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Considering the disastrous and misanthropic “pandemic response” do you still trust these “philanthropist” and “public health” organizations?

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I am increasingly convinced that the “medical profession” is mostly a cult centered around the worship of drugs generally but also the disempowerment of patients to keep them sick and dependent on those same drugs. I have sufficiently reviewed and established this fact on numerous occasions and various different articles for the past 20 years.

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Unfortunately, despite the advancing science supporting nutritional therapeutics, the medical profession is not advancing its own science to embrace anything out of its drug-centered paradigm. I have been, I continue to be, and I am increasingly bothered in particular by the medical profession’s mismanagement of chronic pain, which is why I'm launching some new initiatives in that regard this year and into 2027. This new August 2026 study published by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology is a good example of medical propaganda designed to look like scientific and “statistically significant” clinical research. Their reported “highlights” are as follows from their original posting of this article at 10.1016/j.eprac.2026.08.001:

• Current clinical guidelines recommend routine biochemical screening for vitamin B12 deficiency in metformin users. However, the evidence is based on non-specific and outdated definitions of vitamin B12 deficiency.

• In a large, consecutive real-world cohort of 3,958 adults with diabetes, we estimated prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency, comparing metformin versus non-users, using contemporary diagnostic criteria for vitamin B12 deficiency.

• The prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency was substantially lower than previously reported. Among patients with type 2 diabetes, prevalence was 2.3% in metformin users versus 2.0% in non-users (adjusted prevalence difference: 0.38% [95% CI: −1.9 to 1.1]).

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I have provided the PDF above, but all you have to do is read the abstract to see their strategic errors. Looking at their METHODS section makes the strategy all the more clear:

Metformin exposure was defined as current use of metformin, including daily dose and duration, compared with non-use.To screen for possible vitamin B12 deficiency, we applied an algorithm that has been routinely used in our laboratories since 2022 (Figure 1). As a first step, the algorithm measures P-B12. If P-B12 exceeds 250 pmol/L, a deficiency is unlikely. If the level is ≤ 250 pmol/L, the algorithm proceeds to MMA measurement and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). MMA is a marker of intracellular B12 depletion, but can also be elevated in cases of impaired renal function [14]. If the MMA level exceeds the age-specific upper reference limit and eGFR is > 60 mL/min, the findings suggest a likely vitamin B12 deficiency, warranting further clinical assessment [14, 15]. If MMA is elevated but eGFR was ≤ 60 mL/min, the result is deemed inconclusive, as the elevation can be attributed to either vitamin B12 deficiency or reduced renal function.

I have described this technique previously as “strategic stupidity” which is a type of sophisticated-appearing “big word”-using mathematically supported double-talk in the service of any given paradigm.

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The spell only works on people who are within the cult-like mentality, similar to the use of racist dog-whistling when politicians use subtle racial slurs to appeal to a racist section of the targeted electorate.

Can you spot the 3-5 errors in this research that allowed the researchers-organization to reach the conclusion that is most profitable for their sponsors?

All medical organizations are in bed with Big Pharma, as exemplified below:

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If it is not obvious to you, then I will explain it in an upcoming article or video, probably this week—be sure that you are on the email list to receive the next article-video directly.

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Part2: Neuroinflammation, New “Pandemic Seizures” and Good Clinical Work exemplified in this article from 2025

Notes about this particular article—see image with abstract/summary above, with the complete PDF article provided below:

1. Trousseau’s sign is a clinical indicator of low blood calcium (hypocalcemia) or high nerve and muscle sensitivity (neuromuscular excitability). It causes the hand and wrist to spasm into a flexed position when a blood pressure cuff is inflated above the systolic pressure for two to three minutes.

2. Chvostek Sign: How to test: Tap gently on the facial nerve, located right in front of the ear just below the zygomatic arch (over the masseter muscle). Positive result: A brief twitch or spasm of the facial muscles (such as the corner of the mouth or the side of the nose) on the side being tapped. Clinical note: It is less reliable because roughly 10–25% of healthy people can test positive, and some patients with true hypocalcemia may not show it.

3. Note the very impressive laboratory results reported in this article: the two tests that I highlighted are tests that clinicians should be using in the evaluation of these more severe cases, in addition to the usual serum calcium and 25ohD.

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PART 1: Neuroinflammation, Chronic Seizures (Epilepsy), and the Medical Paradigm versus Nutrition and Human Physiology

Challenge of the day: If you are good a reading clinical research, then you should be able to determine the value of this research within less than 30 seconds.

You can make this evaluation based on the information on the first page (in the image) and I have also provided the complete PDF copy of the article so you can download it.

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1. Chronic pain and pain amplification,

2. Mood, depression, anxiety,

3. Barrier defense against infection, allergy, autoimmunity,

4. Inflammation and immunomodulation,

5. Antimicrobial Antiviral Defense against Clinically Important Viral Infections

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Part3: Vitamin D deficiency causes Neuroexcitotoxicity (eg, Seizures) by two different mechanisms depending on severity, eg, 1) intracellular hypercalcinosis vs 2) extracellular hypocalcemia

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Vitamin D deficiency causes Neuroexcitotoxicity by 1) intracellular hypercalcinosis causing intracellular damage

As I described in my previous article on Intracellular Hypercalcinosis, vitamin D deficiency and other factors contribute to Intracellular Hypercalcinosis which has several neurotoxic and anti-metabolic consequences. The mechanism by which mild-moderate vitamin D deficiency promotes neurotoxicity is via increased intracellular calcium via increased compensatory/secondary hyperparathyroisim (hPTH). Increased PTH causes increased intracellular calcium with its neurotoxic consequences. This can be measured clinically by simply measuring serum PTH levels as described in the PDF article provided below at the end of this page.

See sample lab report in the image below.

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Vitamin D deficiency causes Neuroexcitotoxicity by 2) extracellular hypocalcemia causing reduced firing threshold and increased/deregulated depolarization

Severe vitamin D deficiency causes hypocalemia—low calcium in the blood and therefore low calcium in the extracellular fluid. As you can see in more detail in the PDF article provided below, the authors detail the mechanisms by which low extracellular calcium causes neuroexcitation including seizures (which are obviously neurotoxic). The mechanism is by increased firing/depolarization rather than the increased intracellular inflammation caused by intracellular hypercalcinosis described previously.

Summary and Differentiation:

• Mild vitamin D deficiency = secondary hPTH = increased intracellular calcium = neurotoxic consequences

• Severe vitamin D deficiency = hypocalcemia = increased firing/depolarization = neurotoxic consequences

See the third PDF included below for details.

Part2: Neuroinflammation, New “Pandemic Seizures” and Good Clinical Work exemplified in this article from 2025

Notes about this particular article—see image with abstract/summary above, with the complete PDF article provided below:

1. Trousseau’s sign is a clinical indicator of low blood calcium (hypocalcemia) or high nerve and muscle sensitivity (neuromuscular excitability). It causes the hand and wrist to spasm into a flexed position when a blood pressure cuff is inflated above the systolic pressure for two to three minutes.

2. Chvostek Sign: How to test: Tap gently on the facial nerve, located right in front of the ear just below the zygomatic arch (over the masseter muscle). Positive result: A brief twitch or spasm of the facial muscles (such as the corner of the mouth or the side of the nose) on the side being tapped. Clinical note: It is less reliable because roughly 10–25% of healthy people can test positive, and some patients with true hypocalcemia may not show it.

3. Note the very impressive laboratory results reported in this article: the two tests that I highlighted are tests that clinicians should be using in the evaluation of these more severe cases, in addition to the usual serum calcium and 25ohD.

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PART 1: Neuroinflammation, Chronic Seizures (Epilepsy), and the Medical Paradigm versus Nutrition and Human Physiology

Challenge of the day: If you are good a reading clinical research, then you should be able to determine the value of this research within less than 30 seconds.

You can make this evaluation based on the information on the first page (in the image) and I have also provided the complete PDF copy of the article so you can download it.

