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Do masks protect you or prevent coronavirus infections?

6/7/2020

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There is a growing push in these times of the coronavirus, bizarrely many months into the plandemic, to wear a mask for alleged prevention of the virus. So what is the truth of wearing a mask - can a mask prevent a coronavirus infection or reduce your risks? We'll see...

The push to wear a mask for coronavirus prevention and protection seems to be much more in the USA than other countries, possibly due to the highest incidence rates of the virus, combined with a media industry which borders on propaganda more than facts, and vulnerable people who believe the media scare campaigns. Sadly, the mask-wearing people have taken that propaganda and turned against those who are not wearing a mask in public, with verbal abuse, beatings, and preventing people from shopping for groceries or travelling to work. The abusers seem to have lost their brains, that if you are wearing a mask and you believe it will protect you, then it is of no concern of yours what other people do, or not do such as not wearing a mask if they choose to! This is ironically similar to the vaccine issue, but that's a whoooole other topic for another day!

Being in Australia as I am, next to no-one is wearing a mask when going out in public to the shops etc. You would be lucky to see one person in a thousand wearing a mask!

Here are some facts regarding the use of masks for coronavirus protection or prevention:
  1. Look at the boxes of sterile medical masks and note what the box says. It will usually have statements such as "resistance to penetration by synthetic blood", "single use only", "Re-use or extended use, beyond ONE HOUR may lead to infection or cross-contamination", "store in a cool, dry place. Avoid excessive heat (40C or 104F) (but in hot weather or a fever and on your face, this is a problem!), "this mask should not be used in any surgical setting or where significant exposure to liquid, bodily or other hazardous fluids may be expected", "should not be used in a clinical setting where the infection risk levels through inhalation exposure is high" or "Wearing an ear loop mask (ie, a "surgical mask") does not reduce the risk of contracting any disease or infection" or "<company name> makes no warranties, either express or implied, that the mask prevents infection or the transmission of viruses or diseases", or more specifically for the coronavirus with one box of masks quoting "this product will not provide any protection against COVID-19 (coronavirus) or other viruses or contaminants". Seems like a pretty accurate assessment of their own product...
  2. The standard "ear loop" surgical masks are not meant to be worn for long, and appear to only offer minimal protection from larger splashes of body fluids like blood or mucus from coughing or sneezing (FDA, 2020), but are not designed to filter or stop tiny viruses! In addition, these masks are loose fitting and often have gaping holes in the sides, top, or bottom, hence only very minimal protection.
  3. The N95 respirator masks (also known as P2 masks in Australia) that sold out within days of the coronavirus outbreak, may offer more protection in that they are more fitting to the face and less gaps around the edges. These are for the protection from airborne particles and liquid contamination to the face (FDA, 2020). These are named as they filter out 95% of airborne particles (CDC, 2020a). These should be discarded after each patient encounter.
  4. The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) in the US does NOT recommend that the public wear N95 respirators to protect themselves from respiratory diseases including coronavirus (COVID-19). But these N95 respirators must be reserved for health care workers (FDA, 2020).
  5. But instead, the CDC recommends that the general public use simple cloth face coverings when in public to slow the spread of the virus! (FDA, 2020).
  6. People with chronic respiratory, cardiac, or other medical conditions that make breathing difficult should check with their doctor before using N95 masks, as they can make it more difficult to breathe! (FDA, 2020).  N95 respirators are also labelled as "single-use" or disposable devices.
  7. N95 masks are not designed for children or those with facial hair, as a proper fit cannot be achieved (FDA, 2020).
  8. Some N95 masks come with a valve, to make breathing easier. But these valves permit droplet release from the mask, thus putting others at risk! As such, these masks may protect the wearer only, but not those around them who are more at risk of a viral infection (Healthline, 2020).
  9. If the medical-grade masks or respirators have the above warnings on them, do you think your wearing of these masks for more than an hour, or even wearing your fancy home--made masks made from spare fabric are going to give you any better protection?! Nope.

