THE TAMIFLU MYTH
What Big Pharma and the CDC Forgot to Tell the Doctors
(Also Known as "The Letter to Doreen")
Tamiflu was developed several years ago after lab tests showed it slowed the
replication of viruses in the lab dish. Tests in humans showed it reduced
the normal 5 to 7 day course of Flu by 1.5 to 2.5 days.
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Micrograph of a Norwalk virus showing only the blue outer surface which has bumps and bridges which exactly match and can only embed into human intestinal wall tissue and causes severe food poisoning. The coiled DNA in the interior cannot be seen.
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It did not prevent,
cure nor reduce the effects of Flu. At best it is a palliative or pain
reliever to "treat the symptoms," but not cure to the disease.
Most medical doctors mistakenly believe in the "anti-body" response of the
immune system as the method by which the body fights viral infections. But
not so. The body causes a fever above 101 degrees which stops the telomeres
on the ends of the virus from allowing any viral replication.
The fever is the human or mammalian body's primary generalized immune system response to any
viral infection. Any palliative treatment which reduces the fever of flu
infections will prolong the infection and may lead to irreparable damage or
death, mostly from the resulting viral pneumonia. But the pneumonia was
caused by lowering the fever and allowing uncontrolled viral replication in
the lungs. Most cold and flu medications, including aspirin and Tamiflu are in this
palliative class.
In the last two years, doctors have been treating patients who have H5N1
Bird Flu. The results are that 50% or half of the treated patients die of
viral pneumonia. Were the deaths caused by a "new" more virulent strain of
Bird Flu or was it the "new" use of a new anti-viral called Tamiflu? A good
doctor would know the difference.
SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF VIRAL INFECTIONS
Answering the Questions Most BroJon Readers Ask
Recently a BroJon Digest reader, named Doreen, wrote to ask some of the
questions which were also asked by hundreds of other readers. She wrote:
"I read your article about the "Bird Flu", and had a couple questions for
you. First, are you a scientist? Second, while your article seems
informative (and I agree with your conclusions that the so-called Pandemic
is a major scam), I do not get enough information about the difference
between Reproduction and Replication, concerning
bacteria (reproduce) and virus (replicate)... replicate reminds me of Star
Trek, and the replicators on the Enterprise! If you cannot explain the
difference for me, can you refer me to a site that can?"
Very good questions. Yes, I am a senior scientist. I have multiple
university degrees. I spent several decades working as a senior
scientist/engineer for NASA. One of my NASA projects was the rat and monkey
biological experiment which flew on the Shuttle Challenger in 1985. I
worked directly with astronaut/scientist Dr. Robert Obermeyer. I worked in
the ultra-clean lab, testing the cages and data-instrumentation which I
built for the experiment, while Bob Obermeyer took the animals in the
surgical room and implanted the animals with tiny transmitters which were
then recorded on my computer system.
I have long been a medical researcher, but I don't have a medical degree nor
license. Thus I don't see things the way most doctors do. One of the
things with which I disagree with most, compared to the medical profession
is how viruses replicate and infect cells.
Using my degrees in physics and engineering, I studied the surface coatings
of viruses. That is how I discovered that the replication of viruses is a
very close analog of sexual reproduction. I have not seen that written in
any medical textbooks nor journal articles, so, Doreen, I can't direct you to any websites
for more information. So I will explain it to you as best I can.
THE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BACTERIA AND VIRUSES
What Most Doctors Never Learned in Medical School
Bacteria are large single-celled animals which are large enough to be seen
in a microscope. The bacteria is a protein bag enclosing a fluid which
mimics sea water in saltiness and acidity. This reflects the fact that all animal and plant
lifeforms on earth formed in the salty ocean of earth. Now, all animal cells
carry their salty ocean internally. This cytoplasmic cell fluid contains
many parts, including the nucleus of the cell which is very similar to a virus, and many primitive small
sub-bacteria which are in each cell, called by such names as mitochondria
and golgi-apparatus among others.
