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Coffee

Synthetic versus natural caffeine and how each may affect aging

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Some studies suggest synthetic caffeine may accelerate aging, but research is limited. Learn about the differences between natural and synthetic caffeine.

From Starbucks to Red Bull to Coke, caffeine has become an energy bump for 75 percent of Americans who consume it on a daily basis. Many count it as the spark that ignites their brains and bodies to get through a long day. However, not all caffeine presents itself the same, according to emerging research demonstrating that synthetic caffeine may accelerate aging while naturally occurring caffeine could slow age-related decline.

Does Synthetic Caffeine Accelerate Aging?

The type of caffeine in your coffee may play a role in its protective effect against aging. About 60 percent of the caffeine consumed by Americans is synthesized in a lab, meaning it doesn't come from natural sources such as coffee beans or tea plants. Synthetic caffeine is what popular companies such as Pepsi, Coke, and Red Bull add to their beverages to give their drinks an extra kick.

Comment: As with most things, coffee does not seem to be healthy in higher doses. Nothing new, but it's good to know that real coffee can actually be helpful in the right doses.

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Health

A century of evidence: Putting light inside the body is a miraculous therapy - Part 1

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Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UBI) is a medical therapy developed in the 1920s in which a small portion of a patient’s blood is extracted and exposed to ultraviolet light before being returned to the body.
How ultraviolet blood irradiation treats many severe cardiovascular, infectious, obstetric, autoimmune and neurological diseases

Story at a Glance:
  • Natural light is an essential nutrient many of us do not have enough of within our bodies. Because of this, when ultraviolet light is added to the bloodstream, phenomenal health benefits emerge.
  • Once ultraviolet blood irradiation (UVBI) was discovered in the 1930s, it produced miraculous results for patients on the verge of death and was quickly adopted by hospitals throughout America. There, it demonstrated remarkable efficacy for a wide range of diseases, and the doctors who pioneered its use compiled a large body of research.
  • To neutralize this competition, the American Medical Association published a small doctored study that "debunked" UVBI, and before long it became a forgotten side of medicine. The Russians and Germans however recognized the value of it, and for decades have produced research showing UBVI's remarkable utility for a variety of challenging medical conditions both within and outside the hospital. However, in America, UVBI is primarily used by integrative practitioners who need effective tools to treat complex illnesses (e.g., Lyme disease, Chronic fatigue syndrome, spike protein injuries, or migraine disorders).
  • In this article we will review the hundreds of studies showing UVBI's utility for a wide range of medical conditions (e.g., cardiovascular diseases, infertility, preventing miscarriages, many autoimmune disorders, preventing complications from surgery, and treating a myriad of challenging bacterial and viral infections), explain how UVBI works, and provide the resources for those wishing to best utilize this therapy.
In this publication, I have attempted to make the case that we are routinely denied vital knowledge, treatment, and care, in order to protect the interests of the medical industrial complex (as you can only sell costly but abysmal therapeutics to people if no alternatives exist). As that is a rather extreme allegation to make, I've tried to show piece by piece how this is indeed the case. For example:

Syringe

Hidden Pfizer report shows up to 40% more heart conditions develop in the vaccinated

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For six months, the MHRA and other national regulators have been sitting on a Pfizer report about Covid vaccine safety. Worryingly, the abstract which I have just found online doesn't look good at all:
  • the vaccinated cohort have at least 23-40% higher risk of some heart-related conditions; and
  • the risk is higher than in Pfizer's previous report (i.e., it is increasing over time since vaccination).
The report in question is Pfizer's report C4591021 'Interim Report 5' dated March 12th 2024. It is a Post Authorisation Safety Study (PASS) of Pfizer's Covid vaccine. In summary, national regulators routinely require pharmaceutical manufacturers to conduct PASS studies as a condition of authorisation of most new medicines. The regulators provide data to the manufacturer covering millions of patients registered in national healthcare systems. The manufacturer then conducts analysis to determine whether the medicine has increased the risk of specified health conditions.

Airplane

Asian state starts testing airport arrivals for killer disease

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© membio/Getty ImagesTesting for Marburg
Kazakhstan has taken steps to prevent the introduction and spread of Marburg virus, citing a WHO warning.

The health authorities in Kazakhstan have introduced mandatory body temperature checks of passengers arriving in the country's airports from abroad, according to a statement on Monday. This comes amid an outbreak of a highly infectious and potentially lethal disease in Africa.

The illness, known as Marburg virus disease (MVD), starts with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, sore throat, and abdominal pain. In some cases, patients die through extreme blood loss. The virus spreads between people through contact with bodily fluids or with surfaces, such as contaminated bedsheets.

Marburg is from the same family of viruses as Ebola but has been described as more severe.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the disease has a fatality rate of up to 88%. An outbreak of MVD was confirmed last month by the health authorities in Rwanda.

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Donut

Ultra-processed foods make up 60% of America's diet, who's at biggest risk

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© iStockStudies have shown that consuming ultra-processed foods is associated with 32 poor health outcomes.
Super-processed packaged foods have become prevalent in U.S. diets — and experts are warning of the potential effects.

Recent research has shown that 60% of Americans' daily caloric intake comes from ultra-processed foods (UPFs).

A study published by the BMJ revealed that exposure to UPFs was associated with 32 poor health outcomes, including mental, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and metabolic complications.

Some of the linked conditions include cancer, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes.

While America's diet is 60% ultra-processed overall, registered dietitian nutritionist Ilana Muhlstein warned that consumption among American kids is even higher than that.

