The Cure to Cystic Fibrosis

If you haven’t read my book you won’t know that my story is one of significant heath challenges most people never have to contend, or at least maybe not until they are much older. But from the time I was a child I was taught by ignorant, self-hating parents and society that health problems are rooted in failure to diet and exercise sufficiently, and I believed this even though I dieted and exercised all the time, being captain of my swimming team and even training competitively after high school in addition to dedicated gym workouts, bootcamps, and behaviors like intermittent fasting, low carb diets, and not eating breakfast in order to cut back on calories.

But even as I entered my thirties it never once occurred to me that the fatigue and exhaustion that constantly plagued me was not from insufficient dieting, exercise, or willpower even though I was already doing it constantly, but that something was actually very wrong with my health. Eventually I did seek medical help in my early thirties after my health problems became so bad I could no longer ignore them, but Doctor after doctor failed to diagnose anything, even after a days long fit when I could not stop coughing and had to go to the emergency room. Finally at the age of thirty-four a doctor found nodules (tumors) on my thyroid, the largest of which was on the thyroid isthmus which is typically a 100% chance of cancer (I also presented with symptoms of leukemia and had a skin lesion characteristic of carcinoma on my back).

Unfortunately my life fell apart and I lost my health insurance, but through some serendipitous luck as told in my book, Fuck Portion Control, I made a significant recovery and continued working on my health and in 2020, shortly after turning 40 while writing and researching the role of opportunistic microbial producers of ammonia and its effects on our health I finally learned my symptoms like chronic sweating, chronic coughing, immune dysfunction, poor libido, and increased risk of cancer and diabetes which I’d suffered all my adult life was actually the condition of cystic fibrosis. This new information helped me further understand what was going wrong with my body but as I began to do more research I soon realized that it was also a highly misunderstood condition, commonly and incorrectly believed to be a genetic disorder though only 2/3 of people with cystic fibrosis actually have the genetic markers supposedly responsible, with a ridiculous 2,000 other supposed mutations which instead impugns the research community as completely unserious.

Doctors and geneticists generally don’t fully understand genetics anyway, but I was mostly surprised when, studying something completely unrelated, I inadvertently came across a study which showed that Trichomonas parasites actively inhibit the CFTR channel (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) which is the protein at issue in the condition of cystic fibrosis. Trichomonas are widespread protist parasites which specialize in colonization of the mucosal epithelia, so this suggests that cystic fibrosis is actually a communicable disease, not a genetic one. Trichomonas vaginalis, is in fact the MOST widespread sexually transmitted disease in the world, even though most of you reading this article will never have even heard of it. The fact that widespread, under-treated, sexually transmitted parasites (Trichomonas is NOT just one species) shut down the CFTR channel in order to perpetuate their colonization of the very organs which are damaged in cystic fibrosis (lungs, pancreas, gut, liver, testicles, etc.) indicates one of the most consequential failures of modern medicine in correctly recognizing the etiology of disease, as the tradition of blaming heredity which so commonly corrupts medical practice and research prejudiced the use of unsupported positions of conditions like cystic fibrosis being a disease of genetics, which it is not.

Unlike the commonly accepted explanation, the real etiology of cystic fibrosis is both simple and sufficient, that rather than relying on an absurd and vague premise of countless mutations for a disease that has such a low chance of even being passed genetically from generation to generation (besides the high morality rate, 98% of all males with cystic fibrosis are infertile), it is instead a communicable disease which occurs when children are exposed to adults with untreated Trichomonas parasites. While there are antiparasitics widely used to treat Trichomonas, these medications also do not prevent reinfection, and especially since Trichomonas are so common in our environment their colonization is primarily promoted by diets, dietary behaviors, and the environment which impairs immune resistance. Children are normally far more resistant to Trichomonas colonization since these parasites are primarily after our sex hormones which they use for their own reproduction, but diets, other microbes, and dietary behavior are also heritable, and parents which have poor diets lacking in protective dietary nutrients required for a competent immune system and resistance to parasitism pass those insufficient diets and dietary behaviors as well as Trichomonas infections to their children who are susceptible to colonization because of those very diets and behaviors, thus causing cystic fibrosis.

For instance, I was raised in a Mormon family, a religion which specifically forbids the consumption of drinks like coffee, tea, and wine but which are in fact full of highly protective polyphenols, especially tannins which actually help protect our body from colonization by lots of different types of pathogens. Mormons also frequently engage in ‘fasting,’ and I was made to do that even as a child, and fasting is actually very harmful to the body, causing massive catabolic stress as the body consumes its own lean muscle tissue to release useable sugars and amino acids to prevent the body from dying and which impairs immunological resistance to disease. Industrialized food systems like those we consume are already low in protective polyphenols and tannins, and adding dieting behaviors like fasting which stress the immune system or avoiding typically therapeutic dietary factors like tea are then entirely unable to resist colonization by opportunistic pathogens like Trichomonas and pass those infections on to their children or other close relations.

