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As flu season intensifies and the media pushes so-called "super-flu" narratives — a manufactured term designed to increase tanking vaccine uptake and/or generate clicks — many people are actively seeking effective prevention strategies beyond failed flu shots, which recent real-world data show increase flu risk by 27%.
© KJN"If music be the food of love, play on." — William Shakespeare
Key points:
- Music can increase beneficial microbes and decrease pathogens in mice.
- Music has an impact on microbes in vitro as well.
- A new study in humans shows a beneficial effect of music on oral microbes.
- Mozart's music is often used and seems to have a largely positive effect.
In the early 1800s, psychiatrist Benjamin Rush started using music to treat medical and mental diseases. The 1900s saw the beginning of several music therapy associations creating standards for education and clinical training. Music therapy is often part of a treatment plan that includes medications or other psychiatric therapies.
Music affects our brain chemistry, releasing dopamine and reining in cortisol, the stress hormone. It has found applications in a wide variety of conditions, including dementia, stroke, autism, depression, anxiety, and pain. It is a cross-cultural phenomenon. As Longfellow put it, "Music is the universal language of mankind."
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Microplastics are defined as plastic particles smaller than 5 mm.
These particles are found everywhere: in oceans, soil, drinking water, food, and even the air we breathe. Yet, the origins of these particles are often invisible to consumers.
Using data from the IUCN, CSIRO, and Elsevier, this graphic, via Visual Capitalist, by Made Visual Daily breaks down what actually makes up these particles and where they come from.
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- Teenagers who live with dogs have better mental health and social behaviors.
- Microbes in dog owning teens differ from non-dog owners and are more similar to those found in dogs.
- When the dog-related microbiota from adolescents is transferred to mice, they show enhanced social behaviors.
A team of Japanese researchers, with lead researcher Eiji Miyauchi from Gunma University and senior researcher Takefumi Kikusui from Azabu University are associated with the Tokyo Teen Cohort Project, which is an ongoing longitudinal study of adolescents and their primary caregivers. They were intrigued by an earlier piece of research from this project, which demonstrated that dogs improved the mental health and social stability of teenagers. Specifically, that study found that adolescents with a dog at home reported fewer social problems than those without a dog. The data showed that teenagers who own dogs when they were 13 years of age had significantly lower scores for social problems, social withdrawal, thought problems and lower levels of delinquent and aggressive behaviors when measured later, then those who did not own dogs. The unanswered questions had to do with why this might be, and these investigators came up with the unexpected hypothesis that it might have to do, at least in part, with "symbiosis with microorganisms."
Using longitudinal data from a population-based cohort of 345 adolescents, combined with microbiome sequencing and germ-free mouse transplantation experiments, researchers demonstrated that dog ownership during adolescence alters the human microbiome in ways that measurably improve social behavior.
Rather than relying on self-reported well-being or cross-sectional associations, investigators assessed dog ownership at age 13, psychiatric outcomes at age 14 using standardized clinical instruments, and then directly tested causality by transferring saliva-derived microbiota from adolescents into germ-free mice.
The result: microbes associated with dog-owning teens were sufficient, on their own, to induce more social, pro-social behavior in animals raised in completely controlled conditions.
Comment: NOBIVAC NXT is a vaccine platform developed by Merck Animal Health that delivers an RNA sequence of a pathogen's specific gene to dendritic cells, where it self-amplifies and produces large amounts of antigen that will forever alter your pet's microbiome. Steer away!
Obama-appointed Judge Irene Berger has blocked West Virginia’s ban on artificial food dyes.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent the first year of President Donald Trump's second administration trying to implement his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) vision. But his mission hit a roadblock during the holiday season when an Obama-appointed judge issued a ruling siding with a conglomerate of dye companies to stifle a landmark ban on artificial food additives.
During his first trip as America's lead healthcare official in March, Kennedy spoke in Martinsburg, W.V., alongside Gov. Patrick Morrisey, who said his state's ban plan and the Democrat scion's choice to visit the area first shows the "MAHA" movement "begins right here in West Virginia."
Comment: Berger clearly has no understanding of the size of the health crisis in West Virginia. She had a chance to mitigate even a little of it, and went with Big Food anyway.
- America's most medicated state? West Virginia
- High levels of endocrine-disrupting chemicals found near fracking wastewater disposal sites
- Trial begins in West Virginia lawsuit against opioid makers
- Unsealed documents reveal Big Pharma worked with pain clinics and caused the opioid epidemic
Together with his colleague Peter Stassen, and on behalf of the Stichting Recht Oprecht Foundation ('Right to rights foundation') representing seven plaintiffs who all suffered negative health outcomes as a result of Covid 'vaccinations', on July 14th 2023 van Kessel filed a civil lawsuit at the District Court of Leeuwarden.
The defendants include the Dutch government, former Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Bill Gates, and others, totaling 17 individuals and entities. The plaintiffs allege that the Covid-19 'vaccine' is actually a cloaked bioweapon, and that the alleged side-effects are deliberately chosen effects. The lawyers accuse the government of committing genocide against its own people, noting that the legal definition of genocide includes the infliction of serious bodily harm. The lawsuit seeks damages for the alleged vaccine injuries, and a legal decision from the Court over whether the Covid-19 shot is a vaccine for the health of the population, or a bioweapon. The lawsuit's outcome hinges on the plaintiffs' ability to substantiate their claims of vaccine-related harm.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary had previously said they were looking at such deaths in young people.
Last month, the agency's chief medical and scientific officer Vinay Prasad had told staffers in a memo that COVID shots probably contributed to the deaths of at least 10 children who died of heart inflammation and announced plans to tighten vaccine oversight.
© Sebastian Kaulitzki/Adobe StockStanford Medicine researchers discovered why COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccine cause inflamed heart tissue in some people.
Stanford Medicine investigators have unearthed the biological process by which mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 can cause heart damage in some young men and adolescents — and they've shown a possible route to reducing its likelihood.
Using advanced but now common lab technologies, along with published data from vaccinated individuals, the researchers identified a two-step sequence in which these vaccines activate a certain type of immune cell, in turn riling up another type of immune cell. The resulting inflammatory activity directly injures heart muscle cells, while triggering further inflammatory damage.
The mRNA vaccines for COVID-19, which have now been administered several billion times, have been heavily scrutinized for safety and have been shown to be extremely safe, said Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, the director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.
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We went over this (a lot) in 2020. Then we went over it again in 2023. Masks don't work, they never worked, and - prior to 2020 - the academic literature was very clear on this.
In a 2016 literature review, infection control expert Dr John Hardie found [emphasis added]:
Between 2004 and 2016 at least a dozen research or review articles have been published on the inadequacies of face masks. All agree that the poor facial fit and limited filtration characteristics of face masks make them unable to prevent the wearer inhaling airborne particles. In their well-referenced 2011 article on respiratory protection for healthcare workers, Drs. Harriman and Brosseau conclude that, "facemasks will not protect against the inhalation of aerosols."That study was removed from the website of the Journal of Oral Health in July 2020, because it was "no longer relevant in our current climate". Which is perfectly normal, I'm sure.
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Health care workers have long relied heavily on surgical masks to provide protection against influenza and other infections. Yet there are no convincing scientific data that support the effectiveness of masks for respiratory protection.
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It should be concluded from these and similar studies that the filter material of face masks does not retain or filter out viruses
Why Face Masks Don't Work: A Revealing Review
Comment: Looks like microplastics will be a permanent part of Nature.