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On this interview, repeat visitor Dr. Andrew Saul, editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service, opinions what we presently find out 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 presently popping out of China. In the meantime, within the U.S., a variety of dietary recommendation is being censored and tagged as “pretend information.”
Mortality Price Is Possible Vastly Overestimated
On the time of this interview, March 17, 2020, COVID-19 has triggered mass hysteria — in america at the least. International locations world wide, together with the U.S., are additionally quarantining, closing down borders, implementing curfews and customarily recommending or implementing 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 bunch 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 world wide).
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 — 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 geared toward flattening the curve, i.e., stopping or slowing the unfold of the virus.
Why? As a result of 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 much more extreme than they’re. We’re being instructed what the mortality fee is predicated solely on confirmed or suspected circumstances.
After 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 fee could possibly be as excessive as 17%, whereas standard estimates now say it is between 2% and three%.
I imagine all of those are mistaken, and possibly mistaken by two or three orders of magnitude. The explanation I say it is because there are a restricted variety of exams and only a few folks have been examined.
Tons of of hundreds of thousands of exams are wanted to get an actual concept of how many individuals are contaminated, which might then give us a greater understanding of the mortality fee, that 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 fee.
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 anyway. And I’d 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 all the pieces is claimed and performed, extra folks could have died from automotive 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 introduced a surprisingly distorted view of this pandemic, creating pointless worry. Your complete world is now quickly heading towards financial collapse, and the query is why, seeing how the demise toll does not appear to warrant it.
Greater than possible, we’ll find yourself with a COVID-19 vaccine that will likely be added to the record of mandated annual inoculations. The issue with that’s that even when the vaccine works nicely, it can solely confer restricted immunity to a virus that is going to mutate anyway. Creating pure immunity is way extra supreme. As famous by Saul:
“When you’ve pure publicity, whether or not you get sick or you do not, you haven’t solely immunity to that [viral strain], however you’ve an relevant broad immunity to extra viruses on the whole. There’s nothing like being sick to maintain you from getting sick, which sounds a little bit bit bizarre however that is the way in which the human physique works.
Once we have been youngsters we obtained measles, mumps, rooster pox — you identify it, we obtained it. We have been dwelling for 2 weeks, we watched daytime TV, we went again to high school and we have now lifetime immunity …
The very fact of the matter is that pure immunity actually does shield you very nicely, and your personal immune system is the one means you combat any virus. And, the way in which to make your immune system robust just isn’t, 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 must 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 aren’t stimulated. So, scary as it might sound, the perfect factor is to have a powerful immune system to defend towards this virus so you’ve minimal signs or probably be asymptomatic.
Even Dr. Fauci admitted this virus will not be eradicated and would require herd immunity to be managed. Optimizing your metabolism and immune system is sweet normal apply, and completely important for the coronavirus as it’s inevitable that we are going to 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 variety 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 robotically going to be uncovered to it and lots of people aren’t going to indicate signs. Some folks could have a lightweight case; in truth fairly a number of individuals who get it can have a really mild case … The hazard is the escalation to SARS and pneumonia, and that is the largest menace for immune-compromised folks and the aged. That is the place we have now the fatalities; that is the largest concern.”
A Easy Method to Quell Concern
With all the pieces that is presently occurring, and media rising readership and earnings by blowing issues out of proportion, it’s extremely straightforward, even rational, to be afraid and anxious, which can 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 Help 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 serious 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’ll be able to really feel your pulse.
- Place your open proper hand in your brow. Gently breathe out and in a number of instances whereas concentrating on feeling the difficulty that bothers you.
- Change fingers and repeat Steps 1 and a pair of.
Saul provides one other free and easy stress-reducing method he realized from a Native American. Merely exit, sit on the bottom and lean towards a pine tree.
Vitamin C Boosts Immunity and Reverses Viral Pneumonia
For now, the one actual protection towards COVID-19 is your personal immune system. There is not any vaccine, and even when one is fast-tracked, there could be trigger for warning, as we would haven’t any proof of effectiveness or security.
“Your immune system is infinitely adaptable. That is how nature made us,” Saul notes. “Nonetheless, your immune system works higher when it is fed proper.” Whereas 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. 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 typically not even getting that.
Research have proven that even 200 mg of vitamin C a day will scale back the demise fee in aged folks with extreme pneumonia by 80%. Research 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 period and severity of the sickness is much less.
Now, it’s not coronavirus per se that truly kills folks, it’s the pneumonia and the SARS, the extreme acute respiratory syndrome, that may observe it. Most individuals that get coronavirus could have a gentle case; some could 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 haven’t any signs.
Those that get COVID-19 that truly are sick are going to have the flu and it should be a nasty flu — it should be depressing. Individuals will likely be sick for per week or two. The folks liable to dying are typically the aged and people which can be immune-compromised.
The media kind 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 probably the most extreme circumstances — goes down.
It’s pneumonia and SARS that kills folks and vitamin C has been identified to be efficient towards viral pneumonia for the reason that Nineteen Forties when Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner revealed a sequence 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 among the causes folks die from COVID-19 an infection, Marik’s vitamin C protocol might go a good 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. Nonetheless, I’d advocate taking even increased doses utilizing liposomal vitamin C for those who’re taking it orally. Liposomal vitamin C will will let you take a lot increased dosages with out getting free stools.
You possibly 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, nevertheless.
