Solution Series: CURES USING NEAR INFRARED (NIR) LIGHT AND ULTRAVIOLET BLOOD IRRADIATION (UBI)
‘masks are trying to make a comeback.
despite the absolutely staggering amount of data refuting the idea that they work to stop any kind of respiratory virus (or even bacteria), it just will not go away.
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible. —Richard Feynman
Part 1: Near-infrared light treatments
I read this excellent, heavily referenced book to prepare this post. It has 3600 Amazon ratings averaging 4.5 stars. It contains technical information but is well-written for those who are not technically minded. You don't need to learn about wattage, mitochondria, nitric oxide, or cytochrome c oxidase to enjoy reading it. If you decide to get an infrared light, you must read this book. The Kindle version is $2.99.
Author Whitten recommends certain red lights, but Sauna Space, which sells the red light sauna that I use, is not at the top of his list. I respect Mr. Whitten’s opinions, but as always, make your own decisions.
A chart showing the electromagnetic spectrum follows. The left side is the short, high-frequency waves with far more energy, while the right is the long waves used for communication. The narrow visible light band is in the middle; ultraviolet and infrared are on either side of this. Exposure to these two wavelengths improves health.
Even though ultraviolet (UV) barely penetrates the skin, its “UV-B” part stimulates vitamin D synthesis. In contrast, near-infrared (NIR) passes two inches into the body—even into the brain. Depression, anxiety, and seasonal affective disorder may be relieved, along with much more.
The following is a magnified part of the top diagram:
The curve above is the spectrum emitted by Sauna Space’s infrared lights. The parts of the visible and near-infrared spectrum that promote health are shown in orange. Thousands of studies back this claim.
Mr. Whitten supports this: “Based on the bulk of the research, you want: 630-680nm (the optimal healing spectrum of visible red light), 800 to 880nm (the optimal healing spectrum of near-infrared), or a combination of both.” Sauna Space’s bulbs cover these sweet spots. Its bulbs are powerful enough that you can be up to three feet away and still get strong effects. A four-bulb setup is $1500.
Far infrared produces heat. The graph above shows this under the curve to the right of the orange area. An enclosed space is needed to make this work best.
Warming has separate, beneficial effects. Any holistic doctor will tell you that when you sweat, you detoxify. Research on 2300 Finnish men using saunas showed that their lifespans were extended. They averaged at least 14 minutes four days a week. This was an observational study, so it is suggestive but not conclusive.
In contrast, thousands of studies support dozens of healthy effects for the near-infrared and red light shown in the dark and light orange areas above. These radiation effects are far more well-established than the benefits of heat—and you do not have to cook yourself at 160 degrees.
Whitten tells you what works best. He says, “99% of the red light therapy products being sold in major outlets online are a waste of money… Virtually ALL of these devices—even the ones that cost hundreds of dollars—are grossly underpowered, too small, and ultimately, ineffective or very time-consuming to use, or both.” Some of his recommended lights are under $500.
He also writes that optimal exposure to near-infrared light may be shorter than what is best for a sauna. Depending on your device, only a few minutes every other day may be optimal for your IR exposure. In contrast, 20 minutes four days a week at 160 to 170 degrees Fahrenheit might be best for heat. Ari may be correct, but usage precision like this is beyond the interests or inclinations of most people—including me.
Ari Whitten’s book describes how NIR treatment benefits:
Injuries (sprains, strains, cuts, burns, fractures, whiplash, etc.). He says to use it as soon as possible.
Sleep enhancement/melatonin production.
Noninvasive body contouring: “Research has shown that LLLT [low-level laser treatment, a related modality] is effective in reducing overall body circumference measurements of specifically treated regions, including the hips, waist, thighs, and upper arms, with recent studies demonstrating the long-term effectiveness of results. The treatment is painless, and there appears to be no adverse events associated with LLLT.”
Medical syndromes:
Traumatic brain injury
Spinal cord injury
Peripheral nerve injury
Painful diabetic neuropathy
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
Cognitive performance and memory
Improvement of osteoarthritis
Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism
Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue
Enhancing recovery from exercise with increased muscle gain, fat loss, performance, strength, and endurance.
Regrowing hair in men after hair loss
Speeding up wound healing
Increasing energy levels
Decreasing inflammation
Improving eye health, including age-related macular degeneration
Improving cognitive performance
Ari’s tips for light usage in his own words
Many light devices come with a door-hanging kit. If you choose to use that, you’ll be standing (or sitting in a chair) next to the device. Many people do it this way. I personally almost always use mine while lying down. I position the lights on the ground and lay next to them either on my side, back, or front to treat the targeted area. I just find it more relaxing (than standing) to lie down while doing it.
Mostly, I tell people they can use these things for 10 or 20 minutes a day, and it’ll have major benefits and will be extremely unlikely to have any ill effects.
My hunch is that optimal treatment times are probably once every other day to once per day at the most. I personally do it every other day, because that’s what I believe will turn out to be optimal.
A number of studies … have shown that by overdoing the dose, you negate the benefits. If anything, the research indicates that smaller, more conservative doses are superior to very large doses… I know some people who have used red light therapy for decades and believe that it’s very hard to realistically overdo it in a way that negates the benefits…
Moving further away than about 3 feet from the light (as a general rule) and you’ll get little to no effect on anything below the surface of the skin. (And that’s using a powerful light. Many lights won’t provide effective doses beyond just 12” away.) …The sweet spot is generally between six and thirty-six inches.
Why does it work?
The fundamental reason that red and near-infrared light [Yoho note: and ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI), see below] have so many incredible benefits on our health is because they are correcting a deficiency. We should be getting plenty of red and near-infrared light from the sun, but since we’re not, we can apply a device in a targeted way to give us that light “nutrient” and get profound benefits from it…
While most other wavelengths of light (such as UV, blue, green, and yellow light, etc.) are mostly unable to penetrate the body and stay in the layers of the skin, near-infrared light and red light can reach deep into the human body (several centimeters, and close to 2 inches, in some cases) and can directly penetrate the cells, tissues, blood, nerves, rods and cones of the eyes, the brain, and into bones. [Yoho note: UBI permits deep penetration using the other method I describe below.]
Ari concludes
Today, research into the power of red light to improve health and treat disease is really gaining momentum. We are learning that red and near-infrared light therapy can benefit virtually every system of the body and can even improve the way you look—it can help you to shed inches of fat, reduce the signs of aging, regrow hair, increase the results you get from your workouts, reduce pain, speed healing, boost hormonal health, and lower inflammation.
Red and near-infrared light therapy is offering a new, completely safe, and noninvasive alternative to various anti-aging skin surgeries, Botox injections, and more abrasive chemical peels. And for combating skin aging, red and near-infrared light is an extraordinarily powerful tool.
After you get one of these lights, you can immediately start using it to: Increase your energy, make your skin healthier, get rid of cellulite, speed up fat loss, improve muscle recovery and athletic performance, improve mood and cognitive function, increase muscle size and strength, speed healing from injury, and improve metabolic and hormonal health.
Whitten tells you which lights he recommends. Most manufacturers give customers 15 percent off when using his affiliate code, which more than reimburses them for the book. Whitten is also paid for each purchase--a conflict of interest. To his credit, he discloses this, and his sincerity shines through for me. See what you think.
Part 2: Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UBI) bent my thinking
This consists of drawing blood and running it through a vial that is transparent to the ultraviolet-A (320 to 400 nanometers) that is used for UBI. The blood is then replaced back into the body. The first studies were on dogs that were purposely infecting with staph bacteria. The researchers treated their entire blood volume, but they all died within a week.
After several years of murdering dogs, the experimenter accidentally used only a tiny amount of blood from one of the animals. It survived, and the infection was cured. This result was replicated thousands of times in humans, and UBI evolved into an accepted therapy.
Only about sixty cc of blood is used currently. It is drawn out of a vein, mixed with heparin so it does not clot, and passed through a transparent quartz chamber called a “cuvette.” As this happens, ultraviolet (not infrared) irradiation is shone through the blood and then replaced into the body. Ultraviolet is on the far side of visible light from IR; see the top spectrum diagram.
The inside of the cuvette has specially designed protrusions that create turbulence and push the blood to the sides of the transparent device. Since UV wavelength penetrates so minimally, this is needed to maximize the radiation contact with blood.
Because ultraviolet penetration of human tissues is so minimal, this clumsy procedure is necessary to expose the blood to enough of these wavelengths to produce clinical results.
UBI is now available in most major US cities. The machines only cost about $5000, so the procedure should be only a few hundred dollars. Most clinical results occur after one or just a few treatments.
Invisible Cure is heavily referenced. The author spent twelve years traveling and interviewing many doctors. During this time, he went from being a disbeliever to owning a clinic and promoting the therapy.
Hundreds of thousands of patients have been treated in the 80 years since UBI was invented. Over a thousand studies have been published, and about 500 US doctors now use it. Virtually no harmful effects have ever been reported from UBI, and the efficacy rate is 60-80%. Responses have been seen in sixty diverse conditions.
Disorders that have been successfully treated with UBI
(From Invisible Cure.)
David Minkoff, MD, legendary wholistic physician: “All of our Lyme, cancer, chronic fatigue, M.S., and autoimmune disease patients receive it, and I get one every week because it improves immune health and athletic performance.”
From Africa, a case of advanced rabies: “Rabies is always fatal unless there is an intervention… The [day after the first treatment there were] signs of recovery. Another two treatments were administered within the following days… [and] he made a full recovery."
Reports of cures for cancer, tachycardia, shingles, asthma, infections, chronic pain, MS
Inactivation of snake venoms
Cures for pneumonia (viral and bacterial), peritonitis, polio, botulism, biliary disease, rheumatic fever, eye infections, viral hepatitis
Clinical Depression relief
Inflammatory and osteoarthritis
Heart disease, including vascular disorders
OB/GYN: reduction of miscarriages and stillbirths, increased fertility, success with preeclampsia, PID with sepsis
Viral infections: influenza, COVID, SARS, MERS, H1N1 viral pneumonia, viral hepatitis, Epstein-Barr, polio, viral iridocyclitis, uveitis, retro-bulbar neuritis. Shingles pain is almost always reduced after one or two treatments.
UBI studies include
Thousands of hospitalized patients were treated with UBI from the 1930s through the 1950s. Many of the records are extant, and the findings support efficacy.
