Or, more accurately, what in the world are we letting them get away with?
I rarely watch the TV news or read a newspaper in print or online. Haven’t for nearly half a century. I heard then from more than one source that what you saw was overblown, sensationalist hype, rarely truthful and designed to take you down tone. When I looked with that viewpoint I found it to be true, so I quit beating myself with their brand of demotivating harrassment.
As I walked through the lounge last night I made the mistake of pausing to see what was on the TV. The news was on.
What a production! The COVID-19 fear mongering was at a level of 20 out of 10! They were going to town six ways from Sunday to blow the fear porn through the roof! I thought, “No wonder people are accepting the insanity of the government lockdown!”
So I got to thinking further about this. And I’m going to ask you a question. Before you read on, please take a split second to breathe out, relax and answer it as objectively as you can.
If, six months ago, a friend had casually said, “I hear the flu this year will be five times as bad as it normally is.” what would have been your reaction?
I’ll wager the first thing that came to mind was not, “We must trash tens of thousands of small businesses, the major employers of most of the workforce, put hundreads of thousands of people out of work, waste 3 times the money of our total existing national debt (about which we are already being justly criticised), impose draconian restrictions of personal freedoms and threaten to not relax them until we can inflict an untrialled vaccine on the population.”
No, I’ll lay London to a lolly that’s not what you would have said. You’re saner than that.
This deliberately overhyped, overblown reaction to something that is a mild to moderate infection to 80% of the people who get it and, now that the solution is available (link below) to quickly and cheaply treat the other 20%, this fear driven insanity must end. We must minimise the damage to people’s lives, businesses and the economy as a whole and restore personal freedoms by reversing this destructive program. #RestoreFreedom
The infection IS being defeated and there ARE specific steps you can take to
a) minimise your risk of infection
b) boost the ability of your body to survive an infection and
c) defeat the infection if it occurs.
I have documented them here:
https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=26880
(Tom: This is a great article. It aligns with a message from an ER doctor in New York –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJA7JBNKYt8
I am reproducing below the article in its entirety from an archive as the original is no longer there and I don’t know how long the archive might stay available. My takeaway, if I get COVID-19 I need to stay alkaline! With Sodium Bicarbonate. Just like any cold and flu.
A doctor found you could turn on all symptoms of the cold or flu by making the bosy more acidic nad turn off the symptoms by making hte body more alkaline.
The body’s natural pH balance, which is slightly alkaline, must be maintained in order for us to feel our best and most energetic. “An alkaline body can absorb up to 20 times more oxygen than an acidic body.” These are the words of, Dr Otto Warburg, a Nobel Prize Winner for his work on respiratory enzymes and cancer. He also found that diseased bodies are acidic bodies, which repel oxygen and attract the overgrowth of disease-causing micro-organisms.
Our body’s acid-alkaline balance is a key component to overall good health and one of the most crucial ways to affect health status. Raising pH (to an alkaline state) increases the immune system’s ability to kill bacteria, concludes a study conducted at The Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in London.
https://www.naturesfare.com/health/ph-connection-colds-flu/)
Article as written by LibertyMavenstock:
In the last 3–5 days, a mountain of anecdotal evidence has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about COVID-19 and characteristics of patients who get seriously ill. It’s not only piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed up by a few previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all wrong the whole time. Well, a few had some things eerily correct (cough Trump cough), especially with Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromicin, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
There is no ‘pneumonia’ nor ARDS. At least not the ARDS with established treatment protocols and procedures we’re familiar with. Ventilators are not only the wrong solution, but high pressure intubation can actually wind up causing more damage than without, not to mention complications from tracheal scarring and ulcers given the duration of intubation often required… They may still have a use in the immediate future for patients too far to bring back with this newfound knowledge, but moving forward a new treatment protocol needs to be established so we stop treating patients for the wrong disease.
The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or fatigue.
Here’s the breakdown of the whole process, including some ELI5-level cliff notes. Much has been simplified just to keep it digestible and layman-friendly.
Your red blood cells carry oxygen from your lungs to all your organs and the rest of your body. Red blood cells can do this thanks to hemoglobin, which is a protein consisting of four “hemes”. Hemes have a special kind of iron ion, which is normally quite toxic in its free form, locked away in its center with a porphyrin acting as it’s ‘container’. In this way, the iron ion can be ‘caged’ and carried around safely by the hemoglobin, but used to bind to oxygen when it gets to your lungs.
