Nutrition and Natural Strategies Offer Hope Against COVID-19

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Nutrition and Natural Strategies Offer Hope Against COVID-19


In this interview, repeat visitor Dr. Andrew Saul, editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, evaluations what we at the moment learn about vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for the prevention and remedy of novel coronavirus COVID-19.

As famous by Saul, a lot of the details about vitamin C for the coronavirus is at the moment popping out of China. Meanwhile, within the U.S., plenty of dietary recommendation is being censored and tagged as “faux information.”

Mortality Rate Is Likely Vastly Overestimated

At the time of this interview, March 17, 2020, COVID-19 has triggered mass hysteria — within the United States at the very least. Countries all over the world, together with the U.S., are additionally quarantining, closing down borders, implementing curfews and usually recommending or imposing isolation of the populace.

But that is all for essentially the most half a preventive technique. Are folks contaminated? Yes. Are folks dying? Yes. But we’re speaking about deaths within the hundreds, not lots of of hundreds or thousands and thousands, as in pandemics of the previous (assume the 1918 flu pandemic, for instance, which killed tens of thousands and thousands all over the world).

I’ve spent hours every day for the previous few weeks studying articles and listening to podcasts in regards to the pandemic, and what hardly is ever talked about — apart from a tiny blurb — is {that a} large a part of the equation is the necessity for testing. Testing is the central core of a method aimed toward flattening the curve, i.e., stopping or slowing the unfold of the virus.

Why? Because testing would provide you with a extra correct account of what number of are literally contaminated. At current, mortality charges merely aren’t correct, and should seem way more extreme than they’re. We’re being advised what the mortality charge is predicated solely on confirmed or suspected instances.

When I interviewed Francis Boyle — whose background contains an undergraduate diploma from the University of Chicago, a juris physician (lawyer) diploma from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science — he mentioned the mortality charge may very well be as excessive as 17%, whereas standard estimates now say it is between 2% and three%.

I imagine all of those are fallacious, and possibly fallacious by two or three orders of magnitude. The motive I say it is because there are a restricted variety of assessments and only a few folks have been examined.

Hundreds of thousands and thousands of assessments are wanted to get an actual thought of how many individuals are contaminated, which might then give us a greater understanding of the mortality charge, that means what number of of those that get contaminated really die. At current, they’re solely testing those that current signs, which mechanically skews the mortality statistics, giving us a falsely elevated mortality charge.

As famous by Saul, “We might have a really massive variety of folks … which are carrying the COVID-19 virus and having no signs in anyway. And I might argue that in the event that they eat proper and take their nutritional vitamins, that is going to cease it from spreading.”

There isn’t even a micro doubt in my thoughts that, by the point all the things is claimed and carried out, extra folks could have died from automotive accidents than will die from COVID-19 within the U.S. this 12 months.

Natural Immunity Is Lifelong; Artificial Immunity Is Not

In my view, the media have introduced an incredibly distorted view of this pandemic, creating pointless worry. The total world is now quickly heading towards financial collapse, and the query is why, seeing how the loss of life toll would not appear to warrant it.

More than probably, we’ll find yourself with a COVID-19 vaccine that will likely be added to the listing of mandated annual inoculations. The downside with that’s that even when the vaccine works effectively, it’ll solely confer restricted immunity to a virus that is going to mutate anyway. Developing pure immunity is way extra ideally suited. As famous by Saul:

“When you’ve got pure publicity, whether or not you get sick or you do not, you haven’t solely immunity to that [viral strain], however you’ve got an relevant broad immunity to extra viruses typically. There’s nothing like being sick to maintain you from getting sick, which sounds a bit bit bizarre however that is the way in which the human physique works.

When we had been youngsters we received measles, mumps, rooster pox — you identify it, we received it. We had been house for 2 weeks, we watched daytime TV, we went again to high school and we have now lifetime immunity …

The truth of the matter is that pure immunity actually does shield you very effectively, and your personal immune system is the one method you combat any virus. And, the way in which to make your immune system sturdy isn’t, sadly, by vaccinating or taking a drug.”

The motive why recovering from an infection confers lifelong immunity whereas vaccination doesn’t has to do with the truth that your immune system has two branches — the mobile (T-cells) and the humoral (B-cells) — and each must be activated for long-term immunity to be secured.

When you get a vaccine, you solely stimulate your humoral immunity, the B-cells. The T-cells should not stimulated. So, scary as it might sound, one of the best factor is to have a robust immune system to defend in opposition to this virus so you’ve got minimal signs or presumably be asymptomatic.

