When an ICU Doc was Banned from Practicing His Effective COVID Protocol, He Began Questioning Everything in Medicine

When Dr. Marik's hospital suspended him for developing a life-saving COVID protocol, he began calling everything in medicine into question, including his own 20-year use of diabetes meds.

May 03, 2023

Happy Tuesday! I love today’s story today because it reminds me that there are still many doctors out there who value patients’ lives above money, prestige, and even their careers. Here is one such medical hero. His story is amazing! Read to the end to find out why he’s now recommending fasting! 😁😁😁

Meet Dr. Paul Marik, the most highly published critical care specialist in the world:

Dr. Paul Marik is best known for developing a widely-used and life-saving sepsis protocol that uses intravenous vitamin C, along with hydrocortisone, and thiamine. Dr. Marik developed this as he practiced “bedside medicine.” He says:

You learn medicine at the bedside. Why? Because that’s where the patient is…That’s where some of the most important discoveries are made.1

By using this protocol, the ICU he worked at was able to reduce sepsis mortality from 40% to 8%.

For a while, Dr. Marik was a hero. But then COVID hit. Dr. Marik’s sense of duty to each patient caused him to develop his own protocol for treating severe COVID since the official recommendations often weren’t saving his patients.

He called his COVID protocol MATH+. He gave his ICU COVID patients:

Methylprednisolone intravenously
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) intravenously
Thiamin (B1)
Full dose low molecular weight Heparin
Plus: optional treatments of zinc, vitamin D, and melatonin

Dr. Marik developed this protocol using the same principles he had used to develop the sepsis protocol: he paid careful attention to each patient, built on previous research, and was willing to give them anything to save their lives. This was always what ICU medicine has been about—doing whatever it takes to save patients’ lives.

The financial incentives to put patients on ventilators were of no interest to Dr. Marik unless he believed the ventilator would help the person. The same thing applied to the financial incentives to use remdesivir.2 He only gave his patients what he believed would save them.

Dr. Marik was eager to share the success of his MATH+ protocol, so he and two other doctors wrote a review paper showing that the COVID ICU mortality in their hospital was at 8.6% when the nationwide hospital mortality was at 20%.

But unlike with sepsis, developing his own COVID protocol landed him in a heap of trouble, despite the protocol’s success.

Dr. Marik and his colleagues had obtained the data from the medical officer of their hospital, Norfolk General. And yet, Sentara Healthcare System complained that the data was fabricated and an inquiry ensued. In the end, the hospital put pressure on the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine where the paper was published to retract the paper, which they finally did.

Dr. Marik says:

That was really the first major attack on me personally, and on the MATH+ protocol and against what we were doing … It was immoral because what we had in the paper was the truth. I think this emphasizes the power that the hospital systems have, and these other forces.

Watching Patients Die

Next, the hospital banned Dr. Marik from using his MATH+ protocol, which had been saving lives, urging him to use remdesivir instead, which he knew to be toxic to many patients.

He says,

The first week I went to work after this ban, I had seven patients with COVID and all seven died because I was basically put in a position that I wasn't able to treat my patients.

Dr. Marik sought legal counsel and decided to sue the hospital so he could keep saving lives by using MATH+. After all, the treatments he was using were all FDA-approved for hospital use. He was saving COVID patients the same way he had always saved his ICU patients for 30 years.

In response to the lawsuit, Dr. Marik received a letter from the hospital accusing him of a host of ridiculous crimes, some of which didn’t even seem believable:

They accused me of seven most outrageous things, including that I was forcing nurses to give patients medications to which they were allergic. Can you imagine something as outrageous as that? I think you would have to be completely moronic to actually think that a doctor could ever do such a thing.

When Dr. Marik showed up at the hospital “trial” to defend himself against the accusations, they changed the focus and accused him of not being a team player:

They didn't focus on the previous terrible crimes that I had [supposedly] committed. Now they basically said that I was a horrible individual. I was promoting an atmosphere of retaliation, distrust. I had angered people. I had annoyed people. I was just an awful human being, which was somewhat surprising to me because I'd never had a patient complaint in my entire clinical career, ever.
I'd never had a complaint from a medical student. I'd never had a complaint from a resident. I had never had a complaint from a nurse. All my evaluations were glowing. Suddenly I was this awful, horrendous human being that was creating distrust in the hospital.

