Dr. Paul Marik: Key Strategies That Help Prevent Cancer [FULL EPISODE]
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the bottom line is that 30 to 40% of cancers are preventable and there are simple things that people can do to reduce your risk of getting cancer in this episode I sit down with Dr Paul Merrick a founding member of the Frontline covid-19 Critical Care Alliance flccc and former Chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia medical school Cancer's big business it's highly profitable the average cost of chemotherapy for a patient is probably $100,000 he's the author of Cancer Care the role of repurpose drugs and metabolic interventions in treating cancer in this episode he breaks down his key findings this is American thought leaders and I'm Yan [Music] Kell Dr Paul Merck such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders thank you Yan thanks for inviting me back again so when we spoke last some months ago on a proper American thought leaders show I'm not talking about the quick hit we did earlier about this new groundbreaking nature study which I'll recommend our our viewers watch if they haven't seen that yet you were looking into cancer treatment cancer prevention you had discovered that in the scientific literature well established there's a whole body of literature that you you know incredibly well-published Medical Professional um you know in the industry for for decades we just simply unaware of and we were talking about how astonishing that was and you have since turned that into a book a kind of monograph um and and what you found is I'll use that word again absolutely astonishing so why don't you just tell me what you discovered yeah so this was by accident and I I certainly didn't know this information 3 or four years ago you know obviously you know Co open up our eyes and it started this Quest about looking at repurpose drugs and alternative therapies so the bottom line is that 30 to 40% of cancers are preventable just through simple lifestyle changes and through supplements you can reduce your risk of getting cancer which is really important because about 10 million people on the planet die of cancer every year approximately 600,000 Americans die of cancer every year and cancer will become the most important cause of death it's going to affect one in two men and one in three women so it is a very common disease and there are simple things that people can do to to reduce your risk of getting cancer and this is Well published you know it's it's just been hidden in the literature it's really important and then similarly they very simple effective measures that people who have cancer can take to improve the quality of their life and to to increase the risk of their chances of going into a remission and these are simple Lifestyle Changes dietary changes and the use of many o of over-the-counter supplements you know go I'm going to take myself back uh some years and uh I remember I watched this documentary uh about a Dr berzinski from uh Texas actually in Polish you would say his name binski but that's how I always thought but you know it was a very interesting documentary because it chronicled a doctor who's been in practice for decades he had found according to the documentary something called an antineoplaston a way to treat cancer um and he had a clinic that he developed and which was ostensibly successful all sorts of people in industry government have been trying to shut him down for decades but it were unable to do so and he continued on and he became this place where sort of you know lost CA cases which were untreatable someone might say oh you could go and maybe you could try there I've heard it helped a few people right and and I guess the message of the documentary also was that industry didn't want to validate his findings because he owned the patents that was the premise and and and they didn't like that so at the time I thought oh this this seems very compelling and but you know and I just kind of left it at that but now hearing everything that you're saying this whole picture takes on a whole new meaning to me I mean you know we talked about diabetes right and there's you know basically treatments for type two diabetes that have no side effect or very few side effects and and are actually also also work very well and but again largely unknown right by the by the broader medical community and this how many in how many areas is this actually the case you dug into cancer so H how many methods are there that that are actually could work that we've been told are some kind of snake oil or dangerous or problematic you know so obviously you know Cancer's big business uh it's highly profitable the average cost of chemotherapy for a patient is probably $100,000 so so you know big farmer makes a lot of money the oncologists in this country make a lot of money and the drugs we talking about are cheap off-patent drugs so you can understand why the you can understand the narrative it's much like Co it's it goes against big farma and it goes against traditional medicine which is a tragedy because they very effective therapies that can really improve the patient's outcome and some of these can be used in conjunction with standard chemotherapy we're not saying that you know throw away standard therapy these can use be used as adjuncts uh and as supplements to standard chemotherapy if patients so choose and I was stunned recently to discover that that MD Anderson Hospital which is probably one of the biggest cancer hospitals in the world indeed has an integrative oncology program where they they advise and they recommend and they coach patients in comprehensive lifestyle changes and just these lifestyle changes you know which include relaxation therapy sleep you know uh improved diet improved relationships exercise can significantly reduce the risk of patients dying of cancer I mean it's an astonishing finding well and and and there seems to be actually applying applying it I guess in in in isolated cases but it's somehow in the collective understanding of how the disease needs to be dealt with it's just not really there no so you know you go to a traditional oncologist and the patient says would ask you know what dietry advice would you give me and the oncologist will say well diet has nothing to do with it you can eat whatever you want to and we know that's just simply wrong there there's overwhelming scientific data that specific dietary interventions can have a profound effect on cancer profound effect and so this is a you know this is this is challenging the standard narrative um so binski is is this a real therapy or what do you think yeah I think it's real you know it's been subject to to to scrutiny and I think you know we we should be transparent and open so from my understanding it seems to be an effective treatment for for cancer I don't understand all the biochemistry but it doesn't mean we can't study it it doesn't mean that it should be outlawed by the FDA I think it should be investigated there's a lot of cancer therapies have extreme side effects I mean radiation chemotherapy right this there's serious quality of life issues with these therapies on the other hand these antineoplastons vitamin D I'm not say you know they may not be a Panacea I don't know but the point is they don't have they're not associated with these types of dramatic reductions in in quality of life so uh I mean that should be part of the equation right absolutely I mean many patients in many patients the treatment of the disease is worse than the disease and we know the extreme toxicity of chemotherapy and radiotherapy and you know these anop plaston seem pretty benign and you know all of the repurpose drugs that we recommend are extremely safe and effective what does the patient have to lose you know the question is where you you you have an intervention which is cheap safe and possibly could completely change the directory of the trajectory of the patient's disease what do you have to lose a few times when we talked about covid in the past we talked about vitamin D vitamin D seems to be this you know Miracle vitamin I don't I don't know if that's but it you know affects the immune system significantly in conjunction with some other um supplements I suppose um but it also seems from what you're saying seems to have positive impact on cancer not just covid so yeah so so the vitamin D truly is astonishing vitamin it more should be a hormone As We Know It's very effective for covid it's effective for depression it's effective for Alzheimer's disease it's effective for diabetes and it just so happens it's highly effective in both the prevention and treatment of cancer there's overwhelming data that patients who are vitamin D deficient have a much higher risk of developing cancer and as we know as as you go further from the equator and you get less ultraviolet B and you get less vitamin D your risk of cancer goes up your risk of Alzheimer's goes up and there's really good data if you take patients if you give patients vitamin D you reduce their risk of getting cancer and patients who have cancer if you give them high dose vitamin D it significantly improves their chances of going into a remission and this is a simple over-the-counter medication presumably some of these things could also be used in combination you could do a diet change you could do uh vitamin D and you could also do chemo at the same time that should help you right or absolutely so what you say is true these things work much better in Synergy when they're done together so for example one of the things we recommend is intermittent fasting or Tim restricted feeding it's been shown in the literature in the oncology literature if that you do Tim restricted feeding at the same time you're doing chemotherapy you get a much better response so there's absolutely no reason there's absolutely no reason that that if patients are undergoing standard you know chemotherapy that it should not be combined with these supplemental or complimentary techniques that can only enhance the patient's response to therapy one of the big findings in your monograph is that or you you essentially believe cancer to be a metabolic disease now that is not I would say the conventional wisdom is it yeah so what you say is true it's so you know this is based on the the work of Dr SE freed you know he's done I mean this is his area of expertise he's written you know hundreds of papers he's written a book on cancer as a metabolic disease which basically challenges the conventional wisdom that cancer is due to a chromosomal mutation and so that has a profound implication because if if it's a chromosomal disease then and the current chemotherapy does make it fits with that narrative but if cancer is a metabolic disease then the standard approach is not going to work and there's overwhelming evidence I mean there's overwhelming evidence in the literature that that it's not a metab that it's not a chromosomal disease it's a metabolic disease in fact the um the person who who who discovered d DNA you know the Watson and Crick you know Dr Watson has basically said in a in an oped that he doesn't think cancer is a chromosomal disease and we should look at the metabolic changes that happen in cancer I guess the question is couldn't it be both like couldn't there be genetic you know mutations I mean we I think that we know that mut it's mutations that actually cause cancer effectively right but the question is how does that happen and couldn't both mechanisms be right yeah so you're right it is a complex interplay between metabolism and genetics we know there are some genetic predisposition for example we know that woman with the braa gene have a much higher risk of developing cancer but what's interesting is their risk of getting cancer nowadays is about 60 or 70% of getting breast cancer 30 or 40 years ago it was 40% so it does illustrate that there an interplay between you know environmental and lifestyle changes and genetics but most it's current thinking is maybe 5% of cancers are due to chromosomal or genetic defects it appears that um most cancers are are not genetically determined there's been an increase right in a variety significant increase in a variety of metabolic diseases to my eye I have not studied this but I mean and and just in general you know I guess in America there's this obesity epidemic right I'm sure that actually has a significant impact on on obviously on metabolism how could it not right I suppose but what did you find are the kind of core kind of causes in your understanding so there's a length between obesity insulin resistance and cancer probably underlies 30 or 40% of of cancers are due to obesity and insulin resistance there's a very strong Association and so there's an association between the intake of of high glycemic index foods and sugar Beverages and um and cancer because of its effect on insulin resistance so so there's overwhelming data and as the incidence of obviously obesity is increasing so it seems in parallel the incidence of cancer is increasing and then obviously there's the problem of you know environmental cogens just on to lay on top on top of this problem over the past years I've perspective I I I suspect it must also be in the literature but certainly among um in the health related discourse in media and so forth that obesity is more more a genetic disease than a lifestyle disease yeah I don't think that's true because people's genes haven't changed much over the last 30 or 40 years but if you look at the incidence of obesity particularly in the US it's it's increased exponentially so it is a lifestyle disease you know like most things there may be a genetic predisposition but I think without question of doubt that obesity is is a lifestyle problem because we eat processed foods and foods high high in carbohydrates and glucose and we snack all the time you know Western people tend to eat all the time rather than doing what our forefathers did you know eat one or two meals a day so Western people eat all the time they eat highly processed foods high in carbohydrates and glucose uh in essence we have become you know processed food addicts does it make sense to say that you know if you just focused on the Obesity issue you could you would deal with a whole bunch of these other issues perhaps even cancer based on what you said earlier yeah so I think fundamentally lifestyle change which which would start off with diet and then exercise and then sleep if you if you attacked those problems I think you could eliminate almost all the chronic diseases of Western society which would be cancer cardiac disease Alzheimer's disease I think all these chronic diseases are related to bad lifestyle and lifestyle choices so you don't think it has to do with you know increased radiation that's one of the things you hear right often or um yeah I I think obviously environmental carcinogens are important you know and people or families that live near power lines or at an increased risk of certain kinds of cancer the problem is is it it's so pervasive that you know pesticides and toxins are so pervasive that it's very difficult for any individual to to completely El eliminate there is good data though that people who who eat um uh organic food as organic as can be have a lower risk of cancer so there is data showing that if you eat a diet of organic food your risk of cancer is less so there are things that you can do but it's pretty difficult to you know not to breathe the air that we exposed to or drink the water but um there's no question that environmental carcinogens have played a role okay so let's say you know in order of importance you found a series of lifestyle decisions and perhaps supplements so let let's kind of go through that and maybe in order of importance based on your study of the literature um you know because maybe there's some things that folks watching could like Implement right now that would that would help them yeah so so I can quote um a randomized control trial which is the gold standed that the Ivory Tower used so they did a a a simple intervention three things to see what would happen to the risk of cancer and so it was vitamin D IM Three fatty acids plus an exercise program and they show the