I have encountered the phrase, “You don’t know shit from Shinola,” much of my life. But only recently, its imagery was brought into focus for me to envision a fool smearing feces on his shoes mistaking the feces for Shinola shoe polish.
The medical establishment has become a great disappointment of late. This recent appraisal by almost all intelligent beings in the West is a reflection of how the doctors have bungled their management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The recent pandemic was the BIG test for the doctors. And they failed it… and they failed it miserably.
Instead of the doctors, perhaps we should blame the hospitals as they now hold sway on the docs. As one of my close doctor friends said, “We docs are now no more than commodities.”
And this virtual serfdom of the docs is the product of so-called managed care, i.e., Obamacare. However, the managed care debacle creep started way before the Affordable Care Act.
Nevertheless, the doctors could have saved us, but they were over-leveraged. By this, I mean that they owed too much for schooling, houses, cars, families, etc., to be in a position to stand their ground. And this made them easy pushovers.
I know that doctors live in fear of losing all they have worked for. They are terrified of being sued, terrified of medical review boards, terrified of state licensure boards, etc. In general, laymen have no idea of these fears.
In my life, I’ve had a taste of what it’s like to be in such a compromised position, and I admit that I really have no right to cast stones. But this is the medical profession. They should act professionally—whatever that is.
Another perspective comes from the texted dialogue about four years ago between me and a close friend and retired internist. I texted her something to the effect:
“I wish we could return to the day when medicine was an ethical profession with valid standards.”
And she replied with: “And whenever was that?”
I then realized that I did not have an answer to this question.
My Medical Background and Perspective
As many of my readers already know, I’m the son of a general practitioner of 40 years who greatly admired his profession and defended the herd as omniscient, above board, and ethical... Until he caught onto some of their shenanigans and was allegedly murdered for attempted whistle blowing.
Melvin, my father, dropped out of high school at age 15 and was a freshman at Baylor College of Medicine at age 19. He rotated emergency room call with 11 other GPs in our community for 25 years (at no pay) to maintain hospital privileges.
Specialists were available in Houston (40 miles away), but they were reserved for extenuating circumstances with patients who had the need and the money.
Then, in the 1970s, the medical schools dictated that all the students had to specialize. Within a short time thereafter, our locality had three OB-GYN doctors, although Melvin had performed more deliveries, C-sections, hysterectomies, and tubal ligations than all three combined. And by the time we had two ENT guys, he had performed more tonsillectomies than both of them combined.
Of course, medical technology has greatly advanced since Melvin’s day. And the need for specialization is justified, although this specialization has created (especially with the complications of managed care) enclaves of territorial divisions within the profession that work against the proclaimed goal of medicine to put the care of the patient first. And these divisions have further facilitated the abuses by the pharmaceutical companies upon both the patients and the doctors.
As I am not equipped to provide much more detail on these abuses, I recommend the great treatise on the medical industrial complex by emergency medicine doctor, Doug McGuff and economist, Robert Murphy. Its title is Primal Prescription. It’s revealing...
I will not elaborate on the seemingly endless details of the pandemic mismanagement [I use “mismanagement” to denote a broad expanse of bunglements.] as Steve Kirsch, Robert Malone, Pierre Kory, Paul Alexander, Ryan Cole, Peter McCullough, Naomi Wolf, Sherri Tenpenny, Lee Merritt, Judy Mikovits, David Martin, Robert F Kennedy Jr, Richard Hirsch, Thomas Renz, Alex Berenson, Simone Gold, Karen Kingston, and many others have written more about the subject than most people could read in their lifetimes.
Tucker Carlson interviews Dr Aseem Malhotra on the corruption of medicine by Big Pharma
Exception: I do, hereby, mention the great deceit played with the definitions of vaccine, immunity, and pandemic recently made by the World Health Organization (WHO). I learned of this from Alex Berenson. I also learned from him as well as from Peter McCullough about the conflation of authorization and approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Doctors, by and large, are not aware of these sleights of hand. Rarely do you hear anyone talking about these fundamental deceits promulgated by our health institutions. They are at the root of the problems, and these are the kind of linguistic issues to which my Substack is devoted.
Immunity was changed (and then changed back) to exclude natural immunity. The definitional flip-flop caused misdirection within the profession as well as in the news media.
Vaccine was changed from preventing transmission to providing protection. [Note that the vitamin D that I was denied in the hospital now counts as a vaccine by this new, lax definition.]
And pandemic was redefined to exclude death. So just about any malady that crosses international borders is now a pandemic. So I guess the common cold can be a pandemic?
But the one that irks me the most is the new category promulgated as Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). According to renowned cardiologist, Peter McCullough, doctors have never encountered this category before.
