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isPermaLink="false">https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/spells-of-covid-and-the-viral-illusion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aria Veritas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:44:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and <br>consequently all her conclusions.&#8221; &#8212;Fyodor Dostoyevsky</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Virus (Latin):</strong><em><strong> poison, venom</strong></em></figcaption></figure></div><p>What are viruses? <br><br>The root or virus, <strong>vir,</strong> (Latin: <em>man, husband</em>), is found in <em>virtue</em>, <em>virility</em> and <em>virtual</em>, with the latter meaning, &#8220;something in essence or effect, <strong>not actual&#8221;. </strong><br><br>In the late 14th century <em><strong>virus</strong></em> could mean <em>sap, poison, slimy liquid </em>or<em> potent juice</em>. <br>An &#8220;agent that causes infectious disease&#8221; emerged by 1790&#8217;s and the &#8220;deadly virus&#8221; concept surged in the 1980's with the introduction of AIDS under Fauci&#8217;s watchful eye.<br><br>Wikipedia and western medicine assert viruses are <strong>pathogenic</strong> <strong>infectious agents</strong> replicating inside of cells while German New Medicine begs to differ. No, it doesn&#8217;t beg, it firmly <strong>states</strong> that today's medical paradigm is fundamentally<a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/five_laws.html#Fourth_BL_Immune_System"> incorrect</a>. <br><br>One key scientismic figure of the last 100 years was John F. Enders, born in 1897 to a wealthy financier.&nbsp;Like many <em><a href="https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/226/11/1861/6849627?login=false">infectious disease</a></em> specialists, Enders worked for the U.S. military who had its own shadowy operator calling shots from behind the scenes.<br><br>The U.S. Military has always been a proponent of contagion theory; not just chemical weapons but <em>biological weapons </em>existing in the form of bacteria and viruses &#8220;whipped up in a lab&#8221; as illustrated by Hollywood &amp; Co..&nbsp;But. <em>Breathing</em> upon another soul can&#8217;t physically make one sick beyond the individual&#8217;s <em><strong>fear</strong></em> of getting sick. No fear? No sick! <br>Yet it&#8217;s quite possible to induce illness by<strong> using only the <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/lungs.html#Lung_Alveoli_BC">fear</a> response on the psyche. </strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg" width="312" height="248.976" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:399,&quot;width&quot;:500,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:312,&quot;bytes&quot;:26852,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Ahd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6ae962e-c0df-41a8-9f99-324f14f2a3c7_500x399.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.&#8221;  &#8212;Marie Curie</figcaption></figure></div><p>However, physically injecting&nbsp;a toxic soup of aborted foetal and faecal matter among other documented poisonous ingredients may well qualify as biological weaponry, and this is where the plot thickens like <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/Lanka_Viren_Entwirren_E.pdf">density gradient centrifugation scum</a>. </p><p>The vaccinated population had clearly never heard of the <a href="https://www.immunity.org.uk/">AIDS scam</a>, nor the time Dr. Hamer said, &#8220;The AIDS symptoms are a result of the invention of <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/lungs.html#Bronchia_Mucosa_PCL_AIDS">AIDS</a>.&#8221; <br><br>Interestingly, Anthony Fauci (Italian for <em>JAWS</em>) was first an AIDS hero for approving <s>deadly chemo drug</s> <a href="https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1989-feature-sins-of-omission/">AZT</a>; thus patients died from <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25355584/">properly prescribed medicine</a>. One survivor said, &#8220;Using AZT is like aiming a thermonuclear warhead at a mosquito.&#8221;</p><p>The operation is global, as illustrated by cOvid, but is the end goal as diabolically nefarious as the average conspiracy theorist suggests? Maybe short-term. But the picture <em>beyond</em> their picture must go <em>beyond</em> money &amp; temporal power, as astrology, religion, myth and other off-world themes are involved. T&#8217;is verily a vast operation.<br><br>For those corralled by cOvid who may eventually hear the vaccine was compromised, the shock might be as deep as a cancer or AIDS diagnosis, but perhaps it needn&#8217;t be. <br><br>The psyche&#8212;&gt;brain&#8212;&gt;organ relay immediately begins a special program as per the <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/five_laws.html#Fourth_BL_Immune_System">Five Biological Laws</a>. If the fearful psyche is made conscious of the relay <em><strong>and</strong> that their body is <strong>helping them</strong>,</em> that person has a fighting chance to calm their jocks and recover. <br><br>cOvid&#8217;s vaccine does appear to have issues but <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9441630/">plaque-dissolvers</a> like nattokinase serrapeptase, plus Ivermectin, NAC, clean diet, good light and a calm life with authentic love in it soothes a soul&#8217;s conflict and reboots the body. <br><br><em><strong>Transformation</strong></em> <em>defines</em> the human condition (death is a change of state) &#8212; and behold! a natural segue to introduce the aspect of myth, and why cOvid was plainly a psy-op&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare">Psyop</a>: <em>psychological operation, psyche (soul) warfare, planned psychological reaction</em></p><div><hr></div><p>As a word-nerd, &#8220;Covid 19&#8221; said something very specific early on. The Elite use words to communicate in ways that are rarely obvious. With <strong>cOvid</strong>, after a few days, &#8220;<strong>See Ovid&#8221; </strong>developed like a darkroom photo. Ovid wrote around the same time as Dante and Bible-writing French/Italian monks of Cluny/Montecassino (depending on who one asks. I ask <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Johnson_(historian)">Edwin Johnson</a> because his answers make great (but unpopular) sense). <br><br>Ovid was most famous for his work, <strong>Metamorphoses</strong> (Greek/Latin: <em><strong>transform</strong>, change shape)</em>. <strong>Metamorphosis</strong> is also an adventure video game developed by <em><strong>Ovid</strong> Works </em>published by <strong>All in! Games</strong> on August 12, 2020. A coded &#8220;<strong>Big yes!&#8221;</strong> to start The Game?<br><br>Metamorphoses by&nbsp;Roman&nbsp;poet&nbsp;Ovid, chronicles the history of the world through&nbsp;over 250 myths and 15 books which are considered unclassifiable due to variable themes. It&#8217;s one of the most influential works in&nbsp;Western culture, inspiring&nbsp;Dante, Chaucer and Shakespeare among others.&nbsp;One particular story tells of Orpheus and his lovely fianc&#233; Eurydice, who is bitten by a venomous snake on their wedding day and dies. <br><br>Out of 15 books, Orpheus and Eurydice happened to be book ten, Latin numeral X. For the first time ever, numerology seemed interesting:  Covid <strong>19 = 1 + 9 = 10 = X</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png" width="318" height="177.50181818181818" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:307,&quot;width&quot;:550,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:318,&quot;bytes&quot;:158787,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Egp_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f063926-d3dd-4793-95af-3a700e350a16_550x307.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;Coincidences are spiritual puns.&#8221;&#8213; <strong>G.K. Chesterton</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Eurydice being bitten by a mythical (ie. <em><strong>virtual)</strong></em> snake rang some distant alarm bells.<br><br>In the new state of lockdown one evening, scrolling through Metamorphoses stories it suddenly hit: &#8220;Oh! I think they&#8217;re going to take down the entire medical system&#8230; and they&#8217;ll use vaccines as metaphoric snake venom to do it&#8230;&#8221; as the entire Orpheus and Eurydice myth mapped on to our reality in a flash &#8212; a fast, explicit, cosmic download. <br><br>&#8220;Impossible,&#8221; said the husband. &#8220;It&#8217;s too big. Never happen.&#8221; He could be right I reasoned, but still&#8230; it was a pretty convincing collection of ideas all lined up in a perfect storm. I bet him fifty bucks and we shook, happy to be proved wrong. <br><br>Deploying vaccines would depend on people maintaining a firm belief in the &#8220;air-based respiratory contagion theory&#8221; upon which cOvid&#8217;s whole operation was centred. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg" width="300" height="377.72727272727275" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:277,&quot;width&quot;:220,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:300,&quot;bytes&quot;:19021,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o1Ol!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ca3f32-16fc-4cc9-a7d3-0f40e56bab4b_220x277.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath&#8230;&#8221;</strong> &#8212;William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. Image, Orpheus and Eurydice 1814 by Ary Scheffer, c/o <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_and_Eurydice">Wik</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Plato said Orpheus was a coward for not dying for Eurydice (she died twice for his lack of faith); &#8220;To have lacked the spirit to die [&#8230;] for the sake of love, when [Orpheus] contrived the means of entering Hades alive. Wherefore they laid upon him the penalty he deserved, and caused him to meet his death.&#8221; -Plato, Symposium, sec.179d<br><br>Is it possible to discern the crux of this extraordinary operation of mythical proportions? Ego is a serious hand-brake to authentic existence. How many will admit to having made a mistake and actively try to realign with reality before it&#8217;s too late?</p><div><hr></div><p>What is Truth? How can one simply <em>know</em>? What if I&#8217;d backed the wrong (viral) horse?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png" width="274" height="282.9672727272727" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:568,&quot;width&quot;:550,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:274,&quot;bytes&quot;:206291,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REqj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d64e64-66ab-413e-a6c8-6d16a751b70f_550x568.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;The most basic axiom upon which the medical theory rests remains rooted in a dark-age of fear and superstition.&#8221; -Ryke Geerd Hamer. </figcaption></figure></div><p>I <em>hadn&#8217;t</em> backed the wrong horse: GNM explained itself succinctly by differentiating between biological layers. One can follow the stages in ones own, and others, bodies.<br><br>Personal experience is the biggest asset in knowing what is true. Hamer&#8217;s work is reproducible, intuitive and clear. A boiled-down overview (<em>with pictures!</em>) follows:<br><br>In the beginning one is a blastocyst &#8212; a cluster or group of cells&#8212; which divides in to three embryonic germ layers; each germ layer is controlled by <strong>specific</strong> <strong>parts of the brain</strong> linking to <strong>specific</strong> <strong>organs</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KXVe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd341996f-89c0-4d62-95f6-79c509992191_960x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KXVe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd341996f-89c0-4d62-95f6-79c509992191_960x720.jpeg 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KXVe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd341996f-89c0-4d62-95f6-79c509992191_960x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KXVe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd341996f-89c0-4d62-95f6-79c509992191_960x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KXVe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd341996f-89c0-4d62-95f6-79c509992191_960x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.&#8221; -Confucius</figcaption></figure></div><p>The deepest layer of innermost cells &#8212; the <strong>endoderm</strong> &#8212; developed the alimentary canal and everything related to food, digestion and nourishment but also the lungs, liver, kidneys etc. and is controlled by the <em><strong>brainstem</strong></em>, the oldest part of the brain.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wxC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd11b78-63d2-44a3-9a17-677664b18b12_800x510.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wxC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd11b78-63d2-44a3-9a17-677664b18b12_800x510.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wxC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd11b78-63d2-44a3-9a17-677664b18b12_800x510.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wxC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd11b78-63d2-44a3-9a17-677664b18b12_800x510.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wxC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd11b78-63d2-44a3-9a17-677664b18b12_800x510.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wxC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd11b78-63d2-44a3-9a17-677664b18b12_800x510.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wxC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd11b78-63d2-44a3-9a17-677664b18b12_800x510.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wxC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd11b78-63d2-44a3-9a17-677664b18b12_800x510.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wxC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6fd11b78-63d2-44a3-9a17-677664b18b12_800x510.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">All brain-organ relay images are from the <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/five_laws.html#Fourth_BL_Viruses">learningGNM website</a>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The &#8216;old brain&#8217; <strong>mesoderm</strong> developed sweat &amp; eyelid glands, pleura (lung membranes), peritoneum (covering/ lining the abdominal cavity), pericardium (fibrous membrane around the heart) etc., and is controlled from the<em> <strong>cerebellum</strong></em>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XJt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fe54e0d-322b-4811-8598-bfe7eadec864_260x166.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XJt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fe54e0d-322b-4811-8598-bfe7eadec864_260x166.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XJt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fe54e0d-322b-4811-8598-bfe7eadec864_260x166.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XJt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fe54e0d-322b-4811-8598-bfe7eadec864_260x166.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XJt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fe54e0d-322b-4811-8598-bfe7eadec864_260x166.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XJt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fe54e0d-322b-4811-8598-bfe7eadec864_260x166.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XJt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fe54e0d-322b-4811-8598-bfe7eadec864_260x166.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XJt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fe54e0d-322b-4811-8598-bfe7eadec864_260x166.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XJt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fe54e0d-322b-4811-8598-bfe7eadec864_260x166.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;The model we choose to use to understand something, determines what we find.&#8221;</strong> &#8212;Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary</figcaption></figure></div><p>The &#8216;new brain&#8217; <strong>mesoderm</strong> developed bones, tendons, cartilage, ligaments, lymph, ovaries, testicles, spleen etc., but is controlled from the <em><strong>cerebral medulla</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg" width="334" height="213.24615384615385" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:166,&quot;width&quot;:260,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:334,&quot;bytes&quot;:13049,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWzG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F743e5465-ab43-4361-9df5-9a9577cca155_260x166.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.&#8221; &#8212;<strong>Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>The <strong>ectoderm</strong> develops the outer skin, mouth mucosa, nasal cavities, respiratory tract &amp; nervous system including nasal mucosa, outer ear, auditory canal, trachea, larynx, vocal cords and bronchia etc., all controlled from the<em> <strong>sensory cortex.</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1xLt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf984c91-ea54-48b1-af4a-e738733c46be_184x200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.&#8221;</strong> -Arthur Conan Doyle</figcaption></figure></div><p>To summarise these distinctions: <br>Each embryonic layer uses different bacteria, fungi <em>or viruses</em> in the healing process.<br><em><strong>Bacteria, fungi &amp; viruses do not cross embryonic membranes in to other embryonic layers. <br><br></strong></em>Hamer theorised viruses must assist the healing phase of <strong>cortex</strong>-controlled tissue, because the skin, nasal membrane, bronchia etc. <em>don&#8217;t heal with bacteria or fungi. </em>He then wondered if viruses like hepatitis <em>assisted</em> the healing of the liver, influenza <em>assisted</em> healing of the nasal membrane etc.. How then were viruses the <em>cause</em> of <a href="http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/">AIDS</a>? Cervical cancer? Swine Flu? cOvid? Bird Flu? SARS? <br><br>Stefan Lanka then turned up to complete Hamer&#8217;s thoughts which had been left open, but prior to these two Germans, a third, Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), proved the viral non-issue by ingesting whole germ cultures without developing so much as a sniffle. <br><br><em>Microbes, fungi, &#8216;viruses&#8217; etc. are only active during healing, assisting reconstruction of cells.