Bombshell Interview with Dr William Makis on Using IVERMECTIN and FENBENDAZOLE to Treat/Cure Cancer
YouTube video by Dr. William Makis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbyuAr4GWlk). Transcript is the auto-caption track — verbatim ASR, not a certified transcript.

[Music] welcome to today's interview on brighton.com I'm Mike Adams and today we're joined by a firsttime guest do William mackus and he has been a prolific uh writer on Twitter or X but also on substack and he is a a radiologist an oncologist a cancer researcher and what what I asked him to come on to talk about is how he is tweeting about the fendol uh protocols and ior meon protocols that some people are using you could say experimentally to uh treat cancer or to prevent cancer and I just want to say as a disclaimer I'm not your doctor uh and also our guest is not your doctor so this is just for understanding and for for studying and researching this topic but uh Dr William mackus welcome to the show today it's great to have you on thank you very much for having me well I'm I'm just thrilled to have you here and I'm so grateful that you are constantly educating people about the subject of iveron and fenben or fendol uh two two you know you could say Pharmaceuticals but icon comes from soil microbes and fenben I think also comes from a natural source originally but the these are powerful substances so please give us uh give us a little intro of what got you interested in talking about these these two drugs and their their applications in human health well I can tell you uh these are considered repurposed drugs and uh they are anti parasitics uh they are used uh for various parasite infections uh they act on different types of parasites so Ivon acts on certain certain groups of parasites fenb benzol acts on other parasites and they are being repurposed right now for cancer um now it's interesting because Fen bendol was discovered completely accidentally it was back in 2017 uh a gentleman in Oklahoma Joe tippens uh gentleman in his 60s I believe was diagnosed with terminal cancer stage four small cell lung cancer and he was sent home to die by his doctors and uh he had a v Veterinary friend of his who said uh listen there's a there's a dog dog medicine dog dewormer medicine that was discovered accidentally to have very strong anti-cancer properties why don't you you know why don't you try it you have nothing to lose and he put together a protocol protocol with this uh Fen Bend medicine and also with Kirkman CBD oil vitamin E um and he cured his terminal cancer that he had basically less than 1% chance of surviving wow and so that was back in 2017 and so this has been known for a few years now uh there is a Facebook group called the fendol cancer support group it has 110,000 members a lot of them are cancer patients a lot some of them are family members of cancer patients so this is this is a large community uh and it works uh in fact there was a group um of Stanford University medical researchers who were so impressed by Fen bendol that they uh found three patients who had taken Fen bendol stage four cancer patients who took fan bendol cured their stage four cancers after they had failed every chemotherapy regimen known to mankind and they published uh this this case series um now what's funny is that they were not able to recommend Fen bendol to these patients because it's not FDA approved right now there is an FDA approved version of it called mebendazol which is virtually identical uh you know unfortunately it goes by the brand name vermox it's much more expensive than Fen bendil but you can now get generic versions of both for you know a dollar a pill and this this is what's extraordinary is that both of these drugs are readily available over the- counter for veterinary use yes example and they're very inexpensive because they're both long off patent so they're the generic versions are readily available uh let me give out your your your Twitter handle it's macis MD that's m a k i MD macis MD yeah show the screen if you would please there uh here's here's your uh channel on Twitter and then you also have the substack which is Maus MD . substack do.com that brings up your substack page here with your articles so and here here like here we go I Reed in fendal testimonial stage for uh prostate cancer patient so one question that has come to my mind in this is why are you so passionate about this topic I mean at at first glance someone who's skeptical might be thinking that you're selling Fen bendol but that's not that's not the case what so what brings you so much passion about this I can tell you um I have uh come at this uh completely from outside of mainstream medicine this is really not allowed in mainstream medicine right now repurposed drugs are being suppressed they're being suppressed uh and let me go to the other one which is Ivermectin Ivermectin uh has a huge body of research in cancer uh and this has come out of people digging into Ivermectin uh for treating covid-19 for example uh we know that it treats covid-19 successfully but as some of us were digging through that research um you know I discovered for example that there is a tremendous body of research of ivermectin actually treating cancer successfully and different kinds of cancer I'll give you an example a couple years ago uh a group of Mexican researchers tested itin against 28 different cancers uh they had you know these these different types of cancers in their lab and they said look we're going to going to we're going to test Ivermectin against all of these 28 different Cancers and they found every single cancer responded to iin now some responded better some responded not as well but all 28 cancers responded to icin the one that responded the best was ovarian cancer the second best was breast cancer and Then followed by prostate cancer and then you've got colon cancer pancreatic cancer and so on you know the various leukemias lymphomas and and so on uh and so there's this tremendous body of pre-clinical research there's research on mice and they actually uh gave Ivermectin to children with leukemia and managed to put two of them into remission these these were children who had very aggressive leukemia they took Ivermectin and they were put into remission for a while you know even though Kemo had failed now unfortunately again iveron is off patent it it went off patent in 1996 U Merc had a patent on it now they're no longer interested in it during the pandemic MC came out and said Hey listen icin doesn't work for covid-19 don't use it and and everybody wondered why would they do that why would they bash their own drug right and uh well I discovered the answer earlier this year it turns out that MC has a 50/50 partnership with Mna and what they are developing is they're developing an mRNA cancer vaccine together uh it's now in phase three clinical trials it's it's a $500,000 treatment once it comes out uh they're first uh developing it for melanoma uh there's now a doc there's now a doctor in Australia Professor Richard scoler who actually developed a brain cancer after taking a number of covid-19 vaccines and he's using their experimental technology mRNA technology this mRNA cancer vaccine to try to treat his brain cancer he's the first person in the world to be getting this experimental treatment from Monna and Merc MC which used to have the patent on Ivermectin and of course we know that iveron had to be suppressed for the MRNA technology to get a green light to get emergency authorization approval and to get approved for the roll out of the covid-19 vaccine so they once you start piecing this together you see the pieces of the puzzle puzzle fall we also know yeah 100% And and our audience is well informed on this point but let me just State the obvious which is that the drug companies are only interested in profit they they have zero interests in human health in quality of life in extending lifespan zero and anybody who who assigns to these large drug companies any kind of humanitarian motivation is kidding themselves they're only interested in profit which means the suppression of lowcost safe readily available treatments and and folks it's not a conspiracy it's a business model it's a business model okay uh so the suppression of this and and also remember the FDA of course suppressed uh ior macton during covid uh they they sent out tweets saying that are you a horse stop eating horse paace and and they were it was later determined that that was illegal for them to to put that tweet out but the the suppression of this uh continues to this day doesn't it even in in the science journals it does and it's absolutely incredible because I have cancer patients asking me every day and they're asking oh Dr marus can you uh can you recommend a Doctor Who's going to prescribe icin for me to treat my cancer um and they're asking because U about a few weeks ago uh there was a paper published it was the first paper in the world uh co-authored by myself and Dr Paul Merrick from the flccc and a and a dozen other co-authors some incredible amazing scientists and doctors from around the world we authored a paper that proposed the first protocol using Ivermectin mebendazol and Fen fenbendazole in the treatment of aggressive cancers and so naturally patients patients are coming to me and they're asking uh oh Dr Maus you know can you can you recommend a doctor in the states who's going to prescribe icin for cancer for me and I usually tell them only if they're suicidal or if they want to see their career finished because because what's happened is that doctors like Dr pier cury and Dr Paul Merrick who recommended and advocates for Ivermectin and hydroxy chloroquin in the treatment of covid-19 they have been stripped of their Internal Medicine board certifications yes that's right this has something that has never been done before in in in the in the history of the United States uh in in in medicine same thing in Canada we had a doctor who prescribed icin for covid back in 2021 uh for three years the medical authorities dragged them through Court proceedings and then slapped him with a $440,000 fine and stripped him of his license for several months I mean this is the kind of persecution we've never seen in medicine and this is over icin something that's a 100 times safer than Tylenol or Advil yeah we are and remember we the public are we're always told that medicine is evidence-based but it turns out that when the evidence doesn't support the profits of the drug companies then the evidence is thrown out and like you say people who advocate for these safer lower risk more affordable interventions they can have their licenses yanked because the the government entities control their licenses in terms of let's say State medical license boards or as you said internal licensing which is done through a a different organization that has its own decision board but they're heavily influenced by Pharma obviously Pharma controls everything in this space but I I I want to ask you you mentioned well two things you mentioned earlier you said that one of the protocols that that man used in 2017 involved also Kirkman uh or either you either said kirkin or turmeric I forgot which one but I want to ask you what natural photochemicals can can help accentuate the effects of ivaan and fendol when used in in these protocols is that is that something that has been uh studied and is is known is termeric one of them well I can tell you there there is a study that has that was done on mice that showed that that vitamin E had a Synergy with Fen bendas and seem to actually shrink tumors better when you combine them together nobody nobody knows why that Synergy works for example I'll give you another example of for example CBD oil uh CBD oil uh