Ross Walter Nutritionist and Naturopath health articles and blog

A brief history of the COVID-19 saga, what might be yet to come, and recommendations to prevent this happening again

3/6/2020

Just in case you arrived on earth from a distant planet in the last few weeks, you might notice that things are have been a little weird, crazy, or absolutely dumbfoundingly stupid of late. We have had a little issue with a little bug called the "coronavirus", or "SARS-CoV-2" (aka "SARS version 2") which causes an infection called "COVID-19" which you are statistically unlikely to get, suffer from (directly at least), or die from. Yet the entire planet is suffering from a "we're all gonna die" media campaign.

Here is a summary of observations and learnings from the coronavirus pandemic thus far:

The virus is man-made, as shown from multiple studies of the genetic code of the virus
Studies have not found an animal host source of the virus, and other studies have found no close relative to the coronavirus, based on genetic analysis and comparison to similar strains
Scientists in various biowarfare labs around the world (China, USA, UK, Australia and perhaps more countries) are complicit in the development of the genetically-modified man-made coronavirus at the centre of this pandemic, through years of repeated genetic manipulation of other coronavirus types to increase their ability to infect human cells. The main lab responsible for much of the genetic modification of the coronavirus, based on their published studies of their work, was based in Wuhan, China
The initial statistics of incidences and mortality rates from the country of origin, China, cannot and should not have been believed, being a communist country with a secretive government with a history of suppressing the media and inaccurate information being told
The PCR testing of the coronavirus, used to determine incidences of infection, is inaccurate
Statistics of coronavirus incidences therefore are inaccurate and should be ignored
The WHO have directed countries (and their medical systems) to classify deaths (by "falsifying" death records) as being from COVID-19 based on an inaccurate test, and/or assumptions of infection without testing, or deaths from chronic diseases, suicides, shootings, flu and pneumonia and other respiratory conditions, and other deaths as being from the virus
Statistics of coronavirus mortality rates therefore are inaccurate and should be ignored
The media are experts in manipulating the inaccurate statistics to create an environment of fear throughout the world during this alleged pandemic
The fear from the media has caused major divisions in families, workplaces, friends and communities, between those who believe the media scare campaigns and those who have done their own research or who have personal experience, or who are "free thinkers"
Governments and authorities have recommended people to "report" those who do not appear to be believing or following the recommended guidelines, thus further dividing communities in a time they keep broadcasting "we are all in this together"
Governments and their health authorities and even the WHO have not recommended simple, cheap, effective and proven ways to prevent or treat people from the coronavirus. They have deliberately withheld information, lied about effectiveness (or non-effectiveness) of preventative strategies and treatments, and instead promoting hygiene and isolation until medications or a vaccine are available (for which there are still none available)
Governments and their health authorities and even the WHO, have ignored the many natural preventions and treatments that have past evidence of effectiveness against other viruses, thus contributing to more infections and deaths
There is plenty of quality published evidence of the effectiveness of natural therapies such as therapeutic doses of vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, selenium, to support or improve one's immune system function against any infections, as well as lifestyle improvements of regular exercise, reducing stress, improving sleep, and eating a nutritious diet and low processed food to reduce blood sugar levels. However this advice and recommendations have not been suggested by the WHO or government health authorities - why?
The WHO, governments and health regulators, such as Australia's TGA, have effectively banned and gagged all health practitioners (both medical and complementary/alternative) from making any recommendations to prevent or treat the coronavirus, and have actively prosecuted companies and individuals who have spoken out against the government or defied these regulatory guidelines
It is well known in many published studies of the seasonal nature of respiratory infections around the world, for the common cold, flu, pneumonia, and even asthma. Such respiratory infections occur at much higher rates in the colder months of the year, in this case the northern hemisphere countries being far more affected being their winter and autumn during the early months of the pandemic
The seasonal effect of all respiratory infections occurs when the sun is further away from one hemisphere of the earth, which receives less solar radiation, resulting in low sun exposure and low vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is a potent anti-inflammatory compound, and immune system strengthening hormone. A vitamin D deficiency is a key causative factor in respiratory infections as shown in many published studies. Yet the government health authorities have not mentioned preventative advice to get safe sun exposure or vitamin D supplementation to reduce incidences or mortality rates
The media and government health authorities have focussed on the virus itself - to try and avoid the virus through unproven mass isolations, lockdowns and shutdowns, and hygiene practices, still being based on old 1800s "germ theory" practices that an exposure to a germ will mean an infection with the virus
The "germ theory" of old has been disproved, as not everyone who is exposed to an infective pathogen will actually "catch" the infection or show symptoms. Whether someone exposed to a virus will develop symptoms, and how quickly (or not) they get over the infection is due to the effectiveness and strength of their immune system, NOT the effectiveness and strength of the virus
Humans cannot avoid a virus or other pathogens, but we can improve our immune system effectiveness and strength to find and deal with infections such as the coronavirus
Some countries such as Sweden, Taiwan, Japan and others did not implement nationwide lockdowns, business shutdowns or "preventative" isolations for their populations. They did, however, recommend voluntary isolation of those at risk, with chronic health conditions, respiratory and cardiac conditions or the aged. The rest of the population could carry on as usual. If they were exposed to or become infected with the coronavirus, they would then develop a personal immunity and community herd immunity to the virus into the future
Herd immunity is a theory that if a certain percentage of a population are immune from an infection, they can "protect" or reduce incidences amongst those who are not immune, and the infection can die out in time. However herd immunity is only possible through a reasonable percentage of the population actually contracting the infection and developing antibodies to it. Antibodies produced from a natural infection last a lifetime. Unlike from vaccines which simulate a forced infection - antibodies may not be produced at all, hence why multiple boosters are required, or if they are produced, only last a few months to a few years at most. Hence herd immunity cannot occur even in 100% vaccinated populations. Mandating a flu vaccine or coronavirus vaccine (if it can ever be produced) will not allow a herd immunity to occur
The WHO is open to corruption through large private donations of alleged philanthropy, but in reality being for influence of the world's health organisation. The Gates Foundation are the second largest donor to the WHO, behind the USA, which suggests a huge conflict of interest especially given the foundation's many other investments in this pandemic. Such influence over the WHO must stop
The Gates Foundation are major investors in every part of this pandemic - from funding biowarfare labs who perform genetic modification of coronaviruses, to funding many pharmaceutical companies to develop untested fast-tracked vaccines or medications, to funding the reuse of existing medications that have no proven evidence of effectiveness against this virus, to developing virus test kits, to pretending to being an alleged health advocate or expert on this virus pandemic, to funding a company developing RFID tracking chips being injected at the same time of the vaccine, funding a worldwide technology platform to track people using their implanted ID chips in real time, and many other conflicts of interest with other companies
The UN have aligned with a UK cyber security firm to produce an electronic COVID-19 identification and health status passport called COVI-PASS. Plans have been made to record the coronavirus pathology testing results, virus immunity status, and vaccination status, and more, to be recorded and needing to be held by every person. Intentions are for this system to be used for other tracking and identification purposes for travel, workplaces, and many other locations, and potential restrictions imposed on those who do not meet certain eligibility criteria
Deeper investigations of mortality rates and published studies suggest a mortality rate from COVID-19 at just 0.1%, being on par with a severe seasonal influenza (Fauci, 2020)
With such a small mortality rate, based on corrected and proven statistics resulting in a survival rate of 99.9%, the massive worldwide disruptions were completely unnecessary
A mandated worldwide vaccine, as frequently being promoted by Bill Gates and many governments, based on these corrected mortality rates, is completely unnecessary given a 99.9% survival rate in those who have the coronavirus infection
The worldwide shutdowns, lockdowns, isolations, and their resulting effects on families, businesses, companies, stock markets, investments, and the economy, were completely unnecessary
Educated and expert scientists and medical/health commentators on social media platforms have provided a more balanced and even more accurate source of information during the pandemic, and those working in hospitals giving their first-hand personal and proven accounts of their experiences which are the opposite of the government information being given
Social media platforms have increased censorship of many aspects of the pandemic, to suppress sharing of information and even deleting entire accounts from knowledgeable experts, scientists, doctors, virologists, and more, because their expert scientific opinion differs from the approved government narrative or the opinion of the platform owners and their advisors. Luckily Trump has very recently banned social media platforms from censoring personal opinions and even expert advice that didn't fit the beliefs of the platform owners - freedom of speech is to reign again!

Recommendations that are needed in the aftermath of this plandemic:

There needs to be an independent investigation of the recommendations by the WHO to all governments on how to classify COVID-19 deaths, and investigations into every classified death and adjustments to statistics made accordingly to make them accurate
Investigations by the media authorities in all countries, to improve the accuracy of news information, as much of it has been a fear-based scare campaign, highlighted by opinionated and biased TV hosts who do not have a clue of what is really going on in this plandemic
The genetic modification of dangerous pathogens, to increase their ability to infect human cells, or any other "gain of function" testing or manipulation MUST be banned worldwide from now and forever
The WHO need to be completely disbanded and a new and independent government-only funded health organisation created, for the benefit of every person. There should be no corporate or private sponsorships or funding allowed, no conflicts of interest allowed, and equal opportunities being given for proven natural therapies to be recommended for prevention and treatment options, along with safe and effective medical treatments as needed
Many more people of the world have awoken to the massive manipulation of them during this plandemic. People are now aware of the corruption and conflicts of interest in the WHO, state and federal governments, and the media, to lie, to cause fear, to divide communities, and implement new laws to restrict movements, interactions, and lifestyle choices. Any further restrictions or mandates related to this plandemic, because of the abovementioned manipulations of incidence and death rates, corruption and conflicts of interest, are unnecessary and will not be tolerated by the people.

Keep aware. Keep disbelieving. Keep researching. Keep informed. And keep healthy.

(References provided in previous posts on this topic on this page)

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a new digital passport is needed to return to life after the coronavirus

25/5/2020

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There have been a lot of accusations of conspiracy theories, fear-mongering and pseudoscience being used against those who have posted contrary information, links, articles and videos through this coronavirus pandemic, and theories of what might be coming in the future.

Slowly, more of the alleged theories are appearing to be coming true. More studies are showing the virus was man-made in a lab in Wuhan, China. Studies are showing the PCR testing for coronavirus is inaccurate but being used by the WHO and world governments to make radical changes to restrict our way of life. Classifying COVID-19 deaths is a complete scam, orchestrated by the WHO to cause fear amongst populations, by classifying deaths by any chronic disease, shooting, suicide, or other cause as being from the virus, and the mortality statistics then promoted by a biased and alarmist media.

More accurate statistics of the plandemic are emerging, of a survival rate of 99.9% on average, with very little to no medical treatments available and no coronavirus vaccine. So why all the fuss?

Despite having many less incidences and deaths now, or nearly none at all now, we are seeing tighter restrictions in workplaces, having to give names and contact details prior to entry into shops or cafes, being recommended to wear masks when we go out now (but not earlier in the plandemic when there were more cases!)... what other restrictions do the authorities have in mind?

Well, here's a new one. Are you ready and wanting to travel, access various services or enter your workplace, when restrictions are allegedly "reduced"? Well, make sure you have your "COVI-PASS" digital passport ready to show the authorities, to prove who you are and that you have been a good and faithful citizen with up-to-date coronavirus vaccination, immunity test status to the coronavirus, and a good health rating. This is highly reminiscent of Nazi Germany...

The COVI-PASS is developed and available from a UK cyber security firm (VST Enterprises), and has now been accepted under contract by the United Nations for "various projects", including the post-coronavirus situation. VST say on their website that the digital passport will be expanded to be a much broader personal ID and health passport to cover all personal identification, financial transactions, health testing and history, and proof of vaccinations. Their clients and users of the digital health passport include private companies, airlines, hotel chains and leisure organisations. They say that the COVI-PASS will facilitate safe return to work and life. Why, when cases have dropped almost to nothing, naturally? More details here - https://v-healthpassport.co.uk/

The COVI-PASS is the implementation of the outcomes of the world-wide digital ID plans from the ID2020 summit in 2018. The ID2020 alliance believes it is a human right to "prove one's identity". No, a right to PRIVACY is an essential human right. Bill Gates and Microsoft are an alliance partner to the ID2020 project. More on this alliance can be read here - https://id2020.org/

If you value your right to privacy and right to choose your health options, I guess these services, and maybe more, might be limited to you in the near future. Unless you send a clear message to your governments, employers and companies that you will not be a part of their New World Order of authoritarian control of your health and your life.

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Proof that the coronavirus is a man-made, genetically-modified virus, and not the result of a natural mutation

16/5/2020

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In the very early days of the coronavirus making the news (late January 2020), a study was pre-published (awaiting official publishing and peer-review) which suggested that the coronavirus may be man-made (Pradhan et al. 2020). The authors of the study performed an analysis of the genome of the virus, and found it was mostly based on the 2002 SARS virus, but also allegedly found to have 4x insertions of the HIV virus in its genetic code. Such genetic differences could not have happened naturally. This caused a major stir at the time, and the scientists were criticised as perhaps mocking the seriousness of the new epidemic (as a pandemic hadn't been announced at that time), and the authors of the study withdrew it from publishing due to pressure from the scientific community. The authors intended to revise the study and perhaps republish it.

Many rumours and debates have persisted as to the origins of the virus - did it come from bats or another animal, how did it cross over into humans, and was this a natural process or man-made?

A few months have passed and more studies have been published on many aspects of the coronavirus. The official line from the WHO and our governments is that the coronavirus was a natural development or mutation, from a still-unknown animal source, and some studies have published these findings.

But governments and their agencies lie. They all do. All the time.

I've not believed a lot of the scary information in the media since day 1 of this infection. I've looked into the statistics of it and why they do not make any sense and cannot be believed. The testing of the virus is questionable and inaccurate, and the classification of deaths is a rort - a process recommended by the WHO to falsely inflate death rates, which has so many people unnecessarily scared of this virus, leading to politicians making disruptive and damaging policy changes which have affected us all. For what intents and purposes we still do not fully understand, but a lot of things in this pandemic stink of untruths. Especially on the issue of whether the virus is man-made or not.

A pivotal new study was published in the prestigious Nature Medicine journal (Andersen et al., 2020). The authors investigated the genetic code of a key part of the coronavirus and compared this to other known coronaviruses, to come to a conclusion that the new coronavirus was a natural mutation from one of several possible animal sources, of which still has not been identified. Their conclusion was pretty definitive. Except their conclusion and theories were not supported by their own results, but it helped negate many "conspiracy-theory" social media posts and instead supported the narrative of the media and governments and their health departments.

The figure (shown above) from the Andersen study clearly shows the genetic code differences between the different animal coronavirus types and the 2002 SARS coronavirus too. The marked and different coloured areas show the genetic differences. A major problem with the scientists' conclusions is the INSERTION of a 12-nucleotide section in the "Human-SARS-CoV-2" coronavirus sequence (notes with a star in the figure) which is COMPLETELY MISSING from every other coronavirus type known. Such a large genetic difference cannot happen randomly or naturally. It's not even in the alleged bat coronavirus as the source of this pandemic. The coronavirus didn't come from bats. Such an insertion can only come from a lab.

The scientists claim the impact of this inserted sequence is unknown but that it appears to enhance infection in human cells. But they still claim that the virus is of natural origin!

The details of one study is not be enough proof to make an assertion that the coronavirus is man-made...

