Health Lessons

Category: Corona virus

  • COVID Vaccine Disinformation (please read and share for the benefit of our families)

    COVID Vaccine Disinformation (please read and share for the benefit of our families)

    If you follow my emails, you know I’ve not agreed with all of the policies of the CDC regarding COVID (based on the numbers publically available)

    This very important article delineates the facts regarding COVID vaccination:
    For your examination…COVID Disinformation<–click to read<–

    I hope you will share, mostly not for changing COVID policies; what is more important than COVID, in my humble opinion, is the seeming lack of desire (even among, maybe especially among, young college students) or courage to question (not necessarily disagree, simply to question) authority and the severe consequences of questioning authority that was real and is real.

    Science becomes impotent and even destructive when scientists become afraid to speak.

    There can be no free thought, no virtue, no advancement of science without courage.

    Charles Runels, MD

  • My Trip to Disney World, Yesterday, During COVID Lockdown

    Yesterday, I woke and went with my lover and her children to Disney World, the “Most Magical Place on Earth.” This is what happened:

    On waking, the children literally jumped with excitement and frustration that we were not already in the car headed to the park. We played very loud music that I couldn’t sing along with because I mostly know the words to the rock songs of the 1970s and 1980s and the songs in the Baptist Hymnal, and a few chants I learned from my studies of Hindu, and a few poems of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman (I LOVE “Pent Up Aching Rivers” by Whitman)—but I can’t sing along with many rap songs even though my youngest son is a professional jazz drummer and can rap like a wizard. As we drive to the park, the bass guitar rattles the car and I wonder if Whitman would have been a rapper had he been born in 2001.

    Then we get to the park and I start to feel the delicious pain of remembering my parents as their younger selves and me as my child self when they brought me to the park to stay the year the park opened and how we stayed in the campgrounds—part because Outside was more fun and part because Outside was in the budget and credit cards were a new idea and you put Santa on lay-away because the credit cards didn’t yet put people in bankruptcy or slavery the way they can now.

    I paid a little extra to park closer to the door and we went into the park pretty easily and walked smoothly onto the boat that would take us to the doors of the Magic Kingdom.

    So far, things felt like what they have been like, except, of course, everyone (not almost everyone), everyone is wearing a mask.

    We laugh and run up the stairs of the boat since everyone knows that when you are a child the uppermost seats are best. Then, we walk/run to the front, since the front is better than the back when you’re on a boat.

    Now, things start to feel a little off: you’re not supposed to be able to easily park near the gate and walk to the front of the boat at the Magic Kingdom, usually, there are too many people for that. It feels like when you go to a meeting and not many people are there; so, you start to wonder if you’re in the right place.

    Still, the morning air is cool, almost sharp but still comfortable, and I can see the Captain of the boat through a window and I can hear the diesel engines and feel how easily their power pushes us into a headwind of 10 knots at a speed of 10 to 12 knots toward the Cinderella castle in front of us across the lake and the children are talking incessantly with happy voices that say nothing with the words but say everything about why people would want to be alive.

    The whole scene feels like it should be a great place for a photo, so I back up two steps and ask my crowd to drop their masks so I can take a photo that includes the boat railing, the morning sky, Cinderella’s castle, and their smiles.

    Before I can snap the second photo, I hear an angry man’s voice shout over the sound of the diesels, “PUT YOUR MASKS ON. YOU MUST WEAR YOUR MASKS AT ALL TIMES!”

    I turned around to see black eyes glaring so much that I could see the white his eyes all the way around the black in the center, even the white by the lids, the exophthalmos glare of the enraged or of someone with severe hyperthyroidism—glaring from behind a face-shield covering the face that was covered (all-but-the eyes) by a black mask.

    I could still feel the solid wind blowing cold across the bow first in my face and now into my back as I turn the face the man who had shouted at me and the children and at my lover. All within a second, I looked behind him to see a boat mostly full of faces, staring at us, all from behind masks. Nothing but eyes and masks. So, as a physician and a mathematician, I redo the calculations and easily see that with a 20-knot wind (headwind plus boat speed) on the open deck of the boat that there’s a zero chance that anything that comes from my bronchial tubes will land in the nares of the people on the boat. But, I can not see their mouths—only their eyes: so I do not know what they think. Are they really afraid (I feel sorry and ashamed that they may be), are they made into children afraid of the monster under the bed by this man’s anger? Are they laughing at the ridiculous nature of his demands? Are they angry at me for risking the life of every man, woman, child, and infant on board? I could feel the fear and embarrassment of the children of my fiancé now behind me. I turned back to them and told them to put their masks back on, and I turn around again to be sure the man is satisfied and not walking closer (his surprise approach and his anger has woke my instincts to protect those looking up to me, though my left brain knows he’s not really a threat, my lizard brain is on the edge).

    I’m relieved to see him strut away from us, and I feel no anger, only pity for him because it feels to me that this police work just lifted his self-esteem.

    I turn back around to snap another photo with the masks pulled back up, but now the scene lacks the smiles. I can only see Cinderella’s castle, and the railing of the boat, and eyes and the tops of people’s heads and I decide there’s no need to take more photos on the boat and hope the cloud that just came over the bow will pass.

    I mumble to my fiancé’, “I’m glad he kept us from slaughtering everyone on board.”

    Then I turn to see a young man standing near us, I see that he overheard me—he’s also on the rail on the bow. He holds his young lover near him and I can hear his laugh and I can see he’s strong and wearing short sleeves in the cold and he nods a nod of “I’m OK with you” and I can see that his young woman is melting into him and that he has given her his passion and she has given him hers, that morning, before getting on the boat, and that she is his and that he is hers and that they are not afraid of the wind or of our naked faces.

