OMYGOSH! I told my cardiologist I'm no longer going to take statins no matter what. In the last 12 years, I have lost 80 pounds, most of it since I MAHA'd my diet. He can no longer find anthing to monitor in my 71-year-old heart. He refused to acknowledge the returned health markers so rampant in my body. When I put my foot down, he lied about niacin, he listened to my heart, then said, "come back if you have symptoms." Thought: NEVER! I was only being monitored for possible pulmonary hypertension due to a lung condition that is totally under control, not from drugs. I was thrilled and sad. The old guy was angry but tried not to show it when I said, "the Covid experience was the worst mistake you guys made. You locked me in my house with nothing to do but read and research." He scowled. I am so much healthier, no big drug load, conditions improving - all from what I put in my body and how I work my body, the terrain. I am so thankful for your Substack! I had the tools now and I'm not afraid to use them. I'm not taking statins - what a noticeable improvement in brain function! I look for animal products to eat, chicken with skin and bones, pork ribs, beef with delicious fat marbling, eggs, butter, whole dairy. Thank you for this from one delivered patient!! ♡
Love your post, especially "the Covid experience was the worst mistake you guys made. You locked me in my house with nothing to do but read and research." Same for me. Haven't stopped yet. Wishing you good health always!
Thank you for this excellent article. Eighteen months ago, I received a call no wife should receive. A police officer informed me my spouse dropped on the pickleball court and "they were working on him". I asked if he was still alive. He was not allowed to respond to my question as paramedics were still doing what they could. When I arrived at the hospital, I had no idea if he was dead or alive. The paramedics (and fellow pickleball players) went into action quickly when he dropped like a boulder to the floor of the court. Paddles, heart compressions, electric shock, he was stabilized and here we were in the ER, awaiting answers. My spouse had no history of heart troubles. None. He was healthy as they come at age 69, and his teeth were the most perfect teeth I had ever seen on a person. Never a cavity. No dental visits in the almost 50 years we were together. Just great teeth. What happened? To this day, we do not know. Hours later, a cardiologist came out to talk to me about putting in a shunt and performed surgery. After the surgery, the doctor said, "I could not put in the shunt because his valve is like concrete, completely blocked." I asked how long it had been that way. He did not know but because it was like "concrete", he reasoned a long time, maybe a decade or more. Then how did he survive to this day? No one had any answers, but I persevered after we were told it was a cardiac arrest, and finally another cardiologist drew me a picture of his heart, arteries, and valves. In this photo, he said one of the "lesser important, but still important" arteries to his heart is blocked and has been for a long time, but two other arteries came to this artery's assistance. These two arteries connected and formed a path for the blood to continue flowing. He has been walking around like this for a long time. It was something they had not seen before, and without my persistence, he would not have been willing to explain it. We reasoned that because the pickleball court was inside, and most of the other players were seniors who LOVE their COVID jabs, they were all jabbed, boosted, and shedding. That is one theory. The other theory is there is a 5G tower very close to the pickleball court, and that interfered electrically and caused his cardiac arrest. He is doing well. And I am extremely thankful. On another note, my spouse spent 4 days in the cardiac intensive care unit of the hospital at $40K per day. We are still paying it off. Thank you again. We do supplement our food with nutritional yeast.
i would bet on the 5G tower - and (maybe?) too much calcium in your water. i'm still not sure what may be being shed in vax shedding, or if it's even a physical product or some kind of miasm. Beware of cardiologists, even the kindest, most compassionate ones. my husband's last cardiologist finally admitted (after many years of debilitating "heart failure" drugs) that they were all poisons, and they just had to pick the best one among them for a given patient.
You ase vaxxed to the hilt, aren't you? You ought to read the package inserts for the mRNA flu shots about shedding. Oh...wait. You are probably already doing that to all your friends ( if you have any) and family.
I told the cardio guy to bag it 5 years ago. What he offered was endless drugs, stents and no clue as to what the stress test showed. Hey, show me the results and explain them. Nope. Well then sorry guy, no sale.
I may have a heart attack tomorrow but I am 100% sure that the cardio fake-ology could have done nothing to prevent it. Like 90% of the medical mafia, it's another racket to navigate and avoid.
The age of mortality for Medical doctors with all their years of study is 72 years. I believe it is shorter now. Most of my relatives lived in into their late 80s and 90s. It is amazing that mankind lived for eons of time without the information available today. Today, in order to survive, one must be aware of all the health and environmental problems modern man has created in a drive to make money.
