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Seven Reasons Why Being Dead Is Actually Good For You. (credit: @NoHealthNoFun)

If You Don’t Catch Every Virus, How Are You Going To Train Your Immune Memory To Stop You Catching Every Virus?

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If you have Long COVID, it is absolutely worth mitigating against reinfection. At 4 years post discharge, reinfection and older age were associated with persistent symptoms.👇 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4/e…

Professor Chris Ponting on the 116 blood molecule differences his team found in people with #MECFS “This is not a psychological disease” people did not alter their blood molecules just to “spook the psychiatrists”. Clip from @hope4mefibroni 2026

Holy Molly from 2020 🤯 Now it's 2026 and we're just pretending the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic over!. So where are the effective therapeutics and vaccines that prevent transmission? Why does it feel like the majority of people were deceived, misled, information omitted and given incomplete information? S2🦠has been downplayed for half a decade+ in the push to return to “Normal” or what some are now calling the “New Normal™️" But it's not normal...... Not even close! This is absolutely the largest public health failures in history, tens of millions of lives lost and literally hundreds of millions of futures stolen! Understanding Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Charu Kaushic July 6, 2020 👇👇 rsc-src.ca/en/voices/unde… @ipac @GovCanHealth @fordnation @MarkJCarney Truth, those in power decided it was easier to label the "Final exit strategy" as too difficult, too expensive, or too time-consuming, so they shelved it and moved on. Instead of choosing the harder path that required foresight, discipline, and accountability, they took the fastest, most convenient route and hoped no one would notice the long-term cost. It was never about what couldn’t be done, it was about what they were unwilling to do. And now the consequences are catching up. Turns out it was never ‘final exit strategy’ just the reset button dressed up as progress. 👇👇👇 We all pay! oecd.org/en/publication… #LongCovid #SARS2 #Covid19 #Duped #FinalExit™️ #GreatReset 🔴

Covid is robbing our children of a future. Plain and simple. Covid is not mild, there has never been any proof to show it is. We can either adjust now or write off the future for millions of kids. #health #sick #teacher #love #kids

Patient: Why am I so tired? Doctor: You're just anxious. Anxiety can do that. Patient: OK, you said you tested everything, and everything is normal. But did you test whether my mitochondria are swollen, full of holes, or missing their cristae? Doctor: That's not a th—

I've been hearing that NO for six years. Every time I hear it, I feel despair. Reality is defined by what exists, not by what we agree on. The progressive, cumulative damage that SARS-CoV-2 causes to all our organs is well documented in 500,000 studies and, by definition, real.

It's true, COVID-19 is a VASCULAR disease. It damages every inch of all blood vessels in the body, plus all ACE2 rich areas & organs. Fight to #CleanTheAir everywhere. Until the Air is cleaned, #WearAMask!

Just saw an animated commercial on a US TV network about Long Covid. It's by the Washington Department of Health. Most govts. haven't even mentioned anything about Long Covid and many of the public are so unaware of the symptoms. This is a good start. doh.wa.gov/emergencies/co…

Could COVID leave a long-term cancer risk signal? ➡️ New research suggests SARS-CoV-2 may create a pro-tumor environment in the lungs via its spike protein. Key finding: 👉 COVID survivors had a modestly increased risk of lung cancer • ~22% relative increase • Higher risk in smokers ⚠️ Absolute risk remains small 1/

As a Covid-Conscious therapist, I really hate Covid-denying therapists. They make my work and life harder, they endanger the clientele I work with, and they’re generally perpetuating harm in their communities.

Erythritol is in every keto protein bar, every "zero sugar" energy drink, and every stevia packet on your table. The FDA approved it in 2001. A $275 million market. And researchers just watched it destroy brain blood vessel cells in three hours at the dose you get from a single drink. Here's what happened at the cellular level. University of Colorado Boulder exposed human brain microvascular endothelial cells to 6 millimolar erythritol, the concentration in one sugar-free beverage. Reactive oxygen species production doubled. Nitric oxide, the molecule that keeps your blood vessels relaxed and open, dropped 20%. Endothelin-1, the most potent vasoconstrictor your endothelium produces, jumped 30%. And when they challenged the cells with thrombin to simulate a clotting event, the cells' ability to produce t-PA, the enzyme that dissolves blood clots, was completely blunted. Less vessel relaxation. More vessel constriction. Worse clot-busting capacity. That's three independent pathways to stroke, all triggered by a single serving. This isn't the first signal. Cleveland Clinic tracked 4,000+ patients in 2023 and found those with the highest blood erythritol levels were roughly twice as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke over three years. Two times the risk. On par with diabetes as a cardiac risk factor. And erythritol doesn't metabolize. Your body absorbs it in the small intestine, dumps it into the bloodstream, and excretes it through urine almost completely intact. Every serving stacks on the last one. The population most aggressively consuming erythritol, people with obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome, is the exact population with the highest baseline cardiovascular risk. The sweetener marketed as their safe alternative may be compounding the problem it was sold to solve.

One patient - a healthy 30-year-old man - collapsed during exercise due to cardiac arrest. He had no blocked arteries and no heart disease history. Biopsy revealed severe mitochondrial damage and mild myocarditis. He was 5 weeks post-COVID at the time.

This is the new official CDC map for California COVlD data. They are no longer just using confusing shades of blue; it is now readily informative where there are spikes. Anyone could easily share a graphic like this in their home state every week!

You can’t recover from an ongoing crisis by ignoring its acute & long lasting impacts. The pandemic is not over. economist.com/international/…

This is actually pretty common. Like employment statistics that only count the unemployed still actively seeking work and not those who have given up trying, stats that show chronic illnesses as resolved often fail to capture those who gave up asking for help that didn’t work.

Your health insurance company is required by law to spend most of your premium on your actual care. It’s called the Medical Loss Ratio rule. Sounds like it protects you, right? Here’s what they actually do with it. The big insurers bought up their own pharmacies, their own doctor groups, their own clinics. Then they pay those subsidiaries — companies they own — and count it as “medical spending.” UnitedHealth alone projects $165 billion this year flowing between its own subsidiaries. Technically compliant. Actually a shell game.

for those who have figuratively washed their hands of covid, keep this in mind about the infamous m-word.