    He’s standing between me and the window on the other side of which is the Captain of the boat and the Captain is looking straight ahead at the approaching dock not seeming to notice that one of his people under his charge has become the mask Gestapo. I’m reminded of a Jack London novel but then it’s a vague reminder and I watch the Captain with my mask back over my face and the children are now quiet. I think he’s been a Captain in the coast guard and has captured drug runners and fought high seas or else Disney would not trust him as Delta prefers captains who flew jets in the Airforce and in the Navy. Now, I wonder what he thinks about his present back-and-forth taxi and what he says to his wife when he goes home at night when they watch TV.

    After entering the park, the children and my fiancé first ride Space Mountain. The youngest is too short for the ride, so I take her for ice cream. The man who sells us the ice cream wears a mask when he speaks with more enthusiasm than the transaction demands: I cannot tell if he is smiling or if he hates his job and the mask. To eat the ice cream, and to avoid the mask Gestapo, the rules say we must sit still…no walking and eating at the same time (everyone knows viruses can’t jump off of you when you’re sitting like they do when you’re walking). The ice cream melts and drips onto my black Levis as I watch the crowd and I notice that I don’t care.

    I do not see a smile anywhere. The park sells masks with smiles painted on them; many people buy the mouse ears and wear them but I see no one wearing the masks with the painted-on smiles.

    I cannot see a smile, not one, only masks that all seem black to me now no matter what the color. I see no one kissing (though my fiancé and I did try it once through a mask and gave it up as a worthless pantomime). I feel like I’m caught in a Brave New World; and I wonder if anyone who walks by me has read the book and I want to yell for everyone, anyone, please take off your mask and kiss.

    We go to my favorite ride, “It’s a Small World.” I want the song to be stuck in my head for the day, for the week, forever and I watch the little puppets that were high tech when I first saw them when I was 12 in 1972 and rode the boat with my then young parents.

    I think about them and about my grandfather who never went to school because he was born out of wedlock at a time when there was no safety net and so was “farmed-out” (a form of indentured servitude that young children—yes white children—endured in the south when their parents could not afford to feed them). I wonder what he would think if he were in this place. I remember my younger self being there in the Magic Kingdom as a child when everything was new. I remember bringing my three sons there when I was single, after their mother and I split. I grieve the loss of that time when I was the father of young sons and could show them the world, the whole thing, as much as I could, and tried to show them that this world (wherever you are in it) is the most Magical Place in the universe because this is where we are and we can make it so, and I wonder if they remember or was all of it masturbation and they remember nothing of it and it only served to make me feel happy to be a father without producing the offspring of showing them anything at all.

    Then I look around and see the children of my fiancé and wonder if I’m doing anything to make their day better, and I think not, so I just relax and let them show me how to find magic even with our masks and forget teaching and become their student in our new world.

    On the way out, I buy everyone cookies at one of the shops and we are steps from the gate, so we drop our masks to eat them and as we pass through the gate, leaving the park, we are chewing our cookies when the woman at the gate yells to our backs, “YOU MUST WEAR YOUR MASK AT ALL TIMES.”

    Later, that night in bed, I see where my sister writes on Facebook about how it’s good that people quit publishing a book that offended people, and I try to think of a book that has offended me, or could have offended me (I think of You Might Be a Redneck IF, since I’m from Alabama) and I think, “Would I would want this book to go out of print?” I think about how people have insulted me and how they dressed up my grandfather as a child and made fun of him because the clothes didn’t fit and then sent him to the fields to work and never to school (and how he never told me about it, my father did). I think of the woman I know who as a child said something offensive to someone at her school in Russia and so the authorities came to her home that evening and questioned her parents—who were at risk of prison or worse if they answered the questions wrong. I remember another woman I know who came to the US from Ukraine as a young woman with $25 and when she arrived dropped her bags and cried because she felt free (now she’s a wealthy anesthesiologist in New York City). I think of another woman who as a child was a refugee in a Vietnam prison camp and how her father sent her and her mother here and couldn’t join them until years later and then he died from cancer soon after his arrival. I think of Bella Thorne (who started at Disney) and how her video showing love between women was banned by YouTube. I remember hearing Larry Flint say, on stage in Las Vegas, when he was old and in a wheelchair and spoke in broken sentences in his weakness and breathlessness (I shared the stage that day to discuss my O-Shot® procedure), “I took Jerry Falwell to the Supreme Court for one reason—freedom of speech. They don’t start by banning what you want to hear. They start by banning what you do NOT want to hear: then you go along with it, and then you lose the right to hear what you DO want to hear. You can agree to ban what you find offensive, but, in the future, you cannot choose who will decide what is offensive.”

    He continued with one of the most important most patriotic sentences I’ve ever heard, “Until you’re willing to fight for the freedom of people to say what offends you, you do not deserve freedom of speech.”

    “If you’re not going to offend somebody, you don’t need freedom of speech,” said Larry Flynt

    I remember the book about How to Kill Eleven Million People and I wonder if my sister has read it, if the man on the boat read it, if the Captain read it, if any Jew read it, if anyone has read it.

    I remember a YouTube channel of mine (with 142 videos on it that took me hundreds of hours to make) being removed/banned ten years ago by Google for my talking about sex from a scientific standpoint and for my video about how to mix growth hormone (to help the patients I had involved in a research project I was doing—they said it encouraged illegal drug use). I remember how it was impossible to talk with a person at google about my censorship; so I started a new channel, but also started putting everything important on Vimeo in case Google censored me again.

    I go back online and read again about Bella Thorne and I’m grateful for her, and I salute her courage (and I think, “Maybe if Whitman reincarnated, he’s come back as Bella Thorne“) and I cheer for her and for her fans and I hope that a friend of mine, Phoenix Marie, in the entertainment industry will join her cause and that my sister will join her cause: that “We should be able to celebrate love, and ask, “Why are we allowed to glorify and celebrate violence but not love? And, who is anyone to play G-d and decide what I can say?”

