Now, I think we're going to be turning to our first session of the day around science,
and we are going to welcome Dr. Suzanne Gazda up here to talk about emerging neurological
disorders of path to solutions.
Oh, absolutely, clap now, clap later.
So Dr. Gazda, the founder of the Neurology Institute of San Antonio, she has helped put
together the FLCCC Eye Recover Protocol, which I know many of you are familiar with.
It works really well for post-vaccine syndrome, and it is a syndrome.
She approaches neurological disorders with a systems-based approach and that addresses
the root cause of the disease, really looking forward to hearing what she has to say here
today.
Dr. Gazda, welcome.
Well, first of all, I want to thank the FLCCC for asking me to speak and to share this
stage with so many esteemed colleagues.
I'm honored to be here, and I'm honored to be here with all of you.
Thank you for taking time out of your busy lives to come here and to be part of the FLCCC
family.
There is no question that the brain has taken a terrible hit since 2020.
The CDC, which we all believe, says one in five have long COVID.
That's billions of people, and God only knows how many people have been injured by this
new technology and how many will be injured in the years to come.
And we know that both long COVID and post-vaccine injury, the main system involved, 80 percent
with the vaccines, is the neurological one.
So we are facing a crisis of brain health.
And the part of the brain that seems to have hit the hardest is the hippocampus.
It's a tiny little piece of gray matter, deep, deep in the brain, but it's so important
for memory.
It stores our memory, it helps us recollect our memory.
It's important for mood regulation, so it's important for learning and mood.
It does many things.
And it stimulates something very rare today.
That's curiosity.
It seems to be a lost art.
Well, the hippocampus also has this amazing ability to restore neurons.
It's called hippocampal neurogenesis.
But when that hippocampus gets sick or stops working, that's when you start going down
the cognitive decline, memory bad lane.
That's where Alzheimer's disease will begin.
But it's not just spike protein from the vaccine or from the Wuhan virus.
It's also social isolation, loneliness.
These are also very, very important and can dramatically affect brain health.
So many of you have probably heard about this book.
Maybe you've heard podcasts interviewing Dr. Michael Nels, who is a medical doctor.
He is a renowned molecular geneticist who wrote the book called the indoctrinated brain.
And what he says is very interesting.
He believes that post-2020, we have seen a destruction of our autobiographical memory,
and that's the hippocampus.
And he believes that it was all those factors, the constant news cycle of fear, be afraid,
the social isolation, especially in the elderly, especially in our children, and distancing
from our human hearts, that that was all contributing.
But so was the virus, and so was the messenger RNA technology, such that he believes that
we have created a society of people where human brains are more easily controlled and
more accepting to what the current narrative is.
And he infers this was all done because of mind control.
And you say, Gasta, come on, we are scientists here, Dr. Merrick, this is the FLCCC, we don't
talk about conspiracy theories, but let me show you just a little bit of the research
peer reviewed that talks about the damage to the hippocampus.
There's something to this.
There really is.
The mind is a terrible thing to waste.
And more than ever, we have to work hard on brain health today more than ever.
So how do we treat long COVID and neurological injuries?
As Dr. Corey said earlier, this is the most complicated thing all of us have ever seen
in our entire career.
And I still believe it is case by case.
Someone asked me last night, we just need a simple protocol that we can use in our patients.
And I smiled and I said, it's not, it's not simple.
And right now it still has to be case by case.
But I believe we need to address the main mechanisms of injury, which include retained
lingering spike protein, reduced inflammation, oxidative stress, enhanced immune function,
help regulate autophagy, decrease microclotting and decreased blood flow, mitochondrial dysfunction,
mast cell stabilization, and gut health.
That's all.
So what I'm going to do in this lecture is I'm going to present four cases.
And I want to welcome you to my clinic.
These are patients that I've treated in the Neurology Institute.
And I would like to show you how I go about it.
Do I have all the answers?
Oh my God, absolutely not.
But we are learning more every day.
And you will hear us talk about autophagy.
How many people did intermittent fasting this morning?
Awesome.
So autophagy is a very important mechanism.
And when autophagy shuts down, the brain is definitely affected.
Neurons are very sensitive and vulnerable to decreased autophagy because we can't
clear prions.
We can't clear neural inflammation.
And numerous studies have shown that spike protein induces cellular senescence.
It's making us age faster.
And it's shutting down this ancient remedy, autophagy, for healing.
Mark Mattson was a senior scientist at the Institute of Aging.
He retired recently.
But what he said was, if we started in midlife intermittent fasting, we would dramatically
delay the onset of neurodegenerative disease and slow down aging.
So what caused this neurocovid?
Just like the other answer, it's very complicated.
So I created this diagram, which I call the perpetual cycle of pain induced by spike protein
to the brain.
So you see it's many things.
And I believe the reason why these neurocovid, neurovax, long vax, long COVID are so difficult
to treat is because we have all these mechanisms going on, probably at the same time, vying
for first, second, and third place.
So treating neurological injuries, we have to understand the pathophysiology if we're
going to help these patients.
And remember, long COVID is not related to lingering virus.
That's been shown in many different studies.
But lingering viral fragments, absolutely, absolutely.
Remember the study we talked about in Fort Worth, the wrong study where they looked at
human skulls, brains.
These were people like you and me that had COVID while some way back, but didn't die
from COVID.
But in the human brains, they found lingering spike protein in the frontal cortex, memory,
memory, memory, and in the meninges and in the skull marrow.
So what does this mean?
We have only begun to see the long-term effect of spike protein on the brain.
We are all the canaries in the coal mine.
And we need to strategize on brain health today more than ever before.
The Brogna study showed spike protein lingering for up to six months.
On the side of this, one side of this slide, they look at what were the mechanisms, why
is it?
And don't we all wonder why?
Why doesn't the immune system take care of spike protein and get rid of it?
Well, unfortunately, one of the working theories is now integration into DNA.
