Thank you for taking the time to write this post. As Dr Syed Mobeen spent an entire day researching his video post on the same subject, clearly you are in good company. What I most appreciate is your unique vantage point as a Pulmonologist, and Intensivist, have cared for hundreds of patients in the pulmonary phase of the disease. Whe…
Thank you for taking the time to write this post. As Dr Syed Mobeen spent an entire day researching his video post on the same subject, clearly you are in good company. What I most appreciate is your unique vantage point as a Pulmonologist, and Intensivist, have cared for hundreds of patients in the pulmonary phase of the disease. Whether Dr Ardis is well intentioned and off track, engaging in self promotion, or worse, part of the controlled opposition intended to discredit and deride our efforts to treat early and effectively, I don’t know. But his actions have certainly stoked the anxieties of many and squandered a great deal of collective energy. Forget about horse paste; now we’ve got snake venom. Two questions I ask myself: How would this have gone differently if Dr Ardis had conferred with his professional peers to examine his hypothesis, rather than engage in science by media blitz? And because he did not ask his peers, why does it remind me so much of a move from the disinformation playbook of Big Pharma?
yeah Scott, the whole episode is quite strange. As I said to another commenter, I fear he may have been suffering a manic episode and I was hoping he would retract/correct his assertions into at least a more gentle hypothesizing tone (noting that offering diagnoses like this without examining/speaking with him is hazardous/wrong but if my hunch is true, it would be the most forgivable and understanding reason for this episode.
Thanks Pierre for another masterpiece (even IF a good bit snarky). I have also listened to / watched a LOT of Ardis; discarded him when the snake venom first came up, but recently have taken a dive back in his stuff. First, by way of, uninvolved if very sympathetic, empathy for his background; his first son was born was he was prepping for the MCAT, intending to GO the med school. For this baby's first four months, the child screamed all the time, could not swallow food without throwing it up, could only sleep laying on Ardis's or his wife's body, having his head held in one position -- and if his head moved the baby woke up screaming... Could not poop. (remember: Ardis was 26-yr-old KID with his first son!) They took the poor thing to NINE MDs -- all of whom prescribed antibiotics and no help. (The ninth prescribed yet another antibiotic, immediately after which the child had a grand mal seizure -- and this doctor too, asked what ARDIS had done.)
At some point, Ardis injured HIS shoulder, and was sent to a rehab clinic. First visit his son screamed his head off the entire time out in the waiting room. Second visit, the "therapist" (Ardis thought) asked him to bring the child into the exam room. (Ardis THOUGHT it was to keep the baby from annoying the others in the waiting room.) The 'therapist' ran a finger up and down the baby's back, turned and asked if it was forceps or vacuum extraction birth. (Ardis had described earlier how the attending had grasped the child's head, cutting the tips of BOTH its ears and birthed the poor thing bleeding from both sides of his head and left massive bruising on its head.)
The therapist turned out, of course, to BE a chiro (Ardis has never HEARD of chiropractic!) ... and with permission adjusted the poor screaming thing's neck (specific C1 gets twisted, and presses on 10 nerves... including eating/digesting and pooping nerves...) As child kept screaming, Ardis stormed out and drove off and after 5 minutes or so, the kid went silent. Ardis pulled over, went to the back seat and checked, thinking the baby had died... but still breathing...
Kid slept for 8 hours; Ardis and his wife set a timer for 10 min, and checked on him every 10 min for eight hours! After 8 hrs they came in, the baby was lying on his back looking around. Ardis called the "therapist" back to report and ask HOW the hell he knew to do what he had.
Long story sho... well, slightly shorter... that chiro called the Pres of a some chiro college (out west somewhere) and Ardis became both an ENEMY to the ortho-docs' medical establishment -- and a chiro, a nutrition specialist of some sort; he studied acupuncture, and some other fields...
(He also fired the ob for one of his 4 other kids' births. When she arrived late; kid was coming sun-side up and she had told the nurses to push the baby back up IN the canal and keep it there till she arrived... When she rushed in, she grabbed the forceps -- which she had SIGNED a contract with Ardis to not use. He fired her and kicked her out. HE sent the nurses to go find the ... I forget what it's called -- the bar you drape the birthing mother over to allow GRAVITY to help ... and delivered his own child.)
