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What if you woke up one day unable to speak, move, or even swallow?Vanessa Abraham, a thriving speech pathologist and mother, was plunged into a life-threatening health crisis that left her trapped in her own body. With no clear diagnosis and a long road ahead, she found herself on the other side of the hospital bed, experiencing everything she once treated.In this episode, Vanessa shares how she reclaimed her voice, fought for her life, and redefined her identity in the aftermath. You'll hear:What it's like to live with post-intensive care syndrome (PICS)How motherhood fueled her survivalWhy community and mental health advocacy are at the heart of her healingAbout Vanessa AbrahamVanessa Abraham, M.S. CCC-SLP, is a certified speech pathologist, author, and advocate for ICU survivors. With over 15 years of experience, she has worked extensively with children using communication devices, a skill she unexpectedly relied on during her own medical journey. Vanessa is now a passionate advocate for trauma-informed care and post-intensive care syndrome awareness, using her personal story to educate and inspire others. Her memoir, Speechless, captures her journey from provider to patient and back, offering hope and insight to those navigating similar challenges.Connect with Vanessa:Book: Speechless on AmazonInstagram: @speechless_slpFacebook: Speechless SLPResources: To listen in on more conversations about pivotal moments that changed lives forever, subscribe to "The Life Shift" on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to rate the show 5 stars and leave a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Access ad-free episodes released two days early: https://patreon.com/thelifeshiftpodcastSubscribe to The Life Shift Newsletter: https://www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com/newsletter/The Life Shift was just named one of the top 60 life-changing podcasts by FeedSpot: https://podcast.feedspot.com/life_changing_podcasts/Connect with me:Instagram: www.instagram.com/thelifeshiftpodcastFacebook: www.facebook.com/thelifeshiftpodcastYouTube: https://bit.ly/thelifeshift_youtubeTwitter: www.twitter.com/thelifeshiftpodLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thelifeshiftpodcastWebsite: www.thelifeshiftpodcast.comTopics DiscussedThe rare Guillain-Barre variant that left...

I am joined in this podcast by Holly Frances to discuss her experience of Guillain Barre syndrome as she narrated in her illness memoir titled Life Support: Surviving Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Holly is a mother in a blended family of five, and the face behind Holly After GBS on social media, where her recovery videos have inspired millions of people around the world. Our conversation traced Holly's illness from onset with mild sensory symptoms through to complete paralysis within a short time. Importantly, she highlighted less appreciated symptoms of the disease that she experienced, particularly neck pain, a major early symptom that initially indicated a different diagnosis, and which exacerbated and spread as her illness progressed.Holly chronicled how her weakness progressed rather rapidly to complete paralysis and requirement for ventilation on the intensive care unit. We also discussed the spinal fluid analysis and electromyogram tests she had to confirm the clinical diagnosis of GBS, and the various treatments she received. Our conversation also detailed her long rehabilitation course, interspersed by relapses, and her long and slow journey to complete recovery. Significantly, Holly also explored the emotional and psychological burden that the illness placed on her, ranging from fear and anxiety to resentment and depression, and the uncertainty that plagued her mind regarding outcome. We also covered how her life and relationships changed on account of her experience of GBS, what the illness has taught her, and the advocacy work that is now the focus of her work.

In this episode, I delve into Guillain Barre syndrome, a relatively common neurological disorder. I discuss the clinical manifestations of the disease which range from fairly rapid weakness and sensory impairment to pain and breathing difficulty. I also detail the long road to recovery from the disease. The podcast also discusses the almost limitless triggers for GBS, from infections and vaccinations to trauma and childbirth. I also review the pathology of the disease, explaining how a wide range of antibodies target the fatty myelin covering of the nerves to reduce the efficiency of electrical nerve transmission. The podcast also highlights the investigations of GBS, particularly spinal fluid analysis and nerve conduction studies, and the treatment of the disease, which canter around immune modulating agents. I also chronicle the history of the terminology of GBS, following the work of the three French physicians, Georges Guillain, Jean Alexandre Barré, and André Strohl. I refer in this theme to the book 'Guillain-Barre Syndrome: From Diagnosis to Recovery', by Gareth Parry and Joel Steinberg.I illustrate the clinical aspects of GBS with such graphic patient memoirs as those of Carole Williams, titled 'Chaos in Body and Mind', of Meg Lumsden, titled 'Unknown', of Wenesday Ketron titled 'Geeyahn What?', of Scott Earle titled 'The Wave of Guillain Barre Syndrome', and of Robin Sheppard titled 'A Solitary Confinement'.

India is dealing with an outbreak of Guillain-Barre syndrome. It's a rare condition where your immune system attacks nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and paralysis. There have been 160 reported cases since early January in Pune, hitting kids as young as six years old. Seven people are thought to have died.Iqra shares her experience of having GBS as a child and she speaks with BBC health reporter Michelle Roberts to get the details on the disease. Plus, our reporter Vandhna Bhan takes us through what's happening in India.Instagram: @bbcwhatintheworld Email: whatintheworld@bbc.co.uk WhatsApp: +44 0330 12 33 22 6 Presenter: Iqra Farooq Producers: Emily Horler, Benita Barden and Adam Chowdhury Editor: Verity Wilde

Respiratory Viruses Update CME Credit Link Coming Soon! In this episode, we delve into the challenges faced by pediatric practitioners during the height of respiratory virus season. Host Holly Wayment is joined by Dr. Tess Barton, pediatric infectious disease specialist, to discuss RSV, influenza, pneumonia, Covid and more. Dr. Barton talks about RSV vaccines, especially the recent FDA warning about Guillain-Barre syndrome, and clarifies that the warning does not pertain to the vaccine for infants. She provides valuable advice for clinicians handling inquiries from parents and pregnant women, emphasizing the rarity of severe vaccine side effects. The discussion further explores the importance of distinguishing between viral and bacterial infections, the judicious use of antibiotics, and the body's natural responses to viruses, such as mucus production and fever.   

Send Dr. Li a text here. Please leave your email address if you would like a reply, thanks.In this inspiring episode of Make Time for Success, Dr. Christine Li sits down with the remarkable Kelly Butler, known as "The Points Maven," to explore how intentional mindset and strategic use of travel points can turn dream vacations into reality. Kelly shares her journey from facing a personal health crisis to becoming a travel points expert, helping women save up to 90% on travel costs. Listen in as Kelly talks about her passion for travel, her transformative experiences, and her mission to teach women how to wisely use their spending to unlock affordable luxury travel. With enriching anecdotes, practical strategies, and an emphasis on the power of thinking big, this episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to achieve their travel dreams. Tune in for details about Kelly's upcoming free masterclass and learn how to connect with her for more tips and support.Timestamps:[00:03:39] - Kelly explains what The Points Maven does [00:05:08] - Kelly shares her early interest in travel from childhood [00:07:47] - Discussion of Kelly's medical setback with Guillain-Barre syndrome [00:10:53] - Details about Kelly's recovery period (5 months to learn to walk again) [00:19:19] - Story about Kelly's first points-funded trip to Bali with her husband [00:23:25] - Discussion of how Kelly started helping other families with points travel [00:27:06] - Kelly shares details about recent family trip to Paris [00:31:06] - Information about Kelly's upcoming masterclass [00:33:27] - Success story about client Rebecca planning Asia trip [00:37:36]To register for Kelly Butler's upcoming free masterclass, go to: https://maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/travel For more information on the Make Time for Success podcast, visit: https://www.maketimeforsuccesspodcast.comGain Access to Dr. Christine Li's Free Resource Library where she offers you 12 downloadable tools and templates to help you bypass the impulse to procrastinate.CLICK HERE NOW TO CLAIM YOUR FREE RESOURCES: https://procrastinationcoach.mykajabi.com/freelibraryTo work with Dr. Li on a weekly basis in her coaching and accountability program, please register for The Success Lab here: https://www.procrastinationcoach.com/labConnect with Us!Dr. Christine LiWebsite: https://www.procrastinationcoach.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/procrastinationcoachInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/procrastinationcoach/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@procrastinationcoachThe Success Lab: https://maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/labKelly ButlerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepointsmaven/Free Masterclass: https://maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/travel 

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The Flu Vaccine: Science at its Worst   Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, December 20, 2024   Joshua Hadfield was a normal, healthy developing child as a toddler. In the midst of the H1N1 swine flu frenzy and the media fear mongering about the horrible consequences children face if left unvaccinated, the Hadfield family had Joshua vaccinated with Glaxo's Pandermrix influenza vaccine.  Within weeks, Joshua could barely wake up, sleeping up to nineteen hours a day. Laughter would trigger seizures. Joshua was diagnosed with narcolepsy, “an incurable, debilitating condition” associated with acute brain damage.[1]  Looking back, Pandermrix was a horrible vaccine.  Research indicates that it was associated with a 1400% increase in narcolepsy risk. A medical team at Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare recorded 800 cases of narcolepsy associated with this vaccine.  Aside from the engineered viral antigens, the other vaccine ingredients are most often found to be the primary culprits to adverse vaccine reactions. The Finnish research, on the other hand, indicated that the vaccine's altered viral nucleotide likely contributed to the sudden rise in sleeping sickness.[2] Although Pandermrix was pulled from the market for its association with narcolepsy and cataplexy (sudden muscle weakness), particularly in children, it should never have been approved and released in the first place.  The regulatory fast tracking of the HINI flu vaccines is a classic, and now common, example of regulatory negligence by nations' health officials. The failure of proper regulatory evaluation and oversight resulted in Joshua and over 1,000 other people becoming disabled for life. Settlements to cover lawsuits exceeded 63 million pounds in the UK alone.  No one should feel complacent and assume flu vaccine risks only affect young children. Sarah Behie was 20 years old after receiving a flu shot.  Three weeks later her health deteriorated dramatically. Diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a not uncommon adverse effect of influenza vaccination, four years later Sarah remains paralyzed from the waist down, incapable of dressing and feeding herself, and rotting away in hospitals and nursing homes.[3]  Flu vaccines are perhaps the most ineffective vaccine on the market.  Repeatedly we are told by health officials that the moral argument for its continued use is for “the greater good,” although this imaginary good has never been defined scientifically. Year to year, how effective any given seasonal flu vaccine will be is a throw of the dice. Annual flu vaccine efficacy rates in the US have demonstrated significant variability. Data from the CDC reveal efficacy estimates of approximately 39% for the 2020–2021 season, 37% for 2021–2022, 52% for 2022–2023, and a preliminary estimate of 50% for the 2023–2024 season.  Preliminary CDC estimates for this flu season estimates 34% likely efficacy. Although these are CDC's figures, independent figures are consistently much lower. At their best, flu vaccines in recent years are around 50% effective according to official health analysis. During some seasons, vaccine efficacy is a bust. For example, the 2014-2015 flu season strain match was such a failure that the CDC warned the American public that the vaccine was only 23% effective.[4]  Nevertheless, these rates underscore the vaccine's inconsistent protection. Studies such as those by Skowronski and Belongia further highlight flu vaccines' variability and force to question whether the vaccine is capable of providing any reliable protection.[5,6] Moreover, Cochrane Collaboration reviews, known for their rigorous analyses, consistently find that flu vaccines reduce influenza-like illness by only about 1% in healthy adults and have negligible impact on hospitalizations and mortality rates. This limited efficacy raises critical concerns about the vaccine's utility, particularly when weighed against its risks.  Perhaps the most useless flu vaccine that should have never been approved was Medimmune's live attenuated flu vaccine (LAIV) FluMist, which the CDC later had removed from the market because it was found to so ineffective—only 3 percent according to an NBC report.[6] However the real reason may be more dire, and this a fundamental problem of all live and attenuated vaccines: these vaccines have been shown to “shed” and infect people in contact with the vaccinated persons, especially those with compromised immune systems.  Consequently, both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated are at risk.  The CDC acknowledges this risk and warns “Persons who care for severely immunosuppressed persons who require a protective environment should not receive LAIV, or should avoid contact with such persons for 7 days after receipt, given the theoretical risk for transmission of the live attenuated vaccine virus.”[7]  According to the FDA's literature on FluMist, the vaccine was not studied for immunocompromised individuals (yet was still administered to them), and has been associated with acute allergic reactions, asthma, Guillain-Barre, and a high rate of hospitalizations among children under 24 months – largely due to upper respiratory tract infections.  Other adverse effects include pericarditis, congenital and genetic disorders, mitochondrial encephalomyopathy or Leigh Syndrome, meningitis, and others.[8]  The development and promotion of the influenza vaccine was never completely about protecting the public. It has been the least popular vaccine in the US, including among healthcare workers. Rather, similar to the mumps vaccine in the MMR, it has been the cash cow for vaccine makers.  Determining the actual severity of any given flu season is burdened by federal intentional confusion to mislead the public.  The CDC's first line of propaganda defense to enforce flu vaccinations is to exaggerate flu infections as the cause of preventable deaths.   However, validating this claim is near impossible because the CDC does not differentiate deaths caused by influenza infection and deaths due to pneumonia.  On its website, the CDC lumps flu and pneumonia deaths together, currently estimated at 51,000 per year. The large majority of these were pneumonia deaths of elderly patients. Yet in any given year, only 3-18% of suspected influenza infections actually test positive for a Type A or B influenza strain.[9]  As an aside, it is worth noting that during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, an extraordinary and unprecedented phenomenon occurred: influenza infections, which have long been a seasonal health challenge, seemingly disappeared. Federal health agencies such as the CDC attributed this sharp decline in flu cases to the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) like mask-wearing, social distancing, and widespread lockdowns. However, this explanation raises critical questions about its plausibility. If these measures were effective enough to virtually eliminate influenza, why did they not similarly prevent the widespread transmission of SARS-CoV-2? This contradiction highlights the need to critically examine the possible explanations behind the anomaly, questioning whether the disappearance of the flu was truly a result of public health measures or due to other factors such as diagnostic practices, viral interference, and disruptions to seasonal flu patterns. If these interventions were indeed effective, their impact should not have been so starkly selective between two similarly transmitted viruses. This contradiction undermines the plausibility of attributing the disappearance of flu cases solely to NPIs. A more plausible explanation for the disappearance of flu cases lies in the diagnostic focus on SARS-CoV-2 during the pandemic. Individuals presenting with flu-like symptoms were overwhelmingly diagnosed for COVID-19 with faulty PCR testing methods rather than influenza, as public health resources were directed toward managing the pandemic. This prioritization inevitably led to a significant underreporting of flu cases. Furthermore, the symptoms of influenza and COVID-19 overlap significantly, including fever, cough, and fatigue. In the absence of influenza testing, many flu cases were wrongly diagnosed as COVID-19, further inflating SARS-CoV-2 case numbers while contributing to the perceived disappearance of the flu.  One of the more controversial findings in recent flu vaccine research involves the phenomenon of viral interference, wherein vaccinated individuals may become more susceptible to other respiratory pathogens. To date there is only one gold standard clinical trial with the flu vaccine that compares vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, and it is not good news for the CDC, the vaccine makers, and the push to booster everyone with the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines. This Hong Kong funded double-blind placebo controlled study followed the health conditions of vaccinated and unvaccinated children between the ages of 6-15 years for 272 days. The trial concluded the flu vaccine holds no health benefits. In fact, those vaccinated with the flu virus were observed to have a 550% higher risk of contracting non-flu virus respiratory infections. Among the vaccinated children, there were 116 flu cases compared to 88 among the unvaccinated; there were 487 other non-influenza virus infections, including coronavirus, rhinovirus, coxsackie, and others, among the vaccinated versus 88 with the unvaccinated.[10]  This single study alone poses a scientifically sound warning and rationale to avoid flu vaccines at all costs. It raises a further question: how many Covid-19 cases could be directly attributed to weakened immune systems because of prior flu vaccination? A 2019 study conducted by the US Armed Forces investigated the relationship between influenza vaccination and susceptibility to other respiratory infections, including coronaviruses. Analyzing data from over 9,000 individuals, the researchers found that people who received the flu vaccine were more likely to test positive for certain non-influenza respiratory viruses. Notably, influenza vaccination was associated with an increased likelihood of contracting coronaviruses and human metapneumovirus.[11] These findings suggest a complex interaction between influenza vaccination and susceptibility to different respiratory pathogens, and challenges the belief that flu vaccines provide greater benefits over risks. The same researchers' follow up study in in 2020 furthermore concluded that “vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus and human metapneumovirus.[12] Additional recent studies, such as those by Bodewes, which identified immune interference due to repeated annual flu vaccinations,[13] and Shinjoh, which highlighted increased viral interference in vaccinated children, provide further evidence of this relationship.[14] These findings challenge the prevailing assumption that flu vaccination has only positive effects on immune health and raise important questions about the broader implications of repeated annual vaccination. In a follow up study after the H1N1 swine flu scare, Canadian researcher Dr. Danuta Skowronski noted that individuals with a history of receiving consecutive seasonal flu shots over several years had an increased risk of becoming infected with H1N1 swine flu.  Skowronski commented on the findings, “policy makers have not yet had a chance to fully digest them [the study's conclusions] or understand the implications.”  He continued, “Who knows, frankly? The wise man knows he knows nothing when it comes to influenza, so you always have to be cautious in speculating.”[15] There is strong evidence suggesting that all vaccine clinical trials carried out by manufacturers fall short of demonstrating vaccine efficacy accurately. And when they are shown to be efficacious, it is frequently in the short term and offer only partial or temporary protection. According to an article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Infectious Diseases, the only way to evaluate vaccines is to scrutinize the epidemiological data obtained from real-life conditions. In other words, researchers simply cannot -- or will not -- adequately test a vaccine's effectiveness and immunogenicity prior to its release onto an unsuspecting public.[16] According to Dr. Tom Jefferson, who formerly led the Cochrane Collaboration's vaccine analyses, it makes little sense to keep vaccinating against seasonal influenza based on the evidence.[17] Jefferson has also endorsed more cost-effective and scientifically-proven means of minimizing the transmission of flu, including regular hand washing and wearing masks. There is also substantial peer-reviewed literature supporting the supplementation of Vitamin D.  Dr. Jefferson's conclusions are backed by former Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine scientist Peter Doshi, PhD, in the British Journal of Medicine. In his article Doshi questions the flu vaccine paradigm stating:  “Closer examination of influenza vaccine policies shows that although proponents employ the rhetoric of science, the studies underlying the policy are often of low quality, and do not substantiate officials' claims. The vaccine might be less beneficial and less safe than has been claimed, and the threat of influenza appears overstated.”[18]         A significant body of research proves that receiving the flu shot does not reduce mortality among seniors.[19] One particularly compelling study was carried out by scientists at the federal National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Not only did the study indicate that the flu vaccine did nothing to prevent deaths from influenza among seniors, but that flu mortality rates increased as a greater percentage of seniors received the shot.[20] Dr. Sherri Tenpenny reviewed the Cochrane Database reviews on the flu vaccine's efficacy. In a review of 51 studies involving over 294,000 children, there was “no evidence that injecting children 6-24 months of age with a flu shot was any more effective than placebo. In children over 2 years of age, flu vaccine effectiveness was 33 percent of the time preventing flu. In children with asthma, inactivated flu vaccines did not prevent influenza related hospitalizations in children. The database shows that children who received the flu vaccine were at a higher risk of hospitalization than children who did not receive the vaccine.[21]  In a separate study involving 400 asthmatic children receiving a flu vaccine and 400 who were not immunized, there was no difference in the number of clinic and emergency room visits and hospitalizations between the two groups.[22]  In 64 studies involving 66,000 adults, “Vaccination of healthy adults only reduced risk of influenza by 6 percent and reduced the number of missed work days by less than one day. There was a change in the number of hospitalizations compared to the non-vaccinated. In further studies of elderly adults residing in nursing homes over the course of several flu seasons, flu vaccinations were insignificant for preventing infection.[23] Today, the most extreme wing of the pro-vaccine community continue to diligently pursue mandatory vaccination across all 50 states.  During the flu season, the debate over mandatory vaccination becomes most heated as medical facilities and government departments attempt to threaten employees and schools who refuse vaccination. Although this is deeply worrisome to those who advocate their Constitutional rights to freedom of choice in their healthcare, there are respectable groups opposing mandatory flu shots.  The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons “objects strenuously to any coercion of healthcare personnel to receive influenza immunization. It is a fundamental human right not to be subjected to medical interventions without fully informed consent.”  The good news is that the majority of Americans have lost confidence in the CDC after the agency's dismal handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Positive endorsement of the CDC would plummet further if the public knew the full extent of CDC officials lying to Congress and their conspiracy to commit medical fraud for two decades to cover=up evidence of an autism-vaccine association.  When considering the totality of evidence, the benefit-risk ratio of flu vaccination becomes increasingly problematic. The poor and inconsistent efficacy rates, combined with the potential for serious adverse reactions and the phenomenon of viral interference, clearly indicates that the vaccine does not deliver the public health benefits it promises. Public health strategies must balance the benefits of vaccination against its risks, particularly for vulnerable populations such as children and pregnant women.  Imagine the tens of thousands of children and families who would have been saved from life-long neurological damage and immeasurable suffering if the CDC was not indebted to protecting the pharmaceutical industry's toxic products and was in fact serving Americans' health and well-being? One step that can be taken to begin dismantling the marriage between the federal health agencies and drug companies is to simply refuse the flu vaccine and protect ourselves by adopting a healthier lifestyle during the flu season.    NOTES [1] http://yournewswire.com/boy-awarded-174000-after-flu-vaccine-causes-permanent-brain-damage/  [2]  http://www.globalresearch.ca/finnish-scientists-identify-link-between-glaxosmithklines-swine-flu-vaccine-pandemrix-and-narcolepsy/5423154 [3] http://sharylattkisson.com/woman-paralyzed-after-flu-shot-receives-11-million-for-treatment/ [4]  http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/3/flu-vaccine-ineffective.html  [5]Skowronski DM, Leir S, et al. Influenza vaccine effectiveness by A (H3N2) phylogenetic subcluster and prior vaccination history: 2016–2017 and 2017–2018 epidemics in Canada. J Infectious Diseases, 2021; 225(8), 1387–1397. [6] Belongia EA, Skowronski DM, et al. Repeated annual influenza vaccination and vaccine effectiveness: review of evidence. Expert Review of Vaccines, 2023; 16(7), 743–759. [7]  Barbara Lo Fisher, The Emerging Risks of Live Virus and Virus Vectored Vaccines.  National Vaccine Information Center, 2014  [8]  http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM294307.pdf  [9] Barbara Lo Fisher, “CDC Admits Flu Shots Fail Half the Time.”  NVIC, October 19, 2016 [10] http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2013-06-02/flu-vax-causes-5-5-times-more-respiratory-infections/  [11] Wolff GG. Influenza vaccination and respiratory virus interference among Department of Defense personnel during the 2017–2018 influenza season. Vaccine. 2019 Oct 10;38(2):350–354.   [12] Wolff GG. (2020). Influenza vaccination and respiratory virus interference among Department of Defense personnel. Vaccine, 2020 38(2), 350-354.  [13] Bodwes F, Janssens Y, et al. The role of cell-mediated immunity against influenza and its implications for vaccine evaluation. Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 13, 959379. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.959379  [14] Sinojoh M, Sugaya N, et al. Effectiveness of inactivated influenza and COVID-19 vaccines in hospitalized children in the 2022/23 season in Japan: The first season of co-circulation of influenza and COVID-19. Vaccine, 2022; 41(1), 100-107.  [15]  http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-shot-linked-to-higher-incidence-of-flu-in-pandemic-year-1.1287363 [16]   Weinberg GA, Szilagyi PG. Vaccine Epidemiology: Efficacy, Effectiveness, and the Translational Research Roadmap. J Infect Dis 20210;201.1: 1607-610.  [17] ‘A Whole Industry Is Waiting For A Pandemic', Der Spiegel, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,637119-2,00.html, [18] Dolshi P. "Influenza: Marketing Vaccine by Marketing Disease." BMJ 2013;346: F3037.  [19] Simonsen L, Reichert T, et al. . Impact of Influenza Vaccination on Seasonal Mortality in the US Elderly Population. Arch Intern Med Archives 2005;165(3): 265.  [20] Glezen WP, Simonsen L. Commentary: Benefits of Influenza Vaccine in US Elderly--new Studies Raise Questions. Internat J Epidemiology2006;35(2): 352-53. [21] 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Sociey, May 15-20, 2009 (quoted in , Sherri Tenpenny.  “The Truth about Flu Shots”.  Idaho Observer, June 1, 2009)  [22] ibid  [23] Ibid.

