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Prologue to my Hero's Journey:
I am a patient diagnosed with RA that was told by my rheumatologist that I'd be on a cocktail of meds for life, diet had nothing to do with my diagnosis, and there was nothing I could do to heal or improve from the disease.
Through several personal experiences and reading others, I learned that this is what doctors are taught and what patients are led to believe.
I am Ken, a nobody from Canada that thought he was too small to make a difference. My BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) is to eradicate chronic disease and mental illness, improving health outcomes and healthcare systems.
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A Giant Korean Study of 15 Million People Just Blew a Hole in the “Lower LDL Is Always Better” Story
Imagine tracking almost 15 million adults for nearly nine years and counting every death from heart disease and stroke. That’s exactly what Korean researchers did with 14.9 million people who weren’t even taking cholesterol drugs. What they found doesn’t match the simple message that “the lower your LDL, the safer you are.” Instead, the risk formed a U-shape. People with very low LDL died more often from cardiovascular causes, people with very high LDL also died more often, and the sweet spot sat right in the middle.
For overall cardiovascular death the lowest risk landed between about 90 and 149 mg/dL. Below that range or well above it, deaths went up. The pattern changed depending on the exact problem. For heart attacks and blocked arteries the best zone was lower (around 70–114 mg/dL). For some types of brain bleeds the risk kept falling only when LDL stayed higher. In plain terms, driving LDL as low as possible protected against one kind of death while raising the risk of others.
When the scientists looked only at the higher range (100 to 300 mg/dL) they still saw a clear rise in heart-attack deaths as LDL climbed. Each jump of about 40 mg/dL raised the chance of dying from ischemic heart disease by roughly 26 percent. But that rise was weaker in women and in older adults than in younger men. Even people in their late 70s and early 80s still showed some extra risk from higher LDL for heart attacks and ischemic strokes, yet the overall picture never became “lower is always safer.”
The study is huge, it followed real people instead of just guessing from lab tests, and it only looked at folks who were not already on statins. That makes the U-shape harder to wave away. Doctors still treat high LDL when people already have heart disease or several risk factors, because the top end of the curve is real. But the data also show that pushing every healthy adult toward rock-bottom LDL numbers is not free. Too low carried its own price in this massive population.
The takeaway is simple and uncomfortable: LDL cholesterol is not a one-way street. In nearly 15 million Koreans the safest zone for dying of cardiovascular disease was not the lowest number on the lab report. Both extremes cost lives. That single finding from one of the largest studies ever done keeps forcing the same awkward question—how low is actually low enough, and for whom?
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Sharing as Health Literacy with @BillionsHealed.
Also sharing that you've been a big part of motivating me to shift my outlook on my health prognosis.
I'm an RA patient who has been experiencing decline and pain in my fingers and feet and have been accepting that it's part of life with chronic disease.
Following you led me to reach out to a personal trainer to undertake some strength training. This chap has completely changed my mental state as we've done a lot of "movement" work (including some strength training) to retrain my body and mind.
I am no longer treating anything as something I can't do, rather I'm shifting to "beginner's mind" and working through the process of turning things into something I will be able to do.
This may be a turning point for me and #BillionsHealed.
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Healing Story: Doctor Healing From 30 Years Of Ulcerative Colitis
via @SBakerMD
Our goal is to end the chronic disease & mental illness epidemics.
#EveryStoryCounts
#billionshealed
Just interviewed a medical doctor that had suffered for 30 years with ulcerative colitis.
Was given pills for decades and told that diet had nothing to do with inflammatory bowel disease.
Eventually she went on a specific carbohydrate diet and then a keto diet and saw improvement
In 2022 she went carnivore, gave up the keto vegetables and finally became completely symptom free and off all medications
I am always amazed at how ridiculous it is for a gastroenterologist to state that diet has zero to do with a gastrointestinal disorder like inflammatory bowel disease. It literally sounds idiotic to believe so. But I guess when you get paid to do 30 endoscopies a week, lifestyle medicine makes zero financial sense.
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Write or speak what the Lord puts in your heart, not what is going to get you likes and follows.
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The beauty we see in this world is real. But it doesn’t last.
Autumn leaves change and fall. Spring flowers bloom and fade. We catch these beautiful, fleeting glimpses, and then they’re gone.
