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Apr 18Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

"immune reconstitution syndrome". I betting this is nothing more than the body going through a kind of emergency detox process to try and get rid of a poison. And the bone loss of 2 to 6% per year. This is what I've said before, young guys take this and don't believe they're having side effects, but in fact they're slowly eroding away internally. They're borrowing from the future thinking they're being protected in the present.

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Apr 18Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

Thank you for the update.

Might one sympathize for Big Pharma execs who end as multi-millionaires instead of billionaires due to lawsuit-caused losses in their stock portfolios?

Ultimately, is TAF or TDF a better unicorn prevention? Since ceasing interactions with Big Medicine, my unicorn problem has disappeared.

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Yes, it’s funny how they vanish like that.

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Apr 18Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

Wow, thanks for all this info

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What if truvada causes seroconversion?

I'm sure they have a million papers that say it doesn't. Hey, it's approved so it's safe, right? right?

ouroboros gonna ouroboros

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There are two hypotheses about about elevated cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. First, forget about CVD, because the effects of cholesterol are systemic. Although perhaps the most urgent organ is the heart, and all the other effects are ignored.

These hypotheses refer to real cholesterol, not the lipoproteins.

One hypothesis I heard years ago: there is more cholesterol being produced as a response to damage. Cholesterol is seen as a reparative molecule. So, high cholesterol means there is damage going on somewhere, or that the signaling system is broken, and the organism thinks there's damage but there is not.

A second hypothesis: poisoning. The cholesterol accumulates because it is not being transformed into hormones, because some kind of toxin affects the transformation of cholesterol into hormones.

That would be a poison like this truvada drug, as well as any other medication that is said to cause a rise in cholesterol (or in the lipoproteins levels).

The second hypothesis is very elegant. If true, it would explain many things, the cholesterol being just the tip of the iceberg.

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