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YES, SHEDDING IS REAL, What It Does To You & What You Can Do About It

Mar 16, 2026 - Alan Brough

Since 2021 we have seen the circumstantial evidence of shedding, and although we were told it was “impossible” there were just too many cases of mysterious bleeding, rashes, headaches and nausea for it to be ignored. New research and a mass of clinical observations, now make it clear that “shedding” is a real, what it does to you and how you can protect yourself from it...

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YES, SHEDDING IS REAL, What It Does To You & What You Can Do About It

Since early 2021 we have all seen the circumstantial evidence of shedding, and although we were told it was “impossible” there were just too many cases of mysterious bleeding, rashes, headaches and nausea, all after exposure to recently vaccinated people, for it to be ignored.

For years people have been told that it is all in their heads and that they are just being paranoid conspiracy-theorists. Well, when you know that you do have serious physical symptoms the last thing you want to be told is that you’re crazy and/or you’re just making it all up.

While people were being marginalized and silenced over these last five years, so the actual ‘scientific’ evidence of shedding started to accumulate to the point where now it is (grudgingly) accepted as a reality, even though we might not as yet fully understand how or why people are being affected.

Added to this, there is a strong reluctance to talk about the reality of shedding due to how it could cause fear and drive even greater separation within the population.

However, with merging research papers and a mass of clinical observations, there are now clear and replicable patterns emerging which collectively prove “shedding” is a real and predictable phenomenon that can be explained by known mechanisms unique to the mRNA technology.

According to a new substack post that was published last week, (see the link below) the Midwestern Doctor in collaboration with Dr. Pierre Kory state that:

  1. Shedding is very real (e.g., each of the datasets analyzed are congruent with the others), and many of the stories of those affected by it are very sad.
  2. People’s sensitivity to it dramatically varies.
  3. Most of the people who are sensitive to shedding have already figured it out.
  4. Mechanistically, shedding is very difficult to explain. However, now that new evidence has emerged, a much stronger case can be made for the mechanisms

According to the authors of this substack, by far the most common symptom of shedding is unusual and disrupted menstrual bleeding (which is also the most common Covid vaccine injury). This is what first alerted many to the inconceivable possibility that the Covid vaccines could shed.

After this, the most common symptoms are headaches, flu-like illnesses, nosebleeds, fatigue, rashes, tinnitus, sinus or nasal issues, and shingles. Other less frequent symptoms are also repeatedly seen (including palpitations, herpes outbreaks, and hair loss). Additionally, many noticed they could immediately tell when they were in the vicinity of a shedder, typically either due to noticing a unique odour or the immediate onset of symptoms.

Generally speaking, the character of shedding symptoms were quite similar to long COVID and vaccine injuries, but typically were more superficial in nature, suggesting the body was reacting to a harmful external pathogenic factor rather than one already deep inside the body (or a lower dose of the pathogenic factor). More severe issues (e.g., cancers or heart attacks) also occurred, but these were much rarer than what you saw in the vaccine injured population, again suggesting shedding was primarily an external reaction.

Interestingly, most of the (fairly varied) shedding symptoms overlap with the conditions DMSO treats (e.g., strokes), suggesting that DMSO’s key mechanisms of action (e.g., increasing blood flow, eliminating large and small blood clots, being highly anti-inflammatory, and rescuing cells from the cell danger response) are the exact opposite of what shedding does to the body.

This issue of shedders having a specific odour is interesting and the labels used to describe the smell include, “mild sickly sweet,” “rotting [or dying] flesh,” “magnetic onion,” “unpleasant,” “distinctive,” “the smell of death,” all of which suggest the shedding odour could be caused to some extent by spike protein tissue injury in the shedder themselves.

Typically, shedding occurs (e.g., from a live viral vaccine like MMR or polio) because an individual “sheds” a self-replicating form of the disease. This results in a low concentration of the pathogen, which the shedder expels into their environment, and then amplifies within the recipient and eventually reaches a comparable concentration to what was found in the “shedder.”
However, we are told that the mRNA vaccines do not contain self replicating pathogens, so limited options exist for what could spread, none of which make sense. It is for this reason that the medical establishment has so strongly denied any remote possibility of shedding from the Covid-19 vaccines or boosters. Yet, the evidence still seems to confirm it.

At the same time, however, Pfizer’s protocol for testing their vaccine:

  • Prohibited pregnant women or those breast feeding from receiving the vaccine (or future doses if they had already received one).
  • Stated it needed to be reported if a pregnant women (e.g., a healthcare worker in the trials) was exposed to the intervention by inhalation or skin contact from someone who had been vaccinated.
  • Stated it needed to be reported if someone in the previous category (not vaccinated but exposed to someone who was) then was in close proximity to their wife and their wife was pregnant.