In a another recent pre-published study (Wu et al., 2020), the scientists compared the genetic code of the new coronavirus with the earlier SARS and MERS pandemic viruses, and a bat coronavirus too. They also looked at the equivalent of the genetic family tree of the coronavirus, with respect to a major component of the virus - its spike protein that is used to attach to and infect a cell. It was found that the coronavirus was closest to the 2002 SARS virus and the bat coronavirus, with some major differences. Some minor mutations were found to exist between the current coronavirus and SARS coronavirus, and the virus binds more strongly to ACE-2 receptors (and other receptors) on human cells than SARS, hence why it can infect more people. See the phylogenic tree diagram above.

The phylogenic tree diagram (a genetic evolutionary family tree) for the coronaviruses starts in the 12 o'clock position and is progresses clockwise to newer generations of coronaviruses. Notice that the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is more recent. Early coronaviruses are highlighted in pink, as containing a particular location or sequence, called a "furin cleavage site", in its spike protein. The furin cleavage site disappeared several generations ago in the coronavirus family tree, but somehow magically reappears again in this new coronavirus genetic code. The ACE-2 and furin binding sites on cells throughout the body (not just in the lungs) increases the infection of this virus throughout the body to affect more organs as has been seen. This study also noted the addition of the same 12-nucleotide section of genetic code noted in the previous study that was missing from other coronavirus strains. This insertion is thought to be a reason why this virus is stronger than SARS. The study also found and recommended many medications, nutrients and herbals which would be effective against the furin site of the virus - including 4 HIV medications which is significant given the earlier finding of the alleged HIV insertions in the coronavirus genetic code. The WHO have announced trials of HIV drugs to determine their effectiveness against this virus (Kupferschmidt & Cohen, 2020).

The above finding of the coronavirus specifically using the ACE-2 receptors on cell walls to infect cells is very important. Several studies have been published in recent years by scientists performing genetic modification on the SARS coronavirus and others, and even creating a chimera virus - containing genes from multiple viruses, even from different animals. In one such study by Menachery et al. (2015), genes from a bat coronavirus spike protein were added to a mouse coronavirus genome and tested for its ability to infect human airway cells through their ACE-2 receptors. The man-made virus was tested in mice AND HUMANS with significant infections occurring. The study concluded that there was "a significant risk of a SARS coronavirus re-emergence". The fact that scientists are deliberately manipulating (ie, "playing with") the genetics of deadly viruses, and testing them for their ability to cause human disease, is a major concern.

This study included a Chinese Virologist, Shi Zhengli (or Zheng-Li Shi), who just happens to be the team leader of the researchers in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a BSL-4 biowarfare lab where this study was conducted, just a few miles from the alleged epicentre of the pandemic in the Wuhan seafood market... And the study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a US government agency.

The Chinese virologist and world expert on bat coronaviruses, Shi Zhengli, has been a part of several other published studies on coronavirus research. In another study published in 2008, Shi Zhengli and colleagues created new chimera coronavirus by "inserting different genetic sequences of the SARS coronavirus into different animal coronaviruses", to investigate how well the man-made virus could infect the ACE-2 receptors of human and animal cells (Ren et al., 2008). They found that the chimeric virus initially didn't infect human cells, so the scientists then combined a human HIV virus with it, which then DID enable it to infect human cells. Their work was to deliberately get the genetically modified virus to infect human cells. The authors wrote that this was the first time that a virus was proven to cross over from animals into humans - but was only done through deliberate genetic modification in a lab (in Wuhan).

The above studies compared a bat coronavirus to the new virus, and found a high genetic similarity of up to 96% (Xiao and Xiao, 2020), but more importantly are the differences. The bat coronavirus lacks the furin binding site, and lacks the huge gene insertion that is responsible for its infective ability in humans. According to testimonies by local Wuhan residents and those who frequented the seafood market, the bats which were found to host the bat coronavirus lived 900 kilometres away in caves, and bat was NOT traded or ever a food source in the Wuhan market (Xiao and Xiao, 2020).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have an online tool called BLAST (NIH, 2020) for logging, comparing and researching the genetic code of organisms. After my earlier research articles on the coronavirus topic when I questioned the government and media narrative, a follower sent me details on how to use the BLAST tool to check on the genetic code of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus for similarities with the genetic code of other viruses. Using the BLAST tool, it reported 4 similar gene sequences in the coronavirus that matched other viruses - or more accurately, 4 matching gene sequences from 1 other virus. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV type 1.

See the BLAST results in the figure above.

Two of the 4 HIV sequences in the SARS-CoV-2 virus code matched 100%, one matched at 94%, and another at 79%, still being very significant. See screenshot for results. This finding does seem to confirm the finding in the original study by Pradhan and colleagues (2020), and confirm the study by Ren, Shi Zhengli and colleagues that they inserted HIV genes into a genetically-modified SARS virus to increase its ability to infect human cells. Somehow, somewhere and by someone, accidently or deliberately we cannot determine at this time, this genetically-modified lab-made chimeric virus escaped into the wild to infect humans. It is almost beyond any possibility that the current coronavirus was a natural mutation and animal crossover event.

Is there evidence of knowledge and technology for scientists to CREATE a virus - YES.

Is there evidence of the SARS and other animal coronaviruses being genetically modified - YES.

Is there evidence of deliberate experimentation of coronaviruses to increase their ability to infect human cells - YES.

Is there evidence of the HIV virus being used in coronavirus experiments and being found in people infected with coronavirus - YES.

Is there evidence that the coronavirus was the result of a natural mutation and crossover into humans - based on these studies and evidence, it is highly unlikely at best. I'd say NO.

Based on the evidence here, this would lead to an uncomfortable conclusion that the coronavirus is not a natural mutation of any known coronavirus strain, but in fact a man-made strain. And if it is indeed man-made, as it appears, then more uncomfortable questions need to be asked - was it released accidentally or deliberately, by whom, and for what purposes?

There have been a lot of theories labelled as "conspiracies" in this pandemic. As more evidence is found, more of those conspiracies are becoming fact.
If the virus is man-made, then anything which comes afterwards, in the form of new laws, restrictions, recommendations and mandates, must seriously be questioned and stopped.

An independent worldwide and open investigation MUST be conducted NOW to find out who is responsible for this pandemic - how the man-made coronavirus escaped from a lab, why, and for what or whose benefit. This cannot be conducted by the WHO, UN, CDC, FDA or other government or world health agencies as they are already suspiciously involved in this pandemic or involved in the suppression of scientific studies or educated voices who have questioned their actions (or lack thereof) in recent times.
Also, the genetic modification of all infective viruses and bacteria MUST STOP NOW. These dangerous practices cannot be allowed to happen again.

(Full PDF document with graphics and references is available from the link below. Feel free to download and share this!)

References:
Andersen, K.G., Rambaut, A., Lipkin, W.I., Holmes, E.C., & Garry, R.F. (2020). The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Medicine, 26, 450–452. Doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9

Kupferschmidt, K., & Cohen, J. (2020). WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments. Science Magazine. Retrieved 14th May 2020 from https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/who-launches-global-megatrial-four-most-promising-coronavirus-treatments

Menachery, V.D., Yount, B.L Jr, Debbink, K., Agnihothram, S., Gralinski, L.E., Plante, J.A., Graham, R.L., Scobey, T., Ge, X-Y., Donaldson, E.F., Randell, S.H., Lanzavecchia, A., Marasco, W.A., Shi, Z-L., & Baric, R.S. (2015). A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence. Nature Medicine, 21, 1508–1513. Doi: 10.1038/nm.3985

National Institutes of Health (NIH). (2020).

Pradhan, P., Pandey, A.K., Mishra, A., Gupta, P., Tripathi, P.K., Menon, M.B., Gomes, J., Vivekanandan, P., & Kundu, B. (2020). Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag. BioRxiv (preprint). Doi: 10.1101/2020.01.30.927871

Ren, W., Qu, X., Li, W., Han, Z., Yu, M., Zhou, P., Zhang, S-Y., Wang, L-F., Deng, H., & Shi, Z. (2008). Difference in Receptor Usage between Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus and SARS-Like Coronavirus of Bat Origin. Journal of Virology, 82 (4), 1899-1907: doi:10.1128/JVI.01085-07
Wu, C., Yang, Y., Liu, Y., Zhang, P., Wang, Y., Wang, Q., Xu, Y., Li, M., Zheng, M., Chen, L., & Li, H. (2020). Furin, a potential therapeutic target for COVID-19. Retrieved 14th May 2020 from http://chinaxiv.org/user/download.htm?id=30223

Xiao, B., & Xiao, L. (2020). The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus. Retrieved 14th May 2020 from https://web.archive.org/web/20200214144447/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339070128_The_possible_origins_of_2019-nCoV_coronavirus

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The COVIDsafe app will not work to keep you safe or protected from COVID-19

8/5/2020

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The Australian government has very quickly released a smartphone app called "COVIDsafe" in an attempt to make people aware of exposure to someone who tests positive to the coronavirus. This app is a modified form of the one used in Singapore, and now other countries are looking at using similar systems.

The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has called the "contact-tracing" app a "vital tool" in protecting Australians against coronavirus. He urged all Australians to install the app, saying the sooner they did so, the sooner we would be able to go to the pub! As a form of coercion, some possible restrictions may be lifted, but only if more people download and install the app.

There has been a lot of scepticism and concern over the new app, that it is a breach of privacy, or tracking your location when you are being told to "stay at home", but that capability is not yet operational as are other functions, such as how the government will use the data collected. My concern, however, is that it is a complete waste of taxpayers' money and will NOT work! It will not do what it is supposed to, and will not protect you to keep you safe from COVID-19 either.

Firstly, what do we know about the new COVID-19 app:
1) You need to have an Android or Apple smartphone, or the app won't work
2) The COVID app must be launched and running all the time, or the app won't work
3) You must have Bluetooth turned on and mobile data turned on, or the app won't work
4) Bluetooth uses a wireless frequency to "talk" to other devices such as mobile phones of those around you within about a 10m distance. But only if their phone's Bluetooth setting is turned on too, or the app won't work
5) The app really needs to be installed and running on in EVERYONE's phone around you, you won't get notified if they later test positive, or the app won't work
6) Only if someone is in your Bluetooth zone for a period of 15 minutes will the app record their details for future reference or to warn you of a possible coronavirus exposure
7) If someone were to just quickly walk past you in your Bluetooth range, but coughed or sneezed on you as they went past, that will NOT record their phone or details! So the app won't work
8) The mobile phone data collected by the app will only be sent to the government servers on a manual basis - you need to initiate that (allegedly), or it won't work
9) The mobile phone data allegedly does not collect location details
10) If someone were to test positive to COVID-19 at a later time, they are supposed to update their app with that information, and the app will then identify the phones of people they were in contact with (again, only those who were around you for 15 mins and who had Bluetooth turned on and the app installed and running!), to let them know to get tested too. If someone got tested and didn't update their app, then obviously the app isn't going to help inform or protect you from the virus
11) It is very common for software to initially come out with basic features, and more added in later which you might not know about... so who knows what will happen later...
12) Everything depends on the accuracy of the COVID-19 pathology test too. Recent studies have shown that the PCR test used will report between 20-80% false positive (ie not true) confirmations of the virus. The test also reports false negatives (ie, you have the virus but it says you don't!), which is a much worse situation. If the test doesn't work, the app won't either.
13) The app will not protect you from exposure from someone who visits a supermarket 2 hours before you, and handles some food or touches the same EFTPOS sales terminal as you, and who later tests positive.

In short, the app is next to useless! It won't keep you safe from COVID-19. It will not protect you, your family or anyone around you from the coronavirus. The messages from the PM and government are patronising and misleading, and the dependence on the app to end the restrictions needs to stop.

This is yet another example of government incompetence...

Have you installed the app or had any issues with it? Or are you even going to install it?

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how accurate is the coronavirus testing - you will be shocked!

6/5/2020

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In this whole pandemic saga, there have been many crazy and amusing moments, mostly from the multitude of funny memes on the topic, and well as some questionable government decisions. But this one is probably the weirdest...

I have been questioning all along for the accuracy of the testing kits or processes used to determine if someone actually has the coronavirus or not. This is very important, as EVERYTHING we have had to endure in recent times - from the social distancing, lockdowns, job losses, business closures, food shortages, toilet paper shortages (!), and tyrannical government decisions to restrict your normal rights, is ALL dependent on the accuracy of the coronavirus testing and the resulting statistics.

The PCR test that is the main test, is not accurate with some studies showing that it gives a false positive result in 20-80% of tests in people who do not have any symptoms. The PCR test also returns false negative results too (that you don't have the virus, when you actually do) which is a much worse situation. The inventor of the PCR process has said publicly that it should never be used for diagnostic testing - as it was developed for a different purpose.

Published by Reuters today, the Tanzanian government ordered some testing kits, and on some suspicion, they tested some non-human samples and they tested POSITIVE! (article link here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/tanzania-suspends-laboratory-head-after-president-questions-coronavirus-tests-idUSKBN22G295?fbclid=IwAR10Rg-n8Qeoif92xTtyATptNJZCFVLXJ_DJLB7FRxLUt7Zm6oGOIVw67tI)

Their scientists tested samples from a goat (remember that the coronavirus is only transmissible in humans!) and some fruit (a pawpaw!), and both tested positive to coronavirus! This is not supposed to happen!

Again, the coronavirus test is not accurate. Yet we have all had to make massive changes to our lives and lifestyles based on these inaccurate tests. I hope in the washup of this pandemic, that there will be inquiries into the testing and reporting of the statistics to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

I wonder what might come out of this finding, that non-human samples test positive to coronavirus - that there might be government directives to not eat goat or pawpaw?!

Stay healthy!

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Open letter to health officials Re: Coronavirus prevention

4/5/2020

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Open letter to all Australian Health Ministers, Health Departments, Doctors, Politicians and Health Regulators, re: coronavirus prevention and containment

I am a Clinical Nutritionist and Naturopath, based in Brisbane and with many years of experience in treating acute and chronic health conditions. I am an evidence-based practitioner, using only proven therapies and treatments for my clients. I specialise in inflammatory and immune system related conditions.

Regarding the current coronavirus infection spreading around the world and Australia (confirmed as a Pandemic by the World Health Organisation), I have been following the statistics and government advice, and I would like to share my thoughts, based on evidence and clinical experience.

Regardless of how the coronavirus came to be, the following facts are relevant:

SARS-CoV-2 is the official virus name, and the infection itself is COVID-19, as designated by the WHO, herein referred to as “coronavirus”
The coronavirus causes a respiratory infection, allegedly transmitted via aerosol droplets, mucus secretions and infected fomites (objects touched by those infected with this virus)
The TGA have recently published announcements to all health practitioners to not recommend any treatments or products that claim to prevent or treat this coronavirus, unless there is proven evidence of their effectiveness against this specific virus
With this virus being so new, there was NO evidence of anything, pharmaceutical or natural as being proven effective at the time of the TGA announcement
The virus appears to survive much longer than other viruses out of the body on surfaces
Improved hygiene practices such as washing of hands, coughing into the crook of one’s elbow, and self-isolation have been proven in the past to be effective in reducing the risks of other respiratory infections
There are no published studies showing the effectiveness of handwashing or improved hygiene against this specific coronavirus. I’m not saying that this should not be done, as past published evidence and anecdotal evidence (from observations, not clinical studies) shows handwashing can reduce transmission risks
But the TGA and health departments have only been recommending handwashing, sanitising, social distancing (a totally new concept), and other hygiene practices as preventions or to reduce the risks of this coronavirus, despite a lack of evidence
There are many other preventative and treatment strategies and products which have similarly been proven to be effective in the past against all other known coronaviruses (which cause the common cold infections, and previous pandemic viruses of SARS and MERS), but according to the new TGA guidelines, these preventions or treatments cannot be recommended by any health practitioners because there is “no current evidence”. All health practitioners in Australia are effectively "gagged" and cannot make any recommendations to prevent infections or save the lives of our fellow Australians.

