Dilshaad Brey

Librarian at the UCT Health Sciences Library since 19 May 2014

[Dilshaad Brey @DilshaadB]

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 The Prophet (pbuh) led the prophets in prayer at Masjid Al-Aqsa. This is a symbol of the unity of the message of all prophets of Allah. #HandsOffAlAqsa

[Dr. Yousef 🇵🇸 @yousef_ki1]

Let’s break the algorithm — PLEASE reply with a dot.

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

A group of leading African researchers trying to develop effective vaccines against HIV are trying to figure out how to salvage their ambitious research after losing funding as a result of the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid.

https://t.co/trAFlZnweQ

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

#Endometriosis: addressing the roots of slow progress

Governments need to formulate plans that not only include measurable targets & interventions across the care pathway but also address the need to change the culture around women, pain & periods.

🔗 https://t.co/bajgcETOhX

[Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility @GlobalHealthUMN]

Join us for our eighth annual Quie and Peterson Lecture on Oct. 8, from noon to 1:15 p.m. CDT. @seyeabimbola will speak to epistemic injustice in global health and how academicians can identify their own biases to ensure more equitable practices. https://t.co/LPge7LNJLj

[Africa Research Excellence Fund @AREF_Africa]

#GrantWriting Programme Opportunity

🔍 Check out the eligibility criteria below and on the website to see if you qualify.
🔗 Apply here: https://t.co/GbUwt7M6ad
📅Deadline: 30 August 2024

[Ursula Forrest @UrsForrest]

Africa CDC declares mPOX national emergency as SA 🇿🇦records 24 cases / 59 million population.

mPox is mainly transmitted via sexual contact and male to male. 👇Read this article 👇

https://t.co/DsgfaWMsnU

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Not a single routine childhood vaccine was licensed based on a long-term placebo-controlled trial. Not one. Thank you @ICANdecide for funding the careful creation of this chart. https://t.co/HMalj55abF

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube will ask President Cyril Ramaphosa to send the controversial Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill back to Parliament.

https://t.co/FqeXyyhEPu

[Shabnam Palesa Mohamed @ShabnamPalesaMo]

🛑 The WHO'S owners intend to sneak in the controversial 'pandemic treaty' possibly between November to December, possibly 16 December when most people are on holiday. If secrecy doesn't work, they will again use threats like at WHA77. Tell your politicians: Do Not Comply. #ExitTheWHO

[Charlotte’s Mum @RobynPorteous]

A call for volunteer audio book narrators for the South African Library for the Blind:

[Emerald Healthier Lives @EmeraldHSC]

🌍 Help to solve global #health challenges by publishing in International Perspectives on Health Equity, our new OA Journal.

👉 Check out our latest Call for Papers on #HealthCitizenship here: https://t.co/CuEF7I3Q9M

APCs waived til 1st Sep.

#AcademicTwitter #AcWri #unsdgs

[S.L. Kanthan @Kanthan2030]

Incredible! In the prestigious Nature Index, 7 of the top 10 research institutions are from China. (2024 list)

Chinese Academy of Sciences, the world’s largest, ranks #1 and scored 2x Harvard.

Stanford and MIT dropped out of top 10, while Chinese universities took their spots.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 “Myocarditis and pericarditis only occur after vaccination and not after COVID-19 infection, according to a recent preprint led by researchers at Oxford University, which compared health outcomes among COVID-vaccinated and unvaccinated children.

The study evaluated over 1 million English children aged 5 to 11 and adolescents aged 12 to 15. Vaccinated minors were compared to an equal number of unvaccinated, and children who took one dose were also compared to those who took two doses.

England’s data showed that myocarditis and pericarditis were only documented in the vaccinated. These results contradict data from other studies that showed a higher incidence of myocarditis after COVID-19 infection.”

@EpochTimes

[William Makis @MakisMedicine]

NEW ARTICLE: FASTING and CANCER - New Research on a potential Revolution in Cancer Treatment - What's best? Periodic fasting (3 days) vs Ketogenic Diet vs Caloric Restriction - 5 major papers reviewed!

This is one of the MOST IMPORTANT articles I've written!

FASTING & Cancer: article highlights:

You must Fast at least 48 hours to achieve meaningful effects in cancer and 72 hours gets much better outcomes than 48hr (in eliminating cancer cells and protecting your cells from chemo induced DNA damage)

Cancer patients who fasted up to 140 hours had NO serious side effects

If you can’t handle fasting, a Fasting Mimicking Diet (dietary regime 300 to 1100 kcal/day of broths, soups, juices, nut bars, herbal teas) could give similar results, usually given up to 5 consecutive days, every 3-4 weeks with chemo

Fasting is much more POTENT against cancer than short term ketogenic diet or calorie restriction diet (no ketone bodies, normal IGF1).

Fasting dramatically decreases IGF1 (insulin-like growth factor) which is KEY to protecting normal cells and simultaneously sensitizing cancer cells to chemo

Two hypotheses:

Differential stress resistance (DSR) - normal cells slow down proliferation, go into maintenance mode, protected from chemo, rad, or drug toxicity

Differential Stress Sensitization (DSS) - cancer cells ignore starvation signals, keep proliferating, accumulate ROS = DNA damage = cell death

During fasting, cancer cells forced to switch from using glucose to mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation which builds up free radicals and kills the cancer cell - particularly effective against aggressive and metastatic cancers!

Fasting and normal STEM CELLS:

- fasting protects intestine and maintains intestinal stem cells

- fasting protects hematopoietic stem cells (get better blood counts after chemo)

- fasting promotes regenerative effects in blood, liver, muscle and nervous system, stimulates the regeneration of healthy cells and tissue following tissue damage after chemo

Fasting and Cancer Stem Cells

- Cancer stem cells are responsible for tumor recurrence and metastasis

- fasting reduces Cancer Stem Cells by lowering glucose levels - delays or prevents metastasis

fasting alone will deplete Cancer stem cells and delay tumor growth but differentiated cancer cells have “starvation escape pathways” - must hit them with something else (chemo or bioactive compounds) to get better cancer-free survival and long term progression free survival (fasting alone apparently won’t do it).

Fasting and Gut Microbome

fasting directly impacts gut microbiome - decreases harmful gut bacteria, increases helpful gut bacteria and boosts immunity in cancer - this is an extremely important aspect often ignored (paging Dr.Hazan @SabinehazanMD)

Fasting and Human Trials

- cancer patients fasting up to 140hr safe, doesn’t result in long term weight loss or malnutrition (much better than calorie restriction which can cause long term problems like poor wound healing, immune suppression, weight loss, cachexia, etc)

(patients who can’t handle fasting can do fasting mimicking diet instead for similar benefits)

- need at least 48hr fast to see less DNA damage to your leukocytes post chemo

- maximum protective effects against chemo seen with 72hr fast before chemo and at least 24hr after chemo

- fasting can eliminate need for dexamethasone steroids during chemo to treat serious side effects - this is huge because steroids increase glucose which feeds the cancer

- 72hr fasting much more likely to get complete response to therapy (no cancer cells) than 48hr fasting.

- fasting and chemo - fasting reduces fatigue and weakness, reduces stomatitis (mouth ulcers), reduces gastrointestinal side effects, reduces low blood counts like grade 3/4 neutropenia after chemo, better scores for emotional, physical, social, cognitive functioning over time, improved Quality of Life

My Observation:

The 2018 Nencioni paper was published in Nature, so this is “big pharma approved”. Keep that in mind.

Big pharma insists that Fasting alone CAN reduce tumor growth and delay cancer spread BUT won’t give you increased overall survival or cancer free survival.

Not sure whether this is actually true or not, because they insist on combining fasting with chemo ($$$) to get survival benefits and it is clear that people who fast on chemo do MUCH better in every way possible, including long term survival.

However, what if you combined FASTING with bioactive compounds in anti-cancer foods or mushrooms INSTEAD?

That will be the focus of my next fasting article, so please STAY TUNED

This is an extensive, heavily referenced article, if you have any interest in CANCER, don't miss it!

Those who took Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines and developed TURBO CANCER would especially benefit from FASTING due to the aggressive and metastatic nature of these cancers

Article Link in photo to avoid shadowban, just re-type the URL in the 1st photo at the top, into your browser to access

#DiedSuddenly

[Dr Shad Katuu 🌐 @skatuu]

Open access ~> "Using Web Analytics to Assess Traffic to the Mandela Portal: The Case of African Countries" in New Review of Information Networking https://t.co/RtckTFssXK #BigData #DataTrustworthiness #Ghana #GoogleAnalytics #Kenya #NelsonMandela #Nigeria #SouthAfrica #Tanzania

[Tim Noakes @ProfTimNoakes]

Looks like there never was a transmissable agent:
"The first participants got the same tiny dose of the ‘ancestral’ SARS-CoV-2 strain as did those in the first trial. When nobody developed a sustained infection, the researchers increased the dose by more and more in subsequent groups of participants, until they reached a level 10,000 times the initial dose. A few volunteers developed short-lived infections, but these quickly vanished". https://t.co/6djHP1qV2k
Which rather puts COVID-19 in the same category as the "Spanish" 'flu of 1918 in which attempts to prove that an infectious agent could cause transmission between humans also failed: https://t.co/Ja9t3zUuQV.
So have viruses truly been shown to exist?
https://t.co/XSooyNmNVi

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

Alert: An Admission of Epic Proportions’: Health Canada Confirms DNA Plasmid Contamination of COVID Vaccines

Health Canada has confirmed the presence of DNA contamination in Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and also confirmed that Pfizer did not disclose the contamination to the public health authority.

The DNA contamination includes the Simian Virus 40 (SV40) promoter and enhancer Pfizer did not previously disclose and that some experts say is a cancer risk due to potential integration with the human genome.

Health Canada, the country’s public health authority, told The Epoch Times that while Pfizer provided the full DNA sequences of the plasmid in its vaccine at the time of the initial submission, the vaccine maker “did not specifically identify the SV40 sequence.”

“Health Canada expects sponsors to identify any biologically functional DNA sequences within a plasmid (such as an SV40 enhancer) at the time of submission,” it said.

Health Canada’s admission came after two scientists, Kevin McKernan and Phillip J. Buckhaults, Ph.D., discovered the presence of bacterial plasmid DNA in the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines at levels potentially 18-70 times higher than the limits set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency.

They tested four expired Pfizer and Moderna vaccine vials “thought to only contain mRNA” and found to contain “double-stranded DNA plasmids.”

Health Canada said, “We have concluded that the risk/benefit profile continues to support the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine,” and that it does rely on manufacturer claims but “conducts an in-depth independent review” to make sure the vaccines meet “our high standards for safety, efficacy and quality.”

Janci Lindsay, Ph.D., director of toxicology and molecular biology for Toxicology Support Services, told The Defender this statement is “silly, not believable and not defendable,” adding that “We should not have to do the research that they should have done.”

“Why are the FDA, CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and the mainstream media still silent about this?” asked Steve Kirsch, founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, adding that “the mainstream medical community is silent as well.”

Viral immunologist Dr. Byram Bridle of the University of Guelph in Canada, commenting on Health Canada’s admission wrote on his Substack, “This is an admission of epic proportions.”
#Canada #Pfizer
https://t.co/dKI3KGqWxa

[Mike - Low Carb Dietitian @thelowcarb_rd]

Take two groups of mice genetically engineered to develop cancer

Feed one group a Western diet

Feed the other group a low carb diet

What do you think happens?

Almost half on the Western diet developed tumors by 1 yr of age.

Zero of the low carb group developed tumors.

Calories were controlled and ketones weren't present (diet was 15% carbs).

Interesting..