spinningmagnets said:
It's been bizarre to watch the public reaction to Ivermectin. That's why I started this thread.
Same here.
spinningmagnets said:
The Metformin gave us a new baseline of "not getting worse", but there were no improvements until we did our own research and implemented these other things.
Good on you. I'd been previously maimed 3 times by doctors when my failing carbohydrate metabolism crossed the 'type 2 diabetes line'. Also, i had spent 4 years of being given completely random diagnoses for my arthritis problems. I had lost my faith in the system by then.
A 1 year long research rampage into the mechanics of the human metabolism lead me to early scientific papers on the Ketogenic diet in 2013. And the mechanisms behind how the ketogenic diet worked made complete sense for the first time in about 5 years of reading research on diet. It sounded crazy..... but it made logical sense.
Everyone told me i was out of my mind and that i'd die from a heart attack. I wanted them to read this evidence, but they wouldn't. The misinformation from big med was flooding out good information back then. The only place where you saw a Ketogenic diet was awesome.. was in personal experience reports and a small number of scientific research papers.
I took the leap, and it changed my life in many more ways than i expected. I have been 100% absent of ALL clinical signs of type 2 diabetes for 9 years.
Lately, big med has turned a 180. In the last two years, the leadership of the AHA and ADA now admit that a ketogenic diet has incredible value, but they are yet to apologize for the 7 decade long misinformation for profit scheme they engaged in.
And these organizations ARE primarily 'sponsored' by drug companies. These organizations also control information related to the diseases they're addressing, and also are considered to have "authority". That makes the primary distributors of health information to the public and doctors an extension of big pharm's wants and needs. Kind of a problem!
How'd we do a 180? the hot pharmaceutical drug of the day for treating heart failure and type 2 diabetes is
Jardiance. How does Jardiance work? it forces one to urinate out all their sugar, and therefore forces a ketogenic metabolic state. In the research that explains how it reverses heart failure, the stated beneficial mechanism is that it makes the heart run more efficiently since it's now running on ketones ( a product of fat metabolism ) instead of glucose.
Jardiance is proof that big med and big diet have been lying to the average person about how human biology works for >7 decades.
Jardiance was the straw that recently broke the back of:
Novo Nordisk: CEO quit to start a new company focusing on actually treating T2D instead of stringing people along forever with insulin; he stated he has to follow his conscience, and the old business model is probably dead.
American Diabetes Association: Hired a new president, new president does keto herself after medication failing her, and thus the ADA has done a full 180 and now actually promotes a ketogenic diet.
And last.. the
American Heart Association this year decided that they could not lie anymore, and just entered the slow admission phase that the ideas their association was built on to support certain industries were lies.
The lies were not an accident. When you *actually* look at the best research that shows 'fat is bad for you', every time, you will see flaws in the study that are likely intentional. The studies were designed to show a certain outcome. There is still zero smoking-gun level proof that fat is bad for you! But Jardiance's mechanism of action is smoking gun proof that a ketogenic diet is indisputably the best thing for the heart and metabolic system.
A good friend of mine ran an early pro keto blog. A year after i heard his message, the north carolina medical board tried to sue him into the ground for 'practicing medicine without a license' because he told people the ketogenic diet can save you from diabetes, and he also posted scads of proof in the form of blood test results. A libertarian free-speech organization took up his case, and thankfully, he won.
https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/n-c-caveman-blogger-wins-a-round-in-federal-court/
Steve told the world the truth, and pissed off some people who wanted to make money, and their first impulse was to silence him through the use of government force. Period. Steve had overwhelming evidence that keto could save millions of lives a year. That didn't matter. They decided to try to make an example of Steve to send a chilling effect.
The same exact tactics have been used against Ivermectin, but worse.
There was a lot of money big pharma could have made. And successful clinical trials and proof of efficacy of Ivermectin would have denied big pharm and big med from tremendous levels of profits from selling novel medications and vaccines.
The story with HCQ is even more suspicious. HCQ has some efficacy in clinical trials and in real life practice. The efficacy was 'better than nothing', which was the bar we wanted to cross in early 2020. It actually had emergency use authorization for a month, and probably some lives were saved due to it. But it was pulled, and government research into treatments basically came to a standstill in the course of 1 month.... right before the vaccine was introduced. Interesting timing, huh?
Large, high quality clinical trials on Ivermectin were cancelled, or are stalled to this day in the western world.
Development, production of other treatments such as monoclonal antibodies was hampered.
With all the treatment options whittled down to almost nothing.. and your doctor being under threat of losing his profession from straying the course.. and speech being suppressed en-masse.. we went through 1.5 years of 'the vaccine is the only possible solution'.
This was a big and very noticeable grift, and a lot of people in high places are now openly questioning it, freedom of information act requests are being filed, and the public is receiving this kind of 'slow controlled burn' admission that governments and pharmaceutical corporations were in the wrong. But of course, nobody is going to jail.
I would say that vaccines did save lives, but good treatments would have saved many more. The United States had literally the worst hospital treatment outcomes in the world as a result of this approach. We did worse than India and Africa! Also, during omicron, some 3 year old vaccines didn't show the promised efficacy at all, to a point where they would not meet ANY kind of drug/vaccine approval bar.. but what did our system do? just ignore that fact and keep selling/pushing it.
The people engaged in this scheme have a hell of a lot of blood on their hands.
I only hope the average American citizen 'healthcare consumer' is at least somewhat awakened to the nature of how corrupt our system is. It's so corrupt that it doesn't function as a healthcare system anymore. It functions more as a profit scheme, where the treatment is always the 'subscription model' to a pharmaceutical drug with ever increasing prices, who could produce you cheap medication that cures you permanently, but operate in a economic and regulatory environment that makes it so that
if they wanted to produce very good treatments, they would go out of business, or their competitors, using misinformation, and government force, would ensure that they went out of business, if they were unable to buy and shelve their new technologies.
