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Cancer Is Affecting More Younger People, and Big Pharma’s Treatments Are Making It Worse


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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola     January 25, 2026

Story at-a-glance

  • In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong discusses rising cancer rates while emphasizing shifts toward younger patients
  • Soon-Shiong explains COVID-19’s spike protein attaches to ACE2 receptors throughout the body, causing persistent inflammation that may contribute to various health issues, including cancer
  • Soon-Shiong criticizes Big Pharma’s influence over regulatory processes, arguing this creates barriers for innovative treatments while favoring incremental changes to existing profitable drugs
  • Natural killer cells require adequate sleep, sunlight exposure, and whole foods to function optimally, forming your body’s frontline defense against cancer cells
  • Boosting your immune system is key in fighting against cancer. In addition to optimizing sleep, minimizing seed oil intake and optimizing your vitamin D levels are important strategies

Why are cancer rates still increasing despite advances in medical technology and increased awareness of risk factors? This topic was deeply explored in an episode of Tucker Carlson’s podcast, featured above. In this interview, Carlson directed this eye-opening inquiry to his guest, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a surgeon and a prominent businessman who also owns the Los Angeles Times.1

Setting the stage for the rest of the interview, Carlson noted that massive campaigns about the dangers of smoking should have helped cancer rates drop. However, this wasn’t the case.

Soon-Shiong answers by focusing on the age of the people getting sick. He says the troubling part isn’t only the increasing rates, but a population shift toward younger patients. All this and more were discussed in the interview. I encourage you to listen to the entire conversation, as it reveals insights that your doctor won’t tell you, including Big Pharma’s machinations on oncology treatment.

Could COVID-19 Contribute to Rising Cancer Rates?

Carlson raises a question many people already wonder about but rarely discussed openly: He says there is widespread public speculation about whether the COVID-19 infection or mRNA shots relate to rising cancer rates, and he asks Soon-Shiong if there is a connection.

Soon-Shiong answers by placing COVID into a broader historical pattern. He says that certain viruses have long been linked to cancer, namely hepatitis with liver cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV) with cervical cancer, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with Kaposi sarcoma. The said viruses share key traits — they persist in the body, drive ongoing inflammation, and interfere with the body’s natural tumor-control systems. He explains that COVID-19 fits this same pattern more closely than most people realize.

• Why COVID-19 affects so many different organs — According to his analysis, the spike protein attaches wherever ACE2 receptors exist, which include blood vessels throughout your body. Soon-Shiong connects this to symptoms people report after getting the infection or the shot, including brain fog, gut problems, pancreatic issues, and heart trouble.

• The most serious concern is persistence — Research groups, including ones at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have shown that parts of the virus remain in the body long after the initial illness, and that key immune defenders can go inactive.

When Carlson points out that billions of people were exposed, Soon-Shiong calls the situation “frightening” and says clearing the virus and stopping long-term inflammation is essential. He says persistence can last three to four years, and notes that chronic inflammation often causes no obvious symptoms, citing roughly 15 million Americans living with long COVID.

• Why Soon-Shiong never got infected — When asked if he ever got COVID-19, Soon-Shiong said that he didn’t. He credits this protection to a strong internal defense response rather than luck or isolation. Based on his own testing, his body already had a type of immune memory that recognized a core part of the virus. He says this response allowed the virus to clear quickly instead of settling in.

• Soon-Shiong took COVID-19 seriously before most people did — In early 2020, he had a conversation with California Governor Gavin Newsom, saying that COVID-19 was not just a respiratory illness but something far more dangerous. He says he shut down his organization and redirected everything toward COVID-19 research, treating it as a once-in-a-generation threat that demanded full focus.

• A core belief about protection — Clearing SARS-CoV-2 requires more than antibodies. Soon-Shiong says the only way to get better is through deeper immune optimization, and he criticizes the antibody-only mindset.

When Science Meets Strong Resistance

After discussing COVID-19, Carlson shifts the topic to the powers that be. Soon-Shiong notes that his work faced resistance from Big Pharma and the government, and that certain ideas were blocked not because they failed, but because they challenged accepted strategies.

Carlson also chimes in about public messaging, especially around COVID-19 mandates. He says people were told the shots would prevent transmission, and that claim shaped health policy and social pressure. Soon-Shiong responds saying that promise was not just wrong but also “knowingly untrue,” and he presents that statement as a turning point in the public eroding trust on institutions.

• Claims of direct interference — Soon-Shiong says he was offered a government role, declined it, and later learned of internal emails meant to block him from leadership at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also says efforts to test his product as a booster were stopped without clear explanation, and that access to key lab materials was restricted.

• When oversight and money collide — The conversation turns to how drugs and treatments are reviewed in the United States. Specifically, Carlson asks why the same companies that sell drugs also fund the people who review them, leading the system to become biased.

Soon-Shiong agrees with Carlson’s concern and pushes it further. He says the problem worsens when this structure blocks new ideas from smaller companies. In his view, we have a system that favors familiar products and familiar players, while outsiders with different approaches struggle to get heard.

• An insight into the regulatory process — Large drug companies pay major “user fees” to regulators, and that money helps cover the salaries of reviewers. Soon-Shiong argues this setup rewards small tweaks to existing drugs rather than real breakthroughs, because safe, familiar changes move faster and protect existing revenue. For smaller biotech groups, he says, the same system creates delays and barriers that slow progress.

• Medical research in America is being left behind — Soon-Shiong warns that China is moving faster in biomedical innovation and says companies like AstraZeneca are investing there specifically “for innovation.” He calls for a serious revamp of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with reviewers trained in modern science and open to new approaches. He frames this shift as a chance for a true reset — a period where patient outcomes matter more than profit.

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Simple Habits That Strengthen Your Immune Defense

Carlson and Soon-Shiong’s discussion then shifts into a more practical line of thinking, specifically how you can boost your immune system. With everything that’s going on, Soon-Shiong explains that everyday actions, rather than complex treatments, have a bigger impact on your health.

• The central role of your immune system against cancer — Soon-Shiong centers his response on a group of immune defenders he says are often ignored, such as NK cells, which are ancient parts of your immune system yet were only recognized by modern medicine in the 1970s. He describes them as a frontline defense that responds quickly when your body senses trouble, and he says supporting their activity matters more than most people realize.

• Why proper sleep is a vital foundation of immunity — Soon-Shiong explains that your NK cells recharge when you sleep, and without enough rest, that renewal never fully happens. He then talks about light exposure, explaining that certain types of light, including red light, stimulate immune activity. He ties this to why illness and low mood rise in winter, when people spend less time outdoors.

• Diet is the next pillar — Whole foods support your immune system, while toxins and additives in ultraprocessed foods push your body toward constant stress.

Soon-Shiong also emphasizes gut health, explaining that signals from your gut bacteria influence whether your immune system stays alert or becomes suppressed. To drive the point home, he shares the story of ulcers once being blamed on stress until H. pylori was identified, using it as an example of how rigid thinking delays real understanding.

The Part of Cancer Care Most Oncologists Miss

Soon-Shiong also challenges what doctors typically focus on when treating cancer. He suggests a simple thought experiment: Call a group of oncologists or primary care doctors and ask what they watch closely in a standard blood test. His point is not to shame doctors, but to show how habits shape treatment choices.

• Doctors are looking at the wrong things — Most clinicians zero in on anemia, platelets, and neutrophils, then prescribe drugs or transfusions to fix those numbers. Soon-Shiong argues that while these steps support the body during treatment, they do not cure cancer. He claims the cells that actually eliminate cancer are barely discussed on everyday oncology visits, even though they appear in the same blood test under a broad label that gets little attention.

• Many standard cancer treatments weaken the very defenses needed to prevent relapse — Chemotherapy, radiation, steroids, and even newer immune drugs suppress or damage key cancer-fighting cells, creating a “win the battle, lose the war” pattern. In Soon-Shiong’s view, this explains why tumors often return after an initial response.

Soon-Shiong likens the fight against cancer to a moving target, not a one-step fix. He says the practical challenge is like a chess game, where you expose what’s hiding, boost the cells that attack, and lower the forces that shut those attacks down at the right times. He also takes a shot at the way modern medicine is organized, claiming key fields are siloed and don’t talk to each other, which he says leads to missed connections and weaker strategy.

• Soon-Shiong’s own strategy — When Carlson asks what Soon-Shiong would do if diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, he outlines his personal approach. He says the goal is to expose hidden cancer cells without wiping out your defenses, activate and train your body’s killers at the same time, and shut down forces that block them.

He emphasizes outpatient care and less suffering, and he describes a future where a patient’s own blood cells are expanded, stored, and reused, comparing it to an “American Red Cross of cancer.”

Strategies to Boost Your Immune System

Based on Carlson and Soon-Shiong’s conversation, it’s clear that the immune system plays a central role in your body’s ability to defend against cancer. While Soon-Shiong makes great points, they weren’t discussed in-depth. That said, here are additional strategies that strengthen your immune function further:

1. Minimize seed oil intake — Not just because it’s inflammatory, but because of what it does to one of the most vital parts of your cells: cardiolipin. This specialized fat lives in your mitochondria and plays a key role in keeping those energy producers functioning properly. Cardiolipin stabilizes mitochondrial membranes, supports efficient energy production, and helps regulate mitophagy — the cleanup and recycling of damaged mitochondria.

But cardiolipin is vulnerable to oxidation. And linoleic acid (LA), a highly unstable omega-6 fat found in soybean, corn, cottonseed, and safflower oils, is especially prone to oxidative damage. When you eat too much LA, it gets incorporated into your cardiolipin, making your mitochondria fragile and dysfunctional. That means less energy, more inflammation, and faster aging at the cellular level.

Aim to keep your daily LA intake under 5 grams. If you can get it below 2 grams, you’re giving your mitochondria a serious upgrade. The Mercola Health Coach app, which will be available soon, includes a feature called the Seed Oil Sleuth. It makes tracking your LA intake easy — calculating it down to a tenth of a gram. For now, you can use food labels and trusted databases, but the app will streamline the process once it launches.

2. Minimize exposure to harmful chemicals — If you’re constantly microwaving your food in plastic, touching printed receipts, or working a job that exposes you to toxic chemicals, immune function becomes disrupted. That’s because these chemicals enter your bloodstream, so make sure to protect yourself properly. For in-depth tips, read “Insecticide Exposure Could Impair Mental Function in Older Adults.”

3. Spend time outdoors and optimize your sleep habits — If your job has you staying up late while being glued to screens the whole day, your immune system hasn’t been properly recharging and working.

Just like your everyday routines, your immune system also has a body clock, which resets when exposed to natural light. Also, try sleeping at the same time each night in a cool, completely dark room. Even missing an hour or two of sleep can already affect your defenses.

4. Don’t get any more COVID-19 boosters — You need to end further assault on your health. If you’ve already developed an adverse event due to these shots, the next section has some more strategies to help you recover.

Why This Interview Changed My Approach to Aging

This may be the most important interview I’ve ever had the opportunity to review. When I first heard Soon-Shiong, in early 2025, explain that oncologists routinely ignore Natural Killer cells — the very cells that eliminate threats — while standard treatments actively destroy them, everything clicked into place.

The foundation of aging isn’t any single disease. It’s immune decline. When your NK cells stop functioning optimally, senescent “zombie cells” accumulate, chronic inflammation rises, and tissue function deteriorates.

Solve that, and you address aging at its root. This insight consumed my research last year, and the result is what I call the NK Reset Formula — a patented, surface-engineered nanoliposome system designed to support NK cell function through targeted delivery.

The Key Difference: Quantity vs. Quality

Soon-Shiong’s approach through ImmunityBio focuses on increasing the number of NK cells. His FDA-approved drug Anktiva (N-803) is an IL-15 superagonist that rescues and proliferates NK cells in cancer patients. It’s a pharmaceutical intervention requiring hospital administration, and cell-based cancer immunotherapies typically cost $300,000 to $500,000 or more per patient — far beyond what most people can afford.

My approach is fundamentally different: Instead of adding more cells, I focused on improving the quality of the NK cells you already have. Here’s the problem — a healthy NK cell might eliminate 5 to 10 target cells before running out of metabolic capacity. After that, it enters functional exhaustion, essentially dying after a few hours of activity. Most of your NK cells never reach their full potential.

The NK Reset Formula uses surface-engineered nanoliposomes to deliver metabolic support directly to NK cells at the moment they need it most — when they’re engaging targets. The payload includes mitochondrial enhancers (PQQ, urolithin A, niacinamide) and cellular support compounds (quercetin, fisetin, curcumin, resveratrol), all with GRAS status.

The theoretical result: Instead of exhausting after 5 to 10 eliminations, each NK cell could theoretically continue functioning through what would normally be many generations of conventional NK cell lifespans. The studies still need to be done, but the mechanism is sound.

Supporting Your Body’s Natural Senescent Cell Clearance

Your body already has a system for eliminating senescent cells: NK cell surveillance. The problem is this system weakens with age, and most interventions aimed at senescent cells ignore the immune component entirely.

Small-molecule senolytics may trigger senescent cell death, but without adequate NK cell function, the debris causes secondary inflammation. The NK Reset Formula takes a different approach — supporting the immune cells responsible for natural senescent cell elimination, rather than trying to bypass them. This isn’t treating a disease. It’s maintaining the surveillance system your body uses to keep itself clean.

I expect the NK Reset Formula to be available by summer 2026, at a price point of a few hundred dollars — accessible to virtually anyone who wants to support their immune function and healthy aging. Compare that to cell-based immunotherapies costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, requiring hospital stays and intensive medical supervision.

The NK Reset Formula is targeted nutritional support you can take at home, and it’s comprehensively protected by patent, representing a fundamentally new approach to supporting immune function as we age.

Additional Tips for COVID-Related Side Effects

In closing, if you or a loved one is suffering from the effects of long COVID or getting the shot, the following strategies can help:

• Protocols that put recovery at the center — I recommend you go over the I-RECOVER program by the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), formerly known as the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). It contains in-depth instructions about treating long COVID2 and post-vaccine injuries.3

• Minimize electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure — Research shows that everyday EMF sources, such as your Wi-Fi router “can disturb the homeostasis of free radicals leading to dysfunctions such as the ‘cellular stress response.'”4 For an extensive list of EMF reduction techniques, read “10 Studies Detail Health Risks of 5G.”

• Optimize your vitamin D levels — Research shows that vitamin D deficiency is linked to an increased risk of cancer.5 In a previous article, I also showed how vitamin D helps prevent respiratory infections, which includes COVID-19.

I recommend that you increase your vitamin D levels to a range between 60 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) for optimal health. The best way to achieve this is through sun exposure; however, it would be wise to do it properly, especially if you’ve been eating a diet high in seed oils.