<br></em><br>In <em>&#8216;viral outbreaks&#8217;</em> of <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/skin.html#Epidermis_Childhood_Diseases">chicken pox</a> in young school children removed from their parents (<a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/skin.html#Epidermis_BC">separation conflict</a>), or a territorial conflict as seen in the <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/lungs.html#Bronchia_Mucosa_PCL_Pneumonia">Spanish &#8216;Flu</a>, the collective psyche has experienced a biological conflict similarly and at the same time as others, thus each brain simultaneously engages the same biological program as the others.</p><p>Other aspects to be grasped for successful understanding include the necessity of a diet rich in protein and fermentation &#8212; ie. malnutrition and antibiotics can wreak havoc; and <em>unresolved</em> conflicts risk triggering issues into chronic conditions. </p><div><hr></div><p>What then was going on with cOvid? It was announced in March, the month named for war god Mars. cOvid was a declaration of war within the<em> <strong>individual psyche</strong>.</em> Psyche was known as a butterfly in Greek myth, a symbol of the brain&#8217;s twin hemispheres, but also the mystery of metamorphosis that turns a wriggling bug into a winged creature emerging from a chrysalis, symbolic of life's capacity to completely transform.<br><br>Buffeted about by external forces, one seeks to change the only thing in their power <em><strong>to</strong></em> change: ones <strong>internal state</strong>.&nbsp;Self-knowledge, ie. perception, sensation, belief, thought, emotion etc., must be studied and sifted in order to rebuild one&#8217;s internal perspective.<br></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Hamer with subtitles (a trailer on the suppression of knowledge)<br><a href="https://en.germanische-heilkunde-dr-hamer.com/videos/dr-hamer-about-his-book-mein-studentenmaedchen">Interview</a> (25mins) on Hamer&#8217;s music with a magical twist (good for those who know &#8216;<em>It&#8217;s all vibes maaan!</em>&#8217;)<br>I&#8217;ll be linking more videos on AIDS and virus delusions here as I watch them, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_N4zgjF0K0">this</a> one looks good...  <br><br><br><br></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/spells-of-covid-and-the-viral-illusion?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/spells-of-covid-and-the-viral-illusion?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/ariaveritas&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Buy me a kitten&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/ariaveritas"><span>Buy me a kitten</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[German New Medicine Shifts the Medical Paradigm from Toxic to Wholesome]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part 1.5]]></description><link>https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/german-new-medicine-shifts-the-medical</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/german-new-medicine-shifts-the-medical</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aria Veritas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:37:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8221;There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always right, and the mistakes and errors are always those of man.&#8221; &#8212;Goethe</em><br><br>In 1978, German physician Ryke Geerd Hamer lost his 19yr old son, Dirk, to a bullet fired from a yacht owned by Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, heir to the Italian throne. Dirk had been asleep on a neighbouring yacht just off the island of Cavallo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg" width="546" height="364.54819277108436" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:665,&quot;width&quot;:996,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:546,&quot;bytes&quot;:136290,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymNN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa811edbc-1091-45ea-8c20-12d6d2909990_996x665.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Island of Cavallo, near Corsica in the Mediterranean</figcaption></figure></div><p>Between August 17 and the early hours of August 18, 1978, the Prince of Naples fired his rifle into the air to dissuade a group of youths from &#8220;borrowing&#8221; his inflatable boat (without permission). While the prince was arrested and detained in Corsica, young Dirk was taken to a local hospital where his leg was amputated the following day. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg" width="469" height="281.9542097488922" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:407,&quot;width&quot;:677,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:469,&quot;bytes&quot;:70396,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ogqo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96601667-75cb-4584-a996-5fc1802c3168_677x407.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Dirk Hamer in hospital, 1978</figcaption></figure></div><p>Four months later Hamer&#8217;s eldest son, Dirk, died from his wounds. Vittorio Emanuele faced charges of murder, but was acquitted by a jury in 1979 which sparked outrage. Conspiratorial whispers smeared the Italian monarchy and in 1991, the prince was trialled in Paris, found guilty of unauthorised possession of a military weapon, but was acquitted of fatal wounding and unintentional homicide. In 2006 a video, deemed inadmissible as evidence, surfaced whereby Vittorio Emanuele admitted to killing Hamer. Facts still hang awkwardly but one still stands; Ryke Geerd Hamer lost his son.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg" width="140" height="225.34246575342465" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:470,&quot;width&quot;:292,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:140,&quot;bytes&quot;:51697,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!obXX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F033cb858-3a19-49f6-b8c7-bcadd45a98d8_292x470.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Doctor Ryke G. Hamer (1935 &#8211; 2017) developed testicular cancer after his grievous loss and began to wonder (<s>if?)</s> <em>how</em> the incidents were related. Hamer&#8217;s system, called New German Medicine (GNM), states the beginning of every disease (<em><strong>not</strong></em><strong> </strong>caused by obvious bullet wounds, bad diet, poisonous substances<strong> </strong>etc.) is due to an<em> unresolved mental conflict</em>. Having a deathly ill child or losing a child would qualify as one such conflict of mind. Dr. Hamer&#8217;s work is believed to be &#8220;logically contradictory and scientifically implausible&#8221; by establishment medicine and since GNM&#8217;s inception in 1981, it has remained <strong>highly</strong> controversial and Hamer has been jailed for his ideas.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg" width="165" height="194.44444444444446" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:350,&quot;width&quot;:297,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:165,&quot;bytes&quot;:26778,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-m-i!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb01d0378-f1ea-4d44-a284-eefc0beb09d2_297x350.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935 - 2017)</figcaption></figure></div><p>Wiki&#8217;s official Ryke Geerd Hamer page <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryke_Geerd_Hamer">reads</a> (edited): &#8220;[Hamer] was investigated, arrested and convicted several times in various European countries for crimes of medical malpractice, abusive practice of medicine, slander, fraud and has been disbarred, suspended, and is known for his anti-Semitic views and statements.&#8221;<br><br>Fascinating, weighty and suggestive as the details are, the fact is Hamer <em><strong>did</strong></em> develop a new grasp of the origins of disease based on his psychological grief in losing a child, though rather than being <em>truly</em> new it was also known in some form by the ancients.<br><br>Pythagoras was considered the<strong> father of psychology</strong> thanks to his encephalocentric (brain-related) doctrine which considered the brain as the seat of human sensation, consciousness and knowledge. Another school of thought believed the mind was centred in the heart (cardiocentrism), while philosophers in Homeric times believed multiple souls existed, each &#8216;soul&#8217; represented a different mentality aligning to the ancient idea of &#8216;sheaths&#8217; (or <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosha">koshas</a></em> in the Vedanta&#8217;s earliest recorded examples). <br><br>Regular readers will already know this writer believes <em>Pythagoras</em> stems from the Sanskrit words <em>pita gurus</em> or &#8216;father teachers&#8217;, just as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanchuniathon">Sanchuniathon</a> was not an author, but several linked words whose correct interpretation is &#8216;The Old Beginning of Time&#8217;. <br><br>These world-building wise men, or father gurus came from Mesopotamia (and likely India prior) having built the Sumerian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Babylonian empires upon which our<strong> </strong>degenerate<em>,</em> collapsing Roman empire is based. Looking back through time at humanity&#8217;s slow descent, it appears Hamer&#8217;s GNM can now be seen as a <em>renewing</em> of the vital role of a healthy, balanced mind in a healthy physique. The real &#8220;scientific implausibility&#8221; is that Man is a soulless robot whose psyche&#8217;s health is irrelevant.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg" width="362" height="192.3125" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:476,&quot;width&quot;:896,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:362,&quot;bytes&quot;:99629,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z1Sg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b49b0ce-6811-4c7b-945f-8de7b537d04a_896x476.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Rather than quackademic pseudo-science, Hamer suggests the body runs an ancient biological program to <strong>help it adapt </strong>to <strong>sudden, unexpected shocks</strong> like the illness and death of a child in Hamer&#8217;s case or a medical diagnosis perceived to be deadly.  </p><p>The loss of Hamer&#8217;s son resulted in &#8216;cancerous&#8217; cells concentrating where Hamer&#8217;s &#8220;heart/mind&#8221; axis (or soul) was focussed, ie. valuable, irreplaceable offspring. The special biological program then tried to encourage the conception of a new child through cell proliferation, resulting in a tumour because in the GNM paradigm&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><p>the <strong>tumour </strong><em><strong>represents the first healing phase</strong></em> <em>AFTER</em> the <em><strong>initial conflict has been resolved</strong></em> </p><div><hr></div><p>&#8230;whereas in modern medicine the moment the person<em> believes in a cancerous tumour</em>, they&#8217;re freshly conflicted with a new death fright and then poisoned with chemicals.</p><p>What if our fear of deadly illness was based on nothing but ignorance (and business)? <br><br>What if the body exhibited<em> evidence of healing from the souls distress</em> with a tumour? <br><br>Hamer proposes a special brain/organ relay system is on standby which is instantly activated when the psyche (or soul) suddenly perceives an acute conflict. Its purpose is to improve the function of the corresponding organ until the fright or conflict is resolved. Since shock occurs in the psyche, brain and organ at the exact instant of the shock, GNM considers the program to be run from the physical or <strong>biological</strong> brain.<br><br>Dr. Hamer refers to the <strong>Hamer Focus (</strong>or<strong> Foci) </strong>to describe the initiation of the &#8216;special biological programs&#8217; <strong>(SBS). </strong>Hamer Foci are focussed rings in the brain, which are clearly seen in the CT (computerised tomography) brain scan below. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg" width="265" height="318" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:246,&quot;width&quot;:205,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:265,&quot;bytes&quot;:5292,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NNFt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cdf6dde-d68e-4524-a740-7988ebefdad9_205x246.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Tomography from Greek <strong>Tomos</strong>: <em><strong>slice, section</strong></em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Officially, radiologists must call the rings &#8220;artefacts&#8221;, a technical phenomenon that occurs due to miscalibration or &#8220;insufficient radiation&#8221;. </p><p>But in 1989, <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/siemens_document.html#Siemens_Top">Siemens</a>, a manufacturer of CT equipment, certified that the rings cannot be artefacts because when the tomography is repeated and taken from different angles, the same configuration always appears in the same location. <br>Moreover, during the course of healing, the Hamer Focus changes from a <strong>sharp</strong> ring during active conflict, to <strong>swelling</strong> in the primary healing phase and again to <strong><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188601/">neuroglia</a> </strong>(Greek: lit. <em>nerve glue.</em>) as the organ&#8217;s function is restored. In the series of CT images below, large round artefacts are seen in uniform when a CT detector is miscalibrated.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg" width="574" height="229.6" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:120,&quot;width&quot;:300,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:574,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DzmA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ff48ee0-8150-486c-9193-0c75f44b74f9_300x120.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><p>If several Special Programs (SBS) run simultaneously, eg. in a pandemic with loss of income, illness and overdue bills, more than one Hamer Focus is visible on a brain scan representing <strong>different phases</strong> of active conflict and their two stages of healing.</p><p>Quoting Doctor Hamer, &#8220;A brain CT is the ultimate diagnostic tool. A thorough brain scan analysis draws reliable conclusions [such as] the intensity of the conflict; which organ is affected; whether the SBS is in the <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/five_laws.html#Second_BL_CA">conflict-active </a>or <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/five_laws.html#Second_BL_PCL">healing phase</a>; and which healing symptoms can be expected. The Hamer Foci are exact proof that the psyche communicates with all bodily organs via the brain as the control station.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg" width="369" height="335.54811715481173" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:652,&quot;width&quot;:717,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:369,&quot;bytes&quot;:71682,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ncA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbbdbdce-3eb1-40bd-ad5e-071e8699f4d4_717x652.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The appearance of the oedema (swelling) phase which illustrates that the healing has already started, might come with a headache. If the sufferer undergoes testing and is diagnosed with a brain tumour, it triggers another &#8216;<a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/lungs.html#Lung_Alveoli_BC">death-fright</a> conflict&#8217; to overcome:<br><br>Hamer explains on the subject of diseases of the <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/lungs.html#Lung_Alveoli_BC">lungs</a>; &#8220;A <strong>death-fright</strong> can be experienced in any life-threatening situation. However &#8212; by far the most common death-fright conflict is brought on by a <strong>diagnosis shock</strong>, particularly by a cancer diagnosis that hits a person like a death sentence. Statements by a physician such as &#8220;the cancer is <a href="https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/five_laws.html#Second_BL_Malignant">malignant</a>&#8221; or <em>inoperable, aggressive, invasive, metastasizing </em>or verdicts like <em>you have six months to live</em> can evoke an acute death panic.&#8221; Who would have thought.<br></p><p>It&#8217;s a fascinating subject introduced only briefly here, but it will be referred to again and again as part of an ongoing theme. I worked hard at first to grasp Hamer&#8217;s position on viruses (years before cOvid) which eventually made perfect sense, so watch out for the next cOvid post which includes the reason for my spelling it so pretentiously...<br><br>Till next time, </p><p>Cheerio. :)<br><br></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/german-new-medicine-shifts-the-medical?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/german-new-medicine-shifts-the-medical?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ariaveritas&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Buy me a piglet&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ariaveritas"><span>Buy me a piglet</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease X, Gen.X and the X Files Walk into a Bar.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bartender says, 'Why the cross faces?']]