This suggested either that Pfizer knew shedding was a real problem, or that they were following the existing FDA standards that stipulates that gene therapies need to be evaluated for shedding before being given to humans. For context, the FDA classifies mRNA vaccines as a gene therapy (but allowed Pfizer and the other manufacturer’s to skip the required genotoxicity testing which would have exposed their future cancer risk).

Now, the question is, how do we protect ourselves from this spike protein contamination?

There are two pieces of good news related to this which are worth mentioning. Firstly, the effects of shedding generally decrease the further one is from vaccination. Since the Covid vaccine program is dying and less and less people are getting boosters, shedding has become less of an issue as time progresses. However, we still need to be vigilant about keeping the level of spike proteins in our bodies as low as possible to avoid the health conditions we are seeing soar in the general vaccinated population.

Then secondly, shedding provides one of the strongest arguments against future mRNA vaccination campaigns (which is why it must be exposed). All other gene therapies are given in limited contexts, and maximum precautions are taken to ensure they are not shed on unintended recipients. We must do everything possible to ensure this same standard applies to mRNA vaccines.

However, even if mRNA vaccines are banned (as many are now calling for) there is still the concern that ‘the genie is out the bottle’ and the spike protein is in the human ‘gene pool’ to our long term detriment,

Now, while this may be the case, In think we can live without fear by just abiding by some simple preventative protocols, much like how people living with HIV/AIDS can now live long and happy lives, by being careful about their lifestyles and sticking to their preventative protocols.

For me personally, I like to focus on the things you can do quite easily from home. These include:

  1. Pine needle tea seems to work very well and my wife, who is extremely sensitive to shedding, finds it gives almost immediate relief. However, you need to be careful about which pine needles you use to brew the tea. The most effective by far is the Canadian Eastern White Pine. It is very common in places like Ontario and Quebec, but hard to find in places like Alberta and Saskatchewan. There you might have to buy it from your local (non ‘big box’) health store. It is also available via mail-order on Etsy, but be sure it really is the Eastern White Pine. If you can get fresh pine needles, chop them into small 1 cm pieces and steep them in boiled water for 30 minutes.
  2. Wearing non-chemical nicotine patches which help block the body’s receptors from absorbing the spike protein. This is discussed at length by Dr. Brian Ardis in his ‘The Antidote’ interview with Jason Shurka which you can watch at: https://rumble.com/embed/ucfsd.v3z39t8/ If you would like my personally recommended non-chemical nicotine patches that are hand-made by a rural First Nations community, send me an email at alan.brough@canadahealthalliance.org with ‘patches’ in the subject line.
  3. Nattokinase, Curcumin and Bromelain are a great combination as together, these enzymes and plant compounds are very effective for spike protein clearance, inflammation relief and for neutralizing or removing the spike protein.
    1. This is a great blog page on these three supplements which you can read at: https://www.traywellness.com/blog/detoxing-from-the-spike-protein
    2. There is a detailed 2024 white paper on Nattokinase particularly that you can read at: https://www.mathewsopenaccess.com/full-text/elimination-neutralization-of-covid-19-vaccine-produced-spike-protein-scoping-review
  4. Other supplements that bind heavy metals and other toxins such as Vital Health’s FortyFlora which contains activated charcoal, magnesium, calcium and lysine.
  5. Fasting, including intermittent fasting, and
  6. Detoxing salt baths, saunas and cold plunges.

Other sources for spike protein detoxing protocols can be found at the following links:

  1. The Independent Medical Alliance (formerly there FLCCC) at: https://imahealth.org/protocol-categories/recovery
  2. The World Council for Health’s Spike Protein detox guide at: https://www.worldcouncilforhealth.org/wchresources/spike-protein-detox-guide
  3. The e-book ‘Calling Out The Shots’ by Dr. Eashwarran Kohilathas which you can download at: https://generationgrounded.xyz/b/fesXR
  4. The e-book ‘mRNA Vaccine Toxicity’ by Doctors for Covid Ethics which you can download at: https://doctors4covidethics.org/mrna-vaccine-toxicity
  5. The white paper by Dr. Peter McCullough titled ‘Clinical Approach to Post-acute Sequelae After COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination’ which you can download at: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10663976
  6. John Catanzaro’s substack post, ‘Advanced Methods for Detecting and Clearing Spike Proteins: Urgent Solutions for Mitigating mRNA Vaccine-Induced Spike Protein Damage’ at: https://johncatanzaro.substack.com/p/advanced-methods-for-detecting-and
  7. https://www.restorativemedcenter.com/blogs/spike-protein-as-a-biotoxin-understanding-the-risk-and-exploring-ways-to-support-your-body
  8. https://drwillcole.com/spike-protein-detox-functional-medicine/

We would also strongly recommend reading the full substack post by the Midwestern Doctor at: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-we-now-know-about-covid-vaccine