When sunlight hits your skin, LA oxidizes, leading to inflammation and skin damage. To avoid this, avoid high-intensity sun exposure (mid-day sun) until you’ve lowered your LA intake for six months or more. For a deeper explanation regarding this complex interplay, read “The Fast-Track Path to Clearing Vegetable Oils from Your Skin.”

Frequently Asked Questions About Rising Cancer Rates and the Role of Your Immune System

Q: Why are cancer rates rising even though smoking rates are dropping?

A: According to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the biggest concern isn’t just higher cancer rates, but a shift toward younger people getting cancer, which traditional explanations don’t fully address.

Q: Is there a link between COVID-19 and rising cancer rates?

A: Soon-Shiong says COVID follows patterns seen in other cancer-linked viruses, including long-term persistence in the body, chronic inflammation, and weakened immune control that normally suppresses tumors.

Q: Why does COVID-19 affect so many different parts of the body?

A: He explains that the virus interacts with receptors found throughout blood vessels and organs, which helps explain lingering symptoms like brain fog, gut issues, heart problems, and pancreas-related concerns.

Q: Why does Dr. Soon-Shiong believe the immune system is overlooked in cancer care?

A: He argues doctors focus on blood markers that support treatment side effects, while often ignoring immune cells that actually destroy cancer, which explains frequent relapse after standard therapies.

Q: What everyday habits can strengthen immune defenses against cancer?

A: Proper sleep, regular sunlight exposure, whole foods, and reducing toxin exposure are daily habits that can strongly support immune strength and long-term health.

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Posted by: | Posted on: December 20, 2025

A Breakthrough in Understanding Long COVID


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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola     December 20, 2025

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Story at-a-glance

  • People with long COVID experience persistent fatigue, breathlessness, and brain fog. Research links these effects to fibrin microclots intertwined with neutrophil extracellular traps that obstruct microvessels and impair oxygen delivery
  • SARS-CoV-2 pushes blood into a hypercoagulable state, damaging endothelium, activating platelets, and inflammatory cytokines. This causes clot risk to persist for months, even after mild infections and hospital discharge
  • Long COVID essentially boils down to mitochondrial dysfunction. Management includes proteolytic enzymes to help clear spike protein, while the I-RECOVER protocol guides detoxification, inflammation control, and mitochondrial repair to restore overall function
  • Protecting cardiolipin, the mitochondrial membrane fat, requires limiting easily oxidized linoleic acid (LA) from seed oils, processed foods, nuts, seeds, and grain-fed meats
  • Methylene blue may enhance mitochondrial respiration at low doses. Additionally, correcting copper deficiency and lowering excess iron through blood donation support energy production

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly changed the course of countless lives. And for many of those who have contracted the disease, the effects can still be felt even if they’ve “officially” recovered.1

Commonly known as long COVID, this side effect of the SARS-CoV-2 infection affects millions worldwide, and many struggle with symptoms for more than a year.2 For a few years, researchers have been hitting dead ends as to what causes these long-term issues. Now, a new study has uncovered strong evidence that can answer their longstanding theories — microclots.3

New Research Deepens Understanding of Long COVID

In a study published in the Journal of Medical Virology, researchers set out to learn what makes long COVID so persistent. Trying a new angle, they focused on the blood itself, and found that those with long COVID carry abnormal microscopic structures. Specifically, fibrin microclots fused with immune cell debris.4

To perform the analysis, the team used advanced imaging to determine how the microclot structures form, what they contain, and how they differ from healthy blood. For the study population, they selected adults with long COVID who continued to struggle with problems such as exhaustion, shortness of breath, brain fog, dizziness, and chest tightness long after the initial infection had been resolved.

• There were stark differences in blood structure — According to the researchers, the test samples consistently showed larger, denser, and more complex microclot structures than those seen in healthy controls.

Digging deeper into the data, they discovered that the microclots were intertwined with neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs. These are sticky webs of DNA and enzymes that neutrophils release when activated. NET-rich clots resist normal breakdown processes, which means your body winds up with lingering blockages at the microvascular level.

• The impact of NETs — The researchers reported major increases in several NETs markers — myeloperoxidase, neutrophil elastase, and circulating cell-free DNA — in the long COVID group. These are enzymes and DNA fragments that act like glue inside the clots. The more NET material the researchers found, the more microclots appeared, and the larger those clots became.

• Another noteworthy detail is the sheer density of the structures — Under fluorescence microscopy, the microclots in long COVID blood showed thick, tangled layers that looked compact and resistant to breakdown. Healthy controls also had microclots, but they were sparse and far less structured.

• How deeply embedded the NET components were within the clots — They were not lightly attached to the surface. Instead, DNA strands and neutrophil enzymes were woven through the interior of the fibrin structures. This is important because fibrin-based clots normally break down with the help of enzymes like plasmin.

When DNA and neutrophil proteins are interlaced throughout the clot, the breakdown process becomes inefficient and slow, which explains why long COVID lasts for months — or even years.

• Different markers also showed different strengths of association with microclot formation — For example, circulating DNA strongly paralleled microclot density, whereas some other markers rose but did not track as precisely with clot burden. It means future testing may rely on specific markers to help identify which biological processes are driving persistent symptoms. It also opens the door for individualized interventions.

• NETs act as scaffolding — When neutrophils eject their DNA and enzymes, they create long, sticky strands designed to trap pathogens. In long COVID, these strands latch onto fibrin — a protein involved in clotting — and build layered, tangled structures. Once formed, they float through the bloodstream, lodging in tiny vessels and creating micro-obstructions. The result is impaired microcirculation and reduced oxygen transfer.

• Another mechanism the researchers described involves the resistance of these clots to fibrinolysis — Because NET components stiffen and reinforce the fibrin structure, the body’s usual cleanup systems struggle to dissolve them. This leads to chronic retention of microclots, continued vascular stress, and prolonged symptoms.

• The amount of NET material increased directly alongside the amount of microclots — This means the immune and clotting systems are interacting in a loop, each one pushing the other. Over time, this loop drains your energy, stresses your cardiovascular system, and keeps inflammation alive long after the virus is gone.

You’re Already at Risk of Blood Clots Once You Get Infected

In an earlier study published in Hematology Reports, researchers reviewed evidence on how the SARS-CoV-2 virus can trigger dangerous clotting problems during the infection and long after someone tests negative. Their goal was to identify how the virus flips the body into a clot-forming state, why this risk lasts for months, and which biological events drive the damage.5

The researchers reviewed how both acute and long-term clotting problems interfere with blood flow, stress the cardiovascular system, and set the stage for health issues that perfectly match with the descriptions of long COVID.

• Rates of clotting complications — Deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism increased dramatically among hospitalized COVID patients, and the researchers reported that many cases appeared even while patients received anticoagulant therapy designed to prevent clots.

• What happened after people left the hospital — Extended clotting risk showed up in multiple studies, with patients showing clot formation weeks to months after the initial infection had passed.

• A comparison of clot complications across different groups — The authors noted that those with preexisting cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, or advanced age were more likely to experience severe clotting events, but younger and previously healthy people were not exempt.

• SARS-CoV-2 creates imbalance between clot formation and clot breakdown — Under normal conditions, your body constantly forms tiny clots and dissolves them. But according to the researchers, COVID disrupts this balance by releasing clot-promoting chemicals, damaging vessel walls, and activating platelets at unusually high rates. Once this imbalance begins, your body forms clots faster than it dissolves them.

• Biological mechanisms that tie the processes together — The paper explains how the virus infects endothelial cells, which are the thin linings inside your blood vessels. When these cells are damaged, they release substances that encourage clotting, narrow the vessel opening, and attract platelets to the injury site.

The result is a chain reaction — damaged endothelium signals inflammation, inflammation triggers platelet activation, and activated platelets send more clotting signals.

• The immune system’s involvement — COVID-19 stimulates a wave of inflammatory cytokines, which are chemical messengers that tell the body to mount a defense. When these cytokines rise too high, your clotting system receives constant signals to activate. This is why some people feel as if their bodies never shut off even after the infection is gone. Their inflammatory and clotting pathways remain switched on, draining energy and straining the heart, lungs, and muscles.

• How platelet behavior changes during and after infection — Platelets are tiny cell fragments that help your blood clot when you’re injured. According to the researchers, the SARS-CoV-2 virus drives platelets into a highly activated state where they clump together more easily, interact abnormally with immune cells, and release clot-promoting substances.

That heightened reactivity does not always return to normal right away. If you have lingering symptoms, this platelet activation is part of the reason your blood flow feels impaired even when scans or standard tests look fine.

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Strategies to Help Manage Long COVID Better

At its core, long COVID is a matter of mitochondrial dysfunction. If these energy factories inside your cells don’t function at an optimal rate, your energy levels will ultimately be affected. If you know someone who is suffering from this condition, these strategies can help:

1. Proteolytic enzymes — Whenever I encounter someone who is experiencing long COVID symptoms, one of the first things I tell them is to take proteolytic enzymes, which help clear residual spike protein from the body. Nattokinase, lumbrokinase, and serrapeptase are among the best-studied enzymes for this purpose. They help dismantle remaining spike fragments, ease inflammation and give the brain and tissues space to recover.

Lumbrokinase is significantly more potent — roughly 30 times stronger than nattokinase and about 300 times stronger than serrapeptase — so, it’s typically my preferred choice. These enzymes are best taken on an empty stomach, at least an hour before, or two hours after, consuming protein. If taken with food, they will be diverted into digesting your meal instead of clearing problematic proteins from the bloodstream.

2. Follow the I-RECOVER protocol — The Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), previously known as the FLCCC, offers a detailed plan called the I-RECOVER protocol. It’s one of the most thorough guides available for addressing post-vaccine and post-infection complications. It outlines strategies for detoxification, calming inflammation, and restoring mitochondrial function — all foundational steps for improving health after COVID-related injuries.

3. Reduce intake of linoleic acid (LA) — Your mitochondria rely on a unique lipid called cardiolipin,6 which is located within the inner membrane structures (cristae) where energy is produced. The quality and stability of cardiolipin are influenced by the fats in your diet. This is more important than most people realize, as the wrong dietary fats distort cristae structure and hinder energy production.

Cardiolipin also acts as an internal safety system, signaling damaged cells to initiate apoptosis by activating caspase-3. When cardiolipin becomes oxidized, especially from excess LA consumption, it loses this ability. Without proper signaling, dysfunctional cells persist and may eventually become cancerous.

LA is found in excess in vegetable oils (which are used heavily in ultraprocessed and restaurant foods), condiments, nuts and seeds, adulterated olive and avocado oils, and animal products from grain-fed livestock such as conventional chicken and pork. That said, I recommend you to download my Mercola Health Coach app once it’s available. It has a feature called the Seed Oil Sleuth, which monitors your LA intake to a tenth of a gram.

4. Methylene blue — This solution can be very effective for the exhaustion and neurological challenges that linger after COVID infection or getting the shot. It functions as an electron carrier, essentially acting like a rechargeable energy source. Unlike many compounds that perform a similar role, it does not promote harmful oxidative reactions.

When mitochondrial respiration or oxygen utilization is impaired, methylene blue can reroute electron flow, restoring energy production even when normal pathways are blocked. It can also compensate for reduced blood flow by improving mitochondrial efficiency when tissues aren’t receiving enough oxygenated hemoglobin.

Its benefits extend beyond the time it remains in the body — methylene blue induces biochemical changes that enhance oxygen-processing pathways and may even promote the formation of new mitochondria over time.

Dosing is hermetic. Low amounts provide benefits that high amounts can negate. Most experts recommend relatively high doses for longer-term treatments, such as 0.5 milligram (mg) to 1 mg per kilogram of body weight for cognitive support. For a person weighing 150 pounds, that would be a dose of 34 to 68 milligrams. I believe this is excessive and unnecessary.

Doses of more than 3 to 5 milligrams are likely never needed unless you are undergoing treatment for a life-threatening condition such as carbon monoxide or cyanide poisoning.

The average dose for most adults that reduces or eliminates reductive stress is only 5 mg, once a day, regardless of weight. It has a half-life of over twelve hours and will gradually build up if you take it every day, so higher doses are not needed. Only use pharmaceutical-grade methylene blue in capsule or tablet form, as industrial and chemical varieties frequently contain contaminants like heavy metals. Taking it with vitamin C can enhance absorption.

To learn more, read “The Surprising Health Benefits of Methylene Blue.” It features an interview with methylene blue expert Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Ph.D., who has spent many years studying this drug.

5. Check your iron levels — Excess iron is another major disruptor of mitochondrial function, and many people — aside from menstruating women or individuals with significant blood loss — tend to accumulate too much. In contrast, copper deficiency is widespread.

Iron and copper need to be in balance because they depend on each other for proper metabolism. Low ferritin does not necessarily mean you are low in iron. More often, it reflects inadequate copper, which is required to recycle iron efficiently. Copper is also essential for mitochondrial energy production, detoxification, and overall metabolic health.7 You can learn more about this in “The Poorly-Understood Role of Copper in Anemia.”

You can increase copper by supplementing with 4 to 10 mg of copper bisglycinate daily or by consuming copper-rich foods like bee pollen, grass fed beef liver, and acerola cherry (which contains the copper-dense enzyme tyrosinase).

To reduce excess iron, routine blood donation is a simple and effective method. This usually involves donating two to four times annually, or removing smaller amounts monthly (shown below) if large donations aren’t well-tolerated. If you have severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or congestive heart failure, consult a physician first. But most people can safely follow this recommendation to maintain healthier iron levels.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Microclots in Long COVID Blood

Q: What is the main biological cause recently identified behind long COVID symptoms?

A: Research shows that long COVID is strongly linked to fibrin microclots mixed with immune cell debris, especially neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). These dense, abnormal clots restrict microcirculation and reduce oxygen delivery, driving fatigue, breathlessness, brain fog, and other persistent symptoms.

Q: How do NETs make long COVID microclots harder for the body to clear?

A: NETs form sticky webs of DNA and enzymes that bind to fibrin, creating thick, compact clots that resist normal breakdown. Because the body struggles to dissolve them, these microclots accumulate, prolonging vascular stress and maintaining symptoms for months or years.

Q: Does COVID increase clotting risk even after mild illness or recovery?

A: Yes. Evidence shows that even mild cases trigger inflammation, endothelial injury, and hypercoagulation, causing clotting risks that persist long after testing negative. Many people continue developing clots weeks to months after infection, which explains post-recovery chest tightness, fatigue, and shortness of breath.

Q: Is long COVID rooted in mitochondrial dysfunction?

A: Long COVID disrupts mitochondria through microvascular blockages, inflammation, and oxidative stress. This energy deficit explains fatigue, post-exertional crashes, and slow recovery, and supports treatments focused on restoring mitochondrial function.