kabid di oil is a fantastic molecule that has again a massive body of preclinical research there are at least two case reports of it curing lung cancer and when I say curing lung cancer I actually mean a curing a three or four CM lung lesion completely disappearing uh after maybe 2 or 3 months of just taking CBD oil a few drops under the tongue every day yes this has been reported these were 80-year-old patients who declined chemotherapy they said look I'm too old to take chemotherapy please don't give me these you know these harsh drugs uh and they cured their lung cancer with just CBD oil drops under the tongue for a few months uh it has cured skin cancer so there were patients who were putting CBD oil on their on their skin cancer uh and it basically dropped off after a couple of months and their skin cancer was cured wow we don't we don't hear about these right we don't hear about these cural because CBD oil you know it's something you buy for 50 bucks uh or 100 bucks at most and again there's no money there's there's no money in uh but there's no money in certain cures right and again I would love to see a clinical trial of you know a thousand patients I I believe actually actually Professor Angus from the UK uh did uh a trial of almost 200 patients uh with CBD oil um and about 92% of them had some kind of a positive response whether it slowed down the cancer whether it stopped the cancer whether it cured the cancer sort of people had various types of responses but he published this several years ago and we simply don't hear about this um in the media uhhuh yeah absolutely but maybe that's going to change coming up and I want to ask you about what you see if RFK Jr is confirmed for HHS I want to ask you about that in a minute but let's go back to something else which is the safety margins or the safety profile of these you said it's a h 100 times safer than other interventions uh talk to us about the safety of ion and fenin and also what like how hard is it to overdose and what does an overdose cause uh and I I know that you know typically these are dosed at certain number of milligrams or micrograms per per kilogram uh per day um but some not everybody's great at that math you know sometimes um sure so uh what happens if someone takes too much well I can tell you so uh it's very interesting Dr Pier Cory who's written a book on Ivon and he's done a deep dive into the research of of safety and so on I've I've done a deep dive into into the Safety Research as well and he's gone on record saying that you basically cannot overdose on itin that even if you take 100 times the dose uh you know you might you might have confusion or fatigue uh it's got an 18 hour half live by two days it's completely out of your system uh so you might get tired you might get confused uh you know you sleep it off and it's and it's gone it's out of your system so you can't really overdose an Ivermectin which is when they created the studies to sabotage Ivermectin in the big journals uh they couldn't do it by overdosing Ivermectin uh so so they had to do it by underdosing itin and either using it too late or using not enough of a dose and that's how they tampered with the studies to show that iin doesn't work I do remember that that in Co iin has to be administered very early correct yeah it's it's good to administer it early uh and of course you know you want to there was a dose range so if you underdosed it then you know you might not get the the effect that you wanted yes um I tend to use sort of a little bit higher dose uh when it comes to uh any kind of uh viral infections but really any kind of infections uh in general uh I tend to go towards about half a milligram per kilogram um I believe the lowest was .2 milligrams per kilogram but you know in some of these journals they might have gone even lower and they waited a long time right they waited until the patient was really sick and then they gave icin for and they only gave it for a few days and they said oh look it doesn't work right I mean it was such scientific fraud it was just pure scientific fraud many of these studies published in highly highly respected journals and they did it to sabotage icin they did the same thing to hydroxy chloroquin AB we know they did it we know they did it as soon as uh you know president Trump came out and and had mentioned hydroxychloroquine as an option uh we suddenly had you know these papers come out in the New England Journal of Medicine or Lancet saying that oh suddenly hydroxychloroquine is causing heart problems when 50 years of use there was no record of heart problems with hydroxy chloroquin and then suddenly there were these these questionable papers that had come out of course many of them were then retracted and were you know identified as as fraudulent yeah I recall the Lancet publishing a study on hydroxy chloroquin that the data set for it was utterly fabricated yeah uh created by a company that was run by I think an adult actress and a fiction novel writer or something it was completely insane but th this is the moment when a a lot of people I mean this the co moment this is when Western medicine destroyed its credibility in my opinion and many people woke up and now we we're seeing even even guys like myself who have been steeped in the world of natural medicine and I would never have recommended Pharmaceuticals but now I'm pro- ican proen bendol because I recognize you know the a molecule is a molecule if a molecule is efficacious and not you know not not just sold as a patented for-profit item and especially if it's off-patent and it's being attacked by The Establishment then that alone lends credibility to the idea of looking at this right so I take by the way I take itin prophylactically if I start to or if I'm going to speak publicly for example if I'm going to be around a bunch of people I will take icin a day before the day and the day after I'll do 12 milligrams per day for 3 days and that's worked for me do do you find a lot of people taking it prophylactically as well I do and I'm asked to this question a lot especially when it comes to cancer because people want to take things prophylactically for cancer as well and unfortunately there's not much research right now in terms of prophylaxis for cancer what you describe is prophylaxis uh for let's say you know not getting a a viral infection for example and I mean that's uh you know that's very very reasonable uh 12 Mig is a dose you can't go wrong uh you won't you won't have any side effects with 12 milligrams um I've used it um I've used it any time I feel something coming on like you know like some kind of a flu or coming on um you know my kids have used it uh and they bounce back really quickly uh within a day or they've never been sick for more than a day or two and they're right back to school uh feeling great uh so I think it's fantastic I think everyone should have itin in their home you can have icin Hy oxy chloroquin um you know these are good things to have uh at home you know quatin zinc these were other things that that people used zinc of course an amazing antiviral and then use all that y course hydroxy chorine you know gets the zinc into the cells to to to fight uh viruses and and this is particularly important because I I see they they keep stirring up this influenza h5n1 they keep trying to make something out of it you know they they've talked about disease X they talked about another pandemic so we have everything we need to fight any kind of future pandemic there's there's no need to to Really Panic certainly no need to be considering any any more of the of the of the contaminated mRNA vaccines let me mention also uh shikimic acid is something I took a special interest in for two reasons because it's it's found in traditional Chinese medicine uh an herb called bataa which is the eight the eight armed or eight star a star an I think is what we call it in English uh sh shic acid is very high in that shikimic acid is also found in certain pine needles and I happen to live in Central Texas where uh Lodge pole pine trees grow I think that's what they're called um and and this species is very very high in shikimic acid so I can just go out and collect pine needles make a tea out of it boil it and I can drink anti-pandemic medicine you know yeah absolutely right and it's it's fantastic and and so pine needle tea was one of these uh sort of more herbal medicines that people were using to to protect themselves or to to to treat covid-19 and it's a it's a great one D dandelion rout uh was another one that was popular uh that had ability to it was found to be able to bind bind the spike protein and and sort of uh impair the activity of of of the spike protein so dandelion root uh black seed oil is another one black human seed um one I'm thinking of sweet sweet wormwood or the extract of it artemisinin what's fascinating about emisia anoa is that uh it won the Nobel Prize just like Ivor meon and uh when the pandemic hit the wh actually gave a warning to people not to use emisia anua and only use the synthetic you know product or version of it uh because you know you don't know what you're getting and and you don't know uh exactly people don't know how to use it and so anything that was helpful for covid-19 was attacked we had V we had vitamin D attacked in Canada we literally had the biggest Health provider in Canada Alberta Health Services tell people do not use vitamin D as a preventative do not use vitamin D as a treatment for covid-19 and we know that vitamin D in very very high doses was useful uh and very helpful for Co even very sick Co patients even patients that were you know in the ICU still benefited from high doses of vitamin D they attacked vitamin D they attacked icin we had emisia anoa was attacked Hydro hydroxy chloroquin was attacked anything that P that patients could use to treat themselves and and protect themselves was attacked but it's it's extraordinary that the governments and the health authorities and the medical journals and many of the hospitals and the protocols that were pushed on the hospitals it seems to people like me and our audience that these were designed to cause harm designed to cause uh to maximize fatalities during Co so that they could publish higher Co fatality numbers to scare more people into taking the vaccine for example or scare people into lockdowns or scare people into wearing masks I mean this was the moment in history when the people of of Western Civilization witnessed their governments and their medical institutions weaponized and turned against them is that I mean would you disagree with that or do you think that's what we witnessed or what would you add to that that's absolutely correct and I think there's no better visual for that than when they put sand in the skate parks and they put wooden bars across basketball nets and they put caution tapes around playgrounds and basically forced kids to stay inside instead of play outside like they should have been wow um and I and I will never forget that that visual that was the exact opposite of what they should have done they should have allowed kids to go outside and play play in the playgrounds uh be outside get Sunshine uh get fresh air um everything that came out of Public Health was designed to make people sicker um and and to really run up and I do believe there was an effort to run up the deaths if we look at what happened at um in uh you know the long-term care home home home home settings where you had people who were malnourished dehydrated they were not given antibiotics they were allowed to basically get so sick uh until they were then brought in you know put in the icus put on ventilators put on her dese which destroyed you know their kidneys uh and then they died in the hospital