What stillness does to inflammation

Dr. Pete Sulack writes:

I want to share something this week that sits right where faith and science meet.

Researchers gathered eighty-nine randomized controlled trials, the gold-standard kind, and asked a question I find fascinating: can calming the mind actually change the body’s immune system? The analysis was published last year, pulling together decades of research.

The finding: mind-body practices like meditation, prayerful stillness, and slow breathing measurably lowered inflammation and improved immune function. Not in theory. In bloodwork.

Here’s the mechanism, because it matters. When we live in chronic stress, the body floods with cortisol and adrenaline. Those hormones are useful in a real emergency. But when they never switch off, they quietly suppress the immune system. They lower the activity of your natural killer cells, the very cells whose job is to find and clear abnormal cells. They tilt the whole body toward inflammation.

So fear is not only a feeling. It has a chemistry. And that chemistry works against the terrain.

Here’s what moved me. The reverse is also true. In one clinical trial, patients who practiced just thirty minutes of guided stillness three times a week saw significant drops in C-reactive protein, one of the main markers of inflammation in the body. Thirty minutes. Three times a week.

For the audience reading this, I think this is some of the most hopeful science there is. You may not be able to control your diagnosis or your next scan. But you can decide whether your nervous system spends the whole day in a war it does not need to fight.

This is why faith has always been my first pillar, not my last. When Scripture says be anxious for nothing, that is not only spiritual comfort. Peace is medicine your body can read.

So here is your invitation today. Ten quiet minutes. Sit with a Psalm, or your breath, or simple gratitude. No phone. Let your shoulders drop. You are not wasting time. You are lowering inflammation and telling your body it is safe.

I’ll be praying for you today.

Standing with you,

Dr. Pete Sulack

Quote of the Day

“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” – William James, Philosopher (1842 – 1910)

Mushrooms Make Vitamin D

Mushrooms Make Vitamin D

Research has shown that exposing sliced white button mushrooms to direct sunlight before cooking dramatically increases their vitamin D2 content because UV-B light converts ergosterol in mushrooms into vitamin D2. Slicing the mushrooms first increases the exposed surface area, making the process more effective.

One well-known study found that just 15 minutes of midday sun significantly increased vitamin D2 to levels comparable to fatty fish (about 704 IU per 100 g of fresh mushrooms&). Other studies have reported even larger increases depending on sunlight intensity and exposure conditions.

Unrecognized B1 Deficiency Symptoms

Unrecognized B1 Deficiency Symptoms

Dr. Derrick Lonsdale is a name most patients have never heard, but his decades of work on thiamine deficiency changed how I evaluate a specific cluster of symptoms.

Thiamine, vitamin B1, is a cofactor for enzymes central to how your cells produce ATP through the citric acid cycle. Classic thiamine deficiency is beriberi, which most doctors were trained to picture as a historical disease. Lonsdale’s clinical work documented a subtler pattern: fatigue, gut motility problems, dizziness on standing, and autonomic symptoms that don’t fit neatly into a beriberi diagnosis but respond to thiamine repletion.

This overlaps heavily with what gets labeled dysautonomia or POTS in younger patients. Racing heart on standing. Gut that slows to a crawl. Brain fog that’s hard to describe.
High-carbohydrate, low-thiamine diets, chronic alcohol use, and gut absorption issues can all deplete thiamine status, and standard bloodwork rarely catches it because serum thiamine isn’t a reliable marker of tissue-level deficiency.

I want to be direct about where the evidence stands. This is not as extensively validated in large human trials. It’s clinical pattern recognition built over decades, and I treat it that way, not as settled science.

But when a patient has cycled through cardiology, GI, and neurology with no answers, thiamine status is one of the places I look next.

Struggling with dizziness on standing, gut motility issues, or unexplained fatigue no specialist has solved? Get my Free Balance Toolkit — comment BALANCE.

Research: Lonsdale D. “Thiamine and magnesium deficiencies: keys to disease.” Med Hypotheses. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Lonsdale+thiamine+deficiency+dysautonomia

Scientist Analyzes 3000 Years Of Data: The Elite Are Preparing For Something HUGE

Capital Cosm

Past Grand Transitions

Some comments on the video:

Carl Sagan said it best ““I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

Excellent discussion here.

