Dr Bryan Ardis (& nicotine) vs the rest of the world
...it's not about the spike protein and the ACE2 receptors, but a venom protein from snakes and the nicotine receptors [edited 07 June 2024]
This Bryan Ardis video (click on the image), is the best of his videos I have come across so far. I have already written, and with some skepticism, about his ideas, and this one and another video attached below have clarified it for me. His story is getting more coherent as he learns how to tell it better. But why has no doctor joined him? Even those he is friendly with stay out of this one.
Please watch the video, and read what follows, as I attempt to make sense of the whole scene and make it comprehensible to the millions around the world who have been abandoned by the medical industry and have to work out their own healing program. What follows is my understanding from what I heard in these videos.
For those readers here who understand the medicine better than I do, please correct me if I have gone wrong.
Long Covid
Lots of people have a set of debilitating symptoms that are being called “long covid”. They seem to have resulted from either covid the virus, or the injection, or shedding from the injection , or 5G, or pretty much by anything that was unique to the last 4 or so years. A lot of these people are seriously disabled, dying or dead.
The spike protein [Edited 07 June 2024]
And, for most, it’s all about the covid spike protein. There is this nasty part of the virus or the jab or the shedding, called the spike protein, which apparently helps what is being called a virus get into the cell, but also then damages the ACE2 receptors so they no longer function as they should. As a result, the number of ACE2 receptors on the cell surface decreases, potentially affecting the normal physiological functions of ACE2 - in other words, there are no longer enough healthy receptors to do whatever else they are supposed to do. One critical function they serve is the regulation of blood pressure and the shortage of ACE2 contributes to inflammation, fibrosis, and vasoconstriction which can cause the high blood pressure.
Have I got that right so far?
(I won’t get into the debate about whether viruses are real because its actually not relevant, as you will see, with the Ardis theory later in this article.)
The diagnosis
As far as I am aware there is no test I can have done to detect “the spike protein” or the level of ACE2 damage, so there is no way to detect if any of the treatments proposed for it are actually working. At best there seem to be “indicators” and no way for mere mortals to get an actual diagnosis of rampant spike proteins and how they are responding to supposed treatments. Please correct me if I am wrong. I will amend this post with any real test that can be applied by any real GP to any real long covid sufferer, to find this spike protein any where in the body or a compromised ACE2 receptor system. As far as I can see it is all conjecture.
The treatments
A bevy of concerned doctors have come up with treatments that are touted as able to kick the spike protein back off the ACE2 receptors by some mechanism or other, or perhaps repair damaged ACE2 receptors. These treatments include various drugs that must have a prescription to access, and that, in some countries, have been made illegal. They also include lots of nice healthy things that may or may not work without the prescription only or illegal drugs, making them hard to implement where the local doctors have been told by their lords and masters that there is no such thing as long covid. Four years on it is still not a recognised diagnosis in Australia and Australian doctors are not permitted to think for themselves or act on their consciences when it comes to treating long covid.
The FLCCC group of doctors have addressed the issue and have doctor dependent protocols for all aspects of covid.
However, ChatGPT is not sure we can fix the damaged or missing ACE2 receptors so I would like to find out a lot more about just what value the FLCCC doctors think their protocols have in relation to damaged or missing ACE2 receptors.
“While the reduction of ACE2 receptors by the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 can have implications for disease pathogenesis and progression, the body possesses mechanisms for ACE2 regulation and recovery. With time and appropriate supportive measures, including medical interventions and lifestyle modifications, the body may be able to restore ACE2 levels to varying degrees, potentially mitigating the long-term effects of ACE2 receptor reduction. However, further research is needed to better understand the mechanisms underlying ACE2 regulation and recovery and to develop targeted therapeutic strategies for promoting tissue repair and regeneration in conditions associated with ACE2 dysregulation.”
The success of the treatments
There seem to be few recoveries from long covid, resulting from these treatments. Some people get a little bit better, and a lot is made of those improvements, but a lot of people get a lot worse. We have graduated from the spate of deaths from heart issues and stroke (which were never called long covid), and are moving onto an era of turbo and multiple cancers (also not called long covid), so something really awful is still going on. These supposed treatments are either not being correctly applied, or are not addressing all aspects of the long-term damage incurred during the covid era.
Then in rides Dr Bryan Ardis
The Dr Bryan Ardis story is also about an invading protein. But this time it is about the protein of two different toxic snake venoms that are taking up residence on nicotine acetylcholine receptors or nAChRs.
