Guest: Matt Cormier - Health Uncensored: The Mystery of Declining Body Temperatures

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So thanks again for joining us, guys. We have another banger of a show lined up for you today with a guest who has, well, let's just say he's been blazing his own trail on a subject that we'll be shortly getting into. But first, before I jump into a couple of quick announcements. I wanted to throw it over to Matt and Don to see how they're doing today. So Matt, I know you just got back from a family trip. Much deserved. My friend, starting to get caught back up after your time away.

Yeah, man, it was kind of crazy. I was like, what did I tell all my friends when we got back? I'm like, man, you guys trying to blow up the country while we're out on vacation? Come on. But yeah, coming back into reality from staying on a far Caribbean island is pretty depressing. But, yeah, we're back in the fight. Let's do it. Back into the news cycle, the chaos and misery. But here we are. And, Don, we missed you last week on the podcast, brother. How are you doing this week?

I'm doing really good, man. Sorry I missed last week. You know, there was just some conflicting schedule stuff that happened.

But, you know, I'm here now. and uh this last week has been pretty good i've been taking care of some stuff at the house and just uh you know trying to get caught back up myself because uh you know it's just the summertime gets swamped but you know just gotta hang it in the banging oh yeah no especially when uh you know that dreaded news cycle we were just talking about is changing every three days man it's been hard to

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Today, we're joined by Matt Cormier. He's the mastermind behind healthuncensored.com, a platform that's made its mission to cut through the noise, to challenge mainstream narratives around health, pharma, and informed consent. Through documentary-style videos, articles, and interactive commentary, Matt aims to expose what he considers hidden truths in health and wellness.

Now, he's amassed 4,000 subscribers on a sub stack, which is impressive, and covers underreported health topics, which is basically why we wanted to have him on today.

Now, I've been watching his post for a while and certainly appreciate that he's sharp, he's unfiltered, and he's not afraid to ask questions that most won't. So Matt, welcome to the Free Thought Project podcast. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. I appreciate you guys having me on. Absolutely, man. Yeah.

So, you know, oftentimes we reach out to guests to be on the show, but in your case, you actually reached out to me and what you shared with me about global body temperatures being in decline across the globe really made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. And it seemed like a very important topic, one that a lot of people are talking about and one that we needed to explore.

Now, I know you've made a documentary about it. And it's certainly a topic that not many people really have even heard about. And just to be clear, guys, this isn't fake news or any type of sensationalized reporting in any way. I've confirmed all this. It's something that's actually happening. It's actually widely documented with various studies. But Matt, rather Other than me trying to explain to our audience what's going on, why don't you give us an explanation as to what this is all about?

And maybe after that, we could begin to kind of dissect exactly what you believe is causing this. Absolutely. Absolutely. So yeah, right now in the United States and the rest of the world, our body temperatures are collectively dropping. 98.6 degrees was the global average for over a century. And that's currently not the case anymore. We're all cooling down. The average body temperature right now, depending on which studies you look at, is between 97.7 degrees and 97.9 degrees Fahrenheit.

So we've collectively all cooled down. This isn't receiving really any media coverage. There's no one really in the health sphere that's talking about this. And in my opinion, it's one of the most significant events in human history. So I thought I'd basically go over the basics of this, what's happening, why it's happening, and what it means for your health if your body temperature is low. So if you don't mind, we'll get right into it. Yeah, please do, man. Okay.

So a person's body temperature is one of the most accurate markers of overall immune function and basal metabolic rate. Immune function refers to the body's response to pathogens and infections and foreign substances. A person's basal metabolic rate is your body's ability to turn calories into energy at rest. And this supports vital processes in the body. Pretty much everything is dependent on metabolism.

A lot of people are aware of the relationship between fever or elevated body temperature and a change in immune function. So pretty much everyone knows you get a fever, you're acutely ill. You're dealing with an infection. Your body's fighting something off. Nowadays, a lot of, most people aren't aware what it means when body temperature gets low. So if your body temperature is elevated, you're fighting, right? Your body's clearing something.

When the body temperature gets low though, there's very little research talking about that. So that's why I'm here today. So I'll briefly explain the basics of immune function in relation to body temperature right now. A body temperature above 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit indicates active infection, acute immune and inflammatory response, elevated metabolic rate, and enhanced detoxification.

When a person is at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit even, this is indicative of immune system and metabolic homeostasis. Everything is running exactly as it should. Perfect. When a person's body temperature falls below 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit and stays there consistently, it's indicative of suppressed immune function. You know, I just got done talking about how when a person gets a fever, their body's fighting. Their immune system is active.

When body temperature gets low, it's the opposite. It means the immune system is weak. It can't mount a proper inflammatory response. Okay? Suppressed immune function. When this happens, a person will deal with latent and chronic infections. In the past 20 years, there's been a lot of talk about chronic infections, whether it's long COVID, chronic Lyme disease. In the 80s and early 90s, it was chronic HIV and AIDS. So chronic infections are becoming a very, very serious problem.

