Very interesting diagnostic procedures that do have positive impact on disease states. The issue I have is that we don't profile the patient's immune system by measuring the blood value of key components that reflect the vibrancy of the immune system that is the key defense mechanism against all pathogens. My key candidates are Vitamin D, which controls the gene expression of over 3000 genes, Zinc which is anti-viral and glutathione that is key to healthy hepatic function. Also, maintaining a healthy microbiome. Read this AM about how Ace BP inhibitors destroy Zinc blood level. In turn, were Covid patients who were on Ace inhibitors more susceptible to the virus? I remember one astute physician pointing this out early on and then he was criticized for his assessment, and he became silent on the issue. I also recall the FDA considering taking NAC which is a precursor to Glutathione off the market and make it a Rx Drug. Why? The medicine man continues to ignore the fact that nutrient deficiencies are one of the root causes of why disease states develop.
I have NAC, Zinc, D (which I've taken over a decade at the recommendation of my internal medicine doctor) and others in my cabinet. To my knowledge, I've never had COVID or if I did, it was nothing more than some seasonal cold or flu. Good stuff!
Thomas, this article reminded me of genome testing— essentially how to know which drug works on the right on the right patient (eg: fast or slow metabolizers).
And all those you just mentioned do not need a prescription for prevention in daily use.
Just good ol common sense and half a days reading for usage and possible side effects.
Natural Remedy has been beaten down like a junk yard dog. Just inquire for advice from Doctor Racheal Maddow. The "Professor Einstein" of Queer ass Quacks on MSNBC.
btw, Prof. One Beer is not who he is purported to be. Somehow his hypothesis was celebrated without being accurate and this partially explains the mess we find ourselves in today. Sorry, don't have any references for this tidbit, but do remember reading it somewheres; mb in a Barnes Review article?
Geez, thanks Thomas! My wife is on Losartin-- an ACE receptor antagonist. Can I assume this is the same as those you refer to or slightly different. She also has osteopenia; been taking calcium supplements. I have read they are the WORST thing she should be taking as the extra Ca is NOT sent to the bones for making stronger bones/ density but ends up migrating to vascular tissue and making it inflexible!? If true, she is potentially reducing zinc and increasing her BP using both Losartin and taking Ca! I have indications she instead should be on the type of BP meds called calcium channel blockers.
Not asking for medical advice here, but wondering how far off base you think I am? thx.
Boron, she needs to take trace mineral Boron. Most of us are deficient in it. Used to help control CA and Mg balance in the body AND help move Ca into the bones. Also want to have some K2 around to do the trick.
Borax Mule Team certainly: 1/8 teaspoon in 1 liter of distilled water. Drink over the day do it for 3 to 4 days, take a couple of days off. There is such a thing as ionic boron supplement but I don't know how bio available it is. Borax makes the boron in it bio available... (it is a salt of boron)
This information came at a most important time for me. I have been struggling with a UTI infection for over six months. Many rounds of antibiotics and testing after testing have produced no results! I just completed another round of antibiotics and am going in for another culture next week. I am printing this out and giving it to my doctor. Please keep posting these informative columns Dr Malone! You never know just who needs to read it!
Female utis are hard to diagnose. My mom had one they had fits treating. I suspected she had an e. coli infection, and was right but took them forever to find it.
Forgot to add…the meds they treated mom with eased her chronic stomach problem. When she told her urologist he told her it should not have since was quite acidic and suggested she had a “basic stomach” which led to the diagnosis of pernicious anemia from which she obviously had suffered from for quite a few years.
I remember about 35 plus years ago they figured out antibiotics could cure stomach ulcers. I read about it and mentioned it to my cousin who suffered from ulcers. About a week later my cousin asked me how I knew about the treatment his doctor said it was just discovered as a treatment.
Antibiotic treatment for ulcers put a kibosh on my father’s complaint that my mother was causing his ulcer. They divorced 20 years prior to the discovery of the previously unknown bacteria Helicobacter pylori.
My husband was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer over 45 yrs ago. A friend told him to try taking ground cayenne pepper. He thought that was crazy but tried a small pinch in a small amount of water. It had a soothing effect so he began taking a little every day, increasing it a little every so often. Never had symptoms again.
H. pylori. Also if you take that lovely Nitanzioxide anti protozoal, it will cure H. Pylori infection in 2 weeks, 500 mg 2x a day for 2 weeks. No proton pump inhibitor and no multiple abxs... seriously. They know it is the 'cure' and y you'll never get a doc to prescribe it. Just sayin it pays to read the literature!
Unagnu, I did read about H.pylori. Two questions. John told me the bone on bone hip caused the infection, could this be the cause of the infection? And second why would they not prescribe the drug you mentioned? Without knowing about the drug you mentioned my friend was convinced the hospital drove up the bill with tests, treatments, even operations. Your thoughts.
I used to get UTIs but since taking Vit C and specifically liposomal vit C I don't have them anymore. Occasionally I get a little pain from not drinking enough water, but D Mannose helps with that. I also had an ulcer for many many years, and tried numerous natural treatments, but after taking 5,000 mgs of liposomal C for two weeks, I passed a small packet (bio film) and all my symptoms disappeared, and have not returned. I had been treating myself for H pylori which causes most ulcers, but until I found the single study that said liposomal C could penetrate the biofilm I was wasting my time and money. There are still not many studies involving liposomal C and I hope that changes. If you decide to try it please make sure it is a a quality brand. I use Core Med. Prior to taking liposomal C, I visited the medical forums to read the accounts of people who took the antibiotic route. The therapy for H-Pylori often involves several antibiotics, and 99% of the patients said they felt like they were dying and often the infection returned. I experienced none of that while taking the high dose liposomal C. As far as I have read high dose vit C is quite safe. If taken for extended periods you would probably want to watch your copper levels and avoid taking with plant foods high in iron (non-heme). You could also check your blood work for any unwanted changes.
Try Nitinazodide (sp). Works. 2 weeks 500 mg 2x daily. There is proof. The docs will never prescribe it tho. Just like IVM cures scabies. They won't go for the cure, just the drugs that 'help' but do not 'cure' the patients... .
UTIs can also be fungal and if treated with traditional antibiotics, can flare up and be a nuisance for months. Important to determine if bacterial or fungal.
For what it’s worth, we have a clinic here in Madison specializing in vexing UTIs and other frustrating gyn issues. They acknowledge that there can be multiple causes and multiple treatments for each active infection. They also recommend a variety of preventive approaches such as use of estradiol, “repressive” antibiotic therapy (i.e. all the time), and use of supplements such as cranberry and d-mannose, in addition to urine testing to identify which bacteria (or bacteriae) may be causing any specific infection. Once a urine specimen is in the lab, they do cultures repeatedly over a period of many days and may change the antibiotic several times as the culture results emerge. A friend of mine getting help from this clinic has changed antibiotics several times in one week as the lab isolates more information about the bugs contributing to the infection. Not aware whether they do this Nucleic acid extraction process covered in Dr Malone’s excellent article, but they get good results. I hope this is helpful.
