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09/05/2026

I suggest that EVERYONE read the entire post. A deeper dive into the numbers and the culture:

Back in 2020, Pew Research Center surveyed more than 11,000 Americans. Political scientist Zach Goldberg subsequently examined the underlying data and broke the results down by age, s*x, race, and political ideology.

Among white women ages 18 to 29 who identified as liberal, 56.3% reported that a doctor or other health-care provider had diagnosed them with a mental health condition.

So perhaps endlessly telling young women that they live in an oppressive society, that the world is on the verge of climate catastrophe, that words are violence, that disagreement is dangerous, that our President is evil, that the patriarchy is lurking behind every corner, that Western civilization is fundamentally corrupt, and that their personal unhappiness is caused by vast structural forces over which they have virtually no control is not actually a recipe for human flourishing.

There is, however, an uncomfortable counterpoint to all this discussion of female unhappiness and mental illness. Men are far more likely to actually die by su***de. In the United States, the male su***de rate is nearly four times the female rate, and men account for roughly four out of every five su***de deaths. The disparity exists globally as well. Perhaps that exposes a deeper truth about the modern cult of victimhood. We have created a culture extraordinarily skilled at teaching certain groups to name every grievance, diagnose every distress, identify every oppressor and demand that society recognize their pain, while other forms of suffering remain remarkably easy to ignore. Young women may be reporting extraordinary levels of anxiety, depression and psychiatric diagnosis, but men are quietly killing themselves at vastly higher rates.

Perhaps a significant portion of what we are calling a mental-health crisis is actually a crisis of meaning, belonging and human connection. A pill cannot provide a husband or wife. Therapy cannot manufacture grandchildren around the Thanksgiving table. A diagnosis cannot replace friendship, faith, family, community, useful work, children who need you, parents who depend upon you, or the knowledge that one’s life matters to people other than oneself. Medicine can treat disease. It is considerably less capable of treating a culture that has systematically stripped away many of the institutions that once gave ordinary people purpose.

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Worldwide the single largest source of nonfatal disability

09/04/2026

I've stated many times that there are multiple factors that effect the development of autism and other neurological disorders. The time to detox is always now, and best started during childhood. We design these programs for each person at The Cole Center. Here's some of that info:

The UC Davis CHARGE study, 2014. Shelton and colleagues, publishing in Environmental Health Perspectives, examined ~970 California mother-child pairs. Third-trimester residential proximity (within 1.5 km) to pyrethroid pesticide applications was associated with autism spectrum disorder at OR 1.87 (95% CI 1.02–3.43). Second-trimester chlorpyrifos exposure was associated with ASD at OR 3.3 (95% CI 1.5–7.4), for comparison (Shelton et al., EHP 2014).

The BMJ California replication, 2019. Von Ehrenstein and colleagues, in a population-based case-control study of 2,961 ASD cases and 35,370 controls in the California Central Valley, found statistically significant associations between prenatal residential exposure and ASD for the pyrethroids permethrin (OR 1.10, 95% CI 1.01–1.20) and bifenthrin, with the organophosphates chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and malathion also implicated (von Ehrenstein et al., BMJ 2019). The confidence intervals for permethrin do not cross the null.

The 2022 meta-analysis. A pooled analysis of the epidemiological literature reported a maternal pyrethroid exposure pooled OR 1.40 (95% CI 1.09–1.80) for ASD in offspring — a higher pooled effect than for organophosphates (pooled OR 1.14) in the same analysis (Ni et al., Environmental Research 2022).

The 2022 critical systematic review. Andersen and colleagues, applying formal epidemiological evidence-grading criteria across the full body of pyrethroid-neurodevelopment literature, concluded: “This review found sufficient evidence for an association between pyrethroid exposure during pregnancy and adverse neurodevelopment. All studies addressing neurobehavioral outcomes reported worse scores or higher risk of ASD diagnosis with increasing pyrethroid exposure” (Andersen et al., Environmental Research 2022). “Sufficient evidence” is a specific epidemiological grading term, not rhetorical.

09/04/2026

Blood pressure. LDL cholesterol. Hemoglobin A1C. BMI.

We are increasingly taught that health can be reduced to whether these four numbers fall on the correct side of an officially sanctioned line. Cross that line and, almost overnight, a healthy person can acquire a diagnosis, a prescription, regular laboratory testing, and perhaps a lifetime relationship with the medical system.

Medicine has become remarkably good at turning healthy people into patients. Change a guideline, move a laboratory threshold, redefine “normal,” and millions of people can acquire a disease or pre-disease without anything about their physiology having changed overnight. And when the committees establishing those thresholds have financial relationships with industries that benefit from expanding treatment populations, skepticism is not anti-science. It is precisely what science requires.

These numbers are not meaningless, nor are the risks associated with hypertension, diabetes, visceral obesity, or dyslipidemia imaginary. There are patients for whom aggressive management of these risk factors is clearly appropriate. Cardiovascular risk is cumulative, and an individual measurement can be useful when interpreted alongside age, family history, smoking, insulin resistance, inflammation, kidney function, coronary disease, body composition, fitness, and many other factors.