A 2016 review of UBI by Michael R. Hamblin of Massachusetts General Hospital described the treatment of multidrug-resistant gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria in patients at risk of death from sepsis. He also treated Covid and pneumonia. He and his colleagues produced over 350 peer-reviewed studies.
UBI has been studied in treating pneumococcus, staphylococcus, streptococcus, and other microbes. Treatment groups recovered 5-7 days sooner. Measures of blood health improved, including an increase of nearly a third in red blood cell formation.
Chronic active hepatitis with cirrhosis study: survivorship improved
Acute rheumatic heart disease: success in 22 consecutive cases
Tuberculosis study of 222 hospitalized patients: 100% cure rate for the group with standard therapy plus UBI
Bacterial infections, 40 studies from the 1940s to 2002: osteomyelitis, strep, staph, E coli, nosocomial “superbugs,” pneumonia, meningitis, typhoid, Lyme
History
Emmet Knott was a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer. He started experimenting in 1923 and patented his treatment in 1927. The first human experiment was performed in 1928 to treat hemolytic streptococcus. It was the same bacteria injected into dogs in the original experiments. The human patient was near death from a septic abortion. She had chills, high fever, abdominal pain, and a foul-smelling vaginal discharge. After UBI, she recovered rapidly. Other successes followed.
The 1920s were before antibiotics. Infectious disease was widespread. Heliotherapy (sunlight) was standard practice for tuberculosis. Dr. Walter Ude used this and claimed a nearly 100% cure rate for erysipelas, a superficial strep cellulitis.
Knott spent decades promoting UBI; by the 1940s, there had been 25 trials. Many studies were done in hospitals where the record-keeping was the best. The results were staggering—the procedure saved lives. Even today, many disorders that do not respond to drugs improve with ultraviolet blood irradiation.
The American Medical Association (AMA) concealed and sidelined UBI.
Morris Fishbein ran the AMA and was the chief editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) from 1924 to 1950. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he tried to purchase the rights to various treatments. If the owners would not sell, he labeled them quacks. As UBI was gaining ground in many hospitals, Fishbein offered Emmet Knott $100,000 (about 1 million dollars in today’s dollars) to buy the rights to the device and perform a study supporting UBI. Knott refused.
In those days, Fishbein supported tobacco companies’ claims that their products were healthy. In return, they advertised in JAMA. Fishbein approved slogans including “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette” and “Just what the doctor ordered.”
[Then, in1953,] the Congressional Investigation Committee determined that… twelve alternative treatments were actively conspired against by the AMA and organized medicine. It castigated the AMA for its dishonesty and conspiracy against non-orthodox treatments. Specific rebukes included in the Fitzgerald report had this to say: “There is reason to believe that the AMA has been hasty, capricious, arbitrary, and outright dishonest”… “Behind and overall, this is the weirdest conglomeration of corrupt motives, intrigue, selfishness, jealousy, obstruction, and conspiracy that I have ever seen.”
Do you see the patterns? Fishbein was willing to promote cigarette smoking as healthy, and tobacco companies continued this marketing for another half-century.
Despite its promise, Fishbein also discouraged light therapy. After he was labeled a fraud, he was hired by a tobacco company.
Rockefeller’s attempts to rule healthcare began during this period. He discredited holistic methods and promoted treatments that made money and could be controlled. None of these had the almost universal applicability and near-panacea qualities of UBI. Many died because the knowledge suppression limited available therapies.
It was mass murder—eugenics. But compared to the open war during the deployment of Covid and the “vaccine,” it was an amateurish, innocent era.
How does UBI work?
It theoretically destroys DNA in the virus’s and bacteria’s nuclei, preventing replication. Red blood cells are not vulnerable to this because they have no nuclei. White blood cells do, but they are a tiny minority. Even with the cuvette’s internal protrusions mixing the blood and presenting more surface area to irradiation, some estimates are that only .05 percent is exposed to the light. How could treating such a small amount of blood work so well? No one knows.
How many treatments are needed? Between 1933 and 1952, Knott’s therapy was used for thousands of patients. Many had only one treatment and recovered. Polio, acute hepatitis, pyogenic (pus-producing) infections, pneumonia, tuberculosis, pelvic inflammation (associated with pregnancy), and septicemia have all been cured after only three or four treatments.
Yoho editorial
I am stunned by how well both UBI and NIR light treatments work. The claims about each nearly mirror the other, which may mean they do the same thing. Ultraviolet blood treatment is invasive but requires far less exposure time than infrared. My strong impression is that UBI is far more effective than NIR.
Ari’s theory is that near-IR’s profound effects is likely due to our sun deprivation. UBI probably has impacts for the same reason. Our bodies are so starved for even a minimal exposure, that when we get it, dramatic improvements ensue. And we feel fantastic.
I felt sick after learning all this. My ladder has been leaning against the wrong wall my whole medical career.
NB: I did not read the primary literature, and much of it is observational. Nevertheless, the evidence favoring these treatments is credible.
Selected references
See the end of my post HERE for more, including a Mercola podcast about Sauna Space’s infrared systems. Mercola is so enthusiastic that I wonder if he has a financial interest. I believe what he says, however.
Low-Level Light Therapy: Photobiomodulation, Hamblin et al. (2018). This is a medical text.
www.InvisibleCure.com is about UBI
Persistent Spike Protein Syndrome: Rapid Resolution with Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation 09/27/2023 by Dr. Thomas Levy
Appendix: How UBI is performed today
From Ken Dillon’s Healing Photons, The Science and Art of Blood Irradiation Therapy ( 1998).
Sixty ccs of blood [about one percent of the total blood volume] are drawn and mixed with 500 IU of heparin in a 60cc syringe. A 250 ml saline bag is attached to a cuvette. After an appropriate volume is discarded, the blood is mixed into the saline (making it about a third blood; other protocols use only 20 percent). The cuvette is placed in the UBL machine, and the drip speed is set to 10ml/minute. The blood mixture returns to the patient after it goes by the light in the machine. It takes about 30 minutes.
Parting shot: A few snarky comments
Ari Whitten uses jargon to describe how light “charges the cellular battery.” His description makes sense and is referenced, but I think it is irrelevant to a patient, clinician, or casual student like me.
You may disagree with my assessment. But you may be smarter than I am, or maybe you are starstruck by “scientists.” I am not; I am contemptuous of them based on the lies they have told us over the past decades and how easily they have been bought.
I see the world through the lens of a 1900-era doctor. I am trying to learn what works by observing patients and listening to others—empiricism. After the frauds I’ve witnessed, I am contemptuous of academics, the bribed journals, and their “randomized controlled trials.” I do not give a damn about theories or mechanisms, either.
In our post-science era, only experience is clean; only empiricism remains. To dismiss patient stories as “anecdotal” is a baldfaced globalist lie.
If I don’t understand something after studying it, I quickly label it false. I have felt academic medicine was fraudulent for most of my career but have only recently have understood why. Here is my explanation from Butchered by “Healthcare” (2020):
Three “Blue’s Clues”—practical heuristics—will help you decipher anything.
1) The updated Golden Rule is that those with the gold make the rules, so learning the funding source explains a lot.
2) If you do not follow the reasoning, someone is likely lying to sell you something. You are as smart as the storyteller, so do not let them fool you. This applies to financial advisors and lawyers as well as to medical studies. You do not need to be an academic to judge complex data—in fact, learning too much detail obscures the truth.
3) Controversy, confusion, and contradictory evidence about small numbers prove that whatever it is does not work. Do not fall into the trap of believing “reasonable people disagree” or “the science is developing.” Always remember Rule 1—follow the money.
The following are examples of ideas that I quickly dismiss. First is Ari quoting another source:
“Thus, we feel justified to assume that the [red/NIR] irradiation upregulates ATP turnover by reducing the viscosity of the nanoscopic interfacial water layers which seem to control the efficiency of the mitochondrial nanomotor…
Based on their findings, the researchers of this 2015 study suggest that it may be due (partly or mostly) to how light affects the water viscosity in the mitochondria and allows for easier rotation of the ATP synthase pump.”
This refers to a fashionable recent theory. I heard enough gibberish like this in school, so give me a break now.
The following is interesting. Although Whitten cites references, I remain doubtful.
A recent study has actually found that other organisms—including mammals that are biologically very similar to humans (like rodents and pigs)—have now been shown to be capable of taking up chlorophyll metabolites into their mitochondria, and using those metabolites to capture sunlight energy and amplify cellular energy production! The research suggests that some animals can use these chlorophyll metabolites to speed up the rate of energy production and increase the overall volume of ATP produced by fairly large amounts in many cases… Here is a chunk of the abstract from this fascinating study… “Sunlight is the most abundant energy source on this planet. However, the ability to convert sunlight into biological energy in the form of adenosine-59-triphosphate (ATP) is thought to be limited to chlorophyll-containing chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms. Here we show that mammalian mitochondria can also capture light and synthesize ATP when mixed with a light-capturing metabolite of chlorophyll.”
With all the stories we must now ignore, these ideas seem like prime candidates
PEOPLE DO NOT FREAKING LISTEN (DFL), EVEN WHEN THEIR LIVES ARE ON THE LINE
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I’m at a funeral of a friend who drank himself to death.
I was not the only one who warned him. Alcoholics are notorious deniers and have decades to save themselves before their liver goes. At some point, they have nothing left to do but die.
Jim signed up for hospice, and they killed him within five hours using intravenous sedatives.* Hospices are paid a fixed fee for care that can last between a few hours and a month.** For my friend, all they had to do was make his bed, start an IV, put his body on a gurney, and wheel it to the morgue. It is a profitable business model if you have a taste for it, and Jim knew the score because he was once a nursing home administrator.
*This is a common enough practice with COVID patients, but he did not have that.
**This is close, but not exactly how it works.
The following might be TMI (Too Much Information). In California, physician-administered intravenous drugs for suicide were frowned upon until recently. Terminal patients had to somehow swallow 100 secobarbital capsules (or their contents mixed with syrup) through dry mouths and then struggle to avoid barfing. Although this medication was invented in the 1930s, Valeant Pharmaceuticals recently managed to re-patent it. They charge $3000-$7000 for a fatal dose that should cost only a few dollars.
As I reflected on my friend, I realized that our relationship was the story of my life. Even when I was prancing around my office in a white coat seeing patients, they were nearly all already sure what they needed. Thousands of people passed by me, and they mostly ignored whatever I said.