and and virtually all the all of the deaths occurred in the hospital under Hospital protocols you didn't have you didn't have homeless people dying uh you didn't have people dying at home how come we didn't have thousands of people dying of covid in their homes they only died when they got to the hospital well I would say that's because they were they were homicidal that's I mean and the hospitals got Financial incentives for doing so yes in some cases up to half a million dollars absolutely so Dr mackus I mean number one I just want to say thank you for your courage thank you for being a truth tell thank you for all that you've done you know you got my attention on X and I I I've been retweeting what you put out there and I've I've been using icin I've been using fenben myself and I've been acquiring it you know I've been buying it from Veterinary sources I also live on a ranch I have donkeys and goats and goats need a lot of icin by the way because they they eliminate it very quickly I found out so you have to really like hyperdose the goats but uh I use it for dogs uh goats and uh you know I've got chickens and whatever but I believe that every person every person should have a supply of ior and and Fen bendol and and some other things but this is the focus here today and for some reason a lot of people they like they ask you can you give me a doctor who can prescribe it like why would you want to pay $20 a pill when you could pay a dollar a pill or whatever you know what what's your recommendation for or if you can make a recommendation I don't want to get you in any trouble but I've already said I I just buy agricultural or Veterinary use versions is that consistent with what a lot of people are doing today or what are your comments on this you know I'll tell you right now there are websites um I believe there's right to try uh.com for example where you can you can just buy Ivermectin um there are a number of phes in India that people are are ordering the generic versions of ivermectin or fendol or mebendazol from uh it can take a few weeks you know it could take 3 four weeks to arrive but uh a lot of people have successfully been able to get icton like that and there are also the veterinary versions of I and I can tell you in Canada for example we have I mean we have a lot of farmers uh and you know we we had trouble getting iveron I know that in the United States the issue was that you could get a prescription but then the pharmacy wouldn't fill it yeah true that's crazy which which which to me is absolutely insane it's actually criminal um yes but in in Canada we had we had we had a different issue we had no doctor could prescribe it because they would be stripped of their license immediately wow so so people were you know they had to get creative and get Veterinary versions of I and the liquid version of icin is is fantastic yep um some people use the paste uh in terms of cancer you know you need larger doses of itin so that you know may not be feasible uh with the paste for example but you know I've got hundreds of of cancer patients and I'd say about 30 30 30% of them are taking some sort of Veterinary version it's sort of on their own on their own accord uh it's safe I've seen no no safety issues with it at all uh and you know we all do what we can for our health uh and we we try to get access however we can now this is something I think the new Administration will have to tackle the Trump Administration uh with uh RFK Jr um you know as as the head of the HHS um I think it's it's something very very important I believe that in the United States everyone should have access over the counter to Ivermectin and this is you know the human grade Ivermectin mebendazol I think fendol should get FDA approved approval as well there's no reason for fendol to not be FDA approved when you've got mebendazol which is virtually almost The Identical molecule except one atom is different and it's got FDA approval you know that should be FDA approved and it should be available uh it should be available to every American uh I'm really I really believe in this right to try uh where um you know if you're a cancer patient you should have access to to these safe medications and you know despite the fact that they're being repurposed from antiparasitics to cancer but everyone should have access to these I agree uh to me it's unacceptable that that in America you don't have access you have to you have to act like you're on a black market trying to get some secret forbidden medicine that anyone can get at the airport in Mexico uh as much as they want well I know it's it's it's crazy they turn us into drug smugglers just to try to get Common Sense medications when I lived in Ecuador we could walk into any pharmacy and you could buy any any pill you wanted and of course they sold them like one pill at a time also you could just get one one of these uh but same thing's true in Mexico even in Canada there there used to be a lot more availability than there is now but in India iron maon is over the- counter across India and a lot of people use it there and that's why I think that's one of the reasons why they did not have such such a a rate of um you know deaths associated with the the pandemic in in India but I I I do want to ask you about the changes that might be headed our way if RFK Jr is nominated as head of HHS now I think the best thing about RFK Jr is the fact that he knows where all the skeletons are buried or in the case of fouchy that's actual a a literal thing because of his experiments on uh young African-American boys but uh they they literally are dead and buried but what what good things could happen in America if RFK Jr goes in there and and does some really aggressive reforms to to to support Health freedom and consumer choice I mean right now people can buy Tylenol over the counter that's acetam menen that causes extreme liver toxicity especially when combined with alcohol people people kill themselves all the time on New Year's Eve with with Tylenol and alcohol you know that's over the counter so what are your thoughts absolutely no honestly I I think we're we're in a situation right now um and we didn't talk about this earlier but I wanted to mention it because um Dr Peter McCulla and I have been affected by this uh we had a paper um on uh sudden deaths in in covid-19 vaccinated individuals autopsy paper the largest autopsy Series in the world it was censored by the Lancet yep it was then censored by another Journal it was ready to be published and then there was a phone call made to the editor and they killed it at the last second it has finally passed peer review and been published but it's it's taken two years of extreme censorship uh and and and the paper's been pulled several times for no reason other than a political reason and maybe a financial reason from you know pressure from the from the pharmaceutical industry and so this has happened a number of times uh a number of papers have been pulled I've had a I've had this paper pulled with Dr Peter McCulla Dr Peter Mulla Dr Jessica Rose have had several papers pulled uh and it's because these papers were inconvenient to the pharmaceutical industry where there might be some losses suffered by certain pharmaceutical Giants like fiser or madna and to have this kind of science scientific censorship is unprecedented and unacceptable and so what I think we've seen is I think we've seen a corruption uh take over uh medicine in general because we had censorship doctors weren't allowed to give informed consent to their patients about the covid-19 vaccines they weren't allowed to tell their patients about the risks well you can't do that you you you can't have informed consent if you're not allowed to tell patients about the risk of the vaccines because you might cause vaccine hesitancy if you've got a product product that has risks you must disclose those risks to patients and so we need to bring back ethics back into science and into medicine we also need to bring freedom back and what that means is that doctors and scientists have to have the freedom to uh practice their craft ethically um in order to in order in order to have good science and good medicine we don't have that right now we certainly don't have that in the United States or Canada what we have is corruption we have censorship the likes of which we've never seen before we have too much influence of big Pharma uh we have all kinds of retaliation from the medical boards all of that has to stop and and we need what I call a complete reset you know we talk about we talk about the great they were talking about the great reset after you know the the covid-19 pandemic and what they were you talking about was trying to you know get us reset into this kind of dystopian future with digital ID and vaccine passports and all of this and restricted travel and this kind of communist great reset and what we need is a great reset in science and medicine but a reset back to ethical practice practices ethical medicine and really Freedom you know the freedom to do proper science without any fear of Retribution or retaliation from the pharmaceutical industry well effectively what you're describing is that in the United States I I know you live in Canada but in the United States of course with our Bill of Rights uh back in the you know the 17 early 1790s or uh late 1780s when uh you know the the Bill of Rights was being debated before it was finally uh uh you know written and signed you had Dr Benjamin Rush saying that we needed a health Freedom Amendment and that that was not Incorporated but I think that should be the third amendment and the current Third Amendment which is that we shall not quarter uh allow British soldiers to be quartered in our homes I don't think like that's as important as a health Freedom amend so we can we can bump the third amendment put in a health Freedom Amendment keep the second and the first we all obviously need those expand the First Amendment to cover Health claims on natural products so even doctors like you you need to be able to have your freedom of speech if you were to practice in America your freedom of speech has to be protected you need to be able to tell the truth about natural products that work without having your medical license threatened which is exactly what's happened so freedom of speech and and also freedom of speech for nutritional supplement manufacturers that why can't a let's say a tart cherry extract maker tell the truth and link to a government study that says Cherry extract treats gout you know why is that illegal effectively that's crazy so we need that I agree with you I I absolutely agree we need we need I mean that sounds like a fantastic idea a health Freedom Amendment um yeah I I would I would fully support that you know it's amazing right now I'll tell you something uh I'm I'm able to treat patients with icin but I'm doing it outside of the medical establishment and so I'm doing it as a as a health coach as a cancer coach uh because that doesn't have you know strict regulations in in Canada uh and so uh but but but it's it's tragic that I have to uh you know give this kind of help to patients and I'm seeing incredible results I share them on my on my Twitter I share them on my substack we see it in the bloodwork we see it on the Imaging studies we see the tumor shrinking and there's no denying it that their patients are being helped and they're being helped they're afraid to tell their oncologists that they're taking something else in addition to the chemo that they may be taking for example they're afraid they're afraid to speak to their doctors and I have to do it completely outside of the medical establishment uh as their health coach and not as their doctor uh this is this is like practicing