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Cracking the Kynurenine Code 1) isn't going to happen by taking the easy route, 2) isn't going to happen by having a superficial appreciation of biochemistry

Kynurenines are the “shet” happens of clinical biochemistry... but...

KYNURENINE videos, laboratory testing, and commentaries

PAIN PROBLEMS: Kynurenines (pt3of4) cause Confusion in the Bermuda Triangle of Clinical Biochemistry

PERSISTENT PAIN PROBLEMS: Kynurenines cause Confusion in the Bermuda Triangle of Clinical Biochemistry

CULTURAL SENSITIVITY TRAINING: Getting to know Generation X (born 1965-1980)

LABORATORY TESTING in CHRONIC PAIN (9)

Preview: LABORATORY TESTING in CHRONIC PAIN (9) What are you going to do about Kynurenines and Quinolinic Acid— test? treat? ignore?

LABORATORY TESTING in CHRONIC PAIN (8) and the Progress of the New Protocol including Applied Molecular Biology

N-ACETYL-CYSTEINE, NAC: 2-hour video tutorial review

Medicine* is its own Horror Show: Amitriptyline is a horrible choice for MIGRAINE

Multicomponent Corruption in CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT (pt1) American Pain Society forced to bankruptcy and dissolution in 2019 for pushing dangerous treatments and causing the opioid crisis

[MUSIC FREE] Chronic Pain NOCIPLASTIC NONSENSE, Part1: If you are a reader and a thinker then you have to be able to recognize the IMBECILITY being perpetuated in Chronic Pain Management

NOCI-PLASTIC NONSENSE, Part1: If you are a reader and a thinker then you have to be able to recognize the nonsense being perpetuated in Chronic Pain Management

NOCIPLASTIC NONSENSE: the medical profession created a NEW TYPE OF PAIN to SELL MORE DRUGS and to compensate for (hide) their FAILURES at real types of pain

Thanks, STANFORD PAIN MEDICINE! I feel so happy when they keep proving that I’m right about their misperception and mismanagement of CHRONIC PAIN: My new work on MIGRAINE is going to Flip the Script!

Getting Older and Wiser (9) includes Learning to TRUST LESS and Doing MORE WORK to PROTECT YOURSELF, especially in business-legal contracts...and always REFLECTING and LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE

Getting Older and Wiser (8) comes at the expense of making some mistakes, feeling some painful disappointments (including from “family”) and LEARNING FROM THEM

Older people become Wiser (7) more effective, more free and happy when they learn to burn the mental deadweight of their own fantasies

Ongoing Pharma censorship in 2026 tells you they are not finished with their Plandemias and Domination of Thoughts, Ideas, Possibilities, and the Act of Thinking itself

Older and Wiser (6) entails Eschewing unnecessary Emotional Entanglements, Respecting Your Own (and Others’) Freedoms and Responsibilities

Older and Wiser (5) with Passive Income

THIS SITE is now my MAIN NEWSLETTER: InflammationMastery.substack.com = Inflammation-Mastery.com

American Academy of Neurology recommends AMITRIPTYLINE for MIGRAINE despite that MELATONIN is safer, more effective, more affordable, more available, and does not cause AMITRIPTYLINE’s WEIGHT GAIN

[MUSIC FREE] Melatonin vs AMITRIPTYLINE for CHRONIC PAIN conditions like MIGRAINE and FIBROMYALGIA

LABS for PAIN (7) Testing MELATONIN? before using Melatonin for CHRONIC PAIN conditions like MIGRAINE and FIBROMYALGIA??

REPRINT: Mitochondrial Medicine Arrives to Prime Time in Clinical Care: Nutritional Biochemistry and Mito Hyperpermeability (“Leaky Mitochondria”) Meet Disease Pathogenesis and Clinical Interventions

REPRINT: Musculoskeletal disorders and iron overload: comment on American College of Rheumatology guidelines for initial evaluation of adult patient with acute musculoskeletal symptoms 1996

LABS for CHRONIC PAIN (5) What is the probable diagnosis and next lab test?

LABS for CHRONIC PAIN (4) What if your patient refuses lab tests? What is the difference between CHRONIC PAIN with a ferritin of 4 vs a ferritin of 450, assuming a benign CRP et al?

