Hello friends. Greetings from Dallas. No local weather report other than it has sucked every day since I wrote last Thursday. To make matters even worse, today at the store the bus-tub buffet was bare. While MD shops, I always hit the aisle with bulk storage of nuts, seeds, etc. and run a savage burn on the little catch basins under the dispensers. Usually I come up with a few pecans, walnuts, almonds, and even the occasional chocolate-covered almond or three left by customers who have missed their sacks while loading up. The people who work at the store do not put these back in the containers—they throw them away—so they’re there for the foraging. But, alas, today the cupboard was bare.
I've been writing about aerosols here for a couple of years now. Problem with aerosols is that they don't justify the fervor for wearing masks, so they were ignored.
The top expert in the world on aerosols was shouting into the wind about them, but no one listened to her, because then they would have had to face up to the fact that masks were worthless against Covid. And that would have gone against their narrative.
Nice story on erroneus Dogma. 5 micron was everywhere in the literature. Reality, also in forgotten literature, was 100 micron. 20 times...
So the droplets theory made us wash hands and clean surfaces, which have nothing to do against airborne aerosol. 6 feet social distancing is a joke, aerosols move 10s of feels.
WHO was dead wrong twice. Both who and cdc quietly corrected themselves, but it took wayyy too long.
They seem to believe in masks, sigh. Maybe forced ventilation or uv irradiation are the only effective measures.
Regarding Bret Weinstein. I find him to be a more academic type of Bill Maher, who once the full consequences of his ideas become manifest in the culture, expresses shock at the results. The progressive left for at least 150 years has tried to substitute Brilliance for Experience. Having succeeded they now surprised and dismayed at what is happening around them, asserting that this is not what they advocated. But what is happening is a direct and inevitable consequence of their ideas. In the West they have broken and destroyed the institutions of Experience that have sustained us for millennium, and that can't be fixed. Our hope lies with those more traditional cultures who value Experience over Brilliance.
Nonetheless, chastened Progressives often have interesting observations to make from their time being part of the Select. But I wouldn't trust them to understand how we got here and how to fix it.
Yesterday was a bad day for me as our cat of 12 years was diagnosed with a stomach tumour so I needed something to smile about. I will preface my comment by saying that there are few people I admire more than you and your commitment to producing a weekly round up of information that has been invaluable. I am often mind boggled by the time you have devoted to this. However I am often amused by how difficult allopathic medicine approaches illness that natural medicine often has a cheap and effective answer to. With a fairly good understanding of natural medicine and health the whole CV scam was absurd from the start. The reaction to it was far more scary. So to my amusement. I can well understand how the idea of 5G causing CV symptoms is at the opposite end of reasonable for most people. The idea would probably rate at the very top of a list of ridiculous ‘conspiracy theories’ for anyone not familiar with a completely different understanding of energy. A starting point might be homeopathy. My daughter trained as a nurse and always considered many of the things I believed in as ‘Mum’s thing’. That was until something prompted her to train as a homeopath. She phoned me in a panic one day to tell me that she could never become a practitioner because she was frightened of how powerful it was. I have always believed that the suppression of homeopathy is a massive crime against humanity and it is in that vein I have no difficulty understanding the physical symptoms of 5G and a whole range of other things. Spanish flu was a whole different ball game. As trust in Bigpharma and the criminality and corruption laid bare in the last four years becomes more obvious I believe a whole range of therapies presently consider ‘woo’ will become known.
In my view, the proper practice of medicine is to select the therapy that is best for the patient irrespective of what "school" of medicine it comes from.
I would like to hear your thoughts/commentary on the so called “Iranian formula” for calculating total cholesterol. As I understand it, this alternative calculation is much more accurate when applied to individuals who have low triglycerides. Since the diet you advocate often results in low triglycerides, many would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Another great read! More so since you addressed some things I've been thinking about lately.
You mentioned that you need "plenty of fat" in order to make ketones (along with low insulin levels and carnitine), and that eating a lot of protein won't cause BG and insulin levels to spiral out of control. It's what I thought, but good to have that explained clearly.