This is a fantastic article/post some info that I have discovered in my own research much more I did not know. But has fitted many pieces of the puzzle together for me. It has made me feel quite relieved as the constant going up against the med profession is very daunting and exhausting. Thank you.
"In one endocarditis case, cultures from a fifteen-year-old’s infected molar were injected into thirty rabbits. Twenty-eight died of endocarditis."
It also mentions antibiotics etc used to get rid of bacteria etc. That sounds familiar, what vaccines do. Also antibiotics are toxic in themselves.
Injecting any foreign debris causes disease, even if it didn't have toxic antibiotics.
This experiment is as bullshit as virology...
But whatever, feel free to remove your root canal teeth and enjoy the issues with gaps which cause other issues.
Implants are problematic with foreign metal grafted into the bone.
Bridges are also bad as that tooth has no longer a connection of pressure to the jaw.
There's tons of new information on how this affects the whole body with the brain.
It's not black or white that existing canals are bad. In fact, I've improved on my tooth using DMSO rinsing and oil pulling. If it persisted being an issue, then yes I would have considered removing it. But it's bullshit to assume there's no way to help it.
2)
"Francisco Torrent-Guasp, working over several decades in Spain, demonstrated that the ventricular muscle fibers form a helical spiral, wrapping around themselves in a figure-eight pattern.⁵² That arrangement is far more complex than a pump wall would need to be, and is exactly what vortex generation would require."
Vortex generation is pumping. It changes the pressure gradient which influences flow. This by definition is a pump!
Just because capillaries pump on their own doesn't negate the fact that the heart uses energy to move in order to influence blood flow.
Pumps work on suction and pressure, whether it's a displacement type or a vortex type (or peristaltic).
When I read The Root Canal Cover-up by George Meinig I went to a dentist who followed his procedure...and told him to pull out all my teeth, as I had a jaw loaded with root canals. I started going to dentists at 11 years old...as my parents knew little about nutrition. By the time I was 20, every tooth in my mouth had a filling. It is a miracle that my teeth lasted until I was 75. I opted for dentures and in the last 17 years have not been in a dental chair. No more pain or dental bills.
I had been very careful for years, eating primarily fruit and vegetables, before I got the dentures at 75. However, I was born in the Great Depression...almost no food for my first 8 years...Then after WW11 started processed food, until I got into real nutrition with raw fruit and vegetables at 38, Now, I am 92...and my health is better than it was in my thirties. I am happy that I got rid of the teeth with root canals and got dentures. My son got implants and he suffered greatly for over two years. They were also ultra expensive. I told him to get dentures, but he didn't listen.
I first had two instances of bridgework that eventually led to problems...
Very happy with how my dentures look and that I got used to them quickly enough (some 15 years ago). But the perfect fit did disappear from bone loss, I guess... And some spots would be painful if I would start poking them on purpose to keep the bone... Have to hope I don't outlast the bone... ;)
It has been 17 years, since I got the dentures...and no problem. I went to a top holistic dentist and it wasn't cheap. However, it was no where near the amount of money that implants cost today.
i felt a lot like you about having teeth pulled, even though i knew root canals were bad. i certainly did not want more dental work. but i finally got my 2 root canals removed. my health definitely improved.
How does the bite feel? Was it a problem and then went away?
How did you know those root canals were a problem? Example : occasional pain or pressure??
A front tooth has a canal and a cap. I had issues with it here and there but these days it hasn't flared up thanks to DMSO and oil pulling. Plus I brush with water only, no toothpaste which has made me cavity free for years.
I'm not looking to remove the front tooth because bridges cause other stresses and from what I understand, implants have their own issues. Am I wrong?
well Rob - one crowned root canal was from many yrs ago, and it had failed TWICE and been redone - which means it had likely been continuously infected (for years!) and then flared up to the point of a serious toothache requiring penicillin and re-do twice.
one of the times it failed was concurrent with me getting very painful "shingles" in my mid-50s (pretty young for that). at the time i was (newly) very heavily exposed to wireless radiation for over a year. the 2nd root canal was much more recent (2022) and tho i knew better, i didn't want to go thru with the whole scenario of a tooth pulled and it's aftermath (i totally get it).
after that my health deteriorated in weird ways i don't want to detail on any spy platform - but suffice it to say, by early 2023 i realized i needed to get it (and the other one) out, and did - by a very skilled maxillofacial surgeon.