Every clinic and hospital I go in advertises the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines as “approved” when they are only “authorized.” And since, in normal English parlance, authorized and approved are synonyms, and since many doctors have mother tongues other than English, thus making the distinctions of these two words when used technically yet less obvious, the ruse is overwhelmingly successful on the docs and in the hospitals.
[Note that Aseem Malhotra, in the above linked interview, repeatedly refers to the Covid-19 vaccine as “approved.” As one of the most informed cardiologist in the world, he remains duped on this count. And if you watch the newly red pilled John Campbell in his latest (January 2023) YouTube video (Factors in Infection Risk), he continues to demonstrate the same ignorance.]
What’s more, in August 2021, great fanfare and publicity was provided to announce the approval of the Pfizer vaccine named Comirnaty. This product was cleverly positioned to make onlookers—including the docs—conclude that it was the vaccine already distributed under the EUA; however, it was probably never produced, and some say there are no plans to produce it.
Again and again, the doctors have been duped. Officially, authorization means that the vaccine:
is NOT approved
is experimental
is to be used at one’s own risk
has not been fully tested for safety and efficacy.
I believe that I obtained the information that Comirnaty had not been produced and that there were no plans to produce it from investigative journalist, Alex Berenson. I also believe that Berenson elaborated that Comirnaty was fictitious and only an idea on paper. Before this, I had believed that Comirnaty was real and approved but for use only outside the United States. This begs several questions:
How did Comirnaty get FDA approval if it was only an idea on paper? How does an only-papered idea get tested?
Did the European Medicines Agency (EMA) get a product named Comirnaty (as is discussed in its documents) or did it merely assume the EUA product marketed in the United States and sold to it was the same product as Comirnaty, like the doctors in the US erroneously assumed?
Does not the October 10, 2022 hearing of Pfizer’s president of internationally developed markets, Janine Small, in the European Parliament, wherein she admitted that the vaccine had not been tested for transmission, expose the facts that Comirnaty is a fraud and has no approval any more than the EUA product version in the US?
I admit that I don’t know who to believe on any of this. And this question of who to believe is the most egregious part of the entire debacle.
Herein—and beyond the definitional issues associated with the pandemic I just elaborated—I attempt to take you back before the pandemic, to expose the folly of the medical practices that I have personally witnessed as merely a doctor’s son who had paramedical training and only briefly worked in the industry as a surgical assistant (four years in the United States Air Force). And on the receiving end, I was a patient for 57 days in a major hospital enduring the diagnostics from almost every major department. My ability to discuss some of the medical matters is also enabled by my undergraduate coursework in histology, embryology, genetics, analytical chemistry, microbiology, and physics, as well as writing about the abuses of physical therapy for 40 years.
As I have elaborated on several of the following topics in several of my books already (available from Baye.com), I will only briefly describe most of them.
My Personal Incarceration
During the first day of my hospitalization, I received the quintessential skin test for tuberculosis (TB). It is was negative.
During the following 32 days, I was transported to all the far reaches of the hospital. I underwent two CT scans, a colonoscopy, a PET scan, a HIDA scan, a cholecystectomy, 13 dialysis treatments, and was X-rayed and blood drawn every morning. In the course of my care, I had interacted with hundreds of caretakers, been served over 100 meals, and been relocated to various wards as rooms became available.
THEN—After all this maneuvering throughout the hospital—a pulmonologist drew fluid off my lungs and the fluid was sent to the lab for multiple analyses. One of these tests was the ultimate test for TB. And since my team had yet to determine a diagnosis for me, I was put in isolation until (about a week) the test was again determined to be negative.
My obviously annoyed infectious disease doc privately admitted the isolation to be ridiculous. Doug McGuff told me over the phone that, “If you have TB, I’ll eat my shorts.”
[Ironically, Melvin had lost (dead) two of his 59 medical school classmates during internship (circa 1950) at the TB center in Houston known as Jeff Davis Hospital.
Melvin also told the story of the highly popular resident of the Houston Zoo during the early 1950s, a gorilla that was famous for spitting on anyone who came by its enclosure. The gorilla died a few years later and it was found to have succumbed to TB… Yikes!]
Cancer
There are many subtopics for this. In general, cancer is the result of mitochondrial dysfunction. In other words, it is a metabolic problem by origination and the oncologists, by and large, continue to insist that it is of genetic origin, and thereby to conduct medical treatments along this erroneous line of reasoning (non sequitur). The name for their misguided devotion is Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT). Chromosomal mayhem ensues, of course, but it is downstream from the mitochondrial failure in all cases.
