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My guest Nicole Bell is the CEO of Galaxy Diagnostics and author of What Lurks in the Woods. She came to this work after her husband's Lyme disease — along with co-infections Bartonella and Babesia — was misdiagnosed as early-onset Alzheimer's. He passed away in 2022. In this episode, we talk about why the standard Lyme test misses so many people (hint: it's 30-year-old technology that relies on antibody detection from a pathogen that actively suppresses your immune system), what co-infections like Bartonella and Babesia actually do to the brain and body, and how Galaxy Diagnostics is using urine-based antigen testing and digital PCR to find what older tests can't. We also get into the myths that keep people from getting the right diagnosis — including why only 14% of Lyme patients get the classic bullseye rash, why Lyme is present in all 50 states, and why finishing a round of doxycycline doesn't mean you're in the clear. If you or someone you love is dealing with unexplained mood changes, cognitive decline, chronic fatigue, anxiety, or joint pain — this conversation is worth your full attention. For the complete show notes, links and transcripts, visit inspiredliving.show/249
In Part 1 , Diagnostic Pathologist and HART co-chair Dr Clare Craig explained the serious risks to health from a recent change to UK law mandating the addition of folic acid to all white flour.In Part 2, this lively and engaging conversation broadens to cover several issues threatening medical ethics. From medical regulators persecuting Covid-dissident doctors in Irish tribunals to the “fantasy modelling” of the UK COVID Inquiry, to choreographed global virus scares, this episode pulls back the curtain on the corporate and political forces reshaping modern medicine.Key Themes Covered in This Episode:1. The Censorship and Tribunal Trials of Dissident DoctorsTargeting Ethical Doctors: In 2026, a number of Irish doctors have faced fitness to practice hearings for historically criticizing lockdowns, masks, and vaccine rollouts on social media.Policing Tone Over Truth: Dr Craig shares her experience providing expert testimony in Dublin for rural GP Dr Billy Ralph. She notes that medical tribunals focus heavily on policing and punishing a doctor's delivery and tone, rather than engaging with and evaluating the scientific truth of their statements.An Offensive Legal Strategy: Dr Billy Ralph's tribunal concluded with a legal advisor comparing Dr Ralph's critical social media posts to heinous crimes like theft and child abuse, prompting supporters in the public gallery to turn their chairs around in a silent protest.2. Exposing the UK COVID Inquiry's Statistical IllusionsThe OSR Complaint: Dr Craig and Dr Ros Jones recently submitted an official complaint to the Office for Statistics Regulation regarding Baroness Hallett's unverified and fantastical claim that vaccines saved 475,000 lives in England and Scotland alone.Fantasy Modelling: Dr Craig breaks down why this astronomical figure is a computer-generated statistical fantasy, completely decoupled from real-world wastewater tracking and natural immunity timelines.Sidelining the Injured: The UK Covid Inquiry deliberately omitted the direct testimonies of the vaccine-injured and bereaved, choosing instead to protect state bureaucracies by focusing entirely on high-level corporate systems and processes.3. Dissecting the “Pandemic Industry” PlaybookHantavirus Media Hype: Dr Craig debunks the recent cruise ship scare story, clarifying that data conclusively indicates that the few cases are due to localized rat exposure rather than a human-to-human transmission chain.Centralized Dictatorship: Dr Craig and Dr Evans discuss how WHO Director Tedros Ghebreyesus declared an Ebola global health emergency (PHEIC) himself, completely bypassing his emergency committee.Manipulated Metrics: Dr Craig highlights a massive discrepancy in the Democratic Republic of Congo Ebola outbreak narrative. Global bodies have claimed 250 deaths based on “suspected” cases, while the actual number of confirmed deaths stands at just 18.The Digital Agenda: These hyper-inflated viral scares are actively used to mandate fast-tracked pharmaceutical pipelines, PCR screening at borders, and implementation of centralized traveller tracking databases that threaten digital privacy.Choreographed Scare Cycles: Global media viral scare stories are highly cyclical, appearing intentionally ramped up by journalists to coincide with the annual World Health Assembly conference.4. Over-Medication and the Cancer “Cash Cow”Genetic Test Misdirection: Dr Craig previews her latest research into a heavily celebrated breast cancer genetic test, revealing that the test failed to accurately predict which patients would benefit from toxic chemotherapy. “The actual story is one of massive over-medication of women with toxic drugs and test failure.”The Next Profit Frontier: She warns that oncology screening and multi-cancer treatment drugs are being systematically positioned as the next massive cash cow for Big Pharma.ShareFollow Dr Clare Craig's WorkTwitter/X: @ClaireCraigPathArticles: Read articles written by Dr Craig on her own Substack or on HART's Substack and website.Books: Dr Craig's two books are a must read. She forensically analyses all aspects of the Covid era and jab rollout in “Expired: Covid the Untold Story” and “Spiked: A Shot in the Dark”. Both are available on Amazon.UKMFA: CALL TO ACTION: Please follow us and subscribe on our YouTube and Rumble channels and please share our content on social media and with friends and family, to help us get the message out and increase our reach.All our podcasts can also be found on the major audio platforms e.g. Apple and Spotify.Our Substack is found here: https://substack.com/@ukmfa1We are grateful for all donations to help us to continue and grow our work; lobbying decision makers; educating and empowering the public; running campaigns and producing our podcasts. You can use this link to donate directly: https://donorbox.org/ukmfa_podcast. Please visit the UK Medical Freedom Alliance at www.ukmedfreedom.org and https://substack.com/@ukmfa1 to access all our material and resources.
Víš, kolik bakterií nosíš v sobě? Přes 300 gramů živých mikroorganismů a jejich kondice rozhoduje o tvé imunitě, náladě, výkonu i tom, jak se po tréninku regeneruješ. V tomhle dílu jsme pozvali RNDr. Petra Ryšávku, mikrobiologa a specialistu na střevní mikrobiom, a rozebrali jsme to pořádně od základů:- Proč se náš mikrobiom za posledních 50 let dramaticky zhoršil, a co s tím má společného antibiotická éra, fast food i sedavý životní styl- Jak pohyb, spánek a stres přímo ovlivňují bakterie ve tvém střevě (a naopak, jak ony ovlivňují tebe)- Proč střevo ovlivňuje náladu, kognitivní funkce a dokonce i to, jestli budeš mít deprese- Má smysl brát probiotika preventivně? Co říká věda a proč jsou fermentované potraviny pořád nejlepší volba- Flavobiotika, polyfenoly, inulin: co skutečně funguje a co jsou jenom marketingové pojmy- Analýza mikrobiomu: jak poznat, že tvoje střevo není v pořádku, a co s tím dělatAť jsi sportovec, řešíš trávení, nebo tě prostě zajímá, proč se cítíš tak, jak se cítíš, tenhle podcast ti dá odpovědi, které od svého lékaře pravděpodobně neslyšíš.0:00 Úvod: host MUDr. Ryšávka, téma: mikrobiom1:30 Kdy jsme vlastně zjistili, co všechno v střevě žije? PCR a revoluce v mikrobiologii4:00 Zhoršuje se náš mikrobiom? Co se děje za posledních 50 let7:00 Antibiotika a nevratné změny, nová studie, mikrobiom po 4 letech10:00 Maminka předává poškozený mikrobiom dítěti, přerušená evoluce13:00 Kdy se mikrobiom zakládá? Od těhotenství po porod17:00 Mikrobiom matky ovlivňuje inteligenci a zdraví plodu21:00Porodní způsob, přirozený vs. císařský řez a jejich vliv na imunitu27:00 Kojení: mateřské mléko jako denní dávka probiotik + lidské mléčné oligosacharidy33:00 Jak se bakterie dostávají do mateřského mléka? (endogenní přenos)37:00 Jak poznám, že můj mikrobiom není v pořádku? Signály a příznaky40:00 Analýza mikrobiomu, má smysl? Diverzita jako klíčový ukazatel zdraví43:00Kurkumin, resveratrol, berberin, vstřebávají se, nebo ne? Role bakterií46:00 Probiotika: preventivně, při antibiotikách, nebo je to placebo?49:00 SIBO, inhibitory protonové pumpy, IBS moderní civilizační hrozby51:00 Inulin a pečení. Pozor na záměnu s fruktózou52:00 Závěr: pohyb, spánek, stres, strava, co mikrobiom potřebuje nejvíc
In the latest episode of Skadden's global series on prudential solvency, host Robert Chaplin is joined by Skadden colleagues Stan Amoah and James Pickstock to examine the regulatory frameworks governing two of Asia Pacific's most prominent insurance markets, Hong Kong and Singapore. The discussion covers Hong Kong's transition to a three-pillar risk-based capital regime under the Insurance (Amendment) Ordinance 2023, the Greater Bay Area initiative, Hong Kong's ILS hub, Singapore's evolving RBC2 framework, the matching adjustment and market entry routes for foreign insurers, among other in-depth analysis.
Liz Gunn speaks with researcher Clare Swinney about alarming preparations underway in New Zealand councils for a potential high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI / bird flu) scenario. Swinney details millions of dollars allocated by the Ministry for Primary Industries for planning, including chicken culling and carcass disposal, dairy cattle considerations, PPE stockpiling, water treatment, and emergency communications.The discussion examines the scientific claims, reliance on PCR testing, historical precedents of mass culling overseas, and parallels with previous pandemic responses. Swinney and Gunn question the transparency of these behind-the-scenes meetings and the potential impacts on food supply and public trust.Links:The Auckland HPAI Plan via Clare's article: https://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/nz-insider-warns-covid-blueprint-guiding-bird-flu-pandemic-planning/What's The Latest “Bird Flu” Scare Really About? (Article): https://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/whats-the-latest-bird-flu-scare-really-about/BBC article regarding the mRNA bird flu vaccine trial: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy41z0yj8mjoProf Jemma Geoghegan speaks about avian influenza (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2SLQiKFRx8The paper by David Crowe and Torsten Engelbrecht titled: Avian flu virus H5N1: No proof for existence, pathogenicity, or pandemic potential; non-“H5N1” causation omitted: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7173052/Dr Sam Bailey - Taking Away Your Chickens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsrV8ta8ox4Dr Sam Bailey - Secrets of Influenza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzGxKTzuDv0Jon Rappoport - The Creation of A False Epidemic: https://solari.com/the-creation-of-a-false-epidemic-with-jon-rappoport/Jon Rappoport on Substack: https://jonrappoport.substack.com/Avian influenza newsletters, fact sheets, science reports, and other resources (MPI): https://www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity/pest-and-disease-threats-to-new-zealand/animal-disease-threats-to-new-zealand/high-pathogenicity-avian-influenza/avian-influenza-newsletters-fact-sheets-and-other-resourcesNew Zealand Clinical Research - Current Trials: https://www.nzcr.co.nz/current-trials/More than One Billion NZ dollars to Moderna from US Government for mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine: https://fortune.com/well/article/bird-flu-vaccine-moderna-mrna-pandemic-influenza-immunization/Jon Fleetwood Article - $19.4 Billion Federal Influenza Pandemic Bill Introduced: H.R. 8447: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/194-billion-federal-influenza-pandemicVitamin D Is More Effective Than Flu Vaccine, Study Says,https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/12/09/vitamin-d-better-than-flu-vaccine.aspxWHO - Global Influenza Programme: https://www.who.int/teams/global-influenza-programme/avian-influenza/avian-a-h5n1-virusFollow Clare: https://clareswinney.wordpress.com/Contact Clare: clareswinney@hotmail.comSupport FreeNZ:Substack: https://freenz.substack.com/Locals: https://freenz.locals.comBuy Me A Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/supportfreenzKo-fi: https://ko-fi.com/freenzhttps://freenz.carrd.coEmail: freenewzealand[at]protonmail[dot]com for bank account details.Affiliates:Dioxi Care - Chlorine Dioxide based Oral Care, Skin Care & Veterinary & Wound Care: https://frontierpharm.com/?sca_ref=9717384.brQladA5pgSnoot Spray - Chlorine Dioxide based Nasal Cleaner: https://www.snootspray.com/?sca_ref=9667634.AV2NJQvGlTBlock Blue Light - Red Light Glasses, Full Spectrum Lightbulbs & Sleep Tools to optimise your light environment and prioritise your wellbeing: https://www.blockbluelight.co.nz/?ref=FreeNZMediaWide Awake Media - Freedom T-Shirts: https://wideawake.clothing/en-nz?sca_ref=9458851.1aXfjvGDqL
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If you've been dismissed, misdiagnosed, or told your symptoms are "just stress," this episode is for you. Board-certified plastic surgeon and explant specialist Dr. Robert Whitfield joins the conversation for a wide-ranging, no-filter discussion on what's really happening inside the bodies of women with breast implants — and why so many providers are still getting it wrong. Dr. Whitfield breaks down:
Você otimizou o LDL. Chegou na meta de ApoB. E o paciente volta meses depois com um novo evento. Neste episódio especial, com apoio da Novo Nordisk, Diandro Mota e William Batah recebem o Dr. Eduardo Lima, doutor em Cardiologia pela USP, professor colaborador e supervisor da Residência em Cardiologia da FMUSP/InCor e Head Nacional de Cardiologia da Rede Américas, para uma conversa que pode redefinir como você enxerga o risco residual. A tese é direta: a aterosclerose nunca foi só uma doença de colesterol. Ela é imunometabólica, e a inflamação subclínica pode ser o elo que faltava.O que você vai aprender:
No episódio de hoje do Check-up Semanal, o Dr. Ronaldo Gismondi, editor-chefe médico do Portal Afya e do Whitebook, comenta os principais destaques recentes em Cardiologia, com foco em tromboembolismo venoso, biomarcadores cardíacos, fibrilação atrial, parada cardiorrespiratória e prevenção secundária do AVC.Falamos sobre o estudo MODS e a proposta de um novo protocolo com D-dímero para suspeita de TEP, as potenciais aplicações da razão cTnI/cTnT na interpretação da lesão miocárdica, a comparação entre os escores HAS-BLED, ORBIT e DOAC-score para avaliação de risco hemorrágico na fibrilação atrial, os resultados de longo prazo do estudo COACT após PCR sem supra de ST e as novas estratégias para otimização da pressão arterial após AVC ou AIT.Leia na íntegra os artigos mencionados hoje:Existe diferença no risco de sangramento entre rivaroxabana e apixabana no TEV?A razão cTnI/cTnT na lesão miocárdicaQual o melhor escore para predizer sangramento na FA?Angiografia imediata versus tardia após PCR em IAMSSST – COACT trialOtimização da pressão arterial após a fase aguda do AVC: novas fronteiras
PCR alto significa infecção?Procalcitonina baixa exclui bactéria?O VHS ainda tem espaço na medicina moderna?Neste episódio do InfectoCast, Jordan, William e João discutem os principais marcadores inflamatórios utilizados na prática clínica e exploram como interpretar esses exames de forma mais inteligente e segura.Ao longo da conversa, revisitamos o papel do VHS, discutimos os mitos e verdades relacionados à Proteína C Reativa (PCR) e aprofundamos as indicações, limitações e aplicações práticas da Procalcitonina no contexto das infecções e da antibioticoterapia.
