BBC UNVACCINATED DOCUMENTARY – Covid-19 is on the rise again in the UK. After multiple lockdowns and more than 197,000 deaths, experts are warning we’re now entering a fifth wave of the pandemic. So why are around four million adults in the UK still yet to receive a single dose of the vaccine? In this timely, eye-opening investigation Professor Hannah Fry seeks to understand why so many remain unvaccinated against Covid-19.
To fully explore this complex and deeply divisive debate, Hannah brings seven unvaccinated participants together under one roof to unpack long-held opinions, beliefs and fears that have prevented them from getting the vaccine. Together, they meet leading experts, confront the latest science and statistics to emerge in the field, and dissect how misinformation spreads on social media. At the end of the experiment, each contributor is asked if what they have learned has changed their mind, and whether they will now take up the vaccine.
The programme also features the largest UK-wide survey on attitudes to the vaccine since its rollout, conducted by ICM. From a sample size of over 2,500 adults from across the UK, 1,894 were vaccinated and 664 were unvaccinated. The findings shed light on what the biggest barriers to vaccination are for those who remain unvaccinated, as well as attitudes towards Covid-19 information and also misinformation from across the whole sample. For example, it suggests that 27% of all adults are unlikely to want any more Covid vaccines.
With all of the news that’s coming out regarding risks from the C O V I D V A X, I thought I would bring back my greatest achievement: Being one of the first people to warn the public about the risks and harms from the V A X on mainstream media, before it all came out. Now that the truth has come out (and they have very quietly banned them for under 50’s), people aren’t calling me crazy anymore. I am getting so many apologies, people are now coming to me for advice – and the death threats have stopped.
I take pride in being brave enough to speak up about this on the BBC, knowing I could lose my job, family, and friends (which I did). I take pride in being the first and only person to mention the Pf-i-zer documents on the BBC. I’m proud of myself for calling out the 9 pages of adverse reactions which no one is allowed to talk about. I take pride in the numerous messages I receive daily, saying I was the reason people didn’t get injected, or didn’t inject their children – and thanking me for possibly saving their lives.
For changing their mindset, and for making them realise that the government lied to them. That the pharmaceutical industry does not have their best interests at heart. I knew that the documentary was a BBC setup, I knew that they would try to use it to brainwash the masses even more. But I also knew that it would fail massively if I took part in it, so I did. Everyone told me not to, that they’d edit everything I said to make me look stupid. But something told me it would be okay. And I think that was God speaking to me. The constant manipulation and silencing I experienced in that house had a massive effect on me, and I struggled to get through it – but it was something I knew I had to do, and I was able to turn my sadness into strength. A massive shout out to Vicky, who was in there with me and kept me strong. She is the only reason I was able to get through that week without losing my mind completely. You will never understand this, but it was the most difficult thing I’ve ever been through, I will talk more about what they did to me in a separate video. Thank you for all your support
The surgeon who operated on an Italian girl, Camilla Canepa, who died at the age of 18 from the effects of the vaccine, said he has never seen anything like this. “It’s not normal,” he added.
Camilla Canepa was operated on by Gianluigi Zona, director of the neurosurgical and neuro-traumatological clinic of the San Martino hospital: “I had never seen a brain that was affected by such an extensive and severe thrombosis.” The neurosurgeon on duty in San Martino that night was Alessandro d’Andrea, who also called the chief physician to his side at the operating table. “We decided to have a decompression craniotomy, in which the skull is opened to relieve internal pressure.” Zona recounted the experience: “All venous sinuses were blocked with thrombi, a scenario I have never seen in my many years in this profession. Think of the venous sinus as the river in the middle of a valley where several streams converge. If a dam is built in the middle of the watercourse, the river swells and the tributaries can no longer drain at this point, so that the pressure rises upstream.
“I’m neither a virologist, nor an epidemiologist, nor a coroner, but given the image I saw in the girl’s head; it is clear that we are dealing with something that is not normal.” The parents of the 18-year-old who died, told the media: “She had no disease.” Last week, the prosecutor of Genoa, which coordinates the ongoing investigations, will instruct the Pavia coroner to perform the autopsy on the body of Camilla Canepa, the eighteen year old who died after the vaccine. The girl allegedly suffered from chronic platelet deficiency, a “familial autoimmune thrombocytopenia”.
This is what investigators have learned from the first reports of the doctors. But the girl’s family, assisted by the lawyer Angelo Paone, is firm on this point. “Camilla had no disease,” explained their lawyer. Supporting their claim, are two different CT scans. She had undergone the two scans and was discharged after the first one that had not shown the situation of the thrombosis in progress, but immediately transferred to the hospital after the second showing that her health had been compromised. The girl arrived in the emergency room in the Lavagna hospital on June 3, just a week after the AstraZeneca shot. She had complained of severe headaches. Canepa, who was from the town of Sestri Levante in Liguria, was given the jab during a vaccination “open day” for youths over 18. The AstraZeneca jab has been approved for all over-18s, but in Italy it is only recommended for over-60s due to links to several cases of blood clots in younger people. Camilla’s case has raised concerns among young people previously keen to get vaccinated to obtain the Green Pass or vaccine passport enabling them to travel and attend mass events.
What a tragedy but just one of millions around the world. There is a special place reserved for the monsters behind this genocide. Camilla had an “autoimmune disorder” which might have made her ineligible for the vaccine.
The article states she was only 18. May she rest in peace. I have never understood why they forced an age group that had a 99.9 percent survival rate to get inoculated with an experimental .
So many unnecessary deaths. I protected my family from getting the \/, and also could have lost my job over it. How could they give gene therapy to billions of people? I just can’t wrap my head around all of this. Beautiful, young, vibrant lives lost. Anonymous
Known professionally as Nightbirde,[1] was an American singer-songwriter.
Host and judges pay tribute to ‘America’s Got Talent’ contestant who lost battle to cancer. Jane Marczewski, a singer known by her stage name Nightbirde, who earned a legion of followers after being a contestant on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” has died after a battle with cancer, her family confirmed. “We, her family, are devastated by her passing and unimaginable loss,” the Marczewski family said in a statement, provided by NBC. Marczewski fought cancer for four years and died Feb. 19, her family said.
The singer caught the attention of many after delivering a stunning audition last year on “America’s Got Talent,” performing an original song called “It’s OK.” During her performance, she disclosed to the judges that she was battling cancer that had spread to her lungs, spine and liver. She impressed judge Simon Cowell with her positivity and resolve. “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy,” she told the judges. Cowell awarded Marczewski a coveted “golden buzzer,” which advanced her to the next round of competition. She ultimately had to drop out, but during a virtual interview aired on the show, Marczewski said it was “beautiful to see the world welcome that song into their own dark night.”
“I’m overwhelmed by it,” she said, of the reaction to “It’s OK.” “Your voice, your story, and your message touched millions. Nightbirde will always be a member of the ‘AGT’ family. Host Terry Crews and judges Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell also paid tribute on their own social media accounts. “Heart breaking news to hear about @_nightbirde, she was an extraordinary person, so brave, so talented,” Cowell wrote on Twitter. “She made a huge impact on AGT and the world. Her determination to fight this terrible illness was remarkable. Rest in peace, Jane. I am sending my love to her family.” Her family added in their statement that those who knew Marczewski “enjoyed her larger-than-life personality and sense of humor.”
“She had a witty joke for every occasion – even if the joke was on her,” her family added. “Her lasting legacy will be the gift of hope she gave to so many through her music and the strength she found in Jesus. We thank everyone for their messages of love and support.” Previously having released two EPs and several singles, Nightbirde auditioned on America’s Got Talent in 2021, where she received a Golden Buzzer for her original song “It’s OK”.[2] However, she decided to withdraw from AGT before the quarterfinals, because of worsening health due to cancer.[3] Marczewski died on February 19, 2022, after keeping the battle with cancer a secret. She was 31 years old.[4][5]
Music career Marczewski uploaded her first songs, and gave her first live performance in 2011, while a student at Liberty University.[17] She released a three-song EP in 2012, called Lines, on which she sang and played acoustic guitar.[10][16] In 2013, she released Ocean & Sky, a six-song EP that she funded on Kickstarter.[14] Remaining in Lynchburg after graduating, Marczewski was a popular performer locally.[17] She returned to Ohio in 2014, and following her marriage, moved in 2015 to Nashville, Tennessee (where she later resumed performing under her married name, Jane Claudio, with her husband acting as her producer).[18]
Credited as Jane Marczewski-Claudio, she contributed music for the 2015 documentary film, Leonard Knight: A Man & His Mountain.[19] Nightbirde adopted her professional stage name based on a recurring dream, in which birds sang outside her window at night in anticipation of the morning.[20] She explained: “It felt so poetic that these birds were singing as if it were morning, and yet there was no sign of it yet, and that’s what I want to embody.”[21] When asked the meaning behind her name by a fan on Instagram, Nightbirde responded: Woke up in the night three times, dreaming of birds singing in the dark. The third time, I went to the window and they were there singing morning songs at 3am. I wanted to be one of them singing as if it was morning, though I couldn’t see it yet.[22]
Nightbirde peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard“Emerging Artists” chart in June 2021.[26] Her song “New Year’s Eve (The Remix)” peaked at No. 14 on iTunes in December 2021.[27] It also charted in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.[28][29][30] In March 2022, Nightbirde’s song “It’s OK” appeared during an episode of Good Trouble.[31] Her 2021 song “Brave” was officially released posthumously as a single in April 2022.[32] Her 2019 song “Fly” was officially released as a single by her family on July 4, 2022.[33]
America’s Got Talent
In June 2021, Nightbirde performed during the 16th season auditions on America’s Got Talent. During her appearance, she offered two inspirational statements: 1. It’s important that everyone knows I’m so much more than the bad things that happen to me… 2. You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.[34][35]
Nightbirde subsequently received a Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell for her performance of her original song “It’s OK”.[8][35][36]
The song became No. 1 on iTunes[36][37] and No. 2 trending on YouTube.[15] In August 2021, before she could compete in the show’s quarterfinal round, Nightbirde withdrew from the competition because of worsening health.[15][38][39] Cowell encouraged her not to return to the competition, saying “You don’t need the stress right now.”[40][41] She appeared via remote broadcast during the live quarterfinals of AGT to express gratitude, and gave an update about her health on August 11, 2021.[42][43] In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Cowell said Nightbirde could have gone all the way and been crowned champion, if it had been possible.[44] In July 2022, Cowell ranked his favorite Top 15 Golden Buzzer moments in AGT history during season 17, and Nightbirde placed first.[45]
Personal life Marczewski was married to musician Jeremy Claudio.[18] The couple separated and divorced in 2020, after which she moved from Nashville to Huntington Beach, California (where she was baptized).[7][46] Nightbirde sold merchandise on social media, and raised money for medical expenses via GoFundMe.[47][48] She also wrote poetry and painted prior to her death.[49] Frequently posting, the singer’s final message and selfie to social media was on January 11, 2022.[50]
Health and death Marczewski was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017,[7][17][18] and declared cancer-free in July 2018.[24] Her cancer recurred in 2019,[21] and she was given three to six months to live,[7] but she was again declared cancer-free in 2020.[25][9] Prior to her America’s Got Talent audition, Marczewski was told that the cancer had metastasized to her lungs, spine and liver.[51][1] With only a 2% chance of survival,[35] she gave health updates on CNN and social media.[52][53][54] According to Nightbirde: “I have a two percent chance of survival, but two percent is not zero percent. Two percent is something, and I wish people knew how amazing it is.”[55]
Legacy and honors The Marczewski family created the Nightbirde Foundation (nightbirdefoundation.org), a 501c3 nonprofit that helps encourage and support young women with breast cancer.[62] America’s Got Talent: Extreme also honored Nightbirde at the end of the “Auditions 2” episode on February 28, 2022. A title card with a photo of her read: “In Memory of Jane ‘Nightbirde’ Marczewski”.[63] Inspired by Nightbirde, the Lebanese dance group Mayyas (who received a Golden Buzzer from Sofía Vergara) honored her during the audition episode of AGT’s season 17 on June 21, 2022.[64] Nightbirde’s song “It’s OK” also played in the background, during the beginning and ending of their performance.[65]
An emotional tribute to Nightbirde was highlighted during an America’s Got Talent special on July 5, 2022. Judge Simon Cowell and host Terry Crews featured their favorite Golden Buzzer winners, with Nightbirde being ranked the best moment (No. 1), on the retrospective episode.[66] “There was something really special about Jane. I adored her,” declared “America’s Got Talent” judge Simon Cowell during the July 5 episode that looked back at the Top 15 “AGT” Golden Buzzers of all time. He was referring to Jane Marczewski, known professionally as Nightbirde, who earned the #1 spot on his list. Nightbirde received the coveted honor during the 2021 season thanks to her original song “It’s Okay” about living with cancer. The singer-songwriter later withdrew from the competition due to health complications and passed away six months later at age 31.
On the year-old video, Nightbirde remained hopeful about her condition, telling the “AGT” judges, “It’s important that everyone knows I’m so much more than the bad things that happened to me.” Simon continued on, “What was so special about Jane in my opinion was she was always optimistic. But she recently passed away, which makes this tough. All she ever kept talking about was her music.” After watching Nightbirde finish her performance of “It’s Okay” up on the big screen, Terry and Simon both had trouble speaking. “I don’t know what to say,” Terry stated. Simon instructed someone off-camera, “Give me two seconds.”