Let me finish by writing... I still have a heaping load of caution about Ardis. Is it because he seems confident/arrogant and a bit sleazy? (You come across confident/arrogant and NOT sleazy.) Don't know. However *I* now share his vehement distrust and anger towards ortho-docs and the system they inhabit (and protect/defend!). Having just watched the ortho-docs MURDER a million or more, by omission and commission, and injured several million more -- and STILL PROCLAIMING THEIR INNOCENCE (ignorance!) ... how ELSE should I approach any doc NOT yet awakened as you and 'our' team are! (That's NOT missing a "y" -- I am still your stalker across the web, "pre-bought" your book from the start, and will always follow you.)
Your essay adds heaps to my distrust of Ardis ... however, I DO wonder if you have TRIED nicotine gum or patches on some of your more intractable problems... You were dubious way back when; and you and the miraculous Paul held off adding IVM to your list of good things... Or IV Vit C, until you tried it. (Or black seed oil!) What IF nicotine and it alpha-7-nicotine-something-something receptors all over the body CAN work / be helpful / be an addition? Ardis is NOT stupid -- and his high frustration at being ignored by the NON-ortho-docs who refuse to look at his work remind me a LOT of your frustration about hydroxy and IVM!
In our practice, we have seen a patient demonstrate benefit, and a patient get worse with a Nicotine patch. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor. As Dr Jordan Vaughn is demonstrating, and as we are seeing in our own patients, there is a preponderance of fibrin amyloid microclotting in the capillaries of many vax injured, and a sizable minority of long haul patients. This results in ischemic conditions systemically. Vasoconstriction under these circumstances, which could exacerbate hypoxia in the heart, brain, GI tract and organs, not to mention nerves throughout the periphery, is a non-starter from a fundamental understanding of anatomy and physiology.
Nicotine is a food source; so you are saying nightshade plants can trigger vasoconstriction and exacerbate hypoxia? I’m trying to understand the fundamentals of A&P.
You’re expanding the scope of my oroiginal statement, which was very narrow. The properties of nicotine are textbook. You don’t need me to explain that to you.
Nicotine causes vasoconstriction. It stimulates the release of epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine, which activate the sympathetic nervous system. This leads to narrowing of blood vessels (vasoconstriction), increased heart rate, and elevated blood pressure. Chronic vasoconstriction from nicotine use can contribute to cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension and reduced blood flow to extremities.
Thank you for taking the time to write this post. As Dr Syed Mobeen spent an entire day researching his video post on the same subject, clearly you are in good company. What I most appreciate is your unique vantage point as a Pulmonologist, and Intensivist, have cared for hundreds of patients in the pulmonary phase of the disease. Whether Dr Ardis is well intentioned and off track, engaging in self promotion, or worse, part of the controlled opposition intended to discredit and deride our efforts to treat early and effectively, I don’t know. But his actions have certainly stoked the anxieties of many and squandered a great deal of collective energy. Forget about horse paste; now we’ve got snake venom. Two questions I ask myself: How would this have gone differently if Dr Ardis had conferred with his professional peers to examine his hypothesis, rather than engage in science by media blitz? And because he did not ask his peers, why does it remind me so much of a move from the disinformation playbook of Big Pharma?
yeah Scott, the whole episode is quite strange. As I said to another commenter, I fear he may have been suffering a manic episode and I was hoping he would retract/correct his assertions into at least a more gentle hypothesizing tone (noting that offering diagnoses like this without examining/speaking with him is hazardous/wrong but if my hunch is true, it would be the most forgivable and understanding reason for this episode.
You're handling this like a champ!
You’re right. Dr. Ardis should’ve asked Dr. Kory, etc first and then they could’ve collectively gone public with the info.
Thanks Pierre for another masterpiece (even IF a good bit snarky). I have also listened to / watched a LOT of Ardis; discarded him when the snake venom first came up, but recently have taken a dive back in his stuff. First, by way of, uninvolved if very sympathetic, empathy for his background; his first son was born was he was prepping for the MCAT, intending to GO the med school. For this baby's first four months, the child screamed all the time, could not swallow food without throwing it up, could only sleep laying on Ardis's or his wife's body, having his head held in one position -- and if his head moved the baby woke up screaming... Could not poop. (remember: Ardis was 26-yr-old KID with his first son!) They took the poor thing to NINE MDs -- all of whom prescribed antibiotics and no help. (The ninth prescribed yet another antibiotic, immediately after which the child had a grand mal seizure -- and this doctor too, asked what ARDIS had done.)
