stillnessinthestorm--2020-08-23--How to Clean Your Arteries With One Simple Fruit

( Sayer Ji ) The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be found in your medicine cabinet , rather in your kitchen cupboard or in your back yard growing on a tree .
Related This Antioxidant-Rich Dillenia Species Can Be Used to Treat Oxidative Stress-Related Diseases A study published in the journal Atherosclerosis confirms that pomegranate extract may prevent and/or reverse the primary pathology associated with cardiac mortality : the progressive thickening of the coronary arteries caused by the accumulation of fatty materials known as atherosclerosis .
[ i ] Mice with a genetic susceptibility towards spontaneous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ via their drinking water for two weeks , beginning at three weeks of age .
Despite the fact that pomegranate treatment actually increased cholesterol levels associated with very low density lipoprotein-sized particles , the treatment both reduced the size of the atherosclerotic plaques in the aortic sinus ( the dilated opening above the aortic valve ) and reduced the proportion of coronary arteries with occlusive atherosclerotic plaques .
Remarkably , the researchers also found that pomegranate extract treatment resulted in the following 7 beneficial effects : • Reduced monocytie chemotactic protein-1 , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inflammatory processes within the arteries .
• Reduced levels of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 and fibrosis in the myocardium How can something as benign and commonplace as a fruit extract reverse so many aspects of coronary artery disease , simultaneously , as evidenced by the study above ?
The answer may lie in the fact that our ancestors co-evolved with certain foods ( fruits in particular ) for so long that a lack of adequate quantities of these foods may directly result in deteriorating organ function .
Indeed , two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a fundamental cause of cardiovascular disease , owing to the fact that our hominid primate ancestors once had year-round access to fruits , and as a result lost the ability to synthesize it .
There ’ s another obvious clue as to how pomegranate may work its artery opening magic .
Anyone who has ever tasted pomegranate , or consumed the juice , knows it has a remarkable astringency , giving your mouth and gums that dry , puckering mouth feel .
This cleansing sensation is technically caused , as with all astringents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ membranes .
Anyone who drinks pomegranate juice , or is lucky enough to eat one fresh , can understand why it is so effective at cleansing the circulatory system .
Nature certainly planted enough poetic visual clues there for us : its juice looks like blood , and it does resemble a multi-chambered heart , at least when you consider its appearance in comparison to most other fruits .
Indeed , your mouth and your arteries are lined with the same cell type : epithelial cells .
Together , they make up the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ types within animals , along with connective tissue , muscle tissue and nervous tissue , and which comprises the interior walls of the entire circulatory system .
So , when you feel that amazing cleansing effect in your mouth , this is in fact akin to what your circulatory system — and the epithelium/endothelium lining the inside of your veins and arteries — “ feels ” as well .
Book The pH Miracle : Balance Your Diet , Reclaim Your Health Published in Clinical Nutrition in 2004 and titled , “ Pomegranate juice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carotid artery stenosis reduces common carotid intima-media thickness , blood pressure and LDL oxidation , ” Israeli researchers discovered pomegranate , administered in juice form over the course of a year , reversed plaque accumulation in the carotid arteries of patients with severe , though symptomless , carotid artery stenosis ( defined as 70–90 % blockage in the internal carotid arteries ) .
The study consisted of nineteen patients , 5 women and 14 men , aged 65-75 , non-smokers .
They were randomized to receive either pomegranate juice or placebo .
Ten @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group and 9 patients that did not consume pomegranate juice were in the control group .
Both groups were matched with similar blood lipid and glucose concentrations , blood pressure , and with similar medication regimens which consisted of blood-pressure lowering ( e.g .
ACE inhibitors , ?
-blockers , or calcium channel blockers ) and lipid lowering drugs ( e.g .
statins ) .
The ten patients in the treatment group group received 8.11 ounces ( 240 ml ) of pomegranate juice per day , for a period of 1 year , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continue for up to 3 years .
The remarkable results were reported as follows : “ The mean intima media thickness the left and right common carotid arteries in severe carotid artery stenosis patients that consumed pomegranate juice for up to 1 year was reduced after 3 , 6 , 9 and 12 months of pomegranate juice consumption by 13 % , 22 % , 26 % and 35 % , respectively , in comparison to baseline values.
” You can only imagine what would happen if a pharmaceutical drug was shown to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arteries by 13 % in just 3 months !
This drug would be lauded the life-saving miracle drug , and not only would be promoted and sold successfully as a multi-billion dollar blockbuster , but discussion would inevitably follow as to why it should be mandated .
While these results are impressive , if not altogether groundbreaking for the field of cardiology , they may be even better than revealed in the stated therapeutic outcomes above .
When one factors in that the carotid artery stenosis increased 9 % within 1 year in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group may have seen even better results than indicated by the measured regression in intima media thickness alone .
That is , if we assume that the pomegranate group had received no treatment , the thickening of their carotid arteries would have continued to progress like the control group at a rate of 9 % a year , i.e .
18 % within 2 years , 27 % within 3 years .
This could be interpreted to mean that after 3 years of pomegranate treatment , for instance , the thickening of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % beyond what would have occurred had the natural progression of the disease been allowed to continue unabated .
The researchers identified three likely mechanisms of action behind pomegranate ’ s observed anti-atherosclerotic activity : • Antioxidant properties : Subjects receiving pomegranate saw significant reductions in oxidative stress , including decreases in autoantibodies formed against ox-LDL , a form of oxidized low density lipoprotein associated with the pathological process of atherosclerosis .
Decreases in oxidative stress were measurable by an increase in the blood serum enzyme paraoxonase 1 ( PON1 ) of up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PON1 is an enzyme whose heightened activity is associated with lower oxidative stress .
All of this is highly relevant to the question of pomegranate ’ s anti-atherosclerotic activity because of something called the lipid peroxidation hypothesis of atherosclerosis , which assumes that it is the quality of the blood lipids ( i.e .
whether they are oxidized/damaged or not ) , and not their quantity alone that determine their cardiotoxicity/atherogenicity .
Essentially , pomegranate prevents the heart disease promoting effects of oxidative stress .
• Blood Pressure Lowering Properties : The intervention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : the patient ’ s systolic blood pressure was reduced 7 % , 11 % ,10 % , 10 % and 12 % after 1 , 3 , 6 , 9 , and 12 months of pomegranate consumption , respectively , compared to values obtained before treatment .
Pomegranate ’ s ability to reduce systolic blood pressure indicates it has a healing effect on the endothelium , or the inner lining of the artery which fails to relax fully in heart disease ; a condition known as endothelial dysfunction .
• Plaque Lesion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients on PJ ( after 3 and 12 months ) experienced clinical deterioration , carotid surgery was performed and the lesions were analyzed to determine the difference in their composition to those who did not receive pomegranate .
The researchers noticed four distinct positive differences in the composition of the pomegranate-treated lesions : 1 .
Reduced Cholesterol Content : “ The cholesterol content in carotid lesions from the two patients that consumed PJ was lower by 58 % and 20 % , respectively , in comparison to lesions obtained from CAS patients that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3A ) .