I discourage folks from taking mega doses of vitamin C frequently if they don’t seem to be really sick, as a result of it’s primarily a drug — or at the 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 woman who would take 500 mg of vitamin C a day and she or he was simply superb. [Another person] with a number of chemical sensitivity, she wanted 35,000 mg a day. Any much less and she or he wasn’t superb …
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 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 displaying super curiosity in utilizing vitamin C as prevention and remedy. 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 that 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 stories as we go.
We will not get this into the mainstream media fairly but, however it’s in all probability going to interrupt and probably by the point this report airs, it will be throughout the usmedia. Editor’s observe: The New York Publish, 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 middle of the outbreak in Korea we’re involved with a health care provider who has a small hospital and he has given a single shot of vitamin D — an enormous shot of about 100,000 models 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 persons are getting nicely in a matter of days.”
Beneficial Analysis Sources
The Chinese language researchers are additionally utilizing different conventional Chinese language medicines along with vitamin C, in addition to standard therapies you’ll count on to be performed for anybody having respiratory 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 language). You could find pertinent internet hyperlinks on the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service web site,4 which has revealed 12 stories on varied analysis findings up to now six weeks.
“We’re always updating and we have now references to the literature and likewise hyperlinks to the research in China, and the names of the docs doing this. In case you go to my web site, doctoryourself.com, you’ll be able to 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 are actually accessible in Korean and Chinese language and Japanese. It is also accessible in Spanish. So, this info is worldwide and it has been in every single place besides on america tv set,” Saul says.
Excessive-Dose Vitamin C Kills Viruses
Based on 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.
Irritation contributes to the huge cytokine cascade that may finally be deadly. Nonetheless, 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 will likely 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 completely different. They soak 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 cut back the free radicals, and that is the way in which Cathcart and Levy have a look at vitamin C’s operate (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 variety of vitamin C … So, vitamin C could be very well-known to immediately beef up the immune system by the white blood cells.”
Boosting NADPH Is Additionally Essential
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 absolutely necessary for well being, as is inhibiting NADH oxidase (referred to as NOX). You possibly can be taught 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 truly kill viruses and micro organism. Within the course of, NADPH is getting used up, so whereas inhibiting NOX is beneficial, rising NADPH is essential.
When 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.
“On 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 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 is not a difficulty.”
The Significance of Vitamin D
One other essential nutrient which may be much more necessary 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 frequently.
I’ve not taken oral vitamin D for over a decade, but my degree is correct round 70 nanograms per milliliter, due to each 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 you want 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 are not any medical trials investigating vitamin D for coronavirus particularly, there’s loads of knowledge displaying it is an necessary 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 operate, 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 towards COVID-19.
As defined by Seheult, strong immune operate is required to your physique to fight the virus, however an overactivated immune system can be accountable for the cytokine storm we see in COVID-19 an infection that may result in demise.
“What we would like is a great immune system — an immune system that takes care of the virus however does 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 towards acute respiratory infections.
Research have additionally proven there’s an obvious affiliation between low vitamin D ranges and susceptibility to viral infections resembling influenza. In a single GrassrootsHealth evaluation,9 these with a vitamin D degree of at the least 40 ng/mL lowered their threat of colds by 15% and flu by 41%, in comparison with these with a degree beneath 20 ng/mL.
Magnesium Calms Nerves and Boosts Immune Operate
Magnesium is one other necessary immune booster. Along with taking oral magnesium or consuming plenty of greens that include it, one other strategy to enhance your magnesium degree is to take Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) baths.
“It is a fantastic strategy to loosen up,” Saul says. “On the finish of the day, have a pleasant scorching Epsom salts tub. You do get absorption by 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 strategy to get some magnesium.”
Yet one more little-known strategy 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 may 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 resulting from their poor absorption. Magnesium oxide has the bottom absorption fee 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 understand zinc lozenges are beneficial when you’ve a chilly or sore throat.
“Simply final night time — once more, that is the seventeenth of March — CBS Night Information 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, distinguished physicians have been paraded within the media saying it is unattainable to strengthen your immune system to beat this virus. It is exhausting to fathom this type 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
Other than 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 a fever, your physique turns into extra environment friendly at killing pathogens.
So, by taking a each day sauna, you’ll be able to 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:
“Practically 100 years in the past, Jethro Kloss, who wrote ‘Again to Eden,’ one of many early well being nut books, beneficial synthetic fevers. They’d bundle folks up and put them in a scorching tub … as a result of fever will be that useful.
Or you are able to do what the native Individuals 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, ensure they’re all igneous rocks and never sedimentary rocks, as a result of if they’ve the layered sediment, they’ll explode, and that’s dangerous!
So, ensure you 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’ll be able to construct the lodge. It is a group exercise. You are going to need assistance to construct the lodge.”
In case 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 dangerous.
Extra Data
I agree with Saul when he says “We’ve to get the phrase out to people who prevention is working; vitamin C is working and we’ve not heard about it.” For instance, in Korea, the place the demise fee for the COVID-19 virus is beneath 1%, they’ve disseminated details about vitamin C.
So, a part of your preventive measures is to teach your self about easy measures you’ll be able to take from the consolation of your personal dwelling. Sources the place you could find extra info embrace 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’s not a Google search engine. You should utilize it as a website search and discover no matter you are on the lookout for. With out even scrolling down, the display screen will present you a sequence 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.
You too can go to Andrewsaul.com which is my industrial website. That is the place I’ve my tuition-based programs that I provide, referred to as the Megavitamin Components Course. And you may go to the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service … and enroll freed from cost.
That is peer-reviewed, and I am pleased to say that Dr. Mercola is a member of our 42-member editorial assessment board. So, once I say peer-reviewed, we actually imply it and I really like having affiliation with docs who use, advocate and reside good diet.”
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