Hurricane Helene has a Critical Lesson for All of Us

Recently, the East Coast was hit by a devastating hurricane that swept through Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, with 175 deaths in that region already been confirmed. Furthermore, unlike a typical hurricane, it also wiped towns off the map and was the worst hurricane in North Carolina’s history (with the possible exception of one in 1775 ).
 Since I have a lot of ties to the area (e.g., many people I’m close to live there, and Asheville was one of our favorite spots to go road trips to—and one of my favorite songs is about the area ), I’ve been hearing horrible stories over the last six days over what happened there (both from my friends and readers who have asked me to cover it) and I’ve put a lot of thought into what to say about the events. Eventually I decided it would be best to wait until the Vice Presidential debate was held, as given the magnitude of this unprecedented disaster, it was almost guaranteed the topic would be raised at the debate and by extension would likely make a much stronger case for the profound issues facing our country than anything I could say.

 If you watch this clip, three things should jump out to you.
 •The death and destruction from the hurricane, was an afterthought for everyone there (including the liberal moderators) except for JD Vance. This is particularly extraordinary given that the devastation was concentrated in the highly liberal areas of North Carolina.

•Their primary focus was not the suffering from the hurricane, but rather how those deaths could be used to support their agenda ( the climate change boondoggle ).
 •Many of the claims the moderators made were false and justified by vague statements (e.g., “scientists say” or “the overwhelming consensus amongst scientists”).
 This for context, is almost identical to what we saw those people do throughout COVID, as there was a callous disregard for the devastation of their policies (e.g., the unscientific and unjustifiable lockdowns) and the lives lost from their policies (e.g., from the systematic suppression of early COVID-19 protocols or mandating deadly and ineffective hospital protocols). Rather the deaths throughout the pandemic were only cited when something could be gained from them (e.g., more money or power for fighting COVID).
 These events in turn touch upon a few key points I’ve emphasized throughout this publication which I believe are becoming increasingly important to recognize as we move into an era with a more and more predatory ruling class.
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 Doctor Thyself
 Presently the affected areas are facing a huge number of problems. Two of the key ones are a lack of drinkable water and a lack of medical care. To illustrate :
 Tropical Storm Helene caused severe damage to the water and distribution system for Asheville.
 The city says that extensive repairs are required to treatment facilities, underground and above ground water pipes, and to roads that are washed away which are preventing personnel from accessing parts of the system.
 “Although providing a precise timeline is impossible, it is important to note that restoring service to the full system could take weeks,” city officials say.
 Or to quote a trustworthy friend in the area:
 Mission Hospital in Asheville has been trying to hold itself together like it’s in a television starship battle taking damage.

Generators were the sole source of power in the days after the flood. With water from the city still not possible, pumping trucks have been brought in to satisfy the demand. Ceilings are leaking and crumbling outside of ORs in hallways.

Shifts are constantly running, and workers of all types are being incentivized to stay onsite as much as possible. Fuel trucks have been brought in to fuel staff vehicles at no cost, and the cafeteria is doing the same for weary bodies and brains.

The parent company of the hospital is donating a million dollars to help with relief efforts. Other hospitals were defeated entirely by the rising water. One such case is in Erwin, Tennessee where there was a dramatic rooftop evacuation by helicopter of all staff and patients at Unicoi County Hospital.
 Helping hands are flocking from all over the country. Fire trucks have been seen from as far away as Los Angeles, with EMS and line workers coming all the way from Canada.
 In this publication, I’ve repeatedly emphasized Ivan Illich’s belief that two key problems underlie the dysfunction in American society.
 •People are conditioned to believe they need to be taught to learn (which as discussed here destroys their natural capacity to learn and think critically).
 •People are conditioned to believe they need a doctor to be healthy.
 In turn, while I’d cite a few others as well, I believe Illich was spot on.
 In the case of the second point, by reframing health as a product to consume rather than something you have your own agency over, it creates a situation where there can never be enough medical care, and in turn helps to explain why every year, more and more is spent on medicine (e.g., 17.54% of all spending in America in 2024), yet despite being by far the top medical spender in the world, we have some of the worst medical outcomes in the world.
 Because of this reality, my focus has always been on two things:

 1. Finding a way to practice medicine where minimal external infrastructure is needed for what I do (e.g., I have a small bag which carries everything I need [e.g., DMSO] to address more than half of the medical issues I run into).
 For example, something most people don’t appreciate about our extravagant (resource intensive) hospital system is that it doesn’t keep a costly reserve of staff on hand and has almost no ability to handle a sudden increase ( surge ) of patients (e.g., this is why every year we see news stories about hospitals being overwhelmed by a “disastrous” flu season).
 In turn, during either a pandemic or an infrastructure destroying disaster, it’s guaranteed that the surge capacity of the medical system will be reached. Because of this, there’s a good chance you’ll be on your own. Many of us witnessed this during COVID (especially in the hard hit areas of NYC). Since I knew this was essentially inevitable at the end of 2019, I made a point to learn everything I could about treating COVID on an outpatient basis. Then I spent the next year treating people who would have otherwise required hospitalization (and almost certainly died). In contrast, despite almost every leader in the medical field recognizing outpatient treatment of COVID would be necessary to prevent the hospitals from hitting their surge capacity, every single outpatient option for the treatment of COVID-19 was methodically suppressed by the healthcare authorities (except giving Tylenol or Ibuprofen—which arguably made the infection worse).

 2. Providing people with the information to take care of themselves for the myriad of medical issues that don’t actually require prolonged medical care (e.g., if I have the option, I’d much rather tell someone how to deal with their issue themselves so I don’t need to keep seeing them and feel like I’m taking advantage of them by creating a cycle of dependency or unsatisfactory results).

 Note: a massive (and incredibly profitable) investment over decades was made to enshrine this belief in doctors and hospitals. In turn, one of my biggest questions with COVID has always been why the industry was willing to risk the credibility it relies upon for the COVID grift—as the long term cost of the public losing its trust in medicine would greatly outweigh whatever was made off the vaccines. To illustrate —a large survey published in JAMA found in April 2020, 71.5% of Americans trusted their doctors and hospitals, whereas in January 2024, only 40.1% did—which is earth shattering for medicine. I feel most of my colleagues still do not appreciate the implications of this damage to public trust.
 Because of this, the primary goal of this publication is to promote the Forgotten Sides of Medicine, which I believe can directly help the readers here. For example, I recently started a project I kept on putting off (due to the time commitment required to do it properly)—unveiling the medical applications of DMSO and the abundance of evidence for them. Many of them (e.g., treating strokes, spinal cord paralysis, and Down Syndrome) are understandably mind blowing. However, what’s even more important is that DMSO frequently and safely treats many far more common disabling and debilitating conditions people live with for years (if not decades) to the point they often contemplate committing suicide over them.
 In turn, after I published that article, I’ve begun receiving emails and comments like this:
 Great article . Very useful. Actually reading this is making me interested in returning to doing more research and observation on a surgical topic- the first time since I retired from surgery a few years ago— but I am now interested to watch wound healing / skin graft taking/ ulcer healing with DMSO help. That being said, since you introduced your last article I have been using it with neurologically damaged patients , chronic pain, and patients with autoimmune diseases and at very first response the responses have been very positive- in line with the data you present. As I have explained the data you introduced me to patients and given them the option they are showing intense interest. I am excited to follow these outcomes!
 Note: this comment came from James Miller, a surgeon of remarkable integrity I’ve previously shared the work of here (who after one article was then featured on the national news ).
 Your articles are a blessing to me . I'm post spine surgery #16...10+ fractures, 4 fusions, nerve transfers...6 discs going bad...AS, parathyroid tumor, now gone, (long undiagnosed)...and today, I was utterly miserable. Read your articles, and remembered I have a jar of the DMSO gel. Put it on an hour ago...it's working. God bless you! Words cannot explain the hope I now have.
 Thank you so much !! I have grade 4 chondromalacia and basically no cartiladge left behind the kneecaps , due to a patellofemoral tracking disorder . I strained my knee several days ago and the swelling was significant . I thought I would have to have the fluid drained and steroid instilled . I have had this done twice in the past . I used castor oil first on my knee, rubbed it in, then, 100% DMSO . I iced and rested the knee. I did this two or three times a day . Amazing response!! Better than draining and steroid !! I put some DMSO on my dog’s paraspinal muscles . She has lumbar spondylitis . She was moving better and brought me a pine cone to thank me !!
 Note: 100% DMSO is too strong for many people.
 DMSO is incredible . I suffered two weeks in bed with a back injury...and rose up and walked two hours after applying DMSO. I also have used DMSO many times to treat serious burns...every one of them healed quickly, and with significantly reduced pain. I crushed the cartilage in my right ear by accident, applied DMSO, and the wound was healed in three days, without scars. I have experienced no side effects other than the characteristic odor after use. It should be in widespread use.
 I really admire your work AMD ! I hope that one day we live in a culture where heroes like yourself can share information with out masks or fear of being criminalized, de-platformed or de-licensed. Since your first post on DMSO, I have spent a great deal of time researching the subject and have a few anecdotes to report.
 I have had a large lipoma (fatty tumor) on my arm for many years. It was about 50mm in size (or about the diameter of an egg for your American audience). I used a topical application of 50% DMSO plus curcumin & ginger. I have been applying the DMSO to the lipoma 2-3x a day for less than a week and the tumor has already shrunk to 12mm (the size of a blueberry).
 My wife has had pretty severe knee pain since injuring it 15 months ago. After explaining to her what DMSO was, I applied the same DMSO+curcumin mixture to both sides of her knee. She reported that it relieved her pain even before I finished massaging it in. The following day I asked if gave her a few hours of relief. To which she said, "no". I was a little disappointed, until she smirked back "it wasn't a couple of hours, it hasn't hurt since".
 My husband is 100% disabled Vietnam vet, agent orange. He's got diabetes, neuropathy, torn rotator cuff, bursitis in hips & PTSD. He's in pain all the time despite taking 12 different meds, including 800 mg Gabapentin 4x's/day, Lidocaine patches & diclofenac sodium gel.
 He's had 5 back surgeries, 4 in just the past 4 years:
 2013 - first lumbar surgery
 2021 - cervical neck surgery;
 2022 - lumbar surgery again;
 2023 - re-do of 2022 lumbar because bone didn't heal properly & screws came loose;
 2024 - redo of 2021 cervical because bone didn't heal properly & screws came loose.
 As soon as I read your article I drove to Tractor Supply & bought DMSO gel for animals. I came home & lathered it on hubby's feet, shoulder & lower back & hips. He finally got relief - better than all the other pain meds he's taking! He's cheered up.
 Thank you for telling us about DMSO!
 Note: the first part of this series which focuses on the neurological and circulatory diseases DMSO treats can be read here while the second part which focuses on its use for pain and musculoskeletal injuries can be read here (while the rest will take a bit longer to finish).
 After I read all the comments here and the larger threads on Twitter (where many others shared how DMSO had helped them in the past), the thing I was most struck by was how little awareness exists about what can be done with DMSO (even from people who’d spent their life studying integrative medicine) despite the fact:

