Empowered!

Empowered! - The Podcast is a podcast feed where the latest Empowered! articles are read aloud. This is for all those people who would prefer to listen to my content, and is also perfect for sharing with your friends and family who insist that they “don’t have time to read”.

To view the sources (links to articles, graphs, and images) that I referenced in this article, please visit the text version of this post: https://robynchuter.substack.com/p/should-you-get-an-annual-checkup

Empowered! is a reader- and listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber at https://robynchuter.substack.com/subscribe.

Empowered! - The Podcast is a podcast feed where the latest Empowered! articles are read aloud. This is for all those people who would prefer to listen to my content, and is also perfect for sharing with your friends and family who insist that they “don’t have time to read”.

To view the sources (links to articles, graphs, and images) that I referenced in this article, please visit the text version of this post: https://robynchuter.substack.com/p/who-says-youre-depressed-or-anxious

Empowered! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber at https://robynchuter.substack.com/subscribe.

This interview is a follow-up to my previous interview with Dr Ted Steele and Dr Paul Goldwater on their recently-published paper on the link between vaccination and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Dr Paul Goldwater returned to discuss his latest paper, on twins, respiratory infections, vaccination and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS): ‘Insights from twin Sudden Infant Death Syndrome studies could reveal an aetiopathogenetic pathway to sudden infant death through immunopathology’.

The conventional view is that the increased susceptibility to SIDS seen in twins, is largely or entirely due to the fact that twins are born relatively prematurely (typically at 37 weeks, in contrast to the gestational length of 40 weeks for singleton pregnancies). But Paul is convinced, on the basis of a large body of research, that there’s more to this story than is usually acknowledged.

In this interview, Paul and I discuss the following:

* Why respiratory infections increase the risk of SIDS, and why SIDS research has not been focused on this well-established link;

* The impact of ‘space weather’ on respiratory infection rates - pretty wild stuff!

* Contributing factors to the higher rate of SIDS seen in twins, including

* Reduced time in the womb, to receive transplacental antibodies from the mother;

* Reduced rates of breastfeeding in twins, compared to singletons; and

* Altered immune system development in twins

* Common features in reports of death in twins following vaccination;

* Risk factors for higher twin pregnancy rates;

* The relationship between the numbers of vaccine antigens included on different countries’ infant vaccination schedule, and the rates of infant mortality in those countries;

* What the term ‘hyperimmunisation’ means, and how it is induced by the current vaccination schedule;

* How hyperimmunisation can backfire, resulting in increased susceptibility to infection, as well as to autoimmune disease;

* Why injecting vaccines that induce antibodies in the blood, just doesn’t make sense for respiratory infections that don’t lead to viraemia (viruses entering the bloodstream)… and what vaccine manufacturers should be doing instead;

* Paul’s advice to parents who are trying to decide which vaccines to administer to their child, and when;

* Circumstances in which babies and children should not be vaccinated;

* Sex-linked differences in responses to particular vaccines, and the increased death rates seen in female babies after certain vaccines;

* The link between aluminium adjuvants and autoimmune conditions;

* The enormous damage done to both the public conversation and the research on vaccines, by the weaponised use of the term ‘antivaxxer’;

* The difference between public health and medical practice, and why they are fundamentally incompatible fields;

* The types of research that urgently need to be done to fill in the gaps in our understanding of the impact of the current vaccination schedule, especially on twins (and other higher order multiples, such as triplets and quadruplets), and why this research has not been done; and

* Alternative models for funding, peer-reviewing and publishing vital research on health.

We also discussed the editorial written by associate editor of the BMJ, Peter Doshi, ‘Medical response to Trump requires truth seeking and respect for patients’.

See also my previous Substack on public health vs the practice of medicine, ‘Your doctor is not your doctor’.

See Paul’s researcher profile and previous publications here.

Empowered! - The Podcast is a podcast feed where the latest Empowered! articles are read aloud. This is for all those people who would prefer to listen to my content, and is also perfect for sharing with your friends and family who insist that they “don’t have time to read”.

To view the sources (links to articles, graphs, and images) that I referenced in this article, please visit the text version of this post:

As always, your feedback is greatly appreciated:

Empowered! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

For information on my private practice, please visit Empower Total Health. I am a Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, with an ND, GDCouns, BHSc(Hons) and Fellowship of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

Empowered! - The Podcast is a podcast feed where the latest Empowered! articles are read aloud. This is for all those people who would prefer to listen to my content, and is also perfect for sharing with your friends and family who insist that they “don’t have time to read”.

To view the sources (links to articles, graphs, and images) that I referenced in this article, please visit the text version of this post: https://robynchuter.substack.com/p/drugs-and-gut-bugs

Empowered! is a reader- and listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber at https://robynchuter.substack.com/subscribe.

Empowered! - The Podcast is a podcast feed where the latest Empowered! articles are read aloud. This is for all those people who would prefer to listen to my content, and is also perfect for sharing with your friends and family who insist that they “don’t have time to read”.

