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What should I know about Covid-19?

Be Empowered. Be Safe. Be Resilient and Resistant to COVID (and other threats) to your health and well being…

Be Empowered. Be Safe. Be Resilient and Resistant to COVID (and other threats) to your health and well being.

At the CureCenter, we believe that working to reverse and cure chronic disease not only improves overall health, but also protects you from infection and other consequences of viruses such as Covid-19. In our experience, resilience and general immunity that accompanies good health is more effective (and safer) than any available vaccine.  

There is abundant evidence early treatment protocols, regardless of vaccination choices, can reduce severity of illness, hospitalization, and death from Covid-19. This includes optimized vitamin D levels to 50+ mg/dl.

The CDC has admitted that chronic disease severely increases risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19. The large majority of Covid deaths occur in those with diabetes, arterial disease, obesity, and hypertension. Almost nobody with a vitamin D3 level above 50 died from COVID.

So why are most public health officials not pointing out this obvious opportunity to improve health, reduce mortality overall? It is a combination of complacency and complicity with Big Food, Big Pharma and the rest of the medical industrial complex that is making more profit from vaccines and non-generic therapeutics than from prevention and effective early treatment.

Recently, new voices are suggesting that vaccine promotion should be stopped:

Should I get the Covid-19 vaccine and/or boosters?

Our advice: Think for yourself, consider your circumstances, and then decide. 

The older and sicker you are, the more the vaccines make sense. The healthier and younger you are, consider the risk as well as the purported benefit. Seek information from a variety of sources. Debate, not censorship, is the hallmark of science. “Science” is a process, not a person or specific recommendation or consensus opinion, no matter the source, their seniority or their position of authority.

Covid exposure risk will wax and wane. New variants will emerge. “Vaccines” have not been as effective or safe as originally hoped/hyped. These “vaccines” have made the most sense for highly vulnerable populations but make little, if any, sense for children and young healthy adults, especially in pregnancy. It is the antithesis of safety to recommend these undertested injections in pregnancy for the safety of mother and baby. There have been so many examples of public health recommendations that violate basic time proven principles, especially informed consent and do no harm.

Their main benefit thus far has been reduction in hospitalization and death from Covid-19 in high risk individuals. However, they do not prevent infection or spread. Since this is the usual expectation of vaccines, one would logically ask if they are, in fact, vaccines at all. It is especially important to understand that vaccination has always been intended to protect the vaccinated. Coercing vaccination of the low risk to protect the high risk is inappropriate and ineffective.

At this point in time, there is no way to know enough about the long term safety or efficacy of the mRNA “vaccines.” They were rushed into use far more rapidly than other approved vaccines without proper testing or trials. There is also no evidence that immunity from vaccines is superior to immunity from infection with Covid-19. In fact, the opposite is more supported by evidence and history.

At the CureCenter, we believe in our patients taking an active role in their own health. We suggest that you seek out information and think critically and with less emotion based on what you find. We also suggest that you form an opinion while considering motivation and bias of the sources you seek out. It is also always a good idea to “follow the money.”

If you are convinced of the benefit of the mRNA vaccines, get the vaccine. Advocate for protection for your community, but please do not demand that others decline if they come to an opposite conclusion. Mandates, vaccine passports, and coercion are authoritarian measures that increase resistance and rarely change minds. All individuals should be free to choose and accept the consequences of their own choices. You get a vaccination to protect yourself, not others.

A few additional things to consider:

  • Covid-19 proves fatal or severely harmful mainly to those with heart disease and diabetes. There is strong evidence that the mRNA vaccines exacerbate arterial endothial inflammation. Both of these can be prevented, reversed, and even put into remission. Control of preexisting arterial inflammation makes inflammation induced by spike protein less severe and less of a threat.

  • Hyperlipidemia is one of the few comorbidities that was associated with REDUCED risk of death. Why? Could it be that the common treatment for hyperlipidemia (statins and other anti inflammatory strategies) actually mitigated the inflammation in COVID and saved lives?

  • If you get spike protein inflammation either from infection or injection, it won’t be as serious if your arteries and metabolism are already healthy.
    Further reading: A study on Covid-19 factors

  • Ignorance may be bliss, but it’s a terrible choice. Be empowered by understanding and improving your arterial age and metabolic health.  Get started.

It’s better to address underlying root causes of issues related to Covid death than to jump directly to an unproven vaccine.

How can I most effectively prevent serious illness or death from Covid-19?

The best way to prevent serious illness or death from any infection or disease, including Covid-19, is to be resilient, treat it early and avoid its source. This involves lifestyle changes such as healthy diet and exercise, proper sleep, reduced stress, and supplements and/or medication when appropriate. 

If you or a loved one needs to reverse known or suspected chronic disease, such as arterial disease or Type 2 Diabetes, we suggest you visit the CureCenter Website to schedule a quick and painless 5-minute CureScreen carotid ultrasound. We will use this to determine your threat and put you on the best CurePlan for prevention of events by stopping progression.

If you already know about arterial disease, diabetes, prediabetes, or other chronic illness, start by requesting a complimentary Discovery Zoom Call with Dr. Backs. He will explain how we develop a personalized CurePlan with measurable results that document and motivate improvement in your health.

Don’t allow fear of exposure to Covid-19 keep you from necessary care for other conditions, including support for your mental and oral health. 


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