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May is Lyme Awareness: How to Prevent Tick Bites

https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/how-to-prevent-tick-bites-and-lyme-disease  Video Here

Strategies to Prevent Lyme & Tick Borne Infections

Lyme disease and tick borne infections are spread through tick bites. The best way to prevent Lyme disease and related infections is to stop ticks from attaching to you. Another strategy is to quickly remove attached ticks before they spread infection. Here are some specific actions you can take to prevent Lyme and related infections.

Marty Ross MD Discusses Lyme Disease Prevention
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Actions While Outdoors Where Ticks LiveONE – Use A Good Tick Repellent On Your Skin

Before going into tick habitats, spray your skin with a tick repellent. Ticks are repelled by certain chemicals which limit their chances of getting on your skin or biting you. Common repellants include

  • picaridin,
  • DEET, and
  • essential oils.

Of these, picaridin and DEET work best because they last longer.

Research shows essential oils only work up to 20 minutes after application. Picaridin 20% can last 12 to 14 hours depending on whether a spray or lotion is used. The length of effect of DEET depends on the concentration. DEET 30% can last for 8 hours – while DEET 98% in Backwoods OFF can last for 10 hours.  (See link for article and video)

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**Comment**

The best way to protect yourself from Lyme/MSIDS is to prevent being bitten by a tick in the first place.  Lyme/MSIDS can also be passed congenitally and very probably sexually.

SUMMARY:

  • Ross recommends Picaridin over Deet due to Deet leaving an oil on the skin that is potentially neurotoxic.
  • You can use the EPA search tool to find approved tick repellents.
  • After spraying exposed skin, you next spray your clothing, including socks and shoes and hats/gloves with Permethrin (which is not to be put on the skin).  It remains active for 6 weeks or 6 washes.
  • Wear light colored clothing so you can see ticks.  Also tuck shirt into pants and pants into socks to create a barrier.
  • Do regular tick checks and get a person to help you look in places you can’t see.
  • If a tick is attached, remove it quickly and properly.
  • Remove clothing and put them in a hot drier for 15-20 min.
  • Take a shower to remove all sprays and to see any ticks.
  • Decrease ticks on your property and on your pets.

For more specifics on how to do the above things:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/12/tick-prevention-2019/

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Activism, Prevention, research, Ticks

‘Mind-Control’ Parasite Toxoplasma Hides From the Immune System With 2 Key Genes

https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/mind-control-parasite-toxoplasma-hides-from-the-immune-system-with-two-key-genes

‘Mind-control’ parasite Toxoplasma hides from the immune system with 2 key genes

By Kamal Nahas

April 25, 2023

A single-cell parasite relies on two genes that boost each other’s activity to switch into “defense mode” when attacked by the immune system.
A new study could help scientists find a cure to lifelong infections caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii.  

The parasite Toxoplasma gondii hides in up to half of humans, although it rarely causes symptoms. But when it infects mice, the single-cell organism can exert a kind of “mind control” to change the rodents’ behavior and help itself spread.

Now, researchers report being one step closer to curing T. gondii infections in humans, which can be lifelong due to the parasite’s ability to morph into a dormant, defensive state. Two transcription factors — proteins that switch genes “on” and “off” — lie at the root of this metamorphosis, and the discovery opens avenues to block the process.

Often dubbed the “mind-control parasite,” T. gondii takes over the minds of infected mice and steers them towards cats to become their next meal. This enables the parasites to jump into our feline friends, the only known hosts in which they can reproduce sexually.

Scientists remain unsure whether the parasite can similarly control the human brain; some studies suggest it could contribute to aggression, impulsive behavior and schizophrenia, while other studies dispute these effects. Most people carrying T. gondii don’t develop any symptoms, but more rarely, the infection can trigger mild, flu-like symptoms or even severe illness. Developing fetuses, newborns, and people with weak immune systems are most vulnerable to severe toxoplasmosis, which can damage the eyes and brain and sometimes be fatal.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • Similarly to Lyme, T. gondii burrows into tissues and morphs into a different form when it’s threatened making it hard to find.  Also, similar to Lyme, current therapies do not cure the infection because the chronic stages are resistant.
  • Researchers have previously discovered a protein that is essential for morphing.
  • Now, a new study in Nature Microbiology, found another transcription factor that regulates morphing.
  • By deleting this gene, mice that had 100 copies of T. gondii injected into them did not appear to develop cysts in their brains 45 days later.