you know medicine in like like on the black market it's it's like like like you would be doing it in communism right we can't we can't have that I mean this is absolutely unacceptable well it is and the the cancer industry which I've been covering for over 20 years really praise upon Humanity poisons people for profit frightens people with often false diagnosis of cancer that's a very common thing to like do a mammogram on a woman and then say Oh you have cancer and and you're going to die in 6 months if you don't start chemotherapy and then that same Clinic profits from the sale of the chemotherapy drugs so you have these perverse incentives there and where that woman as you said breast cancer is one of the cancers that responds uh in a very positive way to icton treatment but they don't tell her that option or they don't even tell her her vitamin D may be deficient you have a lot of black women who have aggressive breast cancers because the melanin in their skin is blocking vitamin D production so they're vitamin D deficient almost to the point where if they had a child the child would be born with rickets you know that's how bad it is but the cancer industry won't tell them you're vitamin D deficient they just profit off of them you're you're actually you're absolutely right um every single patient that comes to me you know I asked them about their vitamin D levels and virtually none of them uh know about the importance of vitamin D uh in cancer uh the fact that if you have low vitamin D you have poor prognosis as a cancer patient uh over the long over the long term and I asked them I said well has your has your oncologist tested your vitamin levels for example and all of them say no they've never mentioned it that's incredible they have never mentioned it yeah it's just unbelievable like we don't really have a system of medicine we just we have a system you know the establishment system is a is a is a profiteering racket it's a it's really a it's a criminal racketeering operation in my opinion and I've been I've been railing against this for 20 plus years and now we finally there there's some hope there's some hope of real change here but only after how many millions of people were were Ked killed you know over the last several year years because of Hospital protocols and so on but in the few minutes we have left Dr mackus um I want to be respectful of your time you you mentioned Health coaching is that a service that you offer to people all over the world or how can people get in touch with you to to take advantage of that yeah right now I'm I'm offering it all over the world so I have patients from around the world I have patients uh I have a ton of uh us patients I've got patients in Australia all over Europe uh even in in in parts of Asia as well um I offer it um through my email people can uh message me at uh macus w79 yahoo.com and then I'll provide you know the details uh and so on of what what the package uh entails and it's you know it's very affordable and and I do offer followup as well and I also help people get access to Ivermectin or fan bendol or my bendol um you know what what's what's this has been really beautiful is that other cancer patients have shared with me how they've managed to get access uh to some of these repurpose drugs because it's not easy for the average person you know they go out there they have no idea where to start where where to look for these repurpose drugs and as I said um you know one thing that I look forward to and one reason why I applied uh to RFK Junior's Maha team make America healthy again um at HHS uh and I and I would love to serve um you know in in sort of any capacity any way that I can that I can help is to make these repurpose drugs available make them available over the counter so that everyone has access to uh you know these antivirals uh that have been so effective uh for patients uh I can tell you like I've seen miraculous stories with Ivor magn and we have you've got incredible uh you've got incredible doctors in the United States who who've used who've treated thousands of patients with Ivan successfully they're still being persecuted by their medical boards they're being stripped of their licenses like Dr Pierre Corey Dr Ryan cor Ryan Cole Dr Mary Bowden Dr Peter McCulla you know they're being stripped of their licenses and their certifications I mean that every doctor should be restored fully restored fully compated every Doctor Who got things right during the pandemic you know should be you know restor and compensated properly and maybe put in charge of some important Health position uh because you know a lot of doctors got it wrong and the doctors who rolled over and gave up their medical ethics and gave up their hypocritic o oath um you know shouldn't be in any position of power going forward and and and and I hope and like you said we we have this opportunity this and it's not it's not even a once in a generational opportunity it's once in a lifetime opportunity to fix a system that has been rotten for a very long time uh and a system that should really function for the benefit of Americans well I I've said that the problem with the system is that it's too centralized and the central authorities can easily become corrupted due to money or political influence or some other agenda which is exactly what we saw I don't think uh you you may disagree with me and that's fine but I don't think that governments or States should license doctors at all instead I think that there should be accountability and results for every doctor that a patient can is even encouraged to uh go to a common uh website and Report the diagnosis and the results and the treatments and so over time we would gather a tremendous amount of evidence of What treatments work which doctors are effective you know I mean the the data would be amazing but the industry is not interested in data they're just interested in profits so yeah absolutely and and I can tell you the the the licensing process uh certainly in Canada uh but even in the United States the licensing process has been completely corrupted the the the medical bodies have been uh uh co-opted and and captured yes and that's another problem is institutional capture and that's why I talk about it we need a complete reset we need a complete reset in medicine and science uh because of the institutional capture and you know in the United States you have the three-letter agencies that have been captured you know whether it's the FDA the CDC and and and NIH and so on and so you have problems with those giant Behemoth institutions that have so much influence on how medicine is practiced in the United States but you know we have we have the same kind of problem in Canada with bureaucracies with health Canada being 90% funded by you know big Pharma but all of these medical boards and all of these colleges of physicians in Canada that have persecuted and targeted doctors and censored doctors they have to to be either dismantled uh or they have to be prosecuted I agree because because they took away they took away the voices of doctors who would have put this pandemic fraud and this vaccine fraud to bed very very early on if doctors were allowed to speak up without fear of Retribution and retaliation we would have had the vaccine called out back in 2021 when there were various reports accumulating of sudden deaths when there were reports of carditis being far more common than anybody was willing to admit blood clots when all these problems started showing up in early and mid 2021 if there wasn't retaliation and if there wasn't a gun pointed to every doctor in North America to keep their mouth shut uh you know n this this whole vaccine disaster wouldn't have happened uh and so agree yeah we need we need to we need to disassemble that entire corrupt system we need a medical reset completely agree with what you just said now uh again wrapping this up uh for people to reach you I think the email address you gave was macus w79 yahoo.com yahoo.com okay w79 so so macus m- a kis s w79 yahoo.com your substack is macus md. substack do.com here here's your page here and look you are followed by 56 people that I follow amazing what are the odds um so any final thoughts Dr mackus I mean this has been a great conversation what what would you like to wrap it up with honestly um I just encourage people to to keep speaking out you know I get I get incredible stories I get incredible stories in my inbox and and I'll get stories of people who used my protocols for you know to treat cancer with icin or fendol or mebendazol you know and they used it on their on their animals and their animals are doing better uh or or they use the protocol uh you know because they heard maybe they heard that um you know it's it's good in Lyme disease or in Parkinson's disease so right now I have two Parkinson's disease patients who are improving on icin and have had dramatic Improvement because there's a preclinical study in mice showing that that mice had improvements in Parkinson like symptoms on icin and this all comes from sharing of information the free sharing of of information yes and I think this is so crucial for people to to to speak out we have a platform we have a a freedom platform uh on X on Twitter um I would just encourage people to share their stories a share their experiences uh you never know who's reading who's watching and how other people can benefit from it uh that's why I'm so active on X I'm very thankful uh to Elon Musk and his team I was banned from Twitter for over a year for raising concerns about mRNA vaccinating kids 5 to 11 years old I thought that was a terrible idea and within 5 hours of saying that I was locked out of my account I was my account was terminated and I was you know kicked out of Twitter for over a year just for pointing out there was a study that showed negative vaccine efficacy for these kids when they were vaccinated that they would get sicker more often and which was a fact which which was a it was a scientific study that was peer-reviewed and published and so this is the kind of you know scientific sensorship that went on during the pandemic so I would just encourage people to keep keep speaking out keep sharing your stories uh and you know we're all learning from each other 100% well and and I'll one up you on that I was banned from Twitter I think for six years and I've been banned from YouTube for 10 years so far uh and and it's still it's still going and it's pretty much because of me speaking out against big Pharma by the way so and and vaccines do cause autism in some cases you know it's obvious at this point but do Dr mackus uh I just want to thank you for your time thank you for what you're doing for Humanity I've learned a lot from you I've shared your information with many people and I will continue to do so please keep in touch with us and let us know how we can help you with your mission and just you know God bless you for all that you're doing thank you so much for joining us thank you very much for having me all right thank you

Summary: [Music] welcome to today's interview on brighton.com I'm Mike Adams and today we're joined by a firsttime guest do William mackus and he has been a prolific uh writer on Twitter or X but also on substack and he is a a radiologist an oncologist a cancer researcher and what what I asked him to come on to talk about is how he is tweeting about the fendol uh protocols and ior meon protocols that some people are using you could say experimentally to uh treat ca…


Fasting for Cancer? Dr. William Makis - Ivermectin and Fenbendazole
YouTube video by Dr. William Makis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znqKvUY_NyE). Transcript is the auto-caption track — verbatim ASR, not a certified transcript.