as for gaps, one tooth was an upper 1st bicuspid so i got a zirconium dioxide bridge - (i know, it's terrible to tear down 2 other teeth to serve as anchors, but one of them was already somewhat compromised - and i had to do something).
i absolutely refuse implants, primarily due to the cadaver bone implant they require. plus i don't need a titanium screw in my jawbone (a great antenna!) and the zirconium replacement version does not yet have a long track record.
the other root canal pulled was a first upper molar, but i just decided to live with the gap - it took a little getting used to chewing on that side, and sometimes a cherry pit will get stuck (!) but otherwise no issues.
i don't have any bite problem at all; the bridge fits perfectly - but i know that can be an issue with crowns and bridges - or any fake tooth, even an implant. i had a crown several yrs back that was just too big; i tried living with it awhile but it was not good; my dentist realized it and re-did it for free.
i think if it was my front tooth, and i didn't have an absolute aversion to cadaver bone, i would probably get a zirconium implant. i really think root-canaled teeth are no bueno. sorry this is tldr, but i felt you deserved a detailed answer.
Not sure you have even mentioned this, but I have seen critiques on WP's "focal infection" too...
* Atom Bergstrom: Teeth are often cited as a focal infection point affecting many other locations in the body, but the teeth are actually just one of these same downstream locations. The intestines are the actual primary focal point, not the teeth. Death begins in the colon, not in the teeth. Similarly, head concussions can be relieved by vomiting.
* Ray Peat PhD: My endodontist in Mexico believes that the immune system is normally able to clear out bacteria at the root tip, but if an infection develops, producing pain, she prescribes an antibiotic. She says she hardly ever has had to pull a tooth. 100 years ago (before antibiotics) it was believed that a “focal infection” under a tooth caused chronic diseases, and some dentists pulled teeth to treat various non-dental problems. I think the interpretation of causality has often been wrong — for example, I knew a dentist who routinely and successfully treated oral problems by prescribing a laxative.
Some think the heart is a RAM pump, but AFAIK that is not really a pump but a method to prevent the flow backing up again?
In other words, the heart may mostly let a flow pass, preventing it backing up, and give it a swirl. AFAIK this swirl/vortexing is confirmed in mainstream nowadays? (I think I've seen a paper from Belgian research)
Anything that helps flow is a pump. By definition a pump is what creates a pressure differential, which are what vortexes are. Also, the amount of work the heart does in beating is mechanical energy which is doing work on the blood - pumping.
I think where Cowan etc get hung up on is that the heart doesn't pump all the blood, just some of the flow and the rest is due to movement and capillary action.
"In 1932, Bremer of Harvard filmed the blood in the very early embryo circulating in self-propelled mode in spiraling streams before the heart was functioning. Amazingly, he was so impressed with the spiraling nature of the blood flow pattern that he failed to realize that the phenomena before him had demolished the pressure propulsion principle. / The fact that the heart by itself is incapable of sustaining the circulation of the blood was known to physicians of antiquity. They looked for auxiliary forces of blood movement in various types of ‘etherisation’ and ‘pneumatisation’ or ensoulement of the blood on its passage through the heart and lungs. With the dawn of modern science and over the past 300 years, such concepts became untenable."
Uffe Ravnskov's book, The Cholesterol Myths that I read over 20 years ago was my transformation. I was already suspicious of those ‘proven to lower cholesterol margarines’, never had a cholesterol test, and the book confirmed my path. I think that he is still alive.
I read James DiNicolantonio’s book on salt maybe 10 years ago and stopped trying to keep my salt intake down.
“Blood begins flowing in the developing embryo before the heart has formed.” That had never come to mind but it’s obvious. The maternal nutrient supply has to be distributed.
I would have thought that the heart was to manage the interchange of blood flow between body and lungs.
Statins are POISONS!!! They caused me to lose 90% of my muscle strength in about 5-years time. Statins gave me "statin-associated immune myopathy" per the 2016 article I found in the New England Journal of Medicine (Statin-Associated Autoimmune Myopathy
Author: Andrew L. Mammen, M.D., Ph.D.Author Info & Affiliations
Also notice that the Myositis Association has an August 28, 2026 medical conference scheduled for this exact problem and eleven major pharmaceutical companies will be there to address this previously "rare????" disease. Can you say big $$$$$ involved? See this link for details of this disease and to register for the conference: https://www.myositis.org/about-myositis/types-of-myositis/necrotizing-myopathy/
The muscles affected in this link's picture exactly match my problem and very suspiciously look like they were designed to disable a person by symmetrical muscle loss. I know statins are to blame because statins are the only prescription medication I took then, when I was extremely healthy and very fit. Stopping them didn't help, even though my cardiologist said this problem would reverse 6-months after I stopped taking them.
