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When a Tick Changes the Game: Jared Allen’s Battle with Alpha-Gal Syndrome

https://www.si.com/everyday-athlete/nfl-legend-jared-allen-s-tick-bite-diagnosis-every-athlete-needs-to-know-about

NFL Legend Jared Allen’s Tick Bite Diagnosis Every Athlete Needs to Know About

John Welbourn

When a Tick Changes the Game: Jared Allen’s Battle with Alpha-Gal Syndrome

Most athletes know the importance of diet when it comes to peak performance; what you eat fuels your training, recovery, and overall health. But what happens when something as small as a tick forces you to rethink how you fuel your body completely? That’s precisely what happened to former NFL legend Jared Allen, who recently opened up about his battle with alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne food allergy that has reshaped his lifestyle—and his plate.

What is Alpha-Gal Syndrome?

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is an allergy caused by the bite of the Lone Star tick, commonly found in the southeastern and midwestern United States. Unlike typical food allergies that react to things like peanuts or shellfish, AGS is unique: it causes the body to have a delayed allergic reaction to red meat and other mammal-based products. That means beef, pork, lamb, venison, and even hidden mammal-derived ingredients in foods or supplements can trigger severe symptoms.

The reaction doesn’t always happen immediately after eating, which makes it tricky to diagnose. Symptoms can range from stomach pain and hives to life-threatening anaphylaxis hours after a meal.

Jared Allen’s Diagnosis

For Jared Allen—known for his grit and strength on the football field—the diagnosis meant he had to completely cut mammal meat out of his diet and switch to what he calls a “fins and feathers” lifestyle, sticking to poultry and fish. Imagine going from fueling your body with steak or burgers after grueling workouts to suddenly being told those foods could send you to the ER. That’s a massive change for anyone, let alone a professional athlete used to finely tuned nutrition. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

My son was recently bitten by a Lone star tick.  Well, I should say he was nibbled on by a LS tick, leaving a minuscule red pin prick.  The tick was not remotely engorged.  I received the frightening text from him but admitted I needed to brush up on all of this as so far Wisconsin patients are still mostly dealing with black legged ticks and Lyme/MSIDS even though Lone Star ticks have been found here.

But, the nibble was enough to cause profound illness in 2 weeks time.  (Yes, I’m kicking myself for not demanding prophylactic treatment, but we all grow slack at some point and need a wake-up call.  This was it!) 

His symptoms sounded exactly like Lyme but he was worried he had also developed Alpha Gal as he would get diarrhea within a few hours of eating red meat.  Thankfully this dreaded symptom quickly went away.

All I initially remembered was that LS ticks transmit not only Alpha Gal Syndrome (AGS) the meat allergy the NFL star got, but also STARI, which looks, smells, and acts just like Lyme disease, despite the fact at least 9 transmission experiments involving B. burgdorferi in Lone Star ticks have failed to demonstrate vector competency.  The offending agent of STARI is B. lonestari not B. burgdorferi, but the illness looks the same.  Go here for the nuts and bolts.

BTW: STARI is also called Masters’ disease, named after famed rebel Dr. Ed Masters who took the CDC on single-handedly and outwitted them.  All of Masters’ patients improved dramatically with extended antibiotic treatment despite the CDC’s belief that antibiotics should be used sparingly, if at all.

So, what to do?

Well, I figured if this looked and felt exactly like Lyme, it would respond to Lyme treatment.  My son went on the following (reminder: I’m not a doctor and I don’t diagnose or treat anyone):

  • 100mg minocycline, twice daily for two weeks; however when discontinued his symptoms returned, signaling that a layered approach was needed.  This is common.
  • he then pulsed 500mg tinidazole once a day for two successive days weekly
  • he then layered in 12mg ivermectin every other day
  • he did daily red light and sauna therapy
  • he did two rounds of EBOO (extracorporeal blood oxygenation and ozonation) 3 weeks apart.  He said the EBOO completely knocked him on his butt and he had to take a day off work to sleep, but that shortly he felt the best he had felt since starting treatment.
It took every bit of that treatment for three months to finally knock it.
 I’m happy to report he has remained symptom free.

On a side note, ivermectin and/or fenbendazole has:

This was not a fun experiment but I know how important it is to share our experiences, as that is often all we patients truly have – each other.

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Alpha Gal Meat Allergy, Alzheimer's, Autism, Lyme, Parasites, research, Testing, Ticks, Transmission, Treatment

CDC: Out With the Old, In With the New

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3zjxy3dwo

CDC director refuses to leave after White House order

Nadine Yousif
BBC News
8/28/25
Getty Images Susan Monarez, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. She is seen wearing a grey blazer, with shoulder length grey hair, looking at Senate committee members to the right off camera.Getty Images
Susan Monarez was confirmed to lead the US public health agency by the Senate in July

The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is still in her position despite an announcement by the White House that she had been fired, one of her lawyers has said.

According to them, Susan Monarez – who has only been in the job for a month – had refused “to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives” and has accused Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr of “weaponising public health”.