combination of all three reduce the risk of cancer by 60% 60% so those are very simple things that people can do so you know it's a matter of exercising taking vitamin D and modifying your diet can significantly reduce your risk of getting cancer I'm just going to repeat that for a second you're saying the combination of vitamin D omega-3 a fatty acids and exercise reduced cancer risk by 60% that's correct wow yes so that doesn't get a lot of press um because you can't make money in fact it's counterproductive for the pharmaceutical industry and the medical complex if people don't get cancer and so you know this this was published in a peer-reviewed paper a peer- reviewed Journal it's a really good study it's supported by other studies the many studies that show that exercise reduces your risk of cancer there's data that show that simple relaxation techniques and techniques in terms of meditation yoga relaxation techniques improve your outcome if you get cancer so there are some very simple lifestyle interventions that can reduce both your risk of getting cancer and if you have cancer can improve the outcome well I I'm just going to you know comment on this given how prevalent cancer is in our society I mean the risk of cancer and you outlined this a little bit earlier is high for every person if you can reduce that by 60% I mean we should all be rushing off and starting this regimen never mind other things you're going to tell us about in a moment yeah so it it doesn't get the attention that it should get I mean you know particularly vitamin D the the data on vitamin D in preventing cancer in preventing Alzheimer's disease in preventing depression is overwhelming and it's it's safe you know it's it's a cheap intervention that has minimal Adverse Events and so from my perspective there's no reason that everybody should not be taking vitamin D um let's talk a little more briefly about vitamin D can you overdose on vitamin D so it is possible you know if you take Mega doses of Vitamin D you you can get very high levels which cause high blood calcium levels which can cause kidney stones but you have to take exceedingly high levels so you know what we recommend is 10,000 units a day which seems to be a very safe dose that you know it by all standards it's a very high dose but the data suggests that 10,000 units a day is safe and does not cause toxicity and you feel comfortable sort of advising this on camera to a broad group of people based on your understanding of the literature yeah so I think between 5 and 10,000 units a day depending on your particular scenario makes a lot of sense I mean there's there's really good data for so you know patients with cancer patients with depression we would recommend maybe 10,000 units you know as a prophylaxis for for people 5,000 units a day is a very safe dose and again I'll just mention this also is a covid prevention even I suppose in a situation where people have been let's say overly boosted and therefore you know more susceptible to being infected this this would still help there's no problem to take vitamin D and and protect yourself yeah I mean vitamin D has enormous immunological effects it affects gene expression there are hundreds of genes that are affected by vitamin D and there's really you know excellent data that um vitamin D reduces your risk of getting covid and if you get Co it reduces the severity of the disease so your chances of being hospitalized or dying or less so you know what we should have been what we should have done you know with the with the co pandemic if it was a pandemic was we we should have been boosting people's vitamin D level particularly the elderly who you know in old age homes or Elderly Homes so they don't get much sunshine and are certainly vitamin D deficient you know instead of you know vaccinating them we would have done a much greater service to to the population if we just given them vitamin D well and also what comes to mind I've discussed this on a number of programs is people with darker skin in Northern climates don't synthesize as much so they may have even lower levels of vitamin D and not realizing it so there's another you know very valuable use Cas yes so you know elderly people don't make vitamin D well um obese people don't make vitamin D people of dark skin don't make vitamin D so there's certain groups that are even it's even more important to take vitamin D is there anything else vitamin D is good for well it's you know there's nothing that it's bad for unless the only thing is it can be bad for is if you have high blood calcium so if you if you have hypocalcemia for whatever reason you wouldn't want to take vitamin D but otherwise you know it's it's very safe you mentioned something about addiction to food and I suspect that a lot of people you know I even just sort of I'll mention this anecdotally um I actually I was told recently a story about someone who was working in the food industry broadly speaking who quit at one point because she realized that she her job was basically to make food more addictive yeah so there's no question that processed food there's a pervasive addiction to processed food and BAS basically the sugar and fructose causes a high that then stimulates the appetite and it becomes selfs serving because the more you eat the more you want to eat and then you become your blood glucose goes up and you develop uh insulin resistance and so people are addicted that there's animal data that shows that glucose is more addictive to to mice than cocaine or heroin say that again yeah animal data suggests that glucose like sugar like sugar yeah like sweetened beverages yeah is more addictive to to experimental animals than cocaine it causes such a heart and of course to be we're it we're not allowed to run those experiments on humans um wow so there's no question that a large segment of of the western population are addicted to processed foods and just by switching to real food and so you know if it looks like food it's food you know if it comes in a carton or has a wrapper and it has a a package insert or a list of ingredients and preservatives and chemicals then it's not real food so just by changing your diet to real food can make an enormous difference you know it's very interesting CU one of the things that I I've done keto dieting for a long time and you just the moment you start doing it it actually becomes very normal you just have to kind of overcome the initial kind of desire to to to eat the sugary things but after a while it's it's it's not an issue at all but I I've often told people I think the reason it actually works is because you just can't eat most processed things if you're eating keto you just it's just not not an option for you yeah so once once you become adapted to eating real food eating processed food becomes very difficult it's just becomes you know unappetizing and doesn't have the same appeal and so that that's why it's not a difficult thing to do you know it should be a lifestyle change not a diet and so once you you start eating real food then um the processed food becomes unappetizing I know it's still nice to have that you know that burger once in a while yeah it's kind to cheap now and then um let me ask you about this so you know I I myself do a lot of meditation it's been incredibly helpful to me um at the same time I can disclose I don't get a ton of sleep and and so and what so what what is the cost of that or or what what is the right amount of sleep in this to Bro of course it's going to be different for different people but you mentioned that as something that's important so sleep is really important for brain restoration and so there's something called the glymphatic system which is the way the brain detoxifies itself during sleep it's it's it's it's like the lymphatic system of the brain but it's only active during sleep and so we know that people that are sleep deprived it reduces your life expectancy it increases your risk of cancer so it's really important that people you know people have the idea that they can get away with five or 6 hours of sleep and it doesn't affect their their health that is not true the data is clear that people who who you know an adult needs at least 7 hours of sleep and interference with sleep in you know increases your risk of many diseases including you know dementia and there's data that people who have cancer who actually have um sleep dysfunction have a much higher risk of of demising absolutely fascinating what about you know you mentioned some repurposed drugs and so forth with for use with cancer that are not generally known yeah so there there there's a there's there is a group called redo which looks at repurpose drugs for the use of cancer so so they list about 250 different drugs believe it or not that have shown you know in experimental models to have activity against cancer cells in the book or monograph that I wrote I reduced them down to the 30 that I thought was the most effective and so there are really good studies showing that that um both in a test tube in a in in a um animal model as well as in patients that it has anti-cancer activity and there's there's a list of these you know so vitamin D is is is number one but then we have melatonin we have green tea um the anti-diabetic medication Metformin actually is a very powerful anti-cancer drug and then we have the antiparasitic drugs there's mebendazol I that that have activity against um cancer cells um the this I was going to say the the horsey wormer so believe it or not believe it or not the horsey wormer is very effective against certain Cancers and so we know of of cases of patients who had solid tumors who were given the horse dwma and the together with some other drugs so you know as a said it's not one one magical drug It's a combination It's a combination approach but we're given a regimen which included the horse DW and the cancer disappeared absolutely fascinating you know it just it also struck me you know there there's no reason why you you couldn't have your vitamin D have your matcha I love I probably drink matcha every day you know uh you know concentrated green tea in the powder and and me melatonin or other things also very kind of innocuous um yes so you know the bottom line is you know there are some patients who would choose this approach rather than undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy particularly for cancers that are not responsive to chemotherapy but also you know you can use them as adjuncts to chemotherapy so that in the end you need less chemotherapy and the data is clear that the combination is more effective than chemotherapy alone so you know this is this is I think the point you kind of have to approach any treatment these days skeptically any treatment regimen you really have to I'm going to say the the the the terrible term do your own research right this was became something that you're not allowed to say right over over the last few years it be absolutely I think the bottom line is patients must be empowered Ed they need to be empowered by the truth and they should do their own research I think the days are are gone where you trust sorry I'm sorry to say this you trust implicitly what the physician says particularly the oncologist in this country so in some European countries the oncologists or integrative oncologists they follow you know particularly in Europe they'll use a combination of standard therapy plus unconven what would be considered unconventional but it happens in the same hospital um in this country there you know almost all oncologists will just follow chemotherapy so I think that patients but with the with the exception of this of this one which probably in many cases would but has this whole integrative yeah so it is interesting so they they do they focus on lifestyle interventions as part of it they don't look at repurpose drugs or other dietary manipulation so there is the I was surprised that they actually do have such a program uh which is really which is fantastic but it should be much it should be the standard of care their patients should follow in you know comprehensive lifestyle changes as well as you know I would say you know repurpose drugs how many papers did you look at for this monograph yeah so I looked at over 1,400 different peerreview papers um so I think I have a pretty good understanding of the literature and this data is out there this data is published I mean there's really good data for example showing that um controlling your diet if you have color rectal cancer and have surgery and you control your diet so that you control your glucose you risk of getting a metastases and d of a metastasis is much less and this is in the oncology literature so the the data is out there um that's why patients have to do their own research and you know which is what I try to do in my book is to really compile all the data out there in a place that patients can read and then decide you know what they think is would be fit in with their lifestyle over the last few years and our viewers can you know look back to some of our previous interviews you know I mean you started out as a you know running an emergency room a big emergency room and of course and you also developed this uh the vitamin C sepsis protocol which is you know now been Vindicated we've talked about that before I think you've published over 500 papers but not really focused on cancer why should people trust this people would say stay in your lane Dr Merck yes I have been asked a question and that that is a good question so firstly it was ICU not emergency medicine just although it's a small point so the the reason is is that I I have no stake in the game that I'm I'm not going to I have no conflict of interest I can objectively look at the literature and so that's what I've done in most of my career is objectively looked at the literature and come up with treatment plans so I I'm I have no conflicts here I can objectively look at the scientific data and I can simulate the data and I can compile the data and so that's what I did you know I'm not claiming to be an oncologist I'm just presenting the data that's out there all I'm doing is I compile the data that's out there and because I have no conflict of interest I have no skin in the game I can be honest and objective and transparent and so if people don't think it's true well let them decide for themselves but you know obviously I've looked at the literature and I'm presenting it as honestly and as scientifically as I can well and the reason I mentioned you know the number of papers you have published and of course you know sepsis is this huge problem and frankly any hospital it's a significant cause of death in any Hospital you develop protocols that were better and cheap and can be applied you know almost anywhere in the world you know in places where that don't have you know terribly great Hospital facilities I gu I guess I'm trying to say is you've you've done a lot of thinking about how to treat people and help make them better including uh during covid in fact that is actually what cost you your your career is in you know running the ICU because you refused to use these protocols which we now know were terrible right and and you applied you tried to do something better which indeed it worked yeah so I think Co basically opened my eyes to be honest you know I I followed the narrative previously and then I realized that there was another story there was another side to the story and I think the diabetes and the cancer treatment is a good illustration that there is another side the data is out there it just needs to be brought to the surface oh great so where can people find this cancer monograph of yours yeah so two places they can go to the flccc website lccc.edu the monograph at on amazon.com well wonderful well any final thoughts as we finish yeah I think that people need to be empowered to improve their own health that I think cancer is largely a prevent able disease and that people should do what they can so they don't get cancer it's as simple as that well Dr Paul Merck it's so good to have you on again thank you Yan it's always a pleasure thank you all for joining Dr Paul mer and me on this episode of American thought leaders I'm your host Yan Kell [Music]