In Part 2 of this hantavirus series, Luis continues the conversation with Dr. Ryan Relich and Dr. Stephanie Seifert by focusing on the recent Andes virus cruise ship outbreak and what makes this hantavirus different from others. The discussion explores the outbreak investigation, the evidence for person-to-person transmission, and why the Andes virus has received so much attention from the public health community. Ryan and Stephanie also discuss diagnostic testing, including PCR and serology, the role of public health laboratories, current treatment options, prevention strategies, and how concerned the public should be about future outbreaks. Tune in for a closer look at Andes virus and its role in the recent cruise ship outbreak. Stay updated: https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/situation-summary/index.html Stay connected with Let's Talk Micro: Website: letstalkmicro.com Questions or feedback? Email me at letstalkmicro@outlook.com Interested in being a guest on Let's Talk Micro? Fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/V2fT3asjfyusmqyi8 Support the podcast: Venmo Buy me a Ko-fi
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APR President and CEO Steve Alexander joins Recycled Content to discuss APR's testimony before the Office of the United States Trade Representative and how low-priced imports are impacting domestic recyclers. Steve and Kara explore policy solutions, PCR certification, and why global conflict is not a long-term answer for the recycling industry.
Not all experiments are created equal, and neither are the decisions behind them. In this episode, Cam Cyr explores how scientists navigate the balance between cost and performance in molecular biology workflows. Drawing from his experience as a technical sales specialist, Cam breaks down what “performance” really means in practice, from enzyme fidelity and sensitivity to reproducibility and inhibitor tolerance. He highlights how these factors become critical in high-stakes applications like antibody engineering or single-cell analysis, where errors can propagate and compromise entire workflows. Through examples like reverse transcription enzymes and high-fidelity polymerases, Cam illustrates why premium products are often essential when working with rare samples or build-critical steps. At the same time, he explains where cost-saving approaches make sense where results are binary and easy to replicate, such as genotyping or routine screening. Ultimately, the conversation reframes how scientists should think about cost, not as price per reaction, but as cost per successful result. Along the way, Cam shares his career journey from bench science to a customer-facing role, offering perspective on the many paths available in life sciences and the importance of staying curious. Suggested Links: View Thermo Fisher reverse transcription and PCR enzymes Learn more about Thermo Scientific™ EquiPhi29™ DNA Polymerase Explore careers at Thermo Fisher Scientific Subscribe to get future episodes as they drop and if you like what you're hearing we hope you'll share a review or recommend the series to a colleague. Visit the Invitrogen School of Molecular Biology to access helpful molecular biology resources and educational content, and please share this resource with anyone you know working in molecular biology. For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.
In this episode, Cory Connors welcomes Kyle Pischel and Jake Wyns to discuss the Atlantic Packaging Solutions Center — what it is, how it came to be, and the innovative work happening inside it every day. Kyle shares his background in packaging, from studying at Michigan State to working on Coca-Cola's packaging innovations team before joining Atlantic. Jake recounts his decade at Atlantic, beginning with a deep dive into stretch film and evolving into unit load stability and e-commerce packaging. Together, they walk through the science of load containment, the design program, and the future of sustainable packaging materials.Key Topics Discussed:Kyle's career path from Michigan State and Coca-Cola to Atlantic Packaging and the MUST monitoring systemJake's background in stretch film performance testing and the fingerprinting of film propertiesThe origin story of the Solution Center: from Stretch University to a full technical hub in Charlotte, NCHow the MUST monitoring system tracks stretch film application and maintains standards set in the Solution CenterThe science of unit load containment — weight, coefficient of friction, stacking patterns, and pyramidal wrap profilesOver 15,000 horizontal impact tests and 5,000+ hours of vibration testing conducted at the facilityAtlantic's holistic approach to packaging: removing strapping, corner boards, and downgauging corrugated alongside stretch film optimizationThe in-house design program led by designer Mary Ashland, focused on sustainable material substitution and end-of-life strategyPost-consumer recycled (PCR) content in stretch film — finding the right percentage for performance and sustainabilityThe shift toward fiber-based packaging solutions and coated paper technologies for flow-wrap applicationsAtlantic's investment in Remo recycling equipment to process stretch film bales into PCR resinEPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) legislation as a driver of reduced virgin plastic usageResources Mentioned:Atlantic Packaging Solution Center MUST Monitoring SystemLandsmont multi-axis vibration equipmentClosed Loop System for Stretch FilmContact:Listeners interested in a Solution Center visit or packaging consultation can reach out through Atlantic Packaging's website or connect with Kyle Pischel and Jake Wyns directly.Thank you for tuning in to Sustainable Packaging with Cory Connors!Support our Sponsors Learn more here:- 3M- Specright- Forest Connect with CoryConnect with Cory on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-connors/I'm here to help you make your packaging more sustainable! Reach out today and I'll get back to you asap. This podcast is an independent production and the podcast production is an original work of the author. All rights of ownership and reproduction are retained—copyright 2022.
What if some of the biggest beliefs in modern medicine were built on assumptions we've never been taught to question? In this mind-bending conversation, I sit down with Dr. Jordan Grant, former urologist and co-founder of Grant Hormone & Wellness, to explore the deeper philosophical, scientific, and spiritual questions surrounding modern health. From viruses and lab testing to genetics, hormones, terrain theory, and the limits of "scientific certainty," this episode challenges listeners to think beyond the narratives most of us were raised to trust without question. Dr. Grant shares his journey from practicing within the traditional medical system to asking deeper questions that eventually transformed the way he viewed medicine, health, evidence, and the body itself. This is not a surface-level health conversation. It's an invitation to slow down, think critically, ask better questions, and reconsider what true health may actually look like. Topics Discussed: • Terrain theory vs. germ theory • The philosophical limits of "science" • Viruses, PCR testing & cytopathic effects • Genes, lab testing & medical assumptions • Testosterone, hormones & modern health • Faith, worldview & critical thinking • The hidden dangers of blind trust in authority • Why questioning assumptions matters
El líder del PP andaluz, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, ha logrado 53 diputados autonómicos, 5 menos que en las elecciones anteriores y se ha quedado a 2 de gobernar en solitario, su principal objetivo electoral. De esta manera, necesitará a VOX para gobernar. 13 de los 14 pasajeros del Hondius, se someten a una nueva prueba PCR. Si sigue siendo negativa, podrán salir de sus habitaciones, aunque continuarán aislados. En Cataluña, el 95% de las plazas de los centros de menores están gestionadas por empresas privadas. Los educadores sociales alertan del avance de la privatización de dichos espacios, que afecta directamente a los profesionales: cobran alrededor de un 40% menos que en los públicos.
Los 14 españoles en cuarentena esperan una prueba PCR el lunes para flexibilizar su aislamiento. El único contagiado mejora, mientras en Francia preocupa el estado grave de una mujer. Donald Trump y Xi Jinping se reúnen en Pekín para abordar la economía y la guerra en Irán, con Xi advirtiendo sobre la gestión de Taiwán. En deportes, el Real Madrid gana al Oviedo, con polémica por pancartas contra Florentino Pérez y pitos a Mbappé. La liga vive una lucha por el descenso. El cine estrena dramas sociales como "Gigante" y "Un hijo", el documental "Leonas" y la comedia "Movida celestial". La emancipación juvenil en España alcanza su peor dato histórico: el 70% de los jóvenes empleados vive con sus padres. La precariedad laboral, el alza de precios y la escasez de vivienda, agravada por el alquiler turístico, dificultan el acceso a un hogar propio, impactando la natalidad. El boxeador Antonio Barrul relata su intervención en un cine para detener una agresión machista, defendiendo su ...
This week's pod has lots of updates! IMHOTEP: Pre-operative doses of pembrolizumab lead to significant pCR rates in dMMR colon cancer. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO-25-02169 Real world rates of PJP suggest room for improvement in prophylaxis, especially those on corticosteroids + additional immunosuppressants. https://doi.org/10.1177/10600280261443794 Daraxonrasib given expanded access by FDA before approval: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-permits-expanded-access-investigational-pancreatic-cancer-drug And yes, the ivermectin boom was real: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2848862 Check out the Oncology Insights Newsletter: www.kelleycpharmd.com/newsletter-oncopharm
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──────────────────────────────────────── [00:01:08] Christine Massey Interview: 225 Institutions in 40 Countries Cannot Produce Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Was Ever Isolated Massey sent FOIA requests asking for records of a viral particle found in sick people and separated from everything else. 225 institutions — CDC, FDA, NIAID — produced nothing. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:06:46] The CDC Admitted in Writing: PCR Is Not Evidence of a Replication-Competent Infectious Virus A CDC document admits PCR cannot confirm a replication-competent infectious virus. Kerry Mullis: PCR was never a diagnostic test — at 40 cycles you can find anything in anybody. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:19:19] Massey: The 'Point and Declare' Method — Virologists Arrow an Electron Microscope Image and Call It a Virus Virus images are mostly cartoons and CGI. When electron microscope images appear, particles come from cell culture, not purified bodily fluid — researchers point at a shape and declare it a virus. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:32:06] The 1918 Rosenau Study: Researchers Tried Everything to Transmit the 'Spanish Flu' and Failed Every attempt to transmit illness from sick to healthy people failed. 45 years of UK Cold House experiments similarly failed. Zero valid controlled experiments establish respiratory illnesses are contagious. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:41:56] The WHO's COVID PCR Protocol Was Based on Social Media Rumors — the Drosten Paper Admits It The Drosten paper admits the test was developed without a physical viral sample, based on social media rumors, and cross-reacts with the 2003 SARS virus and avian influenza. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:49:00] Massey Filed a Criminal Complaint Against Ontario Politicians — Her Stripe Account Was Frozen Within Days Massey requested charges under section 229c — culpable homicide for deaths from unlawful pandemic orders without due process. Stripe interfered with her donations and confiscated them. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:54:39] Lab Leak Theory Lets the Bad Guys Off the Hook — If the Virus Was Never Shown to Exist, the Mandates Were Fraud Accepting the lab leak means the virus was real — letting hospitals off the hook. If the foundational evidence doesn't exist, every test, mandate, and vaccine was built on nothing. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:26:59] Numbers Needed to Treat: 900 People Take the Drug for One to Benefit — CDC Called Vaccinated People Unvaccinated Massey: 900 exposed to adverse effects so one avoids a minor event. CDC classified vaccinated people as unvaccinated if they couldn't recall their vaccination date. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:30:11] Measles Rash as Drug Reaction — Every Classic Case Massey Saw as a GP Followed Antibiotic Use Every patient Massey saw with a classic measles rash had recently taken antibiotics — drug reactions, not viral. Without asking about medication history, they would have been classified as measles. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:31:32] Childhood Mortality Had Nearly Vanished by the 1980s — Then the Vaccine Schedule Exploded in the 1990s By the 1980s, childhood infectious disease deaths had fallen to near zero. Fear campaigns in the 1990s expanded the schedule to nearly 80 shots for illnesses physicians once considered trivial. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.
──────────────────────────────────────── [00:01:08] Christine Massey Interview: 225 Institutions in 40 Countries Cannot Produce Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Was Ever Isolated Massey sent FOIA requests asking for records of a viral particle found in sick people and separated from everything else. 225 institutions — CDC, FDA, NIAID — produced nothing. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:06:46] The CDC Admitted in Writing: PCR Is Not Evidence of a Replication-Competent Infectious Virus A CDC document admits PCR cannot confirm a replication-competent infectious virus. Kerry Mullis: PCR was never a diagnostic test — at 40 cycles you can find anything in anybody. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:19:19] Massey: The 'Point and Declare' Method — Virologists Arrow an Electron Microscope Image and Call It a Virus Virus images are mostly cartoons and CGI. When electron microscope images appear, particles come from cell culture, not purified bodily fluid — researchers point at a shape and declare it a virus. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:32:06] The 1918 Rosenau Study: Researchers Tried Everything to Transmit the 'Spanish Flu' and Failed Every attempt to transmit illness from sick to healthy people failed. 45 years of UK Cold House experiments similarly failed. Zero valid controlled experiments establish respiratory illnesses are contagious. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:41:56] The WHO's COVID PCR Protocol Was Based on Social Media Rumors — the Drosten Paper Admits It The Drosten paper admits the test was developed without a physical viral sample, based on social media rumors, and cross-reacts with the 2003 SARS virus and avian influenza. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:49:00] Massey Filed a Criminal Complaint Against Ontario Politicians — Her Stripe Account Was Frozen Within Days Massey requested charges under section 229c — culpable homicide for deaths from unlawful pandemic orders without due process. Stripe interfered with her donations and confiscated them. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:54:39] Lab Leak Theory Lets the Bad Guys Off the Hook — If the Virus Was Never Shown to Exist, the Mandates Were Fraud Accepting the lab leak means the virus was real — letting hospitals off the hook. If the foundational evidence doesn't exist, every test, mandate, and vaccine was built on nothing. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:26:59] Numbers Needed to Treat: 900 People Take the Drug for One to Benefit — CDC Called Vaccinated People Unvaccinated Massey: 900 exposed to adverse effects so one avoids a minor event. CDC classified vaccinated people as unvaccinated if they couldn't recall their vaccination date. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:30:11] Measles Rash as Drug Reaction — Every Classic Case Massey Saw as a GP Followed Antibiotic Use Every patient Massey saw with a classic measles rash had recently taken antibiotics — drug reactions, not viral. Without asking about medication history, they would have been classified as measles. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:31:32] Childhood Mortality Had Nearly Vanished by the 1980s — Then the Vaccine Schedule Exploded in the 1990s By the 1980s, childhood infectious disease deaths had fallen to near zero. Fear campaigns in the 1990s expanded the schedule to nearly 80 shots for illnesses physicians once considered trivial. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.