When the red blood cell gets to the alveoli, or the little sacs in your lungs where all the gas exchange happens, that special little iron ion can flip between FE2+ and FE3+ states with electron exchange and bond to some oxygen, then it goes off on its little merry way to deliver o2 elsewhere.
Here’s where COVID-19 comes in. Its glycoproteins bond to the heme, and in doing so that special and toxic oxidative iron ion is “disassociated” (released). It’s basically let out of the cage and now freely roaming around on its own. This is bad for two reasons:
1) Without the iron ion, hemoglobin can no longer bind to oxygen. Once all the hemoglobin is impaired, the red blood cell is essentially turned into a Freightliner truck cab with no trailer and no ability to store its cargo.. it is useless and just running around with COVID-19 virus attached to its porphyrin. All these useless trucks running around not delivering oxygen is what starts to lead to desaturation, or watching the patient’s spo2 levels drop. It is INCORRECT to assume traditional ARDS and in doing so, you’re treating the WRONG DISEASE. Think of it a lot like carbon monoxide poisoning, in which CO is bound to the hemoglobin, making it unable to carry oxygen. In those cases, ventilators aren’t treating the root cause; the patient’s lungs aren’t ‘tiring out’, they’re pumping just fine. The red blood cells just can’t carry o2, end of story. Only in this case, unlike CO poisoning in which eventually the CO can break off, the affected hemoglobin is permanently stripped of its ability to carry o2 because it has lost its iron ion. The body compensates for this lack of o2 carrying capacity and deliveries by having your kidneys release hormones like erythropoietin, which tell your bone marrow factories to ramp up production on new red blood cells with freshly made and fully functioning hemoglobin. This is the reason you find elevated hemoglobin and decreased blood oxygen saturation as one of the 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.
2) That little iron ion, along with millions of its friends released from other hemes, are now floating through your blood freely. As I mentioned before, this type of iron ion is highly reactive and causes oxidative damage. It turns out that this happens to a limited extent naturally in our bodies and we have cleanup & defense mechanisms to keep the balance. The lungs, in particular, have 3 primary defenses to maintain “iron homeostasis”, 2 of which are in the alveoli, those little sacs in your lungs we talked about earlier. The first of the two are little macrophages that roam around and scavenge up any free radicals like this oxidative iron. The second is a lining on the walls (called the epithelial surface) which has a thin layer of fluid packed with high levels of antioxidant molecules.. things like abscorbic acid (AKA Vitamin C) among others. Well, this is usually good enough for naturally occurring rogue iron ions but with COVID-19 running rampant your body is now basically like a progressive state letting out all the prisoners out of the prisons… it’s just too much iron and it begins to overwhelm your lungs’ countermeasures, and thus begins the process of pulmonary oxidative stress. This leads to damage and inflammation, which leads to all that nasty stuff and damage you see in CT scans of COVID-19 patient lungs. Ever noticed how it’s always bilateral? (both lungs at the same time) Pneumonia rarely ever does that, but COVID-19 does… EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Once your body is now running out of control, with all your oxygen trucks running around without any freight, and tons of this toxic form of iron floating around in your bloodstream, other defenses kick in. While your lungs are busy with all this oxidative stress they can’t handle, and your organs are being starved of o2 without their constant stream of deliveries from red blood cell’s hemoglobin, and your liver is attempting to do its best to remove the iron and store it in its ‘iron vault’. Only its getting overwhelmed too. It’s starved for oxygen and fighting a losing battle from all your hemoglobin letting its iron free, and starts crying out “help, I’m taking damage!” by releasing an enzyme called alanine aminotransferase (ALT). BOOM, there is your second of 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.
Eventually, if the patient’s immune system doesn’t fight off the virus in time before their blood oxygen saturation drops too low, ventilator or no ventilator, organs start shutting down. No fuel, no work. The only way to even try to keep them going is max oxygen, even a hyperbaric chamber if one is available on 100% oxygen at multiple atmospheres of pressure, just to give what’s left of their functioning hemoglobin a chance to carry enough o2 to the organs and keep them alive. Yeah we don’t have nearly enough of those chambers, so some fresh red blood cells with normal hemoglobin in the form of a transfusion will have to do.
The core point being, treating patients with the iron ions stripped from their hemoglobin (rendering it abnormally nonfunctional) with ventilator intubation is futile, unless you’re just hoping the patient’s immune system will work its magic in time. The root of the illness needs to be addressed.