Summary: the bottom line is that 30 to 40% of cancers are preventable and there are simple things that people can do to reduce your risk of getting cancer in this episode I sit down with Dr Paul Merrick a founding member of the Frontline covid-19 Critical Care Alliance flccc and former Chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia medical school Cancer's big business it's highly profitable the average cost of chemotherapy for a patient is probab…


Dr. Kathleen Ruddy, Surgeon - Ivermectin on Cancer, her findings
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I'll have to say that I was as astonished as anyone might be that Ivor mechon has potential as an anti-cancer agent I'm a cancer surgeon we don't do parasites okay we don't do Ivermectin um and I was not really even familiar with those people who use ican um and so when in the early days of Co when it became clear that ior maon was was effective in preventing and treating patients with a SARS K2 infection um I began to be aware having looked in the literature that there was 20 years of research showing that Ivermectin had great potential in the treatment of cancer um I was introduced to a patient with stage four prostate cancer had received two vaccines perfectly healthy marathoner no history of cancer in the family two months after his uh second fer shot works for the government he going to lose his job in his pension if he wasn't vaccinated um he was diagnosed all at once with stage four prostate cancer he tells a very compelling story melodramatic story about that 24-hour period of time in his life um and he went through the traditional protocols radiation chemotherapy radiation chemotherapy pharmacologic castration all of it over a period of nine months and then his doctor said you know there's really nothing else we can do and uh his name is Paul man and he was like can't you give me more radiation no can't you give me more chemo no aren't there any other drugs no are there any clinical trials there's nothing hospice send for the priest so a friend of his knew me and she said uh would you give Paul a call he just needs some moral support something so I said sure So I began calling him we spoke about once a week for three weeks and finally um the poor guy was suffering had cancer and 11 bones in his body his right leg was completely swollen obstructed with tumor he's miserable and I said Paul I don't know if this is going to help you but I know it's not going to hurt you I just can't imagine based on my judgment and understanding of the scientific literature and all the work that drors Corey and Merck had done and others around the world that ior maed in would hurt you it might help I can't say so he said you know I'll give it a try and uh he drove to Tennessee where you could get it without a prescription PS I discovered last night having dinner with Paul and his wife Terry he drove from where he lives in Missouri to Tennessee and paid cash for his ior mton that's it he didn't submit it to insurance company he didn't tell anybody back in Missouri is on College just now his iacon prescriptions are listed in his chart how did that information get from the pharmacy in Tennessee to his chart in Missouri we don't know somebody does I'd like to know myself anyway he starts taking Iber maon and he doesn't have any problems with it and I talk to him every week and um how are you feeling well no change next week uh maybe a little bit better I don't know how's your leg it's not quite as swollen how how's the pain pain everywhere maybe a little bit better slowly slowly slowly not getting worse not necessarily getting better not getting worse fast forward um two month follow-up appointment at the clinic they didn't expect to see him okay Paul um he's feeling a little bit better they do a PSA which was off the charts to begin with and if I'm not mistaken at the time they randomized him to hospice I think it was in the hundreds maybe 700 800 what does that mean exactly for the late person over four would be abnormal mhm okay so what are we talking about here prostate cells normally secrete a protein prostate specific antigen it's one of the things that they do cancer cells that originate in the prostate that are dividing rapidly and growing fast are spitting out PSA mhm okay it's not that they're contributing to the body economy in any way it's just they just want to multiply and divide and that's the end of the story and so your PSA levels start to rise which is a marker a screening marker oh your PSA was four and now it's eight let's do a prostate ultrasound whatever so PSA can be a screen for the emerg of a tumor but it can also be used particularly at high levels as evidence for cancer response to cancer recurrence of cancer his was I mean it's supposed to be you know four you know yeah it's hundreds okay he goes back for his two-month appointment it's 1.3 they said you're in remission well not you know complete remission he still had the bone Mets but you're in like a biochemical remission well that was good news slowly slowly slowly he begins to improve less pain swelling is okay a lot of other vaccine injuries however he's getting better he's getting better giving him uh nutritional support and other supplements he's having TI little mini strokes but he didn't tell me about that because we were talking about the cancer but over a period of time asking him questions and I said oh you're having tias his wife said yeah having tias I said what do the cancer doctors tell you because that's who he's seeing they say it's not related to my cancer like so I get a call from his wife one evening he's in the emergency room he's had this Tia he whatever it is catastrophic and um I said Paul what are they doing for you and he said well they did a CAT scan of my head and they said they don't see anything specific it's a TIA and it's not related to my cancer they send them home I said did they do anything no I said well okay call me crazy I'm a cancer surgeon but I think you need to see a cardiologist I think there are things they can do okay and of course I look it up really quickly and and or things so get him to the cardiologist get him on blood thinners no more problems with tias okay that's an indictment of the healthcare system so he's getting better but nine months later um he's out dancing for 4 hours three nights a week he gets a head to toe uh rescanning and uh three of the bone Mets are gone there no growth of the Mets that are there no new lesions there's only one hot spot and that's where he received radiation therapy and the radiation um the radiologist really could not distinguish whether that was a tumor hot spot or radiation change um he is doing very well the vaccine injury is uh a problem but the cancer is no longer a problem except for the fact that it's still there and we want to get rid of it completely um and he and he said he called me from a hockey game and he said uh if I didn't know I have cancer I would not know I have cancer that was patient number one I was like that's interesting a second patient crossed my path a guy in his 70s who had been losing weight for a year and a half 40 lbs not vaccinated 40 lb weight loss smoker Drinker all he does is fish and um he could no longer swallow and he could hardly talk and so I got on the phone with him and I said uh Eddie you know tell me a little bit about your history and so forth he knew someone with prostate cancer who had taken IAC had cured himself from prostate cancer with that so Eddie began taking iacon I have no idea what the dosing was he was just taking it and I gave him some advice about diet you know try and get the weight back on and so on and so forth within a couple of weeks he sounded stronger mhm sounded stronger he could swallow he had gained 6 lb his his voice was better followed him for the next couple of weeks maybe another month or so and I said Eddie we need to get a scan he doesn't have insurance he doesn't like doctors whatever he had been diagnosed in that interval with two esophageal tumors unresectable surgeons wouldn't go near it the uh doctor said well we'll give you chemo and radiation and Ed he said no you're not so he takes his IAC and maybe about six weeks later there I said Eddie you need to get a scan had to argue with Eddie to get a scan we got the scan no tumors

