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The Hollow Heart of Personalised Genetic Medicine

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A recent article entitled “Using ChatGPT to predict the future of personalized medicine” in the prestigious journal Nature offers the following outlook:

“Personalised medicine is a novel frontier in health care that is based on each person’s unique genetic makeup. It represents an exciting opportunity to improve the future of individualised health care for all individuals.”

At the centre of the personalised medicine hype is a research field known as pharmacogenomics which aims to study the genetic makeup of individuals in order to optimise drug prescriptions. It is envisioned that future treatments will be algorithm-based instead of evidence-based that will consider a patient’s genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, epigenetic, and lifestyle factors resulting in individualised medication.

That is a big mouthful; what does it mean? Supposedly, artificial intelligence (AI) tools will analyse the results of various genetic tests, microbiology assays and patient questionnaires and then prescribe what drugs will suit an individual best. The falling cost of genetic testing will, according to enthusiastic advocates, enable this process to become the universal healthcare of the near future.

The article finishes with the caveat: personalised medicine still has several limitations that need to be solved. That is an understatement of gigantic proportions. To understand these limitations, we need to examine how or more correctly if people in medicine are currently using genetic tools to personalise drug prescriptions. In other words, what is really going on here?

A Project to Implement Personalised Medicine

The UK MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) is currently undertaking an investigation into blood thinners known as Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs). According to the MHRA, these drugs, which include rivaroxaban, dabigatran, apixaban, and edoxaban, have been found to cause serious bleeding in between 2 to 5% of patients. In some cases, this leads to hospitalisation and even death. 1.5 million patients take DOACs in the UK alone.

The MHRA has started genetic testing of patients affected with DOAC bleeding to discover whether they have any special genetic characteristics which predispose them to excessive bleeding. According to Dr. Alison Cave, the MHRA chief safety officer: “The ultimate long-term goal for us is to identify patients most at risk of harm from side-effects with a particular medicine due to their underlying genetic make-up, and avoid them suffering from that harm.”

As she announced MHRA’s move to personalised medicine, Dr. June Raine, the CEO of MHRA predicted: “Almost a third of adverse reactions to medicines could be prevented with the introduction of genetic testing.”

This All Sounds Very Exciting and Hopeful. So What Could Possibly Go Wrong With Personalised Medicine?

Firstly, the scale of the problems associated with modern medical procedures is gargantuan. In 2016, a Johns Hopkins study published in the BMJ found that medical error is actually the third largest cause of death in the USA. Just reflect for a moment. It almost certainly became the leading cause of death during the pandemic.

One problem lies in under reporting of medical error and adverse effects of medicines. Even if medical error occurs, it is seldom listed as a cause of death on death certificates. A 2016 study also estimates that less than 5% of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are reported to the relevant safety authorities.

A 2021 meta analysis entitled “Prevalence of adverse drug reactions in the primary care setting: A systematic review and meta-analysis” investigated the extent of the problem and found that reactions to cardiovascular system drugs were most commonly implicated. These usually involve excessive bleeding following the administration of blood thinners. According to the study, 23% of all adverse drug reactions are preventable. So, is this a powerful argument for personalised medicine? No, because the data, the science, and the known risks do not square with the PR hype.

The 2-5% of people thought to be affected with serious bleeding by DOACs is an under estimate, the likely percentage is much higher due to under reporting of ADRs. Crucially another very important factor to consider is non-adherence to the prescribed drug regime. Only around two thirds of patients persist with DOAC use. Collectively, these factors mean that the real world rate of serious bleeding from DOAC blood thinners possibly exceeds 10% of patients. A very high rate of adverse effects which is no doubt driving MHRA concerns.

The problem doesn’t stop there. Excessive bleeding is not the only adverse effect associated with DOACs. For example, the prestigious Mayo Clinic lists 17 common adverse effects of Rivaroxaban. Other than multiple different types of bleeding, these include paralysis, headache, back pain, bowel or bladder dysfunction, leg weakness and numbness.

Blood thinners aim to reduce blood platelet counts and aggregation because platelets are responsible for clotting and are therefore involved in various types of thrombosis and heart disease, but that is not all platelets do. They also play a vital role in maintaining immunity, preventing tumour growth, maintaining the composition and stability or haemostasis of blood, and preventing leakage from blood vessels which can be associated with the metastasis or spread of cancers. Therefore blood thinners inevitably have a range of serious side effects irrespective of anyone’s genetic composition.

What is the Proposed Net Result of the Current Mhra Personalised Medicine Investigation of Blood Thinners?

In essence, if one type of blood thinner proves unsuitable, doctors will simply recommend another drug.

Patients having an adverse reaction to DOACs are often switched to antiplatelet medications such as Clopidogrol, Ticagrelor, Prasugrel, etc. However, these medications have a broad range of side effects very similar to DOACs. For example, the Mayo Clinic lists 25 common side effects of Ticagrelor antiplatelet medication. Aside from excessive bleeding, these include chest pain, confusion, blurred vision, loss of consciousness, irregular heart beat, paralysis, nervousness, and weakness. Hardly a picture of heart health. These serious side effects are not usually mentioned by doctors. Millions of people are prescribed this class of drug without full disclosure of the serious risks they carry.

Instead, heart patients, those at risk of cardiac events due to age, and even the general population are routinely prescribed various types of blood thinners, anticoagulants, and cholesterol reducing drugs. Their use is always presented as the gold standard with the best possible outcomes. Pressure and fear is exerted, including the threat of early mortality if you don’t comply.

The aim of personalised medicine is not to decrease drug use but rather to personalise drugs, even to increase the use of drugs. Whilst most pharmaceutical drugs entail adverse reactions and unanticipated side effects, drugs that are tailored to genetic characteristics may potentially have even more serious consequences and long term adverse outcomes. This is because genetic systems are involved in all the functions of the physiology, its organs, bio-molecular messaging, and overall immunity.

Are There Alternative Approaches to Cardiac Health That the MHRA Should Be Considering?

A meta-analysis published in the BMJ entitled “Comparative effectiveness of exercise and drug interventions on mortality outcomes: metaepidemiological study” gives an affirmative answer. It concludes:

“Randomised trial evidence on exercise interventions suggests that exercise and many drug interventions are often potentially similar in terms of their mortality benefits in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease, rehabilitation after stroke, treatment of heart failure, and prevention of diabetes…exercise interventions should therefore be considered as a viable alternative to, or alongside, drug therapy.”

Regrettably, the study also concluded:

“Our findings reflect the bias against testing exercise interventions and highlight the changing landscape of medical research, which seems to increasingly favour drug interventions over strategies to modify lifestyle. The current body of medical literature largely constricts clinicians to drug options.”

While little research has been undertaken comparing the relative effects of exercise and drugs on cardiac illness, even less research has been conducted assessing and quantifying the effects of herbal remedies. This is a remarkable omission. Inappropriate diet and lifestyle are arguably the most significant factors contributing to the genesis of heart disease. The corollary of this is highly significant: corrections to diet and lifestyle are the most significant measures that can be taken to avoid and mitigate heart disease.

A paper published in 2019 entitled “Review of herbal medications with the potential to cause bleeding: dental implications, and risk prediction and prevention avenues” describes 20 common herbs which are understood to have antiplatelet, anticoagulant or other relevant actions that could be beneficial for heart disease.

These are: Aloe, Cranberry, Feverfew, Garlic, Ginger, Ginkgo, Meadowsweet, Turmeric, White Willow, Chamomile, Fenugreek, Red Clover, Dong Quai, Evening Primrose, Ginseng, Flaxseed, Grapefruit, Green Tea, Oregano, and Saw Palmetto. The paper discusses their effects based on in vitro experiments, animal studies, individual case studies and theoretical grounds. Sadly the main thrust of the paper is not to investigate their worth but to suggest grounds to prevent their use in conjunction with dental treatment.

Some of the above are reviewed here. Other herbs, fruits or natural compounds understood in herbal lore or traditional systems such as Ayurveda to thin the blood or benefit cardiac conditions include Cayenne Pepper, Vitamin E, Cinnamon, Grape Seed extract, Arjuna, Pineapple, Ashwagandha, Guggul, Amla, Tulsi, Triphala, Rose, Rauwolfia and Water Hyssop.

