I Just heard a couple days ago from a friend who saw a social media post by another friend... someone they knew, only in his 30's, healthy and fit gymgoer, got diagnosed with stomach cancer and was gone in 2 weeks. At the same time, their domestic helper, has also been diagnosed with the same condition. Looks like the whole family and the help went for their shots together.....
I actually have a lot of thoughts based on the vex-injured folks I'm interacting with. Simply put, the folks who reached out later, have developed more issues that we need to deal with, and it's much harder to resolve them as the damage has kept accumulating over time. A big problem is that we can't even do proper detox, as most have developed some degree of kidney failure. Last weekm I've discussed some of the kidney failure numbers I managed to dig up for SG via news articles... just before 2020, we had 2 new kidney failures daily. That became 4 by 2022, and 6 by 2024. That is the number for total kidney failure requiring dialysis. Lots more folks are now in various stages of kidney failure with much reduced kidney function. They can't take the normal dose of natto/serra, VIM etc, without quick swelling of their legs and feet (aka sign of kidney unable to clear waste products). So I've asked them to dial back the dosage to really just bare minimum, and it's still helping them, as we can still see slow improvement in their blood pressure and blood sugar numbers, but the progress is much slower and has to be managed more delicately.
Scotlyn (or any others) - would like to have your input.. is there a TCM procedure to help improve liver/kidney function? For the unvexed, we'll normally take milk thistle and it helps the kidney to work better and handle the daily detox load from the shedding. But for the vexed folks who only approached in the last few months, I have a sinking feeling that all the protocols we developed won't work unless it's done in conjunction with those folks doing dialysis, even if they don't have full kidney failure yet. Just a bit too much detox, and there's an incrased chance of them developing some auto-immunity issues, kinda like losing weight too quickly and releasing stored toxins into circulation. Generally speaking, the folks who approached me before the end of last year were still able to progress well with the detox program... for the folks who only came to me this year, most get swollen feet pretty fast, which clued me into the whole kidney issue. A small sidenote - low dose daily VIM seems to have the least kidney impact so far, people generally feel much better but not everyone has managed to secure access to VIM, and I am not putting myself into a position of vulnerability by supplying them in case the system takes more notice.
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I actually have a lot of thoughts based on the vex-injured folks I'm interacting with. Simply put, the folks who reached out later, have developed more issues that we need to deal with, and it's much harder to resolve them as the damage has kept accumulating over time. A big problem is that we can't even do proper detox, as most have developed some degree of kidney failure. Last weekm I've discussed some of the kidney failure numbers I managed to dig up for SG via news articles... just before 2020, we had 2 new kidney failures daily. That became 4 by 2022, and 6 by 2024. That is the number for total kidney failure requiring dialysis. Lots more folks are now in various stages of kidney failure with much reduced kidney function. They can't take the normal dose of natto/serra, VIM etc, without quick swelling of their legs and feet (aka sign of kidney unable to clear waste products). So I've asked them to dial back the dosage to really just bare minimum, and it's still helping them, as we can still see slow improvement in their blood pressure and blood sugar numbers, but the progress is much slower and has to be managed more delicately.
Scotlyn (or any others) - would like to have your input.. is there a TCM procedure to help improve liver/kidney function? For the unvexed, we'll normally take milk thistle and it helps the kidney to work better and handle the daily detox load from the shedding. But for the vexed folks who only approached in the last few months, I have a sinking feeling that all the protocols we developed won't work unless it's done in conjunction with those folks doing dialysis, even if they don't have full kidney failure yet. Just a bit too much detox, and there's an incrased chance of them developing some auto-immunity issues, kinda like losing weight too quickly and releasing stored toxins into circulation. Generally speaking, the folks who approached me before the end of last year were still able to progress well with the detox program... for the folks who only came to me this year, most get swollen feet pretty fast, which clued me into the whole kidney issue. A small sidenote - low dose daily VIM seems to have the least kidney impact so far, people generally feel much better but not everyone has managed to secure access to VIM, and I am not putting myself into a position of vulnerability by supplying them in case the system takes more notice.