Send us a textJoin us for a laugh and a thought-provoking conversation as we welcome Grimy American, a popular TikTok and Instagram creator with a knack for humor in the gun and airsoft communities. From his high school video antics to his rise as a comedic figure dissecting gun culture, we explore how Grimy's content resonates across platforms with its unique blend of comedy and political commentary. Alongside Grimy's journey, I share my own path into content creation, sparked by my sons' fascination with milsim events and my recovery from Guillain-Barre syndrome, which led to my unexpected passion for airsoft.We dive into the quirky and entertaining world of firearms content, where memorable stories include filming in unexpected places and forging partnerships with companies despite having a modest follower count. The discussion also touches on the importance of investing in quality gear and the vibrant communities of airsoft and real steel enthusiasts, with a nod to my friend Muddy Reviews for his tactical gear expertise. Social media censorship challenges are laid bare as we discuss navigating platform rules, the inconsistencies in enforcement, and the broader implications on youth culture and resiliency.The episode wraps up with an exploration of lifestyle topics, from the joy of living independently and contemplating relocation to the significance of friendships rooted in shared interests like military collectibles. We also delve into the thrill of owning high-caliber firearms and the shared family passion for preparedness, including teaching loved ones to shoot and the exciting pursuit of historical firearms. Whether you're here for the humor, the camaraderie, or the firearms insights, this episode promises a dynamic blend of laughter, learning, and lively discussion.Follow Grimy American Here:https://www.instagram.com/grimyamerican/https://www.tiktok.com/@grimyamericanSupport the showThank you everyone for the support. Don't forget to leave a rating on whatever podcast app you listen to this on.Podcast SponsorsSKIRMESHhttps://www.instagram.com/skirmesh_airsoft/https://play.skirmesh.net/public/homeJACKAL TACTICALhttps://www.otherworldmilsim.com/https://www.jacktac.com/ Watch or Listen to all of our podcasts hereYouTube(1) TriFecta Airsoft Podcast - YouTube Apple Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trifecta-airsoft-podcast/id1346632861SpotifyTriFecta Airsoft Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Rumblehttps://rumble.com/c/TriFectaAirsoftAudiblehttps://www.audible.com/podcast/TriFecta-Airsoft-Podcast/B08JJNFVQK?language=en_US

Spinal epidural apse (SEA), medulla spinalis epidural boşluğunda gelişen, omuriliğe bası yaparak hızlı nörolojik bozulmaya yol açabilen ciddi bir enfeksiyon tablosudur. Bu enfeksiyon, tedavi edilmediğinde kalıcı nörolojik hasarlara, sepsis ve mortalite ile sonuçlanabilecek ciddi komplikasyonlara neden olabilir. Acil serviste non-spesifik semptomlarla başvuran hastalarda SEA'nın erken dönemde tanınması, tedaviye hızla başlanmasını sağlamak açısından kritik önem taşır.(1) Bu yazımızda, SEA'nın ayırıcı tanısı, tedavi protokolleri, ilaç dozları ve tedavi süreleri ile birlikte yönetim stratejileri ele alınacaktır. Ayırıcı Tanı SEA, klinik olarak sinsi bir başlangıç gösteren, spesifik olmayan semptomlarla seyredebilen bir patolojidir. En sık gözlenen klinik bulgu sırt ağrısıdır; bunu ateş ve nörolojik defisit izler. SEA'nın tanısında gecikmeler, sıklıkla bu semptomların nonspesifik doğasından kaynaklanır. Literatürde, klasik "sırt ağrısı, ateş ve nörolojik defisit" triadı hastaların yalnızca %10-15'inde tam olarak görülmektedir.(2) Bu nedenle, risk faktörleri olan hastalarda (immünosüpresyon, intravenöz ilaç kullanımı, diyabet, yakın dönemde geçirilmiş spinal cerrahi, bakteriyemi) SEA akılda tutulmalıdır.(3) Sırt ağrısı, en sık rastlanan semptom olup, vakaların %70 ila %100'ünde mevcuttur. Bu ağrı, başvuru öncesinde 1 günden 2 aya kadar değişen sürelerde devam edebilir. Ateş, önemli bir tanı kriteridir, ancak birçok hastada eksik olabilir. Örneğin, bir vaka serisinde 48 hastanın yalnızca 23'ünde (%48) ateş tespit edilmiştir. Ateşin bulunmaması tanıyı geciktirebilir ya da gözden kaçırılmasına yol açabilir. Nörolojik defisitler, vakaların %50'sinde görülür ve motor güçsüzlük, radikülopati, bağırsak ve mesane disfonksiyonu gibi bulguları içerir. Küçük bir SEA bile ciddi nörolojik semptomlara yol açabilir. Tedavi edilmediğinde, nörolojik semptomlar tipik olarak sırasıyla sırt ağrısı, radiküler ağrı, motor güçsüzlük, duyu bozuklukları, mesane/bağırsak disfonksiyonu ve paralizi şeklinde ilerler. Paralizi geliştiğinde hızla kalıcı hale gelebilir, bu nedenle nörolojik bulguların ilerlemesi durumunda acil cerrahi müdahale gerekebilir. SEA ile Karışabilecek Klinik Durumlar - Mekanik sırt ağrısı: Nörolojik defisit ve sistemik enfeksiyon bulgularının olmaması ile ayrılabilir. - Diskit ve vertebral osteomiyelit: SEA ile birlikte de görülebilir. Ancak SEA'da epidural boşluğa yayılım vardır. MRI bu iki durumu ayırmada önemli bir tanı aracıdır. - Spinal tümörler: Yavaş progresyon gösterirler. Nörolojik bulgular SEA'ya göre daha kronik gelişir. - Guillain-Barre sendromu: İlerleyici nörolojik bulgular benzerlik gösterebilir, ancak lomber ponksiyon ve görüntüleme ile ayrımı yapılabilir. Tanı SEA'nın kesin tanısı, MR ile konur. Kontrastlı spinal MR, apsenin lokalizasyonunu, yayılımını ve epidural boşlukta omurilik üzerine yaptığı basıyı değerlendirmenin en duyarlı yöntemidir. Görüntüleme yapılana kadar, klinik şüphe durumunda tanısal yaklaşımda gecikme olmamalıdır. Laboratuvar bulguları tanıya destekleyici olabilir. Crp, Prokalsitonin ve Sedim gibi markerlar yükselir ancak SEA için spesifik değillerdir. Kan kültürleri, hastaların %60-70'inde pozitif olabilir ve etkenin tanımlanmasında kritiktir. Ancak tedavi kültür sonuçları beklenmeden başlatılmalıdır.(4) Tanıda MR görüntüleme altın standart yöntemdir. Tedavi SEA'nın yönetiminde iki ana tedavi yaklaşımı bulunur: erken ve geniş spektrumlu antibiyotik tedavisi ile cerrahi drenaj.(5) Tedaviye mümkün olan en erken dönemde başlanmalıdır, zira nörolojik hasarın kalıcı hale gelme süresi uzun değildir. Özellikle nörolojik defisit ilerliyorsa veya apse genişse, antibiyotik tedavisi ile birlikte acil cerrahi müdahale genellikle endikedir. Antibiyotik Tedavisi Antibiyotik tedavisinin amacı hastayı cerrahiye hazırlarken sistemik kontrolü sağlamaktır. Başlangıçta geniş spektrumlu bir antibiyotik rejimi seçilmeli, kültür sonuçlarına göre daraltılmalıdır.

Le syndrome de Guillain-Barré peut entraîner des faiblesses musculaires, des douleurs ou, dans les cas les plus graves, une paralysie des muscles des jambes, des bras ou des muscles respiratoires. S'il survient la majeure partie du temps après une infection, on ne connait pas précisément sa cause. Quels sont les symptômes caractéristiques permettant de reconnaitre le syndrome de Guillain-Barre ?  Pourquoi les patients diagnostiqués sont-ils souvent hospitalisés ? Après quel type d'infection peut survenir le syndrome de Guillain Barre ? Y a-t-il des distinctions d'âge pour les patients ? Dr Clémence Marois, neurologue à l'Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière à Paris(Rediffusion)

Limerick's Georgina Miller Georgina is an actress, writer and voice-over artist. She's also a graduate of the full-time actor training course at the Gaiety School of Acting. Georgina won the award for Best Actress from the Guinness ISDA Festival for her performance in "At the Black Pig's Dyke" (MIDAS). In this month's episode she talks to us about her debut play, a hybrid aerial show called "Freefalling". Freefalling is an autobiographic play about a backpacking trip in her 30s during which she developed the incredibly rare Guillain-Barre syndrome which left her paralysed, alone and fearing for her life on a hospital bed in Samoa. Spoiler: she lives to tell the tale. Hear and see it for yourself at the Limetree Theatre in Limerick City in September and at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival in Draíocht in Dublin in October.  Freefalling is a co-production between Rough Magic Theatre Company and Limetree Theatre in association with Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company.  In this episode we discuss the absolute dud that was the Grey's Anatomy musical episode; the creative process of turning your trauma into art and learning to distance yourself from the story; finding a team of collaborators you can trust to guide your work; the divide between the self as writer and the self as performer; and quieting the voice inside that says you can't do something.  https://x.com/RoughMagicIRL https://dublintheatrefestival.ie/event/freefalling/  https://limetreebelltable.ie/events/freefalling-2/  https://www.instagram.com/rough.magic  The Limerick Lady is a grassroots movement based in Limerick, Ireland, with a focus on promoting conversation around gender, visibility, gender balance and the arts. It was founded in 2016 by award-winning (and losing) singer-songwriter Emma Langford, who hosts the podcast alongside fellow award-winning (and losing) Limerick woman, theatre-maker and musician Ann Blake. Find the Limerick Lady Podcast on all your favourite streaming platforms. New episodes drop once a month, on the third Thursday (or Thirdsday, if you will). The Limerick Lady is supported by The Limerick Post Newspaper. Support the Limerick Post at www.limerickpost.ie 

Send us a Text Message.Prepare yourself for an emotionally charged episode as the co-hosts from the Bigfoot Club podcast, Robert Dominguez and his nephew, Steven Dominguez, step in for Father Stephen Sanchez. Robert recounts his terrifying health ordeal — from severe weight loss to a critical diagnosis which led to surgery. We explore the emotional rollercoaster faced by Robert and his family during his recovery, culminating in a life-threatening situation where Robert's heart stopped for seven minutes. With Steven providing additional recollections, we delve into the confusion, distress, and eventual cautious optimism as Robert was revived. This segment is a raw and poignant journey through medical crises and the power of familial support.As the episode progresses, we delve into Robert's battle with Guillain-Barre syndrome. The latter part of the conversation emphasizes resilience, recovery, and the spiritual awakening that followed Robert's harrowing experience. We touch on near-death experiences and the transformative power they hold, highlighting the importance of forgiveness and second chances. This heartfelt episode is a must-listen for anyone intrigued by the triumphs and trials of the human spirit, offering a profound look into personal transformation, recovery, and perseverance.Bigfoot Club Podcast Website and MerchHave something you'd love to hear Fr. Stephen and John talk about? Email us at myfriendthefriar@gmail.com or click here!

We discuss a case of ataxia in children and how to approach the evaluation of these pts. Hosts: Ellen Duncan, MD, PhD Brian Gilberti, MD https://media.blubrry.com/coreem/content.blubrry.com/coreem/Ataxia_in_Children.mp3 Download Leave a Comment Tags: Neurology, Pediatrics Show Notes Introduction The episode focuses on ataxia in children, which can range from self-limiting to life-threatening conditions. Pediatric emergency medicine specialist shares insights on the topic. The Case An 18-month-old boy presented with ataxia, unable to keep his head up, sit, or stand, and began vomiting. Previously healthy except for recurrent otitis media and viral-induced wheezing. The decision to take the child to the emergency department (ED) was based on acute symptoms. Differential Diagnosis Common causes include acute cerebellar ataxia, drug ingestion, Guillain-Barre syndrome, and basilar migraine. Less common causes include cerebellitis, encephalitis, brain tumors, and labyrinthitis. Importance of History and Physical Examination A detailed history and physical exam are essential in diagnosing ataxia. Key factors include time course, recent infections, signs of increased intracranial pressure, and toxic exposures. Look for signs such as bradycardia, hypertension, vomiting, and overall appearance. Diagnostic Workup Initial tests include point-of-care glucose and neuroimaging for concerns about trauma or increased intracranial pressure. MRI is preferred for posterior fossa abnormalities, but non-contrast head CT is commonly used due t...

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Can resilience and a positive mindset truly transform your life? In today's episode of the American Towing Recovery Institute podcast, we share the personal health journey of our co-host DJ Harrington, who is dealing with Guillain-Barre syndrome. DJ's story is one of fighting spirit and unwavering support, illustrating how friendships and the right attitude can make a world of difference. Alongside DJ, Wes Wilburn offers insights on navigating the ever-evolving towing industry, particularly in the face of emerging challenges like electric vehicles. Together, we stress the importance of continuous learning and setting ambitious goals to keep pushing forward.Political maneuvering and sudden scrutiny have thrown the towing industry into the spotlight. We dissect the recent political attacks, including Elizabeth Warren's public condemnation, and discuss the swift, united response from lobbyists and the Towing and Recovery Association of America (TRAA). Unity and effective advocacy are crucial to overcoming these challenges, as we highlight the importance of Hill Day in DC and the complexities of towing regulations. Our conversation also delves into the efforts of TRAA and associated legal teams to address and clarify these issues for the industry.Professionalism and unity are the cornerstones of a thriving towing industry. We emphasize the need for detailed documentation and narrative-building to justify bills and maintain transparency. The critical role of the TRAA in advocating for towers at the national level is underscored, along with the benefits of TRAA membership and the importance of high-quality equipment. Featuring insights from Bill Johnson, TRAA's First Vice President, we discuss the association's extensive reach and significant contributions. Join us for an engaging episode filled with personal stories, industry insights, and a look at the achievements and challenges facing the towing industry today.

As one of our finest actors, Keith Robinson carved a career on stages around the country. As a  wit and treasured talisman, he kept us informed and in stitches with his regular postings on social media.Keith's repertoire of characters included the great clowns of Shakespeare. He was admired for his tremendous physicality in realising these endearing fools and jesters …. and for his dependability in affecting an audience.As a member of the ensemble at Belvoir Theatre, he contributed to the success of milestone productions such as Hamlet, The Tempest, The Alchemist, Night On Bald Mountain and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Keith's extensive theatre credits also included the Dickensian epic Nicholas Nickleby with the Sydney Theatre Company ……  and ventures into musical theatre with the premiere Australian production of Les Miserables. As performer and playwright -  Keith co-authored (with Tony Taylor) the silly, comic romp The Popular Mechanicals - a fond valentine to the determined amateur acting troupe of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2006 his life upon the boards looked like being snatched away when he was diagnosed with a neurological condition, called Guillain-Barre syndrome. His personal expression as an actor became compromised with limited mobility and the necessity of a wheelchair. But Keith was a determined thespian …. and in 2016 he returned to the Belvoir stage as a wise and moving Feste …. in a production of Twelfth Night. As well as a phenomenal talent, Keith was immensely entertaining and terrific company. Passionate, funny and tremendously informed, Keith traversed an eventful life on and off the stage. His legacy of compelling screen performances are fortunately preserved in television productions such as the anthology series Summer Love, season 2 of The Twelve and in a much discussed TVC for Australia post, where we may still be able to find him at various point of sale.This conversation, recorded for the STAGES podcast, took place in May 2021 when Keith was preparing to play Leonid Gayev in The Cherry Orchard at the Belvoir street theatre. It was to be the final time we would see Keith light up a stage. I hope this return episode brings you some comfort - and joy - relishing in Keith's wonderful anecdote, insightful wisdom - and that enormous laugh that instantly embraced it's listener.Vale Keith Robinson - you will be greatly missed. The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