Vd Symptoms In Epileptic Patients On Anticonvulsant

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2004 2008 2024 Vitamin D 2008 Jcem Paradigm 2004 Jama 2004 Bmj 2005 Pharmacology 2024

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1. Chronic pain and pain amplification,

2. Mood, depression, anxiety,

3. Barrier defense against infection, allergy, autoimmunity,

4. Inflammation and immunomodulation,

5. Antimicrobial Antiviral Defense against Clinically Important Viral Infections

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You can make this evaluation based on the information on the first page (in the image) and I have also provided the complete PDF copy of the article so you can download it.

Vd Symptoms In Epileptic Patients On Anticonvulsant

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You can also see several of my publications compiled into this PDF:

Dr Alex Vasquez 2004 2008 2024 Vitamin D 2008 Jcem Paradigm 2004 Jama 2004 Bmj 2005 Pharmacology 2024

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2. Mood, depression, anxiety,

3. Barrier defense against infection, allergy, autoimmunity,

4. Inflammation and immunomodulation,

5. Antimicrobial Antiviral Defense against Clinically Important Viral Infections

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Making the MICROBIOME-DYSBIOSIS VIDEO SERIES almost killed me, so you might as well watch it and enjoy it :-)

Start with these 3 videos:

1. Microbiome Dysbiosis (1) Course Overview and Introduction to Major Concepts and Mechanisms

2. Microbiome Dysbiosis (2) Physiologic and Pathologic Mechanisms of Dysbiosis and Subclinical Microbial Colonizations (VIDEO:1hour,15minutes)

3. Microbiome Dysbiosis (3) Prototypes of Dysbiosis-Induced Disease(VIDEO:1hour,42minutes=102minutes)

We were still setting into our new lives in Barcelona in the spring and summer of 2015 when I started making the videos for the CME program “Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis in Clinical Disease” which I believe was originally accredited for 12 hours and then became a program of nearly 30 hours, including the book that I wrote to a company the videos—this monograph was soon updated further and completely included in Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition as part of Chapter 4.

Being an expert should make this easy, right?

I was already an expert on this topic and had been writing and lecturing on it since at least 2005 when I wrote a major review article titled “Nutritional and Botanical Treatments Against “Silent Infections” and Gastrointestinal Dysbiosis, Commonly Overlooked Causes of Neuromusculoskeletal Inflammation and Chronic Health Problems”. Since then, of course I’ve written other articles that focus on dysbiosis, the most obvious of which is “Biological plausibility of the gut-brain axis in autism” published in Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences 2017 Nov—see the provided PDF articles at the bottom of this page.

Being an expert made this harder because I could see how much farther this topic could be pushed

Again, since I was already an expert in many aspects of Immunology, Microbiology, and Dysbiosis, and I had plenty of slides from my professional presentations to draw from, I figured that I would spend two hours a day every day of the week for one week recording the videos and that everything would be finished within that week and then I could be happy with my life—none of that was to play out to fruition and in such a simplistic manner. Working on these course presentations didn’t take five days or five weeks or five months, but stretched out over the next two years as I kept going deeper and deeper into information and trying to create original work that I had never seen at any level of academic or professional work by that time.

My approach to Dysbiosis is based on Immunology, Microbiology and Pathology followed by Clinical Practicality—what can we actually do with this information?

My approach to this entire topic is radically different from the way that most people talk about it these days because most people these days are talking about it from a metabolic and (largely theoretic) standpoint, which is fine except for the fact that they've completely skipped over the Immunology, Microbiology and Pathology which have much more impact for the vast majority of patients who are affected by these problems. This difference is exactly why I wrote my “Biological plausibility of the gut-brain axis in autism” published in Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences (2017 Nov) because two PhD authors in that journal had published a bunch of theoretical gobbledegook nonsense which needed repair by some nuts-and-bolts boots-on-the-ground practical information and experience to make the information more useful for working clinicians: hopefully that was achieved—decide for yourself by reading the PDF of the article provided below.

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We actually had to abandon our home in Barcelona so that I could complete the videos for this program

I was so committed to this program that I never gave it a second thought when I realized we would have to leave our home and find a place that was quieter so I could finish the video series—our Indian neighbors had overpopulated their apartment and had become accustomed to family feuding every night that included noisy yelling and the throwing of dinner plates. Looking back at it now I don't think I would've been such a committed academic again now, but it was the right decision at the time not only for the program but also because the solution was to rent an apartment in San Sebastian in northern Spain that provided me access to an attic where I could have enough peace and quiet to record the videos. And thus it was –the bulk of these videos were recorded in an attic in our apartment building located at 54 Paseo de Zarategi in the Intxaurrondo neighborhood of Donostia / San Sebastián—which will forever be my favorite geography and infrastructure, except that I don’t like the food and culture of the area, despite having my VASQUEz heritage from this region of Pais VASCO / BASQUE.

Teaching—deep, quality teaching—is not for the faint of heart, nor for those seeking to get rich quick

Deep, quality teaching takes more time than anyone outside of teaching can imagine. The more that a teacher is committed to the material and to the students, the more likely that burnout and nonprofitability eventually become the enemy of the quality teaching that one is aspiring to.

These videos would consume our entire year in San Sebastián and follow us all the way to our next residence in Tarragona, also in Catalunya but about 70 minutes outside of Barcelona. I am sure that somewhere along the way, I could have taken the easier way out, but I am glad I didn’t. But I am older and wiser now….

Start your study of “Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis in Clinical Disease” with these videos:

1. Can you answer these 10 questions on dysbiosis and microbiome?

2. VIDEO with discussion of QUESTIONS and ANSWERS 1-5 with Test-Taking Strategies

3. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS for Dysbiosis & Microbiome (6-10) with Test-Taking Strategies

4. Microbiome Dysbiosis (1) Course Overview and Introduction to Major Concepts and Mechanisms

5. Microbiome Dysbiosis (2) Physiologic and Pathologic Mechanisms of Dysbiosis and Subclinical Microbial Colonizations (VIDEO:1hour,15minutes)

6. Microbiome Dysbiosis (3) Prototypes of Dysbiosis-Induced Disease(VIDEO:1hour,42minutes=102minutes)

7. Microbiome Dysbiosis (4) Conceptual Expansion Exploring Clinical Testing, Microbial Relevance and Irrelevance [VIDEO:1hour,18minutes=78minutes]

8. Microbiome Dysbiosis (5) Microbial Consequences in the Mouth, Oral Cavity[VIDEO:1hour,44minutes=104minutes]

9. Microbiome Dysbiosis (6) Microbial Imbalances in the Respiratory Tract and Sinuses [VIDEO:1hour,35minutes=95minutes]

10. Microbiome Dysbiosis (7) Dysbiosis by Location—Genitourinary Tract

11. Microbiome Dysbiosis (8) Dysbiosis by Location—Blood, Tissue, Parenchymal Dysbioses

12. Microbiome Dysbiosis (9) Dysbiosis by Location—Skin and Environmental Dysbiosis

13. MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS (10) Gut Dysbiosis Prototypes and Solutions

14. MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS (10.2) Gut Dysbiosis Prototypes and Solutions

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The clinical monograph HUMAN MICROBIOME AND DYSBIOSIS IN CLINICAL DISEASE is included within Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition:

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

Sample PDF downloads: ​

• Click here to see the cover

• Click here to see the first few pages, including the table of contents and index (size: 6 MB)

• Click here for a larger sample with photos (size: 43 MB)

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2016 Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis Cutshall Bergstrom Kalish

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2021 Retraction Jama Bogus Vitamin D Covid

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2019 Jom Editorial Viruses Vitamins Vaccines Bmj

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Dr Aelx Vasquez 2020 Censorship Interview Banned Books Controlled Narratives

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1) chronic pain and pain amplification,

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5) Antimicrobial Antiviral Defense against Clinically Important Viral Infections

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Here are my 13 most important articles on vitamin D compiled into a single PDF (provided below)…

The compilation PDF of 13 articles includes most of the following *except as noted

1. 2004 Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine — This article was a great contribution to what would soon become “the vitamin D revolution” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15478784

2. *2004 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) — This was a short and personally strategic letter that the JAMA editors eviscerated and emasculated thus showing the corruption of the journal jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/199799

3. 2005 British Medical Journal (BMJ) — Short letter ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC558659

4. 2005 TheLancet.com — Short letter, similar to above

5. *2005 Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT). Mar-Apr;28(3):213. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2005.02.004 — Short letter of minor importance

6. *2008 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism — Clinical trial published in perhaps the biggest and best endocrinology journal academic.oup.com/jcem/article/93/7/2716/2598925 and ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729207

7. 2019 Rapid Response published at the website of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) regarding their bogus research

8. 2019 Rapid Response published at the website of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) regarding their bogus Editorial

9. others…

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Several other articles, including the infographic on vitamin D laboratory reference ranges (image shown below) are in the compilation PDF provided below.

