The pattern that we're seeing here is obviously that the system itself is not as interested
in treating as it is in making money or whatever the incentive systems are.
And cancer fits into the same bailiwick as COVID.
It's the same story.
It's just got a different institution, and it's got a different set of people playing
in there, but it's the same story.
So now we're going to talk about long COVID and long VAX case studies.
And this time, we've got a couple more experts.
And wow, you're going to be really excited to hear from these two new people I need to
introduce.
Dr. Flavio Cattigiani.
Hello.
Dr. Cattigiani, leading expert in endocrinology.
Am I supposed to come up?
Yeah, you come right on up.
Let people see you.
Sports, medicine, and obesity management, obviously.
Core contributor to the FLCCC COVID-19 treatment guidelines.
And Flavio has successfully treated thousands of COVID-19 patients in Brazil with few hospitalizations
and no deaths.
Hmm.
He's conducted, yeah.
How about that?
He has conducted some of the largest clinical trials and observational studies on COVID,
including the Itajai ivermectin studies, which were hugely influential on me when I saw those.
Those really sealed the deal.
And he's responsible for the first hypothesis that explains the massive number of post-vaccine
myocarditis cases and sudden deaths, particularly among young males and athletes.
So looking forward to hearing that.
We also have with us Dr. Liz Mumper, a practicing pediatrician with several decades of experience.
Dr. Mumper is the originator of the FLCCC's eye care for kids treatment guide, which helps
parents understand how to prevent their children from getting COVID-19 and what to do if they
get sick.
I believe she's in the room because her clinical experience includes over a decade as director
of pediatric education in a family practice resident program, 16 years as clinical faculty
at the University of Virginia, and five years as medical director of the Autism Research
Institute.
Currently on the faculty of MAPS, which is the Medical Academy for Pediatric and Special
Needs, is certified by the Institute of Functional Medicine, where she developed the first advanced
clinical training in pediatrics for the organization.
So we'll welcome Liz Mumper up here now.
Thanks to everyone who's here.
I must be quite thankful to, before I start my conversation with you, I have two announcements.
First one, I truly thank you to FLCCC that helped me become part of one of the youngest
academic of the Brazilian Academy of Science, Arts, History and Literature.
It's a more than a hundred-year-old academy, usually very closed, and this was very helpful.
Second, I'm trying not to get emotional, but I'm displeased to announce that as of
January this year, my country, Brazil, has become the first country, as we are aware
of, to mandate COVID-vax for children.
So for now, children, and vax, and vax not and vax, and vax children for COVID cannot
go to schools and are threatened to be taken off from their parents.
And the worst part is, the private schools are managing this, so we're able, but the
public, the poorest, Brazil, has tremendous differences, social differences, and those
who suffer the most are the ones who are mandated to basically do this experiment to their children.
And I can tell you by heart, I had chosen the battles, we all need to choose the battles.
I'm a bit emotional regarding this because we were not able to debunk these mandates,
but it's the only group in Brazil that is mandatory, which is completely contradictory
according to the literature.
Anyways, there's no reasonable arguments for that except for the unclosed ones.
Well, so I'm here.
I was supposed to talk about one case report, but the point is, I've been facing several
different cases with different responses, different presentations, and sometimes my first message
I want to give you, it's far from one size fits all.
We're about to launch Drug Group Proposal Research Institute there this year.
And I can tell you, and I can tell that Paul will have an additional barrier.
This is not only about not having the grant to make the research, but the barrier of competitive
drugs that are patent.
So I can tell you that the more they go after us, the more likely is that the drug works
for that certain condition.
I also invite my friends and FLCCC to think about drug combinations such as ivermectin,
metformin, and even other drugs because complex diseases like cancers, post-COVID, I think
they require combinations, but certainly ivermectin must be part.
And as I was just researching drug interactions, we cannot just, at least in my country, cannot
recommend against the chemo, we should recommend as an add-on therapy.
So I'm going to talk about some, and I want you to open.
I'm going to be very thought-provoking.
I may not be, you may not fully agree with me in every single sentence here.
I'm not here for it.
I want heterogeneous.
I want us to grow together.
And I want us, this is becoming bigger and bigger in the opposite of what we would think
because COVID is over.
But no, we are just in an awakening process.
I think we all are.
So let's go.
Let's see.
Here.
I hope this works.
Okay.
So this is the first case.
Okay.
Someone 44 years old.
She was suffering from bearing fog, difficulty naming objects.
I don't know if it's happening here.
So there's something I call, oh, plant, okay, samambaya, this is in Portuguese called samambaya.
It's a very, you cannot name the objects.
This is a very common impairment that we are facing.
A refreshing sleep changes in personality.
The person you should be calm and became irritative since October 2021.
This lady had two COVID infections, January 2022 and April 2023.
And the vexes, she underwent three vexes, three visor vexes, July 2021, October 2021,
and then February 2023.
You see that COVID came after her vaccines.
Interestingly, she developed the symptoms right after the second shot.
It didn't improve after the infection.
And of course, it didn't improve after the third shot.
She had a partial.
We see some patients that improve alongside with amounts and gets much better after one
to two years, thankfully.
And fortunately, this is only the minority.
So our initial approach was in June 2023, using natural management such as sleep aging, trying
to get away from social media and detox from toxic people, including vaxxer, just kidding.
And we tried methylene blue, vitamin D, vitamin C, arginine, melatonin, ginseng, active B complex.
I want to say something here.
I have been observing.
We are testing for this MTHFR gene for the methylation of the complex B vitamin.
And what I've been observing, this is observational.
I don't want to overestimate my observation.
So this is a hypothesis, okay?
But I think that without anything else as evidence, hypothesis should be considered.
I've been seeing a functional impairment of the methylation of the vitamin B complex.
So for now, all my gold standard vitamin Bs are always methylated B vitamins.
Creatine ashwagandha.
This later I didn't use.
And creatine.
Remember, creatine is a very good supplement that goes way beyond muscles.
It goes for brain fog.
It goes for cognitive function.
So creatine, monohydrate, it's inexpensive.
And this also wants to bring the humanization of our approach.
Patients cannot use or afford 100 supplements.
So you need to choose them very wisely.
So I invite everyone to consider that.
We have, thankfully, we have tons of supplements, but not everyone can use everything.
We cannot work on an elite medicine.
For my patients now, I compound a big powder.
It comes with high doses of anti-inflammatory agents.
But it becomes, in the end, despite being in Brazil, compounded pharmacies are way cheaper
than here.
But in the end, it becomes expensive here.
So we need to be very focused that we want to help the largest number of people.
So we need to consider those that are real game changers.
But however, the game changers may be different to each person.
This lady had a transitory response, okay?
And then, of course, we may always ask, would she had had a response regardless?
I mean, was it because of what I have given to her, or this would happen, would have regardless?
So the second approach, I do LDN, bupropion, and bioidentical oestrodial.
So this is important.
I think there is a sort of hormonal phobic environment in the medical field.
I'm not talking about giving tons of synthetic hormones, okay?
But I can tell you by decades, I don't have that many decades of formation, but anyway,
I can tell you when you revisit medicine that part of the hormonal phobic environment in
the medical field is because hormones, when well recommended in the appropriate doses,
natural sources, identical to what we produce, can be highly beneficial and prevent tons
of diseases.