SEE ‘America’s Got Talent’: Is Sofia Vergara really a ventriloquist? One of Nightbirde’s most influential quotes was included in the video package: “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.” That’s the moment where Simon decided to push the Golden Buzzer. Watching the scene play out, an emotional Terry noted, “The amazing strength she showed in the midst of incredible adversity, it was a lesson for all of us … I feel like I’m watching an angel.”
“The last time I saw her, she did say what that moment meant to her,” Simon recalled. “All these years she’d been trying to get recognition as a songwriter, as a singer, and in an instant everything changed for her. I promise you, so many people come up to me and talk about what she did, giving people hope and perspective with the lyrics of that song. She typifies what the Golden Buzzer is all about. Watching it back, it makes you feel hopeful. Her Golden Buzzer will live on forever. No one else in my opinion could be number one.”
NBC’s reality TV show ended with this note about Nightbirde’s lasting impact on the world: “Jane’s family has started The Nightbirde Foundation in her memory to help other young women with cancer. NightbirdeFoundation.org
I plan my schedule, so I have some type of outdoor time every day. Samantha Shea had never been outside the US before she started college in 2014. After graduating in 2019, she visited India and Pakistan while developing her travel writing. She moved to Hunza Valley in Northern Pakistan in 2021.
Where she’s lived ever since.
When I tell people from back home that I live in Northern Pakistan, I’m usually met with shock. On moving to Pakistan, Samantha Shea writes: “I avoid the American hustle culture, which I find toxic. The people I meet in Hunza are generally quiet, polite, and respectful. I breathe clean air and eat organic, home-cooked food for every meal.” Samantha Shea had never been outside the US before she started college in 2014.
After graduating in 2019, she visited India and Pakistan while developing her travel writing. When I tell people from back home that I live in Northern Pakistan, I’m usually met with shock.
Their disbelief escalates when I show them pictures of the snow-capped Karakoram Mountain range that surround the village where I live. “I thought Pakistan was a desert” is the most common response. As wrong as they are, I don’t blame them. I didn’t know much about Pakistan before traveling there after college.
I live in Hunza Valley, 8,500 feet above sea level on the border with Western China, where I work as a digital nomad. When I first came to Pakistan in 2019, I was a recent University of Miami grad who’d never lived outside the US.
In Hunza, electricity comes on for only a few hours a day, you walk to the local market if you need anything – Amazon doesn’t deliver to the mountainous valley region – and running hot water isn’t guaranteed.
The valley has, despite these elements, become my home. Here, I don’t lock up my bike or my front door, I can walk everywhere, and my recent major home renovation cost me only $3,000.
Current guidance around traveling to Pakistan. The US travel advice for Pakistan is to avoid traveling to Balochistan province, many parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Indian-Pakistan border because of the potential for terrorist attacks, kidnapping, and armed conflict at the border.
The US government warns that the assistance it can provide citizens traveling in Pakistan is limited because of these security issues. However, I have personally traveled to some of these areas and did not feel unsafe at the time.
Although this doesn’t mean these threats aren’t real and something to consider, many foreign nationals and local Pakistani people travel to the Hunza Valley without incident. Forbes recently named Pakistan an up-and-coming adventure vacation. CN Traveller also awarded Pakistan as their top holiday destination in 2020.
My journey to a remote village in Northern Pakistan.
My love of travel began at college. From 2014 to 2019, I was a student at the University of Miami in Florida. While I loved my school, being by the beach, and Florida’s eternal summer, I never felt settled in Miami.
Because I grew up in suburban Connecticut: the move to a busy city was a big adjustment. It was noisy and fast-paced, and the proximity to crime, common in urban areas, put me on edge. I had never traveled outside the US growing up, but I fell in love with backpacking at college. My trips became more and more offbeat. I was traveling through India the summer before my senior year in 2018 when I decided to pursue a career in travel.
I wanted to become a freelance travel blogger after graduation I worked three part-time jobs while finishing my degree to save up for my indefinite adventure. After graduating in 2019, I set off for India again, traveling around the country and into neighboring Pakistan.
Despite media negativity and concerns from family and friends, I didn’t feel nervous crossing the border from India. I traveled from the historical city of Lahore to the Hindu Kush mountains of Upper Chitral — a region that directly borders Afghanistan — and felt comfortable everywhere I went.
I found it easier and more fun to travel here than in India, a much more “mainstream” backpacking destination. I encountered fewer scammers traveling in Pakistan. I also found Pakistan had less trash on the streets, and the roads were in better condition.
I worked for DoorDash and learned Urdu while waiting out COVID-19 limitations In December 2019, I returned to my family home with the plan to move to Pakistan full time in the spring as a digital nomad.
My plans were halted by COVID-19. I spent the next year learning Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, and delivering for DoorDash. I also finally saw some freelance traction.
I got my first paid byline, increased my blog traffic, and freelanced in content writing and social-media management. I wanted to have established myself as a digital nomad before I left home.
In April 2021, I traveled alone to Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. I hadn’t arranged a guide and had no plan beyond my first few nights at a hostel.
To many, my trip seemed insane, but I was committed.
Why Hunza Valley? My 2021 journey brought me to Hunza Valley for a reason. I’d heard it was well known as the safest destination for solo female travelers, largely due to its liberal culture toward women.
The Gatorade-blue rivers and snow-capped mountains make Hunza a popular tourist destination. The local community is known for its hospitality, and I immediately felt at home – something I’d never felt in big-city America.
The community is welcoming of outsiders — respecting and taking care of guests is a core value here. Before 9/11, there were droves of foreign travelers coming to Hunza, and many locals and their families worked in tourism, so I was welcomed readily.
Hunza is home to a majority Ismaili community, a liberal sect of Islam. Teens hang out in mixed groups, women own restaurants and shops, and it’s common for girls to receive higher education.
I settled in Hunza and have lived here for nearly two years.
Many Westerners I’ve spoken with have trepidations about Pakistan Hunza itself could not be safer. I don’t worry about locking my bike, or even my doors. I’ve never witnessed a crime of any kind, nor any of the terrorist incidents the US State Department warns travelers of.
Barely a day after I’d arrived, I found myself lost on a 5-mile trek I set out on alone. Wandering, I ran into a young male shepherd. He insisted on showing me the route back and carrying my bag.
I kept waiting for “that moment” for which all solo female travelers are on high alert — but it never came. The shepherd was polite and helped me safely find the trail.
I think I felt more comfortable in Hunza than I did in Miami for several reasons: The local cuisine shared many similarities with my Polish grandma’s recipes, I experienced daily peace, and being surrounded by 20,000-foot peaks made me feel like I was positively on another planet.
I didn’t have great WiFi for the first few months of living in Hunza, which was stressful at times. I’ve since found workarounds, but it’s not simple.
The biggest issue is that electricity comes on for only around 5 or 6 hours a day, primarily at night. I knew Northern Pakistan didn’t have great electricity from my 2019 trip to other mountain valleys. Regardless, I always travel with a power bank.
I remember times when the electricity wouldn’t come on as planned and I’d forgotten to charge my devices properly. I found it incredibly stressful, especially if I had a lot of work.
Once, while on a road trip through Upper Chitral, another mountainous region in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, my power bank fell in water and wouldn’t turn on.
I was in an area even more remote than Hunza and knew the power bank likely wasn’t sold anywhere in Pakistan. The bank amazingly came back to life, but I did end up breaking another one a year later.
When these things happen, it makes me miss conveniences like Amazon, but a company called Daraz does manage to deliver plenty of items to Hunza within two or three days.
Power banks and other electronics can also be sourced from other countries via Packr, an app I’ve used several times to receive items from the US.
Now I have a permanent home, I’ve arranged more long-term solutions. I bought a $35 UPS car battery at a local market, which keeps my WiFi router and basic lights working 24/7. I also have two 26,800-mAh Anker power banks as backups, the 2nd of which I purchased after that road-trip scare.
How I live and work in Hunza Valley One month of accommodation costs between $150 and $250 on average — a far cry from the $1,300 I paid in Miami to share an apartment with roommates.
My life in Hunza began in Gojal, the local name for the northern portion of the region. When I arrived, I stayed in hotels. Nowhere I stayed cost more than $15 a night, and if I got a long-stay rate, they averaged closer to $8 a night.
Hunza was slightly more expensive than I thought, especially before I found permanent accommodation. I was shocked by how expensive some hotels were. Budget options are available, but a large portion of Hunza’s tourism caters to the wealthy sector of the domestic market.
This experience has positively influenced my career as a freelancer.
I’ve had my stories published in major media outlets. I also run an Instagram account and a YouTube channel focusing on life here and helping travelers plan their trips.
I now live in Aliabad in central Hunza, the largest town in the district I met my now partner, Fareed, in a local coworking space a few months after I arrived in Hunza. He was born and raised in Hunza and now works in trekking tourism. We’re happily settled in Aliabad in central Hunza, close to my partner’s family, who have become a second family to me.
Aliabad has high-speed fiber-cable Wi-Fi, which makes uploading content or taking Zoom calls easy, and it’s where you’ll find amenities like ATMs, stores, small hospitals, and a few restaurants and shops.
The main roads are paved, but many residential areas have dirt roads. Everything from the doctor to my cellphone provider is within a 15-minute walking radius.
My partner and I moved into a house his parents owned. It had no electricity, flooring, or running water. We recently renovated two rooms and added a bathroom with running water and a Western toilet. It ended up costing about $3,000.
If we were renting, it would cost around 20,000 Pakistani rupees a month, or about $50. Renting might have been cheaper in the short term, but I love having a space all our own.
A meal at a restaurant is usually between $2 for local spots and $7 for Western fare, but cooking at home is much less expensive and often tastier. Wi-Fi costs around $8 for unlimited data each month, and I pay $4 for 10 gigabytes of data for my SIM card.
Hot water is also not a given in Hunza — but an $80 gas-powered water heater solved that, with refills totaling about $20 a month. The electricity that does come is only about $2 a month, and the cold running water, sourced from a glacier, is free.
Aliabad has a cold desert climate. The coldest month is January, with temperatures averaging 25 degrees Fahrenheit. Frequently frozen pipes and a lack of central heating mean winter can be difficult.
Having spent most of my life in Connecticut, I was used to cold, long winters, and I find Hunza’s to be shorter. Winter limits my daily activities, but it almost feels like a cozy hibernation period.
I spend lazy days working by my bukhari — a traditional fireplace. The benefits of living in Hunza Valley far outweigh any negatives. I save thousands each month compared with living in a US city, and my quality of life is infinitely better.
I avoid the American hustle culture, which I find toxic. The people I meet in Hunza are generally quiet, polite, and respectful. I breathe clean air and eat organic, home-cooked food for every meal.
Though my solo journey to Pakistan started as a trip, Hunza Valley is now my home. I’ve even obtained the equivalent of permanent residency. With the money I’ve saved, I hope to travel to other countries, with Hunza as my base. Hunza Valley – Bing images
And now, she’s advocating for others to be proactive about their health. The 44-year-old former E! News correspondent opened up about her experience fighting and beating cancer in a People interview published Wednesday. Her battle arrives as she and husband Keven Undergaro are preparing for the birth of their first child via surrogate. Early detection, she said, saved her. “I need people to know there are places they can go to catch things early,” the “Heal Squad” podcast host told the outlet.
“You can’t let fear get in the way. I had that moment where I thought I was a goner—but I’m okay because I caught this early enough.” Menounos has dealt with a series of health complications: Including a brain tumor half a decade ago, and a type 1 diabetes diagnosis. But she prevailed overall, having the brain tumor removed, and improving her glucose levels by taking insulin and following a specific diet, she told People. She felt she was doing really well by last October.
But a month later, she found herself back in the hospital with abdominal pain and diarrhea. After testing and a CT scan, doctors found nothing.
“They said, ‘Everything’s fine.’ But I kept having pains,” she told People. As her pain continued, she looked for answers and turned to a full-body MRI scan with a company called Prenuvo, which offers scans to the public for a fee. She said the scan found a 3.9 centimeter mass on her pancreas and a biopsy showed that the mass was a Stage 2 pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, which was found to be cancerous. “I’m like ‘How in the freaking world can I have a brain tumor and pancreatic cancer?'” Menounos told People. “All I could think was that I had a baby coming.”
Menounos said she is ‘so lucky’ A pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor has the ability to spread and metastasis but is less common and typically comes with a better prognosis than the more commonly found pancreatic cancer which is rooted in a different kind of tumor called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, James Farrell, gastrointestinal oncology specialist with Yale Cancer Center, told USA TODAY Wednesday. On February 16, Menounos had surgery to remove the mass, a portion of her pancreas, a large fibroid, her spleen and more than a dozen lymph nodes. Menounos does not need additional treatment, just a once yearly scan going forward for five years.
Menounos reiterated her gratitude on Instagram Wednesday. “Obviously, there’s so much to say about this and what I’ve gone through these last few months, and even year,” she wrote. “First, dealing with the diabetes diagnosis last summer, second (my other miracle) preparing for my soon to be newborn baby and third, pancreas cancer. I still haven’t come to grips with it all, including the fact that so very few even survive pancreatic cancer.”
