Archive for August, 2022

‘I Feel Incredibly Robbed’: The Debate and Deadly Effects of Lyme Disease in Colorado

https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/rocky-mountain-pbs/lyme-disease-colorado-ticks/  Video Here (Approx. 7 Min)

‘I feel incredibly robbed’: The debate and deadly effects of Lyme disease in Colorado

Alexis Kikoen
Samantha Davis and her 3-year-old son Felix look through pictures of her husband, Nate, after he lost his life to complications from Lyme disease and mold poisoning.

DENVER — Samantha Davis and her 3-year-old son Felix sit together at their kitchen table. A large pile of photographs sits in front of them, and they slowly start to make their way through it.

“Oh my gosh, what are we doing?” Davis asks Felix as she shows him a picture. “Rafting with Papa!” he excitedly responds.

Davis continues to flip through the stack and lands on a picture of her husband wandering through a canyon in Moab, Utah. Her expression becomes somber.

“Here’s Papa in Moab, probably the year he got bit,” she sighs. “We had no idea what the early symptoms of Lyme disease were, or what untreated Lyme could do to you.”

Davis lost her husband Nate Watters on June 5, 2021, to complications from Lyme disease and mold poisoning. He was 36 years old. (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • The article predictably asks the question if Lyme even exists in Colorado.  The problem with this illogical and ignorant question is it doesn’t take into account the fact that travel.  The fox, deer, bird, and people travel everywhere picking up ticks and dropping them everywhere.  I can’t believe we are still having this discussion.
  • A singular thinking doctor in Colorado (Dr. Shawn Naylor) points out that there are numerous strains of borrelia that cause Lyme-like disease, and while they may not be picking up Borrelia burgdorferi, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t other strains causing illness, and absence of evidence is not proof of absence.  Borrelia is a fastidious organism and extremely hard to find. The “discoverer” of Lyme, Willy Burgdorfer stated so in this important 4 min video.
  • The fact this man had a EM rash (which is diagnostic for Lyme) and didn’t get diagnosed and treated is a clear reminder that Lymeland remains in the Dark Ages.  When is the medical profession going to take this seriously enough to train doctors appropriately?  Simply put: this man did not have to die.
  • IMO the hands/skin pain and rawness is an indicator that should point doctors to another strain – a European strain that causes skin manifestations (not something I see much of here in WI but still exists).   This picture is from a year old study and even shows the hand involvement.       

  • Then the barrel of monkey symptoms came tumbling out: (weight loss, facial swelling, body lesions, fatigue, graying hair, muscle pain, etc) should have sent off red-light warning bells. But, the medical system stupidity continues.
  • The guy even manages to test positive for Lyme.  But again, due to flagrant stupidity, doctors regurgitate the mantra that it must be a false positive because Lyme isn’t common in Colorado, and Lyme “doesn’t look like this.”  Wow.
  • The ignorance is blatantly pointed out by an entomologist and Lepidopterist manager that states the black legged tick does not naturally occur in Colorado, therefore Lyme disease transmission is rare to non-existent.  As the saying goes however; gargage in, garbage out.