The reason for her removal was that she was “not aligned with the president’s agenda”, the White House said in a statement.

But her lawyer said only President Donald Trump could remove her.

At least three senior CDC leaders resigned from the agency, some citing frustration over vaccine policy and the leadership of Kennedy, also known as RFK.  (See link for article)

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https://www.newsweek.com/jim-oneill-trump-kennedy-new-cdc-director-updates

Trump Admin Names New Acting CDC Director After Monarez Firing

The White House has tapped Jim O’Neill, a top deputy to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following the ouster of Susan Monarez, who lasted mere weeks in her position.

Newsweek reached out to the White House by email outside of normal business hours on Thursday evening for comment.

Why It Matters

The White House removed CDC Director Susan Monarez from her post for not being “aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again,” according to White House spokesperson Kush Desai, but she’s now saying the decision must come directly from Trump, who has not said anything publicly about her ouster.

The move has prompted severe backlash from health officials and lawmakers, including former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, who led the agency from 2009 to 2017, and Dr. Mandy Cohen, who served during the Biden administration.

Three other senior CDC officials resigned on Wednesday in reaction to her ouster: Dr. Debra Houry, the deputy director, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, head of the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, head of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

Daskalakis specifically wrote a letter to Houry, which was posted on X, in which he said that he cannot “serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”  (See link for article)

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Best Quote:

“The CDC is in trouble, needs to be fixed.” ~ Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr

If ever there was a vast understatement, this would be it.  

According to the Independent Medical Alliance, the “rogue agency is long-overdue for a housecleaning.”

“This rogue agency has long since lost its focus on the core mission, instead becoming a hub for promoting government control and politically charged activism. It’s past time for the CDC to get a top-to-bottom house cleaning.” – Dr. Joseph Varonn August 15,

  • A crowdfunded lawsuit was filed (Thomas v. Monarez) against the CDC for recommending approximately 72 doses of vaccines to children without any studies ever having been done to examine the health effects of its vaccination schedule.  According to attorney Richard Jaffe, who filed the suit against the CDC on behalf of the plaintiffs,

This case puts the CDC’s entire childhood program on trial. For decades, the agency has demanded proof of harm while refusing to do the studies that could provide it, and physicians who attempt to fill that research gap or challenge the schedule or ACIP’s narrow contraindications and precautions framework are ridiculed and delicensed. Meanwhile, American children have become the sickest in the developed world under the most aggressive vaccine schedule on earth.

Instead of battling at the state level, attorney Rick Jaffe went straight for the source—demanding the CDC downgrade its 72-dose childhood schedule from “mandatory” to “shared decision-making.”

If the court agrees, state mandates collapse and the CDC’s grip on parents shatters overnight.

“They want to claim the program is safe? Fine, prove it.” ~ Richard Jaffe, Attorney

  • And pediatricians have filed a lawsuit against the CDC, challenging ‘unjust’ childhood ‘vaccine’ exemption criteria, the results of which force pediatricians and parents into ‘vaccinating’ children against either their better judgement and or parental wishes.
  • ICAN is calling on RFK to rein in flagrant industry influence on the CDC ‘vaccine’ committee.  Although hr prohibited ‘liaison organizations’ such as healthcare professions, insurance companies, and Big Pharma from participating in ACIP work groups, these organizations remain on the committee and retain far too much influence on the vaccine issue. One liaison member, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), happens to be one of Washington’s top lobbying spenders, representing companies like Pfizer and Merck. Another liaison member is the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which recently took the legally and  morally indefensible position of calling for the removal all non-medical vaccine exemptions in all 50 states and a crackdown on medical exemptions.

For more:

I could literally go onto infinity with this.

The CDC is completely utterly corrupt and not to be trusted.

Category:

Activism, vaccines

FDA Approves Updated COVID-19 Shots With Limits & 3 Peer-Reviewed Studies Provide Irrefutable Grounds For Pulling Them

https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-covid-shots-fda-kennedy-pfizer-children-

FDA Approves Updated COVID-19 Shots With Limits For Some Kids and Adults

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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U.S. regulators approved updated shots but limited their use for many Americans — and removed one of the two vaccines available for young children.

By  MATTHEW PERRONE
Updated August 27, 2025
 

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 shots Wednesday but limited their use for many Americans — and removed one of the two vaccines available for young children.

The new shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are approved for all seniors. But the Food and Drug Administration narrowed their use for younger adults and children to those with at least one high-risk health condition, such as asthma or obesity. That presents new barriers to access for millions of Americans who would have to prove their risk — and millions more who may want to get vaccinated and suddenly no longer qualify.

Additionally, Pfizer’s vaccine will no longer be available for any child under 5, because the FDA said it was revoking the shot’s emergency authorization for that age group.

Parents will still be able to seek out shots from rival drugmaker Moderna, the other maker of mRNA vaccines, which has full FDA approval for children as young as 6 months. But the company’s Spikevax vaccine is only approved for children with at least one serious health problem. (See link for article)

Important quote:

“The American people demanded science, safety, and common sense. This framework delivers all three,” Kennedy wrote on social media.

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The following quote sums it all up:

Revoking the Emergency Use Authorization for COVID shots is a long-overdue step. But authorizing new mRNA injections for babies and vulnerable populations is reckless and dangerous. We are now uncovering direct evidence of genomic integration and severe transgenerational harms from mRNA technology. Continuous approval for any human being is a grave mistake. ~ Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Further, a top cancer geneticist states the mRNA shots ‘permanently’ damage the human genome, a new analysis of the Czech COVID shot data reveals the shots are deadly for ALL ages and should be whole scale pulled from market, and a preprint hypothesizes that when infections follow vaccination—especially repeated ones—the result isn’t less severe illness but more. Sometimes much more. 

But truth be damned.

On top of all the bad news is the very real possibility that even if you avoided spike protein damage from the clot shots you are still at risk due to shedding from others and from the food chain.

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-three-peer-reviewed-studies?

BREAKING: Three Peer-Reviewed Studies Provide Irrefutable Grounds for Immediate Market Withdrawal of COVID-19 mRNA Injections

International evidence converges: mRNA shots are unsafe, ineffective, contaminated, and in violation of international law.

 
Aug 28, 2025
 

by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Two major peer-reviewed papers were published in the last 48 hours — one from Japan and another from an international team of physicians and researchers, including those from the McCullough Foundation.

These build directly on our foundational peer-reviewed paper published earlier this year, which comprehensively established the case for terminating mRNA injection programs.

Together, these three studies converge on the same conclusion:

The modified COVID-19 mRNA injections are unsafe, ineffective, contaminated, and in violation of international law.

This is now the strongest scientific and ethical case yet for immediate global withdrawal of mRNA-LNP products.  (See link for article and studies)

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The studies call for:

  • All genetic COVID-19 products must be immediately removed from the market.

  • Self-amplifying mRNA platforms must be stopped before repeating this disaster.

  • International investigation under the Bioweapons Convention is indicated.

 

Category:

Activism, research, vaccines

RMSF Case Documented in Quebec

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/tick-borne-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-detected-in-quebec-and-ontario/

Potentially deadly tick-borne illness recorded in Quebec and Ontario

By Daniel Otis

Published: 

Canada’s first known human case of a potentially deadly tick-borne illness has been documented in Quebec.

The Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever case was recently recorded in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. It follows reports from Ontario of infected animals that visited Long Point on Lake Erie.

“Many people with this infection can be on the more severe end of the spectrum,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch told CTV’s Your Morning on Monday. “This can cause a very significant illness and can result in hospitalization and death.”

The bacterial illness is carried by several tick species, including dermacentor variabilis, which is also known as the American dog tick. Despite its name, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is most common in the eastern United States, where thousands of cases are recorded every year. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Unfortunately, the article regurgitates the climate change myth.

Ticks are marvelous ecoadapters and will be the last species on planet earth. They have the equivalent of antifreeze in their bodies and will simply find snow or leaf litter to crawl under when conditions become harsh.  In fact, warm winters are lethal to ticks, with overwinter survival dropping to 33% when the snow melted.  This has been substantiated by other researchers as well.  Scott & Scott, 2018, ticks and climate change, JVSM

They need snow cover to survive.

So ‘climate change’ would actually kill ticks.  

If only.

Important excerpt:

If left untreated, the fatality rate can be as high as between 20 to 30 per cent, according to the U.S.-based Cleveland Clinic. When treated with the antibiotic doxycycline, which is also used for Lyme disease, the fatality rate drops to between five and 10 per cent. Early intervention is key to avoid more serious outcomes, which can also include amputation, hearing loss and brain damage.

Sadly, very little real journalism is occurring in the U.S.  Reporters simply take regurgitated information and regurgitate it back yet again perpetuating the cycle of an accepted narrative.  Where are the investigative journalists digging for truth?  Where are the journalists who present all sides of an issue so the reader can form their own opinion?

They are an extinct species.

Category:

Activism, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ticks, Transmission, Treatment

Mom Takes Pic With Child – Later Sees 3 in Photo

https://www.newsweek.com/mom-takes-selfie-child-there-were-3-photo-tick

Mom Takes Selfie in Woods With Child—Later Sees There Were 3 in the Photo

A family day of berry-picking in the Swedish countryside turned into a medical ordeal when a mother discovered a tick clinging to her daughter’s eyelashes.

Alessandra Paiusco (@la.tuttologa) from Uppsala, Sweden, shared the find in a post on TikTok, with a close-up image showing the insect lodged in her 1-year-old’s lash line.

The 33-year-old told Newsweek the family had been on holiday at a farm about an hour outside Uppsala with her parents, Marco, 63, and Lea, 57, along with her children Leonidas, nearly 3, and Olympia.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Yeah – truly creepy.

Ticks have been found just about everywhere:

Where’s Waldo the tick?

Category:

Activism, Ticks