></description><link>https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/disease-x-genx-and-the-x-files-walk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/disease-x-genx-and-the-x-files-walk</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aria Veritas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:04:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9648bbf-23f1-4b04-b417-f88dcdf16aa7_498x199.gif" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_geoengineering">Solar Radiation Modification</a>, (SRM), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection">Stratospheric Aerosol Injections</a> (SAI) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory">Chemtrail</a> conspiracy are names for chemical aerosols. Two &#8220;mitigate climate change&#8221; and one is a nutjob&#8217;s pet theory. Studies <a href="https://journaljgeesi.com/index.php/JGEESI/article/view/476">conclude</a> they are all <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2021-0060/html#j_reveh-2021-0060_ref_081">harmful</a> to health. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg" width="442" height="305.946875" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:886,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:442,&quot;bytes&quot;:135332,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2j8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e67333e-6e23-4cc3-8a26-ac2003332e53_1280x886.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"> Aerosol: air o&#8217;soul. I count four or five X&#8217;s.</figcaption></figure></div><p>In the 90&#8217;s I was too busy reading and living to watch tv but often heard about weekly shows from enthusiastic friends and acquaintances. The most notable was the X-Files.<br>One recent afternoon the husband played a 5min. compilation (on his phone via X) on predictive contagion from the X Files. It was virtually identical to early 2020&#8217;s reality; <strong>theatre operating as reality, in the operating theatre of our reality</strong>. The 40s. version:</p><div id="youtube2-NKS6fPwfJIw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;NKS6fPwfJIw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NKS6fPwfJIw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>One day, with the generation after <strong>X</strong> named <strong>Y,</strong> followed by <strong>Z,</strong> I began to wonder, &#8220;To what degree should this (alphabetic end) be taken literally? The end of <strong>what</strong> exactly?&#8221; But at that time the X-Files was still just another show which seemed to prompt otherwise normal friends to talk about alien conspiracies &amp; monsters. Woo! <em>Crazy</em>talk!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg" width="241" height="329.66536203522503" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:699,&quot;width&quot;:511,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:241,&quot;bytes&quot;:75393,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rplc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8382d7e2-c242-4aa2-8184-d813fa48e365_511x699.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><p>Illegal &#8216;alien invasions&#8217; have increased in all western countries, but people still talk about little green men &amp; their UFO&#8217;s. Future reality planted beside (probable) fiction?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg" width="362" height="476.6333333333333" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:632,&quot;width&quot;:480,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:362,&quot;bytes&quot;:66666,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MsnX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F095f046a-d3c8-487b-a830-0529d263e091_480x632.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Disease X made its debut in 2018 as a <em>placeholder name</em> in the dark and malodorous rearward regions of the WHO. Was it deliberately named for Generation X just 2 years prior to cOvid, and five years prior to Elon Musk renaming Twitter to X? The X Files had handed out clues like cheap sweets. A game was afoot. A game&#8230; or an art form.<br><br>Metaphor, myth, simile, parable, allegory&#8230; Do aliens exist? Are monsters real? Understand one myth then find another to decode. What is being hidden and where, behind how many veils of illusion? Transcendent ideas exists beyond the<em> </em>known<em>. </em><br><br>We&#8217;re told Hermeticism originated in Egypt. Its colours are usually black, white &amp; red.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png" width="248" height="116.05128205128206" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:365,&quot;width&quot;:780,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:248,&quot;bytes&quot;:15157,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jf6f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45450b8a-e4d2-480a-8285-f9f8c4472d14_780x365.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Egyptian god <strong>Thoth</strong> (whose Greek equivalent &#8212; <strong>Hermes</strong> &#8212; was credited with writing the <strong>Hermetica</strong>) represented wisdom, writing and justice. He was patron of the scientists, and the messenger of supreme ancient Egyptian sun god, <strong>Re or Ra</strong>.</p><p>In Italian and Latin, <strong>Re</strong> and <strong>Rex</strong> means <em>king,</em> suggesting these words were adopted from or related to Egyptian <em>supreme<strong> </strong>god </em><strong>Re/Ra</strong>. The Christian hymn/prayer affirmation <strong>Amen </strong>still in use today is an alternative spelling for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun">Amun</a>/Amon/Amen Re/Ra. Ancient Egypt was known as Khem and meant <strong>blackness</strong> due to its dark and fertile  soil. The first phase of the Hermetic art is to complete the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigredo">blackness</a>. <strong>Chem</strong>icals, <strong>chem</strong>istry, <strong>chem</strong>o and al<strong>chem</strong>y all stem from the same word, referring to Egypt: Khem.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg" width="466" height="379.13957597173146" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:921,&quot;width&quot;:1132,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:466,&quot;bytes&quot;:187135,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DR71!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0dc35624-8f81-48f6-8362-ec338ae65baa_1132x921.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.&#8221;</strong> -William H. Gass</figcaption></figure></div><p>Stratospheric Aerosol Injections (SAI) or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM, aka chemtrails) are official methods of geo-engineering to &#8220;create a cooling effect via global dimming and increased <em><strong>a l b e d o </strong></em>... (whiteness).&#8221; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection">Wik</a>. <br>And now it must be noted that if one <em>knows</em> about the Hermetic art, one does not <em>talk</em> about the Hermetic art, other than to point out the second phase is called <em><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo_(alchemy)">a l b e d o</a></strong></em>.<br>Thus one sees any chemtrail has direct links to the Hermetic blackness and whiteness.<br><br>So? So. Why develop the X Files? One journalist wrote &#8220;Tracking the story of Mulder and Scully is like studying pointillism.&#8221; Pointillism is an impressionist view required to unlock the patterns of illusion in the modern world. Hermeticism is a symbolic art.</p><div id="youtube2-gAzU-IZXaJk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;gAzU-IZXaJk&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gAzU-IZXaJk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Were Scully &amp; Mulder representative of left &amp; right brain symmetry working together to <strong>see</strong> reality? Are monsters real, or representative of those overriding their humanity?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg" width="356" height="278.3803278688525" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:954,&quot;width&quot;:1220,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:356,&quot;bytes&quot;:147022,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TIy6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6841cebe-781c-4b72-a7c9-0e3c08c46190_1220x954.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"> Image from X Files; <strong>Scully fights the cold-blooded murderer <a href="https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/tag/pfizer">Pfizer</a>&#8230; no wait&#8212; wrong spell &#8212; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5DAAc5UwhA">Pfaster</a>. </strong><em><strong>TV Guide</strong></em><strong> listed Pfaster among the scariest </strong><em><strong>X-Files</strong></em><strong> monsters describing him as "evil incarnate".</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>But really, do let&#8217;s get on to Disease X, which corresponds to what the former US Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld, infamously termed as an &#8220;unknown unknown&#8221;. </p><p><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-7-2012-002906_EN.html">Analyses</a> from 1998 verified chemtrails were <strong>known</strong> to contain &#8220;<em>barium, aluminium, radioactive thorium and caesium, copper, titanium, silicon, lithium, cobalt, lead, ethylene dibromide and other pathogenic agents</em>.&#8221; These chemicals, re-marketed as &#8220;the best hope in fighting climate change&#8221;, come with added secret spice today; <a href="https://www.brmi.online/post/weather-engineering-and-its-undesirable-side-effects">nanobacteria</a> (<em>N. sanguineum</em>) to help encourage<em> calcification of heart valves, gallbladder and kidney stones, </em>and<em> arteriosclerosis</em> &#8212; but wait &#8212; <em>aluminium oxide/hydroxide also compromises eyes, nose, throat &amp; chest; irritation causes allergic reactions like hay fever, headaches, asthma, sinus congestion, mental confusion, depression, ear infections, Alzheimer-like syndromes &amp; <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7136972/">pneumonia-like</a> respiratory symptoms. </em>Thus <strong>SRM</strong><em>&#8217;s </em>help our climate&#8217;s stability. Phew!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg" width="652" height="700.2649350649351" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:827,&quot;width&quot;:770,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:652,&quot;bytes&quot;:108462,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nmFX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30c9f793-7d8d-4e20-9943-0897e7c8c28f_770x827.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;A deadly pathogen like Disease X [&#8230;] would likely be a respiratory virus...&#8221; Simrin Singh quoting Amesh Adalja. <em>CBS News</em>, (January 17, 2024) Image: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717532/">Human Health Effects of SRM (Solar Radiation Modification) Aerosols</a> </figcaption></figure></div><p>Is an &#8220;unknown&#8221; factor really going to cause Disease X? It&#8217;s <em>known</em> that accumulative vaccines, chemical medications, stress, distress, poisoned food, water and air cause disease. 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href="https://www.the-heal-yourself-series.com/Author.html">Walter Last</a></strong>, made the wild claim that if boron was no longer labeled poison <s>as marketed and promoted by the pharmaceutical industry</s>, it had the <strong>potential to bring down the entire economic system</strong>. The pharmaceutical industry was worth <a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/1764/global-pharmaceutical-industry/#topicOverview">$1.48 trillion</a> in 2022.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg" width="323" height="421.76190476190476" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:521,&quot;width&quot;:399,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:323,&quot;bytes&quot;:36735,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MeKh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1be94a8a-aad9-40fb-98ae-74303ade6bfd_399x521.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the southern hemisphere, the health-savvy conspiracy theorist can purchase a 500gram tub of pure Borax&nbsp;in the supermarket laundry aisle for less than five dollars. One could clean their bath tub with Borax, then drop a handful in their bath water for therapeutic purposes; maybe correct osteoporosis, cancer or a hormone imbalance, or just heal a wound; boron's health benefits are legion&#8230; and therefore kept rather quiet.&nbsp;<br><br>Borax comes from the Arabic word <em>buraq</em> which translates more or less to <em>specular</em>, (which is <em>mirror</em> or <em>shiny</em>). Walter Last&#8217;s economic reflections were based on Doctor Rex Newnham&#8217;s discovery that borax cured his arthritis. Quoting Last on Dr. Newnham: <br><br>&#8220;In the 1960's Rex Newnham, Ph.D., D.O., N.D, developed arthritis. At that time he was a soil and plant scientist in Perth, Western Australia. Conventional drugs did not help, so he looked for the cause into the chemistry of plants. [&#8230;] He started taking 30 mg of borax a day, and in three weeks all pain, swelling and stiffness had disappeared.</p><p>He told public health and medical school authorities about his discovery but they were not interested. However, some people with arthritis were delighted as they improved. Others were scared to take something with a poison label [&#8230;] meant to kill [&#8230;] ants. Eventually he had tablets made with a safe and effective quantity of borax.</p><p>Within five years and only by word of mouth he sold 10,000 bottles a month. He could no longer cope and asked a drug company to market it. <strong>That was a major mistake. </strong>They indicated that <em>this would replace more expensive drugs and reduce their profits. <br></em>[With] representatives on government health committees [it was] arranged that, in 1981, <strong>Australia instituted a regulation that declared boron and its compounds to be poisons in any concentration.</strong> [Newnham] was fined $1000 for selling a poison, and this successfully stopped his arthritis cure from spreading in Australia.</p><p>[Newnham] published several scientific papers [&#8230;] in the mid 1980's at the Royal Melbourne Hospital which showed that 70% of those who completed the trial were greatly improved [with] no negative side-effects, but some reported that their heart ailment had also improved, and there was better general health and less tiredness.&#8221; <br>(Dr. Newnham&#8217;s full quote <em>and dosages</em> in Last&#8217;s paper linked as PDF at end of post.)<br><br>Borates, boron, borax, boric acid etc. refer to the same elemental mineral. The Turkish Eti Maden boron mine, the world&#8217;s largest supplier, sold (US)<a href="https://borates.today/billion-dollar-boron/">$1 billion</a> worth of boron for technological &amp; industrial applications in 2021 and the market is growing.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg" width="194" height="194" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1000,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:194,&quot;bytes&quot;:149920,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uoRw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9974dd52-bd74-4fdb-bed5-ce7306b02a20_1000x1000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Boron</strong>: <a href="https://borates.today/apple-and-boron/">used in &#8216;Gorilla Glass&#8217; for iPhones since c.2007</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Buying boron online is the only option in Western Europe; one can pay &#8364;29 for a one kilo bag of 99-99.5% pure boron, labelled <strong>poison</strong> and sold as a professional anti-mould solution or ant killer. Option two is the very same <strong>anti-mould ant poison</strong> boron but magically rendered safe by &#8220;wellness brands&#8221; adding various fillers like <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29668341/">silicon dioxide</a> (sandstone/quartz), cellulose (wood pulp), potassium sorbate (synthetic preservative), titanium oxide (carcinogen); these are charged at prices starting at &#8364;13 - &#8364;25 for a light-weight plastic container of 100 to 365 compressed 3mg boron pills or capsules. <br>The rising <strong>global wellness</strong> industry amassed <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-09/the-global-wellness-industry-is-now-worth-5-6-trillion">$5.6 trillion</a> in revenue in 2022. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYeb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e332532-504b-483b-9421-4f8807e24a7b_595x521.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYeb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e332532-504b-483b-9421-4f8807e24a7b_595x521.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYeb!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e332532-504b-483b-9421-4f8807e24a7b_595x521.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYeb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e332532-504b-483b-9421-4f8807e24a7b_595x521.jpeg 1272w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYeb!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e332532-504b-483b-9421-4f8807e24a7b_595x521.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYeb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e332532-504b-483b-9421-4f8807e24a7b_595x521.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mYeb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e332532-504b-483b-9421-4f8807e24a7b_595x521.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" 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The gist; &#8220;<em>acute boric acid ingestions produce minimal or no toxicity</em>.&#8221; <br>Borax at 99-99.5% purity was all I needed as therapeutic solution for the whole family, so of course I bought the one kilo size with decorative poison label.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t4pt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99d00788-bd3e-4517-a91b-988096d33d28_167x302.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t4pt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99d00788-bd3e-4517-a91b-988096d33d28_167x302.jpeg 424w, 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AFB1&nbsp;mould, yet was listed alongside arsenic, formaldehyde and rat poison. Then, it was <strong>outlawed</strong> due to <strong>reproductive toxicity</strong>&#8230; then reclassified in 2010 as <em>Reprotoxic Category 2</em>&#8230; <em>then</em> won a skull &amp; crossbones to warn of its danger.