    • First, ticks carry all sorts of nasty diseases they can transmit and they can all look somewhat similar. Second, testing for ALL of these pathogens is abysmal, which means it’s not getting picked up which explains why things are often “rare” when they are not. Third, even IF patients are picking Lyme up from nearby states, what does it matter?  You have sick people and they need to be diagnosed and treated.  It’s ironic to me that globalization is embraced for everything until it comes to tick-borne illness.  Then, for some illogical but nefarious reason, it’s all about geography and limitations (where ticks are and where they aren’t – where things are rare, and where they aren’t) when people and animals move about freely. Fourth, it’s unacceptable that we are still in this quandary and that doctors are still taking this tact when it’s been proven there are numerous genospecies that cause illness in animals and humans, including:
      • a peer-reviewed research paper published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases in September 1994, a new genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi was discovered in wood rats and ticks found in Northern Colorado.
      • A second paper published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology in August 2000 gave the new Borrelia isolate a name – Borrelia bissettii. The strain has been identified in at least three different tick species in Colorado and has been isolated in humans displaying clinical symptoms typically associated with Lyme disease. According to the study, “It is therefore possible that some cases of Lyme disease in the United States may be caused by B. bissettii.”  
  • The fact Naylor, the singular thinking doctor, has to “speak carefully” on the subject demonstrates perfectly that Lyme/MSIDS has become highly politicized (like COVID) and politics trump science.  Naylor points out that the deceased man ran into denial from doctors despite testing positive multiple times on the western blot. He states doctors want to err on the side of ignorance than acknowledge that this is severely under-studied. Doctors also know that if they defy the accepted narrative, they will be hunted down and persecuted (just like we are seeing with doctors treating COVID). The persecution of doctors is extremely taxing, stressful, time consuming, and full of risk.  It takes strong, determined doctors to defy this tyranny, which is why we desperately need to decentralize the public health monopoly.
  • Doctors are getting their orders from the top-down, which starts in the government and then trickles down to research institutions, medical schools/professional organizations, and hospitals/clinicsThere are vast conflicts of interest in this pyramid scheme.
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that up to 90% of tick-borne disease cases go unreported nationwide.  Hello!
  • Naylor then points out that states that are not considered to be “endemic” have much more complex and arduous reporting requirements, which turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy keeping these states forever non-endemic, even when they aren’t.
  • And this is how the CDC controls the narrative. They are in charge of parameters be it with reporting, testing, diagnostics, treatment guidelines, you name it.  Until this corrupt organization is shut down we will never have truth.

Lyme Disease Biobank Collects Patient Samples For Research

**Comment**

Both, the Lyme Bio Bank (Bay Area Lyme Foundation) and the Columbia Specimen Bank are listed on this website.  They are on the right hand side of the website and they are both listed under “Lyme Resources.”  May sure you plan ahead if you have blood/specimens you want to donate as paperwork and steps that require some time need to be taken.

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-disease-biobank-san-rafael/

Lyme Disease Biobank collects patient samples for research

Aug. 18, 2022

“With the lack of government initiative to make Lyme and tick-borne diseases easy to diagnose and simple to cure, it’s up to organizations like Bay Area Lyme and Lyme Disease Biobank to expand our understanding of tick-borne diseases.” –Harrison S., LDB participant

“I participated in the Biobank program because I want to support legitimate science—it’s the compass pointing us in the direction that will lead to better diagnostics and therapeutics for Lyme patients. I am grateful that BAL is funding this critical research which is so sorely needed, and doing it expeditiously. It goes a long way to make up for the five decades of inaction by the CDC and HHS.” – Rebecca W., LDB participant

Over three days in June, the Lyme Disease Biobank (LDB) welcomed participants to Gordon Medical Associates, our LDB collection site in San Rafael, California. Persistent/chronic Lyme patients traveled from as far away as Sacramento, California, and Reno, Nevada, to donate blood and urine samples to the Biobank.

Gordon Medical Associates staff with Liz Horn, PhD, MBI (far right), Principal Investigator, Lyme Disease Biobank, with patient samples ready to be shipped to the Biobank

LDB, a program of Bay Area Lyme Foundation, was founded to ensure an adequate number of samples for researchers investigating Lyme and tick-borne diseases.

Over 1000 specimens

Since its inception in 2014, LDB has collected over 1,000 patient samples for the Biobank, and it supports more than 70 projects around the United States. The program collects blood and urine from people who have been diagnosed with acute or persistent/chronic Lyme disease.

Led by Principal Investigator Liz Horn, PhD, MBI, the Lyme Disease Biobank has partnered with Gordon Medical Associates since 2019 to collect samples from patients with persistent/chronic Lyme.

In 2018, the LDB launched its tissue collection program. Lyme patients who have upcoming surgeries may elect to have tissue that would otherwise be discarded collected and stored in the Biobank.