So now we have a chronic disease that falls into our clinics more and more and more.
So the most common things, gas disease in the neurology clinic are listed here.
Brain fog and cognitive decline is probably number one now.
But all of these are presenting in various ways.
So the first case we're going to talk about is brain fog and cognitive disorders.
Cognitive impairment is one of the most disabling symptoms in both of these entities.
And across the board, if you look at all the studies that have been done, the incidence
is 12% to 80%.
After you recover from COVID, you have lingering brain fog.
Or there can be many domains involved, as you can see here in this slide.
It can be mood.
You can't put one and two together.
You can't do math anymore, visual, spatial, et cetera, et cetera.
And unfortunately, you'd say, Gasta had all bad news.
I don't want to go to her lecture anymore.
But unfortunately, the patients are not getting better.
A year and a half, two years, they have no improvement in their cognitive function.
Now we can change that with our brain protocols, but we can't let people slip away.
Now in the React 19, I do want to acknowledge this amazing organization.
Thank you for everything that you are doing and that you have done.
But in the React 19 data, the 2021, there was a survey, 70% of the injured had brain fog
or cognitive issues.
And a year later, 50% were no better.
Now did you know that in early 2023, the Department of Transportation issued a national crisis
of automobile collisions?
Why?
Are more people on the road?
I saw a Tesla just recall two million vehicles, but are children driving?
No, y'all.
Their people's brains are not working like they used to.
So I say, be careful out there.
There was one study done by a gold orissi recently, and they looked at patients a year
after they got over COVID.
A shocking 45% of them didn't pass their neuropsych testing.
And another example of this is in medical students.
They did a study and they looked at med students that had COVID and those that didn't have
COVID.
And they found the med students that had COVID, even though they weren't complaining of any
problems with their academic performance, they had significant problems with their auditory
working memory.
That's like the sticky note you put on your fridge so you don't forget to pick up your
kids.
It's so important.
It's important for academic learning.
And I guarantee it's important for being a good doctor.
So what is the next wave going to bring?
There have been a number of studies that have linked having COVID to brain fog and
cognitive decline.
And what's really surprising is this shocking acceleration of the neuropathology.
Generally, we would say, oh, Alzheimer's begins at least a decade before you come see
me.
No, this is six months to a year in some people.
Even the Alzheimer's Association was worried, and in 2021 they issued a press release.
And they said, hey, we're seeing some bad signs here that after you get out of COVID,
you might be having some trouble with your memory.
And we just want to say it can even lead to Alzheimer's disease.
And we see the data in the VAERS reports.
Thank you so much, Jessica Rose, for all of your work and your reporting in VAERS.
And then in this study, it's not really anything new.
It was a study done in primates.
And they saw, yeah, spike protein fueled the pathological proteins, but listen to this.
Listen to what the senior author said.
I believe we're going to see in a few decades an epidemic of early demented people, especially
the ones that had COVID several times.
I also believe that older people who accumulate amyloid plaques with normal aging will shift
to dementia and Alzheimer's much faster than the normal progression.
So Fiona Phillips was a good morning TV host.
She announced last year that she has early dementia at age 62.
And she blames us on getting up every morning at 3 a.m.
Listen, I don't discount that sleep is critical.
It's one of the things we all need to work on.
But now we have a new beast, and that is lingering spike protein.
So what if you knew Alzheimer's was coming for you?
It's a difficult diagnosis, MRIs, normal, even the neuropsych testing, they'll say, oh, you're
just depressed and anxious.
But no, things have changed now.
Now we have these plasma biomarkers, and I want the clinicians to know about these.
They're commercially available, Quest or LabCore will do them.
And if you just put the diagnostic code, mild cognitive impairment, it should be covered.
One of them is A beta 2, 40 to 40.
Now if that level is low, you've kind of stepped into Alzheimer's land.
And then the other one is serum tau 181, and there are various reference ranges.
The other thing you need to do is the ApoE genotype.
Remember, if you have an ApoE 4, that's the Alzheimer gene.
If you have a 4, 4, there's a 90% risk of developing Alzheimer's.
But in general, you need to know Alzheimer's is not a genetic disease.
It's an environmentally induced disease that we should be able to prevent.
The new marker that's coming any day now is tau 217, and it has been shown to be better
than PET scan, which costs $7,000, extremely difficult to get approved and better than studying the CSF.
Now these biomarkers have been tested now for a while.
This study, they looked at women, they followed them for 14 years, and they checked these biomarkers.
And truly, when these biomarkers were positive, those were the women that ended up with cognitive decline.
So I think they can be helpful in our evaluation, especially of cognitive COVID.
These markers have been looked at in patients with long COVID.
The other one that they've looked at is GAF.
It's not commercially available.
I wish it were.
But then the other one that is is NFL.
No, not the football league.
It stands through a neurofilament light chain.
And we check it in our MS patients because it is actually a better indicator of disease progression than maybe MRI.
So NFL, you might want to put in your lab parameter two.
If these are elevated, it tells you basically the brain has taken a serious hit and there could be looming problems coming in the future.
Now, Stefano and colleagues wrote a paper that says they believe that some patients with long COVID, and we'll say post-vax,
may have developed a human prion disease.
And that may be why some of these people are so difficult to treat and get well.
Now, that is terrible news.
And I think we will find ways to address this and treat it.
You have to wonder, though, when Big Pharma is planning for a 300% global rise in prion disease over the next two decades.
All right, case number one, 48-year-old PhD lives in North Texas, got COVID in March of 2020,
had mild brain fog and fatigue afterward, but was still able to keep working until shot one and two, December 20th, January 2021.
She really got sick and then developed POTS, post-exertional malaise and excessive acceleration of her brain fog.
I saw her in September of 2022, you know, always their neurological exam is normal, not always, but she had this weird atrophy in her hands.
And you'll see this if you really do close exams.
There's muscle loss in these individuals.