SMT gets the lion’s share of the research monies because chemotherapies, surgeries, radiation, and Tamoxifen therapies are hugely profitable, while metabolic emphasis largely employs low-cost, less profitable diet modification.
Otto Warburg was a multiple Nobel Prize winner in biochemistry and the mentor of Hans Krebs, the biochemist whose metabolic cycle is taught in every medical school. Warburg found that all cancers emit elevated levels of lactic acid and asserted this to be the commonality of all cancers. He was discredited by his peers (including his protégé, Krebs) for this astounding observation that was later connected to the mitochondrial dysfunction. Warburg did this in 1924, decades after the discovery of mitochondria, but years before anyone discovered the function of mitochondria—aerobic metabolism. For the best explanation of this, read Tripping Over the Truth by Travis Christofferson.
The Pink Thing annoys me greatly. As I type this in October 2022, I see that Microsoft® has placed a non-removable icon—a pink ribbon—on my Word® search panel to represent the routine October March for the Cure. Fortunately, I will mostly avoid this insanity as I don’t spectate sporting events. The sincere women and men who support the pink thing have no idea that they are suckers for the SMT industry to railroad them into dangerous mammography and unnecessary treatments that will ruin their lives under the false pretense of early detection. It’s the modern incarnation of the crematories of NAZI Germany. After all, their marketing comes straight from Edward Bernays, the mentor of Joseph Goebbels.
I will return to the cancer topic in later headings about hormone supplementation.
Exercise
When I was a kid, my father, a fan of hypnotism for some applications, hypnotized me to forget a certain dirty word. Did it work? I have no way of knowing… Ha… I don’t remember the word.
If I could get all the MDs in the country into one large room at Chicago’s McCormick center and successfully hypnotize them, I would try to erase exercise from their vocabularies. As a technical writer in this subject, I am certainly a proponent of exercise, but the medical community has made a horrible mess of it.
They refuse to define exercise. They conflate general activity and athletics with exercise. And these conflations lead to many unnecessary morbidities and mortalities. The docs little realize that the pseudoscience of exercise physiology comes from jocks masquerading as scientists, hence one of my favorite expressions: jockmedicine.
[Exercise defined: A process whereby the body performs work of a demanding nature, in accordance with muscle and joint function, in a clinically controlled environment, within the constraints of safety, meaningfully loading the muscular structures to inroad their strength levels to stimulate a growth mechanism within minimum time.]
The First Definition of Exercise
The fitness industry at large is a cesspool of seedy operators. And it pains me that Robert Malone—a man I greatly respect for his stance against the murderous Covid-19 vaccines—occasionally steps into the exercise bullshit.
I suspect that many doctors hate their jobs. They might like the academics of medicine but do not enjoy the daily grind of dealing with patients and the bureaucracy of medicine. And they know that, often, drugs don’t really solve problems but merely damp them while causing other, often worse, issues.
Hence, the doctors, themselves, need an outlet. They need an off-ramp, not only for themselves, but also for their patients. They see exercise (general fitness) as an open vista of hope and freedom and choice when it is really evil BS and romantic hokum. What they don’t know is that it is mostly all based on phony research and marketing scams that are much more offending than those in the medical industry. The docs should rein this in, not celebrate it.
Exercise physiology is a quagmire of fraud and ethics violations just as bad or worse than that we deplore as the work of Fauci and his associates. Therein, the definitions for power, work, intensity, inroad, exercise, and many other terms are twisted and stretched to adapt to preconceived beliefs that will sell to a gullible public.
The docs have been completely suckered into the conflation of valid aerobic metabolism with Ken Cooper’s hokey Aerobics activity. The first is an adjective that has NOTHING to do with the proper noun. It’s a grammatical miscarriage that the champions of Krebs in the medical community should have caught and quashed. But it shoots right past their proverbial heads.
This has led to the dictum that cardiovascular health promotion through activity is predicated on elevated heart rate when, in fact, it is predicated on elevated stroke volume—which is hobbled by an emphasis on elevated heart rate. [Of course, elevated stroke volume requires an elevated pulse, but beyond a certain threshold of pulse, the stroke volume is damped.] The docs, especially the cardiologists, could have been a force to correct this mistake, but they have, instead, promoted it.
[My father was ashamed that I sought a serious career in exercise methodology centered around muscular strengthening. And he correctly scorned the PTs and the football coaches for their ignorant medical notions. But then one day I caught him jogging around our house. What was this? He, like many doctors, had been suckered by Ken Cooper’s nonsense.]
The PTs have bastardized the field of motor learning to create the fraud that standing on one foot (just one example) will help one’s general balance as if balance were a general ability when balance is a group of highly specific skills that do not transfer between each other. So-called “balance challenging exercise” can only lead to unnecessary injury.