Even Dr. Fauci admitted this virus won’t be eradicated and would require herd immunity to be managed. Optimizing your metabolism and immune system is nice normal follow, and completely important for the coronavirus as it’s inevitable that we are going to all be uncovered sooner or later. And, as we already realized, there have been no ensures the fast-tracked vaccine could be secure or profitable.

Coronavirus vaccines have been tried beforehand however by no means confirmed profitable. While COVID-19 is a really nasty virus that may do plenty of harm, most individuals, in all probability greater than 98% of contaminated folks, won’t die or undergo long-term harm from it.

“I agree with that,” Saul says, “as a result of we’re mechanically going to be uncovered to it and lots of people aren’t going to indicate signs. Some folks could have a lightweight case; actually fairly a number of individuals who get it’ll have a really gentle case … The hazard is the escalation to SARS and pneumonia, and that is the most important menace for immune-compromised folks and the aged. This is the place we have now the fatalities; that is the most important concern.”

A Simple Technique to Quell Fear

With all the things that is at the moment occurring, and media rising readership and earnings by blowing issues out of proportion, it’s totally straightforward, even rational, to be afraid and anxious, which is able to dysregulate your autonomic nervous system.

A easy approach that may assist activate your parasympathetic nervous system, thus calming you down, is the Neuro-Emotional Technique’s First Aid Stress Tool, or NET FAST, demonstrated within the video above. Firstaidstresstool.com additionally gives a superb printable abstract with visuals of the approach,1 which even a younger baby can do. Here is a abstract of the FAST process:

  1. While eager about a difficulty that’s bothering you, place your proper wrist, palm up, into your left hand. Place three fingers of your left hand onto the world of your proper wrist the place you may really feel your pulse.
  2. Place your open proper hand in your brow. Gently breathe out and in a number of instances whereas concentrating on feeling the problem that bothers you.
  3. Switch fingers and repeat Steps 1 and a couple of.

Saul gives one other free and easy stress-reducing approach he realized from a Native American. Simply exit, sit on the bottom and lean in opposition to a pine tree.

Vitamin C Boosts Immunity and Reverses Viral Pneumonia

For now, the one actual protection in opposition to COVID-19 is your personal immune system. There’s no vaccine, and even when one is fast-tracked, there could be trigger for warning, as we might don’t have any proof of effectiveness or security.

“Your immune system is infinitely adaptable. This is how nature made us,” Saul notes. “However, your immune system works higher when it is fed proper.” While altering your eating regimen is a extra long-term resolution, a rapid-response technique could be to make use of vitamin C.

“Vitamin C goes to strengthen your immune system. This is in each vitamin textbook ever written, so we begin with that,” Saul says. “The RDA within the United States is about 90 milligrams; in Korea and China it is 100 mg; within the United Kingdom it is a depressing 40 mg a day and we’re typically not even getting that.

Studies have proven that even 200 mg of vitamin C a day will cut back the loss of life charge in aged folks with extreme pneumonia by 80%. Studies have proven infants with pneumonia, once they get 200 milligrams of vitamin C — the grownup equal of about 2,000 to three,000 mg — they’ve an enchancment of their oxygen ranges in lower than a day. The mortality goes down and the length and severity of the sickness is much less.

Now, it isn’t coronavirus per se that really kills folks, it’s the pneumonia and the SARS, the extreme acute respiratory syndrome, that may comply with it. Most folks that get coronavirus could have a light case; some could have the virus and never have any signs in any respect. We do not even know what number of these individuals are as a result of they don’t have any signs.

Those who get COVID-19 that really are sick are going to have the flu and it should be a nasty flu — it should be depressing. People will likely be sick for per week or two. The folks vulnerable to dying are typically the aged and people which are immune-compromised.

The media form of skirts round this however that is the place we have now to begin as a result of the worry is predicated on dying. And when we have now even a small quantity of vitamin C, our threat of dying — even in essentially the most extreme instances — goes down.

It is pneumonia and SARS that kills folks and vitamin C has been recognized to be efficient in opposition to viral pneumonia because the Forties when Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner revealed a collection of papers and was in a position to reverse viral pneumonia in 72 hours. Now, Klenner was a board-certified chest doctor. He was a specialist and he revealed over 20 papers on this. The media has been silent on this remedy.”

