Tom interviews therapist and author Nicole Sachs about recovering from severe back pain diagnosed at 19 as degenerative spondylolisthesis. After learning surgery wouldn’t guarantee pain relief, she discovered Dr. John Sarno’s TMS model: chronic symptoms can stem from nervous-system dysregulation driven by repressed emotions and trauma. Sachs describes her work helping people worldwide, including Michael Porter Jr. and Steve Kerr, emphasizing three pillars: belief in brain science, doing “JournalSpeak” to make the unconscious conscious, and self-compassion. She explains symptoms as an “alarm,” not the “fire,” urges curiosity over fear, and directs listeners to resources at nicolesachs.com.

00:00 Meet Nicole Sachs

00:44 Back Pain Diagnosis Shock

03:03 Surgery Doubts Spark Curiosity

05:01 Discovering Sarno TMS

07:15 Recovery Stories Proof

09:47 Sarno Visit Trash Can

15:17 Growing Reach Younger Fans

20:39 Steve Kerr Turnaround

23:35 Pain Despair Hope

26:54 Mind Body Basics Explained

34:50 Fire Alarm Analogy

39:12 JournalSpeak Breakthrough

46:33 How To Start Today

47:19 Closing Curiosity Message

https://www.yourbreakawake.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@thecureforchronicpain

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Ronan Connolly and Gerry Quinn discuss their new peer-reviewed Journal of Toxicology paper assessing safety concerns around modified mRNA COVID vaccines. They criticize shifting claims about vaccine efficacy, difficulties publishing dissenting views, and argue the technology differs from traditional vaccines because it delivers genetic instructions via lipid nanoparticles with broad body distribution. They discuss potential issues including dosing and duration of spike protein production, microvesicle transport, pseudouridine-related frame shifting and protein misfolding, manufacturing differences between trials and mass rollout, and possible DNA contamination. They also review clinical trial criticisms, seasonality findings, and argue observational claims of lives saved rely on models and confounding.

00:00 Guests and COVID Paper Recap

01:32 New mRNA Vaccine Focus

03:22 New Toxicology Paper and Caveats

08:50 Why Discussing Harms Was Taboo

10:28 Old Vaccines vs Gene Tech

15:27 Testing Gaps and Gene Therapy Roots

23:42 Where It Goes and How Long It Lasts

28:27 Manufacturing Differences and Contamination

36:13 Nobel Prize and Pseudouridine

41:15 How Modified Bases Can Misread

42:13 Frameshift Proteins Found

43:08 Codons Explained Simply

44:57 Reductionism Meets Epigenetics

47:30 Codon Optimization Changes Folding

51:37 Why Spike Protein Matters

56:14 Long COVID vs Long Vax

58:40 Trial Efficacy Math

01:02:02 Whistleblowers and Unblinding

01:07:26 Seasonality and Lockdowns

01:11:10 Lives Saved Model Critique

01:15:26 Observational Study Confounding

01:18:37 Adverse Events and Gatekeeping

01:23:26 Final Takeaways and Resources

Ronan’s X: https://x.com/1RonanConnolly

Gerry’s X: https://x.com/jercuinn

“Scientists uncover major safety concerns over mRNA vaccine technology”: https://www.ceres-science.com/post/scientists-uncover-major-safety-concerns-over-mrna-vaccine-technology

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Anika Sweetland describes becoming fearful of climate change after a school assignment, obsessively following catastrophic headlines, studying climate science, and suffering severe health issues she links to eco-anxiety. During lockdown and after observing net zero’s economic impacts in England, she began questioning claims, researching data on topics like sea levels, crop yields, and past cooling vs warming scares, and concluded she had been “brainwashed.” She discusses media ethics, impacts on children, and argues climate fears enable centralized control. Sweetland and host Tom discuss her new book, its humor, an upcoming Audible version, and support from physicist Will Happer, who wrote the foreword.

00:00 Doomsday Headlines Hook

00:57 Lockdown Rabbit Hole

01:36 Questioning The Narrative

01:56 Meet The Author

04:11 All In Research Mindset

05:01 Childhood Climate Fear

07:25 Skeptic Turn In Zurich

09:48 Checking Claims One By One

13:44 Old Scares Same Script

18:18 Eco Anxiety Health Crash

21:50 Are People Waking Up

24:10 Cargo Bikes Backlash

25:02 Finding Real Climate Data

25:53 Net Zero Meets Blackouts

26:32 Nuclear For Data Centers

28:50 Renewables Reality Check

29:29 Wind Turbine True Costs

30:35 Humor In The Book

31:14 Party Of Doom Story

33:01 Reaching True Believers

33:30 Sea Level Claims Tested

34:55 Climate Fear And Moving

36:16 Mind Body Healing

37:54 Handling Critics And Online

38:51 Audiobook And Happer Forward

40:46 Conference Protest Moment

41:20 Final Book Plug Thanks

https://x.com/anika_climate

https://aloadofbollocks.com/

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