So now you understand why they were so belittled, they were so suppressed by medical doctors.
And I can tell you recently a new paper in New England showing that the social replacement
did not increase the cardiovascular risk.
Actually it really helped reduce a little bit.
What I want to tell you is that it can be an option.
I don't know how the price is here, but you can compound bioidentical hormones.
Just be careful if you take care of kids, if you have children or grandchildren, never
use that in the skin because there is a risk of early puberty.
If you want to talk about me with that, about that, I think sometimes we are seeing an overexposure
to hormones or no, we should have a way in the middle.
So this lady, so far, so the second approach was September 2023.
And I just called her a week, two weeks ago because of this line, I wanted to know how
she was, and she persisted with 80% response, not fully response, but 80%.
So we opted when I called her to maintain the current therapy.
So this is a lady that responded better.
I don't know exactly whether she responded to LDN.
Usually LDN takes longer, but I care less about what specifically she responded to,
and I care more about the whole response.
For you to know, this second approach costed to her $8 per month.
So you see it depends on, this is another battle that you guys should be here.
The prices of drugs in the U.S. are really sky-high, not the supplements.
Supplements here are okay, but the medically prescribed drugs, whenever it's off-label,
whenever it's not paid by health insurance, they are sky-high.
It's impressive.
It shouldn't be tolerated anymore.
So this ... No, my first publication on drugs, I've been working with drug proposal.
I published a paper for dumping syndrome for post-bariatric called Acarbosis, which in
Brazil costs like $3.
And another one showing pharmacological therapy for obesity that would cost like $100 the
treatment.
And then some doctors starting emailing me, saying, how are your patients multimillionaire?
I said, why?
Because here it would cost 5,000 grand per month.
And then I didn't realize the impact of the price.
So this is something that we should discuss further.
I think this should be pressured.
This free, the excessively free market where prices are not ... I'm not saying about over-control.
In Europe, there is an excessive control.
So some of the countries do not have some of the new drugs.
And another thing, thought-provoking sentence I will bring here, not all the new medicines
are necessarily 100% bad.
There may be some good things coming out there.
But as independent doctors, our role is to have the critical view.
Critical is not necessarily negative.
So there are red flags, lack of transparency when they try to push hard.
There are signs.
I would love to have a whole afternoon talking about each of the examples we had in the latest
15 years.
So case two, woman 37 years old.
She had a new onset hyperactive attention deficit disorder.
I don't know if you've seen this in your practice.
And many of my patients have developed this disorder after the exposure to spike.
In my country, I cannot say post-pnex.
I can only say spike-related diseases.
As I am being filming, our new KGB can ...
Difficulty is sleeping and chronic fatigue since March 2023.
She had two infections, July 2020 and February 2023.
She got four vaccines.
She was proud of photos in the social media.
Whenever you have photos of your vaccine in social media, that's a risk factor for you
to have complications, trust me.
Anyway, she had her Pfizer in August 2021, November 2021, June 2022, and December 2022.
Well, symptoms remained persistent.
So she came up with me.
Remember all these patients as well as our old patients earlier.
They're not anti-vaxxers.
This lady took four-vaxx doses.
So they're, of course, they're not.
I mean, two doses, you can consider the person took it as to be obligated for work or whatever.
But four doses because the person really wanted.
I mean, not wanted.
We cannot blame these people.
We need to use our empathy to understand the media pressure on them.
Not everyone is awakened.
But this is a process that is occurring.
In Brazil, for example, 94, 95% of the population took two shots.
However, despite more, illegally more than 50% voted for the vax symbolized by the election,
less than 15% took the bivalent booster, which means where is the majority of those who voted
for the vax?
So just for food for thoughts.
So in July, 2023, we started vitamin D, melatonin, GABA, HTTP, vitamin C, L-Arginine,
CoQ-Tam.
And I use multiple salt magnesium because we can compound them.
I use seven, eight different types of salt.
We see some claim, some authors claim that each salt of magnesium has different properties.
I'm less about trying to differentiate, but I do see a lot of benefits when you combine
these salts, but she had no response at all.
Then she came back to September 2023, LDN, Trasodone.
If you look for Trasodone, there are some research showing promising responses to Trasodone,
and Ivermectin, no response at all.
Again, I needed to break my own prejudices and my pride, and I prescribed low-dose Lidex
and Phytamine, which is the vivants, so she bought the capsule.
So there's another point which is thought-provoking.
If you remember the opioid epidemic, what the big pharma wants us is to prescribe the
highest doses ever.
I've never received one single pharmaceutical company in my office since the beginning of
my career.
I'm proud of that.
My patients know that, but does not prevent me not to prescribe in selected cases.
She really didn't know what to do with her.
I didn't know.
I can tell you.
She sort of threatened me, okay, I'm going to look for a psychiatrist.
I want to use something.
I will use something.
I'm going to buy something in the parallel market, I cannot say black market anymore,
so parallel market, and so, okay, let's buy it, and you're going to split the 70 milligram
dose into five milligram dose, would be a low-dose Lidex and Phytamine.
Only that, and she responded completely, okay.
I'm completely independent from the big pharma and anything, and again, I'm proud of that.
But I can tell that this really happened in this case.
So what will she become dependent?
She's using five milligrams, so one bottle in Brazil is as bottles.
It's not, will take one year for her.
And five milligrams, nobody has ever thought about five milligrams.
Our next approach, I will try to go to four, three, two, one, let's see what happened,
but I really didn't have other options.
You can say, oh, you had this and that, but she was tired of trying other options.
I decided to be her doctor regardless without judging her and helping her.
I wasn't able to convince her to try different methylene blue and other options, okay.
So I had no option other than this, because if she had gone to a psychiatrist, since really,
she would be like full of meds, okay.
She would going to have three meds to sleep, three meds to wake up.
So since really, I'd rather be like this.
You can judge me by this, but I really wanted to show this case.
So in very few cases, I had to use it.
Third case, men, 51 years old.
Interestingly, we see more posts.
I am sort of confused whether we really see more posts, spike or spike in men or women.
But it's less about the label, more about treating the patient.
So self-reported initial dementia, okay, spine normal results with the dementia test,
the mini-test we call, new onset vasovagal syndrome.
So disautonomia, disautonomia is something that is really present in the posts in the
spike-related disease.
And remember, vasovagal syndrome, when you stand up, you have hypotension.
It's only one of the many features of the impairment of the autonomic nervous system.
Intolerance to exercise and stress, and he left his position as a CEO of a renewable
energy company.
This is interesting.
So he left, he retired, he retired.
How was his past history regarding COVID-19?
One infection, October 2022.
He took AstraZeneca in June 2022, that's the only dose he took, okay?
Because he had a transitory brain ischemic attack three days after the vaccine, fully
recovered after two hours, so he woke up.
By the way, he stopped ivermectin in June 2022.
He complained that the symptoms were progressive.
Anyway, he had difficulty telling me.
He thinks that his symptoms started after this transitory, transient ischemic attack,
which is not so uncommon to listen from patients.
But he's not being able, because he said, okay, I may have started to forget to point
out the arguments that I needed to point out in a meeting in July 2022.
