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Jul 6

A New York Times reporter did the unthinkable and exposed the “worst test in medicine” — the one that five decades of evidence says doesn’t work.

The research is damning: continuous fetal monitoring raises C-sections by 66% and instrumental deliveries by 16%, with no drop in infant deaths or disability.

It flags a problem that usually isn’t one, and doctors rush to cut the baby out.

It’s not just a false flag problem; it’s a money incentive. Sarah Kliff says the quiet part out loud:

“Nobody gets sued for doing the C-section. You only get sued for not doing the C-section.”

Doctors are so terrified of legal consequences that they’ll push unnecessary surgery on their patients, not for the baby’s health, but to protect their pocketbooks.

That’s how the cascade starts. In a hospital delivery, one intervention triggers the next. It’s like an avalanche that can’t be stopped.

Next thing you know, you’re recovering for weeks from a major surgery you never needed.

If someone you love is about to have their first baby, share this before they ever set foot in a labor and delivery unit.

@MidwesternDoc investigated what hospitals don’t tell you about birth outcomes, and it only gets worse from here. 🧵

For most of human history, childbirth happened at home, guided by a midwife who had already done this hundreds of times.

Today it’s one of the most heavily monitored, medicated, and surgical events in modern medicine.

Something clearly changed, and it’s not women’s bodies. They’re just as capable today as they were thousands of years ago.

But today, most parents walk into a delivery room having no idea what may happen next—or why.

This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc. For all the sources and details, read the full report below.
midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-hidden-d…

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Jul 5

Big Pharma is “terrified” of Vitamin D, and Dr. Pierre Kory says he could spend a whole hour on this topic.

Why so scared?

Because “It threatens the DISEASE MODEL.”

A meta-analysis out of Italy found what happens when people take Vitamin D, and the results are staggering:

Looking at data from 19 different studies and 1.26 million individuals, the meta-analysis revealed:

• Vitamin D showed about a 60% effectiveness against the incidence of COVID-19 in randomized control trials.

• Vitamin D showed about 40-50% effectiveness in reducing the incidence of COVID-19 in observational studies.

• For preventing severe COVID-19 cases requiring ICU care, vitamin D supplementation was about 70% effective.

We didn’t need to lock ourselves inside for years, live in fear, and vilify our neighbors for not wearing a mask.

That was literally the worst thing we could have done.

All we ever needed was to go outside, get sunshine, and raise our vitamin D, and everything would have been so much better.

But the sunshine story goes far beyond COVID. You think you’re doing your health a favor by avoiding the sun?

The data tells a very different story, and it starts with 29,518 women who did exactly that. 🧵

For decades, Americans were told to treat the sun like poison.

Avoid it. Block it. Fear it. Wear sunscreen every day, everywhere, even when it’s cloudy.

But sunlight isn’t just a lifestyle preference.

It’s a biological necessity.

And the campaign against it may be one of the most successful and profitable fear campaigns in modern medicine.

Their message is simple:

Sunlight causes skin cancer.
Skin cancer can kill you.
Therefore, avoid the sun.

That sounds reasonable until you ask one question: What kind of skin cancer are we talking about?
Because “skin cancer” isn’t just one thing.

And with that simple question, the narrative starts to fall apart.

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Jul 1

If you thought COVID was built on a web of lies, wait till you hear what they did with Alzheimer’s disease.

While Big Pharma poured billions into failed drugs and fake plaque theories, one neurologist quietly proved the decline could be reversed.

And he did it without a single pharmaceutical.

Dr. Dale Bredesen discovered Alzheimer’s has five root causes, not one.

And when you treat those root causes, patients recover. 🧵

This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc. For all the sources and details, read the full report below.

midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-al…

In 1906, plaques in the brain were identified as the cause of Alzheimer’s disease.

By the 1980s, scientists discovered that those plaques were primarily composed of amyloid proteins.

And then in 1991, genetic mutations in a protein that gives rise to amyloid beta were linked to inherited forms of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Jun 29

At 17, Amy Tippins was dying of liver failure. A transplant saved her life.

After the surgery, she noticed “some of my traits had changed.”

Amy suddenly found herself drawn to hands-on home projects she’d never cared about.

“What gives?” she thought. So she tracked down the obituary of the stranger whose liver she’d received and discovered something staggering:

“Not long after surgery, some things about myself and some of my traits had changed… I really started to love projects like replacing flooring on my own. I never saw flooring being put in. I never saw anything like that being done.”

“I knew he was 47 and that he had been killed in a car wreck in Columbus, Georgia. So I went to the library and I started looking up obituaries for that time. And I backed into his obituary.”

“What I discovered is he was a police officer. He was 47, and his name was Mike. His sister told me that he did a lot of his own home renovation. He also liked to work with his hands. He liked to do projects.”

“When I found out who my donor was, it made a lot more sense on why some things about myself and some of my traits had changed after transplant.”

Is a donated organ just an organ? Or can it actually change who you are?

Conventional medicine laughs at the idea. But is it really so crazy?

