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Decoding Medical Doublespeak

Klimer
Eclectic Healing
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:12 UTC
Your handy pocket guide to translating the language of Corporatized Orthodox Medicine.
Medical Doublespeak
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In 1900, 2% of U.S. GDP went to healthcare, but today it consumes nearly 19%. Meanwhile, expected longevity has started declining, and we are in the midst of an avalanche of rapidly proliferating chronic diseases, with no end in sight. People are getting sicker at a younger age. We are spending a lot more, and getting a lot less for our money.

Something is clearly wrong with the system, and has been for a long, long time. Add it all together, and it is clear that our healthcare system operates under a very flawed and failing paradigm, which fails to meet the needs of the majority of people that it serves.

The following is offered as a means of comprehending why, in 2024, U.S. healthcare costs were the highest in the world, yet in 2023 we were ranked as the 69th best healthcare system on the planet (down from 37th a little more than a decade ago).1

So far, Google Translate hasn't gotten around to translating this particular language, so I felt the need to present this the old-fashioned way, as a brief printed translation guide. If there are any Google Engineers out there who want to help Make America Healthy Again (or, the Earth for that matter), you have my permission to use any of the following in a future Medical Doublespeak Google Translate app. Ideally, artificial intelligence can be employed to translate medical doublespeak in real time, and thus render completely harmless such heinous and destructive lies, innuendos and half-truths.

Fortunately for all of us, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., over his many years of challenging corporate vested interests, has had to become completely fluent in Medical Doublespeak. He will need that vital skill as he starts work as the new head of Health and Human Services in the U.S. If he had the time and inclination, I suspect he could do a vastly better and more complete treatment of this topic, than I have with this humble attempt.
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Taking a break from smartphones: Study confirms its benefits

PNAS Nexus
Medical Xpress
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
person on phone
© Paul Hanaoka/ Unsplash
A month-long randomized control trial confirms that reducing the time spent on smartphones to access the internet makes people happier and more focused.

On average, Americans spend almost five hours a day using their smartphones, and half of Americans who use smartphones worry they use their devices too much. Noah Castelo and colleagues sought to determine whether constant access to the Internet through smartphones harms cognitive functioning and mental health. Their results are published in PNAS Nexus.

The authors recruited 467 participants from Prolific.co, an online labor pool, to install an app on their iPhones that blocked all internet access on their phones. Half the participants had their phones blocked for the first two weeks, during which time the other half of participants functioned as a control. The groups switched treatments for the second two-week period.

Comment: See also: Smartphone use leads to hallucinations, detachment from reality, aggression in teens as young as 13: Study

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Why is WHO vaccinating so many Gazans, multiple times?

Rhoda Wilson
Expose
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
vaccine gaza
© EYAD BABA / AFPVaccination against polio, Gaza.
Information about covid vaccination programmes in Gaza is scant. The World Health Organisation ("WHO") doesn't provide clear data and available information often combines Gaza and the West Bank as "Palestine." In short, details of the aid being sent to Gaza is shrouded in mystery.

Before 7 October 2023, covid vaccination rates in Gaza were low; initially 5% and at the last count up to 40% of the population had been vaccinated while WHO said that at least 60%-70% of the population must be vaccinated.

From the scant information available, it is clear there has been a concerted effort, particularly by WHO, to push for covid vaccinations in Gaza, despite the population being vaccine-hesitant.

Following WHO's covid vaccine drive, there was a polio vaccine drive. The vaccines used are novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), which was developed with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to combat the polio emergency created by the previous oral polio vaccine.
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Patient defies genetic fate to avoid Alzheimer's disease

Mark Reynolds
WashU Medicine
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:51 UTC
Doug Whitney genetics alzheimer avoids
© Megan FarmerDoug Whitney, who lives near Seattle, Wash., inherited a mutation that has caused many family members to develop Alzheimer's disease at about age 50, yet he shows no sign of the illness at age 75
Study offers clues to treatment, prevention

Doug Whitney, who lives near Seattle, Wash., inherited a mutation that has caused many family members to develop Alzheimer's disease at about age 50, yet he shows no sign of the illness at age 75. His case is the subject of a new study by WashU Medicine researchers that aims to identify potential routes to preventing or treating Alzheimer's based on Whitney's exceptional resilience to the disease.

Remarkably, Doug Whitney, 75, has escaped genetic destiny. Like many members of his family, Whitney inherited a rare genetic mutation that all but guarantees he would develop early-onset Alzheimer's disease. But Whitney, whose relatives first showed symptoms of cognitive decline in their early 50s, remains mentally sharp with no signs of the devastating disease, and a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis helps explain why.

Their findings, published Feb. 10, 2025, in Nature Medicine, point to potential therapeutic avenues to explore to help protect against the development of Alzheimer's.

Comment: Mr. Whitney is still actively exercising his cognitive faculties, as evidenced by his use of word puzzles games. This was noted as a positive factor in the famous 'Nun Study', begun in the early 1980s

His long-term exposure to a physically stressful environment also seems to be playing a part in his cognitive health. Wikipedia has this to say about heat shock proteins:
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a family of proteins produced by cells in response to exposure to stressful conditions. They were first described in relation to heat shock,[1] but are now known to also be expressed during other stresses including exposure to cold,[2] UV light[3] and during wound healing or tissue remodeling.[4] Many members of this group perform chaperone functions by stabilizing new proteins to ensure correct folding or by helping to refold proteins that were damaged by the cell stress.[5] This increase in expression is transcriptionally regulated. The dramatic upregulation of the heat shock proteins is a key part of the heat shock response and is induced primarily by heat shock factor (HSF).[6] HSPs are found in virtually all living organisms, from bacteria to humans.


