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Gwin Ru

14th May 2020, 18:24

Vitamin D determines severity in COVID-19: Researchers urge government to change advice (https://scitechdaily.com/vitamin-d-determines-severity-in-covid-19-researchers-urge-government-to-change-advice/)

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Trinity College Dublin researchers point to changes in government advice in Wales, England and Scotland.

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin are calling on the government in Ireland to change recommendations for vitamin D supplements.

A new publication from Dr. Eamon Laird and Professor Rose Anne Kenny, School of Medicine, and the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), in collaboration with Professor Jon Rhodes at University of Liverpool, highlights the association between vitamin D levels and mortality from COVID-19.

The authors of the article, just published in the Irish Medical Journal, analyzed all European adult population studies, completed since 1999, which measured vitamin D and compared vitamin D and death rates from COVID-19.

Vitamin D is produced in the skin from UVB sunlight exposure and is transported to the liver and then the kidney where it is changed into an active hormone that increases calcium transport from food in the gut and ensures calcium is adequate to keep the skeleton strong and free of osteoporosis.

But vitamin D can also support the immune system through a number of immune pathways involved in fighting SARS-CoV-2. Many recent studies confirm the pivotal role of vitamin D in viral infections.

This study shows that, counter intuitively, countries at lower latitude and typically sunny countries, such as Spain and Northern Italy, had low concentrations of vitamin D and high rates of vitamin D deficiency. These countries also experienced the highest infection and death rates in Europe.

The northern latitude countries of Norway, Finland, and Sweden, have higher vitamin D levels despite less UVB sunlight exposure, because supplementation and fortification of foods is more common. These Nordic countries have lower COVID-19 infection and death rates. The correlation between low vitamin D levels and death from COVID-19 is statistically significant.

The authors propose that, whereas optimizing vitamin D levels will certainly benefit bone and muscle health, the data suggests that it is also likely to reduce serious COVID-19 complications. This may be because vitamin D is important in regulation and suppression of the inflammatory cytokine response, which causes the severe consequences of COVID-19 and 'acute respiratory distress syndrome' associated with ventilation and death.

Professor Rose Anne Kenny said:
"In England, Scotland and Wales, public health bodies have revised recommendations since the COVID-19 outbreak. Recommendations now state that all adults should take at least 400 IU vitamin D daily. Whereas there are currently no results from randomized controlled trials to conclusively prove that vitamin D beneficially affects COVID-19 outcomes, there is strong circumstantial evidence of associations between vitamin D and the severity of COVID-19 responses, including death."

"This study further confirms this association. We call on the Irish government to update guidelines as a matter of urgency and encourage all adults to take supplements during the COVID-19 crisis. Deficiency is frequent in Ireland. Deficiency is most prevalent with age, obesity, in men, in ethnic minorities, in people with diabetes, hypertension and in nursing homes."
Dr. Eamon Laird added:
"Here we see observational evidence of a link of vitamin D with mortality. Optimizing vitamin D intake to public health guidelines will certainly have benefits for overall health and support immune function. Research like this is still exploratory and we need further trials to have concrete evidence on the level of vitamin D that is needed for optimal immune function. However, studies like this also remind us how low our vitamin D status is in the population (even in sunny countries) and adds further weight to some sort of mandatory vitamin D fortification policy. If the Nordic countries are allowed to do this, there is no reason Ireland, the UK or rest of Europe can't either."
Reference: "Vitamin D and Inflammation: Potential Implications for Severity of Covid-19" by E. Laird, J. Rhodes and R.A. Kenny, 11 May 2020, Irish Medical Journal.
Link (http://imj.ie/vitamin-d-and-inflammation-potential-implications-for-severity-of-covid-19/)

Related:

Vitamin D deficiency linked to COVID-19 deaths (https://www.sott.net/article/434105-Vitamin-D-deficiency-linked-to-COVID-19-deaths)

New studies show Vitamin D could be key factor in fighting Covid-19 infections (https://www.sott.net/article/434099-New-studies-show-Vitamin-D-could-be-key-factor-in-fighting-Covid-19-infections)

Focus on Vitamin D for COVID (and much more) (https://www.sott.net/article/433544-Focus-on-Vitamin-D-for-COVID-and-much-more)

COVID-19 and Vitamin D: We are losing something simple and very important by imposing lockdowns (https://www.sott.net/article/432330-COVID-19-and-Vitamin-D-We-are-losing-something-simple-and-very-important-by-imposing-lockdowns)

Bill Gates refuses to recommend nutrition (zinc, vitamin D, vitamin C) and instead focuses entirely on vaccines and police state tracking (https://www.sott.net/article/432036-Bill-Gates-refuses-to-recommend-nutrition-zinc-vitamin-D-vitamin-C-and-instead-focuses-entirely-on-vaccines-and-police-state-tracking)

How to get more vitamin D during the winter when the days shorten (https://www.sott.net/article/422594-How-to-get-more-vitamin-D-during-the-winter-when-the-days-shorten)

Elainie

15th May 2020, 18:08

Supplements/Covid stacks. This is what me and my family have been on since the end of February. The dosages are adjusted for my 8 year old who has a slightly different regime (he takes a kid dosage of A, D's and K's as well as kid EpiCor and so on).

Vitamin A, D, K's (we take this combo, it contains 5000mg of D).

Zinc, our dosage is 50 mg and is balanced with copper. My 8 year old uses ionic zinc and I put it in his food.

Quercetin, 500mg twice a day divided so it totals 1000 mgs a day

Glutathione, we use Glutathione Gold. CAPSULE Contains 200mg of S-Acetyl-Glutathione

Selenium 200mcg daily

NAC 1000mg

Vitamin C, 1 gram every few hours so it varies, some days I take 5000mg's, sometimes more. Liposomal and AA.

Elderberry syrup, homemade, 1 tablespoon

Iodine, we use both Lugol's and nascent, dose varies

EpiCor, an immune supplement, 1 pill per day.

Chaga grown on birch, 1 dropper daily

Edited to add I left out this we all take as well. E Annatto DeltaGold Tocotrienols 125mg Vitamin E

Other supplements we have on standby for issues, Clear Lungs, Oreganol, Plum Dragon Herbs Wen Bing which I will put a link to as well as EpiCor

https://plumdragonherbs.com/products/wen-bing-microbiota-defense-liquid-extract

https://www.epicorimmune.com/

pueblo

16th May 2020, 10:12

Sorrento Therapeutics claim to have found an antibody that binds to the SARS CoV-2 spike protein and eliminates it from the body within 4 days. Will be interesting to see if this is a mover or not.

Sorrento Therapeutics

STI-1499, A Potent Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibody, Demonstrates Ability To Completely Inhibit In Vitro Virus Infection In Preclinical Studies

May 15, 2020

STI-1499 Antibody has demonstrated in preclinical experiments (full results will be submitted to a peer-reviewed publication shortly):

- 100% inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection of healthy cells after four days incubation

- Specific binding to S1 subunit of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and complete blockade of its interaction with ACE2 receptor

SAN DIEGO, May 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRNE, "Sorrento") announced today that its anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody, STI-1499, demonstrated 100% inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in an in vitro virus infection experiment at a very low antibody concentration.

As recently announced, Sorrento aims to generate an antibody cocktail product that would act as a "protective shield" against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection and remain effective even if virus mutations render a single antibody therapy less effective over time.

Sorrento has been diligently screening billions of antibodies in its proprietary G-MAB TMfully human antibody library and has so far identified hundreds of antibody candidates that bind the S1 subunit of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein. Approximately one dozen of these antibodies have demonstrated the ability to block the S1 protein's interaction with human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), the receptor used for viral entrance into human cells. These blocking antibodies were further tested for their ability to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in an in vitro SARS-CoV-2 virus infection model pursuant to a preclinical testing agreement for COVID-19 therapeutic candidates that was previously announced on March 31, 2020 (Sorrento Therapeutics).

Among the antibodies showing neutralizing activity, one antibody stood out for its ability to completely block SARS-CoV-2 infection of healthy cells in the experiments. STI-1499 completely neutralized the virus infectivity at a very low antibody dose, making it a prime candidate for further testing and development. Initial biochemical and biophysical analyses also indicate STI-1499 is a potentially strong antibody drug candidate.

Sorrento has determined STI-1499 will likely be the first antibody in the antibody cocktail (COVI-SHIELD TM) it is developing, as recently announced. STI-1499 is also expected to be developed as a stand-alone therapy, (COVI-GUARD TM) because of the high potency it has exhibited in experiments to date. Sorrento plans to request priority evaluation and accelerated review from regulators to determine the best pathway to make any potential treatment available as soon as possible. Sorrento's existing state-of-the-art cGMP antibody manufacturing facility in San Diego is expected to be able to produce up to two hundred thousand doses per month and the Company intends to produce a million doses at risk while seeking FDA approval for any STI-1499 product candidate. The Company is seeking potential government support and pharmaceutical partners to further scale up STI-1499 manufacturing capacity with a goal of potentially providing tens of millions of doses in a short period of time to meet the vast projected demand.

"Our STI-1499 antibody shows exceptional therapeutic potential and could potentially save lives following receipt of necessary regulatory approvals. We at Sorrento are working day and night to complete the steps necessary to get this product candidate approved and available to the waiting public," stated Dr. Henry Ji, Chairman and CEO of Sorrento.

About Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc.

Sorrento is a clinical stage, antibody-centric, biopharmaceutical company developing new therapies to turn malignant cancers into manageable and possibly curable diseases. Sorrento's multimodal, multipronged approach to fighting cancer is made possible by its extensive immuno-oncology platforms, including key assets such as fully human antibodies ("G-MAB TMlibrary"), clinical stage immuno-cellular therapies ("CAR-T", "DAR-T"), antibody-drug conjugates ("ADCs"), and clinical stage oncolytic virus ("Seprehvir®"). Sorrento is also developing potential coronavirus antiviral therapies and vaccines, including COVIDTRAPTM, ACE-MABTM, COVI-MAB TM, COVI-GUARD TM, COVI-SHIELD TMand COVI-CELL TM. Sorrento's commitment to life-enhancing therapies for patients is also demonstrated by our effort to advance a first-in-class (TRPV1 agonist) non-opioid pain management small molecule, resiniferatoxin ("RTX"), and ZTlido® (lidocaine topical system) 1.8% for the treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia. RTX is completing a phase IB trial for intractable pain associated with cancer and a phase 1B trial in osteoarthritis patients. ZTlido® was approved by the FDA on February 28, 2018.
For more information, visit www.sorrentotherapeutics.com

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release and any statements made for and during any presentation or meeting contain forward-looking statements related to Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc., under the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the potency and potential blocking capabilities of STI-1499 and the impact on SARS-CoV-2, the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and viral entry; the expected

length of any antiviral protection provided by STI-1499; the potential administration and applications of STI-1499; the potential for STI-1499 to protect against future mutations of coronavirus; the preclinical testing of STI-1499; the safety and efficacy of STI-1499; the readiness of Sorrento's cGMP facilities for large-scale production of STI-1499 for commercialization and Sorrento's expected capacity to produce drug substance; the expected time needed for Sorrento's cGMP facilities to produce doses of STI-1499; the potential inclusion of STI-1499 in the antibody cocktail (COVI-SHIELDTM) that Sorrento is developing and its development as a stand-alone therapy; the therapeutic potential of STI-1499 for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease and any potential ability to save lives; and Sorrento's potential position in the antiviral industry. Risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in our forward-looking statements, include, but are not limited to: risks related to Sorrento's and its subsidiaries', affiliates' and partners' technologies and prospects and collaborations with partners, including, but not limited to risks related to conducting pre-clinical studies and seeking IND regulatory approval for STI-1499; conducting and receiving results of clinical trials for STI-1499; the clinical and commercial success of STI-1499 against preventing and treating SARS-CoV-2 virus infections; the viability and success of STI-1499 in anti-viral therapeutic areas, including coronaviruses; clinical development risks, including risks in the progress, timing, cost, and results of clinical trials and product development programs; risk of difficulties or delays in obtaining regulatory approvals; risks that clinical study results may not meet any or all endpoints of a clinical study and that any data generated from such studies may not support a regulatory submission or approval; risks of manufacturing and supplying drug product; risks related to leveraging the expertise of its employees, subsidiaries, affiliates and partners to assist the company in the execution of its COVID-19 therapeutic product candidates strategies; risks related to Sorrento's debt obligations; risks related to
the global impact of COVID-19; and other risks that are described in Sorrento's most recent periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Sorrento's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risk factors set forth in those filings. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release and we undertake no obligation to update any forward- looking statement in this press release except as required by law.

