Stymied. That is the word that comes to mind. Why do we keep placing people with minimal, if any medical education, in the post of “health” secretary. We witnessed the serious damages incurred by a previous “health” secretary, during Mr.Johnson’s reign.
Baffled. That is the word that comes to my mind. Apparently the placebo has better effects than the potion. Why don't the drug companies charge the NHS hundreds of squids per month for distilled water. By pharmaceutical magic, the lead-swingers will be slender, not longer needing transport to their new shelf-stacking jobs by JCB, and every game in sight will have been changed. Trebles all round!
I read that the court cases for irreversible gut paralysis have already started in the USA. Better to look at the published work of Dr David Unwin (primary care) and Dr Saira Hameed (Imperial College Weight Loss Clinic) - they have protocols which teach patients how their body works, are empowering and successful long term and much easier for patients to follow, they want to stick to it as they feel so well!
In addition to the costs, this seems to raise significant ethical issues because the participants in the trial are dependent on the state.
The trial is supposed to involved 3,000 people so at least 210 can be expected to drop out and 294 can be expected to experience severe adverse events (not clear whether these would be separate groups or if one is a subset of the other).
Given the ‘common’ side effects of ‘… burping; cholelithiasis; constipation; diarrhoea; fatigue; gastrointestinal discomfort; gastrointestinal disorders; hypoglycaemia (in combination with other antidiabetic drugs, in patients with type 2 diabetes); nausea; vomiting;’ , what ethical oversight will there be to ensure that trial participants don’t feel coerced by their jobless status to take part &/or continue?
What can be done to ensure that there is at least one control group that doesn’t involve use of the drug?
Paul Youngs’s comment "There's a Jab for that" The New Normal!” is sadly only too true. I am starting to work my way around the pipelines and various lines of biologics (“jabs” as you call them) and the first view fits with Paul’s comment. Oh by the way, the 7+ million queue reducing “jab" is not there yet, but give it time! Important things first.
another train wreck; the gullible; seduced by the cunning; I haven't had the energy to read a lot but it was discussed at a recent conference: talk of bone loss; muscle loss; essentially folks become addicted to this agent: stop it, and the weight piles on: is anyone surprised?
We are not allowed to understand core physiology;
farmers fatten pigs and cattle by giving them carbohydrates; they know that; they do that, repeatedly
it works ..... that is how you get marbled steak ...
on the contrary, we tell people eating carbohydrates is healthy!!
insulin is produced in response to glucose; insulin is THE fat-storage hormone; to burn fat, you MUST reduce insulin to very low levels: how? .. stop eating carbs ...... it ain't rocket science .....
Wow JHB really despises ‘the unemployed’ doesn’t she? (‘these people’, ‘a cost to society’, ‘not contributing’). She doesn’t even try to hide her contempt. I just knew that this headline would feed all the usual stereotypes and prejudices about ‘THE unemployed’.
Maybe that is the point, create divisions and have all the people at each others throats arguing about who should be first in the queue for the elixir of life, drive up demand and more free advertising. It worked for the vaccines I guess, until it didn’t.
The continued thrust of these wonder drugs upon the unsuspecting public reminded of this 2017 article about the drug industry being in terminal decline. https://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/2018/09/beginning-of-the-end-for-the-pharma-cartel-an-industry-on-the-brink-of-terminal-decline/ 'Dr. Kelvin Stott, Director of Portfolio Management at the Novartis drug company in Basel, Switzerland, caused widespread alarm among pharma investors. Asserting that the entire pharmaceutical industry is “on the brink of terminal decline,” Stott described how research and development (R&D) returns in drug development now stand at just 3.2 percent and could potentially reach zero by the year 2020'. Imagine my surprise when the most lucrative drug in history was released in 2020!! In addition to the lack of returns, the number of libel cases against Pfizer et al is bound to have crippled them, hence their non stop new wonder drugs to keep shareholders and research funds on board.
Yes, Moderna stock is tanking as we type, seems only the most gullible are still rolling up their sleeves.....guess what their much touted "cancer vaccjne" does? That's right, it introduces a tiny bit of cancer into your body, obviously via MRNA, so that when you develop cancer, your immune system will recognise it and destroy it....what could POSSIBLY go wrong???? Still, folk will line up for it.
Hasn't Mr Streeting overlooked something when he claims that giving this drug will "ease the demands on our NHS"? After all, there's the cost of the accompanying 'consellors', to keep the people taking their injection (won't a nurse have to do the, if not a GP?) and not skive off.
