Showing posts with label parasites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parasites. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2025

The system that controls us all


What if after all that suffering, all that listening to socially woke punk rock of the Eighties (like the Not So Quiet on the Western Front compilation by Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles Records), things suddenly became clear? Now they made sense. Now everything made sense. And all the pain and suffering that preceded came to fruition as understanding. It's possible. Here one brave person has a realization about the thing everyone else is missing. That is, what is controlling the illusion?

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

90% of Americans have parasites


Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well

Some symptoms of parasitic infestation
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon D.O. (drgabriellelyon.com) has 4.4 out of 5 stars with 1,752 ratings for her New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Learn how to reboot metabolism, build strength, and extend life with this accessible new guidebook that demonstrates the importance of muscle for health and longevity from the founder of the Institute for Muscle-Centric Medicine®.

Gut parasites handout: functional (Made Whole Nutrition)

I'm a real doctor...who loves to use makeup
After years of watching patients cycle through her practice, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon noticed a pattern. While her patients struggled with a wide range of conditions, they all suffered from the same core problem: they had too little muscle rather than too much fat.

When we think about muscle, we tend to think about strength or aesthetics, but in reality, muscle accounts for so much more than that. As the body’s largest endocrine organ, muscle actually determines everything about the trajectory of health and aging.
Many of the conditions Dr. Lyon’s patients were experiencing were actually symptoms of underdeveloped or unhealthy muscle.

Now, Dr. Lyon offers an easy-to-follow food, fitness, and self-care program anchored in evidence and pioneering research that teaches how to optimize muscle—no matter one's age or health background.

Discover how to overcome everything from obesity to autoimmune disorders and avoid diseases like Alzheimer’s, hypertension, and diabetes by following Dr. Lyon’s powerful new approach to becoming forever strong. More

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

4 Signs You're in a Parasitic Relationship

D. Ivan Young, NBC-HWC, YourTango.com, 8/23/22; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

4 Telltale Signs You're in a Parasitic Relationship
Signs of codependence (YourTango)
If you're to live a fulfilled, happy and meaningful life, you must make your happiness a priority. Many have been led to believe that putting yourself first is selfish — but that's simply not true.

There comes a time in everyone's life that one must put self first. If you don't, you could easily find yourself needlessly suffering.

The only thing worse than a dysfunctional, co-dependent relationship is a parasitic relationship that you willfully aid and abet. The same person(s) that once brought you so much joy can quickly become the source of your pain if you lose sight of your own needs and values.

Beware the parasitic relationship 
I'll keep you so long as I can use you. Me, too!
A parasite typically latches on to a host and exploits the host (you) for resources it deems necessary for survival.

When you're in a parasitic relationship, the person you're dating, living with, or even married to is much like a parasite. They're either depleting you mentally, emotionally, financially, physically, or a combination thereof.

Are there female narcissists who cheat on, lie to, and gaslight partners?

Moreover, they could care less how much you sacrifice or what the cost is to you as long as you give them what they want, when, where, and how they want it. If you're left emaciated, heartbroken, stressed out or depressed is irrelevant to the parasite; all that matters to them is they get what they want. More

Friday, May 4, 2018

Suppressed medical discovery treats all disease

Dr. Bob Beck (Shokat Ali, 12/30/11); Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dr. Robert Beck reveals a [cure] for many diseases discovered that is being suppressed.

Dr. Robert Bob Beck Lecture: Suppressed Medical Discovery To Treat All Disease
This is the full version of the Bob Beck Protocol lecture, almost two hours long and full of so much good stuff.

This video just had to be immortalized so people all over the world can help themselves with inexpensive and highly effective treatments, rather than putting our misplaced trust in the corrupt US health [or profiting from disease] industry.

What if someone came up with a simple system that costs only pennies to eliminate all pathogens including the HIV virus and cancer? Do you think the world would jump at it?

Sadly, no. A cure for all diseases, including cancer and leukemia, goes ignored. But that's exactly what Dr. Steven Kaali invented -- a simple blood electrification system that kills off all known pathogens and parasites. He got a patent in just six months.