El brote de hantavirus en el crucero MV Hondius ha vuelto a poner de actualidad la famosa PCR, la Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa, una técnica de biología molecular empleada en el diagnóstico de enfermedades infecciosas y en investigación genética. En "Más cerca" (Radio 5) hemos hablado de su descubrimiento y aplicaciones con José Manuel Bautista, catedrático de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular en la UCM. Escuchar audio
Álex Clavero, el madrugador cómico de RockFM analiza con su particular humor la histeria colectiva, desde los hipocondríacos a los cuñados expertos que confunden las PCR con Hondas
HIV research is one of the clearest examples of molecular biology in action. In this Mol Bio Minutes episode, Dr. Ryan Jeep walks through how fundamental molecular techniques power everything from detection to drug resistance studies to cure-focused research. Ryan begins with HIV biology and detection, explaining how qRT-PCR enables highly sensitive viral load measurement. These assays not only detection strategies but also support research to monitor treatment efficacy and viral rebound. From there, he moves into drug resistance, describing how sequencing, RT-PCR, and cloning strategies help researchers map resistance-associated mutations. By generating recombinant reporter viruses and measuring infectivity against different drugs, scientists can better understand treatment failure and move toward more personalized therapeutic strategies. Finally, Ryan explores cutting-edge cure research, including CRISPR-Cas9 approaches aimed at either disabling integrated viral genomes or engineering HIV-resistant immune cells. Across all three areas one theme remains constant: PCR, sequencing, and cloning form the technological backbone of HIV research. As these tools continue to evolve, so too does the potential to improve outcomes and one day eliminate the virus entirely. Since recording this episode, Ryan has joined KBI Biopharma as a Scientist l in their Formulation Development Group. Helpful resources and links: Access Stanford University's HIV Drug Resistance Database. Visit International AIDS Society's Towards an HIV Cure site, which includes resources. Access Thermo Fisher PCR resources and products. Learn about RT-qPCR, which is relevant to HIV research. Explore the cloning technologies referenced in this episode. Subscribe to get future episodes as they drop and if you like what you're hearing we hope you'll share a review or recommend the series to a colleague. Visit the Invitrogen School of Molecular Biology to access helpful molecular biology resources and educational content, and please share this resource with anyone you know working in molecular biology. For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.
Trump says the Iran ceasefire is "on life support" after the latest round of failed negotiations, while praising Xi Jinping ahead of their China meeting and hinting bombs could drop again within days. The Arcadia, California mayor Eileen Wang has been charged as an illegal agent of the Chinese Communist Party, and reports surface that Trump may be considering allowing China to invest $1 trillion on American soil. Dr. Deborah Birx reappears on cable news calling for more PCR testing over the hantavirus outbreak, Democrats threaten judicial reform after losing the Virginia redistricting battle, Netanyahu says he wants to draw down U.S. military aid to zero over the next decade, Coach Curt Cignetti and the national champion Indiana Hoosiers are honored at the White House, and Aaron closes with a deeper look at Spencer Pratt's political instincts and what he reminds him of.
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, an in-depth investigatory show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/11/26). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or another. Stay Vigilant. !function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u2q643"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble"); Rumble("play", {"video":"v77j7ne","div":"rumble_v77j7ne"}); Source Links (In Chronological Order): The Last American Vagabond on X: "@bennyjohnson Let me know when they actually arrest someone Benny. I am sure you will carry on hyping regardless. Some of us, however, truly want these criminals in prison." / X War Correspondent on X: "
El programa se centra en la situación del antivirus, con catorce españoles del crucero Ondius aislados en Madrid, a la espera de los resultados PCR. El buque sigue en Tenerife por el mal tiempo. La ministra de Sanidad, Mónica García, confirma la variante ANDES y defiende la cuarentena de 42 días. La OMS elogia la gestión española, aunque Canarias critica la falta de información. Pedro Sánchez se reúne con el director de la OMS. Se aborda la polémica por la falta de protección a la Guardia Civil contra el narcotráfico, tras el fallecimiento de dos agentes en Huelva. Se critica la ausencia de Sánchez y Marlaska en el funeral, y un hermano de un fallecido denuncia el desamparo gubernamental. En tribunales, el juicio a los Pujol encara su recta final, con la Fiscalía manteniendo la pena para los hijos y el sobreseimiento para el patriarca. Continúa el juicio Kitchen, donde un inspector niega presiones para quitar el nombre de Rajoy. El Supremo delibera la sentencia del caso Ábalos, y ...
Aimar Bretos entrevista a Javier Padilla, secretario de Estado de Sanidad.Un español aislado en el Gómez Ulla da positivo provisional en la prueba PCR. Padilla analiza el estado de salud del paciente y el proceder de los equipos médicos.
Aimar Bretos entrevista a Amós García Rojas, médico epidemiólogoUn español aislado en el Gómez Ulla ha dado positivo provisional en la prueba PCR. García Rojas analiza la situación del paciente y las posibles consecuencias
Americans throw away nearly 5 million tons of film and flexible plastic packaging every year, and less than 1% of it gets recycled, according to The Recycling Partnership. The salad bag, the potato bag, the pallet wrap behind every grocery store — all of it is technically recyclable, almost none of it actually is, and food contact applications make the math even harder, because the FDA requires rigorous migration testing before a single recycled pellet can touch what we eat. Kevin Kelly, CEO of Emerald Packaging, the largest supplier of retail flexible packaging to the U.S. produce industry, has spent decades on that problem from inside the industry. In December 2025, his Union City, California–based, third-generation family business announced that it had eliminated more than 1 million pounds of virgin polyethylene over the previous year by replacing it with post-consumer recycled (PCR) material, including, in partnership with Walmart, Idaho Package, and Wada Farms, the first 30% PCR potato bag approved for direct food contact. In this episode of Sustainability In Your Ear, Kevin walks through what it actually took to get that bag on a Walmart shelf, why most flexible packaging companies still won't try, and why the most ambitious recycling law in the country may push the industry in the wrong direction.[Food-grade PCR is a different animal from the recycled plastic in a milk crate or a contractor bag. To pass FDA scrutiny, the feedstock has to be traceable from a known, food-adjacent source. For Emerald, that mostly means pallet wrap collected from Walmart distribution centers, washed, dried, and repelletized by suppliers like Dow Chemical's Circulus mechanical recycling business and Canada's Nova Chemicals. Variation in any given load of recyclable plastic causes carbon buildup on Emerald's extrusion lines, forcing a shutdown every eight hours for cleaning, and waste rates are higher than with virgin resin. The company has had to audit its own suppliers in person, push back on competitors who hide non-food-grade PCR in the middle layer of multilayer films and call it sustainable, and walk produce buyers through what “food-grade” actually means before they sign on. Kevin describes Emerald as “the canary in the coal mine” for food-grade PCR — he can't find another bag in the store that's labeled the same way.The harder argument Kevin makes is about policy. California's SB 54, the most ambitious extended producer responsibility (EPR) law in the country, with a 65% recycling rate target and a 25% source reduction mandate by 2032, was supposed to drive exactly the kind of work Emerald is doing. But Kevin says the rulemaking went the other way. The pound-for-pound PCR credit that would have rewarded companies for replacing virgin resin with recycled content was stripped out, and the fees are low enough that producers can hit early reduction targets through agricultural film and other low-hanging fruit without ever switching to food-grade PCR. The deeper structural problem Kevin lays out is the capital story. Family-owned manufacturers freed from quarterly returns pressure, Kevin argues, are doing more to push food-grade PCR forward today than the capital pools that are theoretically supposed to fund the energy and sustainability transition.To find out more about Emerald Packaging, visit empack.com.
Un pasajero estadounidense, primer positivo por hantavirus entre los repatriados del crucero que ayer fondeó en la costa de Tenerife. El afectado no presenta síntomas, pero ha dado positivo en la prueba PCR que se le ha realizado. En Francia, están pendientes de la evolución de otro ciudadano que presenta síntomas compartibles con el brote. Las mujeres de Barcelona y Alicante que están aisladas han dado negativo. El presidente de Canarias, Fernando Clavijo, levantó la polémica con el desembarco del crucero y aseguró que ratones contaminados llegarían a nado a la costa. Sanidad desmintió las declaraciones con un informe técnico. Y el PP acaricia la mayoría absoluta en las elecciones de Andalucía del 17 de mayo con más del 43% de los votos, según la encuesta de 40dB para la Ser y El País.
Tom interviews investigative journalist Sonia Elijah about her book 3/11 Viral Takeover, a five-year, evidence-based chronicle of the COVID era with 941 citations drawn from FOIA releases, emails, and leaked documents. Elijah argues COVID policy reflected a coordinated, censorship-driven response, tracing a timeline of pre-2020 pandemic exercises, media/government coordination, and conflicts of interest. She discusses the WHO's March 11, 2020 pandemic declaration, alleged suppression of lab-origin discussion, flawed modeling used to justify lockdowns, and problems with PCR testing. The conversation covers propaganda and censorship networks (including the Trusted News Initiative), suppression of early treatments, harms from ventilators and drugs, and allegations of misclassified vaccine trial and safety data, including pregnancy and myocarditis concerns, urging accountability and preparedness against repetition.00:00 Meet Sonia Elijah00:18 Book Thesis and Censorship01:17 Research Depth and Purpose02:49 Will It Happen Again04:40 Why 3 11 Matters06:01 Pandemic Drills and mRNA Push10:53 Bat Database Goes Dark12:18 FOIA Emails and Lab Leak15:04 Cracks and Conflicts18:10 Lockdowns Driven by Models19:19 PCR Testing Anomalies25:31 Harms and Care Homes26:37 Testing Kit Profiteering29:40 Fear Messaging and Propaganda32:10 Dancing Nurses and Empty Wards33:39 Trusted News Initiative37:17 Natural Immunity Censored38:17 Lancet Study Fallout40:13 Ivermectin Smear Campaign41:57 Silencing Doctors Online43:30 Hospital Protocol Controversies45:09 Redefining Vaccinated Data46:38 Retracted Myocarditis Research48:46 Missing Safety Reports53:31 Pfizer Papers Deep Dive58:13 Vaccine Injured Silenced59:52 Pregnancy Harms Revealed01:04:40 Justice and Accountability01:07:32 Closing Thoughts on the Bookhttps://x.com/sonia_elijahhttps://linktr.ee/SoniaElijahBook Review by Robert Malone— 3/11: Viral Takeover: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeoverOrder it at Amazon here: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeover=========Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
El crucero Ondius, con un brote de hantavirus, llega a Tenerife este sábado. Defensa y Sanidad debaten la cuarentena, mientras un experto subraya la alta letalidad del virus andino y su transmisión por contacto estrecho. Se enfatiza la vigilancia epidemiológica moderna con pruebas de sangre y PCR para detectar asintomáticos, sin generar pánico. Más de la mitad de los españoles compra productos innecesarios y no ahorra, lo que intensifica la dependencia del crédito, sobre todo entre jóvenes. Redes sociales y financiación fácil impulsan este consumo. La tauromaquia vive un "momento muy dulce", atrayendo a más jóvenes a plazas como Las Ventas, que registra llenos históricos. El apoyo institucional y la retransmisión televisiva son clave para su difusión, demostrando que la fiesta taurina se rejuvenece y consolida. Se analiza la evolución del rendimiento en maratones. Ciencia y tecnología, como las zapatillas con placas de carbono, mejoran las marcas. La mente juega un papel crucial, con ...
