All forms of high street health care are hopelessly out of date
And high street practitioners can no longer deny us access to real health care, thanks to publicly available AI - as long as we learn how to use it to free us from medical tyranny.
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When we start to do things differently, how do we measure what we are doing?
My personal journey in the last few years has taken me from robust but with a lifelong condition of fibromyalgia, to riddled with too many named diseases to possibly treat them all. Up until 71 years old, I had “managed” the FMS and had become complacent. I was aging well, looked years younger than my age, I was doing OK, so I could rest on my laurels.
Captured by mainstream medicine
Then came “covid”, “long covid”, diabetes, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, stressed liver, shingles, melanoma, breast cancer… and on that journey I was captured back into mainstream medicine, having not even seen a doctor for the previous 30 years. I was taken to hospital in a serious state of collapse, such that I might have died without hospital support, and maybe with it too. And I had enough dangerous stuff going on from the time I left hospital to concede to some level of medical intervention, while I got back on top of it all. I would have tried to use natural therapists of some kind to support that process, but as a pensioner, they are way beyond my budget, so the only “natural medicine” available to me is what I could do for myself.
Abandoned by holistic medicine
Well, 28 months after coming out of hospital, I have a hiatus. Everything I was diagnosed with since May 2022 is now treated, or stabilised or managed in some way. I am not getting worse. My decline seems to have been halted. And during that time of working out how to get on top of all of this, I have learned so much that my approach to health has changed completely.
I was never allopathic, although recently have been forced to accept some allopathic interventions. I was always using some form of holistic medicine including lifestyle interventions - my lifestyle was better than most, which it had to be just to manage the FMS. But once “covid” hit, every alternative practitioner scuttled away into hiding, only to be seen, like cockroaches, after the lights went out…still moralising about their own superiority, but not doing a damn thing to help those of us who got sick. They had nothing they were willing or able to offer, except some kind of nebulous accusation that we are somehow to blame for getting sick.
At least some mainstream doctors were prepared to stake their financial and professional futures on telling the truth in the public square, but not a holistic practitioner in sight, anywhere in the world. My disgust of medicine flowed through to disgust of every practitioner certified, and so controlled, by the government. That absorbed both allopathy and alternative. The whole lot, poof, gone.
Finding another way
So what next? In my haze of ill health, getting from the bed to the bathroom to the kitchen, to the sofa, was all I could imagine doing, and even then I could forget what I was doing halfway through. Even through that haze I realised I had to get my body moving again somehow.
Sports medicine - balancing the neuroendocrine system
Through Facebook or my phone or some other apparent enemy, I stumbled over an Andrew Huberman video and at last, here was something I could do. I started watching his videos, and came to understand a little bit about what sports medicine was about. He had hacks, easy enough for anyone to do, that are life changing. I learned his breathing exercise to reduce my stress hormone production level, I learned about exposure to morning sunlight of just 10 minutes a day to absolutely cure insomnia. And I learned the importance of desire and the dopamine hit. I learned to deliberately build up desire so I could get the hit. Thinking about what breakfast I want while I was lying in bed in too much pain and too weak to get up, would finally give me enough desire to get out of bed, have breakfast and so get my dopamine hit. Breakfast was secondary to the pleasure of breakfast. This was all too easy. I got deeply into balancing the neuroendocrine system, which is this magical dance between the hormones and the electrons in your system that drive your entire world, and I do mean world, because it drives your responses to your world.
Ludicrous I think, a 71 year old barely able to get out of bed, getting into sports medicine, but realistically, Andrew Huberman’s exercises were something I could do, easily and successfully, and they have since become integrated into my life.
Here was a form of medicine, based on enhancing health rather than managing sickness, and suitable for everyone.
Parasitology - keeping alien invaders under control
Then I got hit with the two cancer diagnoses, which deflected me a bit from my love affair with Andrew Huberman. The interventions I was already doing were so simple, there was no difficulty continuing them, but now my focus moved on to cancer. I had always known about apricot kernels, and the Hulda Clarke theory that cancer is the result of a symbiotic relationship between toxins that create the micro-climate for parasites to get out of control, with cancer being the attempt by the body to reduce the proliferation of parasites. So you treat cancer with anti-parasitics while you get on with detoxing the body. All my mental energies went on researching, and applying anti-parasitic protocols, a few of which I published here and a few of which I followed. I started taking these immediately upon my first diagnosis, but it took eight months of self-medication with these protocols, from the time of that initial diagnosis, through two different surgeries for two different types of tumour, to get the all clear. The tumours had apparently not metastasized and although the margins from both surgeries were not clear, they are not currently regrowing. There was no real push to get me into chemo or radiotherapy, because there was no remaining trace of cancer to directly treat, which is fortunate, because I would have refused.
