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On this interview, repeat visitor Dr. Andrew Saul, editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service, critiques 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. In the meantime, within the U.S., a whole lot of dietary recommendation is being censored and tagged as “faux information.”
Mortality Fee Is Seemingly Vastly Overestimated
On the time of this interview, March 17, 2020, COVID-19 has triggered mass hysteria — in america at the very least. Nations 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.
However that is all for probably the most half a preventive technique. Are folks contaminated? Sure. Are folks dying? Sure. However we’re speaking about deaths within the hundreds, not a whole lot of hundreds or hundreds of thousands, as in pandemics of the previous (suppose the 1918 flu pandemic, for instance, which killed tens of hundreds of thousands all over the world).
I’ve spent hours every day for the previous few weeks studying articles and listening to podcasts concerning the pandemic, and what hardly is ever talked about — aside from a tiny blurb — is {that a} huge 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? As a result of testing would offer you a extra correct account of what number of are literally contaminated. At current, mortality charges merely aren’t correct, and should seem much more extreme than they’re. We’re being informed what the mortality charge is predicated solely on confirmed or suspected circumstances.
Once I interviewed Francis Boyle — whose background contains an undergraduate diploma from the College of Chicago, a juris physician (lawyer) diploma from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science — he mentioned the mortality charge could possibly be as excessive as 17%, whereas typical estimates now say it is between 2% and three%.
I consider all of those are flawed, and possibly flawed by two or three orders of magnitude. The explanation I say it is because there are a restricted variety of assessments and only a few folks have been examined.
A whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of assessments are wanted to get an actual concept of how many individuals are contaminated, which might then give us a greater understanding of the mortality charge, which means what number of of those that get contaminated really die. At current, they’re solely testing those that current signs, which robotically 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 can be carrying the COVID-19 virus and having no signs in any way. 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 may be not even a micro doubt in my thoughts that, by the point every little thing is alleged and finished, extra folks may have died from automobile accidents than will die from COVID-19 within the U.S. this yr.
Pure Immunity Is Lifelong; Synthetic Immunity Is Not
For my part, the media have offered an incredibly distorted view of this pandemic, creating pointless concern. Your complete world is now quickly heading towards financial collapse, and the query is why, seeing how the dying toll would not appear to warrant it.
Greater than probably, we’ll find yourself with a COVID-19 vaccine that might be added to the listing of mandated annual inoculations. The issue with that’s that even when the vaccine works nicely, it is going to solely confer restricted immunity to a virus that is going to mutate anyway. Growing pure immunity is much extra superb. As famous by Saul:
“When you have got pure publicity, whether or not you get sick or you do not, you haven’t solely immunity to that [viral strain], however you have got an relevant broad immunity to extra viruses basically. There’s nothing like being sick to maintain you from getting sick, which sounds a little bit bit bizarre however that is the best way the human physique works.
After we have been kids we acquired measles, mumps, rooster pox — you identify it, we acquired it. We have been dwelling for 2 weeks, we watched daytime TV, we went again to high school and now we have lifetime immunity …
The actual fact of the matter is that pure immunity actually does shield you very nicely, and your personal immune system is the one approach you struggle any virus. And, the best way to make your immune system robust shouldn’t be, sadly, by vaccinating or taking a drug.”
The explanation 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 have to be activated for long-term immunity to be secured.
Once 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, the most effective factor is to have a robust immune system to defend in opposition to this virus so you have 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 basic observe, and completely important for the coronavirus as it’s inevitable that we’ll all be uncovered in some unspecified time in the future. And, as we already realized, there have been no ensures the fast-tracked vaccine could be protected or profitable.
Coronavirus vaccines have been tried beforehand however by no means confirmed profitable. Whereas COVID-19 is a really nasty virus that may do a whole lot of harm, most individuals, most likely greater than 98% of contaminated folks, won’t die or endure long-term harm from it.
“I agree with that,” Saul says, “as a result of we’re robotically going to be uncovered to it and lots of people aren’t going to point out signs. Some folks may have a light-weight case; in actual fact fairly just a few individuals who get it is going to 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. That is the place now we have the fatalities; that is the most important concern.”