I do not advocate blindly following anyone's words or knowledge. Everyone must come to their hard personal truths. But if you listen only to your biases, you are playing Russian Roulette with your health—and everything else. Although a lot of what physicians believe is wrong, and cynicism about them is justified, ignore them entirely at your peril. Changing your mind is painful, but dying is worse.
I am not a sage, a guru, or an original thinker. All my insights are derivative of others' work and hard-won after years of dogged study. Any art I bring is simple synthesis, and I share everything I learn in real time. This endears me to some but is hard on those closest to me. I am an acquired taste for most.
And so I am a Cassandra. My failures include the following:
I was willing to torch my relationship with my kids to warn them about the COVID vax, but I had little influence. My wife knew the score but refused to tell them anything. They took the jab several times each and are finally smelling the rat. My prayer is that they all received placebos or near-placebos. The chances of this were 199/200 each time they spun the wheel, but by the end, they would have been safer if they each had open heart surgery. It is on me if they are infertile or die young of cancer, heart disease, or neurological problems.
Three of my close friends dropped dead within a week after getting the vax. They thought my warnings were political and paid the price.
I have known one dear friend for fifty years. He did an athletic feat so difficult that his friends put it on YouTube. That night, he had a massive stroke that forever destroyed his speaking ability. He had recently been "vaccinated," and clotting is the hallmark of jab injury. By now, everyone with eyes and a brain who watches TV sports knows that cardiovascular stresses increase these risks. Like nearly everyone else, my friend DFL to me.
Another friend was diagnosed with systemic cancer that may yet kill her. She refused to supplement vitamin D until I insisted her doctor test her level. It was near zero. We have dozens of studies, including one with 26,000 patients, that prove higher D levels decrease the chances of cancer, heart disease, and other harms. Mercola asserts that people with D levels over 60 never get cancer. Search the subject yourself, starting HERE and HERE. Recently, my friend had another D level of 130 ng/ml, and her primary doctor commanded her to stop taking it. Optimal is supposedly 60-100, but her's is identical to unsupplemented Florida lifeguards. My friend is now paying attention to this box-checking idiot but DFL to me.
When I was in practice, I advised a women in her mid-20s to use Skyla synthetic progesterone (progestin) impregnated IUDs for birth control. I learned later that all progestin products, particularly birth control pills, even the tiny doses from IUDs, significantly increase women's chance of getting breast cancer.
The package insert for Skyla says the hormone is gone after three years and recommends replacing the device. I told this girl that the safest course would be to take it out and get a copper-7 IUD such as Paragard. Although this was first used fifty years ago, a Pharma company somehow re-patented it and now charges us $1200 (it is far cheaper in other countries). Alternatively, this woman might leave the Skyla in place as a passive birth control method after three years have passed. Copper ones are recommended for up to twelve years, and I suspect the expired Skyla would also continue to work for a prolonged period. I hope she is listening, but I doubt it.
When I was prescribing hormones, most women ignored me, saying they "heard somewhere" that these caused cancer. This is wrong except for 1) synthetic progesterone and 2) if estrogen is given without progesterone for those with a uterus. When I told patients that hormones decreased Alzheimer's disease, improved intellectual performance, and reduced hip fracture risk, it did not convince them. Only when I told them testosterone was the best weight loss drug we have ever had did they occasionally start to listen. Download Hormone Secrets HERE to learn more.
John is among the savviest and most skeptical people I have ever met. He is having his fourth bout of COVID and feels terrible. I fear his three jabs damaged his immunity. I would hate to lose him, and since he is 76, he is vulnerable. I will recommend that he see Dr. Pierre Kory (DrPierreKory.com), who would likely prescribe daily ivermectin long-term. John DFL about the damn vax, and he probably will not listen now, either, but I have to try.
What about you, dear reader? Before you deleted THIS post, did you buy a gun, or did you not freaking listen? Think about the UK, Australia, and Canada all tightening their gun laws. In World War II, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were rounded up and shipped to their deaths because they had no firearms. The US is the only place in the world where gun rights are still intact.
I recently wrote that replacing legacy media using our email lists is the only way to survive, and I published how to do it HERE. This had only 26 comments and was not reposted. One good friend—who is otherwise a flexible thinker—told me he needed absolutely no writing advice, thank you. These skills, not your content or research, get you read. I wrote about the objective standards for good writing HERE.
As far as I could tell, my other readers DFL either. Did you put your contacts into a Substack account, and are you composing an introduction for them? Have you joined the revolution, or are you keeping your head down and pretending you are invisible?
My final example is offensive to many. When I was twenty, thirty, or even forty, I had no idea that certain people in their sixties could effortlessly see through everything I did and often even predict what I would say before I said it. This magic is possible because some of us have life experiences that are double or triple those of younger people. I say "some of us" because our group, like yours, is packed with cretins who have lived the same Groundhog Day over and over their whole lives.
So if you have a much older friend who offers advice, listen carefully. He may have solutions to your problems at his fingertips. But it is your life, and we must each chart our course and make our own painful decisions.
Thanks to Chris Bray for the DFR (don't freaking read) acronym. I copied your idea.
As always, my disclaimer is that I am retired; this is not medical advice, only informational commentary. I cannot act as your doctor.
The rest of this post is a chapter from Butchered by "Healthcare" about ways we can influence others using big Pharma's strategies. Tony Robbins has similar ideas HERE.
INDUSTRY SEDUCES DOCTORS
Physicians, medical schools, and professional organizations have no… excuse, since their only fiduciary responsibility is to patients. [Their] mission… is not to enter into lucrative commercial alliances with the pharmaceutical industry. As reprehensible as many industry practices are, I believe the behavior of much of the medical profession is even more culpable.
—Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
How could physicians have allowed this to happen? No doctor I know started with the idea of money above patients. We all wrote that essay in school about how we wanted to save the world. But we are now pawns of moneyed interests, and we often betray our patients’ trust.
Physician training is brutal, and our expectations are high. Most of us have little income through our mid-30s, and we often take out huge loans. We may be responsible for spouses and children. Everyone around us seems to be squeezing a fortune out of healthcare: older surgeons, radiologists, hospital administrators, and even the lawyers suing us. We want to claw our way up the pay scale.
The best marketers on the planet are spending billions of dollars trying to get us to channel whatever resources we control towards their companies. We know this, yet we still connect with our patients, inspire their trust, and try to do our best. They are dependent on us, especially the sick ones, and this makes us responsible for all consequences.
I am by turns reverential and contemptuous of my peers. Some are true mensches. This Yiddish word means they are honorable, modest, and outstanding mentors. These real physicians are with us still, and you will hear their angry and sorrowful voices here. Others sacrifice their patients’ health to make more money.
Most of us are somewhere in between. We are trying to make a living in a system where the industry has rendered the science murky. Most of our misdeeds are not intentional, and few of us admit to ourselves that we ever take advantage of patients. We are blind to our faults, but to the patient on the receiving end, it is a moot point.
Doctors imagine their scientific training and professionalism allow them to walk through this jungle without bias. But we are profoundly vulnerable, the more so because we believe little can sway us. Nothing excuses us for ignoring patients’ best interests—not fatigue, confusion, ignorance, or even cowardice.
Salespeople begin our seduction in medical school, where they supply free food. Gangs of them later invade our offices. The corporations teach them the “three Fs of sales:” food, flattery, and friendship. Relationships are everything; the sales reps occasionally even use the fourth F. The target rarely understands what is going on, and the profits from blowing up prescribing are enormously larger than corporate marketing expenses.
Gifting has a considerable effect. Accepting a single pharmaceutical industry-sponsored meal produced higher rates of prescribing. The more expensive meals had bigger effects. Doctors who accept money prescribe brand-name medications twice as often. Recipients of industry funds write more costly prescriptions. A JAMA review (2000) entitled “Is A Gift Ever Just a Gift?” looked at 538 studies about lectures and gratuities sponsored by drug companies. Gifts transformed physician behavior. How could they not?
An analysis at Worstpills.org, published by the Ralph Nader group Public Citizen, concluded that this situation produces staggering overprescribing. In 2018, US patients filled 4.19 billion prescriptions, over 13 per person. Since many of us take no medications, the rest are consuming a freakish quantity.
How can presents have such a profound effect on professionals? The answer lies in “influence theory,” a foundational field of psychology that corporate marketers have weaponized to boost sales. Any time we give a gift or favor, substantial leverage occurs. This is “reciprocity.” It seems obvious, but we are easily fooled.
People who help you have the favor returned. Turning down gifts is antisocial, and we think of those who do not give back as “moochers.” Larger presents make a bigger difference, but small ones can be powerful as well.
Reciprocity is likely a fundamental evolutionary survival trait. Giving and receiving meals with strangers locks in relationships. In the past, this allowed a tribe or person to support others during hard times when starvation loomed. Food, from sandwiches for office staff to lavish dinners for doctors, is one of the most potent weapons in the corporate drive to increase drug and device sales.
Outside medicine, business people recognize reciprocity. They scramble to gain an advantage by delivering favors, even as small a consideration as holding a door. The impulse to return gifts is reflexive and powerful. This is unlike negotiated exchanges.
Restaurants that give free samples of food can make purchases seem irresistible. Drug companies provide samples of expensive drugs to doctors who then gift them to patients. The process bonds everyone to eventual purchase—which is often painless because insurance pays.
At one time, Hare Krishna’s followers were handing out flowers at many US airports. This worthless gift often triggered an automatic contribution. The beggars would pocket the money, and the travelers would throw the flowers away. The Krishnas would then pick them out of the wastebaskets and reuse them. Another example: restaurant tips significantly increase when the waiter leaves candy with the check.
After reading about influence studies, I understood why drug companies give away all that plastic junk. Besides reminding us of brand names, free pens and coffee cups start reciprocal relationships. Later, dinners, trips, and even substantial research grants may be available. A few prescriptions of stratospherically priced drugs will pay for nearly anything. Congress recognized how potent this is and banned large presents for physicians—yet loopholes still abound.
Industry representatives overwhelm busy doctors with these influence techniques. Reciprocity or returning favors is only one type. Others include:
✪ Authority (if the physician leaders do it, it must be right)
✪ Liking and identification (what a nice drug rep, he plays golf just like me)
✪ Social proof (my competitors are doing it)
✪ Scarcity (the product is nearly gone, buy or prescribe it now)
The best reference for this process is Dr. Robert Cialdini’s Influence (1984). This book has been regarded as a bible of sales by generations of business people.