I then started to ask these experts a question they could not answer. Their main fear is that cancer 1 will metastasize, and/or cancer 2 will metastasize, over time, leaving me at stage 4 cancer, at which stage they will then know what they are treating with chemo or radiotherapy. But I was asking a different question. Cancer 1 came out of nowhere. Cancer 2 came out of nowhere. What is to stop Cancer 3 coming out of nowhere, given we have not even considered or in any way addressed why I got two different cancers, simultaneously, in the first place? Blank faces. No response. Nothing in their arsenal to look for causes and remove causes.
I was left knowing that I would keep going with some maintenance level of parasite control, because we know it works, but was really unsure of what and how much and for how long. I just know that a lot of people who get the cancer all clear find themselves sick again a year or two down the track, particularly if they stop taking the anti-parasitic protocols. So a bit of fenben and a few apricot kernels while I try to get a clearer picture of what I need to do longer term. Still not there yet. Still not sure what to do to prevent the next cancer, as I don’t know what caused the first two.
Here is another form of medicine based on enhancing health rather than managing sickness - keep the parasites under control so the body can look after itself.
I have written up a few of the anti-cancer protocols here.
Cellular medicine and longevity medicine
I started to research this question - what caused the cancers in the first place - for myself. Now I have a bit of space without urgent medical interventions to keep me alive, what can I do to start to improve my overall health? I knew I had to keep improving my sleep and my fitness, and keep parasites under control, and they are now underlying habits, but they are not enough. What do I do next to actually improve my health rather than slow the decline.
I then stumbled over a few articles on the mitochondria, that started me on the next phase of my journey back to health, researching the mitochondria and how to bring them back to health. And here the good news starts - it seems that the mitochondria are very willing to repair themselves, given the right nutritional attention. I have written a few articles on the mitochondria here.
I started to look for supplements to support mitochondrial health, imagining that if I get myself healthy at the cellular level, everything else at least has the chance to sort itself out. And researching cellular health brought me to longevity medicine, which seems to be where the sports medicine enthusiasts go as they age. The supplements being sold as longevity supplements, all focus quite strongly, although not entirely, on mitochondrial health.
Another form of medicine based on enhancing health rather than managing sickness. Look after your cells and they will look after everything else.
Again, ludicrous I think, a now 73 year old, barely able to walk around a small block, getting into longevity medicine, but realistically, cellular health is cellular health, and while I may not be able to reverse my years or heal everything in my body that is damaged, I can most certainly make every attempt not to end up in hospice care. And then again, maybe I can reverse the damage done. Who knows?
Nutrigenomics
And it was through studying what was going on with longevity medicine, that I stumbled over the MTHFR gene. A particular variant of this gene can stop your body from absorbing a simple B vitamin, without which other things build up to toxic levels, both starving the body of an essential nutrient and over-stressing the detox mechanisms, so the body, no matter how well nourished and well cared for it is, can never thrive.
And I am heterozygous for both the MTHFR C677T and A1298C mutations, which means I carry one copy of each of these variations. I am “compound heterozygous for the MTHFR gene mutations.”
A lifetime of medical gaslighting. It would not matter how well I lived and ate, it would not matter what lifestyle changes I made. It would not matter how compliant I had been to every damn doctor and naturopath who thought they new best. Their treatments were NEVER going to work, their treatments could NEVER have worked! If my body cannot process Vitamin B9, it cannot damn well process Vitamin B9!
The solution, take a supplement that includes methylated versions of B vitamins to bypass the body’s inability to methylate those B vitamins. Sure, we have a permanent disability to take care of - we have to find ways to bypass the inability, and there are a few, but that is better than trying to fix the downstream damage which can never be permanently fixed while the cause is still present. It is a bit more complicated than that, in that there are other interactive genes, but nothing a good AI run over your genetic test cannot identify, and design a supplementary regime to overcome.
The ultimate form of medicine based on enhancing health rather than managing sickness. Compensate for the genetic weakness, so the body can look after itself.
Once we design a way around our genetic limitations, our body can sort itself out!