•It took the country by storm in the 1960s (e.g., hundreds of thousands of Americans were using it, gas stations advertised they were [illegally] selling it and thousands of studies on it were published).
 •So much interest in DMSO still existed after decades of the FDA outlawing DMSO (e.g., due to it effectively treating chronic pain) that many legislators continually fought for it to be legalized (e.g., multiple congressional hearings were held in the 1980s to address end the FDA’s embargo).

This in turn, speaks to how incredibly effective the propaganda apparatus is at getting people to forget things which get in the way of its business model (e.g., GHB treating insomnia or ultraviolet blood irradiation revolutionizing hospital care and chronic circulatory, infectious and autoimmune conditions). Likewise, it still amazes me that Fauci enacted the exact same playbook on the gay community forty years ago with HIV crisis that he did for COVID, but despite the gay community openly calling him a mass murderer at the time, this time around, they ardently supported him.
 Note: in addition to needing medical self-sufficiency, I also believe it’s becoming more and more important to have water self-sufficiency. This is because water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource, many of the municipal supplies being contaminated with things that harm your health, and because in disaster situations (e.g., this one) you can’t rely upon the grid to give you clean water. For this reason, I previously wrote an article discussing my preferred options for sourcing healthy water (including ones that can effectively filter runoff in a disaster) because I’ve found that is often critical for people’s wellbeing (e.g., a few readers found the bottled water brand I mentioned profoundly improved their health)..
 Disaster Capitalism
 In many ways, the problems we see in medicine are reflective of a broader issue society faces—our society has lost the virtue which created it. Too many view human tragedies as an opportunity for personal gain rather than a call to do the right thing and sacrifice themselves to help their fellow human beings (or other aspects of the world around us). As a result, we have too many in positions of power (e.g., in business or the government) who view their subjects as tools to exploit rather than actually caring about their wellbeing.
 For example, when COVID started, I had genuinely hoped the magnitude of what we were facing would encourage a bipartisan spirit to help the country, but instead it simply made things more divisive because too many in power wanted to use it as a way to expand their wealth and power (best encapsulated by one wise friend saying: “COVID is the Democrats War on Iraq—the unscrupulous profiteering we are going to see over here won’t be all that different from what Bush and Cheney did in there”).
 Natural disasters put many of the points I’ve highlighted thus far in context. This is because the Federal response to them tends to be incredibly inept with the focus rather than helping the people there typically going:

•Enriching organizations profiting from the disaster (who receive most of the aid money despite doing very little to support relief efforts).

•Concealing the extent of the tragedy to avoid making the government look bad.

In turn, those affected by the disaster are typically lost and forgotten. When you track them years later, they have been displaced and lost everything they had (e.g., see this article titled “Five years after the Camp fire, Paradise survivors see a hard future for Maui”).
 Because of this, when the Lahaina wildfires happened, I received a lot of requests from readers there to help bring attention to what the locals were facing, and once I looked at the facts at play (e.g., what they shared) I realized that the situation would likely follow the disaster capitalism pattern. Since I wanted to give them a voice, I did that (e.g., here , and here ), and amongst other things highlighted that:

•FEMA both failed to provide relief supplies to those who needed them and actively made an effort to block locals from helping get the supplies there (which led to boat conveys being set up to do that.
 •The very first thing FEMA did was cut off the public’s access to Lahaina (e.g., with high fences from the highway or establishing a no-fly zone above it—making it impossible for drones to get footage), and as a result, for roughly a year made it impossible to get footage of what it looked like.

•Almost all of the aid went to things that did not help the affected residents of Lahaina, and as a result, despite billions being put in , the basic things they needed weren’t done and they are gradually being displaced and replaced with wealthier residents.
 In turn, I felt there were two particularly important aspects of the story.
 The first is that Lahaina is probably one of the most liked places in the world. So, if they could get away with doing that there, it’s a forgone conclusion the same or worse would also happen to “fly-over country” (e.g., while Biden took months to finally visit and did almost nothing for Hawaii—a heavily Democratic state, he refused to do anything for East Palestine a Midwest city essentially rendered uninhabitable by a chemical waste spill).
 The second was that while the authorities abandoned Lahaina, the local community did not, and as a result most of the critical aid was done by community volunteers and local charities. I felt this was particularly important because in the perilous future we are moving into, a local decentralized model of support is the only thing we can rely upon (which likewise is why I believe the upper class puts so much work into making people be divided and hateful towards to each other).
 To illustrate, here are two largely forgotten stories from Hurricane Katrina (the deadliest hurricane in US history and a truly monumental government screw-up):
 Two days before the storm made landfall, while FEMA was floundering, the [Mormon] church dispatched 10 trucks full of tents, sleeping bags, tarps to cover wrecked roofs, bottled water, and 5-gallon drums of gas from its warehouses to New Orleans and other hard-hit areas. The supplies were distributed in an orderly fashion to people who desperately needed them.
 The Cajun Navy are informal ad hoc volunteer groups comprising private boat owners who assist in search and rescue efforts in the United States as well as offer disaster relief assistance. These groups were formed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and reactivated in the aftermaths of the 2016 Louisiana floods, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, the 2018 Hidalgo County flood, Hurricane Florence, Tropical Storm Gordon, Hurricane Michael, Hurricane Laura, Hurricane Ida, Hurricane Ian, and Hurricane Helene . They are credited with rescuing thousands of citizens during those disasters.
 Note: one of the things that made Katrina such a disaster was that the levees failed and flooded the poorest parts of the city (which is considered to be one of the worst civil engineering failures in history ). Many residents at the time believed that the levees were intentionally detonated to flood the poor areas of the city (e.g., r esidents testified to hearing explosions in front of Congress ) either to clear them out or to divert the flood waters away from the rich areas. While it’s impossible to know what happened, I had a close friend in the special forces who shared with me that on a message board he used, a Navy EOD diver stated he’d gone to at least one of the levees that failed and found signs suggesting an explosive was indeed detonated there.
 Regrettably the dysfunctional FEMA response I just described is holding true for hurricane Helene. For example, this two minute testimony from a resident highlights that FEMA is telling people not to support local relief efforts while simultaneously refusing to help anyone and asking for all the relief money makes the point:

 Note: the key point of this video is the critical importance of donating to local aid organizations rather than large charities.
 Likewise consider this headline :
 A South Carolina pilot who flew stranded Hurricane Helene victims in flood-ravaged North Carolina to safety claims he was told he would be arrested if he continued the rescue missions.
 Many (very frustrated) citizens in turn, are also reporting that FEMA, beyond doing nothing, is prohibiting them from providing aid to the trapped citizens there (while the citizens for days have remained trapped and in desperate need for supplies—to the point looting is beginning to occur).

 Sadder still, many of those who could deliver the supplies (e.g., helicopter pilots) are instead being threatened with arrest (e.g., see this testimony , this testimony , this testimony , this testimony , ), and more curiously independent truckers trying to deliver relief supplies to the area are reporting their tires are being slashed at stops .
 Note: a no-fly zone has also been established (which cannot be bypassed in a drone unless the operating system is hacked), which is particularly egregious in this case since Drones are vital for locating stranded individuals who need help.
 Or to quote Elon Musk :
 Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina.

“The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough.”
 One of the most insightful reports I saw on this subject came from a guy who regularly finds ways to deliver relief supplies to disaster zones (including this one) stated that in 2017 after Hurricane Irma, independent aid was prohibited from by FEMA getting to the Florida Keys. When he finally bypassed the blockade (by going 87 miles at night by boat), he learned that the residents had been told by FEMA to stay inside and that there was limited aid (e.g., FEMA wouldn’t even give them water) because no one besides FEMA wanted to help them (leading them being abandoned) and since they’d lost communication with the outside world so they had to take FEMA’s word on this. Following this, he was able to mobilize the local populace to put pressure on FEMA to allow him to be involved in getting relief supplies. After mobilizing it, he had a remarkable experience which cuts to the heart of the issue:
 I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down to the EOC in Marathon. I was privy to the EOC meeting, BUT was informed in that meeting, that all of the semi trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around and not allowed to be offloaded for distribution by the EOC.