Very interesting and informative article. Everyone over age 21 should read this.
There is one common and important heart health issue that the article does not mention. Item 12 - "The heart is not a pump" may be true. But the heart is an electrical muscle, and when the electric signals get out of sync, the result (atrial fibrillation) can be very problematic.
I have known people with AFib who tried every non-medical approach they could think of - exercise, healthy diet, stress control, acupuncture, etc., and nothing stopped the steady progression of the ailment. The recommended medical procedure, called ablation, seemed to be the only way to interrupt the problem. Some reported relief after the procedure.
I am skeptical of the medical business, especially after the Covid debacle. But they do have some very helpful tools and techniques. We just have to identify them.
I'm not convinced about homocysteine (HCY). Have seen meta-analyses that showed B vitamin supplementation reliably reduces HCY but not does affect disease outcomes meaningfully. HCY could be a proxy for a generally poor diet in some cases. Though I eat an extremely nutrient-dense meat/animal fat/organ meat-based diet high in B vitamins and my HCY remains moderately elevated (16-17).
The other B vitamin that does not always get mentioned is B2, which is needed in the Folate cycle for recycling homocysteine. Apparently some people do nothing but increase B2 and their homocysteine normalizes. Has not worked for me -- not with supplement and not with lots of organ meats.
"Multiple large meta-analyses of randomized trials confirm that B-vitamin supplementation (typically folic acid/B9 ± B6 ± B12) reliably lowers plasma homocysteine (often by ~20–25% or more) but generally produces little or no reduction in major cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, all-cause mortality, or cancer. There is a more consistent (though modest) signal for reduced stroke risk in some analyses, especially in certain subgroups or settings without widespread folic-acid fortification"
In point 5. you wrote "The trial was stopped early on the basis of interim analysis, a technique known to inflate apparent effect size." Do you have more of your own or others writing on this issue? I have read through the JUPITER trial more than a few times. It was also stopped early and the reasons given for the stoppage I think are bullshit. Would like to know the real reason that trial stopped. I have my theories.
Hurricane60, your instinct is well-supported. Bassler et al. (JAMA 2010; 303:1180) showed truncated trials significantly overestimate treatment effect, because trials get stopped precisely when random variation happens to favor the treatment arm. JUPITER is the textbook case: stopped at 1.9 years of a planned four-year design, absolute risk reduction of 0.59 percent per year dressed up as a 44 percent relative reduction, and Ridker was co-inventor on the hs-CRP patents used to select participants. The stated ethical reason for stopping presupposes the drug was already known to work, which was the question the trial was designed to answer. de Lorgeril's Archives of Internal Medicine 2010 critique is the strongest deep dive on JUPITER specifically.
Both RBCs and the lining of blood vessels carry negative charge. Apparently this causes RBCs to repel from each other and from the vessel walls, both of which contribute to proper blood flow.
OMYGOSH! I told my cardiologist I'm no longer going to take statins no matter what. In the last 12 years, I have lost 80 pounds, most of it since I MAHA'd my diet. He can no longer find anthing to monitor in my 71-year-old heart. He refused to acknowledge the returned health markers so rampant in my body. When I put my foot down, he lied about niacin, he listened to my heart, then said, "come back if you have symptoms." Thought: NEVER! I was only being monitored for possible pulmonary hypertension due to a lung condition that is totally under control, not from drugs. I was thrilled and sad. The old guy was angry but tried not to show it when I said, "the Covid experience was the worst mistake you guys made. You locked me in my house with nothing to do but read and research." He scowled. I am so much healthier, no big drug load, conditions improving - all from what I put in my body and how I work my body, the terrain. I am so thankful for your Substack! I had the tools now and I'm not afraid to use them. I'm not taking statins - what a noticeable improvement in brain function! I look for animal products to eat, chicken with skin and bones, pork ribs, beef with delicious fat marbling, eggs, butter, whole dairy. Thank you for this from one delivered patient!! ♡
Excellent job, Mrs. SOB!!
Love your post, especially "the Covid experience was the worst mistake you guys made. You locked me in my house with nothing to do but read and research." Same for me. Haven't stopped yet. Wishing you good health always!
