One of the major challenges that I (like many) have faced in life is that I love helping other people, but I don’t have the time to do everything I want to be doing, so I’ve gradually had to become very strategic about how I allocate my time. Within the context of this Substack, I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I no longer can individually help each person who reaches out to me and as such, I’ve tried to do the following:
•Determine what the maximum article output is that I can realistically sustain both the quality of and production pace over a longterm period (which has worked out to about two per week) as I’ve lost count of how many remarkable activists I knew who burned out long before their time by overexerting themselves.
•Gradually put projects into motion that I think will provided the greatest benefit to both the readers of this newsletter and society.
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•Try to address most of the questions I expect people to ask in the articles I write and then have a monthly open thread where I can efficiently answer all the pressing questions that still remain over the course of a month.
This has basically worked, but like many other people in the movement (e.g., Pierre Kory) I nonetheless continually feel awful about the fact I’m not doing more with the platform I have and am always asking if I need to sacrifice more of my personal or professional commitments to advance what I’m doing here.
For instance, from the start, I put a lot of work to create the foundation for a healthy community to engage with (e.g., respectful and insightful dialog, no trolling, heartfelt story telling so people could see they were not alone, and the ability to access the collective knowledge of highly informed individuals who’ve been studying these same topics for decades). I did this because I’d always wanted something like that online, so I felt it would benefit the community to have it, that in time it could provide a lot of what I wanted to share with each person here (but don’t have time to), and it could give access to a unique pool of knowledge many (myself including) could learn a lot from.
To illustrate, while I understand the necessity of marketing, I have a deep aversion to it, and one of the things I’ve found so challenging in the health field is knowing whether something I see supportive evidence and testimonials for actually works, as on one hand, many do, but I’ve also seen countless examples where it didn’t, and then realized most of the “evidence” I saw for it had been artificially created (e.g., a lot of internet marketing revolves fabricating testimonials for supplements that do very little and people who are invested in therapies innevitably tend to overrate their efficacy).
Because of this (e.g., I have many longtime paying readers who’ve consistently provided quality commentary and hence are highly unlikely to be paid marketing accounts), I’ve felt the knowledge base of this community needs to be tapped (e.g., “what did you find worked for this condition” or “did you find this specific product worked”), so I’ve gradually tested the waters with putting out surveys and solicitations for comments that I believe could be helpful to the community.
For example, for a variety of reasons, Pierre Kory and I decided we needed to break open the COVID vaccine shedding issues, and hence collectively put hundreds of hours into doing so. One of the many reasons I did this was because I suspected many individuals were suffering inexplicable health issues that were due to shedding, and to evaluate that hypothesis, I put this survey in the recent article on the topic:
Note: these percentages have held relatively steadily as more answers came in, but if you could answer the poll as well that would be greatly appreciated!
Likewise, after the previous article on the dangers of antidepressants, I learned that almost all of the readers here were strongly interested in an article on benzodiazapines and anxiety, so I’ve been extensively working on one that will come out later this week.
Note: if you have any feelings on including polls in these articles, please let me know!
Our Decline in Health
I try to pair each open thread with a shorter topic so the article has value to both those who need an open thread to ask questions and those who do not need that. In this article, I want to touch on a broad topic—what’s happened to our health and how do we get it back?
Over the last century, there has been a tremendous advancement in medical science and many previously insurmountable conditions are now easily managed by the conventional medicine. At the same time, almost every mentor of mine has shared with me that they observed from the start of their careers to the end of it:
•The rates of chronic illnesses in the population increased.
•Many diseases appeared that had previously been almost unheard of.
•Many holistic treatments that patients had previously had dramatic responses to, they now only marginally responded to.
Note: part of my life’s work has been tracking down the lost and forgotten medical cures and then seeing which did and did not work. I believe the final point plays a big part in explaining why it’s so hard to determine which ones were legitimate, as while some are still phenomenal, I believe many of the others that don’t get results now weren’t hoaxes but rather simply are no longer appropriate for the current age we live in.
In turn, quite a few of my mentors asked the same question I did to their mentors, and shared that my “grand-mentors” likewise observed this same decline throughout the course of their careers. From this, I’ve been able to trace a continuous observation of that progressive decline being directly reported since the late 1800s (and about 50 years earlier if I am make some inferences I believe are reasonable, and earlier still if I include what many of the doctors of that era reported about the early mercury preparations).
This discovery thus raises an obvious question: what has caused that decline in humanity’s health? I’ve put a lot of thought into this and believe that while the widespread use of a few of the early drugs (e.g., mercury) was incredibly problematic, by far the biggest shift occurred after the widespread adoption of the disastrous smallpox vaccine (roughly 150 years ago).
