Dear RFK Jr.,

We share a mission.

I told you this once before when we met at your rally, the day you historically made the Texas ballot. I approached you excitedly and nervously, knowing that the weight of thousands of lives hinged on my ability to concisely communicate an immeasurable problem to you within 20 seconds.

I know you are all too familiar with this feeling, given the number of times you’ve stood up for life-altering issues with limited time to speak.

You graciously gave me a minute of your time, hugged me, and connected me with the contact who shared this website with you.

Here are my two letters to you:

First letter - 05/2024

The problem statement, CDC statement, & author introduction

Second letter - 12/2024

Post-election congratulations, scientific evidence of harm, & goals

May 13, 2024

Dear RFK Jr., Children’s Health Defense, & campaign team,

Since you get thousands of letters, allow me to get to the point as quickly as possible out of respect for your time.

The Problem Statement

Each year, millions of Americans are injected with a toxic heavy metal, gadolinium, during contrast-enhanced MRIs. The majority of individuals are told that this contrast dye is completely safe and that there are no risks associated with receiving an MRI. However, this dye is responsible for thousands of cases of disability and death, some of which are immediate or within the days following their scan. FAERS reports ~25,000 individuals disabled or dead across various contrast dye brands. This number is a gross underestimate considering:

most individuals never learn that they were injected with a toxic lanthanide
most individuals are never tested for gadolinium because standard heavy metals tests exclude it and the tests that include it are performed only under special request
gadolinium does not exist unbound, so it leaves the bloodstream quickly in favor of binding to bone, organs, and tissues, where it hides and can be found decades later only upon autopsy performed with special requests.

Every day, Americans walk into imaging centers across the USA to receive MRIs to try to learn more about their health. A portion of those individuals will leave in a body bag, in a wheelchair, will develop 40+ new horrific symptoms, or will spend the rest of their life in and out of bed, ERs, and doctors offices, struggling to care for their children and trying to understand why their health took such a sharp decline.

I know this because it happened to me when I was only 23 years old. The MRI I received was my first and only MRI, and it was performed for tingling in my hands and feet due to an allergic reaction. Within hours of injection, I experienced convulsions, acute cerebral ischemia, and difficulty speaking. I went on to develop over fifty symptoms within the hours, weeks, and years following the gadolinium injection. After being bedbound for two years, unable to walk more than a minute at a time, I received life saving chelation therapy. I am still sick, but I do the best that I possibly can as a disabled young person.

Others have received gadolinium-enhanced MRIs for far less, and some of those individuals are no longer with us today. Two such examples come to mind.

There was a little boy named Jose Figueroa. He had a rice sized tumor in his brain. He was injected with gadolinium ten times within the span of two years, due to the doctors’ desire to monitor his unchanging tumor. Once his parents concluded that his very rapid health decline was not due to his tumor, but rather due to gadolinium, they requested that his hopsital no longer administer gadolinium contrast dye to their son. The hospital rejected this request because the physicians did not believe the risks associated with gadolinium. As a result of this, they scanned Jose with gadolinium once more, and Jose’s heart stopped in his last and final MRI. He came out of the machine with visible burns, burnt teeth, and the smell of burnt flesh. Jose passed away shortly thereafter. His autopsy reports that the cause of his death was not his small, rice sized tumor. They also found gadolinium in nearly every organ that was biopsied. The enormous tragedy is unspeakable. Scanned to death. Did anyone in the medical establishment learn anything?? The interface of humans and technology and bio-active chemicals requires truth.

Another story is that of Doctor Jason V[redacted]. Jason was a well respected, loved, award-winning family physician. He was a father of two beautiful daughters. He was also a triathlete and the picture of health. I spoke with Jason numerous times. The only reason he received his gadolinium enhanced MRI was headaches. He deeply regretted his decision to get a gadolinium-enhanced MRI, as he wasn’t aware of the risks, himself, when it was ordered. After he was injected with gadolinium, he couldn’t live alone, struggled with cognitive functions, lost the ability to take care of his girls, and felt that he lost everything. Jason’s body was found a few weeks later. His daughters lost their father.

Millions of unknowing Americans do not deserve to be injected with a toxic lanthanide that permanently embeds into their brains, tissues, and organs. I didn’t deserve it, and neither did they.

CDC Statement

The following is a statement that was recently made by the CDC regarding the necessity for a gadolinium toxicity diagnostic code,

“Gadolinium toxicity has the potential to cause disease in humans, and even in small amounts may be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Gadolinium toxicity can affect many body systems, including the musculoskeletal, brain, skin, renal, and neurologic systems.

This toxicity can manifest itself in various symptoms and effects on the body including but not limited to central nervous system symptoms, including impairment of cognition, memory, impairment of sight, painful tinnitus, and pseudoangioedema. Additional manifestations can include impairment of voice and pharyngeal swallowing mechanisms, cardiac arrhythmias, changes in blood pressure, and impaired function of the gastrointestinal tract and urinary system. Symptoms can be mild in some patients, while others develop severe life-threatening illness similar to cytokine response.”

