On this interview, repeat visitor Dr. Andrew Saul, editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service, critiques what we presently learn about vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for the prevention and therapy 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., quite a lot of dietary recommendation is being censored and tagged as “faux information.”
Mortality Price Is Doubtless Vastly Overestimated
On the time of this interview, March 17, 2020, COVID-19 has triggered mass hysteria — in the USA no less than. International locations around the globe, 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 essentially the most half a preventive technique. Are folks contaminated? Sure. Are folks dying? Sure. However we’re speaking about deaths within the 1000’s, not tons of of 1000’s or hundreds of thousands, as in pandemics of the previous (suppose the 1918 flu pandemic, for instance, which killed tens of hundreds of thousands around the globe).
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 technique 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 will seem way more extreme than they’re. We’re being advised what the mortality fee is predicated solely on confirmed or suspected instances.
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 might 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 rationale I say it is because there are a restricted variety of checks and only a few folks have been examined.
A whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of checks are wanted to get an actual thought 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 truly die. At current, they’re solely testing those that current signs, which mechanically 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 might be carrying the COVID-19 virus and having no signs by any means. 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 all the pieces is claimed and completed, 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 introduced an incredibly distorted view of this pandemic, creating pointless concern. The whole world is now quickly heading towards financial collapse, and the query is why, seeing how the demise toll would not appear to warrant it.
Greater than doubtless, we’ll find yourself with a COVID-19 vaccine that will probably be added to the listing of mandated annual inoculations. The issue with that’s that even when the vaccine works properly, it should solely confer restricted immunity to a virus that is going to mutate anyway. Growing pure immunity is way extra supreme. 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 generally. There’s nothing like being sick to maintain you from getting sick, which sounds just a little bit bizarre however that is the way in which the human physique works.
After we have been youngsters we bought measles, mumps, rooster pox — you identify it, we bought it. We have been residence for 2 weeks, we watched daytime TV, we went again to highschool and now we have lifetime immunity …
The very fact of the matter is that pure immunity actually does defend you very properly, and your personal immune system is the one approach you struggle any virus. And, the way in which to make your immune system sturdy just isn’t, sadly, by vaccinating or taking a drug.”
The rationale 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 should 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 very best factor is to have a powerful immune system to defend towards this virus so you have got 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 common observe, 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 discovered, 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 quite a lot of injury, most individuals, in all probability greater than 98% of contaminated folks, won’t die or undergo long-term injury 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 point out signs. Some folks may have a lightweight case; in truth fairly just a few individuals who get it should have a really gentle case … The hazard is the escalation to SARS and pneumonia, and that is the most important risk for immune-compromised folks and the aged. That is the place now we have the fatalities; that is the most important concern.”
A Easy Approach to Quell Worry
With all the pieces that is presently occurring, and media rising readership and income by blowing issues out of proportion, it’s extremely simple, 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 Approach’s First Support Stress Instrument, 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 little one can do. Here’s a abstract of the FAST process:
- Whereas desirous about a problem 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 occasions whereas concentrating on feeling the problem that bothers you.
- Swap palms and repeat Steps 1 and a pair of.
Saul provides one other free and easy stress-reducing method he discovered 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 no vaccine, and even when one is fast-tracked, there could be trigger for warning, as we might haven’t 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 food plan 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 the USA 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 cut back the demise fee 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 really kills folks, it’s the pneumonia and the SARS, the extreme acute respiratory syndrome, that may observe it. Most individuals that get coronavirus may have a light case; some may 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 haven’t any signs.
Those that get COVID-19 that really are sick are going to have the flu and it should be a nasty flu — it should be depressing. Individuals will probably be sick for per week or two. The folks prone to dying are usually the aged and people which might 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 danger of dying — even in essentially the most extreme instances — goes down.
It’s pneumonia and SARS that kills folks and vitamin C has been recognized to be efficient towards viral pneumonia for the reason that Nineteen Forties when Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner printed a sequence of papers and was capable of reverse viral pneumonia in 72 hours. Now, Klenner was a board-certified chest doctor. He was a specialist and he printed over 20 papers on this. The media has been silent on this remedy.”
On Vitamin C Dosing
Extra not too long ago, 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 likely 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 when you’re taking it orally. Liposomal vitamin C will mean you can 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 therapy, nonetheless.
I discourage folks from taking mega doses of vitamin C frequently if they are not truly sick, as a result of it’s basically a drug — or no less than 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 if you’re properly, 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 notice 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 in touch with Dr. Richard Cheng. Cheng is a Chinese language American doctor … He was in Shanghai for Chinese language New Yr 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 must 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 just a little on the low facet for those who are within the ICU. I wish 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 studies as we go.
We will not get this into the mainstream media fairly but, nevertheless it’s in all probability going to interrupt and probably by the point this report airs, it’s going to be throughout the usmedia. Editor’s notice: The New York Put up, the fourth-largest newspaper2 within the U.S., broke this information March 24, 2020.3
I wish to see that, however actual medical doctors are utilizing vitamin C proper now. They’re additionally doing it in Korea. Proper within the middle of the outbreak in Korea we’re in touch 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 models to every affected person and each workers member — and in addition about 20 to 24 grams (24,000 mg) of vitamin C by IV. And he is reporting that these individuals are getting properly in a matter of days.”