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Dr Alex Vasquez 2011 Part8 5pspmd Paleomed Diet Revisit Excerpted

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“This case study demonstrates the similarity between the development of dogma and the persecution of deviants during the Spanish Inquisition and that in medicine using breast cancer as an example. Regarding breast cancer, the dogma of therapy became separate from the underlying hypothesis and, like the religious dogma enforced by the Inquisition, it required inflexible adherence. Apostates were publicly chastened.” Hellman. Dogma and inquisition in medicine. Cancer 1993

“Throughout history, those who profess to be saviors have enslaved, tortured, and killed people who resist or question being saved in the prescribed way; we see this in religion, politics, and medicine.” DrV

From the moment we are born, the medical profession sees the human body—each of us—as defective, inherently flawed, threatening and in need of drugs for salvation and vaccinations for redeption—only such a cult-like indoctrinated and collosally stupid system would force newborns to receive a vaccine originally targeted/marketed toward prostitutes and intravenous drug users. If you are not medicated and “fully vaccinated” then you are seen as dirty, inferior, and rebelious.

“Medical indoctrination is so powerful that doctors will continue to endorse and praise vaccination even when they are reporting the catastrophic failure of that same vaccination.” DrV

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Whereas the Spanish-European Inquisitions (~1184-1834) divided, prosecuted, tortured and killed people for religious compliance, today’s political-medicine divides, prosecutes, tortures and sacrifices people for vaccine compliance—we are living in the age of the Vaccine Inquisition, in which people’s lives and personal freedoms can be destroyed—sacrificed—in the name of vaccine salvation and vaccine compliance.

The effects of the Inquisition’s censoring strategies operated also—and perhaps in their most significant part—at the much more intimate and subtle level of the molding of consciences, at the level of the regularization of ideas and indoctrination.” PDF* Leitão. Inquisition and science. Ann Sci 2020 Jan

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Obedience or Punishment

I (DrV) took this photo in a small medieval church in northern Spain; notice the combination of holy scripture, rules, blessings in the statue’s left hand with the small sword in his right hand, clearly providing two options: your compliance and obedience or your sacrifice and torture. Throughout history, those who profess to be “saviors” have enslaved, tortured, and killed people who resist or question being “saved” in the prescribed way; we see this in religion, politics, and medicine.

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Characteristics of Religious-Political-Medical Inquisitions

1. Doubt is the biggest sin: Questioning or challenging the supposedly self-evident rightness, righteousness, and authority of those in power is not allowed

2. Requires “belief” (thought-control) in and behavioral compliance with absurdities that have no basis in reality, in rituals that have no value for life, and in ridiculous public demonstrations

3. Public shaming and (social, professional) execution: banning, blocking, firing, de-licensing, de-certifying, character assassination in the name of “science” and “public health”

4. Doubters are excluded from work, society

5. Censorship (external, visible) of speech, thought, conversation and written communication is strictly enforced

6. Censorship (internal, invisible) of speech, thought, conversation and written communication becomes “second nature” as people learn (are trained with Pavlovian rewards, punishments, associations) to avoid hassle, harassment, pain

7. Public Health is used as a “virtue signaling excuse” to rationalize the punishment, marginalization, elimination of people who think differently or better than those in power

8. All Inquisitions are self-serving racist/classist filters to benefit a small group of sociopathic sadists and power profiteers by creating an artificial conflict between artificial groups of “clean” versus “dirty” people who previously cohabitated without such distinction

9. All Inquisitions survive via the passivity of those being dominated who outnumber the controllers by millions-fold

10. Ended only by external social forces, not through self-correction

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No-one can think clearly or fully when under the pressure of censorship and inquisition because people will naturally self-censor and self-limit in order to avoid/minimize conflict with and punishment from those holding the power

“It would be a great simplification to assume that the effects of the Inquisition on the practitioners of science were solely due to the pressure exercised in the form of rules, commands and prohibitions. The real situation was much more complex and nuanced. The effects of the Inquisition’s censoring strategies operated also—and perhaps in their most significant part—at the much more intimate and subtle level of the molding of consciences, at the level of the regularization of ideas and indoctrination.”

PDF* Henrique Leitão. Inquisition and science: where do we stand now? Ann Sci 2020 Jan;77(1):127-133 doi: 10.1080/00033790.2020.1736861. Epub 2020 Apr 6. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00033790.2020.1736861

The effects of intellectual persecution last for *CENTURIES* after the official inquisition has ended

“Can religious persecution have repercussions long after it has ceased? Using data on the Spanish Inquisition, we show that in municipalities where the Spanish Inquisition persecuted more citizens, incomes are lower, trust is lower, and education is markedly lower than in other comparable towns and cities. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to still matter today, but it does.” PDF* Proc Natl Acad SciU S A. 2021 Aug

Dogmas that are profitable are all the more “believable” by those in power who are profiting and enforcing at the same time

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PDF article included below for supporting subscribers EVERYONE; Part1video and Part2video are linked below—you can (should be able to) access my original video reviews per the links below.

• I linked to the original videos and articles and changed the settings so that the videos linked below should be visible to everyone. Doing this was faster than finding and re-uploading the original videos and articles…plus: Goodness knows I don’t need more globalist censorship for simply reporting the published facts.

I could hardly believe what I was seeing the first time I read about this, but what started out as a FINDING is now a PATTERN. Today, I found it again, this time from International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 2025 February:

PART 1: Video Review and Articles

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TRUE STORY: My wife’s vitamin D level was recently (May2026) measured at 138 ng/ml with a laboratory reference range of 30-100. Should I be concerned?

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DrV: No, I am not concerned at all.

1. Vitamin D is nontoxic by itself, and it only causes problems when it is high enough and combined with other factors to induce hypercalcemia—a high level of calcium in the blood as measured by “serum calcium.”

• If I see a high 25ohD level, but the serum calcium is normal and the clinical findings are “nonspecific” ie not attributable to high calcium / hypercalcemia or hyperparathyroidism, then I am not concerned.

• A high 25ohD level without clinical problems + without hypercalcemia is not a concern to me. This does not mean that I want to see some absurdly high level, but within some level of reasonableness in terms of clinical picture and blood test results and clinical history, then I'm not going to be concerned about an isolated finding like this. A basic rule in laboratory interpretation is to look at the patient before panicking about a number on a piece of paper.

2. See my previous publications in the PDF provided here and the recent discussions in the pages linked below.

Dr Alex Vasquez 2004 2008 2024 Vitamin D 2008 Jcem Paradigm 2004 Jama 2004 Bmj 2005 Pharmacology 2024

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3. Except if accompanied by marked hypercalcemia, an elevated Vitamin D does not “drive calcium levels inside the cells too high”—actually probably the reverse: vitamin D appears to mostly lower intracellular calcium by downregulating the VGCC—voltage gated calcium channel and also by promoting conversion of glutamate to GABA by upregulating glutamate decarboxylase.

4. Vitamin D is considered anti-inflammatory. See my 4th video linked below.

5. Everything has to be interpreted with clinical context—see my recent video tutorial on clinical thinking and risk management. This result can only be interpreted and contextualized by 1) assessing the patient, and 2) looking at serum calcium, 3) possibly measuring urinary calcium (rarely measured) and possibly looking at a 1,25-dihydroxy-vitamin D3 level (very very rarely measured).