Thank you for this excellent article. Eighteen months ago, I received a call no wife should receive. A police officer informed me my spouse dropped on the pickleball court and "they were working on him". I asked if he was still alive. He was not allowed to respond to my question as paramedics were still doing what they could. When I arrived at the hospital, I had no idea if he was dead or alive. The paramedics (and fellow pickleball players) went into action quickly when he dropped like a boulder to the floor of the court. Paddles, heart compressions, electric shock, he was stabilized and here we were in the ER, awaiting answers. My spouse had no history of heart troubles. None. He was healthy as they come at age 69, and his teeth were the most perfect teeth I had ever seen on a person. Never a cavity. No dental visits in the almost 50 years we were together. Just great teeth. What happened? To this day, we do not know. Hours later, a cardiologist came out to talk to me about putting in a shunt and performed surgery. After the surgery, the doctor said, "I could not put in the shunt because his valve is like concrete, completely blocked." I asked how long it had been that way. He did not know but because it was like "concrete", he reasoned a long time, maybe a decade or more. Then how did he survive to this day? No one had any answers, but I persevered after we were told it was a cardiac arrest, and finally another cardiologist drew me a picture of his heart, arteries, and valves. In this photo, he said one of the "lesser important, but still important" arteries to his heart is blocked and has been for a long time, but two other arteries came to this artery's assistance. These two arteries connected and formed a path for the blood to continue flowing. He has been walking around like this for a long time. It was something they had not seen before, and without my persistence, he would not have been willing to explain it. We reasoned that because the pickleball court was inside, and most of the other players were seniors who LOVE their COVID jabs, they were all jabbed, boosted, and shedding. That is one theory. The other theory is there is a 5G tower very close to the pickleball court, and that interfered electrically and caused his cardiac arrest. He is doing well. And I am extremely thankful. On another note, my spouse spent 4 days in the cardiac intensive care unit of the hospital at $40K per day. We are still paying it off. Thank you again. We do supplement our food with nutritional yeast.
i would bet on the 5G tower - and (maybe?) too much calcium in your water. i'm still not sure what may be being shed in vax shedding, or if it's even a physical product or some kind of miasm. Beware of cardiologists, even the kindest, most compassionate ones. my husband's last cardiologist finally admitted (after many years of debilitating "heart failure" drugs) that they were all poisons, and they just had to pick the best one among them for a given patient.
Wow, what an admission-good for that doc and for your hubby- wish a ton more would be that honest..
My bet is on the 5G tower as well!!! time to change courts.. your hubby's healthy teesth play a role I would bet, too!
Thanks for sharing-small point shedding is complete bullshit, much like gain of function, and lab leaks
You ase vaxxed to the hilt, aren't you? You ought to read the package inserts for the mRNA flu shots about shedding. Oh...wait. You are probably already doing that to all your friends ( if you have any) and family.
I told the cardio guy to bag it 5 years ago. What he offered was endless drugs, stents and no clue as to what the stress test showed. Hey, show me the results and explain them. Nope. Well then sorry guy, no sale.
I may have a heart attack tomorrow but I am 100% sure that the cardio fake-ology could have done nothing to prevent it. Like 90% of the medical mafia, it's another racket to navigate and avoid.
Thank you, Unbekoming, for a most excellent article!!
The age of mortality for Medical doctors with all their years of study is 72 years. I believe it is shorter now. Most of my relatives lived in into their late 80s and 90s. It is amazing that mankind lived for eons of time without the information available today. Today, in order to survive, one must be aware of all the health and environmental problems modern man has created in a drive to make money.
This is a fantastic article/post some info that I have discovered in my own research much more I did not know. But has fitted many pieces of the puzzle together for me. It has made me feel quite relieved as the constant going up against the med profession is very daunting and exhausting. Thank you.
1)
"In one endocarditis case, cultures from a fifteen-year-old’s infected molar were injected into thirty rabbits. Twenty-eight died of endocarditis."
It also mentions antibiotics etc used to get rid of bacteria etc. That sounds familiar, what vaccines do. Also antibiotics are toxic in themselves.
Injecting any foreign debris causes disease, even if it didn't have toxic antibiotics.
This experiment is as bullshit as virology...
But whatever, feel free to remove your root canal teeth and enjoy the issues with gaps which cause other issues.
Implants are problematic with foreign metal grafted into the bone.
Bridges are also bad as that tooth has no longer a connection of pressure to the jaw.
There's tons of new information on how this affects the whole body with the brain.
It's not black or white that existing canals are bad. In fact, I've improved on my tooth using DMSO rinsing and oil pulling. If it persisted being an issue, then yes I would have considered removing it. But it's bullshit to assume there's no way to help it.
