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I was diagnosed with karatoconus, which is an uneven cornea. This means my cataract could not be fixed with the more sophisticated lenses available today. My ophthalmologist directed me to a specialist who could address it with an experimental treatment involving riboflavin (B2) and UV light. Each treatment would cost around $3000. I don’t know how many would be needed, but it is not covered by insurance.
So I looked up riboflavin and keratoconus, and found this:
“A small prospective study including 7 patients with keratoconus was started on a trial of oral riboflavin and 15 minutes of natural sunlight exposure daily. These patients reported no adverse effects and preliminary results showed corneal stabilization and/or corneal flattening in all 7 patients It is hypothesized that dietary riboflavin and natural sunlight is as effective in corneal crosslinking as the currently FDA approved Avedro therapy.
“…the investigator started 7 patients with keratoconus from 2011-2015 in his private practice in Seattle on a trial of oral riboflavin (100 mg or 400 mg daily) and 15 minutes of sunlight exposure daily. No adverse effects have ever been reported with high-dose dietary riboflavin supplements. The results of this preliminary trial are remarkable. During follow-up from 6 months to 5 years, all 7 patients have had corneal stabilization and/or corneal flattening. One patient experienced flattening of the cornea by 1.5 Diopters, comparable to the best results of the Avedro system.”
From “Dietary Riboflavin (Vitamin B-2) and Cornea Cross-Linking” on clinicaltrialsdotgov.Did the doctor not know? It seems to me the state of the health industry is out for the cash, period.
I wish I had known before winter was upon us, but now I really look forward to summer when I can do my own experiment.
Vitamins are cheap and often effective for so many things. I can see why the medical establishment doesn’t just not push D, but actually denigrates recommendations for it.Two ditties for your enjoyment (or to ignore. 🙂
Any old illness will do-
The Virus, a cold, or the flu-
We’re just where they want us.
Their tactics will daunt us:
And then they’ll create something new.When you’re on the losing side just double down
When there’s nowhere else to hide just double down
When you storyline is weak
Find another lie to leak.
Never waver, don’t be meek- just double down.The other night I met up with some family members. For the most part I bit my tongue and kept quiet, but when my niece (who did part-time stand-up) commented how much she and her peers missed having an audience, I asked if giving up comedy was worth it.
“If it saves lives, it’s absolutely worth it! Duh! Only a psychopath would think it wasn’t!”Alas.
Thanks, John Day- I will research it. As a serious lover of red French wine and other fermented foods, I figured I’m getting my share.
“Menaquinones, Bacteria, and Foods: Vitamin K2 in the Diet”
By Barbara Walther and Magali CholletLinks work elsewhere- just not here. Go figure, and my apologies.
Vitamin K2. Vitamin D wants it for bone and cardiovascular health..
“Vitamin K2 is a collection of isoprenologues that mostly originate from bacterial synthesis, also called menaquinones…”
“K2 is mainly present in fermented food such as cheese and natto (fermented soybeans), but gut microbiota are also able to synthesize vitamin K2 ”I just learned this yesterday. To get enough K2 from red wine, you’d have to drink 750ml.
Yea!Botticelli drew me into Italian Renaissance painting (art) when I was a young teen, but he didn’t hold my interest- too curly and sort of cartoonish. I thank him for the invitation, however, and for introducing me to so many others of that stunning era.
[Suggestion: Piero della Francesca’s “Maria Magdalena”- what a face!]
I watched Woodward’s segment on CSPAN the other day (S 24th). That guy gives me the creeps.
Julian Assange interviews, on the other hand, make me wish I knew the guy.If Ginsburg made such a wish, I hope it was the disease talking. It’s a nonsense wish, and outside the scope of a keen judicial mind.
Oh- and I always cringe when someone says “we didn’t do it for the flu…”
Guess what? We will. If we let them.
We have skinned death and now we are afraid of the pelt.It’s over.
But countries where deaths have flatlined are considering (or implementing) further lockdowns.
There’s something else going on.
They have revealed themselves- the WEF openly lobbies [$$$] the WHO, and the leaders of countries with sufficiently authoritarian structures are in lockstep. The people are being tested, conditioned.
We are all biohazards and we must be tracked. People have become data; data feeds the machines. How does it feel being so manipulated?The compassion felt for the ones who have died is useless. Aim it at those who can benefit from it: the children locked in unhappy homes; the isolated oldsters who are neglected to death for their own protection; the families facing homelessness and dissolution, the billions who are subjected to dehumanization.
All government interference in this virus must end.
It’s over.There we would all be be, having a delightful party*, with clusters of folks having lively discussions that frequently jumped from cluster to cluster; some ducking out in pairs; some amusing themselves with less sociable diversions; and suddenly some jerk would jump up and announce “LET’S play charades!”
All my life, I have dreaded hearing the word “let’s” more than almost any other word in the English language.