On Vitamin C Dosing

More just lately, Dr. Paul Marik has proven a protocol of intravenous (IV) vitamin C with hydrocortisone and thiamine (vitamin B1) dramatically improves survival charges in sufferers with sepsis. Since sepsis is without doubt one of the causes folks die from COVID-19 an infection, Marik’s vitamin C protocol might go a great distance towards saving folks’s lives on this pandemic.

That protocol requires 1,500 mg of ascorbic acid each six hours, and seems radically efficient. However, I might suggest taking even increased doses utilizing liposomal vitamin C for those who’re taking it orally. Liposomal vitamin C will assist you to take a lot increased dosages with out getting free stools.

You can take as much as 100 grams of liposomal vitamin C with out issues and get actually excessive blood ranges, equal to or increased than intravenous vitamin C. I view that as an acute remedy, nonetheless.

I discourage folks from taking mega doses of vitamin C regularly if they don’t seem to be really sick, as a result of it’s basically a drug — or at the very least it really works like one. Saul provides:

“What I recommend, and have for some 44 years {of professional} life, is to take sufficient vitamin C to be symptom free, and whenever you’re effectively, that is not very a lot. I knew one girl who would take 500 mg of vitamin C a day and she or he was simply tremendous. [Another person] with a number of chemical sensitivity, she wanted 35,000 mg a day. Any much less and she or he wasn’t tremendous …

And, whereas we’re [on this topic], a pleasant little charitable uplifting observe is that Dutch State Mines or DSM of the Netherlands has donated 50 tons of vitamin C to [the city of] Wuhan [in China] — 106 million vitamin C tablets. And in China they’re working three research on utilizing high-dose vitamin C as remedy, focusing totally on folks in intensive care.

I’m involved with Dr. Richard Cheng. Cheng is a Chinese American doctor … He was in Shanghai for Chinese New Year visiting his household when all of this exploded.

So, Cheng has stayed in China and has been speaking to hospitals and Chinese physicians who’re displaying large curiosity in utilizing vitamin C as prevention and treatment. He’s been so efficient that the federal government of Shanghai has issued official suggestions that vitamin C ought to be used for treating COVID-19.

They are testing as much as 24,000 mg a day by IV. Some of us assume that is a bit on the low aspect for those who are within the ICU. I want to see 50,000 mg a day and there’s a physician … who has used 50,000 mg [on] fairly a number of folks and we’re getting extra reviews as we go.

We cannot get this into the mainstream media fairly but, nevertheless it’s in all probability going to interrupt and presumably by the point this report airs, it will be throughout the usmedia. Editor’s observe: The New York Post, the fourth-largest newspaper2 within the U.S., broke this information March 24, 2020.3

I want to see that, however actual medical doctors are utilizing vitamin C proper now. They’re additionally doing it in Korea. Right within the middle of the outbreak in Korea we’re involved with a physician who has a small hospital and he has given a single shot of vitamin D — an enormous shot of about 100,000 items to every affected person and each workers member — and likewise about 20 to 24 grams (24,000 mg) of vitamin C by IV. And he is reporting that these individuals are getting effectively in a matter of days.”

Valuable Research Resources

The Chinese researchers are additionally utilizing different conventional Chinese medicines along with vitamin C, in addition to standard remedies you’d anticipate to be carried out for anybody having respiration points or pneumonia.

For extra info, Saul suggests perusing the Shanghai authorities’s web site utilizing an internet translator (as the web site is in Chinese). You can discover pertinent internet hyperlinks on the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service web site,4 which has revealed 12 reviews on varied analysis findings prior to now six weeks.

“We’re continuously updating and we have now references to the literature and likewise hyperlinks to the research in China, and the names of the medical doctors doing this. If you go to my web site, doctoryourself.com, you may click on over and join a free subscription to the peer-reviewed, noncommercial Orthomolecular Medicine News Service …

We even have the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service releases on this obtainable now in French and Italian … and German, and a few at the moment are obtainable in Korean and Chinese and Japanese. It’s additionally obtainable in Spanish. So, this info is worldwide and it has been in all places besides on the United States tv set,” Saul says.

High-Dose Vitamin C Kills Viruses

According to Saul, vitamin C at extraordinarily excessive doses is an antiviral, it really kills viruses, however to get that quantity, you usually want an IV. So, simply how does it kill viruses? Some imagine vitamin C’s antiviral potential is the results of its anti-inflammatory exercise.