So what does the science say? Here goes:
  1. A very recent article published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (Klompas et al., 2020) quoted "wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection", and "The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic", no doubt from media scare campaigns and politicians who know nothing about health.
  2. The same NEJM article suggested that masks are symbols that "may help increase health care workers' perceived sense of safety" in their workplaces. And a similar symbolic benefit could also apply to the general public who might wear a mask, so if you wear one but someone around you doesn't, you are protected right?! No need to abuse that person for exercising their right to not wearing one. Perhaps they have a medical condition that precludes them from wearing one on advice from their doctor - it's none of your business!
  3. A recent study (MacIntyre & Chughtai, 2020) investigated the results of multiple trials on the use of masks and respirators in the community and healthcare settings. Trials in healthcare workers found that respirators (ie the N95/P2 type mentioned above) were effective if worn continually in a shift, but not effective if worn intermittently. Surgical masks were not effective, and cloth masks were even less effective and can even increase the risk of infection.
  4. An RCT study on using cloth masks in a hospital situation for 4 weeks found an increased risk of respiratory illnesses in people who wore them. The study also found that these masks allowed 97% penetration of infectious airborne particles compared to other medical masks at 44% (MacIntyre et al., 2015).
  5. The CDC recommends some people should NOT wear a mask - children younger than 2 years old, anyone who has trouble breathing, or anyone who is unconscious, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance (CDC, 2020b).
  6. The CDC also recognise that masks may not be possible in every situation or for some people. Wearing a mask may exacerbate a physical or mental health condition, lead to an emergency or cause other safety concerns (CDC, 2020b). Under privacy laws, someone does NOT have the right to ask why you are not wearing a mask! It's illegal to ask, so you don't have to tell them.
  7. The CDC recommends that masks not be worn while engaged in activities that may cause the mask to become wet such as swimming or if the mask causes difficulty breathing, such as when exercising, or in hot and humid weather (CDC, 2020b). There have been reports of runners, cyclists, and even drivers suffering heat-related illnesses or breathing difficulties, or fainting and having accidents from wearing masks. Use common sense if you must wear a mask!

Our bodies are constantly in contact with microbes of many types, with most being benign or harmless or even beneficial to us! Only a few can cause infections. We cannot prevent contact with all of these microbes, hence it is best to focus instead on strengthening your immune system!

One possible benefit for wearing masks, however, is that those people participating in the recent BLM riots in the US and elsewhere were not likely to be able to be identified on CCTV cameras and therefore get away with their crimes. Perhaps similarly, those wearing masks might be able to evade the increasing number of facial recognition cameras and tracking systems that are being rolled out at the moment.
 
Some final questions to ponder:
  1. If the 1.5m social distancing recommendation works, then why do we now need masks 4 months into the plandemic?
  2. If masks work, then why do we still need to social distance ourselves?
  3. If both social distancing and masks work, then why do we still need the lockdowns?

The use of masks to prevent contracting a respiratory infection like the coronavirus or others, appears questionable based on evidence from published studies. Since both social distancing and masks don't work, the government recommendations to follow these instructions are all about compliance, and not for your protection or health.
 
 
References:
 Centers of Disease Control (CDC). (2020a). Understanding the difference: surgical mask vs N95 respirator. Retrieved 1st July 2020 from https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/UnderstandDifferenceInfographic-508.pdf

Centers of Disease Control (CDC). (2020b). Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings. Retrieved 4th July 2020 from https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cloth-face-cover-guidance.html

Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (2020). N95 Respirators, Surgical Masks, and Face Masks. Retrieved 1st July 2020 from https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/personal-protective-equipment-infection-control/n95-respirators-surgical-masks-and-face-masks

Healthline. (2020). A Certain Type of N95 Mask May Do More Harm Than Good. Retrieved 1st July 2020 from https://www.healthline.com/health-news/certain-type-n95-mask-harm-covid19-spread

Klompas, M., Morris, C.A., Sinclair, J., Pearson, M., & Shenoy, E.S. (2020). Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era. New England Journal of Medicine, 382: e63. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2006372