But let me get back on point here. So a body temperature below 98.6 degrees means suppressed immune function, latent and chronic infections, chronic low-grade inflammation that waxes and wanes. That means basically the body is stuck in a state of, in a chronic inflammatory state that the inflammation kind of comes up and down based on diet and lifestyle. You know, a person's never really well. A body temperature below 98.6 degrees also indicates toxicity and poor detoxification.

That goes hand in hand with chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation causes poor detoxification and toxicity will cause chronic inflammation. The last thing and one of the most important in regards to low body temperature, if you're running, let's say, in the 97s, it's primarily indicative of hormone and nervous system imbalances. When we start talking about mental health problems, anxiety, depression, irritability, restlessness, fatigue, it all ties in.

So that's pretty much the basics of body temperature and in relation the implications to immune function. If your body temperature above 98.6 degrees, you're fighting. At 98.6 degrees even is what you're looking for, homeostasis. If you're consistently below 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, your immune system is suppressed. You can't clear infections. You've got metabolic problems and you're in trouble. You've got immune system problems.

I think it's good to get, lastly, I don't want to skip it. This is important. When the body temperature is below 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, it's also indicative of hypersensitivities to dietary and environmental allergens. So different foods you eat will produce inflammation symptoms in the body. You'll have a negative reaction to certain foods you eat, whether it's sugar or for some people it's gluten. For others, it's acidic foods. For others, it's high histamine foods,

anything aged. but there'll always be food reactions and environmental allergens with low body temperature. So this certainly has a lot of overlap with a handful of previous guests that we've had on the show. And I'm sure we'll get into that here shortly, but there's a few things that you mentioned that seem to, I guess, set off some alarm bells in my head. One of them being is I do definitely want to talk about this being a global phenomenon.

I've seen studies that talked about the decline in the U.S. Over the past century, but it doesn't seem like there's been as much studies as far as the global, but we could get into that shortly here. I think it's no secret that health in this country has significantly degraded, and a lot of that has to do with this, our dietary choices, our lifestyle choices. You mentioned the immune system is basically weak, and the allergens are potentially having something to do with that.

I feel like, I don't know exactly how old you are, but this is a lot of stuff that's happened within my lifetime in my early 40s. And it seems like it's happened in a very short period of time. And clearly there is a downward trend in the average of body temperature. But I guess the question is begs to be asked, and I'm sure our audience is wondering by now, like zooming out, what do you believe is actually driving it?

Is it our, our, you know, synthetic ultra processed foods, the seed oils, the chemical additives? Is it environmental factors like pesticides, PFASs, microplastics? I mean, are they all playing a role? Like, why are we seeing the shift now opposed to decades before? Well, you're right. Absolutely right. It's multifactorial like anything else.

I've been researching this the past three years and I can't put my finger on any single certain thing, but the things you mentioned, toxin exposures, poor lifestyle, poor diet, antibiotics, vaccines, I think they're all contributors. I think it's important to kind of let listeners get a background on how we came to this body temperature, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit as the standard.

So in the 1800s, a doctor by the name of Carl Wunderlich measured 25,000 of his patients' body temperatures and concluded that 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit was the average. 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit remained the average for over 150 years around the world. Sometime after 1975, our body temperature slowly started dropping, statistically speaking. And right at this same time, shortly after this, is when the AIDS epidemic began.

Diabetes cases started rising, autism cases started rising, and really the chronic illness epidemic took off right around that time, shortly after 1975. Sometime shortly after the year 2010, the global statistical average of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit officially changed, and our body temperatures around the world collectively dropped. This average continues to decline every year. Every year we're getting colder. The average keeps declining.

At the same time that our body temperatures have dropped, the rate of chronic illness keeps rising. So the two are connected. This is really, really shocking. This is really, really concerning. Several studies have come out on the chronic illness epidemic and statistical rates. There was a study published in Academic Pediatrics in 2011 showing that 54% of American children are diagnosed with at least one chronic health condition. So the majority of children in the.

Of chronic health problems. Same thing goes for adults. It overlaps directly. 53.8% of adults in the United States between the ages of 18 and 34 have at least one chronic health condition clinically diagnosed. So on paper, the majority of the population in the United States is chronically ill. When there's chronic physical health problems, it's always accompanied by chronic mental health problems. The two of them go hand in hand. Physical health problems will cause mental health problems.

A statistical analysis by IMS Health showed that in the year 2020, 77 million people in the United States were taking psychiatric medication. 77 million people taking psychiatric medication in the United States in the year 2020. Over six million children and teenagers under the age of 18. So that's a little under one third of the population in the US that's on psychiatric medication. They have mental health problems so severe that they're choosing to medicate.