THE REASON they gave us, was that these donations were not from companies on their "preferred vendors list" and that they would not accept them or give them to the residents of the keys impacted by the storm. It was at that point that I realized, this is ALL ABOUT MONEY. These 'preferred vendors" are getting part of the money being released by the state and federal govt for each disaster. In turn, some of the "vendors" make it on the list because a friend gets them on the list, and in return for getting ridiculously outlandish amounts of compensation for the services they render, they give kickbacks.

So accepting outside donations, even though they are on location and can help people NOW, they would rather let people suffer so they can get their kickbacks.
 Note: I’ve also made the strong case that many of the medical charities (e.g., the National Multiple Sclerosis Society ) which exist to help people with a disease (but despite raising vast amounts of money over decades fail to produce treatments for the disease) will actively block promising treatments for the disease as a cure emerging would negate their reason for existing.
 Helene’s Aftermath
 A variety of factors caused Helene to unleash an immense amount of rain, resulting in between 8-31 inches of rain being dropped on the state , which then due to the mountainous geography, was funneled to the population centers (e.g., two river next to Asheville which normally crests a 1.5 feet reached 24.6 and 26.1 feet—heights not seen since the 1791 hurricane).
 For example, one of my friends who put years of work and his life-savings into a business lost most of it to the Hurricane (and then had the rest looted). While that’s tragic, what’s worse is that it was insured, but he just found out his losses won’t be covered—a situation not that different from the people of Maui who’ve struggling to get insurance payouts for their lost homes and businesses (which is being made even worse by the fact FEMA is refusing to give payouts to people who are “covered” by insurance and that the insurance companies are blocking broader settlements from going to the affected victims so they can claim that money ). Similarly, I expect a major issue in the years to come will be the remaining buildings becoming uninhabitable due to water damage (creating mold) but not be covered by insurance, a situation identical to Lahaina (where insurance is refusing to remediate homes the wildfire smoke made unlivable —something also seen with many previous fires ).
 Likewise, this was recently shared with my by one contact in the area:
 [From another contact in the area] The sheer unstoppable power of water is almost unimaginable. I’m used to storms, but the sheer destructive force of what it has unleashed in southeastern Appalachia is jaw dropping.

The isolation of Asheville NC is Dresden-esque. Interstate 40 West at the border of Tennessee looks nearly bombed out where rushing water claimed it. I-26 experienced a similar fate and is still closed on the northbound side.

Power is slowly coming back online in the outskirts of town, but most are still without water. Restoring it will take time. Not only is infrastructure like pipes compromised, entire water treatment plants are destroyed.

53 people have been lost, and the tally continues to rise. Cultural hubs like the River Arts District and Biltmore Village have been completely swamped like never before. Outlying towns like Chimney Rock simply no longer exist, washed away in nearly biblical fashion.
 Sometimes life and the universe pulls back the curtain just a bit to show you just how good and bad things can really get. We’re all a lot more fragile than we’d care to admit sometimes, and our plans can be laughably shrugged off in an instant by the bigger waves of fate

 In turn, many heart-wrenching stories exist from the hurricane. Consider this one recently shared by JD Vance at the debate:

 In turn much of the basic infrastructure is destroyed:

 Likewise, news publications which are more willing to criticize the presidency are airing stories exposing what’s actually happening :
 “They’re afraid. People are getting on edge,” retired Asheville, North Carolina, police Officer Steve Antle told Fox News Digital. “They’ve already had people doing some minor looting in the area. Because there’s no power … so it’s just a free-for-all at this point. There are no traffic signals. There are not enough police officers.”
 In Fairview, a suburb of Asheville  hit hard by floodwaters and mudslides after the worst of Helene Friday morning, residents drove around grocery store parking lots asking others where they got water, gasoline and food.
 Due to the lack of electricity and cell service, locals are unable to communicate to find out where these necessities are. Communication with loved ones and emergency personnel is also spotty, and residents are relying on temporary cell service towers that have been set up in select locations. But outside those locations, there is still no service or roaming data.
 James LaTrella told Fox News Digital he lost his house in the storm.
 “Two giant oak trees fell on our house and took out the whole left side … first floor and the whole left side on the second floor,” LaTrell said. “I actually got sick to my stomach while seeing that. I was in shock.”
 North Carolina locals reported seeing corpses in the water, buried beneath debris and trapped in cars crushed by trees.
 John Nazarovitch, a brewer in Fariview, showed Fox News Digital the remnants of a home that had floated downriver during the storm. Large pieces of metal from the house were wrapped around trees, showing just how strong the current had been.
 In Fariview and other nearby towns such as Swannanoa, Black Mountain, Biltmore Forest and Boone, some residents became trapped in their mountainside homes after roads were entirely washed away by floodwaters, with no way to communicate with their loved ones or emergency personnel.
 Antle said locals have been voicing concerns to the state and U.S. government about the poor state of roads in the mountainous region, some of which are U.S. roads, for years. Now, those roads have been washed away, the retired officer said.
 “It’s just a perfect storm,” Antle said. “I can’t imagine what it’s going to ever look like again.”
 Note: the excuse FEMA has given for their inability to respond to the disaster is a lack of funds (which many believe is due to them having just emptied their budget by spending 640 million on illegal immigrants).
 “It was incomprehensible, what we witnessed, as it relates to the magnitude it was,” he said. “[I]t was truly something that you really can’t even visualize unless you see it.”
 Hundreds of thousands more remain without power and cell service, which has led to delays in locals getting help and trying to get in touch with loved ones affected by the hurricane.
 While nearby highways remain relatively clear for traffic, many secondary roads are destroyed, streetlights are not working and traffic into grocery stores and gas stations is overwhelming across several counties around western North Carolina.
 Note: the death toll continues to rise and is currently at 182 people. Additionally, reports are starting to emerge of large numbers of bodies being found (which suggests the final death toll will be much higher). I presently believe the death count will be in thousands as I am now hearing from people I know there who are in shock from having seen dead bodies “piling up like logs” (e.g., one person I know got out minutes before everything washed away).
 Democracy and Public Relations
 Many are appalled at the fact the Biden administration is doing very little to help the hurricane’s victims (with the few things they have done appearing to be staged photo-ops ). For example:
 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) arrived in Western North Carolina Monday after Gov. Roy Cooper announced President Biden had approved federal resources, but locals in Fairview maintained that they hadn’t seen any federal officials in the area Monday.
 “I haven’t seen anybody from the federal government other than the Army, which is running the helicopters,” Antle said. “I’ve seen lots of out-of-state rescue, lots of county ambulances. I’ve seen lots of state resources, wildlife resources. … But I haven’t seen any federal government. I guess when you have a disaster like this, you imagine the federal government would swoop in, but that hasn’t been the case here.”
 The US announcement of the Tennessee National Guard Task Force deployment to the Middle East has sparked widespread criticism, with many arguing that they would be better tackling the state’s ongoing hurricane disaster.
 Last Thursday, Tennessee's Department of Ministry said that over 700 soldiers would leave their home state later on Saturday to receive training in Fort Bliss, Texas over the coming weeks before being deployed to Kuwait.
 According to the military, the initiative will span a year and is reported to be in support of the US Central Command’s Operation Spartan Shield, where US forces have been defending Israel from potential attacks by Iran.
 In turn, as best as I can tell, the Federal response to Helene only started after Trump and Elon Musk drew attention to it by visiting the area , setting up donations for the victims and delivering aid directly to the community (e.g., Musk has sent hundreds Starlink kits into the area to reestablish the vital lines of communication with the internet—and also make it much harder to control the narrative of what is happening there).
 This is quite extraordinary as we are expected to have a heavily contested election, and many of the key swing states were in the hurricane’s path (e.g., Asheville is one of the main Democrat voting blocks in NC, with Biden’s margin of victory there being 45% of Trump’s victory in the state )—yet they were completely abandoned by the government (leading many to suspect a key goal here is to simply make it impossible for the Republicans in those outlying mountain communities there to vote as we are now months away from the basic infrastructure being restored).
 This in turn, touches upon a broader problem. In this article, I’ve repeatedly touched on the subject of public relations —a fusion of marketing and propaganda which has gradually become the invisible government of the country as most policies people in power want to enact (e.g., all of our pointless wars) can be sold to the public with a well crafted PR campaign. This is immensely frustrating because it’s transformed Democracy from a system where governmental policies are decided based on what the populace wants to one that constantly seeks to manipulate the public into voting against their own interests. As a result, the main restrain on government overreach has switched from being if the people want it to simply if it’s sellable.