Here’s a video where he gives the details of his lawsuit.

The End of a Successful Career

The hospital suspended Dr. Marik’s practicing privileges.

They reported me to the National Practitioner Data Bank. When you get reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank, your name is there forever, and it makes it almost impossible to get a license again in any state. The hospital essentially ended my career based on fraud, falsification of data, deceit, dishonesty, and unethical behavior.

The Truth about Medicine

This experience of being persecuted for practicing patient-saving medicine opened Dr. Marik’s eyes to the fact that big pharma is at war with repurposed drugs.

This realization caused him to wonder if much of what he had been taught in medical school was wrong since the curriculum and material are controlled by big pharma to maximize profits. Dr. Marik was forced to accept the reality that:

If you challenge the narrative and show that your treatment is actually efficacious, safer, and cheaper than that being promoted by the CDC, the NIH, the federal government, you are an enemy of the state and they were going to do whatever they could to take me down.

Reversing His Own Type 2 Diabetes Through Intermittent Fasting

Dr. Marik previously believed what medical schools teach about diabetes, but his experience with COVID led him to question this diabetes narrative. Was there a simple, nondrug therapy for his own disease, he wondered?

If you believe the narrative, Type 2 diabetes is a progressive metabolic disease that'll result in cardiac complications. You're going to lose your legs. You're going to have kidney disease, and the only treatment is expensive pharma drugs. That is completely false. It's a lie.
What I did was, I started intermittent fasting … I started eating real food, not processed food. I've significantly reduced my intake of carbohydrates. By changing my diet and lifestyle … I'm off my diabetes medicine. My fasting glucose is down to 100 where it used to be 150 or 160. My hemoglobin A1C, probably the best marker of diabetes went from 7.1 to 5.6.
If you're insulin resistant, it prevents leptin and the other hormones acting on your brain, so you're continually hungry. If you are continually hungry, you eat more, which causes more insulin resistance. It causes this vicious cycle of overeating carbohydrates

After more than twenty years as a pharmaceutical-dependent Type 2 diabetic, Dr Paul Marik has reversed his diabetes and other aspects of metabolic syndrome. He’s now off all medications.

Dr. Marik explains in this nine-minute video how he used intermittent fasting to get off all diabetes meds and is in remission.

Founding the FLCCC

In March of 2020, Dr. Marik and other leading critical care specialists founded the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC).

From their website:

The FLCCC Alliance was created by highly published, world-renowned physicians and scholars from around the world with the goal of developing life-saving protocols to prevent and treat COVID-19 at all stages of illness.

One of the protocols the FLCCC recommends to deal with the COVID spike protein from long COVID or from the vaccine is intermittent fasting.

The FLCCC website says here:

Many people ask how to remove spike protein from the body. The FLCCC recommends intermittent fasting as one of the most effective ways to induce autophagy, the process by which the body clears out damaged and misfolded cells. We additionally suggest time-restricted feeding as a lasting lifestyle intervention to promote health, reduce disease burden, slow aging, prevent neurodegenerative disease, prevent cardiovascular disease, and prevent cancer.
Intermittent fasting/time-restricted eating are not synonymous with starvation; people who fast eat nutrient-dense food. Intermittent fasting does not activate starvation metabolic pathways.
For example, when the body is starving, it decreases the basal metabolic rate (BMR) and growth hormone (GH) levels to try to conserve energy and limit growth. Intermittent fasting, on the other hand, increases BMR and GH. This may explain why diets that advocate the traditional approach of ‘eat fewer calories and exercise more’ fail most of the time.

You may enjoy watching the interview with Covid Exposed A Corrupt Medical System, I Can't Unsee It

I hope this story today reminds you to keep pursuing truth wherever it leads you.

Fast on Friends,

Leslie Taylor

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