We idolize celebrities, giving them credit for almost anything, even sound judgment. The companies flood TV, movies, and the Internet with their endorsements. These combine authority, liking, and social proof. For example, Bob Dole helped create a new category of disease, erectile dysfunction. In 2002 Kathleen Turner discussed rheumatoid arthritis on Good Morning America and directed listeners to a website. She did not disclose that she was working for Wyeth, the manufacturer of the rheumatoid drug Enbrel. Cases like this have been in the news for over a decade.
Ninety-four percent of US physicians accept drug and medical device companies’ gifts. Most of us only receive a few dollars a year for an occasional sponsored lunch at medical meetings. But twelve percent of US physicians get paid for research—or sham research—and the money is substantial. According to ProPublica, the total industry gifts to physicians were over $2 billion a year in 2018, including gifts, meals, speaking, travel, and consulting. They did not count research grants, but openpaymentsdata.cms.gov did. This website said the total was $9.35 billion for 2018 alone. You can look up how much each doctor received on either website.
There is now one pharmaceutical sales representative for every five doctors in the US. They call the big prescribers who like and use their drugs “whales.” Companies often pay them to lecture about products at meetings. Hawking physician credibility like this has built many a summer home.
Jerome Kassirer, former editor of the NEJM, described all the payoffs in On the Take (2004). Some consultant physicians get free trips to Florida, some get $1000 for attending one-day meetings, and some get paid for allowing their names on ghostwritten articles.
Psychiatrists receive more money from corporations than any other US specialty. Many hide the payments. Lisa Cosgrove studied the highly influential psychiatric diagnostic “bible,” the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV and V). She reported that three-quarters of the authors had financial ties to corporations.
Pharmaceutical companies know which of us is prescribing each medication. Here is how they find out. Although pharmacies will usually refuse to sell the names of doctors who prescribe, they will sell their Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) numbers. The American Medical Association (AMA) then sells the doctor’s name that matches each number back to the corporations. The companies find out precisely how much medication each physician prescribes. This allows them to pressure doctors to sell more and target those who are small prescribers or who do not use their products at all. Including this, the AMA made more than $56 million from database sales in 2018.
I know a family physician who gets a free dinner nearly every week. He recently had his housewarming party catered by a drug company. Specialists usually control more sales, and they often get the most. Everyone thinks this is harmless, but it is not.
Other industries criminalize this kind of behavior. For example, the Securities and Exchange Commission has clear rules about disclosure when raising money for investments. An investor needs to know conflicts that could effect returns, just as a patient should know if a corporation has paid the doctor to prescribe. Law, business, and governmental groups forbid outside relationships that produce financial gain, professional advancement, or family advantage. Ethical conflicts like these may provoke a lawsuit or criminal prosecution.
Lawyers can be disbarred for concealing conflicts of interest (COIs). Judges recuse themselves or are recused by their supervisors from involvement where they have personal or monetary relationships. Federal judicial and executive branch bureaucrats must sell their ownership in companies of industries that they might affect. The federal government prohibits its employees from accepting anything with a value of over $20. Reporters “may not take any payment, gift, service, or benefit… offered by a news source…[in order to] maintain accuracy, balance, and the truth.”
Physicians’ organizations are also being bought. The medical industry gives them trinkets, research grants, outright grants (sometimes in the millions), speaker's fees, and substantial exhibitor fees for their meetings. Free ghostwriting is part of it. All this ensures favorable guidelines, prescribing, and publications. One reviewer called the conferences “unprofessional conduct” and wrote that the impact of the system was overwhelming.
Nearly all the societies’ websites state that they are “funded by an unrestricted grant from company X.” Each physician group has policy statements saying they have no commercial bias, however. Their physician leaders vehemently proclaim objectivity with editorials in the journals.
For example, the Endocrine Society says in its Code of Ethics: “The Society actively seeks outside financial or in-kind support… from pharmaceutical, device, or biotech companies… [and they] maintain complete independence between industry support of any and all of its programs… [and] objectivity and credibility are not compromised in any way.” However, for their “Endo2015” national meeting, they advertised the industry perks, from “therapy dogs” to raffles, to prizes, to local jazz artists. Posters on their website proudly stated (caps in the original):
WITH MORE THAN 5800 ATTENDEES, ENDO DELIVERED ON IT’S PROMISE TO PUT YOUR COMPANY AND BRAND IN FRONT OF THE LEADERS IN ENDOCRINE PRACTICE
They have over a dozen corporate sponsors. Implausibly, their “Statement on Industry Relationships,” reminds us: “Sources of commercial support do not influence the scientific, educational or public policy decisions of the Society.”
Companies now spend at least twenty percent of their vast marketing budgets on the physicians who have the most influence. They call them the “key opinion leaders,” using the acronym KOL. Since routine gifts to physicians have been progressively restricted by federal law, the companies focus on things like study funding, which has few rules. This research money is used to induce top doctors to corrupt science, produce favorable conclusions, and advocate for products.
Many of these physicians conceal the sources of their money. For example, the dean of Yale’s medical school, the director of a cancer center in Texas, and the incoming president of the most prominent society of cancer doctors all published articles in medical journals without disclosing financial ties to pharmaceutical and healthcare companies (New York Times, 2018). José Baselga, MD, chief medical officer at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, took millions from industry, published frequently, but mostly kept the payments secret. When this came out, he resigned (NYT/ProPublica, 2018).
Industry pays the KOLs to write favorable guidelines for physician practice. Hundreds of these statements now command doctors to perform in ways that jack up drug sales. Four of five authors of these “standards” have financial relationships with the corporations, with an average of ten conflicts of interest (COIs) per contributor. One study looked at 431 guidelines. Eighty-eight percent had no disclaimers and did not even reference the relevant literature. A JAMA review of 279 guidelines produced by 69 authors concluded their methodological quality was atrocious. Unfortunately, these “standards of care” have the weight of expert testimony in court.
Gilbert Welch told how the corporations made it happen in Overdiagnosed, Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health (2011):
The head of the diabetes cutoff panel [which established standards] was a paid consultant to Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Merck, and Pfizer—all of which made diabetes drugs. Nine of the eleven authors of recent high blood pressure guidelines had some kind of financial ties… [to the medication manufacturers]. Similarly, eight of the nine experts who lowered the cholesterol cutoff were paid consultants of the drug companies making cholesterol drugs. And the first osteoporosis standard was established by… a panel… whose corporate advisory board consisted of thirty-one drug and medical equipment companies.
The industry has even infiltrated medical schools, home to some of the most influential physicians. Eric G. Campbell, Ph.D., studied 459 department chairs of US medical schools. Two-thirds of them and two-thirds of their departments had close ties to industry. An overwhelming majority of these chief doctors believed they had no biases related to this.
In another study, he discovered that a third of the Institutional Review Board members who approve studies had corporate COIs. Thirty-five percent of them had conflicts regarding issues they voted on during the past year. Federal guidelines require recusal in these situations, but they are ignored.
Disclosure is used to launder conflicts of interest, but this gets nothing clean. Elsevier, the largest medical publication house, requires its authors to confess their payments in writing. But this does not disinfect payoffs. No matter how strong an argument, if it comes from a paid advocate, a balanced view is impossible. Sponsors punish actions contrary to their interests by cutting off their consultants’ money.
Joseph Biederman, MD, has one disclosure statement of 364 words, an article in itself. He was censured for failing to disclose some of his many sources of corporate pay, and the NY Times asked whether he was an “expert or shill.” He is Chief of Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD at the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital. Here is another disclosure statement:
Dr. Gertz reports personal fees from Ionis/Akcea, personal fees from Alnylam, personal fees from Prothena, personal fees from Celgene, personal fees from Janssen, grants and personal fees from Spectrum, personal fees from Annexon, personal fees from Appellis, personal fees from Amgen, personal fees from Medscape, personal fees from Physicians Education Resource, personal fees for the Data Safety Monitoring board from Abbvie, personal fees from Research to Practice, speaker fees from Teva, speaker fees from Johnson and Johnson, speaker fees from Medscape, speaker fees from DAVA oncology, roles on the Advisory Board for Pharmacyclics and Advisory Board for Proclara outside the submitted work, royalties from Springer Publishing, and Grant Funding from Amyloidosis Foundation and International Waldenstrom Foundation; NCI SPORE
Everyone respects doctors, particularly those with fancy degrees and university affiliations. Credibility based on credentials seems dependable. Unfortunately, influence works on them the same as on the rank-and-file. After money changes hands, the recipient’s recommendations about drugs, treatments, and surgery are biased. Pretensions of objectivity citing authority are much worse than nothing because they fool us. Patients and doctors alike are blind to this.
Neither physicians nor patients are tough-minded enough to believe that powerful effects—essentially bribery—now command nearly every move in healthcare. In theory, doctors and other caregivers put patients before finances, but corporations are designed as money-making machines. For them, patient outcomes are a distant consideration.
"ALMOST EVERYTHING SCARES ME THESE DAYS"
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This is a synthesis of brutal information, so here is lighter fare to start.
Dick Cilley, my “dirtbag” climber friend, always chanted this post’s title while scaling hazardous rock. We would gleefully repeat his words as we ascended, laughing at the situations we put ourselves in.
A quote often attributed to Julius Caesar explains more, “As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.” The dangers I describe here are mostly invisible, so our anxiety about them may be higher than they merit.
The worst risks are self-imposed
Climbing is hazardous, but smoking is responsible for one in five US deaths. I spent a magic decade of my life doing these simultaneously.
A “conventional” source lists the most common causes of US deaths in 2021:
Heart disease 695 k
Cancer 605 k
Covid 416 k
Accidents 225 k
Stroke 162 k
Alzheimer’s 119 k
Diabetes 103 k
You can avoid most of these
Strokes and heart attacks increase if you eat "unsaturated" vegetable fats like Crisco or margarine. These oxidize and cause diabetes, atherosclerosis, and other damage. But industrial food producers and a paid-off American Dietary Association promoted these cheap synthetics as healthy since early in the 20th century. "Saturated" animal fats, on the other hand, oxidize much less, so they are far safer (Hormone Secrets).