    But, then I realize, there’s really not much I can do, not really, not about any of it, not about much of anything really, except for what I can reach with my hands within 2 feet of where I sit, and with the very few who may read what I write and read it until the end, and I wonder if I did the math wrong today on the boat (maybe I did actually kill everyone on the boat today even though I’ve already had COVID and survived it after being vaccinated by the actual illness) and I go back to Walt Whitman and I want to go outside and read a poem, to be a poem, and to hear the children, and to hear my children and their children, and I’m sorry for everyone who had to work under another man’s whip and I’m sorry for everyman and every woman’s offense, especially those who I have offended (and there have been many), and I’m grateful for every offense that made anyone angry enough to do more than would have been done without the anger, and here in my own magic kingdom I want to strip my lover naked and forget the masks and kiss with bare lips with nothing between.

    Walt Whitman…

    FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.
    FROM pent-up aching rivers,
    From that of myself without which I were nothing,
    From what I am determin’d to make illustrious, even if I stand
    sole among men,
    From my own voice resonant, singing the phallus,
    Singing the song of procreation,
    Singing the need of superb children and therein superb grown
    people,
    Singing the muscular urge and the blending,
    Singing the bedfellow’s song, (O resistless yearning!
    O for any and each the body correlative attracting!

    O for you whoever you are your correlative body! O it, more than all else, you delighting!)

    From the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day,
    From native moments, from bashful pains, singing them,
    Seeking something yet unfound though I have diligently sought it
    many a long year,
    Singing the true song of the soul fitful at random,
    Renascent with grossest Nature or among animals,
    Of that, of them and what goes with them my poems informing,
    Of the smell of apples and lemons, of the pairing of birds,
    Of the wet of woods, of the lapping of waves,
    Of the mad pushes of waves upon the land, I them chanting,
    The overture lightly sounding, the strain anticipating,
    The welcome nearness, the sight of the perfect body,
    The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless on his
    back lying and floating,
    The female form approaching, I pensive, love-flesh tremulous
    aching,
    The divine list for myself or you or for any one making,
    The face, the limbs, the index from head to foot, and what it
    arouses,
    The mystic deliria, the madness amorous, the utter abandonment,
    (Hark close and still what I now whisper to you,
    I love you, O you entirely possess me,
    O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and
    lawless,
    Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more
    lawless than we;)
    The furious storm through me careering, I passionately trembling.
    The oath of the inseparableness of two together, of the woman
    that loves me and whom I love more than my life, that oath
    swearing,
    (O I willingly stake all for you,
    O let me be lost if it must be so!
    O you and I! what is it to us what the rest do or think?
    What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust
    each other if it must be so;)
    From the master, the pilot I yield the vessel to,
    The general commanding me, commanding all, from him permis-
    sion taking,
    From time the programme hastening, (I have loiter’d too long as
    it is,)
    From sex, from the warp and from the woof,
    From privacy, from frequent repinings alone,
    From plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near,
    From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers
    through my hair and beard,
    From the long sustain’d kiss upon the mouth or bosom,
    From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting
    with excess,
    From what the divine husband knows, from the work of fatherhood,
    From exultation, victory and relief, from the bedfellow’s embrace
    in the night,
    From the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms,
    From the cling of the trembling arm,
    From the bending curve and the clinch,
    From side by side the pliant coverlet off-throwing,
    From the one so unwilling to have me leave, and me just as un-
    willing to leave,
    (Yet a moment O tender waiter, and I return,)
    From the hour of shining stars and dropping dews,
    From the night a moment I emerging flitting out,
    Celebrate you act divine and you children prepared for,
    And you stalwart loins.

  • The Real Science Behind Facemasks

    Here’s the real science behind facemasks…

    Legal Disclaimer: The following is a combination of mathematical facts and opinion. This article does not make the author your physician. Do whatever your personal physician tells you to do.

    Prelude

    If you click on the following link, you’ll see that the only thing that seems to correlate with the numbers of people who die from COVID is the population density (click)<–

    If you plot the data shown in the linear regression,  then deaths per million are highly correlated with population density.  

    That correlation is not surprising (pack people closer together, then disease spread more easily), what is surprising is that if you look at death rates and control for population density, the places with the earliest and strictest mask and quarantine laws (like New York City) have a higher death rate than predicted by population density than in states with later and laxer mask laws (like Texas and Florida). That’s the math.

    This puzzle of more masks being correlated with higher deaths was discussed in the Wall Street Journal and a few other places but has been largely not talked about (neither has population density). Mask theory is talked about greatly, but when you look at actual population data (death rates), the reverse of what most expect is seen.

    Face Mask Science

    So, why would those wearing masks and quarantining more have a higher than predicted death rate–higher than what the population density would predict? Best I can tell, no one has given a good explanation for that enigma until now.

    A Ph.D. researcher from the Standford department of cardiology published an article this week that gives possible reasons why wearing masks more seems to be correlated in population studies with more deaths per million (be sure and read to the end, read the references, and make up your own mind–or trust Big Brother to think for you)…

    Click to read the article<–

    Speculation of Dr. Runels after reading all of the above research:  Eventually, trying to avoid COVID-19 is like trying to avoid the common cold. Your best bet is to focus very strongly on health measures. For example, the CDC showed that the death rate is significantly increased in those who are even mildly overweight! Scary since that’s 1/2 of the US population. But, BMI is something that seems to have more effect than mask-wearing when you look at actual death rates.
    Your grandmother (or great grandmother) had to worry about POLIO when she sent her kids to school…but they went.  But, they also did things to keep the children healthy. 
    Every mother with a child with cystic fibrosis worries about their child dying from pneumonia–but they do EVERYTHING they can do to keep them healthy and then send them to school. To say that again: Every mother with a child with cystic fibrosis worries about every pathogen that can cause pneumonia, but they don’t lock their children up at home and send them around with a mask strapped to their face everywhere they go.
    Those are just a few examples of why our current public policies are warped. I cannot do anything about public policy. But I can do things to boost the health of myself and my family, here are things that are known to increase the strength of your immune system to help you not get so sick from COVID when you are eventually exposed (click)<–
    So perhaps, the best bet is to do everything you can do to stay healthy and not depend so much on others to keep you in a sterile bubble.
    Note:

    Dr. Runels, predicting that convalescent plasma may be of help to those who are acutely ill (now considered an effective treatment by the FDA), constructed the following website to help connect those in large or small communities who are acutely ill with COVID with those who have recovered. Please share the website:  COVID19Switchboard.org

  • COVID-19 Deaths as of April 16, 2020

    The deaths from COVID-19 are tragic and awful in every way. Follow the guidelines of YOUR local officials-some places are much more severely affected than others. This information is only to give perspective on timelines and relations of this pandemic to other dis-ease processes (and to encourage you to stay healthy now and after coronavirus wanes).