Best case scenario? Treatment regimen early, before symptoms progress too far. Hydroxychloroquine (more on that in a minute, I promise) with Azithromicin has shown fantastic, albeit critics keep mentioning ‘anecdotal’ to describe the mountain, promise and I’ll explain why it does so well next. But forget straight-up plasma with antibodies, that might work early but if the patient is too far gone they’ll need more. They’ll need all the blood: antibodies and red blood cells. No help in sending over a detachment of ammunition to a soldier already unconscious and bleeding out on the battlefield, you need to send that ammo along with some hemoglobin-stimulant-magic so that he can wake up and fire those shots at the enemy.
The story with Hydroxychloroquine
All that hilariously misguided and counterproductive criticism the media piled on chloroquine (purely for political reasons) as a viable treatment will now go down as the biggest Fake News blunder to rule them all. The media actively engaged their activism to fight ‘bad orange man’ at the cost of thousands of lives. Shame on them.
How does chloroquine work? Same way as it does for malaria. You see, malaria is this little parasite that enters the red blood cells and starts eating hemoglobin as its food source. The reason chloroquine works for malaria is the same reason it works for COVID-19 — while not fully understood, it is suspected to bind to DNA and interfere with the ability to work magic on hemoglobin. The same mechanism that stops malaria from getting its hands on hemoglobin and gobbling it up seems to do the same to COVID-19 (essentially little snippets of DNA in an envelope) from binding to it. On top of that, Hydroxychloroquine (an advanced descendant of regular old chloroquine) lowers the pH which can interfere with the replication of the virus. Again, while the full details are not known, the entire premise of this potentially ‘game changing’ treatment is to prevent hemoglobin from being interfered with, whether due to malaria or COVID-19.
No longer can the media and armchair pseudo-physicians sit in their little ivory towers, proclaiming “DUR so stoopid, malaria is bacteria, COVID-19 is virus, anti-bacteria drug no work on virus!”. They never got the memo that a drug doesn’t need to directly act on the pathogen to be effective. Sometimes it’s enough just to stop it from doing what it does to hemoglobin, regardless of the means it uses to do so.
Anyway, enough of the rant. What’s the end result here? First, the ventilator emergency needs to be re-examined. If you’re putting a patient on a ventilator because they’re going into a coma and need mechanical breathing to stay alive, okay we get it. Give ’em time for their immune systems to pull through. But if they’re conscious, alert, compliant — keep them on O2. Max it if you have to. If you HAVE to inevitably ventilate, do it at low pressure but max O2. Don’t tear up their lungs with max PEEP, you’re doing more harm to the patient because you’re treating the wrong disease.
Ideally, some form of treatment needs to happen to:
Inhibit viral growth and replication. Here plays CHQ+ZPAK+ZINC or other retroviral therapies being studies. Less virus, less hemoglobin losing its iron, less severity and damage.
Therapies used for anyone with abnormal hemoglobin or malfunctioning red blood cells. Blood transfusions. Whatever, I don’t know the full breadth and scope because I’m not a physician. But think along those lines, and treat the real disease. If you’re thinking about giving them plasma with antibodies, maybe if they’re already in bad shape think again and give them BLOOD with antibodies, or at least blood followed by plasma with antibodies.
Now that we know more about how this virus works and affects our bodies, a whole range of options should open up.
Don’t trust China. China is ASSHOE. (disclaimer: not talking about the people, just talking about the regime). They covered this up and have caused all kinds of death and carnage, both literal and economic. The ripples of this pandemic will be felt for decades.
Fini.
Just a reminder from Tom: The infection IS being defeated and there ARE specific steps you can take to
a) minimise your risk of infection
b) boost the ability of your body to survive an infection and
c) defeat the infection if it occurs.
Advertising your product is SO old hat. Most people believe their friends much more than they do ads.
So, how do you create a market for your product?
You take a slightly more virulent virus outbreak scenario.
You create a conference (http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/) teaching health officials and governments how to over react, to deny civil liberties and trash jobs and businesses.
When a virus outbreak occurs, you get a dodgy academic to create death rate projections that are off the charts.
Your cabal use your bought and paid for press to orchestrate a mass over-reaction to that virus which creates widespread fear in the population and demands for government to act promptly “to save lives”.
The government implement draconian restrictions that force many to accept government handouts so enslaves them, forces small business to close, many permanently (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/43-of-small-businesses-say-theyll-be-forced-to-close-permanently-if-they-dont-get-help-soon-survey-says-2020-04-03)
You get your team hard at work to create a vaccine that will not have to go through safety tests and trials because the need is so urgent.