RFK Jr. and/or Children’s Health Defense,

Your tireless dedication to safeguarding public health and advocating for those who have been harmed by toxic exposures makes you and your team the perfect allies in addressing the urgent problem of gadolinium deposition and toxicity resulting from contrast-enhanced MRIs.

I, myself, am a recent college graduate who has collaborated with researchers, physicians, and nonprofits in the heavy metal toxicity space. In 2022, I won a research scholarship at the University of [redacted for privacy] for research in the field of heavy metal chelation. I am an innovation researcher and problem solver. I have ideas of ways to improve public health, especially in terms of preventable disease and in advocating for safer medical practices. I would love the opportunity to talk more about protecting our communities and potentially joining forces on future projects aimed at addressing heavy metal toxicity and public health.

If any of this is of interest to you and you would like to work with a hardworking, respectful and motivated person, hungry to make a difference, please reach out to me.

Thank you for all that you do.

Respectfully submitted,

Kate Bonds

December 12, 2024

Dear RFK Jr.,

Congratulations on your nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

You are about to become one of the most popular figures on earth, if you haven’t already. You are igniting a global conversation, and your actions will go down in history. Only those who have gone up against the same corporate and legislative odds understand the trenches you dug through to get to this moment.

To be pro health is to be pro human, and humanity will thank you. I thank you. My community of thousands harmed from the toxic effects of gadolinium-based contrast agents thanks you for the time and the grace you have already shown us, simply by allowing us to give Debbie Mize this letter.

You and I, as Americans with the same mission: MAHA, are well aware that there are numerous drugs currently on the market that share one striking commonality: the ability to disable or kill an individual with one single dose.

If you take anything away from this letter, please let it be that all gadolinium-based contrast agents, known as GBCAs, fall into this category. Pharmaceutical companies try to convince the American public otherwise, and they have gotten away with doing so for decades under a water-tight marketing campaign. However, it is slowly unraveling as the science has caught up with what we all intuitively know: rare earth heavy metals, particularly lanthanides, do not belong in the human body. This is especially true of gadolinium, which embeds in the tissues and organs of every individual who receives it (Wagner, et al., 2023; Rogosnitzky, et al., 2016, Kobayashi, et al., 2021).

The resources linked on this site will expose the iatrogenic harm from gadolinium contrast agents. However, in less time than that, I can prove to you that:

the evidence of harm from gadolinium

has been hidden in plain sight.

You may recognize the individuals in the clip below. In this 2021 segment of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Steph de Garay details all that her daughter tragically endured after being in the mRNA clinical trials. At the forty second mark, Steph says something cryptic, a line that might sound like an afterthought to most. However, to those awakened to the dangers of gadolinium, it unveils a darker truth about MRI contrast dye:

“She also couldn’t walk at one point, then she could, and now after an MRI with contrast, it affected her in some way, and I don’t understand why. They’re not looking into why, and now she’s back in a wheelchair, and she can’t hold her neck up. Her neck pulls back.” - Steph de Garay, Tucker Carlson Tonight

When a person is injected with MRI contrast, gadolinium deposits in the brain (Kobayashi, et al., 2021) and damages the central nervous system (Alkhunizi, et al.; Yao, et al.). As a result of this, people mistake their symptoms as being a part of their original injury, when in reality, it is a secondary injury that never gets discovered. People do not identify as gadolinium-injured because it is often not their first neurological or immunological insult. However, in many cases, it may be the reason why they never recover.

Let’s take a look at another example of this phenomenon. Multiple sclerosis patients are told they need GBCAs to monitor brain lesions. However, gadolinium causes brain lesions in addition to acute neurotoxic symptoms, including stereotyped movements and myoclonus, as well as long-term issues like ataxia and tremor (Ray, et al., 1996).

The pattern plays out numerous times over:

Gadolinium is administered to patients with cancer while simultaneously promoting multiple myeloma cell growth (Fulcinti, et al., 2009).
Gadolinium is used for nerve imaging while being linked to small fiber neuropathy (Radbruch, et al., 2020; Williams, 2014).
Gadolinium is injected for the exploration of headaches, even though headaches are the most common side effect in all GBCAs—affecting up to 9.4% of patients intravenously and 28% of patients injected intrathecally (FDA, page 4; Edeklev, et al., 2019). For some, these headaches persist for years (Semelka 2018; Williams, et al., 2014).
GBCAs enhance imaging of the head, eyes, and ears, but gadolinium deposits in these tissues, accumulating and impairing vision and hearing in up to 70% of gadolinium toxicity patients (Jost et al., 2017; Williams & Grimm, 2014).