I will summarise some statistics of the pandemic, and bring to light some new and missing evidence, and proven recommendations for further reducing the risks of this new virus. Or you can jump to the Conclusions for a brief summary!

Statistics

Some statistics on the current coronavirus infection include (as at 28th March 2020):
Country   Coronavirus Mortality Rate

Australia 0.39%
USA 3.0%
China   3.9%
Italy   10.10%

Conclusion: the Italian Government, like Australia, is classifying deaths by many causes as from COVID-19 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2020b). Italy also has demographic, cultural and other factors contributing to a higher incidence and mortality rate (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, 2020). There is a significant difference in mortality rates in different countries, or more accurately, by location.
There are many other major causes of daily deaths in the world, compared to the coronavirus:
Reason Daily Deaths

Hunger 2,500 (UN, Food and Agriculture Organization)
Malaria 2,739 (UNICEF)
AIDS   2,100 (HIV.gov)
Influenza 795 - 1,781 (CDC/WHO)
Coronavirus/COVID-19 270 (as at 11/3/2020), now approx 2000

Total deaths per day 144,000 (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2010)

Conclusion: we cannot believe the "official" death rates, when the Australian government and health departments from WHO recommendations, classifies any death as a "COVID-19" death even if someone were to die from a chronic health condition (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2020b).

These are additional statistics I have analysed (as at 28th March 2020):
Number coronavirus incidences by location/hemisphere
Coronavirus Northern Southern Equatorial
incidences Hemisphere Hemisphere Region

No. countries affected 133   48 16
Incidences confirmed   96.8% 1.4% 1.8%
Deaths confirmed 98.8% 0.22% 1.0%

Conclusion: There is a significant difference between the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths between those who live in the northern hemisphere vs southern.

Or a different analysis of the Australian mortality rate (as at 30th March 2020) (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2020):
Australian Population 25,464,116
Coronavirus incidences   4,460
Coronavirus deaths 19
Coronavirus incidences (% population)   0.000175%
Coronavirus deaths (% population) 0.000000746%

Conclusion: Is this really worth shutting the country down for?

What is significant about the northern hemisphere as a factor of the coronavirus?
It is typical to see many more respiratory infections in winter than summer. Transmission rates and incidences of the common cold, influenza and pneumonia are greatly increased in the cooler months. The infection started in China, in their winter, and spread much more quickly through northern hemisphere countries in their cooler months of winter and early spring. There are several reasons for this difference in seasonal activity in respiratory infections:

Humidity and temperature – the warmer months are generally more humid, especially in more tropical areas. Humidity appears to slow rates of infection transmission by causing infected droplets from coughing or sneezing to fall to the ground instead of floating more in the air and being transmitted to infect people nearby. In the MERS coronavirus outbreak, studies showed a higher temperature and humidity resulted in significantly less lower respiratory tract infections of 45% (Fagbo et al., 2017)
Latitude – Where one lives on the planet, especially their latitude or distance from the equator, determines their Ultra-Violet (UV) light exposure in a given period. People in cities closer to the equator are exposed to more UV-B light on their skin. Direct UV-B radiation on exposed skin is needed to make vitamin D. People living much further away from the equator need more time in direct sunlight to make the same amount of vitamin D (Leary et l. 2017; van der Mei, 2007; Tamerius et al., 2011)
Vitamin D deficiency – vitamin D acts as an anti-inflammatory hormone in the body, and regulates the expression of many genes to have a major systemic benefit to one’s health. Vitamin D isn’t just needed for bone health, but assists the immune system, reduces the rates of viral respiratory infections and influenza, reduces lung conditions like asthma, and can even reduce the risks of many cancers (Hossein-Nezhad & Holick, 2014; Martineau et al., 2017). Vitamin D can also offer antiviral and antibacterial actions as well as stimulating the innate immune system (which identifies and deals with unknown or new infections) (Martineau et al., 2017). Vitamin D deficiency can occur in any season, even in sunny Queensland in summer! (Leary et l. 2017). Vitamin D deficiency, especially in winter, can be a major cause of respiratory infections (Fagbo et al., 2017) and in this study, a vitamin D deficiency amongst a large percentage of the population (which occurs in winter) is the cause of influenza respiratory infection epidemics (Cannell et al., 2008).

There are other factors for the seasonal causes of influenza infections, including temperature, other concomitant infections, other nutrient deficiencies (selenium, vitamin E) (Tamerius et al., 2011), and more. There are other environmental and cultural factors which contribute to the differences in mortality rates between many countries, such as smoking status, air pollution, sleep quality and quantity and others.

The fact that Australia is now entering the cooler months highlights the importance of reducing the risks of respiratory infections using vitamin D supplementation interventions.

Virus Transmission and Severity, and the Germ Theory
The transmission of a virus, its severity, and the rate of incidences and mortality depend entirely on the strength and function of each individual person's immune system. This is confirmed with the majority of people with the coronavirus having very mild symptoms. It is only when someone is immune compromised or with a chronic health condition which has reduced their immune system function, that the infection to take hold in their body more quickly and severely. Having a compromised or immune system, perhaps together with ineffectual medical treatments (or no treatments) any virus is going to cause more severe complications like pneumonia.

The transmission, severity, incidences and mortality are not dependent on the coronavirus at all. This is old 1800s germ theory "science". Yet the health officials and media are blaming the virus and trying to stop the virus itself, which is futile and prolongs the pandemic. Washing hands, regular hygiene and isolation are not enough! In conjunction with improved hygiene, prevention and treatments should also focus on the individual, by supporting one's immune system to protect them for prevention, or to fight off the infection better.

The old Germ Theory promoted by Koch and Pasteur no longer applies as not everyone who is exposed to a virus actually develops symptoms or has the infection. This breaks Koch's famous postulates of the germ theory (MedicineNet, 2019), which states that a pathogen must cause the disease in EVERY case of exposure, which doesn't happen. Some more recent experiments have been conducted and results published, after deliberately infecting individuals with a flu virus - even with a strain that was similar to the one which allegedly caused huge mortality rates in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. In this study, researchers found less than 40% of those who inhaled the virus actually developed symptoms! And of those who did develop symptoms, they were very mild to mild, and none had any serious symptoms at all (Cannell et al., 2008).

Evidence-based preventative (and treatment) strategies which should be recommended:

Vitamin D - Vitamin D supplementation can reduce risk of infections by reducing inflammation, reducing viral replication rates, reducing age-related morbidity, Vitamin D supplementation during winter has been shown to support immune system function and reduce the incidence of influenza A by approximately one third (Urashima, Segawa, Okazaki, Kurihara, Wada, & Ida, 2010). A very recent study by Grant et al (2020) found evidence that vitamin D supplementation could reduce the risk of influenza and COVID-19 infections and deaths, but required a higher therapeutic dose than the low recommended daily intakes.
Vitamin C – In early studies, a vitamin C deficiency is associated with pneumonia (an often deadly complication of a COVID-19 infection). Vitamin C deficiency is also associated with a reduced immune system function and increases susceptibility to respiratory infections, and vice versa, with infections causing a decrease in vitamin C concentrations (Hemilä, 2017). Several studies are currently underway in China using vitamin C interventions, with results still to be published.
Zinc - is deficient in 49% of adults in the coronavirus risk age group of 51-70 (Boudrealt et al. 2017), and in people who are frequently exposed to stress. Zinc is needed for good immune system support, as well as reducing inflammation and oxidative stress, and improving the immune system response against viruses (Wessels, Maywald, & Rink, 2017). A zinc deficiency is often seen in those with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and contributes to lung injury from the use of a respirator (Boudrealt et al. 2017).
Keeping up good water intake – water is needed to keep mucous membranes moist as they act as a protective barrier against viruses in the respiratory tract (Chen, 2009)
Eating a good variety of quality foods – your food provides nutrients needed for immune systems function. Nutrient deficiencies reduce immune system function and increase susceptibility to infections.
Reducing intake of refined and processed carbohydrate foods - in a recently published study from China, patients with COVID-19 who had poorly managed blood sugar levels and Type 2 Diabetes were at much higher risk of increased incidence, more severe symptoms, and a higher mortality rate. High blood sugar increases inflammation and blood pressure, but reduces immune system function, whereas a well-controlled blood sugar level improved the outcomes of those with COVID-19 and pre-existing diabetes (Zhu et al., 2020). Type 2 Diabetes develops over time from a diet high in carbohydrate-rich foods (>60% of total daily energy from poor food choices), causes insulin resistance, insulin depletion from pancreatic insufficiency, obesity, and cardiovascular and heart disease, being the highest risk factors for incidence and mortality of COVID-19 (Frost, 2003).
Getting sufficient and quality sleep - as sleep is needed to maintain good function of the immune system Studies show reduced sleep reduces immune system function and increases susceptibility to respiratory infections (Prather, Janicki-Deverts, Hall & Cohen, 2015)
Moderate and regular exercise - a moderate exercise program can improve immune system function and reduce the risk of infections, but intensive training seen with athletes can have the opposite effects (Jones & Davison, 2019).

These recommendations and interventions are cheap, very easy to recommend and implement, and will have a very quick response. They can also reduce the strain on the hospital system by reducing infection rates and severity of symptoms, or in the case of those already having severe symptoms in hospital, these interventions can shorten the severity of symptoms and save lives.

I started recommending these preventative treatments back in January when news of the infection emerged. At the time there was no TGA ban on such advice.

The TGA and Expert Recommendations
The scientifically referenced and relevant recommendations in this document have been proven in the past to be safe and effective against many respiratory infections such as influenza and other types of coronavirus. New evidence has been published recently on these preventions and treatments, yet these recommendations are not approved by the TGA, and one must really ask why?

I see the TGA's guidelines of effectively banning all Australian health practitioners (medical and alternative/complementary) from giving any preventative or treatment advice, as being overly cautious. Yes there was little to no evidence for anything (either medical, pharmaceutical or natural) being effective as a preventative or treatment against this particular coronavirus at the time of their guidelines being announced. However, in times of something new like this novel coronavirus, past evidence and anecdotal evidence MUST be seen as the highest form of scientific evidence available. To restrict or ignore past evidence and anecdotal evidence is immoral, and will likely cause many more people to lose their lives in this virus outbreak, as well as prolong the outbreak, disrupt many businesses and perhaps cause the collapse of many companies, threaten the livelihoods of many workers and especially the casual workforce, affect the economy and stock markets, reduce investments, cause further desperation and panic amongst the public, cause social unrest, and more.

There have been a lot of new published studies since the TGA guidelines were announced, giving more clues as to what are some of the causative factors for increased risk of a COVID-19 infection, and for suitable preventions and even treatments. The TGA guidelines now must be updated to reflect this new evidence, and allow health practitioners to give additional preventative strategies and treatment options and further 'flatten the curve" for all Australians.

We have next to nothing to lose by implementing these preventative strategies, but there is so much to lose if we do not.

COVID-19 PCR Testing
The current PCR pathology test for COVID-19 is highly inaccurate. The PCR process was developed to increase the amount of a subset of the genetic code of a virus DNA (Ghannam & Varacallo, 2018). The inventor of the PCR process has publicly said it should not be used for pathology testing, based on studies showing it is inaccurate as PCR testing is not standardised with different labs or countries use different variations of the test (Teo & Shaunak, 1995), is not designed to give a definitive binary result of a "positive" or "negative" confirmation, is affected by contamination that can produce misleading results (Ghannam & Varacallo, 2018), is not consistently reproducible and gives a high percentage of false positive and false negative results that were observed in all laboratories (Defer et al., 1992; Zhuang et al., 2020). Even the World Health Organisation's PCR Working Group demonstrated high levels of false-positive and false-negative results (World Health Organisation, 2011).

In addition, limiting testing of the coronavirus to only people who meet a set criteria is skewing the rates of incidences. Hence the rates of incidences are not accurate and cannot be believed, yet the government and health authorities are making significant changes to laws to restrict rights and freedoms based on inaccurate statistics of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as an inaccurate test used to determine those statistics, and more recently the COVIDSafe app that is also reliant on accurate PCR testing!

We can't actually believe any of the "official" statistics of incidences or mortality rates of this pandemic when:

The PCR test is inaccurate, as explained here, and
The WHO and governments (including Australia) are recommending deaths from chronic health conditions and all respiratory infections (flu or pneumonia), to be caused by COVID-19, whether the patient was tested by a faulty PCR test or just ASSUMED to be having the virus (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2020b).

Thus inflating the true incidence rates and the mortality rates, which then gets turned into a fear campaign by the media, and knee-jerk reactions by state and federal governments to implement a raft of laws to restrict our rights and freedoms as well as wrecking the economy and many businesses, all for a generally mild infection for most people.

Instead, consider using faecal testing, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been detected in stool samples (Warish et al., 2020).

Flu vaccinations during the coronavirus pandemic
The Federal and state governments of Australia have been adding new laws to mandate flu vaccinations for healthcare workers or for the public to visit relatives in aged care, or even for general work. I believe that this decision is irresponsible, is not based on scientific evidence and can actually increase the risks of someone getting the coronavirus. The flu vaccine does not prevent or reduce the risks of getting the coronavirus infection - it's a different type of virus. Several published studies, however, have found that flu vaccinations can cause a phenomenon called "vaccine-associated virus interference"; that is, recently vaccinated individuals may be at increased risk for other respiratory virus infections, especially coronaviruses (Wolff, 2020). This study, on military personnel found a 36% increase in coronavirus infection risk after a flu vaccine (Wolff, 2020).

Another study by Cowling and colleagues (2012), found those who had the flu vaccine, who had no other respiratory viruses beforehand, over a follow-up period of 9 months had a significantly increased risk of confirmed non-influenza respiratory virus infections compared to a placebo group. The study also found no significant reduction in confirmed flu infections in the test group (those who had the vaccine), meaning that the flu vaccine was ineffective.

Herd immunity
Herd immunity has been discussed by some experts and being used as a strategy by some countries such as Sweden and Japan. Herd immunity is a theoretical belief that if sufficient numbers of people are immune to in infection (the "herd"), the spread of the infection could be reduced or stopped, thus protecting those who are not immune to the infection.

The theoretical percentage of the population who need to be immune to an infection has been increased over time from 50% to 80% to 90% to 95%, depending on the infection. The estimate has increased as outbreaks were still occurring in populations which had reached the previous "herd immunity" levels through vaccinations for many infectious diseases. Outbreaks still occur in populations with 100% vaccine coverage. Hence vaccination programs are not working.

The NHMRC have published a suggested herd immunity rate for the coronavirus in Australia of 61% (MacIntyre, 2020), based on the rate of transmission, in turn based on a faulty test as described above.