Let’s take a look at the evidence. 🧵

When organ transplantation became possible, doctors called it a miracle. And it is. Giving someone a second life through another person’s death is incredible.

But the full story isn’t quite so simple.

Oftentimes, something else seems to come with the organ. Something nobody signed up for.

The standard model is pretty straightforward. Your heart is a pump. Your kidney is a filter. Personality and memory live in the brain, and nowhere else.

Swap a failing organ for a healthy one and you’ve simply updated the plumbing, not the person.

But that’s been nothing more than an assumption.

For decades, a significant number of cases has been building up that say otherwise.

This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc. For all the sources and details, read the full report below.

midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-mystery-…

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Jun 26

Before the hepatitis B vaccine was mandated for kids to attend school in almost all 50 states, the risk of a baby dying from hepatitis B was 1 in 7 million.

“That means you need to give 7 MILLION hepatitis B vaccines to prevent ONE death,” RFK Jr. says.

When you give 7 million vaccines to save one life, you’d better make damn sure it’s safe.

But is it really? Let’s take a look at the evidence. 🧵

Every newborn in America is pushed toward a Hepatitis B vaccine within hours of being born.

And that sounds completely normal to most people because the policy has been normalized for decades.

But when you take a close look at Hepatitis B, the risk group, the benefit math, and the forgotten safety record, the birth-dose policy becomes very difficult to defend.

Hepatitis B is a real disease.

Chronic infection can damage the liver, lead to liver failure, and increase the risk of liver cancer later in life.

That part is not the dispute.

The dispute is whether every newborn, including babies born to mothers who test negative for Hepatitis B, should receive the vaccine on their very first day of life.

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Jun 25

You may have missed this news recently - the health insurance system in America is so broken, that the Trump administration is quietly rewriting the Affordable Care Act and buried deep in a monstrous 1,000+ page document is a ploy to let health insurance companies start lending money to patients to pay for their medical care.

That's right: if you get hit with a devastating diagnosis or an unexpected emergency, your "insurance" company won't just pay the bill... they'll offer you a loan instead. So you can go deeper into debt to the very same industry that's already failing you.

Let me say that again. You pay health insurance so that you'll be insured in a time of a health crisis. Already, health insurers are denying nearly 20% of claims and out of pocket expenses keep rising. So instead of them paying your bill, which is what you pay the insurance for, they'll now be incentivized to deny even more bills or raise out of pocket expenses in order to cash in on the interest they'll be collecting.

A third of American households are already drowning in medical debt — and now insurers get to pile on even more, with interest. While these companies rake in billions in profits, everyday people will be trapped paying back loans for the care they thought was "covered." This isn't fixing healthcare.

This is turning your health insurer into your loan shark — and making an already predatory, dysfunctional system even more financially crushing for ordinary Americans. Classic "you get sick, you go broke" American healthcare — now with extra debt servitude.

On the plus side, there is a company that is providing a solution to this problem. CrowdHealth, a member focused health care company is saving Americans tens of thousands of dollars, and in May of this year 100% of medical bills were funded.

No loans needed. No exorbitant premiums. No crazy out of pocket expenses. A model that is actually working, is not throwing Americans into bankruptcy because of an unexpected health event, is saving people money, and getting them the health care they need.

Andy Schoonover from CrowdHealth joins us now to discuss.

A billionaire recently mused that the ultra-wealthy get the top doctors, the best lawyers, the elite tutors, and wondered aloud what it would take to give every American that kind of access. Andy’s answer is that it already exists, just not the way Reid Hoffman imagines it.

Inside CrowdHealth, your income doesn’t decide your doctor. “Whether you’re making $30,000 a year or $3 million a year, you have access to the same doctors.” Members up and down the economic ladder have walked into Mayo, MD Anderson, Stanford, Cleveland Clinic.

The real threat to that access isn’t money. It’s bureaucracy. As government plans expand, the best doctors are quietly heading for the exits. Mayo Clinic recently dropped a slate of Medicare Advantage plans rather than swallow the government’s reimbursement rates. Andy’s read on the pattern is blunt: “Free markets tend to exit stage left and the government bureaucracy enters as the main character.”

His prediction is that within a decade the top doctors stop taking insurance entirely. CrowdHealth’s bet is that members who already pay doctors directly are built for exactly that world.

But cash-pay only matters if the money actually arrives when you’re the one in the hospital bed. So how does a crowd of strangers guarantee your bill gets paid?

Health insurance in America is broken.

Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year—and many of them already had insurance. On average, 20% of claims are denied, leaving families stuck paying massive out-of-pocket costs after spending thousands on premiums.

But there’s an alternative.

CrowdHealth is a community-powered model that has helped members fund over 40,000 medical bills at a fraction of the cost of traditional insurance.

So far, 30,000+ members have been helped, saving an estimated $73 million in medical costs.

CrowdHealth isn’t insurance. It’s a way to step outside the broken system and take control of your healthcare.

Get started today for $99 per member per month for the first three months.

Go to joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse and use code PULSE.

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