The team determined that T. gondii cells maintain a supply of this mRNA, but they can only make the BFD1 protein when BFD2 binds to the mRNA and thus triggers protein synthesis. This binding only happens when the cell is under stress.

By perpetuating each other’s activity, the two transcription factors can commit tachyzoites to morphing into bradyzoites by “locking the cell into this developmental trajectory,” said M. Haley Licon, parasitologist and lead author of the study. Future research could unravel what factors switch “off” this self-perpetuating loop, she added, enabling bradyzoites to revert to tachyzoites when stressful conditions elapse.

Hakimi argued that scientists are a long way from developing such drugs. “It’s very hard to target transcription factors,” and aside from select drugs used in cancer treatment, “very few drugs” do, he said.

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research, Toxoplasmosis

Study: SOT Potential Treatment For Viruses & Lyme Disease

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36412742/

Supportive Oligonucleotide Therapy (SOT) as a Potential Treatment for Viral Infections and Lyme Disease: Preliminary Results

Panagiotis Apostolou 1, Aggelos Iliopoulos 1, Georgios Beis 1, Ioannis Papasotiriou 2

Free PMC article

Abstract

Antisense therapy is widely used as an alternative therapeutic option for various diseases. RNA interference might be effective in infections, through the degradation of messenger RNA and, therefore, translation process. Hence, proteins essential for microorganisms and viruses’ proliferation and metabolism are inhibited, leading to their elimination. The present study aimed to evaluate the use of oligonucleotide in patients infected by Epstein-Barr (EBV) or Herpes Simplex Viruses 1/2 or with Lyme Disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. Blood samples were collected from 115 patients and the different species were characterized using molecular biology techniques. Then, SOT molecules (Supportive Oligonucleotide Therapy), which are specific small interfering RNA (siRNA), were designed, produced, and evaluated, for each specific strain. Oligonucleotides were administered intravenously to patients and then a quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction was used to evaluate the effectiveness of SOT. This study revealed that for Lyme Disease, one or two SOT administrations can lead to a statistically significant decrease in DNA copies, while for viruses, two or three administrations are required to achieve a statistically significant reduction in the genetic material. These preliminary results indicate that antisense SOT therapy can be considered a potential treatment for viral as well as Lyme diseases.

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The challenge with Lyme is correctly identifying the patient’s infections as they are typically coinfected with many. Further, it’s all based on using PCR to detect the DNA of various bacteria which is known to find Lyme only 30% of the time.  Further, many of the organisms with Lyme/MSIDS aren’t found in the blood so trying to detect it there is futile (another reason this is so hard to test, diagnose, and treat.)

Using genetic code for a treatment for this is like trying to catch a greased pig.  Lyme in particular changes its outer surface protein which means what goes into you isn’t what comes out of you as the organism mutates to survive.  Yet another reason it’s difficult treating this and why there has never and will never be a Lyme vaccine worth its weight in salt.  You can’t pin something down that changes.

Personally, all this work on treatments using genetics scares the bajeebers out of me.  Hopefully the past three years have caused all of us to pause and consider the implications of using genes and their ability to alter genetic code.  Also, what works in a petri dish often doesn’t work in reality.

Of course, at the end of the day, we are all big boys and girls and have to make our own decisions.  What works for one often doesn’t work for another and if you do your reading, are convinced of its merits, and want to try this, then by all means do it.  If you have success, or if you don’t, please let me know.  Often the best way we move forward is by educating one another on various treatments and health changes.

