The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein cross-reacts with eleven human proteins to cause autoimmune diseases

This article features a study that showed the possibility of autoimmune complications from COVID-19 vaccination. I wrote an article about that research on January 24, 2021. One month after the COVID-19 vaccine release. At that time, there were no case reports in the medical journals of COVID-19 vaccine adverse events because it was still early…

Triglyceride-Glucose Index tests for insulin resistance and much more

Insulin resistance is not a good thing.  Insulin resistance is when the liver and skeletal muscles do not respond to insulin, forcing the pancreas to produce more insulin to lower blood sugar.  The problem with high insulin or hyperinsulinemia is that other organs like the fat tissue, liver, muscle, brain, bone, kidneys, and vasculature also…

The problems with Omicron-booster shots

This article talks about the reasons why Dr. Paul Offit voted against the approval of the booster shots designed for the Omicron variant. Dr. Paul Offit is a member of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), which advises the FDA on whether new vaccines should be approved. VRBPAC met on June 28…

Antibiotic resistance: An adverse effect of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on July 12 about the 15% increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria in 2020. The report is COVID-19: U.S. Impact on antimicrobial resistance. In the statement, the C.D.C. said that antibiotics were widely used to treat COVID-19 and bacterial infections during hospitalization. The report does not include the C.D.C.’s…

Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines and measures to prevent them

The Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines and measures to prevent them is a letter to the editor. The Virology Journal published it in June 2022. The author is Kenji Yamamoto from the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Okamura Memorial Hospital. There are 1,404 research papers under his name. Below is the abstract of the letter. I…

Monkeypox detected in semen, feces and saliva

There are now more than 14,000 cases of monkeypox in non-endemic areas globally. 77 New Confirmed #Monkeypox cases Germany ?? Total Cases 14306 (14266 confirmed) ?Visit https://t.co/k2jiW1Lugo for more#monkeypox #MonkeypoxVirus#monkeypocalypse #MPXV #MPX #Monkeypoxalypse #affenpocken pic.twitter.com/elfAf5joFy — Monkeypox Meter (@Monkeypoxmeter) July 20, 2022 A new study from Eurosurveillance detected the monkeypox virus DNA in semen, feces,…

Marburg virus with 90% fatality confirmed in Africa

Update July 20, 2022: The World Health Organization has confirmed Marburg viruses in the two patients who died recently. The Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal received samples from each of the two patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana – both deceased and unrelated – who showed symptoms including diarrhea, fever, nausea, and vomiting….

Will Fasting Make My Muscles Shrink?

This article was first released on March 13, 2019. It is republished with new information. One concern with intermittent fasting is lean muscle may shrink. This article presents two studies that showed that lean mass or muscles are preserved with intermittent fasting. The first study showed that after eight weeks of alternate-day fasting, the muscles…

Triglyceride-glucose index predicts severity of COVID-19

Correction: The formula should include the Logarithm of the product of triglyceride and the fasting glucose level divided by 2. You can go to MDApp for the TyG Index calculator at this LINK. A new way to know the risk for developing severe COVID-19 was published in the Journal of Infection and Public Health in…

Autopsy of a soldier who died of myocarditis after Pfizer COVID vaccination

This article is about the autopsy findings on a 22-year-old soldier from the South Korean military who developed chest pain five days after the first Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine and died seven hours later. On June 13, 2021, 5 days after the first dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination, the patient complained to a colleague of…

A professional athlete who died of fulminant myocarditis after the Moderna jab

The following is a case report from the Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan. The Journal of Cardiology Cases published it on July 4, 2022. [1] A 27-year-old man was transferred to the emergency room in cardiopulmonary arrest. The patient had just received the first dose of the mRNA-1273 severe acute respiratory syndrome…

How to prepare for the inevitable COVID-19 reinfection

No. I’m not scaremongering. There is a high likelihood that the Omicron variant will reinfect many. According to Scientific American, the BA.4 and BA.5 accounted for about 70 percent of new COVID cases in the U.S. as of July 2. Yahoo Finance interviewed Emergency Medicine Attending Physician Dr. Calvin Sun. He said, BA.5 is the…

What is Immune Imprinting and why it is good to know

This article elaborates on immune imprinting that was mentioned in Dr. Robert Malone: Highly Vaccinated Countries have more COVID-19 deaths History Davenport and Hennessy described immune imprinting in their work on antibodies against influenza in 1956. They found that vaccination produces antibodies to strains previously encountered, but antibody response to strains experienced subsequently is relatively poor….

Strokes Associated with COVID-19 vaccines

This article features the literature review of Kakovan and colleagues’ Stroke Associated with COVID-19 Vaccines. The Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases published it in June 2022 The authors from Iran and Denmarkgathered several cases reported from all over the world and sorted them into the types of strokes and the COVID  vaccines that are…

Acute Transverse Myelitis Cases after COVID Vaccinations

This article features several case reports of COVID-19-associated Acute Transverse Myelitis (ATM) following the COVID-19 vaccination. Anatomy Acute Transverse Myelitis is an inflammation of a segment of the whole spinal cord. The spinal cord comes from the brain and is divided into the cervical (neck), thoracic (chest), lumbar (lower back), and sacrococcygeal (tailbone) segments. Spinal…

Noninfectious vaginal ulcers after AstraZeneca COVID shot

An acute non-infectious genital ulcer or Lipschütz ulcer after the AstraZeneca COVID  (Vaxzevria®) vaccine was reported from Hospital de Galdakao-Usansolo, Spain. A 24-year-old woman went to the emergency room with four excruciating ulcers on the labia majora. She had received the vaccine from AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria®) 3 days before. She also had flu-like symptoms with fever…

The Lab Origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus

Professor Jeffrey Sachs chaired the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, which was created to help speed up global, equitable, and lasting solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently Prof. Sachs said something that created shockwaves. I’ll add one provocative statement. We could take it up later. It may shock you, it may not. Or you may say I…

Lower risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and deaths with Intermittent Fasting

Research from the Intermountain Heart Institute in Salt Lake, Utah, showed that subjects who fasted once a month consistently for an average of 40 years had a lower risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality at 11% compared to 28.8% of non-fasters.[1] Intermittent fasting decreases COVID-19 risks in all ages regardless of race or ethnicity, cardiac…

The Benefits of World Hunger. Satire or not?

An old article from the UN Chronicle – The Benefits of World Hunger has been getting much attention lately, and I partly reproduced it below, and you will understand why. Emphases added.  We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing…

The FLCCC I-CARE Early COVID Treatment Protocol

The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) is composed of clinicians who treat COVID-19. They are always at the forefront of formulating treatment protocols for COVID-19, Long Haul Syndrome and Post COVID Vaccine Syndrome. Recently, they updated their early COVID-19 treatment protocol and it is now the I-CARE Early COVID Treatment that I reproduce…