The Great Deep, the Flood, and the First Geohydrological Shift

*Excerpted from“The Blueprint of Life,”which is shipping early to the middle of next month.What follows is a hypothesis that emerged late, after enough pieces had fallen into place for a larger pattern in Scripture to reveal itself.MB called me as I neared what I believed was, once again, the eve of submittingFrom Volcanoes to Vitality(FVTV). Of the hundreds of calls we have shared, many had brought some new convergence, but this one felt different. He believed he had found scriptural confirmation that the global water-quality shift we had been articulating in FVTV had happened once before. He was describing something deeper than mineral depletion: a failure of the conditions that allow water to carry mineral order, sustain gradients, and coordinate life.He believed a Geohydrological Shift had occurred once before.I did what I always do when someone makes a claim like that: I tried to debunk it. I asked AI to help me search widely for the recurring structure, especially in places where Scripture speaks of deep systems, fountains, rupture, sealing, and downstream consequences. What returned did not feel cherry-picked. Scripture seemed to be describing a coupled hydrologic system, followed by what happens when that system is violently inverted.In Scripture, the “Great Deep” refers to a vast, primordial reservoir of waters beneath the Earth. It is presented as a source system, not as an inert body of liquid.In modern terms, this resembles what our Rock–Water Circuit Theory identifies as a critical deep geologic water system, where significant quantities of water exist inside Earth as hydroxyl bound within minerals rather than as underground oceans. Discoveries involving ringwoodite-bearing diamonds, mantle plume studies, hydrothermal systems, and deep borehole data show that Earth’s interior contains enormous amounts of mineral-bound water and deep geochemical fluids capable of interacting with surface hydrology over long timescales.These deep geological waters do not currently contribute significant volume to the larger hydrologic cycle. Their importance lies in disproportionate hydrochemical influence through mineral loading, redox chemistry, dissolved gases, hydrothermal circulation, and long-term water–rock interaction. In Rock–Water Circuit terms, the “Great Deep” resembles a deep geodynamic source system capable of chemically conditioning portions of the waters that eventually reach surface biology.The full scientific framework for why we believe a geohydrological shift is underway in our time, along with the practical case for addressing it, is presented inFrom Volcanoes to Vitality. The current shift has not reached full collapse. Scripture, however, offers a striking picture of systemic hydrologic rupture carried to its end.Here, I want to show what Scripture says that rupture looks like: the Great Deep as source system, the Flood as rupture, the resealing as shutoff, and the long decline in vitality that follows.Biblically, the sequence is explicit. Genesis begins with the formation of the Great Deep, the Earth, and the skies above.“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”—Genesis 1:6 (ESV)“God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above.”—Genesis 1:7 (ESV)The waters below are identified by both their extent and their vitality: “fountains of the Deep,” or “the Great Deep.” Fountains imply emergence, movement, and renewal. They point to dynamic interfaces between Earth and life.“Streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.”—Genesis 2:6 (ESV)“For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley. . .a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.”—Deuteronomy 8:7–9 (ESV)Here, the Deep is referenced as a source of “precious things.”“Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the precious things of heaven, with the dew, and with the deep that crouches beneath.”—Deuteronomy 33:13 (ESV)These are symbolic images, but they also describe a coupled system: deep water, mineral contact, upward flow, and surface vitality.I do not want to overstate the parallel. Human beings have always known about springs, wells, fountains, and water beneath the ground, but modern geology has only recently described the deeper version of that picture: water stored in crustal rocks, moving through hydrothermal systems, rising through faults and fractures, and existing deep in the mantle as hydroxyl bound within minerals.Scripture’s “Great Deep” is not a technical description of modern geology. It does, however, resemble the broader concept of a deep, mineral-contacted source system through which water, rock, pressure, heat, and chemistry participate in the vitality of the surface world.Early biblical descriptions do not give us depleted soils, fractured aquifers, diluted rivers, or stripped water. They evoke a world sustained by upward flow, a hydrologic system capable of maintaining biological vitality over centuries.As explored earlier, water conditioned by prolonged mineral contact supports lower energy loss, more stable redox behavior, tighter proton gradients, improved enzymatic function, more stable protein conformations, and decreased oxidative stress. These are the physical conditions required for mitochondria to operate efficiently, for detoxification pathways to function without strain, and for cumulative biological damage to remain low over time.Under those conditions, vitality and longevity would be expected.Human lifespans routinely exceeded nine hundred years in the Bible. Noah is described as being six hundred years old as if that were unremarkable. The genealogies of Genesis 5 repeatedly mention lifespans approaching a millennium. Adam lived 930 years. Methuselah lived 969 years.These are presented as norms.The Great FloodScripture then records a decisive alteration to the Earth that had been so carefully formed. God closes “the Great Deep” and lets loose “the Flood.” Scripture is clear about his reasons:“The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”—Genesis 6:5 (ESV)Violence, in particular, is emphasized:“Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.”—Genesis 6:11 (ESV)Soon after, the Great Flood arrives. For that to happen, God breaks apart the fountains of the Deep and sends massive rains over Earth:“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”—Genesis 7:11 (ESV)Something beneath the Earth ruptures, inverting the planetary hydrologic system. Scripture describes the Flood in literal terms as a rupture on a planetary scale. Rain falls for forty days and forty nights. The waters prevail for one hundred and fifty days. The mountains disappear beneath them. From onset to full drying, nearly a year passes.The scale is clear. In my reading, this is systemic collapse, global overturning, and a hard reset of Earth’s water system.After the Flood, Scripture records something equally explicit:Read more

Summary: What if the Flood narrative was describing not only moral collapse, but the rupture of a planetary water system that once sustained biological vitality?


Water From the Rock Is More Than A Metaphor

*Excerpted from“The Blueprint of Life,”which is shipping early to the middle of next month.Before we explore Scripture for ancient echoes of modern scientific insights, since most readers probably do not have either the time, interest, or aptitude for exploring thethree heavy science postsin which I laid out the foundations of what we call the Rock-Water Circuit Theory, here is as brief a recounting of it as possible:The Rock–Water Circuit TheoryThe Rock–Water Circuit Theory was constructed by integrating consensus science across origin-of-life research, biochemistry, geohydrology, geology, and physics, then extending that synthesis into a proposed planetary cycle linking mineral chemistry, water, and life.Life depends on only three forms of matter: carbon, water, and minerals.No, oxygen is not a requirement, as much of life survives without it. Carbon supplies structure, water supplies the mobile medium, and minerals supply the charge, catalysis, conductivity, and control for metabolism.1,2,3Modern origin-of-life science points toward rock–water interfaces as the most plausible birthplaces of cellular life.Helen Hansma’s mica hypothesisproposes that life may have originated between mica (biotite) sheets, where layered mineral surfaces confined water, potassium-rich compartments, and mechanical movement that could have supported early molecular organization.  Others, such as Nick Lane, have proposed alkaline hydrothermal vent models in which mineral interfaces, iron-sulfur chemistry, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and natural proton gradients may have provided the first energy architecture later inherited by cells.4,5Iron-sulfur chemistry is ancient and central to biological energy.Iron-sulfur clusters mediate electron transfer in respiration, photosynthesis, carbon fixation, and many core metabolic processes, suggesting that biology retained a deep geochemical logic.6,7,8The Rock–Water Circuit, focused on biotite-derived vermiculite, names the core mineral-water engine as ISAW: iron, sulfur, aluminum, and water.In this model, iron moves electrons, sulfur mediates proton activity and redox coupling, aluminum supplies the stable aluminosilicate scaffold, and water activates, opens, carries, and coordinates the system.9,10,11Biotite is the key mineral body in this model.It forms deep within Earth under heat and pressure, then reaches near-surface environments through uplift, erosion, and crustal cycling, where water, oxygen, acids, and time begin opening its layered structure.12,13Weathering of biotite toward hydrobiotite and vermiculite is a known geological process.Biotite weathering involves potassium loss, hydration, interlayer opening, and transformation toward mixed biotite–vermiculite phases and vermiculite-like structures.14That opening matters because vermiculite-like structures are more hydrated, expanded, ion-exchanging, and biologically available than closed biotite.In the theory, this is the point where mineral order locked in rock becomes mobile mineral chemistry carried by water.15,16Water is the control layer.Without water, minerals remain locked in crystalline lattices; without minerals, water remains largely unable to perform the organizing work nature asks of it. When water interacts with reactive mineral surfaces, it can carry dissolved ions, redox relationships, buffering chemistry, and charge organization into soils and living systems.17,18,19,20The full Rock–Water Circuit is recursive.Mineral chemistry forms in biotite rock below Earth’s surface, rises over geological time, is weathered by the carbonic acid and sulfate in rainwater, emerges into soil and biology, performs energetic and structural work, then returns through death, decay, and geological cycling.21,22,23,24,25Convergence with Ancient TextsWe saw in theEmerald Tableta description of the Rock–Water Circuit with Shimanishi’s biotite, or black mica, at its center: “all things arose from this one thing,” “by a single act of adaptation,” meaning through water. The line “that which is above is like to that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of this one thing” refers, in our reading, to the geohydrological deep-Earth cycle in which biotite forms, rises toward the surface, and meets the atmospheric sulfur cycle, which weathers it open again. Its broad mineral composition is then released into water, soils, and biology before returning to the deep Earth through death, decay, and the transport of water — a regenerative cycle described as “the power thereof is perfect.”What surprised me was that this same architecture could be seen beyond Hermetic literature as well. Once we had constructed all the links in the Rock–Water Circuit, I started noticing a similar pattern in Scripture, in a recurring grammar of creation, provision, judgment, and renewal. Rock, water, clay, dust, salt, sulfur, fire, springs, fountains, and wells appear with too much consistency to treat them as symbolic language alone.I am not saying that Scripture speaks as if it were a bio-geochemistry textbook, but at the same time, as a physician and researcher, I began to recognize within it a body of observational knowledge about the material order of creation. Scripture repeatedly returns to the same earthly pattern described by the Rock–Water Circuit, founded upon modern scientific concepts: stone opened, water released, life sustained, matter returned, and creation renewed through the meeting of Earth and water.Stone Opened, Water ReleasedIn Exodus, Moses strikes the rock and water flows. The scene carries symbolic force, but it is also scientifically instructive: vitality comes from water conditioned by rock and brought forth to sustain life.This pattern repeats throughout Scripture: wells uncovered, springs released, fountains opened, living water emerging where hardness once prevailed. Such passages present Earth’s processes as real and repeatable. Stone and water are shown participating in a generative relationship, one from which life emerges and on which it continues to depend.In the Third Key ofThe Six Keys of Eudoxus, the same insight appears: “Must not the body be dissolved by the water, and the Earth be penetrated with its Humidity, to be made proper for generation?” The “body” is the mineral body of Shimanishi’s black mica, the stone in its closed condition. Dissolution and penetration by sulfated rainwater describe the transition into a state ready for generation, which, in my reading, corresponds to the opening of biotite toward vermiculite, thereby making the rock porous enough that water can enter and release its mineral chemistry into the world.The point in both cases is preparation: water makes the stone generative.How Scripture Describes MatterScripture uses salt, fire, and dust repeatedly. Salt seals covenants through preservation. Fire purifies by refining what passes through it. Dust marks both the origin and the return because, as we learned from the Rock–Water Circuit, matter moves through life and then returns to Earth.Scripture treats formation, degeneration, purification, and renewal as events in which matter is formed, broken down, and made ready again. I was surprised by the recurrence of specific physical nouns repeating throughout Scripture, wherever it spoke of origin, stability, endurance, collapse, and renewal. What emerged was a tight, constrained vocabulary that felt structural, as if these words were carrying the architecture of a system rather than serving merely as metaphor or symbolism.A covenant, for example, is a binding agreement meant to endure across generations. It defines identity, obligation, inheritance, and continuity. Covenants are built to outlast individuals. So when Scripture grounds a covenant in rock or seals it with salt, it reaches for elements of matter that are closely associated with endurance.Rock itself appears with remarkable consistency. God is called a Rock. Humans are described as being hewn from rock. Salvation is anchored to rock. The language returns to stone whenever Scripture speaks of origin, stability, and endurance.“Of the Rock that begat thee, thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.”—Deuteronomy 32:18 (KJV)Read more