2)
"Francisco Torrent-Guasp, working over several decades in Spain, demonstrated that the ventricular muscle fibers form a helical spiral, wrapping around themselves in a figure-eight pattern.⁵² That arrangement is far more complex than a pump wall would need to be, and is exactly what vortex generation would require."
Vortex generation is pumping. It changes the pressure gradient which influences flow. This by definition is a pump!
Just because capillaries pump on their own doesn't negate the fact that the heart uses energy to move in order to influence blood flow.
Pumps work on suction and pressure, whether it's a displacement type or a vortex type (or peristaltic).
When I read The Root Canal Cover-up by George Meinig I went to a dentist who followed his procedure...and told him to pull out all my teeth, as I had a jaw loaded with root canals. I started going to dentists at 11 years old...as my parents knew little about nutrition. By the time I was 20, every tooth in my mouth had a filling. It is a miracle that my teeth lasted until I was 75. I opted for dentures and in the last 17 years have not been in a dental chair. No more pain or dental bills.
Did you do anything special to prevent bone loss under them?
I seem to mostly have it under my bottom one...
I had been very careful for years, eating primarily fruit and vegetables, before I got the dentures at 75. However, I was born in the Great Depression...almost no food for my first 8 years...Then after WW11 started processed food, until I got into real nutrition with raw fruit and vegetables at 38, Now, I am 92...and my health is better than it was in my thirties. I am happy that I got rid of the teeth with root canals and got dentures. My son got implants and he suffered greatly for over two years. They were also ultra expensive. I told him to get dentures, but he didn't listen.
I first had two instances of bridgework that eventually led to problems...
Very happy with how my dentures look and that I got used to them quickly enough (some 15 years ago). But the perfect fit did disappear from bone loss, I guess... And some spots would be painful if I would start poking them on purpose to keep the bone... Have to hope I don't outlast the bone... ;)
It has been 17 years, since I got the dentures...and no problem. I went to a top holistic dentist and it wasn't cheap. However, it was no where near the amount of money that implants cost today.
i felt a lot like you about having teeth pulled, even though i knew root canals were bad. i certainly did not want more dental work. but i finally got my 2 root canals removed. my health definitely improved.
How did you fill the gaps?
How does the bite feel? Was it a problem and then went away?
How did you know those root canals were a problem? Example : occasional pain or pressure??
A front tooth has a canal and a cap. I had issues with it here and there but these days it hasn't flared up thanks to DMSO and oil pulling. Plus I brush with water only, no toothpaste which has made me cavity free for years.
I'm not looking to remove the front tooth because bridges cause other stresses and from what I understand, implants have their own issues. Am I wrong?
well Rob - one crowned root canal was from many yrs ago, and it had failed TWICE and been redone - which means it had likely been continuously infected (for years!) and then flared up to the point of a serious toothache requiring penicillin and re-do twice.
one of the times it failed was concurrent with me getting very painful "shingles" in my mid-50s (pretty young for that). at the time i was (newly) very heavily exposed to wireless radiation for over a year. the 2nd root canal was much more recent (2022) and tho i knew better, i didn't want to go thru with the whole scenario of a tooth pulled and it's aftermath (i totally get it).
after that my health deteriorated in weird ways i don't want to detail on any spy platform - but suffice it to say, by early 2023 i realized i needed to get it (and the other one) out, and did - by a very skilled maxillofacial surgeon.
as for gaps, one tooth was an upper 1st bicuspid so i got a zirconium dioxide bridge - (i know, it's terrible to tear down 2 other teeth to serve as anchors, but one of them was already somewhat compromised - and i had to do something).
i absolutely refuse implants, primarily due to the cadaver bone implant they require. plus i don't need a titanium screw in my jawbone (a great antenna!) and the zirconium replacement version does not yet have a long track record.
the other root canal pulled was a first upper molar, but i just decided to live with the gap - it took a little getting used to chewing on that side, and sometimes a cherry pit will get stuck (!) but otherwise no issues.
i don't have any bite problem at all; the bridge fits perfectly - but i know that can be an issue with crowns and bridges - or any fake tooth, even an implant. i had a crown several yrs back that was just too big; i tried living with it awhile but it was not good; my dentist realized it and re-did it for free.
i think if it was my front tooth, and i didn't have an absolute aversion to cadaver bone, i would probably get a zirconium implant. i really think root-canaled teeth are no bueno. sorry this is tldr, but i felt you deserved a detailed answer.
good luck and good health!