Clinical-Laboratory Assessment of Chronic Pain (3) IRON DEFICIENCY vs IRON OVERLOAD flow diagram, management

LABORATORY TESTING of CHRONIC PAIN (2) Common Problems occur Commonly which is why these tests have to be part of your routine system, not an occasional afterthought

LABORATORY TESTING of CHRONIC PAIN (1) Review of TWO (2!) lab tests that actually direct treatment in CHRONIC PAIN AND MIGRAINE and yet most doctors don’t even know about them

Alzheimer DEMENTIA and Rheumatoid ARTHRITIS are driven by the same MOUTH BACTERIA–reminder from previous post

I need a group of doctors/clinicians to help manage chronic pain patients, especially migraine and CRPS

Older and Wiser (4) Defending Ourselves against Thieves and Psychopaths

Vitamin D3 — Articles, Videos, and Infographic

MIGRAINE CONSPIRACY: Ignorant Doctors + Bad Advice + Incomplete Care + Ineffective Drug-Only Guidelines = Perpetual Pharma Profiteering

[MUSIC-FREE] 2026 MIGRAINE GUIDELINES from American Academy of Neurology + American Headache Society — Commentary and Contextualization

2026 MIGRAINE GUIDELINES from American Academy of Neurology + American Headache Society — Commentary and Contextualization

Your MOUTH determines the FUTURE of Your BRAIN: Dental Bacteria discovered in Alzheimer Brains... similar to MS... already connected to Rheumatoid Arthritis

NORMALIZATION of JUNK content AND INATTENTION +++ EMBRACE of STUPIDITY and PSYCHOPATHY will be the downfall of health, democracy, and of humanity.

PHILOSOPHY of MEDICAL MODELS (5) more excerpts from Nietzsche... from a cassette that is no longer available... which I purchased twice

PHILOSOPHY of MEDICAL MODELS (4) excerpts from Nietzsche... from a cassette that is no longer available... which I purchased twice

PHILOSOPHY of MEDICAL MODELS (3) Medical Management of Disease-Depression is designed to restore Neutrality (Nietzsche’s slave morality) but is not designed to achieve Optimal Health (master morality)

PHILOSOPHY of MEDICAL MODELS (2) A Few Words about Nietzsche and his Zarathustra as apparently the only Positivist and Complete View of Human Life

PHILOSOPHY of SCIENTIFIC-MEDICAL MODELS (1) The Medical Paradigm is (mostly) a Minefield of Logical Fallacies, Erroneous Assumptions, and Personality-Disordered Usurpations

MIGRAINE MECHANIC™ introduction—all of the new pain-specific updates will be mirrored on both pages, but most of the info will remain here at Inflammation-Mastery.com

NEUROINFLAMMATION (BRAIN INFLAMMATION), Dysbiosis, Microbiome: Strategies, Tactics, Antibiotics, and Making Peace with Our Enemies

Demolition of Migraine, Headache, Pain: beyond Calcium, far beyond Drug Dependency

FIBROMYALGIA Foibles, MIGRAINE Models, PAIN Priorities: Same SCIENCE, Divergent DECISIONS, Remarkable VS Reprehensible RESULTS

RESEARCH ANALYSIS: American Association of Clinical Endocrinology 2026 study on Metformin and Vitamin B12 Deficiency—Brilliant or Bogus?

American Association of Clinical Endocrinology 2026 study on Metformin and Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Brilliant or Bogus?

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

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

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

Can you explain DYSBIOSIS and Dysbiosis-induced inflammation and autoimmunity, especially as relevant for PSORIASIS and RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS and MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS?

LABS for CHRONIC PAIN (6) VitaminD deficiency causes CHRONIC PAIN and PAIN AMPLIFICATION

5 hours of VIDEOS + 3 PDF articles = Foundational DIET + Overall PROTOCOL

pseudoSalvation and self-serving Redemption by HyperMedicalization: nonsensical Compliance or nonsensical Consequence—take your pick

Recurrent Medication-Induced Psychosis reported in International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 2025: A Convincing Case Report among MANY INDEPENDENTLY REPORTED CASES

DIET + Overall PROTOCOL in <3 hours of Learning—easy peasy

My Wife has an Elevated Vitamin D level, measured at 138 ng/ml (range: 30-100) of 25-OH-Vitamin D3. Should I be concerned?