Contact

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ZTlido® is a trademark owned by Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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Gwin Ru

16th May 2020, 20:40

STUDY: 973 of 1061 Cured in Days – Treatment of COVID-19 patients with Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin (https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/05/study-973-of-1061-cured-in-days-treatment-of-covid-19-patients-with-hydroxychloroquine-and-azithromycin/)

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A total of 1061 patients were included in this analysis (46.4% male, mean age 43.6 years – range 14–95 years). Good clinical outcome and virological cure were obtained in 973 patients within 10 days (91.7%)

Abstract

Background
In France, the combination hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZ) is used in the treatment of COVID-19.

Methods
We retrospectively report on 1061 SARS-CoV-2 positive tested patients treated for at least three days with the following regimen: HCQ (200 mg three times daily for ten days) + AZ (500 mg on day 1 followed by 250 mg daily for the next four days). Outcomes were death, clinical worsening (transfer to ICU, and >10 day hospitalization) and viral shedding persistence (>10 days).

Results
A total of 1061 patients were included in this analysis (46.4% male, mean age 43.6 years – range 14–95 years). Good clinical outcome and virological cure were obtained in 973 patients within 10 days (91.7%). Prolonged viral carriage was observed in 47 patients (4.4%) and was associated to a higher viral load at diagnosis (p < .001) but viral culture was negative at day 10. All but one, were PCR-cleared at day 15. A poor clinical outcome (PClinO) was observed for 46 patients (4.3%) and 8 died (0.75%) (74–95 years old). All deaths resulted from respiratory failure and not from cardiac toxicity. Five patients are still hospitalized (98.7% of patients cured so far). PClinO was associated with older age (OR 1.11), severity of illness at admission (OR 10.05) and low HCQ serum concentration. PClinO was independently associated with the use of selective beta-blocking agents and angiotensin II receptor blockers (p < .05). A total of 2.3% of patients reported mild adverse events (gastrointestinal or skin symptoms, headache, insomnia and transient blurred vision).

Conclusion
Administration of the HCQ+AZ combination before COVID-19 complications occur is safe and associated with a very low fatality rate in patients.
https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/05/study-973-of-1061-cured-in-days-treatment-of-covid-19-patients-with-hydroxychloroquine-and-azithromycin/

Keywords
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine
Azithromycin

Read the full scientific article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893920302179

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Why do they keep omitting a zinc supplement!?

Elainie

16th May 2020, 21:19

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20200512-exclusive-madagascar-s-president-defends-controversial-homegrown-covid-19-cure?fbclid=IwAR0Nry19Uf7NiGrKmVpWGlMbWsx1yFJp9hWJbylGIsHSvhnr1a5Gm9Z3YJ8&ref=fb

In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 and RFI, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina defended his promotion of a controversial homegrown remedy for Covid-19 despite an absence of clinical trials. "It works really well," he said of the herbal drink Covid-Organics. Rajoelina claimed that if a European country had discovered the remedy, people would not be so sceptical.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has repeatedly warned that the Covid-Organics drink, which Madagascar's Rajoelina has touted as a remedy against the deadly coronavirus, has not been clinically tested.

"What if this remedy had been discovered by a European country, instead of Madagascar? Would people doubt it so much? I don't think so," the president told FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman and RFI's Christophe Boisbouvier.

The drink is derived from artemisia – a plant with proven anti-malarial properties – and other indigenous herbs.

"What is the problem with Covid-Organics, really? Could it be that this product comes from Africa? Could it be that it's not OK for a country like Madagascar, which is the 63rd poorest country in the world... to have come up with (this formula) that can help save the world?" asked Rajoelina, who claims the infusion cures patients within ten days.

>> Covid-19 in Madagascar: The president’s controversial ‘miracle cure’

Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Niger and Tanzania have already taken delivery of consignments of Covid-Organics, which was launched last month.

"No one will stop us from moving forward – not a country, not an organisation," Rajoelina said in response to the WHO's concerns.

He said the proof of the tonic's efficacy was in the "healing" of "our patients", calling it a "preventive and curative remedy".

Rajoelina said Madagascar has reported 171 coronavirus infections and 105 recoveries to date, with no deaths.

"The patients who have healed have taken no other product than Covid-Organics," the president added.

Reminding viewers that Madagascar has a long history of traditional medicine, Rajoelina pointed out that many pharmaceutical drugs authorised in the West have turned out to be harmful, such as the Mediator weight loss drug in France.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)

Sarah Rainsong

18th May 2020, 00:05

Herbalist Stephen Harold Buhner has released his latest article on Covid: PLANT-BASED INTERVENTIONS FOR CORONAVIRUS (SARS-COV-2)
(And the Necessity for Sophisticated, Organ-Specific Treatments) (https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/coronavirus-1.pdf)

The illness went on and on. The symptoms changed, it was like an advent
calendar, every day there was a surprise, something new. A muggy head; acutely
painful calf; upset stomach; tinnitus; pins and needles; aching all over;
breathlessness; dizziness; arthritis in my hands; weird sensation in the skin with
synthetic materials. Gentle exercise or walking made me worse – I would feel
absolutely dreadful the next day.
Paul Garner, Professor of Infectious Diseases,
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before.
Nick Caputo, MD

This article is going to go into quite a bit more depth than the one I posted the first of March,
2020 – nevertheless, it will not be nearly so complete as my work on the Lyme-group of
organisms. And while I will list a number of journal papers and articles in the reference section,
it will be far less comprehensive than those included in my medical herbals. Still, this should
give a decent overview with better complexity about what is now known and how treatment can
best be approached with herbal medicines.

It is 80 pages long, so not going to copy it here. I'm not feeling that well myself, so I haven't finished it and can't comment on it at the moment, but thought others might like to read it.

Elainie

18th May 2020, 02:13

Sunny

18th May 2020, 02:14

leavesoftrees

18th May 2020, 11:05

Sarah Rainsong

18th May 2020, 15:44

I'm working my way through the paper today, and thought I'd share this particular snippet in regards to the virus itself:
At first it was believed that the virus was a typical, although unique, respiratory pathogen.
It isn’t. The virus can in many people become systemic, affecting many other organs in the body.
This is because ACE2 is widely distributed throughout all the body’s tissues. As Hamming, et al
(2004) noted in their exploration of SARS and ACE2:

Since identifying the possible route of infection has major implications for
understanding the pathogenesis and future treatment strategies for SARS, the
present study investigated the localization of ACE2 protein in various human
organs (oral and nasal mucosa, nasopharynx, lung, stomach, small intestine,
colon, skin, lymph nodes, thymus, bone marrow, spleen, liver, kidney, and brain).
The most remarkable finding was the surface expression of ACE2 protein on lung
alveolar epithelial cells and enterocytes of the small intestine. Furthermore,
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ACE2 was present in arterial and venous endothelial cells and arterial smooth
muscle cells in all organs studied. In conclusion, ACE2 is abundantly present in
humans . . .
Because ACE2 is present throughout the body, the virus can, theoretically, affect any location in
which those receptors exist. Again, at this point in time, the lungs, kidneys, GI tract, heart, blood
vessels, skin, the eyes and liver/gall bladder are known to be common infection sites.

Also,

The symptom picture he paints, and how wide ranging the effects of the virus are, are extremely disturbing. He clearly states that the virus is alive and intelligent. That it modifies its line of attack by communicating with other viruses and bacteria in the host and determining what they have done. It sounds as though a microscopic Terminator has been let loose
Don't let his description cause fear. Buhner explains his views on viruses in much greater detail in his book Herbal Antivirals, which I will include an exert from below.

Suffice to say that yes, he does believe that viruses are real and can reason--though differently than we do. What that means is that they are not to be feared but to be respected--something which modern, Western medicine refuses to do. Western medicine and pharmaceuticals attack indiscriminately and this causes an imbalance in our body, which is an ecosystem in itself. And when ecosystems are out of balance, bad things happen.

This is a basic overview of Buhner's views on viruses:

"To begin with, if you have ever read much about viruses, or if you have looked closely at some of the words I have used while writing this, you might have noted that many people refer to viruses as “particles.”

There is a widely held belief among scientists that viruses are not alive. Many insist that they are merely organic structures that interact with living organisms. Some say they are “organisms at the edge of life” but really aren’t organisms in any meaningful sense. This is, they say, because they lack a cellular structure, don’t have their own metabolism, and can only reproduce inside cellular structures — and besides they don’t use cellular division to do it either.

If asked where the definition of life comes from, a definition that precludes viruses, biologists will admit, under duress, that people invented the definition but nevertheless, it’s true anyway.

(This explains why manufacturers put a warning label on those sun shields people occasionally place in the front windows of their cars to protect the interior from the sun: “Warning: do not drive with shield in place.”)

Oddly enough some bacteria such as rickettsia and chlamydia are considered bacteria and thus living despite having similar limitations. (And the Earth is not alive, though it may “act” like a living system. Why? Because it consumes its own waste, which, as everyone knows, living organisms never do . . . apparently they have not met my neighbor’s dog.)....

Viruses, unlike bacteria, have no nucleus and no cell wall. They are the minimum of life honed to a structural simplicity. Though there are many kinds, in general, a virus is a strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a mathematically elegant polyhedron, called a capsid, whose shape is virus specific.

For what are called “enveloped” viruses, the capsid is surrounded by one or more protein envelopes. This simplified structure makes them different than bacteria, for example, but no less alive.

They are a unique life form (but that is no reason to discriminate against them). They are very much like seeds (or spores): They only grow when they find the right soil in which to do so. And like seeds, even though in a suspended state, they constantly monitor the exterior world around them....

Viruses have a highly sophisticated capacity to sense the environment around them, to determine its nature, to find the cellular organisms within which they can most easily reproduce, and to then stimulate the organisms in which those cells reside in order to spread the viruses to new hosts.

And they are very good at surviving. They can analyze the nature of the immune response that occurs against them and they can alter themselves — or alter the host immune defense itself — in order to avoid it.

