444 – Dr. Pierre Kory: The Water Revolution — Minerals, Vaccine Injury & What Pharma Won’t Study

Pierre explains how he ended up deep in mineral chemistry instead of the ketamine series he was writing. After four years treating vaccine‑injured patients at Leading Edge Clinic, he’s learned that almost every promising therapy — hyperbaric, stem cells, exosomes, chlorine dioxide, DMSO, ivermectin — helps some people a lot, others modestly, and leaves a stubborn cohort behind. A contact kept pushing him to look at a mineral extract derived from biotite (black mica), a volcanic rock containing 50 to 80 minerals. The backstory: a Japanese researcher in the 1950s, transfixed by a tree growing out of a bare rock, spent roughly 15 years in his off‑hours coaxing the minerals out in sulfated, bioavailable form. Pierre dug in, set the ketamine work aside, and hasn’t come up for air since. From there the conversation turns sharp. Tim, May, and Pierre dissect the long COVID research pipeline — $1.2 billion committed, the first government‑funded trial studying Paxlovid, a repurposed HIV drug Pfizer dusted off during the pandemic. Pierre pulls no punches on regulatory capture, rebound, and the PR campaign that made Paxlovid a household name despite a paper‑thin evidence base. They reminisce about the monoclonal antibody era — a clinic with the state’s entire supply, patients improving in hours, and then the EUA vanishing right as things were working. The episode wraps with a tease for next week: a full deep dive on chlorine dioxide, the subject of Pierre’s newest book written with Jenna McCarthy. ABOUT DR. PIERRE KORY Dr. Pierre Kory (MD, MPA, CTP) is the former Chief of the Critical Care Service and Medical Director of the Trauma and Life Support Center at the University of Wisconsin. Considered one of the world pioneers in the use of ultrasound by physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients, he helped develop and run the first national courses in Critical Care Ultrasonography in the U.S. and served as a director of these courses with the American College of Chest Physicians. He is senior editor of the leading textbook “Point of Care Ultrasound,” now in its second edition and translated into seven languages worldwide. Dr. Kory was a U.S. pioneer in therapeutic hypothermia research and treatment for post‑cardiac arrest patients. In 2005, his hospital was the first in New York City to begin regularly treating patients with therapeutic hypothermia, and he served as an expert panel member for New York City’s Project Hypothermia. He has led ICUs in multiple COVID‑19 hotspots throughout the pandemic and co‑authored five influential papers on COVID‑19, including the first to support the diagnosis of early COVID‑19 respiratory disease as an organizing pneumonia. In collaboration with Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Kory pioneered the research and treatment of septic shock patients with high doses of intravenous ascorbic acid. He is co‑author of “The War on Ivermectin” (with Jenna McCarthy) and founder of Leading Edge Clinic, where he treats post‑vaccine syndrome, long COVID, and complex chronic conditions. He has testified before Congress on ivermectin and appeared on Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and other major media platforms. CONNECT WITH US Thanks for joining us — you are the reason we are here. Have questions? Reach out at [email protected] or find Tim and May on Facebook and Instagram. 🌐 bsfreemd.com   📲 @bsfreemd — we’re everywhere -- Check out Aurmina — a highly rated natural water purification solution made from ionic minerals sourced from volcanic rock. 👉 Grab yours here: https://aurmina.myshopify.com/bsfreemd Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.