&nbsp; <br><br>Meanwhile, back in reality, some tests say there is no difference in fertility in borax mine workers while others conclude that &#8220;while boron has been shown to adversely affect male reproduction in laboratory animals, there is <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30143848/">no clear evidence</a> of male reproductive effects attributable to boron in studies of highly<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19850122/"> exposed workers</a>.&#8221;<br>Rather than a reproductive poison it has been found to be <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1566640/pdf/envhper00403-0062.pdf">essential</a>.<br><br>Walter -<em>Boron Could Kill the Economy- </em>Last said if the same standard resulting in boron&#8217;s reclassification was applied to other chemicals, there would be no more chemicals available; the main chemical in the borax substitute, sodium percarbonate, is about <strong>three times</strong> more toxic than borax, but Last also notes: <br>&#8220;With this [reclassification], the medical-pharmaceutical system has safely defused any potential danger that borax may have posed to its<strong> profitability and survival.</strong>&#8221;<strong> </strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BmZR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe815fed9-0506-4ab6-b279-eaa3ed236aa8_679x436.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BmZR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe815fed9-0506-4ab6-b279-eaa3ed236aa8_679x436.jpeg" width="259" height="166.30927835051546" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e815fed9-0506-4ab6-b279-eaa3ed236aa8_679x436.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:436,&quot;width&quot;:679,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:259,&quot;bytes&quot;:50177,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BmZR!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe815fed9-0506-4ab6-b279-eaa3ed236aa8_679x436.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BmZR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe815fed9-0506-4ab6-b279-eaa3ed236aa8_679x436.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BmZR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe815fed9-0506-4ab6-b279-eaa3ed236aa8_679x436.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BmZR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe815fed9-0506-4ab6-b279-eaa3ed236aa8_679x436.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Boron <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712861/">balances hormones</a> of both sexes, maintains strong teeth and<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7889887/"> bones</a> even in to <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1566632/">old age</a>, wards off <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007916/">cancer</a> by strengthening cell membranes, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2141160/">cures wounds</a>, sharpens <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10050926/">memory</a>, helps correct <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6304/10/8/428">neurological disorders</a> and <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7889884/">mental degeneration</a>, helps (if not cures) <a href="https://juniperpublishers.com/jojcs/pdf/JOJCS.MS.ID.555582.pdf">fibromyalgia</a>, osteoporosis and <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/026010600401700403?download=true">arthritis</a>, helps increase <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15504575/">vitamin D uptake</a>, lowers <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35298949/">obesity</a>, increases <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22944583/">strength</a> and helps <em>regulate mRNA</em> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712861/">among other things</a>. <br><br>Walter (at) Last claimed: &#8220;If the boron-magnesium cure for these diseases should become widely known, this vital income stream would dry up and the system collapse. As the biggest, most profitable industry in the world, this can&#8217;t be allowed to happen.&#8221; </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg" width="410" height="298.56846473029043" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:351,&quot;width&quot;:482,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:410,&quot;bytes&quot;:64199,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Iw9y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43fdccbf-82ac-491f-b597-5896ca4eb007_482x351.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy.&#8221;</strong> -John H. Tobe</figcaption></figure></div><p>Economy comes from the Greek <em>oikonomia</em>, which means <em>household management, arrangement </em>and<em> distribution </em>as laid out by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Latin Catholic churches. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_(religion)">Wiki</a> says: &#8220;In short, <em>economia</em> is a discretionary deviation from the <em><strong>letter</strong></em> of the law in order to adhere to the <em><strong>spirit</strong></em> of the law. The divine economy [&#8230;] refers to God's actions to bring about the world's salvation and redemption [&#8230;].&#8221; <br>Not quite what I had expected to come across in research, but still, it fits rather well.<br><br>Capitalism requires a market-based economy. Communism requires a command-based economy. They&#8217;re both mangey, limping, flea-bitten mutts, but each viscerally represent the <em>spirit</em> of the ending of this cyclic age. The ever-worshipped (global vs. divine) economy refers to God's actions to bring about the world's salvation and redemption&#8230; Waiiit a minute &#8212; did someone just mention the economy and Gu&#233;non? </p><div><hr></div><p>&#8220;As economic factors have been mentioned, we will [...] draw attention to an all too common illusion [&#8230;] that trade can serve to draw people closer together and bring about an understanding between them, whereas in reality the effect is just the contrary. [...] The economic sphere remains [...] one of a rivalry of interests. <br><br>Inventions, which at present go on being multiplied with ever-increasing momentum, are all the more dangerous [...] to the very people that make use of them; and this demonstrates conclusively the worthlessness of modern science, [...] this science is far from being disinterested, it is <em>industry</em> which is the only real object of its researches.&nbsp;</p><p>As the danger of these inventions [...] will no doubt continue to grow to an extent that is difficult to foretell, it is permissible to suppose [&#8230;] that the modern world will succeed in bringing about its own destruction, unless it can check its present breakneck course while there is yet time.&#8221; Ren&#233; Gu&#233;non, <a href="http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx?article-title=A_Material_Civilization_by_Rene_Guenon.pdf">A Material Civilisation, 1927</a>.</p><div><hr></div><p>The ever-growing&nbsp;fractalisation of the medico-industrial &#8216;invention&#8217; market exists for the sake of an economy which has become a monstrous egregore;&nbsp;a word defined as a thought-form (idea) that becomes <strong>wakeful;</strong> several monstrous egregores wakened during 2020 &#8212; what was cOvid but the alarm of cascading coinage to wake the beast?&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg" width="702" height="394.875" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:702,&quot;bytes&quot;:303365,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dCb_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77c35cc3-74dd-4292-8637-86031776889a_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.&#8221; </strong>-Victor Hugo</figcaption></figure></div><p>Boron's Wiki <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron">page</a> is a fairly dry read on mining and apparent toxicity but also its truly diverse and extraordinary applications for industry like agricultural <a href="https://agriculture.borax.com/products">fertiliser</a>, flame retardants &amp; heat resistant <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264127515302355">fabrics</a>, glass, metallurgy, ceramic and <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0734743X11000145">bullet-proof</a> tiles, <a href="https://borates.today/boron-neutron-capture-nuclear-power-safety/">nuclear</a> safety, optics and electronics including iPhones and solar <a href="https://borates.today/boron-future-solar-energy-efficiency/">panelling</a>, <a href="https://www.bn.saint-gobain.com/blog/charging-ahead-boron-nitride-in-electric-vehicles">EV batteries</a>, aerospace, and of course medicine; but medicine as a <strong>cure</strong> or <em><strong>treatment</strong></em>?</p><p>Cancer <em><strong>treatment</strong></em> Velcade made with active ingredient boron, is a brand of anti-cancer medication (bortezomib) for bone marrow tumours and non-Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma. It&#8217;s an injectable and (or) intravenous powder; one 3.5mg dose can go for up to <a href="https://ameripharmaspecialty.com/velcade-bortezomib-a-promising-treatment-for-multiple-myeloma/">$1,692.96.&nbsp;</a><br>Blatant money-making schemes abound; rather than diluting and drinking borax for hip issues (whose strength is next to the diamond on the Mohs scale) one is <a href="https://borates.today/hip-replacement-the-vital-role-of-boron/">opened</a> up.</p><p>Were <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31823256/">mRNA</a> vaccines a fire lit under the collective derri&#232;re? Is <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21300566/">VAIDS</a> a death sentence or just a course corrector? Faith in man-made drugs killed HIV positive men in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s but returning to a <a href="https://medium.com/conversations-at-rowe/i-m-going-to-change-my-life-an-interview-with-sandor-ellix-katz-65901203f3d8">natural life</a> meant they survived. Is boron really a poison mineral or just poisonous to a thriving economy based on iatrogenic disease?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oKIq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b0c6b70-653c-4aaf-a9d1-3363ff4f63e2_280x358.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oKIq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b0c6b70-653c-4aaf-a9d1-3363ff4f63e2_280x358.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oKIq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b0c6b70-653c-4aaf-a9d1-3363ff4f63e2_280x358.jpeg 848w, 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Abscess: Dealing Without a Dentist.]]></title><description><![CDATA[(de)Facing the Medical Establishment's Business Plan. Part 2.]]></description><link>https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/the-abscess-dealing-without-a-dentist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/the-abscess-dealing-without-a-dentist</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:45:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Part <a href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/fed-up-to-the-back-teeth-with-medical?utm_source=profile&amp;utm_medium=reader2">One</a> I came to the experiential realisation that well-meant dental advice can often be the first canary in the medical establishment's goldmine of diseases. <br><br>In my most recent bout of tooth turmoil (bad food choices under months of prolonged stress), neither teeth nor gums hurt; it was more like a weakly inflamed headache from the right side of my skull, down to neck &amp; shoulder, and the back of my right eye.<br>Seeing as my health is generally good, a persistent (3-4 week) headache meant trouble.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg" width="239" height="371.7025495750708" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:549,&quot;width&quot;:353,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:239,&quot;bytes&quot;:33887,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s7Mj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03cabeb3-e2f2-4684-9f04-b05aa081688f_353x549.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool &#8212; but only to himself, of course.&#8221; -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment</figcaption></figure></div><p>Holistic dentists are a good alternative to standard dentistry, but prevention will always be better than a cure. Please note, I have no porcelain fillings left in my mouth and never had <a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/health-hazards-of-mercury/#gsc.tab=0">mercury</a> fillings. <strong>NB</strong>: <em><strong>Applying iodine to mercury fillings is a very <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16002132/">bad</a> idea.</strong></em><br><br>If <a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-foods/dirty-secrets-of-the-food-processing-industry/#gsc.tab=0">industrial food</a>, <a href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/waiter-theres-a-persecution-psychosis">fluoridated</a> water, <a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/dentistry/root-canal-dangers/#gsc.tab=0">root canals</a> and <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466133/">toxic amalgams</a> weren&#8217;t enough to cripple the immune system &#8212; behold! mRNA injections! At best these <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1242380/full?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">suppress</a> the immune system, at worst cause disease and death in man and <a href="https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/genetic-vaccines-in-animals-and-food?publication_id=870364&amp;post_id=138030095&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=2flmiv">beast</a>, and yet the rise and rise of mRNA research in &#8220;food/health&#8221; continues including in <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35319289/">dentistry</a>. <br>So! What to do when the horrifying spectre of tooth problems appear?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg" width="404" height="318.9991876523152" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:972,&quot;width&quot;:1231,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:404,&quot;bytes&quot;:182658,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!li_x!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffaef2cd-fc8d-404b-b1e7-82f4e9a9c619_1231x972.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.&#8221; -</strong>Maimonides</figcaption></figure></div><p>I am neither doctor nor dentist; this is merely an anecdotal tooth repair recipe. I&#8217;ve used it for c.14 years due to a habit of pushing body &amp; mind (&amp; luck) to limits beyond those considered reasonable or even moral by most. (The rewards have been worth it.)<br><br>To someone unfamiliar with &#8216;doctoring ones self&#8217; the following ingredients might seem strange or even ridiculous, but side-benefits include clearer skin, happier mood, better sleep and better vision. While considerably cheaper than a dentist, it requires active participation and self-respect/discipline. <em>If in doubt, take the bio-dentist route.</em><br><br>&#8212;<strong>Recipe Ingredients</strong>&#8212;</p><p>Beef broth&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/beef-broth/#gsc.tab=0">recipe</a>)<br>Herb broth&nbsp;<br>Good salt (unrefined)<br>Good water (non-fluoridated, non-chlorinated)<br>Garlic<br>Ginger/Dandelion root/Rose hip teas<br>Paleo bread or favourite easily digestible carbohydrate staple (no added sugar)<br>Butter<br>Vegetables<br>Sardines<br>Eggs<br>Nuts/Seeds<br>Hard cheese like Grana Padano<br>Non-pasteurised Sauerkraut<br>Meat for slow-cooking and other satisfying whole food meals (ie. no take-aways/junk)</p><p>Sunshine<br>High quality Cod or Skate liver oil<br>Oregano oil<br>Coconut oil<br>Castor oil</p><p>Vitamin C<br>NAC (N-Acetyl Cystine)<br>Lugol&#8217;s Iodine <br>Boron<br>High quality magnesium supplement&nbsp;<br>Magnesium chloride (for bath if available) <br>Activated charcoal<br><a href="https://www.earthclinic.com/supplements/ala.html">ALA</a> (Alpha Lipoic acid)<br>Hydrogen Peroxide food grade 3%<br><br>&#8212;<strong>Method</strong>&#8212;<br><br>&#8212;The trick is to have two or three whole meals a day, swapping snacks for broths. Enamel holds&nbsp;96% of minerals in the body; the body borrows endlessly from this stash so when problems appear, there has been too much taking, not enough giving back.<br><br>&#8212;When the penny dropped the problem was in my mouth, I placed one drop of <strong>Lugol&#8217;s Iodine </strong>on each problem tooth and waited (1-2 minutes)&#8230; then rinsed clear. <br>It must be repeated: <em><strong>Do not apply iodine to <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905169/">mercury</a> fillings.</strong></em> (I&#8217;ve heard iodine shouldn&#8217;t even be taken in a mercurial mouth but can&#8217;t find a source beyond this <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16002132/">study</a>.)<br><strong>Salt loading</strong> is necessary after any iodine,&nbsp;and is considered a healthful <a href="https://www.watercures.org/water-cures-protocol.html">tonic</a> in itself. <br>(A cup of salt-seasoned broth counts as &#8216;salt loading&#8217; and is the method I use.) <br>To salt-load: 1/4 teaspoon of good salt in a glass of good water. It should taste pleasant. After 15-30 minutes, follow with a glass of <em>unsalted</em> water to flush halides.<br><br>&#8212;Before bed each night, I <strong>oil-pulled</strong>. To oil-pull, one holds extra virgin coconut oil in the mouth until melted, then swishes for ten or fifteen minutes. I did this at least three times per day, especially after food. The action pulls bacteria through teeth and gums into the oil to be discarded; good for sweet breath, teeth problems or not.&nbsp;<br><br>&#8212;Before bed, (seeing as iodine can keep one awake) I applied <strong>Hydrogen Peroxide</strong> to the teeth then swished with a scooped handful of water for a few moments.<br><br>&#8212;<strong>ALA</strong> before bed too.