They can reason by any useful definition of the term, that is: analyze inputs and create new behaviors based on what they have determined the meaning of those inputs to be."

Ernie Nemeth

18th May 2020, 16:33

AutumnW

18th May 2020, 18:04

Big Pharma Beware: Dr. Montagnier Shines New Light on COVID-19 and The Future of Medicine (https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/05/big-pharma-beware-dr-montagnier-shines-new-light-on-covid-19-and-the-future-of-medicine/)

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This April 16th, Dr. Luc Montagnier became a household name around the world. This occurred as the controversial virologist decided to publicly state his support for the theory that Covid-19 is indeed a laboratory-generated creation and not a naturally occurring effect of viral evolution.

Referring to a study (https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/02/01/research-paper-by-indian-scientists-on-coronavirus-fuels-bioweapon-theories.html)published at the Kusama School of Biology in New Dehli on January 31st, Montagnier (the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for his 1983 discovery of the HIV virus) made the point that the specific occurrence of HIV RNA viral segments spliced surgically within the COVID-19 genome could not have originated naturally and he described it in the following words:
“We have carefully analyzed the description of the genome of this RNA virus. We weren’t the first, a group of Indian researchers tried to publish a study showing that the complete genome of this virus that has within the sequences of another virus: that of HIV.”While the Indian team was induced to retract their publication under immense pressure from the mainstream medical establishment (which never bothered to seriously refute the content of the study’s research but rather used the “random-mutation-makes-anything-possible” argument), Montagnier stated “scientific truth always emerges”.

Not China: Montagnier Misdiagnoses the Culprit
Montagnier’s political ignorance became all too clear when he was asked who the culprit could possibly be.

By asserting his belief that China’s BSL4 lab in Wuhan was the source, Montagnier has fallen into a trap set by Anglo-American Intelligence circles which have been promoting a military confrontation between the USA and China for a very long time.

Now even though Montagnier denies that China released this virus with malicious intent (unlike many fanatical droves of neoconservatives currently itching for war), the “Wuhan Lab origin” hypothesis completely ignores the reality of the Pentagon’s globally extended 25 bioweapons laboratories (http://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/) which have openly created novel coronaviruses including varieties that arose in bats as journalist Whitney Webb’s remarkable February 2020 paper (https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/03/02/bats-gene-editing-and-bioweapons-recent-darpa-experiments-raise-concerns-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/) demonstrated.

Even though a 2014-2017 temporary ban on “dual-use” funding was imposed onto America’s bioweapons research, nothing prevented this work from occurring internationally or even covertly within the 11 military labs on American soil itself and tied to the same Fort Detrick that was shut down in July 2019 under suspicious circumstances. As I pointed out in my previous paper The Project for a New American Century, 9/11 and Bioweapons (https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/08/project-new-american-century-and-age-bioweapons-20-years-psychological-terror/), over $50 billion has been spent on bioweapons research since 2001 which the Project for a New American Century manifesto claimed would play a major role in the arsenal of 21st century warfare stating:
“advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool”.Luc Montagnier’s Wave Therapy: Quackery or Brilliance?
The most powerful aspect of Montagnier’s April 16th intervention into world politics in my view is not really found in his support for the laboratory-origins theory, but rather in the scientist’s often overlooked proposition for an international crash program in something called electromagnetic wave therapy. Rather than investing in vaccines, Montagnier has explained that it were much wiser for nations of the world to launch a crash project into a very different approach to viral treatments than is currently common in polite society saying:
“I think we can make interference waves which are behind the RNA sequences that can eliminate those sequences with waves and consequently stop the pandemic”Before brushing this off as “quackery” as so many are wont to do, one should keep in mind that President Trump himself has indicated his interest in Montagnier’s approach in his April 23 (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-floats-using-uv-light-or-disinfectant-injections-to-treat-covid-19-patients)rd briefing (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-floats-using-uv-light-or-disinfectant-injections-to-treat-covid-19-patients)telling reporters:
“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous … whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light. And I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you are going to test it… And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you are going to test it.”While Trump has been vilely attacked as “unscientific” for these utterances, it is only due to the vast ignorance of Montagnier’s incredible discoveries into the electromagnetic properties of life that such mockery can go unchallenged. Montagnier’s innovations into “bleaching therapy” which Trump referenced in the same speech are also much more complex than mainstream detractors assume and has nothing to do with simply “injecting”disinfectants into the blood stream. These therapies are highly interconnected with the electromagnetic waves emitted by certain types of bacteria which Montagnier has discovered to be the most likely driving mechanism to many of the diseases both chronic and acute plaguing humanity. More will be said on that below.

What is Optical Biophysics and What did Montagnier Discover?
Optical biophysics is the study of the electromagnetic properties of the physics of life. This means paying attention to the light emissions and absorption frequencies from cells, DNA, and molecules of organic matter, how these interface with water (making up over 75% of a human body) and moderated by the nested array of magnetic fields located on the quantum level and stretching up to the galactic level.

Not to discount the bio-chemical nature of life which is hegemonic in the health science realm, the optical biophysician asks: which of these is PRIMARY in growth, replication, and division of labor of individual cells or entire species of organisms? Is it the chemical attributes of living matter or the electromagnetic properties?
Let me explain the paradox a bit more.

There are approximately 40 trillion highly differentiated cells in the average human body, each performing very specific functions and requiring an immense field of coherence and intercommunication. Every second approximately 10 million of those cells die, to be replaced by 10 million new cells being born. Many of those cells are made up of bacteria, and much of the DNA and RNA within those cells is made up of viruses (mostly dormant), but which can be activated/deactivated by a variety of methods both chemical and electromagnetic.

Here’s the big question:

HOW might this complex system be maintained by chemical processes alone- either over the course of a day, month or an entire lifetime?

The simple physics of motion of enzymes which carry information in the body from one location to another simply doesn’t come close to accounting for the information coordination required among all parts. This is where Montagnier’s research comes in.

After winning the 2008 Nobel Prize, Dr. Montagnier published a revolutionary yet heretical 2010 paper called “DNA Waves and Water” (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230937823_DNA_waves_and_water)which took the medical community by storm. In this paper, Montagnier demonstrated how low frequency electromagnetic radiation within the radio wave part of the spectrum was emitted from bacterial and viral DNA and how said light was able to both organize water and transmit information! The results of his experiments were showcased wonderfully in this 8 min video:

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Using a photo-amplifying device invented by Dr. Jacques Benveniste in the 1980s to capture the ultra low light emissions from cells, Montagnier filtered out all particles of bacterial DNA from a tube of water and discovered that the post-filtered solutions containing no material particles continued to emit ultra low frequency waves! This became more fascinating when Montagnier showed that under specific conditions of a 7 Hz background field (the same as the Schumann resonance which naturally occurs between the earth’s surface and the ionosphere), the non-emitting tube of water that had never received organic material could be induced to emit frequencies when placed in close proximity with the emitting tube! Even more interesting is that when base proteins, nucleotides and polymers (building blocks of DNA) were put into the pure water, near perfect clones of the original DNA were formed!

Dr. Montagnier and his team hypothesized that the only way for this to happen was if the DNA’s blueprint was somehow imprinted into the very structure of water itself resulting in a form of “water memory” that had earlier been pioneered by Jacques Benveniste, the results of which are showcased in this incredible 2014 documentary “Water Memory”.

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An alternate link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHepnbaFrlY) for those outside the country restrictions for the above video.

Just as Benveniste suffered one of the most ugly witch hunts in modern times (led in large measure by Nature Magazine in 1988), Montagnier’s Nobel prize did not protect him from a similar fate as an international slander campaign has followed him over the past 10 years of his life. Nearly 40 Nobel prize winners have signed a petition (https://www.ouest-france.fr/sante/vaccins-une-petition-denonce-les-propos-dangereux-du-nobel-luc-montagnier-5385106) denouncing Montagnier for his heresy and the great scientist was forced to even flee Europe to escape what he described as a culture of “intellectual terror”. In response to this slander, Montagnier stated to LaCroix magazine:
“I’m used to attacks from these academics who are just retired bureaucrats, closed off from all innovation. I have the scientific proofs of what I say”.
Describing the greatest challenges to advancing this research, Montagnier stated:
“We have chosen to work with the private sector because no funds could come from public institutions. The Benveniste case has made it so that anyone who takes an interest in the memory of water is considered… I mean it smells of sulphur. It’s Hell.”Casting Montagnier’s Research in a New Light
In a 2011 interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjIRGzztVAc), Dr. Montagnier recapitulated the consequences of his discoveries:
“The existence of a harmonic signal emanating from DNA can help to resolve long-standing questions about cell development, for example how the embryo is able to make its manifold transformations, as if guided by an external field. If DNA can communicate its essential information to water by radio frequency, then non-material structures will exist within the watery environment of the living organism, some of them hiding disease signals and others involved in the healthy development of the organism.”With these insights in mind, Montagnier has discovered that many of the frequencies of EM emissions from a wide variety of microbial DNA is also found in the blood plasmas of patients suffering from influenza A, Hepatitis C, and even many neurological diseases not commonly thought of as bacteria-influenced such as Parkinsons, Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumathoid Arthritis and Alzheimers. In recent years, Montagnier’s teams even found certain signals in the blood plasmas of people with autism and several varieties of cancers!

Over a dozen French doctors have taken Montagnier’s ideas seriously enough to prescribe antibiotics to treat autism over the course of six years and in opposition to conventional theories, have found that amidst 240 patients treated, 4 out of 5 saw their symptoms either dramatically regress or disappear completely (https://www.lymedisease.org/news-treating-autism-antibiotics/)!

These results imply again that certain hard-to-detect species of light emitting microbes are closer to the cause of these ills than the modern pharmaceutical industry would like to admit.

A New Domain of Thinking: Why Big Pharma Should Be Afraid
As the filmed 2014 experiment demonstrated (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8VyUsVOic0), Montagnier went even further to demonstrate that the frequencies of wave emissions within a filtrate located in a French laboratory can be recorded and emailed to another laboratory in Italy where that same harmonic recording was infused into tubes of non-emitting water causing the Italian tubes to slowly begin emitting signals! These DNA frequencies were then able to structure the Italian water tubes from the parent source a thousand miles away resulting in a 98% exact DNA replica!

Standing as we are, on the cusp of so many exciting breakthroughs in medical science, we should ask: what could these results mean for the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industrial complex which relies on keeping the world locked into a practice of chemical drugs and vaccines?

Speaking to this point, Montagnier stated:
“The day that we admit that signals can have tangible effects, we will use them. From that moment on we will be able to treat patients with waves. Therefore it’s a new domain of medicine that people fear of course. Especially the pharmaceutical industry… one day we will be able to treat cancers using frequency waves.”Montagnier’s friend and collaborator Marc Henry a professor of Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics at the University of Strasbourg stated:
“If we treat with frequencies and not with medicines it becomes extremely cost effective regarding the amount of money spent. We spend a lot of money to find the frequencies, but once they have been found, it costs nothing to treat.”Whether produced in a lab as Montagnier asserts or having appeared naturally as Nature Magazine asserts, the fact remains that the current coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a collapse of the world financial system and forced the leaders of the world to discuss the reality of a needed new paradigm and new world economic order. Whether that new system will be driven by Pharmaceutical cartels, and sociopathic bankers running global health policy for a technocratic elite of social engineers or whether it will be driven by nation states shaping the terms of that new system around human needs, remains to be seen.