The absence of any serious attempts on the part of the medical research fraternity to assess their worth in clinical practice speaks volumes about the real intent of the personalised medicine endeavour. This is not just a lost opportunity but a giant mistake and a step in entirely the wrong direction. Moreover the pharmaceutical industry has used its influence with regulators to restrict or ban the availability of many traditional herbs, not because they are harmful but because they may compete with proprietary drugs. This includes many on the above list.

Ayurveda and Traditional Personalised Medicine

In fact Ayurveda and other ancient traditions of natural medicine do operate real personalised systems of diagnosis and treatment. Ayurveda literally means the knowledge of long life. There is a system of pulse diagnosis in Ayurveda known as Nadi Vigyan which, used by the skilled practitioner, is able to diagnose the patient’s medical history and future prognosis based on the vibrations of three qualities in the deep pulse known as Doshas. This knowledge has been kept alive in some Indian families where specific knowledge and herbal lore is carefully passed on to successive generations.

The Materia Medica of Ayurveda lists over 5,000 medicinal herbs along with details of their preparation, action and prescription. The skilled Ayurvedic practitioner closely following traditional methods known as a Vaidya is able to draw upon this vast cornucopia of herbs to mitigate current imbalance and prevent future illness. A consultation with a properly trained and experienced Ayurvedic Vaidya, a Chinese medicine practitioner, a naturopath, herbalist or a holistic health professional can make a very valuable contribution to personal health.

Unfortunately, in recent years, Ayurveda has come under attack from giant pharmaceutical companies who are buying up Ayurvedic manufacturers and then cutting corners by shortening or altering the traditional methods of preparing herbal remedies as well as allowing the substitution of synthetic ingredients for traditional plants. Therefore caution is always advised when sourcing Ayurvedic remedies through the internet. Fortunately there are still some who are sticking to traditional methods and testing for contamination, these include Maharishi Ayurveda and Gopala Ayurveda.

The Indian Government Ministry of Health has a Department of Ayurveda which is seeking to preserve and promote authentic traditional practices. There is now a significant body of scientific research documenting and verifying traditional Ayurveda’s unique and highly effective contribution to health. You can find out more about the wide scope of traditional Ayurveda including its consciousness based approaches to health in my book Your DNA Diet.

Conclusion: Personalised genetic medicine is becoming a new form of drug promotion

Personalised genetic medicine as currently envisioned is a step away from finding safe and effective alternatives to risky modern pharmaceuticals, it is a step towards an era where drug use and experimentation on populations becomes the norm.

The MHRA, in common with most medical regulators, is not considering a future where proven safe natural and cost-effective approaches to heart health including diet and exercise are researched and promoted, rather it is forming an alliance with pharmaceutical companies to entangle a misinformed public in a profitable web of drug use and dependence.

What particularly strikes us is the essential madness of the personalised genetic medicine dream that is being pushed on the public using PR hype. So-called personalised medicine ultimately involves the replacement of personal doctors and medical professionals with impersonal AI programmed to push drugs.

The promised benefits are so unrealistic that they qualify as pure fantasy. It appears those paid to promote the concept of personalised medicine are poorly informed about the capabilities, accuracy and interpretation of genetic testing and assessment; and about the well known risks and uncertainties of genetic medicine and many pharmaceutical drugs.

NZ Coroner’s Ruling on 13-Year-Old’s Sudden Post-Vaccine Death: Was It Right?

Was the NZ Coroner right to rule that he couldn’t determine the cause of the sudden death of a 13 year old boy following Covid vaccination?

In any case, what should the coroner have said and who or what is to blame for the tragic death?

The NZ Herald reports this morning the ruling of the coroner Robin Kay in the case of a healthy 13 year old boy who died suddenly as a result of myocarditis (heart inflammation) 10 days after Covid-19 mRNA vaccination. Despite the fact that myocarditis is a known and recognised side effect of Covid mRNA vaccination, the coroner said he couldn’t decide what the exact cause of death was because, on the advice of ‘experts’, he couldn’t rule out the possibility that the myocarditis was caused by viral particles.

Evaluating the Coroner’s Decision: The Need for Scientific Rigor in Judging Individual Cases

It is true that in an individual and tragic case of young sudden death such as this, there will always be an element of doubt, so was there doubt in this case, and what should the coroner have said in his judgement?

The coroner’s ruling omitted to reference the established process of science in deciding the balance of probabilities in individual cases. When faced with the outcome of a single individual case, science looks closely at the bigger picture and analyses a large number of statistically representative outcomes among the wider population. This enables a more precise probability of cause to be assessed.

In this case, a comparison of Covid vaccination status among the cases of death and hospitalisation in the whole New Zealand population should be made. The coroner should have noted, as the Hatchard Report has informed the Health Minister, that not only has this not been undertaken in New Zealand but that the process has been blocked by the government working in tandem with the allopathic medical establishment.

The coroner should have ruled that access to public health data relevant to the case before him had been denied for no good reason.

Such cases of wilful blindness are not unknown in science. The theory of general relativity discovered by Albert Einstein was rejected by the Nazi state, despite decisive evidence verifying it, and outlawed from German science since its architect was Jewish. In other words, the power and policy of the state took precedence over the evidence of science.

Are we brushing up against this perilous situation in little New Zealand? If so, how did we get here and what should we do to rectify the situation?

Concerns Over Long-Term Health Risks of mRNA Vaccines: Expert Warnings and the Rising Incidence of Serious Diseases

As we have been reporting repeatedly for three years now, the mRNA Covid vaccine carries risks of a long term increase in the incidence of heart disease and cancer. You can read a summary of the very concerning cancer statistics in the Australian Spectator provocatively entitled “Catherine and Cancer”. The article concludes with the depressing thought that there appears to be no end in sight to the epidemic of cancers which began to rise rapidly starting in 2021 way above and beyond the prior trend.

In fact, a significant number of eminent biochemists, geneticists, and medical experts warned back in 2021 that we would be facing unprecedented rises in heart disease and cancers following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. These included, for example, leading US cardiologist Dr Peter McCullough and Belgian Vaccinologist Geert Vanden Bossche, who, along with many others, published scholarly critiques of mRNA vaccine safety, both of whom and their colleagues were promptly cancelled and wrongly ridiculed as conspiracy theorists by orthodox main stream institutions (see here and here).

As their dire predictions are now showing up in public health data, if science is followed they should be vindicated and publicly lauded.

Personal Tragedies and the Closure of Inquiry: Navigating the Aftermath of COVID Vaccine Policies

Let’s not forget that behind the worrying statistics and suspected future trends are a very large number of personal tragedies that we are glimpsing daily as the tip of this iceberg through newspaper reports of the distressing cases.

Our coroner’s failure to reference the need for close investigation of public health data, underlines the doors that have been firmly closed and shut in the face of the Covid vaccine injured by those responsible for creating and mandating the universal use of mRNA technology. So-called experts who omitted to assess or warn the public about the risks, which were well known pre-pandemic and published in scientific journals.

The Guardian newspaper headlines a report today that the last few years have been amazing for rich people. There have been 141 new billionaires in 2023 alone. It is worth reflecting that a few people have become very rich, influential and powerful during the Covid era, whilst a much greater number, almost everyone in fact, have become poorer as a result of the decisions of those profiting from Covid policies.

Robin Kay, the newly appointed coroner who ruled on the case in hand, is both a legal expert on insurance claims and a registered nurse, so he should have been able to articulate the arguments we have presented above. However, at this point in time, we need to reference the remedies rather than exclusively decry the errors, omissions, and negligence. Without these remedies, our future might be, as Geert Vanden Bossche warned four years ago, very bleak indeed.

The Public Are Labouring Under a Great Many Popular Misconceptions Concerning Health, Genetics and the Causes of Disease

The coroner’s ruling did nothing to clarify or dispel these. The presence of trace viral particles found in the young boy’s heart was not an oddity, such viral particles are in fact the norm, affecting almost everyone. A 2023 article in the BMJ entitled “Where do viruses hide in the human body?” confirms this. The crucial factor in keeping them under control is the capacity and efficiency of our immune system. If immune processes fail, life will be at risk.

