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Spod_Gaju··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
I see no indication of that.
Spod_Gaju··on The Singularity Is Nearer
Predicting those things are kind of easy if you have the background in the technology that he does. But the singularity? How can you compare that to computers winning chess?
Spod_Gaju··on The Singularity Is Nearer
A lot of cults get the end times glory date wrong. This is just another one.
Spod_Gaju··on The Singularity Is Nearer
And every day I walk, I get closer to the horizon.
Spod_Gaju··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
This man spends almost five and a half years in prison fighting for press freedom and now you think he is suddenly a grifter?

What planet do you live on or what U.S.Intel agency do you work for?

Spod_Gaju··on Tirzepatide for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Obesity
Yes, it means these people have low levels of GTP.
Spod_Gaju··on Chimpanzees 'self-medicate' with healing plants
Turmeric is a potent TNFa inhibitor in the intestines.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27025786/

Spod_Gaju··on Discovery of new white blood cell function
But we can see that the NIH is going against what’s been shown in meta studies.

Let me tell you a story. My friend was in the World Trade Center when the other tower was hit by a plane. There were being held back by authority figures like security guards telling them not to leave the building because it’s safest. He said forget about that and got a bunch of people to break through the security guards. By the time they reach the 10th floor, the second plane hit their building and they were buffed around the stairwell like ragdolls. if you listen to authority, he would be dead.

Submitting to authority is the problem. Questioning authority is science. Its fine to go along with whatever the NIH believes, but that doesn’t make it true nor helpful.

Spod_Gaju··on Zinc Supplements Decrease Mortality in Covid-19 Patients: A Meta-Analysis
From the Fred Hutch Cancer Center

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2022/03/dudako...

"There’s a long history linking zinc with optimal immune function. For example, it’s known that people whose zinc levels are too low have little to no infection-fighting T cells and the thymus, the organ in which T cells develop, is nearly non-existent, Iovino said. When zinc-deficient people are given extra zinc, their thymuses grow and start pumping out these immune cells."

Spod_Gaju··on Zinc Supplements Decrease Mortality in Covid-19 Patients: A Meta-Analysis
There have been more studies since when this came out, which signals the probable importance of zinc in COVID prevalence. Plus they were only looking at mortality so there will always be fewer papers. Does this leave you less suspicious?

These are all studies released in 2024:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408398.2022.21...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12011-023-03788-9

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad-Alam-86/public...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53202-0

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2024.13855...

https://bmcnutr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40795-02...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41043-024-00504-8

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/cmc/pre-prints/co...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266614972...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ptr.8096

Spod_Gaju··on Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety
> Putting the symptoms through a sieve by eliminating some causes helps pinpoint the origin (I over-simplify of course).

That is nothing close to what they are doing. Do you think they are going to be giving these scans to everyone that walk in with fatigue and/or depression? I cannot even get to see a rheumatologist and I am disabled with schizoaffective disorder.

Spod_Gaju··on Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety
You are talking like there are medical treatments that work for those of us with mental illness. There are not. They only have medication to treat the symptoms.

I am one of the people with this deadly disease and frankly I want to die right now because I am homeless living with schizoaffective disorder and it its the 15 year anniversary of my nephews suicide and all anyone here does is downvote me because they cannot take the time to listen.

DO you know how many years I have heard of sht like this and then I go to the doctor and I am getting the same medications my mother got when she was sick 60 years ago?

Do me a favor, read my blog, look at what I know and what I have and am living with, then come back here and tell me I should be happy about this study that will do nothing for me and nothing for anyone in the next 20 years. Then tell me how not giving me that money to help me other people living with mental illness who are homeless to find housing is not better.

https://christianbonanno.substack.com/p/for-alex

Spod_Gaju··on Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety
I do not care about your vibe. I care about finding the truth and telling it like it is from my lived experience.

They diagnosed the patients to get them in the study and they they said "see, it matched out "objective" diagnosis based on the patients "subjective" complaints.

There is nothing quantitative about what they are doing. Take a look at figure 5. How quantitative is that?

Spod_Gaju··on Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety
You said it. The fact that they are just looking at the brain when it comes to mental illness, is, well, insane.

If one becomes "depressed" when sick, why not investigate the immune dysregulation in depression?

The only way out of a mental illness is personalized medicine but that is something no one care enough to provide.

Spod_Gaju··on Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety
Am I "telling a story" when I am walking down the street taking pictures of people because I think they are working for the government and spying on me?

The doctors "objectively" thought I was on drugs.

And those tele-health centers are being shutdown because they do no legitimate screening and are pill farms.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4723163-cdc-disruption...

So I feel you are confusing mental health and mental illness and confusing compassion with a profit making operation.

Spod_Gaju··on Discovery of new white blood cell function
Maybe you could’ve looked for meta study instead of just confirming your bias by denying one exists without looking.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10332820/

Spod_Gaju··on Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety
> Patients generally can't be relied upon to be objective.

Neither can doctors, or researchers. They obviously see something wrong with you, as they did with me, so do we worry about their objectivity? No. Because bias and stigma.