If nation states manage to stay in the driver’s seat of this new system, then it will have to be driven by certain fundamental principles of healthcare for all, science practice reform and broader political/economic reform whereby the sacredness of human life is placed above all considerations of monetary profit. In this light, such crash programs into long term projects in space science, asteroid defense, and Lunar/Mars development will be as necessary in the astrophysical domain as crash programs in fusion energy will be in the atomic domain. Uniting both worlds, is the domain of life sciences that intersects the electromagnetic properties of atoms, cells and DNA with the large scale electromagnetic properties of the Earth, Sun and galaxy as a whole.

Footnote
The author gave a lecture on the future revolutions in optical biophysics which can be viewed here:

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Related:

Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize Winner, Takes Homeopathy Seriously (https://www.sott.net/article/222902-Luc-Montagnier-Nobel-Prize-Winner-Takes-Homeopathy-Seriously)

Nobel winning scientist who discovered HIV claims SARS-CoV-2 virus is MAN-MADE (https://www.sott.net/article/433047-Nobel-winning-scientist-who-discovered-HIV-claims-SARS-CoV-2-virus-is-MAN-MADE)

New water memory research may lead to a better understanding of Homeopathic medicine (https://www.sott.net/article/393269-New-water-memory-research-may-lead-to-a-better-understanding-of-Homeopathic-medicine)

New science says DNA begins as a quantum wave form (https://www.sott.net/article/340595-New-science-says-DNA-begins-as-a-quantum-wave-form)

Nobel Prize Winner Claims DNA Teleports (https://www.sott.net/article/221727-Nobel-Prize-Winner-Claims-DNA-Teleports)

Nobel laureate to test link between autism and infection (https://www.sott.net/article/219573-Nobel-laureate-to-test-link-between-autism-and-infection)

What a fascinating article. Haven't finished it yet, but really look forward to reading it. Think he's on to something. Ultra sound is used to blast kidney stones so why not other types of vibrations finely tuned to knock out specific viruses?

AutumnW

18th May 2020, 18:30

Wow, that was scary.

Not in rebuttal, but to put in a larger perspective:
Q: What is the largest organ of the body?
A: Did you know that science has very recently found that the fascia, the lining most commonly seen in a processed whole chicken (that sticky thin layer often left behind by the process) is the largest single organ in the body, extending to every organ and system...
It is considered, among other things, to be a disposal route for particles too toxic to transport through the blood. It is also thought to facilitate communication between the various processes in the body.

https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/interstitium.php

They can reason by any useful definition of the term, that is: analyze inputs and create new behaviors based on what they have determined the meaning of those inputs to be.

And this sounds a bit anthropomorphized.

Fascia is fascianating! If you have any kind of disease that strikes that part of the body, you will ache all over, or have pretty severe pain and it can be pretty much everywhere. I wonder if people with severe fibromyalgia experience this? The pain they have can be excruciating and is poorly understood, and perhaps because the role of the fascia hasn't been studied as thoroughly as other organs of the body.

Viruses may be conscious but think differently than we do...hard to say. dna and rna are merely encoded instruction sets, living blue prints that morph, reacting to their environment. The reactions may be reflexive, not requiring thought as we define thought as self aware consciousness.

But who knows, really? If you have ever dropped acid, you get the feeling that everything is alive, pulsating with a kind of consciousness that is inaccessible to us in the day to day realm and that kind of aliveness extends to everything, including rocks. Hard not to become an animist after witnessing that.

Jean-Luc

18th May 2020, 23:13

BREAKING: Researchers claim 100 percent cure rate vs. covid-19 in 100+ patient trial conducted in Ecuador, using intravenous chlorine dioxide

(Hint : Doesn't this remind you of Jim Humble back in 2008 ?)
Also check Dr Judy Mikovits' good interview by Mike Adams of at the end of the article
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Monday, May 18, 2020 by: Mike Adams
Tags: Andreas Kalcker, chlorine dioxide, Clinical trials, ClO2, coronavirus, covid-19, oxygen
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(Natural News) Preliminary data from a clinical trial involving more than 100 covid-19 patients in Ecuador has resulted in a claimed 100 cure rate within four days, according to Andreas Kalcker who is closely following the results of the effort. The tests were carried out by the Asociacion Ecuatoriana de Medicos Expertos en Medicina Integrativa, a group of integrative medicine practitioners.

Ecuador has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus, and the current “standard of care” promoted by Western medicine — largely based on the use of ventilators — has been killing the vast majority of critical patients while utterly failing to address the real root of the problem.

Covid-19 isn’t an Acute Respiratory Disease (ARD), it turns out. Rather, it often presents as an inflammation and blood clotting condition (see The Lancet research, below) which causes the blood to be unable to carry oxygen, resulting in patient hypoxia and eventual asphyxiation.

This is why intravenous chlorine dioxide — which immediately delivers a high dose of oxygen to blood cells — is believed to work so effectively against covid-19. It reportedly restores the oxygen-carrying capacity of hemoglobin and clears the clotting in the lungs, all while destroying pathogens.

Chlorine dioxide researcher and advocate Andreas Kalcker has posted a video (in Spanish) where he explains the findings. That video, entitled, “Mas de 100 Casos de Covid-19 recuperados con CDS por medicos de Aememi,” is found at this link on Lbry.tv.

A video embed is offered here: (15 min)

In the video, Andreas explains that researchers were able to achieve a complete cure in just four days through the use of intravenous chlorine dioxide (ClO2). Here’s a photo of some of the researchers holding syringes of chlorine dioxide, which is then infused into the patients’ blood, where it releases a wave of oxygen that researchers believe saturates the blood with O2 while killing pathogens:

Another clinical trial involving chlorine dioxide is currently under way, documented by the US National Library of Medicine at ClinicalTrials.gov. The study uses oral chlorine dioxide (rather than intravenous) and is entitled, “Determination of the Effectiveness of Oral Chlorine Dioxide in the Treatment of COVID 19.” The trial is being conducted by the Genesis Foundation and involves 20 patients.

The ClinicalTrials.gov identifier for that trial is NCT04343742.

Andreas Kalcker explains in his video that chlorine dioxide is a powerful disinfectant that destroys viruses and bacteria. The substance has long been used in water purification processes and is approved by various US government agencies for as a water treatment and purification agent.

This video frame shows blood cells being flooded with oxygen from ClO2, instantly reducing clotting / coagulation:

Covid-19 is not an acute respiratory disease

In another bombshell science paper published May 7, 2020, in The Lancet, researchers Dennis McGonagle and others determined that covid-19 is not a respiratory disease but rather “diffuse pulmonary intravascular coagulopathy,” a kind of blood clotting that presents in lung tissue.

This explains why patients with covid-19 are dying from hypoxia (lack of oxygen) and are frequently killed by the use of ventilators. As an ICU doctor from New York warned months ago, doctors are treating the wrong disease. (That doctor’s YouTube channel was deleted and all his videos were censored, of course. No one is allowed to question medical orthodoxy in the medical police state known as the United States of America.)

Study authors also found the inflammation triggers a worsening of the condition, which implies that anti-inflammatory interventions might be the key to saving lives and ending the pandemic. From the study:

The immune mechanism underlying diffuse alveolar and pulmonary interstitial inflammation in COVID-19 involves a MAS-like state that triggers extensive immunothrombosis…

MAS stands for Macrophage Activation Syndrome, and it is an inflammatory response stemming from an over-reactive immune response, similar to the “cytokine storm” that’s being widely discussed (which vitamin C helps prevent, according to published research). As the study explains:

The severity of systemic inflammation in response to human coronavirus family members has features reminiscent of a cytokine storm or macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), also known as secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistocytosis (sHLH).

Figure 1 from the study:

To simplify these findings, covid-19 is not acute viral pneumonia impacting the respiratory system but rather an inflammation-based immunological response that leads to thrombosis (clotting in the lungs) which kills the patient. The use of ventilators only makes the problem worse, which is why previous observational studies have found that 88% of patients put on ventilators end up dying. They are dying because the ventilator treatment is the wrong treatment.

Chlorine dioxide is reportedly saving 100 percent of the patients studied so far because chlorine dioxide floods the blood with instantly usable oxygen while killing the pathogens responsible for clotting. There is also anecdotal evidence that some people are beating covid-19 infections with high doses of aspirin, a blood thinner, although this information should not be taken as advice for treatment, and far more research is needed on blood thinners and anti-inflammatory interventions.

This may also help explain why turmeric and vitamin D are associated with strong reductions in inflammation in the body, which may prove useful in balancing the immune response and preventing the kind of imbalance that can lead to immune system overreactions.
The criminal medical cartels are censoring all treatments and cures that work to save lives

Notably, the criminal Big Pharma cartels and corrupt government regulators (like the FDA, FTC, CDC) are going out of their way to try to criminalize or suppress any non-vaccine, non-pharma solutions that might save lives. Over the last month, we’ve all witnessed an astonishing level of aggression and mafia-style tactics used by the FDA and FTC against pioneering researchers offering a variety of possible solutions, from colloidal silver to chlorine dioxide and even intravenous vitamin C.

They’ve even declared war on hydroxychloroquine and the medical establishment has been engineering clinical trials which are designed to fail from the start in order to discredit the off-patent, affordable drug.

There is no doubt that Big Pharma’s obedient government lackeys are at war with truth and are desperately trying to suppress information about natural cures and integrative treatments that might eliminate covid-19 before vaccines can be made available.

The techno-fascist tech giants like Facebook, Google, Vimeo, YouTube and Twitter are all-in with Big Pharma, going out of their way to censor and destroy all information that criticizes vaccines or offers wisdom about natural treatments or integrative medicine interventions. This criminal cabal of Big Tech and Big Pharma is the enemy of humanity, as they are deliberately working to worsen the pandemic, increase suffering and death and extend the punishing lockdowns for as long as possible in order to cause several economic damage while preparing the masses for mandatory vaccines.

We are all witnessing a powerful criminal gang of corporations and regulators who are deliberately seeking to destroy human society as we know it today, and they are the gatekeepers of information on the ‘net (and in the news). This is why we are repeating our call for the CEOs of all the top tech giants to be arrested and charged with crimes against humanity, then prosecuted in a court of law. Over the weekend, a member of Italy’s Parliament gave a rousing speech in which she labeled Bill Gates a “vaccine criminal” and demanded he be arrested and charged with crimes against humanity.

Such efforts should not be limited to Bill Gates, however. They must include the criminals of other tech giants as well as the corrupt, anti-human criminals running the FDA, FTC and CDC, among others. Their crimes against humanity must not go unanswered, and they must be held accountable in a court of law.

The destructive, anti-human agendas of Big Pharma and Big Tech are incompatible with human freedom and a sustainable human civilization. These anti-human institutions must be permanently dismantled, and humanity must rise up against this threat in the same way we once awakened against the Third Reich and the rise of Nazi fascism and the Holocaust.

Right now, Big Pharma, Big Tech, the FDA and the CDC are plotting to kill billions of human beings with an engineered bioweapon, a risky vaccine, and high-fatality prescription drugs that make people more vulnerable to covid-19. These enemies of humanity must be stopped, and the truth about chlorine dioxide must be set free so that human beings can be saved from suffering and death.