But what if that beauty is pointing us toward something far greater?
What if it’s only a tiny reflection of the vast, unlimited, unfathomable beauty of Christ behind it all?
I explore this thought in my latest piece, The Unseen Reality of Christ.
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Healing Healthcare: Improving Health Literacy by Understanding The stories We've Been Told
via @hormonedietdoc
Our goal is to end the chronic disease & mental illness epidemics.
#EveryStoryCounts
#billionshealed
One of the greatest nutritional mistakes of the last 60 years?
Convincing people to fear the cholesterol in eggs and the saturated fat in red meat while steering them toward carbohydrate-heavy, highly processed foods.
We demonized some of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet while filling grocery stores with refined starches, sugars, and products marketed as “heart healthy.”
Six decades later, we’re still paying the price.
It wasn’t the eggs and steak we should have been so afraid of.
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My letter in today's London Free Press
Spend it on staff
Regarding the article New Ontario team to help LHSC cut ER wait times (Oct. 14)
Any attention to the disgraceful state of Ontario’s emergency room wait times is, of course, welcome.
However, permit me to introduce of a brief moment of cynicism:
It was 2018 when Premier Doug Ford promised to end hallway medicine within a year.
In 2020, he stated “we’re doing everything we can to end hallway medicine.”
In 2024, he again emphasized he would “step up” to end the abhorrent practice of trying to care for people in hospital hallways, going one step further by stating he would commit sufficient funds to bring emergency wait times down to one hour.
Further, resolving the problem means applying the scientific principles to patient flow that have been studied and established during the past 30 years.
Forty-one million dollars to reinvent the wheel would go a long way to keep the nurses his government seems so intent on firing, a concept clearly at odds with the goal of reducing wait times.
Alan Drummond, Perth
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Trust is gone a long time ago. Do your own research. I did. Ultimately, we are all going to be patients and interference with research affects all of us.
When the editor of the world’s most prestigious medical journal concluded that much of the clinical research it published could no longer be trusted, the problem was no longer abstract.
Marcia Angell, a pathologist who joined the New England Journal of Medicine staff in 1979, rose to executive editor and then served as interim editor-in-chief from 1999 to June 2000. She stepped down after more than two decades at the journal, formally to write a book. The deeper context was her growing conviction, formed from years of editing manuscripts, that pharmaceutical industry influence had compromised the independence of clinical research. She and previous editors had enforced strict conflict-of-interest rules, yet industry-sponsored studies continued to arrive with designs, analyses, and selective reporting that favored the sponsor’s product. Negative results were often suppressed, side effects minimized, and “academic” authors frequently carried undisclosed financial ties.
In a widely cited 2009 New York Review of Books essay, Angell wrote the line that crystallized her position: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” She described an industry that had shifted from discovering useful drugs toward marketing, co-opting academic medical centers, researchers, and even the journals that were supposed to serve as independent arbiters. Her 2000 editorial “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?” and later book The Truth About the Drug Companies expanded the critique, arguing that commercial priorities systematically distorted what research was done, how it was conducted, and what reached publication.
Angell’s departure marked the end of an era of tighter editorial resistance to industry influence at the NEJM. Her public statements afterward made clear that she viewed the problem as systemic rather than isolated: once the bulk of clinical research depended on commercial funding, journals could no longer function as reliable filters of medical evidence.
Ken Jaques (Jakes) 🇨🇦 💜 🦁🦉 retweeted
Amen. In mice. I don’t know why it’s so controversial to ask folks to use some caution. I didn’t rain on any parade and I’m very pro peptide. But I think no matter what we put in our body, we should have some measured process to weigh pros and cons.
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Exactly.
Big Food, Big Ag, Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and Big Politics are the drivers of the Sick Care system.
And the well funded, well orchestrated support system have been holding the cards.
But it looks like they're out of aces.
We're holding the cards.
#BillionsHealed
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Brain fog?
“Yeah, you're just getting old.”Everyone knows that.
Losing words halfway through a sentence, walking into the kitchen and forgetting why, hitting a wall every afternoon and running on coffee until bedtime.
Perfectly normal.
Mention it at an appointment and nobody asks what was eaten for breakfast or lunch, just a sympathetic smile
"we're none of us getting any younger."
