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H1N1 Hack

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

I just read an interesting blog article about hacking H1N1

I’m a computer programmer so I actually found it quite interesting since the author made an analogy between computer and human viruses

you can learn a lot about flu virus, it’s program code, how it works and what can be done to make it more lethal or benign

here’s the link http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353

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Swine Flu

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

from what I have understood, swine flu now transmits person to person

it looks to me as if the virus was manufactured in a lab and is very similar to 1918 virus in that it really affects the people with strong immune systems that die from their own body overreaction (cytokine storm)

I tried researching about how to suppress our own immune system but haven’t found things I can buy at a local drugstore

one sure way is to get sick from something other than swine flu

don’t do this to yourself, these are just my thoughts ;)

it seems that about every 10th person that has the flu dies… I don’t know why USA swine flu is much easier on the people than the Mexican one

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My Hiatus Hernia Cure

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

this worked for me, don’t try this yourself! don’t blame me for anything! stop reading and leave this website if you don’t agree with this…

I’ve had problems with hiatal hernia for about 2 years

now, it happened again, during Helicobacter Pylori eradication therapy

foolishly, I was drinking Pepsi and eating chocolate and I felt my stomach going into my chest and breathing problems started

hernia was mostly located on the right side, next to the chest bone and below the ribs but rarely it would flip to the left side and cause heart problems with breathing problems, only when it was on the left side breathing would become a bit more bearable

I’ve finished my eradication therapy, then went to the doctor who gave me acid blocator, a gut motility pill and a pill to stop gas formation but none of that helped, I still had problems

then I found a farmer that knows how to manipulate a hernia

the thing is, farmers, when working in the fields frequently have problems with the stomach
in my language it is called “struna” and the english word for that is probably a “string”

anyway, the principle is real simple

the process takes 3 days

first day, he tries to briefly massage the stomach down,
during this massage, stomach starts to tick, that is you can feel the pulse of some blood vessel
that pulse should be felt below the belly button but in my case it was some 4 to 5 centimeters up! something he never saw before
then he puts a warm (almost hot) beer bottle on the belly so that the stomach could slide a bit
next he puts a bread with matches on my stomach (bread is there to keep the matches in place), lights the matches and puts a pot over that
this creates a vacuum that sucks the stomach inside the pot and away from my chest
next he manipulates belly button so that he winds it, as if you would wind a screw (I guess it was right direction, not left) and he puts a small round thing (I’ll post a picture of it) that will hold that in place

next he puts a belt over the stomach to keep it in place and ties it really hard, so hard I’ve had problems with my bones/back

but all of that was bearable more that breathing/heart problems

day two and three differ only in that he puts the pot not on the stomach but on the belly button

during these 3 days, you have to lie down, eat normally (I ate a bit less because it was hard to eat with that thing around my waist) and you can’t raise your hands or it would mess things up

now, after that therapy I feel much, no breathing problems, but my stomach is not completely down and I have some heart problems

in a month I will repeat this again

here are the pictures

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Phage – The Virus That Cures

Monday, April 13th, 2009

this documentary by BBC explains how USSR (Soviet Union) doctors treated bacteria by using viruses, so called bacteriophage (bacteria eaters)

and they had one virus phage for each bacteria

they collected bacteria/phages from the sewage, and used phages to treat sick with good success

the center for this research was Georgia

now, the question is, why don’t the Americans use this…

I guess this is because of the pharmaceutical industry

because if you can treat deadly, resistant bacteria just by cultured viruses where’s the profit?

who’d buy antibiotics in this case?

anyway, go get and see the movie

there’s a wiki article on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

and there are some private companies that charge you a fortune to come there and spend a week…

this therapy is supposed to be cheap… I guess locals get it for cheap while others have to pay a lot… we’ll see…

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Cell Inner Life

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Here’s a vid explaining what happens inside your cells

Some people at Harvard made it here

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Virus Attacks Tumor Brain Cells

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

now that’s a nice feature

the researchers at the Yale University used a kind of rabies virus called vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) to kill human tumor cells implanted into mice

and it works, tumor cells get attacked and die while normal cells do not react with the virus

read more about it here

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A Gene For Blocking HIV Discovered

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

by the scientists at University of Alberta led by Stephen Barr, a molecular virologist.

the gene named TRIM22 can block HIV in a cell culture and is present in our own body

this gene does not work in people already infected with HIV and the researchers are trying to find out why

read more about it here

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Make Your Own Babies

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

It’s true, if you are a women you won’t need a man to have a child. And the same goes the other way around.

Some scientists at Newcastle upon Tyne University found out a way to make sperm cells from woman’s bone marrow cells and they could make human egg cells using cells from a male.

So, if there is a lesbian couple, they’ll be able to have a child with genetic codes from both females.

The only problem is, without the Y chromosome, those children would be all female.

Imagine that, creating sperm cells from female bone marrow cells.

And creating egg cells from male cells.

This technique also allows one to be both a mother and a father to a child. Because, a woman may combine her eggs with her derived sperm, and a man can combine his sperm and his derived eggs.
Now, that could lead to some genetic health problems ;)

WTF? ;)

Read the article here

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Mint Tea

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I love mint tea :)

I drink it every day, usually late at night before going to bed. No sugar, just the tea. It’s really cheap but I’m thinking about getting some leaves in the summer just for fun.

Today I found a good YouTube clip on mint tea

Check it out :)

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Cocaine vaccine

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Now, I don’t do cocaine ;) but I like to read about things like these. Some geniuses actually thought about using cholera proteins and putting cocaine on them.

What this does is create an immune response to cholera proteins but also to cocaine. The immune system attacks it and you can’t get high ;)

Smaaart. But… I wouldn’t want any cholera in my bloodstream, inactivated or not ;)

The vaccine is up for approval, read about it here.

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