Robert Malone seems to have been suckered by the myth of transferable skills. I wish that I had the opportunity to show him his mistake so that he could expose this deception to others.
It's actually unfair to expect Robert Malone and other doctors to be aware of the information on balance, which is not readily available. It’s obscure, arcane, and difficult to delineate without expert help. Even in the field of motor learning, it is often not clearly explained. I do this in my book, Balance, but perhaps I can briefly explain the principles.
And although this balance information is obscure, if appreciated within the context of the fitness industry, it might serve as a lesson to the docs that having anything to do with the fitness industry, as one of my emergency medicine friends has explained, is like drinking punch from a punch bowl that has turds floating in it.
Abilities are general, innate and developmental. They include activities such as walking, running, crawling, climbing, jumping, etc. They are transferable.
Skills are built upon abilities but are not innate. They are largely not developmental and are specific. They are largely NOT transferable and become less transferable as proficiency increases. Skills include such activities as balance, agility, and eye-hand coordination.
The trap for doctors is that there is not a general balance. There are hundreds of specific balances, and increasing proficiency at one does not transfer to the others.
In the 1960s, Edwin Fleischman (the Balance King) conclusively showed that standing on one foot might increase the proficiency of standing on that one foot but does NOT increase the proficiency of standing on the other foot OR standing while blind-folded or in other standing configurations. Balance does not transfer.
A big factor of balance, however, is buttocks strength, and the PTs are inept to teach safe exercises for strengthening. Muscular strength is a general attribute that underpins all abilities and skills.
To suggest Tai Chi or standing on one foot or the use of wobble boards as used by PTs for balance challenging with the notion that it will encourage balance improvement is nonsense that exposes patients to risks with no potential for reward… somewhat comparable to the Covid-19 vaccine with regard to the risk-reward relationship.
Additionally, the PTs corrupt their therapy with so-called work hardening treatment programs to bring injured employees back to the job by exposing them to the same risks as what originally caused their injuries. [Example: A friend, who recently fell from a ladder and fractured cervical and lumbar vertebrae, is being treated by her PT with making her climb a ladder.] These should-be-contraindicated approaches make one wonder why they spent months in school mastering muscular function tables.
And the injury rate of the rubbish that sells for exercise greatly feeds a salivating orthopedic community who advertise its hyped calling card for sportsmedicine. It is promoted as clean and healthy when it is an evil lure toward lifelong disability and pain. Again, it’s jockmedicine.
[An orthopedist friend attended a Sportsmedicine conference in New York about 20 years ago. There, he encountered an older, retired, and highly regarded orthopedist. The older doctor asked the younger ones, “Please tell me, with this so-called sportsmedicine thing you guys have now, how a broken arm sustained in a football game is any different than a broken arm sustained falling out of a tree?”
Sportsmedicine is just bullshit marketing.]
Doctors are pretty smart until they venture into the exercise domain. The big one they miss is the distinction between exercise and recreation. These must not be mixed. And as is popular and misrepresented in many public service announcements, “Try to find an activity for exercise that you enjoy.” This is extremely bad advice, but I will not herein elaborate further on this as I have already spent much of my life writing about it.
Hormone Supplementation
Testosterone When my father attended medical school—and when every doctor now alive attended medical school in the United States—he was threatened that he SHALT NEVER supplement a prostate cancer patient with testosterone. Charles B. Huggins, a urologist at the University of Chicago, published his first paper on this in 1941 and was thus awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on October 13, 1966. And hence, the dictum was instituted into the medical education system as firmly as is the Krebs cycle.
In the early 2000s, Harvard urologist, Abraham Morgentaler, found that Huggins’ research had been poorly designed and performed and that the related dictum has no basis of fact. Moreover, some evidence suggests that prostate cancer risk increases with low testosterone instead of high. (Search: “Destroying the Myth About Testosterone Replacement and Prostate Cancer” by Abraham Morgentaler, MD, Life Extension, December 2008). As Morgentaler has written several books on this that I have not read, there are details beyond my command.
So, the supreme powers of the scientific universe awarded Huggins a prize for a falsity that has permeated medicine for 80 years. And many doctors are still unaware of this, including, I believe, largely the endocrinologists!
Another consequence [I’m assigning this one to my own supposition] is that the treatment of prostate cancer with Lupron and other testosterone suppressants (chemical castration) merely enables the estrogen dominance that is the real bugaboo. From what I surmise from the late John Lee, progesterone supplementation is the treatment of choice for prostate cancer.