To view the sources (links to articles, graphs, and images) that I referenced in this article, please visit the text version of this post:

As always, your feedback is greatly appreciated:

Empowered! is a reader- and listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

For information on my private practice, please visit Empower Total Health. I am a Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, with an ND, GDCouns, BHSc(Hons) and Fellowship of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

Empowered! - The Podcast is a podcast feed where the latest Empowered! articles are read aloud. This is for all those people who would prefer to listen to my content, and is also perfect for sharing with your friends and family who insist that they “don’t have time to read”.

To view the sources (links to articles, graphs, and images) that I referenced in this article, please visit the text version of this post: https://robynchuter.substack.com/p/the-fibre-fix-how-fibre-derived-compounds

Empowered! is a reader- and listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber at https://robynchuter.substack.com/subscribe.

One of the silver linings of the fall-out from the COVID scamdemic is that the ‘expert class’ disgraced itself so comprehensively, that formerly taboo subjects are now much easier to discuss. One of those subjects is the link between vaccination and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

After my previous interview with Ted Steele on panspermia and Lamarckian evolution, Ted sent me links to his recently-published papers on hyperimmunisation, SIDS, and the crucial distinction between mucosal and systemic immunity.

I think the insights contained in these papers need to reach a wider audience than the readers of the Medical Research Archives, so I invited Ted and one of his co-authors, Professor Paul Goldwater of the Adelaide Medical School at Adelaide University, to talk about what they’ve uncovered through their research.

In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss:

* Paul’s research on the link between infection and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

* The role of environmental factors in infection susceptibility.

* Paul’s mic drop moment: “Vaccines are a pseudo-infection.”

* The Th1 and Th2 responses of the immune system to natural infection, and why vaccination, which only evokes a Th2 response, cannot mimic natural immunity.

* The development of the infant immune system, the role played by maternal antibody transfer through the placenta and breast milk (and why vaccine-induced antibodies are generally inferior to immunity derived from natural infection).

* Why premature babies and twins (and other multiples) are more susceptible to infection, SIDS and vaccine-induced death than full-term and singleton babies.

* How vaccination - especially hyperimmunisation, or receiving multiple vaccines at one time - can trigger SIDS, allergic and autoimmune diseases.

* The fundamental unnaturalness of the multiple antigen exposures that babies and children receive via the vaccine schedule.

* The massive gaps in scientific understanding of what actually happens in the bodies and brains of human infants and children who are exposed to multiple vaccine antigens at the same time.

* The evidence that neurodevelopmental disorders and SIDS are linked to inflammatory responses to hyperimmunisation.

* The role played by adjuvants in aberrant immune responses to hyperimmunisation.

* The saga of Viera Scheibner, Leif Karlsson and what their Cotwatch monitor uncovered about the link between vaccination and episodes of distressed breathing that put babies at risk of SIDS.

* How Paul and Ted got their paper published in a peer-reviewed journal.

* How COVID changed the landscape of academia and academic publishing with respect to vaccine harms.

* The reaction of Paul and Ted’s academic colleagues to their unorthodox positions (hint: they don’t engage in intelligent debate!).

* What type of research would be needed to test the hypotheses advanced in Ted and Paul’s new paper, and how the current model of research funding militates against this research.

* The growing scepticism among parents about the vaccination schedule, and how the COVID response fed this scepticism.

* The possibility of developing mucosal vaccines that more closely mimic natural infection… and why they haven’t been developed.

* The wisdom of the traditional custom of ‘lying-in’ after birth as protection for newborns (and their mothers) against infection.

* The astonishing lack of scientific evidence for the safety and efficacy of the current vaccination schedule… and why we’ll almost certainly never have adequate evidence for it.

* The economic forces behind the enforcement of the childhood vaccination schedule on the Australian public.

* The inadequacy of our passive reporting pharmacovigilance systems to detect adverse reactions to vaccines.

* Why one-size-fits-all vaccine schedules can never be appropriate in genetically diverse populations.

* The silver lining of the COVID scamdemic - more people are asking a lot more questions about vaccines.

* What Paul and Ted would say to parents who are wondering whether they should vaccinate their children.

Empowered! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Empowered! - The Podcast is a podcast feed where the latest Empowered! articles are read aloud. This is for all those people who would prefer to listen to my content, and is also perfect for sharing with your friends and family who insist that they “don’t have time to read”.

To view the sources (links to articles, graphs, and images) that I referenced in this article, please visit the text version of this post:

As always, your feedback is greatly appreciated:

Empowered! is a reader- and listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

For information on my private practice, please visit Empower Total Health. I am a Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, with an ND, GDCouns, BHSc(Hons) and Fellowship of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

Empowered! - The Podcast is a podcast feed where the latest Empowered! articles are read aloud. This is for all those people who would prefer to listen to my content, and is also perfect for sharing with your friends and family who insist that they “don’t have time to read”.

To view the sources (links to articles, graphs, and images) that I referenced in this article, please visit the text version of this post: https://robynchuter.substack.com/p/moral-courage-under-fire

Empowered! is a reader- and listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber at https://robynchuter.substack.com/subscribe