Summary: I'll have to say that I was as astonished as anyone might be that Ivor mechon has potential as an anti-cancer agent I'm a cancer surgeon we don't do parasites okay we don't do Ivermectin um and I was not really even familiar with those people who use ican um and so when in the early days of Co when it became clear that ior maon was was effective in preventing and treating patients with a SARS K2 infection um I began to be aware having looked in the literat…


Fenbendazole & Cancer: The Joe Tippens Protocol Explained
YouTube video by Dr. Memet Isik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBcMpenYmZg). Transcript is the auto-caption track — verbatim ASR, not a certified transcript.

Hi everyone. What if I told you that a common dog dewormer might hold the key to fighting cancer? Sounds unbelievable, right? But for thousands of people, including Joe Tippens, this idea has turned into a life-changing reality. Today, I'm going to break down the Joe Tippens protocol, explain how Fenbendazole may work against cancer, and go over the latest research, real life success stories, and practical guidance for those considering this approach. So, if you or a loved one is battling cancer, stay with me until the end of this video. It could change your life. Joe Tippens was an ordinary businessman diagnosed with small cell lung cancer in 2016. Doctors told him he had only 3 months to live as the cancer had spread throughout his body. Despite undergoing chemotherapy, the prognosis was grim. That's when Joe heard from a veterinarian friend about fenbendazole, a common dog dewormer that had shown some promising results in lab studies on cancer. With nothing left to lose, he decided to try it. And what happened next stunned even his doctors. By early 2017, his PET scan showed no evidence of cancer. Joe shared his incredible recovery online, and his story quickly went viral. Since then, thousands of people worldwide have tried his protocol, reporting similar success stories. So what exactly is the Joe Tippens protocol? Let's break it down. First, Fenbendazole 222 mg per day taken 3 days on 4 days off. Brand names include Panacor C and safeguard. It's best taken with food containing fat like coconut oil or fish oil. Next, vitamin E 800 IU per day. Tookatrrenol rich vitamin E is preferred as it supports the immune system and helps prevent cancer cell survival. Then curcumin 600 mgs per day. Bioavailable versions like BCM95 or long va are recommended. Curcumin is known for its anti-inflammatory properties and helps stop tumor growth. Finally, CBD oil 25 mgs per day. Fullsp spectrum CBD oil with or without THC is used for its anti-inflammatory and immune boosting effects. Optional additions include ceretin, bourberine, melatonin, and omega-3. But how does fenbendazole actually work against cancer? Here are the four key ways scientists believe it helps. First, it disrupts microtubules, preventing cancer cells from dividing and spreading. Second, it triggers apoptosis, which is cancer cell self-destruction while leaving healthy cells unharmed. Third, it restricts glucose processing in cancer cells, cutting off their energy supply. And fourth, it may boost the immune system, helping it fight cancer more effectively. While no large-scale clinical trials on fenbendazole in humans exist yet, several animal and cell studies support its anti-cancer properties. A 2008 study found fenbendazole reduced tumor growth in mice with melanoma. A 2018 study and scientific report showed benzamitoolles like fenbendazole had anti-cancer effects in lung cancer cells. Thousands of cancer patients have reported positive outcomes, but more research is needed. Now, let's address some common questions and safety concerns. How long should you take fenbendazol? Many patients continue for months or even indefinitely. Is fenbendazole safe? Generally, it's well tolerated, but some people experience mild nausea or diarrhea. Can it be used with chemo or radiation? Some patients do, but always consult your doctor. And where can you buy fenbendazole? It's available from online retailers and pet stores under brand names like Panic C and Safeguard. The Joe Tippens protocol has given hope to thousands facing cancer, but it's important to remember that it's not a miracle cure. While many have seen success, scientific research is still catching up. If you're considering this protocol, consult a health care provider and track your progress carefully. Have you or someone you know tried Fenbendazole? Share your experiences in the comments below. Your story might help someone in need. And if you found this video helpful, don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more content on holistic and alternative cancer

Summary: Hi everyone. What if I told you that a common dog dewormer might hold the key to fighting cancer? Sounds unbelievable, right? But for thousands of people, including Joe Tippens, this idea has turned into a life-changing reality. Today, I'm going to break down the Joe Tippens protocol, explain how Fenbendazole may work against cancer, and go over the latest research, real life success stories, and practical guidance for those considering this approach. So,…