You then get gorenment officials and opinion leaders to promote the line that all will return to normal once a vaccine is available.
Professor David Suzuki, one of the worlds most eminent environmentalists said of Alf’s Poem ‘The Death of Nature’ (written in 1960) that it was the most remarkably prescient poem he has ever had the honour to read.
One commenter wrote: U R making it more difficult than necessary and in the process the lecithin is getting too much oxygen and heat. Just put the lecithin into a jar with distilled water, shake it a little, put it in the frig for a few hours, or overnight, +shake it a little more. After that, very little blending of lecithin is necessary. Probably works with well water also.. After that (some would say) the one time when there IS a reason to bend it longer (for 60 seconds) is AFTER u mix it with the vitamin C. but if no intestinal flushing is happening for u with that method, then .. maybe I just learned that that is also not necessary.
As I prepare this week’s newsletter for your reading pleasure I am watching a video by Dr Steven Gundry, the anti-lectin doctor. A screen comes up with the text “Microbes influence human eating behavior and dietary choices to favor consumption of the particular nutrients they grow best on, rather than simply passively living off whatever nutrients we choose to send their way.”
Now I know that there are a very wide range of reactions to my NutriBlast Greens powder. My wife for instance finds it marginally better than vile and now she has her smell back can smell it across the room.
Another client who eats a healthy diet this week told me she finds it far better than many comparable products.
Which was always a source of interest. How come the wide variation in acceptance. Which was one reason I kept as many bars in my range as I have, so I could accommodate where you are at on your journey.
One of my clients is an engineer who 7 yeas ago bought a trial pack of my bars. After tasting them he emailed me with an order and said, “Tom, I can tell the top ones are really good because I can feel every cell in my body when I have one, but they are way too strong for me. Can I just have 60 of the Premium Energy Bars?” (They have only 40 ingredients.)
So every two months he would put in an order for 60 of the Premium Energy Bars. Eighteen months later he placed his regular order and asked for 12 of the Peak Performance bars as well.
After eating one he wrote me, “Have you changed the recipe of have my taste buds changed?”
I mentioned this story to a few ladies and they sort of looked at my like I just came down in the last shower. Apparently this is known by quite a few people, the healthier you eat, the more easily your palate can tolerate healthy food.
But the mechanism for this phenomenon remained unknown to me.
Well, with the knowledge that the good and bad bacteria in your gut can directly signal the brain and your mitochondria AND TELL THEM WHAT THEY WOULD MOST LIKE TO EAT, another piece of hte jigsaw puzzle drop neatly into place!
I have been saying for years that if you find the powder too strong, cut way back the amount you have at a time and very gradually build it up to let your taste buds acclimatise to it. Incorrect Tom! It is not your taste buds that need to acclimatise, it is so your gut bacteria can change composition or have a healthier balance between good and bad!
The penny should have dropped a lot earlier because I had Rhonda, a blood reader tell me years ago that she had been using my Nutrition Booster Bar as a diagnostic tool as it was faster and cheaper than lab tests. She said if a girl had a hormone balance or candida overgrowth they would find my bar WAY too strong.
I asked her how she figured this out and she said, “Trial and error. I’ll give you an example. I had my cousin come to see me and she took one bite of your bar and said, “That’s digusting! How could he even THINK of taking that to market?”
Rhonda replied, “I know what your problem is.” and gave her some herbs to handle the candid overgrowth. Three months later the cousin came back and Rhonda gave her another taste of the bar. The cousin said, “That’s delicious! Has he changed the recipe?” Rhonda said, “No, we’ve just fixed your gut!”
So if you have a tub of my powder (or anybody else’s for that matter) sitting in your cupboard after having purchased it with the best of intentions but not being able to tolerate it, pull it out and just start adding a quarter of a teaspoon to some juice or smoothie and start working on your gut bacteria on a gentle gradient. Just like exercise. You wouldn’t start a get fit program by trying to do 1,000 pushups first day. And my powder is probably that level of nutrition compared to an exercise regime. It took me a few months of gradual increases to go from 20 pushups a day to 1,050. Apply that same principle to your nutrition intake.
If you’d like to take your nutrition next level, here’s the link to my site: https://www.healthelicious.com.au/ hold your mouse over the menu option [NutriBlast Powders] to see the range. If you have questions, either email me or call me on 0412 966 625.
If you are interested, here’s the video I was watching: https://silenceyourcravings.com/?n=db