Viral particles contain sequences of genetic instructions capable of interfering with the body’s essential processes. Our immune system is constantly involved in clearing these up in order to protect our health and genetic integrity. This is not in any way an occasional activity. It is on a grand scale. In every single cell there may be as many as 70,000 repair jobs undertaken every 24 hours, and we have 37 trillion cells, a total number that is almost beyond comprehension. This all happens more or less automatically, and one wonders how this is managed or controlled on such a vast scale.

Not just heart and organ health are affected by latent viral particles, but also cancers. There is a public misunderstanding that only a few unlucky people have a susceptibility to cancers latent in their physiology and genetics. This prevalent idea enables more obvious causes for the recent rapid increase and speed of cancers, such as the introduction of mRNA vaccines, to be dismissed without scrutiny. The truth is that almost everyone can be susceptible to cancer if the efficiency of immune repair is impaired, as is known to be the case for some individuals following mRNA vaccination.

Balance is at the Basis of Immune Functioning and Automated Efficiency

Does immune repair involve mechanically automatic sequences of events like a thermostat switching a heating system on and off according to the ambient temperature, or are immune processes crucially different in some way? The answer to this is very revealing. In essence, immune processes involve the balance of three elements: elimination of known foreign impurities, maintenance of existing processes, and creative appropriate responses to novel situations. Cancers grow when the balance between these three processes is lost to the extent that novel genetic structures are allowed to develop at least initially unrecognised and unchecked.

Balance is a very abstract notion, therefore its fundamental significance to modern medicine has been largely overlooked. Let us revert to the history of science to understand what is at stake. From the beginning of the twentieth century, a controversy overtook physical science. Einstein’s gravitational science was deterministic—one thing followed another according to a set of strict rules. However with the advent of quantum mechanics, it was found that certain situations resulted in chance outcomes. The great endeavour of physics then became the reconciliation of Einstein’s deterministic laws with the quantum mechanical laws involving chance. The focus of this process has become the understanding of super symmetry or balance.

Balance is a universal abstract characteristic of the universe which has apparently found its expression in living systems. It is at once rigidly lawful and infinitely flexible. It is independent of anything external to itself. Our immune response is deeply connected to this fundamental property of natural law, as is our self-referral consciousness. It is perhaps for this reason that Ayurveda, the ancient health system of India, recognises loss of connection with the universal balance, unity or symmetry of nature as the fundamental cause of disease. The seat of balance in us is both physiological and psychological, involving body and mind. Each relies on the other, but it is our inner consciousness which fully reflects the balance of natural law.

Our immune processes are the result of the abstract coordinated collective intelligence shared by trillions of cells. The physiological unit of consciousness or awareness is the whole cell, therefore anything that interferes with the functioning of the cell puts our connection with innate balanced functioning at risk. If the functions of too many cells are edited, as happens deliberately to billions of cells through mRNA vaccination, then the fundamental collective and specific immune processes are put at risk.

This understanding needs to inform our assessment of the risks of mRNA technology and our medical responses. As we have previously noted, there are herbal technologies and techniques of meditation which research shows sustain balance and immune efficiency. These could play a vital role in alleviating the immune crisis that is engulfing medical practice. To find out more about the role of balance in the physiology, read our article “Action to Face the Medical Crisis Can No Longer Be Postponed.

From a broader perspective, balance is a defining characteristic not just of individual physiology, behaviour and intelligence but also of biological eco systems and collective behaviours. We have discussed this in our article “The Long Read: Could Individual and Collective Intelligence Have Been Negatively Affected by the Covid Pandemic?”. The preservation and maintenance of balance is the cornerstone of our biological and physical world.

The sad case of a 13 year old boy whose life was tragically cut short should not be the subject of mere hand wringing and protestations that we don’t know what happened, but rather a determination to investigate more and understand more. The coronial ruling today was an opportunity thrown away and another example of the medical establishment refusing to face up to the realities of current public health data.

Action to Face the Medical Crisis Can No Longer Be Postponed

Government inquiries seldom change reality. Public submissions to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons Learned are now closed and the Commissioners blandly note on their website:

“The submissions we have received will be considered alongside other interviews conducted and evidence received to form the Inquiry’s final report.”

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You can still sign ‘The People’s Terms’ and register your concerns. These will be submitted to the Commission on behalf of the 31,432 people (0.8% of our adult population) who have signed so far. There is very little time left to sign and add your voice. More support and action is still needed that will have to go well beyond any possible outcome of the inquiry. Inquiries in other countries have petered out into irrelevance and controlled double speak.

What Can We Do Now?

During the pandemic, the Hatchard Report and countless others have written of the dangers and referenced the scientific evidence until there seems to be little more that could be said. Much of what was predicted from the early days has come out to be verified by research.

Yes, Covid vaccine components can integrate into our DNA.

Yes, Covid vaccination rates are correlated with excess mortality.

Yes, there is an ‘unexplained’ (???) epidemic of heart disease and cancer.

Yes, record numbers of people are becoming sick and leaving the workforce

Despite this growing evidence of harm; medical, pharmaceutical and biotech policies, procedures, finances and power structures have become entrenched in local, national and global governance. We are in the thick of it.

The Covid vaccines are the latest in a long line of so-called modern pharmaceutical miracles that seem to cause the very things they are designed to prevent. Blood thinners for example that are aimed at preventing cardiovascular disease have shortness of breath, chest pain, heart arrhythmia and bleeding listed among their many side effects. Pain killers, whose long term use increases pain and slows healing. Antidepressants that increase the incidence of suicidal thoughts. And so on. Modern medicine is in crisis, but few are prepared to acknowledge it openly; and it is getting worse.

As we have outlined at GLOBE, Covid vaccines go one step further. A step too far.

A vast army of mRNA and DNA fragments penetrate the protective membranes of billions of cells and take control of our immune system. Which equates to increased vulnerability to a wide range of illnesses and a loss of flexibility in our immune responses referred to as immune imprinting. The failure to acknowledge, discuss or tackle the crisis smacks of extreme cowardice, avarice, and cruelty. The sheer scale of harmful effects and casualties runs against all morality whether contained in the canons of medical ethics, the commandments of religions or the constitutions of nations.

It is four and a half years since the man-made Covid virus first escaped from a lab. There have been very few ‘Lessons Learned’ since then and a cynic might say that the Royal Commission is unlikely to say or do anything new. After years of coming up against an official brick wall is anything likely to change in a hurry? Far more likely, with trillions of biotech investment dollars at stake, we will be pushed and coerced to accept more of the same, almost certainly without being informed of risks.

You must have heard of the expression having a bob (or a dollar) each way, meaning that we should always be prepared, whatever happens. So in addition to lobbying decision-makers, what can or should we do?

Knowledge Has Organising Power

The situation we face requires that we gain a broader understanding of natural laws pertaining to our biology. We need to understand ourselves better, and act accordingly. Ayurveda, the ancient health science of India, traditional Chinese medicine, and indeed modern iterations of integrative medicine understand health in terms of balance.

There is a natural three in one structure to life. Ayurveda expresses this in terms of the balance between the transport (vata), transformation (pitta), and structural systems (kapha) in the body. It uses herbal preparations and other approaches to maintain this balance. In my book Your DNA Diet I explain how a healthy diet must include a variety of natural foods which are based on DNA. Our body uses the genetic intelligence in these foods to maintain balanced health.

Further dramatic evidence of this intimate relationship between food and genetics was published just yesterday in the leading journal Nature entitled “The level of protein in the maternal murine diet modulates the facial appearance of the offspring via mTORC1 signaling”. The study found that the biochemistry of the diet of mice during pregnancy affects the appearance of mice including the size of their cranium and facial features. The study found this effect was also applicable to maternal human diets during pregnancy. In other words, not just the genetics of parents but also the genetic dynamics of our food affects the characteristics of offspring.

Balance, or Homeostasis as It is Known in Medicine, is a Dynamic Process in the Body.

Homeostatic feedback systems manage more or less automatically the balance at the level of our cells, organs, organ systems, and for the body as a whole. This is not a one size fits all system, local and global adjustments to biochemical balance in trillions of cells are distinct and specific to the need to maintain balance in each cell and simultaneously the body as a whole. These varied responses are governed by the abstract organising intelligence in the body which is ultimately connected with our consciousness or awareness and supported by our diet.

Thus Ayurveda describes our homeostatic physiological mechanisms not only in terms of the balance between our transport, transformation, and structural systems, but also in terms of the togetherness of knower, knowing and known. We have written extensively about this before in Your DNA Diet and elsewhere and also referenced the practical health benefits of a lighter purer diet and the daily practice of meditation.