This program is administered by the National Disease Research Interchange which also manages post-mortem donations to the Biobank.

Partnering with MyLymeData

Our partner, MyLymeData, helps generate awareness about the tissue collection program and provides additional information about the tissue samples to researchers using the samples.

“As a doctor who treats Lyme patients, I feel it’s my duty to support finding better diagnostics and treatments for Lyme patients. Lyme is an underfunded and under-researched aspect of chronic illness, and we need all the help we can get.” – Natalie P., ND, LDB participant

“We are extremely grateful to everyone who has donated samples to the Biobank so far. Patients are the key to finding answers to the challenges of Lyme disease—we could not have made such important research gains without your commitment to the cause. We humbly thank you for your participation!” – Linda Giampa, Executive Director, Bay Area Lyme Foundation

Sarah R., LDB participant

Click here to read more about Lyme Disease Biobank.

Participate in future sample collections in San Rafael.

“I hope my participation in the Biobank will lead to a greater understanding of persistent/chronic Lyme disease and that better diagnostics and treatments will be developed from this program. One doctor told me that Lyme was a ‘hippie doctor disease.’ It’s not. Lyme is a true epidemic that must be addressed. Upon walking out into the parking lot, I found I was emotional: I felt like I was going to burst into tears. Someone was listening! I felt I had been heard with compassion and empathy. Thank you!” – Sarah R., LDB participant

SOURCE: Bay Area Lyme Foundation

WEF Wants to Use AI to Automate Censorship of “Disinformation”

**UPDATE**

And now, the WEF has announced the recruitment of hundreds of thousands of ‘Information Warriors” to control the narrative on social media by policing it and systematically shutting it down. The WEF is calling misinformation an “infodemic.”  These “digital first responders” pretend to be ordinary users but support the ideology of the WEF and are working in concert to shut down opposition.

And in this video, Yuval Noah Harari, Schwab’s right hand man, states so-called “common people” are right to be fearful of a future in which they will be made redundant.

“We just don’t need the vast majority of you.” ~ Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.activistpost.com/2022/08/wef-wants-to-use-ai-to-automate-censorship-of-disinformation

WEF Wants to Use AI to Automate Censorship of “Disinformation”

By The Counter Signal

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has revealed its latest scheme: they want to use AI to automate the censorship of whatever they deem “hate speech” and “disinformation.”

According to an article published by WEF, there is an urgent need to utilize “human-curated, multi-language, off-platform intelligence into learning sets” so that AI can detect online abuse before it ever reaches mainstream platforms.

The Forum says this is necessary to stop the proliferation of everything from child abuse to extremism, disinformation, hate speech, and fraud.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The censorship is prolific.  People and organizations are being banned on FB, Twitter, YouTube and many other media platforms for simply asking questions, or defying the accepted narrative.  This has caused people to go elsewhere to disseminate vital information.  I was kicked off Linked in for simply posting the Danish mask study showing they don’t work. And now they’ve isolated bacteria and viruses from face masks.

Please remember that the WEF “anti-corruption” champion also happens to be Pfizer Director and Reuters CEO, clearly demonstrating that this organization is a bedfellow with Big Pharma and mainstream media.  Please also remember that the WEF has some scary ideas for our future and appears hell-bent on implanting chips into humans including your children, and then has the audacity to compare this to wearing glasses and hearing aids.

(See this article for videos detailing it all):

  1. Infiltrate and capture governments to establish a “self-selected coalition”
  2. Sound wave mind control
  3. Pills with microchips in them
  4. Praise for lockdowns
  5. Dystopian plans for the future
  6. The Great Reset
  7. “Recalibration” of free speech
  8. Digital passports in your clothing
  9. Smartphones in your body
  10. You will own nothing and be happy

Please also read this illuminating article titled, “What is DARPA Planning With the WEF?”

The ‘Pandemic Treaty’ has always been their ultimate goal which is all about control and supersedes the Constitution.  This, and this alone is the reason they want pandemics to last forever.  Please see this important article connecting all of the dots.

