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Naltrexone for Long COVID

https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-a-drug-for-opioid-and-alcohol-addiction-is-helping-treat-long-covid

How a Drug for Opioid and Alcohol Addiction Is Helping Treat Long COVID

By Meiling Lee
March 26, 2022 Updated: March 26, 2022

A drug that’s helping millions of people with opioid or alcohol dependence is also being used to treat those suffering symptoms of long COVID.

Naltrexone has been around since 1984 to treat opioid or alcohol addiction. Given in high doses of 50-milligram tablets or a 380-milligram intramuscular injection, the drug works by binding to opioid receptors in the brain to block the effects—especially the urges and cravings to use—of opioids and alcohol.

Naltrexone has also been found to treat other disorders when administered in low doses. It is used off-label to treat obesity, nerve pain, anxiety, and autoimmune disorders.

“I found it very effective in my patients with rheumatoid arthritis, with Crohn’s disease, with other autoimmune processes, and chronic fatigue syndrome,” Dr. Keith Berkowitz, an internist, told The Epoch Times.

Naltrexone is given at doses of 0.5 to 4.5 milligram for patients with long COVID, along with other repurposed medications like prednisone, ivermectin, and vitamin D, according to Berkowitz. At low doses, naltrexone has a potent anti-inflammatory effect, as well as an endorphin effect. (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:
  • The addition of naltrexone to FLCCC’s treatment protocol has been a “game-changer” for patients struggling with long COVID-19
  • One doctor states patients with long COVID aren’t believed by other doctors for it.
  • WHO published a clinical case definition of long COVID as symptoms that occur 3 months from onset of COVID-19 with symptoms and that last for at least 2 months and cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis.
  • The CDC defines long COVID as a “wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people can experience four or more weeks after first being infected” with SARS-CoV-2.
  • FLCCC and other experts recognize long COVID can happen not only after infection but after a COVID shot.
  • It is believed prolonged exposure to spike proteins and lipid nanoparticles produces chronic inflammation causing long COVID. Circulation Research demonstrated the spike protein was able to damage the cells of the vascular system, and that COVID-19 is a vascular disease rather than a respiratory illness.
  • Another study (pdf)—waiting to be peer-reviewed found that people who received “two doses of COVID-19 shots had higher odds of developing Long COVID.”
  • Another study found that the spike protein from the shots persis in the body & remains in lymph node germinal centers for 60 days after the second dose of an mRNA shot.
  • On expert states the more exposure an individual has to the spike protein, the more symptoms they will likely experience.
  • Brain fog is a long COVID symptom that can be so debilitating patients aren’t able to work.
  • Cognitive dysfunction, another long COVID symptom is one of the most frequent persistent symptoms reported, & occurs in 70 percent of long COVID patients. Brain fog, memory issues, and speech and language problems occurred more often at eight weeks or later than during initial infection, and about 86% of participants reported being unable to work due to cognitive dysfunction and/or memory loss, according to a study.
  • Interleukin 6 (IL-6) causes damage … and low dose naltrexone helps modulate it and nuclear factor kappa B protein, or the inflammatory pathway, Dr. Mobeen Syed said in a video presentation on naltrexone.
Naltrexone is often used with Lyme/MSIDS patients as well.  For more:

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Treatment, Viruses

Growing Evidence of Lyme-Like Illness in Australia

Growing Evidence of an Emerging Tick-borne Disease That Causes a Lyme-like Illness For Many Australia Patients

Professor Noel. Campbell
Fellow Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine

sub1281_Campbell (1)  372 page Paper Here

Executive Summary:  

Over the past three decades, thousands of Australian families have felt the impact of Lyme and  other tick-borne diseases (TBDs), with an estimated 10,000 individuals affected each year. Whether  it is a laborer who cannot continue his work because of debilitating joint pain, or a child who  misses school because of debilitating fatigue, pain and cognitive dysfunction, TBDs can have a  significant effect on the day to day lives of Australians. Since Lyme disease was first identified in  Australia in 1982, the disease has spread geographically, and in severity. It has been documented  that there has been an increase in tickborne diseases in Australia, including early and late forms, as  well as an increase in neurological cases.

The patient experience may be characterized by delays in diagnosis, confusion, frustration,  ongoing illness, with, in many cases poor outcomes, disability and a significant financial burden.  (Most recently, we have started to record deaths in Australia from tickborne diseases.)

Recognizing these facts, the Parliament of Australia has referred these matters to the Senate  Community Affairs References committee for enquiry and report. The Senate acknowledged the significant toll TBDs may exact on individuals, families, communities, and the state, noting that  TBDs pose a serious threat to the health and quality of life of many residents and visitors to  Australia.