Barbara, I have struggled with UTI's different antibiotics. I went to a urologist had a cystoscopy he put me on a short period of Sulfatrim, highly recommended UTIVA Cranberry Pacs. a supplement. It has been two years and no UTI, however I take my Utiva, one a bedtime.
I'm not suggesting UTIs are a simple subject, but whenever I get one I add 12 drops of Lugol's iodine to 12 ounces of water and drink that. It seems to be safe to do this daily, and I suspect multiple doses per day are probably OK short term. It may not help you, but it is non-toxic, cheap and it either works quickly or not.
This post is a beautiful example of the incredible gift God has given to Robert Malone for what he generates for his Substack. He perfectly balances articles that appeal to my intellectual curiosity as a practicing physician and researcher, writings that highlight the common graces of living in this world that God created, and some political humor to laugh with God at the wicked rulers who “take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed” Psalm 2:2 (ESV). Thank you my friend for doing that which the Lord is giving you to do… Blessings to you! – Tom.
Perhaps this could be helpful in addressing cures or at least improvement quality of life for dementia patients. Many have chronic UTIs which have confusing symptoms in elderly. My husband who has lived with dementia for many years starts babbling incoherently and I'm told he dementia is worsening. At one time we had a brilliant PT who suggested he had a UTI because she noticed he was not responding as usual, so he was tested and cultured and indeed he had a bacterial infection, prescribed antibiotic and about three days later he was able to communicate again, still has dementia but able to tell us what he wants needs, have basic conversations, talk about the news, make jokes ets. Now he has chronic UTIs (hard to keep him properly hydrated or or perhaps the hidden bacteria showing up after one is taken out). I have begun testing with an Azo strip before discussing any changes with our healthcare professionals. thank you Dr Malone for sharing this post.
So, back in October of last year, I started to develop some really odd sensations in my groin area, and scheduled an appt with my primary doctor for a general checkup, and exploring why I was having sensitivity (itchy or pressure) in both my rectal area, and my testes. I was having "tail bone pain as well. This led me on a 3.5 month journey where the answer to my issues was something that no one, specifically myself, actually expected.
Having prostatitis as a young (STUPID) man, from stupid things I did as a young man, I assumed that maybe my prostatitis came back, some 30 years later. This assumption was based upon the initial visit and my "urine culture strip", my doc said that I had trace blood in the test strip, and that I needed a 21 day course of Bactrim or Sulfamexazole. Willingly, both of us thought that this would "fix me up". Off to the pharmacy for my drugs, and life went on. She took about 20 vials of blood and a bajillion tests negative later, and here we are, taking meds that it turns out, I never needed.
Well that time transpired, and I still had the sensitivity or itchiness, which is where I was when this all began back in October.
Imagine having poison ivy, and feeling "itchy" with a sore tailbone. Well, that was the internalized sensation I was feeling from day one, and being 56, and in good shape, other than your normal aches and pains, the diagnosis of prostatitis being not affected by the month of drugs, found me being shipped out to "specialists", thereby being sent to a urologist and gastro for exam, and colonoscopy, as recommended by my primary.
So upon initial visit to the Gastro for my discussion, the doc there listened to me tell him the same story I was telling the other doctors, of how I started to feel this "itchy" feeling inside my privates, and how it was all based right around the same time I started doing these 6 to 9 hour drives with my wife back and forth to our new vacation home 3 states away. Both my primary, and the gastro said that they didn't find it unusual that someone was complaining that they had issues with sensitivity, when that person started driving for really long distances, out of the blue. The Gastro immediately set me up for a full colonoscopy, and I left again with no real answers. I did not go for the test, as I had just had one about 8 years prior, and I just didn't want to live through all that again. That script for the test went in the trash, and I went forwards in the quest, and off to the "urologist".
Next up was the large specialty Urology group to see what they thought. So after the same long winded speech about how we were doing these long drives across state lines, and hearing the same speech from them that "they have truckers in there all the time complaining of similar issues", another DRE exam, urology and blood were ordered.
The Urology Doc did the DRE, and for the first time in my life of having them done once every couple years, this "Doc" must have been pissed off at his wife or husband that morning, because he put such pressure on my prostate, that I nearly blacked out on the table. Doc offered me one of these PSA altering drugs used to treat BPH in males to spend the rest of my life on, and with Prescription in hand, I walked out. Shortly thereafter, I threw the prescription in the trash, cancelled my follow up visit, and went on with my day, again, no closer to figuring out what was going on, and why am I feeling this way.
So being a former bodybuilding goofball, frustrated, I decided to take the time in the gym, and instead of working on my biceps, I put way more effort into my stretching routine which I had started to develop about a year ago. This time, I would really focus on hamstrings, and back to see if I could feel better when doing these long rides, by stretching the areas which were near my groin and see what happens. This is where things started to clarify in my mind.
Why ?
Because I realized that I had the physical ability to control how intense this feeling of "Itchy and pressure" was, by the process of positioning. Standing I felt it. Sitting I felt it. Lying down, back up I felt it, but as soon as I put a couple pillows under my knees, while lying on my back, the sensations decreased, sometimes to nothing.
Paying attention to your body, and how things react, sometimes pays off.
Well, after about a week, my wife suggested that I use my "Teeter" inversion table (also known as coat rack) to see if that would have any effect on my stretching routine. Well, the wife-e-poo hit a proverbial nerve, and one day, after climbing down off of my former coat rack, turned teeter machine, I noticed all my sensations had disappeared, walking away from the machine.
(Light bulb goes on in the cranium)
So I start to put a direct correlation between my symptoms I was experiencing, and my stretching routine, and my hanging upside down, all Batman style, on my teeter machine. After about a 2 week period, I was able to significantly alter how my "itchy" feeling was by both stretching, and hanging upside down like a damn Wuhan Bat. This process of exploration prompted me to the next phase of the search, which was Chiropractic assistance.
First chiro guy turned out to be a real dud. He listened to me upon initial contact, but shortly thereafter, instead of focusing on my itchy feels, he kept focusing on my shoulder issue, which had no relevance to why I was there to begin with. Dumped his ass after the 2nd visit.
Contacted my Firearms Trainer, and asked him if he knew any chiros who were honest. He turned me onto Dr. Matt, and so the process of elimination continued.
First visit was interesting. I told Doc I could alter the intensity of my issues, and as soon as I mentioned my testicles, his face went blank. Doc agreed to work with me, but it was under the condition that I get an MRI of my lower spine. HE asked what insurance I had, and after deciding my insurance sucked ass, and he didn't accept it anyway, he told me of the local facility where I could get my MRI, and we could start properly treating me for my ailment. The very next morning, I paid the $500 out of pocket expense, and had my MRI done by 6:30am. Doc called me at 2:30 that day, and told me to stop by, and that he had some news for me on what to do, moving forward.
later that day, I stopped in, and was handed the MRI report. I have damaged discs from L1 through S1, nothing ruptured, there were some discs that were bulged and some spurs and beginnings of stenosis around the nerves heading south. Turns out that all this time it had nothing to do with my bladder, my prostate, my testes, my rectum, my anus or anything else downstairs. This was all fantom irritation from nerves in my lower spine which were sending signals to my brain that something was going on down there. Finally, I had a diagnosis that I was comfortable with, although not happy at all. life will be different from here on out.