After finishing her training in neurology at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Svetlana Blitshteyn started a Dysautonomia Clinic in 2009. Little did she know what was in store many years later when Covid hit!Ground Truths podcasts are on Apple and Spotify. The video interviews are on YouTubeTranscript with audio and external linksEric Topol (00:07):Well, hello, it's Eric Topol from Ground Truths, and I have with me a really great authority on dysautonomia and POTS. We will get into what that is for those who aren't following this closely. And it's Svetlana Blitshteyn who is a faculty member at University of Buffalo and a neurologist who long before there was such a thing as Covid was already onto one of the most important pathways of the body, the autonomic nervous system and how it can go off track. So welcome, Svetlana.Svetlana Blitshteyn (00:40):Thank you so much, Eric for having me. And I want to say it's a great honor for me to be here and just to be on the list with your other guests. It's remarkable and I'm very grateful and congratulations on being on the TIME100 Health list for influential people in 2024. And I am grateful for everything that you've done. As I mentioned earlier, I'm a big fan of your work before the pandemic and of course with Covid I followed your podcast and posts because you became the best science communicator and I'm very happy to see you being a strong advocate and thank you for everything you've done.Eric Topol (01:27):Well, that's so kind to you. And I think talking about getting things going before the pandemic, back in 2011, you published a book with Jodi Epstein Rhum called POTS - Together We Stand: Riding the Waves of Dysautonomia. And you probably didn't have an idea that there would be an epidemic of that more than a decade later, I guess, right?Svetlana Blitshteyn (01:54):Yeah, absolutely. Of course, SARS-CoV-2 is a new virus and we can technically say that Long Covid and post Covid complications could be viewed as a new entity. But practically speaking, we know that post-infectious syndromes have been happening for many decades. And so, the most common trigger for POTS happened to be infection, whether it was influenza or mononucleosis or Lyme or enterovirus. We knew this was happening. So I think it didn't take long for me and my colleagues to realize that we're going to be seeing a lot of patients with autonomic dysfunction after Covid.On the Front LineEric Topol (02:40):Well, one of the things that's important for having you on is you're in the front lines taking care of lots of patients with Long Covid and this postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). And I wonder if you could tell us what it's care for these patients because so many of them are incapacitated. As a cardiologist, I see of course some because of the cardiovascular aspects, but you are dealing with this on a day-to-day basis.Svetlana Blitshteyn (03:14):Yeah, absolutely. As early as April 2020 when everything was closed, I got a call from a young doctor in New York City saying that he had Covid and he couldn't recover, he couldn't return to the hospital. And his colleagues and cardiology attendants also had the same symptoms and the symptoms were palpitations, orthostatic intolerance, tachycardia, fatigue. Now, how he knew to contact me is that his sister was my patient with POTS before Covid pandemic. So he kind of figured this looked like my sister, let me check this out. And it didn't take long for me to have a lot of patience from the early wave. And then fairly soon, I think within months I was thinking, we have to write this up because this is important. And to some of us it was not news, but I was sure that to many physicians and public health officials, this would be something new.Svetlana Blitshteyn (04:18):So because I'm a busy clinician and don't have a lot of time for publications, I had to recruit a graduate student from McMasters and together we had this paper out, which was the first and largest case series on post Covid POTS and other autonomic disorders. And interestingly, even though it came out I think in 2021, by the time it was published, it became the most citable paper for me. And so I think from then on organizations and societies became interested in the work that I do because prior to that, I must say in the kind of a niche specialty was I don't think it was very popular or of interest to me.How Did You Get Interested in Dysautonomia?Eric Topol (05:06):Yeah, so that's why I wanted to just take a step back with you Svetlana, because you had the foresight to be the founder and director of the Dysautonomia Clinic when a lot of people weren't in touch with this as an important entity. What prompted you as a neurologist to really zoom in on dysautonomia when you started this clinic?Svetlana Blitshteyn (05:28):Sure. So the reasons are how I ended up in this field is kind of a convoluted road and the reasons are many, but one, I will say that I trained at Mayo Clinic where we received very good training on autonomic disorders and EMG and coming back to returning back to Buffalo, I began working at the large multiple sclerosis clinic because Western New York has a high incidence MS. And so, what they quickly realized in that clinic is that there was a subset of women who did not qualify for the diagnostic criteria of multiple sclerosis, yet they had a lot of the same symptoms and they were certainly very disabled. Now I recognize that these women had autonomic disorders of all sorts and small fiber neuropathy, and I think this population sort of grew and eventually I realized there is no one not only in Buffalo but the entire Western New York who is doing this work.Svetlana Blitshteyn (06:34):So I kind of fell into that. But another reason is actually more personal that I haven't talked about. So years ago I was traveling to Toronto, Canada for a neurology meeting to present my big study on meningioma and hormone replacement therapy using Mayo Clinic database. And so, in that year, the study received top 10 noteworthy studies of the year award from the Society of Neuro-Oncology, and it was profiled in Reuters Health. Now, on the way back from the conference, I had the flu, and when they returned I could no longer walk the same hallways of the hospital where I walked previously. And no matter how hard I try to push my body, we all do this in medicine, we push through, I just couldn't do it. No amount of wishing or positive thinking. And so, I think that's how I came to know personally the post-infectious syndromes. And I think it almost became a duality of experiencing this and also practicing it.Eric Topol (07:52):No, that's really striking and it wasn't so common to hear about this post flu, but certainly it changed in 2020. So how does a person with POTS typically present to you?Clinical PresentationSvetlana Blitshteyn (08:08):So these are very important questions because what I want to stress is though POTS is one of the most common autonomic disorders. Even if you don't have POTS by the diagnostic criteria, you may still have autonomic dysfunction and significant autonomic symptoms. How do they present? Well, they present like most Long Covid patients, the most common symptoms are orthostatic intolerance, fatigue, exercise intolerance, post exertional malaise, dizziness, tachycardia, brain fog. And these are common themes across the board in Long Covid patients, but also in pre-Covid post-acute infection syndrome patients. And you have to recognize because I think what I tell my colleagues is that oftentimes patients are not going to present to you saying, I have orthostatic intolerance. Many times they will say, I'm very tired. I can no longer go to the gym or when I go to the store, I have to be out of there in 15 minutes because the orthostatic intolerance symptoms come up.Svetlana Blitshteyn (09:22):So sometimes the patients themselves don't recognize that and it's up to us physicians to ask the right questions to get the information down. History is very important, knowing the pattern. And then of course, as I always say in all of my papers and lectures, you have to do a 10-minute stand test by measuring supine and standing blood pressure and heart rate on every Long Covid patients. And that's how you spot those that have excessive postural tachycardia or their blood pressure dropping or so forth. So we have the tools. We don't need fancy autonomic labs. We don't even need a tilt table test. The diagnostic criteria for POTS is that you need to have either a 10-minute stand test or a tilt table test to get the diagnosis for POTS, orthostatic hypotension or even neurocardiogenic syncope. Now I think it's important to stress that even if a patient doesn't qualify, and let's say many patients with Long Covid will not elevate their heart rate by at least 30 beats per minute, it could be 20, it could be 25. These criteria are of course essential when we do research studies. But I think practically speaking, in patient care where everything is gray and nothing is black or white, especially in autonomic disorders, you really have to make a diagnosis saying, this sounds like autonomic dysfunction. Let me treat the patient for this problem.Eric Topol (11:07):Well, you brought up something that's really important because doctors don't have much time and they're inpatient. They don't wait 10 minutes to do a test to check your blood pressure. They send the patients for a tilt table, which nobody likes to have that test done, and it's unnecessary added appointment and expense and whatnot. So that's a good tip right there that you can get the same information just by checking the blood pressure and heart rate on standing for an extended period of time, which 10 minutes is a long time in the clinic of course. Now, what is the mechanism, what do you think is going on with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its predilection to affect the autonomic nervous system? As you know, so many studies have questioned whether you even actually infect neurons or alternatively, which is more likely this an inflammation of the neural tissue. But what do you think is going on here?UnderpinningsSvetlana Blitshteyn (12:10):Right, so I think it's important to say we don't have exact pathophysiology of what exactly is going on. I think we can only extrapolate that what's going on in Long Covid is possibly what's going on in any post infectious onset dysautonomia. And so there are many hypothesis and there are many suggestions, and we share this disorder with cardiologist and immunologist and rheumatologist. The way I view this is what I described in my paper from a few years ago is that this is likely a central nervous system disorder with multisystemic involvement and it involves the cardiovascular system, immunologic, metabolic, possibly prothrombotic. The pathophysiology of all POTS closely parallels to pathophysiology of Long Covid. Now we don't know if it's the same thing and certainly I see that there may be more complications in Long Covid patients in the realm of cardiovascular manifestations in the realm of blood clots and things like that.Svetlana Blitshteyn (13:21):So we can't say it's the same, but it very closely resembles and I think at the core is going to be inflammation, autoimmunity and immunologic dysfunction. Now there are also other things that are very important and that would be mitochondrial dysfunction, that would be hypercoagulable state, it would be endothelial dysfunction. And I think the silver lining of Long Covid and having so many people invested in research and so many funds is that by uncovering what Long Covid is, we're now going to be uncovering what POTS and other autonomic disorders are. And I think we also need to mention a couple of other things. One is small fiber neuropathy, small fiber neuropathy and POTS are very much comorbid conditions. And similarly, small fiber neuropathy frequently occurs in patients with Long Covid, so that's a substrate with the damaged small nerve fibers that they're everywhere in our bodies and also innervate the organs as well.Svetlana Blitshteyn (14:34):The second big thing is that needs to be mentioned is hyperactive mast cells. So mast cells, small nerve fibers and capillaries are very much located in proximity. And what I have usually is a slide from an old paper in oral biology that gives you a specimen where you see a capillary vessel, a stain small nerve fiber, and in between them there is a mass cell with tryptase in it stained in black. And so there is a close communication between small nerve fibers between endothelial wall and between mast cells, and that's what we commonly see as a triad. We see this as a triad in Long Covid patients. We see that as a triad in patients with joint hypermobility syndrome and hypermobile EDS, and you also see this in many of the autoimmune disorders where people develop new allergies and new sensitivities concurrent or preceding the onset of autoimmune disease.Small Fiber NeuropathyEric Topol (15:49):Yeah, no, it's fascinating. And I know you've worked with this in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) as you mentioned, the hypermobility, but just to go back on this, when you want to entertain the involvement of small fiber neuropathy, is that diagnosable? I mean it's obvious that you can get the tachycardia, the change in position blood pressure, but do you have to do other tests to say there is indeed a small fiber neuropathy or is that a clinical diagnosis?Svetlana Blitshteyn (16:20):Absolutely. We have the testing and the testing is skin biopsy. That is simply a punch biopsy that you can do in your clinic and it takes about 15 minutes. You have the free kit that the company of, there are many companies, I don't want to name specific ones, but there are several companies that do this kind of work. You send the biopsy back to them, they look under the microscope, they stain it. You can also stain it with amyloid stain to rule out amyloidosis, which we do in neurology, and I think that's quite accessible to many clinicians everywhere. Now we also have another test called QSART (quantitative sudomotor axon reflex test), and that's a test part of autonomic lab. Mayo Clinic has it, Cleveland Clinic has it, other big labs have it, and it's hard to get there because the wait time is big.Svetlana Blitshteyn (17:15):Patients need to travel. Insurance doesn't always authorize, so access is a big problem, but more accessible is the skin biopsy. And so, by doing skin biopsy and then correlating with neurologic exam findings, which oftentimes involved reduce pain and temperature sensation in the feet, sometimes in the hands you can conclude that the patient has small fiber neuropathy and that's a very tangible and objective diagnosis. There again, with everything related to diagnostics, some neuropathy is very patchy and the patchy neuropathy is the one that may not be in your feet where you do the skin biopsy. It may be in the torso, it may be in the face, and we don't have biopsy there. So you can totally miss it. The results can come back as normal, but you can have patchy type of small fiber neuropathy and there are also diagnostic tests that might be not sensitive to pick up issues. So I think in everything Long Covid, it highlights the fact that many tests that we use in medicine are outdated perhaps and not targeted towards these patients with Long Covid. Therefore we say, well, we did the workup, everything looks good. MRI looks good, cardiac echo looks great, and yet the patient is very sick with all kinds of Long Covid complications.Pure Post-Viral POTS?Eric Topol (18:55):Right. Now, before we get into the treatments, I want to just segment this a bit. Can you get pure POTS that is no Long Covid just POTS, or as you implied that usually there's some coalescence of symptoms with the usual Long Covid symptoms and POTS added to that?Svetlana Blitshteyn (19:21):So the studies have shown for us that about 40% of patients with POTS have post-infectious onset, which means more than a half doesn't. And so of course you can have POTS from other causes and the most common is puberty, hormonal change, the most common age of onset is about 13, 14 years old and 80% of women of childbearing age and other triggers or pregnancy, hormonal change again, surgery, trauma like concussion, post-concussion, autonomic dysfunction is quite common.Eric Topol (20:05):So these are pure POTS without the other symptoms. Is that what you're saying in these examples?Svetlana Blitshteyn (20:12):Well, it's a very good question. It depends what you mean by pure POTS, and I have seen especially cardiologists cling to this notion that there is pure POTS and then there is POTS plus. Now I think majority of people don't have pure POTS and by pure POTS I think you mean those who have postural tachycardia and nothing else. And so most patients, I think 80% have a number of symptoms. So in my clinic I almost never see someone who is otherwise well and all they have is postural tachycardia and then they're having a great time. Some patients do exist like that, they tend to be athletic, they can still function in their life, but majority of patients come to us with symptoms like dizziness, like fatigue, like exercise intolerance, decline in functioning. So I think there is this notion that while there is pure POTS, let me just fix the postural tachycardia and the patient will be great and we all want that. Certainly sometimes I get lucky and when I give the patient a beta blocker or ivabradine or a calcium channel blocker, sometimes we use it, certainly they get better, but most patients don't have that because the disability that drives POTS isn't actually postural tachycardia, it's all that other stuff and a lot of it's neurologic, which is why I put this as a central nervous system disorder.TreatmentsEric Topol (21:58):Yeah, that's so important. Now you mentioned the treatments. These are drug treatments, largely beta blockers, and can you tell us what's the success rate with the various treatments that you use in your clinic?Svetlana Blitshteyn (22:13):So the first thing we'll have to mention is that there are no FDA approved therapies for POTS, just like there are no FDA approved therapies for Long Covid. And so, everything we use is off label. Now, oftentimes people think that because it wasn't evidence-based and there are no big trials. We do have trials, we do have trials for beta blockers and we know they work. We have trials for Midodrine and we know that's working. We also have fludrocortisone, which is a medication that improves sodium and water resorption. So we know that there are certain things we've used for decades that have been working, and I think that's what I was trying to convey in this paper of post Covid autonomic dysfunction assessment and treatment is that when you see these patients, and you can be of any specialty, you can be in primary care, you can be a physiatrist, a cardiologist, there are things to do, there are medications to use.Svetlana Blitshteyn (23:20):Oftentimes colleagues would say, well, you diagnose them and then what do you treat them with? And then I can refer them to table six in that paper and say, look at this list. You have a lot of options to try. We have the first line treatment options, which are your beta blockers and Midodrine and Florinef and Mestinon. And then we have the second line therapies you can choose from the stimulants are there Provigil, Nuvigil, Wellbutrin, Droxidopa is FDA approved for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension. Now we don't use it commonly, but it can still be tried in people whose blood pressures are falling on your exam. So we have a number of medications to choose from in addition to non-pharmacologic therapies.Eric Topol (24:14):Right now, I'm going to get to the non-pharmacologic in a moment, but the beta blocker, which is kind of the first one to give, it's a little bit paradoxical. It makes people tired, and these people already are, don't have much energy. Is the success rate of beta blocker good enough that that should be the first thing to try?Svetlana Blitshteyn (24:35):Absolutely. The first line medication treatment options are beta blockers. Why? Okay, why are they working? They're not only working to reduce heart rate, but they may also decrease sympathetic overactivity, which is the driving mechanism of autonomic dysfunction. And when you reduce that overactivity, even your energy level can improve. Now, the key here is to use a low dose. A lot of the time I see this mistake being done where the doctor is just prescribing 25 milligrams of metoprolol twice a day. Well, this is too high. And so, the key is to use very low doses and to use them and then increase them as needed. We have a bunch of beta blockers to choose from. We have the non-selective propranolol that you can use when someone maybe has a migraine headache or significant anxiety, they penetrate the brain, and we have non-selected beta blockers like atenolol, metoprolol and others that you can use at half a tablet. Sometimes I start my patients at quarter of tablet and then go from there. So low doses will block tachycardia, decrease sympathetic overactivity, and in many cases will allow the patient to remain upright for longer periods of time.Eric Topol (26:09):That's really helpful. Now, one of the other things, I believe it's approved in Canada, not in the US, is a vagal neuromodulation device. And I wonder, it seems like it would be nice to avoid drugs if there was a device that worked really well. Is there anything that is in the hopper for that?Svetlana Blitshteyn (26:32):Yeah, absolutely. Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulator is in clinical trials for POTS and other autonomic disorders, but we have it FDA for treatment of migraine and cluster headaches, so it's already approved here and it can also be helpful for chronic pain and gastroparesis. So there are studies on mice that show that with the application of noninvasive vagus nerve stimulator, there is reduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines. So here is this very important connection that comes from Kevin Tracey's work that showed inflammatory reflex, and that's a reflex between the vagus nerve and the immune system. So when we talk about sympathetic overactivity, we need to also think about that. That's a mechanism for pro-inflammatory state and possibly prothrombotic state. So anything that decreases sympathetic overactivity and enhancing parasympathetic tone is going to be good for you.Eric Topol (27:51):Now, let's go over to, I mean, I'm going to get into this body brain axis in a moment because there's another part of the story here that's becoming more interesting, fascinating, in fact every day. But before I do that, you mentioned the small fiber neuropathy. Is there a specific treatment for that or is that just something that is just an added dimension of the problem without a specific treatment available?Svetlana Blitshteyn (28:21):Yeah, we certainly have treatment for small fiber neuropathy. We have symptomatic treatment for neuropathic pain, and these medications are gabapentin, pregabalin, amitriptyline and low dose naltrexone that have been gaining popularity. We used that before the pandemic. We used low dose naltrexone for people with chronic pain related to joint hypermobility. And so, we have symptomatic, we also have patches and creams and all kinds of topical applications for people with neuropathic pain. Then we also have, we try to go for the root cause, right? So the number one cause of small fiber neuropathy in the United States is diabetes. And certainly, you need to control hyperglycemia and in some patients you only need a pre-diabetic state, not even full diabetes to already have peripheral neuropathy. So you want to control blood glucose level first and foremost. Now then we have a big category of autoimmune and immune mediated causes, and that's where it gets very interesting because practical experience from many institutions and many neurologists worldwide have shown that when you give a subset of patients with autoimmune small fiber neuropathy, immunotherapy like IVIG, a lot of patients feel significantly better. And so, I think paralleling our field in dysautonomia and POTS, we are looking forward to immunotherapy being more mainstream rather than exception from the rule because access and insurance coverage is a huge barrier for clinicians and patients, but that may be a very effective treatment options for treatment refractory patients whose symptoms do not improve with symptomatic treatment.Eric Topol (30:38):Now, with all these treatments that are on the potential menu to try, and of course sometimes it really is a trial and error to get one that hopefully works for Covid, Long Covid, what is the natural history? Does this persist over years, or can it be completely resolved?Svetlana Blitshteyn (31:00):That's a great question. Everyday Long Covid patients ask me, and I think what we are seeing is that there is a good subset of patients for whom Long Covid is going to be temporary and they will improve and even recover close to normal. Now remember that original case series of patients that I reported in early 2021 based on my 2020 experience in that 20 patient case series, very few recovered, three patients recovered back to normal. Most patients had lingering ongoing chronic symptoms. So of course mine is a kind of a referral bias where I get to see the sickest patients and it looks to be like it's a problem of chronic illness variety. But I also think there is going to be a subset of patients and then we have to study them. We need to study who got better and who didn't. And people improve significantly and some even recover close to normal. But I think certain symptoms like maybe fatigue and heat intolerance could persist because those are very heavily rooted in autonomic dysfunction.Vaccination and POTSEric Topol (32:26):Yeah, well, that's something that's sobering and why we need trials and to go after this in much more intensity and priority. Now the other issue here is while with Covid, this is almost always the virus infection, there have been reports of the vaccine inducing POTS and Long Covid, and so what does that tell us?Svetlana Blitshteyn (32:54):Well, that's a big, big topic. Years ago, I was the first one to report a patient with POTS that was developed after HPV vaccine Gardasil. Now, at that time I was a young neurologist. Then the patient came to me saying she was an athlete saying two weeks after Gardasil vaccine, she developed these very disabling symptoms. And I thought it was very interesting and unique and I thought, well, I'll just publish it. I never knew that this would be the start of a whole different discussion and debate on HPV vaccines. There were multiple reports from numerous countries, Denmark, Mexico, Japan. Japan actually suspended their mass HPV vaccination program. So somehow it became a big deal. Now many people, including my colleagues didn't agree that POTS can begin POTS, small fiber neuropathy, other adverse neurologic events can begin after vaccination in general. And so, this was a topic that was widely debated and the European medical agencies came back saying, we don't have enough evidence.Svetlana Blitshteyn (34:20):Of course, we all want to have a good cancer vaccine. And it was amazing to watch this Covid vaccine issue unfolding where more than one study now have shown that indeed you can develop POTS after Covid vaccines and that the rate of POTS after Covid vaccines is actually slightly higher than before vaccination. So I think it was kind of interesting to see this unfold where I was now invited by Nature Journal to write an editorial on this very topic. So I think it's important to mention that sometimes POTS can begin after vaccination and however, I've always advised my patients to be vaccinated even now. Even now, I have patients who are unvaccinated and I say, I'm worried about you getting a second Covid or third without these vaccines, so please get vaccinated. Vaccines are very important public health measure, but we also have to acknowledge that sometimes people develop POTS, small fiber neuropathy and other complications after Covid vaccines.Prominence of the Vagus Nerve Eric Topol (35:44):Yeah, I think this is important to emphasize here because of all vaccinations can lead to neurologic sequelae. I mean look at Guillain-Barre, which is even more worrisome and that brings in the autoimmune component I think. And of course, the Covid vaccines and boosters have a liability in a small, very small percentage of people to do this. And that can't be discounted because it's a small risk and it's always this kind of risk benefit story when you're getting vaccinated that you are again spotlighting. Now gets us to the biggest thing of all besides the practical pearls you've been coming up with to help everyone in patients and clinicians. In recent weeks, there's been explosion of these intra body circuits. There was a paper from Columbia last week that taught us about the body-brain circuits between the vagus nerve and the caudal Nucleus of the Solitary Tract (cNST) of the brain and how this is basically a master switch for the immune system. And so, the vagus nerve there and then you have this gut to brain story, which is the whole gut microbiome is talking to the brain through the vagus nerve. I mean, everything comes down to the vagus nerve. So you've been working all your career and now everything's coming into this vagus nerve kind of final common pathway that's connecting all sorts of parts of the body that we didn't truly understand before. So could you comment about this because it's pretty striking.Svetlana Blitshteyn (37:34):Absolutely. I think this pandemic is highlighting the pitfalls of everything we didn't know but should have in the past. And I think this is one of them. How important is the autonomic nervous system and how important is the vagus nerve that is the longest nerve in the body and carries the parasympathetic outflow. And I think this is a very important point that we have to move forward. We cannot stop at the autonomic knowledge that we've gained thus far. Autonomic neurology and autonomic medicine has always been the field with fellowship, and we have American Autonomic Society as well. But I think now is a great time to move forward and study how the autonomic nervous system communicates with the immunologic system. And again, Kevin Tracey's work was groundbreaking in the sense that he connected the dots and realized that if you stimulate the vagus nerve and the parasympathetic outflow, then you can reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines and that he has shown that you can also improve or significantly such disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune inflammatory conditions.Svetlana Blitshteyn (39:03):Now we have the invasive vagus nerve stimulation procedures, and quite honestly, we don't want that to be the mainstream because you don't want to have a neurosurgery as you go to treatment. Of course, you want the non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation being the mainstream therapy. But I think a lot of research needs to happen and it's going to be a very much a multidisciplinary field where we'll have immunology, translational sciences, we'll have neurosurgeons like Kevin Tracey, we'll have rheumatologists, neurologists, cardiologists. We'll have a multidisciplinary collaborative group to further understand what's going on in these autoimmune inflammatory disorders, including those of post-infectious origin.Eric Topol (40:02):I certainly agree with all of your points there. I mean, I'm really struck now because the immune system is front and center with so much of what we're seeing with of course Long Covid, but also things like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and across the board with metabolic diseases. And here we have this connection with your sweet spot of the autonomic nervous system, and we have these pathways that had not been delineated before. I didn't know too much about the cNST of the brain to be such an important connect point for this. And I wonder, so here's another example. Concurrently the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) drugs have this pronounced effect on reducing inflammation in the body before the weight loss and in the brain through the gut-brain axis, as we recently discussed with Dan Drucker, have you ever tried a GLP-1 drug or noticed that GLP-1 drugs help people with Long Covid or the POTS problem?Svetlana Blitshteyn (41:12):So I have heard anecdotally people with Long Covid using these drugs for other reasons, saying I feel much better. In fact, I recently had a woman who said, I have never been more productive than I am now on this medication. And she used the word productive, which is important because non-productive implies so many things. It's the brain fog, it's the physical fatigue, it's the mental fatigue. So I think we are, first of all, I want to say, I always said that the brain is not separate from the body. And neurologic manifestations of systemic disease is a very big untapped area. And I think it's not going to be surprising for me to see that these drugs can improve many brain parameters and possibly even neuroinflammation. We don't know, but we certainly need to study this.Eric Topol (42:15):Yeah, it's interesting because statins had been tried for multiple sclerosis, I think maybe not with very clear cut benefit effects, but here you have a new class of drugs which eventually are going to be in pills and not just one receptor but triple receptor, much more potent than what we're seeing in the clinic today. And you wonder if we're onto an anti-inflammatory for the brain and body that could help in this. I mean, we have a crisis here with Long Covid in POTS without a remedy, without adequate resources that are being dedicated to the clinical trials that are so vital to execute and find treatments. And that's just one candidate of many. I mean, obviously there's so many possible ones on the list. So if you could design studies now based on your extraordinary rich experience with Long Covid and POTS, what would you go after right now? What do you think is the thing that's, would it be to evaluate more of these noninvasive, non-pharmacologic treatments like the vagal nerve stimulation, or are there particular drugs that you find intriguing?Svetlana Blitshteyn (43:33):Well, a few years ago we published a case series of patients with severe POTS and nothing helped them, but they improved significantly and some even made close to recovery improvement and were able to return to their careers because they were treated with immunotherapy. So the paper is a subcutaneous immunoglobulin and plasmapheresis and the improvement was remarkable. I say there was one physician there who could not start her residency. She got sick in medical school and could not start her residency due to severe POTS and no amount of beta blockers, Midodrine or Florinef helped her get out the house and out of bed. And therefore, sheer luck, she was able to get subcutaneous immunoglobulin and she improved significantly, finished her residency and is now a practicing physician. So I think when we have these cases, it's important to bring them to scientific community. And I think I'm very excited that hopefully soon we're going to have trials of immunotherapy and immunomodulating treatment options for patients with Long Covid and hopefully POTS in general, I believe in novel, but also repurposed, repurposed treatment.Svetlana Blitshteyn (45:01):IVIG has been used for decades, so it's not a new medication. And contrary to popular belief, it's actually quite safe. It is expensive, it's a blood product, but we are very familiar with it in medicine and neurology. So I think we have to look forward to everything. And as I tell my patients, I'm always aggressive with medications when they come to me and their doctor said something like, well, let's see, it's going to go away on its own or keep doing your salt and fluids intake or wear compression sucks. Well, they're already doing it. It's not helping. And now it's a good time to try everything we have. And I would like to have more. I would like to have immunotherapy available. I would like to have immunosuppressants even tried potentially, and maybe we'll be able to try medication for possible viral persistence. Let's see how that works out. We have other inflammatory modalities out there that can potentially give us the tools. You see, I think being that it's a multifactorial disorder, that I don't think it's going to be one thing for everyone. We need to have a toolbox where we're going to choose what's best for your specific case because when we talk about Long Covid, we have to remember there are many different phenotypes under that umbrella.A Serious MatterEric Topol (46:40):Now, before we wrap up, I mean I guess I wanted to emphasize how there are clinicians out there who discount Long Covid in POTS. They think it's something that is a figment of imagination. Now, on the other hand, you and I especially, you know that people are totally disabled. Certain days they can't even get out of bed, they can't get back to their work, their life. And this can go on and on as we've been discussing. So can you set it straight about, I mean, you are seeing these people every day. What do you have to say to our fellow colleague physicians who tend to minimize and say, this is extremely rare, if it even exists, and that these people have some type of psychiatric problem. And it's really, it's distressing of course, but could you speak to that?Svetlana Blitshteyn (47:39):Absolutely. So as I always say, Long Covid is not a psychiatric or psychological disorder, and it's also not a functional neurologic disorder. Now, having said that, as I just mentioned, brain is not separate from the body. And neurologic manifestations of systemic disease are numerous. We just had a paper out on neurologic manifestations of mast cell activation syndrome. So certainly some patients will develop psychiatric manifestations and some patients will develop major depression, anxiety, OCD or functional neurologic disorder. But those are complications of systemic disease, meaning that you cannot diagnose a patient with anxiety and send them off to a psychologist or a psychiatrist without diagnosing POTS and treating it. And in many cases, when you approach an underlying systemic disorder with the right medications, like dysautonomia for example, all of the symptoms including psychological and psychiatric, tend to improve as well. And certainly, there is going to be a small subset of Long Covid patients whose primary problem is psychiatric.Svetlana Blitshteyn (49:01):And I think that's totally fine. That is not to say that all Long Covid is psychiatric. Some will have significant psychiatric manifestations. I mean, there are cases of post Covid psychosis and autoimmune encephalitis and all kinds of psychiatric problems that people may develop, but I think we can't really stratify well, this is physiologic and this word functional that I'm not a fan of. This is physiologic as we see it on MRI. But here, because we don't see anything on MRI, it means you are fine and can just exercise your way out of it. So I think with this Long Covid, hopefully we'll get answers as to the pathophysiology, but also most importantly, hopefully we'll get these therapies that millions of people before Covid pandemic were looking for.Eric Topol (50:02):Well, I just want to thank you because you were onto this well over 10, 15 years before there was such a thing as Covid, you've dedicated your career to this. These are some of the most challenging patients to try to help and has to be vexing, that you can't get their symptoms resolved no less the underlying problem. And we're indebted to you, Svetlana, because you've really been ahead of the curve here. You were writing a patient book before there were such things as patient activists in Long Covid, as we've seen, which have been so many of the heroes of this whole problem. But thank you for all the work you do. We'll continue to follow. We learned from you about POTS and Long Covid from your work and really appreciate everything you've done. Thank you.Svetlana Blitshteyn (50:58):Thank you so much, Eric, for having me. As I said, it's a great honor for me to be here. Remarkable, amazing. And thank you for all this work that you're doing and being an advocate for our field because we always need great champions to help us move forward in these complicated disorders.********************************The Ground Truths newsletters and podcasts are all free, open-access, without ads.Voluntary paid subscriptions all go to support Scripps Research. Many thanks for that—they greatly helped fund our summer internship programs for 2023 and 2024.Thanks to my producer Jessica Nguyen and Sinjun Balabanoff tor audio and video support at Scripps ResearchNote: you can select preferences to receive emails about newsletters, podcasts, or all I don't want to bother you with an email for content that you're not interested in. Get full access to Ground Truths at erictopol.substack.com/subscribe

Hi all.  It is Beth here.  I have Scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease. I was diagnosed just 8 months ago in September 2023 after 3-5 years of trying to figure out all of my vague symptoms.  I am the Master of Ceremonies for this event and I am inviting you to join me for the National Scleroderma 5k walk/run:  "Stepping Out to Cure Scleroderma". It is on Saturday, June 8th, 2024 from 8-11 am at Liberty Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. I am using my voice as both a doctor and a patient to raise awareness of a bigger issue:Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune disease, but autoimmune diseases are COMMON. They are underrecognized.  They difficult to diagnose and treat. Early recognition is key to preventing disability and unnecessary suffering.There are over 100 autoimmune diseases. Some autoimmune diseases are rare but there are a LOT of very common ones like Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus.  Even diseases that are not “known as” autoimmune disorders are autoimmune in nature —Type 1 diabetes, Celiac disease, Guillain Barre syndrome, Inflammatory bowel disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis (the most COMMON cause of hypothyroidism). Taken altogether, 1 in 15 people has an autoimmune disease. Alone we are rare. Together, we are everywhere. Walks like this are meant to help people feel less alone by being surrounded by others who are like them. On June 8th, we walk to raise awareness and support for Scleroderma.  AND every day, we can share our stories and support one another as an autoimmune community that includes over 50 million people in the United States. Please come walk/run with us if you or someone you know lives with an autoimmune disease.To register for the walk:1.           Go to https://scleroderma.org/steppingout/2.           Under “Upcoming 2024 Stepping out to Cure Scleroderma Walks”, select the “Rocky Mountain Chapter” 3.           Click on Salt Lake City, June 8th, 20244.           Please join MY TEAM! Click on “Join a team” and enter my team name: “Phoenix Rising”. Why? A phoenix is a mythical bird that lives for 500 years. When it comes time to die, the phoenix bursts into flames and then rises from its own flames to be reborn. Autoimmune diseases are disorders of inflammation – fire in your body. That fire can consume you or you can be reborn from it. Please share!

Dr. David Olshine and his son Andrew Olshine join Wade Joye to discuss the stories behind Dr. Olshine's book “The Mystery of Silence” and Andrew's book “Fearless as a Honey Badger, Brave Like a Wolverine.” This episode explores way to embrace seasons when God seems silent, how to slow down long enough to listen to what God is already saying to you, how to persevere in suffering, and what David and Andrew have learned about trusting God through Andrew's diagnosis of Down's Syndrome and his recent battle with Guillain-Barre syndrome. Get Dr. Olshine's book, “The Mystery of Silence”: https://a.co/d/b0e5Yb0 Get Andrew's book, “Fearless as a Honey Badger, Brave Like a Wolverine" https://www.fearlessandbravebook.com/ Get your copy of Wade's book, “This Dream Is Not For You” : https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/wade-joye/this-dream-is-not-for-you/9781546004790/?lens=worthy To find out more about The Joyful Leader Mentorship, visit https://www.wadejoye.com/thejoyfulleader Download your free prayer and discernment guide, “10 Questions To Clarify Where God Is Leading And How To Take The Next Step” at https://www.wadejoye.com/discover-Gods-dream-for-your-life Download Wade's free guide “7 Rhythms to Renew The Health Of Your Soul” at https://www.wadejoye.com/7-rhythms-to-renew-the-health-of-your-soul-7781250b-51b5-427c-a19c-e42e3866309a Subscribe to Wade's YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@wadejoye Find out your specific dreamer type by taking Wade's free, 90 second quiz: The Dreamer Quiz https://www.wadejoye.com/dreamerquiz Sign up for Wade's weekly email filled with encouragement and practical applications of spiritual rhythms https://www.wadejoye.com/the-weekly-reset-opt-in Follow Wade on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wadejoye/

From the raw catharsis of navigating Guillain-Barre syndrome, wartime battle injuries, and childhood abuse to the familial bonds forged through comradery, this conversation is a testament to the resilience and warmth of the human spirit. My guests, Bryan, Ty, Lance, and I peel back the layers of personal challenges and triumphs that have led us to where we are today. We share the evolution of a YouTube channel and podcast, born from the need to connect and heal, that became a central hub for the SFH community—a gathering of individuals determined to support one another through thick and thin. It's a tapestry of stories, with threads of honest, unfiltered dialogue interwoven throughout. Discover the profound impact of a simple 'Fuck Cancer' shirt initiative, the strength symbolized by the EKG logo, and the power of a Still Fucking Here tee empowering individuals. We recount moments that define us, including the intense camaraderie within the military, the influence of family dynamics in shaping our worldview, and how these experiences instill a sense of duty that extends beyond service. Our tales of youthful rebellion, memories from Camp Pendleton, and the highs and lows of military life will transport you through a spectrum of emotions.Ending on a note of hope and solidarity, we invite you to join our tightly-knit crew, whether that's through road trip stories that end in laughter or parenting discussions that reflect a deeper societal conversation. We emphasize the profound impact of community, and how vital it is to have a network that's there for you, especially when the rest of the world seems to spin on without notice. Together, we're planning events with a purpose, aiming to uplift and provide a hand-up, not just hand-outs. So, grab your headphones and settle in for a journey of laughter, empathy, and the reminder that you're never truly walking alone.https://www.wearesfh.com/https://www.instagram.com/wearesfh/https://www.facebook.com/WeAreSFH/ Support the Show.Thank you everyone for the support. Don't forget to leave a rating on whatever podcast app you listen to this on. It helps get this suggested to others with similar interests. Podcast SponsorsSKIRMESHhttps://www.instagram.com/skirmesh_airsoft/https://play.skirmesh.net/public/homeJACKAL TACTICALhttps://www.instagram.com/jackal_tactical_airsoft/https://www.otherworldmilsim.com/ Watch all of our podcasts hereYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@TriFectaAirsoft/videos AnchorFMhttps://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/01jFx7ebrxb Rumblehttps://rumble.com/c/TriFectaAirsoftMerchhttps://my-store-e7676e.creator-spring.comSub to YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMpG3H_J70S_H8TlI9Onog?sub_confirmation=1

Kim Rahir is a journalist turned health coach and weightlifting competitor. Kim's story is more than about becoming a competitive weightlifter later in life. In this episode, Dr. Armstrong and Corbin Bruton talk with Kim about her journey, resiliency, her experience with Guillain-Barre syndrome and multiple sclerosis, empowering women through heavy lifting, and muscling out of adversity to… age well.Learn more about Kim Rahir and her accomplishments at: https://kimrahir.com/or follow her on Facebook and Instagram.Support the showHave questions you want answered and topics you want discussed on the Aging Well Podcast? Send us an email at agingwell.podcast@gmail.com or record your question for us to use in an upcoming episode:https://www.speakpipe.com/AgingWellPodcast

Guest Drew Outstanding, a Retired Army Non-Commissioned Officer Combat Veteran, details how he was mandated by the National Guard, as well as a company under federal contract status, and a State University to receive COVID-19 shots. Within two weeks of the second shot, he was paralyzed, diagnosed with Guillain-Barre' Syndrome (GBS), and he has spent the last two years fighting to relearn all body and system functions one step at a time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guest Drew Outstanding, a Retired Army Non-Commissioned Officer Combat Veteran, details how he was mandated by the National Guard, as well as a company under federal contract status, and a State University to receive COVID-19 shots. Within two weeks of the second shot, he was paralyzed, diagnosed with Guillain-Barre' Syndrome (GBS), and he has spent the last two years fighting to relearn all body and system functions one step at a time.