And then there's this:
"By the end of the trial, about 70% of motivated individuals who completed the course of semaglutide lost 10% of their body weight compared to 32% in the placebo group. "
Does nobody, from Mr Streeting all the way down, ask why losing 10% of body weight while on that drug is a game changer when those on the placebo lose 32% without incurring the cost of that drug? Or are we meant to assume that 70% losing 10% is h-u-g-e compared to 32%? Isn't this plain obfuscation, else we'd been told that 'over 50%' on the drug lost yon 10% ...
I do wonder how many brown envelopes have changed hands - or is it secret bitcoin access, nowadays?
At the 41st JP Morgan Health Conference (the world’s biggest), 9-12 Jan 23, the main theme was the emergence of 2 new classes of drugs tackling obesity and Alzheimer’s, including Wegovy and Lecanemab. The key to sustained multi-billion dollar profits, replacing those from statins as they go off patent, was to secure government contracts for mass use of these new drugs. Securing these contracts was critical to the long term viability of the pharmaceutical industry in its current form. Clearly, no one was interested whether these drugs work or if there are alternative, cost effective answers for patients and the taxpayer.
This money would be better spent on building and sustaining multiple community hubs where people could learn how to improve their nutrition in a supportive environment via group-based nutrition and cooking classes. But funnily enough there is little to no funding available for these kinds of interventions. Teach and support people on how to exercise and become more active. Teach and encourage people with pre-existing health conditions such as those with multi-morbidities including those with heart disease, diabetes, and joint pain how to eat well and move well. This would be far more effective in returning people back to work and building a healthy population. But it’s always an oversight, there’s always a quick fix to make a monumental profit, and there’s magically never sustainable funding available to run these programmes on a long-term basis. No wonder the problem’s becoming worse over time.
I wrote about this for Hart and updated it recently.
The all cause mortality curve looks suspicious.
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-continues-to-act
well done Jonathon; you have a substack and write lots: great! well done; this is another big harma madness
Stymied. That is the word that comes to mind. Why do we keep placing people with minimal, if any medical education, in the post of “health” secretary. We witnessed the serious damages incurred by a previous “health” secretary, during Mr.Johnson’s reign.
Baffled. That is the word that comes to my mind. Apparently the placebo has better effects than the potion. Why don't the drug companies charge the NHS hundreds of squids per month for distilled water. By pharmaceutical magic, the lead-swingers will be slender, not longer needing transport to their new shelf-stacking jobs by JCB, and every game in sight will have been changed. Trebles all round!
Because all the people in these positions are just puppets, easily controlled because they have no experience, just implementing what they're told!
I read that the court cases for irreversible gut paralysis have already started in the USA. Better to look at the published work of Dr David Unwin (primary care) and Dr Saira Hameed (Imperial College Weight Loss Clinic) - they have protocols which teach patients how their body works, are empowering and successful long term and much easier for patients to follow, they want to stick to it as they feel so well!
well said; if only folks could listen to David
In addition to the costs, this seems to raise significant ethical issues because the participants in the trial are dependent on the state.
The trial is supposed to involved 3,000 people so at least 210 can be expected to drop out and 294 can be expected to experience severe adverse events (not clear whether these would be separate groups or if one is a subset of the other).
Given the ‘common’ side effects of ‘… burping; cholelithiasis; constipation; diarrhoea; fatigue; gastrointestinal discomfort; gastrointestinal disorders; hypoglycaemia (in combination with other antidiabetic drugs, in patients with type 2 diabetes); nausea; vomiting;’ , what ethical oversight will there be to ensure that trial participants don’t feel coerced by their jobless status to take part &/or continue?
What can be done to ensure that there is at least one control group that doesn’t involve use of the drug?
Please keep up your great work.
Paul Youngs’s comment "There's a Jab for that" The New Normal!” is sadly only too true. I am starting to work my way around the pipelines and various lines of biologics (“jabs” as you call them) and the first view fits with Paul’s comment. Oh by the way, the 7+ million queue reducing “jab" is not there yet, but give it time! Important things first.
Best, Tom
"There's a Jab for that" The New Normal!
another train wreck; the gullible; seduced by the cunning; I haven't had the energy to read a lot but it was discussed at a recent conference: talk of bone loss; muscle loss; essentially folks become addicted to this agent: stop it, and the weight piles on: is anyone surprised?