What happens when you wake up to the contradictions all around you after working in a system for decades?Well, for Rachel Maurice, physician for 30 years and anesthesiologist for 20, it meant leaving it all behind to rebuild in a whole new paradigm of health and how the body works.She worked inside one of BC's largest trauma centres, and then 2020 happened... the mask mandates contradicted everything she'd learned and practiced, the PCR tests didn't add up, a medical injection went from impossible to mandatory in months.And when Rachel refused to accept the injection, her name appeared on a public board — the lone holdout in the OR.She walked out in October 2021, never to return.What followed was a two-year deep dive that shattered her medical paradigm entirely. Today Rachel isn't focused on biochemistry — she's focused on light. The sun, your circadian rhythm, the blue light hijacking your hormones, and why the modern world is quietly dismantling your health one small cut at a time.In today's show:5:00 - Rachel's beginnings in medicine13:48 — Rachel's mom's cancer diagnosis opens the door to questioning conventional medicine15:59 — Discovering Dr. Joe Dispenza and the radical shift in understanding the subconscious mind19:26 — The mask truth from an airway expert30:52 — Walking away from medicine35:51 — Bill 36 in BC - doctors now face up to $500K in fines, jail time, and home seizure for giving informed consent outside approved narratives53:27 — Why supplements and hormones can't work without fixing your light environment first54:54 — The critical sequence of frequencies from sunrise through midday and why missing it matters57:28 — The EMF protector, heavy metal sink, and natural hydrogen generator your body makes from sunlight1:02:10 — How morning blue light triggers your hormones1:18:09 — The hormone nobody measures that's 7 years upstream of insulin resistance1:22:49 — How you can become insulin resistant without eating a single carb1:58:37 — How Rachel's mom went from stopping every few steps to breathe to walking 20–30 minutes uphill in two weeks once starting the Lifewave patches2:05:03 — Four people exit kidney failure using LifeWave patches, something Rachel never saw possible in 30 years of medicine2:09:14 — How the patches finally fixed Rachel's sleep after 8 months, after doing everything else right2:14:04 — Walking downstairs forward for the first time in 10 years without realizing itand more!I hope you enjoy this conversation! When we build stronger relationships, we build stronger families, raise healthier children and have healthier societies. Literally we can change the world in one generation if we focus on ourselves and our families.If you enjoyed this episode, please share and consider going to www.sovereigncollective.org/shop to check out my offerings and get a deal while supporting the podcast. I'll be adding more great offerings there over timeFind Rachel:website: https://www.rachelmauricemd.com/IG: https://www.instagram.com/rachel_maurice_md/---------------------------------------------Find me:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saschakalivoda/IG: https://www.instagram.com/saschaksays/Website: www.sovereigncollective.orgYou Tube: https://www.youtube.com/@saschasays/videosBitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Tfl1Zo021FcXGet Lifewave Patches: www.lifewave.com/saschak (choose 'shop' to be a customer or 'join' to be a Brand Partner if you wish to do it as a business)Email: sascha @ sovereigncollective.org
Something's not right in the woods, at least if you're a white-tailed deer. In this episode, the guys dig into chronic wasting disease (CWD), a strange illness reshaping deer populations in many areas of the Lower 48 (and Scandinavia!). It's not caused by a virus or a bacteria, but it is related to mad cow disease. They break down what it is, how it spreads, what's happening inside infected animals, and why it's so dang hard to contain. The deer are not alright… and there's a reason.This episode was recorded on April 23, 2026 at Walton Woods Park in Amherst, NY (a suburb of Buffalo). Episode Notes and Links· Are there different CWD strains in a single animal? Chronic wasting disease isn't a single, uniform pathogen. It's more like a shifting swarm. Infected deer can carry multiple prion “strains” at once, meaning different misfolded shapes of the same protein that behave in slightly different ways. They could spread through the body differently, build up in different tissues, and cause disease at different rates. Lab experiments show this most clearly: when CWD prions are passed through model systems, what looks like one strain can split into multiple distinct variants, or reveal that a mixed population was there all along (e.g., Angers et al. 2010 PNAS; Béringue et al. 2012 Journal of Virology; Li et al. 2010 Journal of Virology). In actual deer, the picture is harder to pin down, but studies comparing prions from different tissues and individuals show real strain diversity and suggest that more than one strain can exist within a single animal (e.g., Angers et al. 2009 Journal of Virology; Moore et al. 2016 Emerging Infectious Diseases). The takeaway is that CWD behaves less like a single disease agent and more like a moving target: a cloud of protein shapes, some dominant, some hidden in the background, that can shift over time, giving the disease more chances to adapt, persist, and potentially jump into new hosts.· Does repeated exposure to CWD reduce incubation time in deer? Repeated exposure to CWD prions does likely shortens incubation time, mainly because prion diseases are strongly dose-dependent. Higher cumulative exposure, whether from a single large dose or many smaller ones over time, can both increase the chance of infection and accelerate disease progression. Experimental studies in deer and elk show that animals exposed to higher or repeated doses tend to develop symptoms faster than those exposed once at low levels. In the wild, this likely plays out through repeated contact with contaminated environments like soil, plants, and carcass sites. That said, factors like genetics and prion strain can still influence how quickly the disease develops in any given animal.· Is CWD the only prion disease that affects wildlife? CWD is the only prion disease currently thriving as a self-sustaining epidemic in wild populations. The others mostly sit at the edges and are livestock diseases that occasionally spill into wildlife or appear in captive/wild interface cases. For example, scrapie occasionally “leaks” into the wild (it has been found in bighorn sheep), but it doesn't take over. It flickers at the edges of livestock systems. Nothing like the landscape-level, self-sustaining spread we see with CWD. That's what makes CWD so concerning: it's not just present in wildlife, it seems to be built for it.· Steve talked about the possibility of vampire bats and wild hogs spreading CWD. What's the story? There's currently no evidence that vampire bats are spreading CWD, but the wild hog story has gotten more interesting recently. Blood-feeding bats like the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) are often mentioned because prions can occur in blood at low levels, but there are no peer-reviewed studies showing bat-mediated transmission, nor any field patterns linking bats to CWD spread. So the bat idea remains speculative. Wild hogs (Sus scrofa), on the other hand, have moved beyond pure theory. A recent peer-reviewed study (e.g., Soto et al. 2025 Emerging Infectious Diseases) detected low levels of CWD prion activity in free-ranging pigs in endemic areas, suggesting they can pick up and carry prions after scavenging infected carcasses. Combine this with earlier work showing prions can survive digestion and still remain infectious (e.g., Nichols et al. 2009 PLoS ONE), it all points to hogs as plausible mechanical vectors: in other words, organisms that can move infectious material without necessarily developing the disease themselves. The takeaway: vampire bats are still a biologically interesting but unsupported idea, while wild hogs are emerging as potential “messy middlemen,” capable of redistributing prions across the landscape, even if they're not a primary engine of CWD transmission, which is still driven by deer-to-deer contact and long-lived environmental contamination.· Why doesn't NYS do more free testing?New York doesn't offer broad, free testing for every deer. Not because it's ignoring CWD, but because it uses a more targeted, strategic approach. There are a few key constraints on broad, free testing:Cost & logistics: Each test isn't just a swab. It involves lab processing (often PCR or amplification assays), trained staff, and sample handling. Scaling that to hundreds of thousands of deer is a major lift.Low prevalence (right now): When disease prevalence is near zero, mass testing tends to return very few positives, so agencies prioritize early detection in hotspots instead.Management strategy: Agencies often invest more in prevention (carcass transport rules, feeding bans, education) than broad surveillance.Hunter participation: “Free for all” testing can overwhelm systems unless tightly managed, and many states have learned that targeted programs get better data per dollar.So NYS is focusing its efforts on where they see it mattering most: high-risk areas, roadkills, sick/dead deer, and zones near known outbreaks—because testing every hunter-harvested deer statewide would be extremely expensive for relatively low yield in a state with no established CWD population.More info on NY's response, as well as what's happening nationally:The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation's page on CWD (including information on how you can help, scroll down to “Members of the Public”)CWD in Captive Deer: DEC's Response in 2024Chronic Wasting Disease Detection and Management: What Has Worked and What Has Not? A report by the CWD Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on education, coordination, and outreach around chronic wasting disease. It was created to bring together a mix of stakeholders: state wildlife agencies, federal partners, scientists, and hunting/conservation groups to help share reliable information and improve how CWD is managed across North America. Sponsors and Ways to Support UsThank you to Always Wandering Art (Website and Etsy Shop) for providing the artwork for many of our episodes.Support us on Patreon.Works Cited Bian, J., et al. (2022). Transmission of cervid prions to humanized mice demonstrates the zoonotic potential of chronic wasting disease. Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 10, 149.Edmunds, D. R., Kauffman, M. J., Schumaker, B. A., Lindzey, F. G., Cook, W. E., Kreeger, T. J., Grogan, R. G., & Cornish, T. E. (2016). Chronic wasting disease drives population decline of white‑tailed deer. Ecology, 97(3), 620–632.Henderson, D. M., Denkers, N. D., Hoover, C. E., Garbino, N., Mathiason, C. K., & Hoover, E. A. (2015). Longitudinal Detection of Prion Shedding in Saliva and Urine by Chronic Wasting Disease-Infected Deer by Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion. Journal of virology, 89(18), 9338–9347. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01118-15Küry, S., et al. (2023). The zoonotic potential of chronic wasting disease—A review. Pathogens, 12(3), 342.Miller, M. W., et al. (2024). U.S. Geological Survey science strategy to address chronic wasting disease. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1546.Monello, R. J., Powers, J. G., Hobbs, N. T., Spraker, T. R., O'Rourke, K. I., & Wild, M. A. (2014). Endemic chronic wasting disease causes mule deer population decline in Colorado. PLOS ONE, 9(10), e110353.Pirisinu, L., et al. (2024). Zoonotic potential of chronic wasting disease after adaptation in sheep. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 30(12).Sandberg, M. K., et al. (2022). Humanized transgenic mice are resistant to chronic wasting disease prions from reindeer and moose. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 226(5), 933–942.Saunders, S. E., Bartelt‑Hunt, S. L., & Bartz, J. C. (2012). Occurrence, transmission, and zoonotic potential of chronic wasting disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 18(3), 369–376.Visit thefieldguidespodcast.com for full episode notes, links, and works cited.
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What if the numbers that drove lockdowns… mandates… and the shutdown of your life… were fundamentally flawed? A new analysis out of Germany is blowing the lid off what we were told to believe. Researchers found that PCR testing—the gold standard used to justify sweeping government action—may have massively overstated actual infections. In fact, one study suggests only about 10–14% of PCR-positive results reflected true active infection when confirmed by antibodies. Let that sink in. For years, we were told a positive test meant you were a “case.”That metric drove policy.It drove fear.It drove compliance. But scientists are now saying that equation—positive test equals infection—is not scientifically sound. So what does that mean? It means the foundation for lockdowns… social distancing… and mandates may have been built on data that didn’t tell the full story. Tonight, we dig into the study making waves right now—circulating through outlets like Focal Points—and ask the question the media won’t: Was the response driven by reality… or by numbers that were never properly understood? And if the science was off…what does that say about everything that followed? TWC.Health/Grant The Wellness Company has been exposing this for years. For a look at all the line of supplements and medications designed to keep you healthy and safe, please visit their website.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, Cheryl sits down with Brad Pitzele to unpack a long and complicated health journey that began with early autoimmune symptoms and escalated into psoriatic arthritis, debilitating fatigue, and eventually melanoma linked to immunosuppressive treatment. Frustrated by a system that offered only escalating medications and limited answers, Brad began an intense period of self-experimentation and research. His turning point came after a Lyme disease diagnosis, one that helped connect years of seemingly unrelated symptoms. This ultimately pushed him deeper into understanding the root causes of chronic illness, especially the role of mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation. From there, the conversation shifts into the tools that helped Brad reclaim his health, including exercise with oxygen therapy (EWOT) and red and near-infrared light therapy. He explains how both approaches work at a cellular level to improve oxygen delivery, support mitochondrial function, and reduce inflammation. Thseare are all mechanisms that have implications for conditions like chronic fatigue, autoimmune disease, multiple sclerosis and even cardiovascular health. This episode is a deep dive into resilience, curiosity, and the power of continuing to search for answers when conventional paths fall short, offering both practical insight and hope for anyone navigating complex or unexplained health challenges. Connect with Brad at One Thousand Roads. Disclaimer: Links may contain affiliate links, which means we may get paid a commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through this page. Read our full disclosure here. Takeaways Chronic symptoms do not always have clear answers and standard care often focuses on managing symptoms rather than addressing root causes Mitochondrial health plays a central role in energy, recovery, and overall resilience and when it is compromised nearly every system in the body is affected Inflammation and low oxygen levels go hand in hand, creating a cycle that can worsen chronic illness over time Exercise with oxygen therapy works by increasing oxygen delivery to tissues and may support energy production and reduce inflammation Red and near infrared light therapy may enhance mitochondrial function by increasing cellular demand for oxygen and boosting energy output Combining oxygen therapy with red light can create a complementary supply and demand effect at the cellular level Healing from complex or chronic conditions is rarely quick and consistent cumulative inputs over time matter more than short term fixes Self advocacy and curiosity are critical when navigating unexplained health issues or when conventional approaches fall short Small improvements over time can rebuild momentum and hope even before full recovery is achieved Simple inputs like oxygen, light, and movement can have powerful effects when applied consistently and strategically Watch on YouTube Disclaimer: Links may contain affiliate links, which means we may get paid a commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase through this page. Read our full disclosure here. CONNECT WITH CHERYL Shop all my healthy lifestyle favorites, lots of discounts! 21 Day Fat Loss Kickstart: Make Keto Easy, Take Diet Breaks and Still Lose Weight Avaline Wines, Tested and Clean, Sugar Free Drinking Ketones Wild Pastures, Clean Meat to Your Doorstep 20% off for life Clean Beauty 20% off first order DIY Lashes 10% off NIRA at Home Laser for Wrinkles 10% off or current promo with code HealNourishGrow Instagram for daily stories with recipes, what I eat in a day and what’s going on in life Facebook YouTube Pinterest TikTok Amazon Store The Shoe Fairy Competition Gear Getting Started with Keto Resources The Complete Beginners Guide to Keto Getting Started with Keto Podcast Episode Getting Started with Keto Resource Guide Episode Transcript Cheryl McColgan (00:00)Hey everyone, I’m Cheryl McColgan and today I am joined by Brad Pitzley and we are going to talk about some of his health history. He has a really interesting background with some challenging diseases and scenarios that he went through. And you know, like many of the guests on the HealNursery podcast, he just has a health journey that he wants to share with people and kind of what ended up actually helping him. Because so often people go down these roads with different conditions and they just have a lot of trouble finding out number one what it is, number two if there’s anything that can help them feel better or how to treat it. And so I think Brad’s going to have a lot of really interesting things to share with us today. So Brad, if you could just maybe start by, I don’t know how far in the way back machine you want to go, but kind of just, you know, give us a little bit about your health journey. And as we go along, I’m sure I’ll have some kind of questions to fill in for everyone. Brad Pitzele (00:50)Yeah, I had weird health things going on since grade school. I was diagnosed with psoriasis, but then I had other weird things that just kind of came and went. We’d go to the doctor, they’d give it a label. It would last for a while. There was no treatment for said label and then it would kind of just disappear and then I’d move on with life and then a year or six months or whatever, something else might pop up. But it really kind of started to come to a head. Um, probably around 2010 or 11, I started to develop autoimmune arthritis, what was considered psoriatic arthritis, which is, it’s basically like rheumatoid arthritis, but it’s what you get with psoriasis. Um, and they started to test all sorts of different drugs on me. The first sets didn’t work. Then they put me on, um, some immune suppressive drugs. They gave me relief for like maybe six months and they’d start wearing off and they would double the dose and they’re. I was kind of worse off when it wore off and then it would kind of bring me up a little bit. And then was kind of like I was taking a stair step into, you know, into a worse and worse place. And I was on those drugs for probably about two years. And then I developed melanoma. And that’s one of the side effects of the drugs is it’s got a high risk of cancer and specifically melanoma. So that was kind of a, a jumping off point for me. I, during that period, I also started to develop weird other symptoms. Like I started to get stiffness in the back of my legs. had tremendous brain fog and energy issues. had pain in my feet and I would take this back to the rheumatologist and I’d be like, this is, is this part of the, this disease? assume. he was like, no, that’s not part of the disease. And I was kind of shocked and like, well, it feels like part of the disease. It’s kind of, you know, it’s just. Cheryl McColgan (02:38)All right. Brad Pitzele (02:41)another symptom of whatever’s going on with me. But he didn’t really acknowledge that. And then when I got cancer, I went back to him and I was like, Hey, you know, I’m really afraid I’m like, if I keep taking these drugs, more risk of cancer. I don’t take these drugs. I, you know, I die, cripple crumpled