” 2 .
Reduced Lipid Peroxides : “ [ T ] he lipid peroxides content in lesions obtained from the patients after PJ consumption for 3 or 12 months was significantly reduced by 61 % or 44 % , respectively , as compared to lesions from patients that did not consume PJ ( Fig .
3B ) .
3 .
Increased Reduced Glutathione Content : “ A substantial increase in the lesion reduced glutathione ( GSH ) content , ( GSH is a major cellular antioxidant ) by 2.5-fold , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or 12 months , ( Fig .
3C ) .
4 .
Reduced LDL Oxidation : “ LDL oxidation by lesions derived from the patients after PJ consumption for 3 or 12 months , was significantly ( Po0.01 ) decreased by 43 % or 32 % , respectively , in comparison to LDL oxidation rates obtained by lesions from CAS patients that did not consume PJ ( Fig .
3D ) .
” Essentially these results reveal that not only does pomegranate reduce the lesion size in the carotid arteries , but “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ atherogenic after PJ consumption , as its cholesterol and oxidized lipid content decreased , and since its ability to oxidize LDL was significantly reduced.
” This finding is quite revolutionary , as presently , the dangers of carotid artery stenosis are understood primarily through the lesion size and not by assessing for the quality of that lesion .
This dovetails with the concept that the sheer quantity of lipoproteins ( i.e .
“ cholesterol ” ) in the blood can not accurately reveal whether those lipoproteins are actually harmful ( atherogenic ) ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e.g .
ox-LDL ) they can be harmful ( or representative of a more systemic bodily imbalance ) , whereas non-oxidized low density lipoprotein may be considered entirely benign , if not indispensable for cardiovascular and body wide health .
Indeed , in this study the researchers found the pomegranate group had increased levels of triglycerides and very low density lipoprotein , again , underscoring that the anti-atherosclerotic properties likely have more to do with the improved quality of the physiological milieu within which all our lipoproteins operate than the number of them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it should be pointed out that all the patients in this study were undergoing conventional , drug-based care for cardiovascular disease , e.g .
cholesterol- and blood pressure-lowering agents .
Not only did the pomegranate treatment not appear to interfere with their drugs , making it a suitable complementary/adjunct therapy for those on pharmaceuticals , but it should be pointed out that the control group ’ s condition got progressively worse ( e.g .
the mean IMT increased 9 % within 1 year ) , speaking to just how ineffective drugs are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the acceleration of the disease process itself .
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Pomegranate ’ s value in cardiovascular health may be quiet broad , as evidenced by the following experimentally confirmed properties : • Anti-inflammatory : Like many chronic degenerative diseases , inflammation plays a significant role in cardiovascular disease pathogenesis .
There are five studies on GreenMedInfo.com indicating pomegranate ’ s anti-inflammatory properties .
[ iii ] • Blood-Pressure Lowering : Pomegranate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ properties , [ iv ] and is a nitric oxide enhancer , two well-known pathways for reducing blood pressure .
[ v ] Finally , pomegranate extract rich in punicalagin has been found reduce the adverse effects of perturbed stress on arterial segments exposed to disturbed flow .
[ vi ] • Anti-Infective : Plaque buildup in the arteries often involves secondary viral and bacterial infection , including hepatitis C and Chlamydia pneumoniae .
[ vii ] Pomegranate has a broad range of anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties .
• Antioxidant : One of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heart disease-promoting ( atherogenic ) is through oxidation .
LDL , for instance , may be technically ‘ elevated ’ but harmless as long as it does not readily oxidize .
Pomegranate has been found to reduce the oxidative stress in the blood , as measured by serum paraoxonase levels .
One study in mice found this decrease in oxidative stress was associated with 44 % reduction in the size of atherosclerotic lesions .
[ viii ] • Ant-Infective : While it is commonly overlooked , cardiovascular disease , and more particularly atherosclerosis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know this , which is why they often prescribe antibiotics following dental work which releases bacteria into systemic circulation .
Plaque in the arteries can also harbor viral pathogens .
Pomegranate happens to have potent antiviral and antibacterial properties relevant to cardiovascular disease initiation and progression .
It has been studied to combat the following infectious organisms : For additional research on pomegranate ’ s heart friendly properties read our article : Research : Pomegranate May Reverse Blocked Arteries , and to learn more about it ’ s broadly therapeutic properties read : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Helping Diabetics .
Also , view our dedicated research section on reversing arterial plaque : Clogged Arteries .
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[ i ] Aishah Al-Jarallah , Fatima Igdoura , Yi Zhang , Christine B Tenedero , Elizabeth J White , Melissa E @ @ @ @ @ @ @ L Trigatti .
The effect of pomegranate extract on coronary artery atherosclerosis in SR-BI/APOE double knockout mice .
Atherosclerosis .
2013 May ; 228 ( 1 ) :80-9 .
Epub 2013 Mar 7 .
PMID : 23528829 [ ii ] Michael Aviram , Mira Rosenblat , Diana Gaitini , Samy Nitecki , Aaron Hoffman , Leslie Dornfeld , Nina Volkova , Dita Presser , Judith Attias , Harley Liker , Tony Hayek .
Pomegranate juice consumption for 3 years by patients with carotid artery stenosis reduces common carotid intima-media thickness , blood pressure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2004 Jun ; 23 ( 3 ) :423-33 .
PMID : 15158307 [ iii ] GreenMedInfo.com , Pomegranate ’ s Anti-Inflammatory Properties [ iv ] Mahalaxmi Mohan , Harshal Waghulde , Sanjay Kasture .
Effect of pomegranate juice on Angiotensin II-induced hypertension in diabetic Wistar rats .
Phytother Res .
2009 Dec 17 .
PMID : 20020514 [ v ] Filomena de Nigris , Maria Luisa Balestrieri , Sharon Williams-Ignarro , Francesco P D ’ Armiento , Carmela Fiorito , Louis J Ignarro , Claudio Napoli .
The influence of pomegranate fruit extract @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seed oil on nitric oxide and arterial function in obese Zucker rats .
Nitric Oxide .
2007 Aug ; 17 ( 1 ) :50-4 .
Epub 2007 May 5 .
PMID : 17553710 [ vi ] Filomena de Nigris , Sharon Williams-Ignarro , Vincenzo Sica , Lilach O Lerman , Francesco P D ’ Armiento , Russell E Byrns , Amelia Casamassimi , Daniela Carpentiero , Concetta Schiano , Daigo Sumi , Carmela Fiorito , Louis J Ignarro , Claudio Napoli .
Effects of a pomegranate fruit extract rich in punicalagin on oxidation-sensitive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perturbed shear stress and atherogenesis .
Cardiovasc Res .
2007 Jan 15 ; 73 ( 2 ) :414-23 .
Epub 2006 Sep 1 .
PMID : 17014835 [ vii ] Yasunori Sawayama , Kyoko Okada , Shinji Maeda , Hachiro Ohnishi , Norihiro Furusyo , Jun Hayashi .
Both hepatitis C virus and Chlamydia pneumoniae infection are related to the progression of carotid atherosclerosis in patients undergoing lipid lowering therapy .