Not sure you have even mentioned this, but I have seen critiques on WP's "focal infection" too...
* Atom Bergstrom: Teeth are often cited as a focal infection point affecting many other locations in the body, but the teeth are actually just one of these same downstream locations. The intestines are the actual primary focal point, not the teeth. Death begins in the colon, not in the teeth. Similarly, head concussions can be relieved by vomiting.
* Ray Peat PhD: My endodontist in Mexico believes that the immune system is normally able to clear out bacteria at the root tip, but if an infection develops, producing pain, she prescribes an antibiotic. She says she hardly ever has had to pull a tooth. 100 years ago (before antibiotics) it was believed that a “focal infection” under a tooth caused chronic diseases, and some dentists pulled teeth to treat various non-dental problems. I think the interpretation of causality has often been wrong — for example, I knew a dentist who routinely and successfully treated oral problems by prescribing a laxative.
Sometimes things are misnamed...
Some think the heart is a RAM pump, but AFAIK that is not really a pump but a method to prevent the flow backing up again?
In other words, the heart may mostly let a flow pass, preventing it backing up, and give it a swirl. AFAIK this swirl/vortexing is confirmed in mainstream nowadays? (I think I've seen a paper from Belgian research)
Anything that helps flow is a pump. By definition a pump is what creates a pressure differential, which are what vortexes are. Also, the amount of work the heart does in beating is mechanical energy which is doing work on the blood - pumping.
I think where Cowan etc get hung up on is that the heart doesn't pump all the blood, just some of the flow and the rest is due to movement and capillary action.
If you've ever seen/understood Inclined Bed Therapy, that is another thing that can help: gravity. Lying down inclined clearly improves circulation.
Just noticed in my notes that several claimed the blood pumps the heart and it may already be vortexing...
The Heart is Not a Pump – The Blood Pumps the Heart
https://web.archive.org/web/20230213001957/https://tabublog.com/2016/09/24/the-heart-is-not-a-pump-the-blood-pumps-the-heart
"In 1932, Bremer of Harvard filmed the blood in the very early embryo circulating in self-propelled mode in spiraling streams before the heart was functioning. Amazingly, he was so impressed with the spiraling nature of the blood flow pattern that he failed to realize that the phenomena before him had demolished the pressure propulsion principle. / The fact that the heart by itself is incapable of sustaining the circulation of the blood was known to physicians of antiquity. They looked for auxiliary forces of blood movement in various types of ‘etherisation’ and ‘pneumatisation’ or ensoulement of the blood on its passage through the heart and lungs. With the dawn of modern science and over the past 300 years, such concepts became untenable."
Your point being....???
So what is your point????
My point is that these are not objective in their interpretation.
To be true to reality, science must be objective. That includes pointing out things that influence the results.
Being honest with one's theories is like being honest with oneself.
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And what do you cite that shows they are not objective? Not sure what you're trying to get across, except for a personal opinion .
I'm pointing out the reasons why the result happened.
That's all is needed to break a theory. If there are other causes that can create the result, the original cause is negated.
Uffe Ravnskov's book, The Cholesterol Myths that I read over 20 years ago was my transformation. I was already suspicious of those ‘proven to lower cholesterol margarines’, never had a cholesterol test, and the book confirmed my path. I think that he is still alive.
I read James DiNicolantonio’s book on salt maybe 10 years ago and stopped trying to keep my salt intake down.
“Blood begins flowing in the developing embryo before the heart has formed.” That had never come to mind but it’s obvious. The maternal nutrient supply has to be distributed.
I would have thought that the heart was to manage the interchange of blood flow between body and lungs.
Thank you, very helpful.
Statins are POISONS!!! They caused me to lose 90% of my muscle strength in about 5-years time. Statins gave me "statin-associated immune myopathy" per the 2016 article I found in the New England Journal of Medicine (Statin-Associated Autoimmune Myopathy
Author: Andrew L. Mammen, M.D., Ph.D.Author Info & Affiliations
Published February 18, 2016
N Engl J Med 2016;374:664-669
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1515161
VOL. 374 NO. 7
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Also notice that the Myositis Association has an August 28, 2026 medical conference scheduled for this exact problem and eleven major pharmaceutical companies will be there to address this previously "rare????" disease. Can you say big $$$$$ involved? See this link for details of this disease and to register for the conference: https://www.myositis.org/about-myositis/types-of-myositis/necrotizing-myopathy/
The muscles affected in this link's picture exactly match my problem and very suspiciously look like they were designed to disable a person by symmetrical muscle loss. I know statins are to blame because statins are the only prescription medication I took then, when I was extremely healthy and very fit. Stopping them didn't help, even though my cardiologist said this problem would reverse 6-months after I stopped taking them.