So, here's an opinion that I read about all the time and I'd like your take on it. Some people say that if you want to lose body fat, you need to keep your carbs low (duh), your protein high (duh), and your fat LOW. Their reasoning is that you can *either* burn your body fat or the fat you ingest. Even Dr. Eric Westman wrote this in a recent email notification for an upcoming video.
Sure. If you restrict carbs, you reduce insulin. If insulin is low, the fat cells release fat for burning. But if you're eating so much (doesn't just have to be fat) you don't need the fat stored in the fat cells, it doesn't come out. Low insulin levels along with high glucagon levels opens the door, but the fat won't really come out unless there is a deficit.
So a specie that can make a nuclear bomb, and have zillion virology scientists(all major armies in the world) working on viruses becoming more deadly and transmissive, managed for C19 to get leaked which caused NO pandemic per Nick Hudson. And same Nick Hudson says neither it will EVER produce pandemic.
Strange wouldn't you say Doc.
Btw, how is your Ponny Tail Guy doing with his Ukranine winnning prediction? Must be eating some crow by now
I'm not sure about the pandemic in that I don't know that Covid qualifies. At least in terms of deaths. Most deaths were probably a function of poor treatment. Docs at the start were putting people on ventilators right and left, which killed many people. Had there been early treatment with the protocols developed by McCullough and others, I doubt the death count would have been anywhere near what it was. Plus, there were many people who died WITH Covid, not FROM Covid, yet they still make up part of the statistics.
As to PTG, I happened to go back to one of my old posts from a couple of years ago and found an early video of his. He said the war was going to be long and hard fought. He hoped Ukraine could win, but he thought the conflict would last a long time. In the same Arrow, I had a video with Col Doug McGregor, who predicted Russia would win the war within a few weeks. Here we are two years later and the conflict continues. I think PTG made a better call than did McGregor.
PTG is globalist shill. He scares the world about USA self isolating, and yet USA is involved in more and more wars. They (Military Industrial Comples,as Einseinhower preditcted) wouldn't allow Trump to get out of Siria and Iraq.
Russia won already (same as WW2 was won in 1943 but it took 2 more years to end it), there will be no Ukraine anymore. There were sources that knew that from the beginning. They all pointed out 2 things, artillery munitions and man power. West can not provide enough to Ukraine, and Russia is just getting started (ramping up production and new factories) . And Ukraine lost so many lives in that last offensive that they dont have man anymore. Give a follow to @adamscrabble he is the smartest guy on X and I have yet to cactch him in bad prediction.
And like one reader also suggested watch those Stones interviews with Putin I was impressed, and contrary to your impression of Putin from reading that book you mentioned before, I think Putin is the best operator there can be one. He had to invade Ukraine.
"Insulin and triiodothyronine (T3) increase the binding of LDL to liver cells, whereas glucocorticoids (e.g., dexamethasone, CORTISOL) have the opposite effect. The precise mechanism for these effects is unclear but may be mediated through the regulation of apoB degradation. The effects of insulin and T3 on hepatic LDL binding may explain the hypercholesterolemia and increased risk of atherosclerosis that have been shown to be associated with uncontrolled diabetes or hypothyroidism"
So, reintroducing insulin in the context of low-carb i.e. low-insulin environment, the number of receptors in the liver increases. Look analoguous to glut4 reseptors being invited to cell surface by insulin.
This should go both ways, explaining the high-responders rise of ldl when going to keto.
I need to study up on this a bit. I guess. Sigh. Long ago I determined (to my own satisfaction, at least) that lipids don't play much, if any, role in heart disease and that the lipid hypothesis was incorrect. Since then, I have avoided spending much time reading about lipids, especially since there is so much other really interesting and important stuff to read about.
Note that while on Crestor, Nick added extra exercise and boosted his ldl by 50 points. Now I know one reason why my ldl looks really bad...I go for bloodwork after fasted workouts. I am also low carb and a LMHR.
I don't know why the cardiologists and lipidologists are all in a knot over the LMHR stuff. Talk about lacking imagination and living inside a box. If there are paradoxes, or data that doesn't fit your model...it means your model has to change. Oh, the sacred cows!