To learn more about the establishment’s war on truth (and war on humanity), watch my recent interview with Dr. Judy Mikovits (1 hour), who has also been subjected to extreme censorship for raising the alarm about how vaccines are spreading infectious disease.

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Gwin Ru

19th May 2020, 01:09

Yep!
It looks like anything that effectively and efficiently treats malaria (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?110345-Did-anyone-seem-to-catch-Covid-19-in-October--December-last-year&p=1353608&viewfull=1#post1353608) is also good for the covid 19... I wouldn't be surprised if the DIY videos on how to make CDS start disappearing.

Eric J (Viking)

19th May 2020, 08:17

Trump taking hydroxychloroquine

BATTLE FOR WORLD | May 18, 2020: The anti-viral drug hydroxychloroquine is used to both prevent and treat malaria and other forms of autoimmune diseases, and the US President Donald Trump on Monday (May 18) has praised it as a possible “game changer” in combating coronavirus Covid-19.

Trump revealed on Monday’s forum with restaurant executives that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against COVID-19 – that he takes “a pill every day”.

Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH (National Institutes of Health) does not support the usage of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19 because he says its ineffective. It’s strange that he has taken such a position, because Russia, China, etc. are using the drug to treat COVID-19 in the early stage of infection with success, but once the immune system is taken over by pathogens, the drug is ineffective.

Also, the refusal in recommending hydroxychloroquine is because the drug is not under patent restrictions and is manufactured in other countries. Drugs under patents are embraced by pharmaceuticals due to potential profits.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on May 11 did not find evidence that hydroxychloroquine would be an effective treatment for COVID-19 patients. And most likely the findings resulted because the virus infection in those patients were beyond the early stage where the drug is ineffective.

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Gwin Ru

19th May 2020, 15:59

High-dose glutathione shows promise in addressing respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19 (https://www.naturalhealth365.com/glutathione-respiratory-distress-3406.html)

by: Joy Jensen, staff writer (https://www.naturalhealth365.com/author/joy-jensen/) | May 18, 2020

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In some areas across the country, like New York City, even “suspected cases” of COVID-19 aren’t confirmed because of a lack of testing. Unfortunately, this viral infection can become life-threatening as a result of what’s known as “cytokine storm syndrome.” The end result can be pneumonia and other complications like acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). But, as you’ll soon see, glutathione has proven to be a lifesaving antioxidant.

To date, no published “cure” has been found to control the respiratory symptoms and inflammation associated with the virus adequately, other than assisted ventilation and oxygen therapy. However, a new study (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007120301350?fbclid=IwAR3FtOcUGgAQfLaN1n-fZmrIPS_t4l7pKVCiDRV_uFffPA2NPS5UPAMfsAk) based upon two patients with dyspnea secondary to coronavirus pneumonia found that glutathione shows significant promise in addressing respiratory distress.

Glutathione to the rescue: New York mom saved when medical-student son takes action
A New York mom – Josephine Bruzzese – was diagnosed with pneumonia but sent home from the hospital as a suspected COVID-19 case because there were no coronavirus tests currently available. She was given hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, and while some symptoms improved, she still had difficulty breathing. In fact, symptoms were so severe that she’d nearly pass out every time she stood up due to shortness of breath.

Josephine’s son, James Bruzzese, is a second-year student at CUNY School of Medicine, called a Lyme Disease specialist the family already knew – Dr. Richard Horowitz. After James gave him the rundown, Dr. Horowitz suggested that they try giving Josephine glutathione, which is an antioxidant produced by your liver that helps reduce inflammation.

When a viral infection causes a significant amount of inflammation, the body doesn’t have enough of the antioxidant glutathione to keep lung tissue protected.

After a single 2,000mg dose of glutathione, the family saw Josephine improve in just an hour. She was able to get up, take a shower, and continued taking the treatment for five days with no relapse.

The use of all-natural substances show great promise in helping to heal the body
Both James and Dr. Horowitz coauthored a study on treating James’ mother and an additional Manhattan man with glutathione. The second patient who is in his 50s reported that he was given an intravenous infusion of glutathione and saw improvement in breathing symptoms within a half hour of the dose.

According to the study, it’s believed that oral and IV glutathione work to help address the “cytokine storm syndrome” that leads to respiratory distress in patients who have COVID-19 pneumonia. They also noticed that zinc and vitamin C (https://www.naturalhealth365.com/vitamin-c-ascorbic-acid-2454.html) also may be helpful in reducing the body’s inflammatory response and reducing the production of cytokines.

Although they call for additional randomized controlled trials to further study these novel therapies, the success with the treatment is compelling. It’s additional proof that taking supplements like glutathione, zinc, and vitamin C are worthwhile as the world continues fighting this COVID-19 pandemic.

Ernie Nemeth

19th May 2020, 16:14

The immune mechanism underlying diffuse alveolar and pulmonary interstitial inflammation in COVID-19 involves a MAS-like state that triggers extensive immunothrombosis…

This is why I brought up the fascia. It is little understood because they discovered it after the theory of viruses and germs were already established. Yet here it is being the cause of this disease.

Don't know what it means, but it must be significant.

Gwin Ru

19th May 2020, 16:58

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Doxycycline and Ivermectin combo may be new effective Covid 19 treatment (https://medicaldialogues.in/medicine/news/doxycycline-and-ivermectin-combo-may-be-new-effective-covid-19-treatment-65868)

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Doxycycline and Ivermectin combo may be new effective Covid 19 treatment Doxycycline along with Ivermectin has yielded near-miraculous results in Covid 19 patients claim experts from Bangladesh.

The Hunt for new effective treatment for Covid 19 is on. A team of doctors from Bangladesh have claimed that their research on the combination of two widely used drugs has yielded astounding results in curing the patients with acute symptoms of the coronavirus that has created havoc worldwide and claimed the lives of over 312,000 people globally.

The claim by the Bangladeshi medical team, which includes prominent physicians from the country, comes amidst the desperate global attempts for a remedy to the deadly coronavirus.

We have got astounding results. Out of 60 COVID-19 patients, all recovered as the combination of the two drugs were applied, said Professor Dr Md Tarek Alam, the head of medicine department at private Bangladesh Medical College Hospital (BMCH).

Alam, a reputed clinician in Bangladesh, said a frequently used antiprotozoal medicine called Ivermectin in a single dose with Doxycycline, an antibiotic, yielded virtually the near-miraculous result in curing the patients with COVID-19.

My team was prescribing the two medicines only for coronavirus patients, most of them initially reporting with respiratory problems with related complaints, later to be tested COVID-19 positive, he said.

Bangladesh has so far reported 20,995 coronavirus cases. A total of 314 people have lost their lives in the country due to the disease.

Claiming that the efficacy of the drug developed by them was such that patients recovered from the virus within 4 days, he said, adding that there were no side effects of it.

"We first ask them to be tested for COVID-19 and when found coronavirus positive we apply the drugs . . . they are recovering within four days".

"The repeated or second tests, in line with the procedure, reconfirmed them COVID-19 negative in all the cases under the research which found the combination to have no side effects on patients either", he said.

We are hundred per cent hopeful about the effectiveness of the combination, he said, adding they by now contacted the concerned government regulators and preparing to exhaust international procedures for acknowledgement of the drugs for the COVID-19 treatment.

Alam said his team was preparing a paper on the development of the drug for an international journal, as required for scientific review and acknowledgement.

Alam's associate Dr Rabiul Morshed said despite being a non-COVID-19 facility a huge number of patients directly and indirectly end up in BMCH, the country's premier private general hospital.

"But all of them have shown remarkable recovery being (COVID-19) negative in four days and 50 per cent reduction of symptoms in 3 days", he said.

The coronavirus, which broke out initially in China, has claimed the lives of 312,115 people while infected over 4,650,793, according to Johns Hopkins University.

https://medicaldialogues.in/medicine/news/doxycycline-and-ivermectin-combo-may-be-new-effective-covid-19-treatment-65868 (https://medicaldialogues.in/medicine/news/doxycycline-and-ivermectin-combo-may-be-new-effective-covid-19-treatment-65868)

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NB: Bill Still also mentions that this combo is also used as a treatment for Malaria (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?110345-Did-anyone-seem-to-catch-Covid-19-in-October--December-last-year&p=1353608&viewfull=1#post1353608)...

onawah

19th May 2020, 19:17

Treating Coronavirus with Natural Medicine
Published on May 19, 2020
https://drsircus.com/coronavirus/treating-coronavirus-with-natural-medicine/

"Healing our bodies with natural medicine is possible. Healing with pharmaceuticals is not. They are not designed for healing but are good at managing symptoms. The pathological conditions presented in coronavirus infections are complicated by the severe preconditions, nutritional deficiencies, too fast breathing rates (low CO2 concentrations in the blood) as well frequency interference (pollution), which is suddenly increasing thanks to the lightening quick installation of 5G, which is probably making severe viral infections worse. One can easily add oxygen status in the blood, blood pressure and even body temperature that will affect patient outcomes.

An international team of researchers, at the University
of Surrey, has identified a link between the COVID-19
cure rate and regional selenium status in China.

Though doctors have been sucessful in treating the coronavirus with pharmacuticals and zinc, the more intelligent protocol would be with natural agents that address all of the above. Only natural medicines address nutritional deficiencies. Only natural medicines address the underlining causes of preconditions like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

President Donald Trump announce he is taking hydroxychloroquine, a drug unproven against the coronavirus. Health officials and the press would say that about everything for nothing has been approved or proven for the treatment of the coronavirus. There remains utter anarchy in the area of public health and medicine around viral treatments and this is deliberate.

Many doctors, journalists and politicians issued stern warnings after the president’s revelation; and it is a little crazy, perhaps, to use hydroxychloroquine as a preventative treatment for the coronavirus. However, the president looked fine after 10 days of use. The drug, after all, has been around for over 40 years.

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Health officials are not very intelligent. Look at this recent video of Dr. Fauci. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, has been one of the most trusted and prominent faces of the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. This is probably the biggest mistake the United States has ever made.Fauci came under direct criticism from conservatives after warning during a Senate hearing that reopening the country too soon would lead to “avoidable suffering and death.” Even street language would not do justice to the insanity of his words and ideas that totally disregard the suffering and death he is causing with his lockdown madness. The lockdown is already estimated to cause more suffering and death than any soul can stand to imagine.

Health officials like Fauci are ludicrous about viral treatments, its either a vaccine or nothing! In the first few weeks of this pandemic I already published several essays on how to treat this disease based on everything known before the coronavirus began. It is not like we have never treated coronaviruses before. There are many of them and have been around forever.

Most people do not die from coronaviral infections but they make people feel miserable. The coronavirus might be an exception because the growing consensus is that it was man-made either as a bio-weapon or as a representation of how arrogant and dangerous the medical industrial complex can be. The only reason they play around with viruses in laboratories is either to imagine making vaccines for what they are experimenting with or bio-weapons.

Vitamin D

However, the main point is treatment. How come Fauci does not know anything about Vitamin D? He certainly does not say anything about it and any fool would have known before the pandemic hit that knowledge of this essential vitamin would be more than helpful, it would save lives.

Even when a new study, published in the Irish Medical Journal has hypothesized that vitamin D deficiency may be linked to higher mortality rates from COVID-19, does the press really cover this, does the president even hear about it? I have a doctor living across the river who injects 500,000 units into people with no problem.

