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How have the mass hysteria and international lockdowns impacted the world economy and the daily lives of people worldwide? Principles of economics can be used to explain virtually every stage of the process. Tune in to learn:
Sanjeev Sabhlok, a former Indian Administrative Service member and government economist working in Melbourne, Australia, shares his experience with international economics and corruption and sheds light on the current state of the world amidst COVID-19.
Mr. Sabhlok discusses the sunk cost fallacy and how it perpetuates the current state of affairs in governments worldwide. This creates mass hysteria, which only proves to exacerbate the already out-of-hand situation. The principles of lockdown and quarantine are also called into question and the types of infectious diseases that are effectively quelled by these practices.
Principles of economics can help solve the mysteries of why the Coronavirus has been handled so inefficiently by the world governments and how it has affected international trade. The significant players of the pandemic are revealed, and the interactions between China, the World Health Organization, and the Imperial College are broken down to show how specific entities are benefiting from economic and societal shutdowns.
Visit Sanjeev Sabhlok's blog at https://www.sabhlokcity.com for more uncensored Coronavirus analysis. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
Ants are perfect models for Manuela Ramalho's research interest in microbiome and host symbiosis. Ants have one of the widest global distribution and habitat diversity of any animal. She captures her enthusiasm and shares it with listeners as she discusses the ecological role of insects and her research on ants. Listen and learn
Ant scientist Manuela Ramalho grew up in Brazil, an ecosystem flush with insects. Her academic life brought her in touch with all the possibilities of ant research and she's turned that work into a specialization in their microbiome. Now a postdoc researcher at Cornell University, she opens up this research world to listeners, offering an understanding of what we may learn about the impact of the microbiome on the ants themselves as well as how ant ecology, behavior, development, diet, and phylogeny determines the microbes.
For example, after she and her colleagues studied the Neotropical species Daceton armigerum, they found that varying their diet had surprisingly no effect on their microbiome. She explains how little scientist understand about the roles of these microbes and how they are beginning to learn more. Some studies, for example, imply symbiotic roles such as microbes providing ants with nutritional benefits. Furthermore, as with most animal species, questions of coevolution may explain the function of microbe–ant symbiotic relationships. Ramhalho is heading in that direction with her latest study using ant phylogeny to map how the diversity of the ants combines with the phylogeny of bacteria, determining if bacteria are evolving together with their hosts. For more details and why these findings might be significant, listen in.
For more about Manuela Ramalho, see her web page: manuelaramalho.wordpress.com. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
"We don't treat breast cancer like one size fits all, so why are we screening that way?" asks Dr. Laura Esserman. This question directs much of her cancer genetics research and as well as a trial she's leading called the Wisdom Study. She addresses how her career has prepared her for this work and why cancer genetics and genomics data should be used for better screening. Listen and learn
Dr. Laura Esserman is a cofounder of Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative and is faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, as professor of surgery and radiology. She directs UCSF's Carol Frank Buck Breast Care Center and is a practicing surgeon and breast cancer oncologist specialist as well. She gives listeners an effective summation of how breast cancer treatments have left effective systemic data analysis and women's voices out of the picture. She describes the complicated risk factors and our current understanding of those risk factors through cancer genome sequencing and other technologies. Her work seeks to bring this knowledge in line to provide better screening timing and techniques.
Her own group, the Quantum Leap Healthcare Collective, addresses the needs of women at any stage of breast cancer, from a concern for risk, to a worry over a possible symptom, to a definitive diagnosis. She also is the Principal Investigator for the Wisdom Study, a project designed to achieve significant breast cancer research impact factors. "The only way to do better is to know better," adds Dr. Esserman, and this study seeks to do just that with a trial for, by, and about women. They currently have about 34,000 women enrolled but want to triple that number. They're seeking women between 40 and 74 to take part at wisdomstudy.org. Listen in to find out more about this study and what it hopes to accomplish. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
Where and why the prevailing theory of biology has gone wrong might hold the very key we need in order to understand our failure to treat cancer—especially metastatic cancer.