OK, sorry if I got a little hot-headed, but this stumps me. You know that the published science on the diet-heart hypothesis is just a house of cards, with sincere researchers believing that somewhere along the line, decades ago, somebody had proven that saturated fat clogs the arteries - when that was never the case. And the same goes for viruses. You've had all those years of medical experience and I haven't, but I can't see how an experience can prove that the cause of symptom X was a virus and not some other combination of circumstances. I thought you'd mentioned that you were reading "Dissolving Illusions". OK, you listened to Cowan and Kaufman, I'm glad, but I just wish you would go to the source material! Just one virologist, Stefan Lanka, performed the usual virology experiments only in the form of the crucial control experiment - the same methods but without the supposedly infected material. And he got the same results as those showing a 'virus'. This must be looked into by serious people! I hope you'll come back to this issue from time to time. And there is no one 'alternative theory', just as there is not, I believe, on the causes of heart disease...
I started out with Lanka. He was the first person I ever came across who made the claim viruses don't exist. I found Cowan and Kaufman later only because people wrote me asking about them.
This viruses-don't-exist take on the science is completely different than the lipid hypothesis, so they are comparable.
Here's what I suggest you do. Look up measles on Google and look at all the photos. Then look up varicella (chicken pox) and do the same. Then explain to me how pre-vaccine one infected kid who hasn't yet developed the rash or pox can show up in a classroom and within no time two thirds of the class all come down with the same exact symptoms. Do they all release exosomes at the exact same time? When they look at the tissues with TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy ), which can identify viral particles including the nucleocapsid, and they all look the same, are those just exosomes theyre looking at? And when they sequence the genome of the virus, then use it to make ELISA test materials that bind only to the exact same nucleotide sequence, are those all exosomes? Finally, when scientists grow the virus in some sort of medium, then "kill" the infective part of it, then inject it into kids and they don't get measles or chicken pox, how can that be explained by exosomes.
Well the point I was trying to make is that the validity of the papers claiming to show that viruses exist and the actual reasons for the phenomena seen are logically two distinct and different things. You wish to thrash the ‘viruses-don't-exist take on the science’ and I wish to say that speculations are a secondary issue which is irrelevant in terms of the historic foundational papers for ‘viruses-exist’. If I disprove theory A on its own terms, that doesn’t depend on me waiting until I can prove theory B.
All the microscopy and genomics crumble away if the ‘virus isolation’ papers are not sound science. 'When they sequence the genome of the virus' – how do you know it’s the genome of the virus and not some other entity? 'When they kill the infective part of it' – how do you know the part was infective? These things rest on the existence of the virus and its infectivity being pre-established, but the question is, is that so? These assume what needs to be proved.
Kaufman explains in excrutiating detail how the genome sequencing for sars-cov was started between the two laboratories concerned, the methodology, and how the inputs and results were manipulated. They even have the front to call it an ‘in silico’ genome, one existing only in the workings of computer programs!
And finally, 'when two-thirds of the class come down with symptoms' – why didn’t the other third? Doesn’t that tell you there must be something else here, something that should be researched?
I didn’t mean to imply that the detailed path of the lipid hypothesis and that of viruses-exist are comparable, just that the acceptance at face value of the fundamental error is comparable. The assumption passing from one too-busy-to-read doctor to another. But you personally read plenty and then plenty more. I’ll eat my hat if you can read those virus isolation papers then put your hand on your heart and say that you’re happy the methods used are a scientific way of determining the matter and justify the conclusions reached.
I believe this is the most important medical issue in the world today! It seems Disease X, supposedly caused by Virus X, will be trundled out as an excuse for more authoritarian measures to be implemented and for all us to be bludgeoned into unwarranted medical procedures, tests, injections. So the whole world needs to know, now and for sure, exactly how this virus concept came into our lives.
Bert Weinstein doesn't understand the basic problem: active, organized communist subversion starting under Lenin in 1922 and NOT ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Economic Marxism gave way to Cultural Marxism which has now taken control of our institutions.
After 1991 the former conservative anti-communists in the US became anti-anti-communists, presumably to weaken forces opposing trade with the former bloc countries and China, etc.
Putin wants to reestablish the old Russian Empire (including Alaska) in a melding of Nationalism and Communism.