In contrast, modern medicines go deep into the physiology and dictate physiological responses by indiscriminately flooding cells and systems with inflexible biochemical and now genetic instructions, unheeding of local situations and needs. None of this does more universal damage than mRNA vaccines which directly affect the immune functioning of the whole body. This all translates into an upset of balance in both local and global physiological systems. The exact opposite of time-honoured traditional approaches to balancing health.

Education Needs to Encompass Well Being

From this perspective, modern medical interventions are contributing to the growth of hospitalisation, medical misadventure and the record levels of disease, including cancers, heart disease, and infectious diseases. Yet there is a brick wall shutting out questions, criticism and complementary approaches. The crisis has become so intense and intractable that observant independent commentators of the modern world are starting to talk about a looming mega-disaster whether it will be geopolitical, financial, or pharmaceutical, including Senator Ron Paul and many others.

Ron Paul’s solution is the education of people and I agree with him. The content and style of education today is largely regulated by the state with the support of the legacy media. If we are to forge a new and safer direction of civilization we will need to revitalise education and extend its content to include well being in all its facets. Education needs to value life. Efforts to improve education need not be ‘calls in the wilderness’, they can involve collective efforts and individual initiatives. These cannot be postponed.

Medical Practice Needs Meaningful Patient Conversations If It is to Improve Outcomes

Recently, a close friend who was taking statins developed muscle pain, digestive weakness, and peripheral neuropathy (loss of sensation in hands and/or feet). They stopped taking the statins and talked to their doctor, who suggested tests to assess their cardiac health. Most of the symptoms dissipated gradually after stopping the drug, and they got a clean bill of cardiac health. So are statins the most effective therapy to prevent heart disease?

A meta-analysis of 21 randomised clinical trials in primary and secondary prevention published by the JAMA Network entitled Evaluating the Association Between Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Reduction and Relative and Absolute Effects of Statin Treatment A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis concluded that:

“the absolute benefits of statins are modest, may not be strongly mediated through the degree of LDL-C reduction, and should be communicated to patients as part of informed clinical decision-making as well as to inform clinical guidelines and policy”.

Unverified Link Between Cholesterol and Disease Reduction

In layman’s terms, the study found reductions in the absolute risk of just 0.8% for all-cause mortality, 1.3% for myocardial infarction, and 0.4% for stroke in those randomised to treatment with statins compared with controls. More worrying, their meta-regression was inconclusive regarding the association between the magnitude of statin-induced LDL-C reduction and all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, or stroke. In other words, an association between cholesterol reduction and disease reduction could not be verified.

More than 200 million people around the world take statins daily, and their use is climbing rapidly from 31 million in the USA (12% 0f the population) during 2008/9 to 92 million (35% of the population) in 2018/19. Currently, half a million (10% of the population) are taking statins in New Zealand. Studies show the side effects of long term statin use include muscle pain and damage (experienced by 5% of people), liver damage (2% to 6% of people), and peripheral neuropathy (as high as 7% of people). The FDA warns on statin labels that some people have developed memory loss or confusion while taking statins.

Vegetarian and Vegan Diets Linked to Significant Cardiovascular Health Benefits

In contrast, a meta-analysis of nine studies entitled Association of Vegetarian and Vegan Diets with Cardiovascular Health: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies and Randomized Trials found very large effect sizes including a 29% risk reduction for cardiovascular disease (CVD). It reported a 14% reduction in CVD mortality and a 32% reduction in Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality. One of the studies evaluated showed a significant 39% risk reduction for stroke incidence.

These results imply that following a vegetarian or vegan diet is at least ten times more effective than statins in preventing heart disease or stroke. It is also of note that such diets are free of the negative health side effects of statins. The authors conclude that:

“Policymakers and healthcare professionals should prioritise promoting healthy diets for CVD prevention.”

In addition to the beneficial effects of vegetarian and vegan diets on heart disease, multiple studies show they have a beneficial effect of reduced cancer incidence, the number two cause of death after heart disease. Something that statins do not affect. Thus the reductions in risk factors start to add up, meaning that a vegetarian diet will significantly reduce your all-cause mortality risk. In other words, you live a longer, more healthy life with less chronic illness and pain.

Doctors Rarely Recommend Vegetarian Diets Over Statins Despite Health Benefits

But when was the last time your doctor initiated conversation with you about switching to a vegetarian diet or eating more fruit and vegetables? Probably never, despite the fact that this would be many times more effective at keeping you alive and healthy than their routine statin prescription. Doctors have little training in nutrition and diet. Moreover, current professional ethical (???) standards require that doctors prescribe certain pharmaceutical drugs for certain conditions even if a more healthy, proven, natural approach is available.

Rather than develop the resources and knowledge base in the direction of safe and effective alternatives to drugs, Health New Zealand prioritises and uses its resources to encourage and monitor drug compliance. For example, Health New Zealand tracks whether we renew our prescriptions on time at the chemist. You have probably been on the receiving end of a health professional’s stern lecture on the need to take drugs, sometimes even extending to warnings that your life might end prematurely if you don’t do as you are told. The measured outcomes for statins are too small to justify this approach.

Are There Other Approaches to Preventing Heart Disease That Might Further Improve Outcomes?

A study of 2000 regular participants in Transcendental Meditation enrolled in a health insurance scheme for five years was compared to 600,000 members of the same health insurance carrier. The study found an 87% reduction in inpatient admission for heart disease among the TM group. But that wasn’t all. Hospital admissions per 1000 were lower for the TM group than the norm for all of 17 major medical treatment categories, including 55.4% less for benign and malignant tumours, -30.4% for all infectious diseases, -30.6% for all mental disorders, and -87.3% for diseases of the nervous system. An across the board health outcome improvement.

TM is a simple, easy twice daily practice of twenty minutes that does not require belief, but your doctor has probably not advised you to learn meditation for your health. An article in the journal Hypertension entitled Evidence for Upgrading the Ratings for Transcendental Meditation: Response to AHA Scientific Statement on Alternative Methods and BP encourages doctors to examine the evidence and upgrade their advice to patients with hypertension.

In the 1980s, I had a series of meetings with Dr. Hiddlestone, who was then the Director General of Health and informed him about research on the health benefits of Transcendental Meditation. He was impressed with the published research but met a brick wall when he sought to convince his colleagues. When it comes to health care, the pharmaceutical paradigm dominates against the evidence.

Statins may slightly improve endpoint outcomes for just 1.3% (13 in 1000) suffering from heart disease, a figure that pales in comparison to 14% (140 in 1000) for vegetarian diets and around 87% (870 out of 1000) for meditation. However, these statistics have not penetrated the walls of doctor surgeries. With over half a million Kiwis on statins, the rate of heart disease is rocketing up. Almost doubling over five years. Are statins working? You tell me.

The extreme reliance on pharmaceutical approaches took a giant leap forward (or is it backward) during the pandemic into the intimate world of biotech medicine. A world in which those alert enough to do their own background research into drug safety are reviled and cancelled. Patients are routinely cajoled and harassed for asking questions, let alone non compliance. Adverse medical events are routinely ignored and remain unrecorded. Losing your job and personal freedom at the behest of medical tsars has become the cost of common sense. We have entered an era of medical doublespeak and fanatical faith. God help us.

The World of Drug Regulation Meets the Biotech Wunderkind

A large number of recent articles and studies raise crucial questions about the standards being applied to drug assessment and regulation.

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Are the regulators facilitating drug approval by failing to require adequate long term testing and assessment of adverse effects? In other words, are the general public now firmly established as legitimate subjects for experimentation? We look at three examples among the many causing growing public concern:

Weight Loss Drugs

Weight loss is one the highest earning drug sectors. An article in the Daily Mail entitled “How the new weight-loss drugs may work BETTER than Ozempic and other jabs. So will they really be free of the grim side-effects which mean so many give up within a year or two?” illustrates how the merry go round of drug approval works—short term testing, miracle promises, lax drug approval, adoption by the medical profession, widespread use among the public, adverse effects come to light, then new drugs are offered as replacements with promises that this time….

A very profitable business for all concerned except Joe Public who invariably has to bear the burden of pain, disappointment, and disability.

