New post - organ transplant industry takedown - there is a treatment for comatose patients, some at least. A doctor from Brazil discovered it but is the industry excited? No. That might disrupt the organ profit business. https://t.co/rFckXnGL1M
— Jennifer Depew, RD (@deNutrients) April 5, 2023
This is from a report that followed a May 20, 2021 Conference.
Dr. Coimbra explains that the term “brain death” was coined in the 1960s after the first successful human heart transplant “triggered a demand for transplantable vital organs to be harvested from patients” who were considered to be “hopelessly comatose” according to medical knowledge at that time.
There was “no preliminary scientific research” on the brain-death concept before the name was used, he said. But calling these patients “dead” enabled the medical community to overcome all of the legal hurdles associated with removing vital organs from these comatose patients.
Their main mistake, Dr. Coimbra argues, was to consider these patients “irreversibly” brain damaged.
By the 1980s, when organ transplants were performed around the world, medical researchers experimenting on animals discovered that when blood flow to the brain is reduced from the normal range to just 20-50 percent, the brain would “fall silent” — but was neither “dead” nor “irreversibly damaged.” By the end of the 1990s, this phenomenon — called “ischemic penumbra” — was demonstrated in humans, shattering the “brain death” myth.
The brain is silent but not dead, he said.
Registered Nutritionist, Jennifer Depew remarked that
People with “Organ Donor” on their Driver’s license may not be allowed much time to wander around in a Near Death Experience before a doctor declares them “brain dead” and their organs are removed without anesthetics (possibly to preserve the function of the organs). News to know.
Depew adds
That post is a repost of this article: The Beating Heart Donors | Discover Magazine, which goes into more detail about the history and criteria for declaring ‘brain death’, not conscious, but not really dead, as opposed to cardiac/lung death - really dead. Patients declared brain dead still grow, still heal wounds or fight infections, and can even continue growing a baby - 107 days in one case. The babies may survive. But then the woman’s organs are harvested.
Highlighting the lucre of the transplant industry, Depew explains that
Organ transplant is big money - for the surgeons and the ongoing need for pharma drugs to help prevent rejection of the transplanted organ. Patient’s families do not receive any money as that is deemed unethical (it would set up a blackmarket type of for-profit sale of self - loving parent sells organs to help provide for a family in need…).
So they're creating a market to expand their monopoly on the industry. Big business alright to the tune of $25 billion dollars a year.
The transplant system is a wealthy system; it is a powerful system,” Dr. Coimbra said. “They are everywhere in the medical community. They are in medical councils and medical academies; they are everywhere … Politically, they are very powerful.”
“In the United States alone, in 2016 the transplant system involved business to the tune of approximately 25 billion dollars,” he noted. “By 2025, it is expected to reach 51 billion dollars per year.”
It is “big business,” he said.
Dr. Coimbra continued:
The brilliant idea of the transplant system was to call what they thought to be irreversible brain damage “brain death.” Because whenever you say someone is against “brain death,” you think: “How can someone possibly be…against death? They don’t believe in death?” But “death” is just a word that was given to a “hopelessly comatose” patient — but they were “hopelessly comatose” at the end of the 60s, not now.
“In a very large number of those patients, they have no damage at all — no brain damage at all — they just have a silent brain,” he added.
A further insult would be the fact that the comatose condition is reversible: iodine.
Dr. Coimbra said he has seen firsthand that there is hope for patients who have been labeled “brain dead.” If doctors would simply replace three essential (thyroid and adrenal) hormones, “the normal circulation to the brain would be restored,” he explained. But when these hormones are not replaced, the patient progresses “into a disaster.”
The Brazilian neurologist again noted that doctors and medical students are not taught this:
They know what is in the neurology textbook of medicine … They know what’s there, and this is not there. The importance of replacing thyroid hormone is not discussed in meetings related to brain injuries, and how to treat brain injuries. Not one single intensive care unit in the world replaces thyroid hormones — not a single one that I know of.
To illustrate how much the “brain death” myth has gripped the minds of the medical community, Dr. Coimbra tells the story of a 15-year old girl who began to show signs of brain activity once he administered the necessary hormones. Seeing notes of progress Dr. Coimbra had made in the girl’s medical chart, a doctor on call in the ICU that night wrote: “Once a patient is declared ‘brain dead,’ the patient is dead. It doesn’t matter if later on the patient no longer fulfills the criteria for ‘brain death.’ The patient is legally dead, because it was once diagnosed as ‘brain dead.’”
In the end, Dr. Coimbra said it all comes down to the duty of doctors to honor their sacred oath to “do no harm” and to “do the best they can” for the health and wellbeing of their patient.
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