up in a ball in the corner, so to speak. And he was kind of like, no, I don’t think that’s going to happen. Yeah. I think we’re just going to try another drug in the, the, the same category. And that was like, just started having alarm bells in my head. Just started shouting at me. was like, either path feels like it’s very bad. And I was a, I had a young children at the time. I was a relatively new father and that was even more scary. I was kind of the single income in the household. And I just started like, I’m like, what happens if these things happen to me to not just me, but my family. and that’s kind of when I started jumping off and like doing my own research and trying to figure out what I call a third path for because neither of those really made sense to me. Cheryl McColgan (03:40)those both sound like not very good options. I’m just kind of curious when you were going back to the doctor with these things, kind of two questions here actually. One, and I think I already know the answer, but one, were drugs the only answer that this doctor was able to give to you? And secondly, I think having the cancer being a known side effect of the drug is really interesting. you ever talk about what the mechanism there is or anything to know about that just for people with curiosity? Brad Pitzele (04:07)Yeah, so yeah, mostly it was drugs. He did also offer me injections of steroids into some of my joints. He was very skilled at it, because he said it was gonna be very painful. It wasn’t that painful, but steroids turn off your immune system. And it’s the same thing with some of the drugs I was on. One of them was a… I won’t call brand name, but it was a TNF inhibitor. TNF stands for tumor necrosis factor. And it’s basically in a component of our immune system. And so there was some research done and they found that if they turned off that component of your immune system, hey, the pain and symptoms go away. Unfortunately, as the name alludes to, it kills tumors. when you turn it, we all have cancer in our Cheryl McColgan (04:49)Yeah Brad Pitzele (04:52)body. Like right now as we speak, everyone has it. It’s just our immune system is able to kill it off and so it never really gains a foothold. But once you start tipping the balance of the scales, obviously, you know, it can run amok. And that’s what happened in my case. Cheryl McColgan (05:08)Yeah, very interesting. also it just brings up so many other questions that I’ll have to go down a rabbit hole after we’re done with our conversation. But so you had these things, you didn’t have good relief, you were still having symptoms, then you got cancer. And I assume obviously you had to get treated for that at that point. Was that really the turning point for you to just be like, I’ve got to find some other way to manage this? How did how did things go from there? Brad Pitzele (05:30)Yeah, it was, and I’m not gonna tell you it was a fast turn for me. It took me several years. But I mean, from there, I just started reading anything I could. I read books, I was out on the internet, I was in chat groups talking to other people who had similar symptoms, Facebook groups, Googling on PubMed, looking at research, so many rabbit holes I ran down. I was joking, I’m recovering engineer. ⁓ I got my undergraduate in mechanical engineering, so I’m very analytical by my nature, I suppose. Research didn’t scare me, and I just was reading anything I could. I wasn’t gonna… Cheryl McColgan (05:55)You Brad Pitzele (06:07)You know, wait for them to find something in the research and then try to translate it 20 years later. Like that does me no good. and I tried everything. I did a lot of self experimentation, everything from complete changes of diet, supplements, so many, mean, different modalities, all sorts of weird stuff. Sometimes my family looked at me pretty good side, I when they saw some of the stuff I was doing. but you know, when you’re, when you’re really desperate and. things are getting worse and worse. And particularly when you also feel this responsibility and obligation to your family, you just, it’s not even just about you. You’re like, what do I do? I like, I’m gonna disappoint all these people and life is not gonna be good for them. I just told myself, I’m not allowed. know, like this is absolutely not allowed. This is not gonna happen, but it kept happening for a few more years. And then, I ended up at a doctor’s office and he tried all sorts of things. Nothing was working. He was an MD, but he was non-insurance, so was integrative. And he was trying all sorts of alternate modalities on me. Even the things he was sure were gonna do anything, nothing was doing anything. He’s doing testing on me, nothing was popping. And then he suggested I do a Lyme disease test. I remember thinking, I’m like, doctor, I don’t have Lyme disease. I’m like, I’ve never been bitten by one of these ticks. I’ve never had that bullseye rash thing. I’m thinking to myself, I don’t have that. But I was kind of like, you know what? And it was expensive test at the time. It was like 500 bucks. Insurance didn’t pay. But I was like, you know what? I’m gonna pay the 500 bucks. I’m gonna do the test so he can see it’s negative and we can get him off this Lyme thing. We can get to the real deal because it’s not Lyme. And sure enough, it came back that I had Lyme disease and one of its co-infections called Bartonella, which is the infection that causes cat scratch disease as well. And I was so shocked. went back to him. was like, doc, what’s the chances this is a false positive? I don’t think I have it. And he was like, Brad, it’s a urine PCR, which means you have the DNA of those bacteria in your urine. What do you think is the chances it’s, it’s false positive? I’m like, got it. Cheryl McColgan (08:12)Not. Brad Pitzele (08:14)And that’s when it finally started to hit. ⁓ Cheryl McColgan (08:16)Well, just for people that aren’t familiar, I think everybody’s kind of heard of Lyme disease at some point, maybe Bartonella, but what did that kind of mean to you at the time? Like I’m sure once you got that diagnosis, you wanted to learn more about it. Were you thinking that that explained some of the things that you had up to this point or how did that mesh into the whole symptom profile? Brad Pitzele (08:36)Life disease is incredibly challenging. for a variety of reasons. One, it’s very difficult to get under control. There’s a lot of folks in America and across the world, quite frankly, suffering with it right now. The other reason it’s tough is there’s not a lot of doctors willing to treat it. There’s this whole stigma about it. What makes it particularly difficult is there’s this question on if it actually exists in some doctor’s head. It’s like the weirdest thing in the world. We know there’s this infectious agent, we know it infects humans, and yet when a human comes to the doctor and says, I’ve been infected by it, they’re like, are you sure? And so you kind of get, I think the term I hear often is medical gas lit. And on top of that, doctors, for legal reasons, often don’t want to touch it. So my doctor didn’t want to touch it. And he was like, look, you have to go to a Lyme specialist three hours away. I recommend him as best I can. And it was a long waiting list to get into this doctor’s office. And while I was waiting, just… I was relentless, you I just couldn’t sit here and let myself deal with all this. It was a three month wait. And so I just started reading voraciously on Lyme disease to your point. was reading all sorts of research. I was reading books on it, a lot of books on the, like the science and what was happening to your body mechanically. And it was actually pretty eye opening because when I started to read all these symptoms, I was like, I started to piece together all these pieces, the puzzle that happened to me in my childhood, ⁓ things that happened Cheryl McColgan (10:12)Mm. Brad Pitzele (10:13)more recently, things that the rheumatologist couldn’t explain, but now we’re clear as day what was going on. And so the jigsaw puzzle started to fall into place for me. So it was kind of an epiphany from that perspective, yeah. Cheryl McColgan (10:29)Yeah, that’s got to be the waiting had to be one of the hardest things, I’m sure. then once you finally got to him, did he because he was specialized in Lyme specifically, did he have any solutions for you? Or then was it somewhere that you still had to go to go down the road? Brad Pitzele (10:42)No. You know, the disappointing thing is, I ended up, the whole family was diagnosed with Lyme disease, not just me, my children and so forth. So we all carted in the car down three hours from, I live in Dallas area down in Austin. He had a lot of things to say to us. It was kind of stuff I’d already read. Most of it I’d already tried. know, supplements I’d already run through myself and like it became cost prohibited both the time and the visitation and we just didn’t get anywhere. So we probably visited him. five or six times and then I was like, okay, well this is not, know, and was, each time it was kind of clear, like his tools were somewhat limited. And so then it was time to kind of, while I was doing his stuff, I was also just actively experimenting. was, you know, was a, you know, a test dummy every set, every second of it, because again, you know, you just can’t wait, you know, come back in two months. You’re like, if this thing doesn’t work in a few weeks, I got to, I’ll keep doing it, but I’ll add other things. See where I go. Cheryl McColgan (11:46)Right, well, I’m sure once you knew that your whole family had this issue that probably made you want to solve it even more, not that it wasn’t enough for you to solve it for yourself, but now you’ve got other people in your family that you want to feel well, you know? Brad Pitzele (11:53)Yes. Absolutely, absolutely. was definitely set heavy on my mind. Just I didn’t want the kids to have to go down this path. Cheryl McColgan (12:06)So this kind of leads us into this whole backstory into the sign that’s behind your head right now, 1000 roads, because you kind of did that many roads to get here, right? And so what did you come across? I thought that was like one of the best business names I’ve ever seen, the way, knowing the backstory. But anyway, what was it that you found in the research or what led you to kind of, there’s a couple of things that did end up helping you, which is awesome, because I think now we’re going to share this with people because Brad Pitzele (12:16)Yeah, that’s right. you Thank you. Cheryl McColgan (12:35)Like you said, there’s plenty of people out there with Lyme disease. There’s plenty of people out there with unexplained illnesses or things that are affecting them. And, you know, there are some interesting tools that do work, worked in your case. So how did you end up finding what actually ended up working for you? Brad Pitzele (12:50)Well, I eventually started doing a lot of research on all sorts of things. And one thing that stuck with me was mitochondrial health. I hear more and more folks talking about it in recent years, which is great, but this is probably about a little 10, 12 years ago. It really wasn’t a well-spoken about area. the more I researched about mitochondrial health, the more I realized this is at the root of everything. So for your listeners, the mitochondria are this little organelle, this little subset inside all of your cells that produce the energy. And they’re extremely fragile. And when they get damaged or they’re not working efficiently, nothing works efficiently because everything takes energy, right? Us talking takes energy, thinking takes energy, moving our muscles, our organs working take energy, repair our immune system, all of it. And so often when you’re dealing with chronic health conditions, particularly when you’re dealing with an infectious agent or even cancers, they go after our mitochondria. because they kind of take the power down in the system and that gives them a leg up on our immune system and our defenses and it allows them to kind of I would call it just burrow deeper into our biology and you know shift the biology to be more favorable towards whatever that is. So for me it that was kind of an epiphany and I delved into a couple tools and the first one was something called exercise with oxygen therapy. also known as EWOT, E-W-O-T. No one was really talking about it. It was kind of the small little thing, not a lot of information out there. And then there was a second one, more folks have heard of today, which is red light therapy, and really red and near infrared light therapy. And they both work through mechanisms that help the mitochondria restore itself. Cheryl McColgan (14:45)Yeah, the exercise, I was looking at the photo on the website of the EWOT contraption and I’m kind of having a hard time conceptualizing. think what, and actually before we go into that, let’s address this other question that came up in my mind when I was looking at the contraption, because I’m like, okay, the thing that most people are probably somewhat familiar with nowadays is a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. And that is used in cancer treatment. think it was, Dr. Seyfried has this thing, and you might be familiar with him just like. through your mitochondrial research, but it’s called like a press pulse thing that they use with cancer patients. And it has to do with ketogenic diet, because you’re starving the cancer of sugar. And then also this hyperbaric oxygen therapy. That’s, that’s all just kind of a weird aside for people that are hearing this, it really has nothing to do with this conversation. But it’s interesting to look up. But for your thing, the hyperbaric works in one way. And I think people like you can visualize it, because you go in and you kind of just lay down. And that’s what it is. But this And when people go to the website, they’ll see it. It’s kind of, looks like a big balloon or a box. So guess I’m having trouble kind of conceptualizing how do you even use that or, how do you exercise with that? That’s a very long winded question, but hopefully we’ll get there. Brad Pitzele (15:47)Yeah. Sure. Well. Yeah, that’s great. So I think it’s two questions. What is it? How does it work sort of thing? Exercise with oxygen therapy at its principles really simple. It simply involves doing any sort of exercise, preferably something that gets your heart rate up, generally cardiovascular exercise, while wearing a mask and breathing near pure oxygen, so about 93 % oxygen. So to your point about how does the contraption or the EWATS system work, it works as, it’s like this, there’s actually a device called an oxygen concentrator that can produce an endless supply of oxygen. You plug it into the wall and you flip the switch and it takes the oxygen in your room, which is probably at like let’s say 21 % at sea level, and it purifies it to 93 % oxygen by separating out the other gases, the nitrogen and the argon. which is great, but these machines that you can plug into your wall, your home outlet, they produce only five or 10 liters of oxygen in a minute. And when you exercise, you can easily use 50 or 60 liters in a minute. So to get a 15 minute session in, you can easily use 900 plus liters of oxygen. And that machine’s only putting out at the best 10 liters of it. And so every minute. And so what we do is we take that machine and we fill a large reservoir to a thousand liters. So think of it as about six feet, five and a half, six feet squared. It looks like a big pillow. And we fill that thing with oxygen. Now to like dimensionalize this for folks, a thousand liters of oxygen is similar to the amount of oxygen you’ll breathe in an entire day. And we’ll fill this, this, you know, bloom, what we call a reservoir with oxygen. And then we’ll attach a hose with a mask on the end of it. Put the mask on and you just breathe out of that reservoir. of water. So again, in that 15 minutes, you can take in a whole day of oxygen. It’s really a massive amount. Now, how does it compare to hyperbaric oxygen? That’s a really good question. Hyperbaric oxygen, at its core, what you do is you get inside of a chamber, they pressurize it, and that forces more oxygen through your lung membrane and into your blood. Now, Once it gets past your lung membrane and into your blood, your, what happens in hyperbaric oxygen is it goes not just into your red blood cells, because if you look at your red blood cells right now, which are the parts of your blood that are designed to carry oxygen, they’re at capacity. Like you can put a little pulse oximeter on your finger and it’ll say 99 % or 100 % or 98%. And so there’s not room for more oxygen, but what hyperbaric does, and EWAT does the same thing, is it actually forces oxygen into your blood plasma. Now blood plasma is this clearish brown liquid, it’s effectively water plus plus, that all the red and white blood cells ride on. And so it can actually turn that into an oxygen carrying vehicle inside your blood, something that normally doesn’t carry very much oxygen. And that’s through a process called Henry’s Law, which goes beyond human biology. It’s really just a chemistry law that says, you take an insoluble gas and enforce it on top of an insoluble liquid, it’ll force the gas to go into solution. In this case, the gas is oxygen and the liquid is blood plasma. Now, in hyperbaric oxygen, the body tries to get back into balance. It notices there’s a surplus of oxygen in the blood. And so your body tries to regulate, go back to homeostasis by using something called vasoconstriction, which means your blood vessels constrict. They get smaller to allow less of that oxygen through. So your body is naturally fighting against delivering that oxygen. In spite of that, you deliver a large dose of oxygen to the tissues. In IWA, what we do is we come to the opposite. Instead of using pressure to force more oxygen into and through your lungs, we use exercise to pull it through. So when you start exercising, your body immediately recognizes that it needs more energy. And the gating factor in producing more energy is oxygen. We all in this Western world generally get enough food. It’s just we’re… When you’re exercising, there’s not enough oxygen. So when it notices this, you have all these physiological changes, right? You start breathing faster and deeper. Your lung membrane actually thins out to allow more oxygen to pass through. Your heart starts beating faster. Every beat is deeper. Your blood vessels actually dilate. They actually open up to allow larger blood flow through them. And then when you exercise, naturally, actually, your blood pressure goes up. And most of us think, no, high blood pressure is bad, but in exercise it’s actually really good because the more pressure inside your blood, that differential between the pressure in your circulatory system and the tissues is like a driving force that drives the oxygen out of the blood and into the tissues. we do EWAT, we’re taking advantage of all those physiological changes to allow us to take in oxygen very quickly and deliver it deeply into the tissues. in a 15 minute EWAT session, you could take in as much oxygen as you would in a hyperbaric session in 90 or more minutes. It’s really quite a large dose. Cheryl McColgan (21:09)Wow. then what about, so how does that affect the mitochondria? Does it just give them more energy and kind of helps them repair quicker? Or what’s the connection between mitochondrial health and the EY? Brad Pitzele (21:16)Thank This is actually the really fascinating part. And this is the thing that really got me more interested in it. EWAT was founded actually in the 1960s and 70s. There was this prolific inventor named Manfred von Arden. He was a German physicist and inventor. He invented the scanning electron microscope. He helped commercialize television technology in the 1930s. And he got interested in oxygen in 1960s and 70s because there was a gentleman named Warburg in the 1920s who had proven that he could take any cancerous cell, any regular cell and turn it into a cancerous cell simply by depriving it of oxygen. And the reverse was true. So Von Arden got interested in that, wanted to start experiment with oxygen, simply trying to reverse cancer. And along the way, what he discovered is something really powerful about our circulatory system, which is as we age, this thing we now refer to as inflammation happens inside our bodies, this slow, gradual increase in inflammation and that affects every part of our body including our circulatory system. But our circulatory system is actually kind of a weak link. At the very end of your circulatory system is your capillaries and they’re incredibly thin and they’re actually the component where the oxygen and the nutrients gets transferred from the circulatory system to the tissues. So you’ve got these really thin