Floriano Marchetti MD

04/20/2025

None of the diseases we vaccinate against are innocuous. They are all serious diseases that can cause permanent damage and death.

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Every time I hear anti-vaxxers say that the diseases we vaccinate against are "innocuous" I want to scream. Each year in the US more than 40,000 people are diagnosed with an -caused cancer. And every year thousands of these people die. Parents: please vaccinate against HPV!

03/27/2025

03/26/2025

Io mi stavo facendo i fatti miei
Poi, tutto d’un tratto, il 1975 era 50 anni fa.

02/19/2025

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‼️An important reminder that while vitamin A can play a supportive role in treating measles, it is absolutely not a substitute for vaccination. This distinction is critical, as some have dangerously misinterpreted studies about vitamin A's benefits during measles infection. When properly dosed in infected patients, vitamin A treatment can help reduce the severity of complications and improve survival rates - but this only comes into play after someone has already contracted this highly contagious virus.

What makes the MMR vaccine so remarkable is that it prevents infection in the first place, with over 97% effectiveness. Think of it this way - would you rather have protection against getting measles at all, or risk contracting a dangerous disease that could require hospitalization and then hope treatment helps reduce complications? In the United States, about 1 in 5 people who get measles will require hospitalization. Measles can lead to serious complications including pneumonia, encephalitis (brain swelling), and in some cases, death. The math is simple: preventing measles through vaccination is far safer than relying on treatments after infection occurs.

Sources:
https://www.nfid.org/what-you-should-know-about-measles-and-vitamin-a/
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/39/suppl_1/i48/699532
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7076287/

01/04/2025

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I've seen epiglottitis (from Hib) once. Once too many. I've seen a toddler die of meningitis. One too many. I've seen a child die of influenza - again, one too many. I've seen tetanus in a child who was ventilated in intensive care; one too many. I've seen a young woman die of diphtheria - her parents never vaccinated her. This should never have happened. I've never, ever seen anybody permanently injured by a vaccine and I don't know of anyone, doctors or not, who have.

MH. Medical doctor. Father of 4 healthy vaccinated children.

04/16/2023

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The scientific and medical communities are pretty unequivocal: dietary fiber is essential for optimal health.

Dietary fiber is a catch-all term for indigestible carbohydrates and other polymers found in plant-based foods. Fiber is broadly classified into soluble and insoluble: this relates to whether the substance dissolves in water. Fiber can be characterized further based on additional properties of the molecules in question. These include the ability of the substance to adsorb other compounds (such as lipids), bulking capacity, ability to encapsulate other molecules to transport to the lower GI tract, and the fermentability to be used as a food source for gut microorganisms.

Important fiber molecules include things like cellulose and lignin (insoluble) as well as pectins, mucilages, beta-glucans (soluble), and others.

Fiber plays many roles in our health and physiology including proper digestion and extraction of nutrients, gastric distention and sensation of fullness, facilitating healthy stool formation and bowel movements, regulating blood cholesterol levels, moderating glycemic responses to food, and serving as a nutrient source for the trillions of microorganisms that live in our gastrointestinal tract.

Indeed, inadequate intake of fiber is associated with a variety of health issues including diverticulosis and diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, constipation, but also cardiovascular issues, pancreatitis, and more.

Most Americans don’t consume enough dietary fiber. Common sources of fiber include a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, and nuts/seeds. Ideally, one should be attempting to increase daily fiber intake through food sources, as they typically contain multiple types of fiber that all play important roles in our health.

Fiber supplements can augment fiber intake, but since they typically contain only one type of fiber, they don’t offer as great a benefit as dietary sources. Some fiber is better than no fiber, but not all fiber supplements are equal, and many new ones on the market make unsubstantiated claims beyond the role of fiber.

Tune into this week’s episode: “we love gut health with every fiber of our bean” for more on this topic!

This week's episode: https://youtu.be/J2RgbwU-5yE

Additional resources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614039/pdf/13197_2011_Article_365.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6537190/pdf/40104_2019_Article_350.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41110-018-0061-6
https://www.poison.org/articles/internal-shower
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415962/
https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(22)00166-4 #%20
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/04/fiber-supplements.html
https://today.duke.edu/2022/07/it-doesn%E2%80%99t-matter-much-which-fiber-you-choose-%E2%80%93-just-get-more-fiber
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35902900/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35871250/
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0002-9165(23)03614-6

05/07/2022

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04/08/2022

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11/08/2021

The overall level of community transmission of COVID-19 in the United States remains high. The current 7-day average of daily new cases is 70,431, a 1.4% decrease from the previous 7-day period. COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at helping prevent COVID-19, especially severe illness, hospitalization, and death.

If you aren’t vaccinated:

✅ Get vaccinated.
😷 Wear a mask over your nose & mouth.
↔ Stay at least 6 feet from others.
🚫 Avoid crowds & poorly ventilated spaces.
🖐 Wash your hands often.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/2Hw1EZZ

11/05/2021

Pfizer’s pill, which will be sold under the brand name Paxlovid, cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89 percent when given within three days after the start of symptoms.

Questa pillola, prodotta dalla Pfizer che verra commerializzzata con il nome Paxlovid, se data entro tre giorni dall’inizio dei sintomi, riduce il rischio di ospedalizzazione o di morte dell’89%.

Pfizer’s is the second pill to show effectiveness against Covid-19, and it is the first purpose-built to attack the virus that causes the disease.