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For the last two years, Dr. Michelle Perro has been in the trenches treating COVID-19 complications, not only from the infection but also from the jab, which is far more problematic and deadly.

Perro went to Yale as an undergrad, and then to Mount Sinai Medical School. She completed her postgraduate residency training in pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She now sees patients with an integrative approach, educates regarding GMOs, pesticides and environmental health and is working on her second book in California, where the pediatric population is highly vaccinated.

Perro’s Journey

During the first 40 years of her career as a pediatrician, she didn’t question the validity of vaccines. “Thinking that we would intentionally harm children is a very difficult reach,” she says. “It’s out of reach of many pediatricians.”

However, by the early 2000’s, she began to see a significant uptick in autism, and that led her down the proverbial rabbit trail to vaccines.

“[The rise in autism] correlated with my understanding of GMOs and pesticides,” she says. “However, when you start looking at one toxicant, you look at other toxicants, and that's where I got into the field of environmental toxicity, including our food, air, water, EMFs, you name it ...

Now I'm an advisor for NAEM [the National Academy of Medicine], and I'm working on a pediatric environmental health questionnaire. I wrote an Environmental Health Bill of Rights for children. So, I'm deep into this now — not just focusing on vaccines, but the global issue of protecting children from environmental toxicity ...

Over 25 years ago, I became a homeopath, and then an integrated physician. I don't talk about being a homeopath because it's not taken well by a lot of my peers, but most of my treatment successes have been from homeopathy.”

Old Truths Are Being Re-Revealed

Interestingly, the introduction of the experimental COVID jabs has really opened the eyes of a large percentage of the population to the fact that there are fundamental flaws with the vaccine program as a whole — not just with the mRNA shots, which have never existed before, but also with conventional vaccines.

Dr. Maurice Hilleman, for example, a former head of Merck who developed polio vaccines, has admitted these vaccines were contaminated with dozens of viral pathogens, including simian virus 40 (SV40), which can cause cancer.

“This idea of vaccination contamination was exposed again in 2017, when they found nano contamination with heavy metals in 43 out of 44 vaccines in a study out of Italy,” Perro says.

“And these nanoparticles, because of their size, are inflammatory. They cross the blood brain barrier. And I am sure, without a doubt, that's what's linked to this neuroinflammatory process that we see with kids on the spectrum, the rise in ADHD and another neurosensory/ neurocognitive issues.”

Glyphosate Worsens Aluminum Toxicity

Perro also cites research showing glyphosate shuttles aluminum across the blood-brain barrier in six different ways. So, glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the world, and aluminum are synergistic.

This, too, is likely part of the equation, because children are highly exposed to glyphosate through food, which then shuttles the aluminum from their childhood vaccines straight into their brains. Aluminum is added to many vaccines as an adjuvant, because it elicits a stronger immune response.

This, in turn, results in higher antibody titers, which is how they measure vaccine effectiveness. The problem is, by stimulating the humoral antibody system only, and not the cellular immune system, you create an imbalance that can eventually lead to immune dysregulation, with the worst outcome being cancer.

In short, vaccination is not nearly as effective as the multifaceted immune response you have when exposed to natural infection. This is even more true for young children. As explained by Perro:

“It really speaks to why children are immunologically different than adults. Children are not mini adults, because they have that other arm of the immune system, the innate immune system ...

Children have a very robust innate immune system, and they have a thymus, which involutes with time as adults — ours are long gone. Because of this innate immune system, and increased NK [natural killer] cells, they're able to fight COVID.

That's why children do so well with this virus. [They have] robust innate immunity, which is totally bypassed when you give somebody a vaccination. Dr. [Anthony] Fauci himself said in 2004 that natural immunity is better than vaccine induced immunity.”

Pediatric Side Effects From the COVID Jab

Once the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the COVID jab for children, aged 12 to 17, it didn’t take long before Perro started seeing injuries in her practice.

“I was amazed at how many kids were injured ... The types of reactions I started seeing were initially neurologic. Some of them in the beginning were simple but concerning, like tinnitus, which is ringing in the ear, and that could be horrific for a kid ...

I had a musician who goes to Julliard, and he had severe acute onset [of tinnitus] after the first the Pfizer [shot]. It got worse after the second. I have colleagues who saw Guillain-Barre ascending paralysis ... I saw cardiac [problems], myocarditis for sure, and abnormal heart rate responses like tachycardia and increased heart rate ...

I saw POTS — postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome — something very common in Lyme disease that is very difficult to treat. Another weird thing I saw was this one child with rhabdomyolysis, where he had massive breakdown of his muscle tissue, which is a very rare event in childhood.

Then, I started seeing people develop symptoms who were unvaccinated, including myself. I got ‘spiked.’ That's what I call it, ‘getting spiked.’

[I saw] teenage girls with heavy menstrual bleeding, prolonged bleeding, and other menstrual irregularities. There was a smattering of rashes, urticaria, hives — a bizarre host of rashes.

So, this is the kind of stuff we started seeing, and this began happening last June [2021], after ACIP, the American Committee of Immunization Practice, said, ‘Yep, 12-year-olds can be vaccinated [against COVID]’ ...

Once again, we as clinicians ... have to sort out how to fix it with tools not in the traditional toolbox. That's what we're faced with ...

There is a bigger agenda here, because clearly these vaccines are dangerous for kids. There's no doubt. The data is irrefutable, and yet we've proceeded. So, we're dealing with other agendas here ... I think parents need to rise up and protect their children, because this is not going away. If anything, it’s ramping up.”

Preventing and Treating COVID Jab Injuries

When trying to prevent and/or treat a COVID jab injury, there are five toxic components that need to be addressed:

• Spike protein toxicity
• PEG
• Inflammation from the nanolipid
• Graphene oxide
• Nanotoxicity

Each of these can be modulated in a variety of ways. “That's why we have to use an entire menu of things when treating a reaction from the COVID vaccine,” she says. A key tool in Perro’s treatment arsenal is spike protein-binding therapies like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. She explains:

“If you're making spike [protein], even though kids don't have a lot of ACE2 receptors, those spikes are everywhere. In mice, it is shown that they cross the blood-brain barrier. They're disseminated, and then they tend to focus in your area of weakness.

They go into fat-loving tissues, they go into the ovaries, they seem to go everywhere. So, binding the spike protein, that's one aspect, and there are different things you can do, both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical.

My favorite is ivermectin for the spike. I was giving kids 12 milligrams, initially, once a day. I went up to 12 mg twice a day for Omicron, but it depends on the size of the kid. For bigger kids, it’s 18 mg twice a day.

I didn't see any toxicity with ivermectin. I've used ivermectin before, mostly for parasitic infections, and I never had any problem with ivermectin. I have not used hydroxychloroquine before, but now, for Omicron, I would use hydroxychloroquine, 200 mg twice a day.

I use a lot of quercetin and zinc together ... To decrease inflammation, especially IL6, you also want to use a lot of immunomodulators, and a lot of supplements can do that.”

What’s in Perro’s Toolbox?

In addition to ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to bind the toxic spike protein, and quercetin and zinc to boost immune function, Perro also uses the following remedies for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, and the prevention and treatment of COVID jab injuries:

Fibrinolytic enzymes like lumbokinase to prevent blood clots and digest existing clots, especially if your D-dimer level is elevated, as this is a biomarker for clotting. For this to work, however, you must take it on an empty stomach. When taken with food, it acts as a digestive aid, but when taken an hour before food, or two hours after, you get the systemic benefits

N-acetylcysteine (NAC), which inhibits expression of proinflammatory cytokines, improves T cell response, benefits a variety of lung problems, and inhibits the hypercoagulation that can result in stroke and/or blood clots