</p><p>&#8212;<strong>Food</strong>&#8212;<br><br>&#8212;For the first week; I had one cup of <strong><a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/food-features/broth-is-beautiful/#gsc.tab=0">bone broth</a> </strong>three times a day with one or two freshly minced cloves of <strong>garlic</strong> in the bottom of the cup. I waited ten minutes for the garlic to become most potent then poured in the heated broth and salted to taste. <br><br>Specifically for tooth enamel remineralisation I use marrow,&nbsp;cartilage &amp; collagen-rich beef bones. Lamb, chicken or fish should work too. Bone-marrow when roasted and seasoned is delicious straight from the bone and is nutritional <strong>gold</strong>. Bless the beast!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JxcJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0965e95-442d-461f-bb67-43c04fd3f90a_1500x1126.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JxcJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0965e95-442d-461f-bb67-43c04fd3f90a_1500x1126.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JxcJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0965e95-442d-461f-bb67-43c04fd3f90a_1500x1126.jpeg 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;Good broth will resurrect the dead.&#8221;</strong> <a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/food-features/broth-is-beautiful/#gsc.tab=0">WAPF</a> Image c/o <a href="https://www.seriouseats.com/roasted-marrow-bones-how-to-make-bone-marrow">Serious Eats</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>To the beef broth pot I added dried seaweed and dried mushrooms for as mineral dense a concoction as possible and thought sweet thoughts to the sacrificed animal/s. Herb broth was taken towards the end of the strict first week. I used medicinal classics&nbsp;rosemary &amp; sage from the garden as an anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and anti-oxidant (among other excellent properties), seasoned with salt.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg" width="402" height="211.3640625" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:673,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:402,&quot;bytes&quot;:133108,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mrDw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67561030-0792-46a7-b048-3dd0309f1640_1280x673.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;<strong>There are no incurable diseases &#8212; only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs &#8212; only the lack of knowledge.</strong>&#8221; -Avicenna</figcaption></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/the-abscess-dealing-without-a-dentist?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/the-abscess-dealing-without-a-dentist?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><br>&#8212;I used home-made <strong>paleo bread</strong>, toasted or fresh with sliced butter and good salt for flavour. Roasted bulbs of <strong>garlic</strong> spread on top of toast is a delicious snack, especially with Cervia salt which contains iodine, zinc, iron and other very valuable minerals.</p><p>&#8212;High calcium <strong>hard cheese, leafy greens</strong> with butter, <strong>sardines</strong> etc. are all of great value.&nbsp;I ate fermented foods like <strong>sauerkraut</strong> &amp; sour <strong>yoghurt</strong> too and snacked on <a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/podcast/250-neutralize-anti-nutrients/#gsc.tab=0">salt-soaked</a> <strong>hazelnuts, cashews, almonds</strong> and <strong>walnuts</strong>. Soaking/dehydrating nuts with mineral-rich salt is an ancient practice, and while some manage phytic acid better than others, dodgy health suggests the all-important gut flora (terrain) is suboptimal.&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg" width="250" height="199.39271255060729" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:591,&quot;width&quot;:741,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:250,&quot;bytes&quot;:85425,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9CiE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8a6c07d-f446-4a5f-9b29-501a0260dd6f_741x591.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;...Human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium...&#8221;</strong> -Terry Pratchett</figcaption></figure></div><p>&#8212;The unsweetened hot cocoa blended with <strong>collagen, butter </strong>and<strong> coconut oil </strong>breakfast habit was maintained throughout the chaos. </p><p>&#8212;<strong>Supplements</strong>&#8212;<br><br>&#8212;<strong>Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) </strong>and <strong>N-acetal cysteine (NAC)</strong> (ratio 4:1) taken in water 2-3 times per day. Lipo C, vit.C powder, and a 1,000mg pressed pill were all used and if I could source local rose hips I'd have been making/drinking rose hip tea <em>constantly</em>.<br><br>&#8212;<strong>Oregano oil</strong> (underrated natural antibiotic, as is garlic) was taken every four hours for the first few days until progress was seen/felt. Thereafter taken as required.&nbsp;</p><p>&#8212;<strong>Magnesium</strong> supplement/s maintained (400-800mg per day).&nbsp;</p><p>&#8212;M<strong>agnesium chloride</strong> baths (typically two handfuls of salts per bath) every third day for the first two weeks to pull toxins out of the skin and calm the nervous system.<br><br>&#8212;<strong>Boron</strong> twice per day. A note on boron, it is <em>GOLD</em> for teeth and bones (and sex)... A&nbsp;gland,&nbsp;called the parathyroid, sits&nbsp;next to the thyroid and secretes a calcium-regulating hormone: <strong>boron is for the parathyroid what iodine is for the thyroid</strong>. <br>Its highest concentration (after the parathyroid gland) is in <strong>bones </strong>and<strong> </strong><em><strong>dental enamel.</strong></em><strong> </strong>(<a href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/disease-the-backbone-of-a-healthy">Boron</a> will be the subject of the next health post.)</p><p>&#8212;One tablespoon of the best quality <strong>cod liver oil</strong> available three times per day minimum. Normally I take a tablespoon per day through autumn and winter.<br><br>&#8212;I got <strong>sunshine</strong> every time it was available, at least one full hour every day. <br><br>&#8212;In the first few days, I packed the affected teeth/gums with <strong>activated charcoal</strong> and let it sit for a few minutes before swishing with a handful of water. This draws out toxins and helped with headache and shoulder stiffness.<br><br>&#8212;At night to aid sleep, I used a hot water bottle and a <strong><a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/castor-oil-pack">castor oil pack</a></strong>.<br>I used it on my shoulder/back, then took the fabric while it was still very warm and laid it upon the cheek/neck for about twenty minutes, adding the (folded) hot water bottle when the cloth cooled. I slept soundly once this routine was included.</p><p>&#8212;First week, <strong>exercise</strong> was very brief. Short walks if any, no mountain bike action. :(</p><p>&#8212; I rested as often as needed. Slept when sleepy.</p><p>After a week of eating normally (no sugars/fruits) my head/shoulder aches had gone. Second week I took a grape now and then but generally carrots were as sweet as I'd go.</p><p>By November the 13th I was back to cookies &amp; chocolate, back to racing about on the mountain bike, full cooking, cleaning housewife/mother mode, fighting, laughing and normal. What abscesses&#8230; tiny bumps that had almost disappeared altogether?! <br>I got <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEO9OPq96Uo">COCKY</a>.<br>After birthday cake with mascarpone for breakfast, we went to a family birthday lunch with some friends which included a glass of wine and a full-size tiramisu all to myself. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg" width="223" height="199.09072164948455" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:433,&quot;width&quot;:485,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:223,&quot;bytes&quot;:24230,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xUNG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dcc7a2f-53e7-487f-bd6a-cd85629411c6_485x433.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process.&#8221;</strong> -Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World</figcaption></figure></div><p>I was exhibiting retardation of an hubristic order. We walked by the mountain lake in the crisp autumn cold and I didn't take a big coat or leather gloves so days later in a freshly crumpled state I started the routine afresh, and will remain on it till after Christmas. I feel great! <em>I want to stay that way.</em> Last week my right arm corrected itself; I&#8217;ve stable energy, smooth gums, clear mind, organised house and sleep well. <br><br>Issues resolve naturally if the will and minerals are available. The most difficult part of this natural and effective recipe is self-discipline &#8212; easy&nbsp;if Tiramisu doesn't make a show-stopping appearance in an elegant mountain restaurant to fuck it all up.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg" width="600" height="315" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:315,&quot;width&quot;:600,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:30387,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hyCN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b7f8836-1062-42fe-af10-e17785ef1101_600x315.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;He was always looking for new and interesting ways to destroy himself.&#8221; -K. Dion</figcaption></figure></div><p><br></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fed up to the Back Teeth with Medical Misadventure. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[First Steps for Defeating the Medical Establishment's Business Plan. Part 1.]]></description><link>https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/fed-up-to-the-back-teeth-with-medical</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/fed-up-to-the-back-teeth-with-medical</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aria Veritas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:04:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac19e11c-336f-48f6-8176-06e0a4b8d688_798x667.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png" width="280" height="186.76" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:667,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:280,&quot;bytes&quot;:596589,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mGc7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1928efe-7a98-4ebf-9785-bd47786c05ae_1000x667.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;God has given me blood to drink.&#8221; -<strong>Shirley Jackson, The Tooth</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>I'd heard the stories but it was my first experience with an actual tooth problem. At 27yrs old, before an international trip, I once booked a visit which resulted in a <em>root canal</em> &amp; two porcelain fillings. Strange. My teeth had never given me any trouble at all.<br><br>In writing this sorry tale I found that back in 1990, the <a href="https://www.ada.org/">ADA</a> &#8220;<em>suggested&#8221;</em> dentists perform thirty million root canals per year by 2000. Sixty million are &#8220;<em>required&#8221;</em> today.</p><p>Five years later when a dentist was genuinely required I realised too late that he was physically&nbsp;unstable &#8212; whether DT's, old age or too much medication I didn't speculate but his faded pink walls, yellowed&nbsp;cornices, dusty 80's prints said the glory days were over. Wizened hands shook with the drill an inch from my eyes. I was stiller than still and finally grasped the popular fear of dentists.</p><p>It didn't go well of course and I only had myself to blame; my fault for getting the tooth in to trouble (too much stress &amp; gelato), my fault for seeking a cheap dentist within walking distance, and my fault for politely accepting the operation after realising he was likely incompetent. It was an unsettling experience but my <em>first tooth ache</em> was taken care of more or less. With antibiotics and no more gelato, life went on.&nbsp;</p><p>Two or three years later, after buying and selling a property,&nbsp;having a baby,&nbsp;and then moving locally and internationally three times in 18 months, the elderly dentist's rooted canal returned with a vengeance. Obviously stress played a leading role.</p><p>In that time I had learned and applied a paleo version of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Weston-Price/dp/0916764206/ref=m_crc_dp_lf_d_t1_sccl_1_1/146-9859935-4799350?pd_rd_w=QSgVn&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.76a0b561-a7b4-41dc-9467-a85a2fa27c1c&amp;pf_rd_p=76a0b561-a7b4-41dc-9467-a85a2fa27c1c&amp;pf_rd_r=WAGXA77ZVJNKSG33X84B&amp;pd_rd_wg=NXbam&amp;pd_rd_r=7f596164-e34a-40e7-9e1b-f5f076e8ab40&amp;pd_rd_i=0916764206&amp;psc=1">Weston A. Price</a>'s ancestral diet guidelines from the early 1900's, but any excessive stress meant the tooth flared up.&nbsp;A biodynamic farm gate sold raw milk nearby. Delicious! But the tooth didn't care.</p><p>I learned about having teeth pulled, but just having them pulled wasn't good enough; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation_(bone)">cavitations</a> could form, trapping necrotic tissue in a little bubble of trouble.&nbsp;<br>They needed to be pulled out, then drilled clean with all necrotic tissue suckedly removed from gum to bone. Yes that's right. Suckedly. As I learned the dangers of root canals, I became furious at my own ignorance, which turned in to horror at the dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical, food and medical systems. But forewarned is forearmed.&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg" width="412" height="262.4630788485607" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:509,&quot;width&quot;:799,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:412,&quot;bytes&quot;:87390,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIIE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d609b84-33a0-47df-91ea-9ad0c25fa70f_799x509.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;Not only do we <em>not</em> let food be our medicine, we let food be one of the causes of our need for medicine.&#8221; -<strong>Mokokoma Mokhonoana</strong>  Meme c/o <a href="https://patrickdotnet.substack.com/p/patricknet-memes-mon-nov-27-2023?publication_id=462864&amp;post_id=139191403&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=2flmiv&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">Patrick.net</a> </figcaption></figure></div><p>When the molar flared again, I went to a dentist with good online reviews in our small university town; she was perhaps twenty years older than me. She <em>wouldn&#8217;t</em> have been taught that in 1910 both the Mayo Clinic and Weston Price <a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/dentistry/root-canal-dangers/#gsc.tab=0">knew</a> the toxicity of root canals. She <em>would</em> have been taught my role was to open up, shut up and pay up. <br></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><br>Nevertheless,&nbsp;I asked her to kindly pull out my failed root canal and then drill away the surrounding gum and bone to an overall depth of 5 millimetres to ensure any necrotic tissue down in to the bone was <a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/dentistry/dental-cavitation-surgery/#gsc.tab=0">removed</a>. She was shocked &#8212; <em>shocked!</em><strong>  &#8220;</strong>My dear young lady, I am here to <em><strong>save</strong></em> your teeth!&#8221; Dr. De Kay replied. <br><br>Removal wasn't going to happen just as the forums online said it wouldn't. Rats.<br>I'd already paid $150 just for her to look at it. Fine. Do the&nbsp;second&nbsp;stupid $1,800 operation, $500 more than the last failed op. But mark my words <em>LADY</em>, I&#8217;d find s<em>omeone</em> to wrench and drill that $3,300 liability&nbsp;from out of my jaw.</p><p>It took another two years and another international move before I found someone to pull it out properly; a Jewish holistic dentist, and one of only two licensed to practice in our city of over five million. The other bio-dentist had a two year waiting list. All that time my back ached. After the extraction I sat in the private waiting room with a small sterile cotton pad packed into the affected area and a skiing magazine on my lap.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg" width="544" height="285.6" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:630,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:544,&quot;bytes&quot;:63904,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!swf1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35b0b9f0-9b6d-4a26-b431-32297c024a05_1200x630.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>&#8220;Skiing is a battle against yourself, always to the frontiers of the impossible.&#8221;</strong> -Jean-Claude Killy. Image:<strong> </strong>Turoa Skifield (NZ)</figcaption></figure></div><p>Gazing at the snowy slopes the pain in my back suddenly stopped, as if it just dried up. I wriggled my spine &#8212; truly &#8212; it had gone. Magazine mountain sun beamed on me like a gold mote. Was the local anaesthetic making me high? The pain <em>had gone</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Despite the rough learning curve (the most effective kind), it was supremely valuable firsthand knowledge. Disillusionment coloured my old respect for medical professionals, but its accompanying nous allowed me to speak politely and firmly with them in subjects ranging from teeth, preventative diets, child birth and vaccinations.</p><p>Sally Fallon and Mary Enig&#8217;s book called, <strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Traditions-Challenges-Politically-Dictocrats/dp/0967089735">Nourishing Traditions</a>: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats,</strong>&nbsp;had seen me through two doctor-free births in lieu of the role traditionally ascribed to mothers &#8212; a first class education on what to eat and how to cook; it was worth its weight in gold.&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg" width="236" height="219.65650969529085" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:672,&quot;width&quot;:722,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:236,&quot;bytes&quot;:71341,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IwbA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8365ed9-e9c7-4e77-a7c1-4924efdcbb21_722x672.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.