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Blind Spots, Havana Syndrome: Part 2

October 25, 2024 Robert Beckman 532 Views AHI, Anomalous Health Incidents, brain injuries, Brain wounding, Havana Syndrome, HBOT, Healing with Hyperbarics, hyperbaric chamber, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injuries

Blind Spots, a recent book by Marty Makary, is an in-depth analysis of how medicine gets it so wrong in some significant public health cases, frequently due to groupthink. Specifically, in the chapter “A Comedy of Errors,” Makary relates how his team “noted the same patterns of medical elites ruling by edict and kneecapping the brave souls who challenged their dogma.” All this misguided “science” that leads to misdirection in medical practice is a good segue to the current medical and policy debate in a running gun battle with reports of “Havana Syndrome”, aka Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI).

Havana Syndrome: Part 1

October 12, 2024 Robert Beckman 539 Views AHI, Anomalous Health Incidents, brain injuries, Brain wounding, Havana Syndrome, HBOT, Healing with Hyperbarics, hyperbaric chamber, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injuries

Mysteries, coverups, not-to-be-believed but proven-true injuries, and careers destroyed. Children too. This is the stuff of Tom Clancy. And Netflix. And ongoing pain and suffering and Agencies walking away from the victims. This is another example of medicine and politics failing patriotic victims wounded in the line of duty and left to their own devices for coping with an uncertain and degraded future. That is, until some of them starting finding out about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and other alternative therapies that are giving them their lives back. Read More

More Evidence: Untreated TBI ties to Cardiovascular, Endocrine, Neurological, and Psychiatric Disorders

New York Times: USMC Blast Injury Update

November 9, 2023 Robert Beckman 987 Views blast injury, brain injury, Brain wounding, concussion, HBOT, hyperbaric, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, Lest we forget, memorial day, mental health, oxygen, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, suicide epidemic, Suicide Prevention Funding, TBI, traumatic brain injury, VA, Veteran Suicide, Veterans, Veterans Affairs

Dave Philipps, Pulitzer prize-winning and NYT reporter, has filed another report on continuing investigations into BLAST injury. He does it through a look at the US strategy of using firepower to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria. “A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence From the Pentagon” tells a sad tale but neglects a open secret: blast injury has been known for decades to cause brain wounds. “Strange New Wounds” have been known for fifteen years as “THE INVISIBLE WOUNDS OF WAR.”

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