6. A more advanced consideration by an experienced clinician would be to ask: If this is not a problem now, then could it become a problem if combined with a future problem?

• This is the way of thinking that I outlined previously in a video tutorial on clinical thinking and risk management.

• Dehydration might increase the risk of hypercalcemia and possible renal complications. Likewise by extension: vomiting, diarrhea, febrile illness.

• Adding a drug that reduces renal excretion of calcium such as HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE could easily cause a problem here.

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3. Know how to buy a competent bottle of wine without overpaying.

   1. As my mentor (and coauthor) Dr Gilbert Manso said, “Any idiot can buy a great wine for $200, but a person needs skill and knowledge to buy a great wine for $30.”

4. What is the significance of these years with regard to the NAME and QUALITY of the wine?

   1. A wine that is 2 years or younger is called a __________.

   2. A wine that is aged in oak for a total aging time of >3 years is called a __________.

   3. A wine that is aged in oak for a total aging time of >5 years is called a __________.

5. Why do people commonly say that a wine has to “breathe” for 15-20 minutes before being consumed?

6. Know that a “Reserve/Reserva” from the Rioja region of Spain (or anywhere in Spain for that matter) is completely different from a “Reserve/Reserva” from Chile or Argentina.

7. What is the preservative commonly used in wine?

8. What is the 1) mitochondrial impact and 2) inflammatory impact of the preservative commonly used in wine?

9. QUESTION: What is the significance and literal meaning of the word MALBEC with regard to wines produced in the Mendoza region of Argentina?

   1. ANSWER: “Mal-bec” literally translates to “bad taste” or “bad mouth” because the high tannins in Malbec wine give it a disagreeable/stronger sensation than the smoother wines of Spain and Italy.

10. With WHISKEY, what is the important difference between a BLEND versus a SINGLE MALT and what is the biochemical-health impact?

11. PER THE VIDEO BELOW: Other than moderation (most reasonable) or abstinence (most prudish and boring), what can you do to protect yourself from the possible adverse effects of ethanol?

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More details about wine and whiskey:

1. The Law of Wine: (most important concept)

2. Many different types of grapes with different flavors can be used to make wine, and these can be used alone or in various combinations to create the desired flavor;

• My personal favorites are Primitivo/Zinfandel, Cabernet sauvignon, Tempranillo, Granache.

3. Different countries/soils/climates/years will impart different flavors to the grapes and the wine:

• Spain’s RIOJA region is famous for affordable and quality wines

• France’s BORDEAUX overuses pesticides such that a friend from France (from the Bordeaux region) told me that even the people won’t drink the wine from their own region

• Chilean wines are considered “reserve” after how many months?!?!?!?

4. More age = generally better flavor, especially when aged in oak barrels

• Nondescript, table wine

• Crianza = 2 years, young but can be good

• Reserve = 3 years (except in Chile = 6 months!)

• Grand Reserve = 5 years

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5. Know how to open a bottle of wine just using your hands

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6. You only need to know 2 things about whiskey

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4. Microbiome Dysbiosis (1) Course Overview and Introduction to Major Concepts and Mechanisms

5. Microbiome Dysbiosis (2) Physiologic and Pathologic Mechanisms of Dysbiosis and Subclinical Microbial Colonizations (VIDEO:1hour,15minutes)

6. Microbiome Dysbiosis (3) Prototypes of Dysbiosis-Induced Disease(VIDEO:1hour,42minutes=102minutes)

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“Any idiot can buy a good wine for $200, but a person needs skill and knowledge to buy a great wine for $30.”

Dr Gilbert Manso, co-author of my vitamin D paradigm shift in 2004, PDF included below:

Dr Alex Vasquez 2004 Vitamin D Monograph

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1. What is meant by the phrase “15 minutes in the glass or 30 minutes in the bottle”?

2. Know how to buy a competent bottle of wine.

3. Know how to buy a competent bottle of wine without overpaying.

   1. As my mentor (and coauthor) Dr Gilbert Manso said, “Any idiot can buy a great wine for $200, but a person needs skill and knowledge to buy a great wine for $30.”

4. What is the significance of these years with regard to the NAME and QUALITY of the wine?

   1. A wine that is 2 years or younger is called a __________.

   2. A wine that is aged in oak for a total aging time of >3 years is called a __________.

   3. A wine that is aged in oak for a total aging time of >5 years is called a __________.

5. Why do people commonly say that a wine has to “breathe” for 15-20 minutes before being consumed?

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6. Know that a “Reserve/Reserva” from the Rioja region of Spain (or anywhere in Spain for that matter) is completely different from a “Reserve/Reserva” from Chile or Argentina.

7. What is the preservative commonly used in wine?

8. What is the 1) mitochondrial impact and 2) inflammatory impact of the preservative commonly used in wine?

9. QUESTION: What is the significance and literal meaning of the word MALBEC with regard to wines produced in the Mendoza region of Argentina?

   1. ANSWER: “Mal-bec” literally translates to “bad taste” or “bad mouth” because the high tannins in Malbec wine give it a disagreeable/stronger sensation than the smoother wines of Spain and Italy.

10. With WHISKEY, what is the important difference between a BLEND versus a SINGLE MALT and what is the biochemical-health impact?

11. PER THE VIDEO BELOW: Other than moderation (most reasonable) or abstinence (most prudish and boring), what can you do to protect yourself from the possible adverse effects of ethanol?

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3. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS for Dysbiosis & Microbiome (6-10) with Test-Taking Strategies

4. Microbiome Dysbiosis (1) Course Overview and Introduction to Major Concepts and Mechanisms

5. Microbiome Dysbiosis (2) Physiologic and Pathologic Mechanisms of Dysbiosis and Subclinical Microbial Colonizations (VIDEO:1hour,15minutes)

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“The delicate balance of experience and stress hormones mediates anxiety vs fearlessness by modulating intracellular calcium in real time as the brain is actually responding to the environment.” Dr Alex Vasquez

We will always owe a debt of gratitude to the experimental “wet bench” researchers that use cell cultures and animals to advance our understanding of the intracellular mechanisms of health and disease. These researchers support our clinical work with patients by helping us understand, explain, and have more confidence in the mechanisms of our treatments.

In this video discussion posted today (embedded immediately below), neuroscientists discuss the dynamic interactions between brain neurons and the supporting astrocytes (“nurse cells”) and around the middle of the conversation they note that—exactly as I have been discussing for the past 20 years in print (full text of my 2006 article provided below) and more recently in my video posted yesterday—the delicate balance of experience and stress hormones mediates anxiety vs fearlessness by modulating intracellular calcium in real time as animals are actually responding to their environments.

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If you think that my video posted yesterday was nerdy, just wait until you see these guys geek out about measuring intraneuronal and intra-astrocytic calcium in animals exposed to stress hormones and confusing environments—basically the human equivalent of trying to make sense of our world run by psychopathic globalists.

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Toward the end of one of my recent videos (LINKED HERE and below) I mentioned an update to my diagram explaining the clinical importance of elevated intracellular calcium. You can also see more discussion of this toward the end of this weekend’s video “Medical Paradigm vs Drug Paradigm: Emerging Patterns in Dietary Supplement Use Among US Adults, 1999-2023.”

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Let’s talk about 1) five pathways by which increased intracellular calcium promotes disease, then let’s talk about 2) THE SOLUTIONS to this common problem

This article was originally published in Naturopathy Digest in 2006 and later reprinted in Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition:

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Let us explore the possibility that elevated levels of calcium within the cell (intracellular hypercalcinosis) might predispose toward a wide range of clinical problems including migraine, hypertension, myofascial trigger points, inflammation, and cancer. Further, let’s review the data showing that several commonly employed nutritional interventions can be used synergistically to counteract and correct this problem. By the time readers complete this article, they will have 1) an understanding of this problem, 2) a protocol for how to correct this problem, and 3) be able to explain the biochemical rationale for using these nutritional protocols in patients who might otherwise be treated with drugs in general and calcium-channel-blocking drugs in particular.

Although prescription drugs are often used by medical doctors in a “willy-nilly manner” (according to Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. Jerry Avorn[1]), let’s assume for a moment that legitimate reasons exist for the widespread use of drugs that block calcium channels in cell membranes—the “calcium-channel-blocking drugs.” Although it is counterintuitive to promote health by interfering with the body’s natural function, calcium-channel-blocking drugs are routinely used in pharmaceutical medicine for a broad range of problems including hypertension, heart rhythm disturbances, bipolar disorder, and anxiety/panic disorders. Widespread medical use of calcium-channel-blocking drugs appears to validate the supposition that excess intracellular calcium is an important contributor to these and perhaps other problems. Therefore, if intracellular hypercalcinosis is the problem, then any safe and cost-effective treatment that can correct this problem should be met with the same widespread acceptance given to calcium-channel-blocking drugs, which are universally accepted and utilized in the allopathic “conventional medicine” society. At the very least, we can generally state that all phenomena that contribute to calcium deficiency result in an increase in intracellular calcium levels (the “calcium paradox”) due to the effect of parathyroid hormone, which specifically promotes calcium uptake in cells while mobilizing calcium from bone. Additionally, a few other nutritional influences (such as fatty acid imbalances) modulate cellular calcium balance, and these will be discussed in the section on clinical interventions.

​The Problem of Excess Intracellular Calcium:

Although the current author is the first to coin the phrase “intracellular hypercalcinosis”, several other authors have pointed to the problem of the “calcium paradox” and the means by which body-wide calcium deficiency can result in intracellular calcium overload, which triggers a cascade of events leading to adverse health effects. Most notably, the work of Takuo Fujita[2],[3] stands out in its clarity and specificity in linking intracellular hypercalcinosis with disorders such as hypertension, arteriosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, neurodegenerative diseases, malignancy, and degenerative joint disease.

Mechanisms by which intracellular hypercalcinosis contributes to disease have been defined, at least partially. However, we must remember that nutritional disorders never occur in isolation, and that the effects of intracellular hypercalcinosis observed clinically are overlaid with manifestations of the primary nutritional/metabolic disorder. Stated differently, contrary to what the pharmaceutical paradigm’s monotherapeutic use of calcium-channel-blocking drugs would imply, intracellular hypercalcinosis never occurs by itself. For example, if intracellular hypercalcinosis is contributed to by vitamin D3 deficiency, then some of the observed clinical complications of that condition are due to and yet independent from the excess intracellular calcium since the primary problem (vitamin D3 deficiency) causes adverse effects and deficiency symptoms that are independent of its effect on intracellular calcium levels. To better understand the specific effects of excess intracellular calcium, a brief review of a few specific biochemical/physiologic mechanisms by which intracellular hypercalcinosis can contribute to disease is warranted. We must start by realizing that calcium is much more than a “bone nutrient” and that it functions as an electrolyte, intracellular messenger, and regulator of cell replication and metabolism.

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Let’s talk about five pathways by which increased intracellular calcium promotes disease:

1. Adverse effects on membrane receptors and intracellular transduction: The concentration of extracellular calcium exceeds the concentration of intracellular calcium by a ratio of 10,000 to one. When intracellular calcium levels rise even slightly, receptors and messaging systems in the cell membrane fail to function optimally. Thereby, increased intracellular calcium can predispose to insulin resistance (via interference with insulin receptors) and can promote neurodegeneration by amplifying the intracellular cascade of effects that follows activation of the brain’s NMDA-receptors (excitoneurotoxicity). More specifically, we must note that the recently discovered “calcium-sensing receptor” (CaR, a G protein-coupled plasma membrane receptor) senses minute alterations in serum calcium levels and then ultimately translates these variations into changes in cellular function, notably alterations in cell replication (think cancer) and eicosanoid production (think inflammation).[4],[5] Given that CaR are found in a wide range of cell types, including those found in bone, the kidneys, and immune system, we can see a pathway by which alterations in calcium balance could be implicated in a wide range of diseases. CaR-mediated alterations in cell function are likely to be complicated by disorders of vitamin D3 nutrition and metabolism (that commonly complicate disorders of calcium homeostasis), which affect an even wider range of cell types including those of the breast, prostate, ovary, lung, skin, lymph nodes, colon, pancreas, adrenal medulla, brain (pituitary, cerebellum, and cerebral cortex), aortic endothelium, and immune system, including monocytes, transformed B-cells, and activated T-cells. This is an example of the complexity involved in understanding nutrition in general and the effects of nutritional deficiency (always multifaceted) in particular.

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“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.” Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

We were still setting into our new lives in Barcelona in the spring and summer of 2015 when I started making the videos for the CME program “Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis in Clinical Disease” which I believe was originally accredited for 12 hours and then became a program of nearly 30 hours, including the book that I wrote to a company the videos—this monograph was soon updated further and completely included in Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition as part of Chapter 4.

Being an expert should make this easy, right?

I was already an expert on this topic and had been writing and lecturing on it since at least 2005 when I wrote a major review article titled “Nutritional and Botanical Treatments Against “Silent Infections” and Gastrointestinal Dysbiosis, Commonly Overlooked Causes of Neuromusculoskeletal Inflammation and Chronic Health Problems”. Since then, of course I’ve written other articles that focus on dysbiosis, the most obvious of which is “Biological plausibility of the gut-brain axis in autism” published in Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences 2017 Nov—see the provided PDF articles at the bottom of this page.

Being an expert made this harder because I could see how much farther this topic could be pushed

Again, since I was already an expert in many aspects of Immunology, Microbiology, and Dysbiosis, and I had plenty of slides from my professional presentations to draw from, I figured that I would spend two hours a day every day of the week for one week recording the videos and that everything would be finished within that week and then I could be happy with my life—none of that was to play out to fruition and in such a simplistic manner. Working on these course presentations didn’t take five days or five weeks or five months, but stretched out over the next two years as I kept going deeper and deeper into information and trying to create original work that I had never seen at any level of academic or professional work by that time.

My approach to Dysbiosis is based on Immunology, Microbiology and Pathology followed by Clinical Practicality—what can we actually do with this information?

My approach to this entire topic is radically different from the way that most people talk about it these days because most people these days are talking about it from a metabolic and (largely theoretic) standpoint, which is fine except for the fact that they've completely skipped over the Immunology, Microbiology and Pathology which have much more impact for the vast majority of patients who are affected by these problems. This difference is exactly why I wrote my “Biological plausibility of the gut-brain axis in autism” published in Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences (2017 Nov) because two PhD authors in that journal had published a bunch of theoretical gobbledegook nonsense which needed repair by some nuts-and-bolts boots-on-the-ground practical information and experience to make the information more useful for working clinicians: hopefully that was achieved—decide for yourself by reading the PDF of the article provided below.

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We actually had to abandon our home in Barcelona so that I could complete the videos for this program

I was so committed to this program that I never gave it a second thought when I realized we would have to leave our home and find a place that was quieter so I could finish the video series—our Indian neighbors had overpopulated their apartment and had become accustomed to family feuding every night that included noisy yelling and the throwing of dinner plates. Looking back at it now I don't think I would've been such a committed academic again now, but it was the right decision at the time not only for the program but also because the solution was to rent an apartment in San Sebastian in northern Spain that provided me access to an attic where I could have enough peace and quiet to record the videos. And thus it was –the bulk of these videos were recorded in an attic in our apartment building located at 54 Paseo de Zarategi in the Intxaurrondo neighborhood of Donostia / San Sebastián—which will forever be my favorite geography and infrastructure, except that I don’t like the food and culture of the area, despite having my VASQUEz heritage from this region of Pais VASCO / BASQUE.

Teaching—deep, quality teaching—is not for the faint of heart, nor for those seeking to get rich quick

Deep, quality teaching takes more time than anyone outside of teaching can imagine. The more that a teacher is committed to the material and to the students, the more likely that burnout and nonprofitability eventually become the enemy of the quality teaching that one is aspiring to.