Taco Bell Puts America on CODE BROWN

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHThe news cycle has brought up the cyclospora protozoan outbreak for weeks but has not told us why America was so ill-prepared for another infectious disease threat.🦠 The 2026 Cyclospora Outbreak and the Case for TMP-SMX in Every American Medicine CabinetTheWellness Company’s Medical Emergency Kitcontains the precise treatment that could have prevented hundreds of hospitalizations—and the public health establishment remains silent on why Americans weren’t better prepared.📊 The Scale of the DisasterAs of mid-July 2026, the United States is in the grip of the worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in recent memory.  The majority of cases are confirmed by multiplex GI pathogen panels like the BioFire FilmArray Gastrointestinal (GI) Panel which explicitly tests for Cyclospora cayetanensis and has replaced the old stool acid fast stain. The numbers tell the story:Michigan alonereports over5,000 casesand102 hospitalizationsOhio has logged more than1,240 casesIndiana:320+ cases; Kentucky:190+; West Virginia:139Nationwide, the CDC acknowledges1,644 confirmed infectionsacross34 states, with94 hospitalizations—and that’s the official count, which the agency itself admits is a dramatic undercountThe source?Taylor Farmsiceberg lettuce imported from central Mexico, served atTaco Bellrestaurants across the Midwest and beyond. The company has admitted responsibility. The lettuce has been pulled. But for thousands of Americans now enduring explosive, watery diarrhea, crippling abdominal cramps, nausea, and low-grade fever that can persist for a month or longer, the damage is done.Here’s what makes this outbreak particularly galling:the treatment has been known for decades, and it’s sitting right there inThe Wellness Company’s Medical Emergency Kit.💊 TMP-SMX: The Undisputed Treatment of ChoiceLet’s be absolutely clear—this is not a matter of debate or alternative medicine. The CDC and every major infectious disease authority agree:trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX), sold as Bactrim™, Septra™, or Cotrim™, is the treatment of choice for cyclosporiasis.Period.The standard adult regimen is straightforward:TMP 160 mg plus SMX 800 mg (one double-strength tablet), orally, twice daily, for 7–10 days.That’s it. A simple, well-tolerated, generic antibiotic that has been in clinical use for over half a century. For pediatric patients, the weight-based dosing is equally well-established. The drug works by sequentially blocking two steps in the bacterial folate synthesis pathway, and againstCyclospora cayetanensis, it is remarkably effective.The alternatives? They barely deserve the name:Ciprofloxacinis listed as a backup option, but it’s a fluoroquinolone with a black box warning for tendon rupture and permanent nerve damage—hardly a first-line choiceNitazoxanideshows only 71–87% efficacy, meaning roughly one in four to one in three patients won’t clear the infectionObservation and symptomatic treatment alone leaves patients suffering forweeks to over a month, with the characteristic relapsing pattern where symptoms seem to resolve only to return with a vengeanceWithout TMP-SMX, a cyclospora infection is a protracted misery. With TMP-SMX, it’s typically resolved within 7–10 days. The difference isn’t subtle—it’s the difference between a brief, treatable illness and a debilitating, month-long ordeal that can land you in a hospital bed.🏥 The Hospitalizations That Didn’t Need to HappenLet’s do the grim arithmetic.In Michigan,102 peoplehave been hospitalized. Ohio’s hospitals have absorbed an unknown but substantial fraction of its 1,240+ cases. Nationwide, the CDC counts94 hospitalizationsfrom just the Taco Bell-linked cluster alone—and that number is certainly an undercount given the agency’s well-documented lag in reporting.Cyclospora hospitalizations are not typically intensive care situations for otherwise healthy adults. They’re admissions driven by severe dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, and the inability to keep fluids down—the consequences of uncontrolled, weeks-long diarrhea that no one should have to endure in a developed nation with access to effective antibiotics.If every household that encountered this outbreak had TMP-SMX on hand, through a Medical Emergency Kit from The Wellness Company, the hospitalization numbers would be a fraction of what they are. Here’s the logic:Early treatment stops progression.Cyclospora doesn’t kill healthy adults, but it debilitates them. The longer the parasite colonizes the intestinal epithelium, the more severe the dehydration and nutritional depletion become. A course of TMP-SMX started within days of symptom onset nips the entire process in the bud.The diagnostic bottleneck is real.As the CDC itself admits, most US laboratories do not routinely test forCyclospora. Healthcare providers must specifically request it. This means patients often bounce between appointments, urgent care visits, and ER trips for days or weeks before receiving the correct diagnosis—all while the parasite continues unchecked. Having the correct treatment on hand eliminates dependence on a sluggish, overburdened diagnostic infrastructure.No highly effective alternatives exist.For patients with sulfa allergies, the options are grim—observation, off-label alternatives with mediocre efficacy, or desensitization protocols that require specialist allergist involvement. For the vast majority of Americans who can tolerate sulfonamides, TMP-SMX is the only game in town.If even half of the currently hospitalized patients had been able to self-initiate treatment upon recognizing the characteristic symptoms—explosive, watery stools; profound fatigue; low-grade fever; and the telltale waxing-and-waning pattern—we’d be looking at perhaps 20–30 hospitalizations instead of 100+. Every one of those averted admissions represents not just spared suffering, but also tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills that didn’t need to be incurred.🎯 Why The Wellness Company’s Kit MattersTheWellness Company’s Medical Emergency Kitcontains28 tablets of TMP-SMX at 800/160 mg—enough for a full 14-day course for one adult, which is more than the standard 7–10 day regimen. That’s deliberate. In a genuine emergency where follow-up care may be uncertain, having a margin of safety matters.The kit also includes:Azithromycin(generic Z-Pak)—for respiratory infections and traveler’s diarrheaDoxycycline—broad-spectrum coverage including tick-borne diseasesAmoxicillin-Clavulanate—for resistant bacterial infectionsIvermectin—antiparasitic with broad utilityAnd several others, plus a comprehensive guidebook for safe useThe philosophy behind the kit is precisely what the cyclospora outbreak demonstrates:in a crisis, the difference between a minor illness and a medical emergency is often nothing more than having the right medication on hand at the right time.The public health establishment spent years lecturing Americans that they shouldn’t stockpile medications, that self-treatment is dangerous, that only a board-certified physician in a clinical setting should ever dispense an antibiotic. Meanwhile, thousands of Americans are now learning the hard way that when you’re on day 12 of uncontrollable diarrhea and your local urgent care can’t figure out what’s wrong with you, having a Medical Emergency Kit in your medicine cabinet stops being a “controversial” idea and starts looking like basic common sense.🔍 The Deeper FailureThis outbreak exposes something uglier than contaminated lettuce. It exposes a system that has systematically disempowered ordinary people from managing their own health.Consider the timeline:The CDC stopped tracking cyclospora infections (along with seven other foodborne pathogens) onJuly 1, 2025—a full year before this outbreak exploded.  The agency does not treat or help patients with illness.Testing for cyclospora is not routine. Doctors have to think to order it. Most don’t.The FDA’s traceback investigation took weeks to identify Taylor Farms lettuce, during which time Taco Bell continued serving the contaminated product.At no point did any federal agency suggest that Americans might want to have TMP-SMX available in case they became infected.The entire apparatus is oriented toward reactive, centralized control rather than proactive, distributed preparedness. The Wellness Company’s model—putting prescription medications directly into the hands of informed consumers, with educational materials for safe use—represents a direct challenge to that paradigm. And the cyclospora outbreak is the proof of concept.💡 What Should Have HappenedIn a rational world, the response to a cyclospora outbreak of this magnitude would include:Immediate public guidanceon the symptoms of cyclosporiasis and the availability of early, effective treatmentStreamlined access to TMP-SMXthrough emergency medical kits, telemedicine and emergency prescribing protocolsClear messagingthat while most healthy people eventually recover without treatment, there is no reason to endure weeks of debilitating illness when a safe, generic antibiotic existsRecognitionthat medical preparedness at the household level is not paranoia—it’s prudenceInstead, what Americans got was a slow-motion response from agencies that had already deprioritized cyclospora surveillance, coupled with the usual hand-wringing about “appropriate antibiotic use” while hundreds of people filled hospital beds with an entirely treatable parasitic infection.🏁 The Bottom LineThe 2026 cyclospora outbreak has sickened thousands, hospitalized over a hundred, and caused untold misery across 34 states. The lettuce is now off the market, but the outbreak isn’t over—and if history is any guide, next summer will bring another one.Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole is the treatment of choice.Every infectious disease specialist in the country knows it. The question is whether you’ll have it when you need it, or whether you’ll be waiting in an ER at 2 AM, dehydrated and miserable, hoping someone eventually figures out what’s wrong with you.The Wellness Company’s Medical Emergency Kitputs the answer in your hands—literally. Twenty-eight tablets of the exact medication that could have prevented the vast majority of those hospitalizations. The kit isn’t a substitute for medical judgment, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the alternative: trusting that the system will catch up before the parasite does.Thanks for reading FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™)! This post is public so feel free to share it.SharePlease 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. McCullough, MD, MPHChief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Companyhttps://www.twc.health/pages/focal-points

Summary: Cyclospora enteritis with explosive diarrhea linked to Taco Bell lettuce