Likewise, I believe the core problem in so many industries is that PR has made it much cheaper to create a positive image with the public (e.g., by championing social justice or fighting climate change) than it is to actually earn it by doing the right thing.
 This all began during World War I when the nascent science of propaganda came into being. At the time, using propaganda within a democratic society was immensely controversial as taking away the people’s agency to make policy decisions was antithetical to the nature of what a Democracy was supposed to be. On one end, its proponents argued society had become too complex for the citizenry to know what the correct policies were so it was necessary to delegate those decisions to an “expert class” (and then sell the policies through propaganda). In contrast, the anti-propaganda side instead argued that our educational system must be revamped so that the electorate could understand the critical issues of the day and make the correct decisions on them.
 Ultimately, the propagandists won (as due to the remarkable success Hitler had in Germany with propaganda it was feared the allies would lose without also adopting it). The last vestiges of the anti-propagandists were erased when Obama in 2013 signed a law which eliminated a 1948 law that had prohibited government from pushing propaganda on the American public—a move which I believe kicked government propaganda into overdrive.
 The fundamental reason why propaganda “works” is because we have a monopolized media which will all disseminate the same tailored message on every day (while simultaneously blocking the counter narrative) and as a result, for me, living in America is the somewhat depressing experience of seeing the campaigns be routinely carried out and have most of the people around me fall for them regardless of how absurd they are.
 However, the internet completely upended this, because it made it possible for millions of independent actors to create viral stories that opposed and often dismantled these massive propaganda campaigns. More importantly, since these independent campaigns cost a fraction of what the organized ones cost and can be produced in the blink of an eye, they often outmaneuver the traditional propaganda campaigns, thus making the previous model of government (selling bad policies to the public with propaganda) no longer viable.
 As best as I can tell, the ruling class did not realize how dangerous the free diffusion of information on the internet was to their power, so by the time they tried to clamp down on it (e.g., by allowing the Biden administration to violate the first amendment by threatening the social media companies into censoring opposing narratives), it was too late to stop the tide. Instead, we’ve hit a situation where the propaganda apparatus is in a downhill spiral—since the people are losing trust in the government, propaganda is being deployed more and more to regain their trust, but as more and more people see through it, deploying all the propaganda is accomplishing the opposite of what was intended and instead causing people to lose even more trust in the government.
 Note: all of the above is discussed in further above in this article by the Civilization Research Institute.
 As such, the ruling class has two options:

•Try to double down on their outdated model of control through terror (e.g., increasing the tyranny of the government) and clamping down on all sources of free speech (e.g., Obama created the concept of censoring “misinformation” for the good of the public in October 2016 ).

•Try to switch to the second model of governance (an educated and empowered citizenry which can be trusted to make the correct decisions for society).
 I would argue events like COVID-19, where the experts were catastrophically wrong and all worked together to silence the general public (who were correct) would argue we need to adopt the second model, and in turn, a key goal of this publication is to do my part in contributing to that societal shift.
 Unfortunately, people never like to let go of power, and those in charge are choosing to go with the (ultimately futile) former approach. In turn, I am seeing more and more calls in the left-wing media (and from prominent Democrats) to get rid of the Constitution or at the very least that freedom of speech should permit censoring misinformation and shutting platforms like Twitter which allow free speech (some of which I compiled here ).
 For example, this was one of the most blatant examples I’ve seen recently:

 Note: Kerry, beyond being Bush’s 2004 opponent, was also a fellow member of the Skull and Bones —a notorious secret society which has hundreds of alumni who’ve obtained prominent positions in the government (and which led to the infamous “ Don’t Taze Me Bro ” incident).
 If you listen to Kerry’s speech, it’s clear his side is worried about losing power and are trying to argue that winning the 2024 election will give them a mandate to enact draconian censorship around the world (as opposed to just getting the public to trust them by simply telling the truth). The one thing that confuses me about this strategy is that talking about it openly makes them less likely to win the upcoming election—and to be honest, I’m not really sure why they’re doing it.
 Note: this is similar to how Biden and Harris hiding from the press (along with Harris skipping the primary process and being anointed as the nominee) also has made them less likely to win but they nonetheless have done it.
 Conclusion
 I very much believe we are at inflection point where things could easily go in a very positive or negative direction. At this point, there seems to only be one card left for these people to play—convince the electorate the other side is so bad that it justifies looking past all of the morally repugnant policies being pushed (e.g., previously challenging the constitution would instantly disqualify a candidate). To some extent this has worked. For example, I recently saw a sad video circulating of a left-wing voter gloating over the hurricane eliminating her (deplorable) political opponents:

 In contrast, I believe the thing that will likely decide where things go is the degree to which we can get past the hate the media has fed into the minds of people like the woman in the above video and instead come together. Events like this hurricane highlight how easily things can fall apart if we don’t have a connected network of support to help each other, and sadly, it’s quite likely we will face more of these (e.g., the playbook I described here will likely be used for future natural disasters too). In turn, my hope through highlighting both what’s happening now and what happened in Maui, will provide more productive models moving forward, and fortunately, as the community response shows in these events, most people are not ensnared by the hate and division the media puts forward and instead are willing to do all that they can to help their fellow Americans (in many cases even when it puts them at risk of being arrested).

 For our species to evolve, we need to stop putting profits before people. For example:
•I can’t even begin to word how much suffering keeping therapies like DMSO from the public has done to the world
•The devastation of COVID could have been avoided if government had simply allowed doctors to treat patients with therapies the doctors knew worked.
•As I’ve tried to show in each of these disasters we see a similar pattern—aid people need is kept from them so someone else can benefit from the tragedy).

Fortunately, I believe mediums like Twitter are making that possible (e.g., there is far more awareness on there right about what’s going on in North Carolina and what happened in Lahaina than there’s been for any previous disaster).
 It is very clear that this exposure terrifies the corporate class and ruling “elites,” and it is my sincere hope we are moving to an era where we have leaders who love and care for their people rather than ones who view us as chess pieces that exist to be manipulated. I thank each of you who can help bring awareness to what’s currently happening in the Appalachians and help the people there from the bottom of my heart.
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Winning for losing (part 3 of 3)