capillaries, thinner than a human hair, actually smaller than a red blood cell. In order for a red blood cell to get in a healthy capillary, it has to fold over like a taco to get in because it can’t fit in normal if it’s fully expanded. So there’s not a lot of room for error. And when you start having this inflammation, it causes blockages in the capillaries. So when that happens, you lose circulation downstream. You have what I call a brownout. All the cells on the other side of that inflammation are no longer getting red blood cells, they’re no longer getting oxygen. Luckily, our body does have a backup generator and that’s called anaerobic respiration. Anaerobic respiration is when they create energy without oxygen. But the problem with it is multi-fold. Number one, it only can produce about 5 % of the energy, it can produce what has oxygen. So immediately the cells are like powering down, they’re not able to do all of their essential functions. problem is it produces a massive amount of metabolic waste and free radicals and those things damage our mitochondria because our mitochondria are incredibly fragile as we spoke about earlier and they’re right at the heart of it wherever you’re producing energy you have some free radicals but now when you shift over to anaerobic all of a sudden you’re just spitting out all sorts of damaging chemicals if you will and it has no energy so it has no way to actually clear it and so it becomes I kind of call it’s like a doom loop, which is it starts with dysfunction the dysfunction causes more free radicals which causes more damage and dysfunction and Soon enough, you know, you’ve got these kind of almost zombie cells. They’re just having a hard time Doing anything and then when you do IWA what’s amazing is the oxygen because it’s Inside the plasma it can get through those blockages. So it immediately starts to feed those downstream cells the oxygen they’ve been starving but more importantly than that immediate fix if you will is they cause an anti-inflammatory effect and this was another like big aha in my healing journeys when I realized There’s plenty of research on this. Anywhere in your body you have inflammation, you have the hypoxia, which is the fancy medical term for oxygen starvation. So inflammation means local oxygen starvation. And anywhere you have oxygen starvation, you have inflammation. They go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. And so when we restore oxygen, even in the circulatory system, we can turn off that inflammation that’s happening in our capillaries, reestablish normal blood flow. So you get done doing your EWOT sessions. And Von Arden discovered this. had elderly people, he looked at their capillaries and their throughput, and he had them do just a couple sessions of EWOT, and they came back weeks later, and their microcirculation was still reestablished to more youthful levels. So he was able to open them back up where red blood cells were able to deliver oxygen. really at the root of it all is, you know, every chronic illness you can think of, it has inflammation. Right? mean, there’s not one Alzheimer’s, cancer, autoimmunity, the list goes on and on, name one and it has chronic inflammation. And there’s actually, there’s a gentleman, Arthur Guyton, he wrote the textbook, Medical Physiology, and every doctor any of us has ever gone to had to use that medical physiology book. when they went to medical school, it’s been the standard across the world for over 50 years. And he has this great quote where he says all disease at its root is lack of oxygen. And it’s really true because once the mitochondria break down and we start having inflammation, all the negative effects come from downstream from that. And so that was kind of my. Aha. Light bulb moment, which is if I can turn my mitochondria on it, and I can turn down the inflammation and eventually turn off the inflammation. then like my body will have energy to get ahead. can start to repair itself. It can start to detoxify the immune system. Then we’ll have energy to do everything it needs to do and help, you know, kind of kick on and start to fight a good battle, so to speak. Cheryl McColgan (26:58)Yeah, I mean, I want to go back to how this actually helped you and how you actually found one and all that stuff. But my brain is just going, the one thing that I keep coming to hearing your explanation, and that was an amazing explanation, by the way, for lay people, I can tell you’re an engineer or so. The system where you’re talking about going all the way to the capillaries, I heart disease is the number one killer, right? And we have, I think a lot of it is the chronic inflammation that you’re talking about, but. Obviously once that process is already done, you’re describing how the capillaries can’t get any red blood cells. So to me, it would make perfect sense that this might be not only did it help you in your disease process with Lyme disease and the arthritis and everything, but it seems like it would be pretty amazing for cardiovascular patients or people that don’t have good blood flow, like that on top of the mitochondrial benefit. Brad Pitzele (27:41)Hmm It’s actually, we are helping folks with everything from autoimmunity, cancer, Lyme, long COVID, chronic fatigue, Parkinson’s, heart disease, so many things, because if you can turn off the inflammation and you can give the body energy to heal, it will do just amazing things. That was kind of like the shocking thing to me when I first got into it. was like, wait a second. Like every time I was treating myself as a pin cushion and trying something new, I always had to the question like, what if this doesn’t work? and like what damage could I be doing? know, because there were things that were a little bit risky to be quite honest, where I found out risks, you know, a little bit too late for my liking. But this was one where was like, it’s oxygen. And like, so it was kind of shocking when I started looking at the benefits and I was like, this is kind of crazy that we’re talking about something as simple as oxygen with all these health benefits. But yeah, we’ve had folks with all sorts of different chronic cardiovascular conditions Cheryl McColgan (28:31)Right. Brad Pitzele (28:48)Now, there’s a lot of health benefits to it, but the other crazy thing about oxygen is there’s all these athletic performance benefits. And this is important because directly to your cardiovascular component, which is actually a lot of Olympic teams have used EWAT to improve their athletic performance. because athletic teams are very science driven, there’s some really good research on it showing it improves VO2 max, reduces recovery time. improves short-term memory, it improves power output, et cetera. And all of this is really due to being able to fuel our cells and our muscles more, and also helping clear out all that metabolic waste, because that metabolic waste primarily develops when you have a shortage of oxygen when you’re exercising. Cheryl McColgan (29:34)Amazing that something so simple could be so hugely beneficial. So once you finally saw this, you’re like, Werber knew this about cancer and this guy’s onto this exercise with oxygen thing. Like, well, how do you do it? Where do you get it? Like nobody’s ever seen this before. I think like you’re saying the athletic teams might have it and stuff, but I mean, I’ve certainly never been anywhere where I’ve seen like, hey, get EWOT therapy here. So how did you find it? Brad Pitzele (29:56)Yeah, it’s really, really kind of a rare thing. 15 years ago, it was incredibly rare. There really wasn’t anywhere to go. You could find it occasionally. You might find it in a chiropractor’s office here or there or some sort of recovery clinic. Nowadays, they’re more widespread. So there are places that do it, doctors, chiropractors. But for me, there were a couple of folks selling it, but they were… I didn’t have a whole lot of faith. There was no customer reviews. was no customers talking about it on chat. It was just them as the company and they, a lot of them spoke in superlatives and like marketing speak that it just didn’t make me feel really comfortable. And they were very expensive too. you know, they were maybe the cheapest was 5,000 and the most expensive one I saw was 25,000. and it was this kind of cross hatch of I didn’t have confidence and geez, that’s a lot of money for this next experiment when the last Cheryl McColgan (30:31)yeah. Brad Pitzele (30:49)26 behind me didn’t do anything or 57 or whatever it was. So that’s when I kind of decided, did a little bit more research and decided I was going to try to build my own. Cheryl McColgan (31:00)Yeah, was thinking that I was like, I was an engineer, the next thing would be like, can I just build this? So that’s what you did, obviously, right? Brad Pitzele (31:06)I did it out of necessity because I just didn’t have faith. I built my own. didn’t think it was, I’ll be honest, I didn’t think this was gonna be my solution. Nothing else was. And I started doing it and… You know, slowly but surely I started to walk out of that basement, that proverbial basement. I just kept taking steps up and up. At first it was subtle and then it was kind of all at once sort of thing where I was shocked. You know, was like things like, my gosh, my brain fog’s gone. I’m like focusing in a meeting or I just got down on the floor and played with the kids and I don’t need to lay in bed for two days in pain. And you know, slowly but surely I just felt better and better. And it wasn’t until I saw that same doctor again, and he was like, wow, you’re like a year later. And he was like, wow, you’re so much better. What did you do? And I told him, and he’s like, wow, would you consider selling them to my patients? And that was kind of the, you know, jumping off point where I was like, well, gosh, yeah, maybe we could help other people with this. Cheryl McColgan (32:04)Yeah, that’s awesome. I’m so glad, you know, it’s, it’s, it’s always an interesting thing on podcasts because sometimes you get, I think not on this particular podcast, but other ones, it’s like people that kind of are just selling stuff, you know, or snake oil things or whatever. But what I really love is when there are people that, you know, had their own health problem, they dive into the research, they try it all there, use themselves as an experiment as a pin cushion, as you said, and then they find something that actually works. And then they they make it so that they can share it with everybody else. don’t just keep it to yourself, because I’m sure it kind of felt like a miracle at the time if something finally worked for you. Brad Pitzele (32:41)You know, it really was. I was, because the hardest part is also when you’re in these groups and you’re talking to all these other folks and they’re like, oh, try this, nothing worked and then this worked. And you try that thing and it didn’t work. You you try 57 other different things, as I was saying, and you kind of just start losing any hope. You’re like, I don’t think, I think I’m just that case that there’s nothing that’s going to work. But yeah, when you do find it, it’s, yeah, it’s obviously life changing, even having hope and like, I always tell folks like when you’re really sick, it’s not about, you wanna get to 100%, like 100 % is amazing, it’s the dream we all have when we’re sick, but. more important than 100 % is like feeling better this week than last week or this month than last month because at some point when you’re in it, you just lose a lot of hope and it becomes kind of this like the spiral downward that you just don’t believe in anything and it just lowers you spiritually I just say. And having something to know like, hey, Yeah, it still kinda stinks, but like, remember a month ago it was worse, and so like, now you’re like, yeah, I can’t wait to see how I’m gonna be two months from now, you know, or where am gonna be by this summer sort of thing? Like, it was, it’s kinda the exact opposite. It’s kinda like this hope spiral, if you will. Cheryl McColgan (33:55)Yeah. Well, it’s kind of that’s something that I think it’s good to point out for people too, is that, you you mentioned there is all this research on this. There’s a lot of good science to back up mitochondrial health, that’s kind of mitochondrial health is kind of a long game. And it’s kind of something that you have to continually do not over, you know, just a few days and you’re going to feel so much better. It’s week after week, month after month, the more that you support your mitochondrial health, the more chance you have of really feeling better. So it’s not just this thing where you can try it for a week and you’re like, that doesn’t work. You have to keep up on it for a while, right? Brad Pitzele (34:24)Yeah. Yeah, you’re absolutely right in general speaking. mean, we have… people come to me and they ask like, how long am I going to have to do this for? I tell them is, I can’t say how long until you get to the top of the mountain, so to speak, but I find that most folks who get to the top of the mountain, they feel so good when they do it, they don’t ever want to stop. And some of those folks never really exercised, they hated it, but now they’re like, it’s like 15 minutes, I do it three or five times a week, and I feel amazing, so why wouldn’t I do it? And we talked about that capillary thinning, Cheryl McColgan (34:52)Mm-hmm. Brad Pitzele (34:58)That’s actually a chronic thing that happens to all of us in Western society. And so this is something that’s anti-aging at that very kind of cellular level. So I recommend it for folks, but. I guess for me when I was really sick, always say one of the hardest parts was the ceremony is this what they call them. Counting pills every night, doing this protocol, doing that protocol. You keep adding, like if there’s 10 more minutes in your day, you add 10 more minutes of some protocol that you’re hoping will make you feel better. And then you get to a point where you realize you’re spending six hours of your day, you know, just all you’re doing is these protocols and it just becomes overwhelming. like, even if I felt better, what’s the purpose of all I’m doing is going from from the sauna to the this and I’m doing this pill and I’m doing that. And that’s kind of the, what I found, one of the things I really loved about EWOD was it was something I could do consistently in my home, 15 minutes a day. And it helps with your mitochondrial health. It helps with detoxification. It helps with energy. So it’s like, multiple, it’s kind of multifaceted in the way it benefits you. relatively short period of time. Cheryl McColgan (36:07)Yeah, and you mentioned, and I want to be respectful of your time. know we’re kind of getting a little bit long here, but one of the other things when in respect to mitochondrial health is red light therapy. And there’s also a ton of great research on that. And so I kind of wasn’t surprised when I went to your website that that’s something that you also got into. I mean, I think that’s when you look at the number and the breadth of research on that, I think it’s pretty undeniable that it is good for people that serves a real purpose, that it does help the mitochondria. So at what point, Brad Pitzele (36:34)Yeah. Cheryl McColgan (36:35)after you found the EWAT, I’m assuming you kind of got on this mitochondrial health thing and then maybe stumbled into that stuff. that how it went or is there something else? Brad Pitzele (36:44)Yeah, I started looking at it early on, probably about six months after I was doing EWOT, four to six months right in there I’d say, I started doing Red Light. So you’re right, there’s like tens of thousands of peer-reviewed research studies out there and what it does. They work really interestingly together. Because we mentioned EWAT, when you do it, you increase the supply of oxygen massively, right? It’s a day of oxygen in 15 minutes. So you’re flooding your body with oxygen. And then if you do red light immediately afterwards, what it does is the way it primarily works is it increases oxygen demand in your mitochondria. So it forces the mitochondria to suck up more oxygen. And when they do that, they produce more energy. So any of the research you read on red light whether skin health collagen growth bone mental, brain health, me, athletic recovery performance, healing in general, it all comes from the same thing, is that it’s just forcing our mitochondria to suck up more oxygen and produce more energy. So if you compare those two, you compare them at the same time, you first drive a massive increase in supply of oxygen, and then you increase the mitochondrial demand for it, and so you get this kind of one-two punch. The interesting thing is why I think we need it in today’s society as well is we’re actually deficient on red and near infrared light. And the reason is, if you look at the sun, the sun is full spectrum. has everything from ultraviolet and the blues through the reds and the near infrareds. So when you go outside and it changes throughout the day, early and late in the day, you get more of those reds and near infrareds. And at high noon, you get more of the blues. unfortunately, or fortunately, however you want to look at it, over time as as ⁓ species, we’ve moved indoors and we started using indoor lighting primarily and we spend more and more time there. And then more recently, we’ve switched from incandescent to LED lighting. Now, LED lighting is very energy efficient and one of ways they make it incredibly energy efficient is they take out all the reds and the near infrareds that we experience as heat because obviously you don’t want your lighting to heat your room. You don’t want it to, everyone sees that as energy. waste and to that extent you’re trying to use it for lighting it can be. However, that puts us in a place where we spend a lot of time bathed in blue lights and not really getting enough of the reds and the other parts of the spectrum. Cheryl McColgan (39:27)Yeah, that’s another interesting rabbit hole for people to go down if they haven’t already is just the, you know, changing out some of the lighting in your home or using specific lighting for certain scenarios, like in your bedroom and towards night as you’re getting ready to go to sleep. But anyway, I just want to clarify one quick point there, because I’m envisioning, that was actually what I was envisioning when you started talking about the synergy between red light and the EWAT. So do you like do your EWAT with the red light panel like in front of you or do you just do it right after? Brad Pitzele (39:53)Yeah. I prefer to do it right after. The challenge with doing it right on you is to get the best benefit from red light. Red light works on something called a biphasic dose response, fancy science term, which just means the benefits over time look like a bell curve. So too little, you won’t get any benefit. There’s kind of like a just right where you get peak benefit. And then if you do more, it starts diminishing in benefit. It doesn’t harm. It’s just a waste of time, right? So you spent five more minutes to get less sort of thing. Cheryl McColgan (40:21)Mm-hmm. Brad Pitzele (40:22)with exercising in red light is one, I like to get as much skin exposure as possible so you’re hitting as many mitochondria as possible. And two is you’re moving. So sometimes you’re close to the light, sometimes you’re further away. And so you’re not really able to kind of measure that dose effectively to get inside that biphasic kind of peak zone. Cheryl McColgan (40:43)Okay, no, that makes a ton of sense. Although I still am going to put this out to you that, maybe you put at least on, you know, the little face mask while you’re exercising. I feel like you can attach it to the oxygen part, you know, and just put a red light around it. Maybe that’s a little too, maybe that’s a little too much. But anyway, well, Brad, this has been so wonderful. And I just appreciate you so much sharing your whole journey and then how you came to find this. Brad Pitzele (40:51)There you go. It makes yours waterproof. That’d be fun. Cheryl McColgan (41:09)If people want to connect with you online or learn more about EWOT and learn more about Red Light, where’s the best place that they can find you and connect with you? Brad Pitzele (41:17)Yeah, go to 1000roads.com slash Cheryl and we have a great offer for your listeners. They can check out. You can also ⁓ go to our YouTube channel. put out weekly videos. 1000roads, HQ is our channel. It’s all spelled out, O-N-E-T-H-O-U-S-A-N-D-R-O-A-D-S.com. Cheryl McColgan (41:25)Awesome. Okay, awesome, and all that will be in the show notes for everyone, so don’t feel like you have to write it down. But Brad, again, thank you so much for coming and sharing your knowledge today, and I really appreciate it. Brad Pitzele (41:46)Thank you so much, Cheryl.