Thousands of studies over the past fifty years have informed the public about the positive relationship between vitamin D, sun exposure and the immune system. COVID-19 is being treated wrongly due to a serious diagnosis error and because world health officials do not listen to doctors on the front lines and because since forever they have been dead set against natural medicines, even if they are used every day in ICU departments. It is helpful to read about doctors most recommended treatments.

This blindness and aversion is deadly. Millions of lives would be saved over the last decade if magnesium was prescribed for all heart, vascular and metabolic conditions. There are a hundred different reasons to suspect it would be helpful treating the coronavirus.

Vitamin C and Bicarbonates

Health officials are betraying the human race in so many ways that it is difficult to count and many people are waking up to this fact and riots and demonstrations against them and the politicians who just blindly follow them are starting. How can we trust these morons (could not resist) who do not have the intelligence or honesty to tell people how vitamin C would help?

They certainly do not want anyone to know why sodium bicarbonate would be helpful, in fighting the pandemic. They want everyone confused as they make sure everything that is said by doctors is mixed up and doubted. But we know that over a third of patients treated for COVID-19 in a large New York medical system developed acute kidney injury, and nearly 15% required dialysis, U.S. researchers reported. What is the perfect medicine for kidney injury and stress? Sodium bicarbonate. I think these guys should go back to school and learn something about the basics of life, health and medicine. Have they not heard that viruses are pH sensitive?

Glutathione

We see a new review of research suggesting that an aggressive immune response known as a "cytokine storm" causes coronavirus cases to go from mild to severe. And we have known for a long time how to treat that. “Oral and IV glutathione, glutathione precursors (N-acetyl-cysteine) and alpha lipoic acid block NF-κB addressing “cytokine storm syndrome” and respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia,” Published the Respiratory Medicine Case Reports

IV glutathione was used in two patients and improved their dyspnea within 1 h of use. Repeated use of IV glutathione was effective in further relieving respiratory symptoms.

Importantly glutathione can be Nebulized directly into the lungs with bicarbonate for an excellent treatment when the lungs become inflamed. This can be important for ICU and emergency room doctors as well as patients at home who are suffering with the flu that is affecting the lungs.

Glutathione is the most important cellular defense that allows the body to prevent and fight infections and disease. Gutathione plays crucial roles in the immune response, DNA repair, and the detoxification process that neutralizes drugs, chemicals, radiation, metabolic wastes, beats down viruses, bacteria and reduces toxins and carcinogens that are increasingly present in our environment. Every doctor should know this.

Elevated blood glucose levels appear to play a significant role in viral replication and the development of cytokine storms. An under reported aspect of the present pandemic appears to be dysregulated glucose metabolism; in other words, insulin resistance. Diabetes and obesity are among the most common preconditions that leads to extreme symptoms and death.

Conclusion

I have already published how hydrogen gas is being used in Japan and China and how that appears to alleviate lung distress within the first hour of treatment. We cannot trust the press that withholds all this information nor medical officials who do not know anything about natural medicine, which is real medicine, as every emergency, ICU doctor and nurse knows. They inject or administer intravenously magnesium, sodium bicarbonate, selenium to save lives everyday. If they used vitamin C and D this way more often that would save many more lives but that is not what health officials are interested in.

They cannot keep their mouths shut about saving lives even though they are secretly merchants of death. To be a merchant of life I give you doses and treatments for coronavirus infections to give you some independence from all the confusion. "

Elainie

20th May 2020, 05:44

leavesoftrees

20th May 2020, 10:27

Don't let his description cause fear. Buhner explains his views on viruses in much greater detail in his book Herbal Antivirals, which I will include an exert from below.

Suffice to say that yes, he does believe that viruses are real and can reason--though differently than we do. What that means is that they are not to be feared but to be respected--something which modern, Western medicine refuses to do. Western medicine and pharmaceuticals attack indiscriminately and this causes an imbalance in our body, which is an ecosystem in itself. And when ecosystems are out of balance, bad things happen.

This is a basic overview of Buhner's views on viruses:

"To begin with, if you have ever read much about viruses, or if you have looked closely at some of the words I have used while writing this, you might have noted that many people refer to viruses as “particles.”

There is a widely held belief among scientists that viruses are not alive. Many insist that they are merely organic structures that interact with living organisms. Some say they are “organisms at the edge of life” but really aren’t organisms in any meaningful sense. This is, they say, because they lack a cellular structure, don’t have their own metabolism, and can only reproduce inside cellular structures — and besides they don’t use cellular division to do it either.

If asked where the definition of life comes from, a definition that precludes viruses, biologists will admit, under duress, that people invented the definition but nevertheless, it’s true anyway.

(This explains why manufacturers put a warning label on those sun shields people occasionally place in the front windows of their cars to protect the interior from the sun: “Warning: do not drive with shield in place.”)

Oddly enough some bacteria such as rickettsia and chlamydia are considered bacteria and thus living despite having similar limitations. (And the Earth is not alive, though it may “act” like a living system. Why? Because it consumes its own waste, which, as everyone knows, living organisms never do . . . apparently they have not met my neighbor’s dog.)....

Viruses, unlike bacteria, have no nucleus and no cell wall. They are the minimum of life honed to a structural simplicity. Though there are many kinds, in general, a virus is a strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a mathematically elegant polyhedron, called a capsid, whose shape is virus specific.

For what are called “enveloped” viruses, the capsid is surrounded by one or more protein envelopes. This simplified structure makes them different than bacteria, for example, but no less alive.

They are a unique life form (but that is no reason to discriminate against them). They are very much like seeds (or spores): They only grow when they find the right soil in which to do so. And like seeds, even though in a suspended state, they constantly monitor the exterior world around them....

Viruses have a highly sophisticated capacity to sense the environment around them, to determine its nature, to find the cellular organisms within which they can most easily reproduce, and to then stimulate the organisms in which those cells reside in order to spread the viruses to new hosts.

And they are very good at surviving. They can analyze the nature of the immune response that occurs against them and they can alter themselves — or alter the host immune defense itself — in order to avoid it.

They can reason by any useful definition of the term, that is: analyze inputs and create new behaviors based on what they have determined the meaning of those inputs to be."

Dr Zach Bush in this interview (it has been posted before) also takes a holistic view of viruses - likening them to weeds - Both proliferate when environemental conditions become unbalanced. I havent finsihed the interview, but he argues that the number of Covid19 cases were highest in areas of greatest environmental pollution. He points out that a few weeks after lockdown came into place, air quality improved and case numbers decreased
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Ba-ba-Ra

20th May 2020, 18:02

Doctor explains (with statistics) why shutting down is NOT a benefit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjtDH__Px4

Gwin Ru

23rd May 2020, 13:48

Now, if that's not confidence in one's work... one wonders why Bill Gates doesn't do the same...

Russian researchers test coronavirus vaccine on THEMSELVES, team leader says they now have antibodies (https://www.rt.com/russia/489435-coronavirus-vaccine-test-themselves/)

RT
22 May, 2020 10:16
Updated 1 day ago
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By Jonny Tickle

Scientists in Russia have carried out the first unofficial trial of a Covid-19 vaccine – and they say it’s effective. Epidemiologists in Moscow took the unorthodox step of injecting themselves and examining their own results.

The test, conducted by employees at the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, reportedly saw the participants gaining immunity to the virus with no adverse effects. According to the research center’s director, Alexander Ginzburg, this is a step towards state-sanctioned trials.

“We will consider the experiment successful when we get permission for official trials from the Ministry of Health and carry them out,” he said, speaking to Russian news agency TASS.

According to Ginzburg, the scientists chose to vaccinate not only to prove the effectiveness of their creation but also to defend themselves from the virus and gain immunity, enabling them to continue working throughout the pandemic. The director did not specify how many people were vaccinated, but described them all as “alive, healthy and happy.”

Ginzburg believes that it would take about six months to immunize the entire country once the vaccine is officially approved. If everything goes to plan, he hopes it will be approved by the end of summer. In his opinion, the first people to be immunized should be frontline doctors and the elderly.

On Thursday, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko told TV channel Russia 1 that “access to wider use of the vaccine should appear sometime at the end of July.” Previously, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova had reported that 47 different vaccines were being developed throughout the country.

According to the latest government data, Russia has had 326,448 confirmed cases of Covid-19. Thus far, 99,825 people have recovered, and 3,249 have died.

Related:

For the first time, Russian coronavirus recoveries OUTNUMBER new diagnoses (https://www.rt.com/russia/489209-russia-covid-recovery-toll-rises/)

Normal life in Moscow will resume ONLY after 60% of residents have Covid-19 immunity – official (https://www.rt.com/russia/488954-moscow-chances-to-ease-lockdown/)

Hermoor

23rd May 2020, 14:55

A good way to strengthen the immune system is to go outdoors, stay active and get some dirt under our fingernails.

Tried and tested in all weathers, always works the immune system well.

Gwin Ru

23rd May 2020, 15:47

The Remdesivir Study Is Finally Out: Drug Only Helped Those On Oxygen, Finds Mortality Too High For Standalone Treatment (https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/remdesivir-study-finally-out-drug-only-helped-those-oxygen-finds-mortality-too-high)

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by Tyler Durden (https://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Fri, 05/22/2020 - 20:45

Remember when the market soared on several days in April on the Fauci-touted Remdesivir study which, according to StatNews and various other unofficial sources of rumors, was a smashing success only for the optimism to fizzle as many questions emerged (https://www.zerohedge.com/health/gilead-pours-cold-water-report-sent-market-soaring-anecdotal-reports-no-statistical-power), and as the Gilead drug quietly faded from the public's consciousness and was replaced by various coronavirus vaccine candidates such as those made by the greatly hyped Moderna (whose (https://investors.modernatx.com/static-files/2662b4b6-c661-45c8-8d94-bd4678d0aac8)insiders (https://investors.modernatx.com/static-files/03ba600f-801d-4609-a7fb-332ac507f76f)just can't stop selling company stock (https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/investing/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-stock-sales/index.html)).

Meanwhile, those who were waiting for the official version of Remdesivir's effectiveness had to do so until 6pm on a Friday before a long holiday, and for good reason...

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1249047351022551047/CZo2ucSn_normal.jpg (https://twitter.com/adamfeuerstein) Adam Feuerstein ✔ @adamfeuerstein
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Friday 6 pm. Fking ridiculous. https://twitter.com/matthewherper/status/1263956085263785984 …
Matthew Herper ✔ @matthewherper (https://twitter.com/matthewherper/status/1263956085263785984)
And here they are. The NIAID/$GILD remdesivir data for #COVID19. Thoughts? Questions? Tell me here.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764 … (https://twitter.com/matthewherper/status/1263956085263785984)
12:22 AM - May 23, 2020 (https://twitter.com/adamfeuerstein/status/1263958445646065664)
... According to a pivotal study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764) late on Friday, Remdesivir, which was authorized to treat Covid-19 in a group of 1063 adults and children (split into two groups, one receiving placebo instead of remdesivir) who need i) supplemental oxygen, ii) a ventilator or iii) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), only significantly helped those on supplemental oxygen.

Meanwhile, and explaining the 6pm release on a Friday, the study also found no marked benefit from remdesivir for those who were healthier and didn’t need oxygen or those who were sicker, requiring a ventilator or a heart-lung bypass machine.