To kind of put this into perspective, Yankee Stadium in New York City holds 54,000 people. Okay? We have enough people in the United States taking psychiatric medication to fill Yankee Stadium over 1,400 times. So if you kind of, you take a step back and you picture that in your mind, 1,400 Yankee Stadiums filled with people taking psychiatric medication in the United States. We've got a very, very serious problem. It's insane.

One of, my goal with this, anytime you're conducting medical research, if you see a problem, one of the first things you do is you look for correlational research. You do what's known as a literature review. And you see if there's any data that already exists that correlates what you're looking for. One really important aspect of this, of body temperature declining that I found, is that historically speaking, it's been common for the elderly to have lower body temperature.

Even when the average was still 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, they tend to run about one degree cooler. Anyone above the age of 65. life. Everyone kind of knows it's kind of common knowledge that the elderly community deals with immune system problems. Their hormone levels drop, their metabolic rate slows down, and that increases their risk of disease. They have increased susceptibility to infections and chronic disease. The elderly community does.

Everyone kind of knows that. And they also have lower body temperature historically. One thing we have to ask though is that if it's normal for the elderly to have lower body temperatures, why are the body temperatures of children, middle-aged adults, and teenagers dropping as well? You know, what's going on here? And that's where I went further with the research, and I found that a key aspect of this, in my opinion, is our hormones.

Testosterone, for instance, is a key regulator of metabolic rate and metabolism. In the same time period that our body temperatures have been declining, so have men's testosterone levels in the United States. Since the 1970s, testosterone levels have been decreasing by 1%, roughly 1% every year. So right now, currently in the United States, men's testosterone levels are the lowest in recorded history, and they continue to decline every year. So that's considered correlation.

The elderly have lower body temperature. They also have lower hormone levels. As our body temperatures have declined amongst children, teenagers, and middle-aged adults, our hormone levels have dropped too. In my opinion, that's no coincidence. If you have any questions before we move further. Yeah, man. So before we started the podcast, I actually grabbed a thermometer here, right here. And I took my, my, my temperature just to, just to see. And it's, I am at 98.7.

So maybe I'm fighting something off right now. But anyway, the, as Jason and you guys both just talked about, you know, we're, we're being hit with a barrage of, of just toxins in this community and our like daily lifestyles from like ultra processed foods and hormone warping seed oils and like all these endocrine disruptors. Like we all have plastics in our bloodstream, right? We got fluoride in the water. We got this ever growing vaccine schedule.

You know, it's, it's no wonder we're sick or fat or chemically altered than ever before. Right. And then you add in big sugar, the decades long war from them on our bodies. And it's like, it's, it's this autoimmune epidemic, you know? And And so I have like a two-tiered question for you. So the first part of that is, so given all these unprecedented environmental assaults on humanity these days, do you think that the, it's like a chicken or the egg type question.

Do you think this collective toxic soup is what led to the core body temperature? Or do you think this declining body temperature is the root cause that made us more vulnerable to these assaults in the first place? And the reason I ask that question is because in your documentary, you mentioned a very compelling piece of this puzzle is the Chimani tribe, right? In Bolivia, these people are kind of largely isolated from the rest of the industrialized world, right?

They don't have any fast food chains, no Wi-Fi routers, no aluminum-filled syringes. But in just 16 years, according to what you had stated in that documentary, is that the average body temperature dropped from historical norm of 98.6 to 97.7. So if this tribe was supposedly protected from these modern environmental toxins, then something deeper seems to be at play here.

And so my second question would be, how healthy are the Jumaane now? Right? What is this sudden shift in their temperature? Has it told us? Is isolation enough or is there some kind of global and unavoidable intervention going on? I know that's a long question. You take your time to digest it and let me know. No, those are great questions. In regards to the first question, lower body temperature doesn't increase risk from environmental toxins.

It's the opposite. Environmental toxins will lower a person's body temperature and break down their innate and adaptive immune systems. The concerning, the significant aspect of this is that, generally speaking, largely speaking, it's the environmental toxin exposures that are breaking down our immune systems, and then that's making us susceptible to infection.

I've done a lot of research on pathology and immunology and virology, and there's a ton of research showing that, really, to put it simply, if you're healthy, you should have no fear of pathogens. It doesn't matter what it is, whether it's a virus, whether it's HIV, whether it's Lyme disease, if you're healthy and your immune system is functioning, you're invincible. There's studies that don't get talked about. Well, let me back up a bit.

We've seen during COVID, we saw a lot of news reports and anecdotal reports of people that were exposed to the virus, but transmission didn't take place. They didn't get sick. There were reports of, let's say, women sleeping in bed with their husband who's sick with COVID. They tested positive. They're displaying a pathology. They're sick. They've got a fever, et cetera. But transmission doesn't occur. The wife doesn't get sick.

She's kissing him. She's in close quarters with him. No transmission takes place. No pathology is observed. So that's a really, really important aspect of disease that isn't really getting talked about.