Unfortunately, health officials have confused herd immunity with "natural immunity" from contracting an infection, and "vaccinated immunity" from vaccinations. They are very two different concepts. Herd immunity never occurs from vaccinations for several reasons:

Vaccines only give short-term temporary "immunity" from 6 months (in most flu vaccines) to just a few years for most others. Vaccine-induced immunity is significantly reduced at 5 years after initial whooping cough vaccination and 2x boosters (Lavine, Bjørnstad, de Blasio, Storsaeterf, 2012), and other studies show the same for other vaccines
Not everyone who gets a vaccine develops immunity. This is why boosters or multiple shots are needed, to try and force immunity a second or third time (or more) in those who did not achieve immunity from previous shots. Seroconversion rates (ie, immunity developed via antibodies) can be as low as 16% effectiveness in the annual flu vaccines for some age groups (Sequirus, 2018) , hence in most vaccines, many people do not develop immunity
With 75.2% of the Australian population being adults over 19 years (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2020a) and assuming that most adults do not get regular boosters, when the temporary vaccine immunity wears off a couple of years afterwards, those adults are no longer immune. So there is no longer any "herd" to protect those who cannot have the vaccine; herd immunity does not exist!
Vaccinated women of a child-bearing age who have lost their temporary vaccine immunity cannot pass on this immunity to the foetus, in comparison to women with natural acquired immunity passing that onto the foetus via the placenta and breastfeeding (Jackson, 2006).

Herd immunity is only possible from more people being exposed to the actual infection, and developing antibodies that last a lifetime. Countries that are implementing a herd immunity strategy to combat the coronavirus allow healthy and younger people to continue their normal lives without any lockdowns or business shutdowns. Yes they may contract the infection but without chronic health conditions they are likely to develop only mild or even no symptoms. But they will develop immunity, will shorten this pandemic as the virus will die out, and will increase the level of true natural herd immunity that will protect others.

Those at risk of the virus with chronic health conditions should be recommended to continue to isolate themselves, but those who are young and healthy should be allowed to leave their homes, travel, and resume normal daily activities.

Herd immunity is never achieved from vaccination programs. In fact, the population loses more herd immunity as more people are vaccinated.

Recommendations:
For the prevention of coronavirus infections, reducing transmission rates, reducing duration and severity of symptoms, and other benefits, I recommend the State and Federal governments and their respective Health Departments undertake the following:

Increase social media marketing and traditional media coverage of better preventative strategies – more than just washing your hands and improved hygiene practices
Include recommending preventative strategies that are evidence-based, and have previously been shown effective against respiratory infections, viruses in general and/or other coronavirus strains:
- Vitamin D – at least 1200IU per day, and safe sun exposure regularly. A study by Grant et al. (2020) recommended a higher dose of 10,000IU per day for a few weeks, followed by 5,000IU per day to get vitamin D levels in the range of 100-150nmol/L for the best benefit of prevention, and a higher dose for treatment
- Vitamin C – at least 1000mg per day for children, and up to 6-8g per day for adults. A Cochrane systematic review of placebo-controlled trials found that children taking 1-2g (1000-2000mg) vitamin C daily shortened the duration of a common cold infection (a type of coronavirus) by 18% and reduced their severity. In adults the results were smaller (Hemilä & Chalker, 2013). Best results for reducing respiratory infection duration and symptoms, including preventing pneumonia (a major complication in COVID-19 infections), requires a higher therapeutic dose of up to 6-8gm per day for adults (Hemilä, 2017).
- Zinc – 20-30mg per day for adults, and age/weight equivalent for children
- Other nutritional advice – eating a healthy diet for a variety of nutrients
- Reducing foods that cause high blood sugar levels - such as sugary foods and drinks, grain-based products, and dairy foods
- Drinking sufficient water - to keep mucous membranes moist and prevent viral infections, and even using saline nasal sprays if required
- Getting good quality and quantity sleep - of 7-8 hours per night
- Moderate exercise.
Recommend cautions on using or self-prescribing anti-inflammatory medications such as Aspirin, NSAIDs, and others during a coronavirus infection. Studies have shown that the 1918 Spanish flu did not cause the high number of deaths, but from bacterial pneumonia (National Institutes of Health, 2008)) in conjunction with a new medication at that time - Aspirin, which was prescribed in too high a dose and it affected lung function in those who took it (Starko, 2009). NSAIDs and other anti-inflammatory medications suppress the immune system responses to an infection, leading to more severe symptoms, a longer duration of illness and higher risks of serious complications and deaths (Basille, Plouvier, Trouve, Duhaut, Andrejak, & Jounieaux, 2017).

Conclusion
The novel coronavirus pandemic is nothing like what we have seen before. Hence novel strategies must be implemented to deal with it. Banning recommendations of previously-proven prevention and treatment strategies is immoral when there are many lives at stake.

There are many factors which influence your individual risk for contracting this infection, most of which are environmental. There are also cultural and geographic factors which can significantly increase your risk, which we see in the referenced studies here.

Incidences of respiratory infections (from colds, flu, pneumonia, asthma, and the new coronavirus) can be reduced with preventative vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, and other natural interventions, and these should be recommended.

The reported statistics of incidences and mortality are highly inflated due to inaccurate PCR testing, and manipulative recording of deaths to blame the cause on COVID-19. Then these inaccurate statistics are used by governments to implement knee-jerk reactive legislation that destroys lives in many other ways with failed businesses, investments, jobs, and the economy.

A natural "herd immunity" strategy should be implemented to combat the virus, by allowing those who are fit and healthy to resume normal lives, travels and work. Those at risk with chronic health conditions should continue to isolate themselves while also working on improving their immune systems as detailed above. This way, we have a chance of achieving the herd immunity rate of 61% which can slow down the true rate of incidences and mortality, and bring this pandemic to an end quickly.

Please consider the abovementioned simple, cheap, and readily-available preventative and treatment recommendations in the overall prevention and treatment plans for the coronavirus pandemic. All of this evidence (and more) is available in peer-reviewed medical journals. Clinical Nutritionists and Naturopaths like myself have been using and recommending these preventions and treatments for all manner of viral infections with great success in the past, and they should be considered based on past evidence of safety and effectiveness against this coronavirus. As the medical system has no effective strategies or proven medications for this specific infection, it makes sense to use existing therapies such as the above. If not, in the reviews and inquiries after this pandemic, the public will be wondering why these simple and effective therapies were not allowed, or not tried, and why more peoples' lives could not be saved.

Thank you for your consideration.

Ross Walter
Clinical Nutritionist, Naturopath and Herbalist. ATMS

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The most dangerous and unqualified doctor in the world is Bill Gates

6/4/2020

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An unlikely organisation has emerged from the coronavirus pandemic fires of doom, which the media have been feverishly stoking about the current outbreak, in an attempt to be the hero and saviour of us all. Are they really going to save us, or what might their real intentions be?

I'm talking about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, started by Bill Gates, the founder of the Microsoft Corporation, but of late he has mostly been working through his family foundation as an apparent philanthropist. The foundation aims to “ensure that more young people survive and thrive”, by being able to “access quality healthcare and education”. In reality the major aim and funding of the foundation is for the prevention of common infectious diseases through drugs and vaccinations.

Sorry this is long, but there's a LOT of evidence of too many coincidences and pre-planned projects in place leading to this pandemic and this current situation that we are all in.

The trouble is that the foundation may not be as as innocent or as generous as they try to portray. The reasons for this are as follows:

The World Health Organisation (WHO) used to receive all their funding for health programs from the governments of the world. Now they also allow private "donations" from organisations such as the Gates Foundation, which are actually one of the largest sponsors of the WHO, second only to the US government. Such large donations, especially from a private organisation, carry a lot of political weight, or in other words "favours" or influence over decisions and outcomes. A published study in 2015 specifically mentioned the Gates Foundation as having a huge influence over world governments in their decision-making. The study suggests that "big philanthropy" is actually good for the donor's business, and warns world governments and large organisations that such philanthropy can overly influence political decisions and needs to be analysed for risks and side effects on the development or decisions of these countries and organisations. Details of this study is here: https://www.globalpolicy.org/images/pdfs/GPFEurope/Philanthropic_Power_online.pdf
The Gates Foundation also has major shareholdings in many pharmaceutical companies, after investing many hundreds of millions of dollars with them. The purpose of this, of course, is to make money from the increasing share price and dividends paid out on the shares owned. There’s nothing wrong with making money, but given the rest of the points here, it starts to get a little suspicious.
Bill has been hinting or warning several times in recent years about a worldwide pandemic which will kill a large percentage of the population (he has estimated about 30 million people will die in a pandemic). Even as recently as 2017 and 2018, Gates was giving speeches to large audiences and warning world leaders, medical professionals and scientists that we need to be prepared for pandemics and bioterror attacks. He said “because history has taught us there will be another deadly global pandemic". No, history only tells us what happened in the past! It was like he KNEW a pandemic was about to happen! He also said "And, as biological weapons of mass destruction become easier to create in the lab, there is an increasing risk of a bioterror attack". Well, that's what you get when you give your Foundation's money to BSL-4 biowarfare labs for research, Bill! Here's a website link of his which details a speech he gave (which includes the above quote) on this issue in full: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Shattuck-Lecture
Again in 2019, Bill Gates featured in and produced a Netflix documentary series called "Explained", and in an episode called "The Next Pandemic", he said in an interview that he predicted a coronavirus-style pandemic which would kill millions of people. He even warned of such a virus coming from a "wet market" (a market selling fresh meat, fish or produce, often associated with live animals) in China! He said it would take years to find a cure for a new virus outbreak. Just months later, it happened - is Bill psychic too?! Details of the documentary featuring Bill Gates and his prediction can be found here: https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/31/bill-gates-predicted-coronavirus-type-pandemic-kill-millions-2019-netflix-documentary-12159314/

On October 18th, 2019, a high-level pandemic planning exercise called "Event 201" was hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum, to plan for a global viral pandemic. By pure coincidence (again!) this meeting was simulating a pandemic caused by a new coronavirus outbreak! None other than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were a major sponsor of this event. Just 6 weeks after this planning event the first known cases of a new coronavirus started appearing in Wuhan, China. Coincidence?! The odds would be nearly impossible for this to happen... In an official John Hopkins University press release (on Nov 6, 2019), the coronavirus pandemic simulation estimated a death toll of 65 million people within 18 months. Various social media "fact-checking" (ie "censorship") has confirmed that this Event 201 took place, but they have been denying that the simulation actually predicted the number of deaths. However, information from the University shows that they actually DID include predictions of death rates of approximately 65 million people, and their predictions can be read here: https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/06/event-201-health-security/
In 2015, the Pirbright Institute, a biotechnology research organisation in the UK, filed a patent for a live attenuated coronavirus to be used in the production of coronavirus vaccines. The Pirbright Institute is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Very recently (in November 2019, just before the coronavirus outbreak and another coincidence?!) the institute received $5.5 million dollars (their largest funding donation) from the Gates Foundation for research into human diseases and vaccine development. Details here: https://www.pirbright.ac.uk/news/2019/11/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-funds-development-pirbright%E2%80%99s-livestock-antibody-hub
Another type of coronavirus was responsible for the SARS pandemic in 2002. Luckily this one fizzled out with only 800 deaths. In the aftermath of this infection, many institutions and research organisations rushed to patent the SARS virus and its genetic sequence. This was apparently to prevent other scientists from working on the virus. Natural things and organisms are not meant to be patented, as patents are supposed to be for inventions or futuristic ideas. The Gates Foundation funded Pirbright Institute owns the SARS coronavirus patent. And this patent expired the day before the first case of the new SARS-CoV-2 infection was announced.
The Gates Foundation have funded another vaccine research and drug production company, called Moderna. Within a few weeks of the coronavirus outbreak starting, Moderna was apparently ready for human testing of their coronavirus vaccine! The timing of this is unheard of, being a world record by several orders of magnitude over past vaccine development times. It’s almost as if they already had a vaccine ready and waiting! Moderna announced on 25th February 2020 (just a few weeks after the outbreak became known), that they have not only created a coronavirus vaccine in record time, but have tested it on animals, and now is ready for human testing. This process normally takes many months to years to get to this stage. No vaccine company managed to develop a vaccine for the SARS or MERS coronavirus outbreaks in 2003 or 2013 respectively, or since, so how could Moderna do this within days?! What about all the other communicable diseases for which there is no vaccine for, such as malaria, the common cold, and HIV? If this company can somehow create a new vaccine and have it ready in weeks, then why haven’t they done the same for other infections? Had they already been working on this one for some time, as planned? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-vaccine-moderna-human-testing/?fbclid=IwAR27_MQ7ySGwnWPg4HCpBLCznt4vbgbh8yn8ALhhZ8CCvWPJ_pML7DlyQHg#
The Gates Foundation also very recently funded another pharmaceutical company (Inovio Pharmaceuticals) with $5 million for work on a portable "drug delivery device" for a DNA-based coronavirus vaccine. What is a DNA-based vaccine? No idea, but we will find out shortly, as the company is starting human trials in April 2020. Details here: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/biotech/story/2020-03-12/inovio-pharm-gets-5m-from-gates-foundation-to-further-covid-19-vaccine-project
Bill has said publicly several times in interviews or presentations that the world population is too high, and needs to be reduced. In a 2010 TEDx talk he said, ”The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent”. A segment of his public talk when he said this statement is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNmj6Ug-a4A. Some people have said that his words have been taken out of context, and that he was talking about reducing population growth, rather than reducing the actual population. But note that was not what he said in this video.
It is interesting that Bill Gates and his Foundation are huge promoters of vaccines to developing countries. I personally think people in these countries preferentially need 1) improved nutrition, 2) clean water, and 3) better sanitation and modern utilities such as electricity and waste processing (ie sewerage systems) to reduce infections, illnesses and deaths. But not the Gates Foundation, as their priority is just vaccines for population control. It was these 3 improvements to our lives that massively slowed the incidences and deaths from infections, decades before vaccines were made available.
On 28th February, 2020, Bill Gates actually had an article published in the New England Medical Journal, one of the major scientific and medical journals! In his article, he was talking about the coronavirus, which he again referred to as the "once-in-a-century" pandemic, to urge governments to help poorer countries in this outbreak, and to fund vaccines and treatments, and strengthen their healthcare. Where will a lot of this government (ie, taxpayer) funding go to - to companies funded by the Gates Foundation! Details of his published article is found here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762
On 29th February 2020 (one day after the last point), Bill Gates announced to the world that the coronavirus IS a pandemic and should be announced as such, over a week before the WHO officially did announce the pandemic. In his announcement, he claims that the coronavirus is a "once-in-a-century pathogen" which may kill up to 50 million people. Bill was generously offering solutions to the pandemic through his Foundation – obviously, as he appears to have planned well for such a situation! Of course one of his solutions is a fast-tracked vaccine, using techniques from one of the companies his Foundation has funded, that apparently make it possible to produce vaccines within weeks. Never mind the testing process which is supposed to take years before they can be made available to the public. Bill’s pre-emptive announcement that this is a pandemic is found here: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/bill-gates-coronavirus-pandemic-solutions-2020-2?r=US&IR=T
Microsoft, with Bill Gates still on the board of directors at the time (in January 2018) were a founding partner of a summit named ID2020. This summit was held at the United Nations, and attended by and formed alliances between governments, the UN, non-government organisations and private companies. This event's objectives are to "improve lives through digital identity", and "accelerating access to digital ID... to vulnerable populations", and more. Their manifesto lists a number of points, one being "the ability to prove one's identity is a fundamental and universal right". No, the right to privacy, and being free to roam and not being tracked 24/7 is a fundamental and universal human right. Microsoft have pledged financial and technology resources to this project. Details of the ID2020 Summit and its purpose can be found here: https://id2020.org/manifesto and here: https://www.teleinfotoday.com/enterprise-it/digital-transformation/accenture-microsoft-create-blockchain-solution-to-support-id2020
In a recent interview (24th March 2020) with Chris Anderson (the Curator of TED Talks), Bill suggested that there should be a system of "certificates" that people will need to carry around to show who has recovered from the COVID-19 infection, and who is vaccinated (when the COVID-19 vaccine is made available), as he doesn't want people moving around the world who haven't been vaccinated for this infection. This is sounding like restrictions of movement or travel, unless you have been vaccinated and have identification papers to prove it - much like everyone having to carry ID papers with them at all times in Nazi Germany. France is using such movement certificates now for people to be able to leave their houses. However the "certificates" being considered by Bill are in a digital form, of either a microchip being inserted under the skin, or a "quantum-dot tattoo". A segment of this interview can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGsqtF0MhlI&fbclid=IwAR2cLpYvlYHCXfFYEaROYb0qRlOpRotjIRCAibjY-v1cr6vt8j36QnJIyG0
The Gates Foundation have also funded a project with MIT in December 2019, to develop a digital form of vaccination certificate, by storing data in encapsulated microparticles stored under the skin. These particles are injected at the same time as the vaccine using a microneedle patch, rather than a typical needle and syringe. More details about this technology, a related published study, and the Gates Foundation funding of it can be found here: http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218
In an interview with CBS on 2nd April 2020, Bill was giving advice on health policy and strategies on the current pandemic. He was also giving estimates of how long this issue will last. Again he was promoting his vaccine companies and vaccines being the key to stopping this pandemic, before we can go back to our normal lives. Note the hint that you may not be able to go back to your normal life without a vaccine (and a fast-tracked vaccine which won't go through all the usual tests for safety). As he is not a doctor or health expert, he should not be interviewed or having a say on this topic, because of all of his conflcts of interest here. He did also suggest that there could be more pandemics in the future. His interview can be viewed here: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-bill-gates-on-coronavirus-pandemic/
In a recent online Q&A session on Reddit (March 2020), Bill called for a "national tracking system similar to South Korea" to monitor people with an infection to "understand where the disease is". Again, more monitoring, tracking and control of the population. Details of this can bre read here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/03/18/bill-gates-calls-for-national-tracking-system-for-coronavirus-during-reddit-ama/
On 28th March 2020, The Gates Foundation announced an alliance with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (run by Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife) and Mastercard and the Wellcome charity for finding affordable treatments for COVID-19. They announced they were working together with the WHO on a "COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator" to evaluate and repurpose existing drugs for treating this infection. They claim that since these existing medications have completed clinical trials, it would make them quicker to make them more available in this pandemic. I don't think so, as these medications won't have ANY clinical trials for safety or efficacy against this specific virus, and clinical trials will still need to be done. If they are looking for affordable and effective solutions, then why not look at natural substances like vitamin and mineral supplements, which have been proven to be safe and effective against all other viruses including other coronavirus types? But that won't make them any profits though. Details of this alliance can be read here: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/bill-gates-mark-zuckerberg-find-covid-19-treatment-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
In 2018, Bill Gates funded a US-based satellite company and together with a Japanese software company were planning to launch a $1bn network of satellites to provide "live and unfiltered" coverage of the earth. Another backer of the project said. "our objective is simple, we want to connect you visually with Earth in real-time". Services on the satellites will be able to track people and transport as it happens, watching weather systems and migrations. The tracking of people is a particularly interesting use of this technology, when you take into account the other factors listed here. Details of this project can be read here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/04/19/bill-gates-backs-1bn-plan-cover-earth-video-surveillance-satellites/?fbclid=IwAR0_-X58VmBURKOEHevga-1cS9eM4vqVfOvzYrZS2K18m5C4wI6Cpzj6RME and here: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/25/bill-gates-backed-earthnow-will-provide-real-time-video-of-planet.html