The Tenpenny Files – Investigative journalist Sonia Elijah joins Sherri Tenpenny to examine the COVID response, focusing on March 11, 2020. The discussion explores FOIA findings, PCR testing controversies, media influence, and behavioral pressure, raising questions about public health decisions and the systems that continue shaping global preparedness today...
This special Tick Boot Camp Podcast crossover features the full International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) webinar recording, “At the Frontlines of Chronic Illness: Conversations with ILADS Experts.” In this dynamic panel discussion, leading clinicians and specialists unpack why Lyme disease and other infection-associated chronic illnesses are so misunderstood, why testing fails so many patients, and what it really takes to heal—brain, immune system, mitochondria, and terrain included. Moderated by Rich Johannesen (Tick Boot Camp), the panel delivers practical insights and hopeful, patient-centered guidance for anyone navigating complex chronic illness—whether you're a patient, caregiver, clinician, or advocate. Featured Panelists Chris Winfrey, MD — Psychiatrist; Medical Director, New Image Wellness Nicole Bell — “The Lyme Disease Engineer”; CEO, Galaxy Diagnostics Tania Dempsey, MD — Medical Director, AIM Center for Personalized Medicine Melanie Stein, ND — Naturopathic Doctor; Author focused on cellular wellness and healing terrain Host/Moderator: Rich Johannesen (Tick Boot Camp) ILADS Intro: Ali Moresco (ILADS) Episode Highlights ILADS Mission and Why This Webinar Matters The webinar opens with ILADS' mission: improving diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and associated illnesses through research, education, and policy. ILADS emphasizes physician training and patient-centered care, while also supporting the educational mission of ILADEF. Rich frames the night as a rare opportunity to hear from experts working at the front lines of complex chronic illness—especially for patients who've been dismissed, misdiagnosed, or told their symptoms “don't make sense.” Segment 1: Brain Health, Neuroimmune Illness, and Why Lyme “Feels Like Dementia” Chris Winfrey, MD Dr. Winfrey introduces a core theme: Lyme is not only an infection—it often behaves like a neuroimmune illness. Key takeaways: The brain is a high-energy, high-immune-demand organ, uniquely vulnerable to infection-driven inflammation and toxicity. Lyme can disrupt brain function through: Blood flow issues Synaptic dysfunction Myelin damage Network-level disruption, not just “neurotransmitters” He describes brain function through networks that Lyme can destabilize: Default Mode Network (internal reflection) Salience Network (switching between networks) Central Executive Network (planning/organization) Action Network (execution) Autonomic Network (regulation) Limbic Network (threat/fear response) The result: patients often describe “brain shutdown,” confusion, cognitive impairment, and even dementia-like symptoms. A major reframing: Emotions are not “non-physical.” They are measurable physiological states. Lyme-driven nervous system injury can create emotional disturbance because the biology is disturbed. Segment 2: Poly-microbial Infection, Fight-or-Flight, and the Belief-Healing Loop Winfrey + Rich Discussion Rich frames humans as spiritual, emotional, and physical beings, and asks how chronic infection impacts both body and emotional resilience. Key points: Lyme can cross the blood-brain barrier and affect virtually any organ system. The nervous system becomes a “central battleground,” and measurement is hard because nervous system dysfunction isn't captured well by simple bloodwork. Rich and Dr. Winfrey explore how illness disrupts perception, decision-making, and our ability to interpret the world—especially when gut function and intuition feel “offline.” The healing paradox: Chronic stress and “fighting your way to healing” can backfire. Dr. Winfrey emphasizes that healing requires a parasympathetic state—rest, digest, repair—and that this often involves acceptance, surrender, trust, and safety. Segment 3: The State of Testing—Why So Many Patients Test Negative Nicole Bell (Galaxy Diagnostics) Nicole shares her personal motivation and professional mission: testing determines treatment, reimbursement, and belief—and too many patients are failed by existing tools. Indirect testing (antibody testing): The standard approach relies on antibodies—meaning it depends on the immune system behaving predictably. But Lyme and other stealth pathogens evade and suppress immune responses. Even in controlled research models, two infected subjects can show completely different antibody patterns. Immunosuppression (illness severity, medications like steroids, immune dysregulation) can reduce antibody reliability. Direct testing (pathogen detection):Nicole contrasts Lyme testing with illnesses like COVID—where you use tests that look for the pathogen itself (PCR/antigen), not just antibodies. Why direct detection is hard in Lyme: Pathogens can be low abundance They can be tissue-sequestered Sampling matters Why urine can matter for Lyme: Lyme may not stay in blood, but it can shed proteins/antigens that filter into urine. Galaxy's approach includes methods to capture, concentrate, and detect those markers. New diagnostics focus: Genus-level screening for the “3Bs” (Borrelia, Bartonella, Babesia) Reducing guessing when symptoms overlap and co-infections “masquerade” as each other Segment 4: Immune Dysfunction, Mast Cells, and Why Antibody Testing Can Go Haywire Tania Dempsey, MD (AIM Center for Personalized Medicine) Dr. Dempsey explains the immune system through two major branches: Innate immune system (fast, primitive defense) Adaptive immune system (antibodies, longer-term response) Mast cells as first responders: Mast cells detect “danger” and release inflammatory mediators (histamine and many others). In chronic infection, mast cells can remain persistently activated, releasing hundreds of inflammatory compounds. Why antibody tests fail (two patterns): Immune suppression → insufficient antibody production → false negatives Immune chaos → excessive, inappropriate antibody production → confusing positives - Positive Lyme bands “everywhere” - Positive autoantibodies without classic autoimmune disease patterns - “Everything looks positive” because signaling is dysfunctional Her central philosophy:It's not only about killing the bug. It's about fixing immune regulation so the body can actually clear or control infection. She also names the broader context: modern toxic load (mold, plastics, pesticides, “forever chemicals”) primes the immune system into dysregulation before infections even arrive. Segment 5: Advanced Immune-Modulating Tools Therapeutic Plasma Exchange + SOT Dr. Dempsey discusses therapies she's excited about, especially for complex, stuck cases: Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE / plasmapheresis): Removes plasma (where antibodies, inflammatory mediators, and “garbage” accumulate) Replaces with albumin (and sometimes IVIG) Concept: reduce inflammatory burden + toxic load to reset the terrain SOT (Supportive Oligonucleotide Technique): Molecular targeted approach designed to reduce replication of specific pathogens More targeted than “wide-net” antimicrobial approaches Used strategically after lowering inflammatory/toxic burden She emphasizes: not for everyone, not a universal cure—but promising enough to merit formal publication. Segment 6: GLP-1 Agonists and Mast Cell Stabilization “Brain-melt” moment, revisited Dr. Dempsey explains why drugs commonly known for diabetes/weight loss may have immune benefits: Mast cells have receptors for GLP and GIP hormones Patients showed improvements beyond weight: cognitive function, inflammation, immune stability She describes: Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) Tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) Emerging triple agonists (GLP-1/GIP/glucagon pathways) Her clinical approach has moved these agents earlier in care plans for immune stabilization in select cases. Segment 7: Cellular Healing, Mitochondria, and the Terrain Melanie Stein, ND Dr. Stein brings it home: healing often stalls when we focus only on killing pathogens, but don't repair the cellular damage. Core concepts: Lyme damages cell membranes, disrupting what goes in/out and how cells communicate. It contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction, reducing ATP (energy currency). If cells stay in “alarm mode,” healing remains blocked. Cell membrane therapy and terrain support: IV and oral lipid support (phospholipids, phosphatidylcholine, omega fatty acids) Personalized support based on lipidomic patterns Supportive therapies to reduce oxidative stress and “toxic fats” Focus on signaling safety to the body—so repair can resume Cell Danger Response:A key theme: even after infections reduce, the body may remain stuck in a persistent defense state, requiring cellular and nervous system support to exit “danger mode.” Regulation Before Eradication Panel Reflection Round As the panel closes, several themes converge: Limbic system + autonomic nervous system regulation is foundational “Regulation becomes before eradication” Healing requires safety, predictability, and nervous system calm Chronic illness can block our ability to connect—especially in relationships—because survival physiology dominates Dr. Dempsey adds that limbic retraining / nervous system reset is often the first step she starts with in her practice. Question and Answer Highlights Lyme and Cancer? The panel notes emerging signals connecting tick-borne illness and certain cancers, but emphasizes that more research is needed to determine causality. Herniated discs, connective tissue, and chronic infection The discussion highlights potential links through: connective tissue disruption collagen damage mast cell mediators (enzymes that affect tissue integrity) infection-driven inflammation Cross-reactive antibody results (example: Brucella) The group explains how antibody testing can produce confusing results due to immune dysregulation and cross-reactivity—another reason why interpretation and test methodology matter. Nasal testing / sinus terrain While not a mainstream Lyme diagnostic route, the panel references nasal/sinus colonization (especially with mold-related or chronic inflammatory patterns) as a terrain factor that can influence recovery. Resources Mentioned Center for Lyme Action – State of Lyme Disease Research paper (Nicole Bell collaboration) ILADS Provider Search International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation (ILADEF) Donations (supports education and clinician training) Final Message to Listeners This episode is a reminder that Lyme disease and infection-associated chronic illness are not one-dimensional problems. The path forward often requires: better diagnostics immune regulation nervous system support cellular repair personalized care and hope that the body can recover when the right puzzle pieces come together
You can find more from Dr Rob here:drrobertwhitfield.comDr. Whitfield has performed thousands of implant removals and over 1,000 fat transfer procedures, and published the largest PCR-tested capsule study revealing bacterial contamination in nearly 29% of cases. He shares the symptoms of Breast Implant Illness, why explant surgery is helping women reclaim their health and self-esteem, how regenerative fat transfer offers a natural alternative, and the profound confidence transformation that comes from choosing health over societal beauty standards and rebuilding self-worth on your own terms.You can find more from Dr Rob here:drrobertwhitfield.com
Danny Yeung went from selling baseball cards at age 12 to scaling Ubuy-Ibuy to nearly a million a month in revenue in just six months before Groupon acquired it in 2010. Then during Covid, he launched a PCR testing operation that processed 28 million tests and generated over $800 million in revenue across three years. He listed the company on the Nasdaq at a billion-dollar valuation—then watched it crash to $40 million within 18 months. Instead of giving up, he bet the entire company's future on launching IM8, a consumer supplement brand co-founded with David Beckham that scaled from zero to nearly $10 million a month in just over a year. In this interview, the co-founder of IM8 breaks down how he processed 40,000 PCR tests daily with a 2,000-person operation running 24/7, why he pivoted from Covid testing to launching a premium supplement brand, and the brutal $500,000 lesson he learned trying to unlock ad spend too quickly on Meta without the right infrastructure in place. What you'll learn in this interview: • How Danny scaled Ubuy-Ibuy to nearly $1M/month in 6 months before Groupon acquired it • Why he processed 28 million Covid tests generating $800M+ in revenue over 3 years • How he ran a 24/7 operation with 2,000+ people processing 40,000 tests daily • Why he listed on the Nasdaq at $1B valuation then crashed to $40M in 18 months • How he bet the company's future on launching IM8 with David Beckham • Why product obsession is the baseline—you can't even play without a great product • How IM8 scaled from zero to $10M/month in just over a year • The $500,000 mistake: trying to unlock ad spend too fast on Meta • Why consolidating multiple Meta accounts into one unlocked massive scale • How they now spend $200K/day on Meta while maintaining profitability • Why their average order value is over $200—one of the highest in supplements • How they signed athletes like Giannis Antetokounmpo and Fernando Alonso organically • Why NSF certification for sport was critical for credibility with elite athletes • His philosophy: you can't have a backup option—burn the boats and go all in If you're scaling a DTC brand, trying to unlock paid advertising at scale, or navigating a massive pivot after a business collapse, this conversation will fundamentally change how you think about product obsession, risk-taking, and building brands that elite athletes actively seek out. SAVE 50% ON OMNISEND FOR 3 MONTHS Get 50% off your first 3 months of email and SMS marketing with Omnisend with the code FOUNDR50. Just head to https://your.omnisend.com/foundr to get started. WANT TO GROW YOUR BRAND WITH META ADS? Join the Foundr Operators Waitlist → https://foundr.com/operators HOW WE CAN HELP YOU SCALE YOUR BUSINESS FASTER Learn directly from 7, 8 & 9-figure founders inside Foundr+ Start your $1 trial → https://www.foundr.com/startdollartrial PREFER A CUSTOM ROADMAP AND 1-ON-1 COACHING? → Starting from scratch? Apply here → https://foundr.com/pages/coaching-start-application → Already have a store? Apply here → https://foundr.com/pages/coaching-growth-application CONNECT WITH NATHAN CHAN Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/nathanchan LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanhchan/ CONNECT WITH DANNY YEUNG Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/dannyyeung22 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/dyeung22/ Website → https://im8health.com/ FOLLOW FOUNDR FOR MORE BUSINESS GROWTH STRATEGIES YouTube → https://bit.ly/2uyvzdt Website → https://www.foundr.com Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/foundr/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/foundr Twitter → https://www.twitter.com/foundr LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/foundr/ Podcast → https://www.foundr.com/podcast
El Partido Popular y Vox cierran un acuerdo de gobierno en Extremadura, nombrando a María Guardiola presidenta. Vox asume dos consejerías y una vicepresidencia, sentando un precedente para futuras negociaciones en Aragón y Castilla y León. En el ámbito internacional, se anuncia un alto el fuego de diez días entre Israel y Líbano, mediado por Estados Unidos, que entra en vigor esta noche. Donald Trump se atribuye el mérito, aunque el acuerdo se considera frágil por la postura de Hizbulá. En la actualidad nacional, el informe de la UCO revela que Francina Armengol, presidenta balear, recurrió a Koldo para acceder a Ábalos y gestionar PCR y mascarillas, contradiciendo sus declaraciones. Francisca Muñoz, esposa de Santos Cerdán, comparece en el Senado por el caso Koldo. Además, Gaspar Zarrías reconoce un pago de 16.000 euros por una investigación del caso ERE. Los jueces de instrucción de Madrid defienden al juez Peinado y critican al ministro Félix Bolaños por socavar la independencia ...