She said, Dr. Gasta, I feel like I'm aging rapidly.
And we know the spike protein drives senescence, right?
Okay, so what we did, we did some basic neurological workup.
And what you'll see is a recurring theme, spike antibodies greater than 25,000.
I encourage you to check those.
Of course, they are going to be covered.
LabCorp or Quest will do them.
I prefer LabCorp.
Her AD detect was 0.17.
At the time, upper limit of normal was 0.16.
They have subsequently changed that.
They've dropped it to 0.11.
And you have to wonder why the labs are already, all of a sudden, since COVID changing all of these parameters.
Amy, just like TGF beta, right?
Now the upper limit of normal, okay, is 20,000, whereas before it was 5,000.
Something, something is going on.
Let me tell you.
So we instituted the FLCC recovery protocol and the Bredesen protocol.
Now, let me tell you about the neuroquant.
How many people know about neuroquant?
Great.
So it's been around for over a decade.
It was originally designed as a biomarker for Alzheimer's.
The MRI, to me, yeah, it's important to get a baseline MRI on patients.
I mean, we're seeing some weird things.
Brain tumors, stroke, new onset MS.
But the MRI is like looking at the tip of the iceberg.
The neuroquant looks at structural volumes.
And if you see the areas in blue, this is hers, the blue means neuroinflammation.
The volume there is greater than 95%.
If you see a lot of red, that means the volume has dropped below 5%.
So how do you get a neuroquant?
It's covered by insurance.
If you just do an MRI and you add neuroquant, I think, Kelly,
what we ought to do sometime is have a webinar on what the neuroquant is,
how to find one, how to order it.
But the other bad news or good news we're all learning is you're going to have to
learn to interpret it yourself.
Even my neuro radiologist that I've worked with for 20 years does a terrible job.
But it's not that hard, and we just need to learn a little in neuroanatomy, right?
So what she had, she had high neuroinflammation in the hippocampus,
her primary memory center.
So this is the protocol that I put together.
Of course, optimized her sleep, got healing, exercise.
You cannot push these people to exercise.
So at first she was doing yoga, light stretching.
Now she's walking three to four miles a day.
She drank organic green tea, that's EGCG, it's amazing flavonoid.
It has amazing benefits for the brain.
It's been even shown to clear prions.
And then mindfulness, behavioral modification.
This is a stressful disease, right?
Everybody's stressed, the patient, the family, the doctors should be too.
We did vagal nerve retraining because she did have pot.
She had evidence that the vagus was really taken down.
We optimized her hormones, especially in women.
One reason Alzheimer's is more common in women than men is because we lose estrogen.
We lose progesterone, which are neuroprotective hormones.
We optimized her hearing because hearing loss has been associated with cognitive
decline.
I did manual emphatic drainage with her.
There is one study that shows the lymphatic system is dead, is destroyed post COVID.
And you know, that's like if the trash collectors decided not to come for a week
or a month, you'd have a lot of trash in your street.
So the lymphatic system is clearing what shouldn't have gotten into the brain and
helping lower neuroinformation.
And then on the other side are the supplements that I use throughout the course
of her treatment.
And you're going to see a lot of my slides because you're going to go, wow,
that doctor has so many slides.
We're going to be there for five hours.
But a lot of them are for your reference.
I spent a lot of time on this so you could come back and go, well,
why did she use this, this, or this?
And I hope I have as much documented for you that will be helpful in guiding your
treatment strategies.
Now, the one thing, two things that she felt were really helpful were Oxy-Benz
ketosin and plasmolegens.
And I'm going to talk to you about that.
So what was not helpful, she did not get help with the Patterson protocol.
She did try Guampasin, that's the old tired and wired drug for ADHD.
There was a study published from Yale where they tested 12, yeah, 12 patients.
And it got in a major journal, 12 patients, and
it showed this remarkable benefit.
But no, I mean, you can try it, but it has a lot of side effects.
She did try nicotine patch and ketotophen, which I love because it has such
blood-brain barrier penetration, but it made her too drowsy.
Now, nicotine, I want to spend two minutes on nicotine.
Not smoking, but nicotine.
And I'm going to go up here to this, I want to try to play.
Can you turn that on for me?
Nicotine, a defense to COVID, post-COVID issues, and shedding.
During the last three years, we have heard a lot about the ACE2 receptor site
that is used by the COVID virus, the spike protein, and
the mRNA vaccine components to enter the cells of the human body.
Several investigators have demonstrated that the spike protein
also affects the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor sites,
which interferes with neural nets in the brain and
with the peripheral nervous system throughout the body, causing memory lapse,
fatigue, weakness, pain, and other symptoms that interfere with daily activities.
Researchers have shown that cell receptor sites have a much higher affinity
for the nicotine molecule than for the COVID virus or the spike protein or
the vaccine components.
Attachment by the virus, the spike protein or
the vaccine components to cell receptor sites compromises nerve cell communication.
In one paper, nicotine showed an up to 30-fold higher affinity
to the cell receptor site than acetylcholine,
suggesting the nicotine molecule could easily displace the virus or
the spike protein and pave the way for unimpaired nerve signal transmission.
Treating several individuals suffering from post-COVID-19 syndrome with
a nicotine patch application, researchers witnessed improvements.
Okay, so again, the only reason we're even talking about nicotine is because
spike protein, I always say, was designed to be very special.
So it has these protein inserts that are very similar to snake venom.
So they're neurotoxins and they take down the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors,
which are absolutely important for memory movement.
I think this is one thing that causes so many patients to have tremor.
It's absolutely important for skeletal muscle and also for the autonomic nervous system.
So that's why we have to think about nicotine.
Now, one thing here, let me show you this.
Nope, let me go back, one more, sorry.
There's this group on Facebook, I found them.
We're always looking for help.
And there's over 7,000 members now and
they're called the Renegade Research, the nicotine test.