Weight loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic have been wildly popular market winners with celebrity endorsement and reportedly amazing results, which a few years ago, before their introduction, seemed an impossible dream. All of the weight loss drugs, including a soon-to-be-released new generation of drugs, work by mimicking GLP-1, a hormone made naturally in the body that helps slow the passage of food through the stomach — which makes people feel less hungry and rapidly lose weight.

It’s not difficult to understand why drug companies are pouring into this field. Analysts at Barclays forecast that sales of weight-loss drugs will top £19billion globally this year, with the market growing to £110billion by 2030.

Nor is it difficult to realise why manufacturers are ‘promising’ new versions of the weight loss drugs with ‘fewer side effects’.

The long term side effects of the weekly injections have started to bite. Mounting evidence suggests that in the real world, the drugs’ side-effects such as vomiting, diarrhoea, nausea, constipation and tiredness are proving so common and overwhelming that it makes the current versions impractical for most patients to stay on for very long.

Less common complications of GLP-1 medications are gallstones, increased heart rate, kidney damage, and pancreatitis — a condition where the pancreas rapidly becomes painfully inflamed.

Another serious concern is gastroparesis, a severe disorder where the stomach muscles become effectively paralysed and the stomach does not empty. Sufferers vomit days-old food. For some patients, the only remedy for gastroparesis may be a gastric bypass. Around 10,000 patients in the U.S. are now suing Ozempic’s maker, Novo Nordisk, and Mounjaro’s manufacturer, Eli Lilly, for medical-injury damages.

A study in the journal BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care in 2022, entitled “Real-world weight change, adherence, and discontinuation among patients with type 2 diabetes initiating glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the UK” looked at health records of 589 Britons who had been prescribed GLP-1 medications for type 2 diabetes. It reported the patient drop-out rates were a staggering 45 per cent after one year and 65 per cent at two years.

The researchers warned that their study results ‘suggest the real-world benefit of these agents on weight loss may be lower than that observed in clinical trials’.

Prime Therapeutics, in an analysis of data from over 4,000 US patients prescribed GLP-1 drugs, found that more than two-thirds of patients stopped taking them within a year.

Other studies show once a patient drops out of the regimen, most of their weight returns, along with related risks for heart disease and type 2 diabetes, such as obesity, chronic body-wide inflammation and problems with insulin control. Meanwhile, longer-term side-effects are also emerging. One concern is muscle loss: trials of GLP-1 drugs show roughly 40 percent of the weight loss is muscle mass rather than fat.

The Daily Mail article goes on to describe efforts to develop alternative weight loss drugs, all of which appear to already have known side effects as serious as GLP-1 inhibitors. Yet this doesn’t seem to stop drug companies from promising that side effect-free weight loss drugs are just around the corner.

Ahmed Ahmed, a consultant bariatric surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, strikes a note of warning:

Unrealistic expectations of a weight-loss cure have been driven by social media, not science or medicine, and by marketing rather than public health….

“These drugs are still quite new and we only have three or four years’ worth of evidence. I worry that after ten years of taking the drugs people may develop very serious physical side-effects. We just don’t know yet. As for other types of new drugs that speed the metabolism, we just don’t know whether they will work and there is certainly a risk of serious side-effects such as heart damage here.’’

If you want to dive deeper into the murky world of weight loss drugs, watch “The effects of Ozempic and other weight loss injections | 60 Minutes Australia“. The video features reports of deaths following Ozempic use. It asks questions of drug regulators, doctors, and researchers which reveal an elaborate system of evasion, passing the buck, blaming others, and dismissing deaths as the price of health.

NSAIDs

You may not be taking weight loss drugs, but most of the public are now fully conditioned by their doctor to take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen to relieve acute inflammation. New research suggests this might not be a good idea. An article entitled Anti-Inflammatory Drug Might Lead to Chronic Pain, While Inflammation Could Heal: Experts in Epoch Health explains more. It asks: does short-term relief—and interfering with the body’s natural healing process—come at the cost of chronic pain?

An article in Science Translational Medicine entitled Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil activation protects against the development of chronic pain reported mouse studies where early treatment with a steroid or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) also led to prolonged pain despite being analgesic in the short term. Analysis of pain trajectories of human subjects reporting acute back pain in the UK Biobank identified elevated risk of pain persistence for subjects taking NSAIDs.

In other words, the natural inflammatory response of the body to injury is part of the long term healing process. Interrupt that, and the risk of long term chronic pain is elevated. This is in addition to the previously noted risks of NSAIDS which include cardiovascular events and gastrointestinal bleeding.

NSAIDs are one of the most commonly used drug classes in the world. It is estimated that more than 30 million people use them on a daily basis, and they account for 60% of the analgesic market in the United States. The new findings suggest that NSAIDs may actually prolong the painful injuries they are supposed to benefit and turn them into chronic conditions.

Puberty Blockers

On March 12th the NHS banned puberty blocker prescriptions for children under 18 in a ‘landmark decision’. MPs called for the ban to be extended to private medical practice. Dr Hilary Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health warned that the drugs may permanently disrupt the brain maturation of adolescents, potentially rewiring neural circuits in a way that cannot be reversed, and said there was a lack of long-term evidence and data collection on their safety and effectiveness. The article said:

“The significance of NHS England’s statement that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of puberty blockers cannot be overstated.”

The American College of Pediatricians warns that puberty blockers may cause mental illness. They can cause depression and other emotional disturbances related to suicide. In fact, the package insert for Lupron, the number one prescribed puberty blocker in America, lists “emotional instability” as a side effect and warns prescribers to “Monitor for development or worsening of psychiatric symptoms during treatment.”

The list goes on. We recently reported that MHRA, the drug regulator in the UK, is investigating high rates of adverse effects from blood thinners, another class of products among the world’s most heavily prescribed drugs. As powerful new drugs are brought to market via biotech research projects which investigate and manipulate fundamental biomolecular pathways, doctors are grappling with significantly increased rates of serious adverse effects. This has been the background to a gradual distortion of medical ethics which now accepts medical misadventure and even death as the inevitable price of ‘progress’.

mRNA vaccine technology

mRNA vaccines have been associated with the highest rates of adverse effects ever recorded in the history of vaccines. But we don’t see regulators wringing their hands in concern or offering weak apologies as with the above drugs. Instead, there is still a barrage of endorsement and encouragement along with a wall of silence and denial when it comes to adverse effects. Why is that?

The answer lies in the PR dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry and the modern medical profession. mRNA interventions are the poster child of future health. The biotechnology industry is promising nothing less than freedom from disease as more and more products which manipulate the transcriptional interface of DNA with RNA inside the cell are researched and brought to market.

No disease is too insignificant to be missed, they have a long list, but the unprecedented range and rate of mRNA Covid vaccine adverse effects is a fly in the ointment of this biotechnology dream. The insiders’ story is clear: we may have got this wrong but we will eventually get it right. The story for public consumption is a brazen lie: Nothing to see here, it is all wonderful. The insiders’ story ignores the reality of risk: Genetic processes inside the cell control the whole physiology in a complex dance of multitasking—wide ranging mutagenic events from genetic interventions are inevitable. The public story tacitly admits that it’s OK to experiment on Joe Public without letting on what is happening.

At root is a complete misunderstanding of human life, which should be obvious but is carefully hidden by a scientific paradigm that seeks to hide the essence of humanity. The whole physiology works to support our everyday experience, of knower knowing and known. The tripartite 3 in 1 structure of our awareness—the togetherness of observer, process of observation and observed. As biotechnology delves too deep and disrupts fundamental cellular processes, it is putting this structure of human life at risk.

If the risks of biotech medicine were publicly admitted, a trillion dollar industry would come crashing down and the myth of a genetically manipulated perfect future would be dispelled. There is too much money, prestige, power and hope at stake to let that happen. Voices raised with questions are cancelled and denied a platform. The public remains misinformed.

However, the writing is on the wall. The New York Times has just published an article entitled “Four Years On, the Mysteries of Covid Are Unraveling.” There is no mention of the increasing evidence of a lab origin for COVID-19 and, crucially, no mention of COVID-19 vaccines. The NYT was previously leading the charge for Covid vaccines, the silence is now becoming noticeable.

Here in New Zealand concerns are not yet being released to the public or covered in the media. Without full information, the New Zealand public will remain misinformed.