These sub-parts are very simple separate bacteria-like bodies which have
specific functions in the cell such as collecting oxygen or actually doing
the breathing, and other parts which take the sugar, fat and proteins in
the blood stream and as they transfer into the cell fluid they are converted
into food and energy for each cell. Thus, bacteria are living cells which,
(1) can move, (2) can locate and eat food, combining the food and oxygen to
make energy, and (3) can reproduce by making copies of each cell by dividing
down the middle and making two new identical cells from the original one.
But, unlike bacterial cells, viruses are not alive. They cannot do anything which cells or bacteria
can do. All viruses have only two simple parts, (1) a single long strand of a molcule called
DNA which may have millions of atoms in the long string, and (2) an outer
layer of protective protein bag material, which is made up of the broken
parts of the cellular or bacterial protein bag from which the virus last
escaped. Viruses are not alive and cannot grow their own protein bag
coating. Viruses are so much more tiny than are cells, being made only of a
single string of atoms, they cannot be seen with a normal microscope. They can only be seen with electron microscopes.
The DNA strand in the middle of the virus is a long string of connected
single sugar molecules called Ribose. Onto each and every Ribose sugar
molecule is then attached an amino acid. This process of making DNA can
only occur inside a host bacteria cell which has a large supply of free
amino acids floating in the salty cytoplasmic fluid. There are about 17
amino acids in the proteins which humans eat, but only 4 critical amino
acids are used to make DNA. The banding or repeating pattern of the 4 amino
acids, like a string of colored beads, is used to make partial copies of
sections of the DNA to make protein-string hormones which control how cells
operate and reproduce. These partial protein copies of small sections of the DNA
molecule, are actually hormones which communicate with and control other cells, and are what make the cells of your body grow and live.
HOW YOUR BODY USES VIRAL-TYPE DNA MOLECULES
How DNA Is Used As a Normal Part of Making Your Body Work
The DNA molecules in your cells are similar to a virus DNA, but with several
differences. The DNA in your cells are made of two parallel long strands
which are electrically bonded together. Over simplifying how they are put
together, you could say one half of the double strand came from your mother
and the other half came from your father. The two halves are bonded
together to make a diploid or complete double strand which makes a compete
animal or plant DNA molecule found in the nucleus of all living cells. But
the viral DNA is only half of the long double string molecule, it does not have a
mother nor father. It only makes repeated identical copies of the original
half or haploid molecule itself. Thus the virus cannot "reproduce" in the same way cells do.
But your body actually does the same thing. When a woman ovulates she
causes complete cells, which normally divide in half, to instead divide into
four parts in her ovaries to divide the original double strand DNA molecule
into four single strand ova. Each ovum is a half or haploid version of your
original DNA. The normal reproduction of all the cells in your body simply
divide into two exact diploid copies. This process is called Mitosis and
occurs in almost all of your cells every week or so. But once a month in
women, certain cells in the ovary divide by a unique process called Meiosis
which causes the cells to divide into four identical parts. But each new
primitive cell has only half of the normal DNA strand. Each haploid cell is
an ovum, and has the same atomic and molecular single-strand structure as a virus DNA.
The same thing occurs each month in men, when the sperm are made by
dividing a body DNA molecule into four to make four haploid or half DNA
molecules, which is all that is inside a sperm body. Neither ova nor sperm
are living cells. They can't reproduce by themselves. They are each more like
a single haploid DNA virus. By sexual reproduction, which is almost exactly the
same as a virus entering a cell, the haploid or half DNA from mother and
father are combined into a diploid or full double DNA strand thus producing
a new living cell, destined to become a new human being. Viruses don't do
that. They simply keep making exact copies of the original haploid or half
DNA. They are not alive. They cannot grow or mutate from one form of bird
flu into another. They are more like inanimate crystals, which can only copy more crystals. They
don't grow and mutate. Also, just like a sperm entering through the unique cell wall of an ovum, which is specific to each species, meaning a cow sperm cannot enter into a sheep ovum, a virus cannot enter into just any other cell which has a protein coating different from the coating on the original virus. That's why humans can't get bird flu.