Summary: Scripture returns to the same earthly pattern of stone, water, life, and renewal. The Rock–Water Circuit reveals those passages as an ancient recognition of the architecture that sustains life.


The Stone That the Builders Refuse Shall Be the Head Cornerstone

Just as MB had been the one who first led me into alchemy, he had also been doing something else in parallel, almost from the beginning. While I was buried in Hermetic texts, trying to learn their grammar and meaning, he was sending me passages and fragments from Scripture in messages, in side conversations, in the margins of everything else we were doing.I resisted going there, not because I dismissed it, but because I was already too deep into alchemy. It had my full attention, and I knew that if I opened Scripture too soon, it would distract me from a path that kept making connections, and I wanted to see how far I could go.And yet, even while I avoided it, I started to suspect more and more that it would be fruitful. Everything I was learning to see in alchemy—cycles, materials, purification, collapse, and return—MB kept insisting was already present in Scripture. Not metaphorically. Literally. I knew I would have to face that claim eventually.Once we closed the Hermetic canon, I turned toward Scripture. I became quickly intimidated by the challenge of moving through that much text without losing the line of inquiry that had brought me there in the first place.When the Tool Matched the QuestionThis work did not require artificial intelligence to generate ideas or supply conclusions. However, it did require it to hold them in continuity. What made this possible was not speed or cleverness, but the ability to keep following the same question across geology, chemistry, biology, ancient texts, and modern data without losing the thread. Before this, the problem was simple: no human mind could hold all of that at once. AI made it possible to pursue the same line of inquiry across numerous disciplines and thousands of sources without losing continuity. I was able to ask the same simple questions about rock, water, salt, fire, and return without fatigue or forgetfulness. The same relationships that had always been present could finally be seen together rather than sequentially.I did not set out to use AI to cross boundaries. I used it the way one uses a microscope or telescope: to extend perception beyond the limits of unaided human attention. What surprised me was not what appeared, but how cleanly it aligned once those limits had been overcome.One World, Two ArchivesWhat that continuity made visible was that Scripture and alchemy were never describing different worlds. Once I turned toward Scripture with the same materials already in view—rock, water, salt, fire, spirits—I found myself reading across a second archive. The language was different. The world it described was the same.MB had opened the door to Scripture as a symbolic record of creation, and AI made it possible to move through that record at scale and speed. I could finally ask the blunt questions I had been inching toward for months. Where does Scripture speak of rock? Of stone? Of clay? Of water emerging from rock? Of salt, fire, brimstone, return to dust? What startled me was how little effort it required. The repetitions surfaced immediately. They recurred across books, authors, and centuries with remarkable consistency, and I remember stopping, sitting back, and feeling my pulse change, because by then it was no longer a single correspondence but an accumulation.Scripture named the same elements consistently, framing them in the contexts of creation, breakdown, purification, and renewal.Very quickly, I began to recognize the same physical processes I had already pieced together across geology, biology, chemistry, hydrology, and related sciences, and the overlap felt concrete and specific, grounded in my now deeper understanding of Earth’s cycles after months of scientific research.The major difference lay in the mode of description. Alchemy tracks the recurring process of formation, breakdown, purification, and renewal through matter and transformation. Scripture presents that same process through narrative, law, prophecy, and covenant, using the same materials while embedding them within events and history. Alchemy maps the structure of the cycle, while Scripture preserves its passage through human history. Both describe how order forms, collapses, and is restored through the same underlying movements of the world.By then, we had already assembled the science supporting theRock–Water Circuit Theory, and the connections between the Hermetic texts and that circuit had been firmly established. What I still needed to know was whether Scripture recorded evidence of that same circuit as well, and I became convinced that it would.And it did. In Scripture I found water emerging from rock, salt as covenant, fire as refinement, and dust as both origin and return. I was reading these passages as materially specific as much as symbolic. The texts read as if they carried assumptions about how matter is formed and about the conditions on which life depends for stability, renewal, and endurance.What Scripture provided were repeated material descriptions conveyed through symbolism, and those descriptions became far more intelligible once placed beside what modern science now knows. Scripture did not supply the detailed chemistry. Modern science did. What the ancient texts recorded was the sequence of the process—its unfolding, its breakdowns, and its renewals—while modern science supplied the mechanisms that explain it in material terms.The problem, then, was never accuracy. It was separation, because the ancient world documented the pattern while modern science identified the mechanisms, and once those two were seen together, I started to wonder why they had remained separated for so long.What No Single Discipline Can SeeModern scientific methods describe these processes with a level of detail unimaginable to the authors of Scripture. The chemistry is exact, the measurements are precise, and the mechanisms have been tested and are real. But they are most often described in isolation—geology here, biology there, chemistry somewhere else—not because broader questions are forbidden, but because modern science is structured that way for maximal advancement.But following a process across numerous scientific domains, to this point, has been too laborious.  It is slower, messier, harder to fund, harder to publish (I will report back on that shortly), and far more difficult to evaluate. Coordinating a Byzantine network of concepts, methods, and literatures across fields is inefficient compared with staying in one lane and going deeper, so most scientists, quite reasonably, choose the easier path: know one thing extremely well, and know more of it tomorrow.Modern scientific advances are increasingly rigorous, but they remain local. The result is fragmented knowledge. At one point, it struck me that what we were calling the Rock–Water Circuit was assembled from half a dozen scientific disciplines, and I could not think of another example in modern science that did the same. It began to seem possible that what we were doing was, at least in that sense, unusual, perhaps even unprecedented. That alone explains a great deal, but not all of it, because beyond the fragmented nature of modern science lies another limit, less visible and more consequential.At first, I thought human limitation, disciplinary fragmentation, and cognitive load were the boundaries I had been pressing against. But there was another one—deeper, quieter, and more absolute.The Boundary Beyond the BoundaryWhat eventually clarified itself in my mind was something I had already sensed without fully articulating: modern scientific inquiry is constrained by an unspoken restriction that runs beneath all disciplines, namely, that explanation must stop short of saying that nature was created, ordered, or intended by God. In Chapter VII,“The Questions Science Won’t Ask,”I examined the consequences ofmethodological naturalism, which came to dominate in the nineteenth century: the rule that scientific explanation must restrict itself to testable, observable phenomena and set aside questions of purpose, even when the order and functional coherence of living systems make such questions difficult to avoid.I crossed the boundary of methodological naturalism before I even knew what it was. I still remember the first dinner MB and I ever had together, our first meeting in person, when he began telling me what he thought he was seeing in the old texts and where he believed this work was leading. I remember feeling a little overwhelmed, almost incredulous, because he was effectively suggesting that I was brushing up against something “supernatural,” and I suspect the few drinks I had that night helped me take it in without fully grappling with it. The conversation ran for hours, covered a great deal of ground, and that particular moment dissolved into the rest of the evening. For months afterward, our focus remained where it had begun, deep in the biochemistry of minerals.By the time I turned seriously toThe Six Keys, I knew I was studying something that did not belong wholly inside conventional science, yet the crossing itself went by almost unnoticed. I did not experience it as a dramatic rupture. I took it up the way I would have taken up a dense paper on mitochondria, reading closely, pushing on the details, and trying to see how tightly the pieces fit. Once I became convinced that those texts contained descriptions of Shimanishi’s work with a specificity that should have been impossible, the whole thing still felt, in one sense, like an intellectual exercise, a puzzle I wanted to push as far as it would go. That was not because it lacked excitement. Quite the opposite. More than once, after one decoding or another, I would call MB almost breathless, half-delirious with excitement and shock. But even then, as a former mathematics major, I think I was still experiencing it more as the satisfaction of solving a hard problem than as a man sitting still with what solving it might actually mean.That, in retrospect, is what matters here. I did not set out to challenge methodological naturalism. I did not even know it had a name, and I certainly did not think I was wandering into philosophy or theology. I was following mechanisms. I kept tracing the same mineral-water cycle across domains, across timescales, and across texts, ancient and modern, without first asking which questions were permitted. I did not begin this work with a conclusion about design. I simply refused to rule it out in advance, and that single choice altered the shape of what could appear. If the Earth is the product of intelligence, then coherence, efficiency, and self-perpetuation should be visible in its most fundamental systems. If it is not, then whatever order appears should be fragile, accidental, and short-lived.Then something unexpected happened. The relationships between modernity and antiquity did not fragment when they crossed those boundaries. They aligned. The same cycle modern science could describe with extraordinary precision was already present in ancient texts—recognized, named, and preserved without the chemistry, but with astonishing fidelity to the process itself. I could only see that coherence once both limits were loosened: once mechanisms were allowed to speak across disciplines, and once design was no longer ruled out in advance.Once that became clear, a line of Scripture I had encountered countless times began to register in an entirely different way.The Stone the Builders RefusedThe boundary I had crossed hit home for me one day when I came across a line I had heard countless times before and, alongside it, an interpretation that struck me.“The stone that the builders refuse, shall be the head cornerstone.”—Psalm 118:22 (KJV)Traditionally, the cornerstone is understood as referring to Christ. Here, I am reading it in a different but related way: as the refusal of something foundational, i.e., a belief in God as our Creator, by those responsible for building.I had heard that line before—sang it along with Bob Marley for most of my life—but I had never really stopped to ask what it meant. I discovered that the builders are the ones who decide what counts as foundational: religious authorities, scholars, and experts. To refuse a stone is to judge it unsuitable, irregular, or incompatible with the prevailing model. Yet the stone chosen for the cornerstone fixes the alignment of the entire structure, determining its orientation, load-bearing capacity, and long-term stability. If a critical stone is rejected when it should have been selected as load-bearing, the entire structure is compromised from the outset.At that point, the verse began to read like a description of what I had already been seeing in modern science. Methodological naturalism, as I had understood it, functions precisely by refusing certain categories at the outset, especially intention, purpose, and design. In that reading, “the stone” is the possibility that the Earth has been designed, and the rejection of that possibility is not ancient at all, but relatively recent, hardening in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as Darwinian chance became the default explanatory frame for biology and even cosmology.I had already pondered the implications of believing we had discovered a similar mechanistic and structural relationship across geology, hydrology, chemistry, and biology. What had initially looked fragmented had resolved into a closed, self-perpetuating system. The idea of design started to look like a true cornerstone. What would modern science allow those alignments to point to when laid out together? I knew that science could describe each instance in isolation. Whether it could follow those alignments across domains to their implications rested on the question of whether it would reject the stone.What remained was to gather the scriptural evidence carefully enough and lay it out clearly enough that the implications would be hard to ignore. If modern science were to continue rejecting the stone, I wanted to make that as difficult as possible.I invite those interested to read my next post and let me know how I did in terms of “defending the stone”: “Water From The Rock Is More Than A Metaphor.”Note to readers:What Shimanishi produced appears to match, in both process and behavior, the kind of revered substance described across numerous cultures and traditions as a “Golden Elixir”: rock opened, minerals rendered mobile, and water transformed through contact with that chemistry.Aurmina, a name we arrived at before this work fully unfolded, means “golden mineral essence.” It is a diluted form of Shimanishi’s extract and part of my effort to carry this work into a practical form through drinking water.Primora Bioemerged from that same effort, delivering the water to soil, crops, plants, and animals.So for those who want the work to leave the page and enter their world, these are our first attempts to carry it forward.*If you value the late nights and deep dives into all the “rabbit holes” I write about, your support is greatly appreciated.Subscribe nowFrom Research to Practice - Links Below ImageAurmina– The Mineral Extract For Naturally Vitalized Drinking WaterPrimora Bio- Bringing Life Back To SoilLeading Edge Clinic- Tele-Medicine Clinic Caring For Patients in All 50 StatesThe War on Ivermectin- The Medicine That Could have Ended the PandemicThe Blueprint of Life- The Hidden Architecture That Powers Life and HealthFrom Volcanoes to Vitality-The Untold Story of Asao ShimanishiThe War on Chlorine Dioxide- The Medicine That Could End MedicineMedical Musings- A View From the Inside Of Modern Medicine