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Lyme, research, Testing, Treatment, Viruses

Psychosis, Serious Side-Effect of COVID Shot. Many May Be Suffering From ‘Delusion of Benefit’ Says Cardiologist

https://twitter.com/DrAseemMalhotra/status/1650031510328692737  Video Here (Approx. 9 Min)

Psychosis: Serous Side Effect of COVID Shot

Re-analysis of mRNA vaccine data suggests one serious side effect is Psychosis.  Many people who took the jab may be suffering from ‘delusion of benefit’ says cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra
Overwhelming evidence to be presented in court that jab is ‘not safe & NOT effective.’
“In my whole career in medicine, Neil, with all the academic work I’ve done looking at all different areas of medicine, specifically also related to cardiovascular disease, I have never seen such high, overwhelming quality of evidence of harm of any drug and such poor efficacy,” ~ Dr. Aseem Malhotra
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 2022 May; 71: 103129.
Published online 2022 Apr 13. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2022.103129
PMCID: PMC9006421
PMID: 35447503

Psychiatric adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines: A rapid review of published case reports

Ilambaridhi Balasubramanian, Abdul Faheem, Susanta Kumar Padhy,1 and Vikas Menon2,⁎
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Abstract

We aimed to review the available reports of psychiatric adverse reactions to COVID vaccines. Electronic databases such as PubMed and Google scholar were combed to identify relevant reports. We found a total of 11 reports describing 14 cases of psychiatric reactions; these were mostly altered mental states, psychosis, mania, depression, and functional neurological disorder. The index case was commonly a young or middle-aged adult. All reports pertained to the use of either mRNA or vector-based vaccines. Symptom onset was within 10 days of vaccination in all cases; as such, this seems to be a high-risk period warranting vigilance.

  • One month after getting the mRNA-based COVID injection and then worsening three weeks later after getting the 2nd dose, a 31 year old man without a past medical or psychiatric history was brought to the ER because of erratic and bizarre behavior.  He was anxious, guarded, superficial and grandiose, reported becoming ‘clairvoyant’, being able to talk to dead people, hearing ‘people drumming outside his house’ and the constant voice of a co-worker whom he believed to be a lover (but was not).
  • Patient after 2nd dose of COVID injection immediately developed anxiety, nonspecific fear, and insomnia as the prodromal phase of psychosis. Starting the second week, patient manifested delusions of persecution, delusions of influence, thoughts insertion, and delusional behavior, culminating in a suicide attempt.  Psychosis lasted 8 weeks and symptom reduction was observed only after the graduate administration of antipsychotics over four weeks.
  • 12 other case reports of psychosis after COVID shots.
  • Doctor censured for suggesting “vaccine” psychosis led husband to murder wife.

https://theconversation.com/post-covid-psychosis-occurs-in-people-with-no-prior-history-the-risk-is-low-but-episodes-are-frightening-179193

Post-COVID psychosis occurs in people with no prior history. The risk is low but episodes are frightening

By Sarah Hellewell, Research Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University

Far from the respiratory disease it seemed at first, COVID can impact almost all parts of the body, including the brain. For a small number of people, COVID infection may be accompanied by an episode of post-COVID psychosis, a break from reality which can be frightening for the patient and their loved ones.

Psychosis is a condition characterised by confused thoughts, delusions and hallucinations. People with psychosis can struggle to tell what’s real from what isn’t. Psychosis occurs in “episodes” which may last for days or weeks. Since the start of the COVID pandemic, reports of post-COVID psychosis have come from all over the world.

Post-COVID psychosis is different to psychosis seen in other brain illnesses and diseases. So-called “first episode psychosis” is usually seen in teens or young adults in the development of schizophrenia, or alongside dementia in elderly people.

But people experiencing post-COVID psychosis are typically in their 30s, 40s and 50s, and are experiencing psychosis for the first time. They usually do not have any family history of psychosis. People with post-COVID psychosis also frequently have insight into the way they are feeling. They can recognise this is not normal for them, and something has changed in the way they are thinking.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

According to the article there were reports of post-viral psychosis during the Spanish flu as well as after the coronaviruses SARS and MERS.