    Here are a few facts that may be of comfort…(video explains, references below video)…

    Yesterday (2020April16), two thousand one-hundred and fourteen people (2,114) died from coronavirus. 

    Please: Help us fight coronavirus but helping get the word out about this COVID-19 switchboard to help with this problem (as discussed in the Wallstreet Journal.
    COVID-19: Approximately 138,008 deaths reported worldwide; 30,985 deaths in the U.S., as of Apr. 16, 2020.*
    Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year (average about 40,000 per year in the US–year after year).
    Daily Deaths in the US from COVID-19

    Yesterday, just yesterday, in the U.S.A., the following casualties occurred (assuming we had a day that follows the statistics of the past year)…

    1. Drunk drivers killed 30 people in the US alone (about 11,000 per year)

    2. Around 3,287 teenagers attempted suicide–based on rates (Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers-after trauma).

    3. 3,750 babies were aborted (no matter what your position on abortion, no one likes this number–though we may dislike it for different reasons.)

    4. 42 people were murdered (most of these involve crimes of passion where families are being split or where drugs or alcohol are involved).

    5. 3,109 couples divorced (based on 1998 figures)

    6. 16 million adults (18 years and older) suffered from major depression (6.7% of adults in the US)

    7. Yesterday, more than 1 million people were living with H.I.V.

    8. One person died every 37 seconds in the US from heart disease- that’s 2,335 yesterday

  • Boosting the Immune System

    DISCLAIMER: There is no guarantee that the following would do anything at all. These are only ideas to consider with your physician.

    Follow the guidelines of your physician and of your local public authorities. The following is for information only…

    Transcript Below…

    The following photo from the March 26, 2020 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine shows how interleukin-7 helps fight viruses. Boosting the immune system in addition to using anti-viral or anti-bacterial drugs is called “immunotherapy.” You can read more about immunotherapy here (click)<–

    The idea behind nebulized PRP is to deliver immunotherapy directly to the lungs to help prevent infection.

    Here’s more about boosting the immune system and overall health to help prevent disease…

    You can read the following book free if you have a kindle…

    Transcript

    Charles Runels, MD

    I thought I might clear up a few questions that have come up about what rules you should follow when it comes to staying safe and staying well during the current world pandemic. In the beginning, first a little bit of the numbers and actual risk. In the beginning they were saying 2% to 4% mortality rate, but if you notice, those numbers were based on just checking the very sick, which made me question.

    Now that we know the real numbers, because we’re testing not just the very sick, but South Korea especially, tested people who are not sick. You can’t really know how many people are dying with something unless you’re checking the number of people… Checking people, who are actually well, to see if they have it too. Now we know the number is probably only about one in seven, or about somewhere around 14% of the people who get coronavirus have severe symptoms. And, the mortality rate is much less than what was originally quoted. Because around 86%, the other way of looking at it, six out of seven or around 86% of the people who actually contract coronavirus have minimal if any symptoms.

    So the reason I’m talking with you now is to try to answer some questions about, first of all, how to keep from getting it, which most of you already know. There’s something that hasn’t been talked about a lot, which is if you get it, what can you do to try to make sure you are one of the people in the 86% who get minimal or no symptoms? That is, what can you do specifically to help your immune system to such a way that you are more likely to survive? So when you hear people in the news, now we know sometimes young people do get very sick from it, but mostly it’s people who “have a weaker immune system” either because of their age or we because some underlying disease or medication you might be on.

    So at any age we know there is research showing there are ways to actually enhance the immune system, at any age. And, a lot of it is stuff that your grandmother taught you. So first, a couple of things that there’s a lot of confusion about. How to keep from actually contracting it. One is, can you walk outside? Yes, you can walk outside. When you see the spring breakers being criticized, it’s not because they’re outside at the beach, it’s because they’re sweaty, in an undulating mass, drinking beer and dancing together. So there are too close together. Meaning, they can cough and someone can be within the six foot radius.

    You can’t… If you cough, I can’t shoot my cough stuff across the room, 30 feet. It can go about six feet, so that’s really only about three. But, you give yourself a little extra buffer so no one is within your six foot radius coughing, then you’re okay. In other words, if you go through the grocery store and one question gets asked, can you go grocery shopping? In other words, if someone coughed here 30 minutes ago, is there a cloud of coronavirus still lingering in the air? And, it’s a legitimate question. I saw where another expert agreed. One of the worldwide experts agreed with one I’m about to tell you, which is no, there’s no cloud of coronavirus hanging out for three hours in the grocery store. So you have to go shopping.

    I just got back from the bank. The bank teller had on gloves so that she’s not transmitting stuff, but she was six feet away from me and we did our banking stuff. She’s at work. The reason, of course, the restaurants are shut down is your waiter or waitress comes within six feet of your food and you’re within six feet of them. So things that make that happen are dangerous. But yes, you can go to your doctor’s office. Your doctor’s office is used to dealing with all sorts of infections. They’re keeping the surfaces clean, they’re used to doing that anyway. Every time there’s a flu epidemic, they have to do that.