Summary: Scripture and alchemy began to read as two archives of the same world. Once the evidence began to come into focus, the rejected stone looked increasingly like the cornerstone of reality.


How Different Civilizations Described the Same Natural Reality

At a certain point, researching alchemy no longer felt like an esoteric pursuit. Once I began to recognize that the texts were describing the same Rock–Water Circuit we had arrived at through modern literature in geochemistry, cosmology, biology, and physics, I could no longer dismiss them.That led to a simple question: if this level of insight was recorded here, where else might it appear? What other traditions, texts, or cultures might contain comparable observations about the processes underlying the Rock–Water Circuit?And the oddest part is where that trail led first: straight into the center of mainstream science, to the National Science Foundation, and from there to black mica.The Engine Before BiologyHelen Hansma, a biophysicist at UC Santa Barbara who also served as a program director at the National Science Foundation, proposed something that would have sounded outrageous not long ago: that life did not begin in ponds or vents, but between sheets of mica.Her “Mica Hypothesis”…Read more

Summary: The Rock–Water Circuit began showing up everywhere: in alchemy, Scripture, black mica origin-of-life theory, and Japan’s instinctive reverence for mineral water, volcanic stone, and natural order.


What is the Cell Danger Response?

Story at a Glance:
 •The Cell Danger Response is an evolutionarily conserved adaptation cells use to protect themselves from environmental stressors.

•Mitochondria orchestrate the CDR by first detecting a threat and then switching from powering the cell to shutting it down to protect the cell from danger. Many complex illnesses result from a chronically sustained CDR that prevents the cells from their normal functionality.

•Therapies which address the CDR are often necessary to treat a variety of complex illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, autism, and COVID-19 vaccine injuries.