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Kentucky, Montana, Idaho among states looking to ban mRNA vaccines

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
Children's Health Defense
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
ban mrna vaccines
© Children's Health Defense
As calls to ban mRNA shots intensify worldwide, a growing number of U.S. states and communities are eyeing laws to prohibit or pause their use.

A bill introduced Tuesday in the Kentucky House of Representatives would ban until July 1, 2035, the administration of "any human gene therapy product for any infectious disease indication, regardless of whether the administration is termed an immunization, vaccine, or any other term."

Lawmakers in Idaho and Montana recently introduced similar bills. Legislative initiatives are in the planning stages or have been passed at the county level in at least four other states, including Iowa, South Carolina, Texas and Washington.
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Study reveals direct gut-brain communication via vagus nerve

University of California, Los Angeles
Medical Xpress
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
gut microbiota
© Credit: iScience (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111699The gut microbiota and lumenal microbial metabolites promote vagal afferent nerve activity.
A recent study in an animal model provides direct evidence for the role of the vagus nerve in gut microbiome-brain communication, addressing a critical gap in the field.'

The research — led by Kelly G. Jameson, as a Ph.D. student in the Hsiao Lab at UCLA — demonstrates a clear causal relationship between gut microbiota and vagal nerve activity. The work is published in the journal iScience.

While the vagus nerve has long been thought to facilitate communication between the gut microbiome — the community of microorganisms living in the intestines — and the brain, direct evidence for this process has been limited. Researchers led by Jameson observed that mice raised without any gut bacteria, known as germ-free mice, exhibited significantly lower activity in their vagus nerve compared to mice with a normal gut microbiome. Notably, when these germ-free mice were introduced to gut bacteria from normal mice, their vagal nerve activity increased to normal levels.

Comment: See also: Gut bacteria influence brain development

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New study finds entire spoonful of microplastics in people's brains — and 3 times as much in those with dementia

McKenzie Beard
NY Post
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:55 UTC
polyethylene
© University of New MexicoThe most common type of microplastic found in brains studied was polyethylene.
Your brain is 99.5% brain tissue — but the rest? Plastic.

That's the unsettling takeaway from a new study co-lead by Matthew Campen, who found microplastics in human brains at far higher levels than other organs. Even more troubling, these tiny particles are accumulating rapidly, having increased 50% over the past eight years.

"There's much more plastic in our brains than I ever would have imagined or been comfortable with," said Campen, distinguished professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

On average, the brain samples studied contained about 7 grams of microplastics — roughly the weight of an average plastic spoon.

To make matters worse, the study also found up to 10 times the amount of microplastics in the brains of 12 dementia patients compared to healthy brains. While the correlation is clear, researchers cautioned that further study is needed to establish a direct link.
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UK VACCINE SCANDAL! GPs Took Pfizer Money to PUSH Kids' Vaccines!


GB News
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:28 UTC
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Neil Oliver and guest Molly Kingsley from the lobby group 'UsForThem', reveal the absolutely shocking truth behind the UK's vaccine scandal.

The Royal College of GPs has been exposed for failing to declare Pfizer payments while advocating for COVID jabs for children, despite the JCVI's firm refusal to recommend the rollout.

This shocking betrayal of public trust highlights how Big Pharma's influence has infiltrated critical health decisions.

In a blatant disregard for children's health and public trust, can the situation even be rectified, or do we need to 'drain the swamp' just like the US?

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Household mold: A potential trigger for Alzheimer's disease

Rena Gao and JoJo Novaes
Epoch Times
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
mold spray
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An Australian nutritionist began experiencing symptoms of fatigue and dementia after moving to a new house and was later diagnosed with a form of Alzheimer's disease. Eventually, it was discovered that her symptoms were linked to severe mold growth caused by water leaks in the house. This case was reported by Australian media in 2022.

Mold in the house may act as a potential trigger for Alzheimer's disease, though this claim remains a topic of debate among experts. Some microbiology researchers suggest that untreated mold infections in their early stages could impair brain function.

On the program "Health 1+1," Professor Shao-Hung Wang, Chairman of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biopharmaceuticals at National Chiayi University in Taiwan, discussed the dangers of household mold, methods for checking indoor humidity and preventing mold, and important considerations when using disinfectants.

Comment: Check out these two videos for more information on mold toxicity:

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Opinion: Invalidity of Counterfactual Models of Mortality Averted by Childhood Vaccination.

Prof Denis Rancourt
Global Research
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:12 UTC
Child Vaccine


Abstract

I express and support the opinion that all models that purport to calculate the mortality (infant mortality in particular) averted by vaccine programmes are invalid because they are based on inputs of vaccine efficacy and pathogen prevalence and virulence that are themselves invalid.

Even with ideal testing, the counterfactual number of deaths from a presumed pathogen if the targeting vaccination programme was not implemented is impossible to calculate reliably because it is contrary to biological reality: the deaths of concern are always complex non-linear events that involve several interacting contributing factors that do not have additive effects.

Furthermore, infant mortality factors other than vaccination are highly variable and overwhelmingly more important than any presumed vaccine benefit; predominantly, deleterious effects of nutritional deficiencies and of relentless exposures to challenges from toxic living environments. The underlying cause is so-called failed-state extreme poverty due to structural financial exploitation that is not being addressed. There is no known example of a drop in measured infant or child mortality temporally associated with the rollout of a childhood vaccination programme.

Independent studies suggest that, contrary to dogma, excess infant mortality (not averted infant mortality) is associated with vaccine programme rollouts and maintenance. Using yearly infant all-cause mortality rate directly, I estimate approximately 100 million vaccine-rollout-associated infant deaths 1974-2024 worldwide, with the caveat of concomitant largescale economic transformations.

I conclude, overall, that the longstanding industry of infant vaccination programmes is a baseless fraudulent enterprise of exploitation.
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