&#8221; -Sally Fallon Morell, <em>Nourishing Fats: Why We Need Animal Fats for Health and Happiness</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>One day I caught sight of Sally Fallon's recommendation of a book called <a href="https://www.curetoothdecay.com/Dentistry/weston_price_dentist.htm">'Heal Tooth Decay</a>' by a concerned father, Ramiel Nagel.&nbsp;He'd noticed his daughter&#8217;s baby teeth were rotten and black; he healed her using traditional foods.&nbsp;I&#8217;d already mastered bone broth etc. thanks to Fallon, but Nagel&nbsp;specified a <em>remineralisation </em>protocol. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zYhU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a567d1-fd5b-4f56-a0c6-8b3676eeeee9_266x345.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zYhU!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a567d1-fd5b-4f56-a0c6-8b3676eeeee9_266x345.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zYhU!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a567d1-fd5b-4f56-a0c6-8b3676eeeee9_266x345.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zYhU!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a567d1-fd5b-4f56-a0c6-8b3676eeeee9_266x345.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zYhU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a567d1-fd5b-4f56-a0c6-8b3676eeeee9_266x345.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;[Cure Tooth Decay] is a vehicle towards a higher good. <strong>It changes your perception of reality. </strong>It changes the reality.&#8221; Quote on the book by Ranko Medved, Croatia</figcaption></figure></div><p>The downside to this personal knowledge was admitting we were living in a deadly, materially corrupted culture and nobody else seemed to know or care; to mention it was social suicide. The knowledge I&#8217;d accrued was like a gauntlet thrown at my feet.  </p><p>As my father always said, if you want something done properly, you have to do it yourself, which meant... if I had a tooth problem, or a broken bone, or my children or husband became ill, I would have to know exactly what to do. It was a scary prospect, but not as scary as the butchers at the hospital, drug-pushers at the doctors office or well-meaning dentists in general&#8230; Fast forward to two months ago, Sept.-Oct. 2023.<br><br>After hundreds of false starts to the Uranus post over an endlessly hot and average summer, I suffered Scriptus Interruptus so badly my brain imploded; knowing an interruption was imminent (and it always was) drove me to the brink of despair. <br>I hit the 70% chocolate, gaffer-taped headphones to my head, replaced lunch with butter cookies, chips and many other corner-cutting bastardisations of the damned.<br><br>By early mid-October, after correcting a kidney issue (stress-fuelled* electrolyte imbalance) I began research again but with so many details needing triple-checking the stress felled me.&nbsp;My head started aching, shoulder &amp; back were stiff &amp; painful&#8230; meditation to find the root of the problem was too brief&#8230; in the stress of November birthdays&#8230; needing paleo, sugar-free cakes baked&#8230; and social obligations with friends&#8230; undertaken in cold mountain environments when I finally got the message...</p><p>Abscesses in two different teeth.&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg" width="206" height="257.5" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:625,&quot;width&quot;:500,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:206,&quot;bytes&quot;:58976,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f_k_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87dfaf8f-0195-433a-a302-d1253c0c38a9_500x625.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;That bowl of soup&#8212;it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.&#8221; -<strong>Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Image, &#8216;The Soup Nazi&#8217;</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p><br><br><br>Part two coming very soon.<br></p><p>* In the 2006 book called &#8216;Biology of Kundalini&#8217; by Jana Dixon, she notes the difficulty of balancing the hyper-activated sympathetic nervous<a href="https://biologyofkundalini.com/article.php@story=ExhaustionPhase.html"> system</a> post-Kundalini.**</p><p>** &#8216;The <a href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/publish/post/114954479">Kundalini Trip</a>&#8217; (Parts 1&amp;2) open to all subscribers for the following week.<br><br></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scratching Post ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iodine & The Cat, in Photos.]]></description><link>https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/the-scratching-post</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/the-scratching-post</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aria Veritas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:44:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Due to back-to-school chaos, the intended post has been held up. In its stead I present the Scratching Post; an illustration of the physical effect of topical iodine on wounds.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg" width="254" height="354.67636363636365" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1152,&quot;width&quot;:825,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:254,&quot;bytes&quot;:261333,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EoRp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53dd9ac0-9acd-4956-8648-35f670e31d8d_825x1152.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Purr<em><strong>pet</strong></em>ual purification is a meditative habit.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The Cat came with the house we intended to rent for six months during spring lockdowns three and a half years ago. He's the salve that keeps us from losing our sh*t waiting for our own house to appear. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg" width="274" height="176.3875" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:824,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:274,&quot;bytes&quot;:225252,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FqYM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faab3f758-e6bf-47bf-b205-4089c5d818ba_1280x824.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The goddess <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis">Isis</a> was associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastet">Bastet</a> [Egyptian cat-headed goddess]: &#8220;Isis is the soul of Bastet.&#8221; -Wik. The Cat in cat loaf position</figcaption></figure></div><p>One day at the beginning of last month, The Cat sat cat-loafing on the back doormat. He usually sprawled out like the king of the world. He came in, ate a little then left to cat-loaf further. The next day a gory wound festered on the left side of his jaw below the whiskers, swollen to the size of a regular marble &amp; a half; the fresh wound must have been hidden by the angle he ate in relation to the fridge. He seemed soggy and sleepy. Next time he entered the kitchen, his bowl of tasty tuna was really a trap...&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg" width="222" height="249.26315789473685" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1280,&quot;width&quot;:1140,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:222,&quot;bytes&quot;:326327,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqPU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e6a8b49-8c5f-4a27-9dc0-41dc6648e054_1140x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Names of ancient Egyptian deities were often associated with cult secrets. Bastet&#8217;s name was written with the hieroglyph for <em>ointment jar</em>, associated with protective ointments. -Wik</figcaption></figure></div><p>Five drops of iodine were put in a small ramekin half-filled with good water. A paper towel folded to the size of a fat thumb was&nbsp;dipped in the water, and just as his food was placed down I gripped his furry face and pressed the iodine-soaked towel on to what was a clearly infected wound. Material (skin, fur, blood) came away; I dabbed until it stopped. He held still long enough and when released went straight to his tuna. He's a tough bastid and didn't flinch. Warning: slightly graphic photos to follow.</p><p>Once the iodine had been applied and he&#8217;d eaten, he sat beside me knowing I'd fend off the others (which was necessary; his jaw was a curiously gruesome sight). He cleaned the wound constantly for about thirty minutes without interference, and finally slept a little in my chair. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg" width="382" height="367.675" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/be0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1232,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:382,&quot;bytes&quot;:421597,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ktat!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe0f22b9-88fc-4dfb-9f53-285ac52c78f6_1280x1232.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">6th September after first application. Dreadful photo. Apologies.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The same routine was done the following day with similar results. <br>By the third day the infection resolved and his energy returned to normal. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGMU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F967668bc-d8ab-4572-9898-0e8f104bdac2_960x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGMU!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F967668bc-d8ab-4572-9898-0e8f104bdac2_960x1280.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">8th September, just before third application.</figcaption></figure></div><p>He would vigorously clean the wound then sleep in a normal position, whatever normal is supposed to mean.&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg" width="268" height="299.07585004359197" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1280,&quot;width&quot;:1147,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:268,&quot;bytes&quot;:384513,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2pc9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117bf4c2-ae85-4f30-a1c7-91be4be2883e_1147x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Precariously balanced comfort.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Five days later the gore had disappeared, and pink skin signalled all was well.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg" width="270" height="360" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1280,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:270,&quot;bytes&quot;:288294,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu8B!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e76ed44-00b0-4170-bc72-66e26f4f30a2_960x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">14th September</figcaption></figure></div><p>Diluted iodine treatment started on the 6th, applied once per day for three days. <br>The photo above was taken on the 14th &#8212; the eighth day. <br>Below, the 26th September. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg" width="212" height="282.6666666666667" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/adb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1280,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:212,&quot;bytes&quot;:267651,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YUYg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadb9457f-9b81-4160-aa0f-c3af76b7f102_960x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.&#8221; -Jean Cocteau</figcaption></figure></div><p>It wasn't the first episode involving The Cat and iodine and I doubt it&#8217;ll be the last. <br>Lugol&#8217;s meant no stress of a vet trip, no stitches, no financial outlay, no drugs nor antibiotics. (Soldiers wort may have had a similar effect but would require sourcing fresh leaves, making a poultice and securing it for a while somehow.) <br><br>Today, fine white fur dost groweth upon whiskered chin. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg" width="298" height="198.821875" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:427,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:298,&quot;bytes&quot;:319702,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPzq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2d777c4-437f-474e-a00c-28b34ea5caec_640x427.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;I have lived with several Zen masters &#8212; all of them cats.&#8221; -Eckhart Tolle</figcaption></figure></div><p>&#8220;Priest and god of its own cult, the cat follows a code of ritual purity, cleaning itself religiously.&#8221; <em>-C. Paglia.<br><br><br></em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Intended next post: Water purification<br></p><p><em><br><br><br><br></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn of the Iodine Odyssey]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Backstory.]]></description><link>https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/dawn-of-the-iodine-odyssey</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/dawn-of-the-iodine-odyssey</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aria Veritas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:44:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/92dad2d3-0ef1-438e-a6ab-174625207f72_1200x672.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In my very early thirties I took Prozac for one whole month. <br>The future with the boyfriend was looking painfully pedestrian and to accept this fate I approached Big Pharma to silence the urgent &#8216;<em>NO!</em> <em>Do not accept this trajectory!</em>&#8217; <br><br>I'd already tried Ritalin when I&#8217;d left him months before on a mutually agreed mission to clear the mind, but all Ritalin (pharma-grade <strong><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2000591/">speed</a></strong><em>) </em>was good for,<em> </em>was nights out with our friends on my return. It kept me awake, angry and/or anxious. No point to it.<br>Five weeks after the first Prozac, it too was binned, and there ended the pharma drugs episode from which I learned never to accept a budget fate before it comes to pass. </p><p>It wasn't just the boyfriend. Qualifications for a myriad of creative careers couldn&#8217;t bring me to care. I desired above all a naturally clear head and contentment without anxiety; <em><strong>fulfilment </strong></em>of my highest possibilities, whatever they were supposed to be. I&#8217;d been groomed to be a business woman and to do all the things but all the things weren&#8217;t enough. A big fat WHY hit me in every direction.</p><p>Sleep was difficult, couldn't think straight,&nbsp;Ouroboros in my head. Why&#8230; Why what? There wasn&#8217;t even a coherent question to ask.<br>Walking for hours in the hills, swimming for hours at the pool. Darkly depressed, desperate and determined to get over it&#8230; everyone else seemed alright. <br>What the hell was my problem? It was crippling. <br><br>About three weeks after taking the first Prozac I was reading in bed in my own room. <br>Slowly in the dim light a big black spider crawled over the bump of my feet towards my face. I watched it crawl in to range then squashed it on the quilt with the back of the book, flicked its broken corpse to the floor and noted the stain its guts made with a shrug. 'Holy smoke, not even scared of spiders now. What is this diabolical drug?'<br><br>I studied the Prozac (fluoxetine) ingredients the next afternoon, learning about fluorine, sodium fluoride and aluminium waste. Something dark and ugly stirred and it wasn&#8217;t the ghost of spiders past.&nbsp;Could online information<em> </em>be trusted? It was still a relatively wild frontier with damning documents and forums drawing in the curious.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zgam!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03dd4724-e49e-4bb5-97e4-96238c423513_365x500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zgam!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03dd4724-e49e-4bb5-97e4-96238c423513_365x500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zgam!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03dd4724-e49e-4bb5-97e4-96238c423513_365x500.jpeg 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;The only drug approved by both British and US medical authorities [&#8230;], fluoxetine (Prozac), will also carry a <strong><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538521/">black box</a></strong> warning. <strong>Dr Temple said he found it "interesting and persuasive" that all drugs, including fluoxetine, showed the same trend toward increased <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC518888/">suicidality</a>.&#8221; </strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>The average western <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3956646/">water supply</a> contains ingredients common to rat and <a href="http://www.fluoride-history.de/p-insecticides.htm">cockroach poisons</a>, <a href="https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&amp;context=m4sp">anaesthetics</a>, <a href="https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/prozac-and-methamphetamine-likely-responsible-for-toxins-in-tap-water/4011268.article">psychiatric</a> &amp; <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2307/4010314">pharmaceutical</a> drugs and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloropicrin">military nerve gas</a>.&nbsp;Bad &#8212; obviously &#8212; but combinations of these also trigger decomposition products with toxicity greater than the original compounds. I had to believe what I was reading was true quite simply because the information paralleled personal experience; brain fog, confusion, anxiety, sleeplessness and calcified, aching muscles &amp; joints. An invisible illness from <a href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/waiter-theres-a-persecution-psychosis">invisible poison</a>s. What was going on? No &#8212; Seriously. <br>What.