If you're thinking about trying nicotine, go to their page.
They've got a lot of Google Docs and they tell you how to try this.
For example, you cannot put the whole patch on, you can't cut the patch.
So you can tear away some of the backing and
apply very small amounts and titrate gradually.
In this group, there are some people that say that was the only thing that helped them.
But one thing they talk about is Herc's reaction.
And I think what's happening, of course nicotine has a lot of side effects, right?
GI can cause terrible insomnia.
But I think they're Herc's thing because we're displacing spike protein.
And if you're displacing spike protein, that's why if you're gonna try this,
you have to have autophagy upregulated, you have to be doing the healthy diet.
Maybe you need augmented NAC, which is a wonderful supplement that de-natures
spike protein beyond ivermectin.
So I think what we're finding in general is nothing ever works by itself,
that we need a combination of things.
This is, for future reference, other ways that we can increase acetylcholine.
Of course, I love choline as my favorite one on this list.
But there are other ways besides nicotine that we may be able to reset that system.
How many people know about the Bredesen protocol?
Awesome, great.
So I learned about it a few years ago as well.
So Dr. Bredesen is a neurologist that created this protocol after being very
discouraged with what was going on in his clinic as well.
Mine, watching patients get diagnosed and end up in a nursing home.
So it really is a 21st century approach.
We use the analogy of the 36 holes in the roof.
And imagine you had 36 holes in your roof and a big storm was coming.
Or Kelly, a big snow storm.
And you said honey, get up there and patch that roof.
And your partner comes down and they've patched one hole.
You're still gonna have a lot of damage.
So we know many mechanisms that lead someone down the lonely road of Alzheimer's.
So we had tried to address as many of those mechanisms.
In their pilot study, 74% of their patients improved.
And 90% of them had better quality of life.
As opposed to Big Pharma, who has failed miserably.
They've spent $42 billion over the last few decades
trying to find the Alzheimer's drug because they remain focused on amyloid.
Which is not the problem.
So also of course we know exercise is key.
This is all the low hanging fruit that we all need to be doing.
Strategize a way to exercise.
It increases cerebral blood flow, improves BDNF.
Sleep is vital.
We mentioned Fiona Phillips lost a lot of sleep with her career.
And then reducing stress.
Food is medicine.
Studies have shown that if you eat processed food,
you will end up in the nursing home much faster than if you eat a healthy non-GMO diet.
Intermittent fasting.
Dr. Merrick and I spoke about this on a webinar recently.
I've learned so much from him.
But intermittent fasting is amazing for the brain.
I talked to you earlier about autophagy is when that shut down,
the neurons become more vulnerable.
It increases BDNF.
It also up regulates the whole autophagy mechanism.
There was a study done, published in August of last year,
where they took an Alzheimer rat model.
And one group of the rats did intermittent fasting.
And the other group didn't.
But they ate the same diet.
Guess which one did better?
Yeah, the one that did intermittent fasting,
within two months they had improvement of cognitive function.
And when they were harvested, they had significantly less neuropathology.
There are other ways to up regulate autophagy.
Again, I'm not going to read through these slides.
They are for your reference and future use.
Transverse repertoire is absolutely one of my favorites.
You need to use the transversion.
Because regular O-reservatrol doesn't cross the blood brain barrier very well.
Reservatrol has also been shown to clear prions.
And we at the FLCCC love methylene blue with photobiomodulation.
It does similar things in increasing autophagy.
These are some other things.
Ivermectin, fluvoxamine, which I do use quite often,
although low doses.
It has been found in animal models to have neuroprotectant effect.
Amphicitin comes from strawberries.
It's being used now in animal models to treat neurodegenerative disease,
quality sleep, meditation, sauna, and photobiomodulation.
So the next few slides, again, are for your reference.
If you want to go, well, why didn't she put them on omega-3?
Good for the heart and brain.
And vitamin D, we cannot underestimate the importance of D, right?
We live in an indoor world and we just don't get enough sunlight.
Low vitamin D is linked to poor memory.
It is linked to decreasing brain volumes.
So I'm going to leave these for you for your future reference.
Magnesium-3 and 8 is my preferred form of magnesium for
neuro-COVID because I believe it crosses the blood brain barrier more effectively.
And then these as well, we just have so much we can do.
I want to mention the third one on here, hydroxymethylbutyrate.
It's used by bodybuilders to enhance muscle.
But it's also been studied now in rat models and
it's been shown to increase neuronal recovery and cognition.
The dose in adults would be 400 to 800 milligrams per day
in your Kachava smoothie.
So and more, these are listed here for future reference.
Tarine, we just heard a lecture on tarine about how a deficiency of
tarine is a driver of aging.
And then the honorable mention here is Probenicin.
Dr. Corey, believe it or not, they are using this repurposed drug.
It's an old drug for gout, for neuro-inflammation, for epilepsy.
It probably works by shifting the chiorine pathway to be more neuro-protective.
And it seems to help carry things across the blood brain barrier in effective ways.
And more, memantine, of course, for high levels of glutamate and
the others that I have listed.
Mass cell stabilization, every patient needs to be on mass cell stabilization.
And sometimes this is one of the most difficult things to treat.
The brain is loaded with mass cells and
they certainly become activated with lingeries by protein.
These are for your future reference.
All of these slides will be available, ways to decrease glutamate.
My favorite one is tarine and PQQ, but I use them all.
And then here's a bunch of great examples of ways you can support your
mitochondria.
I love acetyl-carnitine because it does cross the blood brain barrier.
D-ribose is being used in ALS and MS.
But many other options, you have no excuse to say, I don't know what to try.
And we cannot forget about the amazing herbs that have been around for
a long, long time.
Ashwagandha should be called the brain rejuvenator for Alzheimer's.
And then I love lion's mane, it increases BDNF.
And I love whole coffee fruit extract, which probably increases
BDNF better than anything else.