Inflammation contributes to the large cytokine cascade that may finally be deadly. However, that is not the entire story. Saul explains:

“Dr. Robert Fulton Cathcart, a doctor in California, is way more educated about this than I ever will likely be, so I at all times go to him. And Cathcart wrote in his papers — numerous which I’ve at doctoryourself.com so folks can learn them — [that] vitamin C is a non-rate-limited free radical scavenger …

He and Dr. Thomas E. Levy additionally emphasize … that vitamin C is donating electrons and lowering free radicals, and that is primarily what is going on on. Now, there are exceptions to that. When vitamin C will get right into a most cancers cell, it really acts as if it had been a pro-oxidant and that is due to the Fenton response. Checked; it’s.

And vitamin C will kill a most cancers cell as a result of most cancers cells are totally different. They take in vitamin C as a result of it is similar to glucose, it is nearly the identical dimension … With viruses, it is the identical thought. Cathcart’s view is that you just push in vitamin C to supply the electrons to scale back the free radicals, and that is the way in which Cathcart and Levy have a look at vitamin C’s perform (at very excessive doses) as an antiviral.

At modest doses, regular supplemental doses … vitamin C strengthens the immune system as a result of the white blood cells want it to work. White blood cells carry round in them plenty of vitamin C … So, vitamin C may be very well-known to immediately beef up the immune system by means of the white blood cells.”

Boosting NADPH Is Also Important

Personally, I do not assume that is the entire story, both, as vitamin C is a comparatively weak electron donor. In my view, the highest electron donor of the physique is NADPH.

So, boosting your NAD+ and NADPH ranges is absolutely essential for well being, as is inhibiting NADH oxidase (referred to as NOX). You can study extra about this in “Glycine Quells Oxidative Damage by Inhibiting NOX and Boosting NADPH.”

NOX is what the enzyme in your lysosomes inside your white blood cells use to generate chemical substances that really kill viruses and micro organism. In the method, NADPH is getting used up, so whereas inhibiting NOX is beneficial, rising NADPH is essential.

If you’ve got a genetic dysfunction referred to as G6PD deficiency, it means the pathway your physique makes use of to make NADPH is impaired and, on this case, you must watch out taking high-dose vitamin C.

“At the Riordan Clinic, based by Dr. Hugh Riordan, considered one of my mentors some years in the past, they do display screen for this,” Saul says.

“And the Riordan clinic has really mentioned of their protocol — which I’ve in its solely as a free obtain at doctoryourself.com, that People who’ve G6PD [deficiency syndrome] can take some vitamin C, they usually have had secure success at round 15,000 mg a day. Dr. Suzanne Humphries, a nephrologist and internist, has additionally mentioned that for brief durations of time it isn’t a difficulty.”

The Importance of Vitamin D

Another essential nutrient that could be much more essential than vitamin C is vitamin D. The required dosage will range from individual to individual right here as effectively, and largely has to do with how a lot solar publicity you get regularly.

I’ve not taken oral vitamin D for over a decade, but my degree is true round 70 nanograms per milliliter, because of each day walks within the solar sporting nothing however a hat and shorts. So, one of the best ways to find out your private dosage is to get examined and to take no matter dosage you must preserve a vitamin D degree between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL year-round.

In the video above, pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult discusses the significance of vitamin D for the prevention of COVID-19. While there are not any medical trials investigating vitamin D for coronavirus particularly, there’s loads of knowledge displaying it is an essential part within the prevention and remedy of influenza5 and higher respiratory tract infections.6

As famous by Seheult, whereas vitamin D doesn’t seem to have a direct impact on the virus itself, it strengthens immune perform, thus permitting the host physique to fight the virus extra successfully.7 It additionally suppresses inflammatory processes. Taken collectively, this may make vitamin D fairly helpful in opposition to COVID-19.

As defined by Seheult, sturdy immune perform is required to your physique to fight the virus, however an overactivated immune system can also be liable for the cytokine storm we see in COVID-19 an infection that may result in loss of life.

“What we would like is a brilliant immune system — an immune system that takes care of the virus however would not put us into an inflammatory situation that might put us on a ventilator,” Seheult says.

He goes on to quote analysis8 revealed in 2017 — a meta-analysis of 25 randomized managed trials — which confirmed that vitamin D supplementation helps shield in opposition to acute respiratory infections.

Studies have additionally proven there’s an obvious affiliation between low vitamin D ranges and susceptibility to viral infections akin to influenza. In one GrassrootsHealth evaluation,9 these with a vitamin D degree of at the very least 40 ng/mL decreased their threat of colds by 15% and flu by 41%, in comparison with these with a degree under 20 ng/mL.

