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.

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:

• Watch: Bret Weinstein speaks with Dr. Aseem Malhotra

• Watch: Dr. John Campbell discusses mass Covid vaccination

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 some 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 or suppression of information, 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. 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.

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 likely to be true.

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 logically and with less emotion based on what you find. We also suggest that you form an opinion while considering motivation and bias in 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 vaccinated. Advocate for protection for your community, but please do not demand that others follow your lead if they come to an opposite conclusion. Mandates, vaccine passports, and coercion are authoritarian measures that increase resistance and very 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 mainly to those with heart disease and diabetes. There is also 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 lesx sever and less of a threat.

• Hyperlipidemia is one of the few comorbidities that was asssociated with REDUCED risk of death. Why? Could it be that the common treatment for hyperlipidemia (statins and other antiinflammatory 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 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. 

We offer telemedicine consultations, including for Covid-19 early treatment options. Complete the registration. Click here to get started.

What will my other providers say about my CurePlan?

Ideally, you should be able to trust your providers, from nurse practitioners to specialists, with your overall health and wellbeing. We all want to think of our doctor as “the best” and trust their advice.

Sadly, most “providers” are now employees of organizations that determine what they can and cannot offfer. It is reasonable to ask, “Can I trust those who control my providers’ paychecks?”

Here are some helpful questions to ask yourself when determining if your provider is right for you:

• What did my provider do to identify my chronic disease?

• What are they offering to CURE (not just manage) it?

• Do they wait and watch while it advances toward a more serious event such as heart attack or stroke?

• Do they offer you what they do for themselves?

When asked to detect “presymptomatic” arterial disease, most providers will schedule you for a stress test. The benefits of stress tests are only in the assessment of symptoms. They miss all but the most advanced state of coronary artery disease. False positives or equivocal tests lead to coronary angiograms and often unnecessary life altering stents.

Stop! Ask yourself, “How does this help me when I have no symptoms?” before agreeing to this approach. The only stent my patients have needed in the past 10 years was to fix the failure of a stent placed for a blockage in the absence of any symptoms. The other stent placed was done so in spite of measurement of no reduction in flow before stent placement. Unbelievable but true.

For more information, we recommend reading the book Prevention Myths by Drs. Ford Brewer and Todd Eldredge. 

Many modern providers are constrained by convention, guidelines, groupthink, complacency, and financial incentives to monitor and manage arterial and other chronic disease. They profit more from invasive, lucrative procedures and rehabilitation than they ever would from prevention. This is the business model that serves “health care” more than people. Surgery, stents and rehab are more profitable than healthy patients. You are not the customer in this model. Your chronic disease is the product.

This is not an attack on individual providers who work within the health care system, including your PCP and specialists. It is a sad observation of its brokenness and the corrupting nature of third party payment, employment of providers, and consolidation of healthcare into fewer and larger institutions. These institutions are dominated by those who have never uttered the Hippocratic Oath or watched a patient suffer in person.

You can do better.

At the CureCenter, we practice Proactive Medicine: Most of us are past the point of prevention. We tend to talk about prevention but act to fix a problem.

Our program reveals “presymptomatic” disease and “prevent” complications from progressive arterial disease. We expect to reverse your chronic disease and prevent untimely death or disability due to stroke, heart attack, or other major health events.

Side effects include feeling and looking better, more mental clarity and energy, and other positive effects. The goal is to live long, healthy, and happy.

Request a Discovery Zoom Call and start down the road to health today.

What is chronic disease and can it be cured?

A chronic disease is a commonly used term to describe a medical condition that persists over a long period of time, typically for years. Chronic diseases can significantly impact your quality of life. Examples include diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis (arterial disease), dementia, and certain types of cancer. Chronic diseases are caused by an interaction of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors.  They become more common as we age. This is a bit misleading. Chronic implies stagnant, stable and not in need of a sense of urgency.

The real problem and opportunity stems from the reality that these conditions are PROGRESSIVE but REVERSIBLE. This implies that proactive intervention (lifestyle, correction of deficiencies and safe well tolerated medications) is worth pursuing with some sense of urgency.

The chronic progressive but reversible diseases listed above (among others) are comorbid, which means more than one typically coexist in the same individual. They interact to cause harm. The root causes include a refined, processed, carbohydrate-rich diet, sedentary lifestyle, high levels of stress, sleep disturbances, and smoking interacting with genetic tendencies.

At the CureCenter, we emphasize the bad S’s: Sweets, Starches, Snacks, Seed oils, Sitting Salt, Smoking, Sleep/Snoring disorders, Stress and Sexual Starvation. We promote a diet of real unprocessed food and exercise, augmented with supplements and medications for specific needs.  But at least stop eating processed food, sweats and starches.

Why is it important to proactively act to reverse chronic disease into remission or cure?

Events such as heart attack and stroke become lethal or disabling quickly. However, they are actually caused by years of silent, unknown chronic inflammation which progresses to atherosclerosis/arterial disease. Plaque rupture or erosion starts the cascade leading to the blood clots that suddenly interrupt blood flow. Changing your lifestyle and reversing chronic disease is not just important for your overall general health. It significantly reduces your risk of serious, disabling and fatal events such as heart attack or stroke.

Reversal of chronic disease will also improve overall quality of life by reducing common symptoms such as fatigue or difficulty breathing. It can prevent further complications and development of other serious diseases.

I’ve always been told that chronic disease is manageable, but not reversible. Why is this incorrect?

Let’s be honest. The business of mainstream medical care is Chronic Disease Management. Mainstream medicine is simply overseeing our health decline with “management” of chronic disease. It sets you up to be vulnerable to inevitable exposure to Covid, flu, and other external threats. We can do better.

The “Standard of Care'' goal is to manage the disease and treat its complications. Costly and profitable drugs and procedures are the mainstay of treatment with this plan, with costs rapidly rising to unsustainable levels. We may live longer, but we’re sick and racking up costs and treatments. Keep in mind: Your costs are revenue for the medical system, including health insurance. You are not the customer. You are the product.

We have good news: Chronic disease can be Prevented, Reversed, put into Remission, and even Cured!

It is reversed by better choices about nutrition and activity interacting with our genes and environment. Quit smoking, avoid alcohol and drug abuse, avoid sugar and processed foods (sweets, starches, and snacks) and get off the couch. Be aware of the addictive nature of processed foods and find support to overcome craving for them.

Our mission is to discover and measure your chronic disease, identify your individual root causes, develop aPersonalized CurePlan to reverse it, and demonstrate measurable improvement.

When improvement or remission lasts long enough, it’s reasonable to call it “cured.” No cure is 100% effective or lasts forever, but this cure can endure for years if we do the right things.

At the CureCenter, we Measure, Motivate, Mentor, Measure again, and Maintain Momentum. We call these our healthy M&M’s! They are good for you and can cure your chronic disease by restoring your health.

Here is a fun and handy acronym to summarize: SAM

S’s - Sweets, Starches, Snacks, Seed oils, Sitting, Stress, (poor) Sleep/Snoring, Salt, Smoking & Sexual Starvation.

Causes:

ADDED - Arterial disease, Diabetes, Dementia, Erectile dysfunction, Depression

Cured by:

M’s - Measure, Motivate, Mentor, Monitor, Maintain Momentum