Although explained by a comedian, JP does a better job explaining the WEF than the media does:

http://  Approx. 15 Min

Is Klaus Schwab the Most Dangerous Man in the World?

This video has clips with words coming right out of the horse’s mouth.  It’s all right here.

http://  Approx. 10 Min

“You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy!?”  The Great Reset

Uninformed Consent Documentary

**UPDATE**

I’ve added the following article. To watch numerous trailers and the documentary, scroll down past article and synopses.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/08/20/uninformed-consent

Documentary: “Uninformed Consent”

Aug. 20, 2022

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

Story at-a-glance
  • The documentary “Uninformed Consent” takes a deep dive into the COVID-19 narrative — who’s controlling it and how fear was used to push novel, unproven gene transfer technology onto, and into, people of all ages
  • Weaving in and out of the heart-wrenching story of one man’s loss, interviews with doctors and scientists explore the loss of human rights in the name of biosecurity, and how the “elite class” profit from it all
  • “Divide and conquer” — creating division among people — is an age-old war strategy. During Hitler’s reign, anti-Semitism was normalized through propaganda in which Jews were likened to “lice” and were accused of carrying infectious disease. The same tactic was used during the COVID pandemic
  • The personal story that is returned to again and again throughout the film is that of a grieving husband, whose wife committed suicide. She suffered relentless bullying and harassment from coworkers and superiors for refusing the jab, and when she was finally placed on unpaid leave, she took her own life
  • The film reviews the medical establishment’s wholesale abandonment of the Hippocratic Oath, the lawless culture of the drug industry and its capture of regulatory agencies and media, the history of informed consent and why coercion and mandates violate this basic public health principle, vaccine injuries and vaccine-injury denialism, the behind-the-scenes corruption that led to the suppression of science and early treatment, and more

“Uninformed Consent,”1,2,3 takes a deep dive into the COVID-19 narrative — who’s controlling it and how fear was (and continues to be) used to push novel, unproven gene transfer technology onto, and into, people of all ages, and the simultaneous theft of private wealth and the destruction of small businesses, across the globe.

The film is written and directed by Todd Michael Harris (Matador Films). Odessa Orlewicz, a pro-freedom activist in British Columbia and founder of the Canadian social media platform Librti, and Ted Kuntz, retired psychotherapist and president of Vaccine Choice Canada, co-produced the film.

Weaving in and out of the heart-wrenching story of one man’s loss, interviews with doctors and scientists explores the loss of human rights in the name of biosecurity, and how the “elite class” profit from it all.

Interspersed are compilations of media lies and the bewilderingly contradictory dictates of government officials, as well as footage from protests and examples of people collapsing on live television after getting the jab.

The COVID jabs are a crime against humanity, and it’s a crime in progress. For many who are aware of what’s going on, everyday reality is like watching an intentional, slow-motion train wreck.

Divide and Conquer

As noted by B.C. physician Dr. Stephen Malthouse, who is interviewed in the film, “divide and conquer” is an age-old war strategy. During Hitler’s reign, anti-Semitism was normalized through propaganda in which Jews were likened to “lice,” and were accused of carrying typhus. The same exact strategy was used during the COVID pandemic.

Irrational hatred against anti-maskers, “anti-lockdowners” and “anti-vaxxers” was relentlessly fueled and “normalized” by government officials, health authorities and media, right from the start.

Those who dutifully wore their face masks and got the jab were hailed as good and moral citizens, while the rest were labeled as murderous, disease-carrying, amoral egotists, who’d by their selfishness forfeited their right to life.

Family members were pitted against family members. Friends against friends. Coworkers against coworkers. Employers against employees. Most of us who opted out of this grand genetic experiment have been shunned and berated by people we love.

Adding insult to injury, we all paid for this abuse. Billions of taxpayer dollars were spent on propaganda, anti-vax harassment and pro-vax advertising. The pain of this intentional divide and conquer strategy was too great to bear for many.

