"It stole the platelets and plasma straight out of my veins."
In his latest YouTube instalment, Nathan Florence, middle brother of the Florence all-boy triumvirate, has detailed his battle with an untreatable tropical disease that, while not often deadly, can leave its victim emaciated and weak for months afterwards.
After a dozen minutes surfing twelve-to-fifteen-foot South Pacific barrels in water so blue “there’s no depth perception” with fellow big-wavers Aaron Gold and Kohl Christensen, Nathan Florence talks of his subsequent battle with the mosquito-borne disease Dengue Fever
Crucially, Nathan Florence is filmed heading to ports unknown, likely Panama or Mexico, to buy plasma and platelets “that Dengue Fever stole from me. Stole it right out of my veins.”
Nathan Florence added, “I am extremely weak so need to recover but swells are building everywhere and Hurricane Erin has got me itching.
As a US medico warned last year in the New York Times,
Despite my training in medicine, I was blindsided. Dengue, a mosquito-borne illness, is surging through Latin America and the Caribbean, including in Puerto Rico, where a public health emergency was declared last week. This year is likely to be the worst on record, in part because of El Niño-driven temperature spikes and extreme weather linked to climate change. As temperatures rise and precipitation patterns grow more erratic, the problem will get only worse.
There is no specific antiviral treatment for Dengue Fever, of course, treatment is about managing symptoms, easing the pain and preventing complications
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Gotta pay to play as they say.
Where’s the bone broth Ke11y?
Maybe try ivermectin?
Dengue increase “linked to climate change”. Bet that irony was lost on old Nate. Guy must have the same carbon footprint as a small nation.
This!
He was doomed before he left the house
Ah yes, buying plasma and platelets from Mexico, standard, well-adjusted strategy.
Or Panama, let’s be fair.
ask Shane Dorian’s friend about it.
We can’t – he’s dead.
Just don’t go to a hotel room in Texas to wait it out.
PS methadone doesn’t cure dengue fever.
Damn son, vicious burn
If only there was a vaccine.
I would take four times!
Only available in 1st world medical systems, it seems.
I recon the brothers florence are first world.
One would think so, but here we are.
http://Theuniversalantidote.com
The universal antidote is beer!
Easy, chlorine dioxide 1000%
Immediate Steps to take on suspected Dengue. There are four strains of this mosquito born virus, after each one we believe you develop immunity to that strain. The evidence is not clear. However, there are signs there may be a fifth strain evolving and there is always chikungunya.
If you run a sudden fever, suspect Dengue. If the fever comes with headaches and aching joints, possibly skin rash and vomiting, it is for sure. Don’t bother with a doctor or hospital or a medical checkup – they can make a guess as to what you have from a controversial test and it really doesn’t matter. You are sick and speed is of the essence.
I should point out that standard medicine for some reason has no cure for Dengue, despite the effects of papaya leaf being well known to them, they haven’t applied it to Dengue. However, if the level of platelets (thrombocytes) drops very low, there is a real danger of shock requiring instant transfusions and treatment, so due to this risk doctors keep Dengue patients in hospital and observed for ten days, at a cost of up to $1000 per night… Of course if you take the papaya leaf this doesn’t happen…
When Dengue virus attacks you, the first thing it does is make your blood capillaries porous, in other words your blood leaks into your body where it isn’t supposed to be. This is what causes those aches and pains. Your body is so busy trying to seal all the holes and replace the missing cells, that it doesn’t have time to fight the Dengue which goes on its merry way having fun replicating in your body. Party time for Dengue virus…. Your body then runs out of platelets and white blood cells, not to mention red blood cells and plasma which is where real danger comes into play.
So the first thing we must do is seal your capillaries. Unfortunately, when the blood leaks into your brain, it makes you stupid… and you forget what to do. You need a friend who will make you drink/eat papaya leaf on time as it tastes horrible and you don’t want it…
Immediate action.
Go to a papaya tree – you should ask permission but won’t be a problem. Take ONE of the largest and oldest leaves near the bottom, choose a clean one. Do NOT take a young one from the top. These may have more juice, but are not so powerful and it is damaging to the tree. Take it home and wash the leaf thoroughly under the tap. Remove any discoloured parts. Remove the leaf stem – you can cut this into natural straws. Rinse the washed leaf in drinking water. Break it into smaller parts and place in the blender. And a small amount of drinking water, perhaps 100ml, and start the blender. You will probably have to help the leaves spin a bit, but only add more water if you have to. Less bulk makes it stronger. It takes just a few moments to get a pulp when the leaf has disappeared. One leaf makes 3-4 doses, perhaps more if especially large.
Eat a heaped table spoon of pulp – back of the throat, easier to swallow as the taste is vile. Pain relief is very fast. Every hour, eat another spoonful. Repeat six times for six hours , get another leaf if you need it. Do it for several days until you feel a recovery is on the way .
The papaya works by fueling your platelet production, allowing your body to make enough platelets to seal the capillaries and stop the blood loss. Your body is then able to fight the dengue and put a stop to the party. It may have other properties, still under investigation. You may take other herbs to help your body, such as sambiloto, but once the capillaries are sealed by your platelets, the Dengue will be gone in at most two days.
However, we notice that for another week or so, exercise is really painful. We conject that this is because the capillaries are not fully repaired, and the exercise strains and bursts them again. We suggest you take care for another two weeks not to exercise stringently.
Rex Sumner, Ubud, Bali, Feb 2017
You should hit RFK up for a gig, he’d love this “cure”.
Rex sounds like an interesting and intelligent guy;
“Rex is English, but was born in Java, Indonesia and has spent many years in the Far East. He speaks Indonesian and Malay, with a smattering of other languages.