The purpose of this inquiry should be to establish a Lyme and related tickborne diseases task force charged with exploring and identifying recommendations related to education and awareness, long term effects of misdiagnosis, prevention, and surveillance. The intent of the recommendations are  generally to improve Australia’s response to the tickborne disease burden.

This submission reflects the history of TBDs in Australia, and includes specific recommendations as well as implementation strategies, case studies, and resource needs. While the Senate Inquiry  will be the result of months of research and co-collaboration, it is clear that its report is merely the  beginning of a much-needed dialogue and structured planning process across the country.

The primary recommendations in this submission focus on increased and improve surveillance,  prevention of tick exposure strategies and tactics, as well as education and awareness for  healthcare practitioners(HCPs), patients, the general public and other stakeholders.

In contemplating each recommendation, the author carefully considered each of the countries key  stakeholders, including patients of all ages and their families, vulnerable populations, health care  providers, domestic animals, researchers, Government agencies, policy makers, schools and  community organisations, and the general public.

Key Themes: 

  1. Tickborne disease knowledge and research is evolving rapidly. It will be vital to encourage  critical research, to understand the scope and scale of Lyme and other TBDs in Australia,  and to develop options to improve the public health response and the community/ patient  outcomes.
  2. Different schools of thought exist among all stakeholders regarding Lyme. Ambiguities do  exist so it is important to promote a strong and academically rigourous pursuit of better  research to help clarify the best options for patients. We are encouraged to keep an open  mind, and to continue to explore the nature of these diseases and their health impacts.
  3. The most critical research gap is the lack of a gold standard test for Lyme and other  tickborne infections; a test that can quickly and accurately diagnose the disease, and prove  or disprove ongoing persistence. Research into bio- resonance for diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease is producing encouraging results in Melbourne Australia.
  1. Without more research and surveillance, it will be difficult to stay ahead of this rapidly  evolving public health problem.
  2. The cost to Australia of doing nothing is considerable.
  3. Without targeted and significant funding, it is unlikely these recommendations can be  deployed in an effective and impactful way.
  4. Collaboration among the commonwealth’s diverse stakeholders Will help ensure programs  and strategies are innovative, effective, and measurable.  Too many Australians have suffered the consequences of Lyme and TBD’s, and without action,  thousands more remain at risk. This is important public health challenge affects all Australians  -every state has reported ticks infected with bacteria. And yet our children, our elderly, and our immunocompromised are most at risk and most vulnerable to their impact. Our actions now,  will significantly impact Australian youth’s risk and future potential.The author respectfully requests Swift action on the enclose recommendations by all state  leaders charged with ensuring the protection and well being of the Commonwealth’s residents.

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Activism, Lyme, research, Testing, Ticks

Screenwriter Turns a Couple’s Courageous Lyme Fight into a Film Script

https://www.lymedisease.org/doherty-courageous-lyme-fight/

Screenwriter turns a couple’s courageous Lyme fight into a film script

By Steve Doherty

March 15, 2022

I was bitten on the neck by a tick in 1996, while camping in southern Mississippi. But I didn’t notice or remove the tick until five days after I returned home.

Looking back, I now recognize the subtle symptoms in the years following, such as hand rashes, crackling in my neck and mild cardiac arrhythmias.

In 2010, I became very ill. I spent a year and a half visiting physicians with no definitive diagnosis.

The symptoms had intensified to include numbness in my hands and feet, increased cardiac arrhythmias, consistent tinnitus and severe fatigue. Finally, an ILADS-affiliated doctor diagnosed me with Lyme in 2012.

I had worked as a respiratory therapy for 39 years, but could do so no longer due to my symptoms. I retired and began to delve into another love, screenwriting.

The Lasiter Family

Through a number of incredible circumstances, I became acquainted with Jessica and Lance Lasiter. Jessica is 30 years old and suffers highly debilitating symptoms. She became ill in 2010 and like me, experienced misdiagnosis and questioning of her symptoms.

At one point, doctors told her she had ALS. But eventually, she discovered she had neurological Lyme. Jessica is presently wheelchair-bound with very little use of her hands and much difficulty speaking.

Writing with one functional finger

Jessica and Lance are a courageous couple. Jessica, in her determination to help others, has even written the manuscript for a book based on her journey, using her one functional finger, on her cell phone. She transfers her work to her laptop, which she operates with a foot mouse.

Getting to know Jessica and Lance motivated me to write a screenplay based on their journey. Jessica, Lance and I met on a weekly basis for two years in order that I could learn their story, with its many ups and downs.

Their story was recently chronicled in The Clarion Herald, a local New Orleans newspaper. Here is a link to that article.

