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Kuno: Cryotherapy enables rheumatoid arthritis patients to stop immunosuppressive drugs
“So we have people as an example with rheumatoid arthritis, and many of them were on immunosuppressive agents. You've heard about Humira and all these advertised, right? They bring your immune system down to manage the overreaction that causes this joint proble…”
Assertion Partly supported
Kuno: Umbilical cord stem cells recognize cancer cells and trigger apoptosis
“Umbilical cord stem cells are from newborns, from healthy c-section births. It's the birth tissue that usually gets discarded. Now, these cells don't have a fingerprint. They become your own cells to some extent, but they also recognize cancer cells, and they …”
Assertion Supported
Dr. Jonas Kuno: Low-dose naltrexone improves cancer outcomes by reducing inflammation
“One of the latest things in cancer research, which was interesting, there is a Microinflammatory environment that cancer cells need to thrive. They don't need oxygen. They like a low oxygen environment and they like an inflammatory environment. And so they're …”
Assertion Supported
Dr. Kuno: Preclinical Studies Show Ivermectin Triggers Cancer Cell Apoptosis
“There's a combination of what is it? Mabendazole and ivermectin, for example. Couldn't say that word like three years ago, you know, but again, this was something that predates COVID. It's been studied to treat cancer. Has some good mechanism where triggers ap…”
Disclosure
Kuno Refuses to Prescribe GLP-1 Drugs Citing Long-Term Unknowns
“So we do use medications. I don't use GLP-I's. I mean, I'm a bit again, there's still some unknowns and long-term issues that I have with them, but we use traditional weight loss medications.”
Assertion Partly supported
Dr. Kuno: Cancer Cells Rely on Fermentation Due to Mitochondrial Dysfunction
“And when you look at cancer cells, they have malfunctioning mitochondria. The mitochondria can't do this elaborate Citric acid cycle where they take sugar and makes 36 ATP per molecule. They can only ferment. It's a very primitive way of energy production, two…”
Assertion Contradicted
Kuno: Americans Over 70 Take an Average of 20 Medications
“Interestingly in the U S here, when you're over the age of 70, you have about 20 medications.”
Assertion Partly supported
Dr. Jonas Kuno: Cryotherapy Effectively Treats Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders
“Anti-inflammatory treatments, essentially for not just for athletes, but also for the general population for all sorts of things originally for rheumatoid arthritis. That's what it was developed for. Sports injuries, certainly, and any inflammatory disorder, a…”
Insight
Dr. Jonas Kuno: PSA Is an Imprecise Marker, Not Definitive Cancer Diagnosis
“The PSA, the prostate-specific antigen is a very crude marker. It doesn't tell you if you have cancer or not. It's, it says the likelihood is higher if we cross that four four point or mark, right? But you know, again, even benign prosthetic hypertrophy, you w…”
Assertion Supported
Kuno: Most Raw Dietary Supplement Ingredients Come From China
“Much of it comes from China.”
Assertion Partly supported
Kuno: 95% of human melatonin is produced in mitochondria
“95% of melatonin is made in our mitochondria, and it's an anti-inflammatory.”
Assertion Supported
Dr. Jonas Kuno: Finasteride Blocks DHT to Reduce Hair Loss and Prostate Growth
“Finasteride is something that can, Prevent the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, DHT. And DHT is, one, it's bad for the half follicle, but can also cause prosthetic growth.”
Assertion Supported
Kuno: About 54% of sunlight is near-infrared radiation
“54% of sunlight is near infrared radiation.”