</p><p>The boyfriend insisted fluoride was to stop cavities after I'd read out some heavy facts in a last ditch attempt to salvage our c.7yr off/on relationship &#8212; I needed his support but his reaction was a breakthrough &#8212; he was being <em>polite</em>. Diplomatic. <em>Programmed</em>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg" width="394" height="288.6807692307692" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:762,&quot;width&quot;:1040,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:394,&quot;bytes&quot;:142374,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jl0K!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb22f4d27-3939-4bab-85ff-57a141885764_1040x762.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds, many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea, fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home. But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove &#8211;the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all, the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun and the Sungod wiped from sight the day of their return. Launch out on his story, Muse, daughter of Zeus, start from where you will &#8211; sing for our time too.<em> -The Odyssey, by Homer. Image: Siren ministers <a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/jacinda-ardern-shuts-down-reporters-question-about-finnish-leader/9btkn6cci">Marin and Ardern</a></em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Something was&nbsp;wrong with everything, everywhere; my life required a formal restructure &#8212; a new Truth &amp; Dare campaign. The mission was to correct the pain and brain, then decipher the wider world. Truth and mental peace was the only thing<em> </em>worth desiring with my <em>whole soul. </em>I was confident this n=1 experiment would be successful so long as no one &#8220;helped&#8221; with their polished monocle of social judgement.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png" width="142" height="106.5" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:320,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:142,&quot;bytes&quot;:32576,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgbX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5e7186d-0fca-4ce0-a03a-bc7aea05044c_320x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">*drops monocle in Champagne* &#8220;That&#8217;s my 3rd monocle this week. I simply must stop being so horrified.&#8221; -The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCq1rAjLIg">Simpsons</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>So one morning the boyfriend headed to work with a farewell, reminding me I&#8217;d be gone when he returned, in case I&#8217;d forgotten. The last thread linking me to Normie World broke the moment he walked away, and I was on the road within the hour.<br><br>I moved back to the city with most opportunity, found some part-time work and a modest flat and began studying disease and medical protocol generally. Studying outside institutionalism was revelatory &#8212; behold! &#8212; independent thought! <br>First was AIDS, still a popular topic back in the mid '00's. To my surprise, when cross-checking with firsthand accounts in active forums, some claimed the afflicted were <strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/inventingaidsvir00dues">dying from properly prescribed AIDS medication</a>,</strong> <strong>not the disease&#8230;</strong><br><br>Weird angle.<br>I looked up what the long-living men were doing. They'd adopted a natural lifestyle. Spring water. Whole foods, lots of fermentation. Herb teas, and no pharma. They&#8217;d become hippies. I didn't understand but stored it away for later, then dived in to neurology, SSRI&#8217;s and fluoride, training in heavily chlorinated city pools all the while.&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png" width="342" height="191.52" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:672,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:342,&quot;bytes&quot;:523923,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JgkJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1fb0e105-baf2-4585-8de5-699758b1376e_1200x672.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;My therapist set half a glass of water in front of me. He asked if I was an optimist or a pessimist. So, I drank the water and told him I was a problem solver.&#8221; -Anonymous.<strong> Image </strong>by <a href="https://www.speedo.com/blog/swim-plan/best-30-minute-swim-workouts/">Speedo</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Well. Then. Of course none of this would do.&nbsp;One couldn&#8217;t become spontaneously and  chemically clean by swimming, bathing and drinking in known poisons. Fortnightly massages remobilised some junked up musculature but realising after a year the water purifier never stated fluoride was being filtered out was a bad day. What the hell to do?</p><p>Something about the thyroid, pituitary and pineal glands was fascinating and struck a deep chord.&nbsp;How to purify those most vital glands to their original function. I had a <em><strong>will</strong></em> to do it, so that meant there would be a <em><strong>way</strong></em> to do it.&nbsp;<br>Iodine kept coming up, but so did the <a href="https://www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca/en/NewsAlerts/Alerts/Pages/AlertDetail.aspx?alertid=ISMPC071">warnings</a> about it.</p><p>Nothing was keeping me in the country apart from a handful of friends who couldn&#8217;t<em> </em>begin to<em> </em>fathom my true plight. To keep the instincts sharp I moved internationally. Life was now an authentic game of Truth And Dare. Great. Go girl. <em>However&#8230;</em><br>One day in the new city after the usual hour in the pool, I strode in to my small and pleasant studio apartment to collapse on bed with racing adrenals and exploding heart. Breathlessness and research on thinning hair failed to spot the problem.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg" width="290" height="163.27" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:563,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:290,&quot;bytes&quot;:156487,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fpF4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ea518a-daaf-40da-bd42-ff94008704f1_1000x563.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8216;Due to intense brain fog all of my thoughts have been grounded until further notice.&#8217; -Anonymous. Image by Antoine2k</figcaption></figure></div><p>I was proud of living independently, but pride for me always ensures a heavy fall. If I died right then nobody would know until the neighbours or landlord complained: fine, but for what? Chaotic world! Nobody knew what was going on. My hermit father always said, <strong>&#8216;If you want something done properly, you have </strong><em><strong>got</strong></em><strong> to do it</strong><em><strong> yourself</strong></em><strong>.&#8217; </strong></p><p>By this time my married sister had had her first child. Six months later she picked him up from his cot and three of her vertebrae split. After the usual medical pantomime she was diagnosed with coeliac disease. Hers was a typical bandaid diagnosis but I removed gluten from my diet too, which helped some things and worsened others. With no excess weight to lose and not yet knowing how to replace glutenous bread I was now staring down a thyroid/gut axis issue to see who blinked first. <br>The importance of pineal, pituitary and thyroid glands was back with a vengeance.<br><br>This dangerous game of Truth And Dare now demanded full endocrine system correction, possibly starting with the gut. It was a meditative art to maintain full system balance and I&#8217;d clearly lost it the afternoon of the Detonating Adrenals. So one fine day in 2008 after many hours researching medical literature and firsthand accounts, I dialled up ye auld internet connection and bought a bottle of Lugol&#8217;s, 5%.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg" width="174" height="232" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1500,&quot;width&quot;:1125,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:174,&quot;bytes&quot;:194281,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnF2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63125221-85a8-4cf3-b313-00960fe0be37_1125x1500.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;I feel stronger, stronger in my spine. I was puzzled by this feeling in my upper back when I started out, until I read we have NIS (sodium/iodide symporters) in the upper part of the spine. Iodine is important for the spinal fluid.&#8221; -<a href="https://thyroidblog.com/en/my-story/">Liv Stang-Lund</a> </figcaption></figure></div><p><br></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><br><br>Future health/iodine posts will be drip fed (no pun) as time permits. <br>Iodine is not a magic bullet on its own. Unless you&#8217;re a cat with a gory flesh wound then it is a magic bullet, 100%. (Post due soon on this furry tale.)<br>All iodine (and probably all health-related) posts will be filed in a new section at the top of this page when there are about five published. <br><br><br>&#8220;Light is an electric fire put by Nature at the service of the <strong>will</strong>; it lights those who know how to use it, it burns those who abuse it.&#8221; <br>-<em>The Key of the Mysteries</em>&nbsp;by Eliphas Levi.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiter, there's a persecution psychosis in my water." ]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Medicine & the Priest class. Part 1.]]></description><link>https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/waiter-theres-a-persecution-psychosis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/waiter-theres-a-persecution-psychosis</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aria Veritas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 12:19:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k98H!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a93a5f8-24e1-47d0-aeaa-bc9c6cdd3a3d_1280x1280.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k98H!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a93a5f8-24e1-47d0-aeaa-bc9c6cdd3a3d_1280x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k98H!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a93a5f8-24e1-47d0-aeaa-bc9c6cdd3a3d_1280x1280.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k98H!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a93a5f8-24e1-47d0-aeaa-bc9c6cdd3a3d_1280x1280.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k98H!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a93a5f8-24e1-47d0-aeaa-bc9c6cdd3a3d_1280x1280.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k98H!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a93a5f8-24e1-47d0-aeaa-bc9c6cdd3a3d_1280x1280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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Physiologically, they&#8217;re a &#8216;gutter system' to draw sweat away from the eye. Through several decades of the last hundred years, the western feminine ideal was very fine brows plucked to oblivion, from dolls to actresses to fashion.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg" width="278" height="370.6666666666667" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:400,&quot;width&quot;:300,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:278,&quot;bytes&quot;:140995,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rj1I!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2446ee1e-b630-4afb-b1d9-6ed0f24acca6_300x400.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8216;Havoc&#8217; Secret Agent Daisy doll, 1973. Photo- Etsy</figcaption></figure></div><p>In the late 1800&#8217;s, scanty brows were (in part) criteria to diagnose myxoedema, known today as severe hypothyroidism, or an under-active thyroid. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg" width="310" height="232.5" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:310,&quot;bytes&quot;:304324,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dzkx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33aa90ba-ea30-4272-babd-a7d104d89f47_1600x1200.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;I don&#8217;t have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.&#8221; -G. Devers. Photo- Etsy</figcaption></figure></div><p>Once upon a time, Harvard student <a href="https://oncohemakey.com/wolff-and-israel-l-chaikoff/">Jan Wolff was drawn to work at Dr. Israel L. Chaikoff's laboratory</a> because said lab offered a salary of US $100 a month. <br>In the late 1940&#8217;s the two men co-wrote a paper describing what became known as the &#8216;Wolff-Chaikoff effect&#8217;. <br><br>In the late 1960&#8217;s, after Chaikoff had died, Wolff published in the American Journal of Medicine an article addressed to clinicians. It came from the National Institute of Health which made it credible. <br>The results saw iodine pulled from the food supply and medical industry (except for radioactive iodine for hyperthyroid cancers, <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2737319?guestAccessKey=6f287130-e597-4e48-b8a6-295bd94dc1fb&amp;utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_content=tfl&amp;utm_term=070119">increasing risk of death from solid cancers</a> as recently proved in a study led by the National Cancer Institute.<br>Physicians assumed that the Wolff-Chaikoff effect had been demonstrated in human subjects, as insinuated.&nbsp;<br><br>Medical students are taught that iodine is only used by the thyroid, but in reality it's used by the thyroid, breasts, brain, heart, gastrointestinal system, skin, ovaries, lungs, eyes, mouth, bones, blood, used in the production of hormones and is accumulated by the immune system. <br>The thyroid gland is a small, butterfly-shaped&nbsp;gland at the base of the neck.&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TK4g!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1ae444-19f1-41d0-bf87-556f058a6abf_487x696.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TK4g!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1ae444-19f1-41d0-bf87-556f058a6abf_487x696.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TK4g!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1ae444-19f1-41d0-bf87-556f058a6abf_487x696.jpeg 848w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TK4g!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1ae444-19f1-41d0-bf87-556f058a6abf_487x696.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TK4g!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1ae444-19f1-41d0-bf87-556f058a6abf_487x696.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TK4g!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a1ae444-19f1-41d0-bf87-556f058a6abf_487x696.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Ah that deathly subtle hypothyroid fashion of the 70&#8217;s.</figcaption></figure></div><p>In 2005, Doctor Guy E. Abraham, owner of&nbsp;a thyroid practice in the US and developer of&nbsp;Optimox, a medication to stabilise the thyroid gland wrote&nbsp;a paper, '<a href="https://www.optimox.com/content/Iodine%20Research%20Resources/IOD04.pdf">The Wolff-Chaikoff Effect: Crying Wolf</a>?'&nbsp;</p><p>It is an interesting paper and not just for the apparent expos&#233; of his fellow doctor/s.<br><br>There is one paragraph about the Hindu god Shiva, which seems jarringly out of place, even in an informal medical paper such as Abraham's.&nbsp;<br>This subject will be returned to in a following post, but for now, to quote Dr. Abraham on the technicalities of the Wolff-Chaikoff effect:</p><p>&#8220;The Wolff-Chaikoff effect is supposedly the inhibitory effect of [&#8230;] (uptake) of iodide&nbsp;by the thyroid gland of rats, resulting supposedly in hypothyroidism and goitre.&nbsp;<em>These rats never became hypothyroid and thyroid hormones were not measured in their plasma.</em> Nevertheless, the Wolff-Chaikoff effect, [...] was extrapolated to humans.&nbsp;</p><p>The correct interpretation of the results [...] is: Iodide sufficiency of the thyroid gland was achieved when serum inorganic iodide levels reached 10-6M, as we previously discussed.&#8221;</p><p>The strange paragraph appears in much less technical language in the third page of Dr. Abraham's paper;</p><p>"Supplying thyroid hormones to iodine-deprived individuals masks the iodine deficiency and results in a population of zombies, capable of performing physical work but not able to think and reason properly.<br>For maximum effect, combine iodine deprivation with goitrogen saturation, using the potent goitrogens bromide, fluoride, and perchlorate in the food and water supply. This population of zombies then becomes easily influenced through repetition and subliminal programming to believe lies and deception even in the spiritual sphere.<br><em>Iodine deprived Christian America became vulnerable to the pagan influences of Eastern Mysticism, and New Age Occultism, which were incorporated in the practice of medicine and adopted by the public at large. Eighteen million Americans practice yoga, a form of worship of the Hindu god, Shiva."</em><br><br>A Judeo-Christian specialist thyroid doctor worried about Judeo-Christian hypothyroid patients turning to yoga, an Eastern metaphysic tradition in an informal yet scientific iodine expos&#233; on his peers? Peculiar indeed. But then, Reality is increasingly glimpsed through the drifting veils of illusion these days.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg" width="316" height="231.73333333333332" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:660,&quot;width&quot;:900,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:316,&quot;bytes&quot;:103965,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLw3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c796df5-97fc-49da-b35d-09603e6a714b_900x660.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Veiled Truth, (also known as Chastity and Modesty) by Antonio Corradini. Sculpture completed in 1752</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7261729/">Fluoride</a> had already been put in the water supplies of many English-speaking cities from the 1940's and 50's, thus parents of Generation X were already under the epigenetic influence of iodine deficiency and industrial foods. <br><br>Dentist Weston A. Price raised alarm bells in the 1930's about the industrial food supply causing mental and physical degeneration <a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/podcast/186-the-problem-with-fluoride/#gsc.tab=0">even without fluoridation</a>, stating that Nature had a 'Three generations' rule of genetic health: after the third generation of industrialised food consumption, fertility declined due to genetic deformity.