It’s all about snake venom
Bryan Ardis makes this very clear statement in the following video:
“spike proteins are venom protein from snakes”
The video below is very long but is full of gems you wont want to miss. If you are dealing with long covid, blood issues, heart issues or turbo cancer, your life is worth the time it takes to watch it.
The Antidote: The Explosive Truth, Origin, and Antidote for C19
(My reservation about whether the spike protein actually exists has not been addressed but is rendered irrelevant. No-one is looking for proteins associated with snake venom so obviously they are not going to find them.)
What is nicotine?
We all know about nicotine being the drug that keeps us addicted to smoking tobacco, but how many of us know that our bodies require nicotine and have receptors in the body specifically designed to trap and use nicotine to maintain certain aspects of nervous system health. In fact, how many of us know that there is scientific dispute that nicotine is even particularly addictive?
What function do the nicotine receptors have? [Edited 07 June 2024]
Not every cell in our body has nicotine receptors, but plenty do. Nicotine primarily interacts with a receptor known as nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), which are a subtype of acetylcholine receptors.
These receptors are found in various parts of the body, including:
Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
Muscle Cells where they are essential for muscle contraction
Some Immune Cells such as lymphocytes and macrophages, which can influence immune responses and inflammation.
Other Tissues including the cardiovascular system where they affect heart rate and blood pressure, and the gastrointestinal tract.
However, many other cell types in the body do not have these receptors:
epithelial cells
most connective tissue cells
specialized cells in organs that do not respond directly to neurotransmitters or nicotine.
Here’s what we are told the nicotine receptors actually do.
“A key function of nicotinic receptors is to trigger rapid neural and neuromuscular transmission. Nicotinic receptors are found in: The somatic nervous system (neuromuscular junctions in skeletal muscles). The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system (autonomic ganglia).”
and
“Nicotinic receptors mediate fast excitatory neurotransmission at the neuromuscular junction and at autonomic ganglia, and may mediate neurotransmission and serve as a neuromodulator in brain, spinal cord, and non-neural tissues such as fibroblasts, lymphocytes, and glia.”
and
“The nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptor, at the neuromuscular junction, is a neurotransmitter-gated ion channel that has been fine-tuned through evolution to transduce a chemical signal into an electrical signal with maximum efficiency and speed.”
I don’t fully understand this, but it does sound like our bodies are designed to use a certain amount of nicotine (we can get plenty in a normal unrestricted diet) and a lack of nicotine, or its inability to be taken up by the receptors might potentially lead to a whole host of the nervous system symptoms associated with long covid.
What triggers nicotine receptors into action?
While the nAChRs can respond to other things in their quest to handle neurotransmission, they prefer nicotine.
“Although all acetylcholine receptors, by definition, respond to acetylcholine, they respond to other molecules as well. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR, also known as "ionotropic" acetylcholine receptors) are particularly responsive to nicotine.”
Where do we get nicotine from if we don’t smoke tobacco?
We get nicotine naturally in our diets from the nightshade family, your cup of tea and cauliflower, but in tiny amounts compared to tobacco.
“Nicotine is the addictive phytochemical in tobacco, which is derived from plants in the Nicotiana species of the Solanaceae family. Other species in this family include Capsicum and Solanum, whose edible fruits and tubers include peppers, tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants. All contain nicotine.”
In other words, if you give up eating all the supposedly toxic foods from the nightshade family you might find it difficult to get enough nicotine in your diet for nervous system health, let alone when a venomous toxin is squatting on your nAChRs, and refusing to move on without a big shove from nicotine. (I tend to draw mind pictures for new concepts so that I can partially understand and recall them. These pictures may or may not be useful for you.)
Different receptors require different treatments
So, presuming that a protein and its loading of toxic snake venom is pairing with a nicotine receptor rather than an ACE2 receptor, it will presumably need different treatments to make it move it on.
Dr Bryan Ardis tells us that when we take large doses of nicotine (but not too large), the nicotine receptors will drop the snake venom and welcome the nicotine instead.
In the literature there seems to be two elements that these nAChRs apparently love. Obviously nicotine is one, given that they are nicotine receptors. Amazingly, Ivermectin may be another.
The simplest treatment - nicotine patches
Dr Bryan Ardis is recommending using nicotine to knock the spike protein off these receptors. We can get the big burst of nicotine from the nicotine patches or nicotine gum designed to give smokers support while they break their addiction to tobacco.
