MAIN COURSES (currently available and coming soon) and TOPIC-SPECIFIC INDEX

As the list of videos and articles grows, I will periodically update this page to describe the MAIN COURSES

SPEND TIME on these “main courses” and you will experience a quantum leap in your understanding of viral infections, the human microbiome and dysbiosis, and other important topics in health, nutrition, functional medicine and disease treatment. Some courses are available now (1,2,3) while others (4,5) will be available soon; all courses and pages are periodically reviewed and updated, so you should periodically check the website at HealthyThinking.substack.com for new information—also, some videos are available only at the website even when notice is sent by email.

A wonderful brunch in my favorite foggy European city: salmon (hopefully real), avocado, tomato, coffee, and fresh veg-fruit juice, just meters from the beach

Available now

1. Antiviral Nutrition Course

Early in my clinical practice which started when I opened my first office in Seattle Washington in 2000, I developed an antiviral nutrition protocol which I used to produce excellent and consistent clinical benefits. I used this protocol with great success for 10 years before publishing it for the first time in 2009 in my book Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders; the protocol was completely revised, refreshed, and restructured in 2014 when I published it as Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition / Antiviral Nutrition which was later incorporated into Chapter 4 of Inflammation Mastery in 2016. I have continued to research and develop these concepts, with most of the information now available in this “HealthyThinking” platform and organized within Self-Paced Learning: Antiviral Nutrition Protocol Structure, Science, Application healthythinking.substack.com/p/selfpaced-learning-antiviral-nutrition. You can also see a sample of these ideas published in my Editorial in Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and on the website of the British Medical Journal as rapid responses (academia.edu/39406350) to their highly suspect infomercials endorsing the HPV vaccination while the authors and editors selectively ignored public health campaigns promoting vitamin D supplementation that occurred at the same time as the vaccine campaign: of course, the medical profession always wants to give incredulous credit to the vaccines while the heavy lifting of public health is done by infrastructure, demographic shifts, and improved nutrition.

• EXAMPLE: “Numerous studies have shown that vitamin D provides immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, microbiome-modifying, antiviral and anti-HPV benefits with high safety, good efficacy, low cost, wide availability, and clinically important collateral benefits.” bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1161/rr-8

2. Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis in Clinical Disease

I began studying dysbiosis in 1995, not only for intellectual curiosity and satisfaction but because that was the year that I fell ill with gastrointestinal dysbiosis and I soon realized that none of my doctors understood it and that I’d have to save myself if I were ever going to regain my health. By 2006, I’d amassed considerable expertise and clinical experience treating patients, and I was writing articles and books and delivering post-graduate conference presentations on the topic; notable “peer-reviewed independent publications” are my 2006 review in Nutritional Perspectives, my 2016 publication in Nature Reviews Rheumatology, and my 2017 publication in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Notable books on this topic include my small monograph Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis in Clinical Disease which is completely included within Chapter 4 of Inflammation Mastery, which of course provides more details and clinical insight throughout the book and clinical protocol subsections. See the full course index and sample publications here: healthythinking.substack.com/p/course-index-human-microbiome-and

3. Functional Inflammology Protocol COURSE: Structure and Integration into Clinical Practice

TEN (10) VIDEOS on Structure, Application, and Integration into Clinical Practice

• Page under construction with videos and PDF downloads available now at healthythinking.substack.com/p/functional-inflammology-protocol

Coming soon

4. Beyond Integrative Pain Management (coming soon; new concepts not previously published)

I studied various forms of pain management in chiropractic college (extensive training in musculoskeletal diagnosis and treatment), massage school, naturopathic college (including courses in Rheumatology, Orthopedics, Botanical Medicine), osteopathic medical school and post-graduate hospital training. The first college-level courses I taught were Orthopedics (2000) and Rheumatology (2001) followed by my first textbooks Integrative Orthopedics (2004), Integrative Rheumatology (2006), and Musculoskeletal Pain—Expanded Clinical Strategies (2008), eventually compiled (except for Orthopedics) into Inflammation Mastery (2016). My independent publications on pain and inflammation have appeared in Dynamic Chiropractic, Nature Reviews Rheumatology, Nutritional Wellness, Naturopathy Digest, Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17079520) and Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Starting in 2004, I also published a series of articles on nutritional and botanical treatments of pain for the American Chiropractic Association. My athletic and sports activities have included martial arts, bike racing, power-lifting, running, basketball, soccer, horseback riding, archery, firearms/marksmanship, and a small bit of rock climbing. As a result of severe sports injuries, I’ve also personally dealt with multiple fractures, dislocations, frozen shoulder, carpal tunnel syndrome, and the most dreaded CRPS—complex regional pain syndrome. I’ve compiled a huge amount of conceptual and clinical information about pain management that I’ve never published formally, and I’ll start sharing that information in this series taking us far beyond current pain management theories and practice.

• Sample VIDEO: Common VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY results in CHRONIC PAIN and PAIN AMPLIFICATION

5. Critical Analysis of Medical Research and Political Propaganda (coming soon; videos and articles already prepared)

Many people think and are told that critical reading of medical research is complicated, but it is not. One simply has to 1) be a good attentive reader looking for details, inconsistencies, deviations from norm, fallacies and manipulation, 2) know about the topic and/or make the effort to look for background information, alternative explanations, and conflicts of interest, and 3) have overcome one’s own intellectual obedience and emotional blindness—if a person is too trusting, then by definition they are not thinking critically and skeptically to see the lies and manipulation in front of them. I’ve published many articles and videos demonstrating fraud in medical research in major journals including PLoS One, British Medical Journal, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine and others.

1. EXAMPLE—know the topic better than the authors to expose their errors and false conclusions: Research Designed to Fail: Effect of high-dose parenteral vitamin D3 on COVID-19-related in-hospital mortality during intensive care unit admission. Eur J Clin Nutr 2021 July healthythinking.substack.com/p/research-designed-to-fail-effect

2. EXAMPLE—make reasonable comparisons to expose hypocrisy and double standards: "79% and 87%" is (or is not) 79% and 87%, depending on whether we are talking about low-cost low-risk multibenefit nutrition vs high-profit higher-risk drugs New England Journal of Medicine infomercial showing ~85% "effectiveness" for injections is praised, while real-world clinical experience showing ~85% life-saving proof using vitamin D is ignored healthythinking.substack.com/p/79-and-87-is-or-is-not-79-and-87

3. EXAMPLE—show that the authors did not support their claims: Open Correction to PLOS One and Grave Concern about the Journal’s Editorial Quality and Review Process: Comment on “Microbiome restoration diet improves digestion, cognition and physical and emotional wellbeing. PLOS One 2017 Jun.” academia.edu/34072801

4. EXAMPLE—show that the authors are alarmist and without appropriate review of the data: Comment: evaluation of presence of aspirin-related warnings with willow bark. Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2005 doi.org/10.1345/aph.1e650a

5. EXAMPLE—show that the authors completely failed in their study design only to have the editors remove 60% of your reply, then allow the authors to back-fill unpublished data: Isoflavones and postmenopausal women. JAMA 2004 doi.org/10.1001/jama.292.19.2337-a

6. EXAMPLE—show that the original publication is a colossal failure at multiple points: Correspondence regarding Cutshall, Bergstrom, Kalish's "Evaluation of a functional medicine approach to treating fatigue, stress, and digestive issues in women" in Complement Ther Clin Pract 2016 May. Complement Ther Clin Pract 2018 doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2016.10.001

7. EXAMPLE—show that the authors 1) jumped to the desired conclusion of their sponsors, 2) failed to perform basic investigational work, and 3) failed to consider a better and more effective alternative while they were in service to the high-profit high-risk medical paradigm: “In Scotland, programs advocating HPV vaccination (started in 2008) and vitamin D supplementation (started not later than 2006 and again in 2009) occurred in close chronologic proximity. Crediting the reduction in HPV-related disease solely to vaccination via retrospective population study is potentially invalid and misleading, especially when the authors make no account whatsoever of the national program for vitamin D supplementation which started in the same timeframe. Numerous studies have shown that vitamin D provides immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, microbiome-modifying, antiviral and anti-HPV benefits with high safety, good efficacy, low cost, wide availability, and clinically important collateral benefits.” bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1161/rr-8

Thank you to all the subscribers and followers who continue to support and show interest in these important topics!

Dr Alex K Vasquez

• PS: Remember that the entire listing of all pages is available at the “archive” page: HealthyThinking.substack.com/archive

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Topics

Personal notes, biography

1. If I may introduce myself: short biographical sketch

2. Human Microbiome and Dysbiosis in Clinical Disease: Reintroduction and the story behind the book-video course

Diet

1. Supplemented PaleoMediterranean Diet: Introduction to DrV's Functional Inflammology Protocol

2. Here's why I changed my perspective on the topic of acid-base balance

Expert Quick Consults

1. Quick Consult on Iron Deficiency

2. Quick Consult on Iron Overload

3. Quick Consult on Acute Optimization of Vitamin D

4. Quick Consult on Acute Repletion of Vitamin A

Vitamin D

1. REVIEW no1: VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY results in CHRONIC PAIN and PAIN AMPLIFICATION

2. REVIEW no2: Vitamin D Deficiency in Mood Disorders, Anxiety, and Depression

3. REVIEW no3: Vitamin D in Physiology and Medicine, Part 3: Role in Barrier Defense

   1. Vitamin D for Strong Barrier Defenses, Prevention of Infection, and a Healthier Vagina?

4. REVIEW no4: Part 4 of my video series on “Redefining Vitamin D Deficiency in Adults” focuses on inflammation, excess blood coagulation, and the modulation or “balancing” of immune responses

5. Vitamin D treatment of severe hospitalized Cv19 in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2021 Jun

6. Vitamin D Levels in COVID-19 Outpatients, Clinical Effect of Supplementation

7. Vitamin D is Safe and Beneficial against Many Types of Human Papilloma Virus Infections

8. Quick Consult on Acute VitaminD Optimization

9. What is your vitamin D level? You need to know it now. Here are 2 images + 2 video excerpts + summary + recommended call to action

10. Research Designed to Fail: Effect of high-dose parenteral vitamin D3 on COVID-19-related inhospital mortality during intensive care unit admission. Eur J Clin Nutr 2021 July

Antiviral strategies and pandemic politics

See the Antiviral Nutrition Course for more details

1. Antiviral Science is Standing Still or Going Backward, but We are Clearly NOT Moving Forward

2. FDA's hypocritical reversal on CV antibodies

3. Risk-Benefit Ratios of Cv19 Vaccinations 2021 June

4. ABSOLUTE (effectiveness) vs RELATIVE (efficacy) RISK REDUCTION in Research Reporting Bias

5. Pharmaceutical Bulldozer will Crush Us All if We Fail to Restrain It

6. Viral Mutations and Selenium Deficiency

7. Vitamin D treatment of severe hospitalized Cv19 in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2021 Jun

8. Life under Constant Surveillance, Permission, and Corporate Approval

9. You need to know V for Vendetta

10. AntiEducation amplified via Cv19 Reset

11. Leadership Knowledge Protects Society

12. Antiviral Nutrition VIDEO: Benefits of the amino acid (acetyl)Cysteine, NAC

13. Selenium promotes Antiviral Immunity, reduces Viral Mutation and Viral Replication: Excerpt from DrV's Clinical Protocol

14. We are 7 years late for my 2014 Antiviral Paradigm Shift: Let's catch up

15. Revisiting my 2019 "Pharma Echo Chamber, Sociopolitical Matrix, and Power Vortex" in 2020/2021 and Beyond

16. Vitamin D Levels in COVID-19 Outpatients, Clinical Effect of Supplementation

17. Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks in Healthy Children" in JAMA Pediatrics published June 30, 2021

18. Vitamin D is Safe and Beneficial against Many Types of Human Papilloma Virus Infections

19. video update from your UNELECTED world controllers

20. "79% and 87%" is (or is not) 79% and 87%, depending on whether we are talking about low-cost low-risk multibenefit nutrition vs high-profit higher-risk drugs

Medicine, Medical Ethics

1. Drug-Induced Blindness, Vision Loss: Biological, Ethical, Clinical, and Medicolegal Considerations

Society

1. Leadership Knowledge Protects Society

2. Revisiting my 2019 "Pharma Echo Chamber, Sociopolitical Matrix, and Power Vortex" in 2020/2021 and Beyond

3. Societal Architecture as Language of Life Experience and Health Outcomes, pt1

4. video update from your UNELECTED world controllers

5. When drug companies make claims for political assets, embassies, and military bases, then you know that drug companies are on par with or more powerful than governments

6. Creating Successful Goal-Achieving SYSTEMS

7. MANUFACTURING CONSENT: documentary movie that explains the capture of "mainstream media" by government and corporate gamers for power and profit

8. You need to know V for Vendetta

9. Healthy Sociopolitical Engagement: How people respond (successfully) to political oppression

Psychology

1. Books for Psychological Insight, Clarity

2. Creating Successful Goal-Achieving SYSTEMS

Politics and Manipulation

1. QUICKLY Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People in Your Personal Life, Job, and National Politics

2. "79% and 87%" is (or is not) 79% and 87%, depending on whether we are talking about low-cost low-risk multibenefit nutrition vs high-profit higher-risk drugs

3. STRUCTURED UNDERSTANDING: Introducing the A.I.D.E. acronym for dealing with manipulative people (including politicians and institutions)

4. MANUFACTURING CONSENT: documentary movie that explains the capture of "mainstream media" by government and corporate gamers for power and profit

Selenium

1. Viral Mutations and Selenium Deficiency

2. Selenium promotes Antiviral Immunity, reduces Viral Mutation and Viral Replication: Excerpt from DrV's Clinical Protocol

NAC, N-acetyl-Cysteine

1. Antiviral Nutrition VIDEO: Benefits of the amino acid (acetyl)Cysteine, NAC

Iron

1. Quick Consult on IRON OVERLOAD

2. Quick Consult on IRON DEFICIENCY

The website’s default listing/archive can be presented by date(most recent at the top) or by most popular (I don’t know how they calculate that).