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Editor’s note –
April 2025
“Take these four drugs – they will stop you becoming a patient”
Only an idiot would believe that prescribing someone a combination of four drugs that they are to take from the age of 50 onwards is a “preventative strategy” that will stop them from becoming patients in the first place.
Step forward Rachel Jordan, professor of epidemiology and primary care University of Birmingham; Aroon Hingorani, professor of genetic epidemiology at University College London; and Prof Sir Nicholas Wald, professor of preventive medicine at University College London.
These are the authors of an opinion piece in the BMJ that has been passed off in the mainstream media as a “study” in support of the polypill. Two epidemiologists – well, enough said – and a professor of “preventive medicine” who just happens to be a founder of Polypill.com, the company pushing for the NHS to adopt the commercial product.
It’s Wald in particular who has come out with a classic perversion of preventive medicine, comparing the polypill to vaccines and using some kind of 1984 doublespeak to maintain that anyone prescribed a combo of four drugs – to take for the rest of their life – is somehow not a patient.
It gets worse.
The authors argue that putting millions of over-50s on a four-drug regime could be a “flagship strategy” in Labour’s pledge to prevent disease rather than treat sickness. Insanity. But wait – there’s more – you wouldn’t even have to be ill to “qualify” for this programme – it’ll be totally age-dependent.
I can’t find the words to describe this depravity and the way it has been presented to, and uncritically promulgated by, the media. Luckily I don’t have to. In this issue, Dr Zoë Harcombe, PhD, tears into this with passion and in detail. Read her blistering exposé starting on page 38…
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We’re not defenceless
Hats off to the team at the Weizmann Institute led by Prof Yifat Merbl who have discovered a new mechanism in the immune system.
In our cellular waste disposal system we have a previously unknown armoury of pathogen-killing peptides. It’s an autonomous part of our innate immune system. In a world where “prevention” has been hijacked by the vaccine industry – and by drug approaches (polypill, anyone?) – we’re losing sight of the fact that our brains and bodies are superbly equipped to keep us in good health.
Join us in London for the goods on thiamine, women’s health, fatty liver and autophagy
We love it when one of our own gets a “proper” paper published. Our resident thiamine expert Elliot Overton is almost at the finishing line with a research paper in press describing the rationale for the use of high-dose thiamine in functional gut disorders. The review has highlighted the idea that the gut can suffer a “localised deficiency” of the vitamin that will not show up in tests.
In this case, we’ve a double celebration, since Elliot is a main speaker at our first Summit of 2025: April 26 in London. Join him, Dr David Unwin, Dr Ash Kapoor and Dr Sally Moorcroft PLUS visit a must-visit Expo. See page 14 for details.
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