He started telling me, it was a bit confusing, the story.
So we started using supplements and peripheral medications, methylene blue, vitamin D, L-arginine,
ozone therapy, creating the Dallafil.
So I think the Dallafil is something that may work for men and women.
I have a woman that needed oxygen after COVID infection.
She was walking 24 hours with oxygen.
With the Dallafil and Arginine, she left the oxygen, only these two medications.
And the Dallafil for us costs 20 cents per tablet.
So it's not expensive.
He had 50% improvement in one month and 70% improvement in two months.
He's an engineer.
That's why he said 50%.
It's self-reported improvements.
He's got his own scale.
Okay, here improved it.
So in average, my improvement was 50% because regarding my memory, it's funny,
because he got a picture, like there was 80 points to remember.
And he pointed at a number of objects he could remember after three months.
He created his own methods.
He's very smart.
So the second approach, in May 2023, we added natural testosterone.
And in three months, he got 100% improvement.
In the third visit, we decided, okay, let's be very, let's be courageous
and try to discontinue this slowly.
And then we start to discontinue all the medications, including testosterone.
And he remained 100% cured.
In December 2023, no meds, no supplements, no symptoms, fully recovered.
And now he's a CEO of a new energy company.
So this is an example of a person who fully recovered
and didn't need long-term therapies.
Case four, I'm almost done, sorry.
Woman, 55 years old.
She developed menopause in 2019.
What do I want to tell you that?
Usually, what gives you the menopause symptoms does do not come
from low levels of Oestradi or hormones.
It comes from the fall.
The higher are the numbers.
The higher are the falls.
And the stronger are the symptoms.
Interesting, she didn't have any symptoms, okay?
No hormone replacement.
Repeated, so since July 2023, she started to have repeated factions,
intense physical fatigue, and inability to perform everyday activities.
She didn't have any COVID infections as she was aware of or any tests.
She took AstraZeneca May 2022 and August 2023.
AstraZeneca is like Johnson, it's a viral vector.
And she took the rat, it's for rats, right?
This is by Violent, yes, for eight rats.
The Pfizer rat, the mouse with violence vaccine in June 2023.
Coincidentally, as many, many, many coincidences we've been seeing
the last years, she developed the symptoms in July 2023.
One month later, she's a mother of a friend of mine.
She came to me as a consultation.
So, when I want to talk to patients, we talk about absolutely everything.
My first consultation takes between one and a half to two hours.
They've got my WhatsApp number and they do respect my life.
They do not over message me.
So, I have this completely different relationship with patients.
And 99% of patients are extremely respectful.
And the freedom they have, the feeling, the sense of having someone taking care of them
makes total difference in their lives.
So, this is part of rescue medicine.
And so, I recommend that she underwent meditation.
And there are those, myself, if I go to meditation, I will get worse.
But in her case, no.
Dia sulfate, five milligrams per day.
Melatonin, one milligram, dual release.
So in Brazil, we developed, we are proud of saying that, a dual release melatonin.
So it's got two peaks.
And it's compounded at night.
L-arginine, four grams per day.
I like arginine a lot.
It also increases growth hormone production and IGF-1 levels, okay?
I've been using for 10 years, 10 years ago, 12 years, no, 13 years ago, I had more white
hair than I have now.
Both my parents were already diabetic as of my age.
And so many other complications and I have nothing they have, they both have.
Anyways.
So CoQt and 400 milligrams, ivermectin weekly.
So, so far, my patients who take ivermectin weekly, the total infection rate in the last
two years was zero, yes.
I have approximately 400 patients taking ivermectin weekly.
It's a big coincidence, they are lucky.
Arginine, five grams a day and omega-3, five grams daily.
So she had a slow, yet progressive improvement, 40% in two months, 70% in four months, still
with symptoms, but refused additional approaches since she is still improving.
The message here is sometimes such a complex disease as spike-related diseases may, okay,
we'll go to, okay, okay, okay, questions and answers.
Flavio.
Hey, Flavio.
Yes.
I got a couple of questions for you.
Thanks for those cases, that was really great.
Okay, so have a seat.
Just two, really.
The media has popularized GLP-1s for weight loss and demand and use is excessive.
Patients of gastric and the material in thyroid cancer is up.
Is GLP-1 mRNA possible?
Or I guess the question is, is GLP one of the causes of this increase in cancers?
I think we have other reasons, but.
I prescribe some GLP-1 analogs to some patients, and I think when you talk about thyroid cancer,
we need to understand, better, better understand.
Thyroid cancer that they say, some cases are the medullary cancer, which is a C-cell derived
cancers, which are nearing dog contumers.
In practice, I don't think, I think there are other drugs, but not the GLP-1 analogs
to come with mRNA.
I think these are, some are actually not that bad.
The over-prescription is one thing, but I think that the GLP-1 analog is not for everyone.
Since I'm independent, I can say good and bad things, regardless.
I do see great responses, but I do see, there are other things to worry about, depression.
Between three to five percent of the patients that undergoes like semaglutide develop depression
and chronic fatigue with GLP-1 analogs.
It doesn't mean that it shouldn't be used for everyone, it shouldn't be used for no
one.
It may be used, there are selected cases where we can use it, but I think that not cancer,
and also, I think that cancer, by the way, I have seen, I used to give one diagnosis
of cancer every two to three months.
This month, January, 2024, I gave 15 diagnoses of cancer, including three pancreas.
I'm talking about the same patients I had, the same profile.
There are no confounding variables to justify these differences.
But I don't think that, I think we should worry about other drug classes as well.
I think we should pay attention to every single drug as being a critical view, doesn't mean
that necessarily negative, and I think that there are, I just give you another suggestion.
You see whether a drug is good or not.
After it loses its patent, but there are some examples where doctors went too far in the
case of statins that they cannot come back, even after the loss of the patent.
So not because the drugs have lost their patent.
It didn't make a lot of sense to me statins for post-COVID, because it really, but some
people like it.
I mean, we are here for this, but I'm not a huge fan of statins.
How did you come to the use of low dose Lizdexamphetamine?
Okay, this person was willing to use cocaine.
So.
Good answer.
No, no, no, this is true.
Look, this person is, she's a highly active person.
She needed to work.
She said, I'm going to use cocaine on a daily basis, and I'm going to, and then in Brazil
now they're, they're, they're using Vyvanse as a drug in front of the lid.
So otherwise I'm going to use Vyvanse, the high doses, I'm going to use this, that's,
I'm desperate.
I need to work.
I cannot stop working.
My company depends on me and said, okay.
So let's, let's, let's them make a damage control approach.
Good.
Okay.
So these are exemptions.
Okay.
Understood.
That's a good answer.
Okay.
Thank you.
I think we're going to move on to Dr. Humphrey.
I'm sorry to take that long.
No, you're fine.
You're fine.
Thanks, Flavio.
Additional slides will be in the, somewhere.
The final slides will be somewhere, right?
All right, Liz, you've already been introduced to your, your grand history and so take it
away.
Thank you.
So I'm really so happy to be here today.
It's a very auspicious day for me because my only daughter is due to deliver her first
baby today, a little girl.
In my next 20 minutes or so, I am going to tell you about a wonderful patient of mine.
