Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with the format of this blog! It's all so boringly familiar!
- The conventional medical establishment announces a new 'wonder' drug treatment.
- Our mainstream media meekly/slavishly reports what they have been told, without demur or questioning.
- Isn't it wonderful, we are told, this new treatment will transform the treatment of a serious disease or other, and give patients new hope for the future.
- Yet there is also a studious censorship of any information about the known and reported side effects of the new treatment.
The new form of 'wonder' treatment is called 'gene silencing', which earlier this month was approved for use in England by the NHS. The drugs can reverse a potentially fatal disease called amyloidosis, which causes nerve and organ damage, but has 'huge potential' in the treatment of other 'genetic' diseases, like Huntington's. Doctors are claiming that gene silencing will make diseases, that were formerly untreatable, treatable.
Hands up if you have heard of 'amyloidosis' before! Apparently it affects as many as 150 people in the UK, and the NHS webpage describes the disease as follows.
"Amyloidosis is the name for a group of rare, serious conditions caused by a build-up of an abnormal protein called amyloid in organs and tissues throughout the body. The build-up of amyloid proteins (deposits) can make it difficult for the organs and tissues to work properly. Without treatment, this can lead to organ failure."
So here is yet another 'rare' disease, yet another disease that conventional medicine can describe, but cannot identify a cause. The NHS says that "... amyloidosis is caused by an abnormality in certain cells found in the bone marrow, called plasma cells". What has caused this abnormality? No explanation is forthcoming!
So hands up if you know about any other 'new' and 'rare' diseases that have similar symptoms - 'nerve and organ damage'. As usual, my suspicion is that these 'new' and 'rare' diseases, which damage our nervous system and our organs, are the result of adverse pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines reactions. Why else is there so many of these 'new' and 'rare' diseases? Why else does conventional medicine have no explanation of causation?
Yet the introduction of new (and no doubt expensive) pharmaceutical treatments is a different matter altogether. And this new treatment is now going to interfere with another aspect of the human body - our 'rogue' genes that lead to the build-up of these sticky, toxic proteins in the body.
Doctors are now going to interfere with our genetic make-up.
The reason for doing so emerges from conventional medicine's understanding of illness and disease. Our bodies don't know what they are doing, they are harming us, so it is a good job that our doctors now know better. They can put things right that our body cannot do for itself. Conventional medicine always does this - identify what is going wrong in the body, and then intervene - stop it from happening.
This is the BBC's explanation about gene silencing works.
"A gene is part of our DNA that contains the blueprint for making proteins, such as hormones, enzymes or raw building materials. But our DNA is locked away inside a cell's nucleus and kept apart from a cell's protein-making factories. So our bodies use a short strand of genetic code, called messenger RNA, to bridge the gap and carry the instructions."
So how does this new drug, called patisiran, work?
"... it kills the messenger in a process known as RNA interference. This effectively silences the rogue transthyretin gene and lowers levels of the toxic protein in the body."
The BBC (and much of the other coverage in the mainstream media) then went on to say that studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed patisiran "halted or reversed" the disease. It is, of course, important to have scientific proof of these new treatments.
Yet there is other knowledge about the drug patisiran that we were not told about - that it is already known to cause serious side effects. These are listed in the Drugs.com website, alongside a warning that "this is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur". Even so, some of the many listed side effects are so serious we are told we should "get emergency medical help if you have signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat".
As usual the mainstream media does not think that we (mere patients) should have this information. The 'good' news is heralded, described variously as "amazing', and 'exciting', with 'huge potential', The 'bad' news is censored, and the patient as usual is left unable to make an informed choice.
It might take several years before the full enormity of this new treatment, this interference with our body, comes fully to light. Conventional medicine has already interfered with our natural immune system, and we are suffering from a multiplicity of 'auto-immune' diseases as a result. Now our doctors want to interfere with our genes, and I suspect they have absolutely no idea about the long-term, unintended consequences of doing so.
Hands up if you have heard of 'amyloidosis' before! Apparently it affects as many as 150 people in the UK, and the NHS webpage describes the disease as follows.
"Amyloidosis is the name for a group of rare, serious conditions caused by a build-up of an abnormal protein called amyloid in organs and tissues throughout the body. The build-up of amyloid proteins (deposits) can make it difficult for the organs and tissues to work properly. Without treatment, this can lead to organ failure."
So here is yet another 'rare' disease, yet another disease that conventional medicine can describe, but cannot identify a cause. The NHS says that "... amyloidosis is caused by an abnormality in certain cells found in the bone marrow, called plasma cells". What has caused this abnormality? No explanation is forthcoming!
So hands up if you know about any other 'new' and 'rare' diseases that have similar symptoms - 'nerve and organ damage'. As usual, my suspicion is that these 'new' and 'rare' diseases, which damage our nervous system and our organs, are the result of adverse pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines reactions. Why else is there so many of these 'new' and 'rare' diseases? Why else does conventional medicine have no explanation of causation?
Yet the introduction of new (and no doubt expensive) pharmaceutical treatments is a different matter altogether. And this new treatment is now going to interfere with another aspect of the human body - our 'rogue' genes that lead to the build-up of these sticky, toxic proteins in the body.
Doctors are now going to interfere with our genetic make-up.
The reason for doing so emerges from conventional medicine's understanding of illness and disease. Our bodies don't know what they are doing, they are harming us, so it is a good job that our doctors now know better. They can put things right that our body cannot do for itself. Conventional medicine always does this - identify what is going wrong in the body, and then intervene - stop it from happening.
- Painkillers kill pain
- 'Blocker' drugs block bodily processes
- 'Inhibitor' drugs inhibit bodily processes
- a multiplicity of 'anti-' drugs seek to change a multiplicity of bodily functions
This is the BBC's explanation about gene silencing works.
"A gene is part of our DNA that contains the blueprint for making proteins, such as hormones, enzymes or raw building materials. But our DNA is locked away inside a cell's nucleus and kept apart from a cell's protein-making factories. So our bodies use a short strand of genetic code, called messenger RNA, to bridge the gap and carry the instructions."
So how does this new drug, called patisiran, work?
"... it kills the messenger in a process known as RNA interference. This effectively silences the rogue transthyretin gene and lowers levels of the toxic protein in the body."
The BBC (and much of the other coverage in the mainstream media) then went on to say that studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed patisiran "halted or reversed" the disease. It is, of course, important to have scientific proof of these new treatments.
Yet there is other knowledge about the drug patisiran that we were not told about - that it is already known to cause serious side effects. These are listed in the Drugs.com website, alongside a warning that "this is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur". Even so, some of the many listed side effects are so serious we are told we should "get emergency medical help if you have signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat".
As usual the mainstream media does not think that we (mere patients) should have this information. The 'good' news is heralded, described variously as "amazing', and 'exciting', with 'huge potential', The 'bad' news is censored, and the patient as usual is left unable to make an informed choice.
It might take several years before the full enormity of this new treatment, this interference with our body, comes fully to light. Conventional medicine has already interfered with our natural immune system, and we are suffering from a multiplicity of 'auto-immune' diseases as a result. Now our doctors want to interfere with our genes, and I suspect they have absolutely no idea about the long-term, unintended consequences of doing so.