The NEJM, almost apologetically, stated that "the lack of benefit seen in the other groups might have stemmed from a smaller number of patients in each group."

Still, as a result of the partial benefit for patients in the supplemental oxygen group, the study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was evaluated early and led to the authorization of remdesivir before the full trial was completed.
Our findings highlight the need to identify Covid-19 cases and start antiviral treatment before the pulmonary disease progresses to require mechanical ventilation.
Some more details on the study, which was a "rank test of the time to recovery with remdesivir as compared with placebo, with stratification by disease severity":
The primary outcome measure was the time to recovery, defined as the first day, during the 28 days after enrollment, on which a patient satisfied categories 1, 2, or 3 on the eight-category ordinal scale. The categories are as follows:

not hospitalized, no limitations of activities;
not hospitalized, limitation of activities, home oxygen requirement, or both;
hospitalized, not requiring supplemental oxygen and no longer requiring ongoing medical care (used if hospitalization was extended for infection-control reasons);
hospitalized, not requiring supplemental oxygen but requiring ongoing medical care (Covid-19–related or other medical conditions);
5, hospitalized, requiring any supplemental oxygen;
hospitalized, requiring noninvasive ventilation or use of high-flow oxygen devices;
hospitalized, receiving invasive mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO); and
death.

The results are summarized below, highlighting the only group that showed a statistically significant improvement in outcomes as a result of taking the drug vs placebo.

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A visual representation of the outcomes is below; it shows that whereas there was a modest benefit only to patients who were receiving oxygen, the results were statistically insignificant vs placebo for patients not receiving oxygen, while in a surprising twist patients on high-flow oxygen or mechanical ventilator/ECMO did modestly better in the placebo group than those taking remdesivir. Also, the overall results showed a very modest, but not statistically significant improvement in the remdesivir group vs placebo (box A).

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Another disappointment: the study found that overall "mortality was numerically lower in the remdesivir group than in the placebo group, but the difference was not significant", in other words the alleged "miracle drug" has largely the same effect as a placebo in terms of overall disease mortality.

The study authors also note that the "findings in our trial should be compared with those observed in a randomized trial from China in which 237 patients were enrolled (158 assigned to remdesivir and 79 to placebo).... That trial failed to complete full enrollment (owing to the end of the outbreak), had lower power than the present trial (owing to the smaller sample size and a 2:1 randomization), and was unable to demonstrate any statistically significant clinical benefits of remdesivir."

Finally, the study found that while mortality was modestly lower for the remdesivir arm, it was not significantly so, at 7.1% at 14 days on drug versus 11.9% on placebo.

In conclusion, while the "preliminary findings support the use of remdesivir for patients who are hospitalized with Covid-19 and require supplemental oxygen therapy" the study goes on to warn that "given high mortality despite the use of remdesivir, it is clear that treatment with an antiviral drug alone is not likely to be sufficient."

The study's recommendation:
Future strategies should evaluate antiviral agents in combination with other therapeutic approaches or combinations of antiviral agents to continue to improve patient outcomes in Covid-19.
So a generally disappointing outcome, one which would lead to a drop in the market. Nonsense: think of all the spin, and why this is in fact great news for stocks: Remdesivir may be a dud as a "silver bullet" to curing covid, leading to statistically significant improvement in only a very limited subset of infected patients and "high mortality" for those taking it, but at least the algos will have a whole lot of other "miracle drugs" to levitate them as optimism that the next remdesivir is just around the corner. In short: rinse, rumor, and repeat... and then save the bad news for 6pm on a Friday.

Oh, and for those asking about the "official" reason why the NE Journal of Medicine waited until just the right time to make sure nobody reads the results, here it is

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(https://twitter.com/adamfeuerstein)
I asked NEJM spox to explain the Friday 6 pm release of the remdesivir study. Her response is below.
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The full study is available here (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764).

Open Minded Dude

23rd May 2020, 16:44

I assume that most here has been mentioned already such as vitamin C and D and other vital (e.g. plant-based) substances.

One thing is lesser known and I remembered it from my mycotherapy training from years ago. It is (preferably organic!) mushroom powder from the Coriolus mushroom.
If you get hold of it from a trusted producer of organic mushroom power I recommend give it a try.

See more on it on the site of a local producer and institute from my country (also where I studied it) here:

https://mykotroph.de/en/coriolus-versicolor-en/

And there's a lot more to medicinal mushrooms that we know about, especially in the Western world where it is hardly used. So for more info on other benefits and diseases that can be treated effectively with mushrooms you can read up on it here:

https://mykotroph.de/en/medicinal-mushrooms/

Turkey tail – the mushroom has been used for generations in East Asia and supports the immune system in the fight against viruses. Even “Ötzi” the Iceman – a well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived between 3400 and 3100 BC – had a relative of this kind in his travel pharmacy 5,200 years ago.

greybeard

23rd May 2020, 19:30

An E.R. Doctor Infected With Covid-19 Back At Work After Using Hydroxychloroquine and Z-Pak Protocol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXCpNjl-YyI

Agape

24th May 2020, 06:50

Sarah Rainsong

24th May 2020, 13:22

Agape

24th May 2020, 16:07

This could be good news and potentially a game changer:

Kangra tea could boost immunity and block Covid 19 activity better than antiretroviral drugs (https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.timesnownews.com/amp/health/article/kangra-tea-could-boost-immunity-block-covid-19-activity-better-than-hiv-drugs-say-scientists/596238)

Indian scientists from the Himalayan Bioresource Institute of Technology based in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh identified about 65 phytophenols in locally sourced from Kangra green tea that can bind to specific viral proteins faster than commercially available anti-virotic drugs in trial.

There is number of products that have been tried( and kind of ignored) for many years from their labs and results containing high levels of tea saponins such as green tea wine, green tea vinegar , soaps and disinfectants.

Since this piece of news was released only today I bet they are fast and getting some kind of concentrated medicine with fast bioavailability out as we talk.

I do believe it because we drink the Kangra green tea locally and it’s very strong and aromatic. So I usually have a cup to improve my heart rhythm but not very often.
It’s a super strong fresh variety of tea with thousands of years history of human cultivation native to the Kangra valley in Himachal Pradesh, in India.

Kangra Tea Garden (https://hpkangra.nic.in/gallery/kangra-tea-garden/)

Dharmsala Tea Company (https://www.dharmsala.com/collections/all/green-tea)

It’s a early bird news of course but certainly worth a trial.

🙏🍵🙏

I'm curious, Agape, when you drink your Kanga green tea, how long do you steep it for? I know of several people for whom drinking green tea is more cultural, and they'll just let the pot sit pretty much all day, adding water to top off the same pot of tea. Dh (dear husband) does this, and so does his mother and his grandfather, and I knew some other people who do this, too--all of whom grew up drinking green tea like that.

The longer the steep time, the more tannins are released, which can make the tea more bitter, at least to people who apparently didn't grow up drinking a long-steeped, high tannin tea. I didn't, and I favor a much shorter steep time. When I make green tea, I only steep for 5 minutes. Dh thinks my tea is too weak.

So anyways, I'm just curious on your thoughts on the steep time and it's antiviral effectiveness?

Hi Sarah, thanks for response. I think I know what you’re talking about.

There is so much to tea culture all around the globe and so many types and flavours of tea. The immersion time exactly depends on what kind of tea you choose.

Chinese and Taiwanese Oolongs can stand two or three “flushes” of hot water and they taste even better, softer in the second run.
Some of the best quality teas like “White Plum” collected from the softest leaves at the top of the tea plant can stand only two before they taste like water.

I would recommend Japanese green tea for taste as it’s seldom any bitter.

This Kangra tea grown in Himalayan valleys maybe special as the soil is extremely rich in minerals and basically traces of most elements of the periodic table.
So in result, herbs and vegetables are more potent here and taste better too.

It’s for the same reason why I never drank much of the green tea here- but I should- thinking it’s “too strong”. When fresh it requires very fast immersion time. Basically couple seconds to a minute. It has deep yellow colour and I have to admit it’s little bitter but the taste is “full” as in complete. It satisfies whole spectrum of taste buds.

So I’m not surprised they found at least 65 different types of phytophenols in it, the next step would probably be producing liquid extract for common use though I’m sure they probably have something more advanced in plan, hopefully into the extraction and isolation of the tea saponins and turning them to life medicine.
It will necessarily require lots of testing for applications and bioavailability before we get there.

I’m a spoiled milk coffee drinker( turned from more spoiled milk tea drinker -called chai- in India) but trying to improve habits.

I really wish it gets out soon. The number of cases in India is on sharp rise at the moment as summer is starting to peak.

But I can see the global numbers are predictably coming down as of the moment which is a good news.

Though: there is a danger of second wave in summer. Viruses like hot temperatures, not to mention faster transmission rate.

The atmosphere surrounding the pandemics here in India is quite different from the West( of us :) ) I’ve noticed, guess anyone may notice from the news.

It’s partially certainly for the fact of huge biodiversity on Indian subcontinent that includes still bigger amount of microbial diversity some of which has not been described in the medical journals to this day.
Many of those known and unknown infections affected humans for thousands of years and were virtually wiped out during the last century due to massive improvements in water sanitation and general hygiene.

If you were a curious doctor visiting India couple decades ago you would be charmed by cases of infections we have never witnessed in Europe, not in the modern times anyway.

So people are well aware of the danger of infectious diseases since days of old and accustomed to keeping rules that can protect them but not all are, not all act smart enough and well, many people still live stranded deep under poverty line.

Well it’s not upon me to sort it out, just explaining that people here “don’t want the virus” and those who can isolate themselves and their children voluntarily, at least till the tidal wave is over.

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Gwin Ru

25th May 2020, 18:05

About Vitamin D:

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26th May 2020, 00:37

THEY BLOCKED EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS
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Agape

26th May 2020, 16:35

No major side effects of HCQ, should be continued as preventative treatment for Covid 19 (https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/m.timesofindia.com/india/no-major-side-effects-of-hcq-should-be-continued-as-preventive-treatment-for-covid-19-icmr/amp_articleshow/76006748.cms)

There is so much misconception and media mess concerning the use of chloroquine as preventative and treatment, blame the “intel” of pharmaceutical companies and inexperience of some of todays fast baked medical professionals.
Either they dunno, or they pretend not to know or don’t care to explain the topic clearly.

Clearly a commoner without medical education can not make true sense of it, even the head of WHO can not make sense of it and half of the medical community can’t make sense of it but blindly follow what’s in recent guidelines.

I can but share what I know from “old school medicine” and first hand practice but bet in it or not it still serves me well.

Chloroquinone and HCQ was used since its discovery as derivative of quinine to reduce high fever of any origin. Fever itself is not a “disease”, it’s a symptom of disease. Fevers are not specifically caused only by infections or non-infectious inflammations. If your cardiovascular system is weak, you may get fever from overheating, for example.

The only other tested use of HCQ is it being antihelmintic, toxic to certain intestinal parasites.

It was sold over counter even while many other medicines were restricted to prescription and used safely against fevers in both children and adults.
Even in lower therapeutic doses than prescribed today, it’s antipyretic effect was almost immediate and known to work in maximally 3 days.

It could be prescribed for 7-14 days maximally in serious cases of pneumonia accompanied by fever ( not otherwise).