At some point, Ardis injured HIS shoulder, and was sent to a rehab clinic. First visit his son screamed his head off the entire time out in the waiting room. Second visit, the "therapist" (Ardis thought) asked him to bring the child into the exam room. (Ardis THOUGHT it was to keep the baby from annoying the others in the waiting room.) The 'therapist' ran a finger up and down the baby's back, turned and asked if it was forceps or vacuum extraction birth. (Ardis had described earlier how the attending had grasped the child's head, cutting the tips of BOTH its ears and birthed the poor thing bleeding from both sides of his head and left massive bruising on its head.)
The therapist turned out, of course, to BE a chiro (Ardis has never HEARD of chiropractic!) ... and with permission adjusted the poor screaming thing's neck (specific C1 gets twisted, and presses on 10 nerves... including eating/digesting and pooping nerves...) As child kept screaming, Ardis stormed out and drove off and after 5 minutes or so, the kid went silent. Ardis pulled over, went to the back seat and checked, thinking the baby had died... but still breathing...
Kid slept for 8 hours; Ardis and his wife set a timer for 10 min, and checked on him every 10 min for eight hours! After 8 hrs they came in, the baby was lying on his back looking around. Ardis called the "therapist" back to report and ask HOW the hell he knew to do what he had.
Long story sho... well, slightly shorter... that chiro called the Pres of a some chiro college (out west somewhere) and Ardis became both an ENEMY to the ortho-docs' medical establishment -- and a chiro, a nutrition specialist of some sort; he studied acupuncture, and some other fields...
(He also fired the ob for one of his 4 other kids' births. When she arrived late; kid was coming sun-side up and she had told the nurses to push the baby back up IN the canal and keep it there till she arrived... When she rushed in, she grabbed the forceps -- which she had SIGNED a contract with Ardis to not use. He fired her and kicked her out. HE sent the nurses to go find the ... I forget what it's called -- the bar you drape the birthing mother over to allow GRAVITY to help ... and delivered his own child.)
Let me finish by writing... I still have a heaping load of caution about Ardis. Is it because he seems confident/arrogant and a bit sleazy? (You come across confident/arrogant and NOT sleazy.) Don't know. However *I* now share his vehement distrust and anger towards ortho-docs and the system they inhabit (and protect/defend!). Having just watched the ortho-docs MURDER a million or more, by omission and commission, and injured several million more -- and STILL PROCLAIMING THEIR INNOCENCE (ignorance!) ... how ELSE should I approach any doc NOT yet awakened as you and 'our' team are! (That's NOT missing a "y" -- I am still your stalker across the web, "pre-bought" your book from the start, and will always follow you.)
Your essay adds heaps to my distrust of Ardis ... however, I DO wonder if you have TRIED nicotine gum or patches on some of your more intractable problems... You were dubious way back when; and you and the miraculous Paul held off adding IVM to your list of good things... Or IV Vit C, until you tried it. (Or black seed oil!) What IF nicotine and it alpha-7-nicotine-something-something receptors all over the body CAN work / be helpful / be an addition? Ardis is NOT stupid -- and his high frustration at being ignored by the NON-ortho-docs who refuse to look at his work remind me a LOT of your frustration about hydroxy and IVM!
In our practice, we have seen a patient demonstrate benefit, and a patient get worse with a Nicotine patch. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor. As Dr Jordan Vaughn is demonstrating, and as we are seeing in our own patients, there is a preponderance of fibrin amyloid microclotting in the capillaries of many vax injured, and a sizable minority of long haul patients. This results in ischemic conditions systemically. Vasoconstriction under these circumstances, which could exacerbate hypoxia in the heart, brain, GI tract and organs, not to mention nerves throughout the periphery, is a non-starter from a fundamental understanding of anatomy and physiology.
Nicotine is a food source; so you are saying nightshade plants can trigger vasoconstriction and exacerbate hypoxia? I’m trying to understand the fundamentals of A&P.
You’re expanding the scope of my oroiginal statement, which was very narrow. The properties of nicotine are textbook. You don’t need me to explain that to you.
Nicotine causes vasoconstriction. It stimulates the release of epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine, which activate the sympathetic nervous system. This leads to narrowing of blood vessels (vasoconstriction), increased heart rate, and elevated blood pressure. Chronic vasoconstriction from nicotine use can contribute to cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension and reduced blood flow to extremities.