Q: What strategies can help improve long COVID?

A: Commonly recommended approaches include proteolytic enzymes to clear residual proteins, the I-RECOVER protocol, reducing linoleic acid intake to optimize mitochondrial health, using pharmaceutical-grade methylene blue, and balancing iron and copper levels through diet or blood donation.

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New NIH Leadership Aims to Restore the Public’s Trust in Science


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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola     July 20, 2025

Story at-a-glance

  • Despite medical advances, American life expectancy remained flat from 2012 to 2019 while European countries improved, indicating failed health institutions
  • Current research rewards individual fame and publication volume over collaboration, honesty about failures, and meaningful health breakthroughs
  • About half of biomedical research findings cannot be replicated, undermining scientific reliability due to emphasis on incentives
  • Lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine rollouts lacked scientific backing, created social division, and disproportionately harmed marginalized populations
  • The NIH aims to rebuild public confidence through transparency, open collaboration, honest communication about uncertainties, and refocusing on quality research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) acts as the country’s “medical research agency.”1 In other words, their role is to fund and conduct experiments that help improve public health, but the COVID-19 pandemic has eroded the public’s trust in them.

Now, the new NIH director, Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, discusses how the agency aims to repair that broken trust in a marathon interview with Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., a professor at Stanford School of Medicine.2

While the entire interview is over four hours long, it’s very much worth it. I recommend you listen to it in smaller parts to help you absorb all the information these two experts discussed. The insights they shared provide a hopeful view of the future for science to benefit humanity instead of the other way around.

Life Expectancy Plummets in America

Bhattacharya starts by discussing the fact that average life expectancy among Americans dropped during the pandemic. It has only returned to pre-pandemic levels, but did not even increase afterward:

• Life expectancy — Bhattacharya acknowledges the failure of America’s health institutions, which he intends to correct:

“Since 2012, there’s been no increase in American life expectancy. From 2012 to 2019, literally it was — well not literally — almost entirely flat life expectancy. And whereas the European countries had advances in life expectancy during that period. During the pandemic, life expectancy dropped very sharply in the United States …

Whatever those investments we’re making as a nation, in the research, are not actually translating into meeting the mission of the NIH, which is to advance health and longevity of American people.”

• Leadership didn’t listen to reason — During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bhattacharya was one of the biggest opponents of the lockdowns, even writing opinion pieces3 in mainstream media publications such as the Wall Street Journal:

“I was a very vocal advocate against the lockdowns, against the mask mandates, against the vaccine mandates and against the anti-scientific bent of public health throughout the pandemic.”

• We are now under a “sick care” system — Bhattacharya explains that health care nowadays is more reactionary than being proactive:

“The advances we’ve made have allowed people to stay sick longer. It hasn’t translated to a longer life, right?

There was a hope, I think, when I first started doing research in 2001, in population aging, there was this idea of a compression of morbidity that is, you live long, a long life, and the time you spent really sick and disabled was compressed at the very end of your life rather than spending a long time disabled and sick. And you die after having spending like a decade or more very sick.”

• The government needs to come clean with its involvement — One of Bhattacharya’s main criticisms of past NIH administrations is the secrecy surrounding their connection in SARS-CoV-2 research:

“I’ve also argued that the scientific institutions of this country should come clean about our involvement in very dangerous research that potentially caused the pandemic.”

Innovation and Incentive Crisis in Scientific Research

Currently, academic science rewards researchers based on metrics like citation counts and the H-index, which measure how often other researchers refer to their work. While this might sound logical, it often encourages scientists to produce quantity over quality.

• The current system favors a “rock star” scientist model — Individual researchers strive for personal fame rather than collaborative, meaningful breakthroughs:

“So, science is a collaborative process, but the incentives within science, for individual advance, can often lead to a sort of a structure that elevates careers without necessarily producing truth.”

• The flaw in peer review publications — Bhattacharya also criticizes the current peer review process. He points out its shortcomings below:

“The peer review actually doesn’t involve, as you know, the peer reviewers taking your data, rerunning your experiments. It doesn’t mean any of that. They just read your paper, looked for logical flaws, didn’t find any, and then they recommended the editor to be published.

So, the peer review is not a guarantee that it’s true. You have some significance that say that your data meet. Even with that, some percentage of the time, the published result is going to be false.”

• Collaboration is key — To address the current flaws in the scientific community, the NIH is now promoting collaborative lab clusters. These groups of scientists come together specifically to tackle complex, real-world health problems. Huberman recommends:

“The solution to this is collaboration. Instead of having independent investigators, you have clusters of laboratories hopefully distributed throughout the country, working on the same problems, collaborating. There are grants of this sort. But here’s the problem. As you point out, it’s a sociological issue.”

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Restoring Trust and Transparency

To rebuild public trust, scientific institutions will need to be honest about uncertainties and treat you, the public, as partners rather than passive subjects. This means openly communicating what science doesn’t yet know, alongside what it does.

• Publishing “constructive failures” — Research that doesn’t achieve expected results is also critical. This openness helps build credibility:

“[W]e reward scientists for the influence that they have, and we reward scientists for the volume of papers they publish. What we don’t reward scientists for is honesty about their failures. We don’t reward scientists for pro-social behavior.”

• Failure is a stepping stone to better results — Bhattacharya notes that scientific research doesn’t get much leeway when it comes to making mistakes compared to tech companies that learn from failed startups:

“In Silicon Valley, a failed startup doesn’t mean that you can’t get another draw at trying to make a successful startup, right? Silicon Valley does not punish failure that sharply and that is the key to its success. Whereas in biomedicine, the current version of it we have now, we punish failure way too sharply.”

• Previous regulations held research back from the public knowledge — To help change perception regarding the NIH, Bhattacharya wants to make all NIH-funded research free for public consumption because it’s paid by your taxes:

“[My] predecessor Monika Bertagnolli … made a decision, a really great decision, essentially to say if the NIH supports a scientist’s work, and then that work leads to a journal publication, that publication ought to be available free to the public immediately upon publication. You’re not allowed as an NIH-funded scientist to publish in a journal that doesn’t have that as a policy. That policy was due to go into effect in December of this year …

If the American taxpayer pays for the research, why shouldn’t the American taxpayer be able to read the research for free? Because they already paid for it. Why do they pay a second time on the back end after the research is published?”

• Cost is no longer a roadblock because research can be published online — Bhattacharya is now tapping into the benefits of posting research online, making it instantly accessible to people who want to read them:

“[T]he marginal cost of publishing now is effectively zero. You put it online, right? I mean, yeah, there’s some costs for maintaining the webpage and all that and there’s some editorial staff, but like the level of investments that the public had been making for the NIH to then be asked to pay 30, 50, 100 dollars for the papers itself that are published, I mean, it’s just insulting.

And actually, it impedes the progress of science because it makes it so that there’s this barrier where regular people can’t get access to the things that scientists are talking about, right?”

The Replication Crisis

One shocking truth in science today is that about half of all biomedical research findings cannot be replicated. Huberman and Bhattacharya discussed this topic in great detail:

• The flaws of the scientific method — The ability to replicate results among different researchers is important to solidify the findings of a topic, but Huberman states that this is not the case today:

“One of the major issues, I believe, that led to the so-called Replication Crisis is that it is very difficult, even with the best of intentions for two laboratories to do the same work in an identical way. Five minutes longer on a countertop at room temperature might change an antibody that could lead to a different outcome. I mean, there are so many variables.”

• Incentives have affected medical research — Monetary incentives to create groundbreaking research are creating loopholes in medical research, Bhattacharya says:

“So, a lot of what the things that we think we know, even with some fair degree of certainty, are probably not true … [T]the question is like, which half? Well, we don’t know the answer to that question …

And this is done even with pure goodwill and no fraud at all, right? And the reason is a combination of the fact that science is hard and the incentives we created for publication, right? Those two together mean that the biomedical scientific literature is not reliable.”

• Creating a collaborative community is imperative — The NIH is planning to create “pro-social” metrics to reward scientists who share data openly and willingly allow others to replicate their work:

“We don’t reward scientists for pro-social behavior … where you collaborate, you share your data openly and honestly. In fact, we punish scientists for that, right?

So, right now, if somebody comes to me and says, ‘Jay, I want to replicate your work.’ I’ve trained myself not to think this way, but it’s really hard not to, given the structure we’re in. I’m going to think of that as a threat. What if they don’t find what I’ve found, now I’m a failure, right?

The failure to replicate is seen as a failure of the scientist rather than the fact that science is hard and it’s difficult to get results that are true even with the best of will. And we punish scientists for that. So, we essentially reward scientists for a set of things that create incentives for the Replication Crisis to happen.”

COVID-19 Pandemic Lessons

COVID-19 revealed critical flaws in health policy decisions, notably around lockdowns, mask mandates, and blanket vaccine mandates. These policies often lacked strong scientific backing, causing unnecessary harm and division.

• The mandates created stigmatized groups — One of the disturbing effects of the various COVID-19 policies was shunning citizens who spoke out, Bhattacharya says. In turn, those affected have little reason to trust the government:

“Essentially, we created a class of unclean people as a matter of public policy. You can understand why people who went through that would say, ‘Given that the vaccine didn’t turn out to stop you from getting and spreading COVID, why should I trust you on anything else?’ That, that’s where we currently are.”

• Sweden got it right all along — Bhattacharya concedes that the lockdowns weren’t helpful in curbing deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic:

“If you ask which country had the lowest all-cause excess deaths in all of Europe … it turns out it’s Sweden, which didn’t follow the lockdowns. So, the lockdowns were not a necessary policy in order to protect human life. And they weren’t sufficient to protect human life either, right? So, you had sharply locked down countries like Peru that had tremendous deaths.”

• There was a concerted effort to control medical experts — Instead of fostering a collaborative environment between experts, those in power opted to censor and vilify doctors who went against mainstream advice:

“[T]here was essentially a groupthink at scale. It was impossible to organize a panel with the kind of diversity of opinion that was needed.

There were [a] million or more — I know this from the set of people who signed the Great Barrington Declaration, tens of thousands of scientists and doctors who disagreed, but they were afraid to stick their head up for fear of getting chopped off. It’s not an accident that Stanford didn’t allow a scientific panel with my point of view about the efficacy of lockdowns until 2024.”

• Lockdowns affected marginalized groups — While many employees were able to continue their jobs during the lockdowns, Bhattacharya noted that these policies greatly affected other groups:

“[I]t was very clear to me with my background in health policy that we were going to harm the poor. We were going to harm children, and we were going to harm the working class at scale. The lockdowns were a luxury of the laptop class.”

• The messaging was more important than saving lives — In an effort to look unified and keep the public’s hopes high, authorities focused on united messaging instead of being honest about the side effects of their policies:

“[T]he problem here is that the scientific community embraced an ethical norm about unity of messaging and then enforced it on fellow scientists. And then it cooperated with the Biden administration to put in place a censorship regime that made it impossible even for legitimate conversations to happen. So, after the vaccines, COVID vaccines came out, there are a community of people who were vaccine legitimately vaccine-injured.”

• The shots need to be fully investigated — Because of the devastation caused by the rolling out the shots to the public, Bhattacharya is calling for an investigation of what went wrong. But even if he is now the NIH director, he is still helpless because of more powerful players:

“I think these are the kind of things that ought to be investigated, but it’s very difficult to investigate just because of the political aura around vaccines where if you really do investigate it and find something the public health authorities don’t like, you’re going to have trouble. I don’t know the answer to that question from a scientific point of view.”

The Way Forward

In the wake of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s catastrophic tenure at the NIH, how does the new administration aim to recover? According to Bhattacharya, the answer involves being open and honest to the public.

• An open discussion and collaboration with the public — Bhattacharya says the NIH will work with the public more closely moving forward, allowing both parties to benefit from each other:

“The way forward isn’t to force people to say, ‘Look, you must acknowledge how great science is on these other things.’ The way forward is to be utterly honest about what we know and don’t know and treat people as partners rather than subjects.”

• Return to basics — The NIH aims to return to scientific research that will benefit public health, even if it means challenging beliefs that are hard to let go. Bhattacharya is hoping to fast track an open scientific competition to get to the bottom of autism:

“It includes basic science work, it includes epidemiological work, it’ll include environmental exposure work, and we’ll bring together data sets that we’ll make available to the researchers. We’ll have a competition among scientists, just like the normal NIH way with peer review panels, to ask who should get the awards. We’ll have a dozen or more scientific teams asking the question, ‘What is the etiology of autism?'”

• Honesty — To regain the public’s trust, the NIH aims to become more open to the pros and cons of the policies they recommend, especially when it comes to rolling out the shots. Bhattacharya believes that these contribute to the rise in autism but are not the sole reason for it.

“I want an honest conversation. I think that if you have an honest evaluation, you’re not going to find that the vaccines are the primary reason for the cause of the rise of autism. It’s going to be something much more fundamental and complicated.”

• Focus on research — Above all, the NIH needs to focus on producing quality research that benefits public health, which includes encouraging new and upcoming scientists to participate:

“The key thing is the content of the research and the standards we hold ourselves doing the research. Those are the things I want restructured. That’s really the fundamental question for me, as NIH director.

If I can accomplish some of the things we’ve talked about during this podcast, having replicability be the core of deciding what scientific truth is, refocusing the portfolio so that we enable young, early career scientists to test their ideas out, that we aim big for trying to address and we address the key health problems that Americans face. If we can do those things, I’ll consider myself a success.”

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About the Decline of Trust in the NIH

Q: Why has public trust in the NIH declined?

A: Public trust in the NIH has declined primarily due to the organization’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Controversial decisions around lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and lack of transparency regarding the NIH’s involvement in virus research led to widespread skepticism and mistrust.

Q: What is the NIH doing to address the replication crisis in medical research?

A: The NIH plans to encourage collaboration among scientists by rewarding transparency and data sharing. They will create incentives for replication studies, introduce new journals dedicated to publishing replication and negative results, and prioritize funding for projects that openly share methods and data.

Q: How is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya planning to restore transparency?

A: As the newly appointed NIH director, Dr. Bhattacharya will make NIH-funded research freely available online, eliminating paywalls that prevent public access. He advocates openly admitting uncertainties, publishing constructive failures, and actively involving citizens as partners in the scientific process.

Q: What lessons did the NIH learn from the COVID-19 pandemic?

A: The NIH recognized that lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates lacked strong scientific backing and disproportionately harmed marginalized groups. Policies created division rather than cooperation, demonstrating the critical need for transparent, evidence-based decisions, and open scientific debate.

Q: How does the NIH plan to improve research outcomes moving forward?