We can see the principle played out in women, perhaps better than in men. As women pass into menopause, estrogen levels drop dramatically, but progesterone levels drop disproportionately more compared to the estrogen. This results in what the late John Lee termed estrogen dominance. And this dominance is what causes most, if not all, of the symptoms (vaginal dryness, night sweats, hot flashes, emotional instability, brain fog, etc.) associated with the physiologic transition to menopause.
To focus on just one life-threatening condition, let’s talk about uterine cancer. Millions of uteri have been excised unnecessarily that could have been saved with progesterone. As I understand it, the early warning sign of uterine cancer is cellular dysplasia demonstrated in a pap smear or cervical biopsy. Instead of surgery, simple and cheap progesterone supplementation reverses the dysplasia and hence reverses the progression toward frank cancer.
Another example: Uterine fibroids are often reducible—thus relieving the need for hysterectomy—with progesterone supplementation. This treatment sometimes fails to work if the fibroid(s) have become so numerous and large that the fibroids, themselves, are producing exorbitant estrogen. I can’t confirm this, but I’m led to believe that some overfat postmenopausal women can produce more estrogen from fibroids and/or their subcutaneous fat stores than from their aged ovaries.
Realize that the prostate in males is analogous to the uterus in females. Hence, progesterone, a la John Lee, should be considered before messing up a guy with radiation and/or testosterone abatement therapy. But is progesterone supplementation on the menu? I never hear of it, but then my ear is not close to the action.
And what if progesterone supplementation IS on the menu? Do the docs know what progesterone is? I doubt it. And why would I question their knowledge on this?
Progesterone versus Progestins Again, we encounter the cleverosity of the language abusers (Big Pharma) and the suckerocity of the docs. Since 1960, oral contraceptives have been combinations of “estrogen” and “progesterone” according to the AMA Journal of Ethics [I could not find the date of this publication.] Oh really? Later in the same article, “progestin” is used.
So which is it?... progesterone?... or progestin? Or both?
Thousands of advertisements were positioned into scores of medical journals during the following decades in which progestin and progesterone are used interchangeably, often within the same full-page advertisement (just like with the article I just cited). And if questioned, almost all gynecologists would say that a progestin is a manmade or synthetic progesterone.
This is not exactly true. According to John Lee, a progestin (and there are many) is a synthetically derived substance (often, if not always, from progesterone) that has some of the properties of progesterone, but it is absolutely NOT progesterone.
Progestins are a common source of many women’s health problems, including cancer. They are not necessary for any woman. But they are indeed necessary for the pharmaceutical companies to make money as progesterone is cheap, natural, singular [Only one exists in a form for human consumption although there are two forms in the steroid hormone cascade from cholesterol.] and not patentable.
As internist, Philip Alexander, explained to me in about 2001, medicine went down two parallel tracts: one with the administration of cow and pig insulin to diabetics; two with the administration of progestins to women. Very quickly, all the docs found that you don’t give a human diabetic anything other than human insulin, but we are still giving the progestins to women. It’s a travesty and it’s still ongoing.
Today, Provera and other similar products are still widely available. Provera is a progestin.
Ductile Carcinomas In Situ (DCIS) This story hits close to home for me, but it provides a clear illustration of the evil and stupidity in the cancer industry.
In the 1970s, my mother went around my father, got a mammogram and checked herself into the hospital for a mastectomy. Learning about this about ten years later, I did not know the details.
About 15 years ago, my second sister (an ICU nurse) let on that she was suffering from some breast issue but would not allow a conversation about it. It seemed that she considered herself knowledgeable about her issue and refused any discussion to sway her decisions.
About 10 years ago my first sister told me that she had discovered by mammogram scores of pre-cancerous lesions throughout both breasts. Thereafter, her daughter had dutifully arranged for her to meet with oncologists at MD Anderson in Houston.
The oncologists strongly advised her to undergo bilateral prophylactic mastectomies and Tamoxifen treatment. As she was a trained statistician, she sensed that all their claims about outcomes were total bullshit. On the other hand, she was extremely frightened, and I encountered a tremendous challenge persuading her to consider alternative solutions to her dilemma. I sent her books to read by TS Wiley, John Lee, Christiane Northrup, among others, and, with great discipline, repressed my efforts to push my arguments.
I knew that I had to provide space for my sister to use her incredible intelligence. The risk was that without my constant influence she would succumb to her fears and go the oncology route. And once you ring the bell of surgery or mess up someone with radiation and chemical castration, there’s no unringing that bell.
After about two weeks of silence between us, she surprised me with a phone call to tell me that she had read all the materials that I had sent and was in the process of reading Sex, Lies, and Menopause by TS Wiley for the second time.