The United States–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative

A few readers have asked me what I think of the proposed United States—Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.The initiative is a proposed provision of the proposedUnited States-Israel Framework for Upgraded Technologies, Unified Research, and Enhanced Security (FUTURES) Act— a bipartisan piece of legislation (H.R. 7540 / S. 3855) that is purportedly to expand bilateral defense technology cooperation between the U.S. and Israel.The bill originated in the Senate, sponsored by Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) as a co-sponsor for the FUTURES Act framework.In the House, Reps. Don Davis (D-NC) and Ronny Jackson (R-TX) subsequently integrated the initiative into the National Defense Authorization Act by the House Armed Services Committee under Chairman Mike Rogers, R-AL.Bipartisan support for the bill exists, though it faced modest opposition, including a failed amendment by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) to remove the Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.The initiative aims to expand and institutionalize US-Israel defense cooperation beyond traditional foreign military aid (currently ~$3.8 billion annually). Key elements include:Acceleratedtechnology sharing, jointresearch and development (R&D), andco-productionof weapons systems.Collaboration across emerging domains: AI, autonomous systems, cyberwarfare, biotechnology, quantum, directed energy, and more.“Network integration” and “data fusion” to enhance interoperability.Designation of an executive agent in the Department of Defense to oversee deeper integration of defense industrial bases, including potential joint ventures and licensing.Proponents claim the initiative will formally recognize Israel as a “defense peer,” enhancing mutual capabilities against shared threats, saving US costs through innovation, and shifting from one-way aid to mutual investment.The provision doesNOTcreate a formal command merge, place joint forces under unified command, or establish an irrevocable legal union of the two militaries. Its stated purpose is to deepen institutional and industrial integration through binding statutory authorities in the NDAA.The stated rationale for making this cooperative arrangementa matter of lawinstead of discretionary aid and sharing is that a conventional alliance —such as a treaty-based alliance like NATO — can be adjusted or terminated by executive or legislative action if interests diverge.Deeper integration—via co-production, shared supply chains, data networks, and industrial base ties—createsdependency. Unwinding it would disrupt US jobs, defense production, technological edges, and interoperability, making disengagement costlier and politically harder.Efficiency and innovation: Joint R&D and co-production would purportedly leverage Israeli strengths in certain tech areas, benefiting US forces.Deterrence: Permanent structural ties signal unbreakable commitment, deterring adversaries better than reversible aid.Oversight shift: Moves elements from visible annual aid appropriations (subject to public/political scrutiny) into routine defense acquisition processes with less transparency.Critics such as the Quincy Institute, Responsible Statecraft, Bernie Sanders and Chris Van Hollen contend that the initiative reduces US leverage and independence, risks entanglement in Israeli ambitions and interests, with no easy off-ramps —an apt concern, given how Israel—by Marco Rubio’s admission—started the current war with Iran. Critics of the bill further contend that it erodes US sovereignty and democratic accountability compared to flexible alliances.For my part, reviewing the Futures Act reminded me of an old joke about the American-born Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard, who provided hundreds of thousands of pages of top-secret and codeword-classified materials to the Israeli Lekem intelligence agency, thereby severely compromising American intelligence operations and assets.When it was revealed that Lekem paid Pollard money for the information, someone in US intelligence joked,“Well, at least they paid for itthis time”—referring to the fact that most of the time, the Israelis were either given US intelligence or stole it with impunity.Pollard arrives in Israel in 2020 after serving 30 years for selling US secrets to IsraelThe proposed FUTURES Act appears to be a Congressional gambit to make sure that Israel continues receiving American military and intelligence goodies, even if the majority of Americans decide it is not in their interest to continue sharing them.The Act was introduced at a time when polling shows that a majority of Americans hold an unfavorable view of Israel, marking a significant shift in public opinion over the past few years. A recentPew Research Center poll revealed that60% of U.S. adults now hold an unfavorable view of Israel, with negative sentiments climbing nearly 20 points since 2022.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Aims to expand and institutionalize US-Israel defense cooperation beyond traditional foreign military aid (currently ~$3.8 billion annually).


Canada’s Toxic Wildfire Smoke Estimated to Have Caused More American Deaths Than 9/11

byNicolas Hulscher, MPHWith toxic smoke from Canada’s 2026 wildfires once again invading the United States, amajor peer-reviewed studypublished inNatureprovides an estimate of the potential death toll from wildfire smoke.Researchers estimated that smoke from Canada’s record-breaking 2023 wildfire season caused an enourmous health burden across multiple continents.They combined global atmospheric models, satellite and ground-based observations, wildfire-emissions inventories, population data, and established exposure–response relationships to estimate how much fine-particle pollution reached populated regions—and how many deaths were attributable to that exposure.The study estimated that smoke from Canada’s 2023 wildfires alone resulted in:4,100 acute deaths in the United States41,900 premature deaths across North America82,100 premature deaths worldwideThe 4,100 U.S. acute deaths were part of an estimated 5,400 short-term deaths across the United States and Canada during severe “Canada smoke days.”The U.S. estimate alone exceeded the 2,977 people killed on 9/11.Wildfire smoke contains particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, microscopic particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream. Exposure can trigger inflammation and oxidative stress, worsen asthma and chronic lung disease, and increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, respiratory failure, and premature death.Now, with another major Canadian wildfire season underway in 2026, millions of Americans are again being exposed to the same dangerous fine-particle pollution.A few days ago, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in my area exceeded 600—far beyond the threshold classified as “hazardous.” I was furious that toxic smoke from another country had, yet again, made the air around my own home unsafe to breathe. Americans should not be forced indoors, exposed to dangerous pollution, or left to absorb the health consequences of repeated cross-border wildfire smoke.Nicolas Hulscher, MPHEpidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough FoundationSupport our mission:mcculloughfnd.orgPlease consider following both theMcCullough Foundationandmy personal accountonX(formerly Twitter) for further content.Subscribe now

Summary: As smoke from Canada’s 2026 wildfires once again invades the United States, a new study reveals the estimated death toll from the country’s 2023 wildfire season.


Sunday Strip: Great Balls of Fire!

(But according to my Aunt Renee, the bingo hall was a lot more fun.)Humor isn't meant to comfort people. It's meant to reveal truth, and truth has always offended someone.The video below is disturbing -The man was the unfortunate object onto which an already highly aroused rutting bull directed its aggression. Had another person, cyclist, vehicle, or even another bison occupied that same place at that moment, they might well have become the target instead.That is one reason wildlife biologists often say that rutting bison are among the most unpredictable large mammals in North America. During the breeding season, their behavior can shift from apparently placid to explosively aggressive with remarkably little obvious provocation.Freedom - Getting serious now.The meme coin above may offend some people because it jokes about someone being seriously injured. But to me, that image perfectly captures what freedom means.Freedom means accepting responsibility for taking chances. It means choosing to be in places where the unexpected can happen. It means accepting that, yes, you might get seriously hurt. Sometimes by animals that have no concept of what it means not to be free.Robert and I live on a farm with heavy equipment, large animals, and countless opportunities to get hurt. And we have. More than once, we’ve found ourselves in situations where the stakes were very real.Just on Friday, we bred a 1,200-pound mare to Jade. The mare threw an absolute anxiety tantrum after being separated from her filly for all of five minutes. She repeatedly lashed out at the gate where Jade was standing. Had I not stepped aside after seeing her ears pin back, I could have been seriously injured. Robert was just as exposed while trying to steady the mare as I opened the gate. This mare is one of our nicest, kindest mares. But in that moment, all hell broke loose.Was it fun? No. Was it scary? Absolutely. But it was also seemed the safest way to make sure the filly wasn’t hurt. Everything worked out, but those are the kinds of decisions we make year after year because that’s what comes with running a breeding farm. When you choose to work with large animals, you also choose to accept the risks that come with them.“There are two kinds of bulls: the ones that have tried to kill you, and the ones that haven’t had the chance yet.”By the way, the humble cow is closely related to the bison.And dairy bulls are widely considered among the most dangerous domestic animals in the world.So, people choose to do all sorts of things that may not be in their best interests, but that is what freedom brings - the risk and the responsibility to make our own choices.On the flip side of the coin, the homestead and the horses keep us fit.  We look and feel years younger than we are.Life is a balancing act - and a trade-off.Thanks for reading Malone News! This post is public, so feel free to share it by email, social media, crossposting, or notes!ShareEvery Sunday, I gather the funniest things I stumbled across during the week. Some are clever. Some are absurd. Some are politically incorrect. More than a few are guaranteed to offend somebody.That’s the point.As the saying goes,if no one is ever offended, you’re probably not telling jokes. You’re just seeking consensus.Humor has always been one of the safest ways to challenge orthodoxy, puncture arrogance, and remind us not to take ourselves quite so seriously. If every joke has to pass through a committee to ensure no one is uncomfortable, it stops being humor and starts being public relations.So, if you enjoy a weekly dose of memes, videos, satire, and the occasional joke that makes polite society clutch its pearls, consider becoming a paid subscriber.Your subscription doesn’t just support our writing. It keeps this community independent, keeps the lights on, and gives me an excuse to spend part of every Sunday hunting down the funniest content on the internet so you don’t have to.Subscribe nowLife is serious enough. Once a week, let’s laugh at it together.Forget playing it cool, find someone who’s genuinely obsessed with you in the healthiest way possible. Someone who can’t go hours without talking to you. Who misses you after being apart for a few hours. Who expresses love freely without making it feel like effort.Society shames clinginess like it’s toxic, but there’s a huge difference between codependency and someone who just genuinely loves being around you. A clingy partner isn’t checking your phone or controlling your life, they’re the person who texts you random I love yous throughout the day. Who wants to spend quality time together because they actually enjoy your presence.Who shows affection naturally without you begging for it. Who makes loving you look easy because for them, it is. Meanwhile, emotionally unavailable people treat basic affection like a chore. You have to ask for attention. Beg for texts back. Request quality time like you’re scheduling a business meeting.They make you feel needy for wanting what should be automatic in a relationship. Life’s genuinely too short for that. Find someone whose love language is showing you constantly, consistently, enthusiastically that you matter. That’s not clingy, that’s partnership.-Author unknownHomesteading for Health.There are those who talk the talk, and those who walk the walk.  Over 50 years together, still in love, and still frisky.  And, back in the day, they all said we were too young.  They were wrong. The above photos were from a photo shoot yesterday for an article inHomesteaders of America(due out in September), promoting our book.Homesteading for HealthJGM


