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  • Reply to: Herd Immunity: Myth or Reality?   8 years 4 weeks ago
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    Thanks Tetyana for breaking down the science. I came from a place where we all got measles infections, varicella infections, etc and it was a normal occurrence. On rare occasion, someone got a bad case but there were other factors usually at play such as historically bad immune status with persistent infections, or malnutrition, severe poverty and uncleanliness, or other factor. Either way, even now, living in the US with my medical degree and practice, I would rather my children have the actual infection instead of an experimental concoction from fallible corporate businesses. I call it that because initially, it was thought the one dose was preventative, so long at it met the originally determined 55% of the herd epidemiological level as postulated by the Johns Hopkins physician. But then herd immunity requirements climbed slowly to 95% and multiple doses and we still have outbreaks and we are still clamoring for higher rates and more doses. The experiment continues. Maybe it was a nice idea but it just doesn't work that way. Either improve upon it, avoid adjuvants which can cause issues, and let the free market take care of it, instead of attempting to act elitist and forcing people to accept what a group of us may think is a good idea to try.

    Tetyana, thanks for your sincerilty and diligent work.

    To "S": I assume you are a physician from the way you write :) Your true knowledge of vaccine history - of smallpox, of polio, flu, etc - is what the environment around you facilitates and Paul Offit books. The negativity towards those who may make the personal choice not to inject vaccines into their children is suffocating and no one really considers not breathing it in. There is a history and context to polio, small pox, flu, measles. You just need to look into it openly. I have looked. Perhaps, coming from a place where vaccines were not the heated and polarizing idea they are in the US, it was easy for me to look openly. I vaccinate people in my office. But I don't force or encourage it. I openly discuss ideas and if they want, they do it and if they don't want, they don't. I take great care of them regardless.

  • Reply to: There Is Only One Type of Cholesterol: Here's Why   10 years 16 weeks ago
    Subject: Semantics
    Comment:

    Cholesterol is encased inside lipoproteins and depending on what function it is performing at the time is called different things.  LDL emanates from the liver and goes out to the tissues, HDL recycles back to the liver.  Same cholesterol molecule is inside each one.  So why target cholesterol?  Why not target apoB or another lipoprotein then, and leave cholesterol alone? Cholesterol is the precursor to testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, aldosterone, coq10 (which produces ATP - energy - for the cell), dolichol, myelin formation around nerves requires cholesterol, the glut transporters in the cell membrane are embedded in cholesterol rich areas, the cell membrane's potassium channels are stabilized by cholesterol, etc etc etc... Its position inside LDL/vLDL is only one aspect of its role in the body so why poison the liver so all of the required functions suffer?  Phil, the onus is to prove that cholesterol is bad, which cannot be proven and is an imbecilic proposition, before we should accept cholesterol lowering as an option.  No one should have to suffer from hyperglycemia, cognitive decline, low energy, body aches/pains, and everything else for the marginal cardiac benefit in 45-65 year olds with KNOWN coronary disease.  I could go on forever in frustration with your statement, but I'll stop mercifully...

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