"With children, it's actually over 70%," the Los Angeles-based expert told Fox News Digital. "That is really wild when you think about it."

Syringe

Alarming rise of 'super-fit' slim young people suffering heart attacks- what could it be?

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Heart attacks were once thought of as a disease of age - but worrying new data shows they are increasing in healthy young adults.

Roughly 0.3 percent of Americans aged 18-44 had a heart attack in 2019 - but last year that rose to 0.5 percent, or one in 200.

While that may still seem like a relatively low number, it represents a 66 percent increase in cases in just four years, which doctors call 'alarming.' It also means that one in five heart attack patients are now younger than 40.

Comment: A cliff notes version of this article would be: "Young people are dying and it has nothing to do with the experimental gene therapy that was pushed vehemently for four years, the end".




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Excessive DNA contamination in mRNA vaccines presents "substantial risk" of cancer, say 52 scientists and academics

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The Australian Government should immediately suspend the use of Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines due to accumulating evidence of high levels of synthetic DNA contamination in the shots, which present a "substantial risk" of genomic integration and long-term health impacts, including cancers, say leading scientists and academics.

In a letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Russell Broadbent, independent MP for the federal seat of Monash, said that "immediate action through a suspension of these products is critical to mitigate further risk", after independent testing of Australian vials of modified RNA (mod-RNA) Covid vaccines detected residual synthetic DNA at levels up to 145 above the legal limit.

The letter, circulated to all Australian MPs and Senators, is co-signed by 52 scientists and academics, many at the top of their fields, including Professor of Oncology Angus Dalgleish, Emeritus Professor Wendy Hoy, an expert in chronic disease, Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy, an immunologist who developed a bronchitis vaccine, geneticist Professor Alexandra Henrion Caude and microbiologist Professor Sucharit Bhakdi MD.

Bizarro Earth

Medical journal was pressured to retract study on Covid-19 vaccine harms

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Vaccine manufacturer sues researchers for defamation and demands retraction of a study describing adverse events after covid-19 vaccination.

A vaccine manufacturer based in India launched defamation proceedings against researchers who published a study that reported adverse events in people following covid-19 vaccination.

The manufacturer also sued the editor of the international journal which published the study and demanded that the offending article be retracted immediately.

The peer-reviewed study

The study at the centre of the controversy is a post-marketing safety analysis (phase IV) of Covaxin, one of India's homegrown covid-19 vaccines.

The researchers concluded that serious adverse events of special interest (AESI) after vaccination "might not be uncommon" and that the majority of AESIs in people persisted "for a significant period."

Of the 635 participants involved, one-third reported developing AESIs such as new-onset skin disorders, nervous system disorders, menstrual and ocular abnormalities.

Comment: It appears that Big Pharma's tentacles extend world-wide.


Ambulance

Best of the Web: Stunning new research paper suggests Covid jabs sharply raise the risk of death or heart failure after heart attacks

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The risk appeared particularly high in vaccinated people who have also had Covid (which at this point is almost everyone), Spanish researchers found.

Being vaccinated against Covid sharply increased the risk heart attack patients would die or suffer heart failure after heart attacks, a new Spanish study shows.

Over a six-month period after their heart attacks, Covid vaccinated patients had nearly double the risk of unjabbed ones. The risk appeared concentrated in patients who were both vaccinated and had had Covid before their heart attacks.

The researchers examined outcomes from almost 1,000 heart attack patients from March 2020 through March 2023 in a Madrid hospital. They found vaccinated and previously infected patients had an over 50 percent higher risk of death or heart failure than unvaccinated people who had also been previously infected - and a 90 percent higher risk than those who were unvaccinated and previously uninfected.

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Disturbing differences between batches of Pfizer's Covid vaccines in the Czech Republic

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Some time ago, the so-called 'Danish study' swept through the digital underground. The authors showed that Pfizer's Covid vaccines in Denmark had a suspicious safety profile: A few small batches, distributed early in the campaign, were associated with unacceptably high number of adverse events (almost one in 10 recipients reported an AE), while the later batches showed orders of magnitude less AEs. Even more fascinating than the study itself was the story how difficult it was to get it published.

We could not wait to repeat the study in the Czech Republic. We asked the State Institute for Drug Control (SUKL) for similar data. We reported the results in an article for the European Journal of Clinical Investigation. Our findings are even more disturbing than that of the Danish team.

From the start of the vaccination campaign until the beginning of summer 2023, the Czech SUKL received a total of 14,386 reports of suspected AEs for covid vaccines. This number far exceeds the number of AEs reported for all other drugs combined in normal years.

Incredibly, the SUKL did not bother to link the AE reports with the corresponding batch numbers for almost half of the reported AEs. Even in the case of death after a vaccine (216 reported cases), SUKL did not pair 117 of the deaths to a batch number. This is serious negligence, especially because information about batch numbers is readily available in another state-run database. Both these databases are easy to pair though the so-called "birth number" which is a compulsory state-provided citizen ID in the Czech Republic. What if all the 117 deaths for which the SUKL did not bother to trace the batch came from a single batch of vaccine? How would the SUKL recognise that this batch is a mortal threat to the Czech population and that it is necessary to pull it out urgently, which is its legal obligation?

Comment: Or maybe there is a possibility that the vaccine produced by Pfizer to receive EUA was made to be much safer, and then the vaccine injected into billions of people was intentionally altered, not by manufacturing error, for some nefarious purpose.