A: Going forward, the NIH will focus on supporting high-risk, high-reward research projects, creating collaborative lab clusters, and funding comprehensive studies like the autism initiative. Emphasis will be on replicability, transparency, collaboration, and involving early-career scientists to foster innovative and impactful research.

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New sprayable COVID shot shows viral shedding in human trial

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A new sprayable COVID shot that enters your body through your nose has cleared its first human trial, but independent scientists are sounding urgent alarms about a terrifying risk the researchers completely ignored: the shot can spread from vaxxed to unvaxed people without their knowledge or consent.
The CVXGA1 intranasal shot, published in Science Advances, uses a live virus that replicates in your nasal passages and can be “shed” to others through normal breathing and talking.  Critics warn this could expose unvaxxed individuals — including pregnant women, children, and immunocompromised people — to genetically modified viral particles against their will.

But perhaps the most disturbing question is: why is this experimental shot even being developed?  Multiple studies have already documented massive harm from previous COVID shots, including heart damage, blood clots, sudden deaths, and immune system dysfunction.
With questionable efficacy and problematic safety profiles already established, why are researchers now pushing an intranasal version that could spread to others?

The shedding risk they didn’t want you to know about

The study’s own data proves the shot causes viral shedding.  Researchers detected the shot virus in nasal swabs of participants one day after administration, with levels reaching up to 3.9 log10 PFU/ml — meaning thousands of viral particles being shed from each person’s nose.

“The study didn’t examine if shed materials can be spread to others.  This raises significant safety concerns about replication and shedding risks,” warned investigative journalist Sonia Elijah.

Dr. Karl Jablonowski, senior research scientist for Children’s Health Defense, explained the platform uses parainfluenza virus type 5, a “communicable respiratory virus between humans and non-human animals.”  Since this shot is “self-spreading,” he noted, “there is no informed consent or medical precautions as the ‘shot’ may infect infants, children, pregnant women, immunocompromised or medically frail.”

Dr. Karina Acevedo Whitehouse, professor of microbiology at the Autonomous University of Querétaro, agreed there are “high chances” this shot will result in “persistent shedding,” citing a 2023 study of a similar intranasal shot that detected virus shedding in 17% of participants.

Why create more dangerous shots when previous ones failed?

The rush to develop yet another COVID shot becomes even more questionable, considering documented failures of previous versions.  Government databases worldwide show unprecedented adverse events following COVID shots, including myocarditis in young people, sudden cardiac deaths in athletes, blood clotting disorders, immune suppression, and neurological damage.

Studies show shot efficacy wanes rapidly, often within months, while the spike protein these shots produce has been linked to cellular damage throughout the body.  With mounting evidence of harm and questionable benefit, developing an intranasal version that could potentially spread to non-consenting individuals raises serious ethical concerns.

The study’s fatal flaws

No control group: The study included zero unvaxxed participants for comparison.  “There is absolutely no way that this paper can be considered evidence that this intranasal gene-therapy based product is safe or effective,” Dr. Whitehouse stated.

Tiny sample size: Only 72 people participated — far too small to detect serious adverse events.

Limited safety monitoring: Researchers only tracked adverse events for weeks, not months or years.

No shedding studies: Despite detecting viral shedding, researchers performed no studies to determine if shed particles could infect others.

The spike protein is delivered directly to your lungs

The shot produces the same spike protein found in Pfizer and Moderna shots, linked to blood clots, heart damage, and immune dysfunction.  Unlike injected shots that stay in your arm muscle, this intranasal shot delivers spike protein directly to your respiratory system, potentially causing more severe reactions.

“Genetically modifying an infectious respiratory virus to express a spike protein is a familiar and really bad idea,” Dr. Jablonowski warned.

Natural immune system support that works

Instead of relying on experimental shots that spread without consent, focus on proven strategies:

Optimize vitamin D: Maintain blood levels between 50-80 ng/ml.  Deficiency dramatically increases infection risk.

Strengthen your gut: 70% of your immune system lives in your digestive tract.  Support it with fermented foods and probiotics while avoiding processed foods.

Power up with nutrients: Vitamin C, zinc, quercetin, and elderberry have strong scientific backing for immune support.

Reduce toxic load: Choose organic foods, filter water, and limit chemical exposure that suppresses immune function.

Manage stress: Chronic stress floods your body with cortisol, which suppresses your immunity.

The self-spreading agenda

Dr. Jessica Rose warns that if successful, “this could be used to push gene-based products on us via intranasal breathing routes.”  Shots that spread person-to-person without individual consent could eliminate medical freedom entirely.

With researchers planning to enroll 10,000 participants in the next phase, we’re moving toward involuntary exposure to this new gene-based therapy.

Your immune system has evolved over millions of years to protect you naturally when properly supported.  While pharmaceutical companies rush to develop self-spreading shots with unknown consequences, you have the power to strengthen your defenses safely and effectively.

For those serious about building a robust immune system without experimental interventions, Jonathan Landsman’s Immune Defense Summit offers comprehensive strategies from 34 leading doctors, scientists, and researchers who reveal natural protocols that help your immune system thrive.

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Intimidation and Censorship — A Doctor’s Personal Account of the Pandemic


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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola     July 13, 2025

Story at-a-glance

  • Dr. Bowden used rapid PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests and early interventions like monoclonal antibodies and ivermectin to successfully treat over 6,000 patients during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Government agencies and medical boards coordinated to suppress effective treatments while promoting expensive alternatives through an $11.5 billion propaganda campaign
  • Hospitals indiscriminately used ventilators and harmful protocols, with some cases resembling euthanasia rather than proper patient care during the peak of the pandemic
  • Athletic sudden deaths rose from 29 to 290 annually, with myocarditis cases rising significantly, yet politicians remain silent due to pharmaceutical industry influence
  • Despite growing political support for medical autonomy, powerful medical organizations continue suppressing free speech and patient choice regarding treatments

In a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden recounts her experience in the trenches during the COVID-19 pandemic.1 While she has saved thousands of lives, the establishment vilified her by refusing to use treatments they endorsed. I encourage you to watch the entire episode, as it’s an eye-opening story of what went on behind the scenes.

Early Testing and Treatment Save Lives

According to Bowden, early pandemic testing delays were severe, often lasting up to two weeks. These delays allowed the virus more time to spread, exacerbating illness and overwhelming health care systems.

• Quick testing helps the appropriate patients — Bowden contributed to widespread testing by adopting saliva-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, dramatically reducing waiting times to just 24 hours:

“I was already working with a lab for patients with chronic sinusitis, they were doing a PCR testing for chronic sinusitis. So, tests for bacterial and fungal infections of the sinuses. It’s called Microgen DX, and they came out with a saliva test for COVID.

So, we were able to get the results back the next day. So, I started offering that and my little clinic exploded …”

• Doctors still helped whenever they could — Even if patients already had a full-blown infection, Bowden was still bound by her oath to help treat them with whatever tools were available:

“I also had patients come in that were really sick in the second week. And that, that was such a learning experience for me because, you know, normally, if somebody walked into my office with an oxygen saturation in the low 80s, I would call an ambulance. But I had patients who were refusing to go to the hospital, and I had to give them the option to possibly die in my office, which is scary, but we saved them.”

• Monoclonal antibodies worked — Simply put, monoclonal antibodies are lab-grown antibodies2 designed to stimulate your immune system. Bowden recounts how they “worked very well” for her patients, and she would notice improvement the following day.

• Early treatment increases survival outcomes — Bowden says that patients coming in during the beginning phases of the disease helped improve their chances of full recovery:

“[O]nce I knew it was safe, then I started using [ivermectin] and found it worked … All in all, I treated well over 6,000 patients and everybody that got early treatment stayed out of the hospital.”

What Happens When Doctors Speak Out Against the Narrative

Bowden personally encountered severe side effects of the COVID-19 jab while treating patients. But when she spoke out, she was met with vehement opposition:

• More and more athletes are dying due to myocarditis — In 2023, I wrote about how athletes suddenly experiencing heart attacks when the shots were rolled out. Now, the situation has gotten worse, Bowden says:

“So, it used to be 29 per year. Now it’s 290 per year, [a] growth [of] 10 times … And I worry about these kids because myocarditis, the primary symptom is chest pain. But if you’ve got a kid who’s not even speaking yet, you have no idea if they have myocarditis, and myocarditis can leave a permanent scar on the heart and then lead to a lifelong increased risk of sudden cardiac death and we have no idea if these kids have been affected.”

• The government schemed to hit ivermectin — In addition to the rollout of the shots, Bowden believes there was a concerted effort by different parties to suppress ivermectin:

“[T]he Federation of State Medical Boards, which is this private entity — they’re actually located in Texas — who oversees all the state medical boards, they sent out a directive to all the state medical boards concerning ivermectin, concerning misinformation, and basically encouraging the medical boards to go after doctors like myself.”

• Opposition will have a hard time prosecuting lifesavers — While Bowden has been maligned, she is proud of what she did to help patients. In turn, her attackers have no leverage because in the end, she saved lives:

“They can’t find an expert witness to testify against me. There have been three continuances. They finally were awarded summary judgment against me. So, they’ve decided I’m guilty. And now I’m waiting for my punishment. There was a hearing about a month ago to find out what they’re going to find me with and that sort of thing. And I’m just waiting on that, but I do plan on appealing.”

Going deeper into the censorship angle, Bowden shares that the big players are working together to bring down cheap, effective treatments for patients suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic:

• Money was involved in propaganda and censorship — Bowden recounts that all the pieces moved very quickly at the start of the pandemic to usher in the shots as the primary solution:

“If you look at the timing, in March, the government put out the big information on ivermectin and why you should not take it for COVID. They put that on the FDA ‘s website. At the same time, they launched COVID-19 Community Corps, and this was April 1st, 2021.

This was an $11.5 billion slush fund to feed out propaganda and censor people. And the day that they launched the COVID-19 Community Corps was the same day that Houston Methodist, which is where I had privileges, mandated the COVID shots for all their employees, and they were the first in the country.”

• The government purposefully made it hard for doctors to do their jobs — This led to the suppression of effective treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies. Bowden said she didn’t even use ivermectin until the government took over distribution of monoclonal antibodies. After that, it became increasingly difficult to get them.

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Were Hospital Protocols Helping or Hurting Patients?

Early pandemic hospital protocols often used ventilators aggressively and universally, regardless of patient-specific needs, frequently worsening outcomes for many individuals:

• Ventilators were forced on patients — Despite leading to worsened pulmonary function, hospitals still put patients on ventilators:

“You don’t look at a number to put somebody on a ventilator. And unfortunately, the people in the hospital didn’t learn. They didn’t experiment in that fashion. They just went by this protocol and automatically put people on ventilators. They also didn’t give people breathing treatments. They thought that breathing treatments would spread the virus.”

• Hospitals were indiscriminately harming patients — During the height of the pandemic, Bowden recounts that hospitals were essentially euthanizing patients to make room for others:

“They’ll justify giving morphine because they’ll say, ‘Oh, well, they’re struggling to breathe.’ Well, guess what? Morphine actually depresses your drive to breathe. Like this one case I remember, this patient, he was sick, he looked like he was dying, but they just pushed morphine. He had no pain. They do a pain score, so zero to 10.

This guy had zero pain. And then they pushed insulin to drop his sugar, and his glucose was fine. And then he died three minutes later … I reviewed this chart and turned him in the medical board. Nothing. They didn’t do anything.”

• Profits over lives — In the end, Bowden believes that greed ultimately won out, with the COVID shots linked to the deaths of countless people:

“[W]e have hard facts showing it should be pulled off the market. I mean, any other product would have been pulled a long time ago. If this were an antibiotic and we’d seen all the carnage from an antibiotic, it would have been yanked off long ago. It should have been yanked off in the first month. There’s no other explanation than there’s just fraud, there’s corruption, there’s ego, there’s money. But it’s not science.”

Medical Freedom Is Constantly Under Threat

Recent victories for medical freedom, such as Idaho’s ban on jab mandates,3 demonstrate growing support for patient autonomy. Yet powerful medical organizations remain opposed to broad reforms.

• More like-minded politicians are needed — Bowden formed the Americans for Health Freedom to increasingly influence policy discussions, advocating strongly for the restoration and protection of medical freedoms:

“I started an organization called Americans for Health Freedom to try to find the politicians with moral courage to simply state that the COVID shot should be pulled off the market. It has been slow-growing, but we are up to 252 politicians who will go on record just to state that these shots should be pulled off the market.”

• Politicians have been bought — Rogan and Bowden agree that money has caused many politicians to stay quiet about the efficacy and safety of the shots, most likely because of Big Pharma’s bribery:

“[T]hese politicians are not getting these shots anymore and they’re not giving them to their kids, and yet they’re fine just staying quiet and not saying anything. They’re fine letting their constituents get these shots when we know all the complications, we know that it doesn’t work.

We know that the risk far outweighs the benefit, and the politicians are staying quiet. So, our goal is to support the ones who will speak up and get them more power.”

• Organizations continue to suppress free speech — Bowden frequently clashed with mainstream medical experts during the pandemic. She called out the Texas Medical Association, saying:

“They are anti-free speech for physicians. They are pro-mandate. They’ve gone after me, and they have a tight control over the people in our House and State. So, I just think we need to be careful. I mean, you saw it during the pandemic and the economy of our state is dominated by health, and people don’t realize that. They just think oil, but health is a huge dominating factor in our economy and, you saw what they did to me, what they’re still doing to me.”

The Best Ways to Protect Yourself

Despite the assault on physicians and patient medical freedom, Bowden hasn’t given up. Things are looking up, and she hopes that the new Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, “will save us all.” In the meantime, there are things you can do to protect yourself against the ever-evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as other diseases by boosting your immune system.

As noted in Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s interview with Tucker Carlson, your immune system is everything, especially against chronic diseases. However, many people have compromised immune function nowadays due to getting the shot. To rebuild your resilience, here are my recommendations:

1. Prioritize sleep — Ensure you’re getting at least seven to nine hours of high-quality sleep every night. Sleep is when your body heals and rejuvenates. Lack of proper sleep weakens your immune system and increases inflammation. But that’s not all — you also need to consider sleep quality. For simple, actionable fixes that will help you get the rest you need, read “Subtle Signs You Are Not Getting Enough Sleep.”

2. Dietary adjustments — Your diet plays a huge role in your overall health. If you’re eating unhealthy foods, it’s time to change. Limit ultraprocessed foods, refined sugar, and linoleic acid (LA), which is an inflammatory polyunsaturated fat (PUF). Focus instead on healthy carbohydrates to optimize your metabolic health and reduce immune-damaging inflammation.

3. Sunlight exposure — In a previous article, I noted that vitamin D from sunlight exposure helps prevent respiratory infections. I recommend you get daily sunlight exposure at solar noon, but only after you’ve been off vegetable oils for two to six months.