From what I understand from John Lee, DCIS is not a frank cancer. [That’s why it’s categorized as “Stage 0.”] Indeed, the researchers debate among themselves as to its nature, and I have heard some lectures wherein it is discussed that there are degrees of cellular dysplasia now better defined. However, John Lee noted that DCIS was rarely fatal when not treated and sometimes fatal when treated, as the treatment may weaken the patient to the extent that truly frank cancers arise.
TS Wiley noted that only testicular cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma (if I remember correctly) had experienced any significant improvements in the five-year survival rate for decades and that breast cancer had shown a SLIGHT improvement since the advent of mammography only if DCIS is included in the statistical pool. This is because roughly one of three breast cancer diagnoses are DCIS, and their inclusion greatly affects the interpretation of the five-year survival rate. Again, it’s all deception.
If DCIS is removed from the statistical pool, the five-year survival rate of breast cancer has become much worse since the advent of mammography.
So, it came out that my first sister was diagnosed with DCIS. The pre-cancerous lesions began to disappear with progesterone supplementation, but then she had some issues with the progesterone as some women will. She sought out a hormone specialist who could guide her with the Wiley Protocol (a protocol of timing hormonal supplementation with moon phase) and she’s been fine since.
Then it came out that my second sister had had DCIS and that she had lost her color vision due to Tamoxifen therapy and had had multiple surgeries that had put her through Hell. In sharing all this with the first sister, she openly stated that she regretted not talking with me about the issue. She had also recently read a medical journal wherein DCIS was reported to be widely “overtreated.”
Then it came out that my mother had had DCIS. And as I have encountered several times with other women, my mother bragged about how she had “beat breast cancer.” In all likelihood, anyone who tells you that they beat breast cancer did not have frank breast cancer. They had DCIS. And the only thing they “beat” was the medical community.
Tamoxifen is categorized as a specific estrogen receptor modulator (SERM). And it is known to cause a host of variable side effects. It is administered only to women who have no uterus as it is notorious for causing uterine cancer in women who still have theirs.
[According to TS Wiley, the FDA panel to approve Tamoxifen for breast cancer treatment unanimously voted against approval before it was approved. This should raise eyebrows…]
The idea behind Tamoxifen (and its derivatives like Ramoxifen and others) is that estrogen is the culprit in these breast cancers (as I explained in regard to the prostate cancer); however, I’m puzzled as to why it effects uterine cancer as it abates estrogen there as well. There must be some other factor at play. Nevertheless, I don’t know enough to comment further on this.
Sprain versus Strain
A sprain is a ligamentous (or capsular) injury. A strain is a musculo-tendinous injury.
I was in disbelief about six years ago when Brenda’s internist asked, “What is pregnenolone?” Then, he stunned me again by exposing his lack of distinction between sprain and strain. We left his services immediately and merely found another internist equally ignorant.
Shortly after these connected episodes, two of my retired internist friends informed me that it was unfair for me to hold the ignorance against my two previous doctors as those terms were not in their purview. [My friends were/are probably correct, but I still harbor intolerance for this.]
REALLY? I was flabbergasted.
As a GP, my father did almost everything.
He exposed, developed, and read his own X-rays.
He performed many of his own blood, urine, and stool tests and/or taught his employees to perform these.
He created a vocational nursing school at the hospital to generate employees for his and the other doctors’ practices.
He performed general surgery.
He delivered babies and had a special room where pregnant women could apply self-hypnosis as a labor assist by privately listening to a tape of his voice played on a Wollensak tape recorder.
He set bones.
He did pediatrics.
He served as the team doctor at high school football games.
As already mentioned, he worked the emergency room.
[Just imagine Melvin’s disgust when, after pulling emergency room call for over two decades for no pay and after he and his veteran colleagues elected to pay moonlighting residents $200/ day that one orthopedic resident called him out at midnight to advise him, the resident, how to set a broken arm!]
And don’t medical students today do clinical rotations to get some fundamentals of all the specialties? And how is the distinction between a sprain and a strain not fundamental to information in an orthopedic rotation? And don’t all medical students, at least briefly, get subjected to the steroid hormone cascade?
Counting the Mounting Layers of Shit
And like the subversion of truth as exhibited with the Aerobics and aerobic deception, the docs are fooled with the progestins and progesterone deception as well as the authorization and approval deception. They subject patients to the balance nonsense without a clue to the distinctions of abilities and skills. They missed the distinctions of sprains and strains in medical school clinical rotations.
Doctors persist in essentially conflating shit and Shinola. It’s a trend toward entropy of the profession. This makes them easy marks for the big con. And does this have some connection with the fact that over 50% of the German doctors in 1933 were members of the NAZI party? SUCKERS!
[I’m grateful to virologist, Robert Malone for exposing the principle of mass formation psychosis.