Since early 2020, I have worked with patients with spike protein injuries, either from COVID-19 or the vaccines. Now and then, I’ve observed a specific treatment for a spike protein injury have a rapid effect that was so dramatic it would have been difficult to believe it had happened had I not witnessed it firsthand.
 Whenever I spotted a treatment doing that, I asked, “Why did this happen?” Over time, I realized two mechanisms appeared to be able to account for almost every case where I observed this happen.
 The first was that impaired fluid circulation in the body was restored, most commonly by restoring the physiologic zeta potential (something the spike protein is uniquely suited to inhibit). Since this is a complex but relatively unknown topic, I’ve worked to explain  what zeta potential is , how its disruption  creates illness by impairing fluid circulation  throughout the body, and  the methods I know of which can restore it .
 Note: in parallel to doing this, I also discussed  the fourth phase of water  (something also critical for the health of the body)  as the two concepts are deeply interrelated .
 The second was that the Cell Danger Response (CDR) was deactivated. Since there is much more awareness about this (still relatively unknown) concept in the integrative medical field, I felt zeta potential needed to be covered first. Nonetheless, the CDR is an essential concept to understand, and  like zeta potential , it plays a foundational role in explaining and addressing many of the complex conditions we face today.
 Before I go further, I would like to acknowledge two of my colleagues who have a great deal of experience working with the CDR that assisted me in drafting this series (and both independently observed that the COVID vaccines triggered the CDR).
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 What is the Cell Danger Response?
 For cells to survive, something has to protect them from the innumerable threats they encounter. In complex organisms, we typically assign that role to the immune system. In contrast, in single-celled organisms (e.g., bacteria), it’s fulfilled either by them putting protective agents into their environment (e.g., bacteriocins to kill enemy bacteria) or them evolving resistance to the danger they are facing (e.g., antibiotics).
 However, those are not the only options. In  a previous article  where I tried to explain the potential consequences of bacteria DNA being found in the vaccines, I touched on an important concept. When bacteria (and fungi) are placed in a dangerous environment, in addition to those that die, some will transform into a form better suited to survive the hostile environment (this is the most well-recognized with spore-forming bacteria).
 Note: Since those forms are often more likely to cause diseases and resist antibiotics, it can be counter-productive to continue addressing them with the same antibiotics, and different approaches are needed to aid patients with those infections.
 When cells are stressed by their environment, they also transform into a more defensive state primarily mediated by the cell’s mitochondria (which are essentially bacteria and able to rapidly adapt to changes in their environment). This process has been observed by many (e.g., some call it  the integrated stress response ), and I believe the process is the most comprehensively described by the CDR.
 The CDR concept is frequently credited to  Robert Naviaux  (someone I consider a genius). He integrated all of the existing scientific knowledge on cellular adaptations, utilized a variety of established approaches (e.g., genomic analysis), and, most importantly, used an innovative but relatively unknown diagnostic method, metabolomics, to map out the CDR.
 Metabolomics  uses  mass spectrometry  to identify every biomolecule present in a sample of blood, which is both quite feasible and provides an in-depth understanding of the body which, to my knowledge, cannot be obtained with any other existing technology (e.g., the endless lab tests that provide a narrow snapshot of the body which may not have any correlation to the patient’s symptoms). This is how Naviaux described the merits of the technology:
 First, fewer than 2,000 metabolites constitute the majority of the parent molecules in the blood that are used for cell-to-cell communication and metabolism, compared with 6 billion bases in the diploid human genome. Second, metabolites reflect the current functional state of the individual. Collective cellular chemistry represents the functional interaction of genes and environment.
 The process of the CDR essentially is as follows:
 1. Something stresses the cell.
 2. Mitochondria within the cell rapidly detect this stress (e.g., before the stressor can kill the cell). This detection, Naviaux argues, is due to electrons that previously were available to mitochondria being diverted to the stressor (e.g., an invading virus hijacking the cell to reproduce, a heavy metal being present, or many of the harmful [electron stealing] chemicals we are exposed to now), which creates a voltage drop in the mitochondria.
 3. The mitochondria then reduce or terminate their primary function (creating energy in the form of ATP for the cell) and switch from an anti-inflammatory to a pro-inflammatory state ( macrophages also switch  from an anti-inflammatory to a pro-inflammatory form).
 4. Because the mitochondria producing ATP uses up a lot of oxygen, once that production is reduced (or becomes incomplete) and the mitochondria shift to producing different biomolecules, the available oxygen in a cell rapidly increases. For context, mitochondria contain 1500 proteins tailored to meet the needs of each cell type and catalyze over 500 different chemical reactions in metabolism.
 These mitochondrial effects (particularly the elevated oxygen) cause the following to occur:
 •Production of complex proteins (polymers) is reduced, which viruses require to reproduce.
 •Protective changes in the behavior of the whole organism (e.g., increased tiredness that induces the sleep needed to facilitate healing or a desire to isolate so the infection is not transferred to other members of their group).
 •Antiviral and antimicrobial substances are released inside the cell.
 •Warning cells in the vicinity that a danger is present.
 •Increased consumption (autophagy) of components within the cell, including the defective parts of the mitochondria and the mitochondria themselves.
 •Changes in gene expression and mobilization of parts of cellular DNA.
 •The cell membranes stiffen so things are prevented from passing through it.
 Note: a long time ago, a mentor versed in some of the most remarkable forgotten sides of medicine showed me an ancient test his teacher used to evaluate if the body was consuming oxygen properly (something they believed was critical for proper health). The test was known as the blood crenation test and assessed the degree to which cells would change their size once placed in a hypertonic solution. After I learned about the CDR, I realized that the test detected if the membranes had stiffened due to an active CDR and mitochondria, in turn, not correctly consuming oxygen. That stiffening is greatest during CDR1 and begins to soften during CDR3 (explained below). I found this fascinating because the therapy (designed to treat numerous illnesses through restoring the oxidative metabolism of cells) he used the blood crenation test for had two stages of treatment, and the second stage could only be used once the first stage had sufficiently softened the cell membranes.
 In the recent series on zeta potential , I argued that a key reason for why zeta potential disruption has become a root cause of so many illnesses is due to the physiologic mechanisms for maintaining zeta potential having evolved in an era where the human body faced far fewer zeta potential disrupting toxins. Because of this, the baseline zeta potential our body is designed to maintain (keep in mind that an excessive zeta potential also creates problems) is often not strong enough to counteract those harmful environmental influences.
 The CDR likewise evolved in an era when humans faced far fewer stressors and is not appropriately calibrated for the modern world. For example, when the CDR is activated, the oxidizing environment causes cells to sequester rather than excrete heavy metals. This is a problem since heavy metals (which are now common in our environment) are both a common cause of chronic illness and a trigger for the CDR.
 When Naviaux originally mapped the CDR out, he thought that it had one phase, but in time realized it had three different phases, the initial response, a proliferative phase (which rebuilds tissue), and then the cell beginning to return to its initial function:

 Nauviux’s central argument is that while the CDR is a normal adaptive response, it will create problems if cells get stuck in one of the CDR phases because they did not receive the final all-clear signal to exit the CDR.
 Note: Chronic diseases are characterized by impaired communication between cells and tissues. If this occurs at a young age (e.g., in autism), the normal trajectory of development is altered, leading to the abnormal tissue and organs the body’s systems must adapt to. In adults, these alterations cause tissue and organ performance to degrade over time, eventually leading to various problems such as cancers and organ failures.
 During CDR2 (which, amongst other things, Nauviux links to cancer ) , dividing and migrating cells cannot establish long-term metabolic cooperation between cells because their location within tissues is continuously changing. CDR3, in turn, is the integration phase that allows cellular communication to be restored, and hence is critical to complete for many complex illnesses.
 Additionally, CDR3’s completion is aided by the autonomic nervous system being in a rest and recovery state (facilitated by the vagal nerve—the parasympathetics are one of the foundational ways to communicate safety to the body). My colleagues believe this helps to explain why the converse, excessive stress, and sympathetic activity that characterizes the modern age can have such a large impact on chronic illnesses, as they signal to the body danger (that requires a CDR) is still present.
 What are the effects of the CDR?
 Much of this series was an attempt to simplify and summarize  Nauviux's years of research . The specific publications I referenced throughout this article were as follows:
 • The original 2014 paper  which explained the CDR.
 • A 2016 study  of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) identified consistent patterns within their metabolomics. Those hypometabolic changes resembled dauer, an evolutionarily conserved state organisms enter that makes them much more capable of surviving environmental stressors and conserving energy but much less able to engage in normal activity (e.g., a functional life free of suffering and disability). Since the biological clock within those cells slows (and they can survive periods of resource starvation), they can outlast the cells that fail to make this transition and take over once conditions are safe for the cells to return to normal.
 Note: many of the genes involved in dauer have been actively studied for promoting longevity (e.g., they overlap with the changes created through caloric restriction). Additionally, in dauer, behavioral responses become "brittle," such that small stimuli produce significant responses in otherwise docile animals, a phenomenon also commonly observed in complex chronic illnesses.
 • A pilot 2017 study  where autistic children were provided a CDR blocking agent. This double-blind trial demonstrated significant improvement in autistic children, which to my knowledge, has not been obtained in any other clinical trial attempting to treat autism.
 • A 2017 review  of the cell danger response and the potential applications in using CDR targeting agents for conditions such as autism.
 • A 2018 paper  discusses the CDR's three stages and how they are part of the body's normal healing cycle. This is the most detailed overview of the CDR Nauviux has written and the paper  I most recommend reading .
 • A brief 2020 paper  connecting the CDR to mitochondrial dysfunction and chronic illness.
 • A 2020 study  evaluated the link between viral infection and the CDR. It found the HHV-6 virus (to which 90% of the population is exposed by age three) could trigger the CDR. Once activated, the CDR shielded cells from other viruses as there was up to a 99% decrease in their infection from influenza or HSV-1. Notably, the CDR persisted even when HHV-6 was almost undetectable, and serum from CFS patients could induce the CDR within healthy cells (and matched the CDR seen in CFS), thus demonstrating that a pathologic CDR can persist long after the inciting stimulus disappears.
 • A 2021 study  exposed rats to the primary CDR-inducing agent (ATP) and then measured the metabolic and behavioral changes that followed (e.g., whole body oxygen consumption decreased by 74% and rectal temperature dropped by 6.2˚C in 30 minutes—both of which are massive changes). This paper is the most detailed published study (I know of) that has been conducted on how the CDR alters both behavior and biochemistry (over 200 metabolites from 37 different biochemical pathways were changed). Furthermore, it found that most of the changes returned to baseline in a few hours and that the responses in male and female rats to ATP were noticeably different (males were more sensitive to behavioral changes, females were more sensitive to metabolic changes).

