I believe that the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) test is the single most important biomarker test. It measures the outcome of all you do to be healthy while also measuring every process that is adverse to your health. Major factors that impact ESR are gut dysbiosis and stealth infections.
ESR measures electricity. Specifically, it measures the electrical potential of the red blood cells. This potential is created by the flow of minerals (known as ions in chemistry). The flow of a charge (ions/minerals) creates an electric charge. Thus, your cells - all your cells - are microscopic batteries. This is no different compared to the lithium-ion battery in your phone or the lead-acid battery in your car. Lead and lithium are charged ions.
Your electricity is produced in mitochondria through the electron transport chain. In cells, electrons, which then generate energy (ATP), are produced by "burning" carbohydrates through the action of oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and water. In your car engine, gasoline and oxygen combine to produce energy, which manifests as fire (combustion) and water.
What AI says:
"An internal combustion engine (ICE) uses the chemical process of combustion to produce energy from a fuel and air mixture. The engine has cylinders, pistons, fuel injectors, and spark plugs that combine to burn fuel and release exhaust gas, creating energy that powers the car."
When you ask the right question, you get the right answer.
Does combustion produce electrons?
Yes, combustion produces electrons. During combustion, electrons are transferred from carbon to oxygen in hydrogen atoms.
Thus, you can see that, just like your car engine, we input energy (calories) and an oxidizing agent (oxygen) to produce electrons - which are highly energized and create energy - to either push pistons or push your muscles.
BACK TO THE ESR BIOMARKER...
When your car battery is a bit discharged, it's harder for the lower energy in the battery to turn over and start your engine. This is well understood by those who live in cold regions. It may not be as obvious in warmer climates. This parallels health. Your cellular batteries may be a bit "discharged," but you don't notice it - AT LEAST INITIALLY. It's insidious - aka - chronic disease.
ESR is the best inexpensive measure for measuring the level of "discharge" in your cellular batteries. Keep in mind that it is not a precision marker. However, if your ESR is even slightly elevated, your cellular batteries are DEFINITELY discharged.
Here are two (2) processes that lower the charge in your cellular batteries.
Processes external to your cells that impact the flow of minerals into and out of your cells. The sodium-potassium pump (which drives what is called "active transport") is the process that drives minerals into and out of cells, creating a flow of minerals—thus creating charge.
Here is a link to a variety of videos on the sodium-potassium pump.
Low micronutrient intake and gut dysbiosis are major reasons for an elevated ESR and, thus, low cellular energy production. DO NOT IGNORE ANY GUT SYMPTOM, ESPECIALLY IF YOUR ESR VALUE IS >2 mm/hr. Ignore the standard-of-care reference range - they are NOT science-based.
2. Intracellular pathogens. These organisms live inside your cells. There are few - if any - publications discussing this process. Here is what I found.
One of our citizen scientists sent me an article on the spike protein and how it impacts the electrical energy of human cells. Of course, the measure used was the ESR test.
In short, I believe that if the zeta potential was instead recognized and understood by the medical system, patient outcomes would significantly improve.
The MIDWESTERN DOCTOR understands the value of the ESR biomarker test - which is very inexpensive and should be measured ANY TIME YOU HAVE A BLOOD TEST!
Story at a Glance:
•Since vaccines frequently cause a wide range of side effects, it is challenging to identify the common thread between those injuries. One of the best candidates has been vaccination triggering microstrokes throughout the body—a process that I believe also underlies many other chronic diseases.
•In the 1960s (and earlier), a large volume of forgotten research was produced showing that blood cells clumping together were the root cause of a variety of diseases. In parallel, Chinese medicine came to an identical conclusion, which has recently been validated by modern scientific instrumentation.
•The science of colloidal chemistry and zeta potential has shown that the primary factor that causes blood cells to clump together is the electrical charges present around them. Many of the most harmful agents in existence (e.g., aluminum or the COVID spike protein) coincidentally also happen to contain a positive charge which is remarkably effective at clumping fluids together.
•I believe impaired zeta potential (especially in the modern era) is the root cause of a wide range of diseases and that treating zeta potential is one of the most effective means to address both acute and chronic illness. Likewise, a strong case can be made that many effective conventional and holistic therapies ultimately work by improving the physiologic zeta potential.
Many problems in medicine are ultimately a product of the diagnostic paradigm a physician brings to the situation. This holds particularly true for complex illness, which due to their complexity cannot be solved by the majority of doctors and result in the patient continually struggling with their condition.
A hallmark of complex conditions is that the same disease can cause a wide variety of symptoms depending upon the person and likewise that numerous “complex illnesses” can present with very similar symptoms (e.g., fibromyalgia vs. chronic fatigue syndrome). Because the symptoms are so varied, severe, and inexplicable, doctors who have not been specifically trained to recognize them typically won’t and often will default to assuming they must be psychiatric in nature.
This very much characterizes vaccine injuries, as you can read hundreds reports from over a century ago (which I am currently compiling for an upcoming article) which describe many of the same inexplicable symptoms seen now in those with COVID-19 vaccine injuries, but simultaneously, there is immense variability between each individual report.In turn, my interest has been in determining what the underlying mechanisms of harm could be. Presently, I believe there are four primary things which underlie vaccine injury:
1. First (as will be discussed in the upcoming article) there is a longstanding issue with vaccinations being improperly produced and contaminated with things that can injure the recipient. This in turn is why vaccine hot lots repeatedly emerge.
Note: some evidence exists (e.g., a DPT vaccine memo revealed through litigation) that this issue was largely “solved” by distributing each lot throughout the country so that it would be much harder to identify the hot ones as injuries would not cluster in a single area.
2. Because vaccines are designed to unnaturally activate the immune system, they can create longterm immunological dysfunction and off target immunity. This most commonly manifests through the immune system attacking the body (there is a lot of evidence tying vaccination to a myriad of autoimmune disorders), but other immunological issues (e.g., varying degrees of immune suppression) are also sometimes observed after vaccination.
3. When cells are threatened, they will sometimes enter a primitive metabolic state to protect themselves where their mitochondria stop performing their normal functions. This state is supposed to be temporary, but some (myself included) believe cells can get stuck in this response, and that an unresolved and persistent cell danger response underlies many chronic and complex conditions. In turn, when the cell danger response is treated, many severe conditions (e.g., those linked to vaccination like autism) have been observed to resolve as well.
4. Vaccines cause moderate to severe impairments of the fluid circulation of the body through impairing the physiologic zeta potential (which causes fluids like blood to clump together) and to a lesser degree by having the white blood cells enter capillaries, where, due to their larger size, they obstruct the flow of blood through the capillary.
In this newsletter, I’ve tried to bring attention to the subject of zeta potential as I believe it underlies a wide variety of chronic conditions, but outside of a few niche areas (e.g., designing lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery or how the ESR test works) there is no knowledge of the concept within medicine. My focus was specifically drawn to the zeta potential concept after I realized many of the mysteries of COVID-19 (and later the vaccine) were a result of the spike protein being extremely disruptive to the body’s zeta potential.
In short, I believe that if the zeta potential was instead recognized and understood by the medical system, patient outcomes would significantly improve.
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