MAHA Inc.: The Machine, the Figurehead, and the BaseThe view from inside Washington. Who actually runs the health department, and whether the movement’s founder can win back the people he has lost.Executive summaryMake America Healthy Again has become a corporation. A super PAC, three nonprofits, a trademark, and a holding company now carry the brand, built by the publisher Tony Lyons and the financier Mark Gorton, with the secretary’s son on the commercial board. Inside the health department, operational power has passed from Kennedy’s original circle to the cost-control wing that Mehmet Oz built at Medicare. Chris Klomp, Oz’s former deputy, runs daily operations and is now nominated as the department’s second in command. Kennedy keeps the brand and his signature health fights. He has lost the machinery, and he sits most of the way to a figurehead.His base has turned on him. Glyphosate, the food loophole, and the mRNA platform each ended with the movement’s demands unmet, because governing inside the MAGA coalition forced the compromises. That leaves a hard problem for a 2028 run he keeps denying. He cannot easily win back a base he alienated while serving, and every recovery path carries a cost. The anti-war lane is the most tempting and the most dangerous, because the version circulating in the movement rests on an unproven and antisemitic claim that a foreign lobby controls the president.Two findings cut against the loudest stories. A recent claim that Elon Musk funded the movement is overstated. The documented figure is three million dollars to a pro-Trump PAC, not the six million alleged, and not seed capital for the health agenda. Winning may also miss the point. Under super PAC law a presidential campaign pays its operators whether or not it succeeds, and the MAHA apparatus is already a candidacy held in escrow. This is the view from inside Washington. The movement reads it differently, and the capital has misjudged Kennedy before.Eighteen months in, Make America Healthy Again has changed shape twice. The movement hardened into a corporation. The department slipped from Kennedy’s own people toward the White House. A third problem now shadows both. The base that carried Kennedy feels betrayed on the issues it cares about most. That matters for a 2028 run he keeps denying, because a figurehead cannot lead an insurgency.This account comes from inside the Beltway. It rests on the Washington press and on the operatives who run these groups. That vantage reads org charts, donor filings, and personnel moves well, and grassroots faith badly. In the capital’s telling, Kennedy is a diminished official inside a machine. In much of the base’s telling, he is a fighter under siege. The documents favor the first reading. The base lives the second. Hold both in your mind as you read through this essay.Thanks for reading Malone News! This post is public so feel free to share it.ShareThe apparatusTony Lyons built the machine. He founded Skyhorse Publishing, Kennedy’s book publisher for two decades. He and Mark Gorton seeded American Values 2024, the super PAC behind Kennedy’s presidential run, then rebranded it as MAHA PAC (Isenstadt 2025).Gorton co-founded Tower Research Capital in 1998, one of the oldest high-frequency trading firms, now spread across offices on four continents (Tower Research Capital 2025). In 2000 he created LimeWire, the peer-to-peer file-sharing program that at its 2007 peak sat on roughly a third of the world’s computers (Institutional Investor 2014). A federal court shut it down in 2010 and found Gorton personally liable for copyright infringement. He settled with the record labels for about one hundred five million dollars (SlashGear 2023). Wall Street trading and a shuttered file-sharing empire built the money now underwriting the movement.Four more entities grew around the PAC (Children’s Health Defense 2025). MAHA Action runs advocacy and now holds the trademark. Policy work sits with the MAHA Institute. Donations to the MAHA Center are tax deductible. The commercial arm is MAHA Holdings.MAHA Holdings sits closest to the family, and it is the least transparent of the five. Kennedy’s twenty-eight-year-old son, Finn Kennedy, holds a board seat and helped organize the movement’s marquee industry summit (E&E News 2025). He also invests at the venture firm 8VC, which backs health, manufacturing, and defense companies (E&E News 2025). He put the entity’s purpose in plain commercial terms. It exists to accelerate private industry adoption of the MAHA agenda (MAHA Action 2025). That agenda is the one his father sets as secretary. The entity keeps no public website and discloses neither its ownership nor its revenue model (Children’s Health Defense 2025; Consumer Federation of America 2025).The brand carries a paid history. Kennedy earned one hundred thousand dollars in licensing fees from the MAHA marks, then transferred the trademark to a Wyoming LLC managed by Del Bigtree for no compensation (Associated Press 2025; Washington Post 2025). The incentives run the way public-choice economics predicts. Concentrated benefits reach those who hold the brand and sell the products. The costs disperse across a movement that supplies the moral energy for free.The Musk claimSasha Latypova put the funding question on the table in July (Latypova 2026). She read the MAHA Alliance filings and concluded that six million dollars of the roughly eight million raised came from one donor, Elon Musk. From there she argued that Musk underwrote the movement and owns Kennedy. Part of this checks out. The headline number does not.Musk did fund MAHA Alliance. The documented figure is three million dollars, given on October 22, 2024, through the Elon Musk Revocable Trust. CNN, NBC, CBS, and The Hill report the same three million, each citing the same FEC filings (CNN 2024; NBC News 2024; CBS News 2024; The Hill 2024). Against the committee’s cycle total near eight million, that was the largest single donation (OpenSecrets 2024). It was about a third of the money, not three quarters.Six million runs to roughly double the record. No outlet and no FEC summary supports it, and the period filings fit one three-million contribution rather than two (FEC 2024). The likely source of the larger figure is a separate sum she cites, the two point one million that American Values 2024 sent to MAHA Alliance. That money came from Timothy Mellon and Nicole Shanahan, not from Musk. Adding it to Musk’s total does not make it his. One detail also fails to line up. She places the Musk trust in Dallas. The trust named in the reporting sits in Austin (NBC News 2024).The larger error is what the money was for. MAHA Alliance was not the seed capital of Kennedy’s movement. It was a single-candidate super PAC supporting Trump, registered on September 5, 2024, after Kennedy left the race and endorsed him (OpenSecrets 2024). It ran ads urging Kennedy’s voters to choose Trump in the final stretch (CNN 2024). Musk’s three million was one line in his pro-Trump spending that year, which approached three hundred million dollars (CBS News 2024). This was turnout money wearing a MAHA label. It did not build MAHA Action, the MAHA Institute, or MAHA Holdings, and it did not fund the health agenda.So the jump from a campaign check to ownership does not hold. A single three-million donation, a third of a small committee that spent on Trump ads and conferences, does not buy a man or a movement. The filings show a contribution and nothing larger.Latypova’s underlying work is not worthless. Bigtree signed the filings as principal officer. His media firm, Big Truth Inc., collected about three hundred ten thousand dollars, which matches earlier reporting (Associated Press 2025). Mellon’s twenty-five million to American Values 2024 is real (Washington Post 2024). The itemized spending she flags is on the record. Her strongest point survives the correction. A small and cash-hungry movement is cheap to influence, which is a public-choice truth. The three-million check makes that case on its own. Follow the money to the filing, not to the story you already believe.The old guardBefore February, two people ran the health department in Kennedy’s name. Stefanie Spear controlled the door. She had served Kennedy for twenty years and run communications on his campaign, and she functioned as the gatekeeper to the secretary (World Tribune 2025). Nothing reached him without passing her. Matt Buckham ran the machinery. As chief of staff he controlled personnel and the flow of appointees into the building.Critics inside the movement called this a cage. Gray Delany, the former director of MAHA implementation, says Spear and Buckham sealed Kennedy off from his own allies and staffed the department with compliant hands (World Tribune 2025). Their defenders called it discipline. Either way, the pair held the immediate office. For a year the chain of command ran through them, not through the career bureaucracy and not through the White House.The Oz axisThat arrangement ended when the White House found a better instrument. Mehmet Oz runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the largest agency inside HHS, with a budget above two trillion dollars (CMS 2025). Chris Klomp served as his deputy, directing the Center for Medicare and drawing up the drug-pricing deals that Trump prizes. Oz called him a generational talent (Deseret News 2026). Trump called him a potential star.In February the White House lifted Klomp out of CMS and set him over the whole department as chief counselor (Politico 2026). In June it nominated him deputy secretary, the formal second in command. Trump, Kennedy, and Oz announced the choice together (Fox News 2026). The cost-control wing that Oz built at CMS now occupies the top of Kennedy’s department. The reshuffle pushed the movement wing down. Buckham became a senior counselor. Spear kept her title, lost her reach, and remains at the building in a smaller role (HHS 2026; Traylor 2026).Who governs nowThe arrangement raises a hard question about Kennedy himself. On the public record, operational authority has moved to Klomp. Trump says Klomp oversees day-to-day operations (CNN 2026). Klomp ran the searches that produced the nominees for