Great job Doc! Here’s the part I liked the best! Blah, blah, blah, 12 Oreos a day dropped ldl, blah, blah, blah! I’m on it!! 🙂.
Something I was hoping you could clarify for me regarding blood sugar (it’s pretty basic, and if you’ve already done so in the past, please direct me to the issue). Over the past 6 months, (2 visits to my doc) I’ve had low blood sugar, 66 one time, 69 the next. I realize this is just a little below the norm, so I’m not overly concerned, but I dug around a little online to see some of the ramifications with low BS. Doesn’t seem that much better than high BS. I am ketogenic, grain free (for the most part, with occasional visits to the “dark side”), and rarely eat any sugar. Not looking for medical advice, just a better understanding on the whole blood sugar thing.
As long as you are functional, how low your blood sugar goes doesn't much matter. George Cahill, from Harvard, did studies back in the 1960s, (which would never, ever get approved today) on people who fasted for long periods. He found he could drive their blood sugar levels down to 25 mg/dl, a level the most people would probably die from, and they did fine. Why? Because they were using ketones instead of blood glucose to power their brains.
There is this whole idea of physiological insulin resistance (that I haven't written about yet) that explains why most people on long-term ketogenic diets have high blood sugar. Not too high, but higher than one would think. I'm not sure--and haven't been able to test it--that they might be dehydrated. Folks on ketogenic diets, myself included, often are dehydrated. In my case, drinking more fluids brings blood sugar down a bit.
If I were in the 60s and had no problems, I wouldn't worry about it.
Interesting. I was on the tail end of a 4-day fast when the blood was drawn and wondered if that had anything to do with. Of course, I always do a multi-day fast before seeing the doc... trying to game the system lol. Appreciate the clarification!
A disappointing section on viruses. I thought you, Dr Eades, as someone who is intelligent and scientifically-minded, would have based your view on the validity of the scientific evidence for the existence of viruses, rather than on your dislike of an alternative theory posed by some folk. "The Science" needs to be examined as it can be bought, as you surely know when it comes to saturated fat. And it is not necessary to prove a counter-theory in order to disprove a pseudo-scientific myth.
Drs Tom Cowan and Andrew Kaufman take ‘lay people’ like me step-by-step through the papers which purport to show the isolation of viruses and demonstrate their complete lack of scientific validity – with errors including but not limited to lack of independent variables, lack of control experiments, circular reasoning and fraudulent conclusions. If you could set aside your prejudices (“these folk must be mad”) you could whip through such papers in ten minutes without any hand-holding and I don’t believe you could come out of that without seeing the fraud.
I do base my opinion on the validity of science, which clearly shows that viruses exist. In my view, the alternative theory doesn't hold water. Not based on the published science available, and not based on my 45 years of medical experience. I have watched videos by Tom Cowan and Andrew Kaufman. I didn't just reject their ideas out of hand. I listened to what they had to say. And I disagreed. That's not to say that someday there will be a major breakthrough and viruses will be shown to be a hoax. But I'm not willing to bet on it.
I have a suggestion to increase "public safety" and "restore trust in experts" (sarc), pass a law that every mask must have the product warning "Not a respirator, no COVID-19 protection" printed in large letters on the front. Let's see how many mask fanatics go out in public with that on their face!
This is kind of a rinky dink study compared to the one showing a major weight gain after going of semaglutide. Based on my own experience taking care of many overweight patients, my money goes on the most-regain-weight theory. I'm sure Big Pharma will like the study in your link.
Where were the aerosol experts during the covid nonsense? Were they hiding?
I've been writing about aerosols here for a couple of years now. Problem with aerosols is that they don't justify the fervor for wearing masks, so they were ignored.
If I were an aerosol expert, I’d have been tempted to hide too, lest they show up at my door with torches and pitch forks!😀
Yes, agree. Do I speak up like Peter McCullough and get pummeled or keep my safe life intact.
The top expert in the world on aerosols was shouting into the wind about them, but no one listened to her, because then they would have had to face up to the fact that masks were worthless against Covid. And that would have gone against their narrative.
Thinking back, no one was listening to logical thinking. Virologists were being ignored. All rational thinking seemed to have been crushed.
Here! https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/
Nice story on erroneus Dogma. 5 micron was everywhere in the literature. Reality, also in forgotten literature, was 100 micron. 20 times...
So the droplets theory made us wash hands and clean surfaces, which have nothing to do against airborne aerosol. 6 feet social distancing is a joke, aerosols move 10s of feels.
WHO was dead wrong twice. Both who and cdc quietly corrected themselves, but it took wayyy too long.
They seem to believe in masks, sigh. Maybe forced ventilation or uv irradiation are the only effective measures.
Nice story!
JR
I am not going to pay even $5 to name a cockroach, but if I did, its first name would be Anthony.
🤣🤣🤣
Regarding Bret Weinstein. I find him to be a more academic type of Bill Maher, who once the full consequences of his ideas become manifest in the culture, expresses shock at the results. The progressive left for at least 150 years has tried to substitute Brilliance for Experience. Having succeeded they now surprised and dismayed at what is happening around them, asserting that this is not what they advocated. But what is happening is a direct and inevitable consequence of their ideas. In the West they have broken and destroyed the institutions of Experience that have sustained us for millennium, and that can't be fixed. Our hope lies with those more traditional cultures who value Experience over Brilliance.
Nonetheless, chastened Progressives often have interesting observations to make from their time being part of the Select. But I wouldn't trust them to understand how we got here and how to fix it.
Chastened Progressives are few and far between.
Bill Mayer or Bill Maher? And if it is Mayer, who is he?
Just curious. . .
Maher, since corrected. Thanks for catching that.
Yesterday was a bad day for me as our cat of 12 years was diagnosed with a stomach tumour so I needed something to smile about. I will preface my comment by saying that there are few people I admire more than you and your commitment to producing a weekly round up of information that has been invaluable. I am often mind boggled by the time you have devoted to this. However I am often amused by how difficult allopathic medicine approaches illness that natural medicine often has a cheap and effective answer to. With a fairly good understanding of natural medicine and health the whole CV scam was absurd from the start. The reaction to it was far more scary. So to my amusement. I can well understand how the idea of 5G causing CV symptoms is at the opposite end of reasonable for most people. The idea would probably rate at the very top of a list of ridiculous ‘conspiracy theories’ for anyone not familiar with a completely different understanding of energy. A starting point might be homeopathy. My daughter trained as a nurse and always considered many of the things I believed in as ‘Mum’s thing’. That was until something prompted her to train as a homeopath. She phoned me in a panic one day to tell me that she could never become a practitioner because she was frightened of how powerful it was. I have always believed that the suppression of homeopathy is a massive crime against humanity and it is in that vein I have no difficulty understanding the physical symptoms of 5G and a whole range of other things. Spanish flu was a whole different ball game. As trust in Bigpharma and the criminality and corruption laid bare in the last four years becomes more obvious I believe a whole range of therapies presently consider ‘woo’ will become known.
In my view, the proper practice of medicine is to select the therapy that is best for the patient irrespective of what "school" of medicine it comes from.
I would like to hear your thoughts/commentary on the so called “Iranian formula” for calculating total cholesterol. As I understand it, this alternative calculation is much more accurate when applied to individuals who have low triglycerides. Since the diet you advocate often results in low triglycerides, many would appreciate your thoughts on this.
I wrote a long blog post on it years ago. Nothing in my mind has changed since then. Here it is: https://proteinpower.com/low-carbohydrate-diets-increase-ldl-debunking-the-myth/
Another great read! More so since you addressed some things I've been thinking about lately.
You mentioned that you need "plenty of fat" in order to make ketones (along with low insulin levels and carnitine), and that eating a lot of protein won't cause BG and insulin levels to spiral out of control. It's what I thought, but good to have that explained clearly.
So, here's an opinion that I read about all the time and I'd like your take on it. Some people say that if you want to lose body fat, you need to keep your carbs low (duh), your protein high (duh), and your fat LOW. Their reasoning is that you can *either* burn your body fat or the fat you ingest. Even Dr. Eric Westman wrote this in a recent email notification for an upcoming video.
Can you clarify, please?
