Lifestyle Roundup, Big Pharma Edition

I’ve been sitting on a few stories and now it’s time to draw attention to them. They all relate in one way or another to the mass medication of the population.

Statins are, I believe, the most widely prescribed drugs on the market. Some goofball “doctors” have even suggested putting them in the water supply. They have been controversial for years, along with the entire pseudo scientific narrative on heart disease that has been the government sponsored narrative—including disastrous diet recommendations—for over 50 years. Now a new study is out that specifies the way in which statins actually contribute to heart disease. The mechanism has to do with degrading normal regulators of arterial calcification—vitamins and antioxidents. Specifically, CoQ10 and Vitamin K2.

Long-Term Use Of Statins Linked To Heart Disease: Studies

Authored by Vance Voetberg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

For decades, statins have been heralded as the reliable heroes in the battle against heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States and globally. However, this seemingly flawless reputation has been called into question.

A new expert review suggests that long-term use of statins may be inadvertently aiding the enemy by accelerating coronary artery calcification instead of providing protection.

The review, published in Clinical Pharmacology, suggests statins may act as “mitochondrial toxins,” impairing muscle function in the heart and blood vessels by depleting coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), an antioxidant cells use for growth and maintenance. Multiple studies show statins inhibit CoQ10 synthesis, leading many patients to supplement.

CoQ10 is vital for producing ATP, the cell’s fundamental energy carrier. Insufficient CoQ10 inhibits ATP production, resulting in an energy deficit that the review authors say “could be a major cause for heart muscle and coronary artery damage.

“We believe that many years of statin drug therapy result in the gradual accumulation of mitochondrial DNA damage,” according to the authors.

The article goes on to explain more on how all this works, and also presents data showing how supplentation of CoQ10 cuts the worst of many side effects associated with statin use.

Here is the portion of the article dealing with Vitamin K2:

Statins impair the production of vitamin K, an essential vitamin in managing calcification, according to the review. Optimal vitamin K2 intake helps avoid plaque buildup of atherosclerosis—thickening or hardening of the arteries—and keeps calcification risk low.

Coronary calcification happens when calcium accumulates in the walls of the coronary arteries that provide oxygen to the heart. This plaque buildup is a sign of early coronary artery disease, which can block blood flow and trigger a heart attack.

A 2021 study published in the Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences found a connection between statin use, coronary artery calcification, and vitamin K2 deficiency. The results shed light on how statins may spur arterial calcium accumulation by inhibiting vitamin K. The study’s findings were “in agreement with the existing evidence about positive association between statins and vascular calcification,” the authors added.

Statins also damage selenoproteins, carriers of the mineral selenium essential for heart health.

Statins were also linked to increased calcification in a 2022 study published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. However, the authors proposed that statins may encourage calcification by heightening inflammation rather than nutrient deficiency.

It all illustrates the way in which practitioners of modern medicine have, to an alarming degree, become agents of Big Pharma, purveyors of their products with little regard for side effects.

Speaking of little regard for side effects …

Researchers have been documenting that the mRNA medications forced upon the general population during the Covid Hoax do not necessarily work “as advertised.” Results vary. It’s not possible to predict with absolute certainty the effect these medications will have on the level of each individual—as with much of science we’re talking about statistics, probability. I’ll start by quoting Karl Denninger to this effect, a small excerpt from a very lengthy article—The Screamfest Continues:

Coronaviruses are "odd birds" in that they have two protein segments -- the "N" and "S".  The "S" part is what mutates and is, comparatively speaking, very large.  It thus can mutate and remain "virally active" -- that is, being quite large the odds that it still "works" as a virus after a mutation is pretty good.  This [“S”] is the only part of the virus used in the jabs, a decision that was made because when both sections were used in previous trials over the decades it produced serious and even LETHAL enhancement down the road when challenged via natural mutated strains.  To avoid this they used only the "S" protein.

The "N" protein, on the other hand, is conserved because it is quite small and, if it mutates, there is a very high risk that whatever it mutates to is non-viable and thus that's not a virus anymore.  But the only way to get "N" protein recognition is to be infected since its not in the jabs, and worse, we knew in the early months of 2021, as I pointed out, that the jabs suppressed "N" protein recognition if you took them before getting infected which was conclusively shown by the summer months.

In other words if you took the jabs the odds were high that you would never gain "N" protein recognition and thus as soon as the virus mutated you could get infected again and again where for someone who did not take the jab and did have "N" protein recognition the odds were quite-high that they gained durable immunity that was not specific to the variation they were infected with.

This recognition was not and is not perfect, but it is both more-durable and wildly superior to that provided by the jabs -- which, again, are not vaccines and I refuse to call them that because by definition to be a vaccine the thing must induce sterile immunity.

But, as if that weren’t troubling enough, look what happens when you start messing around with proteins:

Pfizer mRNA Vaccine Makes 'Aberrant Proteins', Experts Concerned About Autoimmunity Events

Here’s the bottom line:

There may be around a 1 in 10 chance that Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccines will not generate spike proteins but something else, a new Cambridge study finds, raising concerns about autoimmune response among experts.

Now, the “something else” may not be harmful. But a 1 in 10 chance of that kind of event—technically, a “frameshift”—seems to me to represent an unacceptably high risk. It’s the kind of thing that Big Pharma companies are supposed to catch before their products are released and pushed by white coated agents on a gullible public.

That said, there are many caveats. One is that it appears that only the Pfizer injection has this flaw, and the study identifies what it believes is a design flaw that can be remedied. That design flaw is traced to Pfizer’s use of pseudouridine—an issue that has come up repeatedly in studies of side effects caused by these injections:

“Frameshifting results in the production multiple, unique and potentially aberrant proteins,” immunologist Jessica Rose wrote in her Substack article discussing the study.

While most naturally occurring mRNA contains uridine, the Pfizer mRNA vaccines use N1-methylpseudouridine. This makes the mRNA sequence hardier and less prone to breakdown by the immune system. Pfizer’s opting for less commonly occurring mRNA bases is also why some scientists call the mRNA vaccines modified RNA, or modRNA.

By implementing additional edits to the mRNA sequences, the authors were able to reduce further frameshifted proteins.

Although "there is no evidence: that the aberrant proteins generated by Pfizer vaccination are associated with adverse outcomes, for future use of mRNA technology, it is important that "mRNA sequence design is modified" to reduce these shifts, the authors concluded.

Right. “No evidence” could simply mean, “not found yet.” You just don’t want this kind of uncontrolled “frameshifting” going on in a product that is so widely dispensed. This is all very complex, but here’s an example of what concerns arise. Note that side effects that are symptomatic can arise only over a long time frame:

The authors wrote that none of the Pfizer vaccinees developed adverse effects, but they were concerned about immunological consequences.

“Mis-directed immunity has huge potential to be harmful,” immunologist Dr. James Thaventhiran, one of the study’s lead authors, said in the press release. “Off-target immune responses should always be avoided.”

The authors did not further define misdirected immunity, though it generally describes a reaction where the body’s immune system targets the wrong thing.

In this case, it can mean that rather than training the body to fight spike protein, it is trained to fight unnaturally occurring proteins instead, as highlighted by Norwegian nutritional biologist Marit Kolby in her post on X.

Additionally, some health experts are concerned that these unique proteins may increase a person’s risk of developing autoimmune disorders.

Molecular biologist professor Vladimir Uversky, PhD, from the University of South Florida and physician Dr. Alberto Rubio-Casillas concluded that autoimmunity may occur if immune cells start attacking cells producing these aberrant proteins.

"A mistranslated protein can [also] resemble a human protein and trigger antibody formation," Dr. Sfera added.

Autoimmunity occurs when the immune system attacks self-tissues. It can occur for many years before symptoms manifest.

As an example of why “off-target immune responses should always be avoided”, the article offers this possibility of how frameshifting can lead to serious health consequences that only manifest over the long term:

The production of these aberrant proteins and peptides may also increase a person’s risks of cancer, Mr. Uversky and Dr. Rubio-Casillas added in an email to The Epoch Times.

Melanoma cells have been shown to induce frameshifted proteins to escape immune detection.

“In our opinion, there is a possibility that during the translation of mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines, the aberrant proteins generated during frameshifting could activate survival mechanisms mimicking those developed by cancer cells to escape immune surveillance,” the two added.

There’s a lot more discussion, so follow the link. The point is, there’s a lot that is still unknown about these gene therapy medications beyond what is already known or strongly suspected. All of this should have been sorted out before release.

Then there’s this. Is this one of those “unspecified causes” deaths? Nothing is actually known, but it makes for interesting speculation—which the linked article indulges in at length. The guy was 33 years old:

Pro-Vaccine Journalist Who Called for Punishment For Refusing Jab Dies Suddenly

Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A Canadian journalist who took strong positions in support of COVID-19 vaccines—including calling for vaccine passports and terminating police officers who refused the jab—has died suddenly.