• A 2023 review paper that discussed the current understanding of the CDR and methods for treating it. Much of this paper is discussed in the third part of this series.
 Purinergic Signaling
 The primary agent that appears to set off the CDR is ATP leaking out of cells (which evolutionarily makes sense as its concentration is approximately one million times higher inside cells compared to outside them, so it will consistently leak out when the cell is damaged or stressed). In addition to this leak occurring due to damage to the cell, there are also redox-gated, mechanical stress-gated and voltage-gated channels that directly facilitate this leak alongside ATP exporting vesicles, all of which allow one cell in the CDR to induce the CDR within the cells surrounding it through purinergic signaling.
 In turn, ATP (a purine) and a variety of related molecules (that often leak in tandem with it) are detected by numerous receptors throughout the body, affecting them through a process known as purinergic signaling. Since purinergic signaling is a relatively new field of study, each year, more and more of its implications for the body are being discovered (e.g., its role in the communication between cells, the stress response, autonomic, vestibular, and many sensory integration pathways).
 Many of the consequences of the CDR result from the changes created within the nervous system. ATP or its metabolites have also been found, according to Nauviux, to “be co-neurotransmitters and neuromodulators at every synapse in the central and enteric nervous systems, and every immunologic synapse that has been studied to date.”
 Purinergic receptors control neurotransmission, cortisol production, inflammation, chronic pain signaling, and autonomic nervous system control. Furthermore, Nauviux has proposed that the effects of CDR purinergic signaling help explain why the human body responds to danger by exhibiting the stereotypical behaviors observed in sickness (e.g., during the flu or while recovering from a severe injury), such as withdrawing from social contact, decreasing speech, having fragmented sleep, or developing an increased sensitivity to heat, touch, sound, and light. For example, in the rats studied, triggering the CDR caused them to decrease their motor activity, avoid open areas (or explore new ones) and to develop gait coordination abnormalities.
 The presence of purinergic receptors at neural synapses  has also implicated purines  as being a necessary component of learning. In conjunction,  the 2021 study showed  activating the CDR spiked the levels of dopamine in the body (a key neurotransmitter for learning and creating habits within the nervous system).

 It is frequently observed that if an injury (e.g., a head concussion) occurs before a previous version of the same injury finishes healing, the consequences of second injury (even if much lighter) can be significantly greater than the original injury. Similarly, is known that stimulating the immune systems of pregnant mice (in a process mimicking what a viral infectious would do) increase the likelihood of offspring with features resembling those seen in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism or in schizophrenia. In the 2021 study, when that same stimulation was done to pregnant mice, their offspring became hypersensitive to the effects of injected ATP and took much longer to return to their baseline.

Two of the greatest challenges in treating patients with a complex chronic illnesses are their susceptibility towards relapses (e.g., one triggered by a light stressor) and the body becoming programmed to have something akin to an addiction to the chemicals released by the CDR (e.g., the risk of a recurrence of depression is 3-6 times greater than the risk in those who have not previously been depressed). Lastly, to quote Nauviaux :
 Complex negative and maladaptive behavioral responses to adversity can be paradoxically reinforced by an anti-inflammatory effect they produce at the cellular level.
 Because of all of this, many of my colleagues suspect that the CDR triggers a learning process that causes patients to become progressively easier to trap in a CDR state each time a successive threat is presented toward them, even when the original trigger or stressor is no longer present. This is a major reason why the proper treatment of a chronic illness often requires recognizing the body’s existing momentum towards illness and incomplete recovery, and then gradually redirecting it to wellness.
 Note: I also believe impaired lymphatic drainage from the brain helps to account for the severity of successive concussions.
 Why is the CDR Important?
 One of the major problems we face in medicine is the immense amount of data available to us and our simultaneous inability to integrate it into a coherent story that makes sense for patients. For example, functional medicine practitioners memorize an endless number of biochemical pathways. However, in many cases understanding why so many different pathways can be abnormal is only possible with the context provided by the CDR.

Additionally, many apparently harmful genetic variations (polymorphisms) are frequently assessed and then mitigated by functional medicine practitioners. The CDR often provides a critical context for why these variations exist, as when the CDR is active,  unexpected benefits  can arise from the presence of the “defective” polymorphism.
 One colleague (an integrative physician and leader in the discipline) who frequently uses the CDR in clinical practice feels it is invaluable because the CDR helped them understand why integrative therapies they thought should work never did anything for patients (and sometimes harmed them).
 For example, as the years have gone by, the medical field (particularly within integrative medicine) has tied more and more chronic diseases to mitochondrial dysfunction and treated them with supplements (or energy-inputting therapies) designed to increase mitochondrial output. This works if the issue arises from a deficiency of what the mitochondria need but does not help if the decreased mitochondrial output is instead a protective adaptation.
 In some cases, this means the patient wastes money on unneeded supplements, and in other cases (e.g., sometimes with intravenous NAD), the patient can feel quite bad afterward if parts of their system were not ready for the mitochondrial function to be upregulated. This harmful reaction commonly occurs if the agent inciting the CDR is still present but treatments are instead directed at negating the symptoms created by an active CDR.
 Note: in the rat study , triggering the CDR did not deplete the levels of any vitamin.
 Since the CDR is such a fundamental survival mechanism, the changes in metabolism, inflammation, immunity, microbiome, brain function, sleep patterns, and social behaviors the CDR creates can be triggered by many different kinds of threats (e.g., infection, pollution, poisoning, physical or psychological trauma, a lack of nutrients or blood to the cells and even  a reduced gravity environment ). Within the 2016 study on 45 CFS patients, for instance, over a dozen triggers for CFS were identified, with some patients having multiple triggers occurring in the same period, and no trigger being significantly more common than the rest.
 Note: Frequently in complex diseases, patients pass a critical threshold of (highly variable) stressors, and then have a radically altered physiology which becomes dramatically more sensitive to additional stressors.
 Conversely, because the CDR can get stuck in different phases (creating different types of diseases) and often only affects specific cells within the body (e.g., only a particular tissue or some but not all the cells within one tissue) it is thus possible to have the same underlying process cause an immense number of seemingly different diseases.
 Note: Nauviux’s best attempt to map many of the common chronic diseases to a CDR phase can be found  here  in Table 1. For example, a defining characteristic of CFS and often fibromyalgia is an inability of the body to replenish its energy after exertion (or sleep). This makes sense if mitochondria are producing much less of the ATP needed for that energy replenishment and some of the ATP they produce is leaking out of the cell.
 Within our linear scientific paradigm, every cause must be attributed to one effect. This leads many to be at a loss in understanding how so many different things can cause the same inexplicable illness. Furthermore, since many believe scientific proof requires a repeatable cause and effect relationship, it is almost impossible to convince skeptical audiences of the legitimacy of these non-linear conditions.
 Thus, without a unifying model like the CDR that accounts for this immense variability, there are myriad of “complex” diseases that are nearly unsolvable within the existing paradigm. For example, to quote Naviaux:
 Complex [multisystem] diseases like CFS are often difficult and expensive to diagnose [e.g., no single diagnostic test yet exists for CFS]. Although individual tests may be affordable and possibly covered by medical insurance, many patients undergo a diagnostic odyssey that results in substantial personal expenditures that can exceed $100,000 over years of searching [for a cure], absence from the workplace, and significant reductions in quality of life.
 Naviaux’s 2016 words describe exactly what countless COVID vaccine injured individuals have also experienced. One of these patients, for example, had seen 31 doctors before me (many of whom worked at prestigious institutions) and felt only two of them (both of whom had already left the conventional system) could provide anything helpful. The rest ordered various expensive tests that were mostly covered by insurance but provided no benefit whatsoever to the patient.
 As another example, the national economic cost of autism is estimated to be $75,000 per patient with autism, and the average family caring for a family member with autism, in turn, spends over $17,000 on necessary care expenses not covered by public services. Since the incidence of autism is rapidly growing, this cost is growing too (it reached $268 billion in 2015 and is expected to rise to $461 billion by 2025).
 Note:  I previously reviewed  Peter Hotez’s book that argued vaccines do not cause autism (without providing anything to substantiate his claim). Hotez’s justification for frequently attacking parents who link vaccines to autism was that doing so diverts public funding away from supporting the out-of-pocket expenses parents like Hotez have to spend caring for autistic children. Given the rate at which autism is rising within the USA, that is a nonsensical approach akin to scooping water out of a boat with a large hole in the hull.
 Because of the economic impact of autism, over $1 billion has been spent on research for the genetic causes of autism over the past ten years. This work has shown that hundreds of genes play a role in different children and that no single gene accounts for more than 1–2% of autism. Conversely, other politically unpalatable causes (e.g., multiple vaccinations in close succession activating the CDR or other environmental stressors that can as well) are never looked at. Similarly, viable treatments that have both a mechanistic basis and clinical evidence to support them, but are not profitable (e.g., Naviaux used a repurposed drug to treat autism), are sadly never looked at.
 This situation is virtually identical to what  I previously discussed  with the even more impactful condition, Alzheimer’s disease. Billions are spent each year on ( sometimes fraudulent ) research that has relentlessly focused upon a highly questionable mechanism for the disease that has consistently failed to produce a viable therapy for the disease. Conversely,  proven treatments  based on different models of the disease exist, which very few Alzheimer’s researchers are even aware of.
 Like Naviaux, I feel the lack of treatments for autism is particularly tragic because autistic children are often highly gifted individuals, and I have seen numerous cases of an autistic child who was cured (or at least significantly improved) with an “unproven” treatment that then went on to lead an immensely impactful and productive life. Unfortunately, those treatments are rarely available; instead, many autistic children are often treated terribly (e.g., they experience a very high rate of physical or sexual abuse), and what they go through is almost invisible to those who do not directly work with them. Similarly, many older adults with dementia are often treated quite poorly, but placed in areas like nursing homes where they can be kept out of sight and out of mind.
 What I find so surprising about Naviaux’s work is its commercial potential (as numerous drugs which inhibit purinergic signaling improve conditions linked to the CDR). However, despite the fact Naviaux has meticulously laid out all the research that demonstrates the importance of the CDR for over a decade, his work has not caught on outside the alternative medical field, and no pharmaceutical company has seriously pursued developing drugs targeted at the numerous purinergic receptors throughout the body.
 Why Do Spike Proteins Set off the CDR?
 Presently, I believe there are three causes for most of the symptoms individuals experience with spike protein injuries:
 •Circulatory obstructions.
 •Autoimmunity.
 •Immune suppression.
 It turn, I've tried to put forward some of the mechanisms that could be causing these to happen. For example, I believe the circulatory issues are due to the  spike protein damaging  the protective lining of the blood vessels, the spike protein  creating misfolding  within the proteins the body uses to create fibrin clots, and as mentioned above, the  spike protein collapsing  the physiologic zeta potential of the body.
 In regards to autoimmunity, I have thus far proposed that the primary issues are:
 The spike protein being inherently immunogenic (stimulating to the immune system).

