Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 10 – Covid 6 Years Later

Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 10 – Covid 6 Years Later

Author: Dr. Chris Magryta, "Dr. M" April 28, 2026 Duration: 8:55
Covid 6 Years Later What Should We Remember The COVID Post-Mortem: What We Missed (and What We Still Can Fix) We ran the largest public health experiment of our lifetime. We failed. Not everywhere. Not always. But in the places that mattered most, children, truth, and upstream health, we got it wrong. And if we don’t name it clearly, we’ll do it again. The First Mistake: Forgetting the Child When the world shut down, we told ourselves it was temporary. Two weeks. Flatten the curve. Regroup. Then two months became a season. A season became a year. For some kids, it became a disappearance. Over 230,000 children vanished from the school system across 21 states. Not lost like keys. Lost like opportunity. Lost like trajectory. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: The kids who disappeared were not the kids with options. The well-resourced adapted: Private schools Learning pods Reliable internet Parental support They bent. Some even thrived. The vulnerable? They absorbed the shock. Education lost → structure lost → nutrition lost → safety net lost. and more.... Dr. M

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Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 4 – Relationships [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 12:05
Screenshot Literature Review: A) "Establishment of the gut microbiome during early life is a complex process with lasting implications for an individual’s health. Several factors influence microbial assembly; however, br…
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 2 – School Food [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:32
School Based Nutrition - Why is it happening this way? There is a quiet experiment happening in American childhood, and we should stop pretending it’s benign. In the 1970s and 1980s, when I attended school, school food w…
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 32 – Year in Review: 2025 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:38
The Year in Review - 2025 Articles and Points of Interest: 1) Microplastics in the Brain - From Science Advances: "Human health is being threatened by environmental microplastic (MP) pollution. MPs were detected in the b…