The set of the specific four amino acids which are used to make DNA are
called Nucleic Acids when they attach along the long strand of sugar Ribose
molecules. When they are attached they are called Ribo-Nucleic Acids. When
the whole long strand of millions of RiboNucleic Acids have completely
attached from one end of the long chain to the other, it releases an Oxygen
atom at the end of the string, carrying away an electron, and then the whole chain is stuck or bonded
together by electrical forces. The release of the Oxygen atom is called
Deoxyfication. This whole long chain, when it is completely filled, and then
de-oxyfied is called De-oxy-ribo Nucleic Acid, or as we know it, DNA.
That is also all that a virus is. Just a long chain of millions of the four
amino acids all stuck together in a certain pattern. The only difference
between the millions of types of viruses, is the repeating bead-like
patterns of the four amino acids along the chain. The virus DNA cannot
move by itself, it cannot locate, breath and eat food, and it cannot divide
in half and make copies of itself or reproduce the way bacterial cells do.
A Virus does not fit the definition of a living thing. It is more like the
repeating patterns of atoms in a crystal.
HOW YOUR CELLS USE DNA TO REPRODUCE
BUT VIRUSES CAN ONLY REPLICATE
The Mystery of Viral Replication Explained
The only thing that a virus does is a process called Replication. When a
virus enters one of your cells, it escapes from within its own old protein
surface coating and it stretches out into a long string. The viral DNA then
collects millions of free amino acids floating in your salty cell fluid to make a mirror
image copy of the four types of amino acids in the viral chain. This
reversed mirror image chain is called Retro-deoxy-ribo Nucleic Acid or
shortened to RNA. The RNA molecule is special and continues to make another
mirror image of itself which is, of course, an exact copy of the original
viral DNA. This unique method of making a mirror image of a mirror image to make an exact copy of the original viral DNA is the only method a virus can use to make copies. This is called Replication.
The RNA molecule string will then continue to make many, many copies which
result in the original viral DNA now having thousands of exact duplicate DNA copies
all made from the amino acids stolen from your cell fluid. This starves
your cell of all the amino acids and in a matter of minutes, destroys it.
The original virus and its many replicate copies are now free to invade your
other body cells.
But before leaving the infected cell, the thousands of new viral DNA copies then steal pieces of the protein bag
coating from your damaged and dying cell, and then covers the viral DNA with
stolen cell wall material. This is the trick by which the virus can exist
in your body. By covering itself with the old cell wall from your own cells,
the virus then hides from your immune system, since the virus now looks like just
one of your own friendly cells and not a dangerous foreign virus.
HOW A SINGLE VIRUS MAY SEEM TO BE
HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT TYPES
The Difference Between Types H5N1 and H3N2 is the Stolen Surface Coat
This means that any certain virus may have many different surface
coatings, depending on where it last came from. If it last came from a
bird, it is a bird virus and can only infect birds. If the same virus had
escaped from a pig or hog, then it is a porcine or pig virus. It is almost
impossible for humans to get viruses from horses, dogs, birds or snakes.
Unfortunately, it is quite easy for humans to get viruses from pigs, because of
the strange similarity in the tissue typing of pig and human tissue. The
atomic structure of the surface coat on pig viruses are similar enough that
the pig virus can enter human cells. This is why cell tissue from pigs, such as heart valves, pancreatic insulin and other body parts from pigs can be used in humans. Oddly, it is hard for viruses from
our closest mammalian neighbors, the chimps and gorillas, to enter into
humans. Simian viruses simply are not close enough with the same cell surface types as human viruses.
That is about as clear as I can explain Viral Replication. It is the
process of the copying of atoms and molecules of DNA and RNA in a specific
order. It has nothing to do with the dividing and splitting or Reproduction
of living cells or beings.
The trick here, Doreen, is that for the viral RNA to make many, many replica
copies of the original DNA virus, the viral RNA molecule must detach and release
each new DNA copy into the cell fluid, to open up all the atomic connecting spaces
along the chain of the long RNA molecule, in order to make room for the next new
copy.
HOW TO INSTANTLY STOP THE VIRAL REPLICATION PROCESS
Why Mammals are Different from Reptiles and Birds
What causes the RNA copy to completely release the newly made copy, and unzip the
new DNA virus from the RNA master copy is something at the end of the
molecule chain, called a TELOMERE. When the DNA copy is complete, the
electrical charge on the RNA Telomere changes, like flipping an electrical switch, and it then releases and
repels the new DNA copy by electrical forces. But the RNA Telomere is
temperature sensitive, it won't release a new copy if it is too warm.
If the temperature of the Telomere on the end of the RNA chain is too hot --
meaning above 102 degrees F, then the Telomere cannot unzip and release the
new DNA copy. The RNA and the new DNA viral copy are electrically bonded
together -- and they are stuck -- they can't unzip and separate. Thus, the original
viral DNA cannot replicate even one copy of
itself using the RNA if you have a fever of about 101 to 102 degrees. That
is why humans and all warm-blooded mammals on earth produce a fever when
infected with a virus, since it prevents the original viral DNA from
replicating any copies of itself at all. Thus -- the end of the line for the
original virus and any viral replication. That is also why most viruses on earth come from birds and reptiles, since they cannot raise their body temperature to cause a fever, and the viruses can run rampant among those animals. Sometimes a viral infections can wipe out and cause complete extinctions among reptiles, amphibians and birds. This is rare among warm-blooded mammals which can create fevers when infected with viruses.
That's also why we have fevers. And that is why reducing the fever with Nyquil,
or Aspirin or other cold and flu medications can kill you when the Viral RNA
is allowed to unzip millions of copies of the original single Viral DNA
molecule. Each new copy of the original viral DNA can then repeat the process
and quickly produce billions of copies of itself in an hour or so, and start infecting more
and more of your cells, until it kills you. But the high temperature or a
fever will stop the viral replication process instantly.
WHERE TO LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT VIRAL REPLICATION
How and Why the CDC Has Misinformed the Public
So Doreen, I would suggest, instead of doing a web search about Viral
Replication which doesn't produce much information -- do a web search on
"Telomere" or "Telomeres" and find out about the latest research showing how
they affect the aging of living cells and how they are sensitive to
temperature. Then you will find out about how virus DNA
molecules actually replicate. I don't know of any practicing medical
doctors who know much about telomeres and viral replication. It seems
only medical researchers in the lab know about that important process.
Thanks for your questions, and I hope I have helped you understand Viral
Replication. And yes, it's pretty much the same way they did it on Star
Trek -- atom by atom. And even though there may be millions of atoms in the
long DNA chain, it is so tiny that the Replication process can be completed
in much less than a single second in time. Much faster than you can say "zip."
Marshall Smith
Editor, Brother Jonathan Gazette
newseditor@brojon.com
ADDENDUM: January 16, 2006. In the six weeks since this article was first sent to the readers of the BroJon Daily Digest, it has produced a flood of email responses. Much was from concerned parents worried about giving fever medications to their children who have colds or flu. Also responding were many practicing doctors. As I suspected, most of them had never heard of anything like this before, but it suddenly all made sense to them.
Many of the doctors commended me for (1) doing research which went beyond anything they had read before, and (2) writing about complex topics such as atomic and molecular structure and medicine in such a simple and clear manner that it could be understood by most people. This article seems to have taken on a life of its own, with many copies being sent around the Internet. Among the many email writers, it is most often referred to as, "The Letter to Doreen." I want to thank the many doctors who wrote to me, for their support and encouragement.
-- BROTHER JONATHAN GAZETTE