Off home to accept it for the next thirty years.
Such a comforting answer, and very convenient, because age cannot be fixed, so nobody has to try.
Never mind that every round of toast, pasta and snacks sends blood sugar up and drops it again a couple of hours later, over and over, all day long, and the brain feels every single dip.
Never mind that fat and protein hold it steady, or that when carbohydrate goes low enough the liver starts making ketones, a fuel that crosses straight into the brain and burns with less oxidative stress than glucose.
And definitely never mind that the brain is physically built from DHA for the cell membranes, B12 for the nerves, choline from egg yolks for memory and learning and creatine from red meat for mental energy when the thinking gets hard. The exact foods the guidelines have spent decades telling people to cut back on.
The brain does not suddenly forget how to work at fifty. It has spent fifty years running on the wrong fuel.
But yeah, it's just age. Everyone knows that. 🤣
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Health Literacy: Rethinking "Health Foods"
via @KristenJakobitz
Our goal is to end the chronic disease & mental illness epidemics.
#EveryStoryCounts
#billionshealed
6 supposed "health foods" stealing your energy and leaving you exhausted by 2 PM:
🔸Store-bought green juices (pure fructose bombs)
🔸Low-fat flavored yogurt (packed with added sugar)
🔸Commercial protein bars (glorified candy bars)
🔸Oat milk lattes (giant blood sugar spike)
🔸Whole wheat bread with high-fructose corn syrup
🔸Gluten-free packaged snacks full of refined starches
Reach for real, single-ingredient food instead.
#HealthyEating #EnergyBoost #NutritionFacts
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The whole world is watching MAHA.
The whole world stands to benefit.
Lessons learned can help Make Canada Healthy Again and
Make Everywhere Healthy Again.
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Dr. X gets it. The answer to open questions is science.
@lifebiomedguru It is time for pediatricians and GPs to deliver case studies on their patients that develop Type-1 after vaccination. IPAK.edu has the streamlined AIs to help doctors write up case studies that meet ALL the publications standards for medical journals.
Time is the one resource that is precious to doctors. IPAK had removed the laborious step (writing and sorting patient files) into a HIPPA and PHI compliant platform that takes the drudgery out of case writing.
ipakedu.online/research-stud…
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Imagine turning on the evening news and hearing a friendly voice say, “Ask your doctor about this little pill,” before the anchor even mentions the weather. That never used to happen. For most of television’s history, drug companies were not allowed to sell prescription medicines straight to regular people on TV the way they do today.
For decades, the rules were strict. Companies could talk to doctors, but if they wanted to advertise a prescription drug to the public on television, they had to list nearly every risk and side effect in the commercial itself. That took too long for a 30-second spot, so almost no one tried. The rare early attempts, like a 1983 ad for a prescription pain medicine, got pulled almost immediately.
Everything changed in 1997. The Food and Drug Administration loosened the rules for TV and radio. Companies still had to mention the biggest risks, but they could point people to a website, an 800 number, or their doctor for the rest of the details. Suddenly, the floodgates opened. Spending on these “ask your doctor” ads shot up from a few hundred million dollars a year to several billion. Only the United States and New Zealand allow this kind of advertising for prescription drugs.
These ads do more than sell pills. They preload viewers. They plant the idea that everyday problems—trouble sleeping, feeling a little sad, high cholesterol, or stiff joints—need a brand-name medicine. Studies show that when patients walk into the doctor’s office already asking for a specific advertised drug, they are more likely to walk out with a prescription for it, even when a cheaper or safer option might work just as well.
The ads also shape the news itself. Drug companies spend huge amounts of money advertising on news programs, which reach older viewers who take more medicines. News outlets that depend on that advertising money have less incentive to dig hard into stories about drug side effects, high prices, or company misconduct. The result is a cycle: the same companies that sell the drugs also help pay for the shows that talk about health. Viewers end up hearing more about new pills and less about questions that might slow those sales down.
What started as a small exception in the rules became one of the most powerful ways drug companies influence both patients and the stories people hear about medicine. The commercials look friendly, but the power behind them is anything but small.