My father’s term for much the same was mass hypnosis. He claimed that Jesus of Nazareth and Adolph Hitler were probably the World’s greatest mass hypnotists.
And Anton Mesmer flirted around with the same idea with his animal magnetism. Mesmer’s interest cost him his medical career. And it is very close to the topic of mass movements as detailed by Eric Hoffer in his 1951 classic, The True Believer.]
Doctors are first required to be sharp in linguistic distinctions. They are educated in these distinctions to an exceedingly high degree before they are ever permitted to touch a patient. And they, too often, fail miserably at these distinctions when they are most important and affect millions of people.
But there’s more…!
Lipid Theory
Many people track their cholesterol readings with their doctor. This is interesting but not meaningful to someone like me who is schooled that the lipid theory of heart disease is nonsense. My cardiologist greatly annoys me with talk of this.
I know several doctors (emergency and internal medicine) who strongly oppose the lipid theory and the use of statins to control cholesterol. They cite the side effects and the poor conduction of the studies that support such administration.
I have cardiologist(s) who strongly support and recommend either statins or the new cholesterol abatement strategies like Repatha that “are not statins and don’t have the side effects of statins.” [I have internist friends who dispute the claim that Repatha and its cousins don’t have serious side effects.]
So, if there exists a fundamental principle at work here, why is it not cross-platform? Why do some seemingly entire specialties decry the lipid theory against the support by the cardiologists? Sounds like they need to all get into a huddle and get their talking points aligned. And if they cannot come to a consensus, then shut up about it.
While I was stuporous in the hospital in late 2019, I noticed that I was being fed a statin. I called my hospitalist in and requested that the Lipitor be removed from my daily medications schedule. He tried to explain to me that my cardiologist had put me on the statin for my protection.
I then asked him why I would want to abate the entire cascade of steroid hormones that derived from cholesterol like the two progesterones, testosterone, cortisol, aldosterone, the two pregnenolones, three different estrogens, DHEA, and several others. He gazed at me in disbelief that I could rattle off these and was probably in shock that he had not asked himself the same question.
One anti-statins internist, who has personally surveyed many pro-statins doctors, estimates that 50% of the surveyed doctors have openly admitted not considering their effect on the steroid hormones that derive from cholesterol. This is tragic.
[Note that Demasi does not mention the steroid cascade in her great presentation on statins:
Dr. Maryanne Demasi - 'Statin Wars: Have we been misled by the evidence?'
Demasi’s material is mentioned by Aseem Malhotra in his interview with Tucker Carlson. (Also note that Fox News was one of many news outlets paid out of a HHS slush fund to censor information unflattering about the Covid mRNA vaccines.) I provided this link earlier.]
In 2022, using the steroid cascade to protest cholesterol abatement, I encountered stiff opposition with my cardiologist who supported his stance with the “superb research” showing its benefits. As I silently listened to this, I reflected on my personal experience with the medical research performed regarding osteoporosis with all its attending fraud. I also silently reflected on the viewer box in the treatment room advertising that his office could provide the “FDA-approved” Covid-19 vaccine.
Nutrition
I nearly died of malnutrition during my hospitalization. I suffered from cytokine storm which I’m sure was greatly exacerbated by vitamin D deficiency. I learned that if you don’t sneak in your own vitamin D, the doctors will just let you die. I was stupid. I did not catch on, and they damn nearly killed me.
Near death, my nephrologist advised Brenda, my wife, to sneak me sandwiches to supplement my hospital food. He said, “No one can live on hospital food for long.”
Meanwhile, the same nephrologist (a really bright, funny and caring man) correctly advised that my kidneys could not heal due to them struggling with protein. And I’m sure that he did not know that kidneys do quite well on protein as long as the protein is NOT animal protein.
Cancer Revisited Going back into the cancer realm: The most common nutrition advice provided by oncologists, if they provide any at all, is to eat calorie-dense foods to maintain weight. They recommend this primarily because chemotherapies often work against the cancer mother cell by starving it through appetite suppression.
So the oncologists chemically depress your appetite to kill the cancer while simultaneously pushing you to consume caloric-dense foods which are usually heavily laden with what?… sugar, the favorite food of cancer cells. This is so messed up…!
In addition to fasting, along with ketogenesis, avoidance of all animal-based foods is essential to strictly repress the ingestion of methionine, an amino acid that cancers can thrive on. All foods contain methionine, but animal foods, especially fish and poultry, have much more methionine than plant-based foods.
As the basic definition of cancer is mitochondrial dysfunction, the cancer cell undergoes metabolic transformation in several regards. Since aerobic metabolism is kaput and the 23 ATP molecules possible from each molecule of glucose through the mitochondria is gone forever, the cell is relegated to survive with the 2 ATP molecules produced through the anaerobic pathway (fermentation).