Which Wines have the most Pesticides?

Older and Wiser (3) with Wine and Whiskey—Making better Choices in Quality while also Protecting Oneself from the Adverse Effects

Modulation of Anxiety, Neuroplasticity, Pain, Neurodegeneration by Brain iCa (intracellular calcium) confirmed in "wet bench" animal studies

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

INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM in Pain Disorders, Depression, Hypertension, Diabetes, Seizures, and Neurodegeneration

New Drug (or false hope) for MIGRAINE—the new Anti-PACAP (pituitary adenylate cyclase–activating polypeptide) Antibodies, from NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 2024: VIDEO REVIEW

Older and Wiser (2) with Career Choices: 1) Never take a teaching job unless teaching is your lifepath; 2) Don't expect your profession or job to be loyal to you beyond your next paycheck

Older and Wiser (1) with Health, Money, Business, and Legal Matters

Pyridoxine-Responsive Epilepsy and Pernicious Anemia exemplify the Life-Saving Importance of "Synthetic" Vitamins

Interface Dermatitis, the ID reaction—another face of the Herxheimer-type "die-off" reaction

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

INFLAMMATION MASTERY 4th EDITION updated hyperlinks to bookstores for the F.I.N.D.S.E.X.® Functional Medicine Protocol

This site (InflammationMastery.substack.com = Inflammation-Mastery.com)—is now my main newsletter

Most efficient differentiation of the Nutritional Paradigm from the Drug Paradigm, using Calcium-Channel Blocking (CCB) Drugs as the Perfect Example

INTRACELLULAR HYPERCALCINOSIS: 20 years later, this remains a topic of major and emerging importance

Medical Paradigm vs Drug Paradigm: Emerging Patterns in Dietary Supplement Use Among US Adults, 1999-2023

NeuroMast Protocol® Next-Generation Biological Response Modification for Chronic Pain and Neuroinflammatory Conditions, including Migraine, Fibromyalgia, CRPS, Autism

Willow bark (Salix alba) risks, benefits, mechanisms, and fear-mongering by the medical propaganda machine

Official Guidelines GUARANTEE FAILURE in Treatment of CHRONIC PAIN per American Family Physician journal and American Academy of Family Physicians 2021

SCIENCE OF PAIN MANAGEMENT from Harvard Medical School (presented in 2018, critiqued in 2024) Demonstration of of the medical profession's refusal to advance

How I cured myself of CRPS—Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Sudeck Atrophy, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: A Progressive Anthology

Decades of Stagnation in Migraine, CRPS, Pain Management: Migraine Consensus Review and Critique—30 years of evidence reviews nonstop medical propaganda

Loose Ends and Changes: 1) Herx transformation, 2) Men's Watches, 3) Pain Apocalypse

PDF update to INFLAMMATION MASTERY textbook (2026may) Research Analysis, Clinical Decision-Making, Patient Management

Treatment vs Management Masterclass VIDEO + NOTES

Treatment vs Management of Joint Pain with Skin Rash: VIDEO TUTORIAL (raw video, version 1)

WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR THIS: Clinical Management of Challenging Diagnosis?

Research Analysis + Clinical Decision-Making [Introductory VIDEO TUTORIAL + NOTES]

NUTRITIONAL PHARMACOLOGY of B1, Thiamine (part4) + Clinical Decision-Making + Critical Analysis of Research + Legal Defense

MUSIC enhances EXERCISE: Less pain, lower "perceived exertion", better performance, longer duration... and almost certainly can promote improved brain health

Most Important EIGHT (8) videos on ANTIVIRAL STRATEGIES: Core Knowledge, Key Concepts, and Evidence-Based Interventions

March 2020 INTERVIEW VIDEO Controlled Narratives, Banned Books, Institutionalized Nutritional Ignorance, and the Coronavirus Pandemic, Cavin Balaster interviews DrV

2019 Antiviral Overview VIDEO protocol review and reintroduction [ARCHIVED] because I could see that Medicine had been hijacked by the PharmaGlobalists so I started refreshing my antiviral protocol

Catastrophic failures of Tetanus pseudoprevention, published in peer-reviewed specialty medical journal NEUROLOGY (1992) without objection or withdrawal for 34+ years

Antiviral Nutrition against Cv19 in early 2020: The Censored 1-hour Video Review that could have SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES [DUPLICATE]

Antiviral Nutrition Summary 2020 Remastered 2021 [ARCHIVED VIDEO]

Antibody-triggering EFFICACY (a laboratory finding) is not the same as real-world clinical EFFECTIVENESS that actually matters

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) Pharmacology, Part 3: Solving the Mystery by 1) correlating with other data, and 2) looking at the sponsorship of the researchers

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Vitamin B1 PHARMACOLOGY, part2

MUSIC Modulates the MIND and Improves the BRAIN: updated "MusicIndex" May2026

Herxheimer Reactions, Dysbiosis, Therapeutics: Part 2

Vitamin D in the treatment of Autoimmunity: How much, how and why, and justified by what criteria?

Vitamin D3 intakes up to 15,000 IU and serum 25ohD concentrations up to 300 nmol/L on calcium metabolism in a community setting. Dermatoendocrinol 2017

High-Dose Vitamin D3 in Patients with Autoimmune Diseases (Coimbra Protocol) Safety and Implementation

[ARCHIVED] "Subphysiologic Doses of Vitamin D are Subtherapeutic", British Medical Journal 2005 rapid response by Dr Vasquez

AntiNutrition Fraud (4) American Medical Association attempts to show that VitaminD is ineffective for MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS but results show significant benefit

AntiNutrition Fraud (3) American Medical Association publishes one of the most corrupt studies ever concocted in order to make vitamin D appear ineffective against acute pandemic infections

AntiNutrition Fraud (2) Propaganda against “white willow bark” (Salix alba) in Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2005

AntiNutrition Fraud (1) Medical Schools-Journals publish incompetent "nutrition research" to feign inefficacy and toxicity to promote drug sales, medical hegemony/profitability, and social control

Dysbiotic Relationships, Herxheimer, and the Skilled Use of Antibiotic Drugs: Part 2 + my video from the 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine [ICHNFM]

[FINAL EDITS] Harvard Medical School, Karolinska Sweden, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center misuse VitaminD against Acute Covid and "Long Covid" for Sophisticated Failure to Sabotage Nutrition, Sell Drugs

VIDEO SERIES DrV's FUNCTIONAL INFLAMMOLOGY: All Videos Archived Online in 2026

Herxheimer Reactions, Dysbiosis, Therapeutics: Part 1

Functional Inflammology (NUHS2012 video 7 of 7)

Functional Inflammology (NUHS2012 video 6 of 7)

Functional Inflammology (NUHS2012 video 5 of 7)

Functional Inflammology (NUHS2012 video 4 of 7)

Functional Inflammology (NUHS2012 video 3 of 7)

Functional Inflammology (NUHS2012 video 2 of 7)

Functional Inflammology (NUHS2012 video 1 of 7)

Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis Video #6: Dysbiosis by Location—The Sinuses and Respiratory Tract (two videos)—revisited in 2026

The Arts of Clinical Medicine and Self-Care: Herxheimer Reaction Confirms the Microbial-Dysbiotic Diagnosis, but does not exclude concomitant Allergy

New Research (NEUROLOGY 2025) shows that COGNITIVE DISABILITY is now “the most commonly reported disability among US adults”

Part 2: Vitamin T—improves mood, creativity, and adaptability; provides more options, can be shared with others

Vitamin T—improves mood, creativity, and adaptability; provides more options, can be shared with others

Upcoming HUMANISTIC + BIOMEDICAL topics: Allergy, Sinusitis, Bronchitis, Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome, Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction to ABX azithromycin

New study from Harvard Medical School, Karolinska Sweden, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center using VitaminD against Acute Covid and "Long Covid" is Sophisticated Failure to Sabotage Nutrition, Sell Drugs

Did you see the new study from Harvard Medical School using vitamin D against Acute Covid and "Long Covid"?

Subpharmacologic LITHIUM (4) dangerous???…or merely the target of a medical smear campaign based on its SAFE and EFFECTIVE threatening of the drug-dependency paradigm?