So there's other research studies that are really, really interesting showing that common STDs, let's say chlamydia, for instance, or gonorrhea, there's a lot of research showing that these conditions are self-resolving, meaning someone contracts it or there's studies that show that contraction doesn't take place. Transmission doesn't take place just because there's exposure.

Okay, so it's dependent on immune function. But then there's also studies that show that even if someone contracts one of these STDs, there's what's known as spontaneous clearance. So they don't receive any medication. They don't take any antibiotics, nothing in the infection resolves on its own. But you'll never hear a doctor tell you that. They're never going to discuss that research because they've got product to sell. But let me get back on track here.

So we're all being exposed to countless toxic assaults every day. A couple of them were mentioned, microplastics. BPAs, BPS, heavy metal toxins, EMF, RF radiation. It's disrupting our nervous systems. And as a result now, we're becoming susceptible to infections. Things that wouldn't have bothered us years ago, they're becoming an issue.

In regards to low body temperature, this is probably one of the most important aspects of this discussion, is that when a person's body temperature is low, there's toxicity. And when there's toxicity, it creates reservoirs of latent infection inside the body. And because the immune system is suppressed, you can't mount a proper inflammatory response for clearance. So that means there's a lot of people walking around out there with chronic infections.

It could be in their liver, could be in their pancreas, could be in their joints, could be in their brains. And they have, as a result, low-grade inflammation. A paradox in this is that, now when you get healthy, these infections become acute. You start mounting an acute inflammatory response. Your immune system strengthens, and then all of your symptoms get worse.

That's kind of the nature of this entire discussion, is that nowadays getting healthy will get you sick. The second question you asked in regards to the Chimani tribe, that's a great case study. A small isolated community of people in the Bolivian rainforest in the early 2000s still held healthy resting body temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, despite what was happening elsewhere in the world. So body temperatures were dropping everywhere, but not here.

And why is that? And what are the implications? It was also shown that this community, they had the lowest rates of diabetes, heart disease, and Alzheimer's disease in the world, statistically speaking. And diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, they all fall under the umbrella of metabolic syndrome, which has become commonplace in the United States, metabolic disease. It's what drives these conditions.

Also in the United States, since our body temperatures have dropped, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, and diabetes are the leading causes of death. They're all in the top five. Top five or top 10. Heart disease, I believe, is number one. But so this Chimani tribe, this isolated community of people, the Chimani tribe, they had healthy resting body temperature on average as a whole, their community. And within 16 years, their body temperatures dropped. Their average declined.

And the question is, what's the variable? What happened here to cause that? Obviously, it's environmental. And one of the things I found was that the National Institute of Health launched a project called the Chimani Life and History Project. Basically, to put it briefly, a team of people was sent to the Chimani, was sent to Bolivia and to increase access to healthcare, which means vaccines and prescription medications, including antibiotics.

And once that started, within, I think it was six years, six or seven years, once their access to quote-unquote healthcare increased, all of their body temperatures started dropping. Holy shit. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't want to lose track here because I want to give important information to all of your listeners right now. This is really, no one's talking about this. And it's, the implications are broad.

You know, if anyone listening right now, the most important thing you have in this world is your health. There's nothing more important than your overall health. So if you're not educated on health, if you can't read or interpret medical literature, you're blind. You know, it's the most important information you can have. So kind of getting back to body temperature. We know that body temperature is directly involved in immune function.

There's direct connection between a person's body temperature and the overall immune status. There's been dozens of studies showing that thermoregulation, the body's ability to regulate body temperature, is directly connected to susceptibility or protection from viral infections. There's a study that came out years ago that showed that elevated body temperature fever drops poliovirus replication by 200-fold.

So the implications of that basically meaning the higher your body temperature is, the more protection you have from a virus. And really, you never, ever want to try to treat a fever. You know, taking Tylenol, taking ibuprofen, taking aspirin, that's the wrong move. You know, you want to keep things hot. Other studies have shown the same, echoed the same results with COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, influenza, common flu.

Elevated body temperature provides protection. Colder body temperature leads to worse outcomes and long-term problems from viral infection contraction. Another huge aspect of this, that this is starting to gain traction, more people are talking about it, is fungal infections. In 2010, a study came out showing that 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit was the perfect temperature to provide protection against mold and fungal infections invading the body.

Fungal infections are opportunistic. They only occur in someone who's immune system compromised, right? You'll never have any problem with a fungal infection, even fungal infections that are considered trivial, let's say like athlete's foot. You'll never deal with that unless your immune system's compromised. But as our body temperatures have declined around the world, fungal infections are becoming more commonplace.

I read a study last night. It's estimated that one-third of the global population right now is dealing with fungal infections as a result of our immune system becoming compromised. Invasive fungal infections are killing about two and a half million people every year. So there's correlational research, and it all kind of centers around this basic aspect that we've all become immunocompromised.

