The Presidential Announcement
September 22, 2025, President Trump held a press convention in regards to the potential causes of autism. Shortly beforehand, the press turned conscious that Trump would give attention to the hyperlink between Tylenol and autism, ensuing within the nationwide media collectively ridiculing that hyperlink instantly earlier than the press convention.
In that press convention, Trump said he had felt very strongly about bringing consideration to vaccines and autism for 20 years, that he felt we had been giving too many photographs too rapidly, and that they wanted to be spaced out. There was no cause to present the hepatitis B vaccine previous to kids being 12 (which, as I confirmed right here, is true), and Tylenol will increase the chance of autism, so if doable, it ought to be prevented throughout being pregnant, and you shouldn’t give it to infants.
Secretary Kennedy added that some 40% to 70% of moms who’ve kids with autism imagine a vaccine injured their baby, and that President Trump believes we ought to be listening to those moms as an alternative of gaslighting them.
Observe: Regrettably, to point out they believed in “Science,” pregnant moms started rapidly posting movies of themselves taking giant quantities of Tylenol (which I compiled on 𝕏 right here — together with one tragic overdose1).
Over-the-Counter Ache Administration
Due to how uncomfortable ache is, ache therapies have lengthy been a core market in drugs. Remarkably, nonetheless, most traditional ache therapies have critical points and usually lead sufferers to needing an increasing number of extreme interventions.
Usually, the first-line remedy for ache is an over-the-counter remedy, reminiscent of acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil or Motrin), naproxen (Aleve), aspirin, or topical diclofenac (Voltaren gel). Sadly, these drugs all have dose-dependent toxicity and sometimes solely elicit partial enchancment in ache. Many take into account NSAIDs (ibuprofen and naproxen) among the many most hazardous medication within the U.S. as a result of:
• They’re the main reason for drug-related hospital admissions — Usually on account of coronary heart assaults, strokes, bleeding, and kidney failure2 (e.g., no less than 107,000 People are admitted to hospitals annually for NSAID GI bleeds).3
• Kidney injury is a major threat — One research discovered a 20% elevated threat of kidney illness from NSAIDs;4 others discovered as much as 212%.5 Amongst kidney failure sufferers, 65.7% had been discovered to be power NSAID customers.6
• NSAIDs elevate cardiovascular dangers — NSAIDs additionally improve the chance of coronary heart assaults and dying (e.g., in depth research have discovered between a 24% to 326% improve7,8,9). Two of the worst ones, Vioxx (Merck)10 and Celebrex (Pfizer),11 had been designed to scale back abdomen bleeding however as an alternative brought on coronary heart assaults and strokes.
Merck hid information on Vioxx’s dangers; ultimately it was withdrawn after an estimated 120,000 deaths.12 Celebrex, nonetheless in the marketplace, has been linked to 75,000 deaths.13 Merck’s dealing with of Vioxx14 later knowledgeable how pharma pushed the HPV vaccine and mRNA vaccines.15
• Gastrointestinal bleeding is frequent and infrequently deadly — In 1999, over 16,000 People died from it.16 NSAIDs additionally trigger small bowel injury in over 50% of power customers17 — usually undetected — resulting in “small bowel enteropathy” and presumably power sickness by way of intestine permeability.18
• They impair therapeutic, particularly of ligaments, creating long-term re-injury threat.19
Observe: The risks of NSAIDs are mentioned additional right here.
The poor efficacy of OTC ache drugs, together with their vital toxicity, was one of many major causes I spent the final yr making an attempt to convey consideration to DMSO, which is dramatically more practical than another over-the-counter choice (e.g., I compiled in depth literature demonstrating that right here, and have acquired nicely over a thousand experiences from readers saying it produced miraculous enhancements in ache).
Tylenol Toxicity
Tylenol (acetaminophen or paracetamol) is mostly thought-about safer than NSAIDs, although it too is usually ineffective for extreme ache. When metabolized, it produces the metabolite NAPQI (N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine), which is very poisonous to liver cells as a result of it irreversibly binds to important mobile proteins.
Usually, comparatively little NAPQI is produced and is rapidly neutralized by liver glutathione. Nevertheless, when an excessive amount of Tylenol is taken, the opposite detoxing pathways get saturated, glutathione shops get used up, and fast liver dying from unneutralized NAPQI ensues.
Because of this, Tylenol overuse results in 56,000 ER visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths yearly in America.20 Moreover, Tylenol has a number of different main points:
• NAPQI can also be poisonous to the kidneys, and in 1% to 2% of overdose circumstances, the kidneys are additionally broken.21
• Quite a few research have linked gastrointestinal unwanted side effects to using Tylenol.
