AMD's Masterful History Detailing a Century of Suppressed Therapeutics in the US
A brilliant piece from A Midwestern Doctor, built around my book, The War on Chlorine Dioxide, exposed the long trail of suppression around inexpensive, safe, broadly effective therapies.
This week, my friend and colleague A Midwestern Doctor (AMD) published the brilliant new article above, part of whose subject was my book called The War on Chlorine Dioxide (written with my co-author Jenna McCarthy, who is one of the funniest and smartest writers on Substack, so if you’re not already following her, you should remedy that immediately).
After detailing medicine’s nefarious history of building monopolies, burying inexpensive treatments, and branding inconvenient therapies as dangerous quackery, AMD gets to the book — which, if I may shamelessly brag for a second, he calls “one of the most well documented example[s] of how the medical system colluded to suppress a therapy that threatened multiple franchises.” He highlights everything from chlorine dioxide’s accidental discovery as a therapeutic, to malaria outbreaks that disappeared after the drinking water was treated, to the surgeon who reported a 99.6% success rate treating 3,000 COVID patients with chlorine dioxide—only to have his hospital’s COVID unit shut down, to why the phrase “toxic bleach” may have been one of the most effective PR campaigns in modern medical history — right after “horse de-wormer” at least.
The book itself covers chlorine dioxide’s history, its pioneers, persecutions, and proponents, the science and safety behind it, and so much more. Senator Ron Johnson calls The War on Chlorine Dioxide “a gripping tale of corruption and courage that will open eyes and prompt serious questions.” I’ll take that.
If you’ve been wondering what I spent two years obsessively researching and writing about, you’ll get a pretty good taste. And if you’re ready to get your hands on a copy (it’s available in paperback and eBook in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, so spread the word), you can do that right here.
A Word About AMD
I have known AMD for years now, and somewhere along the way we realized that the missions of our Substacks were largely aligned, with one caveat: theirs is more focused and consistent and far better written, while mine often strays into more contentious areas of our Substack writers category, a category whose somewhat oxymoronic name still makes me laugh, “Health Politics,” where AMD now sits in the #1 spot, such that it has triggered envy amongst the other amazing ranked writers they overtook, some of whom have now started calling AMD a “Pharma plant.” Hilarious. Or, at least it would be if it weren’t so sad.
Anyway, the category name reminds me of a meme I came across a few years ago, making fun of the political divides that arose around scientific topics like ivermectin’s efficacy in Covid: “Who believes in penicillin more, Republicans or Democrats?”
Anyway, we were two people who stumbled into similar missions and have admired each other’s work ever since. They do theirs almost full-time; I only get to do it part-time, squeezed around a mountain of other responsibilities, like running the Leading Edge Clinic and writing books. And what they do with that time is extraordinary. They just spent over a year and a half — a year and a half — meticulously documenting the story of DMSO, one of the most important and most deliberately buried therapies in all of medicine. Nobody working today matches their combination of writing skill, rigor, breadth, and thoroughness.
I had AI put together a little graphic listing the various branches of medicine and therapeutics that “the medical establishment” has suppressed over the past century and more, as detailed by AMD in their article:
The list above brings to mind my essay, “The Kory Scale,” in which I proposed a method for assessing the effectiveness of an “alternative” therapy, particularly when it is safe, inexpensive, and widely accessible (the trifecta that threatens medicine’s economic model).
The method is simple: you assign points to every suppression and persecution tactic deployed by the institutions of society against the therapy, and the more points, the more effective (i.e., threatening) it is. I proposed different scores for media attacks, negative high impact journal editorials, FDA denials of research, universities and journals publishing trials of the treatments that are designed to fail, doctors who advocate for them losing their specialty certifications, licenses, or jobs (ahem), and, in a number of the cases above, assassinations or assassination attempts on the innovators of such treatments (as I detail in my book around chlorine dioxide and earlier oxidative therapies)
If more people in our society understood this history, and how it is still occurring, one of two things could happen. One, the system could change (not). Or two, people could seek out reliable information they could use to protect their own and their families' health, rather than relying on the high priests and priestesses of the medical religion, with their often terrible and very narrow therapeutic armamentarium. I ain’t holding my breath for the first. So, alongside AMD, I work toward the second.
From early on in Covid, I had one goal: that every cupboard in America hold ivermectin, for the whole family. Dreaming like that hasn’t changed, only the compounds have. Now my goal is for every cupboard to hold both chlorine dioxide and DMSO (mine does), two “umbrella therapies,” meaning each has numerous mechanisms of action and can treat a broad range of diseases, can be purchased online, and people can (and must) educate themselves to use, I believe safely, and far safer than most pharmaceuticals. DMSO has more mechanisms of action than chlorine dioxide; but several of those of chlorine dioxide, particularly against infectious illness, are far more potent.
There’s a more personal reason I care about this, too. For reasons I won’t get into here, I’ve come to see our medical system as an institution in serious decline, but now declining the way so many other institutions of society are declining right now, and, in the years since Covid, the hospital system has hardened into something even more rigid, protocolized, and unthinking than what I trained in. As my readers know, I now suffer from nosocomophobia, the fear of hospitals (a real and documented condition). Since Covid and my excommunication from “the system,” a daily, unspoken goal of my life is to avoid the hospital at nearly all costs. I’ve told my wife that the only way I’m going is if I’m unconscious, so she would have to call the ambulance herself.
I’m not telling you to draw the line exactly where I draw it; you should set your own criteria, and there absolutely may come a day when you have to go, and on that day you should go. The point isn’t recklessness; it’s the opposite. It’s being equipped well enough to make that call wisely, to handle at home what can be handled there safely, and to know the difference. I wrote about that last winter, when I treated a sudden, severe illness myself rather than walk into an ER: “Why and How I Purposefully Avoided the Hospital After Developing an Acute, Severe Illness This Week.” Consider it a case study in both what I do and, in more than a few moments, what not to do, but also remember that I am an experienced ICU specialist, so what I can pull off at home is unlikely to be an option for most.
That’s the mission, and AMD’s article is one more piece of the case for it. I’m grateful they wrote it.
Read their work. Then, if you want the fuller story, The War on Chlorine Dioxide is available at waronchlorinedioxide.com — again, it’s not on Amazon for all the reasons detailed in AMD’s article, so that’s the only place to get it.
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Note to readers:
One discovery consumed my last year: a volcanic mineral extract made by the Japanese scientist Shimanishi fifty years ago — the “Golden Elixir” of the old traditions, made real. It led me to write two three books, retire from my patient panel (but not from Leading Edge Clinic), and start a company with one mission: to carry this forgotten chemistry off the page. Aurmina for the water we drink, and Primora Bio for the water our soil, crops, and animals crave.
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My husband and I just had a discussion with another couple about avoiding a hospital stay at all costs. We are on a variety of supplements and fairly healthy at age 70. I always tell people I might die of something stupid, but not from being over medicated, over diagnosed and over treated for any illness.
Pierre, yes, nice, and I use CD every day, but I do not use my DMSO when my wife is around. But what I really want to say is that you seem to live in a closed circle where none of you even mention more important medicinals like magnesium, bicarbonates, iodine, hydrogen, and even carbon dioxide, which is probably the closest we will ever come to a perfect medicine, along with magnesium.
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