I am uh really excited to have the most censored oncologist maybe ever come in and talk about some things uh this will just full preference uh it's condensed down and pretty vague a little bit on uh some of the reasons behind just so we don't get censored and are able to get the message out to more people uh we'll have a link to the followup as we dive in to the nitty-gritty [Music] Dr mcus thank you so much for uh taking the time to join us I think that you might be the most censored oncologist of all times and uh we'll get into kind of why later but at first I want to kind of tell your story and uh the approach that you've used in what seems to be a new variety of cancer so uh your story is fascinating in that uh as an AS an immigrant and the struggles and hard work you've put in so it's just brilliant so if you don't care just kind of lay that out sure well thank you very much for having me I was born in communist Czechoslovakia and my family fled communism in 1988 through a United Nations refugee camp in in Yugoslavia so we were put in a refugee camp um we stayed there for about a year I learned English there and we didn't know where we were going to end up uh we ended up applying at the Canadian consulate uh we were accepted CED and so we came to Canada in 1989 I grew up in Toronto I did all my schooling in Toronto I went to University of Toronto and got a four-year Immunology degree so I have uh four years of Immunology background and then went to medical school at McGill University in Montreal it's best medical school in Canada and I obtained a fiveyear specialization in nuclear medicine radiology and oncology so it's a branch of radiology that deal specifically with cancer and so anything to do with radiation and cancer um that was my specialization and so um I've been practicing for 14 years now in Canada uh I ran a very large cancer treatment program we were curing endstage cancer patients these were neuroendocrine cancer patients we were curing about 85 to 90% of endstage cancer patients with targeted radiation targeted rcle therapy this is a form of radiation that's attached to molecules that deliver radioactive particles directly to tumor cells and then kill the tumor cell and leaves you know the rest of the healthy tissues alone and so we were experimenting with that uh it was highly successful it had been developed in Europe uh the FDA had been sitting on it for 20 years not wanting to approve it because it would cut into the chemo uh chemotherapy budgets I imagine curing stage four cancer uh you know without the need for chemo that that was just not going to fly right and so my cancer program ended up getting sabotaged by Health bureaucrats that were loyal to Justin trudel and uh it turned out a couple of years later that the Trudeau government uh started copying my cancer program in Vancouver British Columbia poured about $300 million into it monopolized it in Canada so only they could have access to the technology and so it's one of the huge scandals in in Canadian medical history and unfortunately I got swept up right in the middle of it because you know I was at the wrong place at the wrong time using the wrong cancer treatments and so that that's kind of the story of of my life well you're you're putting out absolutely incredible work and I have learned so much from you so um my son being diagnosed with stage four cancer when he was five was my whole reason for getting into the you know the podcast and learning and how do we apply things and so that has led me down you know a lot of different rabbit rabbit Trails but uh it's been it's been beautiful in a way that we've been able to help people right like and and he's doing great uh we got scans coming up so you know that little anxiety with that that's that's going but you you're you're talking about some things that don't cost anything that may very well have an amazing impact on cancer and I want us to go into that because every single day I am seeing a new diagnosis of of you know very aggressive cancer wow all of a sudden it's a stage four and things that just seem to be different right I want us to get into why later but what is kind of that approach or that first awareness that we should have with a new diagnosis of cancer well one thing to realize is that um and this is actually very very important is that oncologists actually have their hands tied when you're in front of them and and and and when they're basically assessing your situation now oncologists you know they're they're pretty good at getting a diagnosis getting staging you know you get the biopsy for the tumor you figure out what the tumor cells are like how aggressive they are how quickly they they replicate how quickly the tumor replicates and and where the tumor is located and and you know they work together with Radiologists to to get a get a diagnosis once you have a diagnosis though if so the approach uh in traditional medicine is is that you try surgery to get as much of the tumor out as possible right now sometimes that's possible sometimes that's not possible but that's always the first treatment approach let's say in breast cancer you know they find a 1 cm tumor the first thing they're always going to do is they're going to offer surgery to get that tumor out right and they're going to look for lymph nodes see if there's any tumor in the lymph nodes and if there is they'll remove those surgically so that is always the the first approach uh and I think people have to understand that that that that there's a certain sequence in the types of treatments that you're going to be offered surgery is always going to be the first one now if surgery is not possible or if the cancer is Advanced that's when you start getting into things like chemotherapy radiation therapy maybe an immunotherapy you know depends on the type of cancer and so on and this is where the oncologists are very limited to what they've been allowed to basically offer their patients from the you know the medical authorities the medical boards the medical associations so you've got the American Cancer Association for example will put out protocols for oncologists to follow and they have to follow those protocols they're not going to Veer off the protocol right so you'll get your first line chemotherapy second line chemotherapy you might get some experimental treatments but you will not get offered anything else and I've realized especially with the recent surge in cancer and particularly aggressive cancers that you need an alternative treatment approach uh the the standard treatment approach is not going to cut it there are too many people who are not responding to traditional chemotherapy or radi ation therapy and as you mentioned you know we can sort of go into the details of that why that is uh later on but there's a lot of people who are not responding to the standard treatments and your oncologist will simply not offer you anything else you know once they've exhausted those traditional approaches first line Second Line chemo and so on maybe some radiation maybe the occasional experimental treatment like an immunotherapy once they've exhausted those and the cancer continues to grow they literally will say we have nothing else to offer you and effectively they send you home to die and and that's just not acceptable to me because I I you know a lot of these cases can actually be cured there are people who were sent home to die who then went on to take an alternative treatment approach and they cured their St stage four cancer there are many there are there are thousands of of cases like this so the question is well well how do you you know how do you find an alter what is an alternative treatment approach how do you find an alternative treatment approach and that's what I've been trying to to put together uh you know in in in my substack do articles about and I I'll give you an example of of the very first thing that I would start with uh for any cancer patient the first thing I would start with is you eliminate sugar from your diet you eliminate sugar from your diet as much as possible preferably something like a ketogenic diet the reason being is that cancer thrives on sugar uh the vast majority of cancers I would say close to 90% of cancers just absolutely thrive on sugar they consume sugar they use it as fuel um and in Radiology actually one of The Cutting Edge diagnostics for cancer is something called fdg positron emission tomography a petct and and the fdg is fluod oxy glucose it's an analog of glucose that the body can't actually break down so the body will take it up like glucose thinks hey there's sugar so the cancer takes it up in large quantities and you light up like a Christmas tree on the scan and the the black dots where the radioactive sugar has been taken up that's it's been taken up by the cancers that's how you see the cancer so cancer takes up sugar at much higher levels than most uh body tissues that's how you're able to to recognize it and so you want to cut off that energy source for that cancer so that's the number one thing and and again that's a very simple thing to do and and oncologists won't even suggest that right now that's just you know that that's just the first step you try to cut the cut cut off the sugar starve the cancer you know the oncologist will say well you know that doesn't do anything or that doesn't work it does you know but it's an important part of an alternative treatment approach uh the next thing I suggest is um prolonged fasting prolonged fasting and it's been shown I just did a a very popular article recently about this uh on my substack prolonged fasting when I say prolonged I mean 72 hours uh you need you need a minimum of 48 hours to show just you know some kind of benefit preferably 72 hours um and and what you're doing is you're you're you're causing changes in in your metabolism um that will impact the cancer uh there's a process in the body uh called autophagy that only kicks in about 36 to 48 hours into a fast and when I when I talk about fast I mean a water fast where you're basically you're not eating anything you're drinking just water maybe a little bit of electrolytes maybe some black coffee or plain tea but that's it right you you want to go into that ketosis and once you're doing you know once you're 48 hours into a fast your body kicks in this process called a toy where it starts to remove damaged components of cells or damaged cells altogether and starts to remove them it removes pre-cancerous cells it removes cancer cells and so on and you know they've done this um the research that's been done uh usually focuses on fat doing fasting with chemotherapy right and it makes the chemotherapy way more effective um it um uh is that would that be the insulin potentiated chemotherapy any kind of chemotherapy any kind of chemotherapy uh it makes it a lot more effective and it also reduces side effects and and one of the things for example is it reduces the need for dexamethasone and steroids because sometimes they'll give you steroids with chemotherapy because you know you can have severe nausea and vomiting and so on so they give you steroids what actually spikes your sugar which actually is feeding the cancer at the same time it's just kind of a you know interesting phenomenon where they're trying to like help you but they're you know they're hurting you by giving you steroids at the same time and so for example it eliminates the need for steroids completely right now the reason why they do research combining fasting and chemotherapy is because chemo is how they make money right and so any if there even is an alternative treatment approach that the oncologists will look at they will only look at it in the context of well how can I make money off this well you combine it with Cho all right but you can do it you can do it on your own like you can do these fasting sessions by themselves you could do 72h hour fast few weeks later repeat the 72-hour fast again and so on and so again you're you're you're hitting the cancer from a completely