Episode #9: In this episode, Craig shares his unique and integrative approach to healing, providing hope and insights for others as we delve into the remarkable story of Craig Andrianos and his victorious battle against CIDP (Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy). Discover the power of holistic healing as Craig takes us through his personal experience, detailing the various elements that played a pivotal role in his recovery. From conventional medical treatments to complementary therapies, nutritional adjustments, and mindfulness practices, Craig's story is a testament to the effectiveness of a comprehensive and integrative approach to health. Our conversation explores not only the physical aspects of CIDP but also the mental and emotional components that are often integral to the healing process. Craig opens up about the support he received from healthcare professionals, the importance of a positive mindset, and the role of lifestyle modifications in achieving balance and well-being. Whether you or someone you know is navigating the challenges of CIDP or other chronic conditions, this episode offers valuable insights and practical strategies for incorporating integrative healing into your own life. Join us as we celebrate resilience, determination, and the holistic journey to health with Craig Andrianos. Subscribe now to "How I Healed It" and be inspired by stories of hope, resilience, and integrative healing. 00:00 - Coming Up… 01:19 - Introduction 02:10 - What is CIDP? 14:23 - How To Go Vegan - Whats your motivation? 17:24 - Fully Raw 22:34 - Day in the life of eating as  No Egg Craig 24:24 - Fun Vegan Food 29:56 - Medication vs Diet 35:54 - Youtube to help others 44:12 - Healing Wisdom --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howihealedit/message

Have you ever wondered what it's really like for someone to make it through medical school?In this episode, Dr. Amanda Dudak, MD shares her personal rollercoaster – the ups, the downs, and everything in between. From dealing with money matters to facing unexpected health problems, her story is a real, raw look at the challenges med students might not always talk about.Join us as we unpack the grit, resilience, and camaraderie that shape the less-explored side of the journey to becoming a doctor.In this episode:[00:01:00] Dr. Dudak discusses the importance of highlighting unique experiences in medical school applications.[00:02:00] Dr. Dudak's focus on underserved populations and social determinants of health.[00:03:00] Variety of experiences in women's health, including volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center and Planned Parenthood.[00:04:00] Dr. Dudak's desire for a medical education that acknowledges differences in backgrounds and teaches navigating the healthcare system.[00:05:00] Dr. Dudak's atypical financial situation and decision-making process for choosing a medical school.[00:06:00] Balancing financial considerations and personal fit in choosing a medical school.[00:07:00] Challenges faced during medical school, including health issues and the financial burden.[00:08:00] Juggling responsibilities as a single parent and medical student; getting support for her sister.[00:09:00] Dr. Dudak's sickness during the first year of medical school and struggles with getting a diagnosis.[00:10:00] Taking a leave of absence due to health issues, facing challenges with the insurance company.[00:11:00] Diagnosis of CIDP (chronic form of Guillain-Barre syndrome) and the struggle to get medication approved.[00:12:00] Difficulties in getting appropriate treatment and the impact on daily life.[00:13:00] Returning to medical school with physical disabilities and navigating practical challenges.[00:14:00] Meeting with the Dean's office to discuss the logistics of returning to medical school.[00:27:00] Discussing challenges faced during rotations, accommodation needs, and support received.[00:28:00] Reflecting on the value of speaking to people who have faced similar challenges.[00:29:00] Sharing experiences with attendings and the importance of solidarity from peers.[00:30:00] Discussing the impact of accommodations on rotation experiences and evaluations.[00:31:00] Reflecting on the support received from the school and peers, and the impact on the overall experience.Key TakeawayDr. Amanda Dudak's story is a powerful reminder that challenges are a part of everyone's journey, and it's crucial to embrace diversity in medical education. Her experiences highlight the need for support, empathy, and adaptability within the healthcare system. As we wrap up, let's use Dr. Dudak's journey as a starting point for conversations about including and understanding the varied paths that individuals take to become healthcare professionals.Want to keep the convo going? Join our FB group!https://www.facebook.com/groups/sevosistasHave a burning question? A concern? A controversy or issue you want to hear covered? We got you, boo! Leave a voice message at 202 743 1404. We will play your recording on the podcast and address your topic (if you don't want it played just say it in the voicemail, we will still cover your topic!). This podcast is for you and we want to include you on this journey! Hope to hear from you soon

The largest COVID vaccine study to date has found an increase in heart and brain disorders. Shocking, we know. The peer-reviewed study found increases in myocarditis, pericarditis, and Guillain-Barre syndrome among those who took the vaccine. That's strange, because we were saying that two years ago and we were labeled anti-vax conspiracy theorists. We were suppressed and removed from social media platforms. The gaslighting, blatant deception, and lack of accountability are staggering. In politics, Trump drops another list of potential VP picks. Biden's poll numbers are continuing to slide. "The View" weighs in, and Alabama is in the spotlight after a controversial embryo law. Rob Reiner's latest film flops. And we decide that Waffle House should open more locations, like on boats at the lake and in the middle of Home Depot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The largest COVID vaccine study to date has found an increase in heart and brain disorders. Shocking, we know. The peer-reviewed study found increases in myocarditis, pericarditis, and Guillain-Barre syndrome among those who took the vaccine. That's strange, because we were saying that two years ago and we were labeled anti-vax conspiracy theorists. We were suppressed and removed from social media platforms. The gaslighting, blatant deception, and lack of accountability are staggering. In politics, Trump drops another list of potential VP picks. Biden's poll numbers are continuing to slide. "The View" weighs in, and Alabama is in the spotlight after a controversial embryo law. Rob Reiner's latest film flops. And we decide that Waffle House should open more locations, like on boats at the lake and in the middle of Home Depot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blackened American History Part 5 - Ethically and Educationally NegligentWebsite: http://www.battle4freedom.comNetwork: https://www.mojo50.comStreaming: https://www.rumble.com/Battle4Freedomhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13100353/Slipping-EV-demand-forces-lithium-facilities-pause-production.htmlAmerica's EV boom goes bust! Lithium and nickel producers begin mass layoffs and pause multi-billion-dollar projects as US says no to electric car pushLithium mines have closed and employees are laid off as demands for EVs dropMore Americans turned to hybrid vehicles last year than EVshttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13100755/Largest-Covid-vaccine-study-finds-shots-linked-small-increased-risk-neurological-blood-heart-disorders-extremely-rare.htmlLargest Covid vaccine study ever finds shots are linked to small increased risk of neurological, blood and heart disorders - but they are still extremely rareThey had doubled risk of Guillain-Barre, 3.7 times higher risk of brain swellingLargest study of its kind looked for health conditions in 99 million peoplehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13101355/genetic-variants-prone-disease-cancer-study.htmlNIH study uncovers 275MILLION entirely new genetic variants that may explain why some Americans are prone to diseases like cancer and diabetesResearchers in $3billion NIH-led study analyzed genomes of 245,000 AmericansAt least four million of the new variants are thought to affect people's healthhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13083325/Six-cutting-edge-technologies-reverse-global-warming-dumping-WHALE-POOP-sea-engineering-CLOUDS-block-sun.htmlSix cutting-edge technologies that could reverse global warming: From dumping WHALE POOP in the sea to engineering CLOUDS to block out sunExperiments underway use rocks, fake whale excrement and clouds Experts warn that some of the technologies could backfire - or spark warhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13098111/China-hack-infrastructure-FBI-warning.htmlFBI director warns China's computer attacks are now at a 'scale greater than we'd seen before' as vulnerable critical infrastructure remains at high-risk to be targetedFBI director Christopher Wray gave the grave warning as intelligence chiefs and politicians met at the Munich annual security conference on SundayThe wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East were the focus of the conference - but Wray urged leaders not to lose sight of a subtler menaceHe said Beijing's plan to secretly plant technology inside the US critical infrastructure has become a significant threat to national securityhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/wellness-us/nutrition/article-13101757/red-wine-heart-benefits-myth-experts.htmlWhy red wine really ISN'T good for your heart, experts trash 30 years of research on benefits, saying it's 'hugely flawed'Red wine is linked to high blood pressure, irregular heart beat, and cancer Compounds in wine believed to be beneficial have never been studied in humanshttps://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/The Vladimir Putin Interview

Join host Tamra Andress on The F.I.T. in Faith Podcast for a profound conversation with special guest Michael Guthrie. In this enlightening episode, Tamra and Michael delve deep into the topics of faith, leadership, and overcoming adversity. Discover Michael's incredible journey of faith, beginning with his introduction to Christ through Young Life during high school. Hear how his best friend's exemplary Christ-like behavior left a lasting impact on his life. After college, Michael entered the world of real estate, determined to conduct business with integrity and faith at the forefront. Four years ago, Michael faced a significant health crisis when he was paralyzed by Guillain-Barre syndrome for 17 days. This life-altering experience deepened his faith and provided him with a fresh perspective on life. Out of this adversity, he founded his blog, "Thankful in All Things," where he processes the invaluable lessons learned. As a leader of nearly 100 agents, Michael emphasizes servant leadership, striving to ensure that each person feels genuinely cared for. Despite facing challenges, such as individuals leaving his company after his investments in them, Michael focuses on loving God and others without attachment to outcomes. Michael also shares insights on living out one's faith in the workplace. He emphasizes the importance of being open about your beliefs while maintaining a careful and thoughtful approach. With the advent of social media, there are now more opportunities than ever to share devotional thoughts and point people towards God. In a culture that often pressures individuals to conform, Michael discusses ways to stand firm in your faith when you find yourself in the minority. He suggests asking for permission to share biblical perspectives when people inquire about your life. Throughout this enlightening conversation, Michael underscores the significance of abiding in the Word to live it out, remaining steadfast when faced with challenges, and clinging to the Vine. His life serves as a beacon, attracting others to the godly fruit that faith can produce. Don't miss this inspiring episode as Michael Guthrie shares his wisdom on faith, leadership, and the power of perseverance. Tune in and be motivated to live a life that shines God's light into the darkest corners. About Michael: Meet Michael Guthrie. Michael is a CEO/Broker at Howard Hanna/Roy Wheeler Realty Co. in Charlottesville, VA. He is also a Real Estate GRI Instructor and motivational speaker. Author of Thankful In All Things (www.thankfulinallthings.com) "Lessons learned from my journey through adversity." Listen as Michael shares about his battle with Guillain- Barre Syndrome, a rapid-onset muscle weakness (and paralysis) caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system. Be inspired by his faith and outlook on life. Where to Find Michael: Www.caringbridge.org/visit/michaelguthrie thankfulinallthings.com Where to Find Tamra: ⁉️ Have a faith & or biz question you'd like to have me answer? Feel free to write it, along with your honest review on Apple Podcasts - I'll share you and give you the answer in an upcoming episode!

Le syndrome de Guillain-Barré peut entraîner des faiblesses musculaires, des douleurs ou, dans les cas les plus graves, une paralysie des muscles des jambes, des bras ou des muscles respiratoires. S'il survient la majeure partie du temps après une infection, on ne connait pas précisément sa cause. Quels sont les symptômes caractéristiques permettant de reconnaitre le syndrome de Guillain-Barre ?  Pourquoi les patients diagnostiqués sont-ils souvent hospitalisés ? Après quel type d'infection peut survenir le syndrome de Guillain Barre ? Y a-t-il des distinctions d'âge pour les patients ? Dr Clémence Marois, neurologue à l'Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière à Paris

