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R.E. Hengsterman



Between Conspiracy and Cure: What RFK Jr. and Healthcare Get Right—and What They Get Wrong
Kennedy channels concerns many Americans quietly share: the feeling that healthcare is too corporate, too impersonal, and too quick to medicate. Behind the noise, he’s identified legitimate systemic flaws.

R.E. Hengsterman


If We Left Biology to Human Choice
What if we could decide which of our body’s systems ran — and when? Imagine an app that lets you toggle survival itself: Heartbeat: Pause when tired. Breathing: Disable during stress. Pain: Mute for convenience. Digestion: Off when busy. Immunity: Optional — too reactive. Cell repair: Defer until later. The human heart beats roughly three billion times in a lifetime. It doesn’t ask permission. It doesn’t wait for belief. It beats because it must — because if it didn’t,

R.E. Hengsterman


Shift Happens—So Do Antibodies: Why Rest Matters Before Your HBV Vaccination
Here’s the short version for the night-shift crowd: a 2024 study of 1,103 manufacturing workers in Korea found that shift workers were more likely to “miss” a protective antibody response after the standard 3-dose hepatitis B vaccine—about 3 times the odds compared with day workers after researchers adjusted for age, sex, vitamin D, smoking, and starting antibody levels (adjusted OR 2.87; 95% CI 1.64–5.05). Non-response was also linked to being older, male, vitamin-D-deficien

R.E. Hengsterman
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