Magnesium Calms Nerves and Boosts Immune Function

Magnesium is one other essential immune booster. In addition to taking oral magnesium or consuming a lot of greens that comprise it, one other approach to improve your magnesium degree is to take Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) baths.

“This is an excellent approach to calm down,” Saul says. “At the top of the day, have a pleasant scorching Epsom salts bathtub. You do get absorption by means of the pores and skin. Plus, it feels good, calms you down, it is cheap, and nobody can inform you that you will overdose on Epsom salt [through bathing] … So, an Epsom salts bathtub is a really nice approach to get some magnesium.”

Yet one other little-known approach to get magnesium is thru molecular hydrogen tablets. The tablets comprise metallic magnesium and whenever you put them in water, they dissociate into ionic elemental magnesium and kind molecular hydrogen fuel (which you then drink).

You can get about 80 mg of ionic elemental magnesium from every pill, which is a substantial quantity. For comparability, taking 400 mg of an oral magnesium complement may solely provide you with 40 mg attributable to their poor absorption. Magnesium oxide has the bottom absorption charge at solely 5% or so, which is why Saul recommends avoiding this type of magnesium.

Zinc Lozenges to Treat Sore Throat and Colds

Chances are, you realize zinc lozenges are advisable when you’ve got a chilly or sore throat.

“Just final night time — once more, that is the seventeenth of March — CBS Evening News in Chicago, Illinois, had a brief section on dietary prevention of coronavirus, recommending you are taking vitamin D, vitamin C and zinc. So, we have now lastly, after seven weeks, gotten previous the accusation of false info and faux information, and now it’s on CBS.”

Remarkably, outstanding physicians have been paraded within the media saying it is not possible to strengthen your immune system to beat this virus. It’s arduous to fathom this sort of ignorance nonetheless pervades our medical system — and that they’ll get away with criticizing individuals who provide proof on the contrary.

Simulating Fever Can Help Kill Viruses

Aside from vitamins, for those who personal a sauna, now’s the time to place it to common use. By rising your core physique temperature, which is what occurs when you’ve got a fever, your physique turns into extra environment friendly at killing pathogens.

So, by taking a each day sauna, you may preventatively deal with any lingering pathogens in your system. That’s a really helpful technique and one thing I do just about daily I’m house. Saul agrees, saying:

“Nearly 100 years in the past, Jethro Kloss, who wrote ‘Back to Eden,’ one of many early well being nut books, advisable synthetic fevers. They would bundle folks up and put them in a scorching bathtub … as a result of fever will be that helpful.

Or you are able to do what the native Americans did and do … a sweat lodge, type of the real American model of a sauna. Just one suggestion. When you choose the rocks that you will superheat, make certain they’re all igneous rocks and never sedimentary rocks, as a result of if they’ve the layered sediment, they are going to explode, and that’s dangerous!

So, be sure you have volcanic rocks, igneous rocks … they glow a pleasant pink. It takes a very long time to get the glow going, however then it lasts a very long time as effectively. And whereas they’re heating, you may construct the lodge. This is a gaggle exercise. You’re going to wish assist to construct the lodge.”

If you are out there for an electrical sauna, do your analysis, as many (if not most) emit very excessive electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Unfortunately, many marketed as low-EMF saunas nonetheless have excessive magnetic fields, that are simply as dangerous.

More Information

I agree with Saul when he says “We should get the phrase out to folks that prevention is working; vitamin C is working and we have not heard about it.” For instance, in Korea, the place the loss of life charge for the COVID-19 virus is under 1%, they’ve disseminated details about vitamin C.

So, a part of your preventive measures is to coach your self about easy measures you may take from the consolation of your personal house. Resources the place you will discover extra info embrace Saul’s web site, doctoryourself.com, which is free, noncommercial and peer-reviewed.

“It’s been up for 21 years now,” Saul says. “Doctoryourself.com has an excellent search engine and it isn’t a Google search engine. You can use it as a website search and discover no matter you are in search of. Without even scrolling down, the display screen will present you a collection of articles on COVID-19 — dietary protocols with references to the medical doctors and the components of the world the place that is getting used efficiently proper now.

You can even go to Andrewsaul.com which is my business website. That’s the place I’ve my tuition-based programs that I provide, referred to as the Megavitamin Formula Course. And you may go to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service … and enroll freed from cost.

This is peer-reviewed, and I’m blissful to say that Dr. Mercola is a member of our 42-member editorial evaluation board. So, once I say peer-reviewed, we actually imply it and I like having affiliation with medical doctors who use, suggest and reside good vitamin.”

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