Show Notes and Transcript June Slater is someone who saw the dangers of uncontrolled immigration and spoke out.  She is an accidental media voice who now speaks common sense to her 121 K followers on X and delivers truths on GB News.  The problem is that many of us see the collapse of our communities and societies but keep quiet.  But June is someone who cannot hold her tongue and says what many of us are thinking but too afraid to say.  She joins us to look at our failing institutions and ask, can we ever trust them again?  Parliament and Police, local government, courts and education have always held our country together.  But when they mock and ridicule the public and play them for fools then that balance and trust collapses.  June highlights the areas in which our previously trusted institutions have failed us and asks whether we can ever put our faith in them again. June Slater is a retired businesswoman who lives in the North-West of England.  June has been campaigning for Brexit since 2016 when she joined Vote Leave's campaign in Blackburn.  Since then she has built a huge following as a social and political commentator on her social media channels.  Her no-nonsense, straightforward approach is a refreshing and invigorating change to the uni-party Westminster Politics. Connect with June on X...https://x.com/juneslater17?s=20 Interview recorded 7.11.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Support Hearts of Oak by purchasing one of our fancy T-Shirts.... https://heartsofoak.org/shop/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) June Slater. It is wonderful to have you with us today. Thanks so much for your time. (June Slater) Thank you. Thank you. The invitation, it's very kind of you. No, not at all. It's always good talking to people. Actually, the fun part is talking to people who you don't really know and you see online, you see on TV, and of course people can follow you @JuneSlater17 is your Twitter handle. And certainly you popped up on my feed a lot. Maybe for the viewers, certainly for our US viewers who may not have come across you, June, you're UK based obviously and being on GB News, it may not cross over the pond stateside. Do you want to just give us a minute, just your background or how you've got to where you are and then we'll get on to the topic, which is can we ever trust our institutions again, but tell us a little bit about yourself first. Okay, I'm a retired businesswoman and my only intention was after retirement when I was about 47 was to fill my house with rescue dogs and just have a nice time. Running a second home in Austria, travelling there with the dogs, that was it. I knew nothing about politics, never took any notice of it, didn't affect my business life. I just got on with what I wanted to do. And then we got attacked a couple of times at the Channel Tunnel with migrants. When I say attacked, not directly, they were trying to break into trucks, and we ended up in a wrong queue in our rather low -slung Mercedes CLS, which seemed to be dwarfed by these huge trucks. And a guy jumped off the back and came towards the car, and I was mesmerized for a minute. He was huge and he had something that looked like a crowbar in his hand trying to get in the truck, but it didn't work. He was angry and we were next in line. And I just said to Dave, Jesus Christ, get up the hard shoulder, just go. And as he came towards the car, I had a particularly noisy dog. I had four little dogs in the back, Westies, but one sounded bigger and they were blacked out windows so he couldn't see them. So I let the window down a little bit and my dogs kicked off and he backed away. But as he approached the car, he went up to my passenger window and he went, hey, blondie, he did that? So we drove off up the hard shoulder, which you're not supposed to do, got ourselves together and I wondered who the hell it was. And he said, who do you think it is? And I had no idea about the migrant crisis, hold my hand up. my husband was pretty well versed on what was going on in the world, I was naïve completely. Then another time...  How long ago was that?  2015.  Okay. Then we were traveling on Christmas Day and we did the crossing when we got out the other end at Calais. The whole of the six lanes of motorway was cordoned off. We just drove out sat in a queue and it was on fire with a barricade that the migrants had made with tires and wood and whatever they could find. There was at least, I think, about 80 police vans, riot police. It was terrifying. So again, I just thought we've got to get out of this. We're sitting ducks because these maggots were kind of spreading out and throwing rocks. So we went, we used an entry road for an exit and we just got off the motorway the wrong way and went on the back lanes. I was that nervous, I couldn't fathom me sat nav out to avoid motorways. It kept taking me back to the motorway and obviously we were very nervous about coming across them again. So we drove for about 60 miles without stopping to make sure we're out of the way and that's when I started taking it seriously because I thought this is peacetime. I'm in Europe, I'm just going from my home to my holiday home in the Alps in Austria. I'm going to ski in winter and swim in summer, what the hell's going on? So I started investigating it, lamely at first, then I got more stuck and more stuck in and as I'd always said to my husband, don't involve me in politics because I am like a dog with a bone, I won't let go. So I got more stuck in and I realised that this was a deliberate attempt to disrupt Europe. And it sounded a bit far -fetched. I was in denial when I first found out and I even came off Facebook for a couple of days. I couldn't handle it and then I thought people should know because there were more people like me than like my husband who knew what was going on. He wasn't politically active, he just knew what was going on. He knew something was wrong. So I started telling my friends on Facebook. I have about 1,000 friends on Facebook from real life events working for me or friends from school and I started telling them and I started finding out more about it and then I decided to... I thought Brexit was a good idea to get away from the EU legislation that was allowing them in because the only thing the EU legislation has ever done has been a gateway for cheap labour. It's not free movement of people, it's free movement of cheap labour for Tory backers. Having always voted Conservative, that probably sounds a bit odd, but anyway. So I joined Vote Leave as a volunteer and went out at the weekends and I could see that this business of campaigning with leaflets was a bloody old hat, it wasn't moving with the times and I thought I'm quite a good communicator. I used to have a driving school with a high pass rate because I could communicate information well and I'm quite good at putting complex stuff into simple terms. So I thought, I'll have a go, I'll have a go, because it seemed to me the political bubble deliberately spoke their own language to keep ordinary people out. So I started explaining what Brexit was really about. It wasn't about the pet passport, it wasn't about the e -hicks card, it was not about easy travel, it was certainly not about free movement of people. It was about creating an entity to get everybody roped into it until they were linked like the United States and couldn't get out of it. And then they would come down with the tyrannical version of events because as you know the EU is autocratic not democratic it's anti -democratic it's not just not democratic it's anti -democratic. Because they're creating laws all the time, their MPs, I don't know if your American viewers realise their MPs are told how to vote, they do not get a free vote, they're given a list, votes going every day, they create it a bit like the Roman Empire describing something out every day to you know there's legislation to follow all the time, where democratic societies have generally run with a list of basic requirements, don't murder people, don't rob, don't rape, don't do this and get on with your life. Sadly we seem to be following suit even though we have voted for Brexit. So I turned my page over to public, which scared me to death and I got quite a lot of abuse and I was going to pack up, because Dave said we don't need this in our life, which we didn't, And something, I don't know. Something drove me on because I could see millions of people wanted to know what Brexit was about. So I organised, people kept messaging me, new people I didn't even know, June what does it mean? Because I don't think this EU's any good. So we'd have meetings, I'd say, right, well, you know, little factory workers on the lunch hour or hairdressers, people within, you know, in an engineering shed. So they'd have their sandwiches, get a computer, and we'd have a meeting at like 12 o 'clock, half past 12. So I had little groups of people where I told them what Brexit was really about, and these were people that weren't even going to vote at all in the referendum. And I'm quite proud to say, I think I probably encouraged, I thought it was about 5 ,000, but I think it's more like 15 ,000 people, to vote to Brexit. And that was just, I'd only just started, I'd only had 4 ,000 followers. I didn't do it on purpose, I didn't intend to get a load of followers, I've never asked anybody to follow me, I've never made any money out of it, I've never took a penny off anyone. Twitter give you a bit of money now, 38 quid I've had, so I haven't dined off Twitter, I can assure you. I didn't even touch Twitter because it scared me to death, it looked like a bloody bear pit. So I didn't start Twitter properly till last July, Not this July, just gone the one before because it just looked like a load of aggressive people with avatars and no sodding names. Having a go at each other, I thought I can do without that. Anyway, I just retweeted other people's stuff from 2019. And then I thought, sod it. I didn't know whether my style of vlogging would go down very well with my little short videos that I do, two minutes here and three minutes there. So I did a couple of videos about issues and they were getting 300 ,000 views, one at 900 ,000 views, another had a million. So all of a sudden I went around on Twitter and I'd gone from 6 ,000 followers to 19 ,000 followers to 22 ,000 to 36 ,000 and it grew and grew quite quickly in 12 months. I'm at about 120 I think now. Baring in mind, I'm not a celebrity. I haven't been a former dancer or a football player. I'm just a mush that sees the world is going to hell in a handcart and if we, the people, don't do something about it, we won't get a choice in it soon. Currently we have a choice and that's why I keep going. So that's my background into this. I'm basically a fun -loving person who only joined social media to run a fun group with jokes on. I don't know where that ended up. Now you've become an online voice of reason and GB news, all of that. It's interesting because I knocked on so many doors, did all of that with UKIP and with vote leave. Immigration, obviously, this is a massive failing in our Parliament, which is one institution which I traditionally believed in, accepted, and now many of us are the opposite opinion. But not only immigration, but the COVID tyranny has woken a lot of people up to what is happening in Parliament in Westminster. We've just had the, well, we have the public inquiry, which seems to be the biggest waste of time. But what were you, because immigration, but then you've obviously seen, lived, spoken about the the COVID tyranny and there's no apology, there's no parliamentarian saying we got it wrong, oops, it's just same old, same old. There's one politician, normally the British Parliament has a government and opposition party, that's all part of the government, it's the King's opposition, the King's government. We haven't had any opposition and that always struck me as odd. How come a Labour party is backing up a Tory party? Easy, it's easy to work it out, they're not Tories. Anybody out there who's thinking of voting for the Tories to save them from Labour, you're dreaming pal, you are absolutely dreaming. Oh but Labour are worse, the Tory party have ended up in power in this country for 13 years on the back of a threat that Labour are worse. They're the same, it's the uni-party, nobody's offering anything any different, all roads lead to Rome, the WEF, the W -E -F. Let's just cut the crap about the WEF as some spooky sinister organisation. It's not. It's just a basically glorified chamber of trade that's for the upper echelon in society. It's like your local chamber of trade but for really big hitters. So politicians gravitate towards this set of comedians because if they ever lose their seat, and many of them will. They've somewhere to go, they've rubbed shoulders with people and swapped business cards and, you know, like Chuka Amunna, he's ended up with a top -flight job because he went to the WEF. Sadiq Khan, that atrocious man, he hangs around there like a bad smell in a gent's toilet. He's always there. Boris wouldn't allow his ministers and MPs to go to the Davos conference. Strange bloke, Boris, very strange. I think what we've got to look at is, don't be afraid of them. The only difference between the WEF and you and me, they have more money. That's it. They are not smarter, they are not cleverer. Some of them have ulterior motives, many of them have, and a lot of it boils down to one old favourite, profit. Now, some weirdos that are part of the WEF want to control humanity. Well, the Nazis tried that in two world wars and there's lots of rumours about a lot of overhang from that. The European Union was basically a Nazi plan devised after the Second World War to take over Europe through the banking system because President Eisenhower stitched Germany up into to an agreement, a treaty, that doesn't expire until 2099. And that is, they're not allowed to have an aggressive army. They can only have a peacekeeping force. It's a treaty. They're a vassal state to the US. And a lot of things that are going on, everything that's happened since Black Lives Matter is interconnected. Every single event, I don't care what it is, it's all interconnected, to disrupt and destabilize. Because it seems strange to me in America, all the states that have the disruption with Black Lives Matter were basically Democrat states. And lots of property deals have been done since in these areas that got trashed. And a lot of people have made money. I mean, basically, you seem to have four crime families running in America. Good God, how can these people even get up in the morning and show their faces? And I'm sorry, some of you may be offended by this, but if any of you in the States are actually thinking Joe Biden won an election, I think you should change your tablets, because there's absolutely no way that man won. Absolutely no way he won. He fiddled it. That's my opinion and currently I'm allowed to have it, but sometime in the future I'll probably won't. So my worry for the future is, wow, if the leaders of the free world, can engineer an election, where a dribbling man who can't string a sentence together, who has to hold a cue card up to talk to someone who he's interviewing. If the free world can end up in those hands, what hope is there for the rest of us? Because it seems to me, the only thing I can work out is it's like the Clinton, Obama cabal behind it, because no way Joe Bedridden, that's my name for him, is running America. Absolutely no sodding way. So all of a sudden America's... Trump, it doesn't matter whether you like him, people sadly still judge him on his comb over and his tan. I mean, I get that. So he didn't want to go to war with anyone. He had Jews talking to Arabs. He even got North Korea down off the shelf. What was your problem with that man? He increased manufacturing in the US. Hello, are you listening to all this? This is a list of stuff and he never even took a wage. Now you've got a crime family who's got a a coke snorting son who's been in and out of bed with underage people. That's what it looks like on some places, I could be wrong, happy to stand corrected. Who's had everything bad that he's done covered up. They're dealing with Ukraine, where money laundering, organ harvesting, and Christ knows what else is going on. And this is the family that's running America. Wow, you are in a mess. You are in a serious mess. Buddy-ing up to China, and then you've got Russia. This is what kills me. Russia. Oh, be afraid of Russia. Oh, scary. Bogey man. Bad man. Russia man bad. Zelensky good. Bollocks. Bollocks. Absolute bollocks. Zelensky won his ticket on a peace agreement. He said he'd signed a peace agreement with Russia. That's what Russia expected. And what's he called? Robert Kennedy. He tells you quite openly in one of his interviews that once Zelensky got in, the neo-cons nobbled him. We don't know how, but they nobbled him and he changed tack. There should have been a peace agreement, the Minsk accord. It was never signed. And then what they did after the war broke out, they got Boris Johnson like a sodding lapdog to go across and scupper the peace talks for the Minsk Accord too, which was basically going to stop war again. What I've noticed with warmongering people like the Biden administration, they'll risk anybody's son but their own. They're always fighting on someone else's soil and it's always their people. It's their nation that'll get ripped to shreds. It's their people that are dying on their own soil. it's disgusting what's going on. So we're all told this is a great war saving democracy and freedom and if you can't see through the fact that during a war this lunatic has never been out of khaki clothing yet never been to a battle. You've got Richard Branson turning up for a visit in the middle of a war dressed in white. You've got Boris Johnson going. you've got celebrities, you've got Vogue magazine going with a full film crew, hello, that isn't what happens in war. Usually people are too scared to go to a country that's at war. You've got refugees coming here that are paid for by the Department of Work and Pensions, paid to go home when they want to sort things out, like one was going home because she had a bad tenant in her house. So I'm thinking to myself, hang on a minute, if you've got a tenant in your house back in Ukraine, weren't you in your house? What are you doing over here? You've got a tenant in, you're making money out of it. So obviously the house is standing. This doesn't detract from genuine grief, genuine injury and genuine death that's going on in Ukraine right now. They're using that country. It's a patsy country run by corruption from outside forces. That's my opinion. Again, happy to stand corrected if I'm wrong. So we've got all this going on. And you've got a set of people in the British Parliament, the mother of all parliaments, who are rancid in corruption. It's a den of vice as far as I can see it. There are people there, there's an MP whose sister is vaccine injured, she's got Guillain -Barre syndrome. You've got two male MPs that have vaccine injured wives. You've got three that have minor vaccine injuries and nobody's saying a word. Shh! Don't say anything. Don't complain about it. So you've got a Parliament and this is how people have got to wake up. In Britain we have the National Health Service. It's atrocious. It's not fit. It's not fit. It's absolutely... You go on about the tiered system in America. Oh my God, you should see the NHS in Britain. How can the public roll the sleeve up, accept an injection that's brand new on the back of the government are bothered about you, the government really care? How can they do that when during that period the very self -same government took 5 ,000 beds away in the NHS, there aren't enough ambulances, there aren't enough paramedics. People are sitting in a hospital after they've gone because of an episode, whatever's gone on, serious episode, sat in soiled pyjamas in corridors waiting to be seen. And yet they can find an interpreter to come immediately for someone who needs attention, that can't speak English. That's a side issue. The real issue is common sense people never lose sight of that. You can't go to university for it and all you need to do is question the obvious. Right, if the government cared about us, surely in a growing population the best they could have done, even for a pandemic, would be to grow our national health, to have more doctors, to have more beds, not take 5 ,000 away when you've already taken 15 ,000 away from us in 2017. That doesn't add up to me, that isn't care, that is cost cutting. Yeah, following on from that, because we've seen, and the one MP that is standing up is Andrew Bridgen, we've had him on here twice, I think, before, but not only on what's happening with COVID on vaccine harms, but also his latest 10 minute bill is on the WHO pandemic treaty, looking at that, and that seems to be a follow on from COVID. Everyone is scared to death, therefore this is now the solution. And it is, again, it is, when you say unbelievable, at one point it would been unbelievable to think our politicians would hand over power but they did it with Brussels, with the EU and the WHO, the UN body, I guess is another step in that process of handing all power over. Well basically it's muted any benefit we could have had from Brexit because they're just taking power away, they're taking sovereignty away from us now through the back door. They tried it with the EU and we voted to leave. You see two things happened that should never have happened. Trump won and, Brexit won. So I got a lot of stick because I said that Agenda 2030, Agenda 2021, 2021 being the century not the year, were nothing to worry about when I was blogging at the time and people said oh you got that wrong, you got that wrong. No I didn't, no I didn't get it wrong because at that point we got Trump in and we got Brexit. So those two issues should never ever have affected us because as a country we were ring fenced with our own sovereignty to say back away from the vehicle we don't want this shit in our lives, we're not interested in your depopulation, we're not interested in your smart cities, we're going to get on with being the best we can be. We're British, we've got the greatest global reach of any member state of the EU, people forget that, we ski down the ski slopes, we sit on their beaches, we buy their wine, we drive their cars, we wear their clothes. What do they buy from us? Not very much. We are their best customer and they have basically treated us appallingly. Nothing needed to change. No legislation. They could have eased us out of there. We all trade the same. The fact is they didn't want us to. They didn't want Brexit to be made easy because other people would want to leave. And now it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter about Brexit. The only saving grace we've got with Brexit is that during the tyranny of the last three years as they forced 40 ,000 care workers out of their job in an industry, may I say, that's already short -staffed, that has malnutrition in British care homes, malnutrition, and they forced 40 ,000 people out of their jobs that hadn't done anything wrong other than say, I don't want the vaccine and then the together declaration Alan Miller's lot, and which I'm a kind of ambassador for which means I don't know I speak out for them and, nurses 100 ,000 lobbied the government to stop the same happening to the NHS. The government were already shipping people in from abroad that can't speak English. Nurses, how do we know how they're trained? They're coming in from far -flung places to treat people. There's a geriatric hospital where people are wandering around with useless face masks on, where elderly people who are already confused with Alzheimer's and God knows what else, who also are in there with ailments. I've got foreign nurses who don't even know what a bedpan is. Dear God Almighty what's happened to this country. So we've got that going on in the background but we fought back, now had we been in the EU we couldn't have fought back, would have had to do what the EU said and I know this from my neighbour in Austria and in the Alps. We'd sold our house in 2019 but still in touch because we were very very good friends and they had to get vaccinated but to be fair they did have a get out clause if you could prove you got positive antibodies from having the infection you didn't need to have the vaccine so you could go around your business for six months and then you needed another blood test because my neighbour did that. Now the thing is that's quite a good option. But it's not such a good option when you think, in Europe, after the Second World War, they opted for a system where you had to show your papers to get in a restaurant, to get in a supermarket. They could stop you on the street. When is somebody going to wake up and say that that is really seriously bad news? So unfortunately or fortunately I should say we're not in the EU so we could say, no we're not having it, we don't want this and we had a pivotal moment, you know the Tiananmen Square where the guy stood there a little single man in front of the tank, we have that in Britain people didn't notice it, but that's what we had and we had a doctor, a lung and heart specialist, who was Dr, I can't remember his name now, Stephen, I'd seen him in WhatsApp groups, I can't remember his surname. He was live on Sky TV, they couldn't edit it, with Sajid Javid, the then Health Minister at the time, where he said, have you had your vaccine? And he said, no, I don't need it, I've had COVID. And he said it quietly. Stephen James, Dr. Stephen James, that was a Tiananmen Square moment because they couldn't edit it. Because the big thing that's happening to us now is that media, the stuff isn't getting out. So you have to come on places like this and you have to go on my channel, you know, Twitter page. And it's not enough because there are millions of people out there who only trust news from the telly. It has to come from the telly. If it hasn't come to in the house from the telly, it's not news. So when that happened, whoa, that didn't half put the brakes on and it made Sajid Javid look like the uninformed twit that he is on health issues. He's a banker for God's sake. We've got a doctor, Liam Fox, why didn't they make him health minister? He knew that what was going on was wrong. He would have been a much better candidate. Don't get me going on, please don't get me going on Matt Hancock. No, no, no, we'll not even go Matt Hancock, it's a programme series in themselves. There's Parliament absolute collapse, public trust, an old -time loan institution and people no longer give a damn who, and you're right, red and blue is just the same difference. But I'm curious to have your thoughts on the monarchy because I grew up as a monarchist and our American friends will maybe mock the monarchy but I always saw as giving stability and the Queen being certainly a rock in terms of faith and that privacy, never seeking the fame. Complete change with King Charles, obviously tight connections with the WEF and I also read that he's going to give the opening COP28 speech which is the UN climate change body. How do you, again I think a lot of people have lost faith in that institution with that huge change. What are your thoughts on the role that King Charles now plays? Well he's not his mother. His mother kept out of everything and generally speaking in a democracy if you've got a constitution, with a royal family that's the head of the constitution, it's usually a safer place to be and it has been. That's changed. That stopped when she died because he came to power. You want to go look what's happened with him. He's a climate junkie anyway, so that all depends. You know, these people are pampered. They've got gout. They've got things wrong with them. They read what they want to read and they read what Lord Fauntleroy has put in front of them, so it all depends what he chooses to read. So yeah he's really close with the way the WEF want to do things and he called COVID a window of opportunity for a great reset. How? How is the virus everybody basically recovered from, the death rate gladly didn't have enough people in it and a lot of them were elderly anyway, the average age of people dying from COVID was higher than the age you're expected to live anyway, it's 85. How can that be a window of opportunity? For what? We're all locked down, we can't get together, we can't complain, we can't get access to information. So while we're all in that position, let's just bring some tyranny out. What a good idea. No, sod off. Prince Charles, for me, is completely untrustworthy and the monarchy has ended and all that's happening now, these sad, chinless wonders are trying to keep a 1300 year old brand going. We've got Jacinda Ardern, Mr Ed from bloody New Zealand, who's now the right hand monkey of Prince William and his, I always say a money shot, that's porn isn't it? Disgusting. What's it called? Earthshot. He's brought her in, she's left, she's now come to work for him as his right hand. Oh read the writing on the wall people, just because he's got a fit wife that looks nice in really expensive clothing doesn't mean these are nice people. These are not nice people, these are not people that you can trust your future with and that parliament of ours, 650 eunuchs now. Once that WHO pandemic treaty is signed, we have 600, well 649 because Andrew Bridgen's fighting against it. I speak to Andrew quite a lot. He's ruined his own life for this, do you know that? And there's idiots out there saying, oh he's controlled opposition. Don't talk like a canary. He's not controlled opposition. He's apologised four times now, as I've seen it, for joining in the rollout, recommending it, and recommended that the NHS should have it. He's seen the light, he's vaccine injured himself, he's fighting back hard, he's doing his level best, it's ruined his life, his kid's getting bullied, nobody speaks to him at work, they won't sit with him, they're stonewalling, they're horrible, these people are horrible, the power junkies, they're out for themselves, they are not there to represent us. That's what they're supposed to do, but they're not. They've now got to this stage where, you know, Brandon Lewis has turned around and thinks it's a good idea for migrants so we can't even prove where they're from. Open up your homes because we're not happy with the hotel bills we've got for it. Are you mental? Have you got some sort of deranged disorder that, oh yeah, what a good idea, we don't know where they're from, they don't like us, they don't speak English, let's open our homes up and let them live with us. You, I'll tell you what, you fill your homes up first and we'll follow suit. How about that? So this is where these people are absolutely bonkers because once that WHO pandemic treaty is signed, that's it. They control farming, they control agriculture, livestock, the weather, they control whether or not you will be able to see your nan in a nursing home, they will control whether or not you can go to work. You can sit there in Osset Whistle in Lancashire and someone in Geneva can tell you whether or not you can go to work, even though you've got a and even though you're fit and healthy and even though you're not ill, there'll be some reason that they can cause a lockdown and you'll have to do it because the MPs that we pay, £170 million a year for will say it's not us, no no no it's not us, it's the WHO, we have to. Anybody in their right mind only needs to look at the planet to see the planet runs differently in different places. There's a Sahara desert and there's a mountain range called the Himalayas. There's sea and there's land. There's tropical weather and there's warm balmy weather. There's living in the North Atlantic in a set of windswept islands like the UK that gets plenty of water and there's drought in other places. How one body of people can decide what the whole world does to approach anything, be it weather or health, is bad news. It's wrong, it won't work, it will cause death and destruction and we have got 11 MPs we're not allowed to know the identity of that are overseeing this. I showed the WHO pandemic treaty to my solicitor who does a lot of my land deals. I said what do you think of this? And he had, you know, left it a couple of days and he got back to me and went, good God, he said I didn't even know this was, I said well yeah that's what's. He was shocked, he's not politically active. And he said, if this was an agreement for you personally, I'd tell you to not sign it, run a mile. So, we, the wording, people generally, they might buy one or two houses in their life, they never see any legal documentation. That's what they're relying on. I see a lot of stuff. I see a lot of leases. I see a lot of contracts. And I see the wording and over the years, I've got savvy with it where you think, hang on, That actually doesn't mean that in that sentence, that's legal terms for something quite different. That thing is full of it. That despicable piece of legislation is full of traps so that we've got nowhere to hide and nobody on this planet has the right to rule the planet because it's all so varied. The farmers in Holland are having compulsory purchase orders of their farms for less than what they're worth, so that they can stop growing food. Holland grows most of the food for Africa. And what has always amazed me, we're getting down to the bones of it now, I think they've played their hand too soon. They really have played their hand too soon with Covid, because guess what? Loads of us didn't get vaccinated and we're all still alive. Hard luck. And we're all still here banging on about it. So at the beginning, they've not engineered this right. At the beginning, they had the nation on their side. You were granny killers if you were talking like me, etc. Now we're not. Now we know we're not. And the old people's home, you see, everybody has skin in the game. It's not just the politicians. It's everybody connected. they all have their reason for the way they react to legislation. The nursing homes, you can't visit. It's easier to run a nursing home without visitors. It's a lot easier to run a nursing home without visitors. Keep them out, they're a bloody nuisance. Wow, that's easy. Or it's Covid, it's Covid, you can't come in, it's Covid. Yeah right, it's a damn sight easy. And then what happens in a lot of UK nursing homes, regular visitors from loved ones bring them food in because some of them, if they've got mental health issues as well as being infirm, they forget to eat and they get their breakfast tray served, a shift changes, a new girl comes on, takes her breakfast tray away, hasn't noticed the old person hasn't eaten it, or a younger person even. So I had a friend who's got a person in a care home and she took food every day, then she couldn't, and her daughter lost weight. Two Stone! She's only 20 odd. And they were all given DNRs. Do not resuscitate. Who's got the right to do that? Because some bum head politician like Matt Hancock decides that he hasn't got enough insight to think of his own idea. So I'll copy what Jeremy Hunt said when he was Health Minister, which is if there's a, they do these for pandemics, what to do, right, don't let the NHS get overrun, shut the hospitals down. That was the procedure, if they were overrun. He locked them down, the donkey. Not because they were overrun. You get a hospital with 10 wards, one ward open, that's not overrun. That's not a virus running rampant. That's bad administration. We were never overrun. Cardiff Hospital, 94 ICU beds, never had more than 45 of them open. That's not overrun, that's bad management. Bed blocking they call it, when they can't send old people back to the care homes because of Covid. So they keep them in hospital longer, so they can't put new people in. Bad management, that is not a virus, that is not a natural virus that's running through the country, creating a health hazard. The people running the country are the hazard. Bad decision making.  And with the NHS, Nightingale Hospital, supposedly open for that demand, were never used. I just want to finish on one thing that's current. We could go through the collapse of the court system, schools sexualising children, local government, 15 minute cities, that level of control. But I just want to finish just to touch on the armed forces. We've got Armistice day coming up, when the nation stops to remember those who have fallen traditionally in the First and Second World War. And we've never had such a tight connection with our military as maybe our friends across the water in the States do. But I guess it's that public view that we now have police and guards around the cenotaph and some of the monuments to protect them from being attacked and defaced. And that's something that, again, if you go back years, you would never have thought of protecting those because there was that respect. How has that kind of collapsed, that respect, from sections of the public for our armed forces? Because this section of the public don't care about this country. This section of the public only care about what they can get for this country. I think, was it Kennedy who said, don't ask what your country can do for you, what can you do for your country? There's nobody with that ethos or thought process out on the streets of Britain today demonstrating. I'm absolutely floored by what I've seen and I covered what was going on with Syria at the time because I got quite good with a tech guy who was really good at sourcing fake videos and fake footage and he found out about the White Helmets staging these atrocious gas attacks in Syria. It was nothing of the sort. They were faked. I watched them. I watched them make it. I watched the video of them getting a wind machine like a Hollywood movie set, big bag of cement and then that blew it in and then they added the sound effects, going on all the time. It's happening now and I'm not getting into the debate of the Middle East, I'm not interested in it. What I'm bothered about is what happens in this country and in this country you can demonstrate, you have the right to protest, fine, you've got that right but you don't have to do it on the one day of the year. We've become, We don't even respect any other holiday. We just about close our shops for Christmas Day and then, wow, we're opening, we must get those people spending. We have one day, one day a year that means something to a lot of people. We have cenotaphs in villages and towns. We have that one day a year where we should be able to honour our dead because I'm old enough, I'm 65, I'm old enough to have parents who fought in that war, who served in that war, a mother forced to go in a munitions factory as my dad was sent to war at 17. So I know all about it because they talked to me about it because they didn't want to ever see it happen again. And I'd got uncles who were injured in the war. One was in Burma in a prisoner of war camp, came home a neurotic wreck, a skeleton. And all these things happened. Rationing, do these young people out on the streets with the big full bellies and the big fat faces waving the flags realised that people came home from war and then had another 10 years of rationing food where they didn't even get enough food to eat once they served the country. They've got no idea what we went through. I'm sick of being looked at as though it's all right for us because we're in the West and we've got everything. We work for everything we've got. We have put the effort in. We have paid the taxes. We have suffered the losses to get our country to a good standard and their countries are still fighting to get what they want and that does not give you the right to desecrate a day that should be just left untouched. This weekend, Saturday and Sunday, leave it alone. Just give us some breathing space. Do it another day. You're getting plenty of media coverage. I don't know where you're getting your flags from, but they all seem brand new. You're out there. I look at these young faces, a lot of them student types. Well, that's if you can see the face, because the men seem to prefer to cover them up. If I felt so strongly about something, I'd have my face showing and my name showing, as I do on my social media. So I am absolutely appalled, as are many other people. And it's not just happening in London, it's happening in Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, Darwin, Huddersfield, Manchester. All these people have come out from the woodwork. They're not from this country that they're on about. Half of them don't know what's going on properly. And they don't have the right to desecrate this weekend and chuck our poppies off. Our cenotaph, no flags, no poppies on. It's bad enough on Remembrance Sunday that we have to watch people like Tony Blair and what's he called, the other fella that sold us out to Europe after Maggie.  Gordon Brown. Gordon Brown as well, yeah, but the other fella. He was having an affair with Edwina Currie. What's he called? Mr. Grey.  Oh, John Major. John Major, yeah. It's bad enough watching people like that at the cenotaph with the fake somber attitude and the crumbies on. It turns my stomach that these days of the people that put the effort in, you know, these people are the ones that cause the bloody wars. These are the ones, wars are caused by people in suits and uniforms, but they're fought by people who seldom have them on. They're fought by people told what to do, and they have the audacity to bring these characters out as though they care. They don't care. These are soulless characters in my view. And to have to, all right, we'll stomach that because it's how it is, but we don't have to stomach this lot. We don't have to stomach these angry, entitled, opinionated, and you know what Briton's lack, what Britain has too much of, ingratitude. People come to this country, we print everything we've got in 23 languages so you can understand it and settle in better. We share our school, we share our housing, we share our healthcare, we share everything that we've built up, we share with you. And on this one day, back off, shut up and give us our day. That's what I think, because I am sick of people who have come to this country, and this is not racist, I wouldn't go to your country and expect so much. It's ingratitude. We've given everything we've got to give. Everything we've got to give has been handed over on a plate to people who've never paid a penny in and we're still getting it wrong. We're still told we're not doing enough. Apart from self -flagellation, I don't know what else we can do. You're 100 % and it is that. We welcome people in and haven't had that agreement of what it means to come here in that level of respect because I guess it was expected but you can't assume in this day and age. June, love having you on. So good. As I said, love following you online and great to have you on in person chatting to you. So thanks so much for your time today.  Thank you.

Mientras Claudia Sheinbaum se reunió en el Senado con integrantes de Morena, Marcelo Ebrard se dio un rol por San Lázaro para conseguir el respaldo de 30 diputados morenistas para su asociación civil. Durante una reu entre Joe Biden y el primer ministro de Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, surgió una propuesta que busca solucionar el conflicto israelí-palestino. Además… El supuesto plagio de la tesis de Xóchitl Gálvez; Omar García Harfuch confirmó que va por la CDMX; el Parlamento de Irán incrementó los castigos por usar mal el hijab; y Sulfjan Stevens confirmó que tiene Guillain-Barre. . Para enterarte de más noticias como estas, síguenos en nuestras redes sociales. Estamos en todas las plataformas como @telokwento. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Antibodies play an important role in the protective immune response. In some situations, though, such as autoimmune diseases, antibodies can cause harm by attacking healthy tissue. Hansa Biopharma has developed an antibody-cleaving enzyme technology platform to target pathogenic antibodies involved in autoimmune disease, organ transplantation, and gene therapies. Its lead experimental therapy, imlifidase, is designed to inactivate immunoglobulin G antibodies through a single intravenous treatment. It is in development for a range of rare, immunological conditions including Guillain-Barre syndrome or anti-GBM disease and as a pre-treatment for various gene therapies. We spoke to Matthew Shaulis, chief commercial officer and U.S. president for Hansa Biopharma, about the company's antibody-cleaving platform technology, how it works, and its range of potential uses.

AJ Osborne is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and investor with more than $300 million in self-storage assets. He's also a husband and father of four and hosts the 'Self Storage Income' podcast.In this episode, AJ opens up about his childhood and how traditional school just didn't work for him – an experience that inspired he and his wife to start a school for kids who don't fit into the box.AJ also discusses his battle with Guillain-Barre syndrome, which left him suddenly and unexpectedly paralyzed and near death... and how getting a second chance at life drives him to do BIG things in business and life.AJ also speaks about:-His advice for parents who can't homeschool or put their children in private school-The need to teach your kids that it's okay to say no to authority and to reinforce your beliefs-How he and his wife talk to their kids about sex and pornography-How to help your kids feel comfortable speaking to you about difficult subjects-His past career as a medical insurance salesman and the massive fluctuations in income he experienced-His transition into self-storage-How he suddenly became a quadriplegic after getting diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome-Being fired from his job while on life support-His slow recovery, and the small milestones he celebrated when he started getting his movement back-The current state of his body and the lasting effects of his illness-How he started 3 multi-million dollar companies out of his wheelchair and how he gets purpose and meaning from his work-The mindset and attitude that helps him get through the day-to-day-What he would do if he lost all of his wealth tomorrow and had to start all over again-How he built a massive machine of self-storage businesses that support one another-What his leadership style is and the legacy that he wants to leave behindAJ's charitable cause:Chair the Hope, which provides wheelchairs to people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford them – including in developing countries across the worldBooks mentioned in this episode:The Warren Buffett Way by Robert HagstromRich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert KiyosakiPrinciples for Dealing with The Changing World Order by Ray DalioConnect with AJ on socials:www.selfstorageincome.comwww.cedarcreekcapital.comwww.instagram.com/ajosbornehttps://www.selfstorageincome.com/podcasthttps://www.thecrecircle.com/

Officials in Peru have declared a health emergency as a surge in Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare and dangerous neurological disorder, is linked to the COVID-19 shots, with at least 180 cases and four deaths reported so far, raising concerns about the potential side effects of widespread vaccination. https://tinyurl.com/mr253ms4 #BobUnruh #WNDNewsCenter #COVID19 #COVIDShots #COVIDVaccine #Vaccinations #GuillainBarreSyndrome #Peru #COVIDSideEffect #HealthEmergency #NeurologicalDisorder #PotentialSideEffect #ClarkCountyWa #ClarkCountyToday

 H1N1 Called Swine Flu *A Boy In Mexico Discovered It.   Guillain-Barre problem in 1976  Time And Quantum Theory It began at a US Army training base in New Jersey. In February 1976, several soldiers at Fort Dix fell ill with a previously unrecognized swine flu. None had been in contact with pigs, so human transmission […] The post 1976 USA Mass Vaccination Campaign Swine Flu *Fauci Pigs and Bats *Creating & Selling Death and Vaccines. appeared first on Psychopath In Your Life.

Welcome to a brand new episode of Integrative Cancer Solutions with Dr. Karlfeldt! In this captivating installment, we delve deep into the revolutionary potential of alternative treatments for cancer, specifically exploring the transformative power of chlorine dioxide. Join us as we welcome Andreas Kalcker, a distinguished bi fiscal researcher, to shed light on the therapeutic use of chlorine dioxide (CDs) in treating various health conditions, including cancer and infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Prepare to have your preconceptions shattered as Kalcker reveals that CDs have undergone extensive international clinical trials and have been hailed by the esteemed doctors of the international organization USAV, proving their safety and efficacy beyond doubt. This episode promises to be a game-changer, unveiling the integrative and holistic approach of chlorine dioxide as a groundbreaking method for successfully combating cancer and a myriad of other diseases. Brace yourself for a mind-expanding discussion that aims to equip you with invaluable information that could reshape your understanding of cancer treatment. Our enlightening conversation also delves into the fascinating realm of MMS (miracle mineral solution) and its potential benefits for various health conditions. Be prepared to be intrigued as our speaker initially expresses skepticism but then unveils 16 years of research that has uncovered remarkable positive results. Discover how MMS, in its modern incarnation as CDs, distinguishes itself from the older version, devoid of the unpleasant side effects. Get ready to understand the true nature of chlorine dioxide, a substance with tremendous therapeutic properties that sets it apart from mere bleach. We also explore the vital role of oxygen in our bodies and how its absence can be a telltale sign of illness. Uncover the profound impact of mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic conditions like cancer and the groundbreaking potential of chlorine dioxide in addressing this critical issue. Get ready to grasp the significance of chlorine dioxide in supplying vital oxygen and electrons to cells in dire need, especially in the context of cancer treatment. But that's not all! Prepare to have your mind blown as we delve into the astonishing benefits of chlorine dioxide in the blood system. Discover how this remarkable molecule, despite its diminutive size, carries two oxygen atoms, enabling it to penetrate biofilms and obliterate pathogens through oxidation rather than intoxication. This groundbreaking understanding of the oxidation process could pave the way for the development of revolutionary new medicines. Andreas Kalcker, our esteemed guest, takes us on a mesmerizing journey into the realm of chlorine dioxide's potential benefits for red blood cells. Brace yourself for eye-opening revelations as he demonstrates how concentrated chlorine dioxide instantaneously oxygenates and revitalizes these cells, debunking any claims of cell damage. Concerns about toxicity are swiftly addressed, as we compare the toxicity levels of chlorine dioxide to that of everyday coffee, proving its safety within recommended dosage limits. It's time to dispel the unfair comparisons of chlorine dioxide to bleach. Discover its true nature as a distinct substance that doesn't react in the stomach but instead diffuses into the bloodstream, only dissociating in areas of lower pH within the body. Prepare to explore the acidic microenvironment of cancer cells and the transformative potential of using chlorine dioxide to target and oxidize these cells, offering a glimmer of hope in the fight against cancer. We also unravel the mysteries of muscle age and the role of lactic acid in aging muscles. Gain insights into the groundbreaking concept of electromolecular medicine, a powerful fusion of biophysics and medicine that holds the key to addressing these issues. Explore the differences between chlorine dioxide and MMS, unlocking the secrets of chlorine dioxide's stability and its pivotal role in rejuvenating our bodies. Join us as we unveil the cutting-edge Mara Quantix machine, an extraordinary device that accurately measures chlorine dioxide levels in water. Discover the limitations of MMS due to its high salt content and potential harmful traces, and explore the unparalleled advantages of using chlorine dioxide in medical procedures, such as cancer surgery, where it selectively targets and eliminates cancer cells, leaving healthy cells unharmed. Uncover the distinctions between ozone and chlorine dioxide as oxidizers, as we reveal chlorine dioxide's unique ability to penetrate areas beyond the reach of blood. Dive into the captivating world of oxidative stress, understanding its complex relationship with voltage and how it can be harnessed for our benefit. Prepare to embrace the clarion call to challenge misconceptions surrounding chlorine dioxide and recognize its potential as a game-changing force in the fight against cancer. But what about safety? Fear not, as we unravel the truth about chlorine dioxide's interaction with other substances in the body. Discover the remarkable ability to safely combine chlorine dioxide with medications or chemotherapy, as it recharges the blood and enhances its oxygen-carrying capacity, rejuvenating our very essence. Embrace the groundbreaking notion that the inability to absorb oxygen in conditions like COVID-19 and after vaccination is intricately linked to changes in charges rather than blood volume, further highlighting the potential efficacy of chlorine dioxide in addressing these issues. Prepare to be awe-inspired by real-life success stories of individuals who have triumphed over conditions like Guillain-Barre syndrome and cancer after undergoing intravenous injections of chlorine dioxide. Witness the seismic shift in the medical community as more oncologists become disillusioned with the conventional system and embrace the transformative potential of alternative treatments. Join us as we explore the boundless potential of a substance that has captivated the scientific community with its promise to improve overall health and extend lifespan. Learn that merely complaining doesn't lead to healing, and embrace the call for further research to unlock the full potential of this remarkable substance. Unlock the secrets of recharging your body and activating your mitochondria to enhance cell oxygenation and penetrate biofilms. Embrace the transformative power of regular treatments that could revolutionize your well-being. Discover that minimal side effects, such as mild dry mouth and fatigue, affect only a mere 6% of participants, highlighting the remarkable safety profile of this remarkable therapy. And finally, let us shine a spotlight on the remarkable benefits of sauna therapy and infrared saunas in aiding the body's natural detoxification processes. Witness the immense potential of heat in promoting overall health and its profound effects on reducing cancer cells. As we draw this captivating episode to a close, we extend our utmost gratitude to Andreas Kalcker for his invaluable contribution, reminding you that this podcast is purely for educational purposes. Prepare to be astounded, enlightened, and empowered as Integrative Cancer Solutions with Dr. Karlfeldt takes you on an extraordinary journey into the world of chlorine dioxide and its potential to reshape the landscape of cancer treatment. Don't miss out on this transformative episode – tune in now! - Therapeutic use of chlorine dioxide (CDs) for cancer treatment- Use of MMS and its positive results after research- Importance of oxygen in the body and its role in health- Potential benefits of chlorine dioxide in the blood system- Chlorine dioxide's effect on red blood cells and toxicity concerns- Differences between chlorine dioxide and bleach- Use of lactic acid to target acidic microenvironment in cancer cells- Chlorine dioxide as an antioxidant and oxidant- Muscle age and the role of lactic acid- Measurement of chlorine dioxide levels with Mara Quantix- Differences between ozone and chlorine dioxide as oxidizers- CDs can be taken safely with medications or chemotherapy- Successful use of CDs in medical treatments- Potential benefits of a substance for overall health and lifespan- Recharging the body and activating mitochondria- Benefits of sauna therapy and infrared saunas Integrative Cancer Solutions was created to instill hope and empowerment. Other people have been where you are right now and have already done the research for you. Listen to their stories and journeys and apply what they learned to achieve similar outcomes as they have, cancer remission and an even more fullness of life than before the diagnosis. Guests will discuss what therapies, supplements, and practitioners they relied on to beat cancer. Once diagnosed, time is of the essence. This podcast will dramatically reduce your learning curve as you search for your own solution to cancer. For more information about products and services discussed in this podcast, please visit www.integrativecancersolutions.com. To learn more about the cutting-edge integrative cancer therapies Dr. Karlfeldt offer at his center, please visit www.TheKarlfeldtCenter.com.

