National Institutes of Health

So, so let's make it even easier for people.

So NIH, a mile down the road from my office in Bethesda, Maryland, says 28% of Americans have had at least one concussion in their lifetime, and I think the number's probably way higher.

But most people don't realize that present-day symptoms and struggles can often be tied to or connected to prior injuries.

Mm-hmm.

This is not a normal macaque diet.

So at incredible expense, the National Institute of Health redid the experiment.

Took another twenty years.

I mean, this is ri- t- I can't imagine how much money this took.

The White House has begun drafting a new executive order that could further cement President Trump's ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants and expand the administration's pressure campaign against elite universities.

Discussed at a highly contentious meeting at the White House on Friday, the order aims to create a new external committee with the power to veto awards in the National Institutes of Health's vast research portfolio that do not conform to Donald's political agenda, according to people with knowledge of the effort.

During the meeting, Trump repeatedly complained about his administration's failure to bring Harvard University, in particular, to heel.

The administration has been unable to hammer out a deal with the nation's oldest and wealthiest university, essential plank of his broader push against, and I quote, "woke ideology in higher education." Fuck off.

I love that you kind of hinted at that earlier, like we're so comfortable now prescribing sex hormone replacement therapy, but what about thinking about this the way that the European countries do, which is using melatonin as a key hormone replacement therapeutic agent, even in women who, let's say, cannot use other forms of HRT, right? It's a really important thing.

And again, those studies that I was just, you know, for fun, just going down this rabbit hole on NIH and PubMed.

I mean, just so many protective benefits to melatonin in terms of breast health and bone density and cardiovascular health.

I mean, there's just, there's so many things that melatonin does for us.

Like I said, like Marvis, that's a kind of exploded in their scientific use over the past decade.

And a lot of that is that our community worked with the NIH and the Brain Initiative a number of years ago to build up a national infrastructure for You know, we have almost all the marmosets in the country genotype now.

We have, you know, which is an amazing resource for so many reasons.

You know, we have integrated breeding systems.

And this is where the NH has been under attack for a lot of unnecessary things.

I'm not saying everything that has happened has been great, but...

There are a lot of things that the NIH has been really amazing at, and this is certainly one of them, where they recognize the need.

We've spent years building this infrastructure.

And so I actually, I went to school, University of Maryland, I loved the program that I was in.

And I actually worked at the National Institutes of Health at the NCI National Cancer Institute for many years as a laboratory technician doing bench work, which I loved.

You know, so really, I just always loved learning about how things work.

And so to me, that was the most fundamental of how things worked and looking under the hood, I guess, as it were.

We worked side by side at Duke University Hospital.

where his research was funded by the NIH and the Department of Defense, focused on how the immune system modulates pain and recovery after injury.

Wowzers.

Dr. Buckeye is now the founder and medical director of Triangle Region Medicine and Biologic Center in Chapel Hill, where he specializes in biologic therapies, including PRP, or platelet-rich plasma, autologous condition serum, and the thing I'm really excited about, nerve hydrodissection.

definitely RCTs that show that it has worked specifically, but the kind of size and scale of RCTs quite deliberately was not funded.

If you look at most of these really big RCTs, even the scale of the RCTs done on remdesivir had all the funding, the drug funding, the NIH funding, that was held back.

because ivermectin was viewed as a threat.

In fact, ivermectin, which is basically a hydroxy version of abamectin, so it's just got a water molecule bound to it, from a soil bacterium, was one of the compounds that our research group at Imperial College was working on.

So ANH is now, on the one hand, advising on legalities on the basis that you know you came from that background of trying to stop the European legislation and then getting that later intervention five years on.

So it's advising legalities companies, doctors on the legal frameworks and also advising them on the science.

Is that some way what NIH

does? Our strapline is good science and good law.

These are powered studies.

NIH published them.

There was a, it was in Finland, I believe, another study.

I can't remember where it was done, but these are well done, well published studies that showed Women under 60 that had been on an estradiol-based hormone therapy for less than five years that abruptly stopped because they couldn't get it, because somebody scared them, because they got a diagnosis and were told you can never take hormones, had a greater than 50% increased risk of sudden cardiac death.