[PreVIEW] Lithium toxicity from an Internet dietary supplement. Journal of Medical Toxicology 2007

JAMA 2026 Low-Dose Lithium for Mild Cognitive Impairment (3) Critique and Confirmation of the Anti-Lithium Conspiracy

Nutritional Lithium (2) and Confirmation of the Anti-Lithium Conspiracy

LITHIUM (1) LABS in nutritional vs pharmacologic dosing

Tea Leaves and Pattern Recognition in Biochemical Networks and Psychopathic Globalism: How to see what is coming

VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY results in CHRONIC PAIN and PAIN AMPLIFICATION: Relevance for Fibromyalgia, Migraine, Low-Back Pain...and everything else that "always hurts"

UNDERSTANDING COMPLEX CHARACTERS beyond Huxley's Alpha-Gamma hierarchy provides better MAPPING and PREDICTION of complex behaviors within their social context

Free Biological Intervention to IMPROVE BRAIN HEALTH: Durable effects that last for at least 7 weeks after a single intervention of 3-4 minutes

NFkB 20 Years Later: Its Ongoing Daily AntiInflammatory Importance in Preventive and Clinical Medicine

VIDEO EXPLANATIONS: 1) Health Benefits of Honey, 2) vs High-Fructose Corn Syrup, 3) Inflammatory Pathways, 4) Plagiarism of my Diagram from my 2004 textbook INTEGRATIVE ORTHOPEDICS and more

PLAGIARISM NOTICE: Simon Goddek stole my diagram which I published in 2004, then said he made it in 2022, claiming that he was the hero for doing the work

Do you manage all of your high-performing ALPHAS and SIGMAS in the same way?

GIVEN that our world is populated and largely governed by PSYCHOPATHS, we have an OBLIGATION to be able to IDENTIFY them and PROTECT OURSELVES

DUNNING-KRUGER TRIAD, illustrated

DUNNING-KRUGER TRIAD: 1) incompetence, 2) unawareness, and 3) defensive arrogance—this triad programs some people to feel entitled to override others, making them manipulative, dangerous

Evidence-based recommendations for optimal dietary protein intake in older people

Productivity and Health-Protection both require MICROstrategies and MACROstrategies

DAILY FIVE (v3, updated 21Jan2026) Body, Brain, Production, Connection, Logistics

Part 6 VIDEO: pH alkalinization problems with Ketogenic and High-Protein Diets

Part 6 VIDEO—pH alkalinization problems with Ketogenic and High-Protein Diets

Dietary Protein, Part 5: Cheese, other common milk-based foods such as kefir and yogurt; accessory nutrients and bioavailability

Dietary Protein, Part 2 [UPDATED VIDEO] The eight (8) major considerations in the conversation on dietary protein

Dietary Protein, part4: Consequences of low-protein diets include losses of body cell mass, bone density, muscle function, and immune response

Dietary Protein, part3: Spanish sardines, cheese, pesto, and coffee

As a skilled clinician, you need to be able to list at least EIGHT (8) MAJOR CONSIDERATIONS in the conversation of DIETARY PROTEIN

Are Doctors allowed to Talk about (2) International Flexibility during times of International Instability?

My foundational nutritional plan, the 5-part Supplemented PaleoMediterranean Diet (SPMD, 5pSPMD): Reintroduction and Current Modifications, part1

MALIGNANT NARCISSISM: definition and my new clinical-social acronym mnemonic N.A.P.S.

MUSIC+MATH=MIND (final edit) long/complete version including reading-review of the complete article

MUSIC+MATH=MIND (short version, final edit)

Psychopaths have smaller brains, inability to plan, inability to conceptualize others (now) and themselves (in the future): Allow psychopaths to control your government and you will have daily chaos

MUSICAL PSYCHOMODULATION AND TONAL NEUROMODULATION (pt2, short version)

preview/excerpt MUSICAL THINKING and TONAL NEUROMODULATION (pt2) with a partial indexed listing of some of my favorite songs

MUSIC MATTERS FOR YOUR MIND (pt1) with a partial indexed listing of some of my favorite songs

Are Doctors allowed to Talk about (1) Watches?

DOWNLOAD the digital version of Inflammation Mastery 4thEd from Amazon

Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) in the News, part 1

2025 End-of-Year Closure, 2026 Predictions, and the 4 layers of Nietzsche's ZARATHUSTRA