In this episode of the Medicine Girl Podcast, Robin Stebbins interviews the leading expert in Vitamin D3 research, Jim Stephenson Jr. who shares the swindle of this so called sunshine vitamin. To add insult to injury the remedy prescribed for allegedly "low" Vitamin D levels is worse then we realized, especially in children, whose bones are still developing. The medical community, even the functional, holistic medical freedom sector, accepts the pharma funded low serum level as gospel and recommends that to rectify this abnormal value, you must take rat poison also know as cholecalciferol, or as you purchased it, Vitamin D3. It is the same thing. Yes, I am sorry to say, you are ingesting a chemical rodenticide. And it is likely worse than you realize. So how can we get seemingly intelligent doctors, homeopathic, naturopathic, chiropractic functional medicine practitioners to not only recommend their patients take a toxic rodenticide, but mega doses of it? The answer is simple. You create a Vitamin D industry from the current annual billion dollar revenue, spend millions to conduct studies that will support your fraudulent claim and find an unscrupulous Dr to legitimize the hoax. Enter stage Dr. Holick, the aforementioned amoral MD, hired by the vitamin D industry (did you know that was even a thing?) who sold the medical association on a mythical sunshine vitamin deficiency range that when D3 supplemented cures everything from depression, MS, Guillain-Barre, Covid, brittle bones and so much more! The industry gave the physician hundreds of thousands of dollars to change what was considered normal to now abnormal for the Vitamin D lab values, making the majority of the population now deficient with the click of a button. By the way the serum value you MD orders is testing 25,D which is not even the right molecule. So now the 45 year old surfer is as deficient as the 80 year old bed ridden grandmother. This slight of hand earned the industry billions of dollars and more power to bamboozal the medical community with their fervently cherished peer reviewed articles from prestigious universities with a long web search trail singing the praises of supplementing Vitamin D3 to everyone and anyone that have now deemed low. But first, as we now know the Farma playbook, was to create fear by telling everyone with low values it could lead to a terrifying array of illness and disease if not corrected immediately with their brand of snake oil, aka Vitamin D3/Rodenticide. So now those "deficient", as it turns out is almost everyone, including pregnant women (who actually make more of the 125,D hormone, so supplementation is even more disastrous), infants and children. The only problem with this miracle cure is that is does the exact opposite of the intended use. (Once again Big Farma has us duped) When ingested, the vitamin, which is not actually a vitamin but a secosteroid hormone, pulls calcium from the body-teeth, bones, joints and floods the bloodstream with this newly extracted calcium your bones. Done over time this will lead to bone density loss, osteoporosis, heart arrhythmia from excess calcium, calcified (hardened) veins and arteries, kidney stones, renal damage and potential renal failure to name a few of the direct effects.  In this episode, we discuss what the serum lab your doctor is testing is actually meaningless and is testing the wrong value. How testing for the correct serum value shows that it is extremely rare to actually be deficient in the vitamin!! and if it is low it indicates a serious health problem that is not rectified by taking D3. We go over the connection with cholesterol and other similar molecules and how any interference of the bodies miraculous design leads to a cascade of problems including parathyroid and thyroid issues.  Jim Stephenson Jr Facebook group Secosteroid Hormone D in a wealth of information on the pathophysiology and latest research if you want to take a deeper dive. Also he lists all his podcasts and I recommend any with Morely Robbins and Jim as they clarify the more detailed research. Conclusion: There is no valid reason to take Vitamin D3/Cholecalciferol/rat poison. Ingesting the amount they sell in bottles will not kill you but will absolutely deteriorate your health over time. Any practitioner recommending this to you is breaking the hippocratic oath, first harming you, the patient and some even profiting with their private label supplements. Anyone such as Amandha Volmer who recommends her patients not only take Vitamin D3, but mega doses as she does, should be held responsible for the harm they have caused if they refuse, as she did to look at the research and continues to recommend it. Please take this to you practitioner and educate them, as they likely have not heard of this research thanks to Dr. Holick and the medical cartel. Once we start to educate ourselves and the medical community, we the people will be less likely to fall for snake oil cures and will be empowered to stop listening to anyone telling us what to put in our bodies. That power belongs to God and our own innate wisdom.    More about Jim and his Bio: "My passion for research in the field of vitamin D began  because of a family member's health issues, which included severe osteoporosis at the age of 51. During my quest to help her,  she was prescribed 50,000IU of vitamin D, which caused her to continue to decline and get worse. This incident gave me the incentive to start doing deep research on the topic of vitamin D.    My previous occupation in the fisheries industry taught me a lot about researching and writing scientific papers so as a natural progession, I applied that knowledge to my vitamin D research.  What I discovered was shocking! The truth was that supplementing vitamin D was causing severe, long-term health issues and that the claimed vitamin D deficiency was a lie and a hoax!  For the past two decades it has been my passion and avocation to keep researching and spreading  the word to help people learn about the dangers of supplementing with vitamin D."   "Embrace Fraud and Disgrace Reality"-Jim Stephenson The sad reality of Science and Medicine in the 20th and 21st century To Find Jim Stephenson Jr.  Secosteroid Hormone D Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/517807781731760/ The Truth about Vitamin D PDF https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BweFjwhHC9atek9IV3ZzQk1Wamc/edit?pli=1&fbclid=IwAR2OXkTuYZ68JZrey1q0ER41P2U6t4wmFf_R73gXXw6-dZxNJ8YMfRHr-Rk Not a Vitamin Video https://video214.com/play/ZQmLb39Xv50E6uJmayDHnA/s/dark?fbclid=IwAR1Fu17qlFe_cbvilKqgz_FzbzxpjQiNlmv0XLzWVj-4Dwhe_xxNvUV-ZW4   https://kffhealthnews.org/news/how-michael-holick-sold-america-on-vitamin-d-and-profited/ https://robynopenshaw.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-supplements-are-rat-poison?inf_contact_key=d9103f12f9e0186710876982809f4f716d9ebf63638ff85889fe352cff7601e8   To research further, I highly recomment Robyn Openshaw's Vibe podcast with Jim and her substack article: https://robynopenshaw.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-supplements-are-rat-poison?inf_contact_key=d9103f12f9e0186710876982809f4f716d9ebf63638ff85889fe352cff7601e8   To find Robin Stebbins: purifywithin.com