And then I'm going to teach you something about the cell danger response and how it
relates to a lot of our patients.
And I'm going to use some college basketball metaphors to help you understand it.
So help me understand how many of you would identify as actual practicing clinicians,
people that actually take care of patients.
This is awesome.
And how many of you have read about or heard about or feel like you understand the cell
danger response?
Okay.
So we got some work to do.
And Tom, if you wouldn't mind starting my timer, that would be awesome.
So I met a patient when he was, came for a 15-year-old checkup a number of years ago.
And at that point, he had had migraine headaches for essentially about four years.
So since he was 11 years old, and the local university specialists had come up with this
idea of giving him amitriptyline 25 milligrams at night, and that didn't even touch his
headaches, which were four, five, six hours a day.
I thought, being functionally trained, that we ought to try to figure out what was causing
the headaches.
And after a while, we figured out that it was actually mold sensitivity.
He went to a high school that, coincidentally, my dad taught history at back in the 50s before
he got his PhD.
And it had flooded many times.
So it was full of mold.
When we identified this problem, I wrote a letter to the school board.
The mom went to the school board with her friends, but they didn't want to remediate
it because it literally would have cost millions of dollars.
So he ended up having to get out of school and be homeschooled.
And this was horrible for his self-esteem, and he developed anxiety and depression, as
would be expected.
So other things happened along the way that affected this mold toxicity.
I worked on him from January till about August, trying to remediate with mold.
And as you know, it's not an easy thing to do.
It's like a 12-step process if you follow the Shoemaker Protocol, and it involves taking
a lot of binders.
And of course, the first thing is to get rid of the mold exposure.
So even though their home tested negative for mold, the mom and dad wanted to be sure,
so they remediated their home, too.
So they really tried to give this kid every chance.
He was a swimmer.
He had grown up on the swim team, and in Virginia, that's a big deal.
But he was too exhausted to swim.
When he swam, he became tachycardic, and sometimes he felt like he was going to faint, which
is not a good thing to do in the water.
So on physical exam, pretty unremarkable.
He was actually a very handsome, very muscular guy with a wicked sense of humor.
And I really love this kid, and I love the family, and I wanted so much to help him.
But as you'll see, I was only able to do so much.
Many of you might remember that at the beginning of COVID in March, suicides and teens had
already doubled.
And so let's think about what had happened to this kid.
So first, he's out of school for a while.
He goes back that fall, made it six hours before all his horrible headaches came back.
He takes our exposure to mold, and he regressed, and essentially undid a lot of the work that
we had done.
He voiced suicidal ideation without a plan many times, and I gave him my cell phone number.
And for about three and a half years, he was intermittently suicidal, and I was worried
that I was going to hear on my cell phone that he had managed to kill himself, because
he wasn't around his friends.
I tried a lot of things for his depression, short of going the typical SSRI route.
For one thing, he had a lot of anxiety, so I treated him with magnesium, and like Suzanne,
I really liked the magnesium L3 and L8 to cross the brain, and that actually helped
his anxiety a lot.
I did some testing on him and found out that he had a homozygous mutation in his MTHFR gene,
and so I put him on at various times, deplin or serifolin.
And that actually helped a lot for a while.
He felt like he wanted more.
Other doctors put him on gabapentin, and the mom sprang for a series of transcutaneous magnetic
imaging.
And then he wanted some medication, so he did some genetic testing, and it turned out
that prestige, which is a combination of an SSRI and a norepinephrine uptake inhibitor,
was the thing that showed he should do well with, but he ended up getting a tremor.
And I didn't really want to put this kid on a SSRI, because I thought, if I am a teenage
boy, what's the one thing that's going to make me really happy?
And I figured it was making out with his girlfriend, right?
And so if I put him on a SSRI, I really didn't want him to have sexual side effects, but
he ended up going to a psychiatrist, and he was put on sertraline, which he felt like
maybe helped him some.
Meanwhile, he has low testosterone, so an endocrinologist was managing his clomid, which
I didn't really feel very comfortable about.
So overall, this time when we were working with him, we saw his mold markers go down
dramatically.
At one point, his C4A, which is a marker of acute mold toxicity, went from 11,000, then
down to 3,800, and we got it as low as about 5,000.
Then his home flooded, and he got another exposure.
And then his girlfriend broke up with him, and he got suicidal again.
I mean, this is such a great kid, but he had so many really awful things happen to him.
He was a chronic Lyme patient, and he had been treated for a number of years for his
chronic Lyme.
He started having some pots where he was having to drink 100 ounces of water a day, plus taking
some fluid recortisone to try to maintain his blood pressure.
We did all the protocols for mold, and he also had hyperacusis, and this is my little
clinical tip for the day.
I've had really good luck for people that have painful hearing giving them magnesium,
because magnesium is one of the things that gates those pathways.
So that's one thing that he actually did quite well with at my suggestion.
So it's April of 2021.
I was on a road trip.
I was driving back through Charlottesville, and the pointer sisters were on the radio,
and I was singing along.
I get this call that he had gotten a J&J vaccine and crashed.
His mom got the same vaccine.
She was in bed for a week.
His dad got the same vaccine, and he seemed to define with it initially.
But this kid crashed with his vaccine so much so that he was in bed for three weeks.
The mom asked him to go to the store, which is a mile and a half away, to get one item
at the grocery store, and he did not feel that he could actually do that one task.
He described what I described in caps in my notes as overwhelming fatigue, and certainly
post-exertional malaise whenever he tried to do anything.
He also developed hand and wrist pain.
I've had good luck as have others with low-dose naltrexone, so I tried that, and that actually
did help his wrist pain.
The other thing I did was fill out a VAERS report to report this as a vaccine injury.
I've been doing this since the 90s, and the CDC has never contacted me to want to know
any more information about any of the reports that I've made.
The other thing, he reported poor sleep, so I ordered a sleep study, and lo and behold,
after his J&J vaccine, he had restless leg syndrome, was moving his legs on average of
42 times an hour.
So all this to say that he was complexly, chronically ill, depressed situationally,
I would argue, from all the horrible things that had happened to him, and then he got
this big crash.
So one of the things that his family researched was a treatment in Germany, which uses insulin,
to open up the cells so that potentially the antibiotics that were being used for his
Lyme disease would work better.
And I didn't know anything about this, but I'm going to tell you when we talk about
the cell danger response, one reason that it seems somewhat logical.
So I thought I had to rescue him from probably ongoing oxidative stress, that he was having
extreme mitochondrial dysfunction, and we looked at doing IV glutathione and high-dose
vitamin A. When he came in to get the initial glutathione infusion, I went in to visit him,
and he was sitting in a chair, but his blood pressure was like 76 over 38 or something.
So we got him in Trindelenburg and started giving him some fluids, and as we infused
the glutathione, you could see by the end of the infusion, he was already feeling better.
It was really quite remarkable, and that effect lasted about six hours.
And so I knew that we were on to the right pathways, also gave the IV vitamin C, which
he tolerated extremely well, but he couldn't really do that every day for the rest of his
life.
So I'm going to use that case as a way to segue into talking about the cell danger response.
And I have to acknowledge the work of Dr. Bob Navio in this regard.
Bob is an amazing, brilliant molecular geneticist, but he actually came to Virginia to watch
me work in my clinic.