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Professor Denis Noble of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford has been studying physiology and evolutionary biology for decades, and has made many discoveries and published countless papers along the way. Despite this, it wasn't more than a year ago that he would have said, "I don't know anything about cancer." To his surprise, a mounting body of research and evidence is showing that he might know a whole lot more about cancer than he thinks.
And why is that? Because of the relationship between the evolution of species and cancer itself.
Noble dives into the details of this relationship, and so much more, including early detection methods for lung and other types of cancer, the role of the immune system in picking up cancer cells that are in our body at any point in time (but never develop into cancer as we know it), decentralized cellular control in the body, what can be learned by the exosomes put out by cancer cells, the failure of the standard of care prescribed for metastatic cancers, the importance of keeping our immune systems healthy, and the microenvironment of a primary tumor vs. metastasis.
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What allows a cancer cell to proliferate and metastasize? Is cancer a product of evolutionary selection? How do the leading hypotheses in cancer research apply specifically to lung cancer?
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Shervin Takyar is an associate professor at Yale School of Medicine and practicing pulmonologist who joins the show to discuss his experience with cancer, both in research and in the clinic. His work is focused primarily on endothelium, which is an important part of the tumor microenvironment, and also on what happens before cancer develops, rather than what to do once it has. What factors predispose a person to develop cancer? And which individuals are likely to develop recurrence or resistance to cancer therapies? Takyar answers a number of compelling questions, and in the process, explains what he believes to be the common denominator of all cancers, and how cancer might be viewed as the product of cycles of evolutionary selection. He also discusses how the seed-and-soil theory applies to lung cancer, cell-to-cell signaling, where primary lung tumors tend to spread and why, ongoing research looking at advanced lung tumor samples, field cancerization, what makes a tumor successful, whether there are epigenetic markers that can tell which patients have higher tolerance for tumor cells, and more.
Constant surveillance, an insidious disease-causing agent that we embrace without question, the largest biological experiment on human subjects, and lockdowns used to censor and strip us of our freedoms. Is this the future, or the present?
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In 2008, Reinette Senum ran for Nevada City Council in California, and won more votes than anyone in the 150-year history of the city. She served until 2012, and again from 2016 to 2020. Among many things that she observed and acted on while on the city council, she fought to reject Senate Bill 649, which would line the streets of California with 5G antennas.
Despite having been an early adopter of Wi-Fi technology and cell phones, she was becoming increasingly aware of the major biological impacts of these technologies. She talked to experts around the world, and became further resolute in her position: 5G is a military application—"EMF warfare" even—that can cause instant death even from great distances, and as such, it doesn't belong in the public sphere.
Even in the face of anti-5G petitions put forth by thousands of doctors, scientists, and experts around the world, the rollouts show no signs of slowing. As soon as the coronavirus lockdowns were put in place, so too were thousands of 5G antennas all over the country, including within school systems.
Senum explains the wide range of symptoms and diseases that can result from or be worsened by wireless technology.
"I have done everything in my power to reduce my exposure because I know that it was impacting my health; I was able to figure that out over time. A lot of people won't know it, and when they realize it, they're going to be dealing with some type of blood cancer, tumor, or really compromised health, and unfortunately, the medical world is not keyed into this yet. In fact, hospitals…are some of the hottest environments; they're utilizing 5G everywhere," says Senum.
This is just the very tip of the iceberg. Senum explains the agenda behind COVID-19 and tells listeners one eye-opening piece of information after another. She also shares her short and long-term plans, which include weekly meetings with doctors, scientists, and experts who are dedicated to revealing the truth about COVID-19, the "vaccine", 5G, censorship, and more.
Tune in, visit https://vaxxter.com/ and https://www.thefoghornexpress.com/ to learn more, and find Senum on BitChute and YouTube. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
How can bacteria, viruses, and even cuts and burns lead to cancer? Could cancer one day become a manageable, livable disease akin to HIV?
For expert answers to these questions and more, tune in.
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James Shapiro is a biologist working in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, and he has decades of research under his belt. On today's show, he pulls from years of research and accumulated knowledge to discuss various topics in the field of cancer and cancer research.
These include the mutagenic potential in DNA repair systems, types of chromosome rearrangement, epigenetic regulation, speculation about whether cancer cells see and behave as a "whole" or individually, what causes cancer cells to metastasize, differences between the immune response to primary tumors vs. metastases, the role of certain therapies in inducing damaging changes in cancers, and much more.
Visit https://shapiro.bsd.uchicago.edu/ to learn more about Shapiro's work. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
Starvation, suicide, and failure to thrive: these are the leading causes of death resulting from COVID-19 policies. In 2020 alone, these policies have killed more people than Hitler killed in the death camps throughout all of WWII. What is really going on here?
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Pamela Popper is driven to educate the public about the truth of the U.S. medical system, and the reality behind what you've been told about COVID-19. To this end, she serves people through her company, Wellness Forum Health, and posts free informational newsletters and videos every week. She believes people deserve to make informed medical decisions, and knows that in the current climate, people simply aren't doing that.
Popper gets into the details of the COVID-19 situation—what it is, who is behind it, and what the coming years will look like. She explains the information that you hear in the news, but that doesn't quite make sense.
She also discusses the lawsuit that's being filed in 45 states to challenge the "emergency" basis for the lockdowns and loss of freedoms.
Tune in for all the details.
Find free videos and newsletters at https://makeamericansfreeagain.com/, and learn more about Popper's company at https://wellnessforumhealth.com/.
Send her an email at pampopper@msn.com, and find her new book titled, Covid Operation: What Happened, Why it Happened, and What's Next. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
Imagine a disease-free world. If it were easy enough to establish and maintain, most people on earth would choose it. Some species of ants and termites seem to have figured out a way to do just this.
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Michael Poulsen is a professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Copenhagen whose work is about understanding beneficial symbioses between various species. In particular, he focuses on fungus-farming ants in Central and South America, and fungus-farming termites in Africa and Asia. His goal is to understand how these fungi and ants or termites co-evolve and optimize the services they provide for one another, as well as how these complex communities are formed, how they remain stable, and how they defend against disease.
The termites that Poulsen is studying are especially effective at warding off disease. Complex bacterial communities have been found in the fungal gardens farmed by these termites, and in the gut of the termites themselves. Could these bacterial communities provide insight into the formation of a disease-free world? Poulsen wants to find out.
He discusses what he's learned, what he's currently studying, and where this research could eventually go.
Learn more at https://www.socialsymbioticevolution.com/. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
Could a simple diet change make cancer therapies more effective, thereby helping people fight cancer and extend their lives? The evidence seems to suggest that it might.
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Adrienne Scheck is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Phoenix Children's Research Institute, and she's studying how the ketogenic diet impacts brain tumor therapies, namely radiation and chemotherapy.
Past studies have found that the ketogenic diet makes these therapies more effective, and that even when used alone, seems to reduce tumor cell growth. Based on experiments using mouse models and cells in culture, normal cells are not affected by the ketogenic diet in the same way that cancer cells are affected, meaning that normal cells aren't at risk of being damaged or killed.
Why is this the case? The original thought was that this is because the ketogenic diet reduces the intake of glucose, therefore reducing the amount of "food" that cancer cells thrive off of. However, Scheck and many other researchers are learning that the ketogenic diet affects nearly every hallmark of cancer that exists.
Scheck and her team are trying to determine what is different about cancer cells that show resistance to cancer therapies, and cancer cells that are killed by cancer therapies.
In the process of discussing this work, Scheck talks about the heterogeneity of tumors, the challenges of studying and finding effective chemotherapies for glioblastoma, what makes brain tumors particularly dangerous, how normal brain cells versus cancer cells respond to the ketogenic diet, how individuals differ in terms of reaching a state of ketosis, the near-future role and benefit of metabologenomics in the cancer arena, and much more.
Tune in for all the details. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
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