Fukuoka Igaku Zasshi .
2006 Aug ; 97 ( 8 ) :245-55 .
PMID : 17087362 [ viii ] M Aviram , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Volkova , M Kaplan , R Coleman , T Hayek , D Presser , B Fuhrman .
Pomegranate juice consumption reduces oxidative stress , atherogenic modifications to LDL , and platelet aggregation : studies in humans and in atherosclerotic apolipoprotein E-deficient mice .
Am J Clin Nutr .
2000 May ; 71 ( 5 ) :1062-76 .
PMID : 10799367 THE PLAN TO SAVE THE WORLD ( Get Informed ) Sayer Ji is the founder of Greenmedinfo.com , a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine , Co-founder and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Board of the National Health Federation , and Steering Committee Member of the Global Non-GMO Foundation .
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Pomegranate Found To Prevent Coronary Artery Disease Progression
A study published in the journal Atherosclerosis confirms that pomegranate extract may prevent and/or reverse the primary pathology associated with cardiac mortality: the progressive thickening of the coronary arteries caused by the accumulation of fatty materials known as atherosclerosis.[i]
Mice with a genetic susceptibility towards spontaneous coronary artery blockages were given pomegranate extract via their drinking water for two weeks, beginning at three weeks of age. Despite the fact that pomegranate treatment actually increased cholesterol levels associated with very low density lipoprotein-sized particles, the treatment both reduced the size of the atherosclerotic plaques in the aortic sinus (the dilated opening above the aortic valve) and reduced the proportion of coronary arteries with occlusive atherosclerotic plaques.
Remarkably, the researchers also found that pomegranate extract treatment resulted in the following 7 beneficial effects:
Reduced levels of oxidative stress Reduced monocytie chemotactic protein-1, a chemical messenger (chemokine) associated with inflammatory processes within the arteries. Reduced lipid accumulation in the heart muscle Reduced macrophage infiltration in the heart muscle Reduced levels of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 and fibrosis in the myocardium Reduced cardiac enlargement Reduced ECG abnormalities
How can something as benign and commonplace as a fruit extract reverse so many aspects of coronary artery disease, simultaneously, as evidenced by the study above? The answer may lie in the fact that our ancestors co-evolved with certain foods (fruits in particular) for so long that a lack of adequate quantities of these foods may directly result in deteriorating organ function. Indeed, two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling argued that vitamin C deficiency is a fundamental cause of cardiovascular disease, owing to the fact that our hominid primate ancestors once had year-round access to fruits, and as a result lost the ability to synthesize it.
There’s another obvious clue as to how pomegranate may work its artery opening magic. Anyone who has ever tasted pomegranate, or consumed the juice, knows it has a remarkable astringency, giving your mouth and gums that dry, puckering mouth feel. This cleansing sensation is technically caused, as with all astringents, by shrinking and disinfecting your mucous membranes.
Anyone who drinks pomegranate juice, or is lucky enough to eat one fresh, can understand why it is so effective at cleansing the circulatory system. Nature certainly planted enough poetic visual clues there for us: its juice looks like blood, and it does resemble a multi-chambered heart, at least when you consider its appearance in comparison to most other fruits.
Indeed, your mouth and your arteries are lined with the same cell type: epithelial cells. Together, they make up the epithelium, one of four basic tissue types within animals, along with connective tissue, muscle tissue and nervous tissue, and which comprises the interior walls of the entire circulatory system. So, when you feel that amazing cleansing effect in your mouth, this is in fact akin to what your circulatory system — and the epithelium/endothelium lining the inside of your veins and arteries — “feels” as well.
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The Pomegranate “Artery Cleaning” Clinical Trial
Published in Clinical Nutrition in 2004 and titled, “Pomegranate juice consumption for 3 years by patients with carotid artery stenosis reduces common carotid intima-media thickness, blood pressure and LDL oxidation,” Israeli researchers discovered pomegranate, administered in juice form over the course of a year, reversed plaque accumulation in the carotid arteries of patients with severe, though symptomless, carotid artery stenosis (defined as 70–90% blockage in the internal carotid arteries).
The study consisted of nineteen patients, 5 women and 14 men, aged 65-75, non-smokers. They were randomized to receive either pomegranate juice or placebo. Ten patients were in the pomegranate juice treatment group and 9 patients that did not consume pomegranate juice were in the control group. Both groups were matched with similar blood lipid and glucose concentrations, blood pressure, and with similar medication regimens which consisted of blood-pressure lowering (e.g. ACE inhibitors, ?-blockers, or calcium channel blockers) and lipid lowering drugs (e.g. statins).
The ten patients in the treatment group group received 8.11 ounces (240 ml) of pomegranate juice per day, for a period of 1 year, and five out of them agreed to continue for up to 3 years.
The remarkable results were reported as follows:
“The mean intima media thickness the left and right common carotid arteries in severe carotid artery stenosis patients that consumed pomegranate juice for up to 1 year was reduced after 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of pomegranate juice consumption by 13%, 22%, 26% and 35%, respectively, in comparison to baseline values.”
You can only imagine what would happen if a pharmaceutical drug was shown to reverse plaque build up in the carotid arteries by 13% in just 3 months! This drug would be lauded the life-saving miracle drug, and not only would be promoted and sold successfully as a multi-billion dollar blockbuster, but discussion would inevitably follow as to why it should be mandated.
While these results are impressive, if not altogether groundbreaking for the field of cardiology, they may be even better than revealed in the stated therapeutic outcomes above. When one factors in that the carotid artery stenosis increased 9% within 1 year in the control group, the pomegranate intervention group may have seen even better results than indicated by the measured regression in intima media thickness alone. That is, if we assume that the pomegranate group had received no treatment, the thickening of their carotid arteries would have continued to progress like the control group at a rate of 9% a year, i.e. 18% within 2 years, 27% within 3 years. This could be interpreted to mean that after 3 years of pomegranate treatment, for instance, the thickening of the arteries would have been reduced over 60% beyond what would have occurred had the natural progression of the disease been allowed to continue unabated.
3 Ways How Pomegranate Heals The Cardiovascular System
The researchers identified three likely mechanisms of action behind pomegranate’s observed anti-atherosclerotic activity:
Antioxidant properties : Subjects receiving pomegranate saw significant reductions in oxidative stress, including decreases in autoantibodies formed against ox-LDL, a form of oxidized low density lipoprotein associated with the pathological process of atherosclerosis. Decreases in oxidative stress were measurable by an increase in the blood serum enzyme paraoxonase 1 (PON1) of up to 91% after 3 years; PON1 is an enzyme whose heightened activity is associated with lower oxidative stress. All of this is highly relevant to the question of pomegranate’s anti-atherosclerotic activity because of something called the lipid peroxidation hypothesis of atherosclerosis, which assumes that it is the quality of the blood lipids (i.e. whether they are oxidized/damaged or not), and not their quantity alone that determine their cardiotoxicity/atherogenicity. Essentially, pomegranate prevents the heart disease promoting effects of oxidative stress.