the CDC, the surgeon general, and the FDA (CNN 2026). The White House installed him to keep closer tabs on Kennedy and to align the department with its own aims (Politico 2026).Kennedy has not been emptied out. He keeps the bully pulpit and the brand, and he still drives his signature moves. He cancelled the BARDA mRNA contracts and remade the vaccine advisory committee. The campaign against synthetic food dyes was his. These are real exercises of a secretary’s power, and they belong to him.The division is now visible from the capital. Kennedy owns the symbolism and the culture-war health fights. Klomp owns operations, personnel, and the agenda the White House can sell in November. By the capital’s reckoning, a secretary who owns the message but not the machinery is most of the way to a figurehead. Kennedy is not all the way there. He is close.The revoltThe base sees the drift and resents it. The break came over glyphosate. Kennedy spent years calling the weedkiller a driver of chronic disease, and he won a large verdict against its maker (Slate 2026). In February Trump signed an order shielding glyphosate producers from lawsuits and framing the chemical as a matter of national defense. Kennedy stayed quiet, then defended the order (The Hill 2026). MAHA moms revolted. One Turning Point host said women were leaving the party over it (Slate 2026).The losses stacked from there. The White House sided with farm lobbyists against pesticide limits in the second MAHA Commission report (New York Times 2026). Lobbyists spent millions to keep the food-safety loophole that Kennedy pledged to close (Daily Beast 2026). The Supreme Court threw out the old Roundup verdict. Each defeat landed on the people who trusted Kennedy to win these exact fights.The sharpest break is over vaccines. In June a group of medical-freedom activists led by Mary Talley Bowden, with Naomi Wolf and others, sent Kennedy an open letter accusing him of a bait and switch on the mRNA platform (Bowden 2026). They want the shots pulled from the market and the PREP Act repealed. They warned that MAHA voters can walk away. Mike Adams and Sayer Ji, longtime allies, turned on Kennedy over a single pro-MMR statement. To its hardest core, the movement’s founder now looks like a man who compromised on the founding cause.The recovery problemSet the denials aside and assume a run (Kennedy 2025; KFF Health News 2026). Kennedy would face a base he alienated while governing. The disaffection is structural, not a matter of messaging. Governing inside the MAGA coalition forced the compromises that enraged the movement. Big Ag won the pesticide fight and Big Food kept its loophole. The White House took the department. A candidate cannot campaign against the outcomes his own administration produced without indicting himself.Deliver a trophyOne path runs through a signature win before 2028. The mRNA contract cancellations were a down payment. A reversal on childhood mRNA guidance, or a closed food loophole, would give Kennedy a concrete victory to point at. The obstacle sits above him. Klomp and the White House control the timing, and neither wants a vaccine fight before the midterms.Blame the captorsA second path casts Kennedy as the thwarted reformer. This is his native register. Kennedy and Spear have long framed him as a lone man of courage besieged by a corrupt machine, and they will keep doing so. When the White House pressed him last summer, he called it a swamp panic and a smear campaign, and vowed that nothing would stop him (Kennedy 2025). So he tells the base that Big Pharma, Big Ag, and the swamp blocked him from the inside. The story has the advantage of being partly true. It carries one complication. The people who blocked him, in the base’s own telling, were Spear and Buckham and the White House he chose to serve. He cannot indict his captivity without admitting he accepted it.The anti-war laneThat complication has an exit, and current events supply it. In 2026 the United States and Israel went to war with Iran, a conflict that split the coalition and reopened the oldest fault line on the right (Britannica 2026). Thomas Massie, the last consistent anti-war Republican in the House, lost his primary in May to a Trump-backed challenger. It was the most expensive House primary on record, and pro-Israel groups spent more than fifteen million dollars to beat him (Al Jazeera 2026). Tucker Carlson turned the defeat into a thesis. A foreign lobby, he argued, hijacked America First and now runs the party (Carlson 2026).The thesis hands Kennedy a captor who is not his own staff. If outsiders captured the administration, then Kennedy is a fellow prisoner and not the warden. He can stay loyal to Trump, blame the hijackers, and reach for the anti-war base that the Iran war and the Massie purge left leaderless. That story scales to a larger stage.The lane is more dangerous than it looks. His own record is the plainest obstacle. In 2024 he called Israel a moral nation, defended its war in Gaza, and pledged it firm support, and the anti-war left attacked him for it (Times of Israel 2024). His campaign, with Spear running communications, declined public debates on the subject (Blumenthal 2023). A pivot to the anti-war banner would reverse his most consistent foreign-policy stance, and the purists remember.The framing carries its own danger. That pro-Israel groups spent heavily to beat Massie is documented fact (Al Jazeera 2026). That a foreign government controls the president is not. The leap from lobbying to secret control is unproven, and in its strong form it revives an old antisemitic libel. A man already labeled a conspiracy theorist cannot carry that cargo. His enemies would brand him at once, and the brand would hold.He also cannot run from where he sits. No one campaigns as the anti-war candidate while serving in the cabinet that runs the war. The money that ended Massie, more than thirty million dollars in a single House race, would turn on a sitting secretary with far more to lose. This lane runs through the exit, not the office. It is less a way to blame the captors than a reason to walk out.Walk outA third path is exit. Kennedy leaves HHS, sheds the compromises, and runs as the outsider again. This restores the insurgent posture the base rewards. It also forfeits the incumbency, the platform, and the drug-pricing wins that a general electorate likes. Lyons has said the plan is the opposite, to keep Kennedy at HHS into the next administration (Telegraph 2025). Exit burns that plan down.Buy the turnoutA fourth path leans on the machine. MAHA Inc. has money and a candidate pipeline, and it can paper over disaffection with organization. Money turns out soft supporters. It does not turn out the betrayed. The Bowden letter and the glyphosate revolt come from the true believers, the people a mailer cannot buy back.None of these paths is clean. The strongest combination pairs a trophy with a villain, a real win plus a machine to blame, told in the victim’s voice he already owns. That still requires the White House to let him win something before November, which it has no reason to do. The base problem and the figurehead problem are one problem. Kennedy lost the power to give the base what it wants at the moment he needs the base most.The campaign is the productThe recovery problem assumes the goal is winning. Super PAC law makes that goal optional (Malone and Glasspool Malone 2026). American campaign finance runs on an asymmetry. Outside money arrives without limit, and it leaves through consultants, media firms, vendors, and the candidate’s own entities. The vote at the end does not govern the flow. A campaign is a machine for turning donations into contracts.Defeat still leaves a durable asset. A run builds a donor list, a media brand, and a standing organization, and all three outlast the ballots. The return does not depend on the result. Hopeless campaigns in both parties have worked this way for years, the candidate’s name still raising money long after the race was lost. Losing is not failure when the campaign was the product.MAHA Inc. is that machine already assembled. The PAC, the nonprofits, the trademark, and the holding company are campaign infrastructure held in escrow. A sitting secretary cannot run, so the allies hold the pieces and wait. A 2028 bid would not build an apparatus. It would switch one on. The engine is finished, staffed, and idling.So the base problem changes shape. Recovering the base is the task if the aim is to win. If the aim is the campaign itself, a hollow base matters less. A tilting-at-windmills run still pays the consultants and licenses the brand, and it still enriches the circle around the candidate. That is the incentive the law builds. It rewards the attempt regardless of the odds. Whether Kennedy can win in 2028 is one question. Whether a run is worth launching is another, and the second does not wait on the first.A movement earns its authority from the consent of the people who animate it. MAHA rose on a promise to break captured institutions. Its founder now sits inside one, outranked by the men the White House chose, defending an order he once would have sued. The machine that bears his name keeps raising money and licensing the brand, and his own son sits on the board of its commercial arm. The people who supplied the moral force are drifting off. Kennedy built an apparatus to protect the mission and a coalition to carry it. He is losing command of both at once. He will narrate that loss as a siege, the lone reformer against the machine, because that story has always worked for him. The capital measures power in org charts and reads him as fading. The movement measures power in belief, and by that measure the story is not settled. Whether he can run on a movement he no longer controls is the question the denials are meant to postpone. The Beltway thinks it knows the answer. It has misjudged Kennedy (and the MAHA populist coalition) before.Malone News is a reader-supported publication. 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Summary: A view from inside the Washington Beltway. Who actually runs the health department, and whether the movement's founder can win back the people he has lost.