4. Add C15:0 fat to your diet — In relation to the point above, did you know that after you eat enough LA, it becomes embedded in your skin? Once it’s exposed to sunlight, inflammatory metabolites are produced, leading to increased risk of chronic disease and inflammation.

Taking 250 milligrams of pentadecanoic acid (C15:0) daily may help shorten the time it takes for your skin to safely interact with sunlight again, but emerging research suggests much larger doses may be even better.

The logic behind this strategy is to push out the existing LA from your tissues, replacing them with healthier fat. If you simply followed a low-LA diet, it would take two to three years for the strategy to work. But if you add C15:0, the LA clearance significantly shortens to 12 to 18 months. To understand this strategy in more detail, read “The Skin Microbiome Secret to Sun Protection and Radiant Health.”

5. Manage your stress — Chronic stress weakens your immune response due to elevated cortisol levels. Engage in daily stress-relief activities like meditation, deep breathing exercises, gentle yoga, or simply spending more time in nature. For more information, read “Key Strategies to Reduce Your Cortisol Levels.”

6. Don’t get the COVID shot — Given concerns raised by Bowden about serious side effects, opting out of the COVID jab and focusing instead on natural strategies to boost your immunity provides a safer, more effective approach.

If you or a loved one has already gotten the jab, I recommend you go over the I-RECOVER program by the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), formerly known as the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). It provides extensive information about how to treat long COVID4 and post-jab injuries.5

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About the Doctors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Q: What was Bowden’s approach to COVID-19 testing and early treatment?

A: Bowden emphasized that early testing and intervention were crucial in saving lives during the pandemic. She implemented saliva-based PCR testing with a 24-hour turnaround, enabling faster diagnosis compared to the then-common two-week delays. She treated patients with monoclonal antibodies and ivermectin, and that early intervention kept thousands out of the hospital.

Q: Why did Bowden face backlash from the medical establishment?

A: Bowden publicly challenged the mainstream COVID-19 treatment protocols, questioned the shot safety, and promoted off-label use of ivermectin. As a result, she was targeted by medical boards and hospital administrators who allegedly acted on federal directives to suppress dissent. She claims that propaganda, financial incentives, and censorship motivated the backlash, not science.

Q: How did hospital protocols during the pandemic impact patient outcomes, according to Bowden?

A: Bowden criticized hospitals for over-reliance on ventilators, often administered without patient-specific evaluation. She alleges that some institutions essentially euthanized patients through unnecessary morphine and insulin use, and even withheld supportive care like breathing treatments. She argues that these decisions were driven by protocols, profit motives, and flawed incentives — not patient welfare.

Q: What role does Bowden believe government and pharmaceutical interests played in shaping the pandemic response?

A: She asserts there was a coordinated effort to suppress effective, low-cost treatments like ivermectin in favor of shot mandates. She points to initiatives like the $11.5 billion COVID-19 Community Corps, claiming it was used to spread propaganda and enforce censorship, while pharmaceutical interests influenced both policy and the public’s perception.

Q: What is Bowden’s stance on medical freedom and jab mandates today?

A: Bowden founded Americans for Health Freedom, an organization aimed at supporting politicians who oppose COVID-19 shot mandates and advocate for medical autonomy. She celebrates moves like Idaho’s decision on mandates and criticizes institutions like the Texas Medical Association for suppressing physician free speech.

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The Immune System Is Your Body’s Defense Against Cancer


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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola     May 25, 2025

Story at-a-glance

  • Cancer is affecting younger individuals more than before. There’s even a case wherein a 13-year-old has developed metastatic pancreatic cancer
  • Inflammation plays a central role in cancer development, with poor diet, environmental chemicals, and persistent viral infections contributing to immune system suppression
  • The COVID-19 jab contributes to cancer risk through persistent inflammation from spike proteins
  • Your immune system, particularly T-cells and natural killer cells, is crucial for fighting cancer
  • Practical preventative measures include eating whole foods instead of processed foods, reducing chemical exposure, maintaining proper sleep, and avoiding mRNA shots

Cancer was once viewed as a disease that rarely surfaced in younger individuals, but today, that assumption no longer holds. So, what makes the current cancer trend so alarming? This, along with other topics, was discussed by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a surgeon and businessman, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, featured above.1

Most arguments about cancer center on genetic predisposition or external carcinogens like cigarettes. That conversation has merit, but it misses a key piece of the picture — your body’s own immune defenses. The bigger story involves strengthening the body’s protective mechanisms, and avoiding repeated hits to those defenses that allow cancer cells to take hold.

Investigating the Root Cause

Younger individuals once escaped the worst forms of cancer, but that has changed. Soon-Shiong tells the story of a case of a 13-year-old with metastatic pancreatic cancer, which in the past was basically unheard of. A growing body of clinical observation suggests that these cancers progress faster than older standards would predict, prompting doctors to label them “turbocharged” tumors.

• Inflammation is at the root of cancer — In Soon-Shiong’s words, your body “must inhibit the thing called P53 … and protect your body from … cancer. And if it persists and causes inflammation and inhibits P53, it begins to have the hallmarks of an oncogenic virus.”

• The rise of modern diets contribute to cancer — Soon-Shiong noted that ultraprocessed foods and other toxins keep a person’s gut in disarray. That scenario can worsen the immune system’s struggles. Excess linoleic acid from canola, soy, or similar oils triggers chronic inflammatory signals in many individuals.

These signals disrupt the cellular environment that NK cells and T-cells need for normal function. Meanwhile, diets that rely on refined sugar and cheap filler starches can further undermine metabolic health, though the problem runs deeper than sugar alone.

• Manmade chemicals in the environment also contribute to cancer — These include PFAS, red dyes, pesticide residues, and continuous exposure to microplastics and endocrine disruptors that hamper the body’s inherent defenses. Extra stress placed on immune cells can push them toward a suppressed state, giving malignant cells the opportunity to thrive.

Some interpret these trends as a perfect storm of poor nutrition, hidden toxins, and immunosuppression. Yet Soon-Shiong remains guardedly hopeful. He points to practical methods that hinge on T-cell function and a different approach to therapy. By focusing on the body’s innate ability to kill tumors, he believes more children and younger adults will be able to escape from this dreaded disease.

Is COVID-19 Altering Your Immune System in New Ways?

Soon-Shiong places part of the blame for rising cancer rates on persistent, chronic inflammation. His suspicion includes both COVID infections and the COVID jabs, wherein the virus’ spike protein lingers in tissues well after an active infection has ended. That prolonged presence maintains a continuous inflammatory response, fueling immune dysregulation.

• Standard antibody-based COVID shots have not cleared the virus from the body — Soon-Shiong wonders if repeated boosters further embed these spike protein fragments. He believes the shot keeps your immune system busy without resolving the underlying threat.

• COVID-19 gets into every cell of your body — Soon-Shiong also noted that spike protein, either from infection or the COVID shot, penetrates all of your cells, including the cells lining your blood vessels. As he explains in the interview:

“It goes wherever you have the thing called the ACE2 receptor, which is in the blood vessels. So, wherever we have a blood vessel in your body, it’s where it’s going to go and it has an ACE2 receptor on that blood vessel. That’s where it can go because that’s the purpose of the spike protein — to penetrate, to hijack that ACE2 receptor and get into their cells.”

• Spike protein results in different adverse health events down the line — Once spike protein enters your body, that’s when different complications arise, depending on the tissues affected. According to Soon-Shiong:

“That’s why it gets in the pancreas. That’s why you have brain fog. It disrupts the blood vessels of the brain and causes mitochondrial dysfunction. It’s why in the colon, which is high in the GI tract, is a high ACE2 receptor [organ].

That’s why pancreas has a high ACE2 receptor where — that’s why you people have in the heart — you have dysfunction, you, you’ve seen young people have sudden heart attacks.”

• Viruses have caused cancer in other contexts — Hepatitis leads to liver cancer, while HPV can spark cervical and throat cancers. A suppressed immune system cannot remove these intruders. That same risk appears in the post-COVID era.

Individuals with persistent inflammation are more likely to see T-cells go dormant, as Soon-Shiong described. The body basically loses its first responders against malignant transformation, whether the intruder is an outside virus or a mutated cell from within.

In the interview, Soon-Shiong goes deeper into the topic of cancers stemming from viruses due to inflammation, so I highly recommend listening to the whole thing. He concludes:

“What we know about virally induced cancers is well established. We know that if you get hepatitis, you get liver cancer. Hepatitis is a virus infection. We know if you get human papillomavirus, HPV, you get cervical cancer … If you get HIV, you get Kaposi sarcoma …

We call that oncogenic viruses in medical terms, meaning viruses that are … carcinogenic. And the fundamental basis for that are threefold. The hallmarks of our oncogenic virus is one; it must persist.

And why? Because it continues to create inflammation. And … with inflammation you get suppression because your body’s trying to suppress it. It must inhibit the thing called P53 that’s in your body to try and protect your body from … cancer. And if it persists and causes inflammation and, and [it] inhibits P53, it begins to have the hallmarks of an oncogenic virus.”

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Your Immune System Is the Foundational Pillar Against Cancer

A typical complete blood count (CBC) includes measurements of white blood cells. However, many oncologists rarely track T-lymphocyte or NK-cell counts unless something extreme surfaces. That omission frustrates Soon-Shiong.

• Your immune system is key to fighting cancer — Soon-Shiong notes that T-cells and NK cells handle the main job of seeking and destroying aberrant cells. If those protective warriors vanish, standard treatments may buy time, but fail in the end.

“It’s … job is to kill … anything that threatens the body, whether you, the body has infection, if you have TB, you have HIV, if you have hepatitis, you have COVID. These cells are there to recognize these infected cells and kill it.

As you and I are sitting here today, our stem cells are growing in order to replenish parts of your body, your heart, you, if you didn’t have that, you wouldn’t have a heart at the age of 14. You need those stem cells. But mathematically, there are some cells that are transformed and your body recognizes that through these natural killer cells and kills it,” he says.

• Immune system cells protect your body from tumor growth — In Soon-Shiong’s words, your immune system cells are “nature’s first responder.” He continues:

“That’s how we are all protected, and we are [in] the state of equilibrium or balance. On the other hand, the moment either the tumor finds a way to hide from these cells, or your body’s, or the tumor causes these cells to be suppressed.

And that’s why I call this the suppressor cells. And there are certain cells in your body called Treg cells or myeloid-derived suppressor cells … that, when they get upregulated, you’ve lost your protection.

And so, the question then is, how do we understand this balance? How do we increase the killers and how do we decrease the suppressors?”

• Traditional cancer treatments only provide short-term results — Chemotherapy and radiation, which often crush immune cells, produce a short remission in many. “But then, so often you watch it roaring back,” Soon-Shiong says.

That’s because the protective cells died along with the original tumor. The correct approach, he says, involves subtle stress on the tumor to expose it, followed by immunological activation to finish the job.

• Teach your own body to create a “bioshield” — Soon-Shiong references a product he’s currently developing called “BioShield.” While it is injected into your body, it’s not a vaccine, but rather a training mechanism for your immune system cells, which will help purge cancer cells from your body. He explains:

“A tumor has molecules that is foreign to the rest of your body. And if you educate your T-cell, you recognize as molecules that is foreign to the rest of your body that T-cell can remember. Now you have a memory T-cell … We now have bladder cancer patients who have lost their bladder in complete remission for nine years …”

While BioShield looks promising, it’s unlikely to be a magic bullet against cancer. That’s why Soon-Shiong stresses that cancer is all about your immune system. If your immune system is in top shape, your risk for cancer will be significantly reduced.

Practical Ways to Strengthen Your Body’s Defenses

To lower your cancer risk, start addressing what’s weakening your immune system in the first place. Inflammation, toxins, stress, poor food choices, and lack of sleep aren’t just small issues — they are the main reasons why your body fails to spot and destroy cancer cells. Here are my recommendations:

1. Clean up your diet and eat more whole foods — If you constantly rely on frozen dinners, fast food, or packaged snacks, it’s time to shift. Aside from being nutritionally lacking, these are loaded with dyes, additives, and inflammatory vegetable oils that confuse your immune system.

Swap them out with fresh produce, grass fed meats, and whole ingredients you recognize. Cook meals at home and store them in glass or stainless steel instead of plastic.

2. Cut your exposure to harmful chemicals — If you are a parent, office worker, or anyone constantly touching printed receipts, using fragranced cleaners, or microwaving in plastic, you are surrounded by chemicals that disrupt your immune cells. These chemicals don’t just sit on the surface — they enter your bloodstream and quietly weaken your immune defenses.

3. Spend enough time outdoors and get sufficient high-quality sleep — If your schedule has you staying up late, glued to screens, or skipping daylight, your immune system isn’t recharging.

Go outside each morning for natural light — it resets your body clock. Sleep at the same time each night in a cool, dark room for seven to nine hours at a consistent schedule. Even missing just an hour or two of deep sleep affects your immune system’s ability to function at its best.

4. Don’t get the COVID shot — If you already got the shot, don’t get any more boosters or mRNA gene therapy shots. Following this strategy immediately ends the assault on your body. But if you’ve already developed a shot-related injury, the next section contains more in-depth tips.

Other Strategies to Help Address COVID-Related Injuries

If you or a family member is suffering from long COVID or adverse effects from the shot, know that there is still hope for recovery.

• Protect your health with these protocols — I recommend you go over the I-RECOVER program by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). It provides extensive information about how to treat long COVID2 and post-vaccine injuries.3

• Get rid of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in your home — In addition to the measures discussed by the FLCCC, I recommend reducing your EMF exposure in your home. Research has shown that manmade sources, such as your Wi-Fi router and 5G towers “can disturb the homeostasis of free radicals leading to dysfunctions such as the ‘cellular stress response.'”4

• Minimize linoleic acid (LA) intake — Your fat intake matters because your mitochondria contain cardiolipin, which influences mitophagy and overall mitochondrial quality control.

To promote proper cardiolipin function, boosting omega-3 fat intake is important while simultaneously cutting back on omega-6 fat. However, don’t make the mistake of eating too much omega-3, as eventually it will cause the same damage as eating too much omega-6. For a more detailed explanation on this balance, read “Linoleic Acid — The Most Destructive Ingredient in Your Diet.”

• Optimize your vitamin D level — This nutrient plays an important role in supporting your immune system. Research shows that low vitamin D levels are linked to an increased risk of cancers.5 Vitamin D attaches to the vitamin D receptor in your cells, creating a cascade of signals that affect how cancer cells grow, develop, and survive.6 Studies have also confirmed that vitamin D helps prevent respiratory infections, including COVID-19.