PRESENT
 Dr Pierre Kory opened our telemedicine practice, the Advanced COVID-19 Care Center, in February of 2022. We became partners in June of 2022, followed by renaming our practice the Leading Edge Clinic . In the years since than time, we have learned a lot about how to prevent COVID, treat acute COVID, and care for patients with post acute sequelae of COVID (PASC) and injury from the COVID shots. I really don’t want to call them vaccines because, in truth, they are experimental, genetic therapy products at best, and bioweapons at worst.
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 As someone injured by the COVID shots, I’m very sympathetic to patients who become frustrated with the slow pace and not-so-linear path of recovery. At times, they turn in desperation to novel therapies, clinicians and practices which make promises of effective treatment – and frequently charge a hefty sum for their services. Part three of my series on Winning for losing is where I was headed all along. I wanted to make you laugh and smile with stories of small time gambling in part one, and shared my car follies in part two, because when we delve into the misadventures of my patients, it can get pretty dark.
 The Leading Edge Clinic is a cash-payment telemedicine practice, and our fee structure can be shocking to anyone who has only ever paid co-pays for shitty conventional healthcare. Our prices reflect the true cost of delivering quality care, in which you spend a lengthy period of time in a visit with an expert clinician. Our course of care utilizes live, highly trained and knowledgeable Registered Nurses to deliver patient education and perform regular clinical follow ups, rather than Medical Assistants or computer bots. Thanks to Pierre’s relationship with the FLCCC Alliance, we have a very modest pro-bono fund which we can utilize to supplement care for existing patients, and once in a great while, a new patient.
 In this context, I don’t blame a patient when they decide to bet it all on the roulette wheel of treatment. It’s just that, most of the time, it doesn’t turn out very well. One thing I have learned in our care of PASC and vaccine injury, is that ongoing trials of treatment, over time, is what has the greatest long-term benefit. There is no magic cure, in part, because we are living in a world contaminated with spike, and like a lobster trying to crawl out of the tank, as soon as you reach the top, another lobster may pull you right back into the morass. Recovering from PASC and injury by COVID shots is certainly not for the faint of heart.
 A few weeks ago, during my ritual visit to the Ithaca Farmers Market, I stopped at the stand for Christi Sobel and bought four boxes of cards featuring her original artwork. Why would I do that? Because in the last two months, three patients have died, and when they do, I want to send a personal note to the survivors. Caring for PASC and the vaccine injured, and more recently, cancer patients, is not for the faint of heart either.
 I’ll preface the stories below with the assertion that most of the practitioners who these patients went to are “the good guys.” My writing isn’t meant to pick on any of them, but rather to illustrate how much time, effort and money can be expended without clinical improvement for individual patients. This is the strongest argument I can make for the wisdom of limited, successive trials of therapy, with steady, modest gains, as the most successful path forward. All patients’ names are changed to protect their identity, but their stories are true.
 RECENT PAST
 Welcome to Hard Times by Charlie Crockett
 Life's a casino
I'm telling you
And everybody's playing
Boys and girls
women children
Me and you
The dice are loaded
And everything's fixed
Even a hobo would tell you this
 MILLY
 Milly had been a writer before vaccine injury, and made a decent living at it. She was very proud of her sharp mind and financial independence. The shots changed all that, and there wasn’t a single visit with me in which she didn’t shed some tears or offer a few choice words for the rat-bastards who did this to her. If only she could get her hands on them. In my estimation, we were making steady progress, but, as happens sometimes, the incremental improvements only made her hungrier to be completely recovered. The day came when her package of visits was completed, and rather than sign up for another four months of care, she pivoted to a different solution. It was a clinic which promised redemption, for the small price of $20,000. She dipped into her life savings, and put herself at their mercy. They drew blood, tested urine, performed a wide range of studies which I had never before (or since) encountered, made pronouncements about her diagnosis, delivered an arsenal of proprietary pills and potions, and...she got worse. Just like with the slot machines in Atlantic City and a used car dealer on Long Island, there was no guarantee of success, satisfaction, or y our money back .
 She felt depleted, distraught, and humiliated. We didn’t hear from her for several months, as she gathered the gumption to return to us and relate what had happened, asking if we would take her back, while gathering up the pieces of her remaining health and trying again to rebuild some semblance of a functioning life. We did start again, and as we keep on learning, we were actually able to help her regain lost ground. There was, however, a new tension to each visit, because now Milly was $20,000 poorer, so that the cost of each visit, test, supplement or prescription, became a constant source of contention and complaint.
 SUE
 Sue is in her early twenties, and comes from a very modest working family in a Southern state. She has long standing mental health issues which have compelled her to continue living at home with her parents when she would have rather been living on her own. Upon the recommendation of her family’s long-time PCP, she received two mRNA COVID shots; the second one despite adverse reactions and an Emergency Department (ED) visit within hours of the first. Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she suffered a wide range of symptoms, from debilitating headaches, skyrocketing anxiety, chest pain, dyspnea, dizziness, palpitations, POTS (rapid heart rate with position changes and minimal exertion), severe bilateral leg pain, and neuropathy. She spent days in bed or on the couch due to soul-crushing fatigue.
 Her family dipped into their life savings and paid for Sue to travel with her parents to Los Angeles, CA, home to one of two clinics run by AMA Regenerative Medicine & Skincare Inc. , founded in 1999 by  Dr. Alice Pien and Dr. Asher Milgrom. Pierre knows Dr Milgrom to be a talented physician and fine human being; he presented at the first FLCCC Conference in October 2022. AMA focuses on use of five central therapies, which include IV ozone therapy, EBOO/F, and IV therapies, which effectively target mitochondrial health. AMA reports that together with stem cells and hyperbaric oxygen, their treatment has resulted in a speedy and complete recovery for approximately 70% of their patients. Unfortunately, after spending about three weeks in California receiving treatment from AMA, Sue was worse, and headed home with her parents. The center continued to call them for weeks, encouraging Sue to return for more treatment, but her parents had used up what money they had; there would not be another visit.
 Months after this disappointing – and discouraging – trip, Sue and her mother had their first visit with me. It was challenging, because her symptom burden was so severe, and her anxiety so high, that the outline of pathology and treatment which I explained overwhelmed Sue. As I recall, she didn’t start any of the medications which I ordered, and didn’t show up for her second or third visits. At least six months passed, and we heard from Sue’s mother, signing her up again. At that time, Sue said she was now ready to try the interventions which we had initially discussed. Between Sue’s first visit with me, and her second visit six months later, I had begun to learn about Iliac Venous Compression (IVC) or May Thurner Syndrome in patients with PASC or those injured by the COVID shots. With my new understanding, Sue’s presentation was more clearly that of a person suffering from IVC, and we initiated plans to have an MR Venogram to evaluate this. The MRV was positive, meaning it showed severe left iliac venous compression, and we set up an initial telemedicine consult with Dr Brooke Spencer, our collaborating Interventional Radiologist in Colorado. Sue traveled to Colorado, had a stent placed, and returned home, showing excellent improvements over the next weeks. She is still a patient today, and we are steadily addressing the lingering, although significantly decreased symptoms of leg pain, headaches, and cognitive impairment. She has initiated treatment with Sulodexide, which is showing great promise for repairing injured endothelium, while also dramatically lowering microclotting, with less bleeding risk than Eliquis or Plavix.
 FRANK
 Frank is one of the most injured patients I have ever met. He has also spent more money and tried more therapies than any of my patients. Conservatively, by last count, he had spent more than $200,000 on trying to get better. Among the list of physicians he dropped big money with are Dr Bruce Patterson’s team where he paid $1500 per month for Maraviroc, before Patterson dropped the price (as he owns the patent for Maraviroc) to $500 per month. The Maraviroc helped him breathe, but as he reported, “It shrank my stomach to the size of a walnut!” He did countless cytokine panels (Patterson’s proprietary lab), with levels that went up and down with the wind.
 Next he traveled to Panama for stem cell therapy, which he later repeated in the Midwest. Since May 2023, we have offered mesenchymal stem cells and exosomes (MSC-Exosomes) to patients. We replicate the stage two clinical trials of Vitti Labs, which use MSC-Exosomes to treat post-COVID pulmonary fibrosis, administering infusions on days one, three and five. But we also administer nebulizations and nasal administration of exosomes. This is about $40,000 worth of therapy for a third of the cost, because unlike most other practices, we aren’t marking it up 400%. I tried several times to persuade Frank to come see us for treatment rather than the physician he chose in California, but ultimately, he made a Hail Mary pass to Hollywood.
 In Hollywood, he paid $42,000 to have fat cells sucked out of his body, have the stem cells harvested, and then injected back into him. He was in quite a bit of pain after this treatment, and ultimately, it didn’t help. Amidst his many expensive forays into promising treatments, he would pop in and out of visits with me, checking up on the latest developments we were exploring. I can’t say that I did much better than any other practitioner for Frank, although these days I wish he was still in touch, and that he could try Sulodexide (SDX). The anti-fibrotic properties of SDX offer some promise of reducing the pulmonary fibrosis which continued to plague him.
 JENNIFER
 Jennifer is a woman in her mid 30s who lives in the Midwest and has always been a clean-eating, physically active, outdoors-oriented person. The vaccines brought all that to an abrupt stop with persistent chest pain and shortness of breath. She has pursued treatment with many different practitioners, and went so far as to travel to Cyprus to have aphoresis treatment with Dr. Marcus Klotz. The out-of-pocket cost for that treatment alone is more than $10,000, not including the airfare and the cost of food and lodging while in Cyprus. Unfortunately, not only did the treatment not help her get better, but long-term, she thinks it led to her clinical deterioration.
 Dr Klotz is in the ZeroSpike forum which I participate in with about forty other practitioners worldwide. When he was extolling the virtues of his treatment in the group, I challenged him, because Pierre and I have had consistently negative experiences with aphoresis. Patients either get worse right away, or they have neutral effect, or they have some short-lived benefit before getting worse again. I can’t say that no one ever benefits from it, but when you have negative feedback like this right in front of you, with patients under your care, it makes a stronger impression than a stranger’s testimonial.
 After I raised questions, Marcus, to his credit, qualified his statements to say (I’m paraphrasing here) “Well, there are more than forty methods and machines used to perform aphoresis. Most of them don’t work very well and some make patients worse. We are using The Big Green Monster, a machine which is no longer produced, very technically challenging to learn how to use and maintain, and we only have them in our clinics in Germany and Cyprus.”
 Okay, that sounded more consistent with our clinical experience.  During one of her most recent visits, Jennifer filled me in on some of the details around her experience in Cyprus. “I have a bone to pick with Marcus. When I was in Cyprus, I asked him for data about the treatments that they were giving, and what the mechanisms of action were. He tapped his head and said, ‘It’s all up here.’”  She went on to note that she herself was a scientist, and told Marcus point-blank,“That is not how science works Marcus. You need to keep track of data and be able to present the factual evidence of your clinical successes, and failures, mechanisms of action, and the rationale for treatment.”
 INSPIRATION

 Sister Calista Roy
 When I was in nursing school in the early 1990s, one of our assignments was to identify a nursing philosophy which we found compelling, and write about it. At the time, because I was working full-time and going to school full-time, it felt like a poor use of my time, and not immediately relevant to my practice. Over the last thirty years, I have slowly come to appreciate the value of this exercise. The nursing philosopher I chose to study was Sister Calista Roy, who taught at Boston College and developed the adaptation model of nursing .
 Originally, Roy wrote that health and illness are on a continuum with many different states or degrees possible. More recently, she states that health is the process of being and becoming an integrated and whole person. Roy's goal for nursing is "the promotion of adaptation in each of the four modes, thereby contributing to the person's health, quality of life and dying with dignity".  These four modes are physiological, self-concept, role function and interdependence.
 I think the most important insight of her philosophy is this: health is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but reflects the individual’s ability to adapt to various environmental stimuli. Health exists on a continuum and is constantly changing based on the person’s ability to respond and adapt to changes in their environment. A healthy person is one who can successfully adapt to physical, emotional, and social challenges, achieving a level of balance and well-being across different dimensions of life.
 This is not just a matter of semantics. As more and more of us struggle with chronic health challenges, it is a very practical matter to reframe our definition of health to include adaptability and support a positive sense of self. Last week I spoke with two patients, both far along in their recovery, which has been noteworthy to family and friends. Yet those patients think they have made no progress. Until they have reached 100% recovery, they think that they are unwell. A shift in perspective will serve them better.
 OUR PATIENTS
 I will be the first (maybe the second, because the patients will say this first), to say that not every patient story of treatment with us represents a resounding clinical success. None of us was taught in school how to treat injury from a bio-weapon! What I can also say is that every one of the twenty people who work in our practice cares deeply, has suffered financial losses, has endured persecution for acting on their/our convictions, and is mission-driven.  This is not just a job for us. It is a calling.
 When patients discontinue care with our clinic, we don’t hold it against them or take it personally. As Pierre has said to our team many times “If I was vaccine injured, I would also be doing everything I could to recover.”  We don’t blow ozone up people’s asses, we don’t have an HBOT facility, and we don’t do aphoresis.  We do continue to learn from our own research, and from our patients themselves. We have provided stem cell and exosome therapy to a limited number of patients, more than half of whom have benefited from it.  We continue to add services for our patients. Aly Burt, RN is skillfully providing the Safe and Sound Protocol to help stabilize the vagus nerve in patients with dysautonomia and adrenal fatigue. We continue to advance our treatment of patients with safer anticoagulation which actually heals the endothelium and more effectively breaks down the fibrotic changes directly and indirectly provoked by the spike protein. Dr Sid Lawler is our Medical Director of Adjunctive Cancer Care , who brings her twenty years of clinical experience as a hospitalist. She is leading our participation in a five year study using repurposed supplements and prescription medications, in conjunction with a keto diet.
 Our scheduling, nursing and medical team includes people who have PASC or have been vaccine injured themselves, and whom we have recruited to join our team. Our experience has been that from the front end to the back of the house, people who have gone through what you are going through are often in the best position to be empathetic and provide insightful and informed care.  As someone who is injured by the Covid shots, I would say the same about myself.  At the end of the day, we are all looking for a path to winning from losing.