Trichomonas is also often asymptomatic, and commonly only identified and treated in women even though males are just as frequently infected (who do you think gives women the disease?), so males are often chronic carriers of untreated Trichomonas. What’s worse is that parasites are highly talented at impairing the immune system, and then enable secondary colonization with other opportunistic microbes that cause other symptoms such as recurring yeast infections, urinary tract infections, erectile dysfunction, brain fog, reduced immunity, poor libido, etc. In fact, chronic colonization by Trichomonas of mucosal and glandular organs like the breasts, lungs, prostate, cervix, testicles, etc., also causes cancer of those organs as discussed in Fuck Portion Control in the chapters on cancer and immunity, which is exactly why those with cystic fibrosis have increased risk of cancer.

Since cystic fibrosis is caused by a protist parasite we must then directly treat this parasite. While antiparasitic medications can be useful (and might be very useful in anyone with very advanced disease), antiparasitic medications also have significant side effects and they do not protect against reinfection, and it is the absence of innate resistance to Trichomonas protists which is thus the primary problem of cystic fibrosis, and since Trichomonas is a common parasite that colonizes most adults (every adult over the age of 35 very likely has at least one type of Trichomonas) it is extremely widespread in the environment and impossible to avoid or eradicate.

The chapter on immunity in Fuck Portion Control is required reading for a full recovery from cystic fibrosis, because there are very important immune factors like iodine, cyanide, copper, and vitamin C which must be part of the diet for a full recovery (simply taking those WILL NOT provide benefit because they must be achieved through the methods discussed in those chapters). But the primary anti-parasitic factor required for recovery from cystic fibrosis and eradication of Trichomonas is from the element lithium which has been shown in studies to paralyze parasites, and this helps the immune system eradicate them since parasites are exceptionally talented at inhibiting the immune system. I have also made a heretofore unknown discovery that lithium’s benefit to our health comes from its relationship to light. It is well known that red light therapy can have many positive effects on the body, very specifically in the commonly discussed wavelength of 670 nm, but for some reason until now nobody has ever noticed that lithium’s primary emission spectrum (the range of light absorbed and emitted by an element) is also exactly 670 nm, with a smaller emission spike at 610 nm (which is also another range known to be helpful). Lithium thusly mediates the health benefits of red light exposure, but this mechanism is in part from directing light energy into the mitochondrial electron transport chain to help produce ATP, our primary energy molecule, and in the case of parasites like Trichomonas which are not evolved to benefit from light exposure this mechanism is very likely to cause them lethal irradiative, oxidative stress and not only to paralyze them as the inert lithium is known to do but outright kill them. Over the years of my recovery lithium has always had obvious and profound benefits and has been recommended in my book since it was first published in 2018, but I often took lithium at night before bed, and after discovering this relationship of lithium to the therapeutic spectrum of red light then tried taking doses immediately before exposure to sunlight or red light therapy and it instead cured many of my symptoms of cystic fibrosis, very specifically the fibrotic lung tissue which made my breathing tight, and this vanished after just a few applications.

Immediately before writing this article I coughed up a large amount of phlegm which might sound strange to anyone unfamiliar with cystic fibrosis but for my entire adult life (possibly earlier too) I have always had a dry, unproductive cough, meaning no production of phlegm, which always made it seem like I could never really get the shit out of my lungs that needed to be expelled and is a typical problem in cystic fibrosis. Various other immune factors like copper and silicon discussed in my book had also improved other mucosal function such as causing mucus in my nasal passages to become wetter and to resolve the chronic post-nasal-drip I had for 20 years. One of the problems with cystic fibrosis in males is the absence of the vas deferens which transport sperm to the prostate, which fails to develop properly during gestation. Technically the vas deferens might be present but dysfunctional and atrophied, so this also presents the possibility of regeneration if the structure is not fully missing (some men with cystic fibrosis will have one but not the other).