A Easy Method to Quell Concern
With every little thing that is at the moment occurring, and media rising readership and income by blowing issues out of proportion, it’s totally simple, even rational, to be afraid and anxious, which is able to dysregulate your autonomic nervous system.
A easy method that may assist activate your parasympathetic nervous system, thus calming you down, is the Neuro-Emotional Method’s First Assist Stress Software, or NET FAST, demonstrated within the video above. Firstaidstresstool.com additionally supplies a superb printable abstract with visuals of the method,1 which even a younger youngster can do. Here’s a abstract of the FAST process:
- Whereas 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 realm of your proper wrist the place you possibly can really feel your pulse.
- Place your open proper hand in your brow. Gently breathe out and in a number of occasions whereas concentrating on feeling the problem that bothers you.
- Change fingers and repeat Steps 1 and a pair of.
Saul affords one other free and easy stress-reducing method he realized from a Native American. Merely 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 isn’t any vaccine, and even when one is fast-tracked, there could be trigger for warning, as we would don’t have any proof of effectiveness or security.
“Your immune system is infinitely adaptable. That is how nature made us,” Saul notes. “Nevertheless, your immune system works higher when it is fed proper.” Whereas altering your weight loss program is a extra long-term answer, a rapid-response technique could be to make use of vitamin C.
“Vitamin C goes to strengthen your immune system. That is in each diet textbook ever written, so we begin with that,” Saul says. “The RDA in america is about 90 milligrams; in Korea and China it is 100 mg; in the UK it is a depressing 40 mg a day and we’re generally not even getting that.
Research have proven that even 200 mg of vitamin C a day will scale back the dying charge in aged folks with extreme pneumonia by 80%. Research have proven infants with pneumonia, after 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 truly kills folks, it’s the pneumonia and the SARS, the extreme acute respiratory syndrome, that may comply with it. Most individuals that get coronavirus may have a gentle case; some may have the virus and never have any signs in any respect. We do not even know what number of these persons are as a result of they don’t have any signs.
Those that get COVID-19 that truly are sick are going to have the flu and it is going to be a nasty flu — it is going to be depressing. Individuals might be sick for per week or two. The folks liable to dying are usually the aged and people which can be immune-compromised.
The media type of skirts round this however that is the place now we have to start out as a result of the concern is predicated on dying. And when now we have even a small quantity of vitamin C, our threat of dying — even in probably the most extreme circumstances — goes down.
It’s pneumonia and SARS that kills folks and vitamin C has been recognized to be efficient in opposition to viral pneumonia for the reason that Nineteen 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
Extra 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. Nevertheless, I might suggest taking even greater doses utilizing liposomal vitamin C should you’re taking it orally. Liposomal vitamin C will help you take a lot greater dosages with out getting free stools.
You may take as much as 100 grams of liposomal vitamin C with out issues and get actually excessive blood ranges, equal to or greater than intravenous vitamin C. I view that as an acute remedy, nevertheless.
I discourage folks from taking mega doses of vitamin C regularly if they are not 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 counsel, and have for some 44 years {of professional} life, is to take sufficient vitamin C to be symptom free, and once you’re nicely, 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 fantastic. [Another person] with a number of chemical sensitivity, she wanted 35,000 mg a day. Any much less and she or he wasn’t fantastic …
And, whereas we’re [on this topic], a pleasant little charitable uplifting be aware 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 operating three research on utilizing high-dose vitamin C as remedy, focusing totally on folks in intensive care.
I am involved with Dr. Richard Cheng. Cheng is a Chinese language American doctor … He was in Shanghai for Chinese language New 12 months visiting his household when all of this exploded.
So, Cheng has stayed in China and has been speaking to hospitals and Chinese language physicians who’re exhibiting super curiosity in utilizing vitamin C as prevention and treatment. He is been so efficient that the federal government of Shanghai has issued official suggestions that vitamin C needs to be used for treating COVID-19.
They’re testing as much as 24,000 mg a day by IV. A few of us suppose that is a little bit on the low facet 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 just a few folks and we’re getting extra reviews as we go.