We now have a completed script, synopsis and log line for the project. We feel that it is a story that will truly encourage others, as well as inform many regarding the seriousness and horror of Lyme disease. The story is also one of Jessica’s courage and determination to help others in the face of severe adversity. The film project is currently titled, “The Cub & The Raider.”

We expect Jessica’s book manuscript, “We’ve Only Just Begun,” to be ready for publication soon.

During my work with Jessica and Lance, I have witnessed a devotion of a couple to each other that one rarely sees. They love each other unconditionally. This inspires me to use my situation and understanding of Lyme to put forth this story. By virtue of this I am determined, more than ever, in spite of the continued symptoms that I experience, to press on to completion. I hope it will help many people cope with their own Lyme disease challenges.

Steve Doherty lives in Metrairie, Louisiana. For more information regarding the book and film projects, he can be contacted at brownpelican08@aol.com.

Category:

Activism, Lyme

Are There Hidden Genes in DNA/RNA Vaccines?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.801915/full

Are There Hidden Genes in DNA/RNA Vaccines?

Christopher A. Beaudoin1, Martin Bartas2, Adriana Volná3, Petr Pečinka2 and Tom L. Blundell1*
  • 1Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • 2Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia
  • 3Department of Physics, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia

Due to the fast global spreading of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus – 2 (SARS-CoV-2), prevention and treatment options are direly needed in order to control infection-related morbidity, mortality, and economic losses. Although drug and inactivated and attenuated virus vaccine development can require significant amounts of time and resources, DNA and RNA vaccines offer a quick, simple, and cheap treatment alternative, even when produced on a large scale. The spike protein, which has been shown as the most antigenic SARS-CoV-2 protein, has been widely selected as the target of choice for DNA/RNA vaccines. Vaccination campaigns have reported high vaccination rates and protection, but numerous unintended effects, ranging from muscle pain to death, have led to concerns about the safety of RNA/DNA vaccines. In parallel to these studies, several open reading frames (ORFs) have been found to be overlapping SARS-CoV-2 accessory genes, two of which, ORF2b and ORF-Sh, overlap the spike protein sequence. Thus, the presence of these, and potentially other ORFs on SARS-CoV-2 DNA/RNA vaccines, could lead to the translation of undesired proteins during vaccination. Herein, we discuss the translation of overlapping genes in connection with DNA/RNA vaccines. Two mRNA vaccine spike protein sequences, which have been made publicly-available, were compared to the wild-type sequence in order to uncover possible differences in putative overlapping ORFs. Notably, the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine sequence is predicted to contain no frameshifted ORFs on the positive sense strand, which highlights the utility of codon optimization in DNA/RNA vaccine design to remove undesired overlapping ORFs. Since little information is available on ORF2b or ORF-Sh, we use structural bioinformatics techniques to investigate the structure-function relationship of these proteins. The presence of putative ORFs on DNA/RNA vaccine candidates implies that overlapping genes may contribute to the translation of smaller peptides, potentially leading to unintended clinical outcomes, and that the protein-coding potential of DNA/RNA vaccines should be rigorously examined prior to administration.

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**Comment**

**UPDATE March 25, 2022**

Despite very real safety concerns, lack of efficacy, no data or data manipulation, and the appearance they accelerate death,  Biden is seeking yet another $22.5 BILLION for ‘Boosters for All.’

Here’s some important comments on the paper from James Lyons Weiler, PhD:

“They presume there is not issue with the ORFs on the negative sense strand, apparently unaware of the studies that show the mRNA is, in fact, incorporated into the tissue of fast-dividing cells.

Proteins not found in the human genome expressed by human cells will lead to cytotoxic t-cells attacking them and initiating cell death. Therefore, cellular damage and organ damage will occur due to these unintended, preventable proteins translated by the protein-producing machinery of our cells.

Read the paper’s conclusions. Clearly, these steps should have been done before unleashing this biologic on the human population

It is utterly unacceptable that Moderna and Pfizer did not catch this, and it is similarly unacceptable that FDA and CDC organizations such a VRBPAC and ACIP did not catch this.

There is no plan to update the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines to disrupt these open reading frames – or to remove the unsafe epitopes that can lead to autoimmunity against proteins, including many of those in our immune systems.

It’s time we take the bad news that the public knows and understands – how the rush to vaccines was not even close to “science”, but instead was mayhem.”

For more:

For VAERS data and a mounting list of adverse reactions & deaths reported after COVID shots:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/12/21/warning-3150-injuries-in-1st-week-of-covid-vaccines-among-american-healthcare-workers-pregnant-women-included/

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vaccines, Viruses

5 Ways DOD’s Recalibrated Health Surveillance Data Looks Like a Fraudulent Attempt to Cover COVID Shot Injuries

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-5-ways-dods-recalibrated-health-surveillance-data-looks-like-a-fraudulent-attempt-to-cover-vaccine-injury?