 A Burning Soul, glasswork by KG
 P.S. I’m more than halfway through Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth by Anonymous (Author), Zoey O'Toole (Editor), Mary Holland J.D. (Editor, Foreword). I hope that you have your copy and are reading too, so that you can join me in a live book discussion in the near future.
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Summary: Our work at the Leading Edge Clinic, the casino of care, and reframing health


Major Policy Shifts Against The mRNA Platform in 2024

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER
 This week a nurse reached out with disturbing descriptions of some major changes she has witnessed inside the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) system.
 OSUMC s a large and comprehensive healthcare organization, with a significant presence in Ohio and a strong focus on research, education, and patient care. It is a massive institution with over 23,000 employees, including:
 Over 2,000 physicians

 More than 1,000 residents and fellows

 Nearly 5,000 nurses

 Lets start off with this screenshot of a webpage from OSUMC’s website which provides information to the public as to where they can get Covid-19 vaccines. Check out the highlighted sentence at the bottom of the page:

 Wait, what? Ohio State is suddenly no longer offering the Covid-19 vaccine to any of their employees but they are happily offering to inject them into the public? How can such a policy be justified? Why was this change in policy done and why was it done so quietly?
 Let’s get this straight. Ohio State’s leadership is now making an institutional decision that employees should not be offerred access to any Covid-19 mRNA vaccine. I am (pretending to be) confused. I mean, if the vaccines could protect patients from being infected by staff members and they were safe to give to staff members, why wouldn’t you do everything possible (like a mandate) to ensure they receive them?
 The only possible reason for the action above is that either OSUMC leadership recently discovered that the vaccines: a) do not work or b) are not safe. I think you would agree that, of the two possible answers, the only one that makes sense to explain this abrupt change in policy is B) they are not safe. I say this because if they were safe but instead just didn’t really work very well, Ohio State would not have the incentive to divorce themselves so abruptly and strongly from the recommendations of our benevolent federal government. I believe such an action would pretty quickly and negatively impact federal research funding by the NIH. It is my belief that agency’s money kept the nations 126 major academic medical centers in line throughout Covid, as those CEO’s and Deans are well aware that NIH retaliation in terms of rejecting grant funding if they “dissent” is real and happens (inflated reimbursements from the gov’t was another one of course).
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 I asked the brave browser AI, “why is Ohio State Medical Center no longer offering Covid-19 vaccines to its employees?” Two sentences jumped out:
 “Based on the provided search results, it appears that Ohio State Medical Center did offer COVID-19 vaccines to its employees at one point .”

 “Without further information or clarification from Ohio State Medical Center , it’s difficult to provide a definitive answer on why they may not be offering COVID-19 vaccines to their employees.”

 So it must be the case that Ohio State leadership somehow found themselves a stronger financial disincentive to subjecting employees to Covid-19 vaccine injection. Where would such a disincentive come from? Answer: lawsuits. I also suspect that fear of worsening staff shortages from disability and/or death further disrupting operations played a role as well (as you will learn below).
 This new policy action (taken very quietly) is absolutely dam breaking to me in terms of progress towards the truth about the mRNA platform getting out to the public. It is also appears ethically reprehensible, i.e. the institution made the decision to keep jabbing the public with a toxic and lethal vaccine while becoming aware that same vaccine is either exposing them to unmanageable legal risks and/or is disrupting their operations by negatively impacting the health of their workforce. Welcome to dystopia.
 Next, lets take a “little deeper look under the hood” as to what is going on at OSUMC. I think, after reading the below, it is not an overstatement to say that their system is altering on many levels. I would not want to be a patient there, solely based on what I learned from this nurse. Sorry not sorry OSUMC.
 What follows is a para-phrased summary of a long telephone conversation I had with my newest nurse informer. She describes the beginning of a sea change in both perspective and open discussion around the “vaccines” that has occurred within OSUMC over the past 6 plus months. At the same time, she tempers that reality by later noting that many staff still have no ability to associate these changes to the vaccines (even when themselves have fallen ill). Although I can’t take credit for the start of that change in awareness, it is what I have worked tirelessly toward for the past 3 1/2 years. However, hold on to your hats folks because what is happening in hospitals in regards to the quality of medical care right now is downright disturbing.

 Here are the most potent pieces of information I gathered, in no particular order:
 An increasingly noticeable number of doctors and nurses and staff have “died suddenly,” “died unexpectedly,” or have become disabled and ill from injuries and/or cancer. The youth and health of these employees have been increasingly remarked on amongst staff (not to mention the deluge of previously healthy and/or young patients they are now presenting with severe and/or atypical (for that age) illnesses. Remember, cancer used to largely be a disease of aging.

 Consequently, the suspected role of the vaccines in most of the deaths is more of an open secret and of growing concern among staff there. To wit, Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) also recently stopped emailing out obituaries of prominent or veteran employees when they die. Why you ask? Because of both the number of them as well as the comments posted by employees that began openly calling out the likelihood that the vaccines were a cause (i.e. they would point out the dates of the decedents vaccination and their death). Unsurprisingly, she also told me OSUMC would quickly censor any posts of that nature (despite containing no foul language, personal attacks, or threats). From a phone conversation we had:

 “Yes, this is huge. Lots of internal cases of death and disabilities. They quit posting internal obits for staff. The comments underneath them were showing that people knew why everyone was dropping dead for baffling reasons. So those went away.”
 A number of physicians (the most noticeable of them being superspecialists who cannot be replaced easily), besides dying, are also leaving due to disability or retiring due to health reasons.

 She is hearing of a growing number of lawsuits by family members of these physicians against OSUMC for the mandates which led to the deaths or disabilities.

 One lawsuit was filed by a widow of a physician who dropped dead suddenly. Interestingly, she demanded an autopsy with staining for spike protein and the heart was found “loaded with spike.”

 Outcomes of organ transplant patients have been plummeting since the mRNA campaign. It got so bad that, in a complete reversal from two years ago where the programs had insisted on both donors and recipients getting jabbed, at OHSUMC they apparently no longer require or recommend mRNA vaccines to recipients and may be prioritizing organs from unvaccinated donors. Whoa. Apparently one of the reasons is that recipients were developing new “systemic” conditions that were not typical or expected in transplant patients previously.

 Minutes of administrative and policy committee meetings are no longer openly available on the internal OSUMC website and are instead only available if you “sign in” (presumably so they know who is looking up these minutes).

 When physicians die suddenly, this creates a huge mess operationally due to the fact “open notes” in the electronic medical record (EMR) can’t be closed and the chronic, ongoing care of large numbers of often long time or highly active patients become disrupted. In her words, “dealing with the practice of a doc who died is a mess - dealing with open notes, ongoing patient care, patient calls, and maintaining plans of care.”

 Many of the disabilities and deaths of physicians were discovered by this nurse while she was following up on notes that were “left open” in the EMR. She would then be told by the staff about the injury, death, or disability of the health care provider who started the note. Many of the illnesses or disabilities were described to her as being due to neurological issues - either overt neurological deficits or cognitive decline/impairment and even dementia (AMD comprehensively compiled the data showing the negative cognitive impacts from the mRNA vaccines here ). Further, adding the “abandoned” patient panel to healthier and still working physicians in that specialty was causing further strains. This is important because cognitive impairment is one of the most common side effects of the COVID vaccines, something not only shown by the data but also what I bear witness to each day in clinical practice.

 Cancers are exploding, causing massive strain on oncology services. Particularly glioblastomas to the brain as well as to the spine. Also, case managers for the large number of cancer patients were stating they were not retiring due to the patient volume in need.

 Even worse, cancers are being missed at high rates given that the “index of suspicion” in younger patients is not appropriately high enough. As a result, doctors are missing cancers as evidenced by retrospectively “obvious” signs and symptoms in the record.

 Applications for both short and long term disability have risen so much they have created backlogs and delays that staff have noticed and are more openly talking about. The often young ages of the staff applying for disability has not gone unnoticed either.

 She knows of several colleagues either declining or dying from cancer but are forcing themselves to work in order to provide for their family.

 [ A Midwestern Doctor , who helped me on this story, asked me to note that we both know numerous doctors who have been become impaired or disabled from the COVID vaccines, many of whom then had to enter an early retirement early, and sadly, quite a few others who died prematurely from a vaccine side effect. Many doctors are still in denial about this, but many others are getting red-pilled because the damage is undeniable and can’t be ignored since its directly affecting them—with this newly awakened crowd including many physicians who have begun speaking out about the vaccines and I will discuss in an upcoming article.