Working backwards
So OK, I get all the necessary genetic testing done, and I start taking all the supplements or making the lifestyle changes that are suggested by my genetics. My body is now - presuming I do eat and live right - getting all the nourishment it needs to feed itself, but is it getting all the nourishment it needs to heal the lifetime of damage already done as a result of the genetic shortfall, and is still being done by the plethora of environmental toxins none of us can avoid?
Can I, at 73, work backwards and reclaim at least some of my overall robustness of earlier years? Can I reverse age? Can I heal?
What is it possible to heal and what is it impossible to heal?
Can I heal? Two days ago I had an endocrinologist tell me that, as a type 2 diabetic, my body will continue to deteriorate and that my management routines will need to get more aggressive until they eventually fail altogether. At this stage the results of high blood sugar will eventually have damaged a range of bodily functions that will result in “pick your own horrible pathway to death”. He assured me that there is nothing at all I can do to reverse this but can take Metformin and Ozempic, yes they come as a package now, to slow it down! Yay! I can slow the decline, but there is nothing I can do to reverse it.
Is he right?
Can I prove him and all the other horrible overpaid little snake oil salesmen like him, wrong? Can I reverse my decline? Can I get well?
This is how I plan to do it, but the process is not without snags. I have an awful lot of study to do to work this all out for myself. But I am gambing my life on the belief that bodies are designed to heal, with the right support, even old bodies!
Step 1, circumventing genetic limitations
The first thing each and every one of us must do to maintain health is know our genetic limitations and how to circumvent them. That’s just reality. 50% of the global population, and increasing, has some level of impairment brought about variations in the MTHFR gene. As a civilisation, we must learn how to deal with it, and every other limiting gene.
I need to do vastly more research into my own genetics and how to bypass the limitations, but I am all but convinced that the FMS that has dogged my entire life since 14 years old, is caused by the MTHFR limitations, and so if I can bypass the genetic limitation, there is every chance it will simply go away, as it did during the years when I was smoking tobacco and weed. Something about them circumvented but did not cure whatever was causing the FMS. So what?
Step 2, tracking health improvements brought about by circumventing genetic limitations
And tracking treatments and detecting health improvements is where it gets really tricky. How do we track what impact the treatments we are using to modify our health from the genetic level? Although I do not know enough about my genetics overall, I am jumping the gun by taking AgeMate supplemented by Metagen Methyl-Active, which is a direct and probably simplistic start at overcoming the limitations of my particular MTHFR gene.
This combination should both circumvent the genetic limitation AND support the mitochondria to heal and function better, but after a lifetime of FMS I know how hard it is to measure “I am feeling better” with any kind of accuracy. I think I am already feeling better, but I am not yet feeling well, so how much better? How can I tell? I got ChatGPT to tell me what tests to ask the doctor to do to see if the MTHFR gene is mucking me up and it came up with quite a lot, but everything it is measuring is invisible externally, and there is no proof that changing these numbers is changing anything downstream, so how do we measure downstream changes?
I think we need some kind of standardised set of overall metabolic tests that let us know how our entire metabolism is working - although I don’t really know what that means - so that we can track overall improvement, but even then, we will never know that any particular thing we are taking has brought about the improvements, because we can never track the steps by which it has done it. Have a rash, put a cream on it, rash goes away - we can see the whole process, but feed for your genetics and hope like hell your body will heal. Hmmm. Not quite so obvious.
I have been in a high blood pressure crisis for many months with my BP readings routinely from the 160s to 190s and sometimes over 200. My doctor was giving me bigger and bigger doses of more and more drugs, and I agreed to take them because those levels really can kill. But when he wanted to add the third drug to the maximum doses of two others, I finally said no more - I’ll keep taking what I am on and see if I can bring my BP down any other way. But no matter what natural products I took, it still kept creeping up, with the doctor admitting he had no idea why - informing me that most cases of high blood pressure have no identifiable cause!
Then suddenly, one day, it dropped to the 150s and after another few days, it has dropped to the 140s. Did the drugs given by the doctor suddenly click in where they had failed to make a dent in my numbers for months? Or did a mere few days on AgeMate and Metagen Methyl-Active do something that did something that did something that brought my blood pressure down?
This is where AI comes in, because you could never get an answer to this kind of question from any high street doctor. I pondered whether to include the full conversation with ChatGPT, but decided I would. I would recommend that any of you who have an issue with high blood pressure might want to read the details and the rest of you just skim read this section.