So, the cure to cystic fibrosis is essentially taking about 5-10 mg dose of lithium daily such as from lithium aspartate or lithium carbonate, mixed into juice or tea and NOT just popping a pill, (there are other forms but these are best and safest), and following that dosage with light exposure such as going out in the sun or using a very bright light or red light device. This therapy is very rapid and can produce obvious and profound improvements within days, and caused the tightness and dryness in my lungs to improve greatly in just two days. This cannot, however, eradicate every last Trichomonas protist and some can hide out in areas not exposed to the lithium, so while it will greatly resolve symptoms of cystic fibrosis it will not fully cure the condition with also resolving the other immune factors described in the chapter on immunity. Even brief light exposure can be therapeutic, but it should be as long as possible (a minimum of 1 hour sun exposure), without getting sunburned, and I even combined sun exposure with artificial light from a red-light device after getting sun each day for more profound progress in recovery. Eating high lithium foods like leafy greens, legumes, and fruit outside under the sun would also achieve this function if access to supplemental lithium is not possible.

One of the major effects of cystic fibrosis (of the Trichomonas which cause cystic fibrosis), is to impair the uptake of chloride into the body which is required for many, many biological functions and the maintenance of pH. There is some misunderstanding of the CFTR transporter in which errors in translation have resulted in some studies claiming that the CFTR exports chloride and this deficit then causes mucosal tissues and mucous to dry out. This is entirely incorrect, however, because if people with cystic fibrosis had impaired chloride export they would present with hyperchloremia (high chloride) but instead present with hypochloremia (low chloride) because CFTR is actually an absorption exchange channel for chloride in which bicarbonate is secreted in exchange for chloride. This is why the sweat of those with cystic fibrosis present with excess chloride lost in sweat due to failure of sweat CFTR to reabsorb and recycle chloride, although those with cystic fibrosis whom are older will also not present with excess sweat chloride due to severe chloride deficiency and thus will also evade diagnosis since one of the only primary tests for cystic fibrosis is sweat chloride levels. Chloride is a major anion involved in immune function and is a substrate for immune cells to produce hypochlorous acid to kill pathogenic microbes, and this deficit of chloride also then prevents tissues from effectively eradicating opportunistic microbes such as in the lungs which then become chronically colonized by secondary infectious pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa which is the pathogen that causes chronic cough in cystic fibrosis.

Since the immune system also requires chloride to fully eradicate the Trichomonas which is the cause of cystic fibrosis it is also required to restore chloride sufficiency by supplementing extra salt (sodium chloride) separate from meals. The mechanism of inhibition of chloride transport into the body is inhibition of the CFTR channel secretion of bicarbonate by excess ammonia (which also circulates throughout the body to inhibit CFTR in other organs and sweat). When bicarbonate is secreted into gut mucosa it is acidified by water and stomach acid, which also neutralizes stomach acid, to form a balance of carbonic acid and bicarbonate, and the high carbonate solutes weaken the ionic bond between sodium and chloride which allows them to better separate and for chloride to then be absorbed through the CFTR channel (this is how ammonia blocks chloride reabsorption in sweat, by alkalizing sodium chloride which oppositely strengthens the ionic bond to then prevent reabsorption). In order to reverse this problem it is required and very effective to administer supplemental salt (no more than ½ tsp per dose for children and 1 tsp for adults, as excess salt WILL make you vomit) with carbonated water. CO2 dissolution into water automatically forms a balance of bicarbonate and carbonic acid, and one of the reasons people love drinking sodas is because of the supplemental carbonate it provides which helps to maintain normal gut function and carbonate homeostasis. I almost never drank soda growing up due to my indoctrination into dieting culture and prided myself on not having sodas (not even diet sodas). But this health benefit of carbonated water is also why carbon-filtered water tastes so great as carbon filters impart some carbon into the water which then spontaneously forms bicarbonate and carbonic acid which then to our taste buds is more preferable. Water used for salt supplementation should then have a small added dose of activated charcoal (just about a pinch to 1/8 tsp) and allow to sit for several minutes to allow the water to carbonate (it will not become fizzy like soda but the water will dissolve some of the carbon). This can more rapidly help restore absorption of chloride to restore chloride channels. The restoration of chloride will also absolutely make a person more thirsty as the volume of blood in the blood stream increases, so drink water as needed in response to thirst but no more or no less. Until a full recovery is made it would be a good idea to add a pinch of activated charcoal to all drinking water to prevent disruption in the carbonate levels of gut mucosa and fluid which deranges chloride absorption, and in many people the restoration of stomach acid production as discussed in FPC might also be required to restore chloride.

This article is simply a general outline for discussing the foundation of a cure to cystic fibrosis, and discussing everything in this article that is required for a full recovery would be far too long and complex, which is instead already written in my book, Fuck Portion Control. and the chapters on gut health, parasitism, vitamin D, immunity, thyroid, and hormones are also required reading. The ebook is donation based so there is no paywall for those who can’t afford to buy it. Young people especially will recover quite if they simply take lithium daily and follow it with sun exposure and a healthy diet, but a more rapid and complete recovery will occur with greater knowledge such as what is discussed in my book.