Sure. If you restrict carbs, you reduce insulin. If insulin is low, the fat cells release fat for burning. But if you're eating so much (doesn't just have to be fat) you don't need the fat stored in the fat cells, it doesn't come out. Low insulin levels along with high glucagon levels opens the door, but the fat won't really come out unless there is a deficit.
So a specie that can make a nuclear bomb, and have zillion virology scientists(all major armies in the world) working on viruses becoming more deadly and transmissive, managed for C19 to get leaked which caused NO pandemic per Nick Hudson. And same Nick Hudson says neither it will EVER produce pandemic.
Strange wouldn't you say Doc.
Btw, how is your Ponny Tail Guy doing with his Ukranine winnning prediction? Must be eating some crow by now
I'm not sure about the pandemic in that I don't know that Covid qualifies. At least in terms of deaths. Most deaths were probably a function of poor treatment. Docs at the start were putting people on ventilators right and left, which killed many people. Had there been early treatment with the protocols developed by McCullough and others, I doubt the death count would have been anywhere near what it was. Plus, there were many people who died WITH Covid, not FROM Covid, yet they still make up part of the statistics.
As to PTG, I happened to go back to one of my old posts from a couple of years ago and found an early video of his. He said the war was going to be long and hard fought. He hoped Ukraine could win, but he thought the conflict would last a long time. In the same Arrow, I had a video with Col Doug McGregor, who predicted Russia would win the war within a few weeks. Here we are two years later and the conflict continues. I think PTG made a better call than did McGregor.
You missed the point, but I'll leave it there.
PTG is globalist shill. He scares the world about USA self isolating, and yet USA is involved in more and more wars. They (Military Industrial Comples,as Einseinhower preditcted) wouldn't allow Trump to get out of Siria and Iraq.
Russia won already (same as WW2 was won in 1943 but it took 2 more years to end it), there will be no Ukraine anymore. There were sources that knew that from the beginning. They all pointed out 2 things, artillery munitions and man power. West can not provide enough to Ukraine, and Russia is just getting started (ramping up production and new factories) . And Ukraine lost so many lives in that last offensive that they dont have man anymore. Give a follow to @adamscrabble he is the smartest guy on X and I have yet to cactch him in bad prediction.
And like one reader also suggested watch those Stones interviews with Putin I was impressed, and contrary to your impression of Putin from reading that book you mentioned before, I think Putin is the best operator there can be one. He had to invade Ukraine.
Forgot to agree with that Col McGregor is just babbling for views.
Hi, some additional info to oreo magic:
"Insulin and triiodothyronine (T3) increase the binding of LDL to liver cells, whereas glucocorticoids (e.g., dexamethasone, CORTISOL) have the opposite effect. The precise mechanism for these effects is unclear but may be mediated through the regulation of apoB degradation. The effects of insulin and T3 on hepatic LDL binding may explain the hypercholesterolemia and increased risk of atherosclerosis that have been shown to be associated with uncontrolled diabetes or hypothyroidism"
https://themedicalbiochemistrypage.org/lipoproteins-blood-lipids-and-lipoprotein-metabolism/#:~:text=Insulin%20and%C2%A0triiodothyronine,uncontrolled%20diabetes%20or%20hypothyroidism
So, reintroducing insulin in the context of low-carb i.e. low-insulin environment, the number of receptors in the liver increases. Look analoguous to glut4 reseptors being invited to cell surface by insulin.
This should go both ways, explaining the high-responders rise of ldl when going to keto.
JR
I need to study up on this a bit. I guess. Sigh. Long ago I determined (to my own satisfaction, at least) that lipids don't play much, if any, role in heart disease and that the lipid hypothesis was incorrect. Since then, I have avoided spending much time reading about lipids, especially since there is so much other really interesting and important stuff to read about.
Note that while on Crestor, Nick added extra exercise and boosted his ldl by 50 points. Now I know one reason why my ldl looks really bad...I go for bloodwork after fasted workouts. I am also low carb and a LMHR.
I don't know why the cardiologists and lipidologists are all in a knot over the LMHR stuff. Talk about lacking imagination and living inside a box. If there are paradoxes, or data that doesn't fit your model...it means your model has to change. Oh, the sacred cows!