We're all becoming chronically ill. and there's no easier way to tell them by taking your resting body temperature. You know, you can go into a bathroom right now, take out a thermometer and get a good gauge on where you're at. You know, any commentary or questions before we move further? Yeah, actually, you know, all of this is in, you know, just incredibly fascinating work. It's made me think about the fact, you know, I've always been a very, like naturally warm body person.

You know, my internal temperature usually always sits around like 98.7 98.8 you know something like that and i'm only just now you know connecting the dot of the fact that i've always hated like external heat like i i was born in august but i hate the summertime because i was i was just outside doing yard work yesterday and i was bitching about like man it's just so freaking hot it was only 80 degrees and i've always been that way and

i'm only just now sort of making that connection of like A slightly, ever so slightly Elevated body temperature probably is Why I don't like a lot of external heat Like right now, I love Keeping my room cold because It just feels more comfortable To me, and. And I've, I've hardly ever gotten sick in my life. I mean, there's a few times I have been sick, it was really bad, but then I was able to fight it off. And, you know, it's, I can't remember the last time that I've actually gotten sick.

We knock on wood because, you know, that's the last thing I need to happen.

But it's one of those things it's like perhaps that's a contributing factor you know to all that in addition to the fact of you know i i sort of make it a point and have made it a point for over a decade to avoid things like you know vaccines and and shit of that nature you know but my, question that i wanted to get to was so we were talking about the chamani tribe and you had mentioned how things are environmental and obviously you know we

can definitely look at the correlation of how the introduction of, again, so-called healthcare has more than likely contributed to, you know, their decline in body temperature. And of course, we, you know, earlier we were talking about, you know, just the absolute bombardment of, you know, sugars and seed oils and, you know, microplastics and heavy metals and all these sorts of things that are flooding our bodies.

In addition to, and I do want to sort of, in a way it's a two-part question, want to get your thoughts on ways in which the psychological warfare, the propaganda is also, anybody who. Studies that stuff, understands that when a person is being psychologically degraded, when they're kept in constant states of high stress, fear, anxiety, that can negatively impact the immune system as well. So certainly mainstream media and the way that psychological warfare is used

on the masses plays a part in it. So we'd like to get your thoughts on that as well. In addition to another environmental factor that I'd like to bring up is simply the nature of how climate change might play into this. Because, of course, regular listeners or readers of the Free Thought Project understand that we're bombarded with this narrative of anthropogenic climate change and global warming as a means of selling the whole net zero carbon credit nonsense.

When in reality, if you've read some of our work or some of our colleagues like James Corbett, it's quite obvious that the mainstream climate change narratives very much bunk, but the crazy weather patterns that we're seeing around the world can more so be contributed to geoengineering and attempts by these governments and corporations to influence the environment and things of that nature, obviously with the spraying of aerosol injections in the atmosphere,

which have their own heavy metals, but then also affect jet streams and things Of that nature and you know with Regard to the warming of the planet. In reality Our current state of warming Is a natural process coming out Of the little the medieval warming Period of the 14th and 16th centuries So, But so that whole process of warming tied to geoengineering and things of that nature, and then, of course, as I mentioned earlier, the psychological warfare impacting the mental states of people.

I'm sorry, that's a really long, rambling question, but to get your thoughts on that. Sure, sure. I'm curious. I have a question for you. Before we get into those questions, I have a question for you. So generally speaking, you tend to run a little bit of hot, correct? You said 98.7 degrees Fahrenheit on average? Yeah, something along that. I'm a very warm-bodied person. It might also be due to the fact that I'm a really large guy.

I've typically always been overweight, so maybe I'm just producing excess body heat because of that. I don't know. Okay, okay. You also mentioned that you rarely get colds or flus. Yeah, you rarely get sick in general. Yeah, off the top of your head, when was the last time you had a cold? I couldn't even tell you. It's been years. but well before COVID even. Okay. Okay. Let me ask you this. This is a personal question, but how's your mental health?

Do you, do you suffer from any mental health problems? Because I'm really interested to hear. So you run above 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. How's your mental health? Any issues with things like anxiety, depression, restlessness, irritability? Actually, yes. So it is a bit of a personal question, but I'm not, not opposed to answering. So I've had chronic mental health issues since I was six years old, diagnosed with both anxiety and depression.

I grew up in a very toxic, not great environment and just throughout my life had a lot of negative things happen with the environments that I grew up in and the people that I was around and things that happened to and were done to me at a very. Young age that should not happen to kids and that impacted the development of my psyche and whatnot.

I was actually just talking to Matt prior to us getting on here about the fact that only recently, about a little over a month ago, I finally got put on Lexapro because I was pretty much out here just raw dogging my mental health and not taking anything for it. When I was a kid, they had me on a combination of clonidine, Zoloft, and Adderall. And the Adderall basically affected anybody or affected me like it does anybody.