But this is such a threat to Big Pharma and the American Medical Association's money making means that they have gone to all sorts of trouble to stop this incredible invention from leaking out to the general public.

This really incensed Dr. Robert Beck, who decided to do something about this corruption and profiteering from illness.

So he came up with the his own Bob Beck Protocol, which does not need the removal of blood from the body like Dr. Kaali's invention. Dr. Beck published the schematics to his devices on the Internet (which went viral) before he passed away years later.

Dr. Royal Raymond Rife had done the same thing rather than trying to patent a technology that was un-patentable but of enormous benefit to humankind. Greed often gets the better of us, as Big Pharma will attest.
This is what happens when we try to talk common sense with authorities: we lose (lifeprinciples.com/pdf/ASA...)
 
This is Dr. Beck talking about the corruption in our health industry and his own invention to replace the suppressed Dr. Kaali invention. Notice how he creates "immortal blood" that refuses to die for up to three months because the parasites and bacterial buildup have been removed. Who wouldn't like to have some of that?

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Climate change: Irma, Harvey, Katia, Jose?

DemocracyNow.org (Sept. 11, 2017); CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Honest conversation about climate change  in wake of storms
Why have you done this to my planet?
At least four people have died and nearly 6 million people are without power in Florida, after Hurricane Irma made landfall on Sunday on the Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane. Is this due to climate change? How about Hurricane Harvey? Democracy Now! speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. The Irma super-storm flooded the streets of downtown Miami, Florida, turning the city’s main strip, Brickell Avenue, into a 3-foot-high raging river. Its arrival sparked one of the largest mass evacuations in U.S. history, with nearly 7 million people ordered to leave their homes. More ()

Friday, January 13, 2017

Gut-level good looks, sexual attraction (video)

This is the real s: sexual attraction is shaped by gut bacteria, infectious diseases, and parasites.

This is "your" brain?
Behind our sexual impulses -- whom  we feel attracted to and why -- complex biological interactions help determine our emotions, our obsessions, and our revulsions... This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society.

"From start to finish, [McAuliffe] spins a consistently engrossing tale of invasive creatures that can alter your behavior and outlook, depress your cognitive functioning, and even make you more violent or sexually aggressive."
- Heather Havrilesky, Book Forum 

This is Your Brain on Parasites
Kim Kardashian-West: beauty or parasite?
These tiny organisms can only live inside another animal, and as author  McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating our behavior as their host.
 
Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey.

With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them.
 
Humans are hardly immune to the profound influence of parasites. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness, impulsivity -- even suicide.
 
Parasite Rex: Inside Bizarre World of Nature...
Microbes in our guts affect our emotions and the very wiring of our brains. Germs that cause colds and flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent.

Parasites influence our species on the cultural level, too.

McAuliffe documents a subconscious fear of contagion that impacts virtually every aspect of our lives, from our sexual attractions and social circles to our morals and political views.
 
Drawing on a huge body of research, she argues that our dread of contamination is an evolved defense against parasites -- and it is often a double-edged sword. The horror and revulsion we feel when we come in contact with people who appear diseased or dirty helped pave the way for civilization.
 
But it may also be the basis for major divisions in societies that persist to this day.

In the tradition of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel and Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish, this book  s both a journey into cutting-edge science and a revelatory examination of what it means to be human. More

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Freedom FROM religion (parasites)

Jason Thibeault, "Religion as a Mental Parasite"; Integral Options; Wisdom Quarterly
Free Thought Billboard Campaign signs read: Imagine No Religion, Praise Darwin, Sleep in on Sundays, Beware of Dogma, and No Religion all over Wichita (examiner.com).

Look at this picture for a moment. It looks like the Aliens chest-bursting [parasitic creature in another creature]. It is actually a rare isopod discovered off the Jersey coast that eats, then replaces, the tongue of a fish.

Interestingly, aside from having its tongue taken, the fish does not suffer many other apparetn ill effects from this horrifying parasitic behavior. Interestingly, neither do people whose reason has been eaten away and replaced by religious faith.