They are all in a "knot" over it because they have been programmed by the makers of statins and other lipid-lowering drugs.
OK, sorry if I got a little hot-headed, but this stumps me. You know that the published science on the diet-heart hypothesis is just a house of cards, with sincere researchers believing that somewhere along the line, decades ago, somebody had proven that saturated fat clogs the arteries - when that was never the case. And the same goes for viruses. You've had all those years of medical experience and I haven't, but I can't see how an experience can prove that the cause of symptom X was a virus and not some other combination of circumstances. I thought you'd mentioned that you were reading "Dissolving Illusions". OK, you listened to Cowan and Kaufman, I'm glad, but I just wish you would go to the source material! Just one virologist, Stefan Lanka, performed the usual virology experiments only in the form of the crucial control experiment - the same methods but without the supposedly infected material. And he got the same results as those showing a 'virus'. This must be looked into by serious people! I hope you'll come back to this issue from time to time. And there is no one 'alternative theory', just as there is not, I believe, on the causes of heart disease...
I started out with Lanka. He was the first person I ever came across who made the claim viruses don't exist. I found Cowan and Kaufman later only because people wrote me asking about them.
This viruses-don't-exist take on the science is completely different than the lipid hypothesis, so they are comparable.
Here's what I suggest you do. Look up measles on Google and look at all the photos. Then look up varicella (chicken pox) and do the same. Then explain to me how pre-vaccine one infected kid who hasn't yet developed the rash or pox can show up in a classroom and within no time two thirds of the class all come down with the same exact symptoms. Do they all release exosomes at the exact same time? When they look at the tissues with TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy ), which can identify viral particles including the nucleocapsid, and they all look the same, are those just exosomes theyre looking at? And when they sequence the genome of the virus, then use it to make ELISA test materials that bind only to the exact same nucleotide sequence, are those all exosomes? Finally, when scientists grow the virus in some sort of medium, then "kill" the infective part of it, then inject it into kids and they don't get measles or chicken pox, how can that be explained by exosomes.
Well the point I was trying to make is that the validity of the papers claiming to show that viruses exist and the actual reasons for the phenomena seen are logically two distinct and different things. You wish to thrash the ‘viruses-don't-exist take on the science’ and I wish to say that speculations are a secondary issue which is irrelevant in terms of the historic foundational papers for ‘viruses-exist’. If I disprove theory A on its own terms, that doesn’t depend on me waiting until I can prove theory B.
All the microscopy and genomics crumble away if the ‘virus isolation’ papers are not sound science. 'When they sequence the genome of the virus' – how do you know it’s the genome of the virus and not some other entity? 'When they kill the infective part of it' – how do you know the part was infective? These things rest on the existence of the virus and its infectivity being pre-established, but the question is, is that so? These assume what needs to be proved.
Kaufman explains in excrutiating detail how the genome sequencing for sars-cov was started between the two laboratories concerned, the methodology, and how the inputs and results were manipulated. They even have the front to call it an ‘in silico’ genome, one existing only in the workings of computer programs!
And finally, 'when two-thirds of the class come down with symptoms' – why didn’t the other third? Doesn’t that tell you there must be something else here, something that should be researched?
I didn’t mean to imply that the detailed path of the lipid hypothesis and that of viruses-exist are comparable, just that the acceptance at face value of the fundamental error is comparable. The assumption passing from one too-busy-to-read doctor to another. But you personally read plenty and then plenty more. I’ll eat my hat if you can read those virus isolation papers then put your hand on your heart and say that you’re happy the methods used are a scientific way of determining the matter and justify the conclusions reached.
I believe this is the most important medical issue in the world today! It seems Disease X, supposedly caused by Virus X, will be trundled out as an excuse for more authoritarian measures to be implemented and for all us to be bludgeoned into unwarranted medical procedures, tests, injections. So the whole world needs to know, now and for sure, exactly how this virus concept came into our lives.
Bert Weinstein doesn't understand the basic problem: active, organized communist subversion starting under Lenin in 1922 and NOT ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Economic Marxism gave way to Cultural Marxism which has now taken control of our institutions.