: Subjects receiving pomegranate saw significant reductions in oxidative stress, including decreases in autoantibodies formed against ox-LDL, a form of oxidized low density lipoprotein associated with the pathological process of atherosclerosis. Decreases in oxidative stress were measurable by an increase in the blood serum enzyme paraoxonase 1 (PON1) of up to 91% after 3 years; PON1 is an enzyme whose heightened activity is associated with lower oxidative stress. All of this is highly relevant to the question of pomegranate’s anti-atherosclerotic activity because of something called the lipid peroxidation hypothesis of atherosclerosis, which assumes that it is the quality of the blood lipids (i.e. whether they are oxidized/damaged or not), and not their quantity alone that determine their cardiotoxicity/atherogenicity. Essentially, pomegranate prevents the heart disease promoting effects of oxidative stress. Blood Pressure Lowering Properties : The intervention resulted in significant improvement in blood pressure: the patient’s systolic blood pressure was reduced 7%, 11% ,10%, 10% and 12% after 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of pomegranate consumption, respectively, compared to values obtained before treatment. Pomegranate’s ability to reduce systolic blood pressure indicates it has a healing effect on the endothelium, or the inner lining of the artery which fails to relax fully in heart disease; a condition known as endothelial dysfunction.
: The intervention resulted in significant improvement in blood pressure: the patient’s systolic blood pressure was reduced 7%, 11% ,10%, 10% and 12% after 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of pomegranate consumption, respectively, compared to values obtained before treatment. Pomegranate’s ability to reduce systolic blood pressure indicates it has a healing effect on the endothelium, or the inner lining of the artery which fails to relax fully in heart disease; a condition known as endothelial dysfunction. Plaque Lesion Stabilization: Because two of the ten patients on PJ (after 3 and 12 months) experienced clinical deterioration, carotid surgery was performed and the lesions were analyzed to determine the difference in their composition to those who did not receive pomegranate. The researchers noticed four distinct positive differences in the composition of the pomegranate-treated lesions: 1. Reduced Cholesterol Content: “The cholesterol content in carotid lesions from the two patients that consumed PJ was lower by 58% and 20%, respectively, in comparison to lesions obtained from CAS patients that did not consume PJ (Fig. 3A).” 2. Reduced Lipid Peroxides: “[T]he lipid peroxides content in lesions obtained from the patients after PJ consumption for 3 or 12 months was significantly reduced by 61% or 44%, respectively, as compared to lesions from patients that did not consume PJ (Fig. 3B). 3. Increased Reduced Glutathione Content: “A substantial increase in the lesion reduced glutathione (GSH) content, (GSH is a major cellular antioxidant) by 2.5-fold, was observed after PJ consumption for 3 or 12 months, (Fig. 3C). 4. Reduced LDL Oxidation: “LDL oxidation by lesions derived from the patients after PJ consumption for 3 or 12 months, was significantly (Po0.01) decreased by 43% or 32%, respectively, in comparison to LDL oxidation rates obtained by lesions from CAS patients that did not consume PJ (Fig. 3D).”
Essentially these results reveal that not only does pomegranate reduce the lesion size in the carotid arteries, but “the lesion itself may be considered less atherogenic after PJ consumption, as its cholesterol and oxidized lipid content decreased, and since its ability to oxidize LDL was significantly reduced.”
This finding is quite revolutionary, as presently, the dangers of carotid artery stenosis are understood primarily through the lesion size and not by assessing for the quality of that lesion. This dovetails with the concept that the sheer quantity of lipoproteins (i.e. “cholesterol”) in the blood can not accurately reveal whether those lipoproteins are actually harmful (atherogenic); rather, if lipoproteins are oxidized (e.g. ox-LDL) they can be harmful (or representative of a more systemic bodily imbalance), whereas non-oxidized low density lipoprotein may be considered entirely benign, if not indispensable for cardiovascular and body wide health. Indeed, in this study the researchers found the pomegranate group had increased levels of triglycerides and very low density lipoprotein, again, underscoring that the anti-atherosclerotic properties likely have more to do with the improved quality of the physiological milieu within which all our lipoproteins operate than the number of them, in and of itself.
Finally, it should be pointed out that all the patients in this study were undergoing conventional, drug-based care for cardiovascular disease, e.g. cholesterol- and blood pressure-lowering agents. Not only did the pomegranate treatment not appear to interfere with their drugs, making it a suitable complementary/adjunct therapy for those on pharmaceuticals, but it should be pointed out that the control group’s condition got progressively worse (e.g. the mean IMT increased 9% within 1 year), speaking to just how ineffective drugs are, or how they may even contribute to the acceleration of the disease process itself.
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Further Validation of Pomegranate’s Artery-Clearing Properties
Pomegranate’s value in cardiovascular health may be quiet broad, as evidenced by the following experimentally confirmed properties:
Anti-inflammatory : Like many chronic degenerative diseases, inflammation plays a significant role in cardiovascular disease pathogenesis. There are five studies on GreenMedInfo.com indicating pomegranate’s anti-inflammatory properties.[iii]
: Like many chronic degenerative diseases, inflammation plays a significant role in cardiovascular disease pathogenesis. There are five studies on GreenMedInfo.com indicating pomegranate’s anti-inflammatory properties.[iii] Blood-Pressure Lowering : Pomegranate juice has natural angiotensin converting enzyme inhibiting properties, [iv] and is a nitric oxide enhancer, two well-known pathways for reducing blood pressure. [v] Finally, pomegranate extract rich in punicalagin has been found reduce the adverse effects of perturbed stress on arterial segments exposed to disturbed flow.[vi]
: Pomegranate juice has natural angiotensin converting enzyme inhibiting properties, [iv] and is a nitric oxide enhancer, two well-known pathways for reducing blood pressure. [v] Finally, pomegranate extract rich in punicalagin has been found reduce the adverse effects of perturbed stress on arterial segments exposed to disturbed flow.[vi] Anti-Infective : Plaque buildup in the arteries often involves secondary viral and bacterial infection, including hepatitis C and Chlamydia pneumoniae.[vii] Pomegranate has a broad range of anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties.
