The Prion Puzzle:

What Connects Zombie Proteins, COVID-19, and Rapid Dementia?

April 25, 2025

A Message from Dr. McMillan

Working on this presentation and diving deep into prion research has been one of the most challenging tasks I've ever faced. The science is complex, and the potential implications are so serious that, at times, it can feel overwhelming, even hopeless.

This is one of those moments where I genuinely hope the hypothesis is wrong. If proven true, it could signal one of the most severe outcomes for global health we’ve ever encountered.

And yet, there is always hope. Science exists not just to confirm our fears, but to illuminate paths forward, even in the darkest scenarios. We have a responsibility to keep looking, questioning, and exploring, no matter how unsettling, or encouraging, the possibilities may seem.

Only through courage and clarity can we find solutions, and I believe we will.

Dr. Philip McMillan

In this week's April 25, 2025 update:

  • COVID-19: Zombie proteins, COVID-19, and rapid dementia

  • Vejon: This week’s featured Vejon video

  • Research: See a brand new color

  • Infographic: The prion puzzle

  • News: Medical news in brief

  • Education: McMillan root spike detox protocol course

    Read time: 6 minutes

FEATURE ARTICLE

COVID-19

  • Prions are misfolded proteins that corrupt others, leading to rapid, fatal brain diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

  • COVID-19 inflammation or spike protein fragments may accelerate or trigger prion-like misfolding and unusual systemic clotting.

  • Genetic factors, especially PRNP codon 129 variants, influence susceptibility to prion diseases like sporadic CJD.

  • Unusual amyloid-rich clots showing prion-like behavior raise concerns about systemic effects beyond classical neurodegeneration.

Why this is important: Clarifying COVID-19’s potential link to rapid-onset dementia and prion-like clotting could reveal hidden long-term health risks, shape preventive strategies, guide genetic screening, and prompt urgent, targeted research - transforming our understanding and management of complex, systemic illnesses linked to viral proteins.

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RESEARCH

  • Scientists developed a method to perceive a new color, “olo,” outside the normal range of human vision.

  • The Oz technique stimulates only M cones using precise laser bursts, creating a unique blue-green hue unseen before.

  • Participants successfully identified visual scenes using olo, confirming it can integrate into broader visual experiences.

  • The discovery may aid research on color vision and brain perception, offering insights into sensory processing and potential treatments.

Why this is important: Expanding human color perception reveals that our visual experience is not fixed but can be technologically extended, reshaping how we understand sensory limits. This discovery opens new paths for exploring neural plasticity, enhancing visual accessibility, and designing richer visual media - challenging assumptions about the boundaries of human perception.

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EDUCATION

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MEDICAL NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

🚥 White House Revamps COVID Website, Promoting Lab Leak Theory and Criticizing Past Policies: This website revamp officially promotes the lab leak theory, marking a significant political shift. It aims to rewrite the pandemic's history, criticize past leadership and policies, potentially inflame international tensions, and signals deep ideological changes within US health agencies, impacting scientific discourse and public trust.

🚥 Plastic Particles Linked to Stroke Risk Through Artery Plaque Accumulation: Plastic particles embedded in carotid artery plaque may contribute to stroke risk and vascular instability, revealing a possible, previously overlooked environmental factor in cardiovascular disease, and a potential new target for prevention. This challenges assumptions about everyday plastic exposure and calls for deeper investigation into its long-term biological consequences.

🚥 Rethinking CT Scans: Balancing Diagnostic Power with Cancer Risk:
CT scans have transformed diagnostics, yet their expanding use could quietly escalate cancer rates. This finding urges a critical reassessment of when, how, and on whom we scan - balancing life-saving benefits against long-term risks, especially in younger patients, and spotlighting the urgent need for safer imaging alternatives and stricter clinical guidelines.

🚥 How Low Vitamin D Levels May Undermine Children’s Gut and Overall Health: Low vitamin D levels in children - even in sun-rich regions - may silently weaken gut integrity, potentially setting the stage for chronic disease. This finding underscores the nutrient’s vital role beyond bone health, urging proactive dietary and public health strategies to protect children’s long-term wellbeing.

🚥 Belgium’s Euthanasia Trends Reflect Stability, Not Slippery Slope: Belgium’s two-decade record shows rising euthanasia stems from ageing and regulatory uptake, not relaxed criteria. Persistently rare psychiatric cases debunk slippery-slope fears, supplying lawmakers worldwide with a data-driven, transparent template for humane, safe end-of-life legislation.

🚥 Hypertension Drugs May Undermine Key Heart-Protective Enzyme: Unexpectedly, widely used hypertension drugs may undermine a crucial protective enzyme, ACE2, potentially worsening cardiovascular risks. This discovery calls for reevaluating standard treatments and highlights a novel, affordable oral ACE2 therapy - paving the way for safer, more effective approaches to managing blood pressure and related diseases globally. [SOURCE]

BOOK NOOK

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Set within a child’s nose, ‘Humming Heroes’ features a family of Lymphocytes led by a wise Mother, brave Father, determined Brother, and heroic Baby, confronting invading microorganisms. The story takes an imaginative turn, when a humming melody combines with the Lymphocytes’ song to repel the invaders and restore inner harmony.