After 1991 the former conservative anti-communists in the US became anti-anti-communists, presumably to weaken forces opposing trade with the former bloc countries and China, etc.
Putin wants to reestablish the old Russian Empire (including Alaska) in a melding of Nationalism and Communism.
Great job Doc! Here’s the part I liked the best! Blah, blah, blah, 12 Oreos a day dropped ldl, blah, blah, blah! I’m on it!! 🙂.
Something I was hoping you could clarify for me regarding blood sugar (it’s pretty basic, and if you’ve already done so in the past, please direct me to the issue). Over the past 6 months, (2 visits to my doc) I’ve had low blood sugar, 66 one time, 69 the next. I realize this is just a little below the norm, so I’m not overly concerned, but I dug around a little online to see some of the ramifications with low BS. Doesn’t seem that much better than high BS. I am ketogenic, grain free (for the most part, with occasional visits to the “dark side”), and rarely eat any sugar. Not looking for medical advice, just a better understanding on the whole blood sugar thing.
Thanks, as always! Keep doing what you do!
As long as you are functional, how low your blood sugar goes doesn't much matter. George Cahill, from Harvard, did studies back in the 1960s, (which would never, ever get approved today) on people who fasted for long periods. He found he could drive their blood sugar levels down to 25 mg/dl, a level the most people would probably die from, and they did fine. Why? Because they were using ketones instead of blood glucose to power their brains.
There is this whole idea of physiological insulin resistance (that I haven't written about yet) that explains why most people on long-term ketogenic diets have high blood sugar. Not too high, but higher than one would think. I'm not sure--and haven't been able to test it--that they might be dehydrated. Folks on ketogenic diets, myself included, often are dehydrated. In my case, drinking more fluids brings blood sugar down a bit.
If I were in the 60s and had no problems, I wouldn't worry about it.
Interesting. I was on the tail end of a 4-day fast when the blood was drawn and wondered if that had anything to do with. Of course, I always do a multi-day fast before seeing the doc... trying to game the system lol. Appreciate the clarification!
What a laugh fest—-from Oreo cookies to playing the white balloon!
Last week was also good. I, too, am a borderer, which explains a lot!
Cousin?
A disappointing section on viruses. I thought you, Dr Eades, as someone who is intelligent and scientifically-minded, would have based your view on the validity of the scientific evidence for the existence of viruses, rather than on your dislike of an alternative theory posed by some folk. "The Science" needs to be examined as it can be bought, as you surely know when it comes to saturated fat. And it is not necessary to prove a counter-theory in order to disprove a pseudo-scientific myth.
Drs Tom Cowan and Andrew Kaufman take ‘lay people’ like me step-by-step through the papers which purport to show the isolation of viruses and demonstrate their complete lack of scientific validity – with errors including but not limited to lack of independent variables, lack of control experiments, circular reasoning and fraudulent conclusions. If you could set aside your prejudices (“these folk must be mad”) you could whip through such papers in ten minutes without any hand-holding and I don’t believe you could come out of that without seeing the fraud.
I do base my opinion on the validity of science, which clearly shows that viruses exist. In my view, the alternative theory doesn't hold water. Not based on the published science available, and not based on my 45 years of medical experience. I have watched videos by Tom Cowan and Andrew Kaufman. I didn't just reject their ideas out of hand. I listened to what they had to say. And I disagreed. That's not to say that someday there will be a major breakthrough and viruses will be shown to be a hoax. But I'm not willing to bet on it.
I have a suggestion to increase "public safety" and "restore trust in experts" (sarc), pass a law that every mask must have the product warning "Not a respirator, no COVID-19 protection" printed in large letters on the front. Let's see how many mask fanatics go out in public with that on their face!
I would certainly vote for such a law.
Looks like the Pharma-ganda machine is running at full steam... ugh
https://gizmodo.com/wegovy-ozempic-regain-weight-after-stopping-1851196543
Chris in San Diego
This is kind of a rinky dink study compared to the one showing a major weight gain after going of semaglutide. Based on my own experience taking care of many overweight patients, my money goes on the most-regain-weight theory. I'm sure Big Pharma will like the study in your link.