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The truth is now out. Policy is being formed that will change the entire landscape of vaccines and pediatric medicine. Pediatricians should start looking into treating iatrogenic disease to save their practices. Or they should get behind raising the standards for vaccine safety & efficacy. You can do that in a few important steps.
1. Remove the unsafe epitopes and reduce the risk of #PathogenicPriming.
2. Do not use aluminum, mercury or other excipients that are bad for human health.
3. Get behind updatable microneedle patch (band-aid type) delivery (use crystallized vitE patches, no nano-anything) other means means to deliver sufficient antigen to the correct population of dendritic cells.
4. Never vaccinate those infected.
5. Never vaccine anyone whose immune system is busy fighting off other illness.
6. Never give acetaminophen for fever unless it's life-threatening.
7. Support chelation and other detox programs.
At this time, I have zero conflict of interest to report. But I just might get some business cards. I do not wish to partner with any single vaccine manufacturer, so my message is with all of them:
@Merck @sanofi @GSK @pfizer @moderna_tx @bisuotcbb @DynavaxCorp @AstraZeneca You owe it to your investors to compete on the platform of safety and efficacy.
Not on the manipulation of public perception of safety and efficacy - on ACTUAL unbiased estimates of safety and efficacy. The estimates must be made to be as unbiased as possible in ways that are demonstrably superior to your current shell-and-nut street games.
No more exclusion of those at risk and then generalization of safety to those subpopulations. No more case-counting window bias. No more dilution effect (large population studies are not impressive if risk is found in subgroups). No more analysis-to-result and HARKing. Sufficient power within risk-identified subgroups to detect. The earnest desire to prevent risk.
I would be happy to hold a meeting on the future of the safety of biologics. But first, every single person you send will have to take our Vaccine Course, my Immunology Course, and my course on Autoimmunity. That's 45 hours of training.
Then they should abandon epidemiology and learn biomarker development with machine learning from me to learn how to predict who will have adverse reactions and who will not, perhaps ever, become immune (evenly temporarily) from their particular vaccines.
What I have to offer is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the industry. I cannot be bought. I must be able to report any consultation activity I undertake in public. I answer to the seventh generation. You answer to the next quarter. We get that.
If you want to continue to sell biologics in medicine, I suggest you take up the mantle before it's too late.
But I will the bold prediction today, 10/16/2026: Whole-population vaccination is over. It will never be accepted, and it is the wrong strategy. Sustainable vaccination strategies do not seek out and hurt and kill everyone that is at risk. They find those and risk and keep them out of harm's way.
For the parents of the kids killed by vaccines and the love ones of others killed and maimed by vaccines, a Truth & Reconciliation moment will also be necessary. They paid the heaviest of prices for you to learn this lesson. And they must be made whole.
And, as always, above all, choice. Choice across all of medicine.
I speak for none of my dear, beloved and respected anti-vaxxers, many of whom find the idea of future vaccines anathema and disgusting. Thus, choice comes first.
I speak for science.
The denialist agenda is dead. It could never have lasted.
Now, vax makers, either partner with humanity, whom your corporations have hurt, maimed, killed, and dismissed, or become a black footnote in the annals of medicine.
There is no putting this genie back the bottle.
[Delivered at the National Institutes of Health — NIH — at a special event at which the vaccine-injured spoke first.] @ChildrensHD @CHDTVLive
Read The Defender:
childrenshealthdefense.org/d…
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Health Literacy: A Healthy Lifestyle Is Good For Your Mind, Body, And Spirit
via @BethFratesMD
Our goal is to end the chronic disease & mental illness epidemics.
#EveryStoryCounts
#billionshealed
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A vaccine only gets liability protection under the 1986 Act once ACIP votes to recommend it and the CDC puts it on the schedule. That’s the exact moment the shield activates.
Move a vaccine off the recommended schedule and into shared decision-making instead, and it starts losing that protection. There are more steps after that before it’s fully gone, and whether Bobby completes all of them is still an open question. But watching him take that first step is watching him line up a path to undo the 1986 Act.
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Indeed, obvious motivations for vaccine makers to lobby so hard to get vaccines onto the schedule. No liability, no marketing requirements, just counting the money.
Methinks the new ACIP committee started prioritizing safety trying to clean up the mess, and that set off a chain of events that hopefully ends in failure.
#billionshealed