: Plaque buildup in the arteries often involves secondary viral and bacterial infection, including hepatitis C and Chlamydia pneumoniae.[vii] Pomegranate has a broad range of anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. Antioxidant : One of the ways in which blood lipids become heart disease-promoting (atherogenic) is through oxidation. LDL, for instance, may be technically ‘elevated’ but harmless as long as it does not readily oxidize. Pomegranate has been found to reduce the oxidative stress in the blood, as measured by serum paraoxonase levels. One study in mice found this decrease in oxidative stress was associated with 44% reduction in the size of atherosclerotic lesions. [viii]
: One of the ways in which blood lipids become heart disease-promoting (atherogenic) is through oxidation. LDL, for instance, may be technically ‘elevated’ but harmless as long as it does not readily oxidize. Pomegranate has been found to reduce the oxidative stress in the blood, as measured by serum paraoxonase levels. One study in mice found this decrease in oxidative stress was associated with 44% reduction in the size of atherosclerotic lesions. [viii] Ant-Infective : While it is commonly overlooked, cardiovascular disease, and more particularly atherosclerosis, is connected to infection. Dentists know this, which is why they often prescribe antibiotics following dental work which releases bacteria into systemic circulation. Plaque in the arteries can also harbor viral pathogens. Pomegranate happens to have potent antiviral and antibacterial properties relevant to cardiovascular disease initiation and progression. It has been studied to combat the following infectious organisms: Avian Influenza Candida Escherichia Coli Hepatitis B HIV Influenza A Poxviruses Salmonella SARS Staphylococcus auerus Vaccinia virus Vibrio (Cholera) virus
: While it is commonly overlooked, cardiovascular disease, and more particularly atherosclerosis, is connected to infection. Dentists know this, which is why they often prescribe antibiotics following dental work which releases bacteria into systemic circulation. Plaque in the arteries can also harbor viral pathogens. Pomegranate happens to have potent antiviral and antibacterial properties relevant to cardiovascular disease initiation and progression. It has been studied to combat the following infectious organisms:
For additional research on pomegranate’s heart friendly properties read our article: Research: Pomegranate May Reverse Blocked Arteries, and to learn more about it’s broadly therapeutic properties read: 100+ Health Properties of Pomegranate Now Includes Helping Diabetics.
Also, view our dedicated research section on reversing arterial plaque: Clogged Arteries.
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[i] Aishah Al-Jarallah, Fatima Igdoura, Yi Zhang, Christine B Tenedero, Elizabeth J White, Melissa E Macdonald, Suleiman A Igdoura, Bernardo L Trigatti. The effect of pomegranate extract on coronary artery atherosclerosis in SR-BI/APOE double knockout mice. Atherosclerosis. 2013 May ;228(1):80-9. Epub 2013 Mar 7. PMID: 23528829
[ii] Michael Aviram, Mira Rosenblat, Diana Gaitini, Samy Nitecki, Aaron Hoffman, Leslie Dornfeld, Nina Volkova, Dita Presser, Judith Attias, Harley Liker, Tony Hayek. Pomegranate juice consumption for 3 years by patients with carotid artery stenosis reduces common carotid intima-media thickness, blood pressure and LDL oxidation. Clin Nutr. 2004 Jun;23(3):423-33. PMID: 15158307[iii] GreenMedInfo.com, Pomegranate’s Anti-Inflammatory Properties[iv] Mahalaxmi Mohan, Harshal Waghulde, Sanjay Kasture. Effect of pomegranate juice on Angiotensin II-induced hypertension in diabetic Wistar rats. Phytother Res. 2009 Dec 17. PMID: 20020514
[v] Filomena de Nigris, Maria Luisa Balestrieri, Sharon Williams-Ignarro, Francesco P D’Armiento, Carmela Fiorito, Louis J Ignarro, Claudio Napoli. The influence of pomegranate fruit extract in comparison to regular pomegranate juice and seed oil on nitric oxide and arterial function in obese Zucker rats. Nitric Oxide. 2007 Aug ;17(1):50-4. Epub 2007 May 5. PMID: 17553710
[vi] Filomena de Nigris, Sharon Williams-Ignarro, Vincenzo Sica, Lilach O Lerman, Francesco P D’Armiento, Russell E Byrns, Amelia Casamassimi, Daniela Carpentiero, Concetta Schiano, Daigo Sumi, Carmela Fiorito, Louis J Ignarro, Claudio Napoli. Effects of a pomegranate fruit extract rich in punicalagin on oxidation-sensitive genes and eNOS activity at sites of perturbed shear stress and atherogenesis. Cardiovasc Res. 2007 Jan 15;73(2):414-23. Epub 2006 Sep 1. PMID: 17014835
[vii] Yasunori Sawayama, Kyoko Okada, Shinji Maeda, Hachiro Ohnishi, Norihiro Furusyo, Jun Hayashi. Both hepatitis C virus and Chlamydia pneumoniae infection are related to the progression of carotid atherosclerosis in patients undergoing lipid lowering therapy. Fukuoka Igaku Zasshi. 2006 Aug;97(8):245-55. PMID: 17087362
[viii] M Aviram, L Dornfeld, M Rosenblat, N Volkova, M Kaplan, R Coleman, T Hayek, D Presser, B Fuhrman. Pomegranate juice consumption reduces oxidative stress, atherogenic modifications to LDL, and platelet aggregation: studies in humans and in atherosclerotic apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. Am J Clin Nutr. 2000 May ;71(5):1062-76. PMID: 10799367
About The Author
Sayer Ji
Sayer Ji is the founder of Greenmedinfo.com, a reviewer at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Co-founder and CEO of Systome Biomed, Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Health Federation, and Steering Committee Member of the Global Non-GMO Foundation.
Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
The news is important to all people because it is where we come to know new things about the world, which leads to the development of more life goals that lead to life wisdom. The news also serves as a social connection tool, as we tend to relate to those who know about and believe the things we do. With the power of an open truth-seeking mind in hand, the individual can grow wise and the collective can prosper.
– Justin
Not sure how to make sense of this? Want to learn how to discern like a pro? Read this essential guide to discernment, analysis of claims, and understanding the truth in a world of deception: 4 Key Steps of Discernment – Advanced Truth-Seeking Tools.
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stillnessinthestorm--2020-08-22--Anatomy of Big Tech Censorship: Deplatforming and Shadow Banning of Stillness in the Storm (Mailchim

( Justin Deschamps ) As you might ’ ve noticed the Stillness in the Storm newsletter stopped being sent to your inbox .
The Story behind why this happened shows a compelling case for Big Tech censorship of alternative media .
What you ’ ll see in this article is a point for point presentation of how and why this happened .
This may prove once and for all that ideas “ they ” don ’ t want you to know about are being censored .
Related “ Trust the Plan ” Isn ’ t What You Think It Is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ send email newsletters and other updates out to the thousands of readers who have subscribed to Stillness in the Storm .
We ’ ve been using Mailchimp for over three years and have a flawless record .
They closed our account on Friday the 21st without any prior notice or warning .
I received a short email from them letting us know .
You might be wondering , did we violate any of their policies ?
I contacted Mailchimp and they have yet to get back to me about the specifics of why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s review some of the facts to get a sense of what might have happened .
Firstly , we ’ ve used the service since 2017 without any problems whatsoever .
We ’ ve never had a warning or misused the service at any time during our over 3-year relationship with Mailchimp .
Our use of the Mailchimp platform hasn ’ t changed since last year .
We post about 12 to 20 posts a day .
We use exactly the same format , and post almost exactly the same type of content @ @ @ @ @ @ @ posts than other topics .
I pulled reports across a seven day period , one sample in 2020 ( just before our account was suspended ) , and one in 2019 in the same date range to gather the following numbers .
The unsubscribe , bounce , and spam rates have actually gone down in 2020 because we gained about 7,000 more subscribers ( assessed by pulling a one-week sample size from August 13th to 20th , comparing 2020 to 2019 ) This means there are less unsubscribe , bounce , and spam @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subscribers in 2020 as compared to 2019 .
And this means , when it comes to Mailchimp ’ s standards , we ’ re a healthier account than we were a year ago .