During our many episodes of Unstoppable Mindset, we have had the opportunity to meet and talk with a number of people who have, in one way or another, been involved with the topic of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The reason it is fun and relevant to speak with all these guests is that each one brings to our studio their own personal and specific life experiences. Often our guests came to the DEI field as adults and some knew earlier in life that they wanted to promote equity.   Our guest this time, Paige Riggins brings her own very interesting life take on DEI. She was born in Oakland California and was raised in South Carolina. She will tell us about her upbringing and about how she searched to discover herself. Paige is definitely a life explorer and she will discuss this without hesitation with us.   Paige, like so many guests before her, offers us the benefit of her knowledge and lessons about how to live and grow each day. I think you will find her observations thought-provoking and useful. We have a good discussion about her life and experiences as a teacher especially during the time of the pandemic. Paige uses her expertise to discuss topics like race and disability issues. She also will tell you about the business she joined when she left teaching.   About the Guest:     Paige Riggins is an experienced DEI Consultant & Coach specializing in organizational development, systems analysis, project management, capacity-building (training & workshops), and facilitation.    Driven by balance, community, and growth, she takes pride in building a collective of practitioners who incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion into their personal and professional practice. She does this by leveraging her change management, cross-functional team building, curriculum development, coaching, consulting, data analysis, program management, restorative conversations, and evaluation skills to strengthen her practice.    As an experienced DEI Consultant & Coach, her goals include consulting through her consulting firm, Culture of Equity Consulting, LLC, and the continued practice of coaching and consulting with individual practitioners, organizations, and companies looking to move DEI initiatives forward with strategic and specialized support.   In addition to her primary job functions, she has also been recognized as a Courageous Conversations About Race Practitioner for her exemplary commitment to enlightening others inter-racially and intra-racially regarding DEI.   She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Columbia College, SC; a Master of Education in Curriculum & Instruction from Portland University; and a dual certification in teaching for South Carolina and Maryland with an Advanced Professional Certificate.   She was also awarded the Impact Spotlight Award for Teach For America, South Carolina for her efforts in the classroom.   “Any person in this work is only as good as their capacity to learn continuously.”   Ways to connect with Paige:   Professional Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/paigeariggins   Website - www.cultureofequityllc.com     About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes     Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:20  Hi This is Michael Hingson. And you are once again listening to unstoppable mindset. I'm really honored today to have Paige A Riggins we got to find out about the A. But Paige is a dei coach. She has been very much involved in diversity, equity and inclusion and helping in a variety of different ways in that environment. And I don't want to give much away because I want her to tell us all about it. But we're really excited. We've been working toward making this happen for a while. I'm glad we finally did it. So Paige, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Paige A Riggins  01:55 Thank you so much for having me, Michael,   Michael Hingson  01:57 we're really honored that you are here. And I'd love it if you could start out by telling us just kind of a little bit about you growing up and starting out and all that kind of stuff, things that kind of give us some background,   Paige A Riggins  02:13 of course. So I was born in Oakland, California, raised in South Carolina, and as spent a lot of my time reading books, writing short stories in class and just really trying to get a sense of self. But of course, in the teenage way, where I am stressing my mom out probably every other day. Which led me to really question like, whether I wanted to even get into, you know, being a teacher, which is what I ended up doing. And so a lot of what leads me now is just how I kind of spent my childhood like exploring new things, learning new things, and like trying to figure out what I wanted to do in this life, which you know, that changes every other day, which is probably just as common for like other people, but my main route to just South Carolina, being around family, being able to just kind of chill and rest and relax and be successful, but like, in my own way, and just kind of marching to the beat of my own drum as much as I can.   Michael Hingson  03:35 Do you think that makes you a risk taker? I mean, you like to explore and all that does, do you think that means that you you do risky things or that you are are much of a person that takes risks to try to discover information and new knowledge?   Paige A Riggins  03:50 You know, that question is very interesting, because I it sounds like I'm a risk taker. And there are a lot of times when I am trying to think a lot more than I do. And so when when people hear about my decisions or my advancements, they're just like, oh, wow, like that was really brave with you. When actually I was probably thinking about it for at least six months to a year before I even brought it up. And so I guess because I'm still taking the step it it is me taking a risk, but it's a risk that is like chaotic, but but ordered. So that I'm still having the risk, but I'm also still kind of like analyzing all the things that have to be true for this to go the way I want it to or at least as close as to the way that I want it to.   Michael Hingson  04:53 Well, you thought about it a lot as you just said you thought for six months or a year so it could Still very well be a risk, but it's something that you thought about and thought about doing. And just didn't generally leap into things. Have you ever just not thought about something and done it? Or do you really like to think about things a lot before you do it? Because I think that makes a difference. In, you know, answering the question, in both cases, their risks, but you've really thought about a lot of what you do before you do it.   Paige A Riggins  05:29 You know, that's a good question I, the things that I did not really think about, and I just kind of did, when I was like, getting a nose piercing, getting a wrist tattoo. Those were the things that I had to feel it in order to do it. And when I felt it, I got up, made the appointment, or I did a walk in and I just went to go do it. And so I think when it's things that that I approach with my gut, those are the things that I just kind of go and I just do, because I feel it in my heart that this is like, this is the moment   Michael Hingson  06:14 you trust your intuition and your instincts. I do   Paige A Riggins  06:17 that leads a lot of how I handle things. And it really leads even the way that I think the way that I do my routines because I try to go by what feels good for me.   Michael Hingson  06:35 Do you spend part of every day kind of thinking about what happened that day? Do you do introspection sorts of things to really analyze your your world on a regular basis?   Paige A Riggins  06:49 I do it at times. And there are times when introspection leads to overthinking for me. And so I have to I have to like meter. When is the point of no return where I'm going to get into overthinking and what is actual introspection for me. And so I usually have to do that reflection, like on the car ride home. Once I get in my house, I have to just let it go, no matter what it wasn't. And just so you know what this happened? This is how it was handled, or this is unresolved right now. And it's okay. Let me go light some candles do something else.   Michael Hingson  07:33 Yeah. And I think that's kind of what I'm getting at is that you can look at things and decide what happened, what worked, what didn't work. With some point, you do have to give it up. You can't beat yourself up over it, because that's not going to help anybody, especially you. Oh, no,   Paige A Riggins  07:52 I can't. I used to be that person where you know, if something wasn't perfectly the way that I wanted it to be? I would just kind of obsess over it. And then one day I said actually, it doesn't really matter how it went because I am a different person from the other person. And if we had a misunderstanding, or or if we just like, you know, did not agree. It's actually okay. And if that person wants to talk about it more, I'll be happy to. But I can't obsess over either. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  08:28 So you said you were born in Oakland, good for you. When did you move from Oakland.   Paige A Riggins  08:33 So it's so interesting, being born in Oakland, because my mom she was in the Air Force. And so that's where she was station. And we only stay there until I was about three years old. And she ended up getting stationed in Italy and I don't remember much of it. But she's just like, you were able to to Learn Tagalog you were able to, like be around so many different cultures. And then once she got out of the military, we moved to South Carolina. And that's where I was raised. So it's like OPlan is is a part of my roots. But the biggest part of my roots in South Carolina, I would love to go to Oakland someday. And just to kind of like, be where I was born. But yeah, that's, that's the story of like Oakland and a little bit about Italy, too.   Michael Hingson  09:28 I was just gonna ask if he had been back to Oakland, so you haven't really gone back to visit?   Paige A Riggins  09:34 No, no, I have not. I don't know what's what's holding me back. I think that I have to think like, there was anything that I was overthinking. It's probably going back to Oakland.   Michael Hingson  09:47 Well just think if you're in Oakland, you're not far from San Francisco, which means you're not far from Guillain Barre, squirt Ghiradelli square and chocolate just pointing that out.   Paige A Riggins  09:56 You know, I'm not gonna lie chocolate chocolate. To me one of the things that is my kryptonite, I need it. And I should not always have it, but it's, it's perfect.   Michael Hingson  10:08 It's always Bowden sourdough bread. So we can come we can come up with a lot of different options, you know. But, yeah, it's I, I lived for 12 years in Novato. So we were up in Northern California, we were in the well, the, what would be north of San Francisco up in Marin County. So, however, been to East Bay and Oakland a number of times and had a close friend who lived there. We just passed last year. But yeah. So I hope you do come back and spend some time touring around Northern California and having a little fun, the culture is great.   Paige A Riggins  10:51 You know what? I'm going to keep that in mind when I'm thinking about trips.   Michael Hingson  10:56 Well, it's worth doing. Well, so you lived in South Carolina. And when did you leave South Carolina.   Paige A Riggins  11:05 I left South Carolina back in 2021. I was there from the time that I was around for went to school there or K through 12. Even did my undergrad there. And I started working there as a teacher as well. So I my roots run deep when it comes to South Carolina. Are you a lot for me to leave?   Michael Hingson  11:29 Yeah, well, what What made you do that   Paige A Riggins  11:33 I want to change. Being a teacher is not the easiest. And during the pandemic, it was especially hard. And I wanted, I just realized that things were not as equitable as I thought that they were or that I wanted them to be. And so it was either stay in that same place and not really be able to make a change in the way that you want or go somewhere where you can get the learning and then at some point, come back.   Michael Hingson  12:02 So you did your undergraduate Did you? Have you done graduate work?   Paige A Riggins  12:07 I have I went to Concordia University. And I studied curriculum and instruction. So I had my Masters of Education. Oh, cool. Yes, it was it was rigorous. But I loved it.   Michael Hingson  12:21 So you know, I heard a report this morning that said that because of the pandemic, students are generally close to probably one grade level behind where they really ought to be. I don't even remember who was reporting that. But do you think that's true? Or how do we address that? Because this kind of thing can happen again, how do we not allow that to   Paige A Riggins  12:42 happen? Well, I can definitely say that it is true, even when I was a teacher, just kind of seeing, especially because kids are their own persons, like they are growing adults, and even outside of being grown adults, their kids, and so they have their own emotions, they're going through the same emotional roller coasters that we were when the pandemic started. And as it as it continues now. And so I saw a lot of loss when it came to reading levels. And for me, one of the ways that I started trying to support students is really just started to listen, which I did not always do. Try not to hold kids accountable for the fact that they are still learning how to handle their their emotions, which is a skill that even some adults don't quite have down pack yet. And just kind of listening and like, you know, seeing like, Hey, how are you doing today? If they were having a bad day, asking them like, you know, hey, take a breather, walk down the hallway, come back and just trying to get the social and emotional learning in there, where it would like help them to learn how to cope with those emotions and to name them for themselves. So my given autonomy where I could within the classroom.   Michael Hingson  14:18 Yeah. And it is a challenge because kids are learning so much or need to learn so much. My wife was a teacher for 10 years, I have a secondary teaching credential, but I never taught in a school although I think I've done a lot of sort of professional teaching in other ways, but I've never taught in school she did for 10 years. She loved the little kids she liked for a second and like third graders she likes third graders especially she said they were still young enough to really learn and older enough to start to really process as opposed to older kids who are much more set in their ways.   Paige A Riggins  14:56 I will say middle School is middle school, just educators are a special kind of people, because we tend to have to work with students who are like really trying to figure out who am I? And that question is just as hard as algebra one just as hard as Advanced Grammar when it comes to like what kids are expected to learn. And I would say, Yeah, middle school, it's like, it's so funny that she said that, because because I've met a lot of students who were not necessarily set in their ways. But they thought that they had to be like their parents, even if it didn't agree with them. Yeah. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  15:52 Intended to intended to do that. Teaching is is tough. And I think that teachers are so under appreciated on so many levels. And so it tends to be a real, a real challenge. That, oh, yes, all of us have to deal with. And I really get so frustrated sometimes about how people don't really appreciate what teachers bring. You know, and I'm, I listened to news reports about banning books in classrooms and the kinds of things that will parent should have a say in this. And when you really get down to it, they want to ban books, they haven't even read, and they're just listening to what other people said, rather than thinking and processing themselves.   Paige A Riggins  16:41 Oh, I think the most unfortunate thing about teaching and and the pandemic was watching a majority of people via social media, like praise teachers, and then go to really disregarding how teachers felt just as human beings have or to go, and essentially, become essential workers, because they had to educate, they still had to, like, you know, be mandated reporters, they still had to care for themselves and their families, and if they got sick, and then seeing how we're having what I've heard to be called culture wars, when it comes to ban books. And it's like, you know, really trying to understand, what are you trying to block kids from, that they don't already know, I have heard some of the most profound opinions on race and gender and society, from students just in an icebreaker question a bell ringer. And it's like, you want to dampen that and why?   Michael Hingson  17:56 Yeah. What do you think about this whole concept of what we are hearing called critical race theory?   Paige A Riggins  18:06 I think that there's a big misunderstanding about critical race theory. Because what people see as critical race theory, when it comes to painting white people to be bad people is no, it's not painting anyone to be bad. It's examining the actual historical context, and how that disparaged groups of people based on the color of their skin, their socio economic status, and to reduce it to we're just trying to make a group of people feel bad. It minimizes the reason why we shouldn't actually have factual information in schools, why we should actually teach students how to critically think about the world as it is, and not just critically think, but question it, because that's the only reason why we have half the policies, laws and practices that we have now. Because somebody questioned somebody was able to have the access to make a decision or to bring a collective of people together. And it's like, to minimize children's abilities to question like, our predecessors did, is essentially just you know, leaving room for one truth to be told.   Michael Hingson  19:28 Yeah. Yeah. And, and it tends to be so misunderstood in so many ways. You know, I'm, I'm amazed that anyone would want to ban a book like To Kill a Mockingbird, having read it a number of times, and hearing the things that people say, but then when you really drill down to haven't read the book, yet I'm and and the result is they don't understand anything about what Harper Lee was was saying in the book. And so it's so unfortunate that we, we tend to not be as thorough at researching things ourselves, we rely on someone. And oh, well, will we trust this person? Oh, we trust that? Well, you know, the reality is that there are a heck of a lot of people who don't trust this person or that person. And is there a reason for that? We really need to look at things for ourselves, and we don't as often as we should.   Paige A Riggins  20:42 Yes, and I would agree. Because going straight for like knee jerk reactions when it comes to what you think is like in a book versus skipping over the the entire reason for like, why a book was written, even books that are banned right now deal with anything that is not heteronormative anything that is not outside of the norm in American society. And my question always, when the idea of like betting books comes up is, do you want kids to not be able to identify as their full selves? And if so, why is that while you were able to? So yeah.   Michael Hingson  21:32 And, you know, to, to expand the dimension, which I have done from time to time on this podcast. Very rarely, when we talk about Dei, do we even get into the discussion of disabilities, even though there are more people with disabilities than there are any other minority of if you call women to be a minority, and although there are more women than men, but the reality is, we don't include them. We don't include people with disabilities. We don't have discussions, not to talk about reparations, and other things like that. Let's talk about how people with disabilities were, are and probably will be treated for some time to come because we're not in the conversation at all.   Paige A Riggins  22:16 Yes, and I will even say, even living in Baltimore, as it is now, it's not accessible. My mom, she's a disabled veteran. And she cannot live in most places in this this city, because her power chair is going to need like, you know, elevator, it's going to need no steps when you're entering the building. And even this conversation about culture wars, banning books, limiting how people can identify with historical context, that also leads to minimizing marginalized groups, especially when it comes to ability. And so I agree with you, because even with how we have conversations about equity, just in passing in school districts, a lot of the times, accessibility is not even one of the things that comes up as a concern, even though not all disabilities are even apparent. You can look at somebody and not know what they have going on. And make an assumption that actually minimizes their identity and excludes them from decision making and access.   Michael Hingson  23:43 Yeah, and it has been many years since I first heard this statistic, I'm about to say, and it hasn't really changed much the unemployment rate among employable people who are blind, and I think it's appropriate to say who have a, a physical disability is in the 65 to 70% range, even though we have a national unemployment rate of 3.4%, according to the statistics last Friday, and why is that? It isn't that we can't work it is that people think we can't work and they're not willing to explore, and they don't like something that's different from them, which also feeds into the whole race discussion, too. But nevertheless, it's still the case.   Paige A Riggins  24:30 Yes, I think that especially if people approached things that they do not identify with, with with questioning to understand not just to respond, a lot of what gets minimized when it comes to the different social identities. It would, there will be a space for people to be their full selves, because you know, even when it comes to race, they It's like, if I'm not the same as you, instead of looking at it as this is an opportunity for me to get another perspective, some people can view it as this is a threat to my personal safety, even when it comes to ability, have half of the the outdated terms half of the outdated laws and policies and practices, minimize a person with disabilities, ability to like access, many of the areas that able bodied people can access, even when it comes down to having conversations having a seat at the table to make decisions about how their livelihood is affected.   Michael Hingson  25:47 Yeah. It's it's kind of the nature of the beast. And it shouldn't be, but we haven't learned to move beyond that yet, as a society, within this country or anywhere else for that matter. I agree. So are you still teaching in the classroom today?   Paige A Riggins  26:09 No, I am actually doing I'm actually doing equity work, excuse my background noise. I live right by the streets. But I do equity work. And in that equity work, I look at workplace culture and religious identifying what it looks like to implement structures of protection for marginalized identities.   Michael Hingson  26:37 So is this your own business now? Or do you work for someone else do that.   Paige A Riggins  26:41 So I the workplace culture piece, I have my own consulting firm called culture of equity consulting. And then I also work within a school district when it comes to educational equity. When it comes to race.   Michael Hingson  26:59 Well, hopefully we'll get to help you make an expansion of that and deal with disabilities. But that's another story that we don't have to worry about today.   Paige A Riggins  27:09 Look, you'll have to take that up with my supervisor, I, a lot of the times in school team meetings, we end up talking about intersectionally what happens for students outside of race, because race impacts a lot of students lives. And when you add on ability, socio economic status, gender, nationality, those things shape how a student or a staff member can like navigate throughout the day, starting from like when they leave their home, when they return,   Michael Hingson  27:47 there's a lot to it.   Paige A Riggins  27:50 It is it's very multifaceted, very much. It sometimes feels like going down a rabbit hole. information where you start with asking a person one question about how they identify. And then you start asking, Where do you live? How do you get to work or school? What is it like when you are engaging with people outside of your race? What does that bring up for you? And and the question is, can can keep going on, which is both a strength and one of those areas that can stop a conversation because you can learn a lot about a person. And if there is something that clashes with the part of your your identity, that can bring the need for like having some some type of structures of like protection, some type of parameters so that you will care for each other, even if you're different. Which is the whole point of the big focus on equity anyway,   Michael Hingson  28:57 right? We're all different in various ways. Sometimes it's very subtle. And so we don't tend to pay attention to it, but sometimes it's significant differences, whether it be race or sexual orientation, or, or disability or ability. And, and some of those terms have to be changed. So I've been advocating that we need to recognize a disability isn't what we think it is. disability isn't a lack of ability. Some people would say but that's the word. No. Diversity is supposed to be also celebrating difference and it doesn't deal with disability. So you know, we can change what words mean. And we ought to do that disability does not mean a lack of ability disability as a characteristic. And I could make a strong case for the fact that you, Joe Biden, and no, let's come up with some younger politician. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she's a Republican who gave a speech today Tonight, which I thought was kind of crazy, but that's my opinion. But nevertheless, all of you have disabilities, your disability is your light dependent lights go out, if you don't have access to a flashlight or a candle, you're in a world of hurt or a smartphone. And the reality is that the invention of the electric light bulb covered up that disability for you. And there's so much technology that allows you to have light pretty much whenever you want. But nevertheless, the disability is still there. So we can make the case that everyone has a disability, and I bet we could come up with other things about any individual that would, from a relative standpoint, or relativity standpoint would make them have a disability over someone else, short people have a disability. Over we have that the top people don't recognize tall people have a disability that short, people don't recognize when you're trying to fit into a crowded airplane seat, for example. There are there are all sorts of things that come up to the level of what we ought to call a disability. But we don't because we have an outdated definition of what disability really means.   Paige A Riggins  31:14 And I would agree with that. And that's a really interesting take on how how everyone has some way that like their life is altered, by the way that they are made.   Michael Hingson  31:30 So you're now working in part in your own business and working with the Department of Education and so on. When do you do most of your work? Do you pretty much keep busy all day? What are you most productive?   Paige A Riggins  31:42 Oh, so I am a morning person through and through. By the time that it is 7pm, the worst part of my brain kindly goes to sleep so I can have time to just relax. I used to be one who would work until 9am and 10pm. But it just wasn't it wasn't humanity friendly. And so I had to figure out another way of just honoring myself. And even though like running a business and also working in a school district, and also you know, being a friend, a partner, a sister, a daughter, all of those things, even a dog mom, all of those things require my attention to and they just as as important as the work that I do. So having a balance is a little hard. But that's usually when I get my work done is like during the day. And by the time that it's the evening, I tried to make sure that I have some kind of routine in place.   Michael Hingson  32:41 I had a guide dog was my sixth dog, her name was Meryl. And I describe her as a dog with a type A personality, she would not leave if you will work at the office. Even when we were home and the harness was off, which was the time that she could relax, he had to follow me around, she wouldn't play with the other dogs in the house. And eventually, literally, that lack of ability to relax, stressed her out. So she only got it for about 18 months. And then she just became totally fearful of guiding. And it was uncontrollable. And we had to retire her. And so I hear exactly what you're saying. I think that it is it can be true for dogs. As much as it is for people. This whole idea of being a workaholic is a real lovely thing to a point. But the reality is if we don't take time for ourselves, it can be a problem.   Paige A Riggins  33:35 Yes. And I'm so sorry to hear about mero I definitely that was a big part of also why I had to figure out another capacity to support diversity, equity and inclusion in the education field because being a teacher, it really plagued my mental health especially in the fall. Because of course by the time that it's 530 it is dark. And I am one who like really loves feeling sunlight. I love being able to like walk around and it not being nighttime quite yet especially when the day started and like you know, just very short days and very long nights. And so when I was not really digging into routines, and I was like you know still grading papers at home and lesson planning and never really given time for myself, it caused a constant sense of urgency, a constant sense of needing to work to where I started to feel like I was losing my passion in the profession, which is why I've been had to switch over to you don't need to great papers in the evening. You don't need to take any work home for the weekend. You do your work. During the week, and whatever's left will be that when you get back, and it was hard to switch over to that way of being, especially when sense of urgency and constantly doing doing doing is what is applauded in the education field. Do you   Michael Hingson  35:19 do you miss teaching being in the classroom though,   Paige A Riggins  35:22 I miss the children, I miss being able to see children start at one point of development in August, and to come to be a whole different version of themselves by the end and a better version of themselves to for the ones who were at that point. And for the ones who were still questioning, just kind of seeing how they were like navigating life as a child who won't always have had, like, you know, autonomy, especially in education, where there's a bunch of like, rules and like policies. And so I missed that I do not miss the red tape on the classroom. And all of the things that came with politics and how you like, you know, respond to kids and parents and other colleagues and your administration. And it was just that, for me, took the joy out of teaching, especially when it was the height of the pandemic. It was, it was a very stressful time. Well, I,   Michael Hingson  36:29 I have always loved being able to visit classrooms. My wife and I volunteered when we moved here to Victorville for our niece, Tracy, who is a kindergarten teacher, she's now taught over 20 years, she loves kindergarten, and loves being with the kids. Although every year we hear more and more about how some of the kids are having more and more challenges. And some of it comes from parents who did drugs and and disaffected the kids and other things like that. But but she loves kindergarten, she just has a a boatload of fun with it. And we went and volunteered for a few years, and helped. But then, of course, with the pandemic, a lot of things change. So now my wife has passed. So we we don't anymore. But it's you know, I hear what you're saying, though, and the politics is such a problem. I suppose some people would say Yeah, but it's necessary. Well, I think we should look at how necessary it really is. But I remember some of my teachers, I remember the names of a lot of my teachers and remember some of them very well and the effects that they have had in my life and actually still correspond with some of them, which is really kind of cool. For five years ago, well, it's five years ago, my gosh, it is it'll be six in August, but I went to celebrate, we surprised him my high school geometry teacher who came to our wedding and who we've stayed in close touch with, went to his 80th birthday, and surprised him his kids were in on it. But I flew into Colorado, and we just totally surprised him. Boy, that was fun.   Paige A Riggins  38:27 Wow, that sounds wonderful. And I'm definitely sorry about your wife. And I'm glad that you all got the chance to be able to engage with young people, especially in their element. I feel like anyone who can teach lower and upper elementary, they have a special place in my heart because then those kids didn't come to middle school.   Michael Hingson  38:53 Yeah. Well, and now some of the children of some of those kids are in her class. Oh, wow. She was telling us that a few months ago, a few weeks ago, she was telling me about that. That's pretty funny that she gets to have the kids have some of the kids that she that she taught.   Paige A Riggins  39:16 But see that all goes to impact and being able to just kind of see like how I had this person when they were just a little person and now they have their own little people and they come back and they won want their kid to be in my class, too. They are here and now I can help a whole nother generation. Go through that same process.   Michael Hingson  39:42 Who are some people who have had, from your perspective major impacts on your life?   Paige A Riggins  39:49 Definitely my grandmother who passed in 2018 and my mom both of them one My grandmother taught me just kind of how to be resilient, which was kind of to a fault, because it took me a long time to really understand what it meant to relax, and to not always talk about work. And so perseverance came from my grandmother, and from my mom, she just really allowed me to be the person that I was growing up to be. And she didn't want me to make mistakes, but I made them anyway. Because I was a stubborn back then as I am now. And so just kind of those two women in my life showed me both sides of what it meant to be a black woman in the south in America, and what it was gonna look like to be successful and just kind of like, make your own way.   Michael Hingson  40:51 Now, you said your mom is in a power chair, now?   Paige A Riggins  40:54 She is.   Michael Hingson  40:56 Has she always been or just that's recent? No,   Paige A Riggins  41:00 she got hurt at work back when I was in high school. And so her journey through what it meant for sense of self what it meant for access movements. And how she was like, you know, able to, like actually navigate, it shifted drastically for her. And it really made me understand how, how able is, most people are, including myself at the time when it comes to just making space for what people may not have, due to circumstance or biological means. It made me really question what does it mean to like, honor a person as their full selves without one having pity because pity helps no one. And also allowing them to have autonomy over what they need and what they don't need. She taught me a lot. And still is to this day.   Michael Hingson  42:17 You know, you can't, you can't do much better than that mom and grandma,   Paige A Riggins  42:25 to staples in my life   Michael Hingson  42:28 will take mom to Oakland.   Paige A Riggins  42:32 I want to sew back. She told me that I need to go even if it's only once, because I'll be able to kind of get a sense of like where I came from. And I keep hearing how like Oakland has changed drastically, but I still I still would would want to go so at least give young page something   Michael Hingson  42:54 did has. And also it's become more accessible. You can ride the BART the barrier to transit mom could ride Bart, Karen and I did. It's it's very a lot of it is very accessible. I don't know whether there are inaccessible BART stations or not. Most everything I think is accessible. And they monitor you. We went on BART once Karen had never been on BART, we were up in San Francisco. This is around the time we were married or a few months before. And we went to a BART station later in the evening, and she wanted to ride Bart. So we push the button to get the elevator and the elevator came. And I think they were listening to us in the elevator because we said you know i She said we got to figure out where to go to deal with the accessibility part. And either somebody said on the speaker in the elevator or as soon as we got off, they said, Oh, you come this way. And it was it even gets better. So we got through and got to the train got on the train. And the station person that we worked with tracked us and he said, because we just said we wanted to take a ride and then come back. And when we got close to the next station, this voice comes over the speaker. Alright, this is where you're going because there was basically nobody else on the train. This is where you get off. And I'll tell I'll direct you as to where you go. And he just tracked us the whole way, which we which we love. You know, we didn't consider his spying at all. But Karen had a wonderful experience with part because of that. Now at that time, she was in a manual chair. But it wouldn't have mattered. She started using a power chair later. But she but she loved going on Barton and it was fun. I'd been on BART and used part a number of times. But I never knew about the fact that they could track me and I wouldn't mind if they want to do that. That's fine. But for her it was great. And it gave her a wonderful experience and a lot of confidence and she's had some other experience This is a transportation there's a lot of New York that's not accessible. But buses are accessible in New York. And she actually, we, we went back once before we moved to New Jersey, and we were up at a hotel, when I had to go do some work. When she decided she wanted to go to the UN, she went downstairs, discovered that the buses were accessible, wheeled out to a bus, got on a bus, paid her fare, went to the UN wheeled across, came back bus picked her up, there was a ramp that lowered or I guess it was a ramp that lowered, she got back on the bus, went back to the hotel and did the whole thing. There was a lot of it that was very accessible long sometimes. But she was able to do that. And she could have done it in a power chair as well. But again, at that particular point, she was using a manual chair. But I know New York is now talking about trying to make basically all subway stations are accessible by 2050. And wow. And that's a job to do. Because some of those I can understand why they're not accessible, but their commitment is to make them accessible, which is cool.   Paige A Riggins  46:07 That is cool. And I think that also having like the having someone who is watching allows people to have more more autonomy, to not like you know, have to rely on anyone coming with them if they just simply want to have like their own solo adventure. And I love that.   Michael Hingson  46:29 And it seems a reasonable thing to do. So I'm glad she had those experiences, we must be married for two years by 15 days when she passed. So a lot of memories.   Paige A Riggins  46:41 Oh, my goodness, that that is an admirable amount of time. And I know that you honor her memory every day.   Michael Hingson  46:51 That is the plan. Well, you know, you have obviously learned a lot and you have worked on on both sides, if you will, of the of the teaching process. Although if I were to think about you a little bit, I'd say you're always learning so you're always looking for good teachers and what you do, because we never stopped learning or we shouldn't anyway. But for you. What do you think the most important personality trait is? Or what are some important personality traits that you think someone needs to have if they're going to do your job or be in the kind of field that you're in?   Paige A Riggins  47:33 So it kind of goes back to the question about risk taking earlier, you have to be adventurous enough to be okay with making mistakes. And along with that curiosity is one of the biggest personality traits, I would say that you need to like, risk taking curiosity, and humility. Because I think it at no point did I ever feel like I've arrived. And that's how I'm able to still keep doing what I'm doing and to keep learning like, you know, even with this call, learning a new perspective on like, how disability can be viewed as not like, you know, not just a lack of something, but it's just everyone's way of navigating through society is different, based on different characteristics, like thinking of disability as a characteristic is something that I did not even think to know. And that's purely off of off of curiosity. So like, if anyone were to get into education, or consulting or just equity work in general, I would say, please go ahead and take risks, learn how to be curious, and always have humility.   Michael Hingson  49:00 Definitely great traits. My parents, I've often said, We're risk takers, because when I was born, and it was discovered, I was blind a few months after being born, my parents were told, send them to a home for handicapped kids, because no blind child could ever grew up to do anything. And they disagreed with that. And they said, Well, of course he can grow up to do whatever he chooses to do. And they had to have taken a lot of risks to allow that to happen to allow me to ride a bike when we were living out here in California, or just to walk around the streets of the Southside of Chicago when I was three and four years old, and things like that. And so there, there were a lot of ways that they took risks. And I'm sure that they, like you thought about it a lot, but they also decided they they couldn't not do that they had to allow me to explore or how would I learn   Paige A Riggins  50:00 And I love that they not only didn't take what someone else said, but they said, we're actually going to just lean into learning new things about how we can support our child. Because look at you now.   Michael Hingson  50:14 Yeah, look at me now, right? Well, no, I hear what you're saying. And, you know, we are all the product of our parents and those around us and the choices we make. And it's important that we always think about those things.   Paige A Riggins  50:36 Most definitely. Even when I think about like my, my grandmother, and my mom, and like, what my grandmother taught me, when my mom proposed to teach me all of that came from, especially my mom, taking a risk on knowing that she was raising her children, meaning me and my younger sister differently, and that it wasn't going to always be viewed as a good thing, because we were taught to be more curious, more outspoken.   Michael Hingson  51:07 Did you have a dad in the process anywhere?   Paige A Riggins  51:10 I have my dad for a little while, we are distant now. And it's of no, it's of no consequence, outside of just human things that happen. I think that the biggest thing that I'm really having to kind of grapple with now is that, even when, when adults become parents, that does not mean that they still don't have their own personal journeys to go on. And that can sometimes impede on being a parent or being a son, a brother, a cousin, and uncle. And that it's actually okay, because their journey is just gonna look different right now.   Michael Hingson  51:58 Yeah. And there's nothing wrong with that, if that's what they need to do, as long as they do it. And they do it well.   Paige A Riggins  52:05 Right? Definitely heavy on the wellpark.   Michael Hingson  52:10 Well, there is that yes. There's always that something I've asked occasionally, on this podcast of people, if you had the ability to go back and teach or tell your 18 year old self, something, what would it be?   Paige A Riggins  52:26 I would tell her to find out her best qualities, and then to write down everything that she thinks is not right about herself. And to just ask herself why. Just think about what has made you feel this way about yourself. Because I think if even back then if I had sat and like really thought about what I didn't like about myself, it would actually be everything that society told me that I should not like about myself, instead of what I didn't actually like. So I would tell her to just think about that, and start to accept more of who she was because she was gonna turn out to be pretty okay.   Michael Hingson  53:25 What were some things that you didn't like about yourself, that you could go back and tell your 18 year old person about?   Paige A Riggins  53:32 I think definitely, I probably wouldn't have been as bossy. And I would have definitely embraced a lot of my dialect from like being in the low country of South Carolina and really embraced the way my mind works when it came to being creative. And like writing short stories, which I still do now, for fun, but it's just if I hadn't damp in that, when I was younger, thinking that I had to go be something else. I would have definitely wanted to like change that. It's just kind of embrace being a black woman in the South. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  54:21 Would you tell her not to wait so long to go to Oakland?   Paige A Riggins  54:25 I definitely would, okay. Oh, this is I know this is gonna sound far fetched. Can you put aside some money from your job at Pizza Hut? And actually go ahead and keep that money until you're like a little older and then go to Oakland. She wouldn't have understood what I was saying. But probably would have sold it anyway. Yeah,   Michael Hingson  54:48 well, you know, it's always fun to have adventures to look forward to.   Paige A Riggins  54:52 Yes, yes, it is.   Michael Hingson  54:55 I don't know when or if it'll happen again, but I'd love to go on it. cruise now logistically, we'll see because there isn't someone right now to go with. I don't know a lot of people cruise alone, but cruising Have you ever cruised?   Paige A Riggins  55:08 I have not, I am still grappling with what it's like to be out in the middle of the ocean and have to like relinquish control?   Michael Hingson  55:22 Oh, it's a lot of fun and it's safe.   Paige A Riggins  55:26 Am I try that at some point, I have to figure out where I would want to go, though,   Michael Hingson  55:32 who Yeah, you got to figure that out, too. I suppose you could cruise to Oakland through the Panama Canal. But please get to San Francisco,   Paige A Riggins  55:44 get to things then it was very RC.   Michael Hingson  55:46 Well, you know, it's, it is so much fun to, to do retrospective things like what you tell your 18 year old self, and so on. But if you found somebody who's starting out doing what you do, what would be some advice that you'd give them to help them along?   Paige A Riggins  56:10 I would tell them to do it. Take in as many perspectives as you can when you're in the work. And also trust that what you're feeling in your gut, is exactly what you need to hear and what you need to do. And so if you're coming into this work, and you and you realize that you got a pivot, and you have to do something else in this field, or in the world of consulting, then do that thing and be be confident in what you have to do for yourself. Because caring for yourself is going to take you a lot farther than try to ignore what you need, in the pursuit of success.   Michael Hingson  57:00 Gotta really deal with your own personality.   Paige A Riggins  57:04 You do? It's important to do it. What what actually comes with your your personality? Have you   Michael Hingson  57:13 always wanted to be in a field related to diversity, inclusion and equity? Or however, is that something you adopted over time or, you know, because you taught and you obviously, enjoy doing that, and so on, and you're what you're in now, though, you're working with the Department of Education, it's a little different than then what you were doing when you were teaching, I would think   Paige A Riggins  57:41 I would definitely say that, even when it came to teaching I didn't always want to teach. It really wasn't until I started to just kind of see inconsistencies, even when, even when I was in grade school, and when I graduated from high school. That was after the murder of Trayvon Martin. And it really started to make me think what was the difference between he and I, when it came to to becoming a hashtag. And all throughout college, I went to college for writing for print and digital media, short term journalism. And even though I loved meeting new people, interviewing people, it still did not feel like what I want it to be. And so I would say that reaching young children in the world of like reading and English language arts and then pivoting to also do diversity, equity and inclusion work alongside teaching it. It used to seem kind of out of the blue until I always think back to that moment where I asked myself that question once. I initially heard the news about Trayvon Martin and so just kind of coming to a point where I was face to like deal with race and and other aspects of a person's identity especially with this being after my mom lost the ability to like walk on her own and having to like really grapple with what does it mean for someone to be able to have access and navigate through our society, effort equitably? And that's really what what not only led to teaching but then to also working in a school district focused on equity and then also doing my own work around workplace culture and ensuring that people have different structures of protection for their marginalized identities. Yeah, it just it all, it all kind of seems like puzzle pieces that fell into place, even as I'm talking to you now.   Michael Hingson  1:00:21 I think that's an interesting way to put it that they're all puzzle pieces. And it all goes back to you made choices that led to other choices that led to other choices to do what you're doing. And you sound like you have no regrets. Oh, no,   Paige A Riggins  1:00:37 none at all, which is great moments, when education definitely made, made it seem like the world was just crashing down around me. There was no choice that I have not made that I have regretted.   Michael Hingson  1:00:57 And that's good you and you've obviously given a lot of thought to all of that, and, and it helps you move forward. Have you done any writing blogs or books or anything?   Paige A Riggins  1:01:08 Um, right now, I do have a newsletter called shifting the culture, it's on LinkedIn. People can find it via my professional LinkedIn page. But that's where I put my writing to use when I'm talking about workplace culture right now. And as far as just using my writing skills, I do my own short stories for fun, just to Lexmark creative muscles for you, when I get the chance.   Michael Hingson  1:01:40 Once you get enough of them, you can put them into a book.   Paige A Riggins  1:01:44 You know, I just had a friend say that the other day, and I bet thought kind of scares me a little. But I guess that'll be the next risk that I take at some point.   Michael Hingson  1:01:56 Consider it an adventure.   Paige A Riggins  1:01:59 Hmm, I'll think about it that way. Because it scares me when I think about it as a risk.   Michael Hingson  1:02:05 Well, if people want to reach out to you, and maybe contact you or whatever, how do they do that? And what is your your LinkedIn page, we'll put those things in the notes, but at the same time, tell us any contact information that you'd like to do right now.   Paige A Riggins  1:02:21 So sure, so if people want to reach out to me, you can either email me at contact at cultureof equityllc.com Or you can find me on LinkedIn, my name on LinkedIn is Paige A Riggins and just to kind of circle back to the A the A stands for, Ariana, but I really want to, I always include it and then people ask, Are there multiple PAige Riggins in the organization? No, I just like with those two ways, that   Michael Hingson  1:02:56 people who spoke paid this spell Paige A Riggin's and so on.   Paige A Riggins  1:03:00 Sure. So Paige P A I G E. A and then Riggins R I G G I N S. And just for my, my email, that is contact C O N T A C T at culture of equity, LLC, C U L T U R E  OF E Q U I T Y L L C, dot C O M   Michael Hingson  1:03:28 There you go. Well, I hope people will reach out. This has been an absolutely fascinating discussion as far as I am concerned. And I do hope that you listening out there felt the same. We got to cover a lot of different areas today and went far and wide and discussions. And that's what really makes unstoppable mindset so much fun. And Paige, I really appreciate the stories and the insights that you bring to it. And I hope we can do this again.   Paige A Riggins  1:04:02 Of course, and thank you so much. I love this conversation. And I just appreciate what you brought to the table when it came to your perspective. And thank you for sharing.   Michael Hingson  1:04:16 Well, thank you and for all of you when you're listening out there, please give us a five star rating wherever you rate podcasts, especially if you're on Apple and iTunes because those are the numbers that people tend to pay the most attention to, but I'd love to hear your thoughts as well please email me, Michaelhi M I C H A E L H I  at accessiBE A C C E S S I B E.com. 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With her love for hospital medicine, internal medicine was a natural choice. When the house is on fire western medicine does well at putting the fire out. When you want to rebuild the house alternative forms of medicine are great options. Western medicine and alternative forms of medicine like OMT work hand in hand. Dr. Dean herself suffered from severe Guillain Barre which forced her to close her internal medicine OMT practice.  She was treated with cranial osteopathy by an ONMM physician during her illness which she says caused her seizures to diminish. The experience of OMT improved her quality of life so much she chose to go back to ONMM residency. Now she provides this service to patients at the hospital. Providing relief from the wear and tear of life through OMT.  dramydean@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/benjamin--greene/message

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Nathan is 47 years old, married, and a father of 3. A decent high school athlete, he was always a hard gainer. He was a lightly recruited basketball player in TX but started gaining muscle weight when he went to college. He dropped out after some financial issues during his senior year and joined the Army in 1999. After learning Arabic, he got to Ft. Bragg just before 9/11 and spent the next 8 years going back and forth to Afghanistan and Iraq as a member of Delta Force. He left the Army in 2010, finished college, took a couple of MMA fights, and then served 5 years as an operative in the US Intelligence community. He left that in 2015 and has owned a couple of consulting businesses and done government-related Independent Contracting since then. He does some health and wellness coaching on the side. He has always worked out, stayed fit, and he was a stand-out "military athlete." He ate whatever he wanted, and stayed "fit" but dealt with injuries and "aging" related issues. Adult acne, radial neuropathy, premature balding, skin tags, signs of inflammation (gingivitis, tinnitus, plantar fasciitis, etc.). He found keto in 2016 and was blown away. He went carnivore in 2019 and was even further blown away. He was intensely sick and didn't know it until he had the benefit of hindsight with zero-carb. In August 2022, he developed Gullian-Barre Syndrome. They told him he'd be an inpatient for 6-8 weeks, do inpatient physical therapy for 3-4 months, and then do outpatient physical therapy for however long it took to regain the movement, feeling, strength, and endurance that he'd lost (assuming he ever regained it). He walked out of the hospital 2 weeks after he entered under his own power. He went to his first outpatient PT appointment the next day and the doctor told him not to come back because he couldn't do anything for him. It took a few weeks for some residual numbness to disappear, but he feels back to new. Some people think his diet put him in the hospital, but he knows his diet got him out faster than anyone on his treatment team could fathom. Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer 00:47 Introduction 03:08 Intensely sick, brainfog, ADHD 05:36 Guillain-Barre syndrome diagnosis 08:26 Guillain-Barre syndrome causes 10:08 Guillain-Barre syndrome progression 13:05 Lumbar puncture to diagnose Guillain-Barre syndrome 14:06 Immunoglobulin therapy 16:23 Making full recovery 18:32 Hospital food 20:41 Guillain-Barre prognosis 22:55 No residual symptoms 26:05 Outpatient neurologist's opinion: “abnormal case of Guillain-Barre” 27:45 Other things that improved on the carnivore diet 30:47 On the ketogenic diet 32:33 Current diet with family 36:25 LDL and old people's health 38:22 Obesity in children 40:34 ACL injuries in children 43:32 Demonizing red meat 45:00 Peak performance and meat 49:23 Closing See open positions at Revero: https://jobs.lever.co/Revero/ Join Carnivore Diet for a free 30 day trial: https://carnivore.diet/join/ Book a Carnivore Coach: https://carnivore.diet/book-a-coach/ Carnivore Shirts: https://merch.carnivore.diet Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://carnivore.diet/subscribe/ . ‪#revero #shawnbaker #Carnivorediet #MeatHeals #HealthCreation   #humanfood #AnimalBased #ZeroCarb #DietCoach  #FatAdapted #Carnivore #sugarfree  ‪