&nbsp;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg" width="328" height="287.9111111111111" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:395,&quot;width&quot;:450,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:328,&quot;bytes&quot;:36693,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XMR4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0778f041-673c-4777-afca-a6f40a7894ad_450x395.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><br>Price wasn&#8217;t alone in raising the alarm.<br>&#8216;<a href="https://www.fluorideresearch.online/waldbott/files/waldbott.pdf">FLUORIDATION: The Great Dilemma</a>&#8217;, (published 1978) by George Waldbott, M.D., quoted many of those who protested and were struck off the medical register, ignored, abused verbally, humiliated and threatened or worse, making it clear that the organisations behind pro-fluoridation and iodine disappearance -who/whatever they were- were unstoppable.<br><br>The Weston A. Price web page titled '<a href="https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-diseases/the-great-iodine-debate/#gsc.tab=0">The Great Iodine Debate</a>' states:</p><p>"Iodine was discovered in 1811. It was used in large amounts until the mid-1900s [&#8230;].&nbsp;<br>The Nobel laureate Dr. Albert Szent Gy&#246;rgi (1893-1986) wrote: &#8220;When I was a medical student, iodine [&#8230;] was the universal medicine. [&#8230;] We students used to sum up the situation in this little rhyme:<br><br><em><strong>If ye don&#8217;t know where, what, and why<br>Prescribe ye then,<br>K and I. </strong></em><strong>[KI - potassium iodide]</strong><br>[&#8230;] <br>The pharmacological action of compounds containing potassium iodide, &#8220;is as obscure as their effects in certain diseased conditions are consistently brilliant. <br>Our ignorance of their mode of action is cloaked by the term 'deobstruent', which implies that they possess the power of driving out impurities from the blood and tissues."</p><p>Today, instead of the <em>consistently brilliant</em> iodine, synthetic thyroid is used and listed among the top ten most prescribed medications in the US. A natural version &#8216;<a href="https://www.drugs.com/pro/armour-thyroid.html">Armour Thyroid</a>&#8217; is available, made from the dried and desiccated thyroid of sheep and pigs.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg" width="194" height="258.6666666666667" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1600,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:194,&quot;bytes&quot;:154826,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UFPh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2240e7d-9860-4592-bdbd-23fb404dfae5_1200x1600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>55 </strong>thyroid medications to choose from. But <strong>don&#8217;t mention iodine</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Either way, the hypothyroid patient is bound to medication for life. Unless something moves in them to seek freedom from their Wolffishly imposed limits. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg" width="470" height="290.6901041666667" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:475,&quot;width&quot;:768,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:470,&quot;bytes&quot;:87688,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_q3y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97d1909a-4eb5-46db-a959-77e16a7e3f56_768x475.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;What hast thou to ask? Why comest thou hither? Odin, I know where thine eye is hidden.&#8221; -Anonymous, The Poetic Edda</figcaption></figure></div><p>Back to the 70's/80's:<br>-Iodine was removed from bread, replaced with one of its three nemeses (bromate) and rebranded a <a href="https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/pro/reference/bromate">dough conditioner</a>.</p><p>-Furniture, mattresses and car interiors were treated with bromide and called a '<a href="https://greenactivefamily.com/chemicals-and-materials/fire-retardants-in-your-home/">flame retardant</a>'. (Surely another esoteric in-joke.)</p><p>-Fluoride and chlorine were added to most water supplies across the english-speaking world causing strange headaches, weakness, dizziness and nausea, arthritic changes especially in the spine, spastic pains and numbness in the arms and legs, gastrointestinal upsets, ulcers, blurred vision due to early changes in the retina, and skin eruptions- a veritable smorgasbord of relatively mild 'over-the-counter' issues.<br><br>-Doctors stopped house calls because the imminently capable pharmacologist&#8217;s drugstore/chemist/pharmacy sprouted everywhere like fungal spores.&nbsp;Ah the steady rate of first world progress, one nods approvingly.&nbsp;</p><p>Severe hypothyroidism was once called&nbsp;<strong>myxoedema</strong>. Scanty eyebrows&nbsp;were&nbsp;one of several distinguishing characteristics along with swollen flesh, ruddy dry skin and hair loss, and perhaps most peculiar of all-&nbsp;<strong>a&nbsp;</strong><em><strong>persecution</strong></em><strong>&nbsp;</strong><em><strong>complex.</strong></em></p><p>Many online blogs detail the thyroid sufferer's years spent attempting to get a correct diagnosis and/or balance of medication from their doctor, and are&nbsp;often prescribed anxiety-reducing, fluoride-enhanced medication like Prozac only to exacerbate the problem.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gdw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffffbc466-5abd-4136-8444-e952169c8d62_575x480.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gdw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffffbc466-5abd-4136-8444-e952169c8d62_575x480.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gdw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffffbc466-5abd-4136-8444-e952169c8d62_575x480.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gdw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffffbc466-5abd-4136-8444-e952169c8d62_575x480.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4gdw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffffbc466-5abd-4136-8444-e952169c8d62_575x480.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;The great thing about Ayurveda is that its treatments always yield side <em><strong>benefits</strong></em>, not side effects.&#8221; -Shubhra Krishnan. Meme lifted from an ironic thyroid doctors page.</figcaption></figure></div><p>New Zealand is a beautiful, petrie-dish-experiment of a country and part of the  fluoridated <em><strong>Five Eyes Intelligence Agency</strong></em> which includes Canada, USA, UK &amp; Australia.<br>All five countries boast &#8216;flourishing liberal cultures'. One could joke without much humour that the Five Eyes have had their 'I' removed.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg" width="97" height="97" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:183,&quot;width&quot;:183,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:97,&quot;bytes&quot;:10188,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kqcA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed1d6e5-f325-4890-8d53-3c8feb3f05a5_183x183.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">"All-father (Odin) went there (Mimir&#8217;s well) and asked for a single drink from the well, but he did not get one until he placed his eye as a pledge."- Snorri Sturluson, 'Gylfaginning'. (Image Shutterstock)</figcaption></figure></div><p>The pineal, aside from regulating all-important melatonin and hormone production is also known as the <em>Eye of God</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Diving straight in to Manly P. Hall's description of the pineal from <em><a href="https://books.google.it/books?id=f0hvDwAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">The Eye of God</a></em>;&nbsp;</p><p><em>&#8216;Was not the uraeus </em>[raised head of snake on Egyptian headdress]<em> the symbol of wisdom and is not the pineal gland the organ of a method of acquiring knowledge which is no longer employed in general but is a secret preserved by the elect?<br></em>As an emblem of divinity, the pineal gland would naturally be associated with royalty, for the kings were the shadows of the gods upon earth.<br>[...] In the religions of the Latins it was [&#8230;] referred to as Janus, the two-faced god and keeper of the gates of sanctuary. This divinity was the antitype [something represented by a symbol] of St. Peter  who succeeded him as the warder of the heavenly portals and who carries the two keys of his office &#8212; one to the golden mystery of the spirit and the other to the silver mystery of the body. <br>Two-faced gods are frequently spoken of in ancient records. <br>Hermae like the bifrons Janus may still be seen in old Roman villas, with the occasional and intriguing exception that one of the faces will be male and the other female &#8212; the hermaphroditus again? The female face represents the animal soul and the male the divine soul, and the whole figure is indicative of the occult structure and function of the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/E4/E4AAFF6DAF6863F459A8B4E52DFB9FF4_Manly.P.Hall_The.Secret.Teachings.of.All.Ages.pdf">pineal gland</a>.'</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg" width="132" height="132" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:500,&quot;width&quot;:500,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:132,&quot;bytes&quot;:47326,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q5-c!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04082cd4-9bfd-48ce-9871-e9eec6526094_500x500.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness&#8221; - <strong>Manly P Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry: Or the Secret of Hiram Abiff</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>In 1949, a year after the Wolff-Chaikoff paper was published, fourteen case studies of severe hypothyroidism were written up in a paper named '<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2051123/pdf/brmedj03641-0005.pdf">Myxoedematous Madness</a>,' by R. Asher M.D., published in the British Medical Journal.&nbsp;A quick, edited view of this utterly fascinating paper:<br><br>"<strong>MYXOEDEMATOUS MADNESS<br></strong><br><strong>BY R. ASHER, M.D., M.R.C.P. Physician, Central Middlesex Hospital</strong><br><br>Myxoedema is one of the most important, one of the least known, and one of the most frequently missed causes of organic psychoses - important because it may respond so gratifyingly to treatment. [&#8230;] <br>Fourteen cases are here described, all of which had myxoedema and <em>psychotic changes</em>. <em>They all showed a psychosis amounting to complete "madness," ten being admitted to the mental observation wards under the Lunacy Act</em>, one referred to the neurosurgeon for cerebral tumour, and three to general medical wards with other diagnoses.&nbsp;<br><em><strong>In nine of the cases there was a dramatic and complete recovery of sanity with thyroid treatment.</strong></em>[...]&nbsp;<br>The condition [&#8230;] was recognized as exceedingly common by the Committee of the Clinical Society of London (1888) [...]<em><strong> I want to make it clear that I am not describing something new, but something old that is nowadays often forgotten.</strong></em><br><br><strong>Case 11&nbsp;</strong><br>A housewife aged 53 was admitted on Feb. 23, 1948, complaining of tiredness and undue gain in weight.&nbsp;[&#8230;] She complained of chronic catarrh and said her voice had become coarse and her skin rough.&nbsp;On examination she was slow and rather drowsy, but appeared rational until a week later, when she showed delusions of persecution.&nbsp;</p><p>She said she had been accused of wrongdoing by the hospital staff and believed that she had been admitted for punishment.&nbsp;<br>She told me that all the other patients were whispering to each other, saying unpleasant things about her. She had to be transferred to the mental observation ward on March 8, as her paranoid ideas were getting worse.&nbsp;</p><p>Physically she had the typical appearance of fully developed myxoedema. Her features were swollen, the normal facial creases being ironed out by the swelling. Her face was a waxy yellow colour.&nbsp;<br>Her<em> </em>eyebrows were scanty, her skin dry, her speech thick and indicative of nasal obstruction.&nbsp;[&#8230;]<br><strong>Progress</strong>.<br>She was given thyroid, I gr. three times a day, on Feb. 27, increasing gradually to 2 gr. four times daily on March 19. At first her mental symptoms grew worse, while her appearance improved. By March 11 she had some insight into her previous irrationality, and by March 13 she was mentally normal, remaining so until her discharge to the outpatient department on March 25.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg" width="442" height="372.5573394495413" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:735,&quot;width&quot;:872,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:442,&quot;bytes&quot;:244676,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHf1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff267da9f-cfdd-487a-a9f9-6c47c3e9720b_872x735.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;Then suddenly on April 21 she became rational, cheerful, and orientated, with almost complete amnesia over her period of confusion. For a further week she had occasional bouts of weeping, after which time she remained cheerful, happy, and perfectly normal both mentally and physically (Fig. 8).&#8221; -Screen shot from Case 7, &#8216;Myexoedema (hypothyroid) Madness&#8217; by R. Asher M.D.</figcaption></figure></div><p><strong>Discussion</strong><br><strong>It is hoped that publication of these fourteen case reports may call attention to the very important fact that myxoedema [</strong><em><strong>hypothyroidism</strong></em><strong>] causes psychosis. </strong><br>If one observer can encounter this number in four years it must mean that there are many others. Possibly there are many cases in mental hospitals which have not been diagnosed. <br>If the diagnosis is borne in mind by psychiatrists a number of otherwise hopeless psychoses may be cured, <em>and the awareness of an organic cause for one psychosis may lead to the discovery of physical causes for others which are at present dismissed as of psychological or idiopathic origin.</em>"</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg" width="332" height="246.45234248788367" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:919,&quot;width&quot;:1238,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:332,&quot;bytes&quot;:287660,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQOl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa07c8fe-595b-42d6-aaf9-c93d12a420c6_1238x919.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>So! <br>Why remove iodine and replace it with its opposite- industrial neurotoxin fluoride which calcifies the pineal gland (Eye of God) among other things?<br>It would be prudent to&nbsp;examine the&nbsp;etymology of 'doctor':</p><p><strong>doctor (n)</strong><br><br>-c.1300,&nbsp;doctour, "Church father," from Old French&nbsp;doctour&nbsp;and directly from Medieval Latin&nbsp;doctor&nbsp;"<strong>religious teacher, adviser, scholar</strong>."<br>In classical Latin "teacher," agent noun from&nbsp;docere&nbsp;"to show, teach, cause to know."<br>Originally "make to appear right," causative of&nbsp;decere&nbsp;"be seemly, fitting" (from Proto-Indo-European root&nbsp;*dek-&nbsp;"to take, accept").</p><p>-Meaning "holder of the highest degree in a university, one who has passed all the degrees of a faculty and is thereby empowered to teach the subjects included in it" is from late 14c.<br>Hence "teacher, instructor, learned man; one skilled in a learned profession" (late 14c.).</p><p>-The sense of "medical professional, person duly licensed to practice medicine" (replacing native&nbsp;leech&nbsp;(n.2)) grew gradually out of this from c. 1400, though this use of the word was not common until late 16c.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>doctor&nbsp;(v.)</strong></p><p><em><strong>1590s, "to confer the degree of doctor on," from&nbsp;doctor&nbsp;(n.). Meaning "to treat as a doctor, administer medical treatment to" is from 1712;<br>sense of "alter, disguise for the purpose of deception, falsify" is from 1774.</strong></em><br>Related:&nbsp;Doctored;&nbsp;doctoring.<br>-Etymonline<br><br>Once upon a time, a doctor was a church father, scholar or religious advisor.<br>As time progressed and 'doctor' was verbed, one could <em>create</em> a doctor by conferring a degree upon him, and <strong>one could also doctor </strong><em><strong>something</strong></em><strong>: 'alter, disguise for the purpose of deception and falsify'.&nbsp;</strong><br>As seen in these connections everything is moving along swimmingly, and there are no accidents or meaningless coincidences.&nbsp;</p><p>Next up; the Phoenicians and the Salerno Medical School.<br>Because verily the plot thickens.</p><p>Unlike the scanty brow.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uDpR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F544f5f0e-8ff4-46bc-90c0-01b9304d7317_359x510.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uDpR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F544f5f0e-8ff4-46bc-90c0-01b9304d7317_359x510.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uDpR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F544f5f0e-8ff4-46bc-90c0-01b9304d7317_359x510.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">&#8220;Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.&#8221;&#8213; <strong>Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p><br><br><br>Part 2 <a href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/the-phonetic-path-to-the-origin-of">here</a><br>Part 3 <a href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/cathars-catholics-and-the-katha-upanishad">here</a><br>TL:DR; <a href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/p/tldr-medicine-priest-class-and-deep">Conclusion</a>.<br><br></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ariaveritas.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe 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