Steve Kirsch reported on the recent (3 years after the fact) release of V-Safe data by the CDC to the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a consumer-advocate, watchdog outfit that, unlike so many institutions today, actually cares about human health. You can download the V-Safe data from the ICAN website.
This first report will cover a “pet theory” I have, though my critics and detractors will whine and moan about how I am merely engaging in the investigational fallacy of Confirmation Bias — only looking for the evidence that supports your preconceived notions, ignoring other evidence, especially evidence that contradicts it.
Pet Theory
Of the 346,000 or so “free text” reports (person types in personal notes about side effects), 0.82% of them — or almost 1% — included hits for the search string for “metal.” This search was done so as to capture those complaining of a metallic taste after receiving COVID shots.
Two main ways to get the taste of metal in your mouth (besides obvious things like sucking on a copper penny) are to cut zinc bioavailability levels, or to induce EMFs.
While nothing can be confirmed as of yet, there are chelators of zinc that are so powerful that a few micrograms of them, injected into your shoulder, could induce effective zinc deficiency — which can cause chemosensory disorders like loss of taste, or the experience of metallic taste.
If the weight of a COVID shot is about 50 milligrams (50,000 micrograms), then it’d be easy for unscrupulous characters to “slip-in” a few micrograms of a strong zinc chelator such as “TPEN” — inducing metallic taste in some people, while leading to loss of taste in others. Low availability of zinc would also explain immunodepression.
Another possibility, not yet completely explored, is the introduction of magnetic-sensitive materials such as graphene oxide, or of metals like iron or nickel in a form allowing high transport in the body. Once a body becomes hypersensitized to electromagnetic fields (EMFs), metallic taste is common.
When people moved their heads around during an MRI, half of them got metallic taste in their mouths. Hyper-sensitivity to EMFs would also explain weird phenomena such as happy hypoxia.
That’s two explanations put forward to explain the fact that nearly 1% of those accepting COVID shots ultimately complain of metallic taste in their mouth, though the evidence base is too scarce to confirm either of them. There may be other explanations which are as capable of explaining it, but we’ll see.
Reference
[zinc is a component of the protein, gustin, involved in taste transduction] — Risso D, Drayna D, Morini G. Alteration, Reduction and Taste Loss: Main Causes and Potential Implications on Dietary Habits. Nutrients. 2020 Oct 27;12(11):3284. doi: 10.3390/nu12113284. PMID: 33120898; PMCID: PMC7693910. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7693910/
[moving your head during an MRI causes metallic taste in half the subjects] — Cavin ID, Glover PM, Bowtell RW, Gowland PA. Thresholds for perceiving metallic taste at high magnetic field. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2007 Nov;26(5):1357-61. doi: 10.1002/jmri.21153. PMID: 17969179. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17969179/
[zinc chelators can be potent] — Cho YE, Lomeda RA, Ryu SH, Lee JH, Beattie JH, Kwun IS. Cellular Zn depletion by metal ion chelators (TPEN, DTPA and chelex resin) and its application to osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 cells. Nutr Res Pract. 2007 Spring;1(1):29-35. doi: 10.4162/nrp.2007.1.1.29. Epub 2007 Mar 31. PMID: 20535382; PMCID: PMC2882573. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2882573/
[electricity creates metallic taste] — Lawless HT, Stevens DA, Chapman KW, Kurtz A. Metallic taste from electrical and chemical stimulation. Chem Senses. 2005 Mar;30(3):185-94. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bji014. Epub 2005 Mar 1. PMID: 15741603; PMCID: PMC1307523. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1307523/