different angle and perspective it you don't need any supplements it doesn't cost any money right you know you know we get attacked in this space if you're suggesting any kind of alternative treatment approaches you get attacked that oh you're some kind of a grifter and you're selling some product I'm not selling anything right and and fasting is something that everyone can do and it's free and no one's going to get rich by suggesting that you fast right I mean you know the pharmaceutical companies are not going to get rich uh the alternative you know cancer treatment practitioners are not no one's going to get rich by suggesting fasting but it's an extremely important component of this as as I've been trying to piece together the cancer puzzle been able to talk to so many different people with different trains of thoughts you know Thomas C freed was really got me on that whole metabolic aspect and then opening the door for looking at like Finn bendol you Nation winners with her her approach even you know throwing mistletoe a lot of the ketogenic diets and way she looks at it laslo boros with the duum and you know just on and on just being able to package it together so how have you been able to view cancer like in your your experience or idea what is cancer do you prescribe more to the sematic cell theory or genetic what what is cancer in your view you know that's that's a very interesting um that's a very interesting question because there I mean there's a lot of theories right so so for for a very long time um I believed in the theory that well it's it's probably mostly genetics maybe a combination of genetics and environment but you know you get a genetic predisposition of some kind right and then that that LE let's say you know you have a flaw in your p-53 tumor suppressor gene or what have you and so that predisposes you to cancer in the future right because your body already doesn't have a proper way to deal with mutated cells and at some point that's going to develop into cancer and and it's I I think it's it's it's a lot more complicated than that um you know certainly they're finding impaired genes of of various kinds and and people in various cancers they're finding new you know mutations in in lung cancer and colon cancer and and you know that makes it attractive um in in the mainstream in mainstream oncology that's very attractive because if you can design a drug to you know Target a specific mutation or the effects of that mutation then you're going to then you're going to make a pile of money right and I think people have to understand that in medicine money is more important than patience right I mean it's it's unfortunate but but you know it's it's money usually tends to come first you know the sort of the honest Physicians usually get sidelined or eventually pushed out of medicine altogether right and and so everything is about money money money and so but you know again you know I I I do like the metabolic aspect of it I think that that's that's that that's I think that's very important as well so I mean to answer your question you know I don't I don't know what the correct answer is is it a combination of things you know I I don't know but what I do know is that the way cancer is being treated right now um for the most part doesn't work you know I mean if if you can let's say you get a stage one you know there there are certain cancers that they know how to treat fairly well right certain lymphomas um breast cancer prostate cancer especially in the early stages it seems like you know when when when you get the standard oncology approach let's let's take stage one breast cancer right you got the surgical removal and so on um your 5year survival is like 95 98% you know that's that's pretty good right uh but again there there's a lot of cancers where they haven't made much Headway right once you get let's say to more advanced uh like lung cancers or sarcomas and so on um the treatments just suck you know the the response to chemo is is pretty poor long-term prognosis is pretty Co poor things like you know brain cancers G blastomas things like pancreatic cancers uh which still have very poor prognosis you know decades later they just haven't been able to figure anything out and so you know I I really like this this um metabolic aspect to cancer there's a lot we just don't understand um and that's what shocks me about mainstream oncology right now in North America and now this is not the case in other parts of the world in other parts of the world they will try different alternative approaches and you see that in the literature you know they will try medicinal mushrooms they will try things like sour soop or apricot seeds uh or foods with bioactive compounds garlic ginger right um even something like chlorine dioxide for example you know they will try things in other parts of the world that they will not try in North America that they they will simply not touch them in North America right and again it comes down to money can you make money off it can you not make money off it right uh medicinal mushrooms like turkey tail mushroom right or Rishi mushroom uh they won't even look at it here in North America because again how do you make money off it right uh so but but in other parts of the world uh practitioners are much more open in in in combining treatments with bioactive compounds and we're still trying to understand how Those bioactive comp compounds even work right but uh but that's why I think it's it's it's important to to try those alternative approaches and not leave yourself in the hands of a mainstream oncologist who's only going to give you things that big Pharma makes money on and will not really offer you anything else beyond that yeah I think I'm with you I'm I'm with you for but for the the most part I have come to the conclusion based off of so many different facets coming together and seeing uh very early on uh when Lander was diagnosed I was reached out to another uh pediatric cancer patient and uh he he put me in contact with this alternative practitioner and that really really opened my eyes because he was talking about all kinds of things and this was uh 2019 so uh Nicholas Gonzalez his work was right out of the gate and so I'm trying to understand enzymes and coffee enemas and all these things that just seemed way out there but where I have come to through all the different Trails is I I sincerely believe that disease is going to be an energy deficiency or insufficiency and whether that is from toxicities deficiencies some sort of a parasitic overload heavy metals just on and on and on right something's causing the mitochondria to not produce enough energy and things are are just out of whack there's are you familiar with I believe it was 2021 Israel put out a study where every single biopsy contained a fungal presence there's fungus in every single cancer now whether it was there and caused it or if it was a cleanup mechanism or whatever it is have I I don't know but I think that may be part of why so many of these anti parasitics and antifungals have an efficacy in treatment so um I I said all that to say this cancer when I was looking at it in 19 is different from the cancer in 2024 and so I want to get into that so I think from here uh we're going to let you just open up and say absolutely whatever you want whatever you believe and we'll have to have that one uh on another another platform and I'll link to it in the descriptions and all that but it will be censored this conversation on YouTube so with that you take the floor my friend and let's get into what cancer is and how are we going to overcome this disease thank you for joining us on sewing Prosperity be sure to follow along across the social media platforms including YouTube and be sure [Music]

Summary: I am uh really excited to have the most censored oncologist maybe ever come in and talk about some things uh this will just full preference uh it's condensed down and pretty vague a little bit on uh some of the reasons behind just so we don't get censored and are able to get the message out to more people uh we'll have a link to the followup as we dive in to the nitty-gritty [Music] Dr mcus thank you so much for uh taking the time to join us I think that y…


Cyclospora is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Audio VersionEvery summer, it seems to happen again. Another foodborne outbreak. Another investigation. Another recall. And, inevitably, another round of fearporn.This year it is Cyclospora, a microscopic parasite that has sickened thousands of Americans. We now know the source of at least one major cluster. Federal investigators traced a five-state outbreak to shredded iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico, supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico, and served at Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. Taco Bell was the point of sale, but the contamination entered the system farther upstream, somewhere along a supply chain that stretched from a Mexican farm through a major distributor and into hundreds of American restaurants. Other Cyclospora illnesses reported across the country may have different sources and remain under investigation.The problem is no longer a single contaminated restaurant or grocery store. Taylor Farms supplies hundreds or thousands of food-service locations through national distributors like Sysco. When contamination enters that system, it can travel farther than the produce itself, reaching hospitals, schools, restaurants, and grocery stores across multiple states before anyone realizes there is a problem.Cyclospora cayetanensis is not a bacterium like E. coli or Salmonella. It is a single-celled protozoan parasite spread through human fecal contamination. Freshly shed oocysts are not immediately infectious. They must mature in the environment for days or weeks before they can infect another person. That makes direct person-to-person transmission uncommon and generally occurs before the produce reaches the consumer.Cyclospora is also difficult to remove from delicate produce. Ordinary washing may reduce surface contamination, but it cannot reliably eliminate the parasite. Standard chlorination is also less effective against Cyclospora than it is against many bacteria. Once the parasite is lodged in the folds and crevices of lettuce or other leafy greens, there is only so much a consumer can do.But there is a larger story here, and it is one that few people seem interested in asking.In the 1970s, Americans traveling in Mexico were routinely warned not to eat raw salads or leafy vegetables. The advice was simple: drink bottled water, peel your fruit, and avoid uncooked produce that might have been irrigated, washed, or handled with contaminated water. No one considered this particularly controversial. It was ordinary travel advice based on the known risk of fecal contamination and gastrointestinal illness.Today, Americans increasingly eat Mexican-grown vegetables without leaving home or even thinking about it. That is especially true during the winter, when supermarkets remain stocked with cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, lettuce, and other fresh produce grown far to the south. The United States now imports roughly half of its fresh fruit and about one-fifth of its fresh vegetables, with Mexico serving as the dominant foreign supplier for many categories.NAFTA accelerated the integration of imported foods from South America, particularly Mexico, into the North American food supply. Seasonal boundaries became less visible. We all now expect strawberries in January, tomatoes in February, and salad greens every day of the year. American growers faced competition from regions with lower labor costs, different regulatory systems, different water infrastructure, and growing conditions that allowed production when much of the United States was frozen.After NAFTA, the number of reported produce-associated outbreaks increased dramatically. CDC researchers identified 606 outbreaks associated