Also see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0896841124001203
Very interesting and informative article. Everyone over age 21 should read this.
There is one common and important heart health issue that the article does not mention. Item 12 - "The heart is not a pump" may be true. But the heart is an electrical muscle, and when the electric signals get out of sync, the result (atrial fibrillation) can be very problematic.
I have known people with AFib who tried every non-medical approach they could think of - exercise, healthy diet, stress control, acupuncture, etc., and nothing stopped the steady progression of the ailment. The recommended medical procedure, called ablation, seemed to be the only way to interrupt the problem. Some reported relief after the procedure.
I am skeptical of the medical business, especially after the Covid debacle. But they do have some very helpful tools and techniques. We just have to identify them.
I'm guessing most don't know about (fixing) zeta potential? (good zp claims to sometimes/often fix it)
I sometimes think back to this interview (on diabetes) too...
https://youtu.be/w0nV-_ddXoc?t=37m10s
"No-one really knows how sophisticated the intracardiac system is."
In many cases the micro-vessels in that rhythm center get clogged, IIRC.
I'm not convinced about homocysteine (HCY). Have seen meta-analyses that showed B vitamin supplementation reliably reduces HCY but not does affect disease outcomes meaningfully. HCY could be a proxy for a generally poor diet in some cases. Though I eat an extremely nutrient-dense meat/animal fat/organ meat-based diet high in B vitamins and my HCY remains moderately elevated (16-17).
Interesting point you make. If you find an article on your theory, please pass it along.
I vaguely remember reading a similar thing. I regularly read about B12 though which seems a big factor for homocysteine.
The other B vitamin that does not always get mentioned is B2, which is needed in the Folate cycle for recycling homocysteine. Apparently some people do nothing but increase B2 and their homocysteine normalizes. Has not worked for me -- not with supplement and not with lots of organ meats.
Here is how one of the AI tools summarized this:
"Multiple large meta-analyses of randomized trials confirm that B-vitamin supplementation (typically folic acid/B9 ± B6 ± B12) reliably lowers plasma homocysteine (often by ~20–25% or more) but generally produces little or no reduction in major cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, all-cause mortality, or cancer. There is a more consistent (though modest) signal for reduced stroke risk in some analyses, especially in certain subgroups or settings without widespread folic-acid fortification"
I would appreciate any info on this as well as mine is moderately elevated.
Excellent and useful information, both to read and to share!
In point 5. you wrote "The trial was stopped early on the basis of interim analysis, a technique known to inflate apparent effect size." Do you have more of your own or others writing on this issue? I have read through the JUPITER trial more than a few times. It was also stopped early and the reasons given for the stoppage I think are bullshit. Would like to know the real reason that trial stopped. I have my theories.
Hurricane60, your instinct is well-supported. Bassler et al. (JAMA 2010; 303:1180) showed truncated trials significantly overestimate treatment effect, because trials get stopped precisely when random variation happens to favor the treatment arm. JUPITER is the textbook case: stopped at 1.9 years of a planned four-year design, absolute risk reduction of 0.59 percent per year dressed up as a 44 percent relative reduction, and Ridker was co-inventor on the hs-CRP patents used to select participants. The stated ethical reason for stopping presupposes the drug was already known to work, which was the question the trial was designed to answer. de Lorgeril's Archives of Internal Medicine 2010 critique is the strongest deep dive on JUPITER specifically.
Thanks for the reply. Have not looked at de Lorgeril's work in a while. Need to dust it off and consider your comments when I read it again.
Where does ZETA POTENTIAL enter into this?
Both RBCs and the lining of blood vessels carry negative charge. Apparently this causes RBCs to repel from each other and from the vessel walls, both of which contribute to proper blood flow.
Any related "scandal" book titles to share? :)
Some I have come across...
Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury -- Heart Mafia (2014)
Broda O Barnes, MD -- Solved: The Riddle of Heart Attacks (1976)
Charles T McGee, MD -- Heart Frauds: Uncovering the Biggest Health Scam in History (2001)
Michael Cutler, MD -- Hushed-Up Natural Heart Cures and Deadly Deceptions of Popular Heart Treatments (2012)
Sherry A Rogers, MD -- Is Your Cardiologist Killing You? (2009)
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