There are two prominent books on this -- Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, and Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. Both evidently deal with the concept of religion as a mental “virus,” a concept I have talked about.

Every person is born with NO intrinsic ideas about a “God” or “gods.” There are no Christian, Muslim, or Jewish babies. There are, however, babies whose parents are religious.

Dawkins asserts that people are much more likely to become members of a faith if their parents are members. It may be absolutely true, though it is certainly not the whole picture.

I was raised Catholic: circumcised, sent to Sunday School, told to say my prayers, and Confirmed in the faith before I ever thought to question why I was doing any of these things. I was made to feel guilty when I skipped my prayers... More
(via Integral Option Cafe)
Aging baby boomers are using a variety of methods to remain mentally sharp, from brain fitness classes to simply staying social. Newly published research suggests another admittedly unorthodox approach to promoting brain-cell survival:

Change your religious affiliation. [At least explore other views.]

A study published in the online journal PLoS ONE found a key part of the brain atrophied more rapidly in Catholics and born-again Protestants than it did in mainline Protestants. This accelerated shrinkage was also found in people who reported a life-changing religious experience, as well as those with no religious affiliation. [There's no simple atheist solution to the brain tissue issue.]

The reason, the researchers speculate, is the cumulative stress that comes with being a member of a religious minority.

The research team, led by Amy Owen of Duke University, notes that the human brain shrinks with age, and the region known as the hippocampus, which has been linked to learning and memory, typically atrophies at an accelerated rate late in life. This shrinkage has been linked to depression, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. More

Friday, September 16, 2011

"Worst Nightmare: Supernatural Assault"

SoulSmack.com

Your Worst Nightmare: Supernatural Assault (SoulSmack)


This documentary covers a common experience that is almost never spoken of -- sleep paralysis and supernatural assault.

One in five will experience this discomfiting to terrifying phenomenon. Victims wake to find they are fully alert yet unable to move or speak. Many experience frightening visions of lower astral being, entities, ghosts, demons, shadows, or an old woman known as "The Hag."

For others there is simply the unmistakable presence of evil. In extreme cases, these potentially supernatural attacks can occur for decades. Overwhelmed, exhausted, and entirely alone, victims may lead shattered lives dominated by fear and social stigma, ridicule, or psychologizing.

Those who seek medical advice are often misdiagnosed and labeled psychotic or schizophrenic. "Your Worst Nightmare: Supernatural Assault" explores the common yet greatly misunderstood phenomenon of sleep and the possibility of sleep paralysis.

This groundbreaking documentary contains interviews with actual victims, consults with experts, and offers advice on how to live with what might be your worst nightmare.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Origin of Sex (video)


7 Things Husbands Want to Tell Their Spo
uses

Parasites and Pathogens and how sex began
LiveScience.com
Without the pathogens and parasites of the world, there might be no such thing as sex.

A new study finds that in organisms that can reproduce alone or with a partner, sexual reproduction is the result of a deadly arms race between host and pathogen.

Without the presence of pathogens, the host organism sticks with the tried-and-true method of asexual [sexless] breeding. When threatened by a continually evolving pathogen that gets better and better at killing its host, however, the host organism starts seeking out sex partners.

"You actually need these pathogens or parasites to be co-evolving for sex to be maintained," study author Levi Morran, a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University, told LiveScience. More

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Southeast Asia: Anti-malaria tolerance

WHO warns of tolerance to anti-malaria drug
Increased drug resistance could undermine malaria control efforts (Swiss Radio).

RANGOON, Burma (IRIN) - Tolerance to artemisinin, the most effective anti-malarial drug available, is emerging in Myanmar and could pose a major challenge to regional malaria control, says the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO, researchers, and health officials are already trying to contain the spread of resistant strains of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite along the Thai-Cambodian border. The parasite causes the most deadly form of malaria.