So he's anxious to learn from just regular clinicians, even though he's such a high-powered
academic person with many, many publications.
So children are in bad shape in this country now.
At least 40 percent, and some say as many as 54 percent of children have some kind of
chronic illness.
And so when I went to medical school, for example, autism was one in 5,000.
It's now one in 36, one in 22 boys, and that data is about 12 years old, so it's actually
worse than that now.
You've seen rises in autoimmune disease at younger and younger ages, we're seeing more
diabetes, and you can see for yourself this long list once you get the slides.
So the idea about a persistent cell danger response is that we have to be very clever
to go from this role of pathogenesis to actually what Dr. Navio would call salugenesis, which
actually means you're getting to healing.
So he believes, and I think this is true, that repair at the mitochondrial level is
actually crucial for every single chronic illness.
So there are a lot of pathways that can get you to the point where your body locks down
into persistent cell danger.
One of the things that can certainly do that is any kind of injury, and I'm postulating
that the spike protein or the foreign DNA that's been found in some of the shots fractures
of mitochondria and leads to chronic problems.
We know that exogenous DNA perpetuates mass cell activation, which several of the lecturers
have talked about today, and we know that ATP is needed for every single neurotransmitter
at every synapse, and so when that process of making cellular energy is disrupted, your
patient is really in trouble.
So if you haven't read it, Bob has written now probably five different great review articles
explaining the cell danger response, and I think any clinician that is going to help
this population of patients needs to try to understand this.
It's not easy.
I've heard Bob explain it five or six times.
I've gotten to see his papers before they went to publication, and I've tried to learn
it well enough to teach it, but it really does help me take care of patients.
So this is what happens.
He has these various stages of healing.
One is called M1, which is the pro-inflammatory stage.
So for my patient, he got exposed to mold, or he got the spike protein, and that sets
off this pro-inflammatory response, and we typically would be working on that with anti-inflammatories
and other strategies to treat oxidative stress.
In the phases where you have pro-inflammation, you have high extracellular ATP, and high
extracellular ATP is bad.
It is a perpetuator of all kinds of bad cellular processes.
And then as you go on to heal, you have less and less exogenous or extracellular ATP, and
things gets better because you're actually making more ATP to actually use to run all
your cellular machinery.
So if you can't get somebody all the way to the healing phase, there's this tendency
for them to slip back in to the other phases.
And this is what happened to my poor patient over and over.
Get him better, then he gets exposed to mold.
Get him better, his house floods.
Get him better, his girlfriend breaks up with him.
He went to college, and I was so excited about that because I thought he'd get to be around
other people, but this was during COVID.
So what did they do?
They put him in a dormitory room, and he did everything online, and you guessed it, his
bathroom was full of mold.
So he realized he had to leave college and go home.
He was going to surprise his parents.
He goes home for the weekend, both his parents and his dog were off in Tennessee seeing his
older brother, who's studying to be like this Tom Cruise maverick kind of pilot for
the Air Force, and so the contrast between their two lives was just so dramatic.
So many cells have 500 to 2000 mitochondria.
You can't even hardly imagine this, and remember that your brain and your heart are those that
need really high numbers of well-functioning mitochondria.
They have their own DNA genome.
They must import glutathione from the cytoplasm, and this is one of the reasons I love glutathione
so much is that I really think it helps mitochondria.
It's also a great antioxidant.
It also is a good immune stabilizer.
It has good effects on gut epithelium, and in my world, people that have leaky guts have
leaky brains, and I don't want people to have leaky cell membranes, which I'm afraid is what
has happened as a result of the vaccine injuries we've seen in the last two years.
Mitochondria are the primary source of free radicals, so you're going to have ongoing problems
with redox balance or oxidative stress if you have mitochondrial impairment, and then you
need your liver mitochondria to detoxify ammonia.
So I want to kind of look at the way mitochondria react if something bad happens, and they realize
there's a problem and they're going to go into the cell danger response.
So first of all, they decrease their oxygen consumption, and they try to increase their
use of dissolved oxygen in terms of the concentration.
They quit making polymers, so they're not stringing their amino acids together to make
good proteins, and they shift to monomer synthesis.
They stiffen up their cell membranes.
We all want our cell membranes to be fatty and fluid and be able to accept things like
electrolytes or hormones or medications, but this is like a medieval fort that's pulling
the bridge off the moat and is saying, we've got to batten down the hatches.
We're under attack.
It releases some antiviral chemicals like it squirts out hydrogen peroxide.
It starts increasing mitochondrial autophagy, which we've talked about today, and it changes
DNA methylation to adapt.
It warns neighboring cells, and then it affects the host so that the host adapts sick behavior
to avoid infecting the rest of the tribe.
Now, how many people recognize the guy in this picture?
Anybody except my husband?
So this is Tony Bennett, and he's the basketball coach at the University of Virginia, and I
have this not-so-secret confession that I am really in love with him, along with most
of the middle-aged women in Virginia, and I have used him in several countries around
the world to explain this whole mitochondrial thing.
So here comes the basketball analogy.
So you can look at this chart and kind of go through the various complexes and see how
mitochondria work.
I'm going to give you another little tidbit.
If you look down at the bottom where you see alanine, an increasing alanine to lysine
ratio actually is predictive of mitochondrial dysfunction because the alanine is building
up.
So that's a little pearl.
You don't find it written in a huge number of places, but alanine to lysine ratio should
be less than three if your mitochondria are working well.
But I want to show you a couple things about Tony Bennett's coaching.
He is known for his suffocating defense.
There are many years when other teams don't make more than about 50 points a game when
they're playing against Virginia, and that's because he really believes in defense.
But obviously, you can't win a basketball game if your players can't shoot.
The other thing that Tony is so passionate about is that his players communicate so well
with one another.
The point guard knows where the guy that's going to make the three-point shot is, and
he knows where the guy that's going to go in for the layup is going to be.
So they communicate very, very well.
Both of those things are analogous to what happens in the cell danger response.
So I want to talk about what it's like if you are trying to play offense and you're
a mitochondria.
You need to make ATP polymers.
You need to work on your methylation.
You need to get brain energy again, and you need to be able to get your neurologic messages
back and forth.
So hopefully, I'm going to play a little clip for you since it's late in the day, and Virginia
is losing this game, and then they get this amazing series of free throw shots by Kyle
Guy.
So in this particular game, Virginia was down by six with 11 seconds to go, and they actually
scored six points in 11 seconds.
So the idea is, when you find mitochondrial dysfunction, you can look at the charts, and
you will get these slides to see some of the things you can do.
Riboflavin and niacin are particularly important.
Co-Q10 is an excellent supplement.
I use a lot of L-carnitine, and sometimes in pretty high doses for this particular patient.
I think he was at 500 of L-carnitine three times a day.
And C is really important, magnesium.
So you can learn the ways to help your patient.
Here is a little algorithm chart.
Now, I believe, too, that we don't have any good protocols that each patient is individual,
and you use what you learn to try to help them the best you can.
But this gives you some ideas of how you can use your labs to diagnose mitochondrial disease.