The mistake is not measuring the numbers.

The mistake is worshipping them.

A laboratory value is information. It is not a diagnosis in isolation, and it certainly is not a patient. Medicine works best when physicians use these measurements as pieces of a much larger biological picture rather than treating every person who crosses an arbitrary threshold as another candidate for pharmaceutical intervention.

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Medicine confuses surrogate markers with actual health outcomes

09/04/2026

More info on the measles from a recently published paper:

Two things are true at the same time. First, MMR is not a shot that never sheds and never causes measles-like illness — that framing does not survive contact with the peer-reviewed record. McMahon 2019, Watkins 2024, and the multiple vaccine-associated measles case reports all establish that. Second, no genotypically confirmed case of vaccine-strain human-to-human transmission has ever been published, and the Greenwood 2016 systematic review is the standing evidence on that specific question.

Vaccinated people spread measles. Two-dose vaccinated people spread measles. Nearly a third of the spreaders they found were fully vaccinated. The evidence for how much the shot reduces spread rests on one study of 137 people. Most vaccinated cases probably never get counted. And the strain identity of the 70 documented transmitters — wild-type or vaccine-strain — is a question the paper does not attempt to answer.

The paper is co-authored by the former director of the entire U.S. Immunization Program at the CDC, the CDC’s own measles laboratory chief, the head of Johns Hopkins’ vaccine access center, the recent WHO measles program lead who is now Canada’s Acting Chief Public Health Officer, the man who chairs the WHO commission that certifies whether entire regions have eliminated measles, and PAHO’s top immunization official for the Americas

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A preregistered systematic review in Expert Review of Vaccines found 70 vaccinated transmitters, 812 downstream cases, and one small study underneath the claim that MMR reduces onward spread.

08/30/2026

Yes, aluminum in vaccines IS a problem, as show in this study:

Neurodevelopmental disorders such as Asperger syndrome (now Level 1 autism spectrum disorder), other pervasive developmental disorders, autistic disorder, and autism
spectrum disorder are all found to be statistically significantly associated with a higher cumulative dose of vaccine-derived aluminum.

The more toxins you have, the more likely you are to have health issues. Seems like common sense! At the Cole Center we have been providing people with detox programs for years. Contact us at 513-563-4321 for an appointment!

Karl Jablonowski, Brian Ho**er. Neurodevelopmental Disorder Associated with Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines: Reanalysis of Data from a Danish Nationwide Cohort Study. Integrative Medicine, Vol. 25, No. 4, August 2026

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08/30/2026

Politics again?

Pennsylvania announced this week what it called the first two “measles-associated deaths” in the Commonwealth in 35 years. Within hours, those carefully chosen words were disappearing. NBC News told readers that two unvaccinated people had “die[d] of measles.” Other news organizations similarly reported that people had died “from” or “of” measles. Governor Josh Shapiro quickly turned the deaths into an attack on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accusing Kennedy and the Trump administration of spreading misinformation with “real-life consequences.” There was just one rather important problem with this extraordinarily convenient narrative: Pennsylvania itself had not established that either person died from measles.

That is not my interpretation of some obscure epidemiological distinction. It comes directly from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Department press secretary Neil Ruhland explained that the state uses the term “measles-associated” when laboratory or epidemiological evidence of measles is present, but the official cause of death remains under investigation. In other words, at the time Pennsylvania announced two historic measles-associated deaths, the official causes of those deaths had apparently not yet been determined.

The story becomes considerably stranger when one turns from Harrisburg to Lancaster County itself. Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni told LancasterOnline that his office had handled no measles deaths. Parsons subsequently contacted the coroner’s office and reported that it had “zero” cases in which measles was the immediate cause of death and one case involving someone who died with measles but not from it.

Another piece of historical context is almost entirely absent from the current coverage. Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, measles was extraordinarily common in the United States, but by that point it was rarely fatal. CDC estimates that during the decade before vaccination became available, 3 to 4 million Americans contracted measles each year, approximately 48,000 were hospitalized, and 400 to 500 died. Using those estimates, roughly 1.2 to 1.6 percent of infections resulted in hospitalization, while approximately 0.01 to 0.017 percent resulted in death. Put into more understandable terms, approximately one person died for every 6,000 to 10,000 people infected, while roughly one in 60 to 80 was hospitalized.

For another comparison, consider influenza. During the severe 2024–25 influenza season, CDC estimates that approximately 51 million Americans became ill, 710,000 were hospitalized, and 45,000 died. That produces an estimated hospitalization rate of about 1.39 percent, strikingly close to the roughly 1.2 to 1.6 percent calculated from CDC’s pre-vaccine measles estimates. But the estimated mortality rate for that flu season was approximately 0.088 percent, compared with roughly 0.01 to 0.017 percent for measles in the decade before vaccination. On those estimates, the risk of death per illness during the severe 2024–25 flu season was roughly five to nine times higher than the risk of death per measles infection in pre-vaccine America.