Doc then told me that if I do not become proactive against this process, I would in all likelihood, wind up wearing a diaper if the nerves to my pelvis were damaged enough to stop transmitting signals past the damage area of my spine.
WHAT ?????? This woke my ass up.....hence why I'm stretching my body nearly 1 hour every day.
Days of heavy lifting are over. Tonga use brain from now on, and minimize use of brute body power.
No more swinging 150 lb dumbells, you big dummy !
Sitting requires fancy cushion with hole in the back end.
So, what is the point of this long winded, bla, bla, bla post ? BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE. No one is going to fix you, and in all likelihood, you will go down a few wrong pathways in the meantime.
ha! No, but that is a good idea. I take it apart and stand it in the closet because I only use it about 5x / year-- when I am forced to by muscle spasming. Guess here, but you probably have about 2x the forces on your spine compared to me-- 145# soaking wet!
Yes be your own advocate. I was in a car wreck 4 years ago. I have 3 severe curves in my back do to scoliosis that I have had since I was a teen. I was always active my whole life which save me. The wreck destabilized my back and dropped me 2”. I could only walk very slowly for if I didn’t my hips would go out. I found a chiropractor that got me walking again. I had always been an avid walker.
I’m not suppose to lift more than 5 lbs. How do you do that?
The reason I tell you this is I found the swimming pool . I have 10 lbs water weights I use in the pool. Zero gravity.
It keeps me moving and building muscle. I was so weak that it took me months to be able to pull the weights under the water. But I persisted . Along with your stretches go to the pool. It has been a miracle for me.
That’s to bad he’s a really good guy. I’m not sure if he could help you without physically seeing you but maybe he could give you a list of exercises even things you could look up online as a routine. He helped my wife as I told you. She had c-5 - c-7 fused and he did her PT. She’s always had a bad pain along her shoulder blade in the middle of her back. He would press his finger in her shoulder and would relieve the pain for days. She enjoyed it so much I jokingly told Steve to stop touching my wife 🤔. Hope you are able to get him, and feel better!!!
A friend of mine who has plastered for me over 40 years had gotten sick to the point he couldn’t get off the floor one day. He had gone to his PCP prior but didn’t get the correct tests to find out what was wrong. He ended up at Beth Israel hospital in Boston. After some testing they found he had a very high inflammatory level in a blood test taken. He had had a really bad bone on bone hip that had become infected. He was prescribed antibiotics immediately and was given a bed in the hospital. Weeks and weeks went by, this turned into months and months. They kept operating on him and flushing his joints out of the infection. He finally got a specialist to see him and said you’ve been receiving the wrong antibiotics to fight this type of infection. Still in the hospital the new antibiotics were given to my friend John T. Finally after 10 months and over a dozen operations he began to round the corner. Finally after a year John went home in a wheelchair continuing the very strong antibiotics. Little by little he got out of the wheelchair and began slowly getting around with a cain. I was doing a job and had a couple small things John could do and in a friendly way forced him back to work on his own time. Since John has had one hip replaced and in six weeks is going for his second. Originally he should have had that inflammation test. The specialist doctor told John he’s amazed he’s still alive. https://youtu.be/OOgpT5rEKIU?si=1jsUR3jDLQSFOKSS
D A KESTER I just looked up the blood test that checks inflammation in the body. It’s called a C-Reactive protein. When elevated it could be a sign of serious life threatening infection including sepsis which is exactly what my friend John had. This test, if performed at his primary care physician office, could have saved him over a year in the hospital. Also amazingly they have a home kit with a finger prick that you can take to find out inflammation levels in the body, amazing. This simple test can detect all sorts of infection including many cancers.
Good to know. Where I’m allergic to most antibiotics it is frightening to think of getting an infection that I can’t treat because I’m allergic to the antibiotic.
While I fully understand the anger & frustration felt by patients, at the same time this is the prefect example of the Achilles heel in the current version of the medical profession, which is to focus on treating those in the bell curve & ignore the rest because they don’t fit into the profit motive. I assuming the doctor that did finally helped him, focused on the cause of the problem & as a result found avenues to provide a better diagnosis. The medical profession is filled with as many or much of the also-rans as any profession. The problem for patients is that the odds are not in your favor in getting one of the standouts. Beyond that though, this article is a prefect example of why Mother Nature is head & shoulders above the all knowing globalist. As the guy said, ‘there is more to heaven & earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy, my dear Horatio’.
Indeed. These days if you don't fit into the one size fits all solution it's darn tough to find anyone willing to exercise enough curiosity to find remedies that are outside the box.
I just spent a year dealing with drones like this at a nursing home that claimed to be able to rehab my stroke survivor wife after a hip replacement.
This was truly interesting to read. I appreciated how well it explained the way some bacteria can actually incorporate the body’s own defense mechanisms in order to hide and strengthen themselves, undetected! I know of a number of women who get repeat UTIs and therefore have to take antibiotics repeatedly. I am going to save this to share.
Over the years, we discovered that almost every single patient complaining of “aseptic” chronic interstitial cystitis or (geriatric) urge incontinence overwhelmingly had prevotella sp in their urine, identifed by Microgen Dx NGS. In 20 years of inpatient and outpatient medical practice, I have yet to see a Urine C&S identify any amount of prevotella….Once treated with metronidazole (the primary antibiotic of choice), symptoms resolved which resulted in huge improvements in QOL. For $199 (the cost of the test), lives can be changed (for the good). THAT is what I went into medicine for….not committing patients to decades of polypharmacy and side effect mitigation. Thank you for your catalytic topics and commentary which have an infinitely greater potential to improve lives than us solo docs in the “trenches” can manage seeing one suffering soul at a time. 🙏
Hell no to the Borax. Cats should not eat kibble dry food in first place. It is carb loaded crap for all cats, who are obligate carnivores. Give only soft canned food twice a day, as much as they want. But no free kibble feeding. Besides the dry food most likely has bad bacteria growing in it. Our male got life-threatening urinary tract blockage before stopping the dry food. Females not only ones with potential issues. And get the best quality canned food you can. Yes the raw food diet for them is attractive (I used to make it for them) but has its own parasite issues. If they can tolerate chicken meat then slightly cooked bits of that can be added to canned food.
This article is important to me to communicate with a couple of friends who fail to understand that corvid-19 should have been treated with off the shelf drugs. I will use this article to help them see cracks in the medical establishment.
This article shows another example, like Lyme, of how the medical establishment has failed to effectively treat some complex conditions because they assume that testing and Big Pharma drugs are sufficient.
The bigger example of the themes in this paper is the reluctance of this society to realize that most chronic diseases can be avoided by lifestyles that eliminate inflammations and insulin resistance. Robert Lufkin's book, which will be out in June, focuses on diet and lifestyle issues that he enacted to eliminate his 4 chronic diseases which he thought would require treatment for the rest of his life. The book: "Lies I Taught My Students in Medical School."