MacIntyre, C.R., Seale, H., Dung, T.C., Hien, N.T., Nga, P.T., Chughtai, A.A., Rahman, B., Dwyer, D.E., Wang. Q. (2015). A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers. BMJ Open, 5 (4): e006577. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006577

MacIntyre, C.R. & Chughtai, A.A. (2020). A rapid systematic review of the efficacy of face masks and respirators against coronaviruses and other respiratory transmissible viruses for the community, healthcare workers and sick patients. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 108: 103629. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103629
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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:
  1. The microorganism must be present in every case of the disease (or infection)
  2. The microorganism must be isolated from the host with the disease and grown in pure culture
  3. The specific disease must be reproduced when a pure culture of the microorganism is inoculated into a healthy susceptible host
  4. 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
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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.
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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?
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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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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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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.
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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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Shocking results in investigation into vaccine ingredients

28/2/2019

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I write articles relevant to various health topics, based on published research which I read regularly, or on health topics in the news, or occasionally on health issues which are NOT in the news but should be!

One of the topics which I don't write a lot on, because it is such an emotive and controversial area, is to do with vaccines. This is because people on both sides of the fence can be more than a little enthusiastic (!) about their beliefs.

But this topic, I believe, is a very important one to read, think and talk about. So when some major vaccine research or issue is released,  but doesn't make it to any of the news media, one has to ask why... like in this case.

An independent Italian research group, called Corvelva, have recently been investigating many of the current-day vaccines and their ingredients, and they have released some astonishing findings on a couple of vaccines in early 2019. They will release more reports soon.

I will summarise their findings here.

Infanrix Hexa
This is one of the childhood vaccines, covering 6 possible infections in the one shot, including diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis B, haemophylus influenzae B (flu), and Poliomyelitis 1-2-3 (polio). Corvelva found the following in the current Infanrix Hexa vaccine:
- NO individual bacterial or viral antigens for ANY of the 6 microbes that this vaccine is supposed to protect you with! NOTHING! Not a sausage!

However they did find:
- An unknown polymer which combines all protein antigens into a single compound, which makes it impossible for the immune system to identify each antigen and therefore produce antibodies against any or all of the antigens.
- 65 other chemical contaminants, of which only 35% are known.
- Many various other bacteria, parasites (including Blastocystis!) and fungi.
- Lactose - the sugar found in milk. Now you know why people develop dairy allergies and intolerances...
- Various medical drugs, including benzodiazepines (a depressant or tranquiliser drug), malaria medication, antibiotics, and more.

                    
Gardasil 9 vaccine
Corvelva have found the following in the current Gardasil 9 (ie HPV) vaccine:

- Various bacteria and yeasts from laboratory contamination. In fact 54% of the DNA in this vaccine was from over 2 dozen other bacteria, parasite and yeast microbes which shouldn't be there!
- Human and mouse DNA. This can increase the risk of autoimmune conditions by causing immune system dysfunction.
- HPV virus DNA fragments - which are not intended parts of the vaccine per se. These are more contaminants which may be able to be integrated into your DNA and cause autoimmune reactions.
- Molluscum contagiosum virus - a type of pox virus which causes skin blemishes and rashes, now quite common but not so much in the past. Now you know why there's more of it around...
- Other retroviruses - which can become integrated into your DNA, can cause genetic mutations and cancers. This includes Human endogenous retrovirus K, L-BC virus, narnavirus, infectious equine anaemia virus, all which were found in this vaccine.
- Mouse leukaemia virus - which causes a white blood cell cancer.

The premise of vaccinations is that the immune system will mount a response against the simulated infection in the vaccine. In reality, the immune system mounts a response against ALL ingredients in a vaccine, including various adjuvants and excipients such as lactose, egg, peanut oil, aluminium, and various other microbes, including unintended (or are they?!) and often live bacteria and viruses, which can actually cause more infections after the vaccination, or actually cause the infection which the vaccine is supposedly trying to prevent. This discovery by Corvelvo scientists may explain why we are still seeing people getting these diseases, or still seeing more of these diseases and infections when 95% or more of the population (the increasingly increased "herd immunity level") are supposedly vaccinated.