Eating seed oils instead of animal fats is being recognized as another cardiovascular health catastrophe. Big agriculture, fast food restaurants, fake fat makers, and corrupt regulatory groups are co-conspirators in bringing us these.
Avoiding exercise creates similar risks as smoking.
Accidents: Auto accidents kill 43,000 Americans annually. Not wearing a seatbelt doubles this risk.
Suicide: 50,000 in the US yearly. The psych drugs cause much of it and should be outlawed because of this and other reasons.
"Covid deaths" is code for people slaughtered by the Covid bioweapon, those killed by withholding standard therapies, those killed by the vax, and those murdered by doctors using treatments such as Remdesivir and ventilators. It was all facilitated by CDC and FDA lies and implemented by the Department of Defense. If you understand this, you can save yourself and your family.
How to escape modern health calamities
Studying increase your chances of survival. Never be accused of DFR or DFL.
Some of the following disasters are forced on us, and others are suppression or concealment of effective treatments. For example, iodine restriction is obviously purposeful. For the rest, ask yourself, “Could this have been solely caused by chance, greed, or incompetence?” The answer is mostly “No.”
The following hazards are in rough order of importance.
Medical abuses
Using therapies that do not work, that cause active harm, or for which simpler, safer, or more effective alternatives are available. This is at least half of modern medicine, and it is the biggest risk on this list. Butchered by "Healthcare" tells the story. For clarity, I put some in separate categories.
Why did it all happen? Early in the 20th century, Rockefeller began controlling doctors and medicine and destroying their integrity. I was shocked to realize that these medical abuses are the cause of most modern disease.
Medical “errors” are deviations from "standards of care" that cause harm. A credible study estimates that these cause 250,000 US deaths a year.
Prescription drugs kill 250,000 yearly in the US and Europe according to Peter C. Gøtzsche.
The psych drugs. These cause violence, suicide, and early death. Twenty-five percent of Americans and 80 percent of Danes have been convinced to use them. They destroy our health, empathy, and humanity and are phenomenally addictive. RFK, Jr., forced Fauci to admit in writing that they had never been studied against placebos. The "science" behind them is a tissue of fraud.
Cancer cures. Dozens of safe, cheap, and effective cures have been suppressed. For example, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies have proven solid tumors respond to mistletoe. Fenbendazole, a drug related to ivermectin, is cheap, nontoxic, and avidly suppresses lymphomas.
Chemotherapy damages health. Reviewing decades of published studies, oncologists report that their poisons improve patient survival by an average of less than two months. This is an admission of utter failure for treatments that cost $100,000 or more a year. (Some lymphomas, testicular cancers, and a few other tumors can be successfully treated.) Radiation therapy is less successful than chemo, for it does not even produce this statistically invisible outcome.
The oncos are paid well to fail; they get 25 percent kickbacks on chemo charges. This story is in Butchered by "Healthcare."
Root canals (medical subcategory)
These spread infection through the body and must be removed if you value your health. Its inventors repudiated the procedure, but it is still universally performed by general dentists and endodontists. Root canals cause a double-digit percentage, possibly 40 percent, of all human disease.
Vaccines (medical subcategory)
Without exception, each is a net harm that creates illness, shortens lifespan, and decreases fertility. These cause more damage than other drugs because “medical standards” allege they are safe, effective, and should be forced on all of us many times starting at birth. They contain mercury, aluminum, and other toxins.
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Except for the (totally ineffective) influenza vaccine, none has contained mercury for two decades. But since mercury takes years to leave the body—if it ever does—vaccinations are still the second largest human exposure after dental fillings.
Before the Covid jab, most immunizations were injected by bribed pediatricians. Over the last few decades, childhood vaccines caused the autism rate to rise from 1/10,000 to 1/30.
No vaccine has ever been studied using a placebo comparison. If they were any good, this would have been published.
The Covid jab has no medical utility. Worldwide death rates soared within months after its rollout and live births plummeted. This proves it is a bioweapon developed to weaken and kill us.
Dental amalgam poisoning (medical subcategory)
These are a bigger source of mercury than vaccines. They initially contain 54 percent, and they dissolve and release it into the victim’s body over many years. Amalgams are marketed as "silver fillings" by ignorant, unscrupulous dentists. They are a pre-Civil War technology that put a volatile, malignant toxin into the most reactive part of the human body.
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Dentists have no pretense of following even the ruined science of mainstream medicine. They regard themselves as mouth carpenters rather than physicians with responsibility for a sensitive biological system.
When they “drilled, filled, and billed” my 17 amalgams, I was too young to say no. The mercury likely caused Parkinson’s, gave me scoliosis, and affected my personality. Dentists have damaged most of you as well. Read about it when my book, Butchered by Dentistry, is released.
Watch Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man here (three minutes) to witness dental sadism. Robert Gammal says this type of cruelty is real. You will only think this is gratuitous if you are new to the study of dentistry.
Opioid abuse (medical subcategory)
It is being thrust on us from the outside and causes more than 100,000 US fatalities yearly. Changing the “physician standards” and predatory, opportunistic doctor prescribing contributed as well.
Bioidentical hormones suppression (medical subcategory)
Doctors seldom prescribe these because medical “standards” discourage it. Conventional “medical science" about hormones is a pack of FDA lies and defamations.
Few seniors take them, and most of those who do receive inadequate doses. Bioidentical hormones, the only ones worth considering, prevent premature aging and extend healthy lifespans. Their use preserves muscles, intellect, and emotional stability.
Testosterone can cure advanced breast cancer. It was placed in the scheduled drug category despite its negligible toxicity and profound benefits. Contrary to censored sources like Wikipedia, it benefits the heart. See Hormone Secrets for more.
Aluminium
This is the second most toxic metal to which humans are commonly exposed. Fortunately, you can easily avoid it and force its elimination from our bodies if you read and listen HERE and HERE.
Electromagnetic fields (EMFs)
These come from sources such as WiFi and unshielded wiring. The dangers are better recognized in Russia and Europe than in the US. Our knowledge is limited because the telecom juggernaut suppresses research and information flow.
Some people cannot tolerate EMF. To mitigate it, WiFi can be replaced with ethernet wiring, which is safer and faster. But solutions like these are ignored in the quest for sales and convenience. The result? We now bathe in electrical fields. But with care and study, we can decrease our exposures.
EMF may deserve a higher place on this list. See my posts HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Fluoride poisoning
This is deliberately placed into US, Australian, Canadian, and other water supplies. It is a neurotoxin; studies prove, for example, that babies born to mothers who consume it have lower IQs. Industrial fluoride producers give the American Dental Association millions yearly to claim that this poison improves teeth. Agents of the Biden cartel are blocking ongoing lawsuits against its use.
The vegan cult promotion
Until recently, this could have been mistaken for a grassroots effort, but Gates, the World Health Organization, and the captured media now support it. Those who are fooled blindly damage their health. See Hormone Secrets.
Lyme disease (medical subcategory)
This tick-borne spirochete (syphilis is another) infection is a bioweapon developed by our government and released upon our children and us. The evidence for this includes the deathbed confession of Willy Burgdorfer, Lyme's most prominent researcher.
Lyme has chronic, insidious symptoms. It is hard for “mainstream” doctors to diagnose and treat because knowledge of the natural history and therapies are suppressed. But there are many promising “alternative” treatments including hyperbaric oxygen, chlorine dioxide, and Alinia, an anti-parasite drug that can be used off-label.
Infected ticks are now ubiquitous in wooded areas of the US and parts of Europe. Ken Stoller estimates that a mid-double-digit percentage of American citizens have been exposed. Most of the symptomatic ones have no idea what is wrong with them. If not recognized and properly addressed, Lyme can cause profound disability.
Sun exposure suppression and sunscreen promotion (medical subcategory)
This has been a bizarre dermatology psych-op that lined their pockets and damaged anyone who believed them. It started when a Madison Avenue marketing company told the Derm leaders to change their image from foolish pimple poppers to fierce cancer fighters.
Skin docs were soon charging millions more a year for office cancer checks and pricey "skin surgeries" that could sometimes be performed with nail clippers. They developed the "standard" that every bit of skin removed must be looked at under the microscope and billed. And they began using the same type of codes that surgical pathologists employ when examining systemic cancers. Question: Which specialty makes the most money? See * below.
The truth about the sun was sacrificed to marketing lies. Contrary to what the dermoids** claim, sun exposure is profoundly healthy—if you have the minimal level of judgment required to avoid roasting yourself. Consider:
Women who are outside regularly have a far lower risk of breast cancer than those who avoid the sun.
Safe, regular sun exposure can eliminate or reduce depression.
We are told that melanoma incidence has multiplied even in this era of sunscreen and sun avoidance. But this is dishonest reporting, for the true measure, melanoma deaths, has remained the same. The dermatologists use this lie to whip us into fear of walking outside. They recommend instead that we scurry into their offices clutching our hats and have "suspicious lesions" clipped off at great expense.
Cancers, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, the flu, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, and infertility are reduced by sun exposure (my emphasis).
Sun exposure increases the likelihood of a healthy pregnancy and baby.
Women who get sun have only one-eleventh the risk of a hip fracture as those who do not.
Sun avoidance and sunscreen might be as hazardous as smoking.
See The Sunlight Institute website for references and more.
*Answer: Some dermatologic pathologists have billed $40 million in a year.
** A dermoid is a cyst filled with stinky dead skin; it is also my pet name for dermatologists. I know about dermoids because I was in one of their training programs for a year. To my credit, they fired me, and you can read about it in Butchered by "Healthcare."
Ivermectin suppression (medical subcategory)
If used correctly, ivermectin would have—by itself, even without other treatments such as vitamin D—saved millions of lives from Covid. But during the initial “pandemic,” a massive publicity campaign claimed it was "horse medication.” It was used to discredit this safe, effective, Nobel Prize-winning medication.
Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) suppression (medical subcategory)
This non-toxic drug has been used since 1955 to treat inflammatory autoimmune diseases. Although patients typically take it safely for decades with little monitoring except for eye exams every six months, sources such as the CIA-run Wikipedia claim its side effects are severe. A study in the Lancet “proved” it did not help Covid, but it was withdrawn after the fraud was immediately recognized.