These videos would consume our entire year in San Sebastián and follow us all the way to our next residence in Tarragona, also in Catalunya but about 70 minutes outside of Barcelona. I am sure that somewhere along the way, I could have taken the easier way out, but I am glad I didn’t. But I am older and wiser now….

Start your study of “Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis in Clinical Disease” with these videos:

1. Can you answer these 10 questions on dysbiosis and microbiome?

2. VIDEO with discussion of QUESTIONS and ANSWERS 1-5 with Test-Taking Strategies

3. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS for Dysbiosis & Microbiome (6-10) with Test-Taking Strategies

4. Microbiome Dysbiosis (1) Course Overview and Introduction to Major Concepts and Mechanisms

5. Microbiome Dysbiosis (2) Physiologic and Pathologic Mechanisms of Dysbiosis and Subclinical Microbial Colonizations (VIDEO:1hour,15minutes)

6. Microbiome Dysbiosis (3) Prototypes of Dysbiosis-Induced Disease(VIDEO:1hour,42minutes=102minutes)

7. Microbiome Dysbiosis (4) Conceptual Expansion Exploring Clinical Testing, Microbial Relevance and Irrelevance [VIDEO:1hour,18minutes=78minutes]

8. Microbiome Dysbiosis (5) Microbial Consequences in the Mouth, Oral Cavity[VIDEO:1hour,44minutes=104minutes]

9. Microbiome Dysbiosis (6) Microbial Imbalances in the Respiratory Tract and Sinuses [VIDEO:1hour,35minutes=95minutes]

10. Microbiome Dysbiosis (7) Dysbiosis by Location—Genitourinary Tract

11. Microbiome Dysbiosis (8) Dysbiosis by Location—Blood, Tissue, Parenchymal Dysbioses

12. Microbiome Dysbiosis (9) Dysbiosis by Location—Skin and Environmental Dysbiosis

13. MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS (10) Gut Dysbiosis Prototypes and Solutions

14. MICROBIOME DYSBIOSIS (10.2) Gut Dysbiosis Prototypes and Solutions

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The clinical monograph HUMAN MICROBIOME AND DYSBIOSIS IN CLINICAL DISEASE is included within Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition:

Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition: The Colorful and Definitive Guide Toward Health and Vitality and away from the Boredom, Risks, Costs, and Inefficacy of Endless Analgesia, Immunosuppression, and Polypharmacy

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Can you ANSWER me 8 questions with 12 answers on INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM?

1. Describe the physiological roles of intracellular calcium (iCalcium, iCa).

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2. Describe the pathophysiological roles of intracellular calcium.

   1. __________________________________________

3. What is the main molecular trigger for the cellular entry of calcium?

   1. __________________________________________

4. How is the main molecular trigger for the entry of calcium converted to its opposite?

   1. __________________________________________

5. What is the main biochemical requirement for this conversion?

   1. __________________________________________

6. Name the two requirements for the requirement (answer) for question no5 above, ie what are the cofactors and coenzymes for no5 above?

   1. __________________________________________

   2. __________________________________________

7. What single characteristic distinguishes physiologic from pathologic iCalcium?

   1. __________________________________________

8. Name the 4 main “areas” or “relocations” for iCalcium

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All videos from the course HUMAN MICROBIOME AND DYSBIOSIS IN CLINICAL DISEASE are being re-uploaded in Feb-Mar 2025 to provide direct and reliable access through the substack platform:

1. Can you answer these 10 questions on dysbiosis and microbiome?

2. VIDEO with discussion of QUESTIONS and ANSWERS 1-5 with Test-Taking Strategies

3. QUESTIONS and ANSWERS for Dysbiosis & Microbiome (6-10) with Test-Taking Strategies

4. Microbiome Dysbiosis (1) Course Overview and Introduction to Major Concepts and Mechanisms

5. Microbiome Dysbiosis (2) Physiologic and Pathologic Mechanisms of Dysbiosis and Subclinical Microbial Colonizations (VIDEO:1hour,15minutes)

6. Microbiome Dysbiosis (3) Prototypes of Dysbiosis-Induced Disease(VIDEO:1hour,42minutes=102minutes)

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Do you love the latest “advances in science”?

If so, then you will love looking at this recent NEJM article!

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Then see my spontaneous video above for my analysis!

Sciencing is fun!!

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“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.” Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

LESSON #1: Financially, taking a teaching job as an “Adjunct Professor” is a horrible decision… unless teaching is your lifepath and highest goal…

…because the job requires many hours per week for preparation but typically one is only paid for the “contact/teaching hours” which might be for only $40 per hour; thus, including 2 hours per class for dressing and transportation, the math for an “Adjunct Professor” looks like:

• 2 hours teaching at $40 = you are only getting paid $80 per week,

• 2 hours for dressing, transport, conversations in the hall, etc, unwinding,

• You’ll be expected to meet with Admin and sometimes attend BS meetings for no pay, and they will call this “professionalism” even though they are being unprofessional by not paying you for your time,

• 6 hours minimum preparation, looking at new research, updating notes, updating presentations and being aware of what is “trending” related to your topic.

  • In my first year of teaching Orthopedics and Rheumatology, I was easily putting in 30 hours per week in notes and preparation—these notes later became my first two books INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS (2004, 2012) and INTEGRATIVE RHEUMATOLOGY (2006, 2014) which became INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION.

Thus, at a minimum investment of 10 hours per week for $80 per week as an “Adjunct Professor” you are barely making $8 per hour before taxes if you are lucky.

Even if the pay were doubled to $80 per contact hour —then if you invest a modest 10 hours per week— you are making $16 per hour.

See my 2016 article about “Ending the Exploitation of Experts in Education” for more details, which was followed much more dramatically by my 2024 book “Administrative Anarchy in American Academia”—both of these can be downloaded here:

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“You have made danger your calling; therein there is nothing contemptible. Now you perish by your calling: therefore will I bury you with mine own hands.” When Zarathustra had said this the dying one did not reply further; but he moved his hand as if he sought the hand of Zarathustra, in gratitude.” Nietzsche in Zarathustra

I ultimately had no choice in the matter; I had to live and die by my passions.

“The dangers that beset the evolution of the philosopher are, in fact, so manifold nowadays, that one might doubt whether this fruit could still come to maturity. …It is perhaps just the refinement of his intellectual conscience that makes him hesitate and linger on the way… To double once more the philosopher's difficulties is the fact that he demands from himself a verdict, a Yea or Nay, not concerning science, but concerning life and the worth of life… and he has to seek his way to this right and the belief only through the most extensive (perhaps disturbing and destroying) experiences, often hesitating, doubting, and dumbfounded. …but the genuine philosopher lives "unphilosophically" and "unwisely," above all, imprudently, and feels the obligation and burden of a hundred attempts and temptations of life—he risks himself constantly, he plays this bad game.” Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter 6 #205

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LESSON #2: Even if you are the hero of your school, don’t expect them to be loyal to you.

• I gave everything I could to create a great program for my school that immediately earned the school fame, notoriety, and millions of dollars—they fired me overnight by email when some of us found out that the upper administrators were stealing money from the school, faculty, and students.

If you are the hero of your corporate job, don’t expect them to be loyal to you.

• For 18 years of my career, I created several very successful nutritional innovations and formulations with sales of several million dollars; eventually the corporation hired a publicity-marketing dudelet who systematically stole credit for my ideas while the owners/bosses did nothing and for which I resigned. Chao!

If you are the hero of your profession, don’t expect them to be loyal to you.

• For the first 15 years of my career, I supported the chiropractic profession with innumerable lectures, articles, and books (see partial listing below) and hand-delivered copies of my 2010/2011 textbook INTEGRATIVE CHIROPRACTIC MANAGEMENT OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND CHRONIC HYPERTENSION (now included inside INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION) which I personally gave to several of the chiropractic college/university presidents and to the PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN CHIROPRACTIC ASSOCIATION, and what they did with this gift to advance the profession was a big fat NOTHING. You can see a sample and evidence of this in the this downloadable PDF copy of my 2010 article about “chiropractors managing chronic hypertension” published in the profession’s biggest tabloid magazine DYNAMIC CHIROPRACTIC:

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My passion has always been teaching, and so I had to gain experience as an underpaid and exploited Adjunct Professor in order to work my way up to an international lecturer, multipublished author, and eventually—my dream of dreams and nightmare of nightmares—Academic Director of my Dream Program at my Dream School in my Dream City … before I realized that the school had been taken over by psychopaths and thieves that were abusing the faculty and stealing scholarship money from the students—see all the details in the video and book available below:

This page below is a duplicate of the original updatable archive of Administrative Anarchy in American Academia so that 1) everything is centrally located, and so 2) I don’t have to keep making new pages for each update. If any more important updates happen to the document itself, then it will be updated to this page. Bookmark and periodically revisit, if you want.

1. FIRST POSTING OF THIS PAGE: 11May2024

2. UPDATES: This date will be updated and will differ from the original posting date above (that’s how you will know that changes have been made) when something is new.

   1. 13May2024: ebook now available at amazon.com/dp/B0D3YWPKPD note that I tried to provide the ebook for free but was forced by Amazon to put a minimal price of $1, which becomes nearly zero after they subtract fees and image-transmittal costs.

   2. 14May2024: final version of PDF (identical to ebook at amazon.com/dp/B0D3YWPKPD) is posted here; perhaps later I will add the previous essay as an appendix (the essay on “Ending the Exploitation of Experts in Education” posted previously, originally published in 2016):

   

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3. SHORT/PARTIAL LIST OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES THAT I PUBLISHED FOR THE CHIROPRACTIC PROFESSION/CLINICIANS/STUDENTS: this listing does not include the thousands of miles for hundreds of conference presentations, the biggest of which (Parker, in about 2005) was to more than 1,000 people in the audience

4. REPRINTS/DISTRIBUTION FYI: original PDF is provided ABOVE.

   1. ebook available at amazon.com/dp/B0D3YWPKPD

   2. researchgate.net/publication/380548008

   3. academia.edu/118395502

5. SOURCES OF VIDEO CLIPS AND SELECT CITATIONS: provided below

6. Section 8. INTEGRITY INCLUDES BEING HONEST ABOUT A BAD SITUATION: so that steps can be taken to make things better for the professors, students, patients, and practicing clinicians, “No-one wants to talk negatively about their own experiences and their own profession, but at some point, we have to overcome that discomfort on a personal level and think about the future of other students, the safety and benefit of our patients, the reputation of the profession, and we have to call it out and say “This bullshit has to stop—you [corrupt administrators] are ripping off these students, and you are endangering the patients who are going to see these undereducated overcertified student-graduates. You are making the entire profession look like a bunch of imbeciles, because you yourselves are behaving as such.” I never expected to have to write this narrative, but the bullshit is just out of control—and getting worse from what I see on the chiropractic college websites and from what I hear from students and colleagues.

Thanks for your interest.

DrV

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BOOKS AND ARTICLES THAT I PUBLISHED FOR (pro-chiro / chiro-friendly) THE CHIROPRACTIC PROFESSION/CLINICIANS/STUDENTS: this listing does not include the thousands of miles for hundreds of conference presentations

1. Vasquez A. High body iron stores: causes, effects, diagnosis, and treatment. Nutritional Perspectives 1994 Nutritional Perspectives is published by the American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Nutrition

• Yes, this my first professional publication in a professional journal

2. Vasquez A. Musculoskeletal disorders and iron overload disease. [Letter] Arthritis & Rheumatism 1996; 39:1767-8

3. Vasquez A. Integrative Orthopedics: 2004, 2007, 2012

4. Vasquez A. Integrative Rheumatology: 2006, 2007, 2014

5. Vasquez A. Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies: Printed monograph approved for ACCME PRA-1 Continuing Medical Education. 2008 May

6. Vasquez A. Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders: 2009

7. Vasquez A. Chiropractic Management of Chronic Hypertension 2010, Integrative Chiropractic Management of High Blood Pressure: Updated & Expanded 2nd Edition 2011

8. Vasquez A. Selected Topics in NeuroMusculoskeletal Medicine: 2013

9. Vasquez A. Chiropractors Managing Chronic Hypertension An Idea Who’s Time Has Arrived. Dynamic Chiropractic 2010 Jun

10. Vasquez A. Affirmation and Rebirth of the Chiropractic Profession, Part 1. New Standards in Musculoskeletal Care and Health Promotion. Dynamic Chiropractic 2007 Apr

11. Vasquez A. Affirmation and Rebirth of the Chiropractic Profession, Part 2. Dynamic Chiropractic 2007 Apr

12. Vasquez A. Chiropractic Musculoskeletal Competence: Is Being “Best” Good Enough? Dynamic Chiropractic 2007 Mar

13. Vasquez A. Implementing the Five-Part Nutritional Wellness Protocol for the Treatment of Various Health Problems. Nutritional Wellness—a chiropractic nutrition magazine 2005 Nov

14. Vasquez A. The Importance of Integrative Chiropractic Health Care in Treating Musculoskeletal Pain and Reducing the Nationwide Burden of Medical Expenses and Iatrogenic Injury and Death: A Concise Review of Current Research and Implications for Clinical Practice and Healthcare Policy. The Original Internist—a chiropractic magazine/journal 2005; 12(4): 159-182

15. Vasquez A. Revisiting the Five-Part Nutritional Wellness Protocol: The Supplemented Paleo-Mediterranean Diet. Nutritional Perspectives—published by the American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Nutrition 2011 January

16. Vasquez A. Five-Part Nutritional Wellness Protocol That Produces Consistently Positive Results. Nutritional Wellness—chiropractic nutrition magazine 2005 Sep

17. Vasquez A. The Science of Chiropractic and Spinal Manipulation, Part 2 mercola.com/2005/mar/12/chiropractic_spine.htm 2005, March 12

18. Vasquez A. The Science of Chiropractic and Spinal Manipulation, Part 1 mercola.com/2005/mar/9/chiropractic_spine.htm 2005, March 9

19. Vasquez A. Vitamin D Supplementation in the Treatment of Musculoskeletal Pain. The Original Internist—a chiropractic magazine/journal 2004; 11: 7-9

20. Vasquez A, John Cannell, MD. Better Bones and Beyond: Vitamin D Plays Role in Inflammatory and Metabolic Disease. Holistic Primary Care 2004; (Fall) 5: 3,6,7

21. Vasquez A. Integrative Orthopedics and Vitamin D: Testing, Administration, and New Relevance in the Treatment of Musculoskeletal Pain. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients 2004; October, 75-77

22. John Cannell, MD and Vasquez A. Measuring Your Vitamin D Levels: Your Most Important Blood Test? mercola.com/2004/jul/3/vitamin_d_levels.htm 2004, July 3

23. Vasquez A. Interventions Need to Be Consistent with Osteopathic Philosophy. JAOA: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2006 Sep

24. Vasquez A. Web-like Interconnections of Physiological Factors. Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal 2006 Apr/May

25. Vasquez A. Reducing pain and inflammation naturally - Part 6: Nutritional and Botanical Treatments against “Silent Infections” and Gastrointestinal Dysbiosis, Commonly Overlooked Causes of Neuromusculoskeletal Inflammation and Chronic Health Problems. Nutritional Perspectives—by ACA Council on Nutr 2006 Jan

26. Vasquez A. “Chapter 10: Organ System Function and Underlying Mechanisms: The Interconnected Web.” In Jones DS (Editor-in-Chief). Textbook of Functional Medicine. Institute for Functional Medicine. 2005

27. Vasquez A. “Chapter 25: Structural Imbalances.” In Jones DS (Editor-in-Chief). Textbook of Functional Medicine. Institute for Functional Medicine. 2005

28. Vasquez A. “Chapter 27: Inflammation and Autoimmunity: A Functional Medicine Approach.” In Jones DS (Editor-in-Chief). Textbook of Functional Medicine. Institute for Functional Medicine. 2005

29. Vasquez A, Murray MT. Chapter 188 “Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease” in Pizzorno JE, Murray MT (Eds). Textbook of Natural Medicine: Third Edition. Churchill Livingstone. 2005 Nov

30. Vasquez A. Reducing pain and inflammation naturally - Part 5: Improving neuromusculoskeletal health by optimizing immune function and reducing allergic reactions: a review of 16 treatments and a 3-step clinical approach. Nutritional Perspectives—published by the ACA’s Council on Nutrition 2005 Oct

31. Vasquez A, Muanza DN. Comment: evaluation of presence of aspirin-related warnings with willow bark.[letter] Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2005 Oct

32. Vasquez A, Cannell J. Calcium and vitamin D in preventing fractures: data are not sufficient to show inefficacy.[letter] BMJ: British Medical Journal 2005 May

33. Vasquez A. Reducing pain and inflammation naturally Part 4: Nutritional and Botanical Inhibition of NFkappaB, Major Intracellular Amplifier of the Inflammatory Cascade. A Practical Clinical Strategy Exemplifying Anti-Inflammatory Nutrigenomics. Nutritional Perspectives—published by American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Nutrition 2005 July

34. Vasquez A. Subphysiologic Doses of Vitamin D are Subtherapeutic: Comment on the Study by The Record Trial Group. TheLancet.com 2005 May online

35. Vasquez A. Reducing pain and inflammation naturally - Part 3: Improving overall health while safely and effectively treating musculoskeletal pain. Nutritional Perspectives—published by the American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Nutrition 2005; 28: 34-38, 40-42

36. Vasquez A. Healthcare for our bones: Practical nutritional approach to preventing osteoporosis. [Letter]. JManipulative and Physiological Therapeutics—the major flagship chiropractic journal (at least for its time ~30 years) 2005;28:213

37. Vasquez A. Reducing Pain and Inflammation Naturally. Part 2: New Insights into Fatty Acid Supplementation and Its Effect on Eicosanoid Production and Genetic Expression. Nutritional Perspectives—published by the American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Nutrition 2005; January: 5-16

38. Vasquez A. Reducing Pain and Inflammation Naturally. Part 1: New Insights into Fatty Acid Biochemistry and the Influence of Diet. Nutritional Perspectives—published by the American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Nutrition 2004 Oct

39. Vasquez A, Gilbert Manso, M.D., John Cannell, M.D. The Clinical Importance of Vitamin D (Cholecalciferol). Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 2004

40. Vasquez A. A brief review of two potential adverse effects of zinc supplementation. Nutritional Perspectives—published by American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Nutrition 1995

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1. Edu Admin Neoliberalism And Education 95.6KB ∙ PDF file

2. Edu Admin Neoliberalism Reflections On Capitalism And Education 205KB ∙ PDF file

3. Edu Admin Neoliberalism And Education Policy Best 1.19MB ∙ PDF file

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Integrity includes being honest about how bad things are, so that steps can be taken to make things better for the professors, students, patients, and practicing chiros

“No-one wants to talk negatively about their own experiences and their own profession, but at some point, we have to overcome that discomfort on a personal level and think about the future of other students, the safety and benefit of our patients, the reputation of the profession, and we have to call it out and say “This bullshit has to stop—you [corrupt administrators] are ripping off these students, and you are endangering the patients who are going to see these undereducated overcertified student-graduates. You are making the entire profession look like a bunch of imbeciles, because you yourselves are behaving as such.”

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Despite having been raised by a family of entrepreneurs (ie, all of the men on both sides of my family), I have had to learn essentially all of my money-legal-business lessons on my own…

…and you can rest assured knowing that everything that I learned in these matters was learned in the slowest, most difficult, most absurd ways possible…

Dr Alex Vasquez 2016 Ending Exploitation Education

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….one of the worst of which inspired my 2024 book ADMINISTRATIVE ANARCHY IN AMERICAN ACADEMIA which you can download here as a free PDF:

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The emphasis of this series “Older and Wiser” will be to share some of what I have learned, especially with regard to “Money, Business, and Legal Matters” with occasional mention of a few non-curricular topics like watches, travel, wine/whiskey which are largely unknown to us when we are younger, less experienced, and—obviously—less worldly because we have not had the time to experience and appreciate the nuances that later become obvious to us.

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.” Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

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My Uncle was Right about This

My maternal-sided “Uncle Steve” was a successful entrepreneur-architect that ejected from his hometown of Houston Texas as soon as he graduated from (to my knowledge) University of Houston’s architectural program. After many years of being poor—famously not being able to pay to cross a toll bridge in order to get to a job interview—he co-founded a successful architectural firm and eventually made millions of dollars, while not necessarily adhered to any strict codebook of ethics.

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The only thing of any marginal value that he ever barely mentioned to me related to business success is that he had to deal with and overcome his “stuff” in order to advance in his career, for example, overcoming his personal insecurities when cold-calling potential clients so that he could sell his architectural services.

As microscopic as this insight might have been, it at least stayed with me for all these years, and I have noticed both this problem and its solution in myself and in the young people (and a few older people) that I have mentored and supported (eg, microloans and macroloans) along their entrepreneurial paths.

Today, I drew it out—how our “stuff” keeps us from advancing in Money, Business, and Legal Matters

Our insecurities and “areas of ineffectiveness” clearly impair our abilities to advance with regard to Money, Business, and Legal Matters, but these same weaknesses adversely affect our Health and personal/romantic Relationships, as well.

People who are insecure, unassertive, undefined, undefended, and ineffective will have consistent and persistent problems with:

• their relationships

• their romances

• their jobs, careers

• their health

• their money

• their legal interactions

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Our insecurities and “areas of ineffectiveness” clearly impair our abilities to advance with regard to Health, Money, Business, and Legal Matters, but these same weaknesses adversely affect our Health and personal/romantic Relationships, as well.

People who are insecure, unassertive, undefined, undefended, and ineffective will have consistent and persistent problems with:

• their relationships—inability to assert and communicate wants and needs, inability to defend boundaries

  • passivity

  • codependency

  • resentment

  • inauthenticity

  • willingness to accept abuse and neglect, bullying

• their romances

  • passivity

  • codependency

  • resentment

  • inauthenticity

  • willingness to accept abuse and neglect

  • staying in relationships with psychopaths, borderlines, etc.

• their jobs, careers

  • underpaid

  • overworked

  • no advancement

  • no assistance/assistants

  • invisible

  • underappreciated

  • free overtime

  • multitasking and covering for other inept empoyees

  • accepting abuse and mistreatment from bosses, managers, coworkers

  • no vacation

  • taking work/calls on weekends and after hours

• their health

  • no maintenance visits and lab work

  • no interest in personal health

  • willingness to do little or nothing

  • failure to comply with basic medication and nutritional needs

  • failure to accept the reality of health, disease, and consequences

  • overwilling to take the easiest route, failure to seek a second/third—fifteenth opinion

  • obesity

  • hypertension

  • chronic illness without major effort to find solutions

• their money

  • broke, nearly broke, periodically broke

  • no savings

  • no financial plan

  • no financial hope

  • passivity—assuming that things are going to work out miraculously and without any effort

• their legal interactions

  • failure to read every line of the contract

  • failure to hire their own attorney

  • accepting the contract as it is

  • failing to notice that the contract being offered is obviously written and strategized specifically for the people writing the contract and paying for the contract to be written to their advantage

  • over-trusting

  • assuming the best, hoping for the best because being naive feels better than seeing the world for what it is

A fantastic lecture on all this passivity and naivety is THE NAIVE MALE by the late great Robert Bly

• https://www.amazon.com/The-Naive-Male/dp/B098R49T1N

• https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-naive-male/1326461124 — includes sample

• https://www.audible.com/es_US/pd/The-Naive-Male-Audiolibro/1615449574

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