 The spike protein having a  highly unusual degree of overlap with human tissue .

 Vaccines being designed so that the immunogenic spike protein is expressed on the surfaces of cells.

 Additionally, I also believe the spike protein's  effects on zeta potential  exacerbate this issue.
 Note: because spike proteins overload the cells, many find their way to the cell surface. In addition to triggering the immune system to destroy the spike protein-expressing cell, it also causes parts of the membrane to separate from the cell and travel through the body as exosomes.
 The body relies upon exosomes for communication between the cells (including to signal the CDR), and spike protein-coated exosomes  have been detected  in mRNA-vaccinated individuals. The changes in the exosomes throughout the body have been both hypothesized  to account for many of the pathologic changes observed in these patients  and to explain how the seemingly impossible mRNA vaccine shedding can occur (as exosomes are also exhaled); presently, the only other potential mechanism I have identified to explain the inexplicable shedding process is bacterial DNA within the vaccines  causing the microbiome to express the spike protein .
 A key feature of the CDR is the mitochondria transforming from their typical energy-producing state to a pro-inflammatory state that activates the innate immune system. Thus, in addition to fatigue and varying degrees of organ dysfunction arising in individuals whose mitochondria are no longer devoted to powering the cells, a wide range of inflammatory conditions (e.g., autoimmune disorders) can result from a sustained CDR (e.g., that caused by an infection like HHV-6 ).

Conversely, many of my colleagues have also observed that the same therapy which we have found rapidly treats the CDR in spike protein injured patients (i.e., acute covid, long covid, and covid vaccine injuries) also can treat challenging autoimmune disorders (e.g.,  Sjögrens syndrome ) in patients not suffering from spike protein injuries. Likewise, before COVID-19, my colleagues who specialized in complex autoimmune conditions frequently found approaches they believed targeted a persistent CDR simultaneously improved many of the autoimmune disorders those patients were suffering from.
 One of the biggest things that have helped my team develop treatments for spike protein vaccine injuries is that many of the modes of harm we've witnessed from these injections resemble what we had previously seen with other vaccines. The big difference is that the toxicity and rate of adverse events from the COVID-19 vaccines are much higher than that seen with a typical vaccine, so certain reactions (e.g., sudden deaths in healthy adults) are unique to this vaccine, and its harms  are frequent enough the general population can recognize them .
 Previously, I advanced Andrew Moulden's argument  that every vaccine causes harm  due to their effects on the physiologic zeta potential (along with the immune system further obstructing circulation by having its large cells enter the smallest vessels of the body). The easiest way to detect these circulatory obstructions is from the pathological changes the microstrokes create, and I have noticed many of my vaccinated friends developed  the same neurological signs  Moulden observed in vaccine-injured children (e.g., an eye's ability to move outward becomes impaired).
 Vaccinations, likewise, are well suited to activating the CDR. Typically, when the body confronts an invader, it is dealt with on its surface (e.g., within the respiratory mucosa), and a specific immune response is created to address it. It is much rarer for the body to first confront an invader within the bloodstream. When this occurs, the cells sense a greater danger, and a much more severe response is directed toward the invader that rarely prevents the initial stages of an infection that mucosal immunity typically prevents.
 Since vaccines that use the natural routes of exposure that trigger the body's first line of defense are harder to develop (the oral polio vaccine being one of the only examples), we typically default to vaccinations that utilize a backdoor into the immune system that instead activates its final line of defense. This amongst other things causes different antibody types to be produced by the system. Furthermore, we often repeatedly administer the same vaccine (and multiple vaccines simultaneously), thereby providing a repeating stimulus that trains the CDR to become progressively easier to activate.
 Sadly, due to the widespread blind faith in the safety and efficacy of vaccines, basic practices to improve their safety (e.g., spacing them out), let alone their effects on the CDR and zeta potential, rarely, if ever, enter the conversation. Furthermore, outside of Naviux's circle, very few are even aware that activating the CDR plays a key role in how the body develops immunity to a foreign entity.
 In addition to the inherent toxicity of the spike protein, the mRNA vaccines design itself is particularly well suited to triggering the CDR. Because the mRNA is designed to transfect cells, like an actual viral infection, it continually steals the resources of the cell to manufacture the synthetic spike protein, and like what occurs in a viral infection, the mitochondria most likely detect this theft and initiate the CDR.
 There are also many other issues with overstimulating the body's immune response. For example,  to quote the National Cancer Institute :
 [T cell exhaustion] describes a condition in which T cells (a type of immune cell) lose their ability to kill certain cells, such as cancer cells or cells infected with a virus [or mRNA spike proteins]. This can happen when cancer, chronic infection, or other conditions cause the body’s immune system to stay active for a long time. Exhausted T cells have high amounts of immune checkpoint proteins on their surface, which may keep the activity of the T cells suppressed [as excessively killing the cells of the body is also dangerous and must have a counterbalance to prevent it from occurring]. In cancer treatment, drugs that target these proteins may be given to allow the T cells to better kill cancer cells.
 T cell exhaustion is one of the many issues that must be addressed when working with complex illnesses (e.g., this frequently comes up with chronic Epstein Barr infections—a dormant condition that many have reported reactivates in vaccine-injured patients). One of the interesting things my colleagues have found is that T cell exhaustion is also commonly observed in patients with long covid and spike protein vaccine injuries (which my colleagues also suspect is what triggers the Epstein Barr reactivation).
 Lastly, beyond reducing the cell's ability to produce proteins, the CDR also triggers the cell to degrade the foreign material within it. Unfortunately, to make the mRNA vaccines "work," their mRNA  was modified through pseudouridation  to resist degradation so the mRNA could produce the spike protein for a much longer period within the cell—which unfortunately leads to the mitochondria repeatedly being signaled to initiate the CDR. At this point, it is still unknown why stressors (e.g., mounting an immune response to an invader) cause some individuals to develop a permanent rather than temporary CDR; the only thing that is known is repeated activations of the CDR make it more likely to become permanent.
 Note: in the 2021 rat study, briefly triggering the CDR was shown to initially either increase or decrease a wide range of metabolites in the body, with the metabolites returning to their original levels in a few hours. One of the few exceptions to this rule was pseudouridine, which initially had a slight increase, but over time, rather than returning to baseline, developed a much more significant increase. This pseudouridine elevation  might  be one of the mechanisms at work in vaccine injury (e.g.,  pseudouridated mRNA is thought to suppress the immune system ), however, I do not know of a study that has directly assessed if pseudouridine levels become elevated following mRNA vaccination, particularly within chronically ill patients who appear to be trapped within the CDR .
 Conclusion:
 My sincere hope is that this series, along with the previous one on  liquid crystalline water and zeta potential , has helped to provide a framework to explain the perplexing question of why numerous stressors (e.g., toxins) can cause the same disease and why the same stressor can create such a widely varying spectrum of illness in those exposed to it. I have done my best to accurately simplify this subject, and regrettably, despite all the work I’ve done thus far, I still feel I have only scratched the surface of that perplexing question.
 For example, I am frequently asked about the relationship between the CDR and zeta potential or liquid crystalline water. The short answer is that I know they are interrelated as:
•The CDR goes hand in hand with fluid stagnation (each exacerbates the other—for example interstitial pressure, a sign of obstructed fluid circulation, increases in CDR1).
•One of the changes observed within cells during the CDR is a destructuring of the liquid crystalline water within it (discussed further by Nauviax  here )
•That ATP is concentrated in the liquid crystalline water layer which surrounds each cell (and likely plays a key role in creating that layer).
 The major challenge with the current understanding of the CDR is how to treat it. On the one hand,  to some extent , countless therapies can help (e.g., now that the CDR is known about in parts of the integrative medical community, patients and colleagues periodically introduce me to natural preparations that allegedly treat it). However, creating a consistent improvement in the CDR is much more challenging and requires both targeted treatments and a comprehensive understanding of the CDR.
 Fortunately, one medical specialty, regenerative medicine, emphasizes restoring the critical functions of non-functional tissue. Because of this, the field has independently developed a comprehensive understanding of why cells get trapped in a non-functional state and the most direct ways to restore their functionality.
 In the next part of this series, I discussed the practice of regenerative medicine and its perspectives in treating the CDR . This helps to lay the context for the final part of the series on the methods within the integrative medical field and the regenerative medical field that treat the CDR , and that we have seen help numerous individuals with spike protein injuries recover from their illness.