Dr. Klinghardt (Lyme Disease expert) many years ago explained this pathology of biofilms, involved in chronic Lyme Disease. He described treatments as peeling an onion where layers needed to be removed with numerous substances used at appropriate times. Drugs like Ivermectin could be useful. neutriceuticals like artemisinin, andrographis, cat's claw, curcuminoids, chlorella and one of his favorites was bee venom done with neural therapy. All cysts, especially Baker's cysts behind the knee were suseptible to being these conglomerations. He also highly recommended colon therapies, methylation therapies with B 12, B6, folinic acid, buffered C, NAC, Vit D3, extra virgin coconut oil, etc. etc. etc.
Yes doxycyclinè 100mg twice per day (adult) Not for children or pregnant women. He also used other antibiotics and antifungals, antigout. Not entirely more successful just at certain times maybe useful
This is very reminiscent of the behavior we've watched in unions for decades. Don't compete with improved services or more competitive pricing. Just kneecap the competition then you don't have to worry about some one out innovating you.
True. On the other hand, even at a current nonprofit or loss status it would help maintain their customer base. They are inventive rascals. I haven't the slightest doubt they could come up with a way to make it profitable.
What country owns these genitic tests ? I've heard that China owns. 23& me and Ancestry dot com, so unsuspecting Americans are giving their genetic code to the China govt.
At this point, i guess giving our dna to china is safer than giving it to the usg under Joe Biteme
I think the test is looking for the genetic signature of the specific bacteria, which is no more invasive than a blood test result or no more threatening to privacy.
No—China does the DNA processing for 23&Me but Ancestry is USA only. Still, the whole idea of giving up your DNA to any other company is now abhorrent to me for genealogy. Back to the old-time methods for me.
As a writer and editor, and as someone who knows right from wrong when it comes to spelling and grammar, I consider it an egregious error for a well-educated and knowledgable writer such as Dr. Malone to make such a mistake.
Mistakes like that give the impression the writer is ignorant, dumb, any of a dozen other epithets that those who oppose Dr. Malone and his colleagues use to dismiss us all as stupid backwoods-dwellers who don't know the difference between a burro and a burrow.
I do not disagree with improper grammar and terms being misinterpreted as “dumb and uneducated” in the past, at least. Since we know that Dr Malone is neither of those things, it would be reasonable to surmise that he is using speech-to-text to “type” many, if not all, of his compositions (if he isn’t, the man has even more superpowers than I thought - quite unfair for the rest if us 😜). As a former proofreader for fellows in college and graduate school, these issues would annoy me to no end on social media posts (Jack Kruse MD neurosurgeon still has so many typos and missing words on fb I am tempted to volunteer proofreading services to him some days just to help with reading comprehension!). Now that we are seeing these high volume, marathon-length substack posts being composed using speech-to-text, these errors are becoming the rule rather than the exception, even for the very brightest and tedious of writers. I keep thinking that these obvious “type A” perfectionists are so bogged down with tasks these days, they have relinquished the high-control, OCDesq need to make each sentence perfect in exchange for getting the “job done” and message across. I am frequently in awe of how these writers have day-jobs and lives, yet continue to pound out so much valuable (vital, even) information. If we must choose between loads of quality potentially life-saving information vs less information composed with precision, for the sake of survival, we may have to choose the former, not the latter. Just pondering and “thinking outloud”, not criticizing, as these times are getting less and less civilized, not only where it pertains to grammar.
Thank you for your post; I appreciate and understand your points.
More than 18 months ago, I volunteered to edit Dr. Malone's substacks or any other publications, for free, anytime day or night, but I never got a reply.
More recently, I had two serious and civil conversations with doubters/critics of Dr. Malone, and I was hesitant to forward any of his posts -- without first correcting the typos -- because I was interacting with fellow retired journalists who would have sneered at the typos/mistakes.
Dr. Malone may indeed be using speech-to-text or other AI methods to "write" but I am skeptical because I continue to see the same bad-habit errors: "loose" instead of "lose"; "there" instead of "their;" "to" instead of "too."
I cannot apologize for pointing out the errors because I believe Dr. Malone sorely needs an editor -- his writings are far too important to be dismissed as second-rate because of sloppy and distracting typos.
(In the same vein, Dr. Malone is obviously naive in the world of writing because he never should have posted the erroneous "leaked" Tucker Carlson interview of Vladimir Putin prior to Carlson's actual debut of the interview. The phony quotes were cringeworthy.
A true friend should not steal the thunder of a professional journalist friend by pre publishing an unverified and rare interview with the likes of Vladimir Putin.
Even if Dr. Malone's version had been accurate, the publication before Carlson had released the actual interview was a form of journalistic theft. Tsk, tsk, tsk.)
I have been tempted multiple times to offer proofreading services to a couple folks I highly admire, too, but thought they might take offense at the suggestion (most are brilliant but do not strike me as particularly humble- lol).
Very interesting diagnostic procedures that do have positive impact on disease states. The issue I have is that we don't profile the patient's immune system by measuring the blood value of key components that reflect the vibrancy of the immune system that is the key defense mechanism against all pathogens. My key candidates are Vitamin D, which controls the gene expression of over 3000 genes, Zinc which is anti-viral and glutathione that is key to healthy hepatic function. Also, maintaining a healthy microbiome. Read this AM about how Ace BP inhibitors destroy Zinc blood level. In turn, were Covid patients who were on Ace inhibitors more susceptible to the virus? I remember one astute physician pointing this out early on and then he was criticized for his assessment, and he became silent on the issue. I also recall the FDA considering taking NAC which is a precursor to Glutathione off the market and make it a Rx Drug. Why? The medicine man continues to ignore the fact that nutrient deficiencies are one of the root causes of why disease states develop.
I have NAC, Zinc, D (which I've taken over a decade at the recommendation of my internal medicine doctor) and others in my cabinet. To my knowledge, I've never had COVID or if I did, it was nothing more than some seasonal cold or flu. Good stuff!
Thomas, this article reminded me of genome testing— essentially how to know which drug works on the right on the right patient (eg: fast or slow metabolizers).
I agree 100% that nutrients are the key to any disease and until we can understand that pharma created modern medicine, we will never be able to use medicine to its fullest and purest potential: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/donating-to-a-good-cause-how-billionaires
Very interesting Franklin. Thank you for sharing.
And all those you just mentioned do not need a prescription for prevention in daily use.
Just good ol common sense and half a days reading for usage and possible side effects.
Natural Remedy has been beaten down like a junk yard dog. Just inquire for advice from Doctor Racheal Maddow. The "Professor Einstein" of Queer ass Quacks on MSNBC.
That dude is Fugly
btw, Prof. One Beer is not who he is purported to be. Somehow his hypothesis was celebrated without being accurate and this partially explains the mess we find ourselves in today. Sorry, don't have any references for this tidbit, but do remember reading it somewheres; mb in a Barnes Review article?
Geez, thanks Thomas! My wife is on Losartin-- an ACE receptor antagonist. Can I assume this is the same as those you refer to or slightly different. She also has osteopenia; been taking calcium supplements. I have read they are the WORST thing she should be taking as the extra Ca is NOT sent to the bones for making stronger bones/ density but ends up migrating to vascular tissue and making it inflexible!? If true, she is potentially reducing zinc and increasing her BP using both Losartin and taking Ca! I have indications she instead should be on the type of BP meds called calcium channel blockers.