We have fewer spam reports , more subscribers , fewer unsubscribers , and fewer spam reports with respect to the total number of subscribers on our list in 2020 than we did in 2019 .
The conclusion ?
Mailchimp should think our account is better and less of a risk in 2020 than it was in 2019 .
Second @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t very specific when it comes to clear cut reasons as to why an account can be suspended or terminated .
They discuss them here , stating obvious reasons like we have to use the service in compliance with applicable laws .
This , of course , we ’ ve done .
It ’ s pretty standard stuff , and we adhere to it as we have done since the opening of our account in 2017 .
Specifically , we use the double-opt-in method for confirming subscriptions to the newsletter .
What does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subscribe to our newsletter , you place your email in the form to sign up .
Then you confirm you want to receive our newsletter by clicking a button that ’ s sent to the email you used .
You would have to have access to the email , meaning you can sign in , and therefore are assumed to be the owner or authorized user .
In short , the double opt-in system is industrywide protection against unwanted emails ( spam ) .
( Of course , if you ’ re email @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s a different story .
But this is the exception not the rule . )
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Third , their policy says that if our newsletter is reported for abuse too often then this would be a cause for suspension .
Abuse here means people reporting an email as spam .
How did we fair insofar as spam reports ?
I pulled the last 7 days of reports from Mailchimp , and we received one abuse complaint on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of August , from three different email addresses .
When it comes to abuse reports , three in a seven day period is hardly a cause for alarm , especially when we send our email newsletter out to over 12,900 people every day .
According to CampaignMonitor.com the industry standard is 0.05 % .
Our spam complaint rate limit is 0.5 % , which is very high for industry standards .
That ’ s why we start sending you warning emails well before you reach that percentage , and why accounts are automtically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If we calculate our email campaign reports , assuming we had one spam report per day ( which as I just showed we only received three in a seven day period , meaning this calculation is an overestimate ) , that puts our spam report rate at 0.008 % —well below the industry standard rate .
What about comparing numbers from last year ?
I went into the report system in Mailchimp and pulled our stats for the same dates last year , August 13th to 20th 2019 .
We had the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And all our other stats are proportionally the same .
This suggests the reason for our suspension likely isn ’ t because of people reporting our newsletters as spam .
Fourth , the number of emails being opened is another stat that email service providers ( ESPs ) use to rank the health of an account .
If it ’ s too low , they can suspend the account .
Our open rate across the 13th to 20th of August 2020 was 17.41 % That might seem kind of low , but for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media , publishing , and entertainment , that ’ s just below average .
CampaignMonitor.com reports that the average is about 18.07 % ( calculated by adding the seven-day figures and dividing by seven ) .
In this instance , our open rate is well within the standard limits , suggesting our open rate , and the health of our account likely wasn ’ t the cause of our suspension .
What could be the cause for the suspension ?
Having been in the media publishing business since 2013 , I can report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in general , have been subject to what ’ s called shadow banning .
This is when a service like Google , Facebook , or Twitter secretly restricts the serving of our posts and articles .
For social media , even if you ’ re following our account , like our Facebook Like Page , you might not see our posts .
If you share our posts , other people in your friend/follow list won ’ t see them .
For search engines like Google , it means even if we have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Google will restrict the listing so it doesn ’ t show up in the search results .
In early 2017 , 70 % of our traffic came from Facebook or Google .
But in mid-2017 , after our Facebook Like Page was randomly suspended , without notice , the visit rates from Facebook dropped to less than 10 % within a week .
Google was a bit slower in reduction , dropping to less than 1 % since mid-2017 ’ s rates of about 30 % .
Book Custodians of the Internet : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media Yesterday , on the 21st of August , after receiving the above-notice from Mailchimp of account suspension , I began searching for an alternative .
I found Mailerlite , a similar service that is basically a carbon copy of Mailchimp .
I spent five hours setting it all up , building an RSS-to-email newsletter campaign .
I imported our subscriber contact list .
Like Mailchimp , they require us to pay a monthly fee to send a newsletter .
I was paying $ 150 a month with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 9th of August , 11 days before we got our account suspended .
I paid Mailerlite the $ 75 needed to start using the service .
But I was told within the campaign setup screens of Mailerlite that the account would need to be reviewed before my email campaign would start .
I sent the account over for review and within less than 15 minutes , I received an email saying our account “ didn ’ t pass [ the ] test.
” They didn ’ t address any of my questions and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Without jumping to any conclusions , I took the email at face value and sent the latest campaign report from Mailchimp , which shows that 17.41 % of emails sent were opened by our readers .
It ’ s entirely possible that this response from Mailerlite is completely standard .
Or it could be that Stillness in the Storm has been placed on a blacklist , that is hidden from the public but shared amongst ESPs like Mailchimp and Mailerlite .
I haven ’ t heard back from Mailerlite , but if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ service , given we comply with the 3 % open rate , this suggests we ’ ve been blacklisted and our information censored .
Why censored ?
As we ’ ll show below , because of what we post—the information itself isn ’ t something Big Tech or the forces behind them want people to see .
Book Consent of the Networked : The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom The Censorship of Alternative Media has Skyrocketed in 2020 QAnon associated censorship and de-platforming , in particular , has been openly revealed .
Here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about it .
Yes , we do .
We even make merch to help spread awareness and raise a bit of capital to pay costs on the site .
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As a matter of fact , we started posting about Q all the way back in October 2017 , when Q first started posting on 4Chan .
Here ’ s another interesting clue .
Our Twitter account was suspended on the 13th of August , one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tell us why ?
No .
Just like with Mailchimp , we received no specific notice , whatsoever , as to the reason why our account was suspended .
The account was the @ sitsshow account we ’ ve had since July 2013 , when the Stillness in the Storm project began .
We had a backup account @ stillnessstorm , which was also suspended .
Apparently , twitter reserves the right to suspend accounts that have backups .
OK. Is this fair ?
No .
But if this is their policy , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ likely their justified reason .
But wait , it gets more interesting .
One of our staff also had her Twitter account suspended a few days later .
She would post occasionally about Q but not nearly as much as we did .
The interesting part is that all three of these accounts , @ sitsshow , @ stillnessstorm , and @ pinkpearlv369 , had the website link https : //stillnessinthestorm.com/ in the website account info section of the Twitter profile .
This link of our website being in the profile of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any account listing Stillness in the Storm as the website .
Add all this up and what do you get ?
A compelling case that Stillness in the Storm and those who work with us are being targeted for censorship .
As a researcher versed in epistemology , the philosophy of knowledge , and the system of critical thought underpinning investigations and law enforcement , I ’ ll be the first to say this is hardly a watertight case of malicious and outright intentional censorship .
Perhaps I missed something in my review @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s a TOS or policy violation I ’ m not aware of .
But since our use of these platforms hasn ’ t changed in over 3 years , it seems unlikely .
Theoretically , it seems like a fair bet to say we might have had our Mailchimp account suspended because we post about QAnon .
This is prohibited information according to the thought-police .
Hence , the overlords likely asked their bridge trolls in Big Tech to censor our accounts .