This topic interests me as I experienced psychosis first-hand.  What a wild ride that was.  The event occurred while taking disulfiram/Antabuse, a new treatment at the time for Lyme disease and potentially Babesia.  If you are interested in that story, go here:

I attempt to highlight everything I can about the incident due to worries about single patients trying this treatment.  If you are single and live alone, you need to be checked on daily.  The psychosis can come on fast and you don’t know you are going nuts.  And you do go nuts.

Which brings me to Dr. Malhotra’s suggestion of ‘delusion of benefit’ theory.  I’m truly not trying to be divisive or mean here.  What I am attempting to do is point out that a perfect scenario was created in the past three years that could affect people’s reasoning ability: 

  1. Many had their faces covered for extended periods of time with oxygen depriving, CO2, and bacteria promoting toxic masks that science continues to show do nothing beneficial.
  2. Graphene, which is a toxic carcinogen, has been found in masks, PCR swabs, and the gene therapy injections. Symptoms caused by graphene are similar to COVID symptoms, further mudding the water of what a COVID case truly is since testing is fraudulently worthless.
  3. Graphene oxide in rats not only down-regulates glutamatergic synapses but changes synaptic function which is crucial to learning and memory. These changes are implicated in several brain diseases from dementia to anxiety disorders.
  4. Typically, these same people were then injected a graphene laced gene therapy with a known psychosis side effect that is linked to more reports of adverse reactions and death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS.
  5. Multiple contaminants including metals have been found in the gene therapy.
  6. The gene therapy utilizes modified RNA (modRNA) forcing healthy cells to produce a toxic viral spike protein that disrupts cell metabolism, increases permeability of the blood-brain barrier, goes systemically into the body interfering with DNA repair, and is designed to persist – possibly forever.
  7. Another injection side-effect is blood clotting which will slow blood flow to the brain. One doctor found microclotting in over 60% of his vaxxed patients.
  8. Paxlovid, an “approved” yet ineffective treatment for COVID also can cause blood clotting.
  9. While authorities blame ‘climate change,’ these same authorities are spraying the air, and testing has confirmed graphene is in our precipitation along with a long list of toxins including aluminum particles, a known neurotoxin, which are found virtually everywhere from our food and body products to vaccines to cookware, which accumulate in the brain and are linked with Alzheimer’s, MS, asthma, autism, and autoimmune psychosis.
What a brilliantly orchestrated, or highly coincidental plan to affect the public’s ability to think and reason.
Food for thought.

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Psychological Aspects, research, vaccines, Viruses

Mask Wearers Have Higher Rates of Infection, Critical Care, ER, Mental Disorder, Neuron Destruction, Anxiety, Death, Impaired Learning & Memory

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65358308?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Covid: No evidence shielding helped – Swansea uni study

April 22, 2023
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The study says further research is needed to fully evaluate the success of shielding

There is no evidence that shielding benefited vulnerable people during the Covid pandemic, according to a study.

Swansea University compared 117,000 people shielding in Wales with the rest of the population of three million.

The study found deaths and healthcare usage were higher among shielding people than the general population.

The Welsh government said shielding was introduced on medical and scientific advice and it will continue to review evidence from the pandemic.

The study also found the Covid rate was higher among those shielding – 5.9% compared to 5.7%.

The researchers said the data raised questions about whether the policy worked.

(See link for article)
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Important excerpt:

“It was sort of made up at the time and implemented.”

Truer words were never spoken.

Study found here:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350623000628?via%3Dihub

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German Mask Study: Masks Do Not Prevent Viral Infections But Carry Harm

  • Humans are normally exposed to .04% CO2.  Mask wearers are exposed to 1.41-3.2% CO2, demonstrating toxicity.
  • A thorough review of current studies on mask efficacy shows there has never been solid data to show makes prevent viral transmission.
  • The medical community has long since known about the dangers of prolonged CO2 exposure. 

Study here:  https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S2405-8440(23)01324-5.pdf

Possible toxicity of chronic carbon dioxide exposure associated with face mask use, particularly in pregnant women, children and adolescents – A scoping review

Kai Kisielinski a,* , Susanne Wagner b , Oliver Hirsch c , Bernd Klosterhalfen d , Andreas Prescher e a Independent Researcher, Surgeon, Private Practice, 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany b Non Clinical Expert, Veterinarian, Wagner MSL Management, 15831 Mahlow, Germany c Department of Psychology, FOM University of Applied Sciences, 57078 Siegen, Germany d Institute of Pathology, Dueren Hospital, 52351 Dueren, Germany e Institute of Molecular and Cellular Anatomy (MOCA), 52074 Aachen, Germany

ABSTRACT

Introduction: During the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic, face masks have become one of the most important ubiquitous factors affecting human breathing. It increases the resistance and dead space volume leading to a re-breathing of CO2. So far, this phenomenon and possible implications on early life has not been evaluated in depth.

Method: As part of a scoping review, literature was systematically reviewed regarding CO2 exposure and facemask use.

Results: Fresh air has around 0.04% CO2, while wearing masks more than 5 min bears a possible chronic exposure to carbon dioxide of 1.41% to 3.2% of the inhaled air. Although the buildup is usually within the short-term exposure limits, long-term exceedances and consequences must be considered due to experimental data. US Navy toxicity experts set the exposure limits for submarines carrying a female crew to 0.8% CO2 based on animal studies which indicated an increased risk for stillbirths. Additionally, mammals who were chronically exposed to 0.3% CO2 the experimental data demonstrate a teratogenicity with irreversible neuron damage in the offspring, reduced spatial learning caused by brainstem neuron apoptosis and reduced circulating levels of the insulin-like growth factor-1. With significant impact on three readout parameters (morphological, functional, marker) this chronic 0.3% CO2 exposure has to be defined as being toxic. Additional data exists on the exposure of chronic 0.3% CO2 in adolescent mammals causing neuron destruction, which includes less activity, increased anxiety and impaired learning and memory. There is also data indicating testicular toxicity in adolescents at CO2 inhalation concentrations above 0.5%.

Discussion: There is a possible negative impact risk by imposing extended mask mandates especially for vulnerable subgroups. Circumstantial evidence exists that extended mask use may be related to current observations of stillbirths and to reduced verbal motor and overall cognitive performance in children born during the pandemic. A need exists to reconsider mask mandates.

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**Comment**

Yet, people continue to wear the face-diapers, and corrupt public health ‘authorities’ continue to insist, despite all reason, logic, and science, that they somehow work:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2023/02/10/walensky-face-plants-again-but-is-still-in-office/

  • When questioned over the known harm masks have caused children and adults, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky doubled down on the mantra that masks prevent transmission, despite a meta-analysis on 78 studies by Cochrane that determined masks probably make little to no difference in the outcome of influenza-like illnesses like COVID.The analysis also reported: “Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported.”  
    • Go here for a “must read” article on how despite the good scholarship of the mask review, Cochrane has become nothing more than a “political junk science rag.” Within the article is a rare interview with Tom Jefferson, one of the study authors, who doesn’t trust the media (gee I wonder why?).  Jefferson states: “Governments completely failed to do the right thing and demand better evidence.”  I highly recommend reading the transcript as Jefferson highlights the shenanigans within science journals that will do virtually anything nowadays to publish the “right answer,” i.e. accepted answer for the accepted narrative.
    • In this important video, Dr. Prasad reads a statement from CDC director Rochelle Walensky and then states the following:

      “She’s just making things up.  She’s good at making things up. She made up the fact that there’s credible data that we should mask kids between 2 and 5 even though UNICEF and the WHO said not to do that. She made that up.  She makes up lots of things, because she doesn’t actually use science to guide decision making, she just likes to make things up.” ~ Dr. Vinay Prasad  

  • While health “authorities” try and cover their backsides and excuse their incompetence and/or evil intent by stating they had to do something other than wait around for “the science,” a Cochrane study author states it best:

“…it’s a complete subversion of the ‘precautionary principle’ which states that you should do nothing unless you have reasonable evidence that benefits outweigh the harms.”  ~ Tom Jefferson, Cochrane epidemiologist

But here we still are……

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