Pancreatic cancer has low survival rates. “The early detection of pancreatic tumors is a key to improving the overall survival for this disease,” Farrell said, noting Menounos was “very lucky” that her tumor was found. Pancreatic cancer makes up 3% of cancer diagnoses in the U.S. and 7% of cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. Pancreatic cancer’s 5-year relative survival rate across all stages is estimated to be 12% based on a number of factors. An estimated 50,550 people will die this year from the disease which claimed the lives of Jerry Springer, Alex Trebek, Aretha Franklin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and other public figures. Steve Jobs – Search (bing.com)
Part of that low rate comes from a lack of cost-effective screenings that can reliably detect cancer in people without notable symptoms, making it difficult to diagnose. “The majority of pancreatic tumors present at a stage that they cannot be removed surgically which offers the best chance of cure,” Farrell said. Because the pancreas is located deep in the abdomen, pancreatic tumors may develop and grow for a period before people become symptomatic. And most symptoms are not specific to the pancreas, Farrell said pointing to abdominal pain, back pain, jaundice, weight loss and depression adding that some patients present with pancreatitis or newly onset diabetes which could result in further investigation to rule out a pancreatic tumor. Most cases are diagnosed at advanced stages when the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. Most people diagnosed with the cancer are not candidates for surgery because the cancer has metastasized – spread outside of the pancreas to other parts of the body.
What to know about Prunovo MRI scans Prenuvo, the company Menounos credited for finding the mass, offers body scans starting at $999. A full-body scan costs $2499. Booking is available through the company website with locations in New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and a couple of other major cities, too, with additional facilities in more cities set to open within this year and next. “This is not a new concept of people walking in off the streets and getting scans. For a long time, executive health physicals would offer this, it’s not covered by insurance,” Farrell said. “In the past, CT scan was used, MRI is considered safer because of the lack of radiation.” While early detection is key to survival, Farrell said current clinical guidelines don’t include recommendations for CT scans or MRI scans for pancreatic tumors in patients who are low risk and asymptomatic. That said “we do (recommend) pancreatic imaging with CT scan or MRI imaging, and in certain individuals an invasive test called an endoscopic ultrasound for people who are considered at an increased risk of developing pancreatic cancer,” Farrell said, pointing to factors like family history, genetic predispositions, pancreatic cysts and type 2 diabetes, which is newly accepted as a risk factor.
Walking into a private imaging center like Prenuvo could prompt another issue if you are asymptomatic, according to Farrell. In some instances, patients may find something at an early stage but “for the vast majority of people that is not the case.” Instead, the process could result in a lot of worry for asymptomatic patients and force the patient and doctor to undergo more workups without yielding anything significant. The American College of Radiation released a statement on total body MRI screenings in April noting that the organization “at this time, does not believe there is sufficient evidence to justify recommending total body screening for patients with no clinical symptoms, risk factors or a family history suggesting underlying disease or serious injury.” If you have symptoms, Farrell recommends seeing a healthcare professional. #Healthsquad – Maria Menounes – Search (bing.com)
mariamenounos Verified Obviously, there’s so much to say about this and what I’ve gone through these last few months, and even years. First, dealing with the diabetes diagnosis last summer, second (my other miracle) preparing for my soon to be newborn baby and third, pancreas cancer. I still haven’t come to grips with it all, including the fact that so very few even survive pancreatic cancer. I have SO much information and SO many breakthroughs that I think/hope can save others. I plan to share everything on my podcast and on as many platforms as I can. For now, I’ll say how grateful I am to be alive. well and that I WILL get to hold my baby! Thank you, God, St. Nectarios the healing saint, my doctors and nurses, and my family and friends who helped me through. Longer list of thank You’s to come but thank you @prenuvo for catching this early enough to save my life. Now I’m working to get these scans covered by insurance for everyone!! And thank you Lisa Paulsen and @eifoundation. The new issue of @People is on newsstands nationwide Friday to learn more. Link to story: Maria Menounos Reveals She Survived Pancreatic Cancer (people.com)
So glad you are doing well and recovering. As someone that also has neuroendocrine cancer, I just want to say please make sure you are dealing with a neuroendocrine specialist (Nets). They are the ones that have the knowledge about this type of cancer. I am surprised the article said no further treatment is needed, although I really hope that is true. Many ends up doing Sandostatin to keep any new tumors from forming. Also, highly recommend a 3 – 6-month scans including CT, MRI and Gallium scan (specifically for neuroendocrine cancer).
Wishing you the best.
@a.verlinden.83 she may be keeping some of it out of the media for now or may not yet have all the information she needs. I do recommend the FB group. Neuroendocrine Cancer – Ronny Allan’s Group (facebook.com) Lots of valuable information on the medical side of it. I look to others for the nutritional side.
@carlamarielementals I also highly recommend more frequent scans. Also know the type of neuroendocrine tumor. It sounds like she did have symptoms. Given the size of Maria’s tumor, the risk of spread can be greater, depending on type. Also, It is SO important to be under the care of a neuroendocrine specialist whether it be a surgeon or oncologist. I think her surgeon can guide her.
@meaghanbmurphy I am so sorry for your loss. I don’t know why God chose me to be his Miracle. 90 percent of my Pancreas was removed. My surgeon left only 10 percent of my Pancreas. The cancer had not spread to the 10 percent left. That 10 percent worked like I still had all of the pancreas. It was malignant. I did not become a diabetic for 23 years.
The doctors were baffled why I didn’t become a diabetic. The doctors told me I am a miracle. The tumor board voted that no chemo or radiation was needed. The tumor grew in a self-contained cell. I give God all the glory, honor and praise. Each day is a gift from God. I am so grateful, thankful and blessed. I lost the love of my life, my husband of 43 years, to stage four non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Cancer I wanted a miracle for him, but I know he’s healed in heaven.
Abundant blessings to you. mrs.jennifer.schmidt You are so brave. I’m so glad you survived this and are using your voice to help others. I have chronic hereditary pancreatitis, which is due to a genetic defect, and was completely unaware of how much the pancreas does for our body. It also amazes me that so many people are unaware of the signs of an unhealthy pancreas, as I was before my diagnosis. I would love to see more awareness, so people know the signs to look for regarding both pancreatic cancer but pancreatitis as well, which is a chronic disease that has no cure nor treatment other than fluid replacement during an attack.
@teri_w2022 sure. Start with your stool. Is it soft, yellowish or difficult to flush/stick to the toilet? Being overly bloated after a meal and or experiencing lots of gas that is foul smelling. Sudden nausea when eating fatty foods or even smelling them. Abdominal pain that occurs after eating. Losing weight without trying.
Sudden vitamin deficiencies such as vitamin A, E, D & K. If in doubt speak to your doctor.
@mrs.jennifer.schmidt Unfortunately @mariamnounos is bringing awareness to a cancer she does not have. She was not diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. She was diagnosed with Neuroendocrine cancer which happens to be in the pancreas. These are 2 very different diseases. Neuroendocrine cancer is on the rare cancer list. It definitely needs more awareness.
@teri_w2022 have you managed to see a doctor? How did you go?
But I don’t feel fine! But Thanks for asking mrs.jennifer.schmidt @teri_w2022 if you don’t feel fine seek a second opinion. Only you know your body and what’s normal and what isn’t. Demand an ultrasound of your gallbladder and pancreas Thank you @mariamenounos for bravely sharing your story!
You are an inspiration.
We Stand Up for you and all those affected by cancer. If you or a loved one is a parent with cancer (or pregnant with cancer!) navigating how to talk to your kids about cancer, or looking for community as you do the difficult work of parenting with cancer, @brightspotnetwork has resources to support you, your kids, and your loved ones. https://youtu.be/Z2R9ki7znIg
Thank you @mariamenounos for sharing your experience with #pancreaticcancer, and bringing awareness to the disease’s symptoms.
We’re sending you our wishes for strength and healing.
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, now is the time to take charge and understand all of your options. PanCAN is here to provide you with free, reliable, personalized resources and support: pancan.org or 1-877-2-PANCAN.
I am so sorry you are going through this… Your words resonate with me so much. In 2021 I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer at 20 weeks pregnant. I was 39 years old. 18 months later I am still here. Every day is a gift. You have an amazing outlook.
That sweet baby is going to give you strength like you never knew you had.
tellisaclarke She has/had neuroendocrine cancer with her primary tumor in her pancreas. Completely different cancer to pancreatic with a very different prognoses. pancan Verified
Thank you for your question. Maria announced her diagnosis of a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, also known as PNET, a rare type of #pancreaticcancer that differs from the more common diagnosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
joanthrax@pancan can you please help the neuroendocrine cancer community by spreading the truth? It’s doing an amazing disservice to a community that so desperately needs funding and resources to combat this terrible disease. Please help us. She has neuroendocrine cancer in the lining of the pancreas. It is NOT pancan
Maria oh my God!! Your strength is an inspiration to us all. Sending endless love.
carlamarielementals So glad you are doing well and recovering. As someone that also has neuroendocrine cancer, I just want to say please make sure you are dealing with a neuroendocrine specialist (Nets). They are the ones that have the knowledge about this type of cancer. I am surprised that the article said no further treatment is needed, although I really hope that is true.
Many end up doing Sandostatin to keep any new tumors from forming. Also, highly recommend a 3 – 6-month scans including CT, MRI and Gallium scan
(Specifically for neuroendocrine cancer). Wishing you the best.
sandra_mcvey_pettit@carlamarielementals I also highly recommend more frequent scans. Also know the type of neuroendocrine tumor. It sounds like she did have symptoms. Given the size of Maria’s tumor, risk of spread can be greater, depending on type.
sandra_mcvey_pettit@carlamarielementals also, It is SO important to be under the care of a neuroendocrine specialist whether it be a surgeon or oncologist. I think her surgeon can guide her.
mariamenounos Verified Can you guys believe this rainbow is REAL?! I also thought I had seen all the rainbows in life, but this was my first time seeing an ocean rainbows phenomenon. It literally sat on the ocean!! I was absolutely blown away by it! I also learned about ‘Moonbows’ which can happen in Maui when it rains at night from the moonlight-
I didn’t get to see one of those, but maybe next time .
Michelle Alipao Chikaonda (she/her/hers) is a nonfiction writer from Blantyre, Malawi. She is currently a graduate student at the University of East Anglia in the UK, studying biography and creative nonfiction at UEA’s School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing. She has won the Literary Award for Narrative Nonfiction of the Tucson Festival of Books, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award for Nonfiction of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, and the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship for writers of color from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2015 she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the Oracle Fine Arts Review, and in 2020 she was long listed for the inaugural Toyin Falola Prize for emerging African writers; her essay was published in the prize’s anthology, “In the Sands of Time” (2021).
A Philadelphia resident for over 10 years, Michelle has taught regularly with Blue Stoop, a hub for the Philadelphia literary community; she has also served as a teaching assistant, student mentor and workshop instructor at Mighty Writers, a Philadelphia nonprofit teaching writing and critical thinking to children and teens.
In addition to being a 2019 resident at The Seventh Wave’s Rhinebeck Residency, she is a Voices of Our Nations [VONA] Workshop fellow, a Tin House Summer Workshop alumna, and has presented at several Association of Writing and Writing Programs [AWP] conferences. A contributing editor for nonfiction at Electric Literature, she is currently published at Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, Catapult, the Broad Street Review, Business Insider, and Africa is A Country, among others.
5 lessons I learned about debt after my dad’s death that everyone should know.
My dad died in 2018, and he spent his last 13 days in the ICU — which came with a massive bill. Medical debt like this is one kind of unsecured debt, which goes away if it isn’t covered by the estate. Debt collectors are legally limited in how they are allowed to seek repayment after someone dies. When my father died of cancer in October 2018 — in a small California town named Loma Linda — we were sent a massive ICU bill in his name, exactly one week after he’d died. He was admitted to the ICU for 13 days after nearly two years with colon cancer.
My family was still figuring out the expensive logistics of getting his body repatriated to our home country of Malawi, and the bill felt unreal. It may as well have been Monopoly money, for how real the implied stacks of banknotes actually felt. My mother and I laughed bitterly as we sat together at the dinner table, in horrified awe at the absurdity of our essentially being billed for my father’s death.
The nearly 10 pages of hospital itemizations detailing the technicalities of the final 13 days of my father’s life forced me to realize the intimidating extent of knowledge I did not have about how to handle the financial affairs — especially regarding debt — of the recently deceased. I was even naive enough not to be aware that someone could still be medically billed after they died. That seemed nonsensical, but it is an absolute truth of the financial realities of death in America.
Thus information and research became twin weapons in the months following my father’s funeral. I knew that it would be easy for my family to be financially taken advantage of in that emotionally sensitive period, and I was determined to ensure that did not happen. As I was the only member of my family who was still a US resident, I spent several painstaking months making phone calls and mailing out copies of my father’s death certificate by myself, as I closed out his American financial affairs.
Related video: Should you be worrying about the US debt limit right now? In the nearly five years since Dad’s death, I have seen stories both frustrating and heartbreaking about the ways in which bereaved families have not only been financially lost after a loved one’s passing but have been taken advantage of by unscrupulous companies looking to maximize their earnings by razor-thin margins of ethics and legality. Here are what I consider to be the five most important things for people to know about what they most likely do, or do not, owe debtors upon a loved one’s passing.
