Health & Wellness
With 8 million metric tons of plastic discarded each year, the impact of UV rays and waves causes it to break down into tiny fragments, transforming into secondary microplastics. These minuscule particles are subsequently ingested by lower life forms, like plankton, and ultimately pose a threat to humans at the top of the food chain.
Director Choi and Professor Park conducted a study to determine the harmfulness of secondary microplastics generated through the natural weathering of plastic leaked into the environment. To replicate the process of natural weathering, they artificially created secondary microplastics by subjecting crushed microplastics to seven days of ultraviolet irradiation and physical impact, simulating a natural environment.
Mounting evidence has highlighted numerous ways in which the community of diverse microbes that naturally reside in the human gut — the microbiome — is connected to human health, including brain health. Several studies in animals and humans have hinted at connections between the microbiome and early-life brain development, but few have examined how differences in infants' microbiomes might be associated with differences in their emerging cognitive abilities.
To help deepen understanding of these potential connections, Hunter and colleagues analyzed data from 56 infants aged four to six months. The infants had each completed at least one of three evaluations of various cognitive abilities, and the researchers evaluated their gut microbiomes using fecal samples.
Comment: In the abstract, the authors wrote:
The increase of Bifidobacterium is relevant for brain development as members from this genus are known probiotics that have strong associations with host immunity and connections to the brain-gut axis [73]. Recent studies have shown the importance of Bifidobacterium species colonization during postnatal development as they can promote the formation of synapses and microglial function [74].
A new cleanup effort has been ordered.
The discovery "is the first from an extensive sampling of active U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile bases to address specific cancer concerns raised by missile community members," Air Force Global Strike Command said in a release Monday. In those samples, two launch facilities at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana showed PCB levels higher than the thresholds recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
PCBs are oily or waxy substances that have been identified as a likely carcinogen by the EPA. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a blood cancer that uses the body's infection-fighting lymph system to spread.
In response, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, has directed "immediate measures to begin the cleanup process for the affected facilities and mitigate exposure by our airmen and Guardians to potentially hazardous conditions."
Both teenagers showed evidence of new heart damage from the recurrences, including high levels of proteins from injured cardiac muscle. Scans showed one boy had new lesions in his heart wall, and he needed nearly two weeks of hospitalization.
The researchers could not determine why the boys suffered the relapses, which came 8 to 12 months after the initial myocarditis episodes. They called for tighter monitoring of anyone diagnosed with mRNA-caused myocarditis - and more research to determine if young people who suffered it might face severe future complications.
Comment: The Daily Sceptic reported:
MIT health data expert Professor Retsef Levi wrote on Twitter that the study shows that vaccine-induced myocarditis is likely driven by the mRNA platform itself and not the spike protein specific to the Covid vaccines. The study also adds to the evidence of "sustained heart scarring and abnormalities", underlining that "vaccine-induced myocarditis is not mild", he said.
Former Tory and now Reclaim MP Andrew Bridgen has written to the Prime Minister to alert him to the new Swiss study showing heart damage at a rate of up to one in 35 following mRNA vaccination, calling on him to recall Parliament to review the latest scientific data and halt the booster programme.
The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology today, found that walking at least 3967 steps a day started to reduce the risk of dying from any cause, and 2337 steps a day reduced the risk of dying from diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease).
However, the new analysis of 226,889 people from 17 different studies around the world has shown that the more you walk, the greater the health benefits. The risk of dying from any cause or from cardiovascular disease decreases significantly with every 500 to 1000 extra steps you walk. An increase of 1000 steps a day was associated with a 15% reduction in the risk of dying from any cause, and an increase of 500 steps a day was associated with a 7% reduction in dying from cardiovascular disease.
Accompanying Kennedy to the meeting were Del Bigtree, Informed Consent Action Network founder, attorney Aaron Siri and Lyn Redwood, R.N., MSN, president emerita of Children's Health Defense (CHD).
Several other U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials in the executive offices of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) accompanied Collins and Fauci.
In the United Kingdom, a 48-year-old who was bit by a stray feline ended up contracting a species of bacterium that scientists have never seen before.
His immune response to the foreign microorganism was a doozy. Just eight hours after receiving multiple bites, the man's hands had swollen to such a great extent that he took himself to the emergency department.
Comment: See also:
- Microbes unknown to science discovered on The International Space Station
- Mysterious microbe discovered in Antarctic may hold keys to puzzle of evolution
- Daycare staffer's rare, potentially deadly infection prompts request that parents keep non-vaccinated children at home
- 10-year-old Florida girl is paralyzed with rare brain infection four days after receiving flu shot
- Rare skin infection spreads in New York City; 66 cases reported
- US: Florida Teen Critical After Suffering Rare Brain Infection Likely Caused By Amoeba
- Merck KGaA works with regulators after second Raptiva patient died of rare brain infection
- Arizona Boy Dies Of Rare Infection, Naegleria fowleri
The other part of the equation is potassium, a naturally occurring mineral your body uses as an electrolyte. It, too, is vital for optimal health, and studies clearly show that having the correct balance of potassium to sodium is far more important to health than lowering salt alone.2
A study looked at 133 girls in Italy referred to a specialist paediatric unit because their chest had started developing before the age of eight.
In the four years before the pandemic, from January 2016 to March 2020, 72 girls were diagnosed with 'rapidly progressive' early puberty — where, for example, their height was increasing far too fast or they had a high level of hormones linked to adolescence.
That meant less than two girls a month were being identified as rapidly going through puberty far too young.
But, in the shorter period between March 2020 and June 2021, that had leapt to almost four girls a month being diagnosed — 61 in total.
Comment: Other research suggests that the incredible stress caused by the lockdowns, as well as the effects of Covid, and the experimental injections, had significant and varying effects on people's health, and in particular on children's health - and the vast majority of these effects seem to have been detrimental:
- 'Pandemic stress' has reshaped the placenta of expectant moms - study
- Investigation launched into abnormal spike in newborn baby deaths in Scotland, highest since records began
- Sudden surge in unexplained cases of liver inflammation seen in children in UK, US, Spain, and Ireland

Infectious disease agency suggests central portion of state may have become 'endemic location' for potentially debilitating disease. The CDC said the data represents ‘mounting epidemiological evidence supporting leprosy as an endemic process in the south-eastern United States’.
There were 159 new cases of leprosy in the US in 2020, the most recent year for which data was studied, according to a report published on Monday by the CDC. Florida was among the top reporting states, and almost a fifth of all cases were reported in the state's central region.
Central Florida was responsible for 81% of the cases reported in the state.
Meanwhile, the number of reported cases of leprosy in the south-eastern US has more than doubled over the last decade, the CDC reported, with growing instances of people contracting leprosy within the country.
Comment: This comes amidst an increase of other formerly rare infections and diseases, as well as a shortage of basic medicines - and this trend is not isolated to just the US:
- Japan reports world's first death from Oz virus - first cases of malaria reported in US in decades follows 2018 trial of Gates Foundation GMO mosquitoes in Florida
- US suffering another medication shortage: penicillin - amid record number of syphilis cases
- Lethal Sex -The Rise of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Age of Postmodernist Liberalism
- New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection
- Book Review: New Light on the Black Death by Mike Baillie
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