The key point AMD wanted to share here is that the COVID vaccines were sold with the most aggressive marketing campaign in history, so every possible tactic which could be used to sell them was. One of these was using healthcare workers as the initial cohort to promote the vaccines since it would be easy to manipulate them into fully vaccinating, the public trusting their endorsement, and them being less likely to publicize the side effects of the shots. Because of this, doctors were some of the most highly vaccinated Americans, and in turn had some of the highest rates of injury. As such, we expect the decline in medical care see in Ohio is not an isolated example. ]
 Issues Among Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Case Managers and Physician Trainees
 The following reports of the diminished skill levels of new trainees are truly troubling given their likely consequences - they threaten the quality of care we expect to receive in an American hospital. I suspect the growing “fear of hospitals” which began in Covid will not be helped by the following so I apologize in advance:
 Training standards and skill/knowledge levels have noticeably declined as well. She blames this on the younger providers having been trained during Covid with insufficient patient contact/volume and limited face-to-face communications (ipads were overly used to communicate during Covid). The younger nurses and doctors are “terrified of making a decision” due to their lack of knowledge and experience (which I would argue may be a good thing).
 [ AMD asked me to emphasize that many medical trainees had “virtual” rotations during the pandemic or skipped in-person lectures that taught basic doctoring skills during the pandemic and that all the medical educators AMD queried felt this was devastating to the COVID trainees future clinical competency ]

 One senior physician specialist was so alarmed with the skill level of his fellows in training that several of them were discharged from the training program. (ED: As a former Director of a pulmonary and critical specialty program for several years and throughout my career at a large teaching hospital, I had only ever had one fellow have to go through “remediation” but he made it to graduation. To not make it through remediation means they were completely unqualified, although, if there were more than one of them, it likely was not their fault that they proved not up to the job).
 In her words, “the senior physician had first made a policy of not allowing first year fellows or residents to be consulted before the attending ( Ed: this is not how patient care has traditionally been delivered in a teaching hospital ). Several fellows did not make it because they were so bad. They were prevented from seeing patients and this was done abruptly with nobody arguing.”

 New, inexperienced and poorly trained patient case managers are being hired, often working remotely and consistently demonstrate poor knowledge and skill in extracting the relevant and needed information from the records. She often discovers during chart review that the patient has a different problem and needs a different solution. In her words “they are hiring new grads with new certifications, they don’t know shit, cant even pronounce diagnoses correctly, and can’t read a chart. Many are contractors where I don’t know who they are, where they are from, and they don’t know what they are doing…”

 Nurses: “Nurses are dumbed down, know very little, skill sets are poor. Patient errors are up, charting is shitty, typically among the young nurses, basic charting is deplorable compared to new grads in the past. This is occurring despite the electronic medical record being designed to guide your charting… not turning the patients enough, neuro checks are poor, notes have immense copy and pasting with lots of errors, and they are not charting enough.”

 Nurse Practitioners: “The nurse practitioners are not looking at patients, and they are not picking up on patient issues that develop.. They come from “fast track” NP programs with clinical training times that are totally insufficient. They don’t know shit. Plus, the nurses going into NP programs have only a few years of nursing experience (Ed: typically NP’s have extensive nursing experience prior to entering an NP program).
 Now she also emphasized that the problems with nurses and NP’s preceded Covid, “traditional NP programs had required extensive experience in cljnical settings but no longer do so now. It might work if the undergrad programs were in a science-centric major. That is often not the case and it shows.”

 “Covid made it worse by fast tracking for needs rather than assessing for nurses aptitude and reasonable expectation of success for the quality of care a patient receives.”

 “The young nurses are not reading up on their patients enough at beginning of shift. They do not communicate well to other staff in preparation for their patients procedures. Shift report is a garbage-in thing with inexperienced ones. They don’t realize what is truly important to know.”

 She then talked about the mRNA campaign and mandates in context of what she has observed in her career by saying “The other thing I’ve always been aware of and leery of is that we work in a system that does not ensure our exposures to highly dangerous “things” and that is cumulative. I know some cases had to have been due to exposures that were brushed off, but set the body up for disaster once jabs and boosters especially were introduced to the body.”
 When I asked her to be more specific as to what she meant, she replied, “There are often no lead aprons available to protect staff during procedures with radiation exposures. Chemo protocols are ignored - exposure to chemo agents forbidden out of cancer center. Tent/aerosolized chemo on floors that do not have protocols for that. Disregard in bed placement to unit limitations and appropriate staff. Things like that ongoing for many years and I believe is cumulative.”

 Now, although some of the above suggests that the staff is “awake,” she tempered against this interpretation with the following statement, “at the same time, many staff do not openly acknowledge or appear to connect illness and disability status, let alone cancers, to “vax” or boosters. Not everyone is clinical, trained, reads and researches. There is still an enormous amount of trust in the System. And most do the traditional treatments for cancer. They do not know of ivermectin, mebendazole, etc. Trust is a hard horse to get off. It’s almost a cult like environment. The cult you never recognize is the one you are in.”
 FLORIDA SURGEON GENERAL RECOMMENDS AGAINST THE ENTIRE mRNA PLATFORM

 Please contrast the quiet, cravenly change of Covid vaccine policy by Ohio State with that of Florida’s Surgeon General, Joe Ladapo MD, PhD. Joe is someone who has been a colleague of mine during Covid as he had consulted me for my expertise on ivermectin a while back, and more recently someone who I call a friend.
 Recall that his first courageous and appropriate federally rebellious policy action occurred back on September 13, 2023, when he provided  guidance  against COVID-19 boosters for individuals under 65 and younger.” This week, on Thursday, he decided to protect everyone (not just employees and the medical centers) by issuing a strong recommendation against all Covid mRNA vaccines, citing both lack of safety and lack of efficacy. Incredible, ethical, courageous. There is still a “real” physician working in public health. Check it out, from this bulletin posted on Thursday, Florida’s Dept. of Health (FLDOH) wrote:
 FLDOH is reminding health care providers of the importance of  remaining up to date with current literature related to COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, and the importance of providing patients with informed consent .

 He then calls out the absurdity of the (P)FDA approval a few weeks ago of the most recent Pfizer and Moderna vaccines given they target the omicron variant “which is not causing a significant number of infections.” Plainspoken. Commonsensical.

 He then reminded the public that no clinical trial data for the boosters was available to support such an approval. He also plainly states that it does not target the current variant which is causing 37% of infections at this time.

 He lands another blow when he wrote, “the federal government has not required COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to demonstrate their boosters prevent hospitalizations or death from COVID-19 illness.”

 Additionally, “the federal government has failed to provide sufficient data to support the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 boosters, or acknowledge previously demonstrated safety concerns associated with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, including:
 prolonged circulation of mRNA and spike protein in some vaccine recipients,

 increased risk of lower respiratory tract infections, and

 increased risk of autoimmune disease after vaccination.

 And then, in the middle of the bulletin in all bold:

 If only the rest of the country’s Surgeon Generals and Health Departments could have put in the work studying the mRNA platform the way Joe and his team did. I see this action as a rebellious ray of sunshine in a bleak, totalitarian public health landscape.
 URUGUAY
 My dear friend, Dr. Hector Carvallo of Argentina, reached out to me this week because he said that a group of Uruguayan doctors wanted to consult with me and he wanted to know if he could give them my contact. Know that Hector is the “Pierre Kory” of Argentina or more accurately, I am the “Hector Carvallo” of the U.S (or maybe Paul Marik is).
 Anyway, of course I said yes, and a doctor who I had previously met with on zoom a couple of years ago wrote to me as follows:
 “Hello Dr. Kory, My name is José Arigas, I'm an orthopedic surgeon in Uruguay. I had the chance of talking to you in a zoom meeting two years ago. During the last month our country has witnessed the stories of three soccer players who had cardiac issues, one of whom died. This has been an eye-opening event for people.
 I have tried talking to my colleagues but it's useless, they don't want to see what is happening. I would like to know if there is any diagnostic approach to prevent sports-related cardiac problems in vaccinated people.I appreciate all the work that you have been doing, giving Medicine the place it deserves.”
 I later learned the names of the players: Juan Izquierdo (he died on 8/27/24), Alejandro Isabella (collapsed with an arrythmia on 9/9/24) and Diego Lezcano (suffered an arrythmia at home on 9/11/24). Basically, in just over 10 days, three Uruguayan footballers collapsed or died. Lezcano, who arrested at home is still on a ventilator and was found to have a dilated cardiomyopathy. Three professional soccer players from Uruguay collapsing over a ten day period has apparently started to “awaken” the general public but not the doctors as per Dr. Arigas. Shocker.

 All I could do was send him a link to this paper below by Peter McCullough and Nicholas Hulscher where they propose a risk stratification protocol to try to identify vaccinated athletes at risk of a cardiac event.

 UK MEDICAL COUNCIL DROPS CASE AGAINST DR. TINA PEERS

 Another major, positive event happened this week concerning my friend and colleague, Dr. Tina Peers from the UK . She is an outspoken physician who did early treatment for Covid and called early attention to the harms of the vaccines. Like me, she specializes in treating Long Covid and Long Vax and has become a valuable colleague given her long standing expertise in Mast Cell Activation Syndrome which commonly befalls these patients. Unsurprisingly, her Medical Council accused her of misinformation and not comporting with standards of care etc. However, unlike me who lost my three Board certifications a few weeks ago, her case was.. dropped this week! Apparently, the Council did not have a desire for a public hearing where she was going to call up her vaccine injured patients to testify on her behalf. Perhaps this too might represent the beginning of a sea change in that regulatory authorities will start to end the persecution of expert Covid physicians?
 Since COVID started, I’ve been doing everything I can to help get the word out on the dangers of how its been handled and help patients who were hurt by it—which leads to me never being able to get to everything I want to. I sincerely appreciate your support of this Substack and what you’ve made it possible for me to do.
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 P.S Similar to the above, I previously wrote a series of posts I wrote which I titled “Nursing Reports From The Front Lines Of The Vaccine Catastrophe.” Those posts contained innumerable details of events occurring during the mRNA vaccine campaign within a major health care system which I obtained from a senior, veteran ER/ICU nurse who was fully awakened to the Covid mRNA platform’s dangers. Here are the previous posts if interested:
 Reports from the Front Lines Of The Vaccine Catastrophe Part 1

 Reports From Front Lines Of The Vaccine Catastrophe Part 2

 Reports From Front Lines Of The Vaccine Catastrophe Part 3

 Reports From Front Lines Of The Vaccine Catastrophe Part 4

 Reports From Front Lines Of The Vaccine Catastrophe Part 5

Summary: Major Covid mRNA policy reversals and awakenings occurred within a major U.S health system, a large U.S state, a South American country, and in the UK. The dominoes are starting to fall.