Bullied to Death

The personal story that Harris returns to again and again throughout the film is that of a grieving husband whose wife committed suicide. She suffered relentless bullying and harassment from coworkers and superiors for refusing the jab, and when she was finally placed on unpaid leave, she took her own life.

How many suicides are the pandemic puppet masters and their brainwashed minions responsible for? Nobody knows, but it’s likely quite a few. And make no mistake: The hateful rhetoric fed into everyone’s brains and acted out by the weak-minded was intended to cause harm.

It was intended to cause distress, and many now carry the cross of having bullied someone to death, whether they’re aware of it or not. Sadly, many have not yet learned their lesson, and efforts to demonize certain groups continues. Now, the targeted opposition are those who ask questions that Big Pharma and government refuse to answer, or point out blatant contradictions in the narrative.

Most ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Are Conspiracy Facts

Terms like “conspiracy theorist” and “conspiracy theory” are applied to everything and everyone who questions the official and clearly ridiculous narrative. And, the demonization continues even as so-called “conspiracies” are repeatedly shown to be true.

For example, the suspicion that we’d be forced to take these gene therapy shots multiple times a year, for years on end, was labeled a “conspiracy theory,” yet it didn’t take long before boosters were rolled out, and now they’re coming out with shots for newer variants as well, which will result in another round of shots.

Similarly, “conspiracy theorists” warned that people who got the jab would have to continue getting boosters or lose their precious “fully vaccinated” status, and that’s exactly what happened.

In fact, the concept of vaccine passports being used to shut people out of everyday society was initially dismissed as a paranoid conspiracy theory, yet it didn’t take long before governments were doing exactly that.

“Conspiracy theorists” also warned that the COVID jab didn’t prevent infection or spread, and that too is now an indisputable fact. As of early February 2022, Israel reported that 80% of serious COVID cases were among the fully vaccinated.4

“Conspiracy theorists” warned that giving the experimental shot to teens and young children would be unconscionably dangerous, as they have a negligible risk for COVID complications, and now even mainstream media from time to time admit that teens and young adults are suffering above normal rates of heart inflammation.

Between January 2021 and August 2022 (a period of 19 months), at least 1,249 athletes have suffered cardiac arrest or collapse, and 847 have died after COVID injection, worldwide.5 Historically, the annual average of sudden death in athletes was between 296 and 69.7

Pandemic Responses Scrutinized

“Uninformed Consent” scrutinizes many of the elements of the pandemic response, such as the irrational idea that early treatment for COVID-19 is nonexistent and/or futile, and the equally irrational idea that the only solution is to inject everyone on the planet with an experimental product, without regard for individual levels of risk.

In interviews with doctors and scientists — such as Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, B.C. family physicians Dr. Stephen Malthouse and Dr. Charles Hoffe, Dr. Tess Laurie and government drug policy researcher Alan Cassels — Harris shines a bright light on the medical establishment’s sudden wholesale abandonment of the Hippocratic Oath.

He also looks at the lawless culture of the drug industry and its capture of regulatory agencies and media — a development that has effectively eliminated any protection the public would have had, and should have, from predatory behavior and dangerous products. Harris also reviews:

  • The history of informed consent and why coercion and mandates violate this most basic and essential public health principle.
  • Injuries from the COVID jab and other childhood vaccines, and the history of vaccine-injury denialism.
  • The corrupted individuals, organizations and networks behind the pandemic measures, including the central roles of Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates in the suppression of science and life-saving treatments.
  • The massive conflicts of interest between Big Pharma, the agencies that regulate them and politicians who create our laws.
  • The collusion between private entities and governments to bring forth global totalitarianism under the banner of biosecurity.

I hope you’ll take the time to watch “Uninformed Consent,” and share it with others. Harris specifically tried, he says, to create a film that would help open the eyes and minds of those who still cannot see what’s happening, or don’t fully believe what they’re seeing.