And one trick I do is give the patient's mom a paper with all the lab orders on it and
say, the next time your child has a GI virus and vomits for a couple of days and seems
kind of dehydrated and out of it, get these labs done, because I want to see how far the
mitochondria are depleted under that kind of stress.
And so that is something that you can use to help yourself clinically.
I highly recommend that you read Bob Navio's works.
If you want to learn more about mitochondrial dysfunction in children, Dan Rosignal and
Richard Fry have written a lot about that, and you'll have those references, which I
included in the slides.
So thank you very much for your attention, and I'll be questions.
All right.
Thanks, Liz.
Okay.
So what do you think is driving the recent surge in childhood seizure disorders?
Why do you think one in 26 children have a seizure?
I think that much chronic illness in childhood is a combination of genetic susceptibilities
with increasingly hostile environmental exposures.
So this generation of children is being asked to use their enzymes to process an ever-increasing
amount of foreign substances, essentially, in the food that they eat, which is often
processed in fast food, and that has a bad effect.
Magnesium is very neuroprotective, and the vegetables of today don't have nearly as much
magnesium as the vegetables in Thomas Jefferson's day, so they're low on magnesium to start
with.
They are getting exposed to more and more drugs at younger and younger ages, some of
which are known for potentially having seizures as a side effect.
So I think that it's almost like filling up a bucket.
If you put in one stressor and then maybe one more, the child might be able to handle
it.
We're exposing our children to really unconscionable amounts of environmental toxins, including
glyphosate, which I don't know that we've talked about, but is contaminating pretty
much our food supply now.
Are you using mitoswab to check the mitochondria and function, or do you use another method?
I do a couple of things.
Wab, if the parent wants it, is about $400, I think.
You can also do a pretty good workup for mitochondrial disease with a lab core request, where you
look at things like the creatinine kinase, and you look at the alanine to lysine ratio
on an Oat test, and you look at the free and total carnitine, or acetylcarnitine profile.
I don't feel like you need a huge workup to suspect mitochondrial disease or support
it.
If you've got a patient that has constipation, that can be because their muscles aren't working
very well.
If you've got a child who's very floppy, that can be a mitochondrial disease.
We're talking about acquired mitochondrial problems, not necessarily ones that they
were born with, which were the classic ones that we learned in medical school.
But mitoswab is fantastic, and if the parents have the $400, that's a good test.
Glutathione patches, question mark.
Yeah, I haven't used glutathione patches.
I have used glutathione IV, which is my favorite way to give it.
I've used the blister pack glutathione preparations and capsules, because if you just leave it
out to the air, sometimes it oxidizes, and it starts smelling like rotten eggs, and the
kids aren't eager to take it.
I have used some liposomal versions that are in liquids, which are flavored to be like orange,
and the kids tend to take those fairly well.
But I don't have any experience with glutathione patches.
So whoever asks that question, if it works well for you, let me know.
I do use glutathione cream.
Sometimes we'll put that on the feet of the children before they go to bed and put socks
around them, because it is very stinky, and then you have to wash off their feet before
you send them to school so they don't get teased.
So those are some of the ways that I have given it.
This is my question.
You give him IV glutathione, and you said that he fell better for about six hours.
Does that surprise you, or do you have other patients for whom you give IV glutathione,
and you feel that the effects are sustained?
Yeah, I feel like for many patients, the effects are sustained much longer.
So a lot of my patients only get glutathione once a week or once every two weeks.
I think he was in such bad shape that his body gobbled up all the vitamin C and gobbled
up all the glutathione, and whether it was using it to detoxify or to help the mitochondria
or to heal his gut, I'm not sure, but I think that that's a very short period of time for
it to keep helping.
I think he really needed it, yeah.
It's not really a medical question, but it's actually a question centered on things we've
talked about in terms of vaccine guidance, but this is similar with the mold, but the
question is, did his parents ever consider enrolling him in a different school, either
a charter school or a private school?
If not, why not?
Yeah, that's actually a good question.
There is a private school that would have been appropriate in our town that was also built
in the 40s or 50s, and all of our high schools are older.
One has been renovated recently.
I honestly don't remember the answer to the question, but it would have been a good option.
I imagine that at some point we did talk about that.
Then I think we know the answer to this, but the question is, with such severe chronic disease,
why did he risk getting an experimental vaccine?
Peer pressure.
The parents of his friends would not let them visit him until he had the shot, and he literally
did it because he felt like his whole life line was his friends.
He was a teenage boy.
To take away his peers, first by taking him out of school because of the mold, then by
making everybody lock down and do virtual instruction, you might as well put a gun to
his head.
It was just that bad, so that was why he did it in order to have friends.
I'll add an anecdote to that, so you'll hear more about my family history tomorrow, but
I have three children, two of them with very severe autoimmune diseases.
In the vaccine craze, my oldest daughter, who was going to a private school at the time,
they came up with a rule that anyone on vaccinate would have to wear a mask, so she would have
to go through her school day with a scarlet letter.
She was so upset about this.
She was furious because her father and her mother would not let her get the COVID vaccine,
and it was really bad.
She was extremely angry at us.
She's also immunosuppressed, so every time she got COVID, she would get even angrier
at us.
That's even more than peer pressure.
That is really hard for a young child to go through a day having to wear a mask.
Luckily, they announced that in August, I think this is 21.
By the time September came around, so many vaccinated were getting sick that they just
made everybody wear a mask, so she didn't have to stand out anymore, but you're right.
We can talk about the psychopathology of the last few years.
This is actually related to you.
I thought it was a cancer question, but dose of IV vitamin C and how frequent it just disappeared,
but it was something about dose and frequency of IV vitamin C.
Well, ideally, I'd like to give it really frequently every three to six days on somebody
that was as sick as this patient was, but it did involve getting an IV and the expense
of it.
We would start somewhere in the 5,000 to 10,000 unit range and go up to 20,000 to 40,000.
If you try to do that orally, the kids will get a lot of diarrhea and GI upset, but we've
never had any problems with IV vitamin C. If you look back at the old literature, not
just from Paul Merrick, who's one of the world's experts, but going back as far as Linus Pauling,
vitamin C is absolutely crucial for life.
It has so many great antiviral, anti-inflammatory properties, and I've not seen my patients
have trouble tolerating those high doses.
If you can do IVs in your office, it's a good, I like to give treatments that have more than
one good effect, and vitamin C certainly qualifies.
Just to correct Liz, when you said 5 or 10,000 units, you meant 5 or 10 grams.
I'm sorry.
I did say that.
Yeah, 5 to 10 grams, and then 20 to 40 grams.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
All right.
Last question.
This one's an easy.
I'm going to answer it.
What is the percentage of patients with post-COVID versus post-Vax that you see?
That's a question that Scott and I had a discussion on, because we have seen somewhere over around
1,100 patients come to us for consultation with long COVID or long Vax, and both he and
I said the same answer when we thought about it.
20% of those patients are long Vax, and what is the difference?
It's temporal association is what immediately preceded the onset of symptoms.
70% it's long Vax, and it's an endless frustration for me, because the entire world does not
recognize long Vax.
Everything is long COVID, but the vast majority are long Vax.
Hopefully that's helpful to you.
Okay.
I think we're at the end.
Oh, we have Paul next.
Sorry.
Can't forget Paul.
Paul, you around?
