On this interview, repeat visitor Dr. Andrew Saul, editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Drugs Information Service, evaluations 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., numerous dietary recommendation is being censored and tagged as “faux information.”
Mortality Charge Is Possible Vastly Overestimated
On the time of this interview, March 17, 2020, COVID-19 has triggered mass hysteria — in america at the very least. International locations 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 1000’s, not a whole lot 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 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 — 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 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 much more extreme than they’re. We’re being advised what the mortality charge is predicated solely on confirmed or suspected instances.
After I interviewed Francis Boyle — whose background consists of 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 standard estimates now say it is between 2% and three%.
I consider all of those are incorrect, and possibly incorrect 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.
A whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of exams 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, which 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 could have a really giant 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 may be not even a micro doubt in my thoughts that, by the point every little thing is alleged and executed, extra folks can have died from automobile accidents than will die from COVID-19 within the U.S. this 12 months.
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 does not appear to warrant it.
Greater than doubtless, we’ll find yourself with a COVID-19 vaccine that shall be added to the listing of mandated annual inoculations. The issue with that’s that even when the vaccine works effectively, it would solely confer restricted immunity to a virus that is going to mutate anyway. Growing pure immunity is much extra excellent. As famous by Saul:
“When you could have pure publicity, whether or not you get sick or you do not, you haven’t solely immunity to that [viral strain], however you could have an relevant broad immunity to extra viruses on the whole. There’s nothing like being sick to maintain you from getting sick, which sounds slightly bit bizarre however that is the best way the human physique works.
After we had been kids we received measles, mumps, rooster pox — you identify it, we received it. We had been residence for 2 weeks, we watched daytime TV, we went again to high school and we now have lifetime immunity …
The very fact of the matter is that pure immunity actually does shield you very effectively, and your individual immune system is the one means you battle any virus. And, the best way to make your immune system robust 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, one of the best factor is to have a robust immune system to defend in opposition to this virus so you could have minimal signs or probably 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 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 realized, there have been no ensures the fast-tracked vaccine can 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 numerous 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 mechanically going to be uncovered to it and lots of people aren’t going to indicate signs. Some folks can have a light-weight case; in actual fact fairly a number of individuals who get it would have a really mild case … The hazard is the escalation to SARS and pneumonia, and that is the largest risk for immune-compromised folks and the aged. That is the place we now have the fatalities; that is the largest concern.”
A Easy Approach to Quell Worry
With every little thing that is presently taking place, and media rising readership and income by blowing issues out of proportion, it is very 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 Approach’s First Help Stress Device, or NET FAST, demonstrated within the video above. Firstaidstresstool.com additionally offers 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 interested by 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’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 difficulty that bothers you.
- Swap fingers and repeat Steps 1 and a couple of.
Saul presents 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 individual immune system. There isn’t any vaccine, and even when one is fast-tracked, there can 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. “Nonetheless, 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 can be to make use of vitamin C.
“Vitamin C goes to strengthen your immune system. That is in each vitamin 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 charge 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 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 observe it. Most individuals that get coronavirus can have a light case; some can 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 truly are sick are going to have the flu and it will be a nasty flu — it will be depressing. Individuals shall be sick for every week or two. The folks prone to dying are usually the aged and people which are immune-compromised.
The media type of skirts round this however that is the place we now have to start out as a result of the concern is predicated on dying. And when we now have even a small quantity of vitamin C, our threat of dying — even in probably the most extreme instances — goes down.
It’s pneumonia and SARS that kills folks and vitamin C has been identified to be efficient in opposition to viral pneumonia because the Nineteen Forties when Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner printed 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 printed over 20 papers on this. The media has been silent on this remedy.”
On Vitamin C Dosing
Extra 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 likely one of the causes folks die from COVID-19 an infection, Marik’s vitamin C protocol could 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. Nonetheless, I might suggest taking even larger doses utilizing liposomal vitamin C should you’re taking it orally. Liposomal vitamin C will let you take a lot larger dosages with out getting unfastened 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 larger than intravenous vitamin C. I view that as an acute therapy, nevertheless.
I discourage folks from taking mega doses of vitamin C regularly if they are not really sick, as a result of it’s primarily 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 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 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 slightly 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 a number of folks and we’re getting extra reviews as we go.
We won’t get this into the mainstream media fairly but, nevertheless it’s most likely going to interrupt and probably by the point this report airs, it’s going to be throughout the united statesmedia. 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 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 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.”
Useful 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 executed for anybody having respiratory points or pneumonia.
For extra info, Saul suggests perusing the Shanghai authorities’s web site utilizing a web-based 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 reviews on numerous analysis findings previously six weeks.
“We’re consistently updating and we now have references to the literature and likewise 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 at the moment are 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 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 consider vitamin C’s antiviral potential is the results of its anti-inflammatory exercise.
Irritation contributes to the large 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 shall be, so I all the time 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 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 soak up vitamin C as a result of it is similar to glucose, it is virtually the identical measurement … 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 best way 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 numerous vitamin C … So, vitamin C may be very well-known to straight beef up the immune system by the white blood cells.”
Boosting NADPH Is Additionally Vital
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 de facto necessary for well being, as is inhibiting NADH oxidase (often called NOX). You may study extra about this in “Glycine Quells Oxidative Injury 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 helpful, rising NADPH is vital.
You probably 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, you need to watch out taking high-dose vitamin C.
“On the Riordan Clinic, based by Dr. Hugh Riordan, one among 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 fully as a free obtain at doctoryourself.com, that Individuals who have G6PD [deficiency syndrome] can take some vitamin C, they usually 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 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 day by day walks within the solar carrying nothing however a hat and shorts. So, the easiest way to find out your private dosage is to get examined and to take no matter dosage it’s essential 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 part 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 operate, 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 in opposition to COVID-19.
As defined by Seheult, strong immune operate is required on 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 would like is a brilliant 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 printed 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 equivalent to influenza. In a single GrassrootsHealth evaluation,9 these with a vitamin D degree of at the very least 40 ng/mL lowered 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 Perform
Magnesium is one other necessary immune booster. Along with taking oral magnesium or consuming plenty of greens that include it, one other technique to improve your magnesium degree is to take Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) baths.
“This can be 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 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 technique to get some magnesium.”
Yet one more little-known technique to get magnesium is thru molecular hydrogen tablets. The tablets include 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 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 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 Deal with Sore Throat and Colds
Chances are high, zinc lozenges are advisable when you could have 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 are taking vitamin D, vitamin C and zinc. So, we now have lastly, after seven weeks, gotten previous the accusation of false info 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 arduous 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 could have a fever, your physique turns into extra environment friendly at killing pathogens.
So, by taking a day by 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 residence. Saul agrees, saying:
“Practically 100 years in the past, Jethro Kloss, who wrote ‘Again to Eden,’ one of many early well being nut books, advisable synthetic fevers. They’d 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, form of the real American model of a sauna. Only one suggestion. Once you choose the rocks that you will superheat, ensure that 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 purple. 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’ll be able to construct the lodge. This can be a group exercise. You are going to need assistance to construct the lodge.”
For those who’re available in the market 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 now have to get the phrase out to people who prevention is working; vitamin C is working and we have not heard about it.” For instance, in Korea, the place the demise 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’ll be able to take from the consolation of your individual residence. Sources the place yow will discover 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 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 elements 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 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 overview board. So, once I say peer-reviewed, we actually imply it and I like having affiliation with medical doctors who use, suggest and stay good vitamin.”