Dean's Chat Learning Series hosts, Drs. Jensen and Richey, sit down with Dr. Warren Joseph, to discuss fungal infections and antifungal resistance. Below are some takeaway notes:1. Onycho.ID is the first and only Medicare (MolDx) approved, laboratory PCR test for the diagnosis on onychomycosis, developed and clinical validated by BakoDx2. Why choose Onycho.iD? Because it provides an unmatched approach for identifying the infectious agenta. Sensitivity: 92.6% Specificity: 100% (vs histopathology)b. Supports data-driven treatment decisions and improved patient outcomesc. 24-48 turn-around-timed. Detection of dermatophytes, non-dermatophytes, molds and yeastse. Cost-effective and eliminates unnecessary additional testing3. Identify Terbinafine Resistance using PCR Assaya. Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes represents 59% of the organisms responsible for nail infectionsb. Terbinafine is the most common prescribed medicationc. Terbinafine resistance is on the rised. PCR testing (Onycho.ID) provides novel and specific real-time TaqMan PCR testing to detect 12 mutations of T. rubrum and T. mentorophytesWhat is MolDx?The MolDX (Molecular Diagnostic Services) Program is a Palmetto GBA-managed Medicare program that evaluates, registers, and determines coverage/reimbursement for molecular diagnostic tests. It ensures tests are clinically valid, assigns unique DEX Z-Codes for identification, and sets policies for over 28 states to ensure Medicare covers only medically necessary, evidence-based tests. MolDX States (Strict Molecular Testing Review)These states follow the MolDX Program run by Palmetto GBA, which requires DEX Z-codes and technical assessment for PCR tests.Southeast• Alabama• Georgia• Tennessee• North Carolina• South Carolina• Virginia• West VirginiaMidwest• Indiana• Michigan• Iowa• Kansas• Missouri• Nebraska• Kentucky• OhioWestern States• California• Arizona• Nevada• Utah• Oregon• Washington• Idaho• Montana• Wyoming• North Dakota• South Dakota• Alaska• HawaiiAdditional comments from Dr. Scherer, Bako Consultant - who will be joining us on a future episode:“The main benefit of Bako Diagnostics' screening and reflex PCR testing for nails is that it provides a very cost-effective method for PCR analysis. With this approach, the laboratory first performs a screening test. If a dermatophyte is detected during screening, only four PCR probes (cycles) are run in the reflex test, and the test is billed only for those probes.However, if a different type of fungus is identified during screening, the reflex test expands accordingly. For example, if a non-dermatophyte mold is suspected, the lab tests for seven different organisms. Similarly, if yeast is indicated, the reflex panel focuses on yeast organisms.The advantage of this screening-and-reflex algorithm is that the laboratory limits the number of DNA probes used to only the genus or group identified in the initial screening. This targeted approach reduces unnecessary testing and ultimately produces the lowest possible cost for PCR toenail diagnostics.”
In this episode, Cory Connors sits down with Ric Lee of Atlantic Packaging to discuss one of the most impactful sustainability programs in the packaging industry today: MUST. Ric shares his 30-year journey through the packaging and equipment world and explains how his experience led to the development and expansion of MUST, a first-of-its-kind stretch film management system. The conversation highlights a major announcement around the scale, impact, and validation of MUST, including its role in dramatically reducing plastic use, cutting customer costs, and delivering long-term, financially sustainable environmental benefits. Ric explains how the program evolved from a simple monitoring concept into a fully managed system that drives real-world results across thousands of facilities. Over the past decade, MUST has helped remove 247 million pounds of plastic from the supply chain while saving customers over $80 million, proving that sustainability can succeed when it delivers both environmental and economic value.Key Topics Discussed:Ric Lee's background and career in stretch film and packaging equipmentChallenges with traditional stretch film equipment ROI and real-world performanceThe origins of the MUST system through collaboration with Coca-ColaHow MUST differs from basic stretch wrapper monitoring solutionsManaging stretch film standards through data, accountability, and partnershipEnvironmental impact of MUST, including plastic reduction at scaleCustomer cost savings and damage reduction benefitsReal-world success stories with Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch, and Hill's Pet NutritionIntegration of PCR stretch film into MUST programsEligibility requirements for MUST and automatic stretch wrapping systemsThe future of MUST, including AI and expanded capabilitiesResources Mentioned:Atlantic PackagingMUST Stretch Film SystemAtlantic Packaging Solutions CenterWolfTec Stretch Wrapping EquipmentContact:Listeners interested in learning more about MUST or scheduling a facility evaluation can reach out to Ric Lee via email at ricl@atlanticpkg.com, through the Atlantic Packaging website, or on LinkedIn.Thank you for tuning in to Sustainable Packaging with Cory Connors!Support our Sponsors Learn more here:www.3M.com/sustainablepackaginghttps://www.specright.comConnect with CoryConnect with Cory on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-connors/I'm here to help you make your packaging more sustainable! Reach out today and I'll get back to you asap. This podcast is an independent production and the podcast production is an original work of the author. All rights of ownership and reproduction are retained—copyright 2022.
This week's stories: *Bartonella Hides in Cat Scratches — and It Might Be Why You Feel Like Garbage A stealth bacterial infection transmitted by everyday cat scratches and flea dirt has been quietly linked to chronic fatigue, brain fog, and neurological symptoms for decades. Dave breaks down how Bartonella slips past standard testing, why it's almost never on a conventional doctor's radar, and the specific PCR protocol you need to actually find it. Sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ *High Tyrosine Levels May Be Cutting Years Off Men's Lives A Mendelian randomization study of 270,000 UK Biobank participants found that elevated tyrosine is causally linked to nearly a full year of lost lifespan in men — with zero effect in women. The culprit appears to be an inflammatory oxidation pathway that men metabolize very differently. Dave examines what this means for every guy stacking L-tyrosine nootropics or eating high-protein keto. Sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41045493/ https://www.aging-us.com/news-room/high-tyrosine-levels-linked-to-shorter-lifespan-in-men https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2026-02-27/study-suggests-one-common-amino-acid-may-affect-how-long-men-live *Blue Light Blocking Contact Lenses Are a Legitimate Vision Upgrade ALTIUS Vision's tinted contact lenses aren't just blue light filters — they cut chromatic aberration by 53% and improve motion tracking and contrast sensitivity in ways that software filters simply can't replicate. Dave covers the mechanism, who benefits most (screen workers, TBI recovery, gamers), and how to find a provider. Sources: https://altiusvision.com/chromatic-aberration/ https://altiusvision.com/science-of-altius/ https://www.westvalleyvision.com/-altius--performance-tinted-contact-lenses *Taurine Plus B Vitamins Actually Moves the Needle on Motivation A randomized crossover trial found that a daily stack of taurine, B6, folate, and B12 sustained effort-reward motivation and cut cognitive lapses significantly compared to placebo — and the mechanism runs through glutathione production in brain astrocytes. Dave breaks down why this combo works when either ingredient alone doesn't. Sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41889717/ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2026.1711478/full https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2026/03/23/taurine-and-b-vitamins-bost-motivation-and-focus/ *30 Seconds of Smelling Flowers Resets Your Nervous System Research out of the Monell Chemical Senses Center confirms what your grandmother knew: a slow, deep floral inhale measurably lowers heart rate and activates the parasympathetic nervous system — and it works because olfaction bypasses the cortex entirely and hits the limbic system directly. Dave makes the case for building a daily scent ritual. Sources: https://time.com/ https://www.southtabor.com/healthy-living-tip-stop-and-smell-the-flowers/ This episode is designed for biohackers, longevity seekers, and high-performance listeners who want mechanism-level clarity on infection-driven cognitive decline, amino acid optimization, sensory performance, and evidence-based supplementation. 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Host: Unique DoctorGuest: Dr. Jason Hawrelak (Microbiome Specialist & Educator)Episode SummaryIn this episode, Unique Doctor sits down with renowned clinician and researcher Dr. Jason Hawrelak to discuss why the modern trend of "carpet-bombing" the gut with antimicrobials like Berberine and Oregano oil may be doing more harm than good. They explore the nuances of Akkermansia, the dangers of hidden chemicals in natural supplements, and how to use fiber and targeted herbs as "snipers" to restore a healthy internal ecosystem.Key Information & HighlightsThe Problem with "Natural" Antimicrobials: Many popular herbal treatments (Berberine, Oregano Oil, Grapefruit Seed Extract) are non-selective. They kill beneficial Bifidobacteria and butyrate-producers, often leading to a "bloom" of pathogens like E. coli and Klebsiella shortly after treatment.The "Sniper" Herb – Pomegranate Husk: Unlike broad-spectrum killers, Pomegranate Husk acts selectively. It inhibits pathogens and fungi while actually encouraging the growth of beneficial microbes.The Oxygen/pH Dynamic: You can suppress pathogens without "killing" them by changing the environment. Pathogens hate acidity and oxygen-free environments. Feeding your gut fiber creates Butyrate, which sucks oxygen out of the gut and lowers the pH to a level pathogens cannot tolerate.Akkermansia Insights: If you are missing Akkermansia muciniphila, current supplements may not "colonize" you permanently. However, red polyphenols (Pomegranate, Dragon Fruit, Cranberry) and prebiotics like Inulin can drastically increase levels if the species is still present.The Probiotic Myth: Probiotics rarely "recolonize" a healthy gut. They are transient travelers that perform specific tasks (e.g., speeding up transit time or producing GABA for anxiety) but usually don't stay forever.Recommended ResourcesThe Corn/Quinoa Test: Eat corn or black quinoa and track how many hours/days it takes to appear in the stool (Optimal is 18–30 hours).Microbiome Testing: Look for Shotgun Metagenomics or 16S DNA testing rather than basic PCR pathogen tests. I like Tiny Health for North America. Code: youregreatDietary Goals: Aim for 40–50g of fiber daily from diverse plant sources.Watch the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/@beanprotocolJoin The Legume Love letter Newsletter here: LOVE LETTERS
Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch digs into PubMed's controversial retraction of a 2025 study of Fenbendazole (FenBen) for cancer treatment by Dr. William Makis. Naomi Wolf Ph.D. is concerned about bizarre cloud formations and the real threat of government geoengineering programs – and the exclusion of women from public prayer spaces. Evolutionary biologist and pseudoscience expert Massimo Pigliucci breaks down the ancient practices of Stoicism and Epicureanism, explaining the biological and societal forces that lock human beings into predictable routines. Naomi Wolf, Ph.D. is an independent journalist, co-founder, and CEO of DailyClout.io. She edits The Pfizer Papers and authored Facing the Beast and War Room / DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Volunteers' Reports eBook. More at https://x.com/naomirwolf and https://naomiwolf.substack.com⠀Massimo Pigliucci, PhD, is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His academic work is in evolutionary biology, philosophy of science, the nature of pseudoscience, and practical philosophy. He has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He has published over 190 technical papers in science and philosophy and is the author or editor of 23 books. Learn more at https://massimopigliucci.net/⠀Dr. Harvey Risch is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at Yale. He provided testimony to the US Senate regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and has spoken widely about his opposition to masking, vaccine mandates, and the reliability of PCR tests – along with his research on COVID prevention and treatment with existing drugs. In 2025, President Trump appointed him to chair the President's Cancer Panel. Follow at https://x.com/DrHarveyRisch 「 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS 」 • STRONG CELL – If you want to feel more like your younger self, go to https://strongcell.com/ and use code DREW for 20% off. • AUGUSTA PRECIOUS METALS – Thousands of Americans are moving portions of their retirement into physical gold & silver. Learn more in this 3-minute report from our friends at Augusta Precious Metals: https://drdrew.com/gold or text DREW to 35052 • FATTY15 – The future of essential fatty acids is here! Strengthen your cells against age-related breakdown with Fatty15. Get 15% off a 90-day Starter Kit Subscription at https://drdrew.com/fatty15 • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at https://drdrew.com/paleovalley • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at https://twc.health/drew 「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Executive Producers • Kaleb Nation - https://kalebnation.com • Susan Pinsky - https://x.com/firstladyoflove Content Producer • Emily Barsh - https://x.com/emilytvproducer Hosted By • Dr. Drew Pinsky - https://x.com/drdrew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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