*Of course, there are no parties anymore.
The incumbent has an edge.
Oh, and the press (CNN!) wants Trump to win, because hate is as profitable as strife and anxiety.
The only democrats who want Biden to win are the rank and file, but they are worth less than nothing- especially to the democratic leadership.“Calm, accurate…” Yes.
Cohen let me imagine a world where the US and Russia were no longer enemies. Embattled Europe could breath a sigh of relief and trade with east and west. NATO would fade into nothing. China would want to join the club.
I used to think such things mattered.
More important people didn’t want that world.
I hope I die before the world I cannot tolerate materializes. It is the blessing and the curse of growing old.Oh, V. Arnold, I just found out! I will miss his voice. He stood for a future we didn’t get. I am sad.
Stephen Cohen, good-bye.Yes, indeed, another little Ice Age is coming to the northern hemisphere, but I predict it will end sometime in March.
You heard it here first.“Assange never would or could identify a source. Apart from other considerations, it would be the end of WikiLeaks.”
But what if they pretended he did? What if they already know what he could reveal, and they reveal it, and say he had revealed it to them? They would ruin him and Wikileaks. And we would be left to just study what they did.
Dr. D keeps telling us they lie. I say stop trusting those liars and realize that what they are willing to do can sink as deep as the fall they are facing if they are found out.Timing is everything.
It’s going to take a very long time to get every American vaccinated, unless they sneak it by those of us who reject it. Are mandatory vaccines which are rushed and carry no liability for the makers okay with everyone?
Anywhere there’s something fetid,
Mr. Brennan seems well vetted.
When other rodents would have scurried,
Brennan stays- that’s got me worried.Joe Rogan played Joe Garrelli on News Radio, one of the best sitcoms of all time. I STILL miss Phil Hartman.
Polder Dweller- I am so glad you put up that video (I saw it over at the slog).
Susmarie- I agree about Dr. D’s comment.
Ilargi- I guess you’ll find out with the repost of that Bourdain comment. There aren’t enough bad words in every language on earth to cover the nastiness that is Henry K. Does Adsense tell you what they want you to do about it?
Really nice post today, by the way. I’m sorry I was late.“he is so rich that he can only imagine spending his wealth by plowing it into space travel”
Bezos shows again he is a man of poor imagination. How about using it to treat his workers better?I’m a little late here, but what a superb column, Ilargi, and what wonderful responses.
Michael Reid- an excellent post.
It’s nice to see you back in your saddle, Dr D.Oz- I suspect almost anyone can be threatened, including Assange’s team (or has a price, as zerosum says). And while it is true that they hold his plight over any investigative reporter’s or whistleblower’s head, and make us suspicious of people who are “allowed” to still expose the rot in governments, I have to think that the most important reason he is still alive, and still tortured, is because he has not divulged his “kill switch” code. They want what he has in his files.
The more this drags on, the more those who are paying attention realize how desperate the diktocrats are. The dirt must be very dirty, and they are clearly terrified of its exposure. That is a weakness on their part.
Assange is a remarkable man.
“Kill switch” can probably be replaced by a better word- the files would dump, not disappear.
Assange is nearing true sainthood. That, too, terrifies them.“Punctured lung”. This may be a very poor choice of words, as “punctured” implies the necessity of an object to do the puncturing. Did their ribs break?
On the TV show “House”, a pneumothorax emergency can be (dramatically) fixed with a large syringe inserted directly into the chest: a puncture that allows air back into a collapsed lung. There is no application of a ventilator, but the word “puncture” becomes relevant, at least. The disclaimer “even among those who were not put on a ventilator”, becomes disingenuous, however.A late poem for the ghosts of the morning, apropos for the eve (my time).
Do y’all abroad know it’s marked on a US calendar as “Patriot Day”?The test is the virus.
The virus is a test.
And while you learn obedience
They’ll do their level best
To strip you of your courage
And all that you hold dear,
But they will reimburse you-
They’ll make you rich with fear.And in that zombie state you’ll find
The comfort of the empty mind.The test was the physics.
The physics was a test.
And while you all were terrified
They did their level best
To strip of of you freedom,
Your privacy, your rights,
But hey! They reimbursed you-
They gave you restless nights.While you were taking off your shoes
They entertained you with the news.Goodnight, m’dears.
Okay okay- Deagel… (sheepishly). I was wrong. My numbers are wrong. I did misunderstand them. Javascript helps.
Still, the US comes off BAD. Down 70 %.. And it’s a whole new Deagel.Anyone who thinks this “virus” is about public health anymore is naive.
Even the economy doesn’t matter ’cause the “übermensch” LOVE the economy.
Remember how they felt drastic measures were needed to “fix” the climate?
On that low note, has anyone checked out Deagel lately? It’s updated and the numbers are shocking. Mexico, China, Japan, and Iran are nearly depopulated. The US has come up a bit, dropping only 99M.