    So if you can go to the grocery store and walk around, it’s safe to do that, as long as you’re not within six feet of someone and you’re careful to wash your hands. I would shake anyone’s hand right now with coronavirus, but then I would go wash my hands very good immediately afterwards. I’m not going to catch coronavirus with a handshake, as long as I wash my hands. I’ve dealt with many people during flu epidemics as an ER doctor, again, coughed on, blood on, all sorts of things. Every body fluid you can imagine is in the emergency room and you largely don’t get sick because you wash your hands and you wear gloves. So yes, you can go to the grocery store.

    Yes, if you run out of toilet paper today, you can go back tomorrow and buy it. Just wash your hands when you get home. Don’t touch your face and don’t be within a six foot radius of people who are coughing. Now, so can you walk outside? Yes, you can go to the beach, you should be able to walk around. You just can’t be at a big party where you’re all together. Now, what things could you do? Those are some common questions that are coming up, about what can I do and still be safe?

    You can go to the doctor’s office, your doctor will be practicing the same things they practice during a flu epidemic. You’re going to be safe. If you go to the grocery store, you can sure go to the doctor. Now, they’re saying don’t have elective procedures. The reason for that is that you don’t want to be taking up a hospital bed with an elective, say coli cystectomy. That could be waiting until two months from now, in case they need that bed for someone who’s very sick from coronavirus virus.

    If you have an… If you can go buy groceries at the grocery store, you can go in your doctor’s office and have your flu shot, get a prescription for antibiotics, get your Botox for your bruxism and your migraine headaches. Get your O-Shot for your sexual dysfunction or your new incontinence. But, you do it in a place that understands infection disease control. You don’t do it at some fly by night place, that’s pretending to know what they’re doing. Now, other…

    What can you do to help keep from being sick? What can you do to be one of the people who stays well, should you catch it? Well, things to boost the immune system. Some of them are old fashioned things that your grandmother taught you, like you should be getting enough rest. We know that being happy helps the immune system, we know that. So listen to the news once a day and when you’re home, take that time to enjoy your family. Laugh with your kids, play games, make love to your spouse. Sex has been shown to help the immune system. Massage helps the immune system. You’ve got all this time, I don’t think you watch movies that are disturbing movies. Watch happy movies, watch feel good dramas, watch things that make you feel happy. Watch your movies, but watch things that make you feel happy, love on your lover, hug your babies and have fun. And, that actually helps your immune system.

    Keep your nutrition good, it actually helps. I think vitamin C does help. It probably helps to even have the high dose IV vitamin C that some people do, if your doctor offers that. But, at least I think you should take… I think Linus Pauling is right, I think you should be taking 1,000 to 3,000 milligrams of vitamin C every day with your food. There’s research showing this was done and the Swiss did this study with several thousand people sitting in a sauna bath, getting your body temperature up to around 101 degrees for 14 minutes, four times a day, decrease mortality by 50%, following them over several years time and decreased risk of heart attack by 60%. But, it increases the immune system to raise your core body temperature.

    It’s like you’re creating an artificial fever and when you create… The purpose for fever is it demarginates white blood cells. Most your white blood cells are adhered to the walls of your blood vessels, but when you get a fever they become free floating in the bloodstream and become more active. And, things like interferon, which has given to help treat hepatitis C, to help fight viruses. If you got coronavirus, you would want your interferon to kick in and help you fight it off. It helps you find viruses.

    Well, guess what gets jacked up like crazy when you get a, raise your body temperature? Interferon and you can do that with exercise, you can and I recommend you do exercise outside, get some fresh air, get some sunshine. It helps your immune system and raise your body temperature either through exercise or you can sit in a hot bath and sit there until you feel hot and that helps your immune system. Take a cold shower. Cryo treatments, shocking the body with some cold, for a brief time, enough to kind of make you shiver a little bit, that’s enough. And, that helps the immune system, research shows it. So that could be a cold shower, it can be dumping of 10 pounds of ice in a bathtub and sitting there for five minutes, until you shiver and getting out. And, doing that once or twice a week. That’s also been shown to help depression and it lasts for up to a week. Sitting in a cold bath or being exposed to cold.

    So cold, heat, exercise, sleep, happiness, sex, massage, touch, watch peaceful happy movies, not disturbing movies. Take your vitamin C, good nutrition, fresh fruits and vegetables, if you can get them. If not at least some vitamin C and a B complex. Another thing you can do, well actually what a lot of NBA players are doing this now, is you probably saw on the news where PRP is being considered as a possible… Not PRP but plasma is being considered as a possible treatment. They’re thinking of taking plasma from people who are exposed to the virus and that’s under investigation, as a possible treatment. Problem is, by the time it’s approved and available, it could be too late for some of us. And, your own plasma, the platelets in your own plasma, are what will release a lot of growth factors and the white cells in your plasma help fight infection.

    So a lot of elite athletes have been nebulizing or breathing their own plasma, as a way to enhance athletic performance. And, they can use other things like amnion and exosomes, but the FDA is kind of frowning on that for now, until we do more studies. But, it’s a legitimate thing that works, that just maybe needs a little more research before we make that a standard thing. But, your plasma belongs to you, your saliva belongs to you, your blood belongs to you, your urine belongs to you, your spit, that’s yours. The FDA doesn’t regulate it and you can use your plasma, as an inhaled treatment to help improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome. Improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome, as in, make you healthier.

    That’s another way of saying make you healthier. Will it prevent you from getting coronavirus? I can’t promise you that. Will it cure coronavirus? I can’t promise you that. If you already have it, you’ve got it. But, would it perhaps help keep someone… Help them be in the 86% who doesn’t get sick from coronavirus? Maybe. I think it’s worth doing. If nothing else, if you’re a basketball player, you can run faster or at least some of the NBA players will tell you that. If you’re not a basketball player, maybe you can help play the whole Monopoly game before you get tired, when you play that game with your six year old. My sister used to fuss with me because I wanted to play the whole game and she could never last. It was six hours Monopoly game, so maybe you could finish a whole six hour Monopoly game.