Suppression of Vitamin D and other supplements (medical subcategory)
D is the most crucial nutrient for good health, but the doses available have been a flim-flam designed to decrease consumption. The units used to measure it were changed from (the tiny-sounding) micrograms to “International Units (IUs),” which are measured by the (perceptually huge) ten-thousands. The commonly available doses are 1,000 to 5,000 IUs, but we now have 50,000 IU capsules, which can be taken once or twice a week. These are the same size as the ones containing insufficient D.
The National Institute of Health claims that vitamin D levels of 20 ng/ml are “adequate for most people.” However, for people with levels over 60, Covid and other viral illnesses are rare to nonexistent.
Zinc, quercetin, and vitamin K2 can successfully treat and prevent deaths from viral illnesses such as Covid. This has been suppressed.
Iodine has been recognized to promote health for more than a century. A program to discredit it and substitute toxic alternatives such as bromide has been ongoing for about 20 years.
The US RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) and other sources claim we need little or no vitamin C, magnesium, zinc, selenium, thiamine, and boron. And the wonderfully therapeutic effects of large doses of Vitamins D, C, and magnesium are suppressed or ignored. These three and others such as thiamine should be given intravenously to nearly every sick hospitalized patient, but they are not.
Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal) promotion
This artificial sweetener is available everywhere. A review says, "Dozens of studies have linked aspartame—the world's most widely used artificial sweetener—to serious health problems, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, seizures, stroke, and dementia, as well as negative effects such as intestinal dysbiosis, mood disorders, headaches, and migraines… [plus] weight gain, increased appetite, and obesity-related diseases."
Chlorine dioxin suppression
This story may be the most important on this list and will be posted soon.
Heedless use of industrial toxins
These include DDT, glyphosate, paraquat, Agent Orange, and trichloroethylene. Due to these and others, neurological diseases such as ALS, autism, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s redoubled over the past few decades.
Glyphosate pesticide is universally used in the US even though it causes cancer and creates dependence on psychopathic agricultural corporations. It is mostly banned in Europe. Dr. Klinghardt says you can make your body excrete it by taking powdered glycine daily. He describes how to reduce other hazards as well.
Cut your risks
Your health is is not a casino. It is your body’s precious natural immunity minus all its toxic exposures. Mark Kennard explains how it works in a five-minute video here. He says stresses are additive and describes how you will get sick if you cross your resistance threshold. Healing yourself might be as easy as adding one supplement or decreasing a single toxin, but functioning at your best may require many changes.
Almost everything still scares me these days, but I know how to avoid dangers. If you listen and read, you will too.
No one is coming to save you
Although some of this must be greed or incompetence, we have overwhelming proof that malign hands directed the rest. Joe Plummer’s Tragedy and Hope 101 is a history of how the globalists created disasters to weaken and destroy us. They are covert, for they fear exposure.
As I tabulated these calamities, I was repeatedly stunned by physicians’ central role in the crimes and systematic collusion with the criminals. And shocked by the conspiracy’s scope and organization and by the other weapons deployed against us.
As I uncovered story after story of physicians' ethical perversions, I recalled Cicero's maxim: “Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken with money.” Business people understand this, but physicians, who are trained more like academics, pretend their behavior is kosher.
Litigation is beating back some of it, but this is sluggish and unreliable, so you must take matters into your own hands. The first step is to realize that nearly every public story we hear is a lie. Learn as much as possible, change your thinking, and correct what you can.
Reservoirs of strength remain to us, and we have hope. Our bodies are so resilient that our death rate never increased until we allowed poisonous needles to be thrust into us. John Dryden’s words about his battle apply to ours: I am sore wounded but not slain. I will lay me down and bleed a while, and then rise up to fight again.
History teaches us that leaders appear when times are the most desperate. Dire need and the press of events forge these people. We are witnessing this now.
The rest of us must use the time we have to spread truth and expose the criminals. As long as we are living and breathing, we can do more. We just have to be strong enough.
Aurelius again
Work steadily at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, allowing nothing to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give it up immediately. If thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but with the heroic truth in every word and sound you utter, then you will live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Parting shot
My writing is general commentary, and because I am retired, I never give medical advice. Make your own decisions about your health and use the information here at your own risk.
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Since I quoted him for 80 percent of this post, Dr. Gammal consented to coauthor it. The Rumble version is available under “Surviving Healthcare.”
I wrote about dental apostasies HERE, HERE, and HERE. But I said little about root canals. If these are in your mouth, you need to study The Garbage Collector until you become convinced they must all come out. (Apicectomies and “retrograde root fillings” are virtually the same thing.)
Teeth consist of the hard “enamel” on the outside. On the inside, there is the soft nerve and “pulp,” which conducts the circulation that keeps a tooth alive. A “dentin” layer lies between these:
The hard exterior contains three miles of “microtubules” per single rooted tooth. These pass from the inside layers to the outside of the enamel. Bacteria and anything else in the pulp or mouth can pass freely back and forth.
During a root canal procedure, the endodontist drills out the tooth’s center. He then applies carcinogenic antiseptics such as phenol and formaldehyde in a futile attempt to sterilize it. Next, he fills it with a range of materials that are far from biocompatible. These toxic materials are described HERE, and all of them are considered safe and effective by the dental fraternity, the FDA, and the Therapeutic Goods Association of Australia. Any of these can pass into the brain, which is only a few inches away.
Precisely filling the remaining hole where nerves went into a tooth’s roots is impossible. So the dentist either leaves these open to the rest of the body or overfills it. In the past, this was often done using mercury alloys. Currently, other hazardous materials are used, but removing dead teeth with old amalgam-containing root canals is still part of any biological dentist’s practice.
Dr. Gammal’s wrote me to say, “All root fillings leak and this gets worse over time. The other danger is that if the root canal is overfilled with toxic filling materials, it inevitably kills the bone around the end of the root. Mercury is sometimes still placed at the end of the root following the apicectomy procedure, and this is a total disaster.”
Following a root canal, the tooth is no longer living but dead—it becomes a “foreign body.” A tooth is not a stone—it is human tissue. All surgeons know what happens when dead biological materials remain inside people. These are inevitably infected and spread bacteria to new locations. For example, nearly all heart attack artery blockages are infected with the same bacteria that are in the patient’s mouth. Also, inflammatory diseases such as arthritis and other autoimmune conditions often go away when canal teeth are removed.
Gammal editorializes:
Nothing works. The whole procedure is based on illusion from beginning to end. If it were possible to sterilize the tooth, then this problem would not exist. There is a blanket denial that bacteria and toxins escape from the tooth the whole way down the length of the root, and not just through the apex. It would therefore make more sense to take the whole root out and not just the end of it. Fantasy and illusion reign in the minds of endodontists.
NB: This introduction understates the harms of root canals. The rest of this post will document why they should never be performed and why they must be extracted.
This is Robert Gammal, B.D.S.
From 1975 until 1987, he placed amalgams, did root therapies, and poured fluoride over children’s teeth. After this, Dr. Gammal took three years off to study natural treatments. During this period, his health improved dramatically because he avoided mercury. After he returned to dentistry, he studied with Dr. Hal Huggins in Colorado. He learned that reducing his patients’ total body mercury by removing amalgams often produced spectacular health improvements.
Gammal believes that most oral and many medical problems are caused by ill-conceived dental procedures such as tooth implants and root canals. In The Garbage Collector, he describes what happened when he removed dead tissues such as teeth from his patients’ bodies, “When we take [this] garbage out, the body has a chance to heal. This can happen so quickly it can make your head spin.”
Here is Dr. Gammal’s hero’s journey. He retired in 2014.
My professors, peers and dental association taught me to poison myself, my family, my friends, and all patients. I do not thank these people. These people I regard at best, as criminally negligent and possibly pathologically insane. The mad hatters are the teachers, judges, and jurors of our great profession! These people pretend to be the guardians of dental ethics and education, and are responsible for some of the greatest suffering that mankind experiences.
Yes, I sound scathing because I am. The criminals who taught me made me responsible for creating an unknown quantity of disease. I have no idea how many people I have poisoned and killed. This is one of the greatest burdens for any dentist who takes on this new paradigm. There is no exaggeration in what I am saying. As a good, conscientious dentist, I looked after my family and friends. I did what I was told, going by what the great professors and deans taught at university. I had a chance with some of these people to undo the damage I had caused. Others died of all sorts of medical conditions caused by my “treatments”. Did I really cause these deaths? Do I feel differently about the patients who are not my inner circle? No! I became a very good “sick-making” machine. I was the perfect dentist because I did everything that I was taught to do at university. Everyone suffered.
I spent the rest of my forty years in dentistry doing the opposite. In this latter period, I saw multiple sclerosis disappear after extracting one dead tooth. I saw suicide notes torn up after extracting one dead tooth. I’ve witnessed brain tumours disappear after extracting one dead tooth. And it goes on and on. All these dead teeth had had root canals which were done by dentists who I am sure had the best interests of their patients at heart, just as I did. The end results of their state-of-the-art treatments became glaringly obvious. The body can often heal itself very quickly if given the opportunity.
Gammal emphasizes that to obtain predictable results, the entire area around extracted teeth must be thoroughly cleaned out. Contrary to customary practice in dentistry, no part of the tooth ligament or any surrounding area that may be infected should be left. Moreover, if the underlying bony area has “cavitations,” which are soft areas visible on X-ray, they must be drilled out or infections persist. Clues to all these issues are sometimes more obvious on specialized three-dimensional imaging.
Work like this is routine for surgeons; they call it “debridement.” For dentists, however, it is usually frowned upon as “over-servicing” by the dental establishment.
Many chronic degenerative diseases can be linked directly to dental treatments. Doctors, not knowing or understanding this, can only treat symptoms without ever finding a cure. They, like the dentists, have been misled for far too long. They do not know that dead teeth can create cancer or that mercury may be responsible for infertility. They all believe that fluoride in the drinking water stops tooth decay and that it cannot calcify your pineal gland or cause hypothyroidism, osteosarcoma, or heart disease.
Dentistry is not the only cause of chronic degenerative diseases, but it is one of the most overlooked and ignored causes. You will see later the relationships to cancers, multiple sclerosis, cardiac disease, and a vast range of other conditions.