I got super skinny because it's basically the chemical composition is almost like meth. And then the Zoloft made me want to kill myself. And in my life, I had like three suicide attempts, which thankfully never worked out. And so when I got old enough to say, I don't want to be on any of this stuff, I stopped taking all of it. I think like around the middle of high school, sophomore year.

And from that point, we're just sort of raw dogging life and continued through a whole bunch of chaotic stuff that continued to spiral. And things have not been easy for me. So even from teenage years into young adulthood, life was crazy. And just over the past couple of years now, things have started to ease out where I'm no longer in survival mode.

But because of that, because of the fact that I was just constantly in survival mode and dealing with chaos since being a child, my body and mind sort of adapted to that to the point where now that things calmed down. A couple months ago, I just started to have panic attacks constantly, all day, every day. And it was, I would wish it on my worst enemy. So I finally got to the point where I went to the doctor. I was like, hey, this is not cool because I'm literally terrified all the time.

And she put me on Lexapro and like I mentioned earlier, I was telling Matt, my mental health is now a thousand times better. I'm happier. I'm more energetic. Have... More motivation, waking up with a smile on my face finally for the first time in a decade and glad that I woke up. So that's awesome. Yeah. I mean, well, I identify, I identify and I can relate to your story and a lot of what you're dealing with.

I suffer from mental health problems myself and I have since probably when I was a teenager, I guess I could, I started realizing there was something different going on here. What's kind of interesting to me though, is, is that you said you haven't had a cold or a flu in as long as you can remember, and there's chronic mental health problems as well.

What got me into medical research was dealing with my own health problems of the mind and body, and that's what made me want to start investigating. My choice of symptom management was alcohol. I used alcohol as a means to basically self-medicate for over a decade. I'm 38 years old now. I've been sober for 10 years, but that was how I managed my symptoms was alcohol. But to make a long story short, as a child, I had an ADHD diagnosis throughout teenage years.

And as an adult, I suffer from anxiety, mainly restlessness. I always kind of feel restless. The only time I don't feel restless is when I physically work my body to the point of failure, where my body basically goes to failure from physical exhaustion. Then my nervous system calms down. But the really interesting aspect of this, and this is important, is that when I get a cold or a fever, when I get a cold, a fever, or a flu, my mental health improves dramatically.

I no longer have anxiety. I no longer have restlessness. I no longer deal with depression. None of that. It's gone. When I get a fever, there's something going on there, right? There's a connection there between that. And I did also want to mention, I also have ADHD and I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't know why I forgot to include that in there, but I'm sure that's contributes to some way.

Sure, sure. Speaking of autism, it's kind of all under the same umbrella, but chronic inflammation, suppressed immune function, and mental health problems, they all go hand in hand. But an interesting thing I came across when I was putting together this video series, those with autism, when they get a fever, they experience what I was kind of just talking about. There's children on the severe end of the autism spectrum that are nonverbal. They don't speak, they can't speak at all.

When they get a fever, all of their symptoms dissipate. Nonverbal children become verbal when they get a fever. They can make direct eye contact and communicate. Like I said, the majority of their symptoms are gone once they have a fever. When their body temperature decreases and the fever comes down, everything returns. So there's definitely a direct connection between mental health, overall immune function, and body temperature, thermal regulation. For me, like I said, it's night and day.

When I get a cold or a flu, I feel amazing. From an emotional, psychological standpoint, I feel great, I feel like myself again. When my body temperature comes back down, all of my mental health problems return. Kind of restlessness, throughout the day, there's some degree of restlessness, anxiety, a little bit of depression. I don't feel very satisfied doing things that I enjoy doing. My hobbies and pursuing my hobbies, interests, and goals aren't very satisfactory.

But to get to your question, my opinion on psychological stress and trauma and kind of what we're being barraged with every day online or whether it's on TV and the news, I think this may sound conspiratorial, but you can weaponize information. And I know for a fact that psychological stress and traumatic events in a person's life can trigger disease processes. You know, there's a ton of peer-reviewed medical literature backing that up.

Stress is, it triggers inflammatory processes in the body. One aspect of that could be viral reactivation. So nowadays, everyone carries viral infections. It could be chickenpox you caught when you were a child. It could be Epstein-Barr virus, you know, what causes mono. Maybe you caught that in high school. It could be the virus responsible for cold sores, herpes simplex. But a stressful or traumatic event can cause those viruses to reactivate.

And when they reactivate, they can trigger inflammatory processes in the organs or brain. And then you see a disease process. So sometimes a psychological stress happens or a traumatic event happens, and a person can overcome whatever it was, mentally speaking. You can overcome the event and make peace with it, but a lot of the time, the disease process that gets triggered at the same time can't necessarily be overcome.