    Bottom line, and what I’m trying to tell you is, have fun with your family. Stay happy. Realize that some people were going to die, people die every day and it’s not being callous to give yourself permission to be happy. Even when people are dying, it doesn’t mean you’re being callous. You have the right and those people that are gone would want you to love your family, make love, hug your babies and try to be as healthy as you can. So it’s a little bit longer before you joined them in the afterlife.

    Now specifically, how could your doctor offer you inhalation or aerosolized therapy with your own plasma or platelet rich plasma? And, in this case, I think you even want some white cells in there to help with it and get all those cytokines and all those growth factors that are in plasma into your lungs to increase in into your nasal passages to improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome.

    Well first of all, you probably need one of these. You don’t need a prescription for it. This is the one I bought for $81 bucks, at the local medical supply house. Yes, the world is running short on ventilators, but they’re not running short on nebulizers. It comes in pieces. If you want to show this, it comes… The machine that you plug in and it comes separated into a hose, a nebulizer device and a breathing device. So when you take it out of the box, you connect the tubing to the nebulizer device and then you connect the tubing to the machine. And, it doesn’t heat it, it just uses room temperature air to blow through here.

    And, then you have this. Now, I’m going to demonstrate it. We’ll draw some blood, create some plasma, and put it in this in, not in the center, but in the circumferential donut shaped part on the outside, is where the plasma will go. And, then air will blow through and I can breathe my platelet rich plasma into my lungs and nasal passages and improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome. Improve the health of my lungs and nasal passages. And, maybe even my whole body by breathing my own plasma. Again, I’m not promising this will cure anything, but I’m promising you there’s good science to backup the idea, this could improve your health. Hopefully to help you resist something, namely that goes by the initials coronavirus.

    So now, this should not be done at your doctor’s office because when you nebulize this, now your blood is in the air. So your doctor will draw your blood, isolate the plasma, you’ll take the plasma home and then squirt it in here and nebulize it. And, your doctor can show you how to use this using saline in the office or just sterile water. And, then when you get home you can can do what I’m about to show you. Or, you just watched this video and you’ll see how to use it. So the next step is, we’re going to draw my blood and prepare the plasma. Then, I’ll show you how to inhale it to improve the nasal pharyngeal microbiome. Say that three times real fast.

    Okay, I’m going to use, there are lots of brands, I’m using Eclipse to do this one. You’ll see this has a gel at the bottom and this goes… That will become the separator, this is the anti coagulate. Then we’ll just draw my blood here and I’ll show you that step. So here is the tourniquet and I’ll just show you how easy this is. Easy and quick. I need some glasses. So you can see this is vacuum packed. So we’ll just come real… Right here, get close where they can see. You can see there’s blood coming through there. Fill this baby up.

    Can you see Kate? Okay, got that off. So now we’ll take this over here. Now, if you notice the gel is still at the bottom. Stick this in here, turn that baby on. You can see we have a balancing kit, it just has water in it. Now, this is going to spin very fast. Okay. And, it will separate out my plasma now and then we’ll breathe that, I will breathe that down into my lungs to improve my immune system. The immune system and improve the nasolabial microbiome, so that hopefully I can stay healthy in the middle of people struggling to stay healthy.

    Okay, so now watch what we do. We’re outside so that I’m not filling up the room with my aerosolize blood. And so, now we’ll take this and show this up close. You take this little blue cap off and the plasma goes in the circumferential space around the outside of it. So put all that right there and I can actually do a treatment today and treatment tomorrow, if I kept this in the refrigerator. We’ll just use it all right now. And, I recommend, if you really want to be wide open with this, maybe do a treatment every week or two to help you keep up with your babies better.

    So now we just turn this on. If I want to take a break, I can take this and set it down right there, just kind of hooks on to that. But, I’m just going to keep breathing this until all this goes into my lungs, okay? I’m outside, my camera lady’s not at risk but I’m going to let her go inside while I finish smoking my plasma and then we’ll talk about it on the other side.

    See, the level went down or maybe you can’t. But, the level went down, I used about half of the PRP. And, this will keep in the refrigerator for a week or so. People use it for eyedrops, actually for dry eyes. I’m going to put in the refrigerator and give myself another treatment. There’s a couple of things about the treatment. I was breathing deeply into my lungs and then exhaling through the nasal passages. You could use a mask instead of this and then you would be getting it, you could breathe it in through the nose, as well. This came with a mouthpiece, so it was breathing in and out through my nose.

    Remember, I’m not telling you this will cure anything, that would get me cross ways with all sorts of people. I have to be very careful about our claims because I do want to be responsible and not tell you something that I don’t know to be true. Here’s what I know to be true. Plasma is being investigated as a treatment for coronavirus. Plasma, with the platelet rich plasma, the platelets are the part in your blood that actually enhances the immune system by bringing cytokines and growth factors to an area. That’s how you heal every wound. Okay, that’s a fact. We also know that professional athletes are using inhaled growth factors, like platelet rich plasma. They’ve used it for years in their joints. Tiger Woods had it in one of his joints. They use it for joints to recuperate the joints.

    The dentists use it to help heal hard to heal tissue in the jaw and professional athletes are inhaling it to help enhance athletic performance. I’m not telling you this cures anything but all the science indicates that it would enhance the nasal pharyngeal microbiome and help keep you healthy in the midst of what’s going on here.

    I recommend that you don’t have this done in some back alley from somebody who does not know what they’re doing. There should be a link below this video, wherever you’re watching it, preferably at the Cellular Medicine Association video, and that will take you to one of our providers that routinely handles platelet rich plasma. Knows how to handle it with kits, the kit I showed you is one of a half a dozen kits that I recommend, that are approved by the FDA, not for any particular use. But, are approved by the FDA, as a way to isolate your blood in a safe and effective manner. Effective, as in truly isolates your growth factors in your platelet rich plasma.

    You should have… Your doctor should be using a kit that’s approved, not for that purpose. The kits… The tubes that are made to analyze your blood were not intended to be used to isolate blood factors that then go back into your body. That’s a different level of sterilization for different level of standardization. So your doctor should be using one of the kits that are proved, again by the FDA, for preparing plasma to go back into your body. Your doctor may also be using amnion or exosomes. All this is between you and your doctor. This is information on video.