Each point above perhaps isn't so suspicious on its own, but taken together as a whole it reeks of conflicts of interest, influence over the UN and WHO and world governments, and wanting to exert his beliefs of reducing the population, mandatory vaccinations with digital proof, and monitoring and tracking of the world's population. The timing of all of the above points is significant, with all taking place since November 2019. Everything is linked for one purpose - to create a pandemic and then benefit in every possible way from it. As the saying goes, "follow the money trail", to find out who really benefits from any situation. The money trail seems to be end up at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at every single step in this pandemic.

This is why I believe something truly stinks about the entire coronavirus situation - it's pretty clear that it is man-made, and extremely suspicious (or convenient?) that the epicentre of the outbreak was in Wuhan, China, which has a BSL-4 biowarfare lab where scientists have been developing coronavirus strains and publishing studies on this work. We could not ever believe the communist Chinese government and their "official" coronavirus statistics on incidences and mortality rates, but now that the virus is spreading around the world, we might see some slightly more realistic statistics. But can we really believe any statistics, as per my previous article on this topic?

It is also very suspicious that the man who has been warning about a viral pandemic for years is the very same person who believes that population control is needed, whose Foundation funds biotechnology research companies (who manipulate dangerous pathogens to make them more virulent), funds pharmaceutical companies, funds a company which is currently already testing a miraculously fast-tracked coronavirus vaccine, funds technology projects for tracking the global population, and who also has a huge influence with the WHO. This is a huge conflict of interest through his Foundation's massive sponsorships at every step of the way in this crisis. His pre-emptive decision to call the outbreak as a pandemic ahead of the WHO decision, was premature and way out of line, but the WHO did announce the pandemic a short time afterwards. Keep en eye on which company or companies are approved for the coronavirus vaccines - will they coincidentally be funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? Bill Gates admits that he is a big fan of vaccines, but has also said vaccines can be used to reduce the world's population by 10-15%. Yet he wants to SAVE everyone with a coronavirus vaccine?! Is he doing all of this for altruistic humanitarian purposes? Or is he is a business-man with a dangerous and selfish agenda?

The Gates Foundation appear to have their fingers in every single pie linked to this outbreak, and their involvement in everything here is highly suspicious at best. The Gates Foundation are trying to be the apparent knight in shining armour who will deliver alleged treatments and a miracle vaccine. At the very least, the Gates Foundation has a huge conflict of interest, but the above information also suggests to me that the Foundation is involved a lot more in this entire operation and for their own benefit.

There are too many coincidences here, and too many things having been planned and developed, just at the right time, for the COVID-19 pandemic to be anything other an a planned project.

If you put all of the above facts together, you get a fairly good picture of the intended outcome of this pandemic, and a possible look at a future with mandated vaccines, digital certificates of vaccination status, restricted movements based on vaccination status, constant monitoring and tracking of your movements, limiting informed consent, and more totalitarian measures that I dread to think about.

I'm not buying into the fear that the coronavirus will cause the predicted number of deaths that the Event 201 participants suggested. That was based on assumptions and estimates and computer modelling. I know that the virus can be defeated - that's what your immune system is for! It knows how to deal with any known or unknown infection, hence all the more reason you need to support your immune system to do its job and protect you! As there is currently no vaccine for this infection, there is no other option for you, other then to rely on your immune system! This is how humans as a species have survived for millenia without vaccines! Over 98% of people ARE surviving this infection, because of their immune systems! See my other articles on this topic for more information.

There are many more daily deaths from many other infections such as influenza, tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS, or from modern chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, or simply from hunger in developing countries. Yet the media scare campaigns on this topic is disproportionate, while health departments simply say to "wash your hands" and "stay away from others", your governments tighten up laws to restrict your rights and freedoms, and social media platforms censor the truth even more.

Is Bill Gates the most unqualified, but most powerful and dangerous doctor in the world? Or is he incredibly psychic in being able to predict the pandemic and have all of his investments in place at the right time - being in the weeks before the event occurred?

See my other articles for more information on protecting yourself and your family from this rapidly-spreading infection. Washing your hands isn't going to be enough to prevent this infection. And there's more you need to do to treat it, other than isolation and staying at home.

Stay Healthy!

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High carbohydrate foods can reduce immune system function against infections

2/4/2020

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I have been writing a lot of articles over the past 2 months or more on your immune system, to help you improve its function and strength against the current coronavirus pandemic. I've given you multiple ways to improve your immune system through dietary, lifestyle, supplements and more. This time I am going to talk about what NOT to do!

For your immune system to work properly to protect you from all types of infections, it needs a variety of nutrients from your foods. Good digestion and gut function is important too, which will be a topic for another article in the future!

All those people who have hoarded high carbohydrate foods for the coronavirus apocalypse may not like what I am about to say!

A very recent published open letter from several doctors and specialists trained in nutritional medicine (Clemens et al., 2020) has again confirmed that diets high in carbohydrates, in particular the refined carbohydrates of sugary foods and drinks, grain-based foods (breads, bakery products, cereals, pasta etc) and alcohol (sorry!), all deplete the immune system in a couple of ways:

Carbohydrate-rich foods are metabolised in your body into glucose, which causes an increase in blood sugar levels. High blood sugar levels cause a lot of inflammation, particularly to the blood vessels, the liver, but many other organs and tissues too
High carbohydrate foods are generally low in real nutrients, thus causing nutrient deficiencies if consumed in high amounts
High carbohydrate diets cause an increased demand for certain nutrients needed to metabolise the sugar from the foods, such as vitamin C, zinc, magnesium, B-vitamins and more. Note that some of these I've mentioned before in my previous articles on what you need to improve your immune system function
People with chronic health conditions have been shown to have reduced levels of these essential nutrients. Generally, the elderly have more chronic health conditions than other age groups, meaning that they are at greater risk to infections (which is what we are seeing in this coronavirus infection)
The higher your blood sugar level, the lower your vitamin C level, and vitamin C is blocked from entering cells when blood sugar levels are high
Immune system cells (white blood cells) need 100 times the amount of vitamin C than other cells, so high blood glucose will reduce immune system function
High levels of fructose (a type of sugar from fruit, fruit juices, soft drinks, grains and alcohol) significantly inhibits the activation of vitamin D (which is a massive immune system booster and infection protective compound).

In the same open letter, the specialist doctors found for previous infections such as the H1N1 flu, the biggest risk factor for a severe case of this infection was high carbohydrate intake and high blood glucose, especially in those who were diabetics.

To confirm this, other studies showed by reducing carbohydrate intake can provide protection against infections, by stimulating the immune system response (Clemens et al., 2020; Goldberg et al, 2019).

Sadly all those high carbohydrate long shelf-life foods that people have hoarded and now in short supply on the bare supermarket shelves, should be eaten at a minimum because of their negative effects on your immune system.

You need your immune system working optimally at the moment, which means eating more whole, fresh, real and preferably organic foods as much as possible. This means quality meats, vegetables , nuts and seeds, quality fats, eggs, etc and only a small amount of fruit. These foods are nutrient-dense with more real nutrients your immune system needs! Eat less of the highly processed and packaged foods, especially those high in sugar or foods that metabolise into sugar (glucose or fructose) from grain-based foods.

Stay Healthy!

References:
Clemens, Z., Tóth, C., Dabóczi, A., Andrásofszky, E., Horváth, R., Kolonics, G. (2020). Possibilities of reducing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and increasing natural resistance to the disease via nutritional intervention. Retrieved 1 April 2020 from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340296931_Possibilities_of_reducing_the_spread_of_the_SARS-CoV-2_virus_and_increasing_natural_resistance_to_the_disease_via_nutritional_intervention. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27031.93605
Goldberg, E.L., Molony, R.D., Kudo, E., Sidorov, S., Kong, Y., Dixit, V.D., & Iwasaki. A. (2019). Ketogenic diet activates protective γδ T cell responses against influenza virus infection. Science Immunology, 4 (41): eaav2026. DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.aav2026

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COVID-19 and coronavirus lies and statistics

30/3/2020

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Scientists can only make good conclusions and recommendations after testing or using good quality data from good sources. There’s an old IT saying of “garbage in, garbage out” – if you put garbage data into a program, it will give you garbage results!

Similarly, doctors, politicians and the general public can only make good decisions based on good quality data. But sadly the data we are seeing in this pandemic is not of good quality, and yet the governments of the world are making massive decisions (and many new restrictive laws) which have a significant impact on people, people’s health and stresses, peoples’ livelihoods, jobs, businesses, education, companies, our rights and freedoms, and the economy (which sadly seems to be a more important factor in their eyes).

In science, the data is everything! Or more correctly, the quality of the data is everything. Without good quality data, we are only guessing. Guessing is not good enough. We need accurate information in order to justify the decisions our politicians and medical experts are making.

Dr John Ioannidis, a Professor of Medicine and a world leading expert in health research and policy, has given the following statements:

“In the coronavirus pandemic, we’re making decisions without reliable data.”
“The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.”
“At a time when everyone needs better information, from disease modellers and governments to people quarantined or just social distancing, we lack reliable evidence on how many people have been infected with SARS-Co-V-2 or who continue to become infected.”
“The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable.”
“If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to “influenza-like illness” would not seem unusual this year.”
“Adding these extra sources of uncertainty, reasonable estimates for the case of fatality ratio in the general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.”

There are many reasons why we cannot believe the statistics (ie data) about this pandemic:

China is a secretive communist country, and they didn’t give out accurate or realistic statistics of incidences and deaths when the infection broke out there. Their official data showed a nice linear growth rate of incidences and deaths, but as we know with the coronavirus, it has a much higher transmission rate than the flu, and infected people are transmitting the virus to 2-3+ more people, which actually causes an exponential increase in numbers, not a linear increase. We are seeing that now the exponential growth in the “official’ statistics, since the infection spread to other countries. China’s data sucked.
Other countries have different testing criteria, with some testing more people and some testing not many at all
In Australia, there is a specific criteria which is used to determine if you get tested or not. Testing isn’t being done on everyone who shows with a respiratory infection
There is a lack of test kits, or laboratory staff or equipment to process all the tests, which has lead to the restriction of those who can actually get tested
There is no central register of case incidences and mortality
Recording of cases is open to bias or assumption
People who die with one or more chronic health conditions are being classified as dying as a primary result of the virus and not of their existing health conditions
The COVID-19 PCR testing used to confirm infection isn't accurate!

Governments and health authorities have also made very basic (ie, pathetic IMHO) recommendations for reducing your risks of getting the virus and transmitting it, based on NO accurate scientific data whatsoever. They are only using the above inaccurate and biased reporting data.

Here’s some more data from Australian officials as at March 26 2020: (Australian Government Department of Health, 2020)

Australian NCOVID-19 Incidences             3966 (as at 29 March, 2020)
Australian NCOVID-19 Deaths                    16
Australian Mortality Rate                              0.4%

Are these statistics worth shutting down the entire country for?

Let's compare our statistics to that of the country with the highest mortality rate - Italy:

Italian NCOVID-19 Incidences     92,472 (as at 29 March, 2020)
Italian NCOVID-19 Deaths            10,023
Italian Mortality Rate                      10.8%

What did Italy do, or what other factors have lead to such a high mortality rate, compared to other countries?