I recommend raising your vitamin D level to a range between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL. To know if you’re hitting that range, you need to get tested. For more information about the benefits of vitamin D for cancer, as well as tips on how to optimize it properly, read “More Evidence Showing Vitamin D Combats Cancer.”

Frequently Asked Questions About the Immune System and Cancer

Q: Why is cancer affecting younger people more than before?

A: According to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the increase in cancer cases among children and young adults is a result of immune system damage caused by chronic inflammation, poor diet, environmental toxins, and lingering effects from COVID-19 infections or shots. These cases often involve rapidly progressing “turbocharged” tumors that behave more aggressively than traditional cancers.

Q: What role does inflammation play in the development of cancer?

A: Inflammation is central to cancer’s progression. Chronic inflammation suppresses key tumor-suppressing proteins like P53 and compromises the immune system’s ability to eliminate cancerous cells. This persistent immune activation, sometimes from viral proteins like the COVID-19 spike protein, allows malignant cells to thrive by weakening the body’s natural defense mechanisms like T-cells and natural killer (NK) cells produced by your immune system.

Q: How do diet and environmental toxins increase cancer risk?

A: Modern diets high in ultraprocessed foods, refined sugars, and vegetable oils (like canola and soy) disrupt gut health and fuel systemic inflammation. Simultaneously, everyday exposure to manmade chemicals such as “forever chemicals,” food dyes, pesticides, and microplastics overwhelm the immune system. This perfect storm of poor nutrition and hidden toxins suppress immune cells, allowing tumors to escape detection and grow unchecked.

Q: How is COVID-19 linked to rising cancer risks?

A: Soon-Shiong theorizes that both COVID-19 infections and shots contribute to persistent inflammation and immune dysfunction. The virus (or spike protein from the vaccine) enters cells via ACE2 receptors found throughout the body — including the heart, brain, and pancreas — and disrupt mitochondrial function. Over time, this leads to increased risk of cancer.

Q: What strategies can strengthen the immune system and lower cancer risk?

A: Key strategies include:

• Eating whole, unprocessed foods to reduce inflammation

• Avoiding harmful chemicals in plastics, printed receipts, and fragranced products

• Improving sleep and natural light exposure to support immune regulation

• Reconsidering COVID-19 boosters, especially for those experiencing adverse effects

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What’s the Real Story Behind Vaccines?


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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola     May 04, 2025

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • Dr. Suzanne Humphries challenges conventional vaccine narratives, arguing that improvements in sanitation and nutrition, not vaccines, were primarily responsible for declining disease rates
  • Humphries’ journey from kidney specialist to vaccine researcher began after noticing patterns of kidney failure in patients following flu vaccination
  • The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act shields vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits, prioritizing profit over rigorous safety testing
  • Early vaccines contained contaminants like SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus that entered polio vaccines through production methods using monkey kidneys
  • Humphries emphasizes the importance of avoiding dogmatic thinking about vaccines, advocating for open-minded examination of medical practices

Joe Rogan recently sat down with Dr. Suzanne Humphries, co-author of “Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History,” one of my favorite books on vaccines.1 I previously interviewed Humphries about how vaccine science has been misrepresented to portray them as safe and effective, when in reality they’re neither.

She absolutely crushed it in this Rogan interview! I honestly don’t think anyone in history has laid out such a clear, convincing, and downright compelling case about the vaccine downsides. After decades of grinding away, her hard work’s finally getting the spotlight it deserves, and I’m beyond thrilled to have written the forward to her fantastic book.

Rogan also asked Humphries questions about the history, science and real impact of vaccines, and she didn’t hold back with her answers. Their conversation challenges conventional narratives about vaccines, explores the efficacy of natural remedies and uncovers an important history of medicine that is often overlooked.

The Importance of an Open Mind

Rogan opens the episode by emphasizing a key principle: avoiding dogma. “You can’t be dogmatic when you’re talking about vaccines — or about anything,” he says, advocating for a flexible, 360-degree perspective rather than the tunnel vision often fostered by indoctrination. Humphries agrees, noting that intentional and profitable indoctrination has shaped public perception of medical practices.

• Beneficial practices are often unfairly dismissed — Rogan praises “Dissolving Illusions” for highlighting the use of natural remedies like cinnamon, which are often discredited as “hippie nonsense.” Humphries explains that cinnamon, a powerful herb, contains significant vitamin C, a nutrient she believes underpinned the effectiveness of many traditional remedies.

She recalls dismissing such ideas early in her career, only to later recognize their value. Garlic, too, emerges as a standout, effective against staph infections without fostering drug resistance — a stark contrast to engineered pharmaceuticals.

• This shift in perspective — from skepticism to appreciation — mirrors a broader theme — The conventional medical establishment has a tendency to reject natural solutions in favor of standardized, profitable interventions. Humphries argues that doctors should recommend these remedies alongside conventional treatments, citing, for example, vitamin D and vitamin A as important yet underutilized tools.

Vaccines and Vitamin A — A Hidden Connection

The conversation pivots to a striking revelation about the measles vaccine. Humphries explains that both natural measles infection and the vaccine deplete vitamin A levels in the body. “They don’t tell you that,” she says, noting that post-vaccination advice often only recommends Tylenol, which she notes impairs immune response and causes “immunological disturbances.”

• The medical system prioritizes standardized procedures over holistic care — This vitamin A depletion, Humphries argues, should prompt vitamin A supplementation to be recommended along with the measles shot, but this advice is absent from standard protocols. This point underscores a recurring critique of the medical system focusing on disease care instead of health care.

• Variability in vaccine production contributes to inconsistent outcomes — This problem is made worse by legal immunity granted to vaccine manufacturers. Rogan probes this further, asking if the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which shields vaccine companies from lawsuits, fueled this variability.

Humphries traces the precedent to the 1976 swine flu vaccine fiasco, where injuries forced the government to absorb liability, setting the stage for 1986’s broader measure.

• Post-1986, vaccine makers prioritized profit over safety — They introduced vaccine enhancers, or adjuvants, like aluminum and, eventually, mRNA technology. The legal protection afforded under the 1986 Act, she contends, allowed companies to prioritize profit over rigorous safety testing, a theme that reverberates throughout their discussion.

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The Polio Paradox — Vaccines or Sanitation?

Polio remains the poster child for vaccine success, but Humphries challenges this narrative with a detailed historical analysis. Rogan asks what caused polio’s decline, questioning the vaccine’s role. Humphries responds that the facts don’t align with popular belief. “Polio is still here,” she asserts, rebranded as conditions like Guillain-Barré syndrome — diagnostic criteria shifted post-vaccine to mask its persistence.

• Environmental factors — pesticides like DDT, arsenic and lead — are primary culprits — DDT production, she notes, mirrored polio outbreaks, with rural communities exposed through livestock dipping and crop spraying. “Arsenic causes the exact same spinal pathology,” she says, citing medical references that link these toxins to symptoms attributed to polio.

• Up to 95% to 99% of polio cases are asymptomatic — This suggests it’s a virus naturally present and benign in healthy individuals. Humphries cites a study of the Xavante Indians in South America, where nearly all tested had immunity to polio strains without paralysis, implying robust natural immunity negated its threat.

Rogan marvels at this, pointing out that viruses often weaken on their own and become less harmful over time — yet human interventions, like the 1916 Rockefeller lab’s engineered polio strain, made it more deadly.

• The threat of vaccine-derived polio — This is particularly related to oral vaccines still used in India and Israel. These live strains, she says, caused more paralytic cases than they prevented in early trials, a fact obscured by redefined diagnostics and propaganda. This complexity dismantles the simplistic “vaccine eradicated polio” story, pointing instead to sanitation, nutrition and reduced toxin exposure as key drivers of its decline.

Smallpox — A Tale of Sanitation and Suffering

Smallpox, another supposed vaccine triumph, faces similar scrutiny. Humphries describes its vaccine as a crude concoction of animal pus — often from cows, horses or cadavers — mixed with glycerin and dubbed “pure lymph.”

• Far from pure, these vaccines harbored bacteria and fungi — Contamination persisted into the 20th century. Rogan is incredulous: “Can you believe that fairy tale?” he asks, as Humphries details how these vaccines spread disease, including tuberculosis, a side effect she dubs “the white plague.”

• Public health conditions amplified smallpox’s toll — Rogan paints a vivid picture: streets awash with feces, no running water and rampant malnutrition. Humphries agrees, noting that in the late 1600s, smallpox was “one of the easiest diseases to treat” with supportive care. The Industrial Revolution worsened conditions, cramming people into filthy slums where disease thrived.

Death rates, she argues, plummeted not due to vaccines but alongside improvements in water, shelter and labor laws. Death rates from conditions like diarrhea, which had no vaccine, also declined during this time.

• Doctors of the era often worsened outcomes with toxic treatments — Mercury, arsenic and bloodletting were prescribed until vomiting or diarrhea ensued. These “purges,” meant to expel illness, instead debilitated patients. Yet, natural remedies like apple cider vinegar showed promise, with historical reports of doctors using it to prevent smallpox infection — a practice echoing its modern resurgence for gut health.

Natural Remedies Reclaimed

The dismissal of natural remedies frustrates both Rogan and Humphries. “The hippies seem to have got it right,” Rogan quips. Humphries recounts treating tetanus — a vaccine-targeted disease — with vitamin C and wound care, achieving better outcomes than in vaccinated cases. Studies, she says, show vitamin C prevents tetanus in rabbits if administered early, challenging the vaccine’s necessity.

• Breast milk emerges as a nutritional powerhouse — This food is rich in stem cells, immune factors and memory T-cells that confer cellular immunity. Humphries laments its replacement by formula, a profitable industry that downplays these benefits. Rogan agrees, decrying the arrogance of assuming artificial substitutes match nature’s design.

• Vitamins A, D and C recur as unsung heroes — Humphries ties vitamin A deficiency to vaccine side effects, vitamin D to immune resilience and vitamin C deficiency to hospital-acquired scurvy and more. “Most people are walking around with subclinical scurvy,” she warns, worsened by stress, smoking and poor diets — conditions vaccines can’t fix.

The Dark Side of Vaccine Production

How do contaminants like SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus, end up in vaccines? Humphries explains the process: vaccines require living tissue — rotten meat for tetanus, monkey kidneys for polio, E. coli for COVID-19 mRNA shots.

SV40, harmless in monkeys, infiltrated polio vaccines via African green monkey kidneys, and remained undetected until Dr. Bernice Eddy flagged it in the 1950s. Eddy’s warnings were ignored and suppressed, and contaminated stocks persisted into the 1990s.

• Now transmissible among humans, SV40 enhances cancer-promoting genes — It also inhibits cancer-suppressing genes, driving kidney, brain and lung tumors. Humphries links its introduction to rising cancer rates.

Rogan is stunned: “How could they keep injecting that into people?” Humphries cites suppression — “any doubts … must not be allowed to exist” — and profit motives, noting research into SV40’s long-term effects was axed despite clear correlations.

• COVID shots contain compounds that amplify side effects — These effects include blood clots and stem cell loss in placentas. These issues went unreported amid media silence. This opacity, Humphries argues, reflects a system that prioritizes industry over inquiry.

A Doctor’s Awakening

Humphries’ journey from kidney doctor to advocate began with the 2008-2009 flu vaccine, which she linked to kidney failure in her patients. “We’re not told to take a vaccine history,” she says, yet patterns emerged. Many patients experienced high blood pressure and dialysis post-vaccination. Her requests to delay shots for chemotherapy patients were rebuffed, sparking her research into polio, smallpox and beyond.

• Humphries went on to co-author “Dissolving Illusions” — The book was self-published after multiple rejections. The book, now in eight languages, challenges vaccine efficacy with statistics showing death rates dropped before widespread vaccination, driven by improved sanitation and nutrition. Threats followed, but she remains undeterred, determined to spread the word.

• Rogan, once a vaccine advocate, credits Humphries’ book with shattering his illusions — “I would have told you vaccines saved us from polio,” he admits, now seeing propaganda’s power. Humphries, meanwhile, urges a return to healing’s roots — nutrition, natural remedies and patient-centered care.

• This conversation isn’t anti-science; it’s a call for true science — It’s time for open, unbiased debate, unshackled from profit and dogma. Humphries invites us to question, explore and reclaim health through knowledge, not blind trust. For more, visit dissolvingillusions.com, where Humphries’ work continues to challenge and enlighten.

FAQs About Vaccines

Q: What is the main argument against the conventional narrative of vaccines?

A: The widely accepted belief that vaccines are solely responsible for the decline of diseases like polio and smallpox is oversimplified. Improved sanitation, better nutrition and natural remedies played significant roles in reducing disease rates.

Q: How does vitamin A relate to vaccines, particularly the measles vaccine?

A: Both natural measles infection and the measles vaccine deplete vitamin A levels in the body, which may lead to negative health effects. Humphries highlights that this depletion is rarely mentioned in standard medical advice, which often limits post-vaccination recommendations to Tylenol. She argues that vitamin A supplementation should be advised alongside the measles vaccine to support immune health, a practice currently overlooked.

Q: What are the concerns about vaccine production and legal immunity?

A: Variability in vaccine production results in inconsistent safety and efficacy outcomes. The legal immunity granted to vaccine manufacturers through the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which protects them from lawsuits, is also problematic. This legal shield has allowed vaccine manufacturers to prioritize innovation and profit over thorough safety testing, putting public health at risk.

Q: What are some of the issues with smallpox vaccines?

A: Early smallpox vaccines were crude, made from animal pus and often contaminated with bacteria and fungi, spreading diseases like tuberculosis. Smallpox declined primarily due to improvements in sanitation, living conditions and nutrition — not the vaccine.

Q: What is SV40 and how did it end up in vaccines?

A: SV40 is a cancer-causing monkey virus that contaminated polio vaccines in the 1950s and 1960s. It entered the vaccines because they were produced using monkey kidneys, and the virus went undetected until later flagged by Dr. Bernice Eddy. Despite warnings, contaminated vaccines were used for years, contributing to increased cancer rates. This is as example of flaws in vaccine production and oversight.

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Posted by: | Posted on: March 24, 2025

Victorian government loses fight to keep Covid health advice hidden

REBEKAH BARNETT
MAR 22, 2025
Victorian Premier during Covid times, Dan Andrews. Image: Herald Sun.

In news this week, the incredible lengths taken by the Victorian government to hide the health advice on which its extremist Covid policies were supposedly based.

The Herald Sun reports,

The Victorian government has lost its bid to keep secret the coronavirus briefings used to justify sending Victorians into the world’s longest lockdown.

The Court of Appeal on Thursday refused the Department of Health’s application for leave to appeal a landmark Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruling in June last year to hand over the documents to Liberal [conservative] MP David Davis.