The big surprise is India rising 1.34M. All still for 2025. Doom porn at it’s best, and breathing heavily down your neck.
I may be misinterpreting it. The little explanation at the bottom is gone.Don’t blame incompetence when greed will explain it.
Stop trusting people who don’t deserve it.I hate to point this out, but Biden gave himself his best campaign slogan in yesterday’s “speech”.
“The future is made in America”. It beats the pants off of anything he’s had yet.
And it has a wicked double meaning.I watched some of the vaccine hearings today on cspan: How can they reassure the public that the vaccine(s) are safe?
Not once did someone say: the companies will be held liable for their vaccine’s efficacy and safety.Nope. Not a word even close to it.
Gee, Zucker likes Trump? Who’da thought? Ka-ching!
I laughed out loud at 2am when I heard Trump was the winner in 2016.
I watched Watergate hearings (skipped school to do it); I watched Iran/contra (still have the tapes)…Nothing comes of anything. I’m not holding my breath on Durham. But I can dream.So it’s time for that joke:
A man sat on his roof as the floodwaters rose around him. A boy with an extra life vest swam by: “C’mon! We can swim!,” he cried. “No thanks,” said the man, “Jesus will save me.”
Then a man in a canoe paddled by. “C’mon! Hop in!,” he cried. “no thanks,” said the man. “Jesus will save me.”
A helicopter spotted him and sent down a rope. “C’mon!,” cried the pilot. “Grab the rope!” “no thanks,” said the man, “Jesus will save me.”
Standing before the Lord, the man asked “Why didn’t you save me?”
Jesus said: “I sent a boy with a life vest, a man in a canoe, and a helicopter with a rope! What more did you want?”Change “flood” to “virus”. Change “life vest” to “socializing”, change “canoe” to “Sunshine and/or Vitamin D”; change “helicopter” to”HCQ+ zinc”….and you can even keep Jesus if you want.
Okay. So I can hyperlink over at Off-G. But here I’ll just try and hint at it. Over at architects and engineers for nine eleven truth there is a subset called justice rising- there will be a symposium there this weekend starting Friday. Those who sneer at this can ignore this message.
That day was the day they tested the spookability and gullibility levels of the general population. And now, here we are.That photo is film noir.
Julian Assange’s life has become the same, except he has been questioned under the light and roughed up for so long the audience went home. Does anyone expect MSM journalists to speak up? What average MSM news consumer even knows what’s going on?
How do good people make him human when he has been so dehumanized?
He is just another victim of the plutocrats, as nearly all of us are, now. The severity of his abuse only figures as a reminder of how bad it can get if we cross the line. He is a figure in a morality play- a film noir.Something clicked a couple days ago. I am fed up. Even the CDC is ‘fessing up, yet the MSM doubles down and proudly shows toddlers (some crying) scrambling on to a kindergarten school bus in their masks. My heart is broken. We will torture the children to keep adults “safe”.
It has always been so.
We’re so stupidly terrified in the US we’re willing to throw the election into chaos because the polls aren’t “safe”. This is individual selfishness at its pinnacle.
No wonder so few care about Assange.“double in US, triple in world by Jan 1”
Ferguson- is that you?
It’s nice, though, that the flu, rhinovirus, adenovirus, plain old coronavirus, atypical pneumonia, etc. will have totally disappeared!“Hobson’s Choice” is also a delightful 1954 British film with Charles Laughton and Brenda de Banzie.
The virus IS the PCR test. It was convenient that they also allowed symptoms without the test. (why not atypical pneumonia? It looks like the virus!), but with the BS “cases” now, it is all PCR. You aren’t told how many cycles are done. Even the NYT wrote that the number of cycles was too often too many (40 instead of 30) resulting in false positives. Then there are the admissions that the tests find any old coronavirus; and then again they are finding “dead” virus and showing it as positive. Poor Kary Mullis. It’s lucky for the scaremongers that he died so conveniently in August last year.
John Yoo. [shivers]. How do recognize a bad guy? They torture. How do you recognize a really bad guy? They see torture as pragmatic.
I haven’t read today’s yet, and I am off to the pontoon- summer is fading quickly and I have to get som vitamin D. Later.
Oh, and the video I reference yesterday was liberal, white America’s worst nightmare. Trevor Noah once suggested the second amendment would be amended right quick if this happened.Oh! Bold worked! But I tried linking a word to this site and it wouldn’t work. But definitely this is a step in the right direction.
Ilargi- I have no idea. When I do as instructed (highlight text, hit link, copy url, etc), the link shows up in html, and the post won’t post. I can’t even put in the spelled out name of the url- the post won’t post. I am amazed that I am the only person in my crowd that posts at all or I would seek help. (I can’t do italics or bold, either.)