And photobiomodulation, basically all you need to do know it does three things.
It increases cerebral blood flow, which we know is a problem in these patients.
It improves neuronal mitochondrial function and it reduces neural information.
There are two devices, I don't have any financial gain with any of this stuff.
There are two devices that I recommend, and one is violite.
There's so much research with violite, and that's what my patient used.
But this is what I use, I love it, it's called the argin.
And there's, again, so much science behind the argin device.
And basically what you do is you put this device on your bed or your sofa.
And then you put your head right here, and
then you bring the light unit down over your face.
I like it because I think it helps lines and wrinkles too.
So there are different settings, but honestly, when I use this.
I am in parasympathetic mode, I'm out of fight or flight,
which is what I am in most of the day.
And you really feel like you're floating on a cloud.
I have seen patients reverse their gray matter atrophy using the argin device.
I also use it, let's say you do the neuroquant.
And in the back of their brain, you saw a lot of volume loss.
That's not good.
I have them by a massage pillow, and then I have them lay with their head down.
And then we bring the device over the back of their head.
I don't know, we'll see, but it's certainly not going to hurt you.
Plasmologens, what are they?
Well, they are very important components of cellular membranes.
And as we age, after age 50, they start to decline.
And they are very important.
They're very prominent in the brain and the heart.
Plasmologin deficiency has been associated with many diseases, even autism.
But certainly neurodegenerative disease.
And this study showed that depending on how high or
low your plasmologin level was, there was your five year risk of all cause mortality.
So there is a company now, again, I'm not promoting this.
I'm just offering other ideas that makes them, and they're called prodrome science.
The one I use for the brain is prodrome neuro, but they're expensive, no doubt.
They also have a blood, a kit that you can order to test your plasmologin level.
I just ordered a kit to test mine.
So what about oxytocin?
Does anybody remember what it feels like when you fall in love?
Maybe you fell in love last night, I don't know.
But it's exciting, it's exhilarating, it's pure euphoria.
We don't even need to eat or sleep.
Haven't you ever just wanted to bottle that?
Well, we kind of can, not really, but I want to talk to you about oxytocin.
And I want to give credit to my dear friend and colleague, Dr. Mary Ackerly,
who gave this lecture a couple of months ago that I had the opportunity to listen to.
So oxytocin receptors are all over the body and the brain.
And in balances in this system, two are associated with autism,
associated with neurodegenerative disease.
Oxytocin promotes bone health, metabolic health, cardiovascular health,
improves nocturnal, people take it if they go to the bathroom a lot at night.
It calms mCAS, mast cells.
It is highly anti-inflammatory, and it even has anti-aging effects.
The effects of oxytocin are probably,
probably happened because we are modulating the vagus nerve.
One study showed that if you gave IV oxytocin, it stimulated the vagus nerve.
Oxytocin also improves cerebral blood flow.
And the power of love on the brain is remarkable.
The hippocampus, remember that first slide, and I said the hippocampus was really taken down?
Well, the oxytocin receptors in the hippocampus,
if we can stimulate those, we may be able to renew that hippocampal neurogenesis.
We may be able to restore gray matter.
So wouldn't it be amazing if the power of love was the answer?
It's extraordinarily safe.
I think there have been reported cases, causation, not correlation of prostate cancer.
Very rarely patients will have heightened anxiety, but if you stop it, it goes away.
So what's the dose?
I don't think you can get enough oxytocin through the nose.
You can do both, but I do either the trochee or the oral tablet.
And I start with 50 units up to 100 at bedtime.
Now you can also go as high as 200, which has been used in PTSD.
So now I want you to close your eyes and
think of someone or something that you really love or loved.
This a picture taken 14 years ago of me and my dog, Maya, who died two years ago.
Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything and love is all there is.
I want to just mention the atrophy she had in her hands.
Why? Why would she have that?
Well, so now we have some evidence, the Appleman study.
Other studies have shown that in the skeletal muscles,
remember there's ACE2 receptors there.
So if you've got a lonely spike protein trying to find a home,
it might land on the skeletal muscle ACE2 receptors.
So what we see is muscle atrophy, muscle fasciculations, muscle spasms, muscle weakness.
And in the Appleman study, they showed degeneration of the muscle fibers.
They showed mitochondrial damage and they showed something quite shocking, amyloid.
So we also know that the decreased blood flow certainly doesn't help as well as
microclotting and endothelial damage.
Do I think everybody needs an EMG?
Well, if you have numbness and tingling, we should do one more than likely it's
gonna be normal.
This study showed that if you don't do a small fiber EMG,
you're gonna miss myopathic changes.
Most neurologists, even yours truly, doesn't even know how to do a small fiber.
We just weren't trained.
So a normal EMG by your general neurologist doesn't rule out underlying
neuropathology because that Adelman study showed that a lot of these patients
have an inflammatory myopathy.
And if you push them to exercise, it will make them worse.
So here's a nice big full slide for your future reference.
This is what I work off in addressing post exertional malaise and muscle wasting.
My patient used Crea Vitalis.
It's a very well-absorbed form of creatinine.
And in that Appleman study, they did show that creatin levels were low in
the skeletal muscles.
I also think creatin is very, very helpful for brain and cognitive function.
I also use cardiomiracle, which you can buy online.
It's about 50 different things to help increase nitric oxide and
improve endothelial function.
So again, for your future reference,
this is what I do for a mild cognitive impairment and cognitive evaluation.
So what about autoimmune disease?
Let's see if I can get this to play.
I regret getting the vaccine, even though I'm a 52-year-old woman,
because I don't think I needed it.
I think I would have been fine.
I got COVID many times, and it was well past when the vaccine was doing
what it was supposed to be doing.
And then for the first time, I tested positive for
an autoimmune issue at my annual physical.
So, Megan Kelly is right.
A lot of people got autoimmune issues.
And again, thank you to Jessica Rose, who documented there's been an 803%
rise in autoimmune disease since 2021.