A report by the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (2020) investigated the incidence and mortality rates in Italy compared to other countries and found a higher aging population (2nd highest in the world), a high prevalence of men who smoke (28% compared to 15% in UK), the highest rate of antibiotic resistance deaths in Europe, and how deaths are recorded. Their ministry of health reported that only 12% of deaths being reported as being caused by the coronavirus had any direct causality to the virus. Hence more people are dying WITH the coronavirus, but not OF the coronavirus.

But this situation is not new in Italy, with studies published on flu infections and mortality in previous years, showing that Italy (because of a high aging population) has a much higher mortality rate amongst the elderly compared to other European countries (Rosano, A. et al, 2019).

And lastly, since the medical authorities and governments of the world are making vast changes to laws and restrictions to your rights and freedoms to try and reduce your risk of the virus, why don't they know that the COVID-19 test is only 20% accurate?!

Yes, a recent published study shows that the COVID-19 pathology test is reporting up to 80% false positive results in asymptomatic people (those showing no symptoms at all) (Zhuang et al., 2020). In many cases, people have tested positive for COVID-19, but a day or so later, testing negative, then positive again. This shouldn't happen.

All this disruption to our personal and work lives, to our families, finances, companies and the economy, and more, are based on a VERY low mortality rate in healthy people, and on a test that is only 20% accurate, and data which is totally inaccurate...

If an infection, like this coronavirus, gives only mild symptoms in healthy people, then it is a MILD infection! If it causes more serious symptoms in some people, it's because of something else going on with that person. As we now know, those other reasons include having one or more chronic health condition which has already weakened their immune system and their body's ability to deal with the infection.

In short, the testing for coronavirus is inadequate as well as inaccurate, the reporting of cases is inaccurate, the reporting of deaths being too quick to lay blame at the virus, and therefore the overall statistics are essentially useless, but they make for great fuel for the fire that is the media coverage of this infection. Don't buy into the media scare campaign!

Heed the warnings, but do more to support your immune system as well, as per my previous articles.

Stay healthy!

References:
Australian Government Department of Health. (2020). Coronavirus (COVID-19) current situation and case numbers. Retrieved 29th March 2020 from https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-current-situation-and-case-numbers
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. (2020). Global Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates. Retrieved 29th March 2020 from https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-rates/
Rosano, A. Bella, A., Gesualdo, F., Acampora, A., Pezzotti, P., Marchetti, S., Ricciardi, W., Rizzo, C. (2019). Investigating the impact of influenza on excess mortality in all ages in Italy during recent seasons (2013/14-2016/17 seasons). International Journal of Infectious Diseases 88: 127-34. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2019.08.003
World o Meter. (2020). COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic statistics. Retrieved 29th March 2020 from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Zhuang, G.H., Shen, M.W., Zeng, L.X., Mi, B.B., Chen, F.Y., Liu, W.J., Pei, L.L., Qi, X., & Li, C. (2020). Potential False-Positive Rate Among the 'Asymptomatic Infected Individuals' in Close Contacts of COVID-19 Patients. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi, 41 (4), 485-488. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20200221-00144.

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Why are there huge differences in coronavirus incidences & deaths between the northeRN and southern hemispheres?

26/3/2020

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In a previous article I crunched some numbers on the statistics of coronavirus incidences and deaths, and identified a large disparity between the incidences of the infection in the northern vs southern hemispheres.

In many studies on respiratory infections like the common cold, flu, asthma and pneumonia, there is a significant seasonal fluctuation with most incidences being in the cooler and drier months of the year (Fagbo et al., 2017). The causative link of much higher respiratory infections in winter is due to a vitamin D deficiency. In fact, some studies have shown that a vitamin D deficiency is THE cause of epidemics of respiratory infections in winter (Cannell et al., 2008).

I have crunched the numbers again on the coronavirus statistics, again to look at the differences between the hemispheres. With more data available, I get a similar picture to before, but showing an even more significant outcome. My findings are:

North                    Equator                South
No. countries affected                  67.5%                    8.1%                      24.3%
No. COVID-19 incidences 96.8%                    1.7%                      1.4%
No. COVID-19 deaths                     98.8%                    1.0%                      0.22%

Note the huge difference in incidences and deaths between the northern hemisphere and the south. Yes 88-90% of the world’s population live in the northern hemisphere, which can account for some of the difference, but certainly not all of it.

Some more statistics and more differences in the seasonal influence of coronavirus:

  Northern Hemisphere                  Southern Hemisphere
Average mortality rate* 2.04% (range: 0 - 10.10%) 0.57% (range: 0 – 2.07%)
Australian mortality rate 0.39%

* Using data from countries with over 100 incidences (as at 26/03/2020)

There is a 400% increase in coronavirus mortality rates in the northern hemisphere compared to the south. And a 500% difference in the maximum mortality rates between the hemispheres. Australia's mortality rate is very low overall, and when compared to other southern hemisphere countries, and far less than those in the north.

Why is there such a difference between the north and south? The northern hemisphere is coming out of their winter, the traditional season of the highest seasonal respiratory infections, and into spring, another time for seasonal respiratory issues with asthma and hayfever. The attached table shows the differences in the amount of time needed in the Aus capital cities to make the same amount of vitamin D in winter vs summer! In summer, there's not much of a difference, but a huge difference in time needed in the sun in winter to make vitamin D, especially the further from the equator you are located. This is the problem that the northern hemisphere countries are having.

Low vitamin D levels, from low sun exposure in the colder months, is a cause of low immune system function in winter, and a major cause of respiratory infections and outbreaks like we are seeing (Cannell et al., 2008). Vitamin D is THE key! Vitamin D is the key to prevention and treatment in this pandemic. Conversely, as we in the southern hemisphere are coming out of our summer, our vitamin D levels should be optimal (if we don't use sunscreen every 5 minutes and don't avoid the sun!) to keep us healthy and our immune systems strong going into the colder months. That's the ideal situation, but I see very low vitamin D levels in many clients, even in summer in Qld!

As I keep saying, in order to fix health issues, you must “FIND THE CAUSE AND FIX THE CAUSE”! Normally I would recommend getting your vitamin D levels tested first to check, and then see if you are deficient and need to supplement. At this time with pathology labs working overtime to do coronavirus testing and more on those in hospital, there’s a delay for waiting on pathology results. I don’t think you should wait – get more sun time daily (without getting sunburnt!) AND take a good quality vitamin D supplement daily. You need vitamin D3 (NOT vitamin D2, so check the product label) from a good source, in a capsule form, or oral drops or oral spray, or in cod liver oil! There’s very little harm or risk in taking a vitamin D supplement daily at the moment and continue this while this pandemic is still around or until after winter (for those of us in the southern hemisphere).

Keep up with good hygiene practices, but more importantly, support your immune system better to help it prevent and fight this or any other infection! If you have to isolate yourself, through government mandates or due to infection, DON’T just stay inside! Get outside in the sun in your garden! Get some direct sun exposure on your skin to make more vitamin D (remember that glass blocks the UV-B light needed to make it), as it is the most powerful immune system booster we have!

Stay healthy!

References:
Cannell, J.J., Zasloff, M., Garland, C.F., Scragg, R., & Giovannucci, E. (2008). On the epidemiology of influenza. Virology Journal, 5 (29). DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-5-29

Fagbo, S.F., Garbati, M.A., Hasan, R., AlShahrani, D., Al-Shehri, M., AlFawaz, T., Hakawi, A., Wani, T.A., Skakni, L. (2017). Acute viral respiratory infections among children in MERS-endemic Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2012-2013. Journal of Medical Virology, 89 (2):195-201. doi: 10.1002/jmv.24632

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Why the germ theory focus of coronavirus prevention is wrong

24/3/2020

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In the late 1800s, and earlier, the popular belief of the time was that diseases and infections were caused by evil spirits, or a "miasma" in the air. This was until Robert Koch, a German doctor, using a microscope found "germs" (ie, bacteria) in the blood of cows who died from anthrax. He suspected that these "germs" caused the anthrax, so he transferred them into mice, who then developed anthrax. Koch proved that these microorganisms were the cause of diseases (National Academy of Sciences, 2004).

Koch then developed his famous 4 "postulates" (MedicineNet, 2019), being:

The microorganism must be present in every case of the disease (or infection)
The microorganism must be isolated from the host with the disease and grown in pure culture
The specific disease must be reproduced when a pure culture of the microorganism is inoculated into a healthy susceptible host
The microorganism must be recoverable from the experimentally infected host.

Koch's postulates are still used somewhat today, despite having some limitations, in that they don't always apply to all types of bacteria or even for viruses.

This germ theory was not universally accepted even after the discoveries of Koch and Pasteur. One of the reasons was that, according to Koch's Postulates, a pathogen must cause the disease in EVERY case. But this doesn't happen! Some more recent experiments have been conducted and results published, after deliberately infecting individuals with a flu virus - even with a strain that was similar to the one which allegedly caused huge mortality rates in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. In this study, researchers found less than 40% of those who inhaled the virus actually developed symptoms! And of those who did develop symptoms, they were very mild to mild, and none had any serious symptoms at all (Cannell et al., 2008). Other research investigating the transmission of respiratory viruses amongst people in close proximity, again where some human participants were deliberately infected with a flu virus, found that only 20% of people developed symptoms of an infection. Up to 80% of people who were exposed to the virus did NOT actually develop the infection (Cannell et al., 2008).

Results from this research and other viral infections show that there are many more factors involved in an outbreak than it just being caused by a virus. We are seeing this in the current pandemic too - of symptoms being very individual in severity and duration, and many people being exposed but not getting symptoms at all. There are many reasons for this that have been known for a long time (Stewart, 1968):

Genetic constitution - your inherited genes, and your how they are expressed (turned on or off) to contribute to your health or ill-health
Susceptibility - your existing health
Behaviour - including hygiene and lifestyle practices
Socioeconomic determinants - income and expenses, and how the income is spent.

All of these factors are host-based factors, meaning they are related to YOU, your body, your choices and your immune system. However, the germ theory of disease believes that infectious disease is primarily caused by transmission of an organism from one host to another. This is a gross oversimplification. The germ theory has become a dogma because it neglects the many other factors which have a part to play in deciding whether the host person/germ/environment complex is to lead to infection (Stewart, 1968).

In this current coronavirus pandemic, the media scare campaign has everyone overly anxious and fearful about everything, but pretty much the only guidance from your elected officials and health departments have given you to date for the "prevention" of this virus has been to "wash your hands" more.
I said in a previous post that the recommended advice by these "experts" of just washing your hands was pathetic advice, in terms of all the other things you can do for prevention. Similarly, the belief that sanitising everything in sight, distancing yourself from others in schools, cinemas, shopping centres, restaurants and any other public place, again, may only slightly reduce your risks of getting this infection or reducing its severity. All of the current prevention strategies being recommended are trying to avoid or target the virus itself, when we can neither completely avoid all pathogens, and we certainly cannot kill them all with hand sanitiser or antibacterial wipes! Not to mention (again) that there is no evidence that washing hands, or using sanitisers or removing oneself from others, will actually reduce your risks of this particular infection. It's pure speculation!

Instead, or perhaps as well as improved hygiene, some better things you can do to prevent and reduce your risks of this pandemic are to work on your immune system! After all, as mentioned above and shown in studies, if your immune system is strong, it can deal with any virus without you developing symptoms or the infection. If for many reasons, your immune system isn’t so strong, then there are many natural things you can do regarding your food intake, lifestyle, environment, to quickly improve its function to protect you and reduce your risks of this infection. It's not too late to start!

I'm sure some readers will take this article the wrong way. I'm not saying to not wash your hands or not improve your hygiene. Keep doing this every day, regardless of whether there is a pandemic or not! But I'm also highlighting that the recent focus on killing the virus or attempted restrictions on movement or isolation is NOT ENOUGH! You MUST also work on your immune system defences to help prevent the virus getting into your body, and to help it fight any infection so that you can recover more quickly, without progressing to pneumonia that can be very dangerous.

Louis Pasteur, one of the leading figures in the early germ theory, said on his deathbed "The microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything" - meaning that infections are nothing compared to the host or the body , or that an infection is more the result of host-based factors, and not the microbe. A strong immune system will prevent the infection more than any other factor. Antoine Bechamp, a rival of Pasteur, said to "treat the PATIENT, not the infection"! Just like Koch and Pasteur, the focus on prevention and treatment in this pandemic is wrong. It must be changed to help people and their immune systems instead.

Please refer to my other articles on the coronavirus prevention strategies for more information. You CAN improve your immune system function to better reduce your risks of this virus!

Stay healthy!

References:
Cannell, J.J., Zasloff, M., Garland, C.F., Scragg, R., & Giovannucci, E. (2008). On the epidemiology of influenza. Virology Journal, 5 (29). DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-5-29

MedicineNet. (2019). Medical Definition of Koch's Postulates. https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7105

National Academy of Sciences. (2004). A theory of germs. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK24649/

Stewart, G.T. (1968). Limitations of the Germ Theory. The Lancet, 291 (7551): 1077-1081. Doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(68)91425-6

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Coronavirus outbreak is affected by season and vitamin D

16/3/2020

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A few days ago I investigated the statistics of the coronavirus incidences and deaths around the world to check a suspicion. This article is based on what I found. You can use this information to help protect yourself during this outbreak.

Looking at the statistics of the countries with tested and apparently confirmed coronavirus incidences, there are:

83% are in the northern hemisphere, and
only 17% is the southern hemisphere.

In addition to these stats, out of the countries with coronavirus deaths:

91% are in the northern hemisphere, and
just 9% in the south or on the equator...

This is extremely significant, but why?

Well, the northern hemisphere countries are just coming out of their winter.

From past experience and reading relevant research, I know that the rates of respiratory infections like the common cold, flu and pneumonia are higher in the cooler and drier winter months, and not in summer. So it didn't surprise me to see the coronavirus taking hold during the 2019-2020 winter in the northern hemisphere.

But why do we see this seasonal variation of respiratory infections?

It's quite simple really! During winter, and especially coming out of it, it is very typical of most people to have low vitamin D levels! Vitamin D is made by our bodies from direct sunlight on exposed skin. In summer we are outside in the sun more, exposing more skin to the sun and making more vitamin D. In winter the reverse is true.

Vitamin D is a massive immune system booster! Vitamin D also reduces inflammation, reduces the rates of viral respiratory infections and influenza, and reduces lung conditions like asthma (Hossein-Nezhad & Holick, 2014; Martineau et al., 2017). Vitamin D can also offer antiviral and antibacterial actions as well as stimulating the innate immune system (which identifies and deals with unknown or new infections) (Martineau et al., 2017).

Our summer vitamin D levels should be good enough to keep our immune systems functioning well through winter and into spring when it warms again (then we start going outside with less clothes on again!). But I see more clients than not are vitamin D deficient even in summer in Qld, which is crazy!

Vitamin D deficiency, especially in winter, can be a major cause of respiratory infections (Fagbo et al., 2017) and a vitamin D deficiency amongst a large percentage of the population (which occurs in winter) is the cause of influenza respiratory infection epidemics (Cannell et al., 2008).

Flu and respiratory infection epidemics are caused by a deficiency of vitamin D! Regardless of whether you are located in the northern or southern hemisphere, get out into the sun (without getting sunburnt!) daily to make more vitamin D, and/or start getting onto your vitamin D supplements NOW for prevention! And also look at some of the other immune system supportive nutrients and herbals, and antiviral products too, as mentioned in my earlier articles!