Worthwhile Analysis Assets
The Chinese language researchers are additionally utilizing different conventional Chinese language medicines along with vitamin C, in addition to standard remedies you’ll anticipate to be completed 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 language). Yow will discover pertinent net hyperlinks on the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service web site,4 which has printed 12 studies on numerous analysis findings previously six weeks.
“We’re continuously updating and now we have references to the literature and in addition hyperlinks to the research in China, and the names of the medical doctors doing this. For those who 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 out there now in French and Italian … and German, and a few are actually out there in Korean and Chinese language and Japanese. It is also out there in Spanish. So, this info is worldwide and it has been all over the place besides on the USA tv set,” Saul says.
Excessive-Dose Vitamin C Kills Viruses
In keeping with Saul, vitamin C at extraordinarily excessive doses is an antiviral, it truly kills viruses, however to get that quantity, you sometimes 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 large cytokine cascade that may in the end be deadly. Nevertheless, that is not the entire story. Saul explains:
“Dr. Robert Fulton Cathcart, a doctor in California, is rather more educated about this than I ever will probably be, so I all the time go to him. And Cathcart wrote in his papers — quite a few 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 truly 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 in vitamin C as a result of it is similar to glucose, it is nearly the identical measurement … With viruses, it is the identical thought. 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 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 quite a lot of vitamin C … So, vitamin C may be very well-known to instantly beef up the immune system via 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 necessary for well being, as is inhibiting NADH oxidase (often called NOX). You may 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 really kill viruses and micro organism. Within the course of, NADPH is getting used up, so whereas inhibiting NOX is helpful, rising NADPH is essential.
If in case you have a genetic dysfunction often called G6PD deficiency, it means the pathway your physique makes use of to make NADPH is impaired and, on this case, it’s important to watch out taking high-dose vitamin C.
“On the Riordan Clinic, based by Dr. Hugh Riordan, one in all my mentors some years in the past, they do display screen for this,” Saul says.
“And the Riordan clinic has truly mentioned of their protocol — which I’ve in its completely 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 problem.”
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 properly, 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 every day walks within the solar carrying nothing however a hat and shorts. So, one of the simplest ways to find out your private dosage is to get examined and to take no matter dosage you might 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 scientific trials investigating vitamin D for coronavirus particularly, there’s loads of knowledge displaying it is an necessary element within the prevention and therapy 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 would possibly make vitamin D fairly helpful towards 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 accountable for the cytokine storm we see in COVID-19 an infection that may result in demise.
“What we wish 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 printed in 2017 — a meta-analysis of 25 randomized managed trials — which confirmed that vitamin D supplementation helps defend 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 no less than 40 ng/mL lowered their danger 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 necessary immune booster. Along with taking oral magnesium or consuming a lot of greens that comprise it, one other technique to improve your magnesium degree is to take Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) baths.
“It is a fantastic technique to calm down,” Saul says. “On the finish of the day, have a pleasant sizzling Epsom salts tub. You do get absorption via the pores and skin. Plus, it feels good, calms you down, it is cheap, and nobody can let you know that you’ll overdose on Epsom salt [through bathing] … So, an Epsom salts tub is a really nice technique to get some magnesium.”
Yet one more little-known technique to get magnesium is thru molecular hydrogen tablets. The tablets comprise metallic magnesium and if you put them in water, they dissociate into ionic elemental magnesium and type molecular hydrogen fuel (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 would possibly solely provide you with 40 mg as a consequence of 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 recognize zinc lozenges are really useful 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 section on dietary prevention of coronavirus, recommending you are taking vitamin D, vitamin C and zinc. So, now we have lastly, after seven weeks, gotten previous the accusation of false info and pretend information, and now it’s on CBS.”
Remarkably, outstanding physicians have been paraded within the media saying it is unattainable to strengthen your immune system to beat this virus. It is arduous 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, when 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 every 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 daily I’m residence. Saul agrees, saying:
“Almost 100 years in the past, Jethro Kloss, who wrote ‘Again to Eden,’ one of many early well being nut books, really useful synthetic fevers. They might bundle folks up and put them in a sizzling tub … as a result of fever might be that useful.
Or you are able to do what the native People did and do … a sweat lodge, form of the real American model of a sauna. Only one suggestion. Once you decide the rocks that you’ll superheat, be sure 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 properly. 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.”
For those who’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 “We have now to get the phrase out to those that prevention is working; vitamin C is working and we have not heard about it.” For instance, in Korea, the place the demise fee 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’ll be able to take from the consolation of your personal residence. Assets the place yow will discover extra info 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 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 medical doctors and the components of the world the place that is getting used efficiently proper now.
You may also go to Andrewsaul.com which is my industrial website. That is the place I’ve my tuition-based programs that I provide, known as the Megavitamin Formulation Course. And you’ll go to the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service … and enroll 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, once I say peer-reviewed, we actually imply it and I like having affiliation with medical doctors who use, suggest and reside good diet.”