That's incredible, right?
So I believe going forward, we're gonna see, of course, rise in cancer,
rise in autoimmune disease, and certainly rise in neurodegenerative disease.
We know it's the molecular mimicry.
Spike protein looks eerily like the body and brain.
But as well, the ribosomal frame-shifting from this brilliant technology.
The next case, this was a very healthy man, 54 years old,
and he got two COVID shots in 2021, then he got COVID in 2022.
So he, cognitive impairment, neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Spike protein greater than 25,000, amyloid beta 0.17.
So what we did with him, here's his neuroquant, the C of blue.
He has high levels of neuroinflammation.
This is like the pans and pandas kids.
This is the brain on fire.
So I put his protocol together, similar to the first patient, but
he was not getting better.
He ended up in the ER with suicidal ideations and paranoia.
And then a light bulb went off in my head because his psychiatrist started him on
an intranasal ketamine and he started to feel a little better.
And I thought, my God, this is brain on fire.
So I got a PET scan and diagnosed autoimmune encephalitis.
We started him, shifted the protocol around, started him on IVIG.
And he now two months into it is dramatically better.
So PET scans can be very helpful.
The many wonders of IVIG, a lot of these patients have new or
worsened autoimmune issues.
And then I leave you with this IVIG protocol.
If you want to try it and use a very safe way of doing it.
But just work with an infusion company that does IVIG,
that understands IVIG, then you will be in a better place.
I'll skip that slide.
This is a lady that had Guillain-Barre.
And Scott, she had the elevated anti-ganglioside antibodies.
Her EMG did not show the Guillain-Barre.
But with the anti-ganglioside and then a spinal tap elevated to protein,
we started her on IVIG and she is now back taking care of her family.
She also did the long COVID recovery protocol.
So a little bit about small fiber neuropathy, just assume it's there.
Almost all patients will have this, I guarantee.
And it's important.
Jessica Suda announced her injury after Moderna 2021.
Small fiber neuropathy is not just pain.
The autonomic system is taken down.
So your gut, your heart, your temperature regulation, your vasculature,
all of that will be affected.
These patients have horrible pain.
It can be crushing.
It can be the worst pain of their entire life.
Pots is extremely common these days.
And these are the mechanisms involved.
It is autoimmune induced as well.
This case, 44-year-old white woman after her first Pfizer in 2021,
developed horrible symptoms.
Body pain, intractable vomiting, choking, cold extremities.
Feels like she has rubber gloves on, extreme fatigue, severe insomnia,
urinary incontinence, right side week, neck pain, joint pain, whole body itches.
I mean, just to take the history takes 30 minutes, at least.
So just to make a long story short with her, her MRI neuroquant were not helpful.
But I want to tell you about this because I doubt you've ever heard of it.
Her small fiber nerve biopsy was negative.
I was shocked at that because I was sure that was what's causing her pain.
This is her, or her extremities.
Again, it is microclotting.
It is decreased blood flow.
But it is also dysregulation of the autonomic fibers to the vasculature.
They can't constrict.
They can't dilate normally.
So there's this new test.
It's called CND by CND Life Sciences.
Anybody can learn to do it.
It's a skin biopsy.
You can do it in your office.
It takes 10 minutes.
And what you can look for is Alpha's Nuclein and amyloid.
This man had Alpha's Nuclein.
Now he did have a mild tremor.
Most people do.
But he had no signs of Parkinson's dementia, had no cognitive impairment.
But what this test tells you is that the nerves have been hit very, very hard.
And unfortunately, it probably means that she will end up with a neurodegenerative disease
over the next few years.
We also diagnosed her with Nuonset Ehlers-Danlos.
And there have been reported cases of this with no prior history of hypermobility.
So be careful, be cautious.
And again, her history is just uncertain.
This will be my last case, I promise.
Back now on GMA with news overnight from Celine Dion, the music powerhouse who has been absent
from the stage amid health concerns has now revealed in a brand new emotional video that
she has been diagnosed with a rare neurological condition.
And Lara is here with these details.
Good morning.
Good morning, Robin.
That's right.
On Instagram post this morning, Celine admits she's been dealing with health problems a
long time and has finally figured out the cause, a rare autoimmune disorder which affects
her ability to perform.
So Celine Dion, God, we just all pray for her.
She's been diagnosed with shift person syndrome.
And I'm telling you, you're probably missing this too.
It's not rare.
It's very common.
And what else I want you to put in your lab profile is a GAD65.
Just order it.
If GAD65 is elevated, then you have an autoimmune issue.
And what's interesting, if you look at the Virgiani data where they showed 28 out of 55
human tissues that reacted to spike protein, one of them was GAD65.
So this is my last case.
Very healthy woman.
After she got her shot, she developed severe muscle spasms, startle phenomena, dystonic
spasms, severe fatigue.
She developed Renaud's phenomena.
She was hospitalized twice, diagnosed with functional neurological disorder, and sent
to a psychiatric hospital.
This is one of her videos in the hospital.
So you can see she's having these intermittent, dystonic spasms.
They are exceptionally painful.
She did very well.
She did the long COVID-vax recovery protocol.
She also did, I think, 30 sessions of HBOT.
And then she got on IVIG.
And now she's playing pickleball every day.
She's joining the senior games long jump contest.
She made a full recovery.
You have to get to these people early, though.
And I think the problem is we get to them too late.
What this slide says, because the neurologist will tell you now, the GAD has to be greater
than 10,000.
No, even low levels are associated with these atypical presentations.
So your take-home list, eat real food, intermittent fasting, never go to bed without learning
one new thing, value sleep, keep your body active, keep moving, immerse in nature, be
present, be aware, be mindful, and don't forget to love.
In the next few slides, of which I'm not going on, Kelly, but there must maybe be 10
or 15 more slides where I go through other stuff for your future reference that I hope
you will find to be helpful.
