Ulrich van Puffelen

Here is the mechanism your doctor never explained. Insulin is not just a blood sugar hormone. It is a sodium retention hormone. When you are insulin resistant, your pancreas compensates by pumping out more insulin. That excess insulin acts directly on your kidneys through the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and tells them to reabsorb sodium instead of excreting it. Sodium holds water. Water increases blood volume. Increased blood volume raises pressure. This is not theory. This is published physiology. And it explains why roughly 70% of the risk for essential hypertension is attributable to being metabolically impaired. The problem is not the salt shaker on your table. The problem is the insulin your doctor never measured. Hypertension (AHA), 2019. Biomedicines, 2022.

I grew up being told salt was the enemy. Every doctor. Every label. Every guideline. Cut the salt. It causes high blood pressure. It causes heart disease. Put down the shaker. I believed it for 40 years. Then I looked at the data. A meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Hypertension tracked sodium intake across thousands of people and found something the guidelines never mention: a J-curve. People eating LOW sodium had HIGHER all-cause mortality than people eating moderate amounts. Not the same. Higher. Dying more. The optimal range for sodium sits between roughly 2,500 and 4,500 mg per day. That’s where mortality is lowest. The AHA recommended limit? 2,300 mg per day. They put the guideline in the danger zone. And the blood pressure benefit of cutting salt? A meta-analysis of 17 randomized controlled trials found that cutting 6 grams of salt per day lowers systolic blood pressure by 3.5 mmHg in people with normal blood pressure. Three and a half points. For a lifetime of restricting an essential mineral your body needs for nerve function, muscle contraction, and cellular transport. Meanwhile, fixing insulin resistance can drop systolic blood pressure by 20 to 30 mmHg. Because insulin tells your kidneys to hold onto sodium and water. The problem was never how much salt you eat. It’s how much insulin is telling your kidneys to keep. My blood pressure at 52 was 130/70. Today it’s 112/60. I never cut salt. I fixed the insulin. Salt was never the villain. It was the scapegoat. The real villain is a metabolic system broken by ultra-processed food and a medical system that found it easier to blame the shaker than fix the cause. Graudal et al., Am J Hypertension, 2014. He & MacGregor, J Human Hypertension, 2002.

I asked my doctor why my blood pressure was 130/70. He said it was normal. Borderline at worst. Nothing to worry about. He never mentioned insulin resistance. Not once. Here is what I found when I looked for myself. Insulin resistance attacks your arteries from two directions at the same time. On one side, it destroys nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is the molecule your endothelial cells produce to relax and open your arteries. When insulin resistance impairs the pathway that produces it, your arteries lose the ability to dilate. They stiffen. On the other side, it increases endothelin-1. This is one of the most powerful vasoconstrictors in the human body. Your arteries are being actively squeezed shut from the outside. Loss of relaxation on one side. Active constriction on the other. At the same time. In the same vessel. That is why blood pressure rises. Not because you ate too much salt. Because your metabolic system is under siege and your arteries are paying the price. Your doctor checks the number. Writes a prescription. The pill forces the vessel open. But the insulin resistance that caused it is still there. The nitric oxide is still depleted. The endothelin-1 is still elevated. Nothing was fixed. Stop the medication and the number goes right back up. Because the cause was never addressed. I fixed the insulin resistance. My blood pressure went from 130/70 to 112/60. Zero medication. The number didn’t fall because I treated it. It fell because the attack stopped. Ask your doctor to test your fasting insulin and HOMA-IR. If those numbers are high, you just found the cause of your blood pressure. And the cause is fixable.

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A registered nurse with 30 years of experience treating chronic pain says she saw “TEN TIMES” the positive effects after combining DMSO with castor oil for her peripheral neuropathy. Castor oil already has anti-inflammatory properties. But adding DMSO is where she says it “got interesting.” That’s because DMSO “isn’t just a treatment, it’s a carrier,” Danielle Minetti explained. “It can pull medications and nutrients right through the skin barrier deep into the body.” When Danielle combined it with castor oil, she says the results increased “ten times.” DMSO acted as the delivery system, carrying the castor oil deeper into the areas where she needed relief most. But DMSO’s potential extends far beyond peripheral neuropathy. And if you’re one of the 5 million Americans living with carpal tunnel syndrome, this is where the DMSO story gets really interesting. Because it turns out carpal tunnel may not be caused by overuse after all. 🧵

I walked into my doctor’s office every year for 20 years. Every year he checked my fasting glucose. Every year it came back normal. 88. 90. 91. 92. Every year he said the same thing: “Everything looks great.” I had a heart attack at 52 on the tennis court. Here is what I learnt: What he never checked was what my glucose was doing after I ate. I didn’t know that I was spiking to 160 or 170 after meals. I didn’t know my genetics were wired to delay my insulin response just long enough for glucose to flood my arteries before it came back down. By the time I got to my next morning blood draw, everything had returned to normal. The spike was invisible. But the damage wasn’t. Every spike generates reactive oxygen species inside the cells lining your arteries. Every spike destroys nitric oxide. Every spike triggers inflammation and pulls immune cells into the artery wall. Do that 3 to 5 times a day for 20 years and you’ve hit your arteries with 30,000 glucose spikes. All while your fasting glucose said you were fine. The Whitehall Study followed 17,869 people for 33 years and found a direct linear relationship between post-meal glucose and coronary heart disease death. Not fasting glucose. Post-meal glucose. The Funagata Study confirmed it: impaired glucose tolerance predicted cardiovascular death. Impaired fasting glucose did not. I wish someone had put a CGM on me at 35. Two weeks would have shown me what 20 years of annual physicals never did. If you’ve never worn one, try it. You don’t need a diagnosis. You don’t need a prescription. Wear it for 14 days. Eat your normal diet. Watch what actually happens after you eat. The truth is in the data your doctor never collects.

@thatdayin1992 What does “human right” mean, is a homeless person entitled to other people’s labour to build him a house?

Counterpoint: Nobody should be homeless. Having a home should be a human right.

This is a recent update from the man with terminal COPD who was able to cure it with nebulized DMSO. He is mostly recovered now and his doctor admits he's improved Many more readers have now reported similar results for asthma, severe COPD and other "incurable" lung disease.🧵

At ninety-eight, Fred Kummerow sued the Food and Drug Administration. He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, born in Germany, and he had been trying to get someone to listen for a very long time. In 1957 he took samples from the arteries of people who had died of heart attacks and identified what was clogging them: trans fat, the artificial kind made by pumping hydrogen through cheap vegetable oil to turn it solid. The margarine and shortening the new dietary advice was busy recommending in place of butter and lard were full of it. He published the finding in Science. He fed the stuff to pigs and watched the lesions form in their arteries too. And he said so, plainly, for decades, while the food pyramid pointed the other way and the money stayed with the cheap solid fat that never went off on a shelf. The scale of it is worth stating plainly. By the time the ban finally arrived, artificial trans fats were being linked to something on the order of tens of thousands of American deaths a year. Kummerow was heckled by industry men at scientific conferences for daring to say so. Here was one biochemist, armed with a hospital's worth of diseased arteries and a lab full of pigs, up against an entire manufacturing sector whose cheapest and most convenient fat he was trying to condemn, and the sector had the ear of the regulator while he did not. They did not listen. The oil was profitable and convenient and the story had already been sold. So in 2009, aged ninety-four, he filed a formal petition asking the FDA to act. Three years passed and they did not answer it. So in 2013, a few weeks short of ninety-nine, he took the federal government to court for ignoring him. Two years later the FDA finally moved to ban artificial trans fats from the American food supply. Kummerow lived to see it. He died in 2017 at the age of a hundred and two, of the arteriosclerosis he had spent sixty years warning the country about. The fat he identified stayed in the food for another half century after he found it, because taking it out cost money and leaving it in did not. He was right in 1957. They agreed with him in 2015. Nobody has ever explained the years in between.