Me: I started taking AgeMate supplemented by Metagen Methyl-Active and within a few days my blood pressure, that had not responded to high doses of two different blood pressure medications, dropped from 160s to 190s down to 140s. Is it possible to speculate whether some aspect of the AgeMate/Metagen Methyl-Active supplementation may have impacted on something that impacts on something that impacts on something that reduced the blood pressure? Is there a potential pathway through which this might have occurred?
ChatGPT: It's intriguing that AgeMate and Metagen Methyl-Active might have influenced your blood pressure, especially when conventional medications hadn't been effective. While these supplements are not directly targeted at blood pressure control, several potential pathways could explain their impact on your blood pressure:
1. Enhanced Methylation and Nitric Oxide Production
Potential Pathway: Metagen Methyl-Active is designed to support methylation, which is crucial for numerous biochemical processes, including the synthesis of neurotransmitters and regulation of nitric oxide (NO) production. Improved methylation could enhance endothelial function and NO availability, leading to vasodilation (widening of blood vessels) and thus lower blood pressure.
Connection to Blood Pressure: Enhanced NO levels improve blood vessel flexibility and reduce vascular resistance, directly affecting blood pressure.
2. Reduction of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress
Potential Pathway: Both supplements may contain antioxidants or ingredients that modulate inflammation and oxidative stress, which are known contributors to hypertension. AgeMate, for instance, may include compounds that support mitochondrial function, reducing cellular stress.
Connection to Blood Pressure: Reduced oxidative stress and inflammation can improve endothelial function and reduce arterial stiffness, potentially lowering blood pressure.
3. Improved Mitochondrial Function and Energy Metabolism
Potential Pathway: AgeMate is formulated to support mitochondrial health, which can optimize cellular energy production and improve the function of various tissues, including the heart and blood vessels.
Connection to Blood Pressure: Better mitochondrial efficiency could reduce the heart's workload and improve vascular function, indirectly lowering blood pressure.
4. Impact on Neuroendocrine Function
Potential Pathway: Supplements that support methylation and mitochondrial health may also stabilize neuroendocrine function, including the regulation of the sympathetic nervous system, which you suspect might be overactive.
Connection to Blood Pressure: Balancing neuroendocrine responses could reduce sympathetic nervous system activity, leading to decreased heart rate and blood pressure.
5. Improved Lipid and Glucose Metabolism
Potential Pathway: Enhanced methylation and mitochondrial function can improve lipid and glucose metabolism, indirectly influencing cardiovascular health.
Connection to Blood Pressure: Improved metabolic health can reduce insulin resistance and improve vascular tone, which can help regulate blood pressure.
6. Modulation of Hormone Levels
Potential Pathway: Better methylation and mitochondrial support can influence the synthesis and metabolism of hormones, including those involved in blood pressure regulation like cortisol and aldosterone.
Connection to Blood Pressure: If your supplements improved the balance of these hormones, it could contribute to a reduction in blood pressure.
These pathways collectively suggest that the supplements might not act directly on blood pressure but could create a cascading effect that ultimately benefits vascular health and blood pressure regulation. It would be worth continuing to monitor your blood pressure and perhaps consulting with a healthcare provider who specializes in integrative or genomic medicine to explore these pathways further.
So what has fixed my high blood pressure?
Now I am in no way saying that AgeMate supplemented by Metagen Methyl-Active has normalised my high blood pressure. But if you read through the explanations given by AI as to how it MIGHT have done this, you will see the point I am making, that when we operate at this deep causative level, where we rectify the body’s functioning from its absolutely most basic level, our health can improve in a myriad of ways that can have a myriad of outcomes, none of which can we predict ahead of time. The body will set its own priorities.
I started taking modified citrus pectin to stop cancer metastases. It may or may not have done that, but it dropped my blood sugar readings by about 2 mmol/L - an entirely unexpected outcome with the causative link now well proven.
I started taking AgeMate/Metagen Methyl-Active to potentially fix fibromyalgia. It may or may not be able to do that, but it may have dropped my systolic blood pressure reading by 20-30 mmHg. Causative link not yet proven, but its looking good.
How do we ever know and how do we ever measure success, when we start a process of healing at the genetic level, and from there allow the body itself to work out what to heal, how and when?
The massive limitations of diagnostic systems
We want to see a clear issue, visually, in some way, with our eyes. We have to see an illness directly through visible symptoms like a sore or a rash, or failing that, through test results from blood tests or X-rays etc. If we can’t see it, it’s not there, as everyone who has ever dealt with fibromyalgia or one of the pain syndromes knows. If you can’t see it, in some way, then it doesn’t exist, according to everyone but the person suffering it. Current diagnostics bring some of the invisible into the realm of the visible, but not ALL.