We are not allowed to understand core physiology;
farmers fatten pigs and cattle by giving them carbohydrates; they know that; they do that, repeatedly
it works ..... that is how you get marbled steak ...
on the contrary, we tell people eating carbohydrates is healthy!!
insulin is produced in response to glucose; insulin is THE fat-storage hormone; to burn fat, you MUST reduce insulin to very low levels: how? .. stop eating carbs ...... it ain't rocket science .....
Wow JHB really despises ‘the unemployed’ doesn’t she? (‘these people’, ‘a cost to society’, ‘not contributing’). She doesn’t even try to hide her contempt. I just knew that this headline would feed all the usual stereotypes and prejudices about ‘THE unemployed’.
Maybe that is the point, create divisions and have all the people at each others throats arguing about who should be first in the queue for the elixir of life, drive up demand and more free advertising. It worked for the vaccines I guess, until it didn’t.
"Game changer" if Wes is as good as Jimmy Young the drug will be withdrawn in months!
The continued thrust of these wonder drugs upon the unsuspecting public reminded of this 2017 article about the drug industry being in terminal decline. https://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/2018/09/beginning-of-the-end-for-the-pharma-cartel-an-industry-on-the-brink-of-terminal-decline/ 'Dr. Kelvin Stott, Director of Portfolio Management at the Novartis drug company in Basel, Switzerland, caused widespread alarm among pharma investors. Asserting that the entire pharmaceutical industry is “on the brink of terminal decline,” Stott described how research and development (R&D) returns in drug development now stand at just 3.2 percent and could potentially reach zero by the year 2020'. Imagine my surprise when the most lucrative drug in history was released in 2020!! In addition to the lack of returns, the number of libel cases against Pfizer et al is bound to have crippled them, hence their non stop new wonder drugs to keep shareholders and research funds on board.
Yes, Moderna stock is tanking as we type, seems only the most gullible are still rolling up their sleeves.....guess what their much touted "cancer vaccjne" does? That's right, it introduces a tiny bit of cancer into your body, obviously via MRNA, so that when you develop cancer, your immune system will recognise it and destroy it....what could POSSIBLY go wrong???? Still, folk will line up for it.
It's like a science Non-fiction horror movie. Fear paralyses critical thinking, and they know it.
Hasn't Mr Streeting overlooked something when he claims that giving this drug will "ease the demands on our NHS"? After all, there's the cost of the accompanying 'consellors', to keep the people taking their injection (won't a nurse have to do the, if not a GP?) and not skive off.
And then there's this:
"By the end of the trial, about 70% of motivated individuals who completed the course of semaglutide lost 10% of their body weight compared to 32% in the placebo group. "
Does nobody, from Mr Streeting all the way down, ask why losing 10% of body weight while on that drug is a game changer when those on the placebo lose 32% without incurring the cost of that drug? Or are we meant to assume that 70% losing 10% is h-u-g-e compared to 32%? Isn't this plain obfuscation, else we'd been told that 'over 50%' on the drug lost yon 10% ...
I do wonder how many brown envelopes have changed hands - or is it secret bitcoin access, nowadays?
I think it's 32% on the placebo lost 10% of bodyweight. That's how I read it, anyway.
At the 41st JP Morgan Health Conference (the world’s biggest), 9-12 Jan 23, the main theme was the emergence of 2 new classes of drugs tackling obesity and Alzheimer’s, including Wegovy and Lecanemab. The key to sustained multi-billion dollar profits, replacing those from statins as they go off patent, was to secure government contracts for mass use of these new drugs. Securing these contracts was critical to the long term viability of the pharmaceutical industry in its current form. Clearly, no one was interested whether these drugs work or if there are alternative, cost effective answers for patients and the taxpayer.
Stand up Wes Streeting, mug number one.
This money would be better spent on building and sustaining multiple community hubs where people could learn how to improve their nutrition in a supportive environment via group-based nutrition and cooking classes. But funnily enough there is little to no funding available for these kinds of interventions. Teach and support people on how to exercise and become more active. Teach and encourage people with pre-existing health conditions such as those with multi-morbidities including those with heart disease, diabetes, and joint pain how to eat well and move well. This would be far more effective in returning people back to work and building a healthy population. But it’s always an oversight, there’s always a quick fix to make a monumental profit, and there’s magically never sustainable funding available to run these programmes on a long-term basis. No wonder the problem’s becoming worse over time.