It's no longer about mind over matter and therapeutically working through it. A change has occurred. As far as your second question, climate change isn't really something I'm particularly versed on. Like you, I think it's a narrative driven to an agenda. You mentioned geoengineering and weather manipulation. I think that's very, very concerning. And the effect that that's having on us as far as immune function goes, that's a great discussion.

I wouldn't be that, you know, I have no expertise. I haven't done much research on that, you know, in order to be able to speak about it in a space like this.

But it is concerning. I'll say that, you know, for years and years, you know, just interesting note for years and years, if you pointed out, you know, chemtrails and you were to talk about this, you were kind of looked at as a lunatic, you know, the guy's crazy. But now they're kind of around the world. They're saying, yeah, this is real. We are spraying chemicals and toxins and heavy metals into the sky, and it's done as a means of geoengineering weather manipulation.

I don't mean to ramble here. Not at all, man. I was about to actually say that this is a great, great knowledge. This is wonderful. And we know this is information we don't really share or talk about on this podcast. So I think our audience is going to take a lot from it. And I just want to also quickly note that I appreciate your humility there, just acknowledging that you don't, you're not well-versed in the climate aspect of this and how it kind of all ties together.

And I don't know, there's a lot of people don't have that type of integrity. They just try to wing some answer and make themselves sound smart. So I appreciate that. But what you were talking about there, it sounds a lot prior to the climate change aspect of it, what you were talking about as far as how our nervous system could be affected by a lot of the fear porn and fear propaganda that's online.

I mean, that's similar to what we had a conversation with Kerry Wedler about in early May, about how fear and tribalism actually rewires the mind and the fear responses, the constant crisis narratives. And all that kind of keeps us in this reactive state, this fight or flight mode. And I could only imagine that would also play an effect on your body and, you know, how it actually responds to the stress.

So that's certainly fascinating. And I would point our listeners to that podcast from early May with Carrie to learn more about that. She's actually been doing her own work personally on trying to fix that fight or flight mechanism in our own mind and have a little bit more mental health and stability and all that stuff. So definitely a great listen, but. We are getting low on time here. We have a few minutes left, and I know we have at least two more questions.

One I wanted to ask, and I think we'll probably do our white pill question at the end, which we always do with our guests talking about some positive perspectives and how we could traverse all this. But you did mention autism there. And I know, I guess Don mentioned it as well, but I know that's part of your wheelhouse and things that you've researched along with the body temperature phenomenon.

And in January of this year, we actually aggregated an article from the Children's Health Defense entitled, Study Finds Vaccinated Children Have 170% Higher Risk of Autism. Now, the study was done by the Public Health Policy Journal. It was peer-reviewed. But we still had endless amounts of people in our comments telling us it was fake news. And it seems like it's a topic that usually gets dismissed outright. right.

And I know you've, you know, dug in, you've taken a different approach and you've looked at the data and the patterns and all that stuff. So I was wondering if maybe, obviously we have to keep it a little bit short here, but like, what were some key pieces of evidence that make you feel that this in fact is exactly what's happening? And, and why is this such like a contentious conversation when it comes to vaccines? Like why are so people, why do so many people have that knee-jerk reaction when

it comes to autism and the connection with vaccines? Okay. Great question. and I'll try to be very brief and concise here. So I actually, I wrote a research article on the causal relationship between vaccines and autism. You can find a video presentation as well as the link to my preprint at healthuncensored.com. That's my Substack page. I encourage everyone, it's completely free. I encourage everyone, if you're listening, check it out.

And if you see something interesting, share it with people, subscribe and share it. But so to get to the point here, I wrote a research article on the link between vaccines and autism, and my goal was to identify the variable or variables on why some children are relatively fine after receiving a vaccine or a series of vaccines and others aren't.

Because there's so many parents out there that have come forward and anecdotally reported that their child received a series of vaccines, there was a period of acute illness, and then they regressed into autism, they were never the same. But at the same time, there's other parents that come forward and they say, well, that didn't happen to my child. So the question is, what's the variable? Why is that happening to one child and not happening to another?

So first and foremost, you have to identify, well, what is autism? Autism is just a name for a group of symptoms. what's causing those symptoms, right? And I'm being very, very fast here. Again, you could find all of this. You could find my research, my video presentation at healthuncensored.com. But I'll get to the point. There's a lot of research showing that common viral infections are directly involved in triggering autism. The research on viruses and ASD, autism, goes back to the 1970s.

Women that have severe viral infections during pregnancy have a significantly higher likelihood of having a child with autism. There's also really, really, really significant case studies showing that people across different age groups, an 11-year-old, a 14-year-old, a 31-year-old man, they contract herpes simplex encephalitis, which is where a viral infection makes its way into the brain.

In this particular case, in these cases, herpes simplex type 1, the virus responsible for cold sores, it makes its way into the brain and it triggers an inflammatory process. They become acutely ill. And within a short period of time, all of them developed autism. The trigger was herpes simplex encephalitis. The herpes virus make its way into the brain. That was causal for these people. And the case studies confirm that.