🚨 Dr. William Makis just dropped his updated Ivermectin & Fenbendazole Cancer Protocol. And people are losing their minds. Not because it's controversial. Because it gives real answers. Here's the truth: Most protocols treat every cancer the same. Dr. Makis says that's a mistake. A patient in remission ≠ a patient with widespread metastases. A slow-growing tumor ≠ aggressive brain cancer. So he designed FOUR dosing levels. Not one. Four. 👇 🟢 LOW DOSE Ivermectin: ≤ 0.5 mg/kg – 3x per week Fenbendazole: 222 mg/day – 3 days on, 4 off Best for: Remission support, prevention, strong family history, higher risk individuals. 🟡 MEDIUM DOSE Ivermectin: 1.0 mg/kg – daily Fenbendazole: 222 mg/day – 6 days per week Best for: Most active cancers – common starting approach. 🔵 HIGH DOSE Ivermectin: 2.0 mg/kg – daily Fenbendazole: 444 mg/day – 6 days per week Best for: Aggressive cancers, brain cancer, leukemia, pancreatic cancer. 🔴 VERY HIGH DOSE Ivermectin: ≥ 2.5 mg/kg – daily Fenbendazole: 888-1000 mg/day – 6 days per week Best for: Extensive metastatic disease, poor prognosis cases. 💡 Why is this different? It's not about the numbers. It's about the thinking behind them. Dr. Makis believes cancer isn't one disease. It's many. And a one-size-fits-all approach? That doesn't always make sense. 🔬 The research is growing. Ivermectin and Fenbendazole are being studied for how they interact with: • Cancer metabolism • Cancer stem cells • Mitochondrial function • Tumor signaling pathways • Treatment resistance mechanisms • Cellular energy production One thing is undeniable: More cancer patients, caregivers, and researchers are talking about repurposed medicines today than ever before. And that's exactly why charts like this keep getting shared. 📌 Save this chart. Six months from now, you'll wish you knew where to find it. 🔁 Repost it. Someone researching cancer protocols needs to see this.

There hasn’t been any real innovation in toilets since the carpet-covered toilet and it’s a damn shame.

WE STAND AT THE GATES OF HELL BELIEVING IT IS PARADISE: THE COUP THE MASSES REFUSE TO STOP German philosopher Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, who lived half his life in the GDR and half in unified Germany, delivers a devastating diagnosis that leaves no room for comfort. We are already deep inside a sophisticated coup that dismantles rights and silences opposition without a single pistol being drawn. The same public that once questioned power now accepts division, fear, and speech bans as normal background noise while the West’s long dominance collapses under its own arrogance. Why does no one fight back? THE COUP D'ÉTAT 2.0 IN ACTION ➡️ Wenzel describes a coup d`etat with charming modern features: no tanks in the streets, no violent takeover, just clever blocking of opposition recounts and special decrees that sideline dissent. ➡️ On the EU level, sanctions are weaponized against anyone holding a different opinion, effectively suspending the Grundgesetz for those who refuse to fall in line. ➡️ These are updated versions of 1930s special provisions, executed more skillfully so they look almost legal while stripping away constitutional protections. ➡️ The playbook was rehearsed during Corona politics and then escalated with the Ukraine war, where Germany and the EU have launched zero serious initiatives for peace. ➡️ The result is a permanent coup that operates in plain sight yet remains invisible to a population trained not to see it. THE MYSTERY OF MASS PASSIVITY: WHY THE PEOPLE DO NOT RESIST ➡️ Protest has been systematically discredited and fragmented through divide-and-rule tactics that were perfected during the pandemic. ➡️ Society was split between the compliant and the non-compliant, breaking families, trust, and the very possibility of unified resistance. ➡️ Fear is mobilized by reviving the ghosts of the past, while new thought bans label any critical question about the war as sympathy for the enemy. ➡️ Even those who knew the conflict could have been prevented early on remain silent, because speaking out now feels dangerous or taboo. ➡️ People have been trained to see resistance itself as the greater threat, leaving the coup unchallenged and the public strangely calm. THE DECLINE OF THE WEST: HYBRIS AT THE CULTURAL ENDPOINT ➡️ Western civilization has reached its cultural endpoint, born in the Renaissance from the arrogant belief that it was superior to every other culture and entitled to dominate them. ➡️ This hybris has blinded the West to its own decay, while real momentum and possible solutions now shift toward BRICS nations, Africa, India, and China. ➡️ Wenzel, who experienced the end of the GDR, recognizes the same erosion of serious dialogue and reality here, but with one crucial difference: this time there will be no soft landing. ➡️ The true catastrophe, as Walter Benjamin observed, is not that disaster suddenly arrives but that everything continues as before while the slaughter goes unnoticed. THE BOTTOM LINE Wenzel shows a society that stands at the gates of hell yet still tells itself it is paradise, divided by design, stripped of language, and convinced that nothing can be done. This is how civilizations end: not with a bang, but with the quiet surrender of those who were taught to mistake their own silence for peace. HT: YouTube Patrik Baab