Lastly, it should also be noted that in the same way I have previously characterized many of the diseases of aging as being partly due the physiologic zeta potential worsening with ago (likely resulting for a declining kidney function), the CDR also worsens with age. Hence, many of the effects arising from a sustained CDR that were described throughout this article, will to varying extents eventually be seen in everyone and thus are something the regenerative medical field has prioritized finding ways to address.
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Summary: Understanding the CDR is critical for treating treating spike protein injuries and many other complex illnesses.


How To Create A Fake News Cycle

To that end, I published an Op-Ed in RealClear Politics today using an example of a fake news cycle around ivermectin. Enjoy:

 Despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to pillory him as an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is having a moment. A recent poll from CNN of all places showed him earning 20% of Democratic primary voters – and that was before his Joe Rogan interview and shirtless push-up video went viral. Kennedy’s support only confirms the titanic loss of trust between voters and mainstream media.
 Except for those in the business, few people understand the inner workings of the media world. As a doctor and lifelong Democratic voter who pulled the lever for Biden in 2020, I had no clue. Prior to COVID-19, I trusted that what I was reading represented the truth. My experience running the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) quickly disabused me of that idea.
 The first wave hit in December 2020, when I testified in the Senate that corticosteroids were saving my COVID patients’ lives. My recommendations weren’t just ignored – they were attacked , and I was personally ridiculed as a fraud and Trump puppet. My life and career were upended. I felt forced to resign my faculty position. It was cold comfort when a few months later, a large study confirmed my testimony and government agencies added steroids to the standard of care for COVID patients.
 I struggled to make sense of it through much of 2021. The Biden administration and the mainstream media single-mindedly pushed untested vaccines even as the FLCCC accumulated more and more evidence that cheap, generic medicines could stop COVID. As I detailed in my new book, “ The War on Ivermectin ,” simply presenting evidence that doctors were using the medicine to treat and prevent COVID around the world was a dog whistle for the mob.
 After this crash course in media manipulation, I was much savvier and learned to spot the tactics. When in September 2021 Rachel Maddow tweeted a local news story to her 10 million followers about Oklahoma hospitals being overrun with ivermectin overdoses , I knew it was fake news.
 Remember this headline:

 The report quoted a doctor claiming that patients overdosing on ivermectin were backing up rural hospitals. Supposedly people coming to the ER with serious injuries – even gunshot wounds – could not access care. The story was laundered through countless media outlets and blue checks , who were already skeptical of ivermectin because of its association with Trump and his supporters. In their eyes, a bunch of MAGA lunatics overdosing on “horse de-wormer” were killing grandma.
 Six days later, the hospital where the doctor worked confirmed that the story was a total fabrication . There were no ivermectin overdoses – none – and the doctor hadn’t worked at the hospital in more than two months.
 This was easily the sloppiest and most brazen hit job the media pulled during the pandemic. But Rolling Stone’s coverage took the cake. The outlet used a photo portraying people lined up outside wearing winter clothes – wrong season.

 As the saying goes, “A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” To this day, Rolling Stone still hasn’t taken the story down. It simply changed the headline and slapped on a disclaimer .
 The whole debacle presents a neat lesson in how to create a fake news cycle. It goes like this.
 Step one: Identify a public tool, such as poison control centers, that are easy to manipulate. These organizations have a public hotline and email address that anyone can use to report a problem. The reports are logged as “adverse events,” but they are not easily confirmed and typically will be tabulated for public records whether or not they have been verified. This is exactly what happened with the Oklahoma story. The local poison control center was deluged with fake calls from people claiming they overdosed on ivermectin.
 Step two: Deploy “independent,” seemingly credible voices to validate and embellish the false claims. Doctors are among the most trusted professionals, but having a medical degree doesn’t make you an honest broker. Many doctors struggle to earn a living practicing medicine, and sadly some – like the Oklahoma ER doc – will stoop to industry or political hit jobs if it pays the bills. And doctors willing to go on the record expressing concern about a health scare – ivermectin overdoses – are all a reporter needs for a juicy scoop.
 Step three: Coordinate with institutional allies to add legitimacy – FDA, American Medical Association, and GAVI (The Vaccine Alliance) – to add credibility and fan the flames with outraged public statements and targeted ad buys. Reporters can pose questions to their representatives at televised briefings, which carried more significance during the pandemic.
 Finally, step four: Activate the echo chamber in mainstream and social media. Twitter influencers who live and play in the Acela corridor can talk to each other in the green rooms of cable news studios and glitzy Beltway gatherings. They can pat each other on the back for exposing the crazies and conspiracy theorists.
 The pharmaceutical company didn’t invent this playbook, though it used it effectively to wage war on ivermectin and rake in more than $30 billion dollars from COVID vaccines. Tobacco, energy, chemicals, and other industries have deployed these same tactics to neutralize competition and preserve market control.
 Big business has been gaming the system for a long time, but the rise of social media has turned once respected media institutions into clickbait machines easily manipulated by industry. With Americans locked in their homes and constantly primed to accuse each other of killing grandma, the pandemic rapidly accelerated this trend and gave pharma – and its media allies – strong motive and ample opportunity.
 From masks and lockdowns to vaccines and remote learning: Time and again, solutions touted by the media oversold and underdelivered. We may never know how many lives were lost because of the tactics used to suppress ivermectin, but we know we can’t trust the media. That explains RFK Jr.’s rise – and it’s why I wouldn’t bet against him.
 Pierre Kory, M.D., is president and chief medical officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance and author of "T he War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic ."

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Summary: A big win was achieved against government sponsored censorship in the Missouri v. Biden case this week. But what to do about the relentless propaganda? First would be to educate people how to spot it.


The COVID-19 Vaccines Could Never Prevent Transmission

Speaking out against the vaccines is quite challenging because of how deep the faith in them runs throughout the medical field. On one hand, anything which supports the vaccine narrative (e.g., dubious claims vaccines are completely effective) is taken on faith and never subject to scrutiny. On the other hand, anything which questions their efficacy or safety is attacked to the point you are on shaky ground to question something about them even if you have rock-solid evidence.
 Before my eyes were opened to this with the COVID-19 vaccines, I, like many of my colleagues assumed vaccines were safe, effective, and proven to be by a robust body of clinical research. After me and my colleagues realized how much we had been lied to about this with the COVID-19 vaccines, we started looking into the vaccines and discovered much of the evidence we’d assumed was there simply wasn’t. For example, at this point one of the only vaccines that we believe has robust clinical trial evidence demonstrating efficacy is the shingles vaccine.
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 In the last few years, I’ve gained a deep understanding for how powerful the pharmaceutical industry’s propaganda apparatus is and I’ve come to terms with the fact many people I deeply respect can’t see what’s right in front of them. At the same time, things still keep on happening that just leave me jaw dropped.
 Whenever I share something on Twitter for instance, defenders of the narrative always jump at the chance to attack what I put forward. In many cases, this results in them taking a quick look at what I said, extrapolating it into an idea in their mind, and then ridiculing that idea because it is patently absurd. The problem is that in many cases, the idea they are attacking has nothing to do with what I actually said; it was just something they imagined I said.

Recently, I shared an article about how 3 (and arguably 4) Democratic members of the Senate suffered unusual heath complications that required them to have an extended leave of absence from the Senate. In addition to the odds of this happening by chance being very low, those Senators aggressively pushed the vaccines, their injuries were ones known to be linked to the vaccine and their injury rate (out of the 48 Democratic Senators) matched the adverse event rate independent surveys have found with these vaccines.

One of the injured Senators was Dianne Feinstein, who developed a shingles infection which then developed into Ramsay Hunt Syndrome (a very rare complication of shingles Justin Bieber experienced last year), and then encephalitis (an even rarer complication that affects roughly 1/30,000 to 1/50,000 people who get shingles ). Beyond this being an extraordinarily rare condition, both an increased rate of shingles and the two severe complications Feinstein experienced have been linked to the COVID-19 vaccines in numerous databases tracking the adverse responses to vaccines.
 The response I saw on Twitter to this was that shingles is such a common condition (it affects 1/3 adults) that me arguing Dianne Feinstein’s condition was linked to the vaccines was equivalent to me being unscientific enough to argue someone needing to go to the bathroom after drinking a glass of water was also due to a vaccine. I received many more similar criticisms as well (this line of attack is a common trope used to dismiss people who claim they experienced an adverse reaction to a vaccine).