1. Debt doesn’t go away, but that doesn’t necessarily mean someone has to pay it
Per the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a person’s debts are assumed by their estate — this is simply any money and property left behind after their death — and any outstanding debts should be paid off by what remains in the person’s estate. This is handled either by the executor of the estate, named in the deceased person’s will, or by a government-appointed administrator, if the person died without a will. There are very limited cases where someone else — such as a spouse or parent — may be required to pay off certain debts of the deceased. In community property states, for example — where spouses share joint ownership of certain debts undertaken during their marriage — a surviving spouse may be required to pay off certain debts. Confirm state-specific requirements to ensure only what is legally owed is paid.
2. Unsecured debts generally remain the property of the deceased
Unsecured loans include most credit card debt, student loans, personal loans, and medical bills. According to Experian, these should be handled by the estate if there is any money remaining to pay those off with. Even then, whether or not those debts are paid off is determined by the legal order in which estate disbursements are required to be handled. If, for example, a person died in a state where survivors are paid out first, there may be no money remaining in the estate to pay off unsecured debts. Ensure the executor or administrator of the estate confirms specific state requirements before paying.
3. Secured debts must be paid off by someone
The most common secured loans are mortgages and auto loans. If they aren’t paid by the estate or by someone else, the asset backing them — the house or the car — can be claimed by the lending institution. Houses and cars often have co-signers for loans, so it’s important to understand who will be responsible for that debt and what happens, especially if they plan to maintain use of them after their loved one’s death.
4. Federal student loans are discharged — private student loans usually aren’t
If you die with federal student loan debt, those loans will be discharged. Private lenders, however, may still require the loan be repaid — especially in the case of certain parent-student loans, or other types of co-signed student debt. The estate administrator should contact the lending institution directly to find out what is applicable.
5. The law restricts debt collection after death
The emotional vulnerability of survivors of the deceased can unfortunately make them ideal targets for aggressive debt collectors intent on seeing debts of the deceased repaid by any means necessary. The Federal Trade Commission gives detailed information on what debt collectors may and may not do in order to collect on a loved one’s death, especially to protect against manipulative and potentially deceptive practices targeted at loved ones willing to do whatever they’re made to believe is required to settle a debt.
Handling a loved one’s debts in the wake of their passing can feel daunting, and even retraumatizing. I discovered in the wake of my father’s death just how bureaucratically difficult it is to make the biological fact of a loved one’s death a legal one — especially regarding their debts.
My father’s ICU bill was eventually written off after several letters and phone calls between myself and the hospital billing office; the last letters I wrote to the hospital were to all of his various medical teams, thanking them for their own intensive care in the worst 13 days of my and my family’s lives. With that, the emotional process of moving forward could finally begin.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/86513629/DNA-in-the-Sands-of-Time The hourglass is an antiquated timing instrument consisting of two glass chambers connected vertically by a narrow passage which allows sand to trickle from the upper part to the lower by means of gravity. The amount of sand determines the amount of time that passes as the chamber is emptied. The image of the sand being emptied in the hourglass creates a visual metaphor for the limited duration of human life, and for the inevitability of change in the world as a whole.
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time
SiriusXM radio host and former Fox News personality Megyn Kelly accused advocates of gun control of standing in the way of progress that could cut the number of gun deaths in America. “Serious q for gun control advocates: and you’ve failed to effect change,” Kelly wrote on Twitter Saturday.
“Pls face it. You can’t do it, thx to the 2A. We’re all well aware you don’t like that fact, but fact it is. What’s next? Must we just stay here sad, concerned, lamenting? Could we possibly talk about OTHER SOLUTIONS?”
In lieu of gun control, the former Fox News host suggested a myriad of other solutions that might decrease the prevalence of mass shootings, including mental health interventions — quipping that this would require something “real” and “not the BS we now do” — as well as “greater willingness to lock people up (w/protocols in place for civil libs) who are deemed to be threats [and] fortification of soft targets, coordination of media response to not lionize shooters.” “We need a mental health facility that is secure (guards/locked down) but still humane enough that a loving parent would send her kid there, for one,” Kelly continued. “Right now parents who know they’re raising the next school shooter have next to no recourse.” While little was known about the shooter in the Texas incident, Kelly suggested that “mental health interventions” and a “greater willingness to lock people up,” along with the “fortification of soft targets” were issues deserving of attention instead of limiting access to guns and a possible assault weapons ban. By suggesting mental illness is linked to mass shootings, Kelly was perpetuating a myth that’s been disproven in several scientific studies.
The FBI, which studied the individuals responsible for 160 active shooter incidents. Between 2000 and 2013, noted the “erroneous inclination to assume that anyone who commits an active shooting must be de facto mentally ill,” and found that “only 25% of the active shooters…were known to have been diagnosed by a mental health professional with a mental illness of any kind prior to the offense.” That figure is roughly the same for Americans at large, with about 1 in 4 adults suffering from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year.
Truth. Obama was and is a worthless communist Piece of SHIT Since we allow the killing of 63 million innocent children by abortion, how could God not “Spank us” for our allowing that sin.
When did we start to see the decline of the US? Is this the fruit? Which then causes a lack of purpose, relative morality, no eternal accountability and societal breakdown.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge…” ~God Our five continents are caught in a whirlwind.
But it is during trials such as these that the highest gifts of the human spirit are manifested. If we perish and lose this world, the fault will be ours alone.
It may be bad in the States but you’re lucky you’re not in Canada, it’s 10 times worse here. Yep, when we violated the US Constitution and elected a man born in Kenya we proved the fears of the founders to be correct.
OBAMA WANTS TO BE KING!! Silver tongue devil….I knew it the moment I heard him debate! Wanting a 3rd term, he got that through Biden, look at our country. This was the first seed of deception, fraud, racism, and an anti-American agenda planted. Now it’s growing to fruition at an unstoppable speed ~ Indeed.
GHW BUSH New World Order – Bing video Actually, I think it began Before Bill Clinton who was a member of PedoIsland and sold us out to BigPharma & NAFTA. The US has been waging foreign wars and overthrowing Govts FOR NO REASON, well, for $$ and power for at least 100 years. And Bush did the Iraq war which was atrocious looking back now. Because he didn’t know nor Hillary 13hours Secret Soldiers : Internet Archive
Terrorist was flying planes in the United States Before 9-11. Right
Obama was the Biggest con job in #America And he never left D.C. after his term in office. I wonder why? 1St POTUS in history to stay in D.C. He bought 2 oceanfront mansions & lives in D.C. Right… pulling strings must be profitable. Old Joe actors must love working with him.
This person is the face of evil on earth.
He is the face of world destruction….. he must be stopped!
The COMMI COMMUNITY ORGANIZER in short what that means is exactly what he did! Go into the community and engage and enrage the blacks against the whites promoting the wrong facts that violence will set them free! More food stamps are better for them! More housing dollars will give…us more votes!
Treason And Destroy the United States from Within Extremist Cry!
Look up COPD, chronic obstructive pulmanory disease. Home / Twitter Breathing in all those cloth/plastic fibers and particulates all day long will kill you, not to mention increased risk of pulmonary bacterial infections.
Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Wearers a Random Controlled Trial…
Masks have delayed verbal & social development in children. They lower oxygen saturation levels as well.
You were told that from day one Unbelievable how many can’t see past their noses! If they cared, the message would’ve been to keep calm and fund healthcare, not fear induced. Propaganda with mandates meant to divide, make us anxious, stressed and sick! Not once they acknowledged pre 2020 studies or other experts.
Rebekah Koffler is a Russian and English bilingual woman who previously worked as a US intelligence analyst. Despite this, she is an author who has been working on her book “Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America.” She is currently performing her duties as a strategic intelligence analyst.
Early Life Rebekah Koffler was born in Russia on June 15, 1965. She was educated and trained with the deep thinking of Russians, as well as wartime knowledge and behavior. She has brought many briefings regarding US military commanders to her job. Rebekah Koffler is a writer, commentator, and security expert whose work has appeared on numerous media sites such as Fox News, WSJ, NY Post, The Hill, and others.
Koffler obtained his graduate intelligence certification from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. She then earned a B.A./M.A. in foreign languages from Moscow State Pedagogical University. She also has an M.A. in International Transactions from George Mason University in Virginia. Rebekah has worked on projects involving Russian leadership and intents, intelligence tradecraft, and special tactics involving cyber and counter-space. She formerly worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency, where she led “red” squads during a war exercise.
She has briefed the White House, NATO, Russian wartime doctrine, and the presidency of Putin’s goals and the Pentagon in her work and essays. Koffler’s professional career began in 2008, when she applied for the position of senior intelligence analyst for Russian doctrine and strategy, which she held from July 2008 to December 2016.
During her tenure, she collaborated with the Pentagon. According to multiple reports, in one of her articles published in 2021, she described and criticized the leaders of the United States military. Because of this, she was fired from her post as a US officer in December 2016. Koffler has worked in Washington, D.C. as an author and national security commentator, and has been a strategic intelligence analyst with The Lindsey Group (TLG) since November 2021. Her LinkedIn page lists her as an author who has worked on her most recent book, Putin’s Playbook
Benny Johnson was live. Yesterday at 5:00 PM RFK Jr. vs. The Deep State Exposed By Tech Visionary David Sacks. During the last 15 mins they show how MSM n bad social media r crumbling Also shows how RK Jr. is revealing the truth. His run for presidency will do that!!!! (4) Facebook Live | Facebook(4) Facebook
Hello, A year ago in May, I was diagnosed with Uterine Leiomyosarcoma, also a rare, aggressive cancer. Stage 4, mets to the lung. I have followed Jane’s Protocol, Hoxsey and did Chemo. I have a naturopathic doc; I live in Wisconsin. I am NED and surviving and thriving!!!Thriving!!!!
DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE (I am a Christian and put my trust in God, I believe He laid out the path before me and has taken care of all of my needs, and then some) I do nothing perfect. I keep a positive attitude; I am in a win/win situation! I have a huge support network and focus on life, living each day to the fullest. I did not go to Hoxsey but did a meeting over the internet with them. I have to do a follow up with them soon.
JANE STUMBLED ACROSS THE ANSWER TO CANCER?
Life Extension Magazine®
Against All Odds
Jane McLelland beat cervical, lung, and blood cancers using the missing
link to defeat cancer: starving it. She is partnering with Life Extension®
McLelland was reluctant about writing her book, but she felt she had a duty to share with the world what she had discovered—and what had saved her life.
Jane McLelland shouldn’t be alive.
According to doctors and cancer statistics, she should have lived only about 12 weeks after receiving her diagnosis of stage IV cancer.
But McLelland refused to go down without a fight. Taking matters into her own hands, she dug through medical journals, poring over long-forgotten research and overlooked evidence, looking for clues to overcoming her cancer.
Along the way, she discovered a missing link to defeating cancer: starving it. Based on this concept, she developed her own cancer-starving cocktail—utilizing diet, supplements, and off-label drugs—that proved to be more effective than any current cancer treatment.
Now, 18 years later, after suffering from cervical cancer, secondary lung cancer, and treatment-related myelodysplasia, she is alive, well, and cancer-free.
And she has made it her life’s mission to help other cancer patients achieve the same results.
This is Jane’s remarkable story.
Strike One
Jane’s First Cancer Diagnosis: You have cervical cancer.
When Jane McLelland first heard the devastating news, she was only 30 years old. Just three days later, she underwent a complete, radical hysterectomy, followed by months of chemotherapy and radiation.
A cancer diagnosis was terrifying enough, but what McLelland struggled with most was the fact that she would never be able to have her own biological children.
“I was massively depressed. With cervical cancer, it’s not just about having a lump cut off,” she said. “Knowing that I would never have my own children was utterly devastating.”
What made the diagnosis even more tragic was the fact that McLelland’s doctor had misdiagnosed her for years. Since cervical cancer is highly treatable in its early stages, her tragedy could have been avoided.
After treatment, McLelland believed she was out of the woods. But two short years later, her mother’s cancer diagnosis was the wake-up call she needed.
A Wake-up Call
In 1996, McLelland’s mother received her own devastating news:
She had stage IV breast cancer.
After an initial breast cancer diagnosis and treatment a few years earlier, the cancer had come back with a vengeance, and she died within a few months.
But McLelland says that her mother’s death is what ultimately saved her life.
“My mother’s cancer was a huge wake-up call to me to re-evaluate the situation I’d found myself in. For the first time ever, I realized I was only one step away from terminal cancer,” McLelland said. “That’s when I started looking at diet and supplementation in more detail as a way to combat cancer.”
In the early stages of her research, McLelland first learned that glucose feeds most cancers and that IGF-1 (an insulin-like growth factor hormone found in high levels in dairy and meat) also helped to drive its growth.
So, she modified her diet, cutting out simple carbohydrates and removing dairy and most meat. She cut out foods like potatoes and tomatoes because they caused an inflammatory reaction in her body (and she had learned that inflammation was a driving force for cancer). She also started drinking green tea, juicing, and taking numerous supplements.
Unfortunately, just a few months later, Jane started coughing up blood, and found out that her worst nightmare had come true: Her cervical cancer had spread to her lungs.
She now had stage IV, terminal cancer.