One last piece of data that might be a clue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ following article about Trump ’ s response to a QAnon question the Thursday before our account got suspended .
Trump “ Praises ” QAnon , When Asked , Responds “ We are saving the world.
” How can you follow us now ?
At this point , we no longer have an email service to send our newsletters .
We had to start using our old service FeedBurner , which is not capable of importing our total list of email subscribers .
That said you can sign up yourself by using the following @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be I actually think it ’ s a badge of honor .
After all the research I ’ ve done over the past 10 years , There ’ s a reason why censorship of information is important .
It ’ s because when you ’ re dealing with a deep state and a criminal element within the government they have to keep the truth suppressed or the people will discover what ’ s really going on .
In a way , our de-platforming suggests that the information we share on Stillness in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threat to the powers that should not be .
I can only hope that whatever efforts are being taken within our government by what has been called an alliance of white hats can one day restore balance and justice to the world .
Until then , keep searching for and spreading the truth .
“ You only take flak when you ’ re over the target.
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Justin is a student of all and a teacher to some , sharing what he has discovered with those who are ready and willing to take responsibility for making the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of his work is to help himself and others become better truth-seekers , and in doing so , form a community of holistically minded individuals capable of creating world healing projects for the benefit of all life—what has been called The Great Work .
Check out his project Stillness in the Storm to find some of his work .
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Stillness in the Storm Editor : Why did we post this ?
Censorship of information @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to maintain their false reality paradigm , which is the foundation of the mind control system used to enslave the individual and society at large .
The preceding information reveals one such method the powers that be are using to censor information .
Properly understood , one can begin the process of liberating their mind from false conceptions of reality , particularly those incomplete bits of knowledge that if contemplated fully , would activate the truth-seeking urge and result in the development of mental autonomy—critical thinking and discernment skills .
Not sure how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to learn how to discern like a pro ?
Read this essential guide to discernment , analysis of claims , and understanding the truth in a world of deception : 4 Key Steps of Discernment – Advanced Truth-Seeking Tools .
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Send an email to corrections @ stillnessinthestorm.com , with the error and suggested correction , along with the headline and url .
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(Justin Deschamps) As you might’ve noticed the Stillness in the Storm newsletter stopped being sent to your inbox. The Story behind why this happened shows a compelling case for Big Tech censorship of alternative media. What you’ll see in this article is a point for point presentation of how and why this happened. This may prove once and for all that ideas “they” don’t want you to know about are being censored.
Update — August 25th 2020: I have good news. Mailerlite, after I had several communications with them, decided to allow us to use their platform. We hope that they will honor their word, our agreement, and not censor us unilaterally like Mailchimp seems to have done. You can sign up for the newsletter using this link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/o4j6e4.
Related “Trust the Plan” Isn’t What You Think It Is
by Justin Deschamps, August 22nd, 2020
Mailchimp is the service I use to send email newsletters and other updates out to the thousands of readers who have subscribed to Stillness in the Storm.
We’ve been using Mailchimp for over three years and have a flawless record.
They closed our account on Friday the 21st without any prior notice or warning.
I received a short email from them letting us know.
Reviewing Our Mailchimp’s Account Health
You might be wondering, did we violate any of their policies?
I contacted Mailchimp and they have yet to get back to me about the specifics of why they suspended our account.
Let’s review some of the facts to get a sense of what might have happened.
Firstly, we’ve used the service since 2017 without any problems whatsoever. We’ve never had a warning or misused the service at any time during our over 3-year relationship with Mailchimp.
Our use of the Mailchimp platform hasn’t changed since last year. We post about 12 to 20 posts a day. We use exactly the same format, and post almost exactly the same type of content, with the exception of more political posts than other topics.
I pulled reports across a seven day period, one sample in 2020 (just before our account was suspended), and one in 2019 in the same date range to gather the following numbers.
The unsubscribe, bounce, and spam rates have actually gone down in 2020 because we gained about 7,000 more subscribers (assessed by pulling a one-week sample size from August 13th to 20th, comparing 2020 to 2019)
This means there are less unsubscribe, bounce, and spam reports per unit volume of daily email subscribers in 2020 as compared to 2019. And this means, when it comes to Mailchimp’s standards, we’re a healthier account than we were a year ago. We have fewer spam reports, more subscribers, fewer unsubscribers, and fewer spam reports with respect to the total number of subscribers on our list in 2020 than we did in 2019.
The conclusion? Mailchimp should think our account is better and less of a risk in 2020 than it was in 2019.
Second, Mailchimp’s policies aren’t very specific when it comes to clear cut reasons as to why an account can be suspended or terminated. They discuss them here, stating obvious reasons like we have to use the service in compliance with applicable laws. This, of course, we’ve done. It’s pretty standard stuff, and we adhere to it as we have done since the opening of our account in 2017.
Specifically, we use the double-opt-in method for confirming subscriptions to the newsletter.
What does that mean?
If you want to subscribe to our newsletter, you place your email in the form to sign up. Then you confirm you want to receive our newsletter by clicking a button that’s sent to the email you used. You would have to have access to the email, meaning you can sign in, and therefore are assumed to be the owner or authorized user.
In short, the double opt-in system is industrywide protection against unwanted emails (spam). (Of course, if you’re email’s been hacked, that’s a different story. But this is the exception not the rule.)
Third, their policy says that if our newsletter is reported for abuse too often then this would be a cause for suspension. Abuse here means people reporting an email as spam.
How did we fair insofar as spam reports?
I pulled the last 7 days of reports from Mailchimp, and we received one abuse complaint on the 16th, 17th, and 19th of August, from three different email addresses.
(One of those addresses is an older woman who has a hard time using technology—I know because she emails me about once a week and I help her troubleshoot problems. The point here is that she probably reported abuse by accident, as she clearly wants to read our newsletter or she wouldn’t contact us asking about problems she’s having accessing our content.)
When it comes to abuse reports, three in a seven day period is hardly a cause for alarm, especially when we send our email newsletter out to over 12,900 people every day.
According to CampaignMonitor.com the industry standard is 0.05%.
Our spam complaint rate limit is 0.5%, which is very high for industry standards. That’s why we start sending you warning emails well before you reach that percentage, and why accounts are automtically suspended when that limit is exceeded.
If we calculate our email campaign reports, assuming we had one spam report per day (which as I just showed we only received three in a seven day period, meaning this calculation is an overestimate), that puts our spam report rate at 0.008%—well below the industry standard rate.
What about comparing numbers from last year?
I went into the report system in Mailchimp and pulled our stats for the same dates last year, August 13th to 20th 2019. We had the same number of abuse reports, three. And all our other stats are proportionally the same.
This suggests the reason for our suspension likely isn’t because of people reporting our newsletters as spam.
Book Internet Censorship: Protecting Citizens or Trampling Freedom?
Fourth, the number of emails being opened is another stat that email service providers (ESPs) use to rank the health of an account. If it’s too low, they can suspend the account.
How did our’s fair?
Our open rate across the 13th to 20th of August 2020 was 17.41%
That might seem kind of low, but for an industry like ours, which is media, publishing, and entertainment, that’s just below average.