Subsequently, the communication between the defunct mitochondria and the nucleus of the cancer cell is “missing in action” and the nucleus figuratively panics. Its chromosomes go into disarray, messaging is produced to increase the cell’s membrane porosity, the cell becomes a glucose hog, and it becomes highly invasive via angiogenesis.
As Philip Alexander describes this, the cancer mother cell is virtually choking (literally asphyxiating). It can get oxygen but it cannot use it via the mitochondria to produce ATP. It should be relatively easy to kill.
I believe that hospitals like Sloan Kettering and MD Anderson should replace the chemotherapy programs with in-house nutrition controls. This can be structured to make the hospitals and doctors money but would cut Big Pharma out of the loop and remove the oncologists off the kickback dole. The opposition mounted to this idea would be fierce as money is more important to the system than the patients.
PET Scan The PET scan reads a process that is upstream from what Warburg measured in 1924. The PET measures the rate of glucose metabolism while Warburg measured the elevated lactic acid that came through the fermentation chemistry that started with the glucose. Essentially, these two observations are the opposite ends of the same chemical equation. While denouncing Warburg as a kook, the obtuse SMT adherents unwittingly stare at his confirmation in the PET.
Diabetes
I am beginning to suspect that diabetes—especially Type II—is being grossly mistreated by mainstream medicine. I will write posts to address this issue once I learn more. If my hunches are correct, this would indicate a vast miscarriage of medicine.
Trust
It was naïve of me to ever regard doctors as omniscient. But they do know a lot of stuff… lifesaving stuff.
Doctors save many lives. They also permanently mess up millions of people.
[And we must acknowledge that doctors are often exceedingly frustrated by the invisible tethers placed on them by their masters in the medical delivery system. Occasions occur when they really know the truth and want to express it for patients’ benefit but are muzzled by the system.]
But trusting their advice is often relegated to the moment of need. And an important part of the challenge for a patient is to balance the danger of ignoring them with the danger of taking their advice.
What I mean by this is, don’t take their advice unless forced to. For instance, if I lose my ability to breathe, I’d better get to the emergency room and submit myself to their diagnostics and treatment. I have no choice, even though they may give me Remdesivir, connect me to a ventilator, and kill me.
In August 2019, I fractured a metacarpal and went to the ER. The doc—acting in my best interest—with instruction received by phone from the orthopod on call—apparently reduced the fracture. I then went to a different orthopod the following week to learn that the ER doc had not properly aligned the ends of the fracture. And by then, the knitting had progressed beyond allowance for resetting without surgery. Fortunately, the alignment was close enough for my hand to function.
Did I follow the treatment instructions of the doctors in both cases? Yes, exactly. To do otherwise would have been foolish, even though the first was not up to snuff.
My rheumatologist continues to push the Covid-19 vaccine, although it is now known to elicit every condition and symptom she treats me for. As an internist friend tells me, “Your rheumatologist is a fool.”
He’s correct. And I go to my appointments with my rheumatologist to listen to her babel so as to play the game with Medicare and be judged a compliant patient and all that BS.
Accordingly, my first sister (who was very close to our father) does much the same. She advises, “Never tell a doctor more information than the minimum to get what you need. Button up. Make them drag information out of you as though you’re being interrogated by the cops.”
This is a sad state of affairs for medicine. Our father knew all his patients, considered them his friends, often attended church with them, knew their families and personal concerns, attended and sometimes sang at their weddings and funerals, etc. Now, the sacrosanct doctor-patient trust and open communication is gone. And it’s not coming back. Once trust is lost, it does not return.
Trust is a fleeting thing. It’s somewhat like heat from the sun. Once the sun burns out, its energy is not renewable. [By the way, and contrary to the popular narrative, coal, oil, and gas are renewable. They’re being renewed all the time as long their ultimate energy source, the sun, is viable.]
It takes a lot of time and good will and compassionate effort to build trust and respect between two people or between a person and an organization or institution. And it takes very little to squander this trust.
“The scientists are the high priests of the new religion. At least the high priests of the old religion were sincere when they cut out your heart and burned you at the stake to save your soul.”—Arthur Jones
Thanks for this Ken. An excellent and frightening article. Have you ever looked at the work of Ray Peat? His writings on Estrogen are interesting. https://raypeat.com/articles/aging/aging-estrogen-progesterone.shtml
Excellent & precise article.
Having read your ROE volume its great to see you continuing to write.
I myself avoided the injectables, though personal insight into the elites system that seeks to enslave us & carful understanding of chemistry, biology & health.
Pete