Horowitz: 5 ways DOD’s recalibrated health surveillance data looks like a fraudulent attempt to cover vaccine injury

Op-ed

Daniel Horowitz

March 24, 2022

For the past two months, and possibly even earlier, the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division has been systematically changing the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) health surveillance data for active-duty soldiers without any transparency. Where are the congressional inquiries?

On Jan. 24, attorney Thomas Renz brought three named military doctors as whistleblowers to Sen. Ron Johnson, and many more who submitted private affidavits, attesting to the fact that DMED showed a massive increase in numerous diagnosis codes ranging from cancers, blood disorders, and heart ailments to strokes, nervous system disorders, and reproductive issues. They attested in sworn statements that the increase in the data reflected their clinical experience in the military over the past year and is, in their professional opinion, the result primarily of mass vaccine injury from the COVID shots.

In a bizarre twist, the military went on to change the data in the ensuing days without ever conducting a formal investigation into what went wrong or releasing a statement to the public. Rather, a week later, in a terse statement to PolitiFact, of all places, officials claimed the high numbers for 2021 were indeed correct, but that there was a glitch in the data for 2016-2020 used by the whistleblowers to establish a baseline, rendering those years way too low.

A four-page document the DOD submitted in Navy SEAL 1 vs. Austin to Florida federal Judge Douglas Merryday provided more information. In that document, officials make it clear that the 2021 numbers were accurate, that the glitch for 2016-2020 only presented itself from September 2021 through the end of January 2022, following a “server migration” last August, that the new data was corrected on Jan. 29, 2022, that DMED was restored the following day, and that by Feb. 2, they had recreated the proper data. That document is extremely terse, alleges no formal investigation, contains no letterhead, and is completely unsigned.

Yet numerous data points suggest that the government is lying about this narrative. Indeed, data was changed numerous times, 2021 data in some instances was slid backwards, and other data points demonstrate that the current data is corrupt. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Yet another instance of data being manipulated in an under-handed way to fit an accepted narrative.

Yet, Biden is seeking $22.5 BILLION for ‘Boosters for All’ despite lack of efficacy, safety concerns, data manipulation, and other serious issues.

The article is thorough and utilizes graphs showing DMED “fixes” before and after for the following conditions:

  1. Pericarditis – the “fixed” data are implausible because baseline is far too high as well as that there was absolutely zero increase either from COVID or the shots, which has already been proven.  Further, a whistleblower pulled data prior to 2016 and found the data matches the baseline found by whistleblowers and makes the “fixed” version out of sync with history.
  2. Myocarditis – again, rewinding to the previous 10-year baseline shows the “unfixed” version is closer to the original untampered-with data.  Interestingly the “glitches” only shadow the points the whistleblowers make at the time they make it.  Further, number slid backwards and they changed the numbers multiple times during the same month which contradicts four assertions in the court document that they didn’t know about the glitch until Renz’s testimony and that changes were ALL fixed at once in Jan.
  3. Infertility – Renz presented data that was pulled earlier in January by the military doctors showing a 472% increase in female infertility diagnoses in 2021.  When the DHA “fixed” the data, they massively increased the numbers for the previous five years, but they changed it at least three times! Whistleblowers found when they pulled the data before the Johnson hearing, that it had been tampered with several times.  The congressional report is from a year prior to their glitch data, so that data, according to their own narrative, should be correct and would corroborate the numbers from the whistleblowers.
  4. 38% increase in strokes – even after DHA changed most of the data, this STILL shows a 38% increase over the five-year average. Again, government workers changed the data numerous times before they allegedly knew about the glitch.  Whistleblowers, on condition of anonymity, attested to dealing with an unusual number of young, healthy stroke victims who suffered recent strokes, aneurysms, and other neurological damage.  The military has not investigated this.
  5. Exponential increase in “vaccine” injury diagnoses codes –  even after all the DHA data changes, three ICD codes for various types of “vaccine” injury still show anywhere from a 6-17 fold increase in 2021 over the previous 5 years, which harmonizes very well with the VAERS data that show a 10-fold increase in reported deaths and hospitalizations from the shots, except the DMED data are actually from military doctors who identified vaccines as a possible cause of melody.

It is clear that the government’s current data appears to be fraudulent and based on what we already know from VAERS, excess mortality rates, and insurance data around the world, there clearly is a degree of vaccine injury that is not being reported. The totality of the DMED data still shows these concerns in many categories. At the same time, the data is now completely sabotaged. The concern of vaccine injury and a damaged health surveillance system are vital to national security and are equally as problematic. Yet, our government wants us to believe that the first problem doesn’t exist and the second problem was instantly fixed. Clearly, there is more to the story.

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses