➡ This webinar discussed the upcoming short Biology event, the first meeting of the Cowan’s community, and how to safely stop taking prescription medicine. The speaker emphasized the importance of working with an experienced practitioner when trying to stop taking prescription drugs, as it can be a complex process. They shared their experience with patients who had taken drugs for conditions like AIDS, high blood pressure, and hypothyroidism, noting that those who had never taken drugs were easier to treat and restore to health. The speaker also outlined a gradual process for reducing drug dosage, which involves halving the dose every two weeks and monitoring the patient’s symptoms.
➡ The text discusses Dovato, an antiretroviral drug used in HIV treatment. It contains two chemicals, Dolutegravir and Lamivudine, which are believed to inhibit certain processes in the HIV life cycle. However, the author questions the proof of this mechanism, arguing that the measures used to assess the drug’s efficacy, such as viral load and CD4 cell count, do not directly relate to the claimed processes. The author suggests that the drug may instead work by affecting the body’s energy dynamics and reducing inflammation, and warns against abruptly stopping its use due to potential severe rebound effects.
➡ Scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, isn’t caused by vaccines. It’s influenced by various factors, including muscle imbalance and lifestyle habits. Instead of using rods to stabilize the spine, it’s better to improve the overall health of the musculoskeletal system. This can be achieved by maintaining a strong and flexible spine, similar to bamboo, through activities like barefoot walking, running, and climbing. A diet rich in nutrients, like bamboo salts, can also help strengthen the spine.

Okay, welcome everybody. Today is another Wednesday webinar. Today is May 27, 2026. And thanks everybody for joining me. So, just a few announcements. So first of all, today is going to be a short webinar, half an hour. We’re all busy getting ready for the new Biology experience and very excited for that next week. And you can find the link to that. And because of that, there will be no webinar next Wednesday and probably not the following week. Although I may do a recap of the new Biology experience the following Wednesday, but definitely not this coming Wednesday, the next week, a week from today, as I’ll be traveling that day.

And we’re all very excited about that. And I just happened to see Jude Roberts and Mike Miranda who are going to be the musicians. And so that’s very exciting. And we talked, I talked to all the practitioners and pretty much everybody’s going to be there. So you get to meet your, the practitioners at the new biology clinic. And we’re going to have a lot of interesting talks, meeting a lot of people, good food, great environment, and I hope to see as many of you there as possible. That was the main thing. We had our first meeting of the Cowan’s community this morning of the general membership.

So that’s something. If you want to be part of that and want to be able to ask live questions, that’s the place to go. And we’ll put a link in how to become a member of the Cowan Circle community or community circle. So that’s the other exciting thing that’s happening. I think that’s it for announcements. Let me just check. Yeah, so I got a whole bunch of questions. So I just put a few that may be of general interest or maybe not, but we’ll see. Just to do a short webinar today. So the first question was how to get off Dovato, which is an HIV AIDS medicine.

And I would say I would try to generalize that by how to get off any prescription medicine that you’ve been prescribed or taking. And the person wanted to know my experience with that. The first thing is I would definitely be remiss in not saying that this can be a very tricky problem. And so this is something that you want to work with an experienced practitioner who is well versed in taking people off prescription medicines. And pretty much everybody at the New Biology clinic would fit that bill. And there’s a lot of benefits from working with somebody who’s actually had experience with this because.

Or maybe. Yeah, I guess because, or as a consequence of working in San Francisco as a doctor for 17 years, I did see a fair amount of AIDS patients. Although I would say that the AIDS patients in San Francisco, even though it was one of the epicenters of the AIDS situation, tended not to be particularly interested in most so called alternative or holistic medicine. They were definitely into some things, particularly like weight training and fitness stuff, but not so much into a different way of looking at the whole causation of AIDS or anything to do with, with how otherwise to treat it besides taking anti AIDS drugs.

In fact, I would say go so far as to say there was a bit of a stigma and a hostility towards anybody who didn’t see the miracle of the AIDS drugs. My experience with this, which is true with a lot of other prescription medicines, I would say high blood pressure medicines, thyroid medicines, many heart medicines, immune system so called medicines, chronic antibiotic use and probably many others that I’m forgetting right now, was that people who were medication naive, in other words, never took any drugs, were way more easier to treat successfully and restored to normal health than the people who had taken the conventional drug treatment for whatever it is, the hypothyroidism, their Crohn’s disease, their chronic infections, their AIDS or whatever it was.

And the longer they took their pharmaceutical medicine, the more difficult it was to get them off and the more troublesome it was in the weaning process. So if you’re somebody who’s been on a prescription drug for more than say six months, even maybe three months, you can expect to have a lot more difficult time than if you had never been on the drug ever. So again, and I’ve said this before, a person who came to me with a diagnosis of hypothyroidism based on symptoms and their laboratory results, which I would also question, but I’m not going to get into that right now, were way easier to bring back to normal, normal functioning and even normal laboratory tests than the person who’d been on either Synthroid or Armor Thyroid or any of the so called natural thyroid hormone replacements for 20 years, 10 years or even six months, way easier.

And the same thing also went with my AIDS patients. The people who came to me with an AIDS diagnosis with either with symptoms and or laboratory tests that allegedly confirmed that they had hiv, who had never taken any of the AIDS drugs, you could almost always reliably predict and say that they would, could be sort of helped to regain normal function and regain a normal life. Whereas this was not the case with people who had been on their hiv drugs for six months or a year or even 10 years. So I would first of all keep that in mind when you’re thinking about your course of action here and how likely you are to be successful.

Generally speaking, just to get into the practical details and then I’ll get into a little bit about what this drug is. The, this, the regimen that I used for most drugs was that whatever the dose that they were maintained on when they first came to me, I would half the drug along with the other recommendations that I would give them right off the bat and then check them in a fairly short time, usually a week or maybe two weeks, depending on the situation. And that would be mostly a check in person and the question of how you’re doing and what have you noticed is any changes? And that was way more important to me than doing any laboratory tests.

Although there were times when I would do laboratory tests in the follow up period, but I would say well over 90% of it was, how are you doing? And if they were doing fine, then I would continue on for another two weeks with half of that dose. So if they were on 100 milligrams of a drug, then I would have them go 50 for two weeks. And if all things were fine and they were doing well, even better, then I would do 25. And sometimes this necessitated actually getting like a pill cutter and physically cutting the drugs in half.

And I never worried that I got it exactly 25 or maybe 22 in some and 26 in another, but I didn’t worry about that. And then I would go another two weeks and then I would go to half of that and then keep going for probably five to six rounds. Now, depending on how long the person had been on the drugs, I would say at least half of the time and maybe even up to say 80%. And some drugs worse than others, psychiatric drugs, almost always the AIDS drugs, almost always you would go for two weeks and the people would start having symptoms again, some of the same symptoms that originally brought them to medical attention.

And then I wouldn’t do the next two week lowering, I would just keep it at that dose even for another two weeks, another month, another six weeks, even up to another six months. There was times when I would wait even six months and I would wait until their symptoms got better and they would equilibrate and feel sort of normal again or even better than when they started. And that had the opportunity to let some of the other things that we were doing, diets and certain maybe other approaches to give them a chance to work. And so at the End of the day it sometimes took up to a year or even sometimes longer to fully wean them off whatever drug they were on.

And I never really worried about how long it took. I just worried about doing it safely and judiciously, meaning I would lower it, see how they did. If they were fine, I would keep lowering. If they weren’t, I would let them equilibrate. And I also found that the lower the the dose, so at the end of maybe the first cycle was usually pretty easy and then you would lower it at the second cycle, usually went well. And then it was the third, fourth, fifth and sometimes sixth cycle of having the dose where you were almost with a very small number of milligrams or whatever the quantity was, that’s when you would start to see more symptoms come back.

And because the disease was not being suppressed as much. So those are the ones that I would typically string out. And so that was my general approach to pretty much getting off any prescription medicine, whether psychiatric medicine, hormones, antibiotics, immune suppressant medicine or these HIV drugs. I just wanted to make a comment on this drug called Dovato, which is a one of the standard, it’s a two drug so called antiretroviral drug and it can consists of two different chemicals that I’m sure I’m going to butcher the names of. So dilute to Gravir is the first one and that’s a so called integrase strand transfer inhibitor.

The second chemical is called Lamivudine and that’s a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor. So I took the opportunity to take a look at a paper that because what I did was asked this first drug, what is the proof that the mechanism of action of this chemical is inhibiting the integrase strand transfer factor. So essentially what that means is the theory of these antiretroviral drugs is that they’re a strand of RNA like the coronavirus, allegedly. And this strand has to is encapsulated in a protein. And somehow this encapsulated strand of RNA by some miracle is able to penetrate into the body of the cell, which is something that has also never been seen.

I mean the virus has never been seen in the first place. But that strains credulity a little bit. And then it goes from the cytoplasm, the body of the cell and again it somehow breaches the nuclear membrane of the nucleus of the cell with no idea how that happens. And so that allows the RNA to be injected into the nucleus of the cell. Now the virus then has A integration factor. So there’s some chemical protein that the virus codes for and makes. And so that comes along with it into the nucleus and facilitates the integration of this RNA into the genome, the DNA.

First it converts it from RNA into DNA, that’s the nucleoside reverse transcriptase enzyme. So that’s the first thing in the nucleus, converts the RNA into DNA and then this DNA is integrated into the genome, the DNA of the host, where it convinces by some mechanism the host to make millions of copies of this newly integrated strand of DNA in the nucleus. And then it gets reconverted back into RNA and then reunites itself with the protein capsule or coding buds off the cell. And then you get a million new copies from just a few that entered the cell.

So I went looking by putting in into a search engine the evidence that this mechanism is actually how it works. And I didn’t spend a whole lot of time on this, but let me show you what I found. So here is a paper. This is the first of the two of the chemicals found in this drug called Dovato. So it’s an integrase strand transfer inhibitor for the treatment of HIV in adults. So here it is and it says goes through the HIV viral life cycle, consists of absorption of the virus into the host cell. Then it integrates into the host RNA reverse transcriptase to DNA via the reverse transcriptase enzyme and integration into the nucleus via integrase enzyme.

Then within the nucleus, proviral DNA is assembled and then transcribed to rna. The RNA is translated into protein assembled and buds off from the host cell. After budding, the virion matures via protease is then considered infections. So that’s the so called life cycle. And so any HIV treatment is to interrupt at some part of this. So then they say how well they do and here’s the different types. So how do you know that this happens? So here’s what they say. The efficacy of this medicine is measured by reduction of the HIV RNA known as vital viral load and the increase in the CD4 cell count.

Now the interesting thing about those is those none of, neither of those actually measure anything to do with what they just said. A viral load means that they take some tissue or blood of a person, they amplify it with the PCR process, so called, and the more of these pieces of RNA get amplified. That’s called a viral load. Now the problem with that is that the more the person is breaking down, in other words, the more sick they are. If we even believe that a PCR is amplifying anything, then the higher the viral load. It has nothing to do with any evidence of any virus.

All it has to do with, according to in their own terms, is the amount of broken down or free pieces of RNA or DNA are in the tissue. So again, there’s no part of that story that has anything to do with viruses. So they make up the story to say that people who have more of these little pieces, not knowing the origin of these little pieces, that’s those pieces must be from the virus. And so that’s called a viral load. A CD4 count is a measure of a protein that is allegedly made by the person and again has nothing to do with proving any of this stuff about the integration or our synthesis of any viral particles or even proving there’s a virus.

All it says is that there’s certain non specific antibody which is made or protein which is made more when you’re really sick and less when you’re not so sick. And there’s no evidence, there’s no like, specificity in what the mechanism of sickness actually was from a CD4 count. So that’s what they’re measuring here. So they’re not measuring or proving that any of this has anything to do with all this stuff about how a virus was made or what this integrase is. And then I looked further to see if there was anywhere in this paper where they actually tried to document this mechanism.

Here’s another one. This drug inhibits the action of the viral enzyme integrase by binding and antagonizing the integrase active site. This prevents HIV from incorporating its DNA into the DNA of the host, thus blocking the strand transfer step of retroviral DNA integration. So this is their proposed mechanism and they have a reference which then, if you look down at the reference, this is from the package insert. And so when I looked in there, there was no proof or evidence or even attempt to document that this was doing anything like what they say it’s doing. So again, this is just a story.

And they also talk about how when you put these drugs into a cell culture, the cell culture has less free RNA or DNA, less breakdown of the cell culture, which all that means is somehow this drug is inhibiting the breakdown of the cell culture and there’s no evidence that it’s killing any virus or no evidence that there’s antivirus as part of this. And so we’re left with a wild story that’s made up that we have, that has no proof that it has anything to do with what they say it does all they can say is when you take this drug you’re having less breakdown products in your blood in and some of the chemicals that they allege to have something to do with your immune system temporarily get better.

Now if you happen to stop this from one day to the next, the breakdown will be worse than ever and you will have rapid decline and you will have even really bad outcomes can happen. I’ve seen that. So if you’ve been taking this for more than a few weeks, you cannot just stop. This has nothing to do with the recurrence of the so called viral infection and it’s very difficult, maybe impossible for me to say. So what is this drug actually doing? I think it for sure has a anti inflammatory effect and it has to do with the energy dynamics of the person.

And so when you stop it it changes how your body makes energy and that seems to have a dramatic rebound effect. And so the people who take this have to take it for life. Except if they do the weaning technique and the type of things which we will help you with at the new biology clinic clinic. So to recap, I gave a strategy for how to get off this drug or pretty much any other drug. The mechanism that they say it works as far as I can see is totally unproven and in fact can’t possibly be because it all emanates from or comes from the whole virus story which we all know isn’t true and that you definitely see a rebound effect for people who stop this from one day to the next.

So that’s not something you want to do. What you want to do is integrate a whole other way of looking at this problem from both a physical and emotional and psychological and energetic and every other way you can look at this person’s life. Because as we say in the clinic, you don’t have a disease, you are the disease. And the question is not what you should take, but what you should do and how you should conceive of your life differently and how you should act differently and see the trajectory of your life in a different way.

And that hopefully will lead you to be able to successfully wean off this and pretty much any other drug. So I only have a few minutes left and let me just jump to another one. Somebody asked about scoliosis and is this caused by vaccines and is there some other way to treat it by with rods? And I had actually never heard a direct connection between vaccines and scoliosis. Scoliosis means a curvature and abnormal curvature of the spine. But so I can imagine There’s a number of factors that end up with this sort of usual, sort of teenage onset scoliosis.

And I would say I would. I can’t imagine a situation where I would have recommended never once did somebody to put a rod into, so called stabilize it. I think the things you want to look at are overall the integrity of this musculoskeletal system. And in particular to see this not so much as a problem of misalignment of the bones or the vertebral bodies of the spine. Those are like the. If you can picture bamboo, bamboo is very much the. The picture in nature of the spine. It has intervertebral discs and then vertebral bodies, and it keeps going up.

And interestingly, bamboo is in other ways, not just physically the picture of the spine, but what you want your spine to be is strong and flexible. If it’s strong and rigid, that’s a problem. And that’s what happens when you put a rod in. And if it’s not strong but flexible, that’s also a problem because then you’re too flexible and things will become out of alignment. And this strength and flexibility, which is sort of epitomized in nature as a. By the bamboo, which is also, by the way, why bamboo can be a powerful medicine for treating weakness of the spine.

And I would use it as bamboo salts. And there’s bamboo preparations. And bamboo is allegedly the highest in plant food and silica. So it’s really a living quartz crystal. And a living quartz crystal is the picture of strength and flexibility. It also has a lot to do with muscle tension. And if you have a chronic imbalance in the way your muscles are working, either because they’re too weak, or because your posture is off or your balance is off, or you’re moving in an abnormal way. And this has a lot to do with wearing shoes and not walking and not walking barefoot.

And all these things that naturally, how humans live increase the strength and flexibility by constant input into how your spine, how the muscles that line your spine and create tension, how they should be reacting to the uneven terrain and the movement of your feet. And all this is connected down into the earth. And as soon as we put ourselves in shoes and we do too much abnormal movement, like focus only on one activity, or do no activity, or only this kind of activity, or even the focus too early on only one sport, children should be moving, jumping, running, playing all kinds of movements, swimming, climbing rocks, climbing trees, as much barefoot as possible.

That’s how you create healthy muscle tone on both sides of the spine, which then pull in an even way, and they don’t pull the spine out of alignment. If none of that is happening, then the spine can get permanently or semi. Permanently, they say, fixed in this abnormal position, it’s not permanently fixed. And the treatment is a combination of living silica, like bamboo, and movement, especially the primal movement, and all those barefoot movement activities that I just said. And also eating a diet that helps the integrity of your bones and cartilage and soft tissue. And that would be something like nourishing traditions with lots of bone broths and other good food in it.

So hopefully that will give you some idea of what you can. How you can think about scoliosis. And the last thing I would ever do is fix the rigidity, because then you have rigidity, strength without flexibility, and that’s a huge problem. Okay, again, I wanted to do only a short video this time, and there won’t be a video next week. Next week I will be traveling to the New Biology Experience, where I hope to see as many of you there as possible. And we’re looking. We’re hoping to have a great time and lots of learning and making friends and all the rest of it.

So again, thanks everybody for listening, and I will see you in a few weeks.
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