The 2025 Administration represents a brand new level of fraud and corruption. While the American government has always faced influence and capture by private interests, the 2025 administration appears to represent the most extensive and systematic version in modern history. We are witnessing the systematic transfer of all public assets—taxpayer money, public assets, government services, and democratic institutions—into the hands of selected politicians, the top 1%, and corporate special interests. This is government capture on an unprecedented scale.
Laurel Fitzhugh
Associated Conditions: The Bigger Picture (PA)
Many PA patients have additional conditions that contribute to ongoing symptoms. Fatigue, brain fog, and weakness often have multiple causes. This guide looks beyond B12 to explain how treating the bigger picture can bring clearer recovery and better outcomes. Why This Matters Pernicious anemia doesn’t occur in isolation. The same autoimmune processes that damage your … Read more
How Helminths Help Despite Elevated IL-10 in Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
High IL-10 is not the same as healthy IL-10. Helminths restore immune regulation in multiple sclerosis by expanding functional IL-10–producing regulatory B cells and activating complementary anti-inflammatory pathways. This coordinated network restrains pathogenic Th1/Th17 responses, enhances neuroprotection, and rebalances IL-10 signaling in MS.
Why Some People Respond to Helminthic Therapy and Others Do Not
Helminthic therapy shows about a 75% response rate, but outcomes vary widely. Success depends on condition type, immune baseline, genetics, microbiome, dose, and consistency. Every immune system is unique, so not all patients respond the same way.
Multiple Autoimmune Mechanisms Beyond Classic Gastritis
Pernicious Anemia: Multiple Autoimmune Mechanisms Beyond Classic Gastritis
Breakthrough research reveals why 40–60% of pernicious anemia patients test negative for intrinsic factor antibodies yet still require lifelong B12 therapy. These discoveries identify multiple autoimmune mechanisms affecting B12 absorption and utilization—some involving autoimmune gastritis through non-antibody pathways, others targeting completely different parts of the B12 system. The findings fundamentally expand our understanding of pernicious anemia as a spectrum of autoimmune B12 disorders rather than a single gastric disease.
Recent molecular discoveries have identified anti-CD320 receptor autoantibodies as a major cause of “autoimmune B12 central deficiency,” where patients develop selective nervous system B12 deficiency despite normal serum levels. Combined with genetic studies revealing five risk loci and emerging understanding of T-cell–mediated gastric destruction, these findings reshape the clinical approach to antibody-negative cases. This research demonstrates that pernicious anemia encompasses diverse autoimmune mechanisms affecting multiple points in B12 metabolism, explaining both gastritis-related and non-gastritis forms of the condition.
The Auction Block Democracy | Part 1 of Money in Politics
The Auction Block Democracy: How the Fundraising Treadmill Corrupts Representation
This is Part 1 of a 5-part series on how wealth captures democracy and what we can do about it. The series explores the second most critical reform for American democracy: freeing representatives from dependence on wealthy donors.
Four hours a day. That’s how long your representative spends begging rich strangers for money.
The Shadow System | Part 2 of Money in Politics
Part 2 of a 5-part series examining how wealth captures democracy and what we can do about it. In Part 1, we explored how the fundraising treadmill corrupts basic democratic representation. Now we dive deeper into the sophisticated influence ecosystem that operates beyond campaign contributions—a shadow system that captures policy before it ever reaches public debate.
From 1999 to 2018, pharmaceutical companies spent $4.7 billion on lobbying—more than any other industry. For less than $5 billion in political spending, they reshaped medical education, captured regulatory agencies, and built an entire ecosystem of influence that made their policy preferences seem like medical consensus. The human cost: over 1.1 million drug overdose deaths, with 806,000 involving opioids.
This reveals systematic policy capture through sophisticated influence networks that shape information and institutional decision-making long before issues reach public debate. The real power of wealth in politics operates through revolving doors, dark money networks, and policy capture processes that most citizens never see but that determine the policies shaping their lives.
Clean Elections: Solutions That Work | Part 3 of Money in Politics series
Proven solutions exist to free democracy from wealth capture. Seattle’s democracy vouchers tripled voter participation. Arizona’s clean elections system elected over 200 publicly funded candidates while doubling women’s participation. From local cities to entire states, public financing is transforming American politics by giving ordinary citizens a financial voice in elections.
Constitutional Reform and Corporate Accountability | Part 4 of Money in Politics
Smart reforms can rebalance power in America by strengthening democracy, keeping markets fair, and holding corporations accountable. Part 4 of the Money in Politics series looks at the deeper structural changes that make this possible — from stronger enforcement to corporate accountability to constitutional reform. These are the foundations that can secure lasting democratic equality and fair competition for generations to come.
Building Coalitions Against Extraction | Part 5 of Money In Politics
Americans have united across party lines before to break powerful systems of wealth extraction — and we can do it again. Part 5 of the Money in Politics series shows how building broad coalitions around shared constitutional principles can defeat special interests, restore fair competition, and strengthen democracy for everyone.