Not asking for medical advice here, but wondering how far off base you think I am? thx.
Boron, she needs to take trace mineral Boron. Most of us are deficient in it. Used to help control CA and Mg balance in the body AND help move Ca into the bones. Also want to have some K2 around to do the trick.
So, should I start feeding her 20 mule team Borax then?!
Borax Mule Team certainly: 1/8 teaspoon in 1 liter of distilled water. Drink over the day do it for 3 to 4 days, take a couple of days off. There is such a thing as ionic boron supplement but I don't know how bio available it is. Borax makes the boron in it bio available... (it is a salt of boron)
Don't laugh; but, somehow, yes.
I saw a recipe for how to make it once, but can't remember where that was. If you don't do it right, it can make you sick, like.
very
Good info, Thomas, MANY thanks.
This information came at a most important time for me. I have been struggling with a UTI infection for over six months. Many rounds of antibiotics and testing after testing have produced no results! I just completed another round of antibiotics and am going in for another culture next week. I am printing this out and giving it to my doctor. Please keep posting these informative columns Dr Malone! You never know just who needs to read it!
Each round of antibiotics depletes the Gut microbiome. Good probiotics a must!
Female utis are hard to diagnose. My mom had one they had fits treating. I suspected she had an e. coli infection, and was right but took them forever to find it.
I never had one in my life before six months ago. It has been very frustrating!! I will mention e. Coli to my doctor. Thank you!
Forgot to add…the meds they treated mom with eased her chronic stomach problem. When she told her urologist he told her it should not have since was quite acidic and suggested she had a “basic stomach” which led to the diagnosis of pernicious anemia from which she obviously had suffered from for quite a few years.
I remember about 35 plus years ago they figured out antibiotics could cure stomach ulcers. I read about it and mentioned it to my cousin who suffered from ulcers. About a week later my cousin asked me how I knew about the treatment his doctor said it was just discovered as a treatment.
Antibiotic treatment for ulcers put a kibosh on my father’s complaint that my mother was causing his ulcer. They divorced 20 years prior to the discovery of the previously unknown bacteria Helicobacter pylori.
My husband was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer over 45 yrs ago. A friend told him to try taking ground cayenne pepper. He thought that was crazy but tried a small pinch in a small amount of water. It had a soothing effect so he began taking a little every day, increasing it a little every so often. Never had symptoms again.
Stress can lower the immune system… I think I have an ulcer…😒
That's interesting. I never got beyond the anti acid recomemdations. Prilosec (sp) and it's ilk. Never antibiotics.
Very funny (sort of).
Bah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
H. pylori. Also if you take that lovely Nitanzioxide anti protozoal, it will cure H. Pylori infection in 2 weeks, 500 mg 2x a day for 2 weeks. No proton pump inhibitor and no multiple abxs... seriously. They know it is the 'cure' and y you'll never get a doc to prescribe it. Just sayin it pays to read the literature!
Unagnu, I did read about H.pylori. Two questions. John told me the bone on bone hip caused the infection, could this be the cause of the infection? And second why would they not prescribe the drug you mentioned? Without knowing about the drug you mentioned my friend was convinced the hospital drove up the bill with tests, treatments, even operations. Your thoughts.
Idiots
My goodness. One thing leads to another, doesn’t it! So glad she was able to find relief.
Very true, however a referral to a good urologist, ultrasound and cystoscopy helps bigly, it did for me.
Do you recall the antibiotic that was used to treat your mom's UTI?
Afraid not. That was some 50-60 yrs ago
I used to get UTIs but since taking Vit C and specifically liposomal vit C I don't have them anymore. Occasionally I get a little pain from not drinking enough water, but D Mannose helps with that. I also had an ulcer for many many years, and tried numerous natural treatments, but after taking 5,000 mgs of liposomal C for two weeks, I passed a small packet (bio film) and all my symptoms disappeared, and have not returned. I had been treating myself for H pylori which causes most ulcers, but until I found the single study that said liposomal C could penetrate the biofilm I was wasting my time and money. There are still not many studies involving liposomal C and I hope that changes. If you decide to try it please make sure it is a a quality brand. I use Core Med. Prior to taking liposomal C, I visited the medical forums to read the accounts of people who took the antibiotic route. The therapy for H-Pylori often involves several antibiotics, and 99% of the patients said they felt like they were dying and often the infection returned. I experienced none of that while taking the high dose liposomal C. As far as I have read high dose vit C is quite safe. If taken for extended periods you would probably want to watch your copper levels and avoid taking with plant foods high in iron (non-heme). You could also check your blood work for any unwanted changes.
Try Nitinazodide (sp). Works. 2 weeks 500 mg 2x daily. There is proof. The docs will never prescribe it tho. Just like IVM cures scabies. They won't go for the cure, just the drugs that 'help' but do not 'cure' the patients... .
UTIs can also be fungal and if treated with traditional antibiotics, can flare up and be a nuisance for months. Important to determine if bacterial or fungal.
Bacteria in my case the urologist confirmed.
For what it’s worth, we have a clinic here in Madison specializing in vexing UTIs and other frustrating gyn issues. They acknowledge that there can be multiple causes and multiple treatments for each active infection. They also recommend a variety of preventive approaches such as use of estradiol, “repressive” antibiotic therapy (i.e. all the time), and use of supplements such as cranberry and d-mannose, in addition to urine testing to identify which bacteria (or bacteriae) may be causing any specific infection. Once a urine specimen is in the lab, they do cultures repeatedly over a period of many days and may change the antibiotic several times as the culture results emerge. A friend of mine getting help from this clinic has changed antibiotics several times in one week as the lab isolates more information about the bugs contributing to the infection. Not aware whether they do this Nucleic acid extraction process covered in Dr Malone’s excellent article, but they get good results. I hope this is helpful.
Barbara, I have struggled with UTI's different antibiotics. I went to a urologist had a cystoscopy he put me on a short period of Sulfatrim, highly recommended UTIVA Cranberry Pacs. a supplement. It has been two years and no UTI, however I take my Utiva, one a bedtime.
I'm not suggesting UTIs are a simple subject, but whenever I get one I add 12 drops of Lugol's iodine to 12 ounces of water and drink that. It seems to be safe to do this daily, and I suspect multiple doses per day are probably OK short term. It may not help you, but it is non-toxic, cheap and it either works quickly or not.
I am caring for someone such as yourself. I, too, have had it with the current establishment.
Read my note, above.
Perhaps med schools should substitute ngs training for the dei nonsense they are being fed today
Since there isn't a "LOL" button...
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Oh yes please! DEI must DIE!!!! ‼️‼️
This post is a beautiful example of the incredible gift God has given to Robert Malone for what he generates for his Substack. He perfectly balances articles that appeal to my intellectual curiosity as a practicing physician and researcher, writings that highlight the common graces of living in this world that God created, and some political humor to laugh with God at the wicked rulers who “take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed” Psalm 2:2 (ESV). Thank you my friend for doing that which the Lord is giving you to do… Blessings to you! – Tom.
