For years, conservatives, independent doctors, and outlets like The Gateway Pundit were smeared as “conspiracy theorists” for warning that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines carried real risks, especially for young men. Big Tech censored. Corporate media mocked. “Fake-checkers” silenced dissent.
Now, five years too late, Stanford University researchers, funded by the National Institutes of Health, have finally published a study confirming what we’ve been saying all along: mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can trigger myocarditis through a specific, identifiable biological mechanism.
In a study published December 10 in Science Translational Medicine, scientists from Stanford Medicine detail how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can cause inflammatory heart damage in some recipients, particularly young men and adolescent males.
The research identifies a two-step immune cascade triggered by the vaccines:
- Macrophages, first-responder immune cells, are activated by the mRNA shots and release high levels of a cytokine called CXCL10.
- This, in turn, stimulates T cells to release IFN-gamma, another inflammatory cytokine.
Together, these two immune signals ignite inflammation that directly injures heart muscle cells, elevates cardiac troponin levels (a clinical marker of heart damage), and leads to myocarditis.
Stanford now confirms:
- Myocarditis can occur within 1–3 days of vaccination
- Elevated cardiac troponin levels confirm real heart muscle injury
- Risk increases after the second dose
- Incidence peaks in males under 30
According to the study:
- About 1 in 140,000 develop myocarditis after the first dose
- About 1 in 32,000 after the second dose
- Among young males, the rate rises to 1 in 16,750
Stanford researchers didn’t stop at data analysis. They:
- Vaccinated young male mice and observed elevated troponin levels
- Found macrophage and neutrophil infiltration into heart tissue
- Replicated the damage using human cardiac spheroids—lab-grown heart-like tissue that beats rhythmically
When exposed to vaccine-stimulated immune signals, the cardiac tissue showed:
- Reduced beating strength
- Impaired heart function
- Elevated markers of cellular stress
Blocking CXCL10 and IFN-gamma dramatically reduced the damage — proving causation, not coincidence.
Despite the findings, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Director Dr. Joseph Wu still dutifully recited the official talking points, insisting the vaccines were “extremely safe” and did a “tremendous job” mitigating COVID.
“Without these vaccines, more people would have gotten sick, more people would have had severe effects and more people would have died,” he said.
But even Wu conceded:
- Severe cases can lead to hospitalization
- Some require ICU care
- Deaths, while rare, do occur
Those are facts that were aggressively downplayed, if not outright denied, while millions were coerced into vaccination under threat of job loss, school exclusion, or social ostracization.
Wu’s team identified genistein, a soy-derived compound with estrogen-like anti-inflammatory properties, as a potential protective agent.
Pre-treating cells and animals with genistein significantly reduced vaccine-induced cardiac damage.
“Nobody ever overdosed on tofu,” Wu said.
More from Stanford Medicine:
Wu and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments closely paralleling those described above, pre-treating cells, cardiac spheres and mice (the latter by oral administration of large quantities) with genistein. Doing this prevented much of the deleterious effects of mRNA vaccines or the CXCL10/IFN-gamma combo to heart cells and tissue.
The genistein Wu and his associates used was purer and more concentrated than the dietary supplement found in health food stores.
“It’s reasonable to believe that the mRNA-vaccine-induced inflammatory response may extend to other organs,” Wu said. “We and others have seen some evidence of this in lung, liver and kidney. It’s possible that genistein may also reverse these changes.”
Elevated inflammatory cytokine signaling could be a class effect of mRNA vaccines. Notably, IFN-gamma signaling is a fundamental defense mechanism against foreign DNA and RNA molecules, including viral nucleic acids, Wu said.
“Your body needs these cytokines to ward off viruses. It’s essential to immune response but can become toxic in large amounts,” he said. IFN-gamma secreted in large amounts, however lofty its purpose, can trigger myocarditis-like symptoms and degradation of structural heart muscle proteins.
That risk probably extends beyond mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines.
“Other vaccines can cause myocarditis and inflammatory problems, but the symptoms tend to be more diffuse,” Wu said. “Plus, mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines’ risks have received intense public scrutiny and media coverage. If you get chest pains from a COVID vaccine you go to the hospital to get checked out, and if the serum troponin is positive, then you get diagnosed with myocarditis. If you get achy muscles or joints from a flu vaccine, you just blow it off.”
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