References:
Cannell, J.J., Zasloff, M., Garland, C.F., Scragg, R., & Giovannucci, E. (2008). On the epidemiology of influenza. Virology Journal, 5 (29). DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-5-29

Fagbo, S.F., Garbati, M.A., Hasan, R., AlShahrani, D., Al-Shehri, M., AlFawaz, T., Hakawi, A., Wani, T.A., Skakni, L. (2017). Acute viral respiratory infections among children in MERS-endemic Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2012-2013. Journal of Medical Virology, 89 (2):195-201. doi: 10.1002/jmv.24632

Hemilä, H., & Chalker, R. (2013). Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1: 1465-1858.

Hossein-nezhad, A., & Holick, M.F. (2014). Vitamin D for Health: A Global Perspective. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 88 (7): 720–755. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.05.011

Leary, P. F., Zamfirova, I., Au, J., & McCracken, W. H. (2017). Effect of Latitude on Vitamin D Levels. The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 117 (7), 433. doi:10.7556/jaoa.2017.089

Martineau, A.R., Jolliffe, D.A., Hooper, R.L., Greenberg, L., Aloia, J.F., Bergman, P., Dubnov-Raz, G., Esposito, S., Ganmaa, D., Ginde, A.A., Goodall, E.C., Grant, C.C., Griffiths, C.J., Janssens, W., Laaksi, I., Manaseki-Holland, S. Mauger, D., Murdoch, D.R., Neale, R., Rees, J.R., Simpson, Jr, S., Stelmach, I., Kumar, G.T., Urashima, M., & Camargo, Jr, C.A. (2017). Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data. British Medical Journal, 356: i6583. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i6583

Tamerius, J., Nelson, M.I., Zhou, S.Z., Viboud, C., Miller, M.A., & Alonso, W.J. (2011). Global Influenza Seasonality: Reconciling Patterns across Temperate and Tropical Regions. Environmental Health Perspectives, 119 (4). doi: 10.1289/ehp.1002383

van der Mei, I.A.F. Ponsonby, A-L., Engelsen, O., Pasco, J.A., McGrath, J.J., Eyles, D.W., Blizzard, L., Dwyer, T., Lucas, R., & Jones, G. (2007). The High Prevalence of Vitamin D Insufficiency across Australian Populations Is Only Partly Explained by Season and Latitude. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115 (8): 1132–1139. doi: 10.1289/ehp.9937

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why is washing your hands not enough to prevent the coronavirus?

10/3/2020

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I've had a lot of questions about what would I recommend people do to reduce their risks of either getting the coronavirus, or treating it. I will give more advice here!

As I've said in my previous articles on the topic, our medicines and supplements regulator (the Therapeutic Goods Administration or TGA) has warned all health practitioners to not recommend any products or therapies or make any claims that they can either prevent or treat the coronavirus, unless there is published evidence of their effectiveness against this specific virus.

But of course with this virus being very new, there is NO evidence of any therapy, either natural or pharmaceutical, that can claim to prevent or treat this infection. There is NO evidence that washing your hands will prevent this coronavirus! Yet the TGA, and health departments and doctors are happy to be hypocrites and recommend this and basically nothing else, because they have nothing else to help you.

I find their lack of advice to you, and the public in general, to be pathetic and next to useless. Their lack of acceptance of natural preventatives or treatments based on PAST evidence on all other types of coronaviruses, is insane and likely to cost a lot more people their lives. They SHOULD be recommending more preventative strategies based on past evidence. But they aren't...

Since I can't apparently give you advice or recommendations, I will tell you what I would do!

But firstly, since there is no vaccine for this new virus, you are totally dependent on your immune system for protection, prevention and recovery for this infection. Your immune systems have developed over millennia to protect you 24/7 from any and all known and unknown infections. Your immune systems are amazing! They know exactly what to do whenever a new bacteria or virus comes along that it hasn't seen before. That's why you need to help your immune system to do its job!

Washing your hands won't help much at all, especially when you can simply BREATHE in the virus from being in close proximity to others who are infected.
I started recommending strategies and products for immune system support weeks ago, when the virus first started making the news. I need to actively support my immune system, because if I don't, I can get infections easily. That's just my dodgy genetics combined with not looking after myself at times in the past!

The main strategies and products I use for prevention include:

• Vitamin C at a higher dose - vitamin C is a proven immune system stimulant, effective against most infections in research studies and including against other forms of the coronavirus (the common cold virus and SARS). However, a 100mg, 250mg or 500mg daily dose of vitamin C is nowhere near enough! This is a deficiency-preventing dose, not a therapeutic dose. I am taking at last 2000mg daily for prevention at this time.

• Vitamin D at a higher dose - Vitamin D is a huge immune system booster, anti-inflammatory, and many other benefits. Low vitamin D levels are the cause of seasonal flu outbreaks and other respiratory infections. We usually see such respiratory infection outbreaks in winter, when vitamin D levels are lowest! Many studies show improving vitamin D levels by supplementing in the cooler months can reduce incidences and severity of colds and flu! All the more reason to start getting onto this now that summer is over! I am taking 4000IU daily now.

• Zinc - I find that a large percentage of my clients are deficient in this essential mineral, which is needed for good immune system function against infections, and a lot of other uses and benefits. Dose - once daily (avoid zinc oxide products). I take 1x 25-30mg dose daily.

• Probiotics - Your probiotic bacteria in your digestive tract make most of your immune system proteins, hence its importance in improving your immune system function. A good quality multi-strain probiotic is good, or regular fermented foods, together with a healthy variety of foods can greatly help your immune system. I would take one capsule once daily to start.

• Herbal medicines - many herbal medicines have immune system boosting effects as proven in published research, as well as some having antiviral effects, even against other coronavirus species! One very well tolerated (and tasty) one is elderberry - which has immune stimulating actions as well as being an antiviral herb. Also, garlic has potent antiviral and antimicrobial effects! Both elderberry and garlic have been shown effective against other coronavirus strains in research. Licorice (the real licorice, not the sweet lolly form!) also has antiviral effects against other coronaviruses. There are a lot more herbs which can help your immune system and have antiviral effects. I can't recommend more here or their doses, as other factors need to be taken into account, such as medication interactions and personalised dosing etc. See me for more advice on these.

• Water intake - keeping up your water intake is very important! Sufficient water will keep your mucus membranes in your nose and respiratory tract nice and moist, which will trap and stop viruses and bacteria from infecting your cells there.

• Good hygiene - This is the only thing that you are being told to do - wash your hands regularly with soap and water, and stop touching your face, eyes and nose etc. Sneeze or cough into the crook of your arm/elbow, and not into your hand!

• Sleep quality and quantity - this is needed for cellular and tissue repair, detoxing, and immune system functions. So make sure to get sufficient quantity and quality sleep!

• Reducing stress - Stress not only depletes some essential nutrients needed for your immune system, but stress reduces your immune system function on its own. Hence reduce your stress exposure, or improve how you deal with stress. Exercise, meditation, breathing exercises, and more can help reduce the effects of stress.

• Improving your nutrient intake - your immune system is reliant on a variety of nutrients to make your white blood cells (your infection-fighting cells). Avoid sugary foods and drinks, as these can reduce your vitamin C levels, increase inflammation and weaken your immune system. Similarly, reduce intake of high carbohydrate foods, such as grain-based products like cereals, breads, pasta, bakery products and alcohol, as these have the same effects as sugar. Eat more vegetables, more protein and healthy fats too!

I'm not concerned about the coronavirus, because I have been doing the above to reduce my risks, as well as supporting my immune system. However, I am concerned for others who have chronic health issues who are much more at risk of this infection. But if you know friends or family who are at risk, getting them to use the above recommendations will greatly reduce their risks of getting this infection or reducing the severity of it.

The media are beating up this issue far more than necessary, causing much stress and panic. Remember that the infection has at least a 97% survival rate! We need common sense to prevail, not knee-jerk government reactions such as lockdowns or restrictions on rights and freedoms.

Buying more toilet paper won't prevent or treat this coronavirus! The above points can!

Don't rely on your government or health authorities to protect you, because they are next to useless at the moment on this issue.

Stay healthy!

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Is the coronavirus pandemic coming, after release of infected people?

24/2/2020

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One of the central news articles around the Coronavirus scare of late has been the Diamond Princess cruise liner, which has been moored in Japan for about 4 weeks after one initial passenger was confirmed with the virus, which then spread to many hundreds more.

The Diamond Princess liner was kept at its mooring to prevent passengers leaving and potentially infecting many others around the world if they were to go to their home countries and cities. The theory that the passengers would be kept in "quarantine" for 2 weeks. This is the concept that the Chinese government used in China - to lock down tens of millions of citizens in their homes to prevent the infection spreading. Unfortunately, this protocol will be remembered in future as what NOT to do.

It was clear that the virus infection had already spread far and wide in China by the time the "quarantine" lock-downs were implemented. As I've said in my earlier articles on this topic, self-imposed quarantine at home when you are sick is the right thing to do, to prevent more infections to people around you. If you have the flu, stay at home, rest and recover. Most other healthy people who live in the home will be away doing what they do as usual. But forcing healthy people to stay locked up in very close proximity to someone with a virus that has a very high infection rate was always going to have the opposite effect - of causing many more healthy people to become sick with this infection. This meant many more people becoming infected in their homes, more people trying to get help in hospitals, leading to overcrowding, draining hospital resources of medications and beds, and even more people becoming infected, including doctors and nurses. And many more people dying.

With the Diamond Princess liner, the Japanese health authorities and world media have been making out that the ship was "in quarantine", or that coronavirus-positive passengers were being kept isolated from others in the ship. Nothing could be further from the truth! Hospitals have specialised isolation units for true quarantine protocols. Keeping infectious people in close proximity to healthy people, while also sharing and breathing the same air systems in an outbreak of an air-borne virus, is NOT a quarantine!

This is why there have been 50-200 new coronavirus infections found EVERY DAY on that liner!

The Canadian and Australian governments have taken their citizens off the Diamond Princess liner back to their home country, and put into true quarantine for the next few weeks, because they realise that the ship was not properly quarantined. The US has told their citizens to not return home for at least 2 weeks.

Sadly, the Japanese government and health authorities do not understand infection control, and have released all remaining passengers into Japan or to return to their home cities and countries, as their self-determined "quarantine" period was up. This is despite reports that 79 new coronavirus cases were confirmed on that day. This means that the passengers were still being exposed to the virus on the ship, and still infecting each other. Many passengers are still harbouring the virus and not showing symptoms. But these asymptomatic virus carriers have now been released...

I know 2 Australians who were on the liner. They are now in quarantine in Australia, despite not having had any symptoms or testing positive. The Australian government sent a doctor to the ship to check on the Australian passengers and the infection control procedures, and they said they were "truly scared" as to the lack of infection control there. Even Japanese doctors who visited the ships said it was "chaos" and spoke out in public about the lack of procedures. They have since been silenced.

It seems that the Japanese taxi drivers are more knowledgeable than the health officials there, as so few of them turned up at the dock to take passengers away! No doubt for fear of being exposed to the virus.

Some strong questions need to be asked of elected officials and health professionals - such as:

• Why are they not following strict infection control procedures?
• Why weren't passengers taken into true quarantine in Japanese hospitals?
• Why were passengers prematurely released from the liner, when infections were still happening daily?
• Why weren't preventative measures used or recommended in China or Japan (or anywhere)?
• Are we about to see the start of a large-scale pandemic as a result of all these mistakes?
• And what knee-jerk reactions will we see our governments implement as a result of this, such as forced lock-downs, or mandatory vaccination programs?

Keep on supporting your immune system, with recommendations in my previous articles, and practice good hygiene. Stay wary and be prepared, and be healthy!

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Cancer in children is increasing

17/2/2020

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According to a very recent study (published today) in the Medical Journal of Australia, incidences of childhood cancers have been rising dramatically over the past 30 years. In 10 years, from 2005 to 2015, childhood cancer rates have been increasing at 1.2% PER YEAR. The study estimates that childhood cancers are expected to rise by 40% in the next 20 years. The media only reported a 7% increase – no idea where they pulled that number from. These are truly shocking statistics.

Statistics in other developed countries are similar, with the USA finding one in 285 children being diagnosed with cancer before their 20th birthday. This equates to 3.5%, and in both the USA and Australia, cancer is currently the biggest cause of child mortality (other than accidents).

The MJA study claims the causes of cancer in children is unknown, and that more research is needed. No, we know what the causes are, so I will save them time and research money…

Cancers arise from chronic inflammation which causes a low functioning immune system. As your immune system detects cancer cells and destroys them, the prevention of cancer is completely dependent on the effective functioning of your immune system.

What causes chronic inflammation? Lots of things, including:

Stress
Lifestyle factors – smoking, alcohol, drugs, low exercise, poor sleep etc
Nutrient deficiencies, or excesses of some foods
Toxins and chemicals in foods, water, the environment, and from other products that the body is exposed to
Medications – especially antibiotics, corticosteroids, NSAIDs, and other immune system suppressing drugs
Viral infections
Radiation exposure
Weight gain
Hormone imbalance
Other existing chronic health conditions
Genetics – only in 5-10% of cases.

These are your causes of cancer.

The medical and pharmaceutical industries are always after research money to find the ONE cause of cancer. They won’t find it when there are many causes of cancer, and the causes can also vary from person to person. This makes research very difficult to prove, and why they have no answer after decades and many billions of dollars of research.

To prevent cancers, you need to avoid the above root causes. To treat cancers, you need to fix the above root causes.

This is why I like specialising in investigating and treating chronic inflammatory conditions, immune system dysfunction, autoimmune conditions, and cancer too! I can get to the root causes of each person’s issues, and put a plan in place to treat the causes and reduce symptoms too.

We all want our kids and family to be healthy and happy, and sometimes it’s difficult to know what actually is good or healthy for us or not, or what are the most effective treatments for long-term health. If your family are frequently sick with infections, or have chronic inflammatory conditions, then something is wrong with their immune system. That’s where I can help, by investigating the causes and fixing them!

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Coronavirus update and government censorship

17/2/2020

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News media around the world are regularly giving updates of the coronavirus situation in China and other countries. But are you just taking in this news with interest, or are you a little concerned, or are you taking this seriously?

Considering that we cannot trust the news media to tell the whole truth, as they are restricted by their owners, as well as your governments, to not want to cause panic or “misinformation” (also known as “censorship”), and other factors, we should take what the media says with some skepticism!

We also know that we cannot trust what the communist Chinese government says, as they for many reasons, would not want the world to know that:

1) The virus appears to be man-made in the BSL-4 rated (ie, in other words, a biowarfare lab) Wuhan Institute of Virology, where scientists there have published many papers on how clever they are in playing with the genetics of the SARS coronavirus, which is 96% similar to this new COVID-19 named coronavirus

2) The real numbers of people affected or died from the infection are not accurate. With so many people living in China and who were swamping hospitals in the early days, they do not have the resources to test everyone for a confirmed coronavirus infection, or even treat them. Hence the “official” numbers are very much on the very low end of reality. Leaked estimates of statistics have the infection rate at about 1.5 million and death rate at about 50,000

3) Cities with 10 million or more people are in complete military lockdown (aka “quarantine”), with no access to food, services, transport, or healthcare. A self-imposed quarantine at home when you are sick with a cold or flu can prevent you passing on the infection to others. But in an epidemic like this, a forced lockdown with potentially infected people can spread the infection far more

4) The true mortality rate is not 2-3% as was officially announced, but in fact is 11-15%, based on published studies done that I have read, one of which was published in the prestigious Lancet journal recently (Chen et al., 2020). This makes this infection a LOT more serious than anyone in the media or governments have publicly said. https://www.thelancet.com/…/PIIS0140-6736(20)3021…/fulltext…

All is not well in China, and they know it, and they are taking drastic measures to try and contain this virus. Other countries aren't.