Since that time, numerous additional insults have been added into our environment and each one has created a significant (and sustained) spike in chronic illness that the current generation has become acclimated into accepting as the “new normal” until it is no longer questioned, while the doctors who bore witness to the catastrophic explosion in chronic illness become forgotten, and the cycle repeats.
For example, a good case can be made that the vaccines manufacturers being given complete legal immunity in 1986 for their products (which incentivized a glut of not necessarily safe vaccines flooding the market) was directly responsible for the unprecedented spike in chronic illness which began shortly after.1,2
Likewise, many physicians in practice have observed their patients became much sicker once the COVID vaccines came out, and a big part of why I write here is so that this decline in health does not again become normalized and forgotten.
In turn, RFK Jr.’s consistent message has been that the epidemic of chronic disease facing our children is the greatest threat our country faces, and that for our country to remain viable something must be done about it. This is an extremely important message because once (non-corrupt) politicians on either side of the aisle hear it, they inevitably discover they are in complete agreement with what RFK Jr. actually stands for (rather that the slanders the mass media has tried to paint onto him).
Note: since there are so many potential contributors, I have put a lot of thought into exactly what is causing this epidemic of chronic illnesses (e.g., while I believe vaccines are the most probably culprit, as I show here, a surprisingly good case can also be made it’s due to excessive prenatal ultrasounds). In turn, I’ve identified numerous factors which seem to be the most probable culprits (listed here)—all of which are reflective of a sad truth—for all the benefits modern technology has brought us, much of it is also immensely damaging to human vitality.
Shifting Winds
I view most processes in our reality as a result of competing forces reaching a point of balance, and one where periodically, one force will become too excessive, at which point things distort and eventually a stronger counter force will appear to bring things back into equilibrium.
Within this paradigm, two unusual political shifts have recently happened.
First, societies typically follow a cyclical process where the pendulum swings in both directions, and we’ve recently been in a downward decline which has paralleled the inevitable proliferation of corruption seen in those periods.
This creeping corruption has extended into healthcare, and as the decades have gone by, we’ve had more and more toxic pharmaceuticals pushed onto the market while the regulators have more and more fought to protect big business rather than the public (e.g., previously I covered the FDA’s truly egregious conduct with the SSRI antidepressants and the HPV vaccine because they were two of the base case precedents for the FDA’s horrifying and otherwise inconceivable handling of the COVID vaccines).
Note: as I showed here (and RFK showed in his book), I believe the corruption of America’s scientific apparatus (e.g., the H.H.S.) was largely due to Anthony Fauci.
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In turn, I gradually became acclimated to the tragic reality greater and greater health catastrophes would innevitably happen, and in that light, I viewed COVID as a blessing in disguise. This is because what happened was so much more extreme than what the public had been acclimated to, it was able to shake America (and the world) out of its stupor and provoke a strong counterforce in the opposite direction that would wind back much of this creeping corruption (whereas had it happened ten years later, so much more would have been normalized that the pushback we saw against the COVID policies likely would not have materialized).
Second, we live in an era characterized by rapidly accelerating change. As such, every few years, the world significantly changes, things that were long viewed as unthinkable suddenly become possible, and most importantly, the pace of these changes keeps on increasing.
Note: since it’s so hard to know what to believe, I place a heavier weight on things which correctly predict the future. I was first introduced to this concept of accelerating change decades ago by a spiritual teacher (who viewed it as a cosmic process known in hinduism as the Kali Yuga), and then subsequently by many other teachers who shared that perspective. In my eyes, the greatest accelerant to this process has been the internet as it’s made the longstanding system of societal control (monopolizing the airwaves and using them to all blast the same propagandist narrative throughout the society) no longer be viable since the independent media can rapidly debunk and outcompete those lies, and as such, the mass media has entered a downward spiral where it has to make exceedingly audacious lies to maintain its authority (which in turn further erodes its credibility).
As the days go by, I see more and more examples of this shift and things I never expected to see happen occur all around me. For example, after a hearing went viral on Twitter, I listened to it and noticed something surprising in the comments.
A similar ratio was also seen on subsequent posts Sanders made about his hearing.
I found this quite striking as just eight years ago, I would have expected most of the comments to have been in support of Bernie Sanders and his “experts” (e.g., Paul Offit) and I cannot overstate how profound of a shift this is.
Note: my initial skepticism of Bernie Sanders came from the fact over the years I would hear reports from desperate mothers of vaccine injured children who said that whenever they broached the subject with Bernie (as Bernie had branded himself as listening to and advocating for the forgotten members of society), Bernie would dismiss them and refuse to listen.