Cancer: adjunctive care

For nearly six months, Pierre and I have been seeing patients for adjunctive cancer care. In one week, as of 8/12/24, our adjunctive cancer care will be augmented Dr Sid Lawler, an internist with more than twenty years of clinical practice. The Leading Edge Clinic is one of five practices nationally participating in a five-year observational study sponsored by the FLCCC Alliance, evaluating the clinical benefit of a ketogenic (keto) diet, repurposed supplements and prescription medications in treating cancer. This intervention, an integration of a keto diet with layered therapy, is based upon the groundbreaking research of Dr Paul Marik and his protocol . Pierre is putting the finishing touches on a detailed four-part Substack series on this topic. In the meantime, I’m going to supply a focused update on what I’ve learned so far from our current patients.
 DIET AND GLUCOSE MONITORING CHALLENGES
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 About fifty percent of my patients have had some kind of difficulty with the keto diet. For starters, we are using the Libre3 continuous glucometer sensor, which costs $80 and, unless a person is diabetic, insurance won’t cover it. The value of the monitor, especially in the first weeks and months of treatment is invaluable, because it gives patients real-time feedback about the glucose spikes which result from different dietary choices. Some patients can’t get over the fact that the sensor uses a small needle, and remains in place for two weeks. If they get really sweaty in the hot weather, it may not stay attached. Some older patients are technically challenged and not up to downloading the app to a phone which provides continuous reporting on their current glucose levels.
 Our target goal is a glucose of 50-80 ng/dL, and that alone scares some patients and their family members. They have long been told that if their glucose gets below 70 ng/dL they should drink some juice or eat something, because a lower blood sugar is considered life-threatening. The truth is that as we move away from simple carbohydrates (carbs) and our bodies learn to happily use ketones for fuel, we can think and feel just fine with a glucose of 50 ng/dL.
 There are the patients who are underweight when we have our first visit, because they have already started chemotherapy, radiation, and/or immunotherapy and are dealing with decreased appetite and nausea. Limiting them to keto options doesn’t necessarily make sense, so we are instead guiding them in harm reduction: e.g. avoiding processed foods, sugary beverages, and simple carbs. Simple changes such as the order of eating can help tremendously: i.e. eating leafy greens first, then proteins/fats, then starches, and then fruit.
 There have also been family members who are on speed dial and ever-ready to take the patient out for White Castle or McDonalds, because “you deserve it.” In part, this reflects that the patient has come to us because of a different family member who is diligently researching and aches to save their loved one’s life, but if the patient her/himself isn’t as committed, there is only so much we can do.
 VITAMIN K2
 Dr Marik’s protocol advises the use of a Vitamin D3 / K2 combination when high-dose Vitamin D3 is being used. I have previously written about my clinical observations re: compounding factors which promote and perpetuate microclotting in our post-acute sequelae of COVID (PASC) and COVD vaccine-injured patients. Vitamin K2 is one of those factors. In one of my first followup visits with a patient who is a retired nurse, I didn’t get my first sentence out before she said “I’m not taking any more of that Vitamin K2 you ordered. My infusaport has been working fine for a year, and as soon as I started taking the Vitamin K2, it clogged up from clotting. No more!” I didn’t object, and we discussed the other factors to consider when taking high-dose Vitamin D3 which help manage calcium levels: 30 minutes of weight-bearing exercise (e.g. walking) daily, 250-500mg of Magnesium daily, and limiting, or stopping, the intake of dairy products due to their contribution of excessive free Calcium.
 One challenge here is that some patients are too weak or fatigued to walk thirty minutes a day. If someone has $6,000 to purchase a Juvent , I think that 20 minutes a day on the Juvent is a fair approximation, but this is beyond the budget for most. When D3 and K2 are in the same supplement, one can quickly arrive at a daily intake of more than 1000mcg of K2, and these are levels at which I have observed PASC and vaccine-injured patients get stuck with stage/grade 4 of 4 microclotting. I’ve communicated my concerns to Dr Marik, and there is some agreement that separating Vitamin K2 from Vitamin D3 intake is reasonable. In this way, a patient can plan for 100mcg of K2 daily, or 800mcg weekly.
 RESEARCHING FAMILY MEMBERS
 Pierre and I both have encountered many patients and family members who are diligently researching cancer treatments, and bombarding us with messages that reference articles and studies which promise good clinical results from any number of supplements and prescription therapies. There are 256 repurposed drugs and over 2000 nutraceuticals that reportedly have anti-cancer mechanisms.  One cannot treat a disease using over 2000 medicines. Very few of the long list has reliable, or extensive, clinical or in vitro evidence. (In vitro is Latin for “in glass.” It describes medical procedures, tests, and experiments that researchers perform outside of a living organism. An in vitro study occurs in a controlled environment, such as a test tube or petri dish.) Our approach follows Dr. Marik’s protocol, which relies on those therapies which have the widest and deepest evidence base in both efficacy and known safety.

 Telling the social media “experts” apart can be difficult
 While we try to be clear with patients and their family members about what we do and don’t provide in our adjunctive care, we still encounter a lot of pushback. E.g. patients encounter the X posts of physicians like Dr William Makis who make claims re: his ability to treat cancer with repurposed supplements and prescription medications. He states “We have proposed a ‘first in the world’ protocol!” It would seem he hasn’t heard of the FLCCC Alliance, or Dr Marik’s protocol which was published in... August of 2023 . Dr Makis isn’t doing the right thing. The best example I can give you is that he promotes the use of Laetrile (Amygdalin), derived from the seeds of Apricots. On X he posted “Bioactive compounds are a crucial part of any "Alternative Cancer Treatment" strategy and Apricot fruit and seeds are a reasonable addition (nothing even remotely controversial about it).” https://x.com/MakisMD/status/1784557179975942564 He makes quick work of dismissing concerns that Laetrile is a cyanogenic glycoside—as in, it contains cyanide. If you read Dr Marik’s protocol, you’ll find Laetrile listed at position #45 under Recommended Against . In 2015, a Cochrane systematic review failed to identify any studies of Laetrile which met their inclusion criteria .
 DISMISSIVE ONCOLOGISTS, OBEDIENT AND FEARFUL PATIENTS
 Thanks to Dr Marik and forward thinkers/researchers/writers such as Thomas Seyfried, Otto Warburg, Jane McLelland, Travis Christofferson, Jeffry Dach, Nasha Winter and Jess Higgins, we now understand that a combination of keto diet and repurposed drugs can target cancer stem cells and increase both the safety the effectiveness of modern Oncology’s primary tools: chemo, radiation, surgery and immunotherapy. For patients who are working with an Oncologist who doesn’t dismiss adjunctive care, the length and number of treatments can be decreased, with fewer adverse effects. My experience so far is that at best, Oncologists tolerate patients’ used of repurposed therapies up until “the real treatment begins”, and then direct them to cease all adjunctive therapies. In his Forward to Dr Marik’s protocol, Dr Justus Hope writes that proactively adding repurposed drugs as early as possible can help prevent cancer stem cells from regrowing the tumor into a more resistant and sometimes indestructible form. Chemotherapy and radiation target about 10% of active cancer cells, but miss the other 90%, and do not address the stem cells which give rise to more cancer. It’s comparable to the way mowing the lawn actually makes the grass grow more. Most of the repurposed drugs which we are using in our adjunctive therapy target the cancer stem cells.
 CROSSOVER OF CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
 We’ve treated more than 6,000 patients for acute COVID, PASC, and COVID vaccine-injury since we opened our practice in February 2022. It turns out that the expertise we have developed during this time is invaluable to our delivery of adjunctive cancer care. The spike protein of COVID illness and vaccines has profoundly altered the inner universe of our bodies. We have good reason to believe that the spike protein is often at work behind the turbo cancers which are emerging. Understanding how to diagnose and treat the sequelae of spikopathy, including mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), microclotting, dysbiosis, neuropathic, cardiovascular and pulmonary pathologies, makes us more effective at treating cancer in the current contaminated environment, where spikopathy and its impact on the human body is rampant.
 As we learned to use layered therapies to treat COVID, PASC and vaccine injury, we are also learning to use layered therapy as adjunctive therapy for cancer. Importantly, the clinical options are safe, gentle, often economical, and can be used together with current conventional approaches. In both cases, it has been necessary to challenge the pre-existing and economically supported assumptions, choosing instead to follow the revelations of existing, if rarely cited, science. We have a lot of work to do, and a long way to go, but I feel confident in the integrity of the practice we have built, and in the pathway that Dr Marik’s protocol has provided.
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Summary: A six month appraisal of what I've learned so far