**But how does gadolinium cause harm?**

When gadolinium-based contrast agents are manufactured, gadolinium is bound by a molecular cage called a chelator or ligand. The presence of this ligand is the sole reason gadolinium-based contrast agents are not classified as direct poisoning. Gadolinium, a rare earth heavy metal, is more toxic than lead in its ionic form and possesses magnetic properties that have never made contact with human organs or physiology in all of human history, until MRI contrast.

Research has demonstrated that gadolinium can dechelate, or dissociate from its ligand, freeing highly toxic gadolinium ions in the body.
Citations: Rogosnitzky, et al., 2016; Wagner, et al., 2024.
When MRI contrast agents dechelate in the presence of endogenous compounds, it leads to the formation of gadolinium-rich nanoparticles. These metal precipitates form within seconds to minutes of exposure to biological compounds and take on a jagged, spiked structure. They are found in various tissues and may contribute to systemic fibrosis, nephrotoxicity, and other organ damage.
Citations: Wagner, et al., 2024, DeAguero et al., 2023.
Gadolinium deposition induces structural damage in affected tissues, including mitochondrial toxicity, vacuolation, and fibrosis. Mitochondria exhibit swelling, disrupted cristae, and reduced density in renal and other tissues. Electron-dense precipitates are often located in or around lipid vesicles, cytoplasmic vacuoles, and mitochondria, contributing to organ and systemic dysfunction.
Citations: Wagner et al., 2024, DeAguero et al., 2023, Yao et al., 2024.
Gadolinium disrupts inflammatory pathways, transchelates with glycosaminoglycans, and affects macrophage activity, potentially triggering processes like nephrogenic systemic fibrosis and pro-inflammatory cytokine production.
Citations: Taupitz et al., 2013; Weng et al., 2018; Do et al., 2019; Maecker et al., 2020.
Studies confirm that gadolinium crosses the blood-CSF barrier shortly after administration, accumulating in the brain and optic pathways even in individuals with intact blood-brain barriers.
Citations: Jost et al., 2017; Nehra et al., 2018; Berger et al., 2018; Naganawa et al., 2017; Jacobsen et al., 2019.
Gadolinium interferes with calcium, sodium, and potassium ion channels, causing functional disruption in cellular signaling, including in stretch-sensitive ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors.
Citations: Sherry et al., 2009; Bourne & Trifaró, 1982; Elinder & Arhem, 1994; Lacampagne et al., 1994; Zhang & Hancox, 2000; Adding et al., 2001; Palasz & Czekaj, 2000; Knoepp et al., 2017.
Gadolinium induces mitochondrial toxicity, interferes with intracellular calcium signaling, activates nociceptive neurons, and contributes to neuropathic pain through retention in the central and peripheral nervous systems.
Citations: Baykara et al., 2019; Bower et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2014; Alkhunizi et al., 2020; Radbruch et al., 2020.
Gadolinium (Gd) is retained in the brain, bones, and other tissues for years after MRI contrast administration, even in patients with normal renal function. Retention has been linked to cumulative effects, long-term excretion, and potential re-release from bone through remodeling processes, leading to chronic poisoning.
Citations: Xia et al., 2010; McDonald et al., 2015; Kanda et al., 2015; Stanescu et al., 2020; Jost et al., 2017, 2018; Robert et al., 2018; Sengupta, 2013; Bussi et al., 2020; Birka et al., 2015; Murata et al., 2016; Gibby et al., 2004; Darrah et al., 2009; Alwasiyah et al., 2018; Semelka et al., 2018.
Repeated GBCA exposure results in gadolinium deposition in the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. This deposition, especially pronounced in sciatic nerve tissues, causes pain hypersensitivity, cognitive impairments, and decreased muscle power. Spherical “sea urchin”-like deposits near vascular membranes highlight localized damage. Macrocyclic GBCAs show reduced deposition compared to linear agents.
Citations: Yao et al., 2024
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Both macrocyclic and linear GBCAs result in gadolinium retention, but linear agents (e.g., gadodiamide) exhibit higher levels of deposition and toxicity.
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I want to thank you for your time and use the rest of this letter to highlight two critical points: the latest scientific insights about element 64 and the goals that my community would like to achieve under your secretaryship and Trump’s presidential legacy. The gadolinium-injured community has been at this battle for decades now, with many fallen soldiers, and we are geared up and willing to do whatever it takes to put genuine informed consent in the hands of every American citizen. Americans deserve the truth about what is put into our veins. Full disclosure and transparency is warranted. This is a basic human right, and it is the only path toward full medical autonomy.

I have put together a website accessible at DearRFKJr.com to expose the iatrogenic harm from gadolinium contrast agents. We would be eternally grateful if you or your team were willing to take a look, reflect, and advise us accordingly.

With a proven track record in safeguarding individuals from the dangers of heavy metal toxicity, you are uniquely qualified to understand not only the imperative nature of preventing irrevocable neurological and immunological harm in innocent adults and children, but also the scientific calculus and intricacies of metal toxicity. For this reason, I will explain only the characteristics that make gadolinium uniquely harmful: