Andrew Young

Doctor of the soul, integrative, holistic, nature being

[Andrew Young @SoulDocAndrew]

You can make studies support your agenda by choosing artificial endpoints. https://t.co/KExqftCb9m

[Alice VL @RiseAgainstEvil]

Yes, reparations are due.

On 6 February 1838, Piet Retief walked into Dingaan’s kraal. Retief had negotiated a written land grant from Dingaan in exchange for recovering cattle allegedly stolen by the Tlokoa chief Sekonyela. Retief succeeded, returned the cattle, and attended a farewell celebration.

Dingaan smiled, toasted the deal, then gave the order: “Bulalani abathakathi!” Kill the wizards. Retief and his hundred men were clubbed to death on a hill while the Zulu king watched. Retief died last, forced to see his own son murdered first.

Days later, Zulu impis wiped out entire Voortrekker camps at Bloukrans; over five hundred dead, half of them children speared in their wagons. The written treaty granting Natal land to the Boers still exists. Dingaan’s betrayal is not a myth; it’s signed, witnessed, and sealed in blood.

Fast-forward to 2025. South Africa’s political class trips over itself to catalogue every historical injustice, except this one.

When the topic is slavery, dispossession, or apartheid, the demand is always the same: acknowledge, apologise, pay. Fair enough. Principles are principles.

So let’s apply them without the selective amnesia.

The Boers are still waiting.

Reparations owed, by the same yardstick everyone else loves to wave around:

1. A formal state admission that Dingaan’s treaty was legitimate and its violation through premeditated massacre was an act of war and treachery.

2. An unequivocal apology from the Zulu royal house, on camera, no hedging, mirroring every other apology extracted for lesser or later sins.

3. The massacre sites at kwaMatiwane and Bloukrans declared national heritage sites with honest plaques: “Here a king broke his word and murdered guests under a flag of truce.”

4. Equal public commemoration: 6 February and the Bloukrans killings listed alongside Sharpeville, Soweto, and every other date carved into the national conscience.

5. Tangible restitution: a slice of northern KwaZulu-Natal farmland, originally ceded in that betrayed treaty, returned to Boer cultural trusts or their direct descendants.

Call it “corrective asymmetry” if the phrase makes the paperwork easier.

Until that happens, spare us the lectures about restorative justice. You don’t get to cherry-pick which massacres matter and which treaties were “just colonial paper.” Dingaan’s signature is as real as any other historical document South Africa swears by.

The Boers haven’t forgotten.
Perhaps it’s time the rest of the country stopped pretending they should.

[no.mind @the_no_mind]

Dr. Stephen Hussey was 34.

He exercised.

He ate clean.

His Coronary Calcium Score was 0.

Then he had a widowmaker—a heart attack so deadly only ~12% survive it outside a hospital.

He survived & wrote a book.

His case exposes a brutal truth:

The LDL-based model of heart disease is incomplete.

It can't explain why heart disease keeps rising despite more statins, more scans & more "prevention" than ever.

So Hussey went deeper.

What he found overturns decades of assumptions about what actually damages arteries, what collapses blood flow & why modern life is uniquely good at causing heart disease:

1. The LDL story doesn't match reality
2. Arteries are protected by structured water (EZ)
3. Plaque is repair tissue, not fat buildup
4. Heart attacks are clotting failures, not blockages
5. How EZ water neutralizes all 3 clotting triggers
6. What destroys EZ water
7. What builds EZ water
8. Why Hussey had a heart attack (& how he reversed plaque)

Let's start with the first problem:

1. The LDL Story Doesn't Match Reality

For decades we've been told a simple model:

Saturated fat raises LDL → LDL builds up in arteries → arteries clog → heart attack.

So cardiology kept lowering "acceptable" LDL: 300 → 250 → 200 → 150 → now "optimal" is <100.

But the real-world data never supported the story.

Many heart attack victims have little or no plaque—Hussey included, with a Coronary Calcium Score of 0.

Many people with severe plaque have zero symptoms.

Some die with "perfect" LDL.

Some live with high LDL & clean arteries.

When 136,905 heart attack patients had cholesterol measured within 24 hours of admission:

- 75% had normal LDL (<130 mg/dL)
- 50% had "optimal" LDL (<100 mg/dL)

If LDL were the initiating cause, this pattern wouldn't exist.

But instead of questioning the LDL hypothesis, the study's authors reached the opposite conclusion: the LDL targets must be "not low enough."

Another paradox: veins never develop plaque, even though LDL concentration is identical.

They only develop plaque when a vein is surgically grafted into an artery—meaning it's not LDL concentration but arterial conditions that determine plaque.

Hussey's conclusion:

LDL doesn't initiate plaque.

LDL shows up after something has already damaged the artery.

So the real question becomes:

What breaks the artery in the first place?

To see that, you have to understand one thing mainstream cardiology ignores:

In a healthy artery, lipoproteins can't even reach the wall.

Something must collapse that protection first.

2. Arteries Are Protected by Structured Water (EZ Water)

Hussey builds on Gerald Pollack's work.

In a healthy artery, blood never actually touches the artery wall.

The inner surface of every artery is hydrophilic (water loving).

When water touches that surface & receives radiant energy (sunlight, infrared), it forms a different phase:

Structured water—the Exclusion Zone (EZ).

This structured water forms a gel-like layer across the endothelial surface & excludes almost everything.

Pollack's experiments show:

- Albumin (~3.8 nm) cannot cross it
- Bacteria cannot cross it
- Red blood cells cannot cross it (~6000-8000 nm)
- Only tiny ions like potassium can (~0.25 nm)

This matters because of size:

- HDL: ~7–12 nm
- LDL: ~22–28 nm
- apoB particles: similar range

If the EZ excludes albumin (~3.8 nm), then particles in the 7–28 nm lipoprotein range are excluded too.

Meaning: If EZ water is intact, nothing in the blood ever touches the artery wall.

No contact → no injury.

No injury → no inflammation.

No inflammation → no plaque.

This is the part the LDL model never accounted for:

Lipoproteins never reach the artery wall unless the EZ shield is destroyed first.

EZ loss is upstream of every step that follows.

3. Plaque Is Not "Fat Buildup." It's Repair Tissue.

When the EZ layer collapses, the arterial wall becomes exposed for the first time.

Blood components that were previously excluded can now touch the endothelium.

The body responds the only way it can:

repair → patch → stabilize.

When researchers analyze plaque, it isn't a pipe filled with fat.

It's overwhelmingly:

- clot material
- fibrous collagen
- smooth muscle repair tissue
- trapped cholesterol that arrived after damage
- inflammatory cells cleaning up the debris

Histology shows plaque is ~87% clot-derived tissue (±8%), confirming the sequence:

Injury → clot → repair → plaque.

Not: cholesterol → plaque → blockage.

This explains why:

- plaque forms only at specific high-stress arterial sites
- veins do not plaque unless surgically grafted into arterial pressure
- plaque often appears after a flow disturbance or oxidative injury
- people like Hussey can have clean arteries & still suffer massive heart attacks

Because plaque is not the main event.

Clotting is.

4. Heart Attacks Are Clotting + Flow Failures, Not "Blocked Pipes"

In 1856, Rudolf Virchow identified the three conditions that create pathological clotting:

- Damage to the arterial lining
- Stagnant or disrupted blood flow
- Blood that becomes more prone to clot

This triad matches the real world far better than the "blocked pipe" story:

- You can have severe narrowing & no heart attack
- You can have clean arteries & die suddenly

The fatal moment is always the same:

A clot at the wrong time in the wrong place.

Hussey adds two major corrections that modern cardiology ignores.

(1) Flow disturbances alone can trigger plaque formation

After his heart attack, a catheter closure device altered blood flow in his femoral artery.

Within weeks, plaque formed at that exact site.

No LDL change.

No diet change.

Just disturbed flow → plaque.

When he restored EZ water & flow mechanics, the plaque reversed—which his doctors had never seen.

This shows:

Plaque forms where flow becomes abnormal—not where LDL is high.

(2) You can have a heart attack with zero blockage (MINOCA)

This is Myocardial Infarction with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries—& it's not rare, it accounts for 6-15% of all heart attacks.

Hussey explains the mechanism this way:

The heart prefers fatty acids & ketones & burns them cleanly.

Under acute stress, the autonomic nervous system shifts the heart into a glucose-burning state at the worst possible moment.

Burning mostly glucose produces more free radicals.

This increases local acidity, swelling, & pressure inside heart tissue.

Blood cannot enter effectively.

Collapse in flow without obstruction & tissue death follows.

In parallel, acute stress increases thrombotic potential, making clot formation more likely.

No plaque required.

No LDL required.

(3) Why some people with severe plaque feel fine

Giorgio Baroldi's autopsy work in 1956 showed that when arteries narrow chronically, the body builds collateral vessels—small bypass channels that restore blood supply.

He found that in areas with ≥70% narrowing, collaterals increase dramatically—fully compensating for reduced flow.

Separate studies in dogs confirmed the speed of this adaptation: full collateral networks formed within 4–7 days when an artery was slowly occluded.

Meaning:

The body automatically builds bypasses. It restores supply on its own.

This explains why:

- severe plaque can exist without symptoms (collaterals already restored flow)
- stents don't reduce future heart attacks in stable disease (the body already compensated)
- bypass surgery rarely extends lifespan in chronic cases (natural bypasses already exist)

Flow adapts—unless metabolic & energetic conditions collapse.

The danger is in acute metabolic collapse that happens too fast for collaterals to form.

(4) So does plaque matter at all?

Yes, but not the way we were told.

Hussey is clear: "Plaque is not what causes heart attacks."

But calcified plaque still increases risk because it disturbs flow → creates turbulence → increases clot probability. Not because it "blocks." Because it changes the physics of blood movement.

The real causal chain: EZ loss → endothelial exposure → flow disturbance → hypercoagulability → clot → heart attack.

5. How EZ Water Neutralizes All 3 Clotting Triggers

Hussey's key insight: EZ water defends against all three conditions that create clots.

(1) EZ prevents endothelial injury

When radiant energy (sunlight, infrared) hits the arterial surface, water forms a gel-like EZ layer that excludes everything larger than tiny ions.

If EZ is intact, blood components never touch the wall.

No contact → no injury → no clot initiation.

(2) EZ prevents disturbed or stagnant flow

EZ doesn't just protect—it moves fluid.

When EZ forms, it separates charge:

- EZ becomes strongly negative
- bulk water becomes positive (H⁺-rich)

This creates an electrical pressure that pushes water forward.

Pollack demonstrated that:

- water moves through hydrophilic tubing with no pump
- chick embryo blood keeps flowing even after the heart stops
- adding infrared increased flow by ~300%
- blocking infrared stopped flow

When EZ collapses: flow slows, residence time increases, clot risk rises.

(3) EZ prevents hypercoagulable, "sticky" blood

EZ forms on hydrophilic surfaces within blood: RBCs, platelets, lipoproteins.

This creates zeta potential—a strong negative charge around each particle.

Cells repel instead of clump, RBCs don't stack, platelets don't activate prematurely.

When EZ breaks down: zeta potential drops, cells stick, blood becomes hypercoagulable.

6. What Destroys EZ Water (& Opens the Artery to Damage)?

Hussey is blunt about the upstream trigger: oxidative stress breaks down fourth phase water in the arteries, damages the arterial wall, & depletes nitric oxide (NO), which is vital for ANS signaling to the heart.

He frames the problem as three imbalances: metabolic inflexibility (inability to burn fat), oxidative stress, & ANS dysfunction.

He believes these three, "especially when complicated by nutrient deficiencies, are the underlying causes of most chronic disease."

Imbalance #1—Metabolic Inflexibility

The heart prefers ketones.

In one experiment: when ketones fell below 34 mg/100 ml, the heart was forced to burn more glucose; when ketones were 34–80 mg/100 ml, the heart switched to burning primarily ketones; providing more ketones reduced use of other fuels by 30–60%.

Dietary fat is also packaged into chylomicrons & delivered directly to the heart via the lymphatic system.

The heart even has a signaling pathway to fat cells so it can call for more fuel.

Hussey's conclusion: "The heart prefers to burn ketones. To provide it with this fuel, we have to restrict carbohydrates enough so the body learns to burn fat. Heart attacks without a blockage happen when a series of events force the heart to burn predominantly glucose—metabolic inflexibility makes this more likely."

Imbalance #2—Oxidative Stress (The EZ Breaker)

Everything that steals electrons collapses EZ:

- Insulin resistance, chronic glucose-heavy metabolism, poor fat oxidation
- AGEs (Advanced Glycation End Products) which initiate atherosclerosis independently of cholesterol
- Endotoxemia from leaky gut/gum disease/root canals
- Heavy metals: mercury (35% thicker plaque), lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum
- BPA (increased lesion size 104-120%)
- Air pollution, pesticides (glyphosate shrinks EZ)
- Seed oils
- Chronic stress
- Circadian disruption
- Low sunlight, lack of infrared
- No grounding
- EMF exposure (WiFi reduces EZ by 15-20%)

Imbalance #3—ANS Dysfunction (Stress System Out of Balance)

The autonomic nervous system dysfunction matters.

The best measure is HRV.

In one study, 95% of ischemic events were preceded by almost complete HRV suppression.

HRV changes before ischemia, suggesting this is causal, not consequence.

Your nervous system destabilizes before your heart does.

7. What Builds EZ Water (and Protects the Heart)?

If oxidative stress & modern life collapse EZ water, prevention starts with restoring it.

Radiant Energy

- Sunlight & infrared build structured water in arteries, improve flow, lower pressure
- Sauna mimics sun's IR & charges EZ
- Grounding connects body to Earth's charge
- Nature exposure removes urban stressors
- Spring/mineral water provides better EZ substrate
- Circadian alignment: morning light + darkness at night enable endothelial repair via melatonin

Reduce Oxidative Stress

- Remove seed oils
- Lower processed carbs & avoid AGEs (AGEs alone initiate atherosclerosis)
- Heal gut to reduce endotoxemia
- Fix dental infections (gum disease, root canals, cavitations)
- Reduce toxins: heavy metals increase plaque, BPA increases lesions 104-120%
- Prefer mineral salts over table salt

Restore Metabolic Flexibility

- Restrict processed carbs
- Prefer animal fats
- Keep Trigicerydes/HDL <1.5, HOMA-IR <1.5
- Use fasting strategically
- A heart fueled by fat & ketones is stable. A heart forced into glucose is vulnerable.

Balance the ANS

- Meditation, nature, infrared, cold exposure, proper sleep, social connection, grounding, gut healing, omega-3, EMF reduction, sunlight
- Breathing: ~5.5-6 breaths/min with longer exhales produced best ANS balance

Train Correctly

- Marathon runners: edema, decreased function, scarring (100+ marathons)
- Marathon deaths: 93% heart attacks
- Recommended: strength 1-2×/week, short bursts 1-2×/week, stretching/yoga, avoid chronic high volume endurance (ultras etc.)

When EZ is strong: endothelium is shielded, flow is smooth, blood stays separated, clotting is harder.

8. Why Hussey Had a Heart Attack (& How He Reversed Plaque)

Hussey doesn't know the exact cause. He believes it was a perfect storm:

- Type 1 diabetic (already increased risk despite managing with diet/exercise)
- Dehydration (thought bone broth was enough)
- Constipation (considered it normal)
- COVID-19 worry
- Stressful family event couple days before
- Two nights of bad sleep
- High-intensity exercise to failure: uphill sprints, push-ups, lunges

No plaque. Just the conditions for clot formation.

Then something unexpected happened.

After his heart attack, a catheter closure device altered blood flow in his femoral artery. Within weeks, plaque formed at that exact site: 70-99% blockage.

No LDL change. No diet change. Just disturbed flow → plaque.

He focused on sunlight, infrared sauna, grounding, & circadian optimization.

One year later: 0-50% blockage.

Two years later: completely normal artery.

Three years later: still normal.

His vascular surgeon: "We can't say it's better because we don't see these things get better."

But he did get better. This was unheard of.

9. Bottom Line

Modern medicine saves lives after heart attacks happen.

But prevention requires understanding what actually causes them.

Heart disease isn't an LDL problem:

- LDL can't initiate plaque
- Plaque is 87% clot-derived repair tissue
- Heart attacks are clot events (Virchow's triad)
- EZ water protects against all three triggers
- Modern life destroys EZ first

Don't blame LDL. Understand the clot. Protect the EZ.

Prevention comes down to one principle: Stop breaking EZ water. Start building it.

How? Sunlight. Sauna. Grounding. Circadian Alignment. Metabolic flexibility. ANS balance. Low oxidative stress.

Do this & you target the real mechanism Hussey argues drives heart disease.

Not the decoy.

[Nicholas Lissack @NicholasLissack]

Irish schoolteacher Enoch Burke has been jailed with an effective life term.

This is one of the most horrifying and genuinely evil cases in recent history. His only “crime” was refusing to bow to the demands of transgender ideology, and they destroyed his life for it.

Dystopia.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

“Judge jails Educator Enoch Burke for Christmas with effective LIFE SENTENCE…”

He wouldn’t bend the knee to the disgusting Rainbow Mafia…so the Communist Judge that supports sexually mutilating children threw him in JAIL.

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

🚨Here’s how we could fix drug safety overnight, says investigative journalist @MaryanneDemasi:

“In the Vioxx scandal, not one CEO went to jail despite making decisions that resulted in tens of thousands of people dying from these medications. So I don't think that company fines are enough of a deterrent to stop this bad behavior.

You need to make the individuals responsible for this, and I think as soon as an individual at a pharmaceutical company is made accountable for the decisions under their watch, I think that this behavior will stop overnight.

Because nobody is going to take that risk.”

[@ChatsWithEm @chatswithem]

What an utter absurdity

This poor poor poor poor man .

How he has been treated is a national historical shame .

Only people who are a physical danger to other should go to jail

Especially not someone who won't use correct gendered language for gods sake

China and Russia must be absolutely wetting themselves

The U.K. is so so so so very lost and confused

Can people start to see the blatant reality that the Emperor has no clothes and stop playing along with this charade

PLEASE

https://t.co/qqenS2oh7U

[Andrew Young @SoulDocAndrew]

@followthebounce Maybe. But you discount the All Blacks at your peril as they will also be well prepared for the Boks

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

Enoch Burke

Persecuted for refusing to kneel to transgender mentalists

Bank accounts emptied

Jailed for Christmas &amp; beyond

See this man and stiffen your spine good people. He is carrying the cross for Ireland.

All the love to the Burke family

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

Anyone claiming that @EnochBurke hasn’t been sentenced to life for refusing to submit to gender ideology, but simply for “contempt of court” is dishonest. Here’s why:

Technically speaking contempt of court is indeed the ground the High Court used to lock him up, but this whole case is about him being a Christian teacher refusing to forsake his beliefs by calling students by the pronouns of a sex that they simply are not.

That was what he was fired for by the school. Wrongfully. And Mr. Burke’s refusal to accept the school’s decision and showing up to work anyway, makes him a hero with a backbone. It makes him someone who refuses to just stand by and let evil be done without putting up a fight. That’s why he keeps showing up and that’s why they are now locking him up till he stops doing that.

They want him to bow down, to submit to something he knows to be wrong. And they want the general public to be confused about what the legal grounds are for locking him up.

This shows you that just because something is “legally” justifiable, like the High Court’s decision to indefinitely imprison Burke, doesn’t meant that it’s right.

Burke should be freed this instance, and I hope the People of Ireland will fight for his cause.

[Andrew Young @SoulDocAndrew]

@bensmithrugby If it is an All Blacks/Boks QF then the winner has to somehow pick themselves up and take on France. Not easy. And if France can win the SF against huge opposition, they'll be knackered for the final. Good chance for England

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

“You have become modern-day Nazis…”

A Canadian Pastor has been arrested for refusing to apologize to a Communist Librarian Pervert in Calgary that wanted half-naked Transgender Men to dance and read to innocent children at a Library.

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

Enoch Burke — HERO!

Today’s Ireland is like all other emerging globalist fakedoms. In the end they lose.

Remember Enoch, the stone in your path will build your (our) foundation.

Long live the Irish 🇮🇪 🇺🇸

[Andrew Young @SoulDocAndrew]

@FrontRowRugbyXV And if they reach the final they could bring Bryce Lawrence out of retirement. With age, his eyesight should have worsened, so at least he will now have an excuse for not seeing things.

[Andrew Young @SoulDocAndrew]

@ChalynRugby Three very tough matches from the quarterfinal onwards in a row. The All Blacks can do it. But do they have the depth to pitch up week in, week out?

[Andrew Young @SoulDocAndrew]

@TukTuk_Academy The definition of grovel is to crawl or lie down on the ground in a subservient manner. The Proteas weren't made to grovel, they were made to chase the ball all over the park. Wonderful innings by Virat again. India, in the 2nd test, were driven into the ground

[Andrew Young @SoulDocAndrew]

@bensmithrugby Bring back Bryce Lawrence out of retirement!

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

"Working-age (18-49) excess mortality has instead reached approximately 40% – a level she described as unprecedented"

Folleagues sadly already knew... 😔

[Andrew Young @SoulDocAndrew]

@ClaireFosterPHD The irony is that your intolerance is extreme

[Camus @newstart_2024]

One of the world’s most respected vaccine experts—Dr. Kathryn Edwards, co-author of the bible of vaccinology “Plotkin on Vaccines” and the scientist who personally ran many of the pivotal trials that got childhood vaccines licensed—was hired to testify under oath that vaccines do NOT cause autism.

Aaron Siri asked her a simple question for each vaccine on the schedule:
“Can you show me the study proving DTaP doesn’t cause autism?” → No study
“Hep B?” → No study
“HiB?” → No study
“Prevnar?” → No study
“Varicella?” → No study
“Were the original licensing trials even designed to detect autism as a possible outcome?” → No

Her exact words when pressed: “You’ve badgered me into answering the way you want me to, but… No.”

This is the same expert the entire “vaccines are exhaustively studied for autism” narrative rests on. She had one job in that deposition—and she couldn’t do it. Not one citation. Zero studies.

Del Bigtree on The HighWire called it “one of the biggest mic-drop moments in vaccine history.” And now, just weeks after ICAN forced the CDC to admit in writing (as of November 2025) they have no studies showing vaccines are safe in pregnancy or don’t cause autism, this older testimony feels more seismic than ever.

Watch the unedited exchange for yourself and decide.

What does real scientific confidence look like to you? Drop your thoughts—respectful discussion only.

[Ben @USMortality]

"following the administration of any vaccine, my cat may develop an aggressive, malignant cancer at the injection site. [..[] all veterinary costs incurred for the diagnosis and treatment are at my expense."
Source: Vetco consent form.