• In a single assessment, Tylenol was discovered to extend the chance of: bleeding or perforated peptic ulcers (+6–121%), coronary heart failure (+9–98%), myocardial infarction (+0–73%), hypertension (+7–62%), and power renal failure (+19–129%).22
• A scientific assessment recognized information suggesting power Tylenol use elevated blood strain, elevated bronchial asthma (a doable 15% improve), and brought on a 3.6 to three.7 improve in gastric bleeding.23
• Tylenol has been related to an elevated threat of blood cancers: +16% from low use and +84% from excessive use.24
• In kids of moms chronically utilizing Tylenol, a assessment discovered the next will increase: hyperkinetic dysfunction (+37%), ADHD remedy use (+29%), autism spectrum dysfunction with hyperkinetic signs (+51%), and bronchial asthma in offspring from frequent use in late being pregnant (+110%).25
• A current systematic assessment of 46 research carried out on the chance of Tylenol throughout being pregnant inflicting neurodevelopmental problems (NDDs) in offspring discovered that almost all of research detected an elevated threat, these of upper high quality had been extra more likely to detect the affiliation, and the rise was dose-dependent.26 The elevated NDDs included autism, ADHD, and different NDDs affecting studying, social/motor abilities, consideration, cognition, feelings, and conduct.
Observe: This research is arguably probably the most definitive proof that Tylenol shouldn’t be protected throughout being pregnant and was the one Trump and RFK’s staff highlighted at their current vaccine announcement.
All of this led to a moderately peculiar media phenomenon:
Observe: Quite a few inside paperwork27 and public statements have proven that by 2017, Tylenol’s producer was nicely conscious of the drug’s hyperlink to autism.28
Treating Fevers
A normal hospital process is for nurses to test sufferers’ important indicators each few hours, and if something is irregular, contact the supervising physician. One in all my continuous challenges was telling nurses I didn’t wish to deal with fevers — one thing which docs had diametrically opposed views on, with the bulk desirous to deal with fevers. I used to be fairly astonished to see the top of the FDA converse out in opposition to this apply:
• Why will we deal with fevers? — There are a couple of justifications for treating fevers:
1. Fevers considerably improve metabolic demand on the physique, inserting further stress on important organs. In ICU settings the place organ features are compromised, lowering metabolic demand could extend survival — although it’s acknowledged that fevers help in eliminating infections. There isn’t a clear consensus inside important care on how fevers ought to be managed.
Observe: Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation, a potent remedy for infectious ailments that additionally treats a wide range of different situations and infrequently seems to “re-energize” the physique, as a myriad of poorly functioning techniques resume their regular perform throughout a UVBI session. I point out this as one of many major “unwanted side effects” of UVBI is that when it eliminates an an infection it should usually create a fever.
2. Excessive fevers could cause mind injury. Hyperpyrexia is outlined as a medical emergency,29 with thresholds starting from 105.8°F to 106.7°F. In response to Penn State, mind injury usually received’t happen until the fever exceeds 107.6°F.30
3. In kids, fevers can generally result in seizures. Nevertheless, a 2017 Cochrane assessment discovered that fever-reducing drugs present no profit for stopping febrile seizures,31 and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends in opposition to this apply.32
4. To scale back the discomfort of the fever — the first cause most Tylenol is prescribed, although I don’t agree with this method.
• Arguments in opposition to treating fevers:
1. Fevers present invaluable diagnostic details about new or recurring infections.
Observe: In infants, unexplained fevers over 100° usually warrant a (justified) rapid analysis for sepsis — which is considered one of many the explanation why the (fever-causing) new child hepatitis B vaccine is so problematic.
2. Relapsing fevers characterize sure autoimmune and infectious ailments, so, if a fever is artificially suppressed, the diagnostic sign is misplaced.
3. The physique depends upon fevers to remove sickness, and in some trials, suppressing fevers extends the length of sickness.33
4. As Tylenol has systemic toxicity and reduces liver perform and glutathione (essential to detoxify toxins), this could worsen sure sicknesses or improve the chance a vaccine will trigger autism.
5. Suppressing febrile sicknesses transforms them into extra extreme infections.
Of those, the fifth is the least appreciated and therefore shall be expanded upon.
The 1918 Influenza
In December 2019, I turned conscious of COVID-19 and have become very apprehensive that it might trigger critical issues. We spent January and February learning a wide range of sources, together with literature from the 1918 pandemic that supplied important insights for treating COVID-19 (and saved the lives of these in our shut circle).
Observe: I take into account the 1918 influenza pandemic one of the crucial lethal and devastating pandemics in historical past. Over 2.5% of these contaminated died34 (with a lot larger charges starting from 12% to 90% in Native American populations).35 Since many of the therapies tried failed, the few that labored had been fairly noteworthy.
All through that literature, many clinicians treating the an infection said that utilizing aspirin on sufferers’ fevers considerably elevated their threat of dying and that those that had beforehand been handled with aspirin tended to have the poorest response to the therapies, which in any other case labored for the sickness.
Observe: At the moment, docs routinely used giant aspirin doses that are identified to be poisonous.36
Since that point, fevers have been acknowledged as critically essential in preventing infections. A few of the key pathways embrace:37
• Fevers increase the exercise of immune cells like neutrophils, monocytes, and T-cells
• Fevers promote kind I interferon responses that inhibit viral replication
• Fevers set off warmth shock proteins to activate immune defenses
• Fevers work synergistically with stressors like iron deprivation to amplify injury to pathogens
• Fevers sluggish pathogen progress early, serving to to manage infections
Throughout COVID, I had a number of conversations with folks the place I suggested them in opposition to suppressing fevers with Tylenol or ibuprofen. Nonetheless, they did anyway, then decompensated and needed to go to the ER. I discovered that heating somebody who was acutely ailing (significantly with infrared mats) usually made them really feel considerably higher instantly, and not need fever remedy.
From this, I shaped the speculation that the discomfort related to fevers outcomes not from the warmth itself, however moderately from the pressure the physique undergoes in making an attempt to warmth itself.
Smallpox Vaccines
Many have no idea that the anti-vaccination motion originated with the smallpox vaccine, as a result of vaccine incessantly failing to forestall smallpox and severely injuring many recipients (detailed right here).
When the smallpox vaccine was administered, it might usually trigger a major inflammatory pores and skin response. The medical discipline noticed that those that the vaccine failed to guard had additionally not developed the attribute pores and skin eruption. As such, they adopted the stance that if the vaccine “didn’t take,” it wanted to be reapplied till the pores and skin eruption occurred.
In distinction, dissident physicians concluded the pores and skin response was a proxy for a functioning immune system, so these the place “it didn’t take” had been the identical individuals who had been more likely to turn into severely ailing from smallpox (therefore making vaccination pointless).
Observe: A case could be made that this challenge applies to many different vaccines too.
Moreover, as soon as the vaccine was deployed, many extremely uncommon neurological accidents occurred in these the place the vaccine “didn’t take,” inflicting observers to conclude a scarcity of vitality had allowed the vaccine to “go inward” after which trigger a lot worse power points.
Observe: A lot of these neurological accidents mirrored what could be seen from blood cells clumping collectively and obstructing blood move, a standard consequence of vaccination that outcomes from electrical potential shifts within the blood.
Classes from Chinese language Drugs
Chinese language drugs’s 2,000-year written historical past gives distinctive insights into how humanity’s illness patterns have shifted over time. Notably, the beforehand described idea of microclotting inflicting illness exists inside Chinese language drugs (known as blood stasis), and blood stasis turning into a major reason for sickness roughly coincides with when the smallpox vaccine was launched to China.
Inside Chinese language drugs, signs range by how deeply illness has penetrated the physique. Systemic microclotting initially compromises blood move within the smallest vessels, however because it worsens, bigger clots kind that hinder medium and ultimately giant vessels. If the pathogenic issue penetrates deeper, the situation transforms from an acute response to an insidious “latent” power sickness. In flip, to revive well being, Chinese language drugs seeks to expel the pathogenic elements by shifting them to the floor.
Fevers and Most cancers
Anthroposophic drugs, based by Austrian mystic Rudolph Steiner, posits that cancers consequence from a “chilly” state, the place the warming affect of the physique’s bioenergetic discipline is diminished. Fevers had been seen as obligatory for sustaining bioenergetic vitality and immune energy. Steiner believed childhood sicknesses that produced fevers had been important for permitting each the physique and the immune system to mature. Since Steiner’s time, proof has accrued supporting his speculation:
• Not having a childhood chickenpox an infection will increase the chance of mind most cancers later in life.38,39,40,41
• Not having a mumps an infection will increase the chance of (incessantly lethal) ovarian most cancers.42,43,44
• Earlier infections of influenza, measles, mumps, or chickenpox lower one’s threat of malignant melanoma.45
• Measles and mumps have been noticed to just about halve the chance of getting a coronary heart assault, stroke, or mind bleed.46
In 1891, an American surgeon noticed {that a} affected person with an inoperable sarcoma skilled spontaneous tumor regression after surviving a extreme streptococcal an infection. He concluded that the excessive fever could have cured their most cancers, and created a mix of bacterial endotoxins (Coley’s toxins) which efficiently handled many most cancers sufferers. Nevertheless, as radiation and chemotherapy emerged, his method turned largely forgotten.
Immediately, a associated method — entire physique hyperthermia — has been extensively utilized in Germany for many years, and is now considered as a viable remedy for sure cancers.47
Systemic Suppression
Within the Nineteen Seventies, a convention was held the place main homeopaths predicted that docs routinely suppressing signs would trigger a worldwide shift from much less extreme to extra extreme sicknesses (cancers), whereas bodily sicknesses could be pushed deeper and changed with psychiatric then religious illnesses. I by no means forgot that convention as a result of it accurately predicted the brand new sicknesses that will comply with (which included nervousness, despair, psychopathy, mass shootings, and religious disconnection).
This prediction mirrored a perception inside many faculties of pure drugs that therapeutic requires shifting deep points to the floor, and that typical drugs as an alternative creates power sickness as a result of the drugs used are suppressive in nature, and by bringing issues inward, rework minor acute reactions into larger long-lasting issues later.
Homeopaths, for instance, map this by way of Hering’s Legislation of Remedy, which states signs enhance from head down, inside out, and in reverse order of emergence.48
Observe: I’ve seen quite a few circumstances the place acute sickness turned extreme and lifelong after (suppressive) steroids had been reflexively given (significantly to deal with the signs of undiagnosed Lyme illness).
Moreover, many imagine parallel depth exists inside physique, thoughts, and spirit. When bodily signs are suppressed, extra profound points emerge mentally or spiritually. Likewise, psychiatric drugs, by suppressing the present emotion, usually create deeper psychiatric or religious points (e.g., antidepressants create attribute responses together with emotional anesthetization and religious disconnection).
Observe: An African shaman who visited American psychiatric establishments supplied quite a few compelling examples of this religious suppression which mirror what I’ve additionally noticed.49
• Suppressive antibiotics — Pure drugs practitioners additionally incessantly noticed antibiotics “treating” acute infections in trade for creating power situations (e.g., Chinese language Drugs describes “Latent Warmth” the place pathogenic elements penetrate with out inflicting obvious signs, incubating and later emerge50).
A consortium of researchers supplied a proof for this: when micro organism face deadly stressors (significantly cell wall-destroying antibiotics), moderately than die, some enter a survival mode and rework into misshapen cell wall-deficient (CWD) micro organism.51
Intensive analysis, in flip, exhibits that CWD micro organism are present in tissues present process autoimmune assault (because the immune system can inform they’re hiding throughout the cells) and that these micro organism, in some circumstances, can rework again to regular and trigger the beforehand vanquished an infection to recur.52
• Autism and Tylenol — Throughout my pediatric rotations throughout my medical coaching, I noticed circumstances the place kids had vaccine reactions with fever and crying, got Tylenol, then developed extra extreme reactions (e.g., extreme rashes) instantly after the fever disappeared.
Following this, I progressively got here throughout an increasing number of circumstances (e.g., shared by mother and father) the place the response was much more extreme, with the kid creating a everlasting developmental incapacity. I finally concluded three doable mechanisms may very well be at work:
◦These had been direct illustrations of how driving signs inwards creating worse outcomes.
◦Fevers improve blood circulation and scale back clumping, stopping mind injury from vaccine induced microstrokes — suppression removes this safety.
◦Tylenol’s stress on the liver reduces the power to neutralize vaccine toxins, making hurt extra seemingly.
Conclusion
The proof connecting Tylenol use throughout being pregnant and infancy to autism and different neurodevelopmental problems has turn into more and more tough to disregard. Latest systematic critiques of dozens of research have persistently discovered dose-dependent will increase in autism, ADHD, and different developmental points in kids whose moms used Tylenol throughout being pregnant.
Nevertheless, the implications prolong past simply Tylenol and autism. This dialogue highlights a basic drawback in fashionable drugs: the reflexive suppression of acute signs could also be remodeling manageable, short-term sicknesses into extreme, power situations.
Whether or not by way of fever suppression, overuse of antibiotics that create antibiotic-resistant or dormant bacterial types, or the widespread use of steroids and different immunosuppressive drugs, we could also be buying and selling short-term consolation for long-term well being penalties.
Shifting ahead, we want a paradigm shift in how we method sickness — one which respects the physique’s innate therapeutic knowledge whereas offering real help throughout acute sicknesses. This implies re-evaluating when symptom suppression is actually obligatory versus when it could trigger extra hurt than good.
Writer’s Observe: That is an abridged model of an extended article which matches into larger particulars on the factors talked about right here, together with pure alternate options for managing ache or infections, choose safer antibiotics and methods to reverse the long-term penalties of suppressive medicines. That article, together with further hyperlinks and references could be learn right here.
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