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A multi pronged approach including body, mind, nutrition and preventative medicine therapies.

Gentle regular exercise and movement, but nothing too extreme. Walking, hiking, Pilates, biking or even karate.

Optimism and being present, working on mental hygiene and identifying and minimising the more common causes of stress. If it's money, or relationships, take the opportunity to make a plan and initiate that plan.

Low carb diets, with lots of herbs and spices, antioxidants and other phytonutrients like berberine. Less preservatives and artificial substances and pre and probiotics.

And prevention is better than a cure.

Identify sources of toxins, stress, inflammation and fatigue.

Other hazards in your environment and eliminate or minimise their presence.

There isn't a pill for every ill.

Or potion for every commotion.

No single suture stitches every wound

Or universal remedy, readily consumed

Health is a habit

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Also sex. Never forget the sex

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Sep 15, 2023Liked by Walter M Chesnut

Thank you Walter. Have a great weekend. Peace.

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Thanks for your ongoing research, Walter. Berberine is an alkaloid found in many medicinal plants both Western, like Goldenseal and Oregon Grape Root, and Eastern, like Coptis root, Phellodendron root and most importantly, Scutellaria Baicalensis root, which is widely used in larger formulas in China to retreat COVID. It can also be commonly procured as Berberine Sulfate, for which a common therapeutic dose is 500mg to 1gram daily. In traditional Chinese medicine, we used the berberine plants to clear "heat" or "damp heat," which essentially means to attack pathogenic fungi, bacteria, and viruses and lower inflammation. Modern uses, besides what Walter mentioned, include addressing diabetes, which may have a microbial component, whole also lowering blood sugar, and modern GI issues. Traditionally, in Western and Eastern herbal medicine, because of it's cold, harsh, bitter nature, it's not recommended long term for weak,.frail, emaciated, and deficient patients, for which immune tonics, modulators, and adaptogens are.preferred. Also it's believed to impact the gut flora negatively with long-term use, as would any antibiotic.

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Edir: Phellodendron BARK not root, aka Huang Bai in Pin Yin

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I know you are covering yourself in saying consult your primary care giver ie GP, I am in Australia and they will say all supplements are useless even Vitamin D

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100% agree, thanks Walter.

This is in my med cupboard:

Therapeutic properties of Berberine

https://doorlesscarp953.substack.com/p/therapeutic-properties-of-berberine

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What a great team - none better - than you and Walter!.

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I think goldenseal contains some of the same properties but was so over harvested there was a switch to berberine... I don't have access to those bookmarks right now so don't take that as gospel.

Also, vitamin E and all its components have long been touted for fibrosis... and frankincense.

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Berberine is the main therapeutic constituent in Goldenseal root. Berberine Sulfate is more commonly used today per reasons that you mentioned

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I have not seen any research on it but frankincense could have a role to play in long Covid. We use it in traditional Chinese medicine for "blood stagnation" and inflammation, which certainly calls to mind spike protein pathogenicity.

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Goldenseal should not be ingested for more than a few weeks, or so I have read.

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Must depend on whether it's a supplement or a tea? I know my great aunt drank it as a tea and her white hair turned back to brown when she was in her 70s.... I don't know how she stomached it as I find the taste near intolerable.

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I add a little powder to my toothpaste at night to cut down on gum bacteria. It is, indeed, bitter.

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Ah! I remember doing that with myrrh... also bitter.

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Would it be helpful for rheumatoid arthritis?

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Marie, Clint Paddison in Australia claims to have reversed or put in remission RA with his protocol, a lot of which is free online.

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Thanks ❤️

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Immunomodulatory effects of berberine on the inflamed joint reveal new therapeutic targets for rheumatoid arthritis management

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7687014/

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Thank you! I’m avoiding biologics and other disease modifying drugs because I’ve experienced severe side effects involving my skin. Am using tumeric, vitamin D and black seed oil at the moment

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Berberine is more effective when taken with milk thistle. I have been taking it for years now, probably five days out of every seven.

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Excellent. Thank you Walter.

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Thanks, Walter. This is helpful. Are you familiar at all with whether or not the vaccines are messing with the 1P36 gene? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1p36_deletion_syndrome. Thank you for your terrific efforts. Mike

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The paper by Cao et al. used Spike Protein made in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (DMEM) which has Endotoxin contamination specification of ≤ 0.5 EU/mL, also a possible confounder.

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Interesting to look at the Endotoxin content of the commercial spike from Miltenyi as a confounder of the paper by Perico et al.

https://www.miltenyibiotec.com/AU-en/products/recombinant-sars-cov-2-spike-s1-hek.html

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The Brains Of The Injected

Can't Keep Up

With How Rapidly

Their Bodies Are Deteriorating.

(That's The Good News.)

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No, it’s not “good news” to take pleasure in the suffering of others.

Seriously Thomas, have you no compassion for your fellow man?

Plus, how do you know you’re not in the same boat, what with transmission of the vial contents?

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Agree that we shouldn't emphasize the schadenfreude. However, we honestly know enough to say that mRNA injections are worse than a typical infection in the uninjected. The injections program cells to produce spike. Way worse than infection. I get that there aren't studies establishing that because the establishment doesn't want to know that information.

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Living Among Morons

- While Tedious ...

Is Never So Fascinating

As When They Kill Themselves

By, With, And Because Of

Their Own Stupidity.

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Dear Covid Vaccinated,

In The Next Life

You Want To Pay Better Attention.

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Your spiteful comments betray the hospitality and kindness of our Substack host.

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It's true. And a lot of good people got vaxed. They simply weren't paying attention at the critical moments.

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