Resources for Those Injured by the COVID Jabs

To close things out with something that is not covered in this film, if you for whatever reason got one or more jabs and suffered an injury, know there are good doctors and scientists working on solutions.

First and foremost, never ever take another COVID booster, another mRNA gene therapy shot or regular vaccine. You need to end the assault on your system. The same goes for anyone who has taken one or more COVID jabs and had the good fortune of not experiencing debilitating side effects.

Your health may still be impacted long-term, so don’t take any more shots. When it comes to treatment, there still aren’t many doctors who know what to do, although I suspect we’ll see more doctors specializing in COVID jab injuries in the future.

Doctors who have started tackling the treatment of COVID jab injuries in earnest include Dr. Michelle Perro (DrMichellePerro.com), whom I’ve interviewed on this topic. Perro is a pediatrician who over the past couple of years has also started treating adults injured by the jab. Another is Dr. Pierre Kory (DrPierreKory.com).

Both agree that eliminating the spike protein your body is now continuously producing is a primary task. Perro’s preferred remedy for this is hydroxychloroquine, while Kory typically uses ivermectin. Both of these drugs bind and thereby facilitate the removal of spike protein.

Kory also believes there may be ways to boost the immune system to allow it to degrade and eventually remove the spike from your cells naturally, over time. One of the strategies he recommends for this is TRE (time restricted eating), which stimulates autophagy, a natural cleaning process that eliminates damaged, misfolded and toxic proteins. Another strategy that can do the same thing would be sauna therapy.

As a member of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), Kory helped develop the FLCCC’s post-vaccine treatment protocol called I-RECOVER. Since the protocol is continuously updated as more data becomes available, your best bet is to download the latest version straight from the FLCCC website at covid19criticalcare.com8 (hyperlink to the correct page provided above).

Other Helpful Treatments and Remedies

In previous articles, I’ve also covered a number of treatments and remedies that can be helpful for COVID jab injuries, such as:

  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, especially in cases involving stroke, heart attack, autoimmune diseases and/or neurodegenerative disorders. To learn more, see “Hyperbaric Therapy — A Vastly Underused Treatment Modality.”
  • Pharmaceutical grade methylene blue, which improves mitochondrial respiration and aid in mitochondrial repair. At 15 to 20 milligrams a day, it could potentially go a long way toward resolving some of the fatigue many suffer post-jab.  It may also be helpful in acute strokes. The primary contraindication is if you have a G6PD deficiency (a hereditary genetic condition), in which case you should not use methylene blue at all. To learn more, see “The Surprising Health Benefits of Methylene Blue.”
  • Near-infrared light, as it triggers production of melatonin in your mitochondria9 where you need it most. By mopping up reactive oxygen species, it too helps improve mitochondrial function and repair. Natural sunlight is 54.3% infrared radiation,10 so this treatment is available for free. For more information, see “What You Need to Know About Melatonin.”

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SYNOPSIS:

Uninformed Consent is an in depth look into the Covid 19 narrative, who’s controlling it and how it’s being used to inject an untested, new technology, into almost every person on the planet. This film explores our recent loss of human rights while weaving in the devastating impact of mandates and the deeply powerful story of one man’s loss. Hear the truth from doctors and scientists unafraid to stand up against Big Pharma and the Elite Class who profit from these mandates.

Trailer #1: FORCEDVAX

Trailer #2: GETVAXXED 

Trailer #3: SAFE&EFFECTIVE

To Watch the film:

Librti: https://librti.com/uninformed-consent

Children’s Health Defense TV https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/premiere-uninformed-consent-a-matador-films-picture

SUPPORT THE FILM:

You can support this effort of shining the light of truth upon the COVID catastrophe by becoming a sponsor of this ground-breaking documentary. With a minimum donation of $100, your name or that of a loved one (in honour or in memory) will be listed in the credits of this film. For a minimum donation of $250.00, businesses and organizations will have their logo displayed. Sponsors will also receive a link to view the documentary for a private online viewing.