Strike Two
Just like the cervical cancer, Jane’s lung cancer was initially misdiagnosed (this time as a chest infection). But the benefit of having the improperly read X-ray from four months prior—along with the properly diagnosed X-ray—was the ability to see the rate at which the cancer was growing.
McLelland had repeatedly been told that diet had no impact on cancer, but the fact that her lung tumor had remained the size of a golf ball—and the fact that there were no tumors in other locations in her body—proved to her that the dietary changes she had already made were making a difference.
“You could see that my approach had slowed the tumor’s growth,” said McLelland. “I may have had that tumor for a long time. That was actually quite reassuring for me.”
This time, Jane would not be rushed into a hasty treatment decision. She delayed surgery and dove even deeper into cancer research. That’s when she learned that in order to fully eradicate her cancer, she’d have to attack it in a different way: by starving it.
Starving Cancer
The idea behind starving cancer cells is nothing new.
In 1931, Otto Warburg was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery that cancer cells have an altered metabolism. Since then, more research has expanded on his initial studies, and has revealed that cancer cells require a tremendous amount of three fuel sources in order to survive: glucose, glutamine (an amino acid), and lipids.
Mainstream medicine ignores this simple fact, focusing instead on using chemotherapy and radiation therapy to target the tumor’s abnormal, fast-dividing cells. Given that chemotherapy often has poor outcomes for stage IV cancer, McLelland determined that she had to attack her cancer from two fronts: starve the cancer’s stem cells, and then kill them when they’re in a weakened state. Cancer stem cells are dangerous because they are more resistant to conventional treatment and are capable of producing new malignant cells that are more difficult to eradicate.
This one-sided approach is why mainstream treatments can appear to work for a time, only to have the cancer come back more aggressively in the future. It is also why the percentage of positive outcomes in a stage IV patient is, too often, zero.
On the other hand, starving the cancer by cutting off the supply to its three main fuel sources attacks the elusive stem cell. Based on that research, McLelland determined that she had to attack her cancer from two fronts: starve the cancer’s stem cells, and then kill them when they’re in a weakened state.
Jane McLelland’s Key Cancer-Starving Supplements:
Quercetin
Silibinin
Berberine
Polydatin
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Indole-3-carbinol
Curcumin
Ursolic acid
EGCG (green tea)
Sodium selenite
Niacin*
Hydroxycitrate
Sea buckthorn oil
Omega-3 fish oils
Bergamot
Luteolin
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Working Together
McLelland underwent surgery to remove the tumor in her lung, and she endured six months of chemo (at a much lower dose than that recommended by her oncologist).
But this time, she also employed a strategy to starve the cancer’s stem cells.
Her diet and numerous supplements were already helping on that front—particularly berberine, hydroxycitrate, gymnema, curcumin, niacin, and pycnogenol—all of which were inhibiting key pathways that are abnormal in cancer. She also underwent treatment with high-dose intravenous vitamin C.
“Intravenous vitamin C has been shown to target cancer stem cells, the original cancer cells that are responsible for chemo and radiotherapy resistance, because it stops a key step in the process of glycolysis, effectively starving the cancer as well as triggering apoptosis, or cell death,” said McLelland. “It helps block off one of cancer’s main energy supply lines.”
To her doctor’s utter amazement, it appeared that McLelland had beaten the odds once again. Nine months later, she was not only alive, but her cancer blood markers were good.
Those months turned into years of living cancer-free.
Still, McLelland lived with the constant realization that her cancer could always come back. And four years later, it did.
Strike Three
McLelland’s cervical cancer markers were in the normal range. But in 2003, she received yet another death sentence: treatment-related myelodysplasia, a form of bone marrow mutation that may progress to leukemia.
What has gone wrong?
“I couldn’t understand why I was controlling one cancer without controlling the other,” said McLelland. “But it’s all about metabolism. The metabolism of my leukemia was totally different from that of my cervical cancer. So, with my low glycemic index diet, I was controlling cervical cancer, but I wasn’t controlling leukemia, which instead thrives on proteins.”
She had to cut off the fuel supply line to this new cancer. In order to do that, she would need to bring in the “big guns”—off-label drugs. In doing so, she serendipitously reduced the nutrient supply to her first cancer as well.
McLelland’s Big Guns
McLelland discovered that there were numerous drugs on the market designed for other purposes (like heart disease or infections) that could go beyond diet and supplements to effectively cut off cancer’s various fuel lines. These drugs are considered “off-label,” since they were developed for conditions other than cancer.
The first big gun was a cardiovascular drug called dipyridamole, which stops protein from getting into the cancer cell, a key factor in starving leukemia, according to McLelland.
This was exactly what she needed, McLelland decided.
She made another critical finding when she picked up an issue of Life Extension® Magazine that she says played a key role in saving her life.
From Life Extension, she learned about a novel combination of a statin (lovastatin).
Plus, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (etodolac).
“I already knew that statins would be potentially useful against cervical cancer.
However, research had also shown that they caused apoptosis in acute myeloid leukemias. I also had overlooked the fact that NSAIDs could cause cell death (apoptosis),” said McLelland. “What I learned from the Life Extension article was that there was a synergy between the two drugs, making them far more potent when taken together.”
She later learned that statins also block the cell surface receptor Glut1, which is used by most cancers to access more glucose.
Another key, off-label drug McLelland learned about from reading Life Extension was the diabetes drug, metformin. Metformin is critical for starving cancer because it cuts off cancer’s supply to glucose and insulin, and reduces IGF-1.
“I recognized that Life Extension was ahead of its time. It was providing information that nobody else seemed to be providing, and piecing together research and reporting on it before anybody else did,” said McLelland. “Life Extension really was instrumental in helping me survive.”
Years later, she also discovered the anti-cancer effects of the antibiotic doxycycline (which slows the creation of new cancer cells) and of the anti-worming drug mebendazole (which stops the cancer cells from being able to take on more glucose).
“All of these drugs are cheap and off-patent, which is why they have largely been ignored by the pharmaceutical industry, despite research supporting their effectiveness against cancer,” said McLelland.
According to McLelland, drugs like these are necessary because cancer cells rely on the same fuel the rest of your body requires to live. You can cut down on glucose, protein, and fat, but you can’t remove enough from your diet to starve the cancer cells without starving your own body in the process. These drugs solve that problem because they allow your body to access the nutrients it needs, while blocking the cancer’s access to them.
After intensive research, McLelland concluded that all of these drugs would starve the cancer from different angles: dipyridamole cut off cancer’s access to protein, metformin cut off access to glucose, and the statin cut off access to fat. Once the cancer cells were in their weakened state, the addition of etodolac could help finish them off.
McLelland believed she had finally found out how to beat her cancer once and for all. And her test results proved her right. Blood tests revealed that her TM2PK tumor markers (a marker of abnormal glycolysis) had dropped from 397 to 21.5—just slightly above a “normal” reading of 15.
She had done the impossible. Her cocktail of cheap, off-label drugs—in addition to diet and supplementation—had. halted the progression of myelodysplasia
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Spreading the Word
In 2018, McLelland chronicled her cancer journey—including detailed information on her science-backed approach to cancer—in her book, How to Starve Cancer Without Starving Yourself.
McLelland was reluctant about writing her book, but she felt she had a duty to share with the world what she had discovered—and what had saved her life.
“I didn’t want to have to relive everything,” said McLelland, “but I knew I had information I had to pass on. It was a social responsibility to provide people with information they weren’t getting elsewhere.”
That information has already saved countless lives.
One man who followed her protocol took his PSA numbers from 1008 down to .67. She’s also helped a stage IV pancreatic cancer patient achieve full remission—another success story unheard of in the medical world.
And a breast cancer patient who was told by her oncologist she was going to die is still alive and well, going to the gym, working as a nurse, and living a full life—all as a result of following McLelland’s approach to starving her cancer.
But McLelland cautioned that we have to start looking at cancer differently.
“People are always looking for the disappearance of tumors, but we have to rethink how we evaluate success with cancer,” she said. “I have a huge number of people following my protocol who still have tumors in their bodies that are no longer growing. Success is not necessarily about getting rid of the tumor. You can live with the tumor quite happily as long as it’s not pressing on something vital.”
Utilizing the Metro Map
McLelland created a diagram depicting her approach to starving cancer that she calls the “Metro Map,” based on an analogy of an underground metro system.
If one tunnel is blocked, the trains will be rerouted through a different tunnel, but will ultimately keep running. Cancer is the same way. If you cut off one fuel source, it will simply “reroute,” using a different source for energy.
McLelland’s system simply boils down to this:
You have to cut off all fuel sources at the same time in order to effectively weaken cancer. “The Metro Map is the key to starving the cancer. Once you’ve done that, killing it becomes much easier,” said McLelland.
She lists several off-label drugs (like chloroquine and loratadine), supplements (like curcumin, resveratrol, and quercetin), and treatments (like intravenous vitamin C, and following a low-glycemic diet). According to McLelland, all have been shown to block one or more of cancer’s three main fuel lines.
However, McLelland cautions that there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Her own experience with her various forms of cancer highlight that fact. Instead, McLelland’s approach focuses on learning which fuel sources your particular cancer uses—and then creating a targeted treatment plan based on that information.
In her book, McLelland provides all the information a cancer patient might need to point them in the right direction for developing a protocol to starve their cancer.
“The book is a starting point,” said McLelland.
Not a Death Sentence
For people currently struggling with a cancer diagnosis,
McLelland has an important message: Never give up.
“I do believe we already have every drug and every supplement that we need to beat cancer. The key is getting the right combinations to people at the right time,” said McLelland.
“Yes, in certain circumstances there can be too much damage to the body from the cancer itself. But if you can get to people before that, I cannot see why patients can’t be rescued even from advanced malignancies.
Stage IV cancer should not be a death sentence, in my view.”
McLelland herself is the living, breathing proof of that belief.
Now, 18 years after her initial cancer diagnosis—after battling cervical, lung, and blood cancers—McLelland is living the life of her dreams. She married the love of her life, and through the selflessness of a surrogate, was able to have two sons of her own.
“I didn’t even think I was going to be alive, and I certainly didn’t expect to have a family,” said McLelland. “I have to pinch myself to believe it sometimes.”
If you have any questions on the scientific content of this article, please call a Life Extension® Wellness Specialist at 1-866-864-3027. To order a copy of How to Survive Cancer Without Starving Yourself, call 1-800-544-4440.15-year Survivor Jane McLelland on How to Starve Cancer with Off-Label Drugs
Today I have an interview with my friend and 15-year holistic terminal cancer survivor Jane McLelland, author of How to Starve Cancer.
Jane was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1994 and did conventional treatment. In 1999 her cancer progressed to stage IV and she started incorporating complementary and alternative treatments alongside chemotherapy. In 2004 she started developing leukemia as a result of the chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatments she received.
Facing terminal cancer with little time left to live, Jane poured through research on old drugs with anti-cancer effects and put together a cocktail of off-label drugs and nutraceutical supplements in an attempt to block the pathways that cancer stem cells use for fuel. This metabolic approach effectively “starved” her cancer of its fuel (glucose, glutamine, and fat) and she healed herself.
Jane is absolutely brilliant and understands cancer cell biology and off-label drugs better than most oncologists. I know you will learn a lot from this interview. You may even find the breakthrough you’re looking for… Enjoy!
or listen to it on the Chris Beat Cancer podcast on iTunes or Spotify.
Show Notes
-“I have strong beliefs held loosely” [00:01] -Jane’s cancer story [04:48] -How chemo makes cancer stem cells more aggressive [10:48] -The ‘McLelland Metro Map’ of cancer fuel lines [15:02] -Leukemia caused by treatment [20:34] -Discovering old drugs with anti-cancer effects [21:44] -Dipyridamole [22:00] -Berberine [24:00] -Lovastatin [25:00] -NSAID Etodolac [27:00] -How cancer cells get supercharged [29:38] -Jane’s theory on why Tamoxifen causes secondary cancer [33:40] -More on anti-cancer superstar Berberine [35:49] -Ornish study: plant-based diet vs prostate cancer (38:40) -Cancers that like fat [39:30] -Jane’s anti-cancer protocol [40:35] -Tagamet (cimetidine) to boost immune function [43:20] -Aspirin’s anti-cancer effects [43:45] -Mebendazole (pinworm drug) works like chemo drug vincristine [45:00] -How to incorporate off-label drugs into your protocol [51:00] -Why off-label drugs aren’t being used [01:02:20] -Chris and Jane talk about the healing journey [01:05:24]
Connect with Jane McLelland: How to Starve Cancer by Jane McLelland www.howtostarvecancer.comIn this truly ground-breaking book, Jane takes us through her remarkable, heart-breaking journey, and the medical discoveries she made along the way. The use of ‘off label’ drugs for treating cancer is finally gaining traction. Yet Jane discovered these herself in 2003. Unbeknown to her, she would become ‘patient zero’.
Diagnosed with terminal cancer in the prime of her life, and with no viable treatment options, she used herself as a human guinea pig, putting together a cocktail of low toxicity drugs, not normally used for cancer, alongside a low glycaemic diet and powerful supplements. These ‘starved’ her cancer of glucose, glutamine and fat, which she demonstrates with her ingenious, easy-to-follow ‘McLelland Metro Map’.
I started at BCM in 2004 with a six month clinical trial. Interesting that the combination of drugs which I took has been going for metastatic breast cancer…… they say, I am one of the “rarely cured” guinea pigs. I was most fortunate and glad as soon as mets developed, I got the obligatory injection of Lupron and immediately started with chemotherapy, etc.
Good luck and I pray that you find what you want. Choose wisely.
This week’s Preacher’s Point is difficult for me to write. The difficulty is that I like to stick to Biblical facts; this week is nearly all theory. The topic is something I have never preached or written about. I have only discussed this in a few private conversations.
We had a guest speaker in college, Dr. Clifford Wilson (1923-2012). Dr. Wilson was an archaeologist. During the 1970s and 80s, Wilson wrote a series of books about UFOs. His general premise was that the alien and UFO phenomenon was spiritual, not physical. He believed the aliens the world thinks are from a galaxy far, far away are demons. Dr. Wilson made some compelling arguments in his speeches at college and in the books he wrote. I will not get into the details here other than to say that comparing the two times we read about flying objects in the Bible and the descriptions of some UFOs will make a person think. 2 Kings 2 describes Elijah being taken “up by a whirlwind into heaven” at the appearance of a flying “chariot of fire.” Whatever the chariot may be, we know it has a crew of at least two. Elisha, who was with Elijah at the time, says he saw “the horsemen thereof.” Another occurrence in Ezekiel chapter one sounds more like a spacecraft. Ezekiel describes it as “a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” How the vehicle navigates coincides with descriptions of modern-day UFO maneuvers.
It turns at 90-degree angles without changing speed, appearing to defy physics. An amber glow came from the inside of the vehicle. Four “living creature” are mentioned. It seems to land horizontally, like a helicopter. Are aliens demons? Before addressing that, let us look at some things we know. The entire world, except those that receive Christ as Savior, will worship the Antichrist (Revelation 13:8). A one-world religion will form to worship the Antichrist and the devil behind him.
Many wars have started because of religion. There are separate sects (Christianity calls them denominations) within each religion, as differences divide us. Uniting all the world’s religions seems an impossible task. The Antichrist will rule the world. There will still be nations and heads of state, but the Antichrist will have total control. He will establish a one-world financial system requiring a mark on everyone’s right hand or forehead to buy or sell anything. The government will monitor every transaction (Revelation 13:16-17). The impossible will occur; nations will relinquish sovereignty to one individual.
We also know Rapture comes before the Antichrist rises to power. How the world moves from hundreds of religions, all claiming to be correct, to a one-world religion worshipping the Antichrist, we do not know. How nations turn their governments over to one man is anyone’s guess. How the disappearance of millions of people is explained is totally unknown. Before I get back to the alien/demon theory, I want to explain it is only a theory. Nothing I am about to say about space aliens/demons may ever happen. There is nothing in the Bible to claim what you are about to read is true. The Bible is silent regarding how the world will unite into a one-world religion and simultaneously lift one individual to the height of world leader. Again, what you are about to read is theory. There have been too many sightings and claims of abduction to say it is all a hoax. Sure, some of these experiences are fraudulent. Others have logical explanations, but where there is smoke, there is fire, and when it comes to UFOs, there is too much smoke for something not to be burning.
With the United States issuing its UFO report in 2021, nations are moving toward admitting there is something out there. Could a “Close Encounter of the Third Kind” be on the horizon? Will a moment come when a ship lands, the occupants speak to world leaders, talk to the press, and make their presence known?
Everyone will know that we are not alone. But what if these creatures are not what they claim to be? What if, instead of being from a galaxy off in the cosmos, they have been here all along? What if they are Satan’s demons and not visitors from outer space? The world will automatically “know” they are from a distant planet. The lack of spiritual thinking will cause no one to consider an ulterior explanation. The Bible says that a “strong delusion” is sent to get people to believe the lies of the Antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:11). Could the “strong delusion” be the world believing demons are space aliens? How would the world respond if the world believes superior beings with technology beyond our imagination arrive?
What would the world think of the Bible? If the aliens tell the world, it is a book of fairy tales or lies, hatred toward the Good Book would explode. Could our visitors explain the Rapture? Could they claim to have removed those who believe in ancient book to help advance the human race? Will they tell the world that those archaic beliefs hold the world back from our full potential? What if the “aliens” point to a man and tell the world that this fellow is the only one that can lead us out of the mess we are in and into the utopia the world desires? Demons, believed to be space aliens, can explain the Antichrist’s rapid rise to prominence, the beginning of a one-world religion, the persecution of Christians and Jews during the Tribulation, and the Rapture. While the lies are spreading, the two witnesses (Revelation 11) and the 144,000 (Revelation 7) will be telling people the truth of the Scriptures. The vast majority of the world will fall for the lies of the Antichrist.
History professor Yuval Noah Harari — author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind — explains why humans have dominated Earth. The reason is not what you might expect. 70,000 years ago, humans were insignificant animals. The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were unimportant. Their impact on the world was very small, less than that of jellyfish, woodpeckers or bumblebees. Today, however, humans control this planet. How did we reach from there to here? What was our secret of success that turned us from insignificant apes minding their own business in a corner of Africa, into the rulers of the world?
We often look for the difference between us and other animals on the individual level. We want to believe there is something special about the human body or human brain that makes each individual human vastly superior to a dog, or a pig, or a chimpanzee. But the fact is that one-on-one, humans are embarrassingly similar to chimpanzees. If you place me and a chimpanzee together on a lone island, to see who survives better, I would definitely place my bets on the chimp. The real difference between us and other animals is on the collective level. Humans control the world because we are the only animal that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers. Ants and bees can also work together in large numbers, but they do so in a very rigid way. If a beehive is facing a new threat or a new opportunity, the bees cannot reinvent their social system overnight in order to cope better. They cannot, for example, execute the queen and establish a republic.
Wolves and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexibly than ants, but they can do so only with small numbers of intimately known individuals. Among wolves and chimps, cooperation is based on personal acquaintance. If I am a chimp and I want to cooperate with you, I must know you personally: What kind of chimp are you? Are you a nice chimp? Are you an evil chimp? How can I cooperate with you if I don’t know you? Only Homo sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. One-on-one or ten-on-ten, chimpanzees may be better than us. But pit 1,000 Sapiens against 1,000 chimps, and the Sapiens will win easily, for the simple reason that 1,000 chimps can never cooperate effectively. Put 100,000 chimps in Wall Street or Yankee Stadium, and you’ll get chaos. Put 100,000 humans there, and you’ll get trade networks and sports contests.
Cooperation is not always nice, of course. All the terrible things humans have been doing throughout history are also the product of mass cooperation. Prisons, slaughterhouses and concentration camps are also systems of mass cooperation. Chimpanzees don’t have prisons, slaughterhouses or concentration camps. Yet how come humans alone of all the animals are capable of cooperating flexibly in large numbers, be it in order to play, to trade or to slaughter?
The answer is our imagination. We can cooperate with numerous strangers because we can invent fictional stories, spread them around and convince millions of strangers to believe in them. As long as everybody believes in the same fictions, we all obey the same laws, and can thereby cooperate effectively. This is something only humans can do. You can never convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana by promising that after he dies, he will go to Chimpanzee Heaven and there receive countless bananas for his good deeds.
No chimp will ever believe such a story. Only humans believe such stories. This is why we rule the world, whereas chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories. It is relatively easy to accept that religious networks of cooperation are based on fictional stories. People build a cathedral together or go on crusades together because they believe the same stories about God and Heaven. But the same is true of all other types of large-scale human cooperation.
Take for example our legal systems. Today, most legal systems are based on a belief in human rights. But human rights are a fiction, just like God and Heaven. In reality, humans have no rights, just as chimps or wolves have no rights. Cut open a human, and you won’t find any rights there. The only place where human rights exist is in the stories we invent and tell one another. Human rights may be a very attractive story, but it is only a story.
The same mechanism is at work in politics. Like gods and human rights, nations are fictions. A mountain is something real. You can see it, touch it, smell it. But the United States or Israel are not a physical reality. You cannot see them, touch them or smell them. They are just stories that humans invented and then became extremely attached to. It is the same with economic networks of cooperation. Take a dollar bill, for example.
It has no value in itself. You cannot eat it, drink it or wear it. But now come along some master storytellers like the Chair of the Federal Reserve and the President of the United States, and convince us to believe that this green piece of paper is worth five bananas. As long as millions of people believe this story, that green piece of paper really is worth five bananas. I can now go to the supermarket, hand a worthless piece of paper to a complete stranger whom I have never met before, and get real bananas in return.
Try doing that with a chimpanzee. Indeed, money is probably the most successful fiction ever invented by humans. Not all people believe in God, or in human rights, or in the United States of America. But everybody believes in money, and everybody believes in the dollar bill. Even Osama bin Laden. He hated American religion, American politics and American culture — but he was quite fond of American dollars. He had no objection to that story. To conclude, whereas all other animals live in an objective world of rivers, trees and lions, we humans live in a dual world. Yes, there are rivers, trees and lions in our world.
But on top of that objective reality: We have constructed a second layer of make-believe reality, comprising fictional entities such as the European Union, God, the dollar and human rights. And as time passes, these fictional entities have become ever more powerful, so that today they are the most powerful forces in the world. The very survival of trees, rivers and animals now depends on the wishes and decisions of fictional entities such as the United States and the World Bank — entities that exist only in our own imagination.
How Barack Obama Might Have Destroyed America Story by Brandon Weichert 5/04/2023
If America Does Default, You Might Want to Blame Obama: If you checkout Bidens 30.7M Followers || 90% are either Bots or Muslim. So, confess Obama, you also cheated as well. President Barack Obama said tauntingly as he stared across the glossy oak table in the White House Roosevelt Room at a bewildered Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio. The skies over Washington, D.C., were grayer and the air was crisper outside than the last time—August—that Boehner had sat in the Roosevelt Room discussing with Obama the outlines of what he liked to call the “Grand Bargain.” Like the weather outside, the tone inside the White House had changed significantly from their previous August confab. Gone was the willing Obama looking for a fair deal on the nation’s out-of-control budget.
That Obama had been replaced by the arrogant and intransigent man seated across from Boehner, staring coolly at his Republican counterpart. It was December 2012, just a few weeks after Obama had won an historic reelection over the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan Republican presidential ticket of that year. Obama took his electoral victory to mean he could clear the decks in the nation’s capital. He wanted to hit the reset button legislatively because the forty-fourth president was under the erroneous belief that his reelection in November had given him enormous political capital to spend—and to push the Republicans in Washington around.
A History of Extremism from the Democrats What the president did not understand (or care to acknowledge) was that his victory in 2012 did not yield a mandate. The Republicans lost the White House. But they had expanded their majority in the United States House of Representatives. While that may not have as much cachet with the mainstream media or the Democrats, who held the White House at the time, in our system of government that gave the GOP leverage.
The Grand Bargain was Boehner’s idea. A lifelong conservative from humble beginnings in Ohio, Boehner came to Washington in the early 1990s as a reformer and someone opposed to the way the government mishandled the Savings-and-Loan Crisis. He soon became a key leader under the-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) where he proudly brandished his conservative bona fides in the heady culture wars that defined 1990s America.
Boehner wasn’t a firebreather, though. He was a technocrat at heart. He believed in the institution of the House of Representatives and thought that once he was made speaker, he could navigate for the Republican Party and the country the tough road of balancing America’s bloated budget by working with President Obama and his Democrats. When Obama approached Boehner about what could be done about the budget in 2011, shortly after the Republicans also swept the midterms that year.
Boehner countered Obama with an even larger vision: the Grand Bargain. It was the kind of thing a man with Boehner’s experience and insight into the nation’s capital could envisage. He and Obama would not just address the immediate budgetary concerns. Instead, they would come up with a comprehensive solution to Washington’s chronic overspending problem. Throughout 2011, Boehner engaged in covert shuttle diplomacy, secreting himself between his elephantine congressional offices and the White House.
Few others in the House GOP knew what Boehner was up to. Not even his number two in the House, then-Majority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), who was a firebreather in terms of ideology. Ultimately, Cantor and the other House GOP members discovered what Boehner had been up to and tried to stop it. When that didn’t work, Cantor started accompanying Boehner to the White House, making his visits with the forty-fourth president increasingly hostile. Even that complication did not stop Obama and Boehner from coming to a rough agreement. In exchange for $800 billion in revenue increases, the Democrats would give the Republicans sweeping cuts on multiple social programs. The Senate Republicans messed up Boehner’s carefully laid plans when they offered additional revenue increases. Once Obama got wind of that, he put the squeeze on Boehner, to try to force Boehner to concede more revenue increases. This was a non-starter for Boehner, who understood that his Tea Party Caucus would prevent that from happening.
Obama knew it, too. The president iced the Grand Bargain. Boehner never stopped fighting for that deal, though. He knew the Grand Bargain could solidify his place in history, and he believed it would also save the country from economic oblivion. Once the 2012 Presidential Election was decided in favor of Obama, that all changed. The president wasn’t interested in talking to Boehner. He wanted instead to dictate to the Republicans. Obama’s refusal to take the deal that he initially favored; to change the rules of the game mid-game, killed any chance of the Grand Bargain from happening.
The Fiscal Cliff
Today, we are at the end of that long road that Obama-Biden placed us on. On June 1 of this year, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ominously warned that the US government will run out of money. June is the time when the debt ceiling must be raised to avoid any significant economic downturn. The problem is that Washington’s leaders have known about that date for months. Yet, they did nothing to address it. May 9—just a few weeks before the US economy is set to default, President Joe Biden is slated to meet with the current Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to begin negotiations. Is that enough time? Or will the negotiations merely devolve into a partisan screaming match that exacerbates the Washington division rather than ameliorate it?
READ:Biden says not yet ready to invoke 14th Amendment to avoid debt default. The divided U.S. Congress is running out of time to raise the federal government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with the Treasury Department warning it could be unable to pay its bills as soon as June 1. If Congress fails to act, some legal experts say Biden has another option to avert a crisis: Invoke the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ensure the United States can continue to pay its bills. Section Four of the amendment, adopted after the 1861-1865 Civil War, states that the “validity of the public debt of the United States … shall not be questioned.”
But the clause has been largely unaddressed by the courts. Some experts have suggested that Biden could invoke this amendment to raise the debt ceiling on his own if Congress does not act. That would almost certainly lead to prolonged legal wrangling, which could unsettle financial markets. White House and other administration officials have examined the possibility, but many have dismissed it as a last-ditch solution unlikely to survive a court challenge, according to a person briefed on those discussions.
The Grand Bargain Was an attempted political compromise during the 2011 budget debates in the United States Congress. Lawmakers were under pressure to pass a budget before automatic spending cuts known as sequestration took effect on August 4, 2011.[1][2] President Barack Obama advocated historic cuts to social security, Medicare, and Medicaid, in exchange for an increase in federal taxes on upper income individuals, with the goal of reducing the federal deficit.[3][4] Moderates from both the Republican and the Democratic party were in favor of the compromise. However, the Tea Party faction of the Republican party firmly objected to tax increases, causing Republican Speaker of the HouseJohn Boehner to not support the deal.[3] The progressive faction of the Democratic party was opposed to cuts to social security and the social safety net. An effort to defend Social Security was spearheaded by independent Senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders.[5] Due to the opposition arrayed against it, the compromise failed.[6][7][8]
The Fruits of Obama’s Failure
The Bottom Line: though, there is a pathway forward to resolving the debt ceiling issue forever. By rehabilitating the Boehner-era Grand Bargain, Washington can move the United States toward long-term fiscal solvency. Alas, just as with Obama, the Democrats are far too extreme to broker any kind of negotiation with the Republicans on this matter. They will instead caterwaul about how crazy the Republicans are and watch as everything burns—blaming the Republicans all the way. President Obama’s ego put us here over a decade ago. Let’s pray that both Biden and Kevin McCarthy can work something out. Otherwise, it’s another Great Depression for us. I won’t hold my breath.
THE DEMOCRATS ARE SAYING, “TRUMP TOOK MONEY FROM THE SAUDI’s!” Barack Obama’s religious background is also more diverse than that of most prominent politicians. But it may prove to be representative of future generations of Americans who grow up in an increasingly diverse America. His mother was raised by non-practicing Christians; his father was raised a Muslim but was an atheist by the time he had married Obama’s mother.
Obama’s stepfather was also Muslim, but of an eclectic kind who could make room for animist and Hindu beliefs. Neither Obama nor his mother were ever atheists or identified with atheism in any way, but she raised him in a relatively secular household where he learned about religion and the different beliefs people had about them.
Not Raised in a Religious Household, in his book “The Audacity of Hope”, Barack Obama writes: I was not raised in a religious household. For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. However, in her mind, a working knowledge of the world’s great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.
On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. In some ways, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.
Some Religious Education As a child in Indonesia, Obama studied for two years at one Muslim school and then two years at a Catholic school. In both places he experienced religious indoctrination, but in neither case did the indoctrination take hold. During Quranic studies he made faces and during Catholic prayers, he would look around the room.
Chooses Baptism in Christian Church as an Adult Eventually, Barack Obama abandoned this non-conformism and skepticism to be baptized as an adult in the Trinity United Church of Christ, a denomination which emphasizes the freedom of the individual conscience over adherence to creeds or hierarchical authority. This is similar to traditional Baptist Christianity and something that is honored more in theory than in practice when it comes to the Southern Baptist Convention. Several historical creeds and catechisms are used by the United Church of Christ as statements of their faith, but none are used as “tests of faith” which a person must swear upon.
Beliefs of the United Church of Christ A 2001 study by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research found the denomination’s churches are fairly evenly split between conservative and liberal/progressive beliefs. Official policy statements from the church leaders tend to be more liberal than conservative, but the denomination is organized in such a way that disagreements by individual churches are allowed.
Is Obama The Antichrist? 100% PROOF THAT HE IS/ WILL BE. An “analyst” trained in the very, very discredited “Bible Code” method, which tries to predict future events through letters in the Bible, has come out with some big news: President Obama is in the Bible Code, and he is probably the Antichrist. Bible Code-breaker Jonathan Wright appeared on “Trunews” last week, where he told host Rick Wiles that Obama is either the Antichrist or the harbinger of the Antichrist. Not only does the Bible Code prove this to be the case, says Wright, but so does Obama’s non-existent Muslim wedding ring.
Wiles: So either Barack Obama is the Man of Sin, commonly known as the Antichrist, the Bible doesn’t say ‘Antichrist’ it says, ‘Man of Sin.’ Wright: That’s right. Wiles: Either Barack Obama is the Man of Sin or he is strongly connected to the Man of Sin or the spirit of Antichrist. Wright: That’s right. Those are my only — I’ve tried to look at this as an investigation not with an agenda, by the way, but what I’ve come up with those have to be the possibilities. Let’s just face it, he’s got a ring on that says, ‘There’s no God but Allah and Mohammad is his Messenger.’ Now, by definition, that’s Antichrist. As Wright explained, he searches for Obama’s name in the Bible Code alongside terms relating to Satan: “look up the ‘Man of Sin’ or ‘Beelzebub’ or any name has a connection to Satan or Lucifer and then go and see if there’s a connection to him, and usually they both confirm, back and forth the same thing.” President Obama on Atheism | Real Time with Bill Maher (Web Exclusive) – Bing video
For example, the United Church of Christ is the largest Christian denomination to come out in favor of “equal marriage rights for all,” which means full marriage rights for gay couples, but there are many individual churches which do not support this. Other famous members of the United Church of Christ include Barry Lynn, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Howard Dean, and Jim Jeffords. Barack Obama Marxist Muslim Background – Bing video
Obama’s Marxist-Leninist Economics: Fact and Fiction.
Osama and Obama – Comrades in Arms (Credit: Intel Photos)
Osama and Obama (rockymountainastrologer.com) “A fair description of Obama and his goals is to say that he is ‘an interventionist, corporatist, statist, Big Government progressive, free-market-hating control freak who favors economic policies of a Marxist-Leninist flavor.'”
It seems inevitable in an election year people on both ends of the ideological spectrum resort to simplistic labels. On the political right, many call President Obama a socialist, because that is a simple, familiar term with the desired negative connotations. However, I agree with the actual socialists from the International Socialist Organization, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, the Party of Socialism and Liberation, and the Socialist Party USA who uniformly and correctly observe that Obama is not a dictionary-definition socialist, because he has not called for the national government to nationalize the means of production.
The problem here is that the dictionary definition of “socialist” sets an almost impossibly high bar for any leader. Even Vladimir Lenin himself couldn’t meet that standard. Actually, Lenin tried to implement pure socialism when he first came to power, but when his policies caused the Russian economy to collapse all around him, in 1921 he abandoned literal socialism and replaced it with a pragmatic, expedient reform program called the “New Economic Policy.” Under NEP, Lenin permitted various privatizations while seeking state domination of the “commanding heights” of the economy.
President Obama has emulated Lenin in striving to increase state control over such “commanding heights” of our economy as energy, health care, finance, and education, with smaller forays into food, transportation and undoubtedly areas I am overlooking. Besides mimicking some of Lenin’s policy strategies, Obama also has adopted Karl Marx’s strategies for gradually socializing an economy. Before I spell out the Marxian nature of many of Obama’s policies, let me emphasize that I am not calling Obama a “Marxist-Leninist, period.” “Marxist-Leninist” connotes the brutal totalitarian police state of the late, unlamented Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. There is no comparison between Barack Obama’s statism and the genocidal, gulag-riddled regime of the Soviet Communists. That being said, Obama’s economic program is taken directly, if not deliberately, from the Marxist-Leninist playbook, and on that basis one may say that Obama tends toward Marxist-Leninist economics.
Here are examples, Marx’s wording being revised for simplicity’s sake:
Besides adopting the Leninist strategy of seeking greater control over the commanding heights of the economy, if one reviews Marx’s 10-point platform for how to socialize a country’s economy in stages (“The Communist Manifesto,” chapter two), one finds that Team Obama and his congressional progressive allies have taken actions to further the goals laid out in all 10 of the planks in the Marx platform.
1. State control of real property. Team Obama repeatedly has thwarted the development of domestic energy supplies by asserting government ownership and asserting arbitrary regulatory control over massive acreage.
3. Abolition of inheritance. Obama favors re-institution of estate taxes.
4. Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels. Team Obama has declared war on offshore tax havens, has sought legal jurisdiction to tax the offshore income of multi-national corporations as well as foreign citizens and banks that have any investments in America (causing Switzerland’s oldest bank to recommend that its clients avoid all American investments);
6. State control of means of communication and transportation. Team Obama has attempted to cow conservative media outlets like Fox News into submission through denunciation and has suggested reviving the so-called “fairness doctrine” and imposing heavier licensing fees on station owners. In the area of transportation, Obama insinuated government into the auto industry, has favored the high-speed rail boondoggle, and wishes he could compel us all to convert to “green transportation.”
7. Increase state control over means of production. Through his green energy subsidies, his failed cap-and-trade scheme, now via EPA regulation, Obama has sought state control over the industry on which most other industries depend—energy.
8 Establishment of workers’ armies. Obama has ramped up the number of Americans working for Uncle Sam by securing a large expansion of Americorps and winning passage of his Serve America Act. He also has done everything he could to strengthen labor unions.
9. Control over where people live. Team Obama doesn’t go quite this far, but one of the clear implications of cap-and-trade is that government could start to limit human mobility by controlling how far they can travel by capping energy consumption. In Brian Sussman’s book, “Eco-Tyranny,” you can read an executive order that Obama signed on October 5, 2009 that would “divide the country into sectors where all humans would be herded into urban hubs” while most of the land would be “returned to a natural state upon which humans would only be allowed to tread lightly.” (Marx wanted more equal distribution of the human population between town and country, whereas Obama favors urban concentration, but both want to control where people live.)
10. Free education. Obama has sought a federal government monopoly on student loans for higher education, and in his 2012 State of the Union Address, he called for additional funds for new federal education programs. Clearly Barack Obama’s policies have a distinctly Marxian flavor to them. Does that mean we are destined for socialism? Certainly not yet. But Marx knew that his 10 strategies would move a society toward socialism. The great free-market economist Ludwig von Mises agreed with Marx that government interventions breed further interventions and tend inexorably toward socialism. (See his class essay, “Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism.”)
There is another vital point to understand about Marxist-Leninist economics: The greatest damage is done to the middle class. With his customary bloodthirsty malevolence, Lenin said, “The way to crush the bourgeoisie [middle class] is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” You may suppose that Obama isn’t implementing that aspect of Marxist-Leninist economics, but you would be mistaken. It’s true that income tax rates haven’t risen under Obama and inflation has only surfaced in a few areas (e.g., food and energy) but what you need to understand is that government borrowing is a tax hike on future taxpayers. Obama’s unprecedented deficit spending has been subsidized by the Federal Reserve, whose balance sheet has swelled as they have bought more and more federal debt (more than 60 percent of the total last year). Whenever the Fed’s zero interest rate policy ends, some combination of massive tax hikes and/or raging inflation will ensue, devastating the middle class.
The Storm is Upon U.S.
Already, Obama’s economic policies have hurt the middle class. They have enervated the job market, raised food and energy bills, and been accompanied by falling incomes and net worth. If these are the results of Obama’s partial steps in a Marxist-Leninist direction, imagine the damage that would be wrought by a fuller implementation of such an agenda. In closing, I repeat that we should not recklessly call Obama a “Marxist-Leninist.” Although it’s too long and cumbersome a label for a generation addicted to sound bites and simplistic labels, a fair description of Obama and his economic goals is to say that he is “an interventionist, corporatist, statist, Big Government progressive, free-market-hating control freak who favors economic policies of a Marxist-Leninist flavor.”
Mitochondria, Cold, Cure for Cancer Updated: Mar 7
In 2013, Dean Hall was dying of an incurable leukemia. Resolved to do something before he died that would inspire other cancer patients, he swam the entire length of the cold Willamette River in Oregon. When he finished, his leukemia was gone. Dean’s amazing recovery reinforces that deliberate cold exposure and exercise will inhibit tumor growth by starving cancer cells of glucose, and killing them with ketones. Since his reversal, a number of scientific studies have been published that explain the mechanisms of Dean’s reversal. Dean remains 100% free of cancer to this day.
Cold water swimming cured Dean’s cancer One day in 2013, Dean Hall looked at himself in the mirror. He saw his swollen lymph nodes and shrinking muscles and thought to himself, “You know, if I let the leukemia take me, no one would ever know that I gave up.”
He was despondent and depressed, like many of the people who suffer from cancer. He’d already survived one cancer diagnosis, only to lose his first wife of 30 years to an inoperable brain tumor. But at that moment he reminded himself that he still had a 21-year-old daughter.
Dean decided that death was not a luxury he could afford.
He resolved to do something he’d fantasized about as a kid. Something that might inspire other cancer patients.
He would swim the English Channel before he died.
So Dean called his doctor and told what he planned to do. His doctor said, “Dean if you get in a public pool, with your immune system worn down from leukemia, it will kill you,” In other words, Dean Hall had nothing left to lose.
Metabolic therapies for cancer What Dean didn’t know when he began training for his cold swim is that the combination of cold exposure, exercise, and ketone production could kill his cancer. Just six years earlier, researchers had hypothesized that cold water swimming could “stimulate anti-tumor immunity” by activating the body’s own natural killer cells (Shevchuck & Radoja 2007). It’s a hypothesis that has been popular at least since the 1930’s, when Russian mystic Porfiry Ivanov famously claimed that cold exposure cured him of terminal cancer he suffered in middle age. He lived to the age of 85, dying in 1983 after gaining a cult-like following to whom he proselytized about the health benefits of cold exposure, hunger, and exercise.
However, it wasn’t until 2022 that researchers in Sweden (Seki et al. 2022) demonstrated that the mechanism by which deliberate cold exposure inhibits tumor growth is likely activation of brown fat. As I wrote in Ice Bath Cryotherapy for Cancer, this new study demonstrated that mice implanted with colorectal tumors and subjected to 4C cold air exposure lived longer and experienced slower tumor growth than mice kept at warmer temperatures. The researchers attribute this to the fact that cold exposure activates and recruits new brown fat, and clears glucose from the blood stream.”
The majority of cancers have a gene that is up-regulated for glucose metabolism, because glucose is the only food that is so energy-dense it can fuel cancer’s unmitigated growth. As such, Thomas Seyfried, PhD describes cancer as a metabolic, mitochondrial disease (Seyfried 2015, 2012). According to Seyfried, mutations in the nucleic DNA of cancer cells are a symptom of cancer, not the cause.
The real cause of cancer is disorders of cell metabolism that originate in the mitochondria.
In his popular book, Tripping Over the Truth (2017), Travis Christofferson summarizes a devastating critique of genetic theories of the origins of cancer, and postulates instead a convincing metabolic theory. According to Christofferson, cancer cells are unique in that they obtain energy exclusively by fermenting glucose (a simple sugar), whereas normal cells can metabolize either glucose or fat.
Whereas, the genetic theory of cancer claims that cancer originates from mutations in the cell DNA, the metabolic theory states it originates from defects in the mitochondria that provide energy to the cell.
This has profound implications for treatment of cancer. Based on the fact that tumor cells compete for finite stores of glucose within the body, depletion of glucose can “suppress systemic growth of malignant cell types,” also including leukemia (Ye et al. 2018). Further, Seyfried’s work has demonstrated that ketones inhibit tumor growth (e.g., Seyfried et al. 2014), suggesting that Dean’s cold-water swimming both starved his cancer by depriving it of glucose and killed it by putting his metabolism into ketosis.
Swimming in miracles In 2013, Dean Hall became the first person to swim the entire 184 miles of the Williamette River that flows through Portland, Oregon. It took him over 3 weeks, and you can read more, in his own words, in his new book The Wild Cure. Then, in 2017, he swam the entire length–over 150 miles–of the Shannon River in Ireland.
But Dean has taken cold water swimming to an extreme level that most people don’t even begin to contemplate. What can people learn from Dean’s experience of complete remission without radiation, chemotherapy, or surgery?
Without swimming all day in freezing rivers, you might be able to manage your cancer risks with a combination of fasting from carbohydrates, exercise, and deliberate cold exposure.
No-carb fasting! Fasting from carbohydrates does two things that promote the destruction of cancer cells: Fasting starves the cancer cells of the glucose they need to metabolize. As a consequence, the cancer cells die and are reabsorbed into the body in a process called autophagy. As blood glucose levels drop, the body switches to fat metabolism instead — i.e, burning lipids released from white fat cells to sustain body operations in a process called ketosis — producing ketone bodies that are toxic to cancer cells, but healthy for normal cells (e.g., Seyfreid et al 2003).
Well documented cases of people on hunger strikes indicate that even lean people can survive for weeks without eating, metabolizing fat alone. At the extreme, one obese man maintained a medically supervised fast for over a year without eating any food at all. Fortunately, most people can achieve a state of ketosis in just a few days, by eating only healthy fats and protein, in what is called a ketogenic diet. For example, ketosis has long been prescribed for controlling epileptic seizures in children and is increasingly recognized as a remedy for mental health disorders (Palmer 2022).
Exercise The systemic health benefits of exercise are well recognized. Exercise improves your muscle tone, metabolism, brain function, and likely delays ageing. What’s even more incredible is that intensive exercise stimulates the production of cancer-fighting compounds in your bloodstream.
For example, Canadian researchers ran an experiment in which they collected blood from male subjects “prior to, 5 min, 1 h, and 24 h after a single bout of high-intensity interval exercise on a cycle ergometer” (Kurgan et al. 2017). When they exposed lung cancer cells to the collected post-exercise blood serum, they observed an “inhibition of cell proliferation and survival.” They also speculate that the mechanisms involve reduced levels of IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor) and/or increased levels of IGF-1 binding protein.
In other words, Dean’s extensive exercise regimen may have acted to inhibit tumor growth by modifying hormonal action, as well as correcting metabolic/mitochondrial disorders. But you don’t have to be an extreme athlete to get the cancer-fighting benefits of exercise. One study showed that leisure time physical activity is associated with a nearly 50% reduction in the risk of cancer (Moore et al. 2016)
Ice bath You may have already read Tim Ferris’s 2016 article ‘EXCLUSIVE: Unpublished Material from NYT Magazine Story on Cancer Metabolism‘ in which he describes the metabolic theory of cancer and the difficulty associated with publishing the results of studies investigating metabolic theories in mainstream or popular media. What Tim doesn’t discuss is the role that cold exposure might play in accelerating metabolic treatments of cancer.
The relationship between cold exposure and cancer remission is still comparatively under-investigated. There are principally three mechanisms by which deliberate cold exposure will help defeat cancer: glucose starvation, ketone body production, and mitochondria restoration by recruitment of new brown fat. The first two mechanisms are common to exercise and cold exposure, however the third is unique to deliberate cold exposure. so we’ll focus on the way that these mechanisms relate to brown fat.
Glucose starvation
The body has two ways of generating heat to maintain normal core body temperatures when exposed to cold. The first is shivering in the muscles, which most people have experienced when they’re feeling cold. However, the second is called non-shivering cold thermogenesis, and it happens exclusively in brown fat.
Generally speaking, there are two types of fat (adipose tissue) in the body. White fat is for storing energy, and brown fat is for burning it. Because most clinical trial subjects live in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic Regions (“WEIRD”, Henrich et al. 2010) countries where climate control is ubiquitous, by the time these subjects reach adulthood, they have very little brown fat remaining in their bodies. However, a practice of regular cold exposure will both activate brown fat and recruit more (Oulett et al. 2012, Søberg et al. 2021). In the competition for blood glucose, the body will feed brown fat during cold exposure, compared to tumor cells (Seki et al. 2022). Therefore, cold exposure may cure cancer by reducing blood sugar levels, and starving cancer cells of their only energy source.
Cold exposure for inducing ketosis
Repeated cold exposure recruits brown fat, obviating the need for shivering. Regular plungers know this. After a few weeks of forging, our customers report that they no longer feel the shiver reflex after several minutes in freezing cold water. What that means is that their bodies are burning white fat lipids (e.g., triglycerides) as well as glucose in their new brown fat cells — just to maintain body temps during and after their ice bath.
In laboratory experiments, mice fed a diet supplemented by exogenous ketones have shown resistance to tumor growth (e.g., Pof et al. 2014). Since then, clinical trials in humans have shown that a ketogenic diet is well tolerated by cancer patients, and improves treatment outcomes (Tran et al. 2020). Nonetheless, as I wrote in Ice Bath for Fast Keto, the fastest way to stimulate production of your own ketones is an ice bath. Thus, a combination of low-carbohydrate fasting and cold exposure may inhibit tumor growth by inducing the body to produce its own, natural ketones (without deleterious side effects).
Cold exposure for mitochondria restoration
It is already well established that cold exposure recruits brown fat, to increase metabolic capacity for thermogenesis — i.e., burning white fat for the generation of heat (Hanssen et al. 2016). What’s more, brown fat contains extra mitochondria that govern cell metabolism, supercharging the capacity of the brown fat cells to burn the lipids stored in white fat cells (Harms & Seale 2016). While the processes by which old mitochondria are recycled, mitochondria damage is restored, and new mitochondria to populate new brown fat cells are beyond the scope of this article, cold exposure may contribute to a cure for cancer by correcting in defective or malfunctioning mitochondria. Essentially, cold exposure induces the conditions by which the body repairs the defects in mitochondria that are at the beginning of a complex causal chain resulting in cancer. It may stop cancer at its source.
Protocols for cancer risk
Morozko isn’t the only one who is catching on the elaborate, expensive, misguided ruse that is the current approach to cancer ought to research. In cold exposure, there is no blockbuster drug costing patients $100K a year. No expensive radiation machines. No multiple rounds of designer chemotherapy targeting a patient’s specific genome. No gene therapy. There is no money to be made in curing cancer with the immune response, defense, and health mechanisms with which your body is already equipped. And no financial incentive to perform clinical trials on what might be the greatest benefit/cost approach to treatment of the second leading cause of death in the United States.
If your concern is not treating cancer per se, but preventing it in the first place, you can read about my experiences with keto and ice baths when I was confronted with the possibility that I was at elevated risk for prostate cancer in my article
This man has an INCREDIBLE story of healing cancer againstincredible odds BY SWIMMING IN COLD WATER!
‘In 2013, three years after the death of his wife, Dean Hall was losing his battle with leukemia and lymphoma. In his mind, he had two choices: Let the cancer have its way or go all-in on a big dream to prove to himself and the world that his diagnosis did not define him.
Dean’s dream? Become the first person in history to swim the entirety of the Willamette, Oregon’s longest river. His doctors told him it was dangerous. His family told him it was crazy. Others quipped that it was impossible. And yet, he persisted. After months of training in the pool, Dean stepped into the headwaters of the Willamette and began the 187-mile journey toward the mouth of the river with nothing but a dream, the drive, and his 79-year-old father in a kayak to lead the way. He could not foresee what would become of his cancer or himself when he started out. All he knew was that if he was going to die, he was going to do it pursuing his dreams. The Wild Cure is the true story of how a dying man’s impossible ambition became the very thing that had the power to save him. Told through braided interviews, Dean’s story is relive by the family and friends who were loosely involved during his journey. “
The book cover was also the Author ‘Cover of the Month’ Book Contest Winner. The memoir also won four different ‘Best of New Books’ categories by All Author in the categories of ‘Best New Cancer Book’, ‘Best New Horse Book’, ‘Best New Healing Book’ & ‘Best New Cancer Book of All Time’ in 2022. She is also the author of the bestselling children’s picture book, ‘Comanche the Wild Mustang’ and ‘Comanche the Wild Mustang Coloring Book’, which shares the tale of her beloved wild horse. He was born in the wilderness in Nevada, was an equine therapy horse at a horse retreat center and then traveled across the ocean to the tropical jungle paradise of Kaua’i, Hawaii! This book is about mustang advocacy to spread awareness of the dire reality of wild horses in North America. ‘Grace, Grit & Gratitude’ is about overcoming adversity, a deep dive into the challenges that come from loss, her own harrowing health journey and how her horses have played a significant role in her miraculous healing with cancer. She recently contributed to ‘The Power to Rise Above’ an anthology of 30 women writers around the globe sharing their stories of rising above adversity. Tara Coyote is the owner of a horse retreat center, Wind Horse Sanctuary in Kaua’i, Hawaii, which was formally located in Northern CA. She studied with Linda Kohanov at Eponaquest and is a certified Equine Facilitated Learning teacher. She also studied with Lisa Murrell & Schelli Whitehouse at Equine Alchemy to become a equine-guided life coach. Over the years, she has guided hundreds of people with private sessions, group workshops and ‘Grief Rituals with Horses’. Tara has also been journeying with late-stage breast cancer for over six years. She currently treats it using complimentary methods: a blend of conventional and non-toxic medicine. She has been publicly sharing her health journey through her Cancer Warrioress blog page, YouTube channel and social media. She is very grateful to be alive after being recommended to hospice in the spring of 2019. She is currently thriving on her island home living off the grid in a yurt with her animals. Tara released an award winning environmental 10-minute short film about climate change equating it with her health journey in her film ‘Honor the Earth’. @Tara Coyote – YouTube She happily lives in Kaua’i with her two horses: Comanche, the mustang, Blue the paint horse, Xaria, the Australian Shepherd and a plethora of cats. She believes it is always possible to find beauty within the greatest tragedy and that every challenge is present to serve us for our highest growth!
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