But not all vaccines will result in antibodies being produced in all people! This is why some vaccines need 2-3 shots, as they don't "immunise" enough people with just one shot. And even after the full course, some people are still not "immune". Conversely, some people have reactions to vaccines, some with some minor symptoms, many with serious conditions (nervous system issues, chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, and many other symptoms), and many also die from them. In fact, studies show the death rate from many vaccines is up to 100 times higher than the actual death rate of the actual infection being prevented.

Our current health industry is allegedly built on the belief that vaccines are the only things which have kept us alive for millions of years, despite commercial vaccines only being around for less than 100 years! It is ONLY your immune system which can really protect you from any and all infections! And it does that well, providing you look after your immune system by eating well, getting enough sleep, reducing stress, and many other things you can do to look after your body.

Science is NEVER settled! Science does not have all the answers.  Science is always changing or offering new truths! The purpose of science is to question popular beliefs and perceptions, and investigate independently and thoroughly in the search for truth, using sound and proven scientific principles. Sadly this doesn't happen much any more, with studies frequently being retracted due to poor study design, bias, shonky statistics, and corruption by being funded by the company or industry which benefits from a favourable outcome. There's also no independent checking of medications or vaccines before products are approved for use. Perhaps the Corvelva investigations will be the start of this.

To complicate matters, governments around the world are mandating compulsory vaccinations for everyone, while the same governments (and social media tools) are preventing any discussion or sharing of scientific studies which show the risks or safety issues from vaccinations. That is fascism...

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food intolerances or sensitivities can cause chronic issues

24/2/2019

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I see a lot of people, mostly children, with intolerances and sensitivities to any number of foods, food ingredients or environmental  substances. The number of people with such intolerances or sensitivities appears to be increasing at a rapid rate. So what might be causing these issues?

But firstly, what are some symptoms to look out for in yourself or your children?

Common symptoms of intolerances and sensitivities can include:
- constant or recurring runny nose, and having to blow nose frequently
- clearing of throat by coughing frequently, especially after waking in the morning
- sinus infections or pressure
- frequent tummy upsets, with sudden or frequent diarrhoea
- bloating of lower abdomen and lots of gas/flatulence
- frequent infections such as throat infections, colds and flu
- foul or smelly breath
- frequent enlarged or infected tonsils and adenoid glands, or had them removed due to being enlarged
- skin rashes, eczema, or itchy skin
- having a horizontal crease across the lower part of the nose
- sunken and/or dark circles under the eyes, as shown in the meme photo.

Many people think that these intolerances are "allergies" and use this term to describe the reactions or symptoms they see. Allergies and intolerances are both immune system reactions to triggering substances, but they are very different! Intolerances such as to dairy or gluten (as in Coeliac Disease) are an IgG immune system response, whereas allergies are a more severe IgE response.

People also believe that if you avoid the food or substance that you are intolerant to in the same way as for allergies - ie, complete avoidance, you actually have a high risk of developing new intolerances to MORE substances. I've seen this in some clients and in published research.

Hence intolerances need to be treated quite differently to allergies! In addition, failure to identify various intolerances and act on them can result in ongoing symptoms and development of chronic health conditions.

Because of the delayed reaction of symptoms  appearing with intolerances, it can be very difficult to identify what are your individual triggers! But there are some very good pathology tests using blood or hair samples which can identify 50-500 different food and environmental triggers which cause intolerance symptoms. Bear in mind that allergy tests will not identify intolerances or vice versa.

If you see the "allergy shiners" under your eyes or other intolerance symptoms or in your children or family, please look into getting an intolerance test to identify what is causing these issues, and then make some adjustments to  dietary intake or lifestyle to reduce exposure, to improve health! I can help with testing and recommendations from the test results!

Do you have any known intolerances and what are they? Or do you suspect some intolerances but are not sure what is causing them?
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