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Niki Ratliff's avatar

My 74 year old husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in May of 2020. He does not have the tremor but has bad balance, weak muscles, and weak voice. He is totally addicted to his cell phone, scrolls all day long and into the night. If I understand you correctly, the light from his phone is very bad for his Parkinson’s. Can you confirm this? Also, it seems you are advocating for infrared saunas? Can you clarify? Thank you for this incredibly written article! I want to become a paid subscriber.

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Remnant MD's avatar

Both the light and other non-native EMF (for example from cell phones, but also other devices) can lead to a cascade of events which destroys the appropriate functioning of the neuro-circuitry responsible for managing movement.

Infrared light, full-spectrum sunlight, and cold-water emersion therapy can help restore some of these pathways.

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Niki Ratliff's avatar

Thank you so much for your reply.

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Joel P's avatar

Can you clarify in the final analyse you comment on things to consider. Notably UV A and IR light. Are you suggesting this be added or retracted from a Parkinson’s subject. As they both can harm skin and lead to skin cancer, I am curious to understand what application or not you might be advocating.

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Remnant MD's avatar

Inclusion of UVA and IR in therapy approach, as they are both integral to the production and stabilization of melanin.

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Joey's avatar

Thank you for writing in a clear, concise manner in which those of us who research, yet are not in the medical field, can understand! I’m certain you’re not taking patients but………?

In the shortage of medical professionals occurring, the shortage of great doctors within that shortage that actually will listen to their patients is sorely lacking! It always has amazed me when the doctors take the supposed oath to help humanity, garner God complex’s and fail their patients in every way! It’s a disease in of itself. One would hope they’d do everything and anything to help their patients, even outside of their training, but sadly it isn’t the case. After Rockefeller laid his evil claws into all aspects of the medical field a hundred years ago, it became a dark industry. Blackballed and funds taken if should they even suggest using herbs and other God created medicines. Direct orders from satan himself to fuel massive profits for the pharmaceutical companies and success in the depopulation movement.

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A-diet-stress-model-of-lgbt's avatar

Artificial light can damage the dopamine neurons they say. See for example "A New Threat to Dopamine Neurons: The Downside of Artificial Light".

What about the millions of children who take prescription stimulants? I recently wrote an article on how their use may be increasing LGBT identity rates. Stimulants first increase tonic dopamine, then lower it. They increase sexual drive, erectile dysfunction, psychosis and hormonal disturbances. The perfect combination to become homosexual and trans identified.

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Diane Doles's avatar

Please write more about what items in our diets prevent to formation of melanin or enhance its degradation. Thanks.

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Tonya's avatar

Same thing happens in “mental health” when they medicate for depression or anxiety, and then new symptoms pop up. They say, “Oh, look! We misdiagnosed. It was actually schizophrenia or boderline personality disorder all along. We just missed the diagnosis because the symptoms can come on gradually.” But unlike Grandpa and his dopamine patches, going off psychiatric meds often makes symptoms worse due to withdrawal. Then the withdrawal symptoms are used as “proof” that the person really needs those meds.

Roger McFillin talks about this in his Substack publication Radically Genuine.

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Jenny's avatar

I would like to make a paid subscription to your articles. I found the one on Calcium scores particularly relevant but I can’t find how to access the paid subscription.

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Remnant MD's avatar

The article itself should have an option to upgrade your subscription. You may find accessing it by phone or computer helpful.

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Tracy Kolenchuk's avatar

Is the treatment the disease? Medically, perhaps. But, a cure proves the cause. A patient with depression might be treated, without a cure goal, in dozens of ways.

But, if depression is cured by nutrition, it wasn't depression. It was malnutrition. Depression is incurable.

If a case of depression is cured by stopping consumption of a poison or a drug, then it wasn't depression, it was poisoning. Depression, real depression disease is incurable. We can treat depression, but we can't cure it.

If a case of depression is cured with sunlight, it wasn't depression, it was SAD. Depression is incurable.

If a case of depression is cured by divorcing an abusive spouse, then it wasn't depression, it was abuse. Depression is treatable, but incurable.

If a case of depression is caused by a combination of malnutrition, poisoning, prescription drugs, and social abuse, it might be depression disease. How can we know? Depression is incurable. If it is cured with a shotgun technique of nutrition, removing poisons and drugs, and addressing the abuse, it wasn't the disease depression. It was a bunch of health conditions that have depressive symptoms. How do we know? Depression is incurable. If it was cured - it wasn't the disease.

The same is true of many diseases, including diabetes. Diabetes is incurable. What happens when it is cured? Yes, there are many examples of diabetes cured. But diabetes is incurable. What to do? Ignore the cure. Maybe it wasn't really diabetes. Maybe it wasn't really cured. The incurable status must be maintained - so diabetes, the disease, can be treated without a cure goal.

To your health Tracy

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Warburton Expat's avatar

That was interesting. I'd hoped you'd go more into the T2DM since it's so common, nonetheless the Parkinson's talk was interesting.

What I can say from my own (not a medical professional) experience is that even where lifestyle interventions are known to be as or more effective than drugs or surgery, many doctors won't recommend the lifestyle intervention. I can understand this, since most people simply won't change their diet, go for a walk, have a consistent bedtime or whatever. So I'd understand recommending lifestyle changes, waiting 3-12 months, seeing that they haven't changed and then just drugging them - but many don't even try. Even if only 1% of patients accepted a lifestyle intervention that's many billions of dollars saved, an extra few patients seen by doctors each week, and so on.

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Sikora's avatar

Dear Remnant MD, I firstly want to thank you for the time and energy you take writing about all these topics. Although I don't always understand everything (no medical studies), I worked for 3 years ( until very recently) on a neurological rehabilitation station in a clinic as administrative staff. Needless to say that the co/ro/na time was eye-opening for me and I used that time and my job to...research. Mostly elderly patients coming to us, after a stroke or/and some other neurological conditions+other colletaral diseases. Their med plans look almost copy-paste ...of course statins everywhere. After that, I found your thread and I just...never wanterd to write any comment ever..but everything you write about is on point. For the people ....it so heartbreaking. I saw what they eat, I see how the disease is being treated. No one gets off of meds. No one heals ever. They just get their symptoms managed and some are very happy when they go home walking and not in wheelchair or to a nursing home.

My mother in law has Parkinson for a long time. Never used mobile phone that much, she loved and loves the sun,no sunscreen, never smoked, never drank. She even had a heart attack a while ago and I guess it was a side effect from all those meds. I cannot help, I don't know how...I can't do anything. They all believe in these doctors like they are some Gods who keep the keys of the fountain of life and health ...and most of them just copy paste a medication plan and they try this year this new medication, then the other one, and the next one. They enroll patients in studies for pharma, take some blood for tests and ...that's it. Of course they tell you to drink more water. Very important, drink more water otherwise the brain schrinks.

Sorry for the rant, but this is what is like for regular people who see and are to some extent awake, to live in this world and have no real medical care if needed : it is heartbreaking.

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Mary Fisher's avatar

Dental work and other source of metal contamination may play a part. I believe DMSO can help detox some heavy metals. There are other more extreme chelation therapies, but dmso is milder

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Remnant MD's avatar

I share your heartbreak.

My grandfather in law was also on Statins in the past. I do know there are cases of people reporting parkinsonism and other forms of dementia after extended use of statins.

Wouldn't surprise me if it was a cause in some people.

All the best.

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Jaye's avatar

So...I had a doctor choose NOT to treat me, because I refused to go on The Pill (I was 43).

I was in near-indescribable pain, from an as-yet undiagnosed rapid-onset OSTEOARTHRITIS (insert eye-rolls here) which had degraded both my hips to bone-on-bone. It appeared to have been triggered by a post-partum MMR shot, which no one asked me if I wanted.

Idiots, all. My GP prescribed the drug the specialist would not. She said, "if you think you're pregnant, stop taking it"

Anyway 15 years out from a double hip replacement, I am out in the sun...unscreened. On no meds but thyroid.

Pain? Yes. Fatigue? Oh, yes. But I'm looking into rabbit holes, seeing a homeopath and starting to investigate possible emotional causes to my pain.

My new GP orders the tests I request. He will occasionally offer a med, but isn't surprised when I decline.

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Thomas's avatar

If you took a drug for dis-ease you didn't have, every effect would be a side effect. In other words, drugs cause ill effects because they are not healthy.

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Janet Nietvelt's avatar

When I experience or witness imbalances or disease in the body, my first thought is what the emotional/spiritual genesis could be, given that we are not just mechanical machines but complex systems. To arrive at some clues I typically reference Metaphysical Anatomy to understand what might be going that launched the imbalance in the first place. For example, I have a close relative who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. When I looked this up there was a reference to resistance - but in terms of someone being resistant to accepting love from others. In the case of my relative, I know she has spent her life believing that she had to be of use to others to be loved. She is not accepting enough of her own intrinsic worth to be able to receive love from others without somehow having to earn it. Perhaps her cells are reflecting back to her that belief by resisting the acceptance of insulin and the sugar needed to sustain and support proper functioning. So many illnesses are not understood in terms of why things start to go off the rails physiologically but maybe we aren’t looking in the right place. To be able to treat the whole person instead of just the symptoms would be preferable.

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anna c's avatar

I like this a lot for all sorts of reasons...

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MimiBear's avatar

Skin cancer would be another example of the “treatment” is the disease. Covering the largest organ of the body with chemicals every time you go outside then the doctor trying to assuage the worry by saying “good thing we caught it early” when he diagnoses your skin cancer. And that is not to mention the pervasive chemicals in soap, “body wash,” detergent, etc. I make my own soap and laundry detergent.

From what I’ve read here, I’m beginning to think melanin is at the root of almost everything.

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Conspiracy Sarah's avatar

👆

My father was a dermatologist. He died of melanoma in 2014. I have long suspected that his copious sunscreen use, regular exposure to other toxic topical chemicals, and avoidance of sun exposure at the very least contributed to his illness. Much more so than unprotected sun exposure at a young age, which is what he attributed his melanoma to.

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MimiBear's avatar

I’m so sorry that happened.

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Xuewu Liu's avatar

Yes, the modern healthcare system has too much overtreatment: [The Chaos of Overtreatment in Cancer](https://clo2xuewuliu.substack.com/p/the-chaos-of-overtreatment-in-cancer)

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Donnah's avatar

I wonder how much has to do with the fact that it seems the older we get, the more we are told to 'STaY oUt oF tHe SuN' - vitamin D levels, melanin production worsens. I've noticed in photos over the last 15 years that my mother-in-law looks like she is 'fading.' (I don't know how else to describe it.)

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