We will not get this into the mainstream media fairly but, but it surely’s most likely going to interrupt and presumably by the point this report airs, it will be throughout the usmedia. Editor’s be aware: The New York Put up, the fourth-largest newspaper2 within the U.S., broke this information March 24, 2020.3
I want to see that, however actual docs are utilizing vitamin C proper now. They’re additionally doing it in Korea. Proper within the heart 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 — a giant shot of about 100,000 items to every affected person and each employees member — and likewise about 20 to 24 grams (24,000 mg) of vitamin C by IV. And he is reporting that these persons are getting nicely in a matter of days.”
Invaluable Analysis Assets
The Chinese language researchers are additionally utilizing different conventional Chinese language medicines along with vitamin C, in addition to typical therapies you’ll anticipate to be finished for anybody having respiratory points or pneumonia.
For extra data, Saul suggests perusing the Shanghai authorities’s web site utilizing an internet translator (as the web site is in Chinese language). You could find pertinent internet hyperlinks on the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service web site,4 which has revealed 12 reviews on varied analysis findings previously six weeks.
“We’re consistently updating and now we have references to the literature and likewise hyperlinks to the research in China, and the names of the docs doing this. When you go to my web site, doctoryourself.com, you possibly can click on over and join a free subscription to the peer-reviewed, noncommercial Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service …
We even have the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service releases on this accessible now in French and Italian … and German, and a few at the moment are accessible in Korean and Chinese language and Japanese. It is also accessible in Spanish. So, this data is worldwide and it has been all over the place besides on america tv set,” Saul says.
Excessive-Dose Vitamin C Kills Viruses
In line with 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 consider vitamin C’s antiviral potential is the results of its anti-inflammatory exercise.
Irritation contributes to the huge cytokine cascade that may finally be deadly. Nevertheless, that is not the entire story. Saul explains:
“Dr. Robert Fulton Cathcart, a doctor in California, is far more educated about this than I ever might be, so I at all times go to him. And Cathcart wrote in his papers — a lot of 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 decreasing 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 have 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 up vitamin C as a result of it is similar to glucose, it is nearly the identical measurement … With viruses, it is the identical concept. Cathcart’s view is that you just push in vitamin C to offer the electrons to scale back the free radicals, and that is the best way Cathcart and Levy take 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 a whole lot of vitamin C … So, vitamin C could be very well-known to straight beef up the immune system by way of the white blood cells.”
Boosting NADPH Is Additionally Necessary
Personally, I do not suppose that is the entire story, both, as vitamin C is a comparatively weak electron donor. For my part, the highest electron donor of the physique is NADPH.
So, boosting your NAD+ and NADPH ranges is actually vital for well being, as is inhibiting NADH oxidase (generally known as NOX). You may study extra about this in “Glycine Quells Oxidative Harm by Inhibiting NOX and Boosting NADPH.”
NOX is what the enzyme in your lysosomes inside your white blood cells use to generate chemical compounds that truly kill viruses and micro organism. Within the course of, NADPH is getting used up, so whereas inhibiting NOX is beneficial, rising NADPH is vital.
In case you have a genetic dysfunction generally known as G6PD deficiency, it means the pathway your physique makes use of to make NADPH is impaired and, on this case, you need to watch out taking high-dose vitamin C.
“On the Riordan Clinic, based by Dr. Hugh Riordan, certainly one of my mentors some years in the past, they do display for this,” Saul says.
“And the Riordan clinic has really mentioned of their protocol — which I’ve in its fully as a free obtain at doctoryourself.com, that Individuals who have G6PD [deficiency syndrome] can take some vitamin C, and so they have had protected 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 Significance of Vitamin D
One other essential nutrient that could be much more vital than vitamin C is vitamin D. The required dosage will differ from individual to individual right here as nicely, 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 correct round 70 nanograms per milliliter, because of day by day walks within the solar carrying 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 it’s good to keep a vitamin D degree between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL year-round.