Your afternoon nap is over?
You ready to come up here?
Okay.
Good.
Paul, you want to show your tattoo?
You want me to take my shirt off in front of everyone?
Yeah.
Like now?
Like now.
Like now.
See what he'll do.
He's a good boy.
Hold on.
I just need a little bit of modesty here.
Anyone read it?
What does it say?
That's how they get everyone to believe a lot of lies, because there's insufficient evidence
for everything we do.
Anyway.
All right.
You enjoyed that?
Yeah.
No.
I won't ask him to show you his other tattoos.
Hey, stay.
We're having a conversation.
No, we are.
I'm sorry.
I thought you wanted me to pull my pants down.
No.
Later.
All right.
Yes.
So, no, we haven't, but yeah, you stay.
This is a conversation.
You want me?
Okay.
Yeah.
So we have...
Gee, I don't know what his problem is.
So we're going to have a conversation about the post-vaccine treatments.
It won't be too long.
So I think you've got the idea from the course of the day that this is a really complicated
disease.
I don't think there's a disease more complicated than spike-related disease.
And there are multiple pathogenetic pathways, multiple, and there are multiple therapies.
And if you ask one clinician what he would do, you get 20 different answers.
So you get 20 clinicians, you get multiple answers.
So it's very difficult actually to come together with a treatment protocol.
Yeah.
I'll say, you know, one of the things that Paul has done so well, and what we really
depend on it for, he's, you know, with our other protocols, he's really always sort of
hierarchically ranked our therapies and approaches according to trials evidence.
Not only mechanistic, but we have lots of clinical trials evidence for a number of the
other protocols.
When you look at long vaccine, long COVID, there's literally a handful of therapies that
have a trial to support it.
And so it's hard to be very strict and rank according to clinical trials, because, again,
the research is really lacking.
I mean, we have trials evidence for hyperbaric, L-Arginine.
You're telling them what I was going to say.
Oh, okay.
You go next.
Sorry.
What else do we have trials?
Because I know I'm forgetting something.
So that's where we started.
So, you know, we have a protocol, which was maybe nine months old, and I knew I had it
updated, but I just didn't know where to start, and then I thought, you know what, I just
better do it.
And so what I started doing was trying to see if I could find some literature to support
what we do, because I think that's really important.
And I was actually surprised at how many studies there were.
Now, they're all long COVID.
Okay.
They're all long.
So you can study long COVID.
That seems to be politically correct, but there's not a single study on long vacs.
But we can assume the pathophysiology is the same, and maybe what they call long vacs
is euphemistic for long COVID.
So I'm going to give you our updated protocol, which Zora has kindly beautified and put on
the web and on our website.
And I'll kind of just go through some of the new things which I thought were important.
So we still have first line therapy, adjunctive second line, and third line, and you'll see
how we get this.
So we think intermittent fasting or periodic daily fasts are still important.
And we've just written a paper with Dr. Homer on the hypothesis behind, it's just published.
I think like yesterday, on the scientific rationale for using intermittent fasting to
get rid of spike protein.
And it makes a lot of sense, and anyone can do it, and it can cure you of your baldness
and whatever other disease you may have.
The second is ivermectin, and so it's not because we are the mectin phallic.
It's because there's really good data, and there's even more data more recently.
So as I said, ivermectin binds, and there are multiple studies showing that ivermectin
binds multiple sites on the spike protein.
But Dr. Scheim has done two important studies recently that I think plays into this.
And so what he's shown is ivermectin binds the cialic proteins, which interfere with
spike binding to red cells and causing red cell agglutination.
So one of the problems, and Gordon Vaughn was talking about is the microclots, but in
fact one of the other problems is red blood cell agglutination and these RULO formation.
And that was actually a question I saw.
Someone asked what do we make of the increasing identification of RULO formation on live blood
analysis, and that really is the answer, is that the spike protein causes this cross-linking
of red cells, and so you have these aggregate red cells and rather sludgy blood going through
the microcirculation, which can underlie many symptoms.
And so Dr. Scheim has shown in two recent papers, very nice papers, showing that ivermectin,
by interfering with the binding to cialic acid, interferes with this RULO formation.
So there is, although there is no...
Well, hold on, Paul, correct you.
On John Campbell last week, Robert Clancy went on, and he presented a case series of
six patients who did well with ivermectin.
So there is some clinical data now.
So what's interesting is that, if anyone wants to watch it, it's on YouTube, and it's
called ivermectin and long vex.
Or actually, I think it said vaccine injury.
Vaccine injury.
So it's a shocking, it's a shocking YouTube that they actually would allow such a thing.
And so it's by Dr. Professor Clancy from Australia, who has this enormously big study of six patients.
And so it was presented like, wow.
He has discovered the cure, like P.S. treated over a thousand, and that was ignored.
But what was interesting in this, he presented a patient collected his own data and plotted
his data over time, according to his symptoms, brain fog and fatigue and post-exertional
malaise.
And so you see how the patient starts the ivermectin, and it all improves.
And then for whatever reason, the patient stops it, and he relapses again.
And so it's quite an interesting little graph.
It's one graph on one patient, but it does provide some Australian perspective.
It actually made me feel bad, because, you know, a lot of us out here, I mean, we're
learning as we go, we're going 100 miles an hour, we have so many.
The patients are complex, they're very ill, as you can tell from these presentations.
And you know, Scott and I would talk about doing an effort for doing a chart review and
really reviewing some of the efficacy and getting more quantitative data.
But just in our experience, I think Scott agrees, we would say about 70% of our practice
responds to ivermectin.
Now the responses vary.
Some are modest, some are quite large.
I have a few patients, which all they needed, quite sick, all they needed was ivermectin.
Not a lot of adjunctive stuff, but those are pretty rare.
Usually ivermectin is a start, you'll get a response, but then you have to build on
it with other therapies.
And then the next thing is post-exertional malaise.
And this seems to be very, very troubling for patients, that they exercise not only
get severe fatigue, but it actually causes brain fog and cognitive dysfunction.
Recently there was an excellent paper in Science or Nature that actually exercised patients,
muscle biopsies, and showed remarkably that the muscle, there's a change in the phenotype
of the muscle fiber from highly aerobic to anaerobic fibers that are mitochondrial depleted.
So these people can't generate ATP.
And so trying to exercise these people vigorously is quite harmful.
So what that means is you need to have a structured exercise program, particularly maybe with
some resistance and stretching exercises, but you don't exercise them to the point
of fatigue.
And then you add to that some form, because they can't make ATP, some kind of mitochondrial
therapy which we'll come to.
I'll also say the people that when you start thinking about exercise, that's a specific
cohort.
I mean, it really depends on the patient.
Most of the patients that we see, or many of them are actually disabled, can really
do very little exertion.
And for them, you really, before you can get to the point, I have had patients improve
and then start to integrate exercise.
But for many who are really a depleted or disabled, it's really about pacing.
You have to teach them about staying under that exertional limit over which they pay
for with increased symptoms.
And you'll hear more about that tomorrow.
And so what is really interesting and exciting is there two retomast control trials, believe
it, retomast control trials, the gold standard, looking at L-orginine and vitamin C in on
COVID, looking at symptom complex brain fog fatigue with a dramatic improvement.