And I thank you.
Wow, that was amazing.
Thank you so much for that.
I learned so much.
And for anybody who got that concern, all of these slides will be available to you as
attendees here.
You get the video of it as well, but they will be on the forum.
So your slides will be available.
Thank you for sharing so generously with all of you.
You're welcome.
You know.
We're going to go right to the slide of questions.
Diane has asked, it seems that many of the neurological vaccine issues overlap with those
associated with EMF.
Is the vaccine sensitizing people to EMF effects?
Well, it's hard to know what's the chicken and what's the egg, right?
I mean, EMF, all on its own, is very toxic to the body and the brain.
But definitely, I think the some vaccine injured that I've seen have become much more EMF sensitive
than they were prior to their injury.
So yes, I would say we have to think about that as well.
Interesting.
Are there are there any tests or limits for that that I don't know of any way to test
it?
I mean, the good test is to try to reduce your EMF exposure and see if it makes any clinical
benefit.
I'd welcome anyone to add to that if you have suggestions.
Great.
Mitchell B. Leister is asking, have you considered using low-dose ketamine to stimulate hippocampus
neurogenesis?
I think it's amazing drug.
I know some of my colleagues like Dr. Amy Offit, who's here today, has used low-dose
ketamine in your patients, correct?
So I would consider it.
Have I done it yet?
No, I haven't.
I still mainly, I'm in a conventional neurology practice, but definitely, I'll put it on my
list of things to try in some certain patients, especially those with neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Interesting.
Sam, Sigiloff likes to know, carnivore diet, have you tried it?
I haven't tried the carnivore diet.
There's a lot of controversy about it, but I think if it seems to work for you, yeah,
I just keep doing it.
I stress the non-GMO, eat food that's not processed with a lot of chemicals and toxins.
Well, we have another question about using aggressive treatment, whatever that means
with ivermectin hydroxychloroquine, et cetera, during acute COVID.
Can this help prevent the brain declining?
And if so, how long do you treat for?
Fortunately, there's not a lot of acute bad COVID anymore, but I don't think we know the
answer to that.
I would assume that it probably helps, but there's so many people injured now that never
ever got a chance at any kind of treatment.
So I guess we'll have to watch for that answer going forward.
And if you noticed anything with the so-called the JN1, all the scary variants that are coming
out, any difference in how people are presenting now?
Well, I hate to say, I mean, there are studies that have shown that even with the Omicron,
which we all were so happy to see to be a much milder variant, but we're also seeing
brain injury with the later variants too.
So again, the goal is we've got to optimize our immune health, stay healthy, optimize
our vitamin D, our diet, I think intermittent fasting helps our immune system as well.
So again, we don't know these answers.
We are all in this canary in the coal mine as we watch going forward, but we do know
that the more times you get COVID, the higher the risk of getting long COVID.
And to me, that means the higher risk of brain injury.
Really?
It's cumulative?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
A question here from an anonymous, what about plasmagin therapy for brain health affected
due to dementia and or Alzheimer's?
And by plasmagin therapy, do you mean plasmapheresis or what kind of plasmagin therapy?
I'm not sure I understand that question.
Does anybody want to clarify?
No.
Sorry.
So sorry.
All right.
We'll get that one.
If diagnosed with lewd body dementia, is that reversible daytime sleepiness sensitivity
to cold?
That should be Lewis, I assume, but we're just going to go with the question as is.
Oh.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Typing matters.
It's really...
It's the same thing.
Well, I believe that the Bredesen protocol should help all types of dementia.
Of course, it hasn't been as studied in lewd body dementia, Parkinson's dementia, other
types of dementia, but again, these strategies for brain health are essential for everyone.
So if I were diagnosed with lewd body, I would sure hope someone put me on a similar
brain recovery protocol and a Bredesen protocol that we discussed today in our lecture.
I saw a lot of people scribbling down during this one, and the question is, well-framed,
the neuroquant measurements be added after the MRI has already been done?
No.
The MRI center has to have the software, and they just get the images.
It takes literally six minutes, seven minutes, after you finish your MRI.
You don't need gadolinium.
So it's a quick test.
People that are very claustrophobic could probably get through seven minutes in an MRI
center, MRI.
So no, it has to, it can't be added on later.
It's a whole other set of software, and one other thing about the neuroquant that I love
is your neuroquant is correlated to someone your age and gender.
So it's not like we look at your neuroquant and compare it to someone that's younger or
older, and that's extremely important.
Well, that is important.
Anonymous asking, can you speak to early studies in the Lancet, etc., showing dialysis
had an adverse effect on COVID antibodies, as in seeming to eliminate the spike?
Gosh, I'm not familiar with that study.
So whoever asked that question, find me later and enlighten me.
Great. Well, somebody is asking, my son, age 22, Vaxt has had COVID more than once,
texted me this morning, asking about something to help with brain fog.
We'd like to be able to help.
Well, so brain fog is probably one of the most common things we see.
And it's related to all of those factors, right?
Neuroinflammation, decreased cerebral blood flow, mitochondrial dysfunction.
So the short answer is there's no short answer.
But start with food, right?
Get the diet healthy, low inflammatory diet, which is hard for 22 year old, right?
Because Chick-fil-A just looks so good.
And then, you know, if if he would do intermittent fasting, as far as supplements
go, I mean, like I said, I like methylene blue.
I like transversorbitol.
I like there's a supplement called NeuroProtect, which is luteolin that's
used in the autism community.
But the first strategy is all the low hanging fruit, right?
It's optimizing our diet, intermittent fasting, exercise movement, which is hard
for some patients with vax injury.
Optimizing sleep, which age 22 is probably not a priority.
I'm not sure.
So lowering stress, et cetera, and then doing something for neuroplasticity.
But I'm telling you, the brain fog is a big problem.
And we're going to see a lot more of that going forward.
Are you noticing that more with with vaccine or COVID itself?
