (Steve) also did a video testing our fake/modified sugars called "Kitchen Science - Keto Sweeteners and Caramelization" (8 min.) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkLCgFn6yVY)
You're ahead of me. I've never heard of bamboo flour. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wheat is a grass, too.
Took a look at the allulose caramel recipe. Looks pretty good.
Yeah, me neither -- the whole 'bamboo' flour thing JUST showed up in the past couple weeks? Month? But, SO many people are SO desperate to have 'some mind of bread-like objects, that they'll leap before looking.
I've been on a deep dive into "chaffles" -- from: cheese waffles -- a totally viral 'new' thing. Company named "Dash" has a huge number of products, beginning with the mini waffle maker (makes 4" waffles). The MAIN "low-carb, keto, carnivore' entre' began as chaffles: 1 large egg, 1 half C (or C) of ground low-moisture mozzarella cheese. (Or other cheese, the moz. is identified as least 'cheese tasting' in the waffle.) Mix well, the MiniMaker heats up in a couple minutes, put HALF your 'batter' in, close lid, cook for a few min. then pull it out and put the rest of the batter in.
O.M.G.! HUNDREDS and hundreds of videos, lots of folks making "white bread" chaffles (my lunch to day was two grassfed (thin) burgers on some "carnivore" bread). Someone has made a carnivore Oreo waffle (!) and, of course, YT is filled with recipes for chocolate ones, and cinnamon ones, and and and... Then Dash has expanded... Mini griddle. Mini PIE maker. Mini Waffle BOWL maker! Eggbites maker. Mini Bundt maker. 1-cup rice maker. Some other company is now making a "stuffler" -- yup, two waffle sides and your innards, all in one go!
There's a sharp gal who has named her YT channel "Counter Cooking" -- and folks who live in tents or travel in RVs or have no kitchen or camp whatever are snapping them up like crazy!
<G> On allulose? Tastes STELLAR! They do warn that SOME folks will have "digestive" issues if they leap in too deep at first. But others say they started slowly and their guts seem to have adjusted fine
Very interesting the link to the study about hyper responders on low carb diet…I’ve been waiting for more info to become available about that. My BMI is low (17.5) and soon after I adopted very low carb/keto/paleo way of eating in 2007 my lipid profile went from conventionally normal to very high total cholesterol eg 8.2 (317) with high LDL eg 4.89 (189) high HDL 3.16 (122) and very low triglycerides 0.32 (28) …those results are the most recent ones but they’ve been similar for 17 years now as I have continued doing this way of eating. My lipid levels are tested every six months along with a load of other blood tests due to age….GP, endocrinologist and cardiologist all accept these levels as okay for me because the ratio of the total cholesterol to HDL is in the protective range. I’ve also had several CT angiograms (for an unrelated reason) and those angiograms have incidentally shown no coronary plaque or calcium.
I would still like to know more about this as I’d like to know what else affects the individual numbers. (I know Dave Feldman has done/is doing a lot of research on this in his Cholesterol Code website.) It’s quite clear that the triglycerides are a reflection of carbohydrate consumption, but what about HDL ? Once my HDL went up to 3.9 (151) and I would love to know why that was - I’d like to get it up to 4 ! But really it would be good for the majority of the medical profession to know that LDL can be benign, and probably mostly is so even in those people who do not have this type of lipid profile.
It would be nice for the medical profession to understand that LDL elevation in lean people who go on low-carb diets is meaningless. The statin manufacturers have them all brainwashed to believe any elevation of LDL is a harbinger of an impending MI, so they all panic when they see it. There are a lot of non-thinkers out there.
A low triglyceride reading in combination with a high HDL is a sign of metabolic health. The opposite is a sign of the opposite. LMHR pretty much all have low trigs and high HDL, making LDL levels meaningless.
I will definitely watch all the videos and the link. Thank you.
My starting point is different than yours... I would always try to "back the blue"
The Floyd case seemed to always have the feeling of a smarmy political hijack.
I more or less back the blue in general. It's individual cops I've had issues with.
Well, then, we agree. There are bad cops. There are bad doctors.
I am a lawyer. There are bad lawyers :)
Yep, there are bad lawyers. And they give the other 2 percent a bad name. :)
A low blow there,
It's funny everyone hates lawyers until they need one..... then they want the baddest ass they can afford.
I agree. A good lawyer is worth his/her weight in gold.
I liked the discussion of the new LMHR study. I have fit this description ever since I went low carb in 2012. I think high HDL and low trigs are a great indicator of CVD risk. However, people like Attia go on endlessly about APOB being the one and only metric of interest and cite mendelian randomization studies as "proof". For LMHR folks I suspect APOB tracks with LDLc, I know it does for me. It would be extremely helpful if you could critique Attia's logic and show where he may be flawed. He also totally ignores the negative impacts of omega 6 fats and advocates increasing omega 3 fats to compensate. It would be nice if you could address this too, maybe at another time. Attia has a huge audience and it would be great to hear some counter arguments.
Maybe I will at some point. About ten years ago, I decided that the lipid hypothesis was bogus. Since then, I've read as little about it as I could. Forever I read every paper, but nothing was conclusive. And as my favorite quote from the physicist Pief Panofsky goes: “If you throw money at an effect and it doesn’t get larger, that means it is not real.” How many hundreds of millions of dollars have been thrown at trying to "prove" the lipid hypothesis? And it still is just that: an hypothesis. So I decided to start spending my time reading other kinds of papers rather than one bad paper after another trying to prove the lipid hypothesis.
The high APOB hypothesis is a bit different than the lipid hypothesis. Attia and Dayspring claim it's all about atherogenic particle density. APOB proteins mark all the atherogenic particles. When the density is high, they can diffuse thru the endothelium. Malcolm Kendricks thinks this is hogwash and I tend to agree. Hearing your learned opinion would be welcome.
Wired to Eat, by Robb Wolf does a good job highlighting ultra processed food and how the food industry engineers hunger, desire and yearning. It’s an easy read with good old fashioned snarky humor as well.
Yep, I read it, but it's been a while. I love Robb's snarky humor.
About the "Borderists".
There was a long period of ongoing wars along the Scots-English border and this resulted in severe social disruption. Institutions, including marriage, education, and religion disintegrated, and the inhabitants just managed to physically survive--taking pleasure where they could.
Some of these survivors did manage to emigrate to the US and ended up in Appalachia, continuing their recent free-wheeling habits. One writer says that this culture is now continuously disseminated in America by coast-to-coast truck drivers.
Well, I did work on a coast-to-coast moving van one summer while in college. Does that count?
Yes, like n = 1.
I appreciate your being able to look at new evidence and change your mind. That's pretty rare.
I'm from a liberal educated family and I had a shock after reading The Coddling of the American Mind and The Cancelling of the American mind, to find that "liberals" can be as anti free speech as anyone.
My oldest sister, who belongs to the Unitarian Universalist Church (mostly white, upper class, well educated) says there is a storm brewing about free speech in the church family. A minister (can't remember his name) in Spokane wrote a series of papers (The Gadfly Papers) raising concern re the limiting of free expression in the name of protecting people. Very similar to the themes of the books I cited. His reward was to get kicked out and so did his supporters, including losing their income, pensions. Since I'm no longer a member of that organization I don't have any skin in the game, but I am curious to see how it plays out.
I hadn't heard of it, but now, I, too, will be interested in seeing how it plays out.
Can you let us know when ProteinPower 2.0 will be coming out?
I hope sometime later this year. MD is pushing me hard.