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A SINGLE dose of a newly discovered frog gut bacterium ELIMINATES 100% of cancerous tumors within just a few days in mice. A new landmark study found the natural bacterium Ewingella americana selectively targets, colonizes, and terminates tumors—with NO detectable toxicity. They re-introduced cancer into the cured animals... and the tumors COULD NOT GROW.

A new treatment reactivates the brains natural cleaning system and clears 42 percent of toxic Alzheimers plaque while restoring memory. In Alzheimers disease toxic amyloid-beta proteins accumulate into sticky plaques that impair brain function. New research indicates that this buildup stems not only from excess production but also from a breakdown in the brains waste removal system. Under normal conditions specialized transport pumps known as P-glycoprotein or P-gp at the blood-brain barrier actively remove these toxins from the brain. In Alzheimers patients these pumps lose effectiveness and allow waste to build up. A recent study in ACS Chemical Neuroscience found that a copper-based compound called Cu(ATSM) increased the activity of these clearance pumps by 24.1 percent in animal models. This enhancement enabled the brain to remove trapped toxins and reduced amyloid-beta plaques by 42 percent. The improved waste disposal also produced a 44 percent gain in spatial learning and memory over 56 days. Although the results come from laboratory and animal research and have not yet been tested in humans with Alzheimers, Cu(ATSM) is already under evaluation for other neurological conditions such as Parkinsons and ALS. This existing research may help accelerate future clinical trials. By repairing the brains own waste-disposal system instead of only targeting plaques this approach represents a promising new direction in dementia treatment. [Pyun J et al. Cu(ATSM) Restores Blood–Brain Barrier Abundance of P-Glycoprotein and Improves Cognitive Function in the APP/PS1 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 2026. DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.6c00252]

🚨🚨 Ayuno de agua de 72 días bajo supervisión eliminó la diabetes, normalizó la presión arterial y redujo entre 55 y 60 libras (principalmente grasa visceral abdominal), con retracción de la piel en lugar de piel flácida colgante... Su método preferido de ayuno para la grasa visceral / prediabetes / reversión: - Inicio: 12:12 (12 horas de ayuno, 12 horas de ventana de alimentación) durante 2-3 semanas. - Luego: 18:6 (18 h de ayuno, 6 h de alimentación) - Para casos graves (sobrepeso severo, diabetes tipo 2): ayuno de 48 horas una vez por semana o OMAD (una comida al día) durante 9 días → ayuno de agua de 3 días cada 9 días... Durante los ayunos con agua pura se permite: café negro, té negro, agua con electrolitos (por ejemplo, Element o ½ cucharadita de sal celta al día). ¿Antojos? 1 cucharadita de aceite MCT en agua... Tuvo un paciente que ayunó 183 días (de 400 → a 210 libras) sin ningún problema de piel flácida, una "fisiología totalmente diferente" a la de la restricción calórica... Dr. Pradip Jamnadas.