Pine needle tea, which has antioxidant, antimutagenic and antitumor benefits

Curcumin, to quell inflammation

Zeolite

Whole foods such as garlic and ginger

Symptom-specific homeopathic remedies

Nebulized hydrogen peroxide and oral/nasal rinses with peroxide and iodine

I would also recommend getting plenty of sunshine, as infrared rays, especially the near-infrared spectrum, triggers melatonin production in your mitochondria. Melatonin is a potent antioxidant, and it increases glutathione, which is crucial for efficient detox. Melatonin also increases mitochondrial efficiency and energy production in the form of ATP.

Of course, eating organic is key since GMOs also have been demonstrated to decrease glutathione — the master antioxidant — and increase oxidative stress, which is the basis for all chronic disease. If you’re prone to sun burn, it could be a sign that you’re eating too many seed oils high in linoleic acid (LA), so to reduce your tendency to get burned, cut out all seed oils from your diet.

That includes restaurant foods, processed foods and condiments in particular, but also conventionally raised chicken and pork. A very low, virtually zero seed oil diet is probably one of the best ways to prevent sunburn, as well as chronic degenerative diseases, including heart disease and cancer. Adding in more whole food vitamin C can also be helpful for preventing sunburn. Acerola cherry (Barbados cherry) contains some of the highest amounts of vitamin C.

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As noted by Perro, recognizing there’s a problem is always the first step. So, first, we have to recognize that our children are under toxic assault, and in many instances, the harming of children’s health appears to be intentional.

Step 2, then, is for parents to take back control and remove the systems that have taken over and are harming their children. While that may sound like an unsurmountable task, it doesn’t have to be. It begins with cleaning up your family’s diet, using food as medicine, growing some of your own food and getting back to basic principles of health and health care.

“We have to get them out of this infantilized system where people feel they have to run to the physician for every bruise, cut and boo-boo, ‘Quick, call the pediatrician!’

Not so. Parents have lost that ability and we have to regain it. Think about when we were kids. How often did you go to the doctor? I think I went once as a child. Our parents had some knowledge, so we need to regain that.”

Perro also believes we must begin to create parallel systems and structures, as suggested by Mattias Desmet, Ph.D. The power of this strategy was demonstrated by Vaclav Havel, a political dissident who eventually became the president of Czechoslovakia.

A parallel structure is any kind of business, organization, technology, movement or creative pursuit that fits within a totalitarian society while being morally outside of it. Once enough parallel structures are created, a parallel culture is born that functions as a sanctuary of sanity within a totalitarian world.

To learn more, see DrMichellePerro.com, and GMOscience.org, which is the nonprofit she cofounded in 2014. Also keep your eyes peeled for her next book, “Making Our Children Well,” which is scheduled to be published sometime in 2023.

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This article was previously published February 19, 2022, and has been updated with new information.

Naomi Whittel is the former CEO of Twinlab and has written an interesting book about how to achieve radiant health by activating your body's natural autophagy processes. In "Glow 15: A Science-Based Plan to Lose Weight, Revitalize Your Skin, and Invigorate Your Life," she shares a number of valuable strategies for doing this naturally. Her deep-rooted interest in healthy living was an outgrowth of her lifelong struggle with eczema, an autoimmune deficiency.

"The inflammatory process just ravaged my body," she says. "My skin would bleed, it would pus. My parents were so conscious, they would even be aware of the kinds of material I would wear because our skin needs to breathe — it's our largest organ — and the foods that I ate. I was born on a biodynamic farm and yet this autoimmune disorder and so many [other health problems] that I developed over time controlled my life.

So, I have always been trained to eat specific foods and drink certain types of water. My parents never let me have fluoridated water. I was never vaccinated. So much thought went into what I was putting on and into my body, and yet I couldn't squelch the inflammation. When I was in my mid-teens, I would constantly cover myself with long sleeves, kind of like what I'm doing today. But it wasn't for the same reasons.

