Mission: Reverse Progressing Cardiometabolic Disease to the point of durable remission or practical cure. https://teapaw.org/t.co/xwBDGByWuv
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Democrats Are About To Find Out The Devastating Cost Of Their Victory youtu.be/EvZHFys65y8?is=gbmU… via @YouTube
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Machiavelli was a pragmatic reporter of human nature, not a defender.
“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and the lukewarm defenders and those who may do well under the new.”
Nicollo Machiavelli, The Prince
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Joe Rogan Experience #2576 - Dr. Peter McCullough music.youtube.com/watch?v=ml… via @YouTubeMusic
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Another story in favor of keeping the same time year round. A 99 year old gentleman, who along with his wife who is 96 had been a beloved patient for decades, spent several hours last evening in the ER after falling from a step ladder while CHANGING THE WALL CLOCK, breaking the glass on a china cabinet with the back of his head!
He took "fall backward" too literally.
Fortunately, in spite of being on blood thinners due to a blood clot complication from a minor foot procedure a few months ago, the CT showed no brain bleed. He required "only" 10 staples before being sent home.
In the past year or so, he bought a slightly used lawn mower from neighbors who moved to a condo because, being in their 70's, it was time for them to quit mowing grass.
My mission is longevity, to help my patients die old and healthy by preventing stroke and heart attack. Can we keep federal policy and the health care system from doing him in so he can enjoy life supported by his 62 year old arteries?
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There Was a Secret Coup Plan but then Elissa Slotkin Opened Her Big Mouth youtu.be/l2tG8bL4NIA?is=eW2r… via @YouTube
Don’t you mean there “Is” a plan? Is the open revelation evidence of stupidity, hubris, or something else? Is it a desperate attempt to rally fellow psychopaths to vote and cheat? Or provoke a preemptive “overreaction” by the administration? Why would they do this only if they win the midterms?
Craig Backs MD retweeted
Just had another request for a "letter of medical necessity" land on my desk. That's where the insurance company, which already has every medical record it needs, creates up to an hour of work for me. I get to explain my reasoning for treatment using the same paperwork I already sent them.
In the letter, I explain that their cherry-picked rationales are population-based and don't apply to every patient. I explain that they, the insurance company, don't have a license to practice medicine, and their sellout doctors don't have a license to practice in my state. Their protocols were meant to get us to a peer-to-peer, not to dictate medical care. They were asked to hold their subscribers' money in case they needed it, and that money is, in fact, not theirs. And I note that I understand the only reason for this unpaid, unfunded waste of time is to discourage me from writing the letter at all.
If a lawyer wrote the masterpiece I produce, it would be billed out at thousands of dollars. Mine isn't paid at all. It costs me time with patients, who are already backed up because the new CMS rules make me see them twice for the same problem. And it costs me time with my family. whew.....
AI is an inaccurate label. For research, it is Augmented Investigator. When built into previously stable apps and workflows, it is Aggravating Interference.
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Craig Backs MD retweeted
"North is still North."
"Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself."
Fauci Hearings Were a Complete Coverup! Here’s What They’re Hiding w/ Dr... youtu.be/b0uicem9ryg?is=UCz1… via @YouTube
Ex-Climate Activist Speaks Out - Lucy Biggers youtu.be/EEkvBWyqDTA?si=bDdB… via @YouTube
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The Scan That Reveals Heart Disease Years Before Symptoms youtu.be/-lt_2swYFhY?si=uJQO… via @YouTube
Very good overview of the screening options. CardioRisk is fine. I have had excellent experience with Vasolabs for over a decade for CIMT.
Favorable trend in CIMT should be correlated with trends in lab measures of inflammation, especially LpPLA2. Early detection should provoke a proactive lifestyle and medical based plan for disease remission or at least stopping progression and promoting healing of existing plaque. It should not put you on the slippery slope of stress testing, stents or surgery in the absence of symptoms. Doing this for over a decade with ZERO patients suffering a stroke or heart attack. I now offer a Bale Doneen type money back guarantee on my Proactive Coaching Investment.
The Scan That Reveals Heart Disease Years Before Symptoms youtu.be/-lt_2swYFhY?si=39m8… via @YouTube
Reframe: CACS is affordable for most who have proper priorities and want to be proactive. Skip a few restaurant meals or Starbucks for a few weeks. Insurance coverage should not be a criteria for worth self investment in awareness. Less insurance control, not more, please.
Reframe: Assume presence/guilt of arterial disease if adult 30+. Use CACS to prove “innocence.” Carotid ultrasound using point of care is highly scalable with The CURE Center model. Discover scan to start, CIMT to measure remission.
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Early Detection Won't Save You Without This #metabolichealth #cardiovasc... youtube.com/shorts/FSEUmI1zv… via @YouTube
Dr. Johnston doesn’t sound like a surgeon. She sounds like me, an open minded allopathic detective. Among many things, we agree to mess with the vascular procedure business plan.
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Craig Backs MD retweeted
Cardiovascular research suggests that roughly between 70/80% of heart-attacks are caused by the rupturing of SOFT plaque
This vulnerable plaque may not cause significant narrowing of the arteries (stenosis)
And often wont show on a traditional stress test or angiogram
This could explain the phenomenon of why most cardiac arrest victims have had normal stress tests shortly before they have a cardiac event
Something worth knowing for long-term heart health.
Early awareness and proactive intervention can REVERSE progression and achieve REMISSION with root cause mitigation, not waiting or recruiting for stents and surgery. Carotid ultrasound and coronary calcium score should be as common as mammograms and PSA though at earlier ages.
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Turbo cancers and repurposed drugs, Dr Makis youtu.be/0gIYQCjB_NU?si=M8Hx… via @YouTube
This has aged well. God bless these curious and courageous communicators of truth and hope.
When my cousin was diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer about a year ago, his wife expressed regret for having encouraged him to get the mRNA injections.
For expressing empathy and supporting her desperate effort to save him based on this work, I was publicly confronted at his funeral after he died in less than 2 months in an effort to humiliate me for spreading “conspiracy theories “ and “shaming” her. I left rather than “wrestle with the pig.” They are often wrong but never in doubt.
Imagine the reaction if I stated, accurately, to have eliminated stroke and heart attack over the past decade in my patients by coaching and achieving measurable mitigation of root causes and inflammation?
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Craig Backs MD retweeted
Autopsy studies show fatty streaks in arteries as early as the teens and 20s.
Atherosclerosis starts far earlier than most people think.
Lp(a) can be elevated as an acute phase reactant. The key is to mitigate its thrombogenic effect and the coexisting more important inflammation driven by insulin resistance, oxidized LDL and periodontal disease. Statins and other antiinflammatory strategies reduce risk of stroke and heart attack events.
"You can't change Lp(a). It's genetic."
Every cardiologist told me this after my heart attack.
My Lp(a) was 276. They said I'd need drugs for life.
I got it down to 52. No drugs.
Here's my chart. 🧵
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