Several recent studies have shown that coronavirus infections are more likely to affect males (up to 67%) who are older (55 years and higher), especially those with existing chronic conditions (55%) that cause weaker immune systems, which can result in severe and fatal respiratory distress. In this study, the death rate was 11%, which is far higher than the official figures of 2-3% from the secretive Chinese media. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32007143

The air quality in Chinese cities is not great, and most males in China smoke, which reduces their health, their lung function, and makes them more susceptible to chronic diseases and the coronavirus infection.

As I have mentioned in my earlier articles, if you are concerned about this virus, there are many things which you can do to improve your immune system function, to stay healthy, and reduce your risks.

Unfortunately, our regulatory authority (the Therapeutic Goods Administration or TGA, in Australia) has put out a public notice to all health practitioners to not provide any advice or recommendations directly or indirectly related to this coronavirus! They only want “official” methods and therapies recommended that have been scientifically proven effective against this specific coronavirus.

I guess the TGA has forgotten that, in times of a new health issue like now, that anecdotal evidence ALWAYS comes first, before any published, peer-reviewed evidence?! Published evidence takes too long. If they are only going to rely on published evidence as their "accepted" evidence, then potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of people will die needlessly. There are many simple and basic practices and treatments which have initially found in the past to be anecdotally proven effective against all previous infections, long before any study was published to "officially" prove it.

Such methods include washing hands, to improved hygiene practices, to higher dose vitamin C, antiviral or immune supporting herbal remedies, vitamin and mineral supplements that support your immune system to do what it already knows what to do against ANY known or unknown new infection.

So I can’t repeat or go into detail in this article some of the easy strategies and treatments for improving your immune system function… but read my previous articles!

I'm sure there are no published studies as yet proving that washing hands can prevent or reduce the risk of spreading this coronavirus, but the TGA and various health departments and hospitals around Australia and the world have this advice as very basic prevention step, based on anecdotal or past evidence!
To go hunting for practitioners giving simple preventative advice that is based on past evidence of effectiveness, but not yet "proven" against this coronavirus is disgraceful.

There's no official pharmaceutical medications that have been proven effective against coronavirus in published studies as yet either, but we know that such medications are being used, based on their PAST evidence! This is not a time to be denying or restricting what people can do to prevent and treat this virus, especially when we cannot believe the official infection and mortality rates from a secretive foreign government.

In a follow-up article I will provide suggestions which have worked against other coronaviruses (like the common cold virus or SARS etc), with referenced proof!

Stay healthy!

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confirmed: the coronavirus was man-made!

2/2/2020

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The current coronavirus infection is still occurring, mainly in China, but due to recent infection control and quarantine procedures, it is only very slowly progressing in other countries. While the death rate from the coronavirus is much less than its sister virus SARS, it has caused more infections than SARS in 2003.

There has been a lot of speculation about the coronavirus such as where it originated, how it spread to humans, and was the large maximum-security biological laboratory, coincidentally located in Wuhan, somehow involved in this virus outbreak?

With some new information, it appears that this is indeed the case - that not only was the Wuhan laboratory involved in experimenting with the SARS coronavirus, they published scientific studies on it, AND appear to have created this new coronavirus by playing with its genetics to create a new and potentially more dangerous and deadly virus, before it was either accidently or deliberately released!

In a scientific study published in 2010, scientists at the Wuhan laboratory studied the SARS coronavirus to identify whether bats could be the natural host for SARS, and which bats are associated with this virus. Remember in the early days of the new novel coronavirus, that it was suggested in the media that bats may have been involved! The scientists published that there were indeed 2 species of bats that were susceptible to SARS, and may be the original host of the virus. (Hou et al., 2010) (study link here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00705-010-0729-6)

But now is the real shock...

Scientists in India have published a very recent study (on Jan 31, 2020), to look at the genetic sequence of the new novel coronavirus, to get clues as to its evolution and capacity to cause symptoms and disease. (Pradhan et al., 2020) (full study link here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdf)

The Indian scientists have found that the new coronavirus is based on the 2003 SARS virus but has 4 new genetic sequences added into it, that are not found in any other coronavirus. Interestingly, ALL 4 of these genetic sequences added to this virus' genetic code come from the HIV-1 virus! Yes, the new coronavirus has had 4x HIV gene sequences inserted into it. The HIV virus has been depleting human immune systems since the 1980s, and is one factor which leads to a diagnosis of AIDS.

The Indian scientists published that the 4x HIV sequences in the coronavirus would not be possible in nature. Hence the new novel coronavirus is MAN-MADE.

And it was most likely made in the Wuhan laboratory to change the preference of the host from a bat to human, and then somehow released into humans, where it was able to start infecting from one human to another.

These new findings should really make people (and governments) question why scientists are "playing with" such viruses, how can they be allowed to create newer and more dangerous viruses, and how can these somehow escape from high security labs.

These new developments are all the more reason to support your immune system NOW with natural techniques and supplements as per my previous 2 articles on my website and FB page, for prevention, and continue the same (with higher doses) should you become infected.

Stay healthy!

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Coronavirus prevention (Part 2)

2/2/2020

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This article is part 2 of my coronavirus articles (see below for part 1) during this worldwide scare of the coronavirus, and is relevant to those who may have an immune system that may be low functioning, or anyone who is concerned about the coronavirus.

I have seen many clients recently with poor functioning immune systems, or recurrent infections. There can be many reasons for a low functioning immune system, but it is unusual for me to see so many people with a cold or flu in the middle of summer here in Australia!

If you get a cold or flu, or any other infection, then it means that your immune system defences are not strong enough to protect you from that infection. So you need to do something about this!

Your immune system strength and function relies on many factors:

1) a good supply of nutrients to make your white blood cells and other immune system proteins, and having good levels of vitamin C, zinc, vitamin D and other essential nutrients for immune system function

2) A working digestive system function - as you can have the perfect diet, but if your digestive system isn't working well, you may not digest and absorb the nutrients you need

3) good quality and quantity sleep, which can repair damaged tissues and your immune system

4) a well-balanced microbiome - of helpful and symbiotic bacteria in your mucus membranes, digestive tract and on your skin

5) a well functioning thyroid gland (which is the controller of your metabolism or ALL cells in your body)

6) drinking enough water, needed to make and keep your mucus membranes moist to prevent infections.

Hence these are clues as to what you need to focus on for prevention of infections, or strengthening your immune system! In addition, there are factors which can affect immune system function:

1) Stress, which triggers the "flight or fight" stress response, and in turn reduces your digestive system function and immune system function (and other "normal" body functions) as these are not deemed as "essential for short-term survival", hence they do not work optimally in times of stress

2) Inflammation, which can be from many causes such as food intolerances, obesity, imbalance of your microbiome, stress, chronic infections, autoimmune conditions, toxins and chemicals (such as with the poor air quality in China)

3) Other chronic infections or assaults such as EBV (Epstein-Barr Virus, which causes glandular fever, and causes very long-term symptoms and immune system effects), CMV, HIV, and many other viral infections, or having an autoimmune condition, or having any other recent infection or illness.

4) Medications, such as antibiotics, NSAIDs, corticosteroids, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, immuno-suppressives and more. These all reduce or stop the immune system from working optimally.

Again, these are clues as to what to work on or reduce in order to having a well-functioning immune system!

There are many other things you can do to improve your immune system, for preventing or treating viral infections like coronavirus, such as:

1) nutritional supplements - to rectify deficiencies that affect immune system function, especially of vitamin C (with therapeutic doses being shown to be effective against coronavirus strains!), zinc, and vitamin D (a MASSIVE immune system booster, and when levels are low, this CAUSES colds and flu infections and outbreaks especially in winter!), and other nutrients too

2) probiotics - since your gut microbiome makes most of your immune system proteins, you can improve their production with an improved diet and specific probiotic strains

3) herbal supplements - many herbal extracts or supplements can not only boost your immune system, but can also offer anti-viral actions to directly kill the infection or stop it replicating or spreading around the body

4) practicing good hygiene - even washing of hands is very effective in killing microbes on your skin. Not touching your face, nose, mouth or eyes can prevent infection.

I cannot recommend specific nutrient or herbal supplements in this article, as checks for interactions with any medications is essential, other symptoms or conditions may need to be taken into account, and dosing will be different for different age groups. However this is something I can help with in a personalised consultation, or see an experienced Nutritionist, Naturopath or Herbalist for advice.

If you are concerned about coronavirus, or if you have frequent infections or a low immune system, there are many things you can do to improve your immune system function!

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soy products are not health foods

28/1/2020

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I often see clients who are consuming soy products because they believe that soy is good for their health. However, for most people who are interested in having the best of health, soy products are NOT what you should be consuming! Soy foods are not health foods! They are, in fact, highly processed foods, and should be treated like most junk foods, and restricted or even avoided in most cases!

Soy products such as the raw beans, tofu, soy milk, simulated meat products, soy ice cream, soy cheese, soybean oil, and soy baby formula and more are highly processed products that are known in research to be linked to breast cancer, thyroid disorders, intolerances, infertility, digestive complaints, and more adverse health effects.

Some might argue that Asians have been eating soy products for a long time and they have very long life spans. That may be true, but they don't eat very much soy, and when they do it's mostly fermented soy, a natural process which is needed to get rid of the anti-nutrients, oestrogen mimicking chemicals and natural toxins found in soybeans. Fermented soy products that are good to eat include tempeh, miso and natto. Also, Asian cultures have different genetics to many other cultures, and can perhaps handle soy better...

The problems with soy and soy products are many:

1) Unfermented soy products interfere with normal thyroid hormones (which controls metabolism), thus slowing down your metabolism making you put on weight as fat.

2) In most women. soy also enhances the effect of the oestrogen (ie female) hormone, causing a range of issues with the female menstrual cycle and therefore reproductive problems, infertility and an increased risk of female hormone related cancers such as breast cancer, cervical cancer and more.

3) The oestrogenic (female hormone mimicking) effects of the phyto-oestrogens in soy have a greater effect In men, to also affect fertility, increase fat production and create man-boobs, cause enlarged prostate gland, and over time, prostate cancer.

Soy may only help a very small number of people - such as those with oestrogen excess, in women and men. In this case, its phyto-oestrogens can block some of the oestrogen receptors on cell walls, to have a reducing effect of having high oestrogen levels.

Over 95% of the world's soy is genetically modified to survive being sprayed with the RoundUp/glyphosate herbicide which would otherwise kill the plant. Hence the soy products contain this toxic chemical which is a "probable" carcinogenic, according to the World Health Organisation in 2015. There have been a couple of very high profile lawsuits against the Roundup manufacturer Monsanto recently, after victims proved that the herbicide caused their terminal cancers.

In addition to the hormone-affecting issues, soy products can bind to many minerals in the meal to prevent the absorption of those minerals such as calcium, zinc, magnesium, manganese and iron! Frequent intake of soy products can lead to deficiencies in these minerals, which results in many health issues and symptoms.

As most processed or prepared foods found in the supermarket contain soy products, it's best to look at the product ingredients and also avoid those that contain soy.

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Is the coronavirus something to be concerned about?

27/1/2020

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You may have seen in the past day or so in the news of an alleged new virus doing the rounds in China, causing a handful of deaths and causing a huge health scare in the media and health authorities around the world.

Is this "new" virus something to really be scared about? No!

Is this "new" virus" something you can do something about? YES!

More on this later...

But first, some other interesting facts about this new coronavirus:

1) "Coronavirus" is actually a family of viruses that cause infections in some animals, including causing the common cold in humans. The current coronavirus scare is a particular strain of coronavirus.

2) The source of the first infections were in the Wuhan fish market.

3) Just across the river from the Wuhan fish market is a large maximum-security biological laboratory, designed to study the world's most dangerous pathogens (viruses and bacteria)! Very interesting indeed. Details here - https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487

4) If the above wasn't enough, Wuhan also has 8 out of the top 13 top biopharmaceutical companies located there. Details here - http://www.fdi.gov.cn/1800000121_37_42197_0_7.html?fbclid=IwAR0JLoHmxf1OeqjbRKnbWzN8pvlkb4Jvqjh9Dtdy88Cmei9aleTMY6M9Wv4

5) In October 2019, a summit of government officials, health officials and infection experts met to discuss a simulation of a global infection pandemic, coincidentally based on a coronavirus outbreak! How did they guess that would happen?! I'll leave that for you to ponder... Details here - https://web.archive.org/web/20200126110537/http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ and here - https://web.archive.org/web/20191106171718/https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/06/event-201-health-security/.

6) It is winter in China at the moment, and any infections or epidemics usually occur when people's immune system defences are low. This is why we see more colds and flu in winter. I have repeatedly written about before, that common cold and flu infections increase in winter, caused from low vitamin D levels in people due to low sunlight exposure when it's colder. So it is not surprising that this infection is spreading at the moment, among those whose immune defences are down or not as strong as they should be.

There is no vaccine for coronavirus, and won't be for at least 6 months unless one is "fast-tracked" (meaning it will have done very limited to no clinical trials for safety of efficacy), or could be years until such a vaccine is available. But that's not worth worrying about, as you and I are already protected from this virus, by our immune system!

We have always had our "innate" immune system which detects and destroys all known and unknown infective pathogens 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, for your entire life! Your immune system, quite literally, keeps you alive!

There are several main parts to your immune system:

1) Innate immune system - these cells protect you from all unknown infection-causing microbes, bacteria and viruses! They recognise what is "self" or safe and what isn't, and will attack and destroy any foreign invaders. This part of your immune system is how we have been able to survive for millenia without modern medicines or medical interventions! The innate immune system, when confronted by a new microbe or invader, learns from this and then trains the adaptive immune system for longer-term defence mechanisms.

2) Adaptive immune system - the adaptive immune system develops antibodies against each invader. Antibodies are then used by the immune system to more quickly respond to and stop infections in future!

3) Your microbiome - or the trillions of bacteria on your skin, in your mucus membranes, digestive tract, and other parts of your body. Your microbiome works to regulate and produce most of your immune system proteins to protect you from any pathogenic bacteria.

It's only when your immune system cannot defend itself quick enough or destroy the invading pathogens that you actually "get" symptoms of an infection.

Your immune system is affected by factors such as stress, a poor diet (ie, nutrient deficiencies or excesses), poor digestive system function, chemicals and toxins in foods and environment, poor sleep quality or quantity, and chronic (long-term) infections, medications (antibiotics, NSAIDs, anti-inflammatories, immunosuppressives, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, steroids, etc), and other factors. If any one of more of these are affecting your immune system, then it's not going to work as well as it should. Reduced immune system function can lead to longer and more severe infections.

Hence the importance of supporting your immune system, not just to prevent and survive the coronavirus, but any and all infections! If your immune system is weak, or you get frequent infections, or want to protect yourself against coronavirus, there are many things that I can help with, by investigating all possible causes of a low functioning immune system and treating those, as well as immune supporting treatments and direct anti-viral actions too.

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