So I think this is one of the new things that we've added, L-orginine and vitamin C, which
obviously acts by nitric oxide, improves micro perfusion.
And L-orginine itself is quite cheap.
So there is this other compound, which is Miracle something.
Cardiomiracle.
Cardiomiracle, which has arginine and citrulline and all that stuff, but it's quite expensive.
If you go to Amazon.com, you can buy L-orginine for like $10.
Let me talk about this.
Which?
Mass cell.
We haven't got there yet.
You're done.
What do you mean I'm done?
You were moving on.
I moved on.
No.
Okay.
Oh, you want to go through each one?
I think I'll just go through the new stuff.
We're going down this.
Yeah.
We're going to go down the list.
Okay.
Are you trying to get your dinner or something?
Sort of at some point.
So the next one is?
Low dose naltrexone.
Yeah.
So the only reason I mentioned low dose naltrexone because it was on our list before, but we
had no data.
Now the two studies that you published that show the benefit of low dose naltrexone in
patients with long COVID.
So as you can see, what's making this now more robust is that the, you know, before
we just made this up, but now we actually have data.
Well, we kind of made it up, but we kind of knew what we were thinking about.
Now we have data to support what we were doing.
So then there's natokinase.
So there's a lot of data that natokinase breaks down spike protein.
There's no good clinical data, but there is, you know, experimental data.
And then what we've put here is mass cell, and that was peer because.
Yeah.
I mean, we had mass cell syndrome treatment before, but it was kind of buried in a cluster
of, in our symptom specific section where it was just about increased nuance at allergies.
And really mass cell activation can present in myriad different odd symptoms.
They don't always manifest as allergic, you know, overt allergies.
And it's really a mainstay of our first line of therapies that Scott and I use.
I mean, I don't use it necessarily first line, but I'll do it in between visits.
I'll do ivermectin, LDN, then I'll have a move on to mass cells before I see them again.
So for at least in Scott and I's practice, we do that really upfront.
The mass cells are so prevalent as one of the pathophysiologies in this disease.
And that we know just from the ground, from day one, how important that is.
And so we really wanted to emphasize it by putting it first line.
And then the next thing is, is photobiomodulation.
So actually there is a study out of West Virginia where they use two different photobiomodulation
devices for patients who had severe brain fog and post-exertional dyspnea.
One was a photobiomodulation helmet, the other was more of like a bed thing.
And this was an observational study a before and after, but they showed a quite dramatic
improvement in patient symptoms.
So while we had it there before, and there was good biochemical and scientific rationale,
what's nice now is actually there is a study showing the benefits of photobiomodulation.
And Dr. Guzda, she uses the helmet thing and, you know, with good, good success.
And, you know, people have used photobiomodulation for traumatic brain injury, for stroke, and
for just generally being dumb.
But it does improve neurological function through ATP and whatever.
So that was nice that there is now a study.
Hey, Paul, do you think these studies on naltrexone, photobiomodulation, you think that has anything
to do with this protocol, the fact that it was on the protocol?
And that's what people are choosing to study?
Yes.
Yeah.
That's what I was thinking.
So the other thing which is kind of interesting is the vagus nerve.
You know, I heard people talk about the vagus nerve, what the heck are you talking about?
So the spike protein, I think Dr. Guzda mentioned this actually, has blocks the nicotinic receptor.
So you have, and obviously that's the anti-cholinergic pathway gets blocked.
So the first is to that pathway.
The second is autopsy studies have shown profound inflammation of the vagus nerve.
So it seems like with long COVID, you know, spike is a really bad thing.
It causes, it blocks acetylcholine as well as causing vagus nerve dysfunction.
So it seems that vagus, vagal nerve dysfunction is a major feature on long COVID.
What I didn't really realize is that the activation of the vagus nerve is a major anti-inflammatory
pathway.
It's as anti-inflammatory property.
So there are studies using vagal nerve stimulation.
So you can do through the auricular branch of the vagus.
These studies that show improvement.
And the other one is nicotine.
Because nicotine competes with acetylcholine for the nicotinic receptor.
And so it overcomes the blockade of spike protein.
So there is some data that using nicotine patches.
Now Pierre tells me he hasn't had much good results.
Some, but I've had neutral and I've had negative.
Yeah.
There is some data on vagal nerve stimulation as well as nicotinic agonist, which I think
is interesting.
And there is some scientific data to support that.
The only other things I'm going to talk about is hyperbaric oxygen is supported by, actually
the first randomized controls trial was with hyperbaric oxygen.
However, it's second line because of obviously the expense and it's a really resource intensive
intervention that's expensive.
But it's something to consider in patients who've responded poorly and, you know, we
know of a professional cyclist who was bedridden, who did HBO and is now back on his bicycle.
So some patients, it's like a resurrection arc.
And then there's this arc thing.
So Scott has it.
He's cheering.
Yeah.
So he puts it around his neck and puts it tightly.
So it's designed for horses.
So we're back to the horse.
So this is not horse pace.
This is horse electrical stimulation.
And the way it works is horses, for some reason, rupture their tendons.
And so what you do on the horse when it's ruptured tendon is you put this device on
the other, the unruptured tendon and somehow it causes the rupture tendon to heal.
I'm still trying to figure that one out, but apparently he does it.
And Pierre and Scott tell me that their patients start naeying.
And their brain fog goes away.
It uses a tiny little electrical current, right?
And we all live on electricity, our cells behave on electricity in exchange of gradients
and receptors and opening of portals that let's things cross cells.
But you can stimulate certain types of cell populations and they've done research over
decades.
This has been since the first research was in the 50s.
And the three main things that these different programs you wear for three hours a day and
I think it alternates these currents and it really promotes decreases in inflammation.
It promotes the healing like fibroblast and healing factors and it can also stimulate
mitochondria to make much more ATP.
And so we see a lot of benefits with it.
It's not expensive, around $300 to $400.
There was a question earlier today about the equine device and human device.
Hopefully I'll get this right, Scott.
In this country, it's only approved for horses.
In Europe, there is a human version and an animal version.
And I don't know if I should say this, but we get our patients, the animal version, apparently
it's the more potent and one.
So you can order the animal version here, but it's not available here for purchase.
The human version is not available here.
And it has nothing to do with Avamectin.
No, it's just for horses.
And we like horses.
Yes.
So this is the L-Arginine Vitamin C study.
So I think it's kind of interesting.
It does make a lot of sense.
It's safe and quite economical.
Here we've added the treatment for mass cell activation.
This is the vagus nerve stimulation and negatonic agonist that we mentioned.
It is kind of interesting, this whole concept of vagal nerve dysfunction.
And obviously here's the arc microcurrent device that influences growth, adaption, tissue
repair, optimizing physiological function.
It's worn on the lower leg of the subject and it goes through this strange cycle.
And if you want to go look at Scott's legs, you can see exactly what it does.
Anyway, you know, who knows.
New options.
Yeah.
And that's it.
So I thought we would just update you on these changes to the protocol.
It's obviously dynamic.
It's evolving with time.
And as we know more about the strange disease.
And yeah, make it a practice for those of you who are treating these patients to not
infrequently check back to the website for updates.
Okay.
Thank you.
And with that, we're going to hand over to Chris.