CampaignMonitor.com reports that the average is about 18.07% (calculated by adding the seven-day figures and dividing by seven).
In this instance, our open rate is well within the standard limits, suggesting our open rate, and the health of our account likely wasn’t the cause of our suspension.
What could be the cause for the suspension?
Having been in the media publishing business since 2013, I can report that my social media accounts and website, in general, have been subject to what’s called shadow banning.
This is when a service like Google, Facebook, or Twitter secretly restricts the serving of our posts and articles.
For social media, even if you’re following our account, like our Facebook Like Page, you might not see our posts. If you share our posts, other people in your friend/follow list won’t see them.
For search engines like Google, it means even if we have an article with good SEO ranking, Google will restrict the listing so it doesn’t show up in the search results.
In early 2017, 70% of our traffic came from Facebook or Google. But in mid-2017, after our Facebook Like Page was randomly suspended, without notice, the visit rates from Facebook dropped to less than 10% within a week. Google was a bit slower in reduction, dropping to less than 1% since mid-2017’s rates of about 30%.
Book Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
Mailerlite Auto-Restricts Our New Account
Yesterday, on the 21st of August, after receiving the above-notice from Mailchimp of account suspension, I began searching for an alternative.
I found Mailerlite, a similar service that is basically a carbon copy of Mailchimp.
I spent five hours setting it all up, building an RSS-to-email newsletter campaign.
I imported our subscriber contact list. Like Mailchimp, they require us to pay a monthly fee to send a newsletter. I was paying $150 a month with Mailchimp, which went through on the 9th of August, 11 days before we got our account suspended.
I paid Mailerlite the $75 needed to start using the service. But I was told within the campaign setup screens of Mailerlite that the account would need to be reviewed before my email campaign would start.
I sent the account over for review and within less than 15 minutes, I received an email saying our account “didn’t pass [the] test.”
I emailed Mailerlite, asking for specifics.
They didn’t address any of my questions and sent what looks like a canned response.
Without jumping to any conclusions, I took the email at face value and sent the latest campaign report from Mailchimp, which shows that 17.41% of emails sent were opened by our readers.
It’s entirely possible that this response from Mailerlite is completely standard. Or it could be that Stillness in the Storm has been placed on a blacklist, that is hidden from the public but shared amongst ESPs like Mailchimp and Mailerlite.
I haven’t heard back from Mailerlite, but if they refuse to let us use their service, given we comply with the 3% open rate, this suggests we’ve been blacklisted and our information censored.
Update. I did receive word from Mailerlite that we can use their email service now. I hope that they honor this agreement and do not close the account without any notice or warning like Mailchimp did.
Why censored? As we’ll show below, because of what we post—the information itself isn’t something Big Tech or the forces behind them want people to see.
Book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
The Censorship of Alternative Media has Skyrocketed in 2020
QAnon associated censorship and de-platforming, in particular, has been openly revealed.
Here are a few mainstream media articles talking about it.
Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts
Facebook Removes 790 QAnon Groups to Fight Conspiracy Theory
Do we post QAnon?
Yes, we do. We even make merch to help spread awareness and raise a bit of capital to pay costs on the site.
As a matter of fact, we started posting about Q all the way back in October 2017, when Q first started posting on 4Chan.
Here’s another interesting clue. Our Twitter account was suspended on the 13th of August, one amongst thousands of others.
Did Twitter tell us why?
No. Just like with Mailchimp, we received no specific notice, whatsoever, as to the reason why our account was suspended.
The account was the @sitsshow account we’ve had since July 2013, when the Stillness in the Storm project began. We had a backup account @stillnessstorm, which was also suspended. Apparently, twitter reserves the right to suspend accounts that have backups.
OK. Is this fair? No. But if this is their policy, then I can deduce that this was likely their justified reason.
But wait, it gets more interesting.
One of our staff also had her Twitter account suspended a few days later. She would post occasionally about Q but not nearly as much as we did. The interesting part is that all three of these accounts, @sitsshow, @stillnessstorm, and @pinkpearlv369, had the website link https://stillnessinthestorm.com/ in the website account info section of the Twitter profile.
This link of our website being in the profile of all three accounts seems to suggest Twitter suspended any account listing Stillness in the Storm as the website.
Final Thoughts
Add all this up and what do you get? A compelling case that Stillness in the Storm and those who work with us are being targeted for censorship.
As a researcher versed in epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, and the system of critical thought underpinning investigations and law enforcement, I’ll be the first to say this is hardly a watertight case of malicious and outright intentional censorship.
Perhaps I missed something in my review of the data. Perhaps there’s a TOS or policy violation I’m not aware of. But since our use of these platforms hasn’t changed in over 3 years, it seems unlikely.
Theoretically, it seems like a fair bet to say we might have had our Mailchimp account suspended because we post about QAnon. This is prohibited information according to the thought-police. Hence, the overlords likely asked their bridge trolls in Big Tech to censor our accounts.
One last piece of data that might be a clue in QAnon-linked censorship. We posted the following article about Trump’s response to a QAnon question the Thursday before our account got suspended.
Trump “Praises” QAnon, When Asked, Responds “We are saving the world.”
How can you follow us now?
At this point, we no longer have an email service to send our newsletters. We had to start using our old service FeedBurner, which is not capable of importing our total list of email subscribers. That said you can sign up yourself by using the following link.
http://bit.ly/StillnessFBNEWS
As frustrating as this can be I actually think it’s a badge of honor.
After all the research I’ve done over the past 10 years, There’s a reason why censorship of information is important. It’s because when you’re dealing with a deep state and a criminal element within the government they have to keep the truth suppressed or the people will discover what’s really going on.
In a way, our de-platforming suggests that the information we share on Stillness in the Storm is at least in part a threat to the powers that should not be.
I can only hope that whatever efforts are being taken within our government by what has been called an alliance of white hats can one day restore balance and justice to the world.
Until then, keep searching for and spreading the truth.
“You only take flak when you’re over the target.”
– Justin
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Justin Deschamps has been a truth seeker all his life, studying physics, psychology, law, philosophy, and spirituality, and working to weave these seemingly separate bodies of information into a holistic tapestry of ever expanding knowledge. Justin is a student of all and a teacher to some, sharing what he has discovered with those who are ready and willing to take responsibility for making the world a better place. The goal of his work is to help himself and others become better truth-seekers, and in doing so, form a community of holistically minded individuals capable of creating world healing projects for the benefit of all life—what has been called The Great Work. Check out his project Stillness in the Storm to find some of his work. Follow on Twitter @justinstillness, Follow on Parler, Facebook Stillness in the Storm, and minds.com.
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Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
Censorship of information is critically important for the Deep State to maintain their false reality paradigm, which is the foundation of the mind control system used to enslave the individual and society at large. The preceding information reveals one such method the powers that be are using to censor information. Properly understood, one can begin the process of liberating their mind from false conceptions of reality, particularly those incomplete bits of knowledge that if contemplated fully, would activate the truth-seeking urge and result in the development of mental autonomy—critical thinking and discernment skills.
– Justin
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