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Did they or didn’t they die of measles?

08/23/2026

As I have said for many years, these tests are worthless:

The research recommends against using food-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) testing to diagnose food allergies, food intolerances, or unspecified gastrointestinal symptoms.

There is no body of research that supports the use of this test to diagnose adverse reactions to food or to predict future adverse reactions. The literature currently suggests that the presence of specific IgG to food is a marker of exposure and tolerance to food, as seen in those participating in oral immunotherapy studies. Hence, positive test results for food-specific IgG are to be expected in normal, healthy adults and children. Furthermore, the inappropriate use of this test only increases the likelihood of false diagnoses being made, resulting in unnecessary dietary restrictions and decreased quality of life. The immediate expense of the test to individuals will be compounded by the costs incurred by an already-overburdened health care system. Confused by the information provided by IgG testing, individuals are likely to request additional specialist referrals and investigations which would otherwise not be necessary.

More commonly, the tests generate long lists of frequently eaten foods and suggest that patients are allergic or intolerant to them. This may encourage unnecessary dietary restriction. Restrictive diets can be psychologically burdensome and may reduce the likelihood that someone consumes a varied, nutritious diet.

I use an allergy questionnaire to determine the Low Dose Allergy serums to use in treatment. This serves to return the immune system back to normal and reverse allergies.

Carr, S., Chan, E., Lavine, E. et al. CSACI Position statement on the testing of food-specific IgG. All Asth Clin Immun 8, 12 (2012).

Home Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology Article CSACI Position statement on the testing of food-specific IgG Review Open access Published: 26 July 2012 Volume 8, article number 12 (2012) Cite this article You have full access to this open access article Download PDF Save article View saved resear...

08/21/2026

The measles issue is complex and not amenable to sound bites. Here's a very brief part of the debate:

The vaccine's safety and its shorter durability are basically the same property viewed from two angles. That fact is uncomfortable for those who take the simplistic view of all vaccines being “safe and effective”. It argues for a better product rather than against vaccination, but it does mean that vaccine-induced and “natural” immunity achieved through actual infection should not be described as equivalent. They are not equivalent. Naturally acquired immunity from measles is clearly superior, but it comes with a cost: the risks associated with a primary live measles infection.

Two further consequences follow that typical oversimplified “public health” messaging tends to skip past. Until elimination, vaccinated people were regularly re-exposed to circulating wild virus. Those exposures were usually silent, producing no illness, but they restimulated memory cells and topped up antibody levels. Eliminating measles removed that free, silent booster, and universal vaccination program success unmasked the gradually waning memory-cell immunity that endemic circulation had been correcting for decades. Separately, infants of vaccinated mothers receive lower antibody levels across the placenta than infants of naturally immune mothers, widening the window of infant vulnerability before the first dose. Both effects are permanent features of the transition away from a naturally immune population. Vaccination also has a “public health” cost, one that is never tallied in the approved pro-vaccination messaging narratives.

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Vaccine immunity fades, and another dose does not restore it.

08/08/2026

For those who use a lot of white rice:

White rice is made by removing the bran and germ. That process extends shelf life and shortens cooking time, but it also strips out important nutrients, most notably thiamine (vitamin B1). Thiamine deficiency is the primary driver of beriberi.

One of the more interesting findings in nutrition is that a change in cooking method can alter how your body processes rice. The mechanism is resistant starch.

Cook your rice as usual, then cool it in the refrigerator for several hours (overnight works well) before reheating. Cooling causes the starch to recrystallize, a process called retrogradation, which increases the resistant starch content compared with freshly cooked rice. Adding a small amount of fat such as coconut oil during cooking may further influence starch structure. The reheated rice has a gentler effect on blood sugar than the same rice eaten hot and fresh.

Fats do more than add flavor here. Coconut oil in particular is rich in medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs), a type of fat absorbed quickly and used readily for energy.

Beyond coconut oil, pairing rice with other quality fats is a simple upgrade. A drizzle of olive oil or a source of omega-3 fatty acids helps restore some of the beneficial fats naturally found in the rice bran and germ that milling removes.

In addition, make. sure you're getting plenty of B vitamins, either through food or supplements.

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Refining strips white rice of key nutrients, but that's not the end of the story.

08/07/2026

anning bed users have a significantly increased risk of melanoma, and this study found that melanocytes in skin from tanning bed users had higher mutation burdens and higher proportions of cells with pathogenic mutations.

Their conclusion was that tanning bed radiation induces melanoma by increasing the mutation burden of melanocytes and by mutagenizing a broader field of melanocytes than are typically exposed to natural sunlight.

In other words, if you want to get a tan, go out in the sun. The key is to not burn and to tan gradually. Sunlight is healthy, but like everything, it's a matter of dose.

Pedram Gerami et al. ,Molecular effects of indoor tanning.Sci. Adv.11,eady4878(2025).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ady4878

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