After four decades and over 100,000 hours of studies, research and analysis of global political economy, history, sociology and ecology, from a multi-disciplinary systems analysis perspective, I would add this:

The near term solution to the escalating polycrisis is a radical decentralization, re-localization, bioregionalism, and the rebuilding of networks and federations of freedom-based, resilient and highly self-reliant communities, and the creation of parallel systems, largely de-coupled from the increasingly authoritarian, over-centralized, fragile and collapsing global system, which can weather the coming turmoil, and survive, and thrive, while preserving human freedom, dignity and mutual aid, and creating the seed beds for a new civilization and a new renaissance.

The agenda of the power elite, however, is in stark contrast to that path of freedom, mutual aid and decentralized ecological stewardship. The power elite are behaving like virtually every power elite, oligarchy or imperial ruling class of the past: they seek to consolidate, maintain, and expand their power and wealth in a time of imperial decline – freedom, humanity and the Earth be damned.

Their agenda has become clear: it is the construction of a globalist, transnational, neo-feudal, techno-fascist police state; combined with the re-introduction of mass slavery, to use slave power to solve the growing energy crisis, combined with depopulation, using human beings as biofuel.

See my essay, On Population & The Environment.

The analysis is stark, but the conclusions are inescapable. The ruling class will use whatever means are at their disposal, in order to preserve their power and their wealth. We must build networks, parallel systems and community now, or simply be devoured by the increasingly desperate transnational oligarchy and ruling empire, which is now in the early stages of collapse.

– Canadian philosopher and geopolitical analyst,
J. Todd Ring

Click to view the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIUGjf4zCRE

Dr Paul Marik Peer Reviewed

Dr Paul Marik Peer Reviewed

A new peer reviewed paper is drawing attention in the world of cancer research by exploring whether existing, low-cost drugs could have roles in future cancer therapies. It comes from one of the world’s highly credentialed and accomplished critical care physicians, Dr. Paul Marik.

Published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, the paper titled ‘Targeting the Mitochondrial-Stem Cell Connection in Cancer Treatment: A Hybrid Orthomolecular Protocol’ was authored by researchers including Ilyes Baghli, Pierrick Martinez, and Dr. Paul Marik, along with other collaborators.

The paper examines a combination approach involving repurposed medications such as ivermectin, mebendazole, and fenbendazole, alongside nutritional and metabolic strategies. The authors explore the idea that targeting cancer metabolism, mitochondrial function, inflammation, and cancer stem cell pathways may offer new avenues for treatment.

Instead of developing entirely new medicines from scratch, researchers are investigating whether existing medications, already known in other medical contexts, may have overlooked anti-cancer properties.

The next important step would be rigorous human studies to determine whether these approaches actually improve outcomes for patients.

The future of cancer care will depend not only on discovering new treatments, but also on having the curiosity and scientific rigor to explore unconventional possibilities while following the evidence. Sadly, the pharmaceutical industry may frown upon such methods as they are cheap and highly accessible.

Could You Tolerate This Much Improvement?

I am guessing that of the people who actually read my posts there are probably a fair percentage of people who think I have been banging on about the ongoing harms to 40 different systems of the human body from the spike protein that the Covid jab gets the body to create but I assure you, that comes from much more medically credentialed persons than myself. I am merely the messenger.

What’s more I have collected a large number of those published articles and put them on this page: https://www.healthelicious.com.au/NutriBlast-Anti-Spike.html I strongly urge you to inform yourself on the subject. Hopefully that will inspire you to take action as Mick did. His story hit my email inbox on the 10th July 2026. I share it with you as received:

Hi Tom,

I’ve been on the Anti-spike blend since May 30th and finished my second tub yesterday July 8. I’ve been taking it along with the Heart and mitochondria blend and many things turned on and turned off, including: blurred vision and a slight headache, flushes, sneezing and runny nose and eyes watering.

One day while out walking I felt like I had lead boots on

At various periods I had more energy and vitality.

I had red flushes on elbows and knees and phenomena with my ears popping, which abated and noise also turned off.

I had loose stools, lots of liquid.

I found I could handle wind better (gas) and am no longer troubled by it.

There were times when I had bags of energy.

Before I started the regimen I found myself puffing and panting walking up a hill.

Last night I went for a walk and on the way back I walked up a steep flight of steps followed by a steep bank and when I got back home I realised there had been no puffing and panting, which there had been previously.

A neighbour remarked the other day how fit I was. He had seen me out walking.

Sometimes I’d encounter a slight dizziness if I exerted myself too much. This is no longer the case.

I now have much more energy and feel like I am rejuvenated.

Before I started I weighed 61K and ended on 60.2K.

I never had any co*id shots but see how you can be affected by it anyway.

I would recommend these products to anyone.

Best,

Mick.