Mr Davis had been fighting for the release of the documents, including emails behind lockdown decisions between then-Public Health Commander Finn Romanes, and the chief health officer Brett Sutton, since first lodging a Freedom of Information [FOI] request in September 2020.

The state government now has to hand over the documents, unless it takes its appeal to a higher court. A Victorian government spokesperson said the Department of Health would “take the appropriate time to consider the court’s judgment.”

Over the past five years, the Victorian government seriously argued that the requested briefing documents were “not in the public interest” in its effort to keep them under lock and key.

Other excuses proffered included that releasing the requested documents would inhibit senior public officers from speaking freely in future written communications, and that “the work involved in processing the request would substantially and unreasonably divert the resources of the agency from its other operations.”

Several government officials pulled the same trick that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used to try to obstruct the release of Pfizer Covid vaccine trial data, claiming impossibly long timeframes for the release of the requested briefing documents, which are estimated to total approximately 7,000 pages.

From News.com.au,

Then Covid-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar claimed it would take an estimated 169.4 to 208.4 working weeks (about four years) to process Mr Davis’ combined FOI requests, in a statement dated October 2021.

Michael Cain, the department’s manager of FOI and legal compliance, then claimed it would take 61 to 74 work weeks, in a statement dated November 2023. He argued the cost would run into tens of thousands of dollars.

Unable to force release of the documents via the FOI process, MP David Davis, leader of the opposition in the Upper House, took the matter to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).

Victorian Leader of the Opposition in the Upper House, David Davis. Image: Herald Sun.

In May 2024 he won, with VCAT Judge Caitlin English ordering the government to release the documents due to a “high degree of public interest” and the fact that processing the request would not substantially or unreasonably divert the resources of the Health Department from its other operations.

Apparently desperate to keep the briefing documents under lock and key, the government sought leave to appeal the decision, but the appeal was refused.

More than 115 briefs supporting the left-wing Labor government’s public health orders should now be released, reportedly averaging 40 to 60 pages each.

At the height of the pandemic, Victorians under former Premier Dan Andrews’ leadership were subjected to curfews, masking and vaccine mandates, were not allowed to go further than 5km from home, were confined to zones under the ‘ring of steel’ policy, and were locked down for over 260 days, the longest cumulative total in the world.

Victorians are still living with the effects of these policies, saddled with over $150 billion of lockdown-driven debt, learning loss among school-aged children, and ongoing mental health impacts.

A Melbourne resident in the infamous public housing tower lockdown. Image: BBC.

Nearly three-quarters of Victorians supported the Andrews government’s extreme measures in the first year of the pandemic, polling shows.

However by 2024, only half of Victorians thought the Andrews government handled the pandemic well, according to a recent report by the Australian Human Rights Commission.

The report details a plethora of human rights infringements, including the government banning protests, arresting and charging pregnant mother-of-three Zoe Buhler for a social media post, and the confinement of thousands of Melbourne residents in public housing flats under police guard.

The Andrews’ government’s response to complaints over its pandemic police carnage was always that it made ‘no apologies for saving lives.’ Under Andrews’ successor Jacinta Allen, the Labor government has continued in this vein.

Dan Andrews “won’t apologise for saving lives”, via 9 NEWS (video 1 min 30 sec)

If there’s really nothing to apologise for, then the Victorian government should have no qualms about releasing its top secret health advice.

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Posted by: | Posted on: February 12, 2025

Vitamin K 101 — Essential Basics for Bone and Heart Health


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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola     February 12, 2025

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin necessary for blood clotting, bone health and cardiovascular function. It exists in two main forms: K1 (phylloquinone) found in green leafy vegetables, and K2 (menaquinones) found in animal products and fermented foods
  • Vitamin K2 is essential for calcium metabolism, significantly impacting bone and cardiovascular health
  • Vitamin K2 works synergistically with vitamin D to enhance bone health and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. This combination ensures that calcium is properly utilized and deposited in bones rather than accumulating in arteries
  • Vitamin K2 is involved in activating proteins like osteocalcin and matrix Gla protein, which regulate calcium deposition in bones and arteries. This activation helps prevent arterial calcification and promotes bone strength
  • The intake of vitamin K2 is often insufficient in Western diets, highlighting the need for increased consumption through dietary adjustments or supplementation to support bone and heart health

Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin known for its essential role in blood clotting. However, its functions extend far beyond coagulation, encompassing processes that maintain bone integrity and cardiovascular health. There are two primary forms of vitamin K: K1 (phylloquinone), predominantly found in green leafy vegetables, and K2 (menaquinones), which is present in animal products and fermented foods.

While both forms are important, vitamin K2 has garnered significant attention for its unique ability to regulate calcium metabolism, directing this mineral to where it’s needed most in your body. As such, it stands out for its pivotal role in enhancing bone density and preventing the calcification of arteries.

Without adequate vitamin K2, calcium accumulates in your arteries, increasing your risk of cardiovascular diseases. Conversely, insufficient calcium in your bones leads to osteoporosis, a condition characterized by weakened bones and an increased risk of fractures.

Despite its benefits, vitamin K2 is often under-consumed in Western diets, primarily due to the limited intake of fermented foods and certain animal products, combined with the overconsumption of processed foods. Certain medical conditions and medications also impair the absorption and metabolism of vitamin K2, increasing deficiency risks.

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Optimize Your Health with the Right Forms of Vitamin K

When it comes to maintaining optimal health, vitamin K often doesn’t get the spotlight it deserves. Understanding the different forms of vitamin K and their sources is essential to help you make informed decisions about your diet and supplementation.

Vegetable oils like soybean and canola are rich in vitamin K1, but relying on these oils is a dangerous choice for your overall energy and metabolic health. High intake of vegetable oils, which contain linoleic acid (LA), leads to impairments in mitochondrial energy production, which is essential for cellular function.

While conventional nutrition guidance encourages getting vitamin K1 from these oils, eliminating them from your diet is essential for optimal health. Therefore, diversifying your vitamin K intake from other sources is necessary.

Vitamin K2 offers additional health benefits that K1 does not. MK-7, a form of K2, is especially potent due to its longer half-life in your body, ensuring more consistent levels that support bone density and cardiovascular health. Unlike K1, which is quickly utilized by your liver, K2 travels to your bones and arteries, where it activates proteins that regulate calcium deposition.

This dual action helps prevent osteoporosis and reduces your risk of arterial calcification, a key factor in heart disease.

As for dosage, the European Food Safety Authority recommends an intake of 1 microgram per kilogram of body weight per day of total vitamin K, for both children and adults, including pregnant women.1 However, many experts suggest that higher doses of K2 may be beneficial, especially for those at risk of bone loss or cardiovascular issues.

Common supplementation ranges from 100 to 200 micrograms of MK-7 daily, which has been shown in studies to effectively improve bone mineral density (BMD) and reduce arterial stiffness without adverse effects. It’s important to note that while natural vitamin K supplements are generally safe, synthetic forms like vitamin K3 (menadione) are toxic in high doses and should be avoided.

Incorporating a balanced intake of both K1 and K2 through diet and, if necessary, supplementation supports your body’s needs without the drawbacks associated with excess vegetable oil consumption. Focus on leafy greens for K1 and fermented foods or high-quality supplements for K2 to harness the full spectrum of vitamin K’s health benefits.

Understanding Vitamin K Deficiency

Vitamin K deficiency manifests through symptoms primarily related to impaired blood clotting. You might notice spontaneous cutaneous purpura, which are purple spots on your skin caused by small blood vessels leaking under the surface. Epistaxis, or frequent nosebleeds, is another common indicator.

Additionally, you could experience gastrointestinal bleeding, genitourinary bleeding (i.e., blood in the urine, vaginal bleeding or bleeding from the urethra), gingival bleeding (bleeding gums) or other unexplained bleeding episodes. In addition to poor dietary intake, certain health conditions increase your risk of vitamin K deficiency by impeding your body’s ability to absorb or use vitamin K.

Liver diseases, such as cirrhosis or hepatitis, reduce your liver’s capacity to store and process vitamin K. Cholestasis, a condition where bile flow is reduced or blocked, also hinders vitamin K absorption since it’s a fat-soluble vitamin. Additionally, conditions like cystic fibrosis, alcoholism, and malabsorption disorders (including inflammatory bowel disease) also compromise your vitamin K levels.2

Weight loss surgeries that alter the digestive system also affect nutrient absorption, including vitamin K. So, if you’ve undergone such procedures, monitoring your vitamin K intake becomes essential. Certain drugs also interfere with vitamin K metabolism or absorption.

Coumarin-based anticoagulants, commonly prescribed to prevent blood clots, directly inhibit vitamin K’s role in blood clotting. Antibiotics like rifampicin disrupt gut bacteria that synthesize vitamin K2, further lowering your levels. Further, orlistat, a weight-loss medication, reduces fat absorption, which inadvertently decreases vitamin K absorption since it’s fat-soluble.3

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Vitamin K2 for Bone Health, Heart Disease and Cancer

A comprehensive review published in Food Science & Nutrition explored the extensive benefits of vitamin K2, particularly focusing on its impact on bone health, cardiovascular protection and cancer.4 The research looked at how different forms of vitamin K2 contribute to these health outcomes and sought to understand the underlying mechanisms.5

The researchers found that higher intake of vitamin K2 significantly lowers the risk of developing osteoporosis. Additionally, participants who consumed more vitamin K2 had a reduced incidence of heart disease, highlighting the nutrient’s protective role in cardiovascular health.6

One of the standout findings was the relationship between vitamin K2 and cancer. The study highlighted that vitamin K2 has positive effects on the prevention and treatment of malignant tumors, offering a promising avenue for future cancer prevention strategies.7

Furthermore, the research explored the synergistic relationship between vitamin K2 and vitamin D. When these two vitamins are consumed together, their combined effect on bone health is more pronounced than when either is taken alone. This synergy enhances your body’s ability to maintain strong bones by ensuring that calcium is properly used and deposited where it’s needed most.8

If you’re supplementing with vitamin D, it’s especially important to balance it with vitamin K2 and magnesium, as they work together to prevent inappropriate calcification.

Different Forms of Vitamin K2

The featured study also highlighted three different forms of vitamin K2 — MK-4, MK-7 and MK-9. Of these, MK-4 had the highest bioactivity, meaning it’s particularly effective at activating proteins that regulate calcium. MK-7, meanwhile, was noted for its superior bioavailability and longer half-life, allowing it to remain active in your body for extended periods.9 Natto, a traditional Japanese fermented soybean dish, is the richest source of MK-7.10

While the majority of vitamin K1 is stored in your liver, MK-4 is the primary form of vitamin K2 found in human tissues. This distinction indicates that different forms of vitamin K have specific roles and are stored differently within your body.11

Vitamin K2, as mentioned, is particularly involved in the maintenance of calcium homeostasis. Calcium homeostasis refers to the regulation of calcium levels in various biological pathways, ensuring that calcium is available where needed for functions like bone formation while preventing its accumulation in soft tissues and blood vessels.12

By directing calcium to your bones and teeth, vitamin K2 ensures that it’s used effectively, enhancing overall skeletal and cardiovascular health.13 Vitamin K2 achieves this by activating proteins such as osteocalcin and matrix GLA-protein (MGP). Osteocalcin plays a pivotal role in binding calcium to your bone matrix, thereby strengthening bones.

Meanwhile, MGP prevents the deposition of calcium in blood vessel walls, reducing the risk of vascular calcification and subsequent cardiovascular diseases.14 Additionally, vitamin K2 modulates the activity of osteoblasts and osteoclasts, the cells responsible for bone formation and resorption, respectively.

By downregulating the activation of nuclear factor-κB, a protein complex involved in inflammatory responses, vitamin K2 helps maintain a balanced activity of these bone cells, promoting bone health and preventing excessive bone loss.15

The study also touched upon the neuroprotective effects of vitamin K2. Specifically, MK-7 was shown to protect brain cells from apoptosis, or programmed cell death, induced by hypoxic conditions. This finding opens up therapeutic applications for vitamin K2 in treating neurodegenerative diseases and other mitochondrial-associated disorders.16

Vitamin K2’s Role in Mitochondrial Energy Production

Vitamin K2 exhibits a broad spectrum of biological activities, influencing nearly all major body systems, including mitochondrial energy release. Mitochondria are responsible for producing adenosine triphosphate (ATP) through the electron transport chain.

Vitamin K2, which is structurally similar to coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), plays a role in mitochondrial energy metabolism.17 Studies have shown that vitamin K2 acts as a mitochondrial electron carrier, rescuing mitochondrial dysfunction caused by Pink1 protein deficiency, which is linked to Parkinson’s disease.18 Vitamin K2 facilitates electron transport within mitochondria, thereby enhancing ATP production and improving cellular energy levels.

However, conflicting evidence exists regarding vitamin K2’s role in mammalian mitochondrial function. While some studies suggest beneficial effects on mitochondrial respiration and energy release, others indicate that vitamin K2 does not substitute for CoQ10 in restoring electron flow or ATP synthesis in CoQ10-deficient cells. This discrepancy highlights the need for further research to uncover vitamin K2’s exact role in mitochondrial energy metabolism across different species.

Vitamin K for Optimal Health During Menopause

Menopause induces significant hormonal and physiological changes, contributing to conditions such as osteoporosis, osteopenia and increased vascular calcification. Vitamin K2 has been extensively studied for its beneficial effects in mitigating these menopausal effects.

Clinical trials have demonstrated that vitamin K2 supplementation, particularly in the forms of menaquinone-4 (MK-4) and MK-7, improves bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) in postmenopausal women.19

For instance, a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials revealed that daily intake of MK-4 for three years enhanced hip bone geometry and strength by increasing BMC without significantly altering BMD.20 Additionally, MK-7 supplementation has shown to synergize with calcium and vitamin D3, further supporting bone health by increasing osteocalcin carboxylation and reducing bone resorption markers.21

Vitamin K Has Neuroprotective Properties and Protects Your Liver

Beyond its menopausal benefits, vitamin K2 demonstrates significant hepatoprotective and neuroprotective properties, contributing to liver regeneration and cognitive health. In liver health, vitamin K2 supplementation has been shown to enhance liver regeneration following liver surgery in rat models.22

Additionally, vitamin K2 exhibits cytotoxic effects on liver cancer cells by inducing cell cycle arrest and apoptosis through multiple signaling pathways, including the suppression of NF-κB and MAPK activities.23

Further, vitamin K supports cognitive function and neuronal health. Studies in rodent models have linked adequate vitamin K2 levels with improved cognitive performance and reduced neuroinflammation. Vitamin K2 activates the Gas6/Axl/Akt signaling pathway, which inhibits apoptosis and enhances neuronal survival.24

Moreover, vitamin K2 protects neural cells from oxidative stress and amyloid-beta toxicity, factors implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.25 These neuroprotective mechanisms underscore vitamin K2’s role in preventing and managing neurodegenerative diseases.