The added advantage of this is that we can walk into any chemist and buy them off the shelf. They are not very cheap, but the overall treatment process is cheaper than anything else available so why not try it?
For anyone whose interest in nicotine has been piqued, this article gives a great insight into how it works and what it does.
And Ivermectin might just work too
These receptors also like Ivermectin, which is a good thing given it is one of the drugs recommended by the fans of the ACE2 receptor theory. If we use ivermectin we are having an each-way bet, so that we don’t have to work out which theory (ACE2 or nAChR) is correct.
If we do use Ivermectin to knock the spike protein/snake venom off the receptors, we will still need to ensure we are getting enough nicotine - hopefully through our diet - to allow the nAChRs to do their job. Who knew?
Do we need to neutralise the snake venoms as well?
So what happens to the snake venom proteins when they are knocked off the nAChRs? Are they neutralized in some way so that we can detox them naturally or do we need to do something with them once they are back circulating through our system? Probably yes, and maybe we have simple herb that can do that, Mucuna Pruriens (Velvet Bean).
In an interview with the Australian Ricardo Bosi, Bryan Ardis has recommended Mucuna Pruriens (Velvet Bean) as a herb that seems to detox snake venom.
He also covers mucuna pruriens, ivermectin and nicotine in this short video.
Dr. Bryan Ardis: Nicotine Gum STOPS Covid-19- The Answer To The Covid-19 Pandemic
The mucuna pruriens seed can be used directly to protect against toxicity from snake bites in general.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780123756886100489
So where does this leave us?
To my mind, the theory as explained by Bryan Ardis makes sense, and the treatments recommended are easy to source, not too expensive, easy to take and offer very fast changes in health.
My personal experience with using nicotine patches
Dose - 1 x 7 mg nicotine patch each 24 hours for 6 consecutive days - that’s all!
I have personally used the nicotine patches and truthfully, they did not treat many of the symptoms of long covid, at least in the short term as he claims, but they did treat one critical symptom, brain fog.
The patches brought my brain back online from wherever it had been hiding and if possible I may have better brain function now than I had before covid. I could never write in the evening. Now I can. That is a major change.
I have found that, following extensive medical intervention involving hospitalisation for cancer, my brain went back into brain fog. I instantly lifted it back out of brain fog using nicotine patches. I have done this three times now, so I know it works. Other vagus nerve symptoms also appear to improve, but I am not as certain about them.
And note that I am an ex smoker and my nicotine addiction has not been triggered in any way by using nicotine patches. I have noticed no pull towards applying more patches or acquiring nicotine in any other way once the recommended 6 days was up. I repeated the 6 days three times with a gap in between, and no hint of addiction.
Nicotine patches work
In fact, I can happily say that the nicotine patches have brought about the most obvious health improvement of everything I have taken. This does not mean that other supplements are not doing other even more critical work, for example, berberine and modified citrus pectin bring down my blood sugar significantly, but I would not know that without measuring the sugar in my blood. I do not “feel” better from using them. But the reward from the nicotine patches is immediate and obvious and significant. And when every aspect of our lives is compromised by long covid, we need every emotional boost we can get. Thank you Bryan Ardis.
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Christine, I am grateful for your approach to this story. Dr Ardis has a case worth respectful consideration and discussion. His introduction of nicorette as a therapeutic was helpful to me with my family and I think the mechanisms of effectiveness are articulated by Jennifer and others -- sometimes we get observations but it takes time to develop models and an understanding of mechanisms. We may not ever have a perfect model but the C19 phenom is particularly difficult because of all the potential etiologies for the syndromes of C19 -- the spike and mRNA formulation variations -- the infection vs jabs vs shedding and the dispersement patterns in diverse populations -- but I think you wisely go to the central question-- WHAT WORKS? I think Dr Ardis has an evolving program to answer that question in the same way so many physicians and researchers have evolving programs. It’s how medicine evolves. I am glad we are in a period where patients can share their experiences with others -- because it makes it harder to suppress the truth even though tricksters are at work too. I appreciate your work here and made notes from the commentators to explore. 💜
Hi Christine, I’ve heard of nicotine helping, so I looked into the venom theory a bit more and found that there is a thought that it’s not actually snake venom, but that the spike binds to acetyl choline receptors and blocks them in the same way that snake venom would.
I think I will do a write up on this as well because covid has left me with ongoing bowel problems that have been a challenge to fix, but I did find some good information on what you have presented here about how nicotine can be beneficial.