What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ April 2022 - May 2022

Over the Christmas period, we both had Covid. We didn’t die or go to a hospital, despite not being in the first flush of youth. It was a flu/cold by any other name, and we both got fully better within a few weeks without much more than vitamin C, vitamin D and a salt pipe with iodine. It being Christmas, we were both fascinated during our convalescence to witness two wildly different interpretations from clergymen about the pandemic and what Jesus might have made of it all. First, there was none other than the Archbishop of Canterbury, JustinWelby, whomanaged, in one extended ITV News soundbite, to suggest both that those who refuse to get jabbed were“immoral”and that he was taking his cue about whether to get a vaccine from Jesus. Jesus would have…

Dr Damien Downing, a specialist in allergy, environment and nutrition, is current president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, on the editorial board of Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Chief Medical Advisor of cancer charity Yes to Life (www.yestolife.org.uk), and author of numerous books including The Vitamin Cure for Allergies. Dr Michel Odent, a French-trained surgeon and obstetrician, is a pioneer of the natural birth movement, emphasizing home and water birth. Founder of the Primal Health Research Centre in the UK, he has written some 50 scientific papers and 11 books. Dr Sarah Myhill has worked in the UK National Health Service and private practice since 1981. Honorary Secretary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine for 17 years, she is a frequent lecturer and author of Sustainable Medicine and Diagnosis and…

Vegetable confusion Thank you for one more compelling issue of your journal. I read the Feb/Mar issue from covertocover. Thearticle“Your starters for 10”on page 34 bothers me. In the ‘70 Plus’ column, there is only one vegetable, not counting the two juices and the possibility of ceviche as a complete recipe. I have been teaching that three cups of vegetables and two cups of fruit are highly recommended. This is fortified with some recent research. Of course, there are some qualifications regarding choices. Then to confuse readers more are two articles further in the journal telling us veggies are superfoods, and we should try them to meet the suggestions of the rainbow diet, Mediterranean diet and keto diet. I guess the intermittent fasting diet just cares if you eat by the clock…

Stop taking aspirin if you’re over 60 Anyone over the age of 60 should stop taking an aspirin a day to prevent heart disease—the risks of stomach bleeding outweigh any benefits. Current guidelines recommend those over 60 should take an aspirin as part of their daily health regime to reduce their chances of cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke. But the US Preventive Services Task Force has said the risks of serious—and possibly life-threatening—stomach bleeding are too great, and only those who have already had a heart attack or stroke should continue taking the medication. The benefits of daily aspirin are marginal in people over 50 and offer only a small benefit to those who are in their 40s. The task force is an independent group of researchers who have assessed the latest evidence, and…

Covid vaccine safety trials hid reports of serious side-effects Researchers testing the safety of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine before its worldwide launch falsified data and hid some of the worst cases of adverse reactions. A whistleblower at one of the test centers was fired the same day she alerted the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to the bad practices that were hiding data on the vaccine’s dangers. Brook Jackson, a regional director at Ventavia Research Group, a clinical research company contracted by Pfizer, has now voiced her concerns to the press to reveal the company falsified data, ‘unblinded’ patients to staff members regarding whether they had received the vaccine or a placebo, and was slow to follow up on adverse reactions to the vaccine. In short, poor safety trials underpinned one of the…

Has anybody in your family refused the Covid vaccine? Have you socially shunned them and not invited them to family gatherings? Or perhaps you’re an ‘anti-vaxxer,’ and you’ve fallen out with friends and family who blame you for Covid’s continued spread. Families are being torn apart—and it’s because they are being told a very clear message that Covid is a killer and that vaccines are the only way out of this. As the saying has it, truth may be the first casualty of war, but it’s also taken quite a knock in another type of conflict: our battle against Covid-19. Forgetting conspiracy theories, reliable and trusted sources reveal that the number of deaths directly caused by the virus is much lower than official figures suggest, and adverse reactions and deaths from the…