He writes about his mentors:
In 1991 I went to Colorado to study with Dr Hall Huggins. If you can get a hold of his book, It’s All In Your Head, you will read the firsthand account of what follows and learn lots in the process. Dr Huggins was the man who started the third amalgam war in the 1970’s, with his research into amalgam. He was the person who brought the teachings of Dr Weston Price into our current consciousness. He was a genius with a heart bigger than his enormous intellect. When I went to his clinic to register for the course, I was delighted by a young 8 year old girl, who was having a great time playing in the waiting room. I made comment to the receptionist about what a gorgeous happy kid she was. The receptionist said, “take a good look as she is part of your course”. By the time she had come to see Dr Huggins a year earlier, she had been sent home to die, because her leukemia was untreatable.
Dr Huggins was very thorough. He had blood tests and biomarkers from the time he saw her, throughout her treatment and follow ups a month, 6 months and a year later. What was the treatment? Dr Huggins removed a tooth that had been ‘treated’ with a pulpotomy and covered with a stainless steel crown. The pulpotomy was performed about a year earlier and she was diagnosed with leukemia a month after the dental treatment. Within a week of this tooth being removed, her white cell count returned to normal. A month later she was told that the leukemia had disappeared. One year later there was still no trace of cancer.
In the latter half of my dental career, I was exposed to the teachings of people like Dr Hal Huggins, Dr Horst Poehlman, Prof Boyd Haley, Prof Murray Vimy, Prof Vera Stejskal, Dr Jerry Bouquot and in the written word, Dr Weston Price, to name but a few of the great thinkers with the courage to talk about their knowledge. They patiently taught me as I violently rejected their claims.
This is when I learnt about the true cost of leaving dead teeth in the mouth. This is when I started to learn that the forced medication, called water fluoridation, had no beneficial effects at all. This is when I learnt that the mercury, I was implanting into patient’s bodies, was causing mercury poisoning, with all the horrifying ramifications that this entails. I learnt that by using mercury amalgam as a filling material, I was also poisoning myself and my staff. There was at last a reason for the uncontrollable trembling hands, muscle twitches and splitting headaches, as well an explanation of the acute optic neuritis and rapid mood swings.
Dr Huggins was once asked if all root-canalled teeth should be removed. He replied that it was only “for those people who had an interest in their health.”
Gammal discusses why root canal procedures fail:
Not one of the god-endodontists has a way of measuring the sterility of the tooth. In fact, there is no measure of sterility at all. It is impossible to sterilize the canal, so there is not really any standard by which we can judge whether the tooth is ready to be filled. Because they had to admit failure regarding their ability to sterilize teeth, they created a new term. They now claim to be able to take the teeth to a state of “physiologic balance”. There is no such thing as physiologic balance!
When the tooth is ready to be filled is a guess based on a lack of pain and ‘no stinky smell’. The decision to fill the canal and finish the treatment is based only on the dentist’s appraisal of how much he or she can get away with. Spending too much time on such a tooth erodes the profit margin. It is neither a scientific nor a logical decision. All root-canalled teeth are infected. The bone around all of these teeth is infected.
All materials used in the root canal procedure are toxic. Some will affect the nervous system. Some will affect a developing foetus. Some will cause cancer. There is not one which is biocompatible. All these materials will escape from the tooth and spread around the whole of your body. They can cause all sorts of diseases in any part of your body.
German physician and cancer specialist, Professor Max Daunderer, is contemptuous of dental care:
In an interview in 1998, he stated, “The dental work we get from dentists is not something biological or medical. I’d say it is a technical thing, and the techniques give the dentists a number of very strong poisons to be implanted in the mouth. If you kill the tooth and then fill its root canal with mercury, formaldehyde, cortisodentistry is just a sin against the biology of the body and a sin against the ‘real’ medicine.”
Gammal says titanium implants do not work:
These good looking X-rays of dead teeth do not show the infection around or in the roots. No matter how good the tooth looks on an X-ray, it will still be infected.
For the bone surrounding the implant to become infected from this source, the bacteria have to have “escaped” from the dead tooth and penetrated the bone. If they are in the bone, then they will be carried everywhere else in the body. If these bugs decide that your heart is a good home, then you might just have a heart attack. They might decide to inhabit your brain instead and create neurological cancers or MS. They might localize in your ears and cause deafness.
All bacteria and the toxins they produce can and do travel out of the tooth to the rest of your body. It is not just the implant that might fail in this case. In any language, this is a focal infection arising from the source,
Gammal about mercury:
Dentistry also does not consider mercury from amalgam to be a problem. Mercury is the third most toxic element known to science. Arsenic is the “first” most toxic. Lead is somewhere in between. There is no amount of mercury that is safe. None. The manufacturer states that this material causes cancer. Why in the name of sanity does a health care profession want to implant it into living bodies? Why do the TGA and FDA give approval for its use, especially in children?
Hundreds of studies prove that root canals destroy health:
Just one short list published in the International Endodontic Journal, titled “Root canal treatment and general health: a review of the literature,” is testimony to this: “There has been an increase in the number of case reports published in the medical literature citing dental infection as an associated factor in several systemic illnesses including; • uveitis (Sela & Sharav 1979) (inflammation of the middle layer of tissue in the eye) • intracranial abscess (Holin et al. 1967, Henig et al. 1978, Ingham et al. 1978, Churton & Green 1980, Aldous et al. 1987, Marks et al. 1988, Saal et al. 1988) (brain abscess) • childhood hemiplegia (Hamlyn 1978), cerebral infarction (Syrjanen et al. 1989), acteriospermia and subfertility (Bieniek & Riedel 1993) (brain damage or spinal cord injury that leads to paralysis on one side of the body) necrotizing fasciitis (Gallia & Johnson 1981, Steel 1987, Stoykewych et al. 1978) (a bacterial infection that results in the death of parts of the body’s soft tissue. It is a severe disease of sudden onset that spreads rapidly.) • mediastinitis (Hendler & Quinn 1978, Zachariades et al. 1988, Musgrove & Malden 1989) (inflammation or infection of the mediastinum) • fatal endocarditis (Kralovic et al. 1995) (infection of the lining of the heart) • toxic shock syndrome (Egbert et al. 1987, Navazesh et al. 1994) (acute septicaemia typically caused by bacterial infection) Septicaemia (Lee 1984) (Bacterial Blood Poisoning)
A small taste of the current literature shows that dead teeth can cause a wide range of diseases: 308 • immune system diseases 309 • infection of hip replacements 310 • abscess of eyes 311 • cervical cellulites and mediastenitis 312 • Necrotizing fascititis 313 • coronary atherosclerosis 314 • sinusitis 315 • Multiple Sclerosis 316 • brain abscess 317,318 • brain cancer 319 • central nervous system damage 320, 321, 322,323 • Trigeminal Neuralgia 324,325,326,327,328,329
Infection spreading from teeth may cause the following: 331 • Osteomyelitis of the mandible • Maxillary sinusitis and orbital abscess • Wound botulism • Ludwig’s angina (Heart) • Necrotizing fasciitis • Cavernous sinus thrombosis (brain) Persistent pyrexia of unknown origin (high temperature) • Septicaemia—Streptococcus milleri and Pseudomonas Septicaemia with disseminated intravascular coagulation • Pulmonary abscess (lung) • Pyogenic hepatic abscess (liver) • Brain abscess • Brain abscess and acute meningitis • Paraspinal abscess and paraplegia (spine) • Bacterial endocarditis (heart) • Splenic abscess (spleen) • Mediastinal abscess and pneumonia (chest)
The following diseases are listed in a paper entitled “Systemic Diseases Caused By Oral Infection”, published in 2000: “Cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease: atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction, stroke, infective endocarditis, bacterial pneumonia, low birth weight & diabetes mellitus, cerebral infarction, acute myocardial infarction, abnormal pregnancy outcome, persistent pyrexia, idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia, toxic shock syndrome, systemic granulocytic cell defects, chronic meningitis.”348 (Published in Microbiology Reviews - This paper is referenced with 158 references) The bacteria in a tooth can and do travel throughout the body. There is now research which demonstrates the presence of oral bacteria in the uterus and amniotic fluid. These uterine infections can lead to preterm birth in pregnant women.349,350
He concludes:
Research about the dangers of mercury from amalgam fillings has been around since its inception in 1812. Research about the dangers of root canal procedures has been around since the early 1920’s. Research about the dangers of fluoride has been around for over 80 years. There is no reason to suggest it does not exist, especially when the current research fully supports the older research.
The amount of mercury in the mouth of a person with fillings was on average 2.5 grams, enough to contaminate five ten-acre lakes to the extent there would be dangerous levels in fish. (Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI Technical Brief. “Mercury in the Environment”, 1993; & EPRI Journal, April 1990.)
Dr. Gammal told dozens of stunning stories about patients who were cured after their metals and rotten teeth were removed.
[While] I was hopeful that taking out the dead teeth would help, I was shocked to see the speed at which the body can heal when the rubbish is removed. It was terrifying to see my patients come back a week later to have the stitches removed and report that the symptoms they had suffered with, sometimes for years, had disappeared within a matter of days.
One of the most common stories that I heard was that of breast lumps. I lost count of the number of women who told me their breast lumps had disappeared after a root-canalled tooth was removed. This often happened within a week of the tooth coming out. The psychological stress of living with lumps in the breast is one thing. The very real rise in the incidence of breast cancer is another.
Arthritis is [frequently] associated with dead teeth. A relevant case study appears in the 2002 literature. This report describes a remission of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) of 16 years duration, apparently caused by the extraction of endodontically well-treated, healthy looking teeth. The only clue that the teeth were contributing to the disease pathogenesis in this case of RA was that the patient was able to reproducibly induce severe attacks of arthritis after prolonged, heavy pressure on some of his teeth treated with root canal fillings. After extraction, a small pus layer was found to cover the apices of the clinically healthy-looking teeth. The rheumatoid factor (RF) became negative and the patient remained symptom free for the next 16 years.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) cures
Quoting Professor Daunderer, “if we take Multiple Sclerosis patients who removed amalgam but refused both extraction of root canals and treatment of infected maxillary bone, we observe a cure rate from MS of 16%. But when we consider multiple sclerosis patients that beside amalgam removal accepted our full treatment (root canal extraction and cleaning of alveolar bone), the percentage of cures increases to 86. 576”
In the 1970s and 1980s, Professor Patrick Stortebecker, who was then the Professor of Neural Surgery at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, demonstrated that the primary lesion in Multiple Sclerosis is not demyelenation but instead is an infected plaque around the venous side of the blood supply to the brain. Cerebral MS plaques showed the same organisms as found in dead teeth, periodontal disease, and other oral infections. Spinal MS lesions showed the same organisms that are found in the bowel and vagina.