ACT NOW

You can register your displeasure at www.covidinquiry.co.nz, which offers you the opportunity to agree with The People’s Terms (Full text available at the above link) and also make a submission to the review process of the current terms of the Royal Commission. The aim is to get 100,000 signatures to demonstrate the growing level of public concern, the need for transparency, and a wide ranging revised scope for the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19.

The government inquiry is closing within a week. Please act now.

Royal Commission of Inquiry Links Itself to Covid Vaccine Promotion

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The team currently organising the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19 have misleadingly and mistakenly linked their publicity to a wholehearted endorsement of Covid vaccines.

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Digital Advocacy or Information Control? Navigating the Nuanced Realm of a Pro-Vaccine Campaign

A 30 second YouTube video with 331,000 views entitled “Look back to move forward – Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons Learned” is paired with New Zealand Government material promoting Covid vaccination.

The video, set to music, depicts joyous family scenes of people working from home and celebrating in their gardens and living rooms. It encourages people to share their stories as a means of moving forward and bonding.

If you click the link below the video offering more information, you are taken to this Health New Zealand website which encourages Covid vaccination from 6 months old and up. It also promotes new Pfizer booster shots, masking, and antiviral medication. It describes side effects from the COVID-19 vaccines as rare, despite the fact that reports of adverse effects subsequent to COVID-19 vaccination dwarf any previously reported vaccination side effects by a huge factor.

If you are viewing the video on a smart TV, a runner advises you to click on the title of the video for more information. When you do so, it gives you a series of options, the first of which takes you to a QR code which links to the same Health New Zealand pro-COVID-19 vaccine information.

The comments section below the video is turned off. Clearly the Royal Commission organisers don’t want us to be able to make public comments accessible to others or hold online conversations around the topic. They want to control the flow of information. The video turns up frequently as an advertisement on YouTube which interrupts your viewing. In essence, it manipulates the viewer towards a feel good framework and creates a bland narrative that obfuscates the issues.

Overlooking Rights for Regulation: A Critical Analysis of Public Discourse and Policy Decisions Amidst the Pandemic

Crucially, it doesn’t initiate a public discussion of key concerns. For example, the New Zealand Bill of Rights guarantees the right to refuse medical treatment and experimentation. It also guarantees freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and, particularly, expression. All of these rights were curtailed during the pandemic as the government set them aside and instead instituted vaccine mandates and lockdowns which were enforced by police action, threats of criminal prosecution and actual loss of employment. Moreover, the government censored discussion on social media platforms.

None of these crucial issues which require widespread social discussion and consideration are being directly raised by the Inquiry publicity.

There is no suggestion in the video that the Royal Commission is intended to respond to concerns or that its terms of reference need revising, rather it leaves you with the impression that the Inquiry process is all about picking the approach that the government will adopt during the next pandemic (referred to as “whatever comes next”). The implication of the Health New Zealand link is that this will be a simple process of choosing from among the past and current official COVID policies.

Echoes of Prejudgment: Questioning the Integrity and Objectives of the COVID-19 Inquiry Process

Clearly, there is a suspicion that those organising the Inquiry have already made up their minds what comes next and are just going through the motions without offering a clear idea of the huge issues at stake affecting not just health and the right to life but also social cohesion, employment rights, freedom of expression, the economy, and full disclosure of vital information.

The bias evident in this video underlines the need to completely revise the scope and personnel of the current Inquiry which was set up with very limited terms of reference by the previous government. The web address which leads to the actual process of making a submission on the terms of reference of the Inquiry at Covid19Inquiry.nz occupies a corner of the screen for just five seconds at the end of the video and is not actually directly linked. In other words, you have to copy it down and enter it into your device as a separate process, whereas a direct link to the Health New Zealand pro-COVID-19 vaccine information is available throughout the 30 seconds of the video as a website link and as a QR code.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry should be a process of restoring public trust, this cannot happen until a public dialogue is instituted. As we have repeatedly reported, the Covid years have been marked by a health crisis involving record rates of hospitalisation and death which are still continuing whose causes are little understood and hardly investigated. If the public are not trusted, but rather manipulated we are in for more of the same, perhaps worse.

Government and Media Ignore Health Issues

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The government, the media, and the health service have buried their heads in the sand and promised our health problems will go away.

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Friday 08 March 2024: the government announced new health targets promising greatly shortened wait times and faster treatments, but incredibly failed to address why so many people are falling sick. Health Minister Shane Reti admitted the deficiencies in the announced policies, which are neither new nor realistic, saying:

“I do want to acknowledge that achieving shorter wait times for first specialist assessments and for elective treatments were tough for the previous government, and will be tough for us too.”

You don’t have to look very far to realise why. An article in the UK Daily Mail entitled “Why ARE so many young people having heart attacks? They had seemingly healthy lifestyles… but all these people suffered heart problems“, spills the beans. Apparently, close to 20% of people being admitted to hospital with heart attacks are now under 40.

According to Dr Joe Mills, a consultant cardiologist at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital:

“We have really noticed the trend for younger people from mid-20s upwards having heart attacks in the past five years in particular. Now as a cardiologist, you wouldn’t even raise your eyebrows when seeing someone in their late 30s — it’s becoming fairly typical, which is frightening.”

The article then proceeds to trot out the usual suspects: obesity, stress, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, alcohol, and diabetes but fails to observe that none of these factors have changed appreciably or abruptly during the last five years. Something else has, and we all know what that it is, but the Daily Mail and the numerous doctors they interviewed all seem to be suffering from amnesia.

MPs Address Hidden Stats on UK Health Crisis: Hospital Admissions & Excess Deaths

This short-term memory loss is greatly aided by a determined effort to hide the worrying statistics of elevated excess death and alarming rates of hospital admissions covering a wide variety of conditions. Some UK MPs are no longer prepared to go on burying their heads in the sand like frightened ostriches.

An article in the UK Daily Telegraph entitled Health Secretary urged to release data that ‘may link Covid vaccine to excess deaths’ reports that MPs and peers have accused the Health Secretary of withholding health data. They are criticising this ‘wall of silence’ and questioning the government’s excuse of waiting lists and pandemic delays. The MPs say, “There is no place for blind faith.” Show us the data that supports your case.

The MPs believe potentially critical data – which maps the date of people’s COVID-19 vaccine doses to the date of their deaths – have been released to pharmaceutical companies but not put into the public domain. The leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, said there was a “serious problem” with thousands more people dying than expected and suggested the side effects of coronavirus jabs could be responsible.

NZ Health Crisis Deepens: Data Censorship, GP Shortages, and Unaddressed Sickness Surge

Here in New Zealand, the government has deftly sidestepped the problem by making discussion of the data linking death and Covid vaccination status a criminal offence. Hence Health Minister Dr Shane Reti was able today to blithely announce ambitious and unrealistic health targets without any possibility of anyone questioning what exactly is going on—how many are falling sick with what and why.

Dr Reti made a brief foray into causation saying Fundamentally, general practice is broken, and it’s been broken for a number of years. An article in Stuff entitled Cancer patient says she couldn’t see GP for six weeks amid workforce ‘crisis’ lays out the extent of the problem. Yes, there is a need for more funding, but critically the article makes reference to comments from health professionals identifying “the growing complexity of patients’ needs”. A nod to the alarming health statistics that we have been reporting week after week.

Reti also made a reference to ‘bed blocking’, the belief that people are piling up in emergency departments because elderly patients are taking up hospital beds for long periods since there are no adequate care options at home. None of this amounted to a credible policy, because it fails to address the huge increase in rates of sickness among young and working age people, which has overwhelmed our health service. Particularly telling are the cases of turbo cancer and unexplained sudden death which have begun to dominate our newspaper pages.

Urgent Action Needed: Government to Speed Up Health Data Release Amid Growing Crisis

The government has announced a programme of public consultation to expand the terms of reference of the Covid Inquiry. The Inquiry will take years to report, meanwhile people of all ages are falling sick and finding it hard to get treatment. Rather than waiting for a ponderous inquiry, the government needs to act now to release critical health data for public view and discussion. Only in this way can it mobilise and fast track the required analysis and action.

Last week we reported on The Need for a Comprehensive Health Service Audit. The first 100 days of the new government have flowed past without dynamic steps to identify the causes of the health crisis. This cannot be safely postponed. Lives are at stake. This is not a time for excessive secrecy and a pretence of competence. The facts are being ignored or hidden.

How Did the Medicines Regulatory System Fail Us So Badly?

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An influential cross-party group of UK MPs has raised concerns that the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) knew of serious cardiac side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, including myo/pericarditis and clotting, but failed to alert the public for several months between February and June 2021. During this time, over 24 million people received the COVID-19 vaccine in the UK alone, unaware of the risks.

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The UK situation finds an exact parallel in New Zealand. An OIA request H202117570 published on January 12th 2022 confirms that Medsafe, our medicines regulatory authority, was made aware of an extensive range of side effects of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine prior to its provisional approval. This included the information contained in the damning Cumulative analysis of post-authorization adverse event reports of Pfizer bnt162b2 dated 28 February 2021. Yet Medsafe failed to advise the public of any risks for some months, instead telling the public COVID-19 vaccines were beyond doubt ‘safe and effective’.

As late as December 2021, Director General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, whilst then belatedly admitting the risk of myo/pericarditis, was, as we reported in May last year, minimising its possible prevalence in his public statements and communications with District Health Boards.

MPs Demand Investigation into MHRA’s Approach to Vaccine Safety

A revealing article in the UK Daily Telegraph entitled “Medicines regulator failed to flag Covid vaccine side effects and must be investigated, say MPs” reports that the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) of 24 MPs on pandemic response and recovery has written to the Health Select Committee stating that “far from protecting patients” the regulator MHRA operates in a way that “puts them at serious risk.”

The group also warned that the MHRA Yellow Card reporting system – which encourages patients and doctors to flag-up medicine side effects – “grossly” underestimates complexities, and in some instances picks up just one in 180 cases of harm. In reply, Steve Brine, the health committee chairman, has said an inquiry into patient safety is “very likely”.

How is it possible that medicines regulators are failing in their duty and endangering public health?

APPG has submitted concerns that MHRA regulation of medicine is funded by the pharmaceutical industry and said the body had shifted from focusing on scrutiny to trying to help drugs get approved. Dame June Raine, the chief executive of the MHRA, who announced she would be stepping down last week, has previously said the agency was transitioning from “watchdog to the enabler,” a phrase which the APPG said warranted its own investigation.

Undermining Public Trust: The Conflict of Interest and Evasion in Drug Safety Regulation

The APPG said that concerns raised directly with the MHRA had been met with “an habitually dismissive and evasive response”.A phrase that aptly fits the tone and substance of Medsafe safety reports, which doggedly maintain to this day against all evidence that record number of reports of vaccine harm and death lodged with CARM (Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring) are unrelated to Covid vaccination. An indefensible position.

Medicine regulators, including Medsafe, are funded by the pharmaceutical industry they are supposed to regulate, which fosters a cosy if not corrupt relationship. Much is said about revolving doors between regulators and industry. Whilst this is true of countries with significant pharmaceutical manufacturing, the problem is more extensive than that. Global supply chains ensure that most countries end up mistakenly relying on lax or biased regulators based far away in other jurisdictions for a heads up on safety.

Often, the information is not originating from regulators at all. ICMRA (the international coalition of medicines regulatory authorities), of which Medsafe and MHRA are members, is largely funded by the global pharmaceutical industry. It operates a database providing information on drug safety and risks to its members. The database ensures that drug approval is semi-automated from the international level, which undermines the independent vigilance of national bodies. It provides an illusion of safety without the substance to guarantee freedom from risk to public health.

Rethinking Drug Safety: The Urgent Need for Transparency and Rigor in the Approval Process

The failure to publicly acknowledge the risks of COVID-19 vaccines shows what an unthinking process drug approval has become. The problem extends to a wide range of novel drugs. For example, the MHRA recently said it would investigate why very widely prescribed blood thinners were causing dangerous side effects in between two and five per cent of patients. In other words, as many as 5 out of 100 patients are being seriously affected by drugs MHRA had previously approved—an unprecedented stratospheric rate of risk. This augurs a catastrophic breakdown in drug safety regulation.

The introduction of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines raises even more serious safety concerns. The completely novel class of mRNA and other biotech vaccines which edit the command and control mechanisms of our immune system have been introduced despite early warning signals of serious harm at high rates. There was no long term testing data because of the rapid response to the pandemic but crucially nor was there any adequate on-going plan in place to monitor the missing long term effect data according to the canons of accepted risk assessment and criteria of causality.

Regulators like MHRA and Medsafe simply failed in their safety role and compounded this mistake in an apparent frenzy of ‘safe and effective’ public relations hype. How could they do that? They fell for the biotechnology myth promoted by PR gurus. In essence, the idea that biotechnology is so precise and accurate that any desirable trait can be enhanced scientifically and safely. A gobbledegook and totally at variance with published research.

Where does this leave New Zealand?

In 2023, we had the lowest birth rate ever in New Zealand, 26% below what is required to maintain our population. Our death rate is still running at 8% above the longer term rate. Life expectancy has stalled. These are canary in the coal mine figures.

Official mortality data by vax status released on February 15 under an Official Information Request HNZ00033573 show the excess deaths are almost entirely among the vaccinated, while the death rate of the unvaccinated remains stable.

These figures should raise the alarm about the rapid introduction of biotechnology in healthcare. Yet Health New Zealand, the courts, and the government are still pursuing a campaign to discredit a sincere and principled whistleblower raising the alarm about excess deaths, whilst ignoring their own recently released figures, which, as the chart above indicates, verify and amplify the serious concerns highlighted by the whistleblower. Love is blind. The medical love affair with biotechnology needs to be put under the microscope. It is misguided. Health service administrators, drug regulators, and doctors alike need to face up to past mistakes and their own data illustrating the reality of declining public health.

The Need for a Comprehensive Health Service Audit

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Two papers published this week present starkly contrasting views of the scientific process. Dr. John Gibson economist at the University of Waikato, published “Cumulative excess deaths in New Zealand in the COVID-19 era: biases from ignoring changes in population growth rates” whereas the Global Vaccine Data Network published “COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals” whose contributors included Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris of the University of Auckland.

The second paper made headlines in newspapers all around the world, see for example “Two very rare Covid vaccine side-effects detected in global study of 99 million” in the Guardian. The Guardian article and most others highlighted the use of the word ‘rare’ in the paper when referring to adverse events and translated this into a bold endorsement of Covid vaccine safety saying:

Results confirm how uncommon known complications are as researchers confirm benefits from vaccines still ‘vastly outweigh the risks’.

The use of quotation marks implies that the phrase was lifted directly from the paper. It wasn’t. The paper made the same mistake we have referred to in the last three releases of the Hatchard Report. It was a disease-specific assessment of safety. It looked at a list of just 13 specific diseases and assessed whether their occurrence following vaccination was higher than the established background rate of these conditions in the general population pre-pandemic. It did not investigate any effect on all-cause mortality, the measure mostly likely to assess safety or risk.

In the event, rather than confirming benefits, it found the incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, myocarditis, and pericarditis were related to Covid vaccination as previously admitted, but also found an increased incidence of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or acute brain or spinal inflammation following the first dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine.

It also cautiously noted that “Other potential safety signals that require further investigation were identified.” It did not adequately deal with the known under-reporting of conditions following COVID-19 vaccination, and whilst using the term Cardiovascular Conditions, it only investigated myopericarditis occurrence, not the incidence of heart attacks, nor did it look at cancer rates.

Therefore, the authors prejudged the issue by looking at a very limited pre-selected list of conditions, the same discredited method employed by health authorities around the world, including New Zealand, to minimise the significance of and dismiss the avalanche of reports of post-vaccination injury. In other words, they supposed there were just a few conditions that could be related to vaccination, thereby refusing to acknowledge the unprecedented increases in all-cause mortality brought about by unusual increases in a very wide range of conditions.

Gibson’s paper is tightly focused on correcting the methodology used by Michael Baker and others to claim that New Zealand has had a net fall in all-cause mortality since the start of the pandemic. A claim that has been widely reported by politicians and the media in an attempt to reassure the public.

Gibson shows that the methods used to project New Zealand’s population assumed a rising population, which was not the case due to border closures. When the actual population is taken into account, cumulative all-cause mortality rose by 4% between 2020 and 2022 and then rose by around 8% in 2023. Gibson points out this is not statistically distinguishable from comparable countries such as Denmark.

Gibson notes, “Accurate health and economic data are needed to evaluate policy responses to COVID-19. A potentially comprehensive health indicator is excess deaths.” His paper confirms excess deaths are rising and thereby casts doubt upon current health policy decision-making.

So How Should the Authorities Respond?

Clearly, hospitals and emergency departments are overwhelmed. Health Service New Zealand publicity keeps emphasising the importance of Covid boosters, but what if Covid boosters are a part of the problem or even the main culprit? Whether this is the case or not, the government has no clear idea of what specific health conditions are driving the health crisis. Any attempt to alleviate the situation will require an accurate audit of health care usage by age and condition and a corresponding analysis of all-cause mortality.

Three years ago, the New Zealand government and other governments around the world granted the Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) unfettered access to their health data and statistics. The paper published this month by GVDN shows just how miserably GVDN has let them down. It failed to ask any questions that would detect any long term effects of the Covid vaccines.

It is time for governments to insist that health services provide them with up to date information on the extent of health care usage and all-cause mortality, and that also needs to be related to Covid vaccine status.

YouTube video by Dr John Campbell details the extent of the problem and makes the compelling observation that excess mortality is a problem in highly vaccinated countries including Canada,  USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, South Korea and Taiwan, but nonexistent in nations with low vaccination rates including Bulgaria, Roumania and Hungary.

There is a popular saying in India ‘Truth Alone Triumphs’, this is echoed in various forms in cultures around the world including Shakespeare’s “Truth Will Out”. Truth, by its nature, is what it is; it exists independent of anyone’s opinion or whim. As such, it is eternal. Despite the growing tendency to believe that reality is what I think it is, truth surfaces over time. This statement reflects the Cosmic order, which is so vast and inviolable that no individual or government can swim against its tide for any but a short time.

Instead of relying on political rhetoric, lobbyists, foreign commercial interests, or consultants, the government needs to order a comprehensive audit of our health statistics, and then the truth will out.

The Black Market in Salt and What It Means for All of Us

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I had a shock this weekend, which has turned into a wake-up call. For years I had been sprinkling Black Salt (Kala Namak) on my avocado toast with its unique sulphurous flavour reminiscent of eggs.

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The traditional texts of Ayurveda recommend it as an aid to digestion. Recently, it has become something of a sensation among Western cooks and chefs seeking new, exciting flavours for their dishes. In the shops, it is often labelled ‘Indian Volcanic Salt,’ and I always imagined it was mined in some remote exotic place in the Himalayas.

But it is not volcanic at all, browsing the internet I discovered that it is manufactured by an ancient process using extreme heat to fuse a particular kind of mineral salt with a range of herbs and fruits. The shock came when I discovered that there are only a couple of places left preparing the highly prized salt using traditional methods. Instead, industrial companies are making a look-alike salt that tastes somewhat similar but is, in fact, a blend of chemicals, some of which, such as fluoride, are quite poisonous. Hence, for years I have been unwittingly poisoning myself.

You may comment that perhaps the lack of regulation in the diverse Indian market place is to blame, whereas here in the West we have stricter standards and labelling, but is this the case? Among New Zealand’s most prized export products is butter from mostly grass fed cows roaming on green pastures often within sight of snow capped mountains. So far, so good, until you begin to ask how the butter is made. Numerous YouTube videos explain a very reassuring process of churning cream, however more than 90% of butter you find in the shops is no longer made that way.

Giant factories use secretive technologies that more closely resemble margarine manufacture. This involves separating out the different kinds of fat in cream and using only the softer fats to make spreadable butter. The essentials of this process were discovered in NZ in 1970, but only became widely used around 1990, by which time, after much research, a commercially viable industrial manufacturing process had been perfected. So what became of the harder fats? Yes, you guessed it, they were not thrown away. They just might have found their way into ordinary butter.

Your grandmother might tell you that around 1990 butter no longer performed quite the way it used to in home baking. While those who make clarified butter (ghee) for cooking found that when heated, butter separated into strange layers of milky liquid and greenish fat unsuitable for ghee. No one even informed the public of the switch, and the health implications of the hard separated fat content remains an open question, no doubt uninvestigated and swept under the carpet. Butter manufacturers all over the world now use these techniques aside from the few boutique creameries still traditionally churning.

This has happened despite the fact that traditional churning can be and has been a large scale simple process. It is also very easy to make butter at home. It is the work of just a few minutes to churn room temperature cream using a whisk or kitchen aid and then squeeze out the buttermilk (which can be used in other yummy dishes).

The Global Dairy Industry Didn’t Stop There

As vegetarianism became more popular, the use of animal rennet in cheese became a marketing problem. Animal rennet is used to precipitate the curds from milk as the first stage of cheese making. The solution was ‘microbial rennet’. It was much cheaper, more readily available, and acceptable to animal loving vegetarians. Microbial rennet is made in a laboratory, and it is so powerful that just a few drops precipitate the solids from the liquid milk. Today almost all cheese throughout the world is made using this so-called ‘ethical’ microbial rennet. That is progress, right?

Just think, when you eat cheese, you are now ingesting a powerful agent designed in a laboratory to precipitate solids in solution. Well, there are a lot of solids happily performing their functions in solution in our body. We are 60% water. If you have problems with constipation, haemorrhoids, blood clotting, varicose veins, menstrual pains, and other health problems involving congestion or coagulation, you might consider how much commercial cheese you are consuming.

However, you can create fresh cheese at home within ten minutes by heating whole milk (not homogenised milk) to a full rolling boil and then turn off the heat, add a little vinegar, lemon juice, or pure yoghurt. Stir and sieve to create a tasty fresh cheese that is healthy. If you crave the sharp tastes, cheeses like brie or camembert and some European cheeses are still made using traditional methods (but read the labels).

We like a slice of bread with our butter and cheese, and here, too, the industrial chemists are hard at work. In 1961, the Chorleywood Bread Process was invented, which enabled the continuous production of bread rather than the traditional batch process. This necessitated the introduction of hard fats and some mysterious bread improvers, which has given modern packaged bread that rubbery springy quality which seems to last for weeks.

No problem though, you can buy an automatic bread maker and the machine will make it for you without hard fats. Bread lovers will know about sour doughs and have their favourite artisan shops.

Synthetic Ingredients Approved as Substantial Equivalence

You can see the problem can’t you? Industrial scale manufacturers are taking over our food supply and changing it without telling us. Government regulators work hand in glove with such companies. Medsafe lists over 3000 synthetic ingredients it has ‘approved’ often under a convention known as ‘substantial equivalence’. This does not generally involve testing, but instead, if something looks and tastes similar to a natural ingredient or has a chemical composition that is somewhat similar, it is probably OK and therefore approved for general consumption, or is it OK?

A 2019 study in the USA, the country leading the way towards industrial food production and processing entitled “Burden of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in the United States: Results of a Nationally Representative Survey of Over 71,000 Americans” records that there are over 100 million ambulance visits to ED each year in the US as a result of gastrointestinal (GI) problems. A survey of 71,000 individuals found that during the week prior (yes, just one representative week) symptoms included heartburn/reflux (30.9%), abdominal pain (24.8%), bloating (20.6%), diarrhea (20.2%), and constipation (19.7%). Less common symptoms were nausea/vomiting (9.5%), dysphagia (5.8%), and bowel incontinence (4.8%).

So, our government-approved, highly-processed and adulterated diet might not be so safe after all. There are a number of factors for the wary consumer to consider here. The purity of ingredients (organic farming excludes pesticides), additives, synthetic substitutions, genetic modification, and changes to traditional processes. Lax regulations are allowing all of these to be altered without public discussion or labelling.

Which brings me back to black salt. I was really disgusted, but then I should have been more alert and less naive. Supermarkets are now full of processed packaged food that is unhealthy and it is a long list. The Dutch have a saying “If you want to be happy for a day, get drunk. If you want to be happy for a year, get married. But if you want to be happy for a lifetime, plant a garden.” If you haven’t already voted with your feet, you might start with a vegetable patch. If gardening is very new and intimidating, talk to neighbours and friends who can help you get started. Modern civilization began with agriculture, make sure it doesn’t end with biotech culture.