    I’m not your doctor. But, do discuss these treatments and your continued health your doctor. And hopefully you’ll either be one of the lucky ones who are either not exposed to coronavirus or if you are exposed, you’ve done everything you know to do to keep… To being one of the 86% of people who, if you are exposed and contract coronavirus, you have almost no symptoms. I’m told there’s a story where someone said to Mohammed, “I’m going to loose my camel and trusted to God.” And Mohamed said, “No, tie your camel and pray to God that your camel will be safe.” So yes, we pray to our God and we want us to be safe, we want our families to be safe.

    We want our fellow human beings, of every continent and of every color, to be safe. No matter what scripture they’re reading, we want them to be safe. We want them to be well. But, let’s not just loose our camel and trust it to God. Let’s tie our camel are doing all the things we know to keep ourselves safe and just as importantly, to keep our immune systems healthy and strong. And, then trust God to keep us well. I hope this you find this helpful and I hope you’ll discuss these ideas with your physician.

  • Proof the press is lying about coronavirus (and why you do not need to buy a mask)

    For information only.
    Follow the advice of your physician and of your local authorities…

    The following links are referenced in the above video…with the full transcript at the bottom of the page…

    As of today (2020Feb28),
    world-wide, 82,299 people have contracted the coronavirus,
    and 2,804 have died.

    None (zero) has died in the US.

    Here’s where the CDC keeps updated data about coronavirus in the US (minute-by-minute)<–

    Compare…

    The number of people who got the flu in 2018–
    48 million,
    with 959,000 in the hospital,
    and 79,000 deaths<–

    But, talking about the flu does not sell ads…not exciting enough.

    China’s forced abortion policy<– 

    A country that forces abortion if you have more than one child will not hesitate to shut down an epidemic with the necessary quarantines.

    Why wearing a face mask to try to keep from getting sick will not work (and why you should wear one if you are the one who is sick)<–

    The mass shooting at the Brewery from schizophrenia gone untreated<–

    More about mental illness going untreated<-–

    Twenty-nine (29) people per day die from drunk drivers in the US alone (that’s not counting the hundreds per day who are hurt, paralyzed, or otherwise seriously injured). That’s one death every 50 minutes (on average). Watch a movie–2 people died.

    In 2016, the number of children killed by drunk drivers in the US–214 (ages newborn to 14 years old).  That’s more than 4 children per week.

    The number of people who self-reported drunk driving incidents…in the MILLIONS…
    Annual episodes in millions: 1993-123,1995-115,1997-116,1999-159,2002-159,2004-124,2006-161,2008-131,2010-112,2012-121,2014-111

    Carona virus does not leave anyone with broken bones or paralyzed.

    Remember, the number of people dead in the US from coronavirus…ZERO.

    Number of deaths each year in the US from drug overdoses…70,000 a year…give or take…that’s 191 a day or an average of 8 every HOUR!  Watch a movie–16 people died.

    World Health Organization (WHO) corrupt and inept<–

    Is the press talking about drunk drivers, or drug overdoses, or schizophrenia as a cause of violence (and our lack of enough mental hospital beds), or the corrupt WHO?
    No.
    Why not?
    Watch the commercials when you watch the news…alcohol and prescription drugs! If the press talks about the above causes of death, such discussion will hurt their ability to sell ads to companies who make beer and medicines and will hurt a variety of political goals. But, talking about coronavirus, hyping it to be a deadly-world-altering plague, gets lots of attention, and sells ads without hurting the feelings of their sponsors or political friends.

    I’m not saying drug companies are evil…a drug company will eventually make the vaccine that helps protect us from coronavirus.  I am saying the TV/cable news misleads their viewers to make money. In other words, the news organizations know the stats, but the money matters much more to them than do you or your health. 

    ***The news talks about the minor and ignores the major because more major to them than your health is their profits**

    Bottom line–
    It’s all going to be OK.
    Coronavirus should be taken seriously, but it’s not the globe-altering plague it’s being portrayed to be.

    Panic is making it much bigger than it is.
    By summer, coronavirus will be old news.

    Cover of book Defeat Fatigue & Fear
    Defeat Fatigue & Fear, By Charles Runels, MD

    Full Transcript of the Video

    I’m a physician who’s going to prove to you that the press is lying to you and being very disingenuous for profit in regards to coronavirus and your health and why you cannot trust them. Pay attention to them, but you cannot trust them. Normally as a physician, my job is not to monitor politics or the news about what’s going on with the war. That’s for my soldier son to take care of and for the politicians and for the leaders of that arena. My job is to fight disease. On the other hand, when I see the press being disingenuous, basically lying to people and tricking people, I want to call it out. I want to call it out in a way and in words that would not probably be appropriate for video. Let’s just talk about the numbers. I’m going to read them all so I make sure I get this right.

    So far worldwide we’ve had 82,294 cases of coronavirus worldwide, with 2,804 deaths. Now if that death is someone whom you love, that’s a serious, serious thing. I’m not discounting the fact that this is a dangerous thing that is affecting people. If you’re the person who dies even from something rare, which coronavirus at this point is relatively rare, then that’s a major thing to your family and to you. That deserves respect and the utmost solemn acknowledgment of the pain that goes with that. But on a worldwide basis, and when you see politics and billions of dollars and emotional upheaval that’s disrupting my own staff in my office (I had to have this conversation with them yesterday) I’m going to call out the lies from the perspective of a physician who’s worked in infectious disease.

    I’ve done research with infectious disease. I was an ER physician for 12 years. I’ve helped salvage people who were dying from various infections, everything from HIV to sepsis in young children. I know what the disease looks like, and I was a research chemist and physics person and I understand the math. Let me call out the lies so that you understand why this is very disingenuous.