And if you are looking for answers, like I have been for 20 year, you might want to look at the role the purine pathway plays in mood disorders. Here is an article I wrote about it.

https://christianbonanno.substack.com/p/what-caused-my-menta...

Best of luck because I objectively know the crap you are dealing with.

Spod_Gaju··on Discovery of new white blood cell function
What is your point? That the NIH's COVID-19 ideas about zinc are outdated and might be harmful?

They they try to obfuscate by making bold only one part of this statement? "The Panel recommends against using zinc supplementation above the recommended dietary allowance"

So it is not that they recommenced against taking zinc, just zinc over 11mg.

But what if someone is zinc deficient even though it goes against their own guidelines? Should they not even recommend testing for zinc deficiency?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493231/

They are leaving us behind because they do not care about us.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36367144/

Spod_Gaju··on Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety
My point is that this was a waste of effort and money. They just need to listen to us patients and stop thinking we cannot be objective. Whenever it comes to mental health people think there is a total loss of objectivity. All you have to do is look at the patient. Is there a need to get a brain scan to see if I am anxious if I am acting objectively anxious?

This need to measure everything is almost pathological.

Spod_Gaju··on Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety
IS it just me or is this ridiculous? They separated people who were having different symptoms and they showed it in MRIs. All this does is prove that you can derive these brain "biotypes" without the MRI. Why is this new or special or needed? We need treatment, not more tests to tell us what we already know.
Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
Also

The powerful immune system against powerful COVID-19: A hypothesis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698772...

In this article, we provide a novel hypothesis to describe how an increase in cellular adenosine triphosphate (c-ATP) can potentially improve the efficiency of innate and adaptive immune systems to either prevent or fight off COVID-19.

Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
are you calling the prestigious Scientific journal Nature wrong?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67879-6

Energy depletion indicated by the reduced levels of ATP and GTP has been described in several studies on infectious diseases and endotoxemia16,17,18. Reduced ATP levels in blood and various organs, including the liver, have been previously associated with influenza virus infection in a mouse model16. Decreased GTP levels have been shown in the lung tissues of rabbits treated with bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide17. Increases in the serum levels of hypoxanthine and inosine have also been reported in patients with primary dengue virus infection at the febrile stage, suggesting an imbalance of ATP and/or GTP synthesis and degradation during the acute stage of the dengue fever18. These studies and ours indicate that regulatory energy depletion is a common symptom of infectious diseases.

Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
No one saying people don’t have long Covid. I’m not saying people don’t have long Covid. I took care of a good friend who had long Covid for six months.

I’m just saying there’s something in each person that determines whether or not Covid can cause long Covid. If you don’t make that distinction, all you do is make everyone think they’re going to get long Covid. And by not looking at the distinctions You never find out why people get Covid.

Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
Polio increases the risk of paralysis For a population. It only causes paralysis in the people who become paralyzed.

If I had long Covid, I would rightly say Covid caused my long Covid. But since I don’t have Covid, I can’t say that Covid caused my long Covid so for me Covid did not cause long Covid.

I’m more interested in the distinction of Outcomes and the wording they’re using pay no attention to distinction.

Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
Covid doesn’t reactivate the Epstein-Barr virus. What it does is it weaken the immune system further by depleting ATP and GTP. That weakening of the immune system stops our immune system from suppressing EBV.

Because exercise alone can weaken the immune system enough to Reactivate viruses.

Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
Then they need to stop saying that Covid causes these things. They need to say Covid increases a risk of causing these diseases in some people.

I mean, look at the title of the paper

“Spectrum of COVID-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long COVID Syndrome”

Where is the part of the spectrum where nothing happens at all? The spectrum of COVID-19 is from nothing happened to dying.

And I can see everyone on Twitter right now yelling at me to wear a mask because the spectrum of Covid is always disabling. It’s just really really bad messaging

Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
Yes, and we should also expect a heightened rate of a lot of these oddball diseases after Covid.

Frankly, I’m expecting a huge rise in the rate of Early onset Alzheimer’s.

Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
It’s possible Covid and the vaccine could cause lung Covid. And it could be that getting the vaccine after you had Covid increases the chances of having long Covid. The next time you get infection. But we don’t know because no one studying in this.

And vaccine damage is a thing. They’re currently paying people for vaccine damage in the UK. A few of them got through already. One guy Had to get his leg amputated.

You shouldn’t minimize the risks of the vaccines because there are risks. I’m not an anti-vaxxer, I just wanna know the risks of any drug I’m taking.

Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
It’s important because in these distinctions, we find what causes disease. For example schizophrenics are less likely to get lung cancer, even though they smoke much more than the average population.

Smoking does not cause lung cancer. Smoking raises the risk of lung cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951592/#:~:tex...).

Spod_Gaju··on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome
No, but when people say “Covid causes brain damage“ it’s incorrect. Because of Covid caused brain damage than everyone who caught Covid would have brain damage and they know that’s not the case. So it’s not just Covid that causes brain damage. It’s Covid and something that was wrong with the person who caught Covid.

Personally, and this is my own humble opinion, I think what was wrong with the person was they had low ATP and GTP. If you wanna know more about the science behind it, I’ll be glad to explain it.

This is important because this is how you cure diseases by making these distinctions.

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