What I found so surprising about this was that it wasn’t just nobody’s on Twitter; many of the well know “experts” also jumped in on this meme (e.g., these two ) including one of the most prolific skeptics on Twitter:

 AMD asked quite a few of them if they wanted to correct their statements and was ignored by all of them—something we both believe illustrates how little accountability there is for people who make absurd statements that endorse the narrative. When I asked AMD why smart people do things like this, I was sent “ Cognitive sophistication does not attenuate the bias blind spot ” as a response.

 That article argues that the more “intelligent” people are, the more likely they are to appraise information by quickly looking for something which supports their existing beliefs while simultaneously being blind to anything which challenges them. AMD argued this behavior is particularly problematic because the non-experts on Twitter will typically default to parroting the messages established by those tunnel-visioned experts.
 Last week, I shared this article, again from AMD:

 After I posted it, I then had many commentators argue that no one ever promised the vaccines would prevent transmission and that I was gaslighting the public by claiming anyone said that. This really shocked me. We literally had our public officials tell us over and over that the vaccines would stop transmission and tons of documented proof they did this can easily be found online. It’s both incredible and sad that the hypnosis of the narrative is so powerful people can easily forgot what they had sincerely believed only a year ago.
 After this happened I asked AMD to put together a compilation of the lies we were told about transmission and the proof those who told us should have known they were lying. I feel this is important for everyone to learn about because the mythology of stopping transmission was used to:

 1. Encourage widespread discrimination against the unvaccinated (under the nonsensical logic that the vaccines “worked” but simultaneously could not protect you from someone who had not been vaccinated).

 2. Bait the public into agreeing to a mass vaccination campaign and to accept both illegal and extremely harmful vaccination mandates being enacted upon the American people.

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 AMD’s article is excellent and throughly debunks one of the central lies that made the insanity we saw throughout COVID-19 possible. If this lie is not exposed, I am certain it will be reused to push through the next onslaught of vaccine mandates:
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 Why the COVID-19 Vaccines Could Never Prevent Transmission

 Recently, the lies conducted to push the vaccines have been brought back to the public’s attention. This is partly because of the numerous videos now circulating that show just how many times a spokesman for them contradicted himself while making false promises about the vaccines to sell them to the American public on national television (which he late…
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Summary: Why did all of our officials lie to us and why do so many people now believe that never happened?


I Published Another Op-Ed on FoxNews.com: "3 Commitments Biden's CDC Pick Must Make To Restore The Agency's Credibility"

By now, my subscribers have witnessed the transformation of my perspective on both government and its health care agencies. Many have followed my journey of discovery after I became expert on numerous aspects of Covid science (using a wide array of data sources) and found that it was completely divorced from government and health agency policies.
 I came to the conclusion that the agencies (and really the government in its entirety) is fully captured by corporations. This was a shocking discovery to me, mostly given its scope and scale (but not to many of my subscribers who had been “awakened” to this fact long before I had). So, understand that in this Op-Ed, I literally try to pretend that these agencies have population health as their primary consideration but have been somehow incompetent and thus need better guidance.
 I actually don’t believe that at all obviously, but that is not a message that can get published in major media in our present era. So, instead, I pretend” that my guidance is something they should follow (which they won’t) but the intent of these Op-Ed’s is not that. Instead, what I am trying to do is to get more of our population to understand just how discordant our government and its health agencies are from pragmatic approaches to protecting our population health.
 In this era of brazen corporate controlled media (CCM) propaganda and censorship, we have to bring the population’s awareness along slowly, mostly because you can’t get “real truth” published there. It’s kind of weird because I feel like I am lying in these Op-Ed’s by “pretending” that what I say will translate into correct action or policy. It won’t. Or that the “mistakes” made during Covid (they weren’t mistakes) can somehow by remedied by a captured government. It can’t.
 But I still try to navigate the truth out there, walking a tightrope through that sea of censorship and propaganda. Not sure how successful my approaches are but I feel like I have to try whatever way I can in our current media environment to get more and more people to keep asking questions and keep assessing why and how the agencies have failed and are failing. Because people are increasingly diseased and dying as a consequence of their actions. If my tactics are successful, then maybe the wider population can get to the truth of the matter which is that we are in a state of complete regulatory capture and that we have to go elsewhere for health guidance.
 One example of a source of un-conflicted, transparent, pragmatic guidance is.,. wait for it.. the FLCCC . That is where my partner, Professor Paul Marik, has been on an absolute warpath of late amassing sound, credible evidence-based guidance on pragmatic approaches to protecting against and treating numerous disease conditions beyond Covid.
 Please behold his work on 1) Eating Well , 2) Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, and Type II Diabetes (the proximate cause of well, almost everything the U.S population suffers from,) and 3) his most recent opus of scientific research called “The Role of Repurposed Drugs and Metabolic Interventions in Treating Cancer. ” You don’t know what you don’t know.
 Anyway, back to my Op-Ed:

 Among the litany of reasons that President Joe Biden’s approval rating stands at a dreary 31% is his failure to deliver on the promise of a return to normal after COVID.
 The candidate who ran on unity drove the country further apart with decisions based on bad science. Biden’s failings are fueling the surprising strength of Robert Kennedy, Jr., who enjoys the support of 16% of Democratic primary voters in a recent FOX News poll.
 With Dr. Rochelle Walensky leaving her perch atop the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the end of June, Biden’s pick to replace her is another step in the wrong direction.

 Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, speaks during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in Raleigh, North Carolina, May 26, 2020. (Ethan Hyman/Raleigh News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
 As the secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services during COVID, Mandy Cohen marched in lockstep with Dr. Anthony Fauci through the pandemic. She even sported a mask featuring his image.
 Her policies subjected North Carolinians to harsh restrictions that disrupted everyday life without any demonstrated benefit. What’s worse, she doesn’t regret any of it, recalling with glee how she joked with friends about enforcing mass shutdowns.
 The fallout from these policies were no laughing matter. Many people were devastated financially and emotionally. Depression and anxiety in children doubled, and concerns about mental health skyrocketed.
 Against this backdrop, Cohen’s critics have every reason to be skeptical about her ability to chart a new course. Since her appointment is not subject to Senate approval, here are three commitments Cohen should make to restore the CDC’s credibility.
 First, submit to a full congressional investigation of pandemic decision-making. Since the 118th Congress took power in January, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has made great strides shedding light on fraud and waste in federal pandemic spending. Even as the recent compromise on the debt ceiling clawed back $27 billion in COVID-era federal funding to federal agencies, the committee’s oversight work must continue into other arenas.
 From confusing medical guidance to misrepresenting data to embarrassing communication errors (remember the suggestion to play basketball online with friends?), the CDC’s failings during the pandemic are well-documented. These actions have damaged the once sterling reputation of the agency. Cohen should commit to safeguards that ensure they can never be repeated.

 CDC Director Robert Redfield speaks during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on Sept. 16, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
 Second, Cohen should decry the politicization of agency recommendations. Many of my fellow Democrats were quick to accuse the CDC director under President Trump, Dr. Robert Redfield, for allowing politics to influence mitigation measures. They were correct then, and it’s a principle that must be fought for, regardless of which party is in the White House.
 To operate effectively, the CDC must follow the data – not political whims. A good place to start is allowing an independent review of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC's in-house think tank. During the pandemic, MMWR cherry-picked data about masks and vaccines to make the case for their effectiveness. Three years later, a powerful combination of academic studies, data and common sense indicate that promises about masks and vaccines were oversold and underdelivered.
 The CDC’s vaccine injury monitoring efforts must be strengthened and made more transparent, too. The agency effectively ignored data about vaccine-related injuries that people and health care providers reported through its Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and v-safe. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed that 7.7% of people receiving the experimental COVID vaccine reported requiring medical care – an astonishing statistic of which few are fully aware.
 Finally, Cohen must demonstrate a commitment to medical freedom. It’s easy to look back and marvel at bad decisions made during the fog of COVID. But at the time, those who raised concerns were treated as pariahs and shunned from society. California even tried to deny doctors their livelihood for spreading "misinformation."
 The role of CDC is not to police and shame people who don't follow agency recommendations. It's to give people practical guideposts for health care concerns based on comprehensive and transparent scientific data, and then trust them to make decisions for themselves. The one-size-fits-all approach simply does not work.
 Voters will render judgment on Biden’s handling of the pandemic next November, or maybe even sooner. A USA Today/Suffolk University poll shows 80% of Democrats wish to see Biden engage Kennedy in a debate. To truly turn the page, the next head of the CDC must break from the mistakes of the past. Let’s hope Cohen seizes the opportunity.
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 Pierre Kory, M.D., is president and chief medical officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance.

 P.S I just want to say thanks to all my subscribers, especially the paid ones! Your support is greatly appreciated as it allows me to devote what is often large amount of time I spend researching and writing my posts, so again, thanks. - Pierre
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 P.P.S. My book called “The War on Ivermectin” was published this month and the reviews are literally beyond my wildest dreams. Big shout out to my co-writer Jenna McCarthy who helped make it tight, fast-paced, and un-put-downable (says the reviews, not me :). If any of you have read it and liked it.. please leave a review if so inclined. Link to book below:

Summary: I "gave some guidance" to Dr. Mandy Cohen, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services on how the CDC could clean up its act. Not gonna happen, but still.