This was fascinating. Thank you for sharing! The medical establishment never ceases to disappoint.
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Perhaps this could be helpful in addressing cures or at least improvement quality of life for dementia patients. Many have chronic UTIs which have confusing symptoms in elderly. My husband who has lived with dementia for many years starts babbling incoherently and I'm told he dementia is worsening. At one time we had a brilliant PT who suggested he had a UTI because she noticed he was not responding as usual, so he was tested and cultured and indeed he had a bacterial infection, prescribed antibiotic and about three days later he was able to communicate again, still has dementia but able to tell us what he wants needs, have basic conversations, talk about the news, make jokes ets. Now he has chronic UTIs (hard to keep him properly hydrated or or perhaps the hidden bacteria showing up after one is taken out). I have begun testing with an Azo strip before discussing any changes with our healthcare professionals. thank you Dr Malone for sharing this post.
So, back in October of last year, I started to develop some really odd sensations in my groin area, and scheduled an appt with my primary doctor for a general checkup, and exploring why I was having sensitivity (itchy or pressure) in both my rectal area, and my testes. I was having "tail bone pain as well. This led me on a 3.5 month journey where the answer to my issues was something that no one, specifically myself, actually expected.
Having prostatitis as a young (STUPID) man, from stupid things I did as a young man, I assumed that maybe my prostatitis came back, some 30 years later. This assumption was based upon the initial visit and my "urine culture strip", my doc said that I had trace blood in the test strip, and that I needed a 21 day course of Bactrim or Sulfamexazole. Willingly, both of us thought that this would "fix me up". Off to the pharmacy for my drugs, and life went on. She took about 20 vials of blood and a bajillion tests negative later, and here we are, taking meds that it turns out, I never needed.
Well that time transpired, and I still had the sensitivity or itchiness, which is where I was when this all began back in October.
Imagine having poison ivy, and feeling "itchy" with a sore tailbone. Well, that was the internalized sensation I was feeling from day one, and being 56, and in good shape, other than your normal aches and pains, the diagnosis of prostatitis being not affected by the month of drugs, found me being shipped out to "specialists", thereby being sent to a urologist and gastro for exam, and colonoscopy, as recommended by my primary.
So upon initial visit to the Gastro for my discussion, the doc there listened to me tell him the same story I was telling the other doctors, of how I started to feel this "itchy" feeling inside my privates, and how it was all based right around the same time I started doing these 6 to 9 hour drives with my wife back and forth to our new vacation home 3 states away. Both my primary, and the gastro said that they didn't find it unusual that someone was complaining that they had issues with sensitivity, when that person started driving for really long distances, out of the blue. The Gastro immediately set me up for a full colonoscopy, and I left again with no real answers. I did not go for the test, as I had just had one about 8 years prior, and I just didn't want to live through all that again. That script for the test went in the trash, and I went forwards in the quest, and off to the "urologist".
Next up was the large specialty Urology group to see what they thought. So after the same long winded speech about how we were doing these long drives across state lines, and hearing the same speech from them that "they have truckers in there all the time complaining of similar issues", another DRE exam, urology and blood were ordered.
The Urology Doc did the DRE, and for the first time in my life of having them done once every couple years, this "Doc" must have been pissed off at his wife or husband that morning, because he put such pressure on my prostate, that I nearly blacked out on the table. Doc offered me one of these PSA altering drugs used to treat BPH in males to spend the rest of my life on, and with Prescription in hand, I walked out. Shortly thereafter, I threw the prescription in the trash, cancelled my follow up visit, and went on with my day, again, no closer to figuring out what was going on, and why am I feeling this way.
So being a former bodybuilding goofball, frustrated, I decided to take the time in the gym, and instead of working on my biceps, I put way more effort into my stretching routine which I had started to develop about a year ago. This time, I would really focus on hamstrings, and back to see if I could feel better when doing these long rides, by stretching the areas which were near my groin and see what happens. This is where things started to clarify in my mind.
Why ?
Because I realized that I had the physical ability to control how intense this feeling of "Itchy and pressure" was, by the process of positioning. Standing I felt it. Sitting I felt it. Lying down, back up I felt it, but as soon as I put a couple pillows under my knees, while lying on my back, the sensations decreased, sometimes to nothing.
Paying attention to your body, and how things react, sometimes pays off.
Well, after about a week, my wife suggested that I use my "Teeter" inversion table (also known as coat rack) to see if that would have any effect on my stretching routine. Well, the wife-e-poo hit a proverbial nerve, and one day, after climbing down off of my former coat rack, turned teeter machine, I noticed all my sensations had disappeared, walking away from the machine.
(Light bulb goes on in the cranium)
So I start to put a direct correlation between my symptoms I was experiencing, and my stretching routine, and my hanging upside down, all Batman style, on my teeter machine. After about a 2 week period, I was able to significantly alter how my "itchy" feeling was by both stretching, and hanging upside down like a damn Wuhan Bat. This process of exploration prompted me to the next phase of the search, which was Chiropractic assistance.
First chiro guy turned out to be a real dud. He listened to me upon initial contact, but shortly thereafter, instead of focusing on my itchy feels, he kept focusing on my shoulder issue, which had no relevance to why I was there to begin with. Dumped his ass after the 2nd visit.
Contacted my Firearms Trainer, and asked him if he knew any chiros who were honest. He turned me onto Dr. Matt, and so the process of elimination continued.
First visit was interesting. I told Doc I could alter the intensity of my issues, and as soon as I mentioned my testicles, his face went blank. Doc agreed to work with me, but it was under the condition that I get an MRI of my lower spine. HE asked what insurance I had, and after deciding my insurance sucked ass, and he didn't accept it anyway, he told me of the local facility where I could get my MRI, and we could start properly treating me for my ailment. The very next morning, I paid the $500 out of pocket expense, and had my MRI done by 6:30am. Doc called me at 2:30 that day, and told me to stop by, and that he had some news for me on what to do, moving forward.
later that day, I stopped in, and was handed the MRI report. I have damaged discs from L1 through S1, nothing ruptured, there were some discs that were bulged and some spurs and beginnings of stenosis around the nerves heading south. Turns out that all this time it had nothing to do with my bladder, my prostate, my testes, my rectum, my anus or anything else downstairs. This was all fantom irritation from nerves in my lower spine which were sending signals to my brain that something was going on down there. Finally, I had a diagnosis that I was comfortable with, although not happy at all. life will be different from here on out.
Doc then told me that if I do not become proactive against this process, I would in all likelihood, wind up wearing a diaper if the nerves to my pelvis were damaged enough to stop transmitting signals past the damage area of my spine.
WHAT ?????? This woke my ass up.....hence why I'm stretching my body nearly 1 hour every day.
Days of heavy lifting are over. Tonga use brain from now on, and minimize use of brute body power.
No more swinging 150 lb dumbells, you big dummy !
Sitting requires fancy cushion with hole in the back end.
So, what is the point of this long winded, bla, bla, bla post ? BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE. No one is going to fix you, and in all likelihood, you will go down a few wrong pathways in the meantime.
"BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE." Yes sir!
Holy Crapp, T!
I read this once. . . and then again, it must have taken me 10 minutes more to read it to my wife out loud. What a hoot!