We invite you to use this opportunity to educate your family and friends. Your donation enables Vaccine Choice Canada to accomplish our mission to empower families to make informed, voluntary decisions about their immunity, to defend our right to medical choice, and to protect a parent’s right and responsibility to make medical decisions for their children.

To become a documentary sponsor, please follow the steps listed below. Sponsorship contributions must be made before July 15, 2022 in order to be listed in the credits of the film.  

1. Make your donation on our website at www.vaccinechoicecanada.com/donation and select “Sponsorship – Uninformed Consent”

2.  Email wendy@vaccinechoicecanada.com with the specifics as to how you would like your sponsorship credit to appear at the end of film. In the subject line include: “Film Sponsorship Information”. In the body of your email indicate how you would like your credit to appear: 1. First and Last Name 2. First Name and Last Name Initial only 3. In Honour of “The Person’s Name” 4. In Memory of “The Person’s Name”

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FDA At it Again By Threatening MS Treatment

As most of you are aware, MS can be undiagnosed Lyme, and/or other infections.

https://anh-usa.org/fda-threatens-multiple-sclerosis-treatment/

FDA Threatens Multiple Sclerosis Treatment

FDA Threatens Multiple Sclerosis Treatment

Clinical trials testing estriol for the treatment of multiple sclerosis show great promise…but the FDA is threatening to ban the only way patients can access this critical medicineAction Alert!

Estriol is one of three main estrogens produced by the body, alongside estrone and estradiol. It is often used by integrative practitioners for its benefits to menopausal women, but recent investigations show that it may be effective in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). Despite these health benefits, the FDA is poised to eliminate access to estriol and other bioidentical hormones made at compounding pharmacies. We cannot let this happen.

Estriol levels skyrocket during pregnancy, and many MS patients go into remission during pregnancy. Researchers have noted estriol’s anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties. This has culminated in clinical trials testing estriol as a treatment for MS, and the lead researcher on this trial recently said that so far, results have been “promising.”

Many studies have shown that estriol offers many other potential health benefits—for urinary tract and bone health, for example—without some of the dangers that accompany higher-potency estrogens, such as cancer.

Unfortunately, such a breakthrough may become moot if the FDA goes through with a ban on estriol and other compounded bioidentical hormones. Currently there are no FDA-approved estriol products; the only way patients can get estriol is through a compounding pharmacy.

Recall that the FDA is currently in the process of determining whether to ban estriol and other hormones from being made at compounding pharmacies. After ANH and other stakeholders mounted a massive grassroots campaign pushing back against this threat, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to evaluate the “clinical utility” of treating patients with compounded bioidentical hormones like estriol. We explained previously how NASEM’s process was heavily influenced by the FDA and outrageously biased against compounded hormones. In its final report, NASEM concluded, unsurprisingly, that widespread use of compounded hormones poses a “public health concern.”

This has no factual basis at all. review of the clinical literature concluded that bioidentical hormones are associated with lower risks, including the risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease, and are more effective than synthetic or animal-derived hormones. What seems to be underway is an attempt to create drug company monopolies. The result may be that women may not be able to obtain estriol at all, even though estriol protects against cancer.

The FDA still has hurdles to overcome before a ban can be issued: the agency has to issue a proposed rulemaking to add these hormones to the Difficult to Compound List. It’s also possible that the FDA could issue a draft guidance that restricts the use of cBHRT as outlined by NASEM’s recommendations.

The time to send a clear message to Congress and the FDA is now. We beat the FDA when they tried to ban estriol in 2008, and we can beat them again, but only if the entire community rises up and holds the agency’s feet to the fire. We cannot let the federal government interfere with our health.

Action Alert! Write to Congress and the FDA urging continued access to estriol and other important compounded bioidentical hormones. Please send your message immediately.

Go to top link to send a message to your representatives.

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**Comment**

The FDA is at it again.  Doing everything but what it should.

The FDA has a long and sordid history of colluding with Big Pharma by attempting to monopolize medicine by erasing anything it considers competition or a threat to its power: