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LSU Obtains Grant to Synthesize Affordable Nootkatone

https://www.lsu.edu/eng/news/2024/03/che-nsf-pfi-grant-lyme-disease.php

Chemical Engineering, Biological Sciences Faculty Receive Largest NSF PFI Grant Ever Awarded to LSU

Mike Benton, Kerry Dooley, Roger Laine
Nootkatone Studies Could Lead to Prevention of Lyme Disease

March 25, 2024

BATON ROUGE, LA – Thanks to a $550,000 National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation grant—the largest NSF PFI grant ever awarded to LSU—LSU Chemical Engineering (ChE) Professor Kerry Dooley, LSU ChE Department Chair and Professor Mike Benton, and LSU Department of Biological Sciences (Biol. Sci.) Professor Roger Laine will continue their work on a project that could bring affordable and effective insect repellent to the masses, possibly decreasing the number of Lyme disease, malaria, and West Nile virus cases around the world.

The project involves the use of nootkatone, an FDA-approved organic compound found in grapefruit skin and Alaska yellow cedar trees that is a natural deterrent for many insects, including the deer tick responsible for Lyme disease. The LSU researchers propose decreasing the cost of the nootkatone synthesis, making any products made with the compound affordable to the general public.

“The family of compounds that make up nootkatone is already proven to be both safer and more effective than existing commercial repellents,” principal investigator Dooley said. “However, it’s now too expensive for consumer insect repellents. We plan to greatly streamline, optimize, and reduce the costs associated with the synthesis.”

According to Laine, there have been few insect repellents on the market since DEET, which is found in most insect repellent sprays and creams currently available. However, a mosquito test showed that nootkatone at 5% in rubbing alcohol was superior to DEET, which usually needs to be administered at greater than 20% concentration, even six hours after application.

Years ago, Laine discovered the efficacy of nootkatone as an insect repellent while collaborating with retired LSU AgCenter Entomologist Gregg Henderson in Laine’s lab. They found that nootkatone repelled insects like mosquitos, gnats, wood ticks, fleas, termites, lice, and fire ants because the insects weren’t eating the vetivone grass that, unbeknownst to them, contained nootkatone. Former LSU Biol. Sci. Senior Research Associate Betty Zhu tested 15 other compounds that resembled the structure of the vetivone and discovered that nootkatone was the best repellent compound. Nootkatone had already been approved by the FDA at the time, with the CDC later discovering that it also repels deer ticks.

Though nootkatone was found to be the best repellent, the problem was the cost to buy it in pure form.

“Nootkatone costs $2,500/kg, which is too costly for insect repellent,” Laine said. “It should be $200-$300/kg, then you can add it to lotions and sunscreens.”

Dooley discovered that one important way to save on the cost would be to modify a step in the eight-step synthesis of nootkatone.

“I did a cost analysis of the synthesis process, and 70% of the cost is concentrated in the fourth step of the eight-step process,” Dooley said. “I decided this step in particular could be significantly reduced in cost.”

The eight-step synthesis was created in just two years by former LSU Chemistry Graduate Student Anne Sauer, who was working under retired professor William Crowe as a collaboration with Laine and Henderson. To simplify two oxidation steps in the eight-step synthesis, which is patented by LSU, Laine subsequently obtained a Board of Regents seed grant and hired synthetic chemist Xuefeng Gao to successfully modify the synthesis using ozone, now covered by new U.S. and Japanese LSU patents authored by Laine.

In the fourth step, the original paper and patent uses potassium hydride and 18-Crown-6 ether, along with tetrahydrofuran, as a solvent. Dooley read up on how people were trying to execute this step without using these expensive components and thought he and Benton should come up with a catalyst and solvent that could significantly reduce the cost of this step.

“It’s incredibly complicated and it takes a long, sustained effort to go from making a few grams of something to making kilograms or kilotons,” Dooley said. “There’s a lot of work on optimizing separations, minimizing the solvent use, getting certain impurities down, and getting yields slightly up. These things take a lot of time and effort.”

The LSU research team hopes to sell their synthesis process to a manufacturing company, who would then be able to mass produce affordable nootkatone products that could save people’s lives by preventing bites from infectious insects.

A 2024 CDC report states that there were 62,551 Lyme disease cases in 2022. Recent estimates using new data collection methods suggest approximately 476,000 people may be diagnosed with Lyme disease each year in the U.S.

“The deer tick is spreading throughout the U.S.,” Dooley said. “It’s not just prevalent in the Northeast.”

In other words, insects are going nowhere. A 2023 CDC report states there were 2,406 cases of West Nile virus across 43 states with the number of cases expected to increase in 2024. Per the World Health Organization, there were a reported 249 million cases of malaria worldwide last year.

“Sixty million people die of malaria each year,” Laine said. “It’s possible that if this eight-step synthesis process could produce nootkatone products that get to poorer countries, then WHO could possibly fund it. Mosquito nets could be covered with it, or they could have cloth ankle bands with nootkatone so ticks can’t crawl up your leg. The Department of Defense is also interested in ways to protect military personnel against tick-borne diseases. There are a lot of marketing niches with this.”

Contact: Libby Haydel
Communications Manager
225-578-4840
ehaydel1@lsu.edu

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AMA President Opposing Free Speech As COVID ‘House of Cards Collapsing’

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/ama-president-opposes-free-speech?

AMA President Opposes Free Speech

Dr. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld believes vaccine orthodoxy must be preserved at all costs

JOHN LEAKE
MAR 27, 2024

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld was inaugurated president of the American Medical Association in 2023. He and his colleague—Dr. Benjamin Hoffman, an Oregon-based pediatrician—just wrote a very foolish editorial in MEDPAGE TODAY titled: Medical Misinfo Runs Rampant Online. The Gov’t Must Retain the Right to Intervene.—Combating vaccine falsehoods and other inaccurate claims protects public health

According to Dr. Ehrenfeld’s bio that is posted on the AMA website, he has a distinguished career in anesthesiology. His bio also states:

Upon his inauguration, Dr. Ehrenfeld made AMA history as the first openly gay president of the organization. For the past two decades, he has been a nationally recognized advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals. In 2018, in recognition of his outstanding research contributions, he received the inaugural Sexual and Gender Minority Research Investigator Award from the director of the NIH.

I’m immediately struck by the combination of anesthesiologist and gay rights activist, as both endeavors have been matters of great controversy since the mid 19th century.

Imagine if—following Friedrich Sertürner’s discovery of morphine in 1805—medical boards in the United States (affiliated with the British East India Company) insisted that ONLY opioid-based analgesics could be used, and that no one could use ether to anesthetize patients. To understand just how much disagreement, discussion, and debate there was around the use of ether, take a look at this history of the Ether Controversy.

Imagine if a medical board in Boston established a censorship apparatus to prevent anyone from challenging the supremacy of morphine as an analgesic, so that William Morton, Crawford Long, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. couldn’t publish about the value of ether for surgical anesthesiology.

Fast forward to the end of the 20th century. Imagine if no one was allowed to publish any criticism of the promotion and marketing of OxyContin by Purdue Pharma.  (See link for article)

The AMA is entirely corrupt, instructs doctors to deceive, and has caused untold thousands of deaths due to their banning of early treatments for COVID.

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https://expose-news.com/2024/03/27/dr-fullmich-statement-from-prison-their-house-of-cards-is-collapsing/

Dr. Füllmich Statement From Prison – ‘Their House of Cards is Collapsing’

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Dr. Reiner Füllmich has continued to analyze evidence of the crimes against humanity from prison. that he and the Corona Committee had been working to expose since 2020. The corruption is being increasingly seen worldwide and “Their house of cards is collapsing” according to Reiner, “and we as international attorneys will do our best to speed up that process and make sure that Justice is done.” He adds ‘The windows of truth that are opening worldwide and the light that shines through these windows is in the process of identifying all of those who are responsible, no one will escape Justice.‘

Reiner Füllmich made this statement in a a break from the his trial due to the Easter holidays which has followed eight days in court. He has now been able to summarize the criminal proceedings against him and concludes that Hoffman and Antonia Fischer were only interested in ‘getting their hands on the Corona Committees donation. He claims that ‘through ‘fraud and extortion’, they had gotten their hands on roughly 1.5 million euros of his and his client’s money.’

Viviane Fischer, however, has confirmed in court that they both took loans in order to secure the Corona Committee’s donations which were at risk from “government attack, but they were both able to pay the monies back.

What this means is accusations that Reiner had embezzled committee funds are unfounded. In fact, there seems to be no reason for the man to have been kept in jail at all, and he believes, as many others do, that the criminal proceedings are an effort to shut him up and put him in jail and can see that the ‘DA’s case, is dead in the water.’

Reiner therefore, seems to be more positive for the future, which can be heard in his statement which you can listen to in full in the video of the audio below. However, I have also transcribed the audio recording verbatim and have added it underneath the video for those unable to play videos. (See link for article and 10 Min video)

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Ivermectin Win: FDA Must Remove Controversial Verbiage From its Website While DOJ Attempts to Shut Down Pfizer Fraud Case

**UPDATE**

Besides bad-mouthing ivermectin, a U.S. government ‘cartel’ bribed large pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS with billions of dollars in contracts to promote COVID-19 vaccines and not fill prescriptions for ivermectin.  See:  The FDA’s War Against America’s Health

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-dr-mary-talley-bowden-reacts

Agency Capitulates by Removing False Claims on Ivermectin from Social Media and Internet

MAR 25, 2024

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Thursday evening March 21, 2024, in an unprecedented court case, the US FDA led by  Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, a previously respected Duke Cardiologist, has settled a court case and taken down all of its false and misleading claims on ivermectin. The drug has been part of community standard of care for the treatment of COVID-19 with an excellent safety profile and signals of benefit in 101 studies.

During 2021, in what has been called “A War on Ivermectin” the US FDA engaged in false and misleading tweets and public messaging to dissuade doctors, pharmacists, and patients from using the drug in The McCullough Protocol and similar multi-drug regimens for acute COVID-19.  (See link for article and video)

According to an Epoch Times article , a court ordered the FDA to walk-back its negative posts about using ivermectin for COVID:

  • Studies show ivermectin works against COVID the FDA itself cites, but it’s webpage currently states it is not authorized or approved for use in preventing or treating COVID.
  • The court settlement requires the FDA to delete multiple social media posts that are strongly against ivermectin.
  • For doing this, doctors who sued the agency are dismissing their claims.
  • According to one of the doctors who sued, “This landmark case sets an important precedent in limiting FDA overreach into the doctor-patient relationship.”
  • Another ivermectin prescribing doctor who saw lives saved states that due to FDA interference, “we will never know how many lives were affected because patients were denied access to a lifesaving treatment because their doctor was ‘just following the FDA.’”
  • The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that the law did not authorize the FDA to give medical advice.
  • Numerous doctors have chronicled the highly coordinated and timed actions between the FDA, CDC, AMA, APHA, and corporate controlled media to squash ivermectin – an extremely safe, cheap drug on the WHO’s essential list of medicines that has been used for decades without a prescription in many countries, including Africa which had essentially ZERO COVID due to the prolific use of the drug.

“FDA can inform, but it has identified no authority allowing it to recommend consumers ‘stop’ taking medicine,” U.S. Circuit Judge Don Willett, wrote for the court. The appeals court remanded the case back to the district court.

Predictably, the FDA didn’t get the memo:
  • and has not “admitted any violation of law or any wrongdoing, disagrees with the plaintiffs’ allegation that the agency exceeded its authority in issuing the statements challenged in the lawsuit, and stands by its authority to communicate with the public regarding the products it regulates.”
  • and has not changed its position that currently available clinical trial data do not demonstrate that ivermectin is effective against COVID-19. The agency has not authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19.”
Welcome to the Twilight Zone.

For a quick flashback, watch this video of a doctor being forcibly removed by police from a hospital board meeting simply for endorsing ivermectin that he used in his own private practice, and for evidently breaking protocol by whispering a “thanks” to a politician who questioned hospital policy. He shared at about 7:00 that doctors on staff at the hospital would come and see him to get ivermectin but would not speak their mind or prescribe it for fear of retribution from hospitals or their own medical groups. He states that 99% of doctors now have a contract with the hospital and are beholden to it, and that ‘brutal’ COVID treatment protocols, which one nurse blamed for 90% of hospital deaths, were followed to the letter due to government financial incentives.  Hospitals were simply not interested in early treatment which have saved lives and freed up hospital beds.

This video shows how the CARES Act signed into law in 2020 waived patient rights, and made hospitals rich (approx. 100K per COVID patient) due to these government incentives.

The ivermectin-prescribing doctor was unable to eat in the hospital employee lounge because he didn’t take the COVID shot.

And the reason the suit was brought in the first case was due to doctors suffering repercussions after prescribing ivermectin to patients with COVID.  Pharmacists refused to fill prescriptions.

The FDA is certainly guilty, as well as other government agencies.  But so are hospitals, medical groups like the AMA, APHA, ASHP, mainstream media, and doctors themselves.

Unless action is taken, this can and will happen again.

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https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-03-22-department-of-justice-intervenes-pfizer-fraud-case.

Collusion coverup: Department of Justice intervenes in Pfizer fraud case, in a corrupt attempt to shut the case down

03/22/2024  Lance D Johnson
Story at a glance: (summary by “Neo” LLM via Brighteon.AI)- The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to shut down the Pfizer fraud case scheduled for April 17.- The lawsuit alleges that Pfizer-BioNTech violated the False Claims Act during their clinical trials and knowingly delivered a defective product to the world.- Former employee Brook Jackson, who worked at Ventavia Research Group (a company that conducted some of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials), is suing Pfizer, her former employer Ventavia, and another Pfizer contractor, ICON plc.- The DOJ asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming it would be inconsistent with their public health policy.- The DOJ’s motion to dismiss cites a flimsy hypothesis authored by the FDA, which supports the faulty vaccines and contradicts Jackson’s claims of fraud and negligence.  (See link for article)

Pfizer sunk to unbelievable lows to peddle their gene therapy shots including using children in ads
The shot not only flopped, it caused more COVID infections & an inflammatory syndrome

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Lyme-Induced Cardiac Problems Persist Despite Antibiotic Treatment

https://danielcameronmd.com/lyme-cardiac-antibiotic-treatment/

LYME-INDUCED CARDIAC PROBLEMS PERSIST DESPITE ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT

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In their article, “An Unusual Presentation of Lyme Carditis and Adenosine-Sensitive Atrioventricular Block,” Alexandre and colleagues present the case of a 20-year-old female with Lyme disease and cardiac manifestations, who continued to experience cardiac problems despite 4 weeks of antibiotic treatment. [1]

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The young woman was admitted to the emergency department with acute pleuritic chest pain and shortness of breath. (Pleuritic chest pain is characterized by sudden and intense sharp, stabbing, or burning pain in the chest when inhaling and exhaling.)

The woman exhibited only mild tachycardia (100/min). However, “Considering the suspicion of acute myocarditis, the patient was admitted to an intensive cardiac care unit,” the authors state.

During hospitalization, cardiac monitoring revealed several asymptomatic episodes of paroxysmal AV block, including second-degree Mobitz I AV block, second degree AV block, and high-grade AV block.

Although there was no evidence of tick exposure or skin lesions, clinicians ordered testing for Lyme disease, which was positive by Western blot. “… an IgM Western-Blot test was performed, confirming positivity and recent Borrelia spp. infection.”

The patient was diagnosed with Lyme disease with cardiac manifestations of high-grade AV block. She was treated with a 4-week course of IV ceftriaxone, which led to a complete resolution of chest pain and shortness of breath.

However, the AV conduction disturbance continued after 4 weeks of antibiotic treatment. And subsequently, the woman was given an alternative diagnosis of extrinsic idiopathic paroxysmal AV block (“adenosine-sensitive AV block”).

This could be an extremely rare course of Lyme carditis, or the patient may have had asymptomatic AV conduction problems that surfaced when she developed Lyme disease, according to the authors.

“The patient was started on theophylline 400 mg twice daily, and after one week of treatment, the Holter monitoring demonstrated a significant reduction in AV conduction disturbances,” the authors state.

At her 18-month follow-up appointment, the woman continued to have fewer AV conduction disturbances, no cardiac complaints, and no need for a permanent pacemaker.

Authors conclude:

“This case illustrates a challenging scenario of [Lyme carditis] with high grade AV block, which persisted after appropriate antibiotic treatment and had key features supporting the diagnosis of extrinsic idiopathic paroxysmal AV block (‘adenosine sensitive AV block’).

References:
  1. Alexandre A, Ribeiro D, Sousa MJ, Reis H, Silveira J, Torres S. An Unusual Presentation of Lyme Carditis and Adenosine-Sensitive Atrioventricular Block. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2024 Jan;121(1):e20230228. Portuguese, English. doi: 10.36660/abc.20230228. PMID: 38324857.

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The Parasite, Virus, & Cancer Connection

https://gregreese.substack.com/p/parasitic-science-and-the-unproven?  Video Here (Approx. 5 Min)

Parasitic Science and the Unproven Virus

If you want to routinely cull the population, then an invisible virus that you cannot see or prove would be the perfect lie to cover it up.
GREG REESE
MAR 12, 2024

Article Excerpts from video above:

No one has ever isolated a virus. This is admitted by modern science who claim it’s impossible. So instead, they mix it with a soup of other genetic materials, run it through a computer and create what is known as a consensus genome.

In the 1930s, engineer Royal Rife, created microscopes capable of magnifying material over seventeen-thousand times. Modern microscopes can only provide a magnification of about twenty-four hundred. We’ve been denied the magnification required to actually see if a virus exists. (See link for video and article)

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**Comment**

I must add here that we have also been denied the magnification required to study well borrelia and the other pathogens Lyme/MSIDS patient suffer from.  Don’t you find it interesting that Rife was able to do this decades ago but the world has not progressed in this area?  This, BTW is the main reason for the Lyme wars which could be solved immediately with proper magnification to actually find and see these organisms in post-mortem research on those with chronic Lyme disease.

For those of you who have studied Rife, he was initially commended for curing cancer with frequencies.  It is then surmised that when ‘the powers that be’ decided cancer was big business, they pulled the rug out from under him, called him a quack, and he died heartbroken and penniless. A Rife Handbook  has been created based upon his work that many patients use to this day – even for Lyme/MSIDS.

It must be noted that more is coming out on the growing evidence between infections and cancer (including Lyme) and a renewed effort has been put into using repurposed drugs for cancer. Antiparasitic and antifungal medications like ivermectin, Fenbendazole, metformin, and Mebendazole are now reappearing.  For more on cancer therapies, see Wellness Journey’s comprehensive work here and here.

It is also a perfect time to point out the unbelievable concerted effort made to suppress ivermectin and HCQ – both drugs that have been sold without a prescription, have a long history of safety and effectiveness, and are cheap.

Coincidence? 

https://rumble.com/v4fq6a5-the-spike-protein-is-a-lie.html  Video Here (Approx. 55 Min)

Parasites

Dr. Lee Merritt

2/27/24

This must see 55 minute video is a deep dive into the involvement of parasites in many disease processes.

Merritt states the dangerous parasites are not the earth-worm type, but the intracellular type which are nearly impossible to see.  She points out that high powered microscopes are needed for this but aren’t used.

She also talks about bacterial vs viral isolation.  Isolating bacteria from all else is very simple; however, this is not what is done with ‘viruses,’ and that since they are so small, virologists are taking computer generated algorithm genetic material and calling it ‘isolated.’

Merritt goes through the dark web in history of the same names we see now (Rockefeller, Gates, etc)  She also goes through the dark web of medical journals – also with the same names we see today (Maxwell, Iger, etc.)

One thing is for certain: someone doesn’t want us to get to the truth.

Now to further muddy the waters…..

I highly recommend this article, again by Wellness Journeys, and the author’s experience with Dr. Sam Chachoua who had the only working Rife microscope because he had repaired it.  He claims the HIV retrovirus was initially dubbed the M-P virus due to its similarity to a virus discovered in 1965 by scientists Molmos and Pathalus. The scientists gave the M-P virus to animals and all of them developed catastrophic immune system failure and died. The article states that every cancer cell comes with a M-P virus that attacks the immune system if the immune system tries to attack the cancer. The MP virus is protecting cancer.  In sum, Chachoua believes cancer has an evolutionary purpose in protecting us from infections, but that there’s a window of opportunity when cancer stops secreting the M-P virus making it an optimal time to  give immuno-therapies to effectively stop cancer.

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