But. Crapp. You are right.
I own a teeter too!
Do you use your teeter as a coat rack, like I have for the last 15 years ?
ha! No, but that is a good idea. I take it apart and stand it in the closet because I only use it about 5x / year-- when I am forced to by muscle spasming. Guess here, but you probably have about 2x the forces on your spine compared to me-- 145# soaking wet!
Yes be your own advocate. I was in a car wreck 4 years ago. I have 3 severe curves in my back do to scoliosis that I have had since I was a teen. I was always active my whole life which save me. The wreck destabilized my back and dropped me 2”. I could only walk very slowly for if I didn’t my hips would go out. I found a chiropractor that got me walking again. I had always been an avid walker.
I’m not suppose to lift more than 5 lbs. How do you do that?
The reason I tell you this is I found the swimming pool . I have 10 lbs water weights I use in the pool. Zero gravity.
It keeps me moving and building muscle. I was so weak that it took me months to be able to pull the weights under the water. But I persisted . Along with your stretches go to the pool. It has been a miracle for me.
Weird T I didn’t see your post until this AM. I’ve gone through these a hundred times. BTW did you ever speak with Steve?
James,
I tried calling him aft 330, but went right to Voicemail. I figured id call him back on the next work day.
That’s to bad he’s a really good guy. I’m not sure if he could help you without physically seeing you but maybe he could give you a list of exercises even things you could look up online as a routine. He helped my wife as I told you. She had c-5 - c-7 fused and he did her PT. She’s always had a bad pain along her shoulder blade in the middle of her back. He would press his finger in her shoulder and would relieve the pain for days. She enjoyed it so much I jokingly told Steve to stop touching my wife 🤔. Hope you are able to get him, and feel better!!!
Tomorrow, ill try again aft 3:30.
Thanks again for the referral
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Thank you for sharing this very important information! I’ll be saving it for future reference!
Invaluable info! Thank you Doc for sharing! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
A friend of mine who has plastered for me over 40 years had gotten sick to the point he couldn’t get off the floor one day. He had gone to his PCP prior but didn’t get the correct tests to find out what was wrong. He ended up at Beth Israel hospital in Boston. After some testing they found he had a very high inflammatory level in a blood test taken. He had had a really bad bone on bone hip that had become infected. He was prescribed antibiotics immediately and was given a bed in the hospital. Weeks and weeks went by, this turned into months and months. They kept operating on him and flushing his joints out of the infection. He finally got a specialist to see him and said you’ve been receiving the wrong antibiotics to fight this type of infection. Still in the hospital the new antibiotics were given to my friend John T. Finally after 10 months and over a dozen operations he began to round the corner. Finally after a year John went home in a wheelchair continuing the very strong antibiotics. Little by little he got out of the wheelchair and began slowly getting around with a cain. I was doing a job and had a couple small things John could do and in a friendly way forced him back to work on his own time. Since John has had one hip replaced and in six weeks is going for his second. Originally he should have had that inflammation test. The specialist doctor told John he’s amazed he’s still alive. https://youtu.be/OOgpT5rEKIU?si=1jsUR3jDLQSFOKSS
This could be a script for a horror movie.
Don it’s been a couple of years and I believe he is still on these antibiotics. My wife’s an OR nurse and warned me he probably wouldn’t make it.
Is it possible that the antibiotics he is on now are being taken as "repressive" therapy to help prevent a recurrence of this infection?
D A KESTER I just looked up the blood test that checks inflammation in the body. It’s called a C-Reactive protein. When elevated it could be a sign of serious life threatening infection including sepsis which is exactly what my friend John had. This test, if performed at his primary care physician office, could have saved him over a year in the hospital. Also amazingly they have a home kit with a finger prick that you can take to find out inflammation levels in the body, amazing. This simple test can detect all sorts of infection including many cancers.
Thank you for this!
Thank you!!!
Good to know. Where I’m allergic to most antibiotics it is frightening to think of getting an infection that I can’t treat because I’m allergic to the antibiotic.
Yes, I especially believe that to stay healthy for this second hip he is going to receive. I believe it is vancomycin.
I’m allergic to vancomycin
Sledge hammer, no necessary
Wow that is terrible
While I fully understand the anger & frustration felt by patients, at the same time this is the prefect example of the Achilles heel in the current version of the medical profession, which is to focus on treating those in the bell curve & ignore the rest because they don’t fit into the profit motive. I assuming the doctor that did finally helped him, focused on the cause of the problem & as a result found avenues to provide a better diagnosis. The medical profession is filled with as many or much of the also-rans as any profession. The problem for patients is that the odds are not in your favor in getting one of the standouts. Beyond that though, this article is a prefect example of why Mother Nature is head & shoulders above the all knowing globalist. As the guy said, ‘there is more to heaven & earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy, my dear Horatio’.
Indeed. These days if you don't fit into the one size fits all solution it's darn tough to find anyone willing to exercise enough curiosity to find remedies that are outside the box.
I just spent a year dealing with drones like this at a nursing home that claimed to be able to rehab my stroke survivor wife after a hip replacement.
This was truly interesting to read. I appreciated how well it explained the way some bacteria can actually incorporate the body’s own defense mechanisms in order to hide and strengthen themselves, undetected! I know of a number of women who get repeat UTIs and therefore have to take antibiotics repeatedly. I am going to save this to share.
Thank you, Dr. Malone!
I also have a friend that has UTI repeats.
Over the years, we discovered that almost every single patient complaining of “aseptic” chronic interstitial cystitis or (geriatric) urge incontinence overwhelmingly had prevotella sp in their urine, identifed by Microgen Dx NGS. In 20 years of inpatient and outpatient medical practice, I have yet to see a Urine C&S identify any amount of prevotella….Once treated with metronidazole (the primary antibiotic of choice), symptoms resolved which resulted in huge improvements in QOL. For $199 (the cost of the test), lives can be changed (for the good). THAT is what I went into medicine for….not committing patients to decades of polypharmacy and side effect mitigation. Thank you for your catalytic topics and commentary which have an infinitely greater potential to improve lives than us solo docs in the “trenches” can manage seeing one suffering soul at a time. 🙏
metronidazole: also treats giardia parasite; I found out the hard way.
Also helps with gut inflammation .. give it to cats for IBD and other gut issues where testing comes up negative...
We have two cats. One has been puking up the kibble; also too fat!
We took the kibble away(have to hide it, compulsive eater this one!) and started her on raw meats and specialized nutrients cat food.
I will have to spoon in some Borax for HER too?
hey, what is it with these females? The male cat has no problem with the kibble?!
Hell no to the Borax. Cats should not eat kibble dry food in first place. It is carb loaded crap for all cats, who are obligate carnivores. Give only soft canned food twice a day, as much as they want. But no free kibble feeding. Besides the dry food most likely has bad bacteria growing in it. Our male got life-threatening urinary tract blockage before stopping the dry food. Females not only ones with potential issues. And get the best quality canned food you can. Yes the raw food diet for them is attractive (I used to make it for them) but has its own parasite issues. If they can tolerate chicken meat then slightly cooked bits of that can be added to canned food.
thanks Adrienne,
presently we have transitioned to twice daily feed for both the kids.