Preliminary studies in 2008-09 by the Mekong countries of Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam, show tolerance elsewhere, with the drug proving less effective and taking longer than it did previously to control the parasite. The studies, presented late last year at a WHO regional workshop of health officials, show tolerance may have extended to areas along the Burma-Thailand, Burma-China, and Cambodia-Vietnam borders. More>>

Mind Control: Cat and Mouse example

Wisdom Quarterly ANALYSIS

This event, captured by student photographer Casey Gutteridge, gives a new meaning to cat and mouse games. Or does it? The behavior captured at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire, England is even more bizarre than it appears. It is mind control by parasites. Gutteridge, who was photographing the leopard for a course project when the mouse appeared, said:

"I have no idea where the mouse came from. He just appeared in the enclosure after the keeper had dropped in the meat for the leopard. He didn't take any notice of the leopard, just went straight over to the meat and started feeding himself. But the leopard was pretty surprised. She bent down and sniffed the mouse and flinched a bit like she was scared. In the meantime the mouse just carried on eating like nothing had happened...but even a gentle shove does not deter the little creature from getting his fill... It was amazing. Even the keeper who had thrown the meat into the enclosure was shocked. He said he'd never seen anything like it before."


Project owner Jackie James added: "It was so funny to see. Sheena batted the mouse a couple of times to try to get it away from her food. But the determined little thing took no notice and just carried on."

Sheena was brought in to the Santago Rare Leopard Project from a UK zoo when she was just four months old. She is one of 14 big cats in the private collection started by Jackie's late husband Peter in 1989. The African Leopard can be found in the continent's forests, grasslands, savannas, and rainforests.

The mouse continued to eat the leopard's lunch and show the leopard who was the boss. But what is driving this behavior? It is neither bravery nor foolishness. It's actually much stranger than that: There exists a cat parasite whose life-cycle includes the brains of mice. The only way for it to complete its life-cycle in a cat's intestines is to alter fear in mice so that they will venture out and be eaten. Stranger still is that this brain parasite can affect humans.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Man bitten by 2,000 malarial mosquitoes


A mosquito lands on a man's hand Friday, June 26, 2009, in Olmsted Falls, Ohio (AP/Mark Duncan).

Some people will go to extreme lengths to avoid mosquito bites. They'll wear long sleeves and pants in the heat of summer, surround themselves with citronella candles and torches, and spray foul-smelling chemicals all over their bodies -- or simply not set foot outside when they know the bugs are biting.

Stephen Hoffman isn't quite like those people. In fact, he has gone out of his way to get bitten. Years ago, he let 2,000 mosquitoes feast on his arm and inject perhaps 200,000 parasites into his bloodstream. Why? Well, for one thing, it made him immune to malaria.

He's also the CEO of Sanaria, a Rockville, Maryland-based company that aims to develop and commercialize a malaria vaccine. But he doesn't plan on subjecting all of us to as many bites as he has suffered. Receiving the vaccine that Hoffman hopes to create, in fact, wouldn't involve any mosquito bites at all. "It would have to be delivered by needle and syringe," he says. Creating the vaccine is another matter, however, and it calls for more brave volunteers willing to serve as mosquito fodder.

Progress toward a malaria vaccine, including a major new advance that European scientists reported this week, has already demanded a blood sacrifice from hundreds of people. Some, like Hoffman, have had scientific reasons for getting involved. More>>

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Scientists fear malaria drug resistance

Jill McGivering (BBC News, Cambodia)
In a small community in Western Cambodia, scientists are puzzling over why malaria para-sites seem to be devel-oping a resistance to drugs and fearing the consequences.

Ten days ago, Chhem Bunchhin, a teacher in Battambang Province, became ill with chills, fever, headache, and vomiting. At a nearby health center he was treated with drugs considered a "silver bullet" in the battle against falciparum malaria.

This treatment with artesunate drugs was part of a clinical study being carried out by the US Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science (AFRIMS). In the past, artesunates have always cleared malaria parasites from the blood in two or three days. But after four days of monitored treatment, Chhem Bunchhin was still testing positive for parasites.

The anti-malarial drugs worked more slowly in him. Dr. Delia Bethell, an investigator working on the clinical trials (pictured right), said he wasn't alone. More>>

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