What you'll learn in this episode: How synesthesia—the ability to hear colors and see music—has impacted William's work Inside William's creative process, and why he never uses sketches or finishes a piece in one sitting Why jewelry artists should never scrap a piece, even if they don't like it in the moment The benefits of being a self-taught artist, and why art teachers should never aim to impart their style onto their students How a wearer's body becomes like a gallery wall for jewelry About William Harper Born in Ohio and currently working in New York City, William Harper is considered one of the most significant jewelers of the 20th century. After studying advanced enameling techniques at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Harper began his career as an abstract painter but transitioned to enameling and studio craft jewelry in the 1960s. He is known for creating esoteric works rooted in mythology and art history, often using unexpected objects such as bone, nails, and plastic beads in addition to traditional enamel, pearls, and precious metals and stones. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Crafts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A retrospective of his work, William Harper: The Beautiful & the Grotesque, was exhibited at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2019. Additional Resources: William's Instagram Photos available on TheJewelryJourney.com Transcript: Rather than stifle his creativity, the constraints of quarantine lockdown and physical health issues helped artist-jeweler William Harper create a series of intricate jewels and paintings imbued with meaning. After 50+ years as an enamellist, educator and artist in a variety of media, he continues to find new ways to capture and share his ideas. He joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about his creative process; why he didn't want his art students to copy his style; and why he never throws a piece in progress away, even if he doesn't like it. Read the episode transcript here. Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the second part of a two-part episode. If you haven't heard part one, please head to TheJewelryJourney.com. I'd like to welcome back one of today's foremost jewelers, William Harper. To say he is a jeweler leaves out many parts of him. He's a sculptor, an educator, an artist, an enamellist, and I'm sure I'm leaving out a lot more. Welcome back.    Yes. Is that how you got to the collection you did during lockdown quarantine?   William: Yes. I live in New York, and New York had almost a complete shutdown. My husband and I were afraid we were going to come down with a disease if we intermingled with too many people. We essentially were in lockdown or quarantine for several months. In that period, I decided I wanted to do something absolutely different from anything I had done before, and I wanted it to be politically motivated. So, just as Goya or Manet or Picasso did important paintings based on criticizing a political body—in Guernica, for instance, Picasso was painting the disruption of the small town of Guernica in Spain. Very powerful. I wanted to see if I could do that in jewelry, which was really strange, I have to say.    I had been playing for at least a year with the idea of trying to do a piece inspired by the expression “the tainted fruit of the poisoned tree.” That's an obtuse way of approaching a piece of jewelry, but I thought of it in terms of the bottom of the tree, the poisoned tree, was our ex-president. At the top, there were elements that represented his monstrous children. You see my politics right there. It's a beautiful piece. If you know the substance behind it, it will mean more to you, but you don't have to. I wanted each piece to be beautiful. Now, my idea of beauty can be unlike a lot of people's, but I think an artist has to know his guidelines for what he wants to be beautiful. There's nothing wrong with the term “ugly” if it has an aesthetic purpose. I did this entire series on that idea.   Sharon: Does quarantine mean something besides—   William: No.   Sharon: Do people ever choose your pieces because of the political message?   William: In this last group, the Quarantine Pieces, there were 10. The first two I sold were to a collector who appreciated very much the political leanings behind it. You don't have to know. If I had someone come in that I knew was a staunch Republican, I wouldn't tell them what the motivation was. Well, maybe I would, and then I'd tell them they weren't special enough to own one of my pieces.   Sharon: I was asking about quarantine, and you said you didn't mean more. Let me ask you this. You taught for more than 20 or 25 years at Florida, right?   William: I taught for 21 years at Florida. Before that, I taught for three years at Kent State. Before that, I taught for three years in a Cleveland high school.    Sharon: So, it's 30.   William: Yes. I came to the conclusion not too long after I started teaching in college that a lot of people were there and didn't really know what they were doing. They were able to get tenure simply by hanging on long enough. But in teaching at a high school, it forced me to be very exact about what I wanted them to do, and yet allow them to have a lot of leeway to do anything original and outside the box. I consider those three years in high school to have been very important to me as a college instructor. I guess it worked, because at the end of my 21 years at Florida State, I was named a distinguished professor. So, I guess my teaching methods paid off.   Sharon: Do you think you can impart your ideas? It sounds like you imparted them to high school students, but can you teach your ideas?   William: No, I don't want to teach my ideas. I want to teach a subject matter or a format in terms of a specific media. Maybe it's a drawing problem. I remember early on in my first year of teaching, I came across a group of toadstools in the yard that were starting to shrivel. I picked up enough to give each table triple toadstools. I simply put them on a piece of white paper on the table, and I said, “This is your inspiration. Now, what do you do with it? And it has to be in pencil.” That was how I handled that situation. If a student's work starts to look like mine, they were not a successful student and I was not a successful instructor.    I have always urged students to find their own voice. A lot of people can't do that. They have mastered a technique, but if the technique leaves you cold when it's finished, then it's not very successful. I want some kind of emotional connection with whatever they feel when they're creating or painting or making a piece of jewelry. I want to see that they have made a connection to what they are deep, deep down and have it come out in their work.    When I taught at Florida State, I was a very popular teacher. Students who were in engineering or communications or theatre would take my course and then decide they wanted it to be their major. I would tell them their father was paying far too much money for them to go to college to major in something that was going to be totally useless to them when they were out of college. I considered that a very important part of my teaching, because I didn't want people getting bogged down. I didn't need high numbers of students. As long as I knew they were taking it as an elective, I was fine with it. If said they wanted to major in it, I had to make sure I foresaw that they would have it in them to do well.   Sharon: When did you decide you could part ways and make a living from this?   William: That was a rather difficult thing to determine. It was a goal, but I didn't know if I would ever get to it. In 1995, I had been represented for a few years by an outstanding New York gallery, Peter Joseph Gallery. He handled high-end, handmade furniture. It wasn't anything you would find in a furniture store; it was artist furniture, and he decided he wanted to add me to his group. I was the lone jeweler within the group of artists in his gallery, and it was a gallery that only represented a small number of people. I think when I was in it, there were only 11 or 12 artists he represented. He was able to sell my work very well.    I always wanted to be able to just throw in the towel and see if I could do it on my own. In the spring of 1995, when I found out I was being named distinguished research professor, there were two other gentlemen in meteorology who were also named. I was always upset at how low my salary was in comparison to a lot of other people. In Florida, every library had to have a book of what every professor made and what they taught in terms of their load. The gentlemen in meteorology were making three times what I was making.    I spoke with my then-wife and said, “It's time to take a chance and see if I could do it by myself.” I prepared myself the next day with a folder that had a resignation letter in it. I went to the vice president who was in charge of everything and said, “There's a disparity of treatment with the three of us.” They were all making three times as much money as I was, and I at least wanted to be brought up closer to what I should have been paid considering what my title suggested. When I told the vice president that, he said, “Bill, you know you have the weakest team in the college. I can't depend on your department to bring any enhancement of reputation,” and I said, “Well, in that case, I resign.” He looked at me quizzically, and I pulled out my letter and said, “Here it is,” and I signed it and gave it to him.    It was the only way I could do it. Then I was forced to go home and get a studio and do things I knew could sell enough to keep us at the same level we had been at when I had a university job. I should say the one cog in the wheel I was able to overcome—and people don't necessarily know this about me, but in 1990, both of my retinas detached. I had to have emergency surgery. After several surgeries, my right eye was fairly stabilized. I don't have much peripheral vision, but it was stabilized. My left eye, I'm totally blind. I'm halfway towards Beethoven, who wrote his last symphony without being able to hear the music. My one eye serves me well enough, obviously, to continue making rather intricate work.   Sharon: How come your jewelry is so different? It's certainly not mainstream. It's gorgeous, but it's not mainstream. What would you say makes it so different?   William: I'm just special. It's the format I've already described. I don't want to make jewelry that's like anybody else's. I definitely don't want to fall into categorization.   Sharon: Have you thought about doing production, more than one?   William: I tried it once and it was a total failure. My daughter had a boyfriend who knew someone who was the vice president of one of those TV networks where you could call and buy things. Carl said, “Bill, come up with a group of pieces, and I'll see that so-and-so is able to see them so you can become part of the team.” I worked and worked and worked, and they weren't me, and I didn't think they were vanilla enough for the home shopping network to carry. So, that was the end of that. I knew it wasn't within my set of talents to do that. You asked how it is—   Sharon: I can't remember what I asked. Do you see people on the street, let's say two women, or a man and a woman who wears a brooch and says, “Oh, that's a William Harper. You must know him,” or “I know who that is”?   William: My funniest story about that is when my ex-wife and I were in Venice. It was a foggy morning, and we sat down in a café to have some cappuccino or hot chocolate or something like that. I had to turn my head because I don't have any sight in the left eye, but from my left I saw a couple coming. They were chattering away, and then I could tell the gentleman was trying to describe to the woman the piece of very large, spectacular jewelry my wife was wearing. They passed close enough so I would hear it. They thought they were insulting me. The gentleman said, “You see that piece of jewelry? There's a man in the United States named William Harper, much, much better than that.” I didn't correct him. I thought it was a story I could hold onto the rest of my life. Actually, it was a compliment.    Sharon: It is. Why do you say your work is fearless? I would say it is fearless, but why would you say that?   William: The word I was trying to think of before was branding. I'm not a brand.   Sharon: Right, you're not a brand.    William: But anyone who sees one of my works, if they're remotely familiar with the field, they will know it's mine. Many ladies tell me that they were wearing a piece of my jewelry and a stranger would come up to them and say, “Excuse me. That's a beautiful piece of jewelry. Is it a William Harper?” Or maybe they didn't even know who it was, and the wearer would say, “Yes, it's Harper. Isn't it beautiful?” That's happened a number of times. I love when a lady reports that back to me.    Sharon: Is it fearless?   William: It's not your everyday piece of jewelry that a lady's going to wear. It is more potent than that. I also hope—although I can't force it, obviously—when someone owns a piece of mine that they dress accordingly, where the outfit they have is secondary to the piece of jewelry. I have seen my jewelry on the lapels of a Chanel jacket, and that combination doesn't help either one of us.   Sharon: I can see why that doesn't work. When you're deciding how to do something, are you thinking about how you can be different or fearless, or how the piece can be different?    William: I don't worry about that. I have enough confidence in my creative ability to know that it will come out strange enough. Even within the art jewelry movement, my work is fairly in the category of not being a decorative pin, let's say, that has no life to it, that's put on somebody's sweater. That kind of work becomes an adornment to the costume the lady is wearing. I want my work, as I said, to be strong enough that the lady is going to have to sublimate what she would like to wear and get clothes that are very plain.    For instance, the red blouse you have on would be a perfect foil for one of my pieces in navy blue or black. In a way, she is becoming like the wall that holds a beautiful painting. It's the same way. Her body is the presentational element for my piece of jewelry to really perform.   Sharon: What have you been doing in terms of your jewelry since the restrictions lifted?   William: When I finished the tenth piece in the Quarantine Series, which was March 22, 2020, I had worked until 2:00 in the morning. I was very happy with what I had done. I had just finished the piece absolutely and I went to bed. The next morning, I woke and could not move anything in my body. I thought I had had a stroke, but after several days in the hospital, I was diagnosed with a very rare affliction. It's an auto-immune disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome It's not fatal, but it's a menace because you lose almost everything, like walking. I couldn't sign my own name, for instance. I had to go through a long process of physical therapy. I'm 95% functional, but I don't feel that I'm ready to take a chance with a torch or deal with anything where I could hurt myself or, god forbid, burn down the apartment. The entire building would shake.    So, I tried to keep away from that, but in the process, I knew I had to do something. My husband and some close friends said, “Bill, you love to paint. You love to draw. You love collages.” So, I have spent the time since then doing very intricate collage drawings that became very, very colorful. They're all 24x30, I believe, and they're really very beautiful. About a month ago, I was giving a lecture at Yale, and when I showed these slides and drawing collages to the head of the department, he said, “I can see they're absolutely you. They look just like something you would have done without looking like your jewelry.” That was the highest compliment he could give me. I really have enjoyed doing it. I think making those saved my mental health because I've had something to do.    It's still hard for me to go to a museum because I can't stand long enough to walk around, and I refuse to go in a wheelchair. I don't want to do that. So, I've been restricted to what I can do in terms of being ambulatory. For instance, it was just this week that I finally, with the aid of my husband—who's also a Bill, incidentally—to start using public transportation. Until then I had used car services, which over a month's time, when you can't do anything else and you have to go to doctors and physical therapy and stuff like that, becomes disgustingly expensive. I knew I didn't want to keep doing that. It was eating into my savings. So, I thought, “O.K., Bill, it's time to start using public transportation.” I've used it three times without any problem, but my husband is with me. I have trouble going up and down steps sometimes, so he wants to make sure I don't trip and fall and get mangled by all the other troops coming out of the train that just want to get wherever they're going to.    Sharon: But you give lectures still?   William: Oh, yeah, for a long time. Colleges, art schools, universities with art departments. We're not really in session, so there wasn't any lecture to give—   Sharon: I keep forgetting, yes.   William: —when all those things are shut down. The lecture at Yale—and that's a pretty good place to start—was the first time I had done that for years.   Sharon: Wow! I want to say thank you very much because I learned a lot about you today.   William: Thank you, Sharon. It's been lovely to be here with you.   Sharon: We will have photos posted on the website. Please head to TheJewelryJourney.com to check them out.   Thank you again for listening. Please leave us a rating and review so we can help others start their own jewelry journey.

Lori King is a working mom of two who recovered from both an eating disorder and Guillain-Barre syndrome and manages to conquer some of the world's most intimidating ocean swims. The award-winning marathon swimmer's many accomplishments include the Catalina channel swim (20 mi), the Manhattan Island swim (28.5 mi, the 8 Bridges Hudson River Staged Swim (7 days, 8 bridges, 120 miles), Capri-Napoli, Ibiza Marathon swim, and Kalamata, Greece. In 2016, the Long Island mother of two became the first woman (and second person) to successfully swim the 36.5 miles around the island of Bermuda in just over 21 hours.This past June Lori swam the Ka'iwi channel (the Channel of Bones), one of the hardest channels in the world to complete due to its rough conditions and active sea life. And in August 2022 she swam from Block Island, RI  to Montauk, NY, a challenge that's been called the “local Everest of swimming.” Connect with LoriWebsiteInstagramIn this episode, we discussGrowing up as a swimmer and the performance anxiety that cropped up during adolescenceThe comment from a doctor that served as a catalyst for Lori's eating disorderHow she got into eating disorder recovery Her Guillain-Barre diagnosis and how her body has changed since the diagnosis Why she does open water marathon swims and how her crew motivates herHow she trains for a marathon swim    Cold water acclimation Her recent swim from Block Island, RI to Montauk, NYWhy she worries more about jellyfish than shark during ocean swimsLinks/ResourcesEight Bridges Hudson River Stage Swim New York Times story on Lori King's swim from Block Island to Montauk Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui   PRP injections (efficacy study)Bonnie Schwartz, swim coachLori's Swimpedia pageGuillain-Barre Syndrome 

Monologue Dr. Joel Wallach begins the show discussing cholesterol deficiencies. Stating that Alzheimer's, MS and Guillain-Barre syndrome are all due to cholesterol deficiency. Stating that all three can be prevented and reversed by adding cholesterol to the diet. Contending people should also be supplementing with all 90 essential nutrients. Pearls of Wisdom Doug Winfrey and Dr. Wallach discuss a news article regarding the health benefits of supplementing with magnesium. Getting enough magnesium helps support a healthy heart, skeletal system and inflammatory response. Helps maintain steady blood pressure, blood sugar and energy levels. Callers Anthony has type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and peripheral neuropathies. Diane is experiencing blurry eyes, nail fungus and dizziness. Larry has panic attacks has insomnia and leaky gut syndrome. BJ has a friend with high blood pressure and global amnesia. Call Dr. Wallach's live radio program weekdays from noon until 1pm pacific time at 831-685-1050 or toll free at 888-379-2552.

Monologue Dr. Joel Wallach begins the show discussing cholesterol deficiencies. Stating that Alzheimer's, MS and Guillain-Barre syndrome are all due to cholesterol deficiency. Stating that all three can be prevented and reversed by adding cholesterol to the diet. Contending people should also be supplementing with all 90 essential nutrients. Pearls of Wisdom Doug Winfrey and Dr. Wallach discuss a news article regarding a study of eczema. The study found that people with eczema experienced a reduction in eczema symptoms when they eliminated some foods from their diet. Researchers found that products made from cow's milk can trigger eczema flare-ups. Other foods such as wheat, eggs, and nuts are also known triggers for eczema. Callers Jennette has questions concerning asthma. Charlie has RA (rheumatoid arthritis), peripheral neuropathes and joint pain. Vader is experiencing low back pain. Greg has a friend with high cholesterol levels and atrial fibrillation. Call Dr. Wallach's live radio program weekdays from noon until 1pm pacific time at 831-685-1080 or toll free at 888-379-2552.

What happens when your husband forgets you had sex yesterday? Or when bird's nests and little figurines begin showing up in your house unexpectedly? What happens when death becomes a regular topic at the dinner table? In Episode 18, we have Dr. Melanie Dorado Wilson answering all of these questions and more as she grapples with the reality of her husband living with moderate Alzheimer's disease. Living amongst Alzheimer's disease is a complex reality of beauty, sadness, grace, loss, forgiveness, acceptance, and love. In the United States, more than six million Americans are living with Alzheimer's, and by 2050, that number will rise to 13 million. One may think that this episode would be full of sadness, but in reality, as Paul's condition worsens his childlike imagination and propensity for play has increased-making their home a nest of toys and joy. As Melanie's time with the Paul she knows and loves evolves, there is a recognition that every moment spent with him matters. Time is of the essence as his mind continues to evolve and change. Melanie shares their decades-long love story of marriage, parenthood, and multiple degenerative diseases including Paul's battles with Guillain-Barre syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. Together, we explore how Melanie is able to balance being a compassionate partner, lover, caregiver, and mother, and she provides a wealth of knowledge and wisdom for those who find themselves becoming the caregivers of loved ones. Wanna Learn More? Follow Dr. Melanie Wilson on Instagram at onebadbead Learn more from the Alzheimer's Association https://www.alz.org/ Don't Forget Subscribe to Ladybits and Leadership on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and rate and review us so others can find our community. Make sure to connect with me on Instagram and join our Facebook group If you have ideas for the podcast, including topics and possible guests, or are interested in working with me in individual and group coaching, please email me at sara@ladybitsandleadership.com

THE THESIS: The Party's Mockingbird Media Is hiding the most important stories of our time because they know, if people found out the truth, the politicians would be forced to turn on The Party bosses.  THE SCRIPTURE & SCRIPTURAL RESOURCES:  Luke 8:17 17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Matthew 10:26 26 “So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. THE NEWS & COMMENT: The magnitude of the Covid crimes cannot stay hidden forever. Where will you be when this is all finally documented as history? What will you be able to say you did to fight this? If you are in “journalism” and healthcare, you will probably be left to either lie--”I didn't know”--or confess: “I knew and did nothing …”  Never did I think I would  watch as Naomi Wolfe came to agree with me on such a major issue. But, she has. Now, Naomi may be one of the most important figures in documenting the ongoing murder of people at the largest, most industrial scale ever in human history . . . the story her former colleagues in “news” and “journalism” refuse to touch: Facing the Beast; Can We Really Confront the Biggest Crime in Human History? (thank you to Podcast family member, Michelle who sent this to me!) Since I first started reading the reports produced by the 3000 medical and scientific experts of the WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Research Volunteers team, based on the 55000 Pfizer documents released under court order, I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong, not just a greedy pharmaceutical company and a regulatory agency that was fully corrupted, but rather, or additionally, I was seeing a massive act of war.  When I saw the eighteen months' worth of sudden deaths, slow deaths, encephalies, strokes, heart attacks, pericarditis, myocarditis, Guillain Barre, Bell's palsy, MS, blood clots, lung clots, leg clots, blue-green breast milk, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, neonatal seizures, neonatal multi-organ system failure, liver damage, kidney damage, suppressed lactation, suppressed sperm count, disrupted menses, all detailed the Pfizer documents; when I saw the fact that 34,000 plus of the 42000 plus adverse events “cases” itemized in the worldwide rollout of the Pfizer injections, were sustained in the US — with the next largest group being sustained in Western Europe - and that the 56 countries around the world that also had Pfizer injections rolled out, amounted for only a bit over 7000 adverse events total — I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but rather that I was seeing an act of war. When I saw the doubling of neonatal deaths in country after country, the rise of 34% above normal in stillbirths and spontaneous abortions for vaccinated versus unvaccinated mothers; when I saw that 3816 vaccinated women in the VAERS database lost their babies — 57% of all the neonatal deaths in all the time that VAERS records had been kept — ; when I saw that of 36 pregnancies followed in the Pfizer documents, 28 of the babies died ; when I saw the rise of 40 per cent in death rates and the shocking rise in cases of disability in the West  I knew I was not seeing just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but that I was witnessing an act of war. And, the Propaganda of Silence [™] as I have named it is the most powerful weapon the Mockingbird Media has to help the rest of The Party achieve their goals. A Pew Research piece on the views of journalists vs. Americans reveals that most people who work in “news” do not believe they need to provide unbiased reporting by telling all sides of a story. That presents us with an obvious follow-up question: which side of the story do they tell?  This study shows why most Americans don't trust the media.  It's because the media doesn't trust most Americans.  Reporters today, especially younger reporters & media outlets whose audience leans left, don't believe in telling both sides of a story. . . . For me most part, people in “news” tell The Party's side of the story: Here's Why The Media Don't Want You To Know About The Massive Protests Going On Around The Globe But, that is not true of Mark Styen, now at GBTV. Mark has always been among the bravest people in media. Early on, he saw the climate catastrophe scheme--then called “global warming”--for the Covid style hoax it was and is to this day. Mark spent nearly a decade fighting a lawsuit all the smart people said he should settle. A suit against one the most vile and dishonest of the climate hustlers. Mark is continuing to fight and beat this liar in courts. Now, Mary Steyn is going where very few people in “news” will go; he is interviewing people injured by the mRNA and the family members of people killed by these gene sequencing concoctions.  [AUDIO] - God bless Mark Steyn for airing interviews with people injured by the mRNA gene sequencing concoctions Mark Steyn speaks to step-daughters of Lucy Taberer, who died after taking the Covid vaccine in March of 2021.  [AUDIO] - 'I'm really angry about it, she spent the last ten days of her life alone and I can only imagine absolutely terrified and scared.' Our medical establishment is injecting children with wrong sex homones, chemically sterilising and mutilating them. They are killing babies and selling their body parts on a massive basis. These are the same establishment medical organizations that allowed themselves to believe--and convinced “journalists”--that hammering an icepick through a person's skull and into their brain was a cure for depression. But, these people would never, EVER get fooled, conned, threatened and/or bribed into pushing deadly gene sequencing concoctions on the population---right?  Will 100 Million Die From the COVID Vax by 2028? An onslaught of reproductive and cancer cases related to the shots are also anticipated. “The fact of the matter is an enormous number of people who are injected are already carrying the seeds of their own demise,” Martin said.11 As for how many may die, Martin believes the numbers may have been revealed back in 2011, when the World Health Organization announced their “decade of vaccination”:12 “Based on their own 2011 estimate, and … this is a chilling estimate, but we just have to put it out there … When the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Chinese CDC, the Jeremy Farrar Wellcome Trust and others published The Decade of Vaccination for the World Health Organization back in 2011 their stated objective was a population reduction of 15% of the world's population. Put that in perspective, that's about 700 million people dead … and that would put the U.S. participation in that certainly as a pro rata of injected population somewhere between 75 and 100 million people.” When asked what timeframe these people may die in, Martin suggested “there's a lot of economic reasons why people hope that it's between now and 2028.”13 This is because of “a tiny little glitch on the horizon” — the projected illiquidity of the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs by 2028. “So the fewer people who are recipients of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the better,” Martin said. “Not surprisingly, it's probably one of the motivations that led to the recommendation that people over the age of 65 were the first ones getting injected.”14 Other populations at risk are caregivers, including health care providers, and others in the workforce who were forced to be injected, such as pilots. “Why is it that we're suddenly having 700 flights a day being canceled because, allegedly, airlines don't have pilots? … the dirty secret … is there a lot of pilots who are having microvascular problems and clotting problems, and that keeps them out of the cockpit, which is a good place to not have them if they're going to throw a clot for a stroke or a heart attack,” Martin said. “But the problem is we're going to start seeing that exact same phenomenon in the health care industry and at a much larger scale, which means we now have, in addition to the problem of the actual morbidity and mortality, meaning people getting sick and people dying. We actually have that targeting the health care industry writ large, which means we are going to have doctors and nurses who are going to be among the sick and the dead. And that means that the sick and the dying also do not get care.”15 The same Mockingbird Media that promotes abortions at any time during--and nearly after--prgenancy … [AUDIO] - CNN: 10-Year-Old Rape Victims Crossing State Lines What Post-Roe USA Looks Like . . .  dutifully ignores the actions of The Party that lead to these circumstances (like allowing criminal illegal aliens to remain here), and the societal rot and that would have a mother defending a man who raped her 10 year old daughter:  [AUDIO] - Mother of 10-Year-Old Ohio Rape Victim Goes on Telemundo, Defends Rapist MARIA VARGAS PION, TELEMUNDO: Did the girl live here as well? MOTHER: Yes, but she's fine. Everything that they're saying against him is a lie. VARGAS PION: And the child- are you related to her, or her mother? MOTHER: She's my daughter. VARGAS PION: The woman, who refused to provide her name and concealed her face, states that she has not filed charges against 27-year-old Gerson Fuentes, who is charged with rape.  Per the authorities, he confessed to having vaginal contact on at least two occasions with the girl who recently turned 10, therefore it is estimated that she may have been 9 years old when she was raped and (then) became pregnant. . . . while they also ignore what appear to be the criminal lies of the abortionist:  ‘This story keeps getting worse': Abortionist lists ‘approximate age' of alleged adult rapist as 17 in official report . . . also ignore one of the most interesting components of Mitch McConnell's obsession with Russia and Ukraine, where Hunter Biden (a likely pedophile and clear drug addict, national security threat), helped fun bio-labs.  Well, OAN reminded me of another phone call the figurehead made, way back in 2016 and before Biden was himself utterly demented. In this call, Biden predicts exactly what came to pass. The world financial system is “about to collapse” and the United States is further draining our Treasury to give unlimited funds to Ukraine.  [AUDIO] - Leaked audio from days after the 2016 election, before Trump's inauguration—Biden calls Poroshenko, then head of state of Ukraine, and threatens him with assassination if he cooperates with the incoming Trump administration. But, the same Mockingbirds are ignoring that phone call and its massive implications, just like they are ignoring the Covid murders. God have mercy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.