-- half is raw burger or cooked chicken, half is Smalls . . . mush.
-- I dribble a bit of Kibble in too.
More expensive than the Iams kibble we had been feeding that caused the female to overeat and gain 2#, but not by too much.
She has lost enough weight I feel she is back to "normal."
It sure does! It is an “oldy but goody” and one of only a handful of pharmaceutical products I prescribe these days….
Thanks, my Mom chronic UTI suffer could use this... and oh, wait, I have that in my med. chest for the 'emergencies' of life
Outstanding article.
This article is important to me to communicate with a couple of friends who fail to understand that corvid-19 should have been treated with off the shelf drugs. I will use this article to help them see cracks in the medical establishment.
This article shows another example, like Lyme, of how the medical establishment has failed to effectively treat some complex conditions because they assume that testing and Big Pharma drugs are sufficient.
The bigger example of the themes in this paper is the reluctance of this society to realize that most chronic diseases can be avoided by lifestyles that eliminate inflammations and insulin resistance. Robert Lufkin's book, which will be out in June, focuses on diet and lifestyle issues that he enacted to eliminate his 4 chronic diseases which he thought would require treatment for the rest of his life. The book: "Lies I Taught My Students in Medical School."
Dr. Klinghardt (Lyme Disease expert) many years ago explained this pathology of biofilms, involved in chronic Lyme Disease. He described treatments as peeling an onion where layers needed to be removed with numerous substances used at appropriate times. Drugs like Ivermectin could be useful. neutriceuticals like artemisinin, andrographis, cat's claw, curcuminoids, chlorella and one of his favorites was bee venom done with neural therapy. All cysts, especially Baker's cysts behind the knee were suseptible to being these conglomerations. He also highly recommended colon therapies, methylation therapies with B 12, B6, folinic acid, buffered C, NAC, Vit D3, extra virgin coconut oil, etc. etc. etc.
6 six week cycles of doxy just sayin it helps...
Yes doxycyclinè 100mg twice per day (adult) Not for children or pregnant women. He also used other antibiotics and antifungals, antigout. Not entirely more successful just at certain times maybe useful
As this info spreads, Quest and the other lab will lose, and everyone will demand these genetic tests. It is only a matter of time.
Strikes me that if they were smart they would add this testing to the options they offer.
Right, good point, why don't they? There must be a financial reason.
This is very reminiscent of the behavior we've watched in unions for decades. Don't compete with improved services or more competitive pricing. Just kneecap the competition then you don't have to worry about some one out innovating you.
good adjective 'kneecap' hits the nail on the head, life feeds on life, it is all competition, the most cunning win it seems
True. On the other hand, even at a current nonprofit or loss status it would help maintain their customer base. They are inventive rascals. I haven't the slightest doubt they could come up with a way to make it profitable.
Clinics will open that will offer these new genetic tests, they will have competition eventually, few know about it at the moment.
and the problem will come from carriers that do not recognize or work with the alternative labs. Evil buggers, they are.
What country owns these genitic tests ? I've heard that China owns. 23& me and Ancestry dot com, so unsuspecting Americans are giving their genetic code to the China govt.
At this point, i guess giving our dna to china is safer than giving it to the usg under Joe Biteme
I think the test is looking for the genetic signature of the specific bacteria, which is no more invasive than a blood test result or no more threatening to privacy.
A person would hope.
I think that is what the article explained, and it does make sense.
No—China does the DNA processing for 23&Me but Ancestry is USA only. Still, the whole idea of giving up your DNA to any other company is now abhorrent to me for genealogy. Back to the old-time methods for me.
Dr. Malone made an egregious but too-common typo:
It's Cavalry, not Calvary.
Cavalry are horse-mounted soldiers.
Calvary is where Jesus died on the cross.
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Draw and quarter him now!
😂😂😂 egregious is a matter of a completely different perspective
As a writer and editor, and as someone who knows right from wrong when it comes to spelling and grammar, I consider it an egregious error for a well-educated and knowledgable writer such as Dr. Malone to make such a mistake.
Mistakes like that give the impression the writer is ignorant, dumb, any of a dozen other epithets that those who oppose Dr. Malone and his colleagues use to dismiss us all as stupid backwoods-dwellers who don't know the difference between a burro and a burrow.
Precision counts.
I do not disagree with improper grammar and terms being misinterpreted as “dumb and uneducated” in the past, at least. Since we know that Dr Malone is neither of those things, it would be reasonable to surmise that he is using speech-to-text to “type” many, if not all, of his compositions (if he isn’t, the man has even more superpowers than I thought - quite unfair for the rest if us 😜). As a former proofreader for fellows in college and graduate school, these issues would annoy me to no end on social media posts (Jack Kruse MD neurosurgeon still has so many typos and missing words on fb I am tempted to volunteer proofreading services to him some days just to help with reading comprehension!). Now that we are seeing these high volume, marathon-length substack posts being composed using speech-to-text, these errors are becoming the rule rather than the exception, even for the very brightest and tedious of writers. I keep thinking that these obvious “type A” perfectionists are so bogged down with tasks these days, they have relinquished the high-control, OCDesq need to make each sentence perfect in exchange for getting the “job done” and message across. I am frequently in awe of how these writers have day-jobs and lives, yet continue to pound out so much valuable (vital, even) information. If we must choose between loads of quality potentially life-saving information vs less information composed with precision, for the sake of survival, we may have to choose the former, not the latter. Just pondering and “thinking outloud”, not criticizing, as these times are getting less and less civilized, not only where it pertains to grammar.
Thank you for your post; I appreciate and understand your points.
More than 18 months ago, I volunteered to edit Dr. Malone's substacks or any other publications, for free, anytime day or night, but I never got a reply.
More recently, I had two serious and civil conversations with doubters/critics of Dr. Malone, and I was hesitant to forward any of his posts -- without first correcting the typos -- because I was interacting with fellow retired journalists who would have sneered at the typos/mistakes.
Dr. Malone may indeed be using speech-to-text or other AI methods to "write" but I am skeptical because I continue to see the same bad-habit errors: "loose" instead of "lose"; "there" instead of "their;" "to" instead of "too."
I cannot apologize for pointing out the errors because I believe Dr. Malone sorely needs an editor -- his writings are far too important to be dismissed as second-rate because of sloppy and distracting typos.
(In the same vein, Dr. Malone is obviously naive in the world of writing because he never should have posted the erroneous "leaked" Tucker Carlson interview of Vladimir Putin prior to Carlson's actual debut of the interview. The phony quotes were cringeworthy.
A true friend should not steal the thunder of a professional journalist friend by pre publishing an unverified and rare interview with the likes of Vladimir Putin.
Even if Dr. Malone's version had been accurate, the publication before Carlson had released the actual interview was a form of journalistic theft. Tsk, tsk, tsk.)
I have been tempted multiple times to offer proofreading services to a couple folks I highly admire, too, but thought they might take offense at the suggestion (most are brilliant but do not strike me as particularly humble- lol).
😉 There seems to be a lot of that going around nowadays, and a dearth of humility!