He has had an interesting life – as a youngster worked his passage on a container ship to Australia where he worked as a cowboy, gold-miner, door-to-door salesman and fruit-picker, before switching from Zoology to the Army to study at Sandhurst.
He saw active service in Northern Ireland and was Logistics Officer for Operation Drake in Indonesia. A country manager for an international tobacco trader at 25, he spent two years during the Cold War with MI6 before returning to the UK where he and his wife raised his two sons while working in marketing and publishing, with forays into NLP and personal development. Now they are adult, he and his wife have moved back to the Far East where he lives in Bali, travels, writes and researches.
He has always had a passion for writing and this was rekindled by telling stories he made up on the spot to his sons.
His hobbies are angling, orchids, reading and reptiles; he represents Bali Reptile Rescue in Ubud, removing snakes from houses free of charge.
His wide experience and knowledge are interwoven into the tapestry of his writing.
If you have any questions for Rex, please feel free to use his Facebook Author page.”
but I’d not avoid going to a Doctor on his 2017 advice if I had or thought I had Dengue.
“speaks Indonesian and Malay” – same same but different.
Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu: The standard versions of both languages are almost the same so it doesn’t matter which one you learn. If you learn Malay you can understand both –
ya, betul
I didn’t read but long so probably good!
Eat papaya leaves.
Saw them live at a big street fair years ago not even knowing who tf they were. So good,
He could ask Kelly Slater, as Ke11y claims to know “more about staying healthy than 99% of doctors”, despite having no formal education or medical knowledge.
Dengue rampant is Samoa atm.
Not far to Raro where he was
Without watching the clip I’m guessing they were surfing the left in front of the Rarotongan.
Socials I think they call it, looks heavy even when small, at this size it’s pretty psycho even though the vid doesn’t really show it.
Lots of Kina on the reef at socials and no channel
That’s a bummer, Samoa’s doesn’t have a lot of health infrastructure
Pay to play.
Seems to have recovered pretty quick per his Insta.
Foreign platelets worked!
When it hits the US it’ll be real fun. If only there was some sort of government-funded body that paid close attention to such things. Maybe having like… whachamacalit…?
Science -based medical reseach or some such buffonery?
It could be called; Centre for Disease Control.
Nah, that would be crazy huh?
Oh well.
rfk will rub some dewormer and crystals on it.
Sunlight and Vitamin A…
Gargling bleach always works though one side effect is an orange tinted skin.
Thankfully, in his 1st term President Trump followed the science (Fauci/Burkes/CDC) guidance, and shut down the country, and pushed an untested vaccine that the Scientists (faucial/ Burkes and CDC) said if you took it you would not get Covid, and you could not transmit Covid, and would prevent Covid deaths,while actual doctors were administering therapeutics and saving lives. Therapeutics that the “scientists” shot down and the media criticized and the scientist(s) made unavailable if you wanted to keep your medical license, launching a massive campaign against therapeutics in support of vaccines.
Then……more people died from Covid under Biden and the population began to realize that That had been completely bullshitted by “science” and that many people died who could have been saved by therapeutics.
Many thanks to Fauci (science)~ Pfizer, J&J, Moderna Inc.
yeah more people died under Biden as his term was longer than Trumps..I know ya hate this but here;s some facts /Stats that don’t support your science vs theraputics…
2020 Jan 20 > 2021 Jan 21 under trump…455K dead
2021 Jan 20 > 2024 Jan 21,under Biden…..746K dead
So 1 year for trump 455K …4 years under Biden 764K….ah 1 year vs 4 years…..so under trump a lot more people died…
any proof on your therapeutics claim?
October 28th 2020- “I’m, not going to shut down the economy, I’m not going to shut down the country, but I am going to shut down the virus.” – Joe Biden
October 24th 2020-‘”I’ll Shut Down the Virus, Not the Country” – Joe Biden
April 4th 2023- The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. The White House issued a one-line statement Monday saying Biden had signed the measure behind closed doors, after having publicly opposed the resolution though not to the point of issuing a veto. ~NPR.
April 5th 2023 – “NOOOOOOO- My girlfriend loves when I wear the mask” ~ Sam George
August 31st, 2025 – “TRUMP BAD!!! TACO! TACO!! TACO!!!” ~ Brutus
reality: Over 900,000 covid deaths under Biden…..but, but, but Joe promised if we take the vaccine we will not get covid……and we can’t spread covid, and it will stop the deaths from Covid. It’s science!
and for the majority it worked…and a small minority it seems there were complications……but 2 times more people died under DT…..and yeah DT bad bad…TACO, is now being experienced by the whole world….he’s chickened out on imposing tariffs, now the courts say tariffs are illegal so the US govt will have to pay back tariffs collected…….then there’s DT and Russia’s war with Ukraine…he chickened out again……and DT promised and has burnt everyone except a small handful of very rich associates who got richer……so TACO is alive and not so well,LOL
really……he’s not well? oh no…..really?
you manifest the Presidents demise as well as griffin manifested a world title. you thought you had it, right up to the last minute…..when …all of a sudden…….the president comes out laughing, working, doing press conferences….playing a weekend of golf…. and makes fools out of all of you.
Bold to build a point on failed political promises while supporting trump. They all lie — fact — but the orange guy (looking a little pale lately) is just better at finger pointing when things go wrong.
Boldness is what created America.
whoa, wait…..what?
The President is pale, he’s not healthy….he’s what, h’es gonna resign……what, he’s dying? oh no.
you guys will believe anything, as long the person selling it is speaking into a phallus shaped object, you guys slurp it up.
Those stats are retarded
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