    So far, the average, and for the past few years, the average deaths from drunk drivers is 29 per day. Drunk drivers alone have killed more people than all of our wars combined, including the Civil War. That’s an average of one person dying every 50 minutes. If you watch a movie, two people died during that movie. So far, zero people have died in the US from coronavirus, but do you see anyone on the news in upheaval about people dying from drunk drivers? Never, because guess who buys ads on the news? People who sell alcohol. It would hurt their business to tell you about that, so they don’t. Don’t talk about it. Does it sell ads that would actually kill, the many ads that are being bought by the alcohol companies?

    Now, I’m not saying that somehow alcohol should be outlawed again. I’m just putting in perspective the coronavirus thing. Let’s talk about another thing. Let’s go to infectious diseases. Actually, let’s talk about another thing not infectious. Last year, somewhere around 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, 70,000. Somewhere around 68% of that were opioids alone, 70,000. If you do the math on that, that’s somewhere around 191 per day, or about 8 per hour. Go watch a movie, and during that time 16 people will die from drug overdoses. About somewhere around 60%, 70% of those, so somewhere around 10, 12 of them will be just from opioids. Don’t see anybody talking on the news about that. Remember how many people have died so far from coronavirus in the US? Zero. Total worldwide? 2,804. Total last year from opioid overdoses? 70,000.

    Let’s talk about something infectious. This is from the CDC. Since 2010, it’s been an average of 12,000 to 61,000 people dying from the flu. In 2018, somewhere around 48 million, 48 million people got the flu. Of those, close to a million, 959,000, this is in 2018 from the CDC, 959,000 worldwide went to the hospital. There was 79,400 deaths, 79,400 deaths from the flu. That average is 217 per day if you spread it over the year. It isn’t spread out over the year, but if you averaged it out over the year, that would be 217 per day, or 9 per hour dying from the flu.

    I’m not saying that coronavirus couldn’t wind up spreading like crazy, but if you look at the people that are dying from it, it’s spreading like the flu. Most people who get it, the vast majority of people who get it, have a cold-like illness that’s severe, it’s a severe cold, but sometimes it’s even minor symptoms. Unfortunately, it preys oftentimes on the weak, young people or old people or those who are immunocompromised. What kills the person is not the coronavirus or the flu. Just like with the flu, often what kills people is the secondary bacterial infections. Your best defense to all of these things is to be healthy. It’s not to look to the government to save you, although there are things they should be doing, which I’ll get to, but it’s to stay healthy.

    On those lines, this mask thing, wearing a paper mask is bull. What that does is it protects the person who’s coughing from spreading so much if you’re sick. If you’re the one who has the flu or the coronavirus and you cough, it protects it from as much of those droplets spreading into the room, but once those droplets are on a surface somewhere, if you touch the surface and then touch your eyes or your mouth, then you’re going to transmit and are more likely to catch the thing. Good handwashing techniques, keeping your hands away from your face, keeping yourself healthy. I’m still a big … I think Linus Pauling was correct. I think lots of vitamin C, but the reason the press is basically lying to you is that they’re making a big deal out of numbers that are still minuscule compared to so many other things. They’re not talking about the other things because that doesn’t get viewers and make them money. It actually loses them money to talk about how many people are dying every day from these other things.

    Now, what about how fast it spreads and China shutting down whole cities and such? Okay, yeah, they did. In China, you realize you still don’t get to have as many babies as you want? Nobody talks about this on the news. You still have forced abortion in China. How’s that? You want to go live there? All these people who claim that communism and socialism is wonderful, they don’t understand socialism is not synonym for safety net. My own grandfather never went to school because his mother couldn’t afford him back in a time when if you had a child out of wedlock, there was no government safety net. There needs to be a government safety net, but that is not the same as having the government take your business because you’re making too much money and then spread that around and basically steal from you, take your whole business away and own the business. That’s socialism, when the government takes the business and owns it and then decides who’s going to get paid and who doesn’t. That’s what collapses countries like Venezuela and the Soviet Union.

    The communism is why … I mean, you can count on this. If you’re in a country where you had forced abortion, they’re going to shut down whole cities and lock you up until they’re sure you’re not contagious. They’re going to control it, you watch. The numbers of people with coronavirus will fall. It’s total panic over something that’s going to be controlled and will never approach anything like the flu or just drunk drivers and opioids. Yep, we can die, but we’re not going to die from what the press is talking about. They’re being tricky and they’re being … Basically, they’re lying to you and making a big something out of nothing, because to tell the truth, you would hurt their business.

    Okay, I’m going to go back to reading The New England Journal. Hope this helps you quit panicking. Take your vitamin C. Don’t smoke. Do what your mother and your grandmother said. Get lots of sleep. Vote for capitalism. Make sure there’s a good social net so those who can’t work are taken care of. Do whatever you can to do for mental illness. If you notice, this recent mass shooting at the brewery, the guy had thoughts that the people that he shot were coming to his home and moving the furniture around. Someone should have identified that and had him mentally evaluated. Yeah, he was angry, but that’s schizophrenia if you think people were sneaking into your house and moving your furniture. Watch for it.

    The mass shootings are largely because we’re not taking care of the mentally ill. We need to not be talking and panicking about coronavirus. This is your doctor … I’m not your doctor, but this is a doctor talking. The panic is about the wrong thing. We need to be fighting the things that are getting people on drugs. We need to have more mental hospital beds. We need to trust the CDC to do their job and realize the World Health Organization is corrupt and worthless at this point. It’s become completely, completely corrupt. Research it, read about it. The World Health Organization is a crock. Your press is a crock. Those are the main problems, mental illness … We do need to be thinking about infectious disease, but we need real numbers and we need to support the CDC and the infectious disease and etiology, the epidemiologists, we need to support them and support the research, but not panic over these little numbers.

    Anyway, hope that helps you. Take your vitamin C. Don’t buy a face mask. You don’t need it. Go wherever you need to go in the US. It’s not going to be a big deal. You’re more likely to get hit by a drunk driver getting to the airport.