with fresh leafy vegetables or leafy-based salads between 1973 and 2012. From 1973 through 1997, the average was about four reported outbreaks per year. From 1998 through 2012, it rose to more than thirty-three per year. That is an 8-fold difference from pre-NAFTA to after-NAFTA.Since 2012, the pattern has become even more striking. Instead of a steady increase in the number of outbreaks, the United States has experienced a series of large, multistate outbreaks involving the same commodity over and over again: leafy greens.Although only a few thousand illnesses each year are recognized as part of documented produce outbreaks, epidemiologists estimate the true burden is vastly larger.One recent analysisconcluded that leafy greens alone are responsiblefor as many as 2,307,558 illnesses annually in the United States. The economic cost of these illnesses is estimated to be up to $5.278 billion.”Thus, making them one of the single largest sources of foodborne disease.The recurrence has been serious enough that FDA developed a dedicated Leafy Greens STEC Action Plan, and the CDC, FDA, and USDA now estimate that vegetable row crops, primarily leafy greens, account for nearly 68 percent of all foodborneE. coliO157 illnesses, far exceeding beef.How did this happen? Produce imports increased. Centralized processing expanded. Bagged salads became common. National distribution systems allowed one contaminated field, packing house, or processing line to expose consumers across many states. Yet remarkably little work has been done to determine whether increasing dependence on imported produce has itself changed the epidemiology of foodborne illness.Produces accounts for the largest share of imported-food outbreaks, with foods such as cilantro, basil, peppers, cucumbers, papayas, berries, and leafy vegetables appearing repeatedly. Mexico and other Latin American countries were prominent sources in a number of these investigations.It is important to note that several of the most serious romaine outbreaks in recent years were traced to American growing regions in California and Arizona, often near large cattle operations or other potential sources of environmental contamination. American agriculture has its own sanitation problems, and a domestic label is also no guarantee of safety.There is another important complication. Most of the historical leafy-green outbreaks were not necessarily traced to contaminated fields. Nearly three-quarters were associated with salads in which investigators could not identify the precise ingredient responsible. Many occurred in restaurants or catering facilities, and norovirus was frequently involved. In those cases, a sick food worker may have contaminated the salad during preparation.The more serious multi-state outbreaks tended to look different. They were more likely to involve E. coli or Salmonella and more likely to originate earlier in the production chain. Those were the events that produced a disproportionate share of hospitalizations and deaths.So, when public-health officials speak of a “leafy-green outbreak,” they may be combining two very different problems. One is a restaurant worker contaminating a bowl of salad. The other is fecally contaminated irrigation water reaching a nationally distributed crop. Those events belong in the same surveillance database, but they do not have the same cause, the same scale, or the same solution.The honest conclusion is that globalization is a huge part of this story, but no one has adequately measured how large that part is. We have dramatically increased the distance between the field and the fork. We mix crops from multiple farms, wash them in centralized facilities, package them in plastic, ship them across national borders, and expect them to remain crisp for a week or more before they reach the dinner table.Isn’t it time for an honest analysis of the downstream consequences of trade agreements, such as NAFTA?ShareA plea for all of us to do betterRobert and I rarely buy bagged salad anymore. Not because we are terrified of Cyclospora. The odds that any individual package will make us sick remain small. We stopped buying it because once you learn to grow greens, packaged salad simply stops making much sense.Homegrown greens taste better. They last longer because the food stays on the plant until harvest, and then it is harvested minutes before dinner rather than days or even weeks after processing. They cost pennies instead of dollars. There is no plastic container headed for the landfill, and we know exactly where they came from. We also know what was used to grow them, which, in our case, means no pesticides or herbicides, and the nitrogen comes from living soil instead of being made from natural gas. Our fertility comes from compost, cover crops, mulch, animal manures, and living soil rather than primarily from nitrogen manufactured from natural gas. Our practices feed the soil first, and the plants second.People tend to think gardening means waiting until July for the first tomato. In reality, greens are among the fastest and easiest foods to grow. With a little planning, they can be harvested during nearly every month of the year.The secret is to stop thinking about “the garden” as a single annual event and begin thinking in terms of succession planting. Instead of planting one large crop, sow a smaller amount every few weeks. Use raised beds, containers near the kitchen, or any sunny patch of ground. When cold weather arrives, move production into a simple hoop house, cold frame, unheated greenhouse, or sunny indoor space.Spring belongs to spinach, lettuce, arugula, mustard greens, Asian greens, and peas. These crops prefer cool weather and often grow more vigorously before summer heat arrives.Summer requires a different strategy. Traditional lettuce and spinach often bolt in the heat, but Swiss chard, New Zealand spinach, Malabar spinach, amaranth leaves, sweet potato leaves, and beet greens will continue producing. Many people harvest beets for their roots and throw away the tops, even though beet greens are tender, nutritious, and delicious. We harvest both.Autumn brings a second season for cool-weather crops. Spinach returns, kale becomes sweeter after cold nights, lettuce thrives again, and Asian greens flourish as temperatures fall. With a light cover, many of these crops will continue producing well past the first frost.Winter is where a little creativity pays off. Microgreens can be harvested on a kitchen counter in ten to fourteen days. Pea shoots grow quickly indoors. Sunflower shoots are packed with flavor. Broccoli sprouts are easy to grow and are among the most nutrient-dense greens available. Mung beans and alfalfa remain old standbys, although sprouts require careful sanitation because the same warm, humid conditions that promote germination can also promote bacterial growth.In our greenhouse, we continue harvesting herbs long after the outdoor garden has gone dormant. A greenhouse is wonderful, but it is not essential. A simple hoop system over a raised bed can protect greens from frost, wind, and heavy rain while extending the growing season by weeks or even months. The hoop system is what we use for our main greens - lettuce, spinach, and kale during the early winter months and early spring.Raised beds make the process easier. They warm more quickly in spring, drain well during heavy rains, and allow the gardener to build living soil over time. We add compost regularly, mulch generously, and plant cover crops whenever a bed will sit empty for more than a few weeks. We are still experimenting with cover crops; this year, daikon radishes and turnips will do dual duty as cover crops and also for their clay-busting potential. Healthy soil produces resilient plants, and resilient plants are not chemical inputs.One of the biggest surprises for new gardeners is how little space greens require. A single four-by-eight-foot raised bed can produce salads for weeks. Add another bed, a few containers, and some trays of microgreens indoors, and many families can stop buying packaged greens for much of the year.Our industrial food system has become more centralized, more dependent on imports, and less visible. Every additional field, truck, border crossing, washing facility, processing line, warehouse, and grocery shelf introduces another point where something can go wrong. Most of the time, the system works. Occasionally, it fails on a scale that would have been nearly impossible when food was grown and eaten locally.There is another reason we enjoy growing our own greens. Freshly harvested vegetables are living tissue. The moment they are cut, they begin consuming their own sugars and vitamins through respiration. Vitamin C begins to decline almost immediately, while flavor compounds and delicate antioxidants slowly disappear during washing, packaging, transportation, refrigeration, and storage. Commercial agriculture has done an extraordinary job of producing vegetables that survive a thousand-mile trip and then can sit in the vegetable aisle for another week or two. It has been less successful at producing vegetables that taste like they were picked ten minutes ago.Plant breeding has also changed our food. Over the past half-century, breeders have selected varieties that yield more, ship farther, bruise less, and remain attractive on grocery shelves. Those improvements have helped feed millions of people cheaply, but they have also been accompanied by measurable declines in several minerals and vitamins in many vegetables, a phenomenon known as “yield dilution.” Bigger plants do not necessarily contain more nutrition. They often contain more water. So, be careful with the cultivar when selecting your seeds or seedlings. Heirloom varieties are often best.Commercial agriculture often manages dirt. We try to grow soil. There is a difference. Healthy soil is alive. It is full of roots, bacteria, fungi, earthworms, insects, nematodes, protozoa, and countless other organisms that recycle nutrients, build organic matter, and feed plants in ways a bag of fertilizer never can. Much of modern agriculture replaces that biological complexity with applications of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Crops still grow, often spectacularly well, but over time, the soil itself becomes less biologically resilient.That is one of the hidden pleasures of growing food at home. We are not trying to maximize truckloads per acre. We harvest for flavor, freshness, and nutrition. Our lettuce never has to survive a week in a refrigerated trailer. It only has to make it from the garden to the dinner table.Every head of lettuce you grow yourself is one less that depends on a supply chain you cannot see and cannot control. Growing greens is one of the easiest places to begin. The investment is small, the learning curve is gentle, and the reward begins in a matter of weeks.There is something deeply satisfying about walking outside with a bowl, cutting enough greens for dinner, and knowing that your salad never crossed a border, entered a processing plant, or was exposed to someone defecating in a field.That is food security on a very human scale.JGM/RWMIf you found this essay valuable, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.The headlines tell us what happened. Our goal is to dig into why it happened, what the data actually show, and what questions no one else seems to be asking. That takes time. It means reading the scientific literature, government reports, regulatory filings, and historical records so you don’t have to.Your support makes that work possible. It also allows us to remain independent, free to follow the evidence wherever it leads, whether it confirms conventional wisdom or challenges it.Subscribe nowIf you’re already a paid subscriber, thank you. You make this work possible. If you’re not, We hope you’ll consider joining us. Together, we’re building a community that values curiosity, critical thinking, and the freedom to have honest conversations about the issues that affect our health, our food, and our future.

