WATCH: HHS Sec. RFK Jr. lays out plan study the cause of chronic disease
“Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formerly taboo...the childhood vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, pesticides, ultra-processed foods, SSRis..."
“Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formerly taboo...the childhood vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, pesticides, ultra-processed foods, SSRis..."
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Electromagnetic radiation is studied all the time, and nothing ever comes out of it. So that's gonna be a dead end.
SSRis... while likely too many people take them, I don't think every chronic disease sufferer out there takes them. In general worth investigating their effects more, but I don't think this will help his cause.
I have my doubts about vaccines, since I doubt there's any of them not used in other parts of the world. But if they think they can find a particular unique thing about how US vaccinates people that maybe has an effect, I'm not against doing studies.
My bet would be on processed foods and maybe pesticides.
@Suiseiseki @Breaking911 @alyx > Yes, those are the poison that cause obesity (including liquefied foods like soft drink).
Several diseases can also precipitate it, including influenza (it can cause long-term damage to several relevant organs). Better infection control and social standards of propagation mitigation would help a lot.
> That is intentionally quite light on to minimize side-effects - the human immune system can be pushed much harder without any issues in most individuals.
Most of the diseases vaccinated for very young also have horrible long-term effects on unvaccinated young children that catch them (and several of them like measles are very contagious).
e.g.
> Suppression of the immune system by measles lasts about two years and has been epidemiologically implicated in up to 90% of childhood deaths in third world countries, and historically may have caused rather more deaths in the United States, the UK and Denmark than were directly caused by measles
sauce: https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.aaa3662
Several diseases can also precipitate it, including influenza (it can cause long-term damage to several relevant organs). Better infection control and social standards of propagation mitigation would help a lot.
> That is intentionally quite light on to minimize side-effects - the human immune system can be pushed much harder without any issues in most individuals.
Most of the diseases vaccinated for very young also have horrible long-term effects on unvaccinated young children that catch them (and several of them like measles are very contagious).
e.g.
> Suppression of the immune system by measles lasts about two years and has been epidemiologically implicated in up to 90% of childhood deaths in third world countries, and historically may have caused rather more deaths in the United States, the UK and Denmark than were directly caused by measles
sauce: https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.aaa3662
@lispi314 @alyx @Breaking911 >Several diseases can also precipitate it, including influenza
No disease can violate the laws of thermodynamics - in order for enough fat to be generated to turn you obese, you must consume enough food to make all that fat.
>Most of the diseases vaccinated for very young also have horrible long-term effects on unvaccinated young children that catch them
Yes, that is what vaccines are for.
No disease can violate the laws of thermodynamics - in order for enough fat to be generated to turn you obese, you must consume enough food to make all that fat.
>Most of the diseases vaccinated for very young also have horrible long-term effects on unvaccinated young children that catch them
Yes, that is what vaccines are for.
@Suiseiseki @Breaking911 @alyx > No disease can violate the laws of thermodynamics - in order for enough fat to be generated to turn you obese, you must consume enough food to make all that fat.
They don't need to do that. They can just fuck with fat retention and dietary processing functions (through organ damage, among other options) until one starts accumulating fat even when those nutrients should instead be going to other cells & organs or be expunged. It is possible to be both obese and malnourished to the point of organ damage, through this (in some cases the nutrients are even present in the body, just not distributed usefully). (As it turns out, material distribution in wet nanomechanical systems is complicated.)
Endochrine disruptors (such as microplastics) can do this too.
They don't need to do that. They can just fuck with fat retention and dietary processing functions (through organ damage, among other options) until one starts accumulating fat even when those nutrients should instead be going to other cells & organs or be expunged. It is possible to be both obese and malnourished to the point of organ damage, through this (in some cases the nutrients are even present in the body, just not distributed usefully). (As it turns out, material distribution in wet nanomechanical systems is complicated.)
Endochrine disruptors (such as microplastics) can do this too.
@alyx @Breaking911 @Suiseiseki It has actually been tested on lab rats too.
With the same calculated diet, one can get fatter rats depending on the introduction of endochrine disruptors. That matter isn't generated ex nihilo, it means the rats are not digesting & managing it properly.
With the same calculated diet, one can get fatter rats depending on the introduction of endochrine disruptors. That matter isn't generated ex nihilo, it means the rats are not digesting & managing it properly.
That is intentionally quite light on to minimize side-effects - the human immune system can be pushed much harder without any issues in most individuals.
>electromagnetic radiation
Proven time and time again to have no effect unless of high enough energy to be ionizing or a large heating effect.
>pesticides
Those are nerve agents, except they try to target insects and try to minimize the nerve agent effect on mammals, but usually end up shrecking fish too and when multiple are used, there is a synergistic effect on mammals.
Pesticides were a mistake, as they kill all insects (including predators of the target "pests") and eventually the targeted insects become tolerant and you end up with *more* of the "pests" in just a few years.
There should be a focus on biological insect control and less monocrops, as that's the only long term effective way to minimize cross losses.
>ultra-processed foods
Yes, those are the poison that cause obesity (including liquefied foods like soft drink).
>SSRis
It is not known why those operate as so more research into how would be good.
Short term usage of those don't seem to cause many issues, but long term usage does.