Stortebecker described the pathway of transmission through the non-valved venous plexus for both areas. By injecting dyes into the angle of the mandible (therefore not a bony connection to the rest of the skull), he was able to fill the whole of the intra-cranial blood vessels. This demonstrated that the non-valved veinous plexus below the skull allows movement of blood in both directions. This is critical to the understanding of how the microorganisms from the mouth could enter the brain. 602,603,604,605
Causal comparison of the WHO map of dental caries incidences throughout the world reveals a striking parallel in general trend. Comparison of decayed, missing and filled teeth with the MS death rates results in a correlation coefficient of 0.97, and the probability of a chance occurrence is less than 0.002. This represents a nearly perfect linear relationship between dental disease rates and MS death rates.
From the work of Professor Vera Stejskal in Europe, it is clear that all metals must be avoided in Multiple Sclerosis patients. This includes the metals in composite resins that are used to colour the filling materials. Porcelains should be the filling material of choice and should be cemented into place with old-fashioned, but safer, zinc phosphate cement. For all those with an autoimmune disease, I strongly recommend you read the information at www.melisa.org.
MS patient stories:
Bill was another patient who came to see me in desperation because, at the age of thirty-two, he figured that he was too young for an MS diagnosis. The treatment he received was the removal of a single root-canalled tooth. Of course, our surgical procedure involved removing the periodontal ligament and unhealthy bone from the cavity. Bill stated the following: In September 2003, I went along to my dentist and had a root canal treatment performed. Months later in January 2004, I started to experience problems with my balance, tingling sensations and numbness in my hands and feet. Subsequently I was referred to a neurologist and after many tests – C.T. scans, lumbar puncture etc, – I was told that the probable cause of my problems was Multiple Sclerosis. The amazing thing for me was I had this root canal filled tooth pulled out in September 2004 and a week later, literally a week later, my balance started to improve, and the sensations that I had been experiencing for 9 months, started to abate. The numbness & tingling – and basically things have just improved from there. It is now December 2005!633
A lady in her forties—Helen, for want of a name—came to see me after being diagnosed with MS She had a few young children and a great relationship with her husband. She was very happy but felt that she was too young to be sent home with a death sentence and no hope of treatment. On examining her mouth, I found one root-canalled tooth on the upper left and a small metal-and-porcelain bridge to replace a missing front tooth. There wasn’t any amalgam in her mouth.
Technically, the bridge was very well made, but we had no idea which metals were used. The root canal looked like a job that any endodontist would be proud of, and there was no abscess visible on the X-ray. No matter what the tooth looks like on an X-ray, all dead teeth remain infected, as it is impossible to sterilize them. She’d had great mechanical dentistry done. She also brought in her MRI scan, which showed two large lesions in her brain.
She had done her research and requested that I take out the bridge and the dead tooth. I told her there was no promise it would affect her health, as I always did, and she accepted this completely. I also agreed with her that there was a good likelihood the MS could be related to these. At this first appointment, she decided to remove both the tooth and the bridge immediately. She was not interested in proving which was a cause. She just wanted to eliminate all possible causes.
She was quite happy to go home with a “gappy” smile. Three months later, Helen came back in to see me with a new MRI. All of her symptoms had resolved, and the MRI scan was clear of any lesions. Her neurologist had declared her free of MS and did not want to know what she had done to make such a radical change.
The symptoms of mercury poisoning and those of multiple sclerosis are identical. The main source of mercury to the general population is, of course, dental amalgam. In fact, mercury exposure occurs at a rate ten times higher through this source than through all other sources combined, including seafood. 634 Studies have found mercury-related mental effects to be indistinguishable from those of MS. 17,635,636,637
Many MS patients have been helped by reducing their mercury loads. This can be achieved only if the source of the mercury is removed. Thus, all amalgam fillings need to go, as well as all other sources of mercury, including amalgam tattoos. Several published studies have clearly demonstrated an improvement of symptoms after the amalgams are removed. Not all recover, but many do. Amalgam may be an important risk factor for patients with autoimmune diseases. 642,643,644
Dr Huggins noted that the incidence of both ALS and MS started going through the roof after 1976, with the introduction of high-copper amalgams, which release about fifty times more mercury than the older formulations of amalgam with less copper. Multiple Sclerosis was not known before 1830, when mercury amalgam became a worldwide phenomenon!
Dr. Gammal saw many tumors disappear three to four months after taking the root canal teeth out of his patients’ mouths. Here are opinions from oncologists who learned about these treatments:
Dr Issels, Daunderer and many others have rated their treatments as only average, unless the dental work is done first. Then their success rates increased to about 80 per cent. This is a far cry from the miserable cure rates of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. According to a 2004 report by Morgan, Ward, and Barton, “The contribution of cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adult malignancies … survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA.”578
Dr Issels found that 98 per cent of his cancer patients had between two and ten dead teeth.
Try looking up the success rate of radiation therapy and you will find a never-ending array of articles claiming a 95 per cent success rate for Prostate Cancer ONLY. No other type of cancer is mentioned. Also, no mention is made that radiation is itself carcinogenic. The use of radiation started as a bad experiment in the 1920s but proved to be too profitable to discard.
Gammal writes,
Most of the degenerative diseases of our times are regarded as having “no known causes”. Potential causes are linked to genetic and environmental conditions when you ask the doctor the why, what, and how. Many of these diseases have “societies” attached to them for the support of patients and research. For as long as I can remember, the evening news has carried regular stories of trial treatments for cancer, which are always in their research stage. The level of depression in our society has gone through the roof. Behavioural problems in children are also increasing at alarming rates. There seems to be a potential vaccine for just about any disease, even including those that are not infectious like the human papillomaviruses that cause cervical cancer.
When there’s no known cause, there can never be a cure. Gradually the “no known cause” becomes a part of the language and the thinking of both doctor and patient. There is an acceptance amongst most people that if there is ‘no known cause’, then it is just bad luck. Perhaps it is your genetic makeup? The genetic argument never states as much but strongly implies that if you have a particular genetic weakness in some area, then that’s what’s going to kill you. We all have a genetic weakness, as well as genetic strengths. To a point, this totally explains the variety of diseases found by both Price and Rosenow. Many of these conditions may not kill you but will certainly reduce your quality of life.581 Perhaps it is time to look in other directions for a cause.
He concludes:
There is now more than sufficient published research which demonstrates the role of oral infections as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and other neurological diseases, to call for an immediate ban on the practice of keeping dead teeth in the body. It is certainly time for the dental profession to take responsibility for the disasters they cause.
I saved the most incredible part of this stunning story for last. American dentists may be censored or even have their licenses revoked if they advertise or even mention to patients that removing amalgams or other dental work improves health.
References
Dr. Gammal's website: https://realdentalinfo.com/. Possibly the most critical link is his instructions about the care that should be taken to avoid poisoning the patient when removing mercury.
Dr. Gammal tells how to understand dentists HERE. If you can, find one who is trained by the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IOAMT).
Dr. Gammal’s fluoride presentation. This is a free download for any of us to use.
Quecksilber is Gammal’s 2004 documentary about the dangers of mercury from dental amalgam. More recently, he produced Rooted, a movie about the dangers of root canals.
The Roots of Disease and The Toxic Tooth by Robert Kulacz and Thomas Levy
Curing the Incurable by Thomas Levy.
Solving The M.S. Mystery: Help, Hope and Recovery by Dr Hal Huggins. Order it HERE.
Root Cause (2018) is a documentary about the taboo subjects of cancer and heart attacks and their relation to dead teeth. Interviews include one of America’s leading cardiologists, Dr Thomas Levy, who made it clear that infection from root canals cause heart disease. Every single root canal is infected and stays infected.
Dr. David Minkoff interview on YouTube about root canals.
Cancer: A Second Opinion by Dr Issels. He devotes a chapter to dental causes.
Parting shots
From Dr. Gammal’s book:
The hatters of old used to cure rabbit fur with mercuric nitrate. They had profound psychiatric manifestations—they went quite bonkers. They became as “mad as a hatter”, as clearly demonstrated in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland! Many patients who have amalgam implanted into their mouths also become mad, from the mercury they’re exposed to. Any dentist who uses or drills out amalgam will also be mercury poisoned and often will also become as mad as a hatter. Should we wonder why dentists have the highest suicide rate of all professions?
Adolf Hitler… refused to listen to his generals’ advice to quit whilst ahead. WW2 could have ended in 1943, but Hitler had numerous amalgams, along with two gold bridges and crowns, which would have guaranteed a continuous flood of mercury to his [brain.]
Fluoride in the drinking water also has profound psychological effects. Fluoride will lower IQs across a whole population. 646,647 It was put in drinking water in German concentration camps to keep the inmates more apathetic. It is used in our water supply for the same reason. Both mercury and fluoride act as inhibitors of brain growth and maturity when foetuses are exposed in utero. Neither is in any way beneficial…
A forty-six-year-old male restaurant owner… for many years suffered with chronic fungal infections in and around his fingernails. He had, like most of the patients I see, tried everything to get rid of this, as it had a profound effect on his ability to work with food. Within one month of removing a dead tooth and doing some periodontal cleaning, all of the troublesome infections had gone. In his words: “it is now time that I should say that I am breathing a lot easier. I can breathe in without opening my mouth all day long. The same at night – I can breathe in without breathing through my mouth. Whereas before was completely the opposite …” He told me his story while showing me how he could use his fingers as drumsticks on the table. This was impossible before because of the excruciating pain.
From Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye: A Do-It-Yourself Mouth Care System for Healthy, Clean Gums and Teeth (2017) by Ellie Phillips, DDS:
Almost all American adults have damage from dental disease as they age, and almost a quarter of all adults between sixty-five and seventy-four have severe disease. In the United States today, around 30 percent of adults age sixty-five have no teeth at all. Many people, despite visits to their dentist, are never cured of their disease, but they continue to require treatments year after year, with repairs becoming constantly more extensive. Dental visits are often a maintenance system that does not stop the disease but, rather, simply keeps the symptoms within limits that you, the consumer, agree to accept. Patients have been conditioned to view fillings and repairs as normal, as problems that are part of the aging process, and their ongoing dental treatments as something they deserve.
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