Summary: Yet, the salad bar could be just outside your back door


The Silent Surge: England’s Pulmonary Embolism Crisis

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHOne of the common Spike protein problems I worry about, whether vaccinated or not, is blood clots.  Virtually all of us have had exposure to the Wuhan Spike protein and if vaccinated, there is even more Spike exposure and risk to blood clots as a“hybrid harm.”Mead, MN., Rose, J, et al., 2025. Compound Impacts of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Convergence of Diverse “Spikeopathies” and Other Hybrid Harms. Medical Research Archives, [online] 13(11).https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v13i11.7087🩸 Venous Thromboembolism Skyrockets During PandemicTheHughes et al. paper inBMJ Openlays out a crisis hiding in plain sight. Between 1998 and 2022, hospitalisations for venous thromboembolic events (VTE) in England rose by62.6%— from 109.5 to 178.1 per 100,000 population. But that headline figure masks the real story: this wasnota broad, gradual rise across all clot types. It was a pulmonary embolism pandemic.Hughes M, Russell MD, Roy R, Mehta D, Norton S, Atzeni F, Galloway JB. Temporal trends in hospitalisations for venous thromboembolic events in England: a population-level analysis. BMJ Open. 2025 Mar 29;15(3):e090301. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090301. PMID: 40157730; PMCID: PMC11956333.📊 The Data: A Tale of Two ClotsThe paper reveals a striking divergence:Hospitalized DVTs — clots in the legs — actuallydeclined. The authors attribute this to successful community-based management pathways and DOAC anticoagulants. Fair enough.But PEs? Atripling. Lung clots that kill. And the authors’ explanations don’t hold water.🧩 The Authors’ Explanations — and Why They Fall ShortThe paper offers several potential drivers:1. Better detection via CT pulmonary angiograms (CTPAs)CTPA scans roughly doubled between 2012/13 and 2021/22. But here’s the problem: the PE hospitalisation rate rose from40.4 to 122.2— that’s a tripling, not a doubling. And the steepest climb occursafter2019. If this were just “better detection,” you’d expect a steady, proportional rise tracking imaging availability. You don’t get a hockey stick.2. Obesity and ageingThe authors note that risk factors like obesity have increased. But they also found themean age at hospitalisation remained stableacross the entire 24-year period. Ageing demographics aren’t driving this. And obesity doesn’t explain a 202% PE surge while DVTs fall — obesity is a risk factor forboth.3. Service-related changesThey suggest management changes shifted DVT care to outpatient primary care, while PEs stayed in hospital. That explains thedivergencebetween DVT and PE trends but does nothing to explain theabsoluteexplosion in PE numbers.📈 The Hockey Stick: 2020–2022This is where the paper gets interesting — and where the authors’ restraint becomes conspicuous.Look at the PE hospitalisation rate trajectory:1998/99:40.42019/20:104.2 (steady climb over 21 years)2020/21:115.6(+11.4 in one year)2021/22:122.2(+6.6 the next year)And as a proportion of all-cause admissions:2019/20:PE was 0.28% of all hospital admissions2020/21:PE jumped to0.40%— a 43% relative increase in a single year2021/22:Still elevated at 0.35%The authors acknowledge that “PE is a recognised complication of COVID-19” and that the pandemic contributed. But what theydon’tdiscuss — what no BMJ Open paper would dare discuss — is the other mass intervention that began rolling out across England in late 2020 and continued through 2021: thrombogenicSARS-CoV-2 vaccination.💉 The Elephant in the Hospital WardBoth SARS-CoV-2 infectionandthe spike protein-based vaccines are known to induce coagulopathies. The spike protein — whether delivered by the virus or by lipid nanoparticle-encased mRNA — binds to ACE2 receptors abundantly expressed on endothelial cells lining blood vessels. This triggers:Endothelial damageand inflammationPlatelet activationand aggregationMicroclot formationand fibrin amyloid depositionImpaired fibrinolysis— the body’s clot-busting system gets overwhelmedVaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) was the acute, headline-grabbing manifestation. But the chronic, subacute clotting pathology — the kind that lands people in hospital with PEs months after exposure — has been systematically ignored by the same institutions that funded and promoted the vaccines.The 2020/21 spike in PE hospitalisations coincides precisely with both the COVID-19 wavesandthe mass vaccination campaign. Disentangling the two is impossible with aggregate data. But ignoring the vaccine contribution entirely — as this paper does, without a single mention — is either cowardice or complicity.🔬 Why PEs and Not DVTs?This is the puzzle the paper can’t solve. If spike protein pathology were driving clots, why would PEs triple while DVTs decline?The answer may lie inwherethe endothelial damage occurs. The pulmonary vasculature receives the entire cardiac output and has an enormous endothelial surface area rich in ACE2 receptors. Inhaled virus hits the lungs first. Intravenously injected LNPs from vaccines have been shown to distribute systemically, with significant accumulation in the lungs, liver, and spleen. The lungs are ground zero.A DVT forms in the legs and may or may not travel. A PE is often theend resultof a systemic pro-thrombotic state — microclots forming throughout the vasculature, coalescing, and lodging in pulmonary arteries. The 202% PE surge isn’t a detection artifact. It’s a signal.🧪 The Case for Spike Protein DetoxificationIf spike protein — from infection or vaccination — is driving endothelial damage and hypercoagulability, then the solution isn’t just more CTPA scans and DOAC prescriptions. That’s downstream management. What’s needed isupstream clearanceof the pathogenic protein itself.This is whereThe Wellness Company’s Ultimate Spike Detoxformulation becomes essential. The protocol is built around compounds with known mechanisms for:Nattokinase:Proteolytic enzyme that degrades fibrin and dissolve abnormal clot matrices, including the amyloid-like microclots characteristic of spike protein pathologyBromelain:Reduces spike protein binding to ACE2 receptors and exhibits anti-thrombotic propertiesCurcumin:Blocks Spike with potent anti-inflammatory properties that downregulate NF-κB and NLRP3 inflammasome activation triggered by Spike proteinQuercetin:Zinc ionophore that also inhibits platelet aggregation and mast cell degranulationNigella sativa (black seed oil):Demonstrated in multiple studies to protect against spike protein-induced endothelial damage and thrombosisDandelion root:Support hepatic clearance pathways critical for metabolising and eliminating spike protein fragmentsSelenium:Enhances intestinal absorption, needed for heart health.Without active intervention to clear residual spike protein and dissolve established microclots, there isno reason to believe these PE hospitalisation numbers will decline. The spike protein persists in tissues and circulating monocytes long after acute exposure — in some cases, for over a year. The endothelial damage is cumulative. Each reinfection, each booster, adds to the burden.The clinical establishment will continue to treat the downstream consequences with anticoagulants while ignoring the upstream cause. That’s a recipe for permanent elevation of VTE risk across the population.🏁 ConclusionThe Hughes et al. data tell an alarming story that the authors themselves seem unwilling to fully confront. A 202% increase in pulmonary embolism hospitalisations — with a dramatic inflection point coinciding with the spike protein era — demands an honest accounting of all potential causes. Instead, we get hand-waving about CT scanners and obesity.If you want to avoid becoming a data point in the next iteration of this study, the path forward involves more than hoping the trend reverses on its own.Spike protein detoxificationwith proteolytic enzymes and supportive compoundsis not alternative medicine — it’s rational, mechanism-based intervention for a recognised pathological process that the medical establishment created and now refuses to acknowledge.Without it, those PE numbers have nowhere to go but up.FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Please subscribe toFOCAL POINTSas a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. 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Summary: A 202% explosion in deadly lung clots — and why Spike protein detoxification is the only path forward


MAHA Report Review of John Leake's "Mind Viruses: America's Irrational Obsessions"

The MAHA Report just published a thoughtful and detailed review of my new book (to be published on July 21)Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions.My gratitude to the reviewer, who must have read the book with great attentiveness and understanding. Please click on the image below to read the review, and please share it with your friends. The book is the culmination of an intellectual journey that began thirty years ago, in 1996,. when I wrote my Master’s thesis on Edmund Burke’sReflections on the Revolution in France.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: "A Poignant Diagnosis of a Divided Nation"