I would cover myself because I was so ashamed of what I really looked like. It was the spring dance, and there was a boy that I really wanted to go to the spring dance with. My mother said to me at that time, 'You know, you shouldn't always cover yourself.

You have a lot of friends. You can have some more self-confidence.' I listened to her, and I wore short sleeves and shorts. My skin was exposed, and he got a glimpse of me, and he didn't invite me. That was a defining moment, because I had been so rejected by the way I looked."

From Natural to Conventional and Back

Following that spring dance rejection, Whittel decided to try the conventional route for a change. For a time, she used steroids to control her eczema, but the side effects prompted her to return to her all-natural roots. In her early 20s, she was able to eliminate about 95% of her eczema using a combination of Chinese herbs, acupuncture and fasting to detox.

Alas, when she was preparing for pregnancy a few years later, she discovered she had heavy metal toxicity, which her doctor attributed to the Chinese herbs she had taken, due to the soil they were grown in and the way they were processed.

"I had poisoned my body through these herbs that had been so therapeutic," she says. "That was the other defining moment for me. I decided I needed to know, from that moment forward, exactly where things came from. So, I started the process of always going to the source … Ultimately, I built a company called Reserveage, where we aimed to find where things come from.

I started with the polyphenols, the antioxidants, that come from the red wine grape, and I searched all over the world for the grapes that had the highest levels of these different polyphenols, including resveratrol … I ultimately landed in Bordeaux, where the organic and biodynamic vineyards are so rich in these powerful nutrients.

I was in Calabria, Italy, when I first started to really learn about the citrus bergamot fruit. The researchers over there were teaching me about drinking whole citrus bergamot tea. The lead researcher, Dr. Elzbieta Janda, was drinking four or five cups of this every day, and while I was there, I was doing that with her. I asked her, 'Why?' … She said to me, 'I use it to activate my autophagy.' That was the first time I had heard the word."

"Auto" in Greek means "self," and "phagy" means "to eat," so autophagy refers to a self-eating process in which your body digests damaged cells. It's basically a cleaning out process that encourages the proliferation of new, healthy cells. Reserveage, which was later sold to Twinlab, was founded on the principle that each and every ingredient is carefully sourced and processed in such a way to ensure the highest quality and purity possible.

This includes doing soil testing and working with the farmers and middlemen to understand and clean up each step of the process from farm to bottle. Unfortunately, few companies actually invest the time and resources necessary to do this. "It surprises me, because it's a disconnect," Whittel says. "Ultimately, there's so many things that can go wrong along the way."

Fish Oil's Dirty Little Secret

Whittel worked with Jeff Bland, Ph.D., on a trip to Alaska to investigate the manufacturing of cod liver oil. "For me personally, fish oil is an important part of my health. Because of my autoimmune disorders, I grew up drinking a little shot every morning of cod liver oil … But when I built my company, Reserveage, I never could find a source other than krill, that I was comfortable bringing out into the market," she says. What's the problem with most fish oil? Whittel explains:

"What happens is the fish are caught in large nets. Even if you think the fish oil is coming from Norway or Europe, it's caught in Central and South America in these large nets. The fish are then brought onto and thrown into the bottom of the boat … [where] they go completely rancid.

They're just left there. By the time they get to Europe, the guts are so rancid that in order to get the omega-3s out, they have to go through a process of extracting these poisons and this rancidity.

[In the end], you're left with something that has none of the cofactors. It's been so heavily contaminated to clean out the rancidity that if you want to get any of the benefits of the vitamin A or vitamin D, they have to be added back. So, there's a huge disconnect … When I learned about this, it just ruined my relationship to fish oils."

Finding Pure Cod Liver Oil

Bland told her he'd partnered with David Little, an engineer and fisherman who owns six large fishing boats in Alaska. Little built and implemented a flash freeze process on his boats. As soon as the cod are caught, they're flash frozen.

The fish are sold to the Japanese, but they weren't doing anything with the livers and guts of the fish, which is where the fish oils are extracted. So, Bland and Little partnered up to extract the fish oils from the fish guts, while the rest of the fish gets shipped off to Japan.

The beauty of this process is that it preserves the specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in the oil — many of which are powerful anti-inflammatory components — along with the vitamin A and D. "I was able to literally take the oil right out of the processing equipment and drink it, right there in the factory," Whittel says. "It smells fresh, and it [tastes] good.

That's why I, for the first time in my career, felt confident enough to bring a cod liver oil into the market … There's nothing like it, from a cod liver perspective, out there."

This story is just one cautionary story of many, showing you really need to do your homework when it comes to food and supplements. Whittel estimates about 98% of the omega-3 products on the market are inferior due to the way the fish are caught and processed. Aside from this Twinlab cod liver oil, krill is another excellent source of marine-based omega-3 fats. Contrary to cod, krill are also a far more sustainable source of these valuable oils.

The Importance of Cyclical Autophagy

Like me, Whittel also reached the conclusion that it is important to cycle many lifestyle choices to improve your health. For her, it began with the intuitive understanding that cells are either building or detoxing, and each phase has its own requirements. Fasting, meaning abstaining from food altogether, turned out to be a crucial component that ultimately allowed her to control the inflammation in her body, and she's been doing cyclical fasting for nearly 25 years.

Again, one of the things fasting does is activate autophagy, your body's cleanout process that cleanses and detoxifies the cell and recycles the parts of the organelles that are no longer needed, so that your cells behave more youthfully. But autophagy cannot remain continuously activated all the time. You also need to allow the cells to rebuild and rejuvenate, which occurs during the refeeding phase.

In her search for experts on autophagy, Whittel came across the work of Dr. Richard Wang, a dermatologist and autophagy expert, Dr. Beth Levine, whose focus is on exercise, and William A. Dunn, Ph.D., at the University of Florida, who has been researching autophagy for 30 years, among others. She then put together a protocol to build up her own health.

"… David Sinclair at Harvard … was sharing with me a lot of the insights around how we can reduce the impact of these accelerated agers. When you look at all the ways that we age — the effects of the DNA impact, the inflammation, the telomere shortening, all of these things — autophagy and the way that autophagy slows down as we age due to these accelerated agers, is at the foundation of the way we age.

So being able to activate [autophagy], and then also deactivate it, is something that is fundamental to the aging process. 'Glow15' is that protocol. What was so fascinating, when I first did it on myself, was that my energy skyrocketed. I increased my lean muscle mass and reduced my body mass index by about 6%, so I went from 24 to 18% [body fat].

I wasn't doing anything other than activating my autophagy. My energy, my mental focus, my sleep improved, and I just felt so much better. And I looked younger, for sure, so everyone in my world said, 'Hey, what are you doing?' Then I started to try it on my friends and family. Then some of my friends at Jacksonville University, some of the researchers there, said, 'Why don't we create a lifestyle study?'

So, we took a group of 35 participants, and we put them through this lifestyle. Every single participant achieved results … in 15 days, and that's how the book got the name 'Glow15.' They lost weight, they reduced their fine lines and wrinkles … they got off medications. It was truly remarkable, the benefits. So that's how the protocol was developed."

How to Activate Autophagy

So just how do you go about activating your body's autophagy mechanism? Here's a summary of four of the 11 strategies detailed in her book:

Cyclical Autophagy Activation Is Crucial

"In 2016, the Nobel Prize in medicine was given to Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi for his research on autophagy … It's going to be such a big part of our health and well-being over the next decade, and now the research is really starting to come together," she says. Her book is an outgrowth of diving into the available research, so to learn more about autophagy and how to activate this rejuvenating process, be sure to pick up a copy of "Glow15."

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