Vitamin K for the Treatment of COVID-19

Emerging research also suggests that vitamin K2 may play a role in mitigating the severity of COVID-19. COVID-19 is associated with coagulopathies and excessive inflammation, conditions where vitamin K2’s regulatory functions on coagulation and inflammation are likely beneficial. Observational studies have indicated that vitamin K deficiency is linked to increased disease severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients.26

Vitamin K2 may help in activating vitamin K-dependent proteins like MGP and Protein S, which are key for preventing vascular calcification and thrombosis, common complications in severe COVID-19 cases.27 Furthermore, vitamin K2’s anti-inflammatory properties help in reducing the cytokine storm associated with acute COVID-19, thereby improving patient outcomes.

Vitamin K for Parathyroid Disorders and Cerebral Palsy

A review published in the journal Nutrients also highlighted the impact of vitamin K2 on multiple health conditions. Beyond osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease, studies have shown that adequate vitamin K2 intake positively influences parathyroid disorders, cerebral palsy and sperm motility, suggesting its broad therapeutic potential.28 These findings emphasize the need for optimizing vitamin K2 in the diet to maintain overall health.

Parathyroid disorders, particularly hyperparathyroidism, involve the excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone (PTH), leading to elevated serum calcium levels (hypercalcemia) and subsequent bone resorption. Vitamin K2 plays a role in calcium metabolism, which directly impacts parathyroid function.

Further, researchers demonstrated that vitamin K2 supplementation in hemodialysis patients, who often suffer from secondary hyperparathyroidism, resulted in increased levels of carboxylated osteocalcin without significantly altering PTH, calcium or phosphate levels. This suggests that vitamin K2 mitigates the adverse effects of elevated PTH by enhancing bone mineralization and reducing calcium loss from bones.29

Moreover, vitamin K2’s activation of MGP inhibits vascular calcification, a common complication in hyperparathyroid patients. By preventing the inappropriate deposition of calcium in blood vessels, vitamin K2 indirectly supports parathyroid health by maintaining balanced calcium distribution within the body.

Although vitamin K2 does not directly lower PTH levels, its role in optimizing calcium metabolism offers a complementary approach to managing parathyroid disorders alongside conventional treatments.

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of neurological disorders that affect movement, muscle tone and posture, often resulting in decreased BMD and increased fracture risk. Osteoporosis is prevalent among individuals with CP due to reduced mobility and subsequent bone resorption. According to researchers, vitamin K2 supplementation could play a significant role in improving bone health in CP patients.30

Additionally, vitamin K2’s role in regulating bone remodeling also supports overall skeletal integrity in individuals with CP. While direct studies on vitamin K2 and CP are limited, the existing evidence on its impact on bone health provides a compelling rationale for its inclusion in therapeutic regimens aimed at mitigating osteoporosis in CP patients.

Vitamin K Enhances Sperm Motility

Sperm motility is a critical factor in male fertility, governed by the functionality of calcium channels and the integrity of spermatozoa. Vitamin K2 has been implicated in enhancing sperm motility through its involvement in calcium metabolism and the maturation of sperm cells.

Researchers investigated the effects of vitamin K2 on sperm maturation, revealing that K2-dependent proteins are highly expressed in the epididymis, the site of sperm maturation. Warfarin-induced inhibition of vitamin K2 activity resulted in decreased sperm count and motility, underscoring the vitamin’s essential role in maintaining sperm health.31

Vitamin K-Dependent Proteins in Biomineralization

Research published in the International Journal of Molecular Medicine focused on the role of vitamin K in the activation of proteins essential for bone and vascular health, emphasizing its involvement in biomineralization processes.32 The research underscored the importance of vitamin K in the post-translational modification of vitamin K-dependent proteins (VKDPs), which are primarily involved in coagulation and calcification.33

There are 17 identified VKDPs, which include osteocalcin and MGP. Osteocalcin, synthesized by osteoblasts, requires vitamin K for carboxylation, converting glutamic acid residues to gamma-carboxyglutamate (Gla) residues.34 This conversion enhances osteocalcin’s calcium-binding capacity, thereby reinforcing bone structure.35

Without sufficient vitamin K, osteocalcin remains undercarboxylated, reducing its effectiveness in supporting bone health.36 Similarly, MGP gains a higher affinity for calcium upon carboxylation, which prevents its deposition in arterial walls, thereby lowering the risk of cardiovascular diseases like atherosclerosis.37

The study highlights that inadequate vitamin K levels impair MGP’s ability to prevent calcium accumulation, leading to arterial calcification and increased cardiovascular risk.38 Additionally, the study clarified the distinct functions of vitamin K1 and K2, with vitamin K1 playing a major role in coagulation, while vitamin K2 is more prevalent in tissues other than the liver.39

The review also addressed the absorption and transport pathways of vitamin K1 and K2, noting that vitamin K1 is absorbed with triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, while vitamin K2 is primarily transported by low-density lipoproteins (LDL).40 This difference in transport mechanisms influences the distribution and bioavailability of each vitamin K form in your body.41

The Interplay Between Lipids and Vitamin K Metabolism

A review published in Nutrition & Metabolism further explored the intricate relationship between lipids and vitamin K metabolism, specifically focusing on how lipid levels affect the absorption and transportation of vitamin K within the body.42

The paper reviewed data from individuals with varying lipid profiles and those undergoing treatment with cholesterol-lowering medications such as statins. The findings revealed that vitamin K absorption and transportation are significantly influenced by the presence of lipids in the digestive system, underscoring the importance of adequate dietary fat intake for the optimal utilization of vitamin K.43

Vitamin K shares transporters with cholesterol, meaning that both substances compete for the same pathways within your body. This competition impacts the efficiency with which vitamin K is distributed to essential tissues.

The study also explored the role of lipoproteins, which are particles that transport fats, including cholesterol and triglycerides, through the bloodstream. It was found that low-density lipoproteins (LDL), often referred to as “bad cholesterol,” play an important role in transporting vitamin K2 to tissues such as bones and blood vessels.44

Furthermore, statins inhibit the mevalonate pathway, a biochemical pathway that’s involved not only in cholesterol synthesis but also in the production of vitamin K2 isoforms like MK-4. By blocking this pathway, statins reduce the synthesis of vitamin K2, compromising its protective roles in your body.45

For this reason, individuals taking statins benefit from vitamin K2 supplementation to counteract this adverse effect. Moreover, the interplay between lipids and vitamin K metabolism extends to dietary recommendations. Diets that include healthy fats, such as butter and coconut oil, enhance the absorption of vitamin K, improving its bioavailability and efficacy in your body.

Remember, vitamin K is a lipophilic vitamin, meaning it dissolves in fats and is transported through your body via lipid-based carriers. This characteristic necessitates the presence of dietary fats for effective absorption in your small intestine. Once absorbed, vitamin K is packaged into lipoproteins for distribution to various tissues. The efficiency of this process is directly tied to your body’s lipid metabolism, illustrating the interconnectedness of these two important components.46

Vitamin K and Its Impact on Other Nutrients

Understanding how vitamin K interacts with other nutrients is also helpful for optimizing your health and ensuring that you’re getting the most out of your dietary intake and supplements. Insights from pharmacokinetic studies highlight the intricate relationships between vitamin K and other vitamins, particularly those that deplete or compete for its absorption and metabolism.47

One of the most significant interactions involves vitamin K and vitamin E, a powerful antioxidant essential for protecting your cells from oxidative stress. Both are fat-soluble vitamins that share similar metabolic pathways, leading to competition that affects their respective levels in your body. Studies have shown that the presence of vitamin E, as well as other fat-soluble vitamins, significantly reduces the absorption of vitamin K, with absorption rates dropping by 34% to 58%.48

The competition arises because vitamins E and K vie for the same enzymes involved in their metabolism. Specifically, both vitamins compete for cytochrome P450 (CYP450) enzymes, which are responsible for hydroxylating the side chains of these vitamins.49 This competition leads to increased metabolism and excretion of vitamin K when vitamin E levels are high, diminishing vitamin K’s effectiveness in your body.

So, if you’re supplementing with vitamin E, it’s important to monitor your vitamin K intake to prevent deficiencies. For instance, individuals taking high doses of vitamin E supplements might inadvertently reduce their vitamin K levels, increasing the risk of bleeding disorders and bone weakening. To maintain a healthy balance, consider spacing out the intake of these vitamins or consulting with a health care professional to adjust dosages appropriately.

How to Optimize Your Vitamin K2 Levels

Vitamin K2 serves as the body’s master regulator for calcium distribution, ensuring this essential mineral is directed appropriately to support bone strength and prevent arterial calcification. By optimizing your vitamin K2 levels, you enhance bone integrity while safeguarding your cardiovascular health, providing a dual advantage for long-term well-being.

Determining whether you’re getting enough vitamin K is challenging because there’s currently no simple test available to measure vitamin K2 levels directly. Instead, vitamin K2 status is assessed indirectly by evaluating levels of undercarboxylated osteocalcin, a marker that indicates vitamin K2 activity in your body. However, this type of testing is not yet available for commercial use.

Generally, individuals with osteoporosis, heart disease or diabetes are likely to have a vitamin K2 deficiency. If you’re taking statin medications, which are known to reduce vitamin K2 levels, you’re also at risk of deficiency. Moreover, it’s believed that most people do not get enough vitamin K2 and could benefit from increasing their intake. To boost your levels:

1. Prioritize vitamin K2-rich foods — Incorporate natto (fermented soybeans) and other vegetables fermented with vitamin K2-producing bacteria into your daily diet. These options provide the MK-7 form of K2, which remains active in your body for extended periods.

Certain cheeses, including Brie, Munster and Gouda, are also particularly rich in vitamin K2. Grass fed organic animal products, including egg yolks, liver, butter, tallow and dairy products, are also good sources of vitamin K2.

2. Align K2 intake with healthy fats — As vitamin K2 is fat-soluble, it should be consumed alongside healthy fats such as grass fed butter or tallow to enhance absorption. This practice ensures that your body effectively utilizes this nutrient for maintaining both bone density and cardiovascular health.

3. Harmonize K2 with complementary nutrients — Vitamin K2 works synergistically with vitamins D3, calcium and magnesium. When supplementing with vitamin D3, also include K2 to prevent calcium from depositing in your arteries. This balanced nutrient approach promotes bone strength while protecting your cardiovascular system.

4. Opt for premium supplement sources — If you choose to use supplements, select those containing the MK-7 form of K2. The recommended daily intake is 150 to 200 micrograms for most adults. For optimal absorption, take supplements with meals that include healthy fats.

Egg Yolks Are Your Best Source of Vitamin K2 as MK-4

Of the foods highlighted above, egg yolks are among the highest dietary sources of MK-4, a vital form of vitamin K2 that plays a crucial role in bone health, cardiovascular function and calcium regulation. Including egg yolks in your diet can significantly contribute to your MK-4 intake, supporting various aspects of your health.

You just need to be careful about your egg sources as most commercial egg sources — even free-range organic — have high PUFA levels as they are fed grains like soy and corn. Ideally, chickens should be fed rice, barley and split peas. I personally eat six egg yolks a day from chickens who are fed this and have 80% less linoleic acid than regular chickens.

Below is a comprehensive overview of egg yolks as a top source of MK-4, along with additional dietary sources and considerations.

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Posted by: | Posted on: January 14, 2025

The Trump Administration Must Bring Moderna to Heel

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The Trump Administration Must Bring Moderna to Heel

The Trump Administration Must Bring Moderna to Heel

BY    JANUARY 7, 2025 

Last week, independent journalist Alex Berenson reported that a preschool-aged child died of “cardio-respiratory arrest” after taking a dose of Moderna’s Covid mRNA vaccine during its clinical trials. Despite federal requirements to report all trial information, the company withheld the truth for years as it raked in billions from its Covid shots.

The extent of the cover-up remains unknown, but Moderna, headed by CEO Stéphane Bancel, disregarded federal law requiring companies to report “summary results information, including adverse event information, for specified clinical trials of drug products” to clinicaltrials.gov. The company, not the government, is responsible for posting all results, and failure to report the death of a child constitutes a clear breach of US law, which threatens civil action against any party that “falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact.”

To this point, pharmaceutical companies have remained largely immune for their role in perpetrating globally-scaled deception resulting in thousands of vaccine injuries and billions in profits. They have enjoyed a liability shield courtesy of the PREP Act, which offers protections for injuries resulting from vaccines; that indemnity, however, does not extend to non-compliance with federal regulations, material misstatements or omissions of fact, or other offenses.

The death of the child only became known because of an obscure European report released last year, which revealed that Moderna has known about the death for over two years while it continues to advertise Covid shots to children as young as six months old.

Moderna’s European filing also revealed that the company withheld trial results demonstrating that children under 12 who received the vaccine were ten times more likely than those who received the placebo to suffer “serious side effects.” Without any evidence, Moderna claimed that the side effects, including the death of a child, were unrelated to the shots.

The incoming Trump administration offers a rare opportunity to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable and to investigate the depth of the cover-up.

The FDA is responsible for enforcing the reporting of vaccine trial results, but recent heads of the agency such as Scott Gottlieb and Robert Califf have been fanatical supporters of Big Pharma. Trump’s choice for FDA, Dr. Marty Makary, presents a stark contrast to his predecessors. Makary has criticized the US Government’s reluctance to acknowledge the role of natural immunity in preventing Covid infection, and he opposed the widespread vaccination of children. He testified to Congress, “In the U.S. we gave thousands of healthy kids myocarditis for no good reason, they were already immune. This was avoidable.”

President-elect Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., perhaps the most well-known critic of the Covid vaccines, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA. He has named Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an author of the Great Barrington Declaration, as his choice to head the National Institutes of Health. Further, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Berenson that he plans to subpoena the FDA once Republicans become the majority party in the Senate this month.

President Trump’s first term was ultimately defined by his failure to fulfill his pledge to “drain the swamp.” A corrupt bureaucracy, personified in many ways by Dr. Anthony Fauci, aided and abetted by advisors like his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, hijacked the president’s agenda. Now, the Trump administration has an unlikely yet monumental opportunity for health reform, which can start on January 20 with an investigation into Moderna’s cover-up.

The Covid response doomed Trump 1.0. Whether one regards this as a monumental error, the betrayal of a president by his advisors, an event beyond the president’s control, or a deeper and more complex plot involving everything and everyone associated with the government, both in the US and around the world, there is no question of the scale of the calamity for the public. The shots are part of that, the capstone failure of a long line of foreshadowing with lockdowns and all that was associated with pre-pharmaceutical interventions. The antidote came not as a cure but, for many, the disease itself.

There must be truth if not justice.

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