And I don't know how we tease those apart with the overlap.
I don't think we can.
You know, we have this hybrid population now.
Well, what was it?
Majority of the United population in the United States did get vaccinated.
Almost six billion people in the world.
So we don't, I think it's impossible to know, but because they both cause the
same problem, right?
It's like I said, it's not lingering virus.
It's lingering bowel fragments.
Interesting.
Well, we have a question about caffeine, one of my favorite subjects.
Can you comment on its effects on the brain?
I have heard this person says it decreases cerebral blood flow, yet also heard
that it boosts cognition and or attention.
They need more experience with caffeine.
Well, I too enjoy some coffee caffeine, but I think the benefits are good.
I don't see any negative effects.
I mean, some people that can really, even a small amount of caffeine can affect
your sleep.
So, but, you know, it's got a lot of flavonoids in tea and coffee does as well.
So as far as decreasing cerebral blood flow, I guess I'd have to go back and look.
I'm not sure that that's true.
But if you say so, I'll go back and research it.
Great.
We have a question anonymous again.
What is your experience with ALS as a result of COVID vaccines?
It's the worst.
It's the worst.
I had a few patients we all have that we've tried to help.
But ALS, of course, in general, is the most dreaded disease in America.
Or maybe it used to be, but these patients are really difficult to treat.
Pierre and I just shared a protocol that we want to work off that we think may
provide some benefit if we can get to these patients early enough.
Well, is it a general question if somebody has an autoimmune disease before the shots?
Is it, can we generalize and say that as a group, they have a worse run of this
potentially?
Yes, definitely the people with autoimmune disease have worse disease in general,
not everyone, but it can definitely have, they can have more flares.
Yeah.
Well, back to intermittent fasting, because somebody wants to know, do you have
any experience using these with older children and teens?
Is IF reasonable for a voracious teen?
So Dr.
Merrick has taught me that it is not recommended in teenage years.
Children are still growing, even around 16, 17, 18 years old.
And certainly, right, Liz, right.
And not recommended for women that are pregnant.
So for a 16 year old boy, what 12 minutes would that be about, right?
Oh yeah, suffer so.
All right, good.
Um, a question, a female 74 years old with one dose of COVID vaccination and
start Alzheimer's disease, need only FLCC protocols and your recommendations?
No, you need both.
I think you need brain recovery protocol and then the FLCC protocol, which addresses
all of those mechanisms we talked about, like lingering spike protein,
mitochondrial dysfunction, high levels of oxidative stress, immune dysfunction.
So yeah, the FLCC protocol is amazing, but we also have to add how to, how to get
the brain back on track.
We have a question here from a PCP asking, have you thought about making
simple algorithms to follow for various neurological conditions?
Great information, but hard to know where to start.
Oh, I know, I know y'all, I threw all this out to you like this was going to be
the answer, but you know, what I believe is that we have to strategize ways, ways
that we can gather and do case presentations that somehow we get online and
you present a case to me and then we share information that things you've tried,
things I've tried because listen, neurology is complicated and most of my
neurology colleagues are not going to help you.
So we are on our own and we are going to have to figure out ways.
Protocols, yeah, there are some simple steps that we can all be doing, but
when it's already Alzheimer's disease, there's no time to waste.
And a question you hear about is skin biopsy the gold standard for small
fiber neuropathy?
That's absolutely right.
We've been doing this now for quite a few years.
It's an easy procedure.
We're not actually, it's not a biopsy.
We're actually taking a little snip of your skin.
We take three different spots.
It goes to the lab and then we have results back within two weeks.
Fascinating question about magnesium glycinate.
Does it cross the blood brain barrier?
I think it does.
I don't think it does either one is fine.
I like magnesium glycinate and magnesium three and eight.
Good.
Three and eight.
Yeah.
Another question here is I receive referrals for neurological symptoms that
are misdiagnosed as complex regional pain syndromes post-vax.
How best to initiate a workup?
Well, I think that's true because so many of these patients have terrible,
terrible pain.
And what's interesting and probably the reason they get called functional
neurological disorders.
First of all, most doctors don't understand the disease,
but the presentation of pain or numbness is in what your neurologist would
say a non anatomical distribution.
Like, oh, that doesn't make any sense.
You can't have numbness here and here.
And so, but again, when you have the autonomic nervous system taken down,
that pain can be anywhere and it certainly can be crushing.
So I think any pain workup definitely should include EMG,
NCV and a small fiber nerve biopsy.
The small fiber neuropathy many times and y'all think all she does is give IVIG.
It's not true, but small, so many of these conditions are autoimmune driven.
And small fiber neuropathy, a big part of that is autoimmune.
So sometimes we will try to get IVIG approved for small fiber neuropathy
and it can be extraordinarily helpful within six months.
The pain can be dramatically reduced, not always.
And again, you have to do everything to try to help these patients get well.
We have a question now about anesthetal cysteine.
Which type, different forms of it, which type would be best for neuro health?
I bet Scott Marcellin is going to talk about that.
Scott, so the new form that I like is called augmented NAC, right?
Do you want to answer that?
Well, you can use regular NAC, but what we learned, this product,
I believe it was made in Italy, right?
The way they tested this, it denatured spike protein significantly more,
significantly more than regular old NAC.
So sometimes I will use the augmented NAC in a vaccine recovery protocol.
The only problem with it, it's quite expensive.
You know, we were getting it for about 80 or 90 dollars a bottle.
And unfortunately, as I don't need to tell this crowd, so many of these patients
are hurting financially, so many are really out of money.
So I also strategize with ways that we can reduce cost, but definitely augmented NAC.
If you're first addressing a vax injury, long COVID is probably worth a drive.
Where can you get it?
I think Scott will probably talk about that tomorrow.
Well, good.
Well, thank you very much, Dr.
Suzanne Gazda, for your time, your talent.
Thank you so much, Chris.
Wisdom.