So what visible indicators can we devise to determine the effectiveness or otherwise of supplementing or making other lifestyle changes to circumvent genetic limitations? How do we make our healing visible when what we are treating is not visible?
Finding support and help through this process
I have been been told that a geneticist would not be “interested in someone like me”.
Red rag to a bull, you horrid little man. My next research is to actually find and call these elusive creatures, and find out if there is a way “someone like me” can afford someone like them. The types of therapists who might be appropriate (thankyou ChatGPT) include:
Functional Medicine and Nutrigenomics Specialists: These practitioners often focus on MTHFR and related methylation issues, offering personalized treatment plans that address genetic nuances. They may include nutritional interventions, lifestyle modifications, and specific supplements tailored to MTHFR variants.
Integrative Genetic Counselors: Some genetic counselors specialize in interpreting the impacts of common polymorphisms like MTHFR on health and can provide insights on managing the implications of these variants.
Precision Medicine Clinics: These clinics aim to integrate genetic information into broader care plans, including managing conditions linked to methylation and mitochondrial function.
Practitioners in Epigenetics: Specialists focused on epigenetics often explore how gene expression changes, like those influenced by MTHFR, can be managed through diet, lifestyle, and targeted supplementation.
And ChatGpt has even given me a list of them in Australia.
How did we surivive before AI?
What is true healthcare?
In a few years, I suspect, the current medical infrastructure will look as barbaric to us then as images of Victorian medical infrastructure look to us now. Modern medicine is just a prettied up version of the original barbarism. Not everything about modern medicine is bad, but the way it has all been put together is evil. We need to extract the good and knit it together in a new way to deliver true health care.
If one good thing has come out of “covid”, it is that current medical practices have all been proven to be next to useless against modern diseases. That clears the way for us to find and install better systems, and there are plenty there already for us to work on, nutrigenomics, longevity medicine and sports medicine to mention just three of many.
Who wants to talk about any of this?
I would love to form a brainstorming group where we throw around the options for healing and allow ourselves to consider novel solutions. Please feel free to message me on chat if you would like to be part of an open-minded brainstorming investigation of just what simple and cheap ways there are to protect ourselves from all this toxicity and repair the damage it has caused.
Can you help?
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this is a comment about the NAV stuff, the purported Pasteur quote "The germ is nothing. The terrain is everything"
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/53293/did-louis-pasteur-admit-on-his-deathbed-bernard-the-inventor-of-terrain-theory
"I think it is plausible that the original use of the phrase was a lazy shorthand describing French doctors who sought out what we might call preventative medicine, and was then exploited by a "novelist" falsely caricaturing Pasteur as a germ-crazy fool unaware of bodily conditions. Some decades later, this sort of caricature evolved into an entire pseudoscientific "terrain theory" although doctors never denied the importance of "terrain" in the first place.
The "novelist" in question is Paul Bourget. From Google Books, it looks like he initially published this anecdote in a 1922 issue of L'Illustration:
Professor Renon, who has just died prematurely, told me that, watching Pasteur during his last illness, the latter, whom he thought was asleep, had woken up from an indefinite reflection to tell him: "Renon, it is Bernard who was right. The germ is nothing. The terrain is everything." ("Le professeur Renon, qui vient de mourir prématurément, me racontait que, veillant Pasteur durant sa dernière maladie, celui-ci, qu'il croyait endormi, s'était réveillé d'une réflexion indéfinie pour lui dire : « Renon, c'est Bernard qui avait raison. Le germe n'est rien. Le terrain est tout. »")
This also appears word-for-word in his 1929 book Au service de l'ordre, on p.199. L. Renon was a real doctor at l'Hôpital Necker. However, according to an affidavit drawn up at the time of Pasteur's death, the attending doctors were named Emile Roux and Louis Vaillard.
Thank you Christine! You are an inspiration to me
I’ve been travelling similar paths since this 2020 joke started, though so far far behind you. My ailments are petty comparing, my focus completly scattered, my resources short. Also saved for a infrared professional Joylux and a bulb (bad choice, EMF levels, which i only found out i reacted to some crisis later on). And now i’m waiting for my genetic testing. I wish i could give you more support. I’m a 50 unvaxxed girl from Lisbon, wishing you the best and following your journey.