Within the video above, pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult discusses the significance of vitamin D for the prevention of COVID-19. Whereas there aren’t any medical trials investigating vitamin D for coronavirus particularly, there’s loads of knowledge exhibiting it is an vital element 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 on your physique to fight the virus, however an overactivated immune system can be chargeable for the cytokine storm we see in COVID-19 an infection that may result in dying.
“What we would like is a great 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.
Research have additionally proven there’s an obvious affiliation between low vitamin D ranges and susceptibility to viral infections similar to influenza. In a single 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 Operate
Magnesium is one other vital immune booster. Along with taking oral magnesium or consuming a number of greens that include it, one other solution to improve your magnesium degree is to take Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) baths.
“It is a great solution to calm down,” Saul says. “On the finish of the day, have a pleasant sizzling Epsom salts tub. You do get absorption by way 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 tub is a really nice solution to get some magnesium.”
One more little-known solution to get magnesium is thru molecular hydrogen tablets. The tablets include metallic magnesium and once you put them in water, they dissociate into ionic elemental magnesium and type molecular hydrogen gasoline (which you then drink).
You will 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 offer you 40 mg as a result of 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 Deal with Sore Throat and Colds
Likelihood is, you realize zinc lozenges are beneficial when you have got a chilly or sore throat.
“Simply final evening — once more, that is the seventeenth of March — CBS Night Information in Chicago, Illinois, had a brief phase on dietary prevention of coronavirus, recommending you’re taking vitamin D, vitamin C and zinc. So, now we have lastly, after seven weeks, gotten previous the accusation of false data and pretend information, and now it’s on CBS.”
Remarkably, distinguished physicians have been paraded within the media saying it is inconceivable to strengthen your immune system to beat this virus. It is laborious to fathom this sort of ignorance nonetheless pervades our medical system — and that they will get away with criticizing individuals who provide proof on the contrary.
Simulating Fever Can Assist Kill Viruses
Except for vitamins, should you 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 have got a fever, your physique turns into extra environment friendly at killing pathogens.
So, by taking a day by day sauna, you possibly can preventatively deal with any lingering pathogens in your system. That is a really helpful technique and one thing I do just about day by day I’m dwelling. Saul agrees, saying:
“Almost 100 years in the past, Jethro Kloss, who wrote ‘Again to Eden,’ one of many early well being nut books, beneficial synthetic fevers. They might bundle folks up and put them in a sizzling tub … as a result of fever could be that helpful.
Or you are able to do what the native People did and do … a sweat lodge, sort of the real American model of a sauna. Only one suggestion. Once you decide the rocks that you will superheat, be certain that 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 unhealthy!
So, be sure to have volcanic rocks, igneous rocks … they glow a pleasant crimson. It takes a very long time to get the glow going, however then it lasts a very long time as nicely. And whereas they’re heating, you possibly can construct the lodge. It is a group exercise. You are going to need assistance to construct the lodge.”
When you’re out there for an electrical sauna, do your analysis, as many (if not most) emit very excessive electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Sadly, many marketed as low-EMF saunas nonetheless have excessive magnetic fields, that are simply as unhealthy.
Extra Info
I agree with Saul when he says “Now we have to get the phrase out to those who prevention is working; vitamin C is working and we have not heard about it.” For instance, in Korea, the place the dying 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 teach your self about easy measures you possibly can take from the consolation of your personal dwelling. Assets the place you could find extra data embody Saul’s web site, doctoryourself.com, which is free, noncommercial and peer-reviewed.
“It has been up for 21 years now,” Saul says. “Doctoryourself.com has an excellent search engine and it isn’t a Google search engine. You need to use it as a web site search and discover no matter you are on the lookout for. With out even scrolling down, the display will present you a collection of articles on COVID-19 — dietary protocols with references to the docs and the components of the world the place that is getting used efficiently proper now.
It’s also possible to go to Andrewsaul.com which is my business web site. That is the place I’ve my tuition-based programs that I provide, referred to as the Megavitamin System Course. And you’ll go to the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service … and join freed from cost.
That is peer-reviewed, and I am glad to say that Dr. Mercola is a member of our 42-member editorial evaluate board. So, after I say peer-reviewed, we actually imply it and I like having affiliation with docs who use, suggest and stay good diet.”
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