So we've got a lot of research suggesting that viral infections are directly involved in causing autism. Now the question comes into play, well, vaccines are supposed to protect us from viruses, right? And that's not really true. I started to look at, okay, if viruses cause autism or potentially cause autism, how are vaccines involved? And then I started coming across a large body of research showing that vaccines can reactivate viruses people are already carrying.

So a person can be relatively healthy, right? But they're harboring dormant viral infections. And if the immune system becomes suppressed or disrupted, those viruses can reactivate and enter a state of active replication and trigger a disease process. So there's this huge body of research that doesn't get talked about showing that vaccines, they're supposed to protect us from viral infections, but they're actually reactivating viruses we're already carrying.

And if a virus, like let's say someone's carrying herpes simplex type 1, if they're harboring that virus, and let's say it's latent inside their brain. A vaccine can reactivate that and trigger a disease process. And that's how I think vaccines trigger autism. I think autism is caused by viral infections. Viral infections play a central role in the development of autism. And I think vaccines trigger the condition by reactivating viruses people are already carrying.

My research is starting to get traction. I was recently had a meeting with Children's Health Defense, as you mentioned. So I'm in the process of trying to get my paper published. But I know we're running low on time, so I kind of passed the microphone back. Yeah, man, I've never heard that theory or that body of research before. That's pretty compelling. I hope you get published and peer-reviewed and we can have some answers here, man. But yeah, we are towards the end of the show here.

And I just want to thank you again for coming on and diving into this fascinating and frankly, really under-discussed research. I think when we put the title up to this podcast, people are going to be like, what? I mean, I believe and I think everybody here and our listeners who got to the end of this podcast are going to realize that what you're doing is very important. You know, this isn't just like a quirky fact about thermometers,

right? This is a mirror being held up to the current state of our health. And even if it's just like it turns out to be like one of the many downstream systems or symptoms of like this deeply broken and toxic environment we've created, you know? So as you stated in your documentary, right, it's a vital sign that we should be paying attention to. Hey, Freethinkers, this is Matt Agorist, and I'm going to take a quick pause to remind you of something really important.

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I know we discussed some Pretty dark shit And went down some pretty heavy rabbit holes Today on this podcast, Frankly I wasn't expecting And I know that some of this stuff can feel overwhelming But we always like to Leave our listeners with Basically a white pill question Something they can carry with them A little spark if you will So I'll leave you with this final question Matt How does the humanity get hot again?

Pun intended, right? What do you see, whether it's trends, people, or emerging awareness that gives you hope we can turn the temperature and basically our health around? That's an interesting question. It's complex. I actually, so I have a video series out on body temperature, on our body temperature declining. Episode one is out and episode two is out. You can find them at healthuncensored.com. Episode three is where I get into how to reverse this. How to improve metabolic

rate. how to raise core temperature if you're running low. Some of the aspects are very basic. Others are a little more complex. But the problem that I've run into is that when my body temperature elevates, for me personally, anything I'm dealing with, my health problems, they become acute. So things actually get worse. And I suffer from motor function problems. So I want to keep this positive, you know, a white pill. Let me say this.

Anyone listening to this, if you're dealing with mental health problems or physical health problems, you can always improve things. And no matter what the condition is, it can be managed and you can achieve quality of life and you can still have purpose. As far as whether or not we can bounce back from what's happening going around the world, my answer is I don't know. I don't know if we've crossed a line where there's no return.

And, you know, it's going to, maybe it's going to be more focused on symptom management rather than being healthy. So I guess I'll leave it at that. All right. Well, I think that, I think we could, that sounds somewhat hopeful. So I don't know is better than we're all fucked. But you asked me for a white pill. So, you know, okay. But thank you for that, Matt. I really appreciate it. I really appreciate everything you said today, man. It's eye-opening, man.

So aside from healthuncensored.com and healthuncensored at healthuncensored on X, where else can people find and support your work, brother? Those are the two. Pretty much that's it. My sub stack is my biggest thing right now, and that's just because I have a direct line of connection with my subscribers. I don't post often, maybe once or twice a month. I try to focus on quality versus quantity, but it's free. If anyone listening right now, just give it a look, take a look.

And if you like what you see, if you think it's interesting, subscribe. It's completely free. And the main thing I ask is just share the things you see. If you see something interesting or noteworthy, share it with your friends, your family, your coworkers, your online network. And I just want to say for you guys, today was really exciting for me.

I've been following the Free Thought Project for years and you guys are righteous, you know, and I'm grateful to be brought on here today, you know, and I think you guys do great work. Well, thank you, man. That means a lot to us and we're happy to have you, brother. Appreciate that, man. Yeah, thank you so much for coming on today, Matt, and I would love to do it again.

All right, thank you, guys. Peace. Thank you for listening to the Free Thought Crossroads. Music.