Once the symptom of fever was reduced, talking of high fevers not just temperatures elevated to 37.5 C for which HCQ is not recommended therapeutically since it lowers your natural immunity by reducing your temperature and masking symptoms.

There is no use of HCQ as “preventative against Covid 19”, except for very hot countries like India.
Such use was never tested before but it can’t be generally recommended especially not in long term.

Your body temperature is a marker of your overall condition, not a “disease”.

“Temperature testing” is not a testing for Covid. I know of individuals who will rise body temperature to 37.9 C if they have to wait hour in queue, stressed of being held suspect.

Likewise, HCQ does not seem to act as antivirotic. We don’t know of original properties of quinine and whether it was able to eliminate malaria plasmids from blood or other microorganisms but it does not seem to act the same way as derivative and manmade compound, that said, it has low antiviral properties to call it such.

It does not mean its use should be discontinued as target agent against fever.

But lowering your body temperature chronically does not help, it reduces your immunity and capability to “fight the virus” when infected of which fever is a symptom.
Fever occurs as highly calibrated immunity response against alien pathogen.

Fever in itself is not dangerous unless it lasts too long.

In either case, chloroquine should be used once you get fever and only then, not as a preventative against Covid.

It does not make you immune to infection but can mask early symptoms which does not mean that you won’t get to trouble later, that all for suppressed immunity response.

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Delight

27th May 2020, 01:33

Vitamin D!!!

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Sarah Rainsong

27th May 2020, 17:16

This first part of this post is a version of something I shared with my family. I thought it might be helpful here, because if you can understand what’s going on with respect to the virus, you’re better equipped to deal with. (This is only about the virus itself, not about all the other crap that’s tied to it.)

The second is what I've experience personally, sharing so that others can glean any knowledge they want.

First, this is a very basic, bulleted outline and summary of what I have learned so far. There are two good sources that I will link to, both of these include a list of their own sources, so you have a chain of information should you wish to follow it.

Looking at the virus: latest on how it works, symptoms, treatments, etc.
Latest information on the virus itself

While the virus enters the body primarily (though not exclusively) through the respiratory system, it is far from just a respiratory virus.
The virus utilizes the ACE2 receptors, which are cells found all in the body and this is why there is such a wide variety of symptoms being reported
At this point in time the lungs, kidneys, heart, brain, GI tract, skin, and the blood cells/circulatory system are the main organs affected.
Clotting is a showing to be a major factor in this disease, even affecting normally healthy adults
It also affects olfactory neurons and can then spread to the brain, thus causing neurological issues.
My personal observation: The biggest indicator on whether or not you have a strain of this virus, particularly a milder version (which only means that you don’t need a hospital) is that it is different than any other cold, flu or illness you may have had before.
No matter the symptoms being reported, the most often repeated phrase I’ve noted is: “this is different from anything I’ve had or encountered before.” This is coming from both those who have been sick and those treating the sick.

Current Symptoms

cough
sore throat
muscle pain and/or weakness
general achiness
headache and/or dizziness*
chills
fever
shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
(new) loss of taste or smell*
nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
heart arrhythmias
skin rashes
conjunctivitis
blood clotting
swollen lymphs
hair and scalp pain*
confusion or sense of not being one’s self*
depressed level of consciousness*
tingling/fizziness sensation*
seizures*
*indicates a likely neurological symptom

Looking at the numbers:

Normal at-home deaths in NYC average 25/day. In April/May, they have been between 150-275/day. (Not comparable to every location, but indicates severity particularly in NYC and the possibility of unconfirmed Covid19 deaths)
Comparing to flu:
confirmed flu deaths range 3,448 to 15,620 per year
Most flu numbers quotes are estimates, not actual confirmed cases
In the last six flu seasons, the CDC’s reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths—that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus—has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620
Covid19 from Jan to May 23, 2020 - 97,800

Additional

Testing can produce both false positives and false negatives.
Testing may not identify newer strains.
There have been a significant number of people who have recovered from infection only to later become positive for the virus, as yet no one knows why. Theories include:
Viral sequestering (like lyme disease)
Reinfection after cure. (This is not uncommon with coronaviruses, the common cold is an example.)
Testing failures

(Note: The main reason I included the numbers is that I have several family members who would like to believe it's all b.s. And while I know there are many who don't believe the virus is real, I am not one of them. If you're not prepared, this virus can really wipe you out.)

Main Sources:
PLANT-BASED INTERVENTIONS FOR CORONAVIRUS (SARS-COV-2) (And the Necessity for Sophisticated, Organ-Specific Treatments) (https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/coronavirus-1.pdf) by Stephen Harrod Buhner - A 80 page report that gives a very detailed view of how the virus works in addition to possible treatment protocols. (This is also referenced upthread.) The last 13 pages list his sources.

Coronavirus: Something's Not Right Here… (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXM821iBrI&list=PLRgTUN1zz_oeQpnJxpeaEkFimDeepqyWf&index=14) video by Chris Martenson - Detailed update given on April 30, 2020. Starting at 17:30, comparing numbers - “Even the flu isn’t the flu.” Sources can be found in the video description.

Second, My Experience:
I have been sick since basically Mother’s Day. This makes day 24. Not all days are bad days! Some are worse than others, and what I’ve noticed is that what you eat makes a huuuge difference.

I’m going to detail my experience and what I did below, just as a reference, but the main point that I’ve learned is it is extremely important to be healthy and maintain a proper balance in your body. The minute you allow your body to get out of balance, this virus jumps on you.

When people talk about it being opportunistic, this is what they mean. It is searching for the slightest foothold, and it doesn’t take much for it to find one.

So here’s my experience:
Mother’s Day I felt really bad and did absolutely nothing, but I took my vitamins and supplements and herbs and by the next day, I was feeling pretty good. I had a lot of gardening that I wanted to do, so for the rest of that week, I spend a great deal of time outside working.

During that week, at about Wednesday, the temperature was rising and finally beginning to feel like May in Georgia. I got to craving a nice, ice-cold Coke. I used to drink Cokes (Coca-Cola classic) all the time. I haven’t had much in years, except for occasionally. Certainly not for repeated days. This particular week, though, I had Coke three days in a row.

(Side note: colas are probably the WORST "food" you could possible consume, particularly on a regular basis.)

I started feeling worse again on Friday. By Saturday, I couldn’t handle working for more than an hour before I gave up. Sunday was terrible. I was miserable.

I had been taking stuff since Mother’s Day, and I had upped my regime on the following Friday when I started to decline. Then again on Sunday. And then again on Monday or Tuesday. The last time I upped it, I started to really feel better. Ultimately, this is what I ended up taking:

Regular vitamin protocols: complete B vitamins, vitamin C, zinc, D3, K, selenium, E, L-lysine, magnesium
Additional: liposomal vitamin C and glutathione
Herbal Extracts: Chinese Skullcap, Dong Quai, Rhodiola, Licorice, Blue Vervain, Angelica archangelica, Red Sage, Oregon Grape, and Poke (2 tsps of this combination every hour)
Herbal Tea: green tea, sage, and oregano

There are many very good suggestions on this thread on protocols to follow if you get sick. My suggestion is to pick what works for you, and stick with it, every hour if needed, until you feel better, then to continue for at least another day before backing down to a maintenance level.

Currently, my maintenance protocol--which means that I’m not over it but I don’t need as much as often--is the following;

Same regular vitamin protocols
Herbal extract 3 times a day: Red Sage, Dong Quai, Chickweed, Usnea, Licorice, and Poke (about 1 ½ tsp of this combination)
Herbal tea: green tea, red clover, holy basil and whatever else I might feel like (peppermint, catnip, lemon balm, etc.)
Diet: fresh greens every morning, usually a hefty amount of spinach sauteed with chopped onions and topped with an over-easy egg for breakfast

It took a little trial-and-error to figure out what works for me. The biggest repeating symptom I've had is swollen lymphs. I have to make sure to keep up with my herbal lymph support, otherwise they get sore very quickly no matter how much I drink. Other symptoms: headache, achiness (like having a low-grade fever but no fever), nausea, malaise, fatigue, slight cough (not much!), ear ache, back ache, and vertigo.

Generally, I didn't have all these symptoms at once. I'd be feeling better for a day, then something new (like vertigo) would start. I'd tackle that and something else, like a headache, would start. I'd have a day of feeling pretty good, then a day of not feeling good. It's like a roller coaster.

So anyway, hopefully this adds some information to help fill in a larger picture.

Gwin Ru

27th May 2020, 19:10

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30th May 2020, 12:04

Is Quercetin a Safer Alternative to Hydroxychloroquine?
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
April 27, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/04/27/is-quercetin-safer-alternative-to-hydroxychloroquine.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20200427Z1&et_cid=DM521261&et_rid=859751977

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
A Chinese trial comparing clinical outcomes of COVID-19 patients treated with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and those receiving standard of care alone reports “disappointing” result
The hydroxychloroquine group only had a 28-day negative conversion rate of 85.4% compared to the control group’s rate of 81.3%. No difference in the alleviation of symptoms was observed between the two groups
The study did not, however, use supplemental zinc, which helps prevent viral replication. Evidence suggests hydroxychloroquine works for COVID-19 because it acts as a zinc ionophore, meaning it shuttles zinc inside your cells
A Brazilian chloroquine trial stopped the high-dose arm of the study early due to patients developing ventricular tachychardia, a dangerous heart rhythm problem. Chloroquine is known to be more toxic than hydroxychloroquine
Quercetin is a naturally occurring zinc ionophore. Taken with zinc, it may be helpful to prevent and potentially treat COVID-19. Research is currently underway to assess quercetin’s effectiveness against COVID-19
The debate about whether the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for COVID-19 continues, as a Chinese trial1,2,3,4 comparing clinical outcomes of those treated with the drug and those receiving standard of care alone reports “disappointing” results.

Hydroxychloroquine Trial Reports Disappointing Results
Seventy-five COVID-19 patients at 16 Chinese treatment centers received 1,200 milligrams of hydroxychloroquine in addition to standard of care for the first three days of treatment, followed by a maintenance dose of 800 mg per day for two weeks in mild to moderate cases and three weeks for severe cases. Another 75 patients received standard of care only.

The primary endpoint was a 28-day negative conversion rate of SARS-CoV-2 (viral load reduction). Secondary endpoints included improvement rate of clinical symptoms and the normalization of C-reactive protein and blood lymphocyte count within 28 days.

According to the authors, the hydroxychloroquine group only had a 28-day negative conversion rate of 85.4% compared to the control group’s rate of 81.3%. No difference in the alleviation of symptoms was observed between the two groups.

Adverse events were also higher in the hydroxychloroquine group (30%) compared to controls (8.8%). You can find a listing of the adverse events in Table 2 of the study.5 The most common adverse event, at 10%, was diarrhea. That said, the authors point out that:6

“A significant efficacy of HCQ [hydroxychloroquine] on alleviating symptoms was observed when the confounding effects of anti-viral agents were removed in the post-hoc analysis (Hazard ratio, 8.83, 95%CI, 1.09 to 71.3).

This was further supported by a significantly greater reduction of CRP (6.986 in SOC [standard of care] plus HCQ versus 2.723 in SOC, milligram/liter, P=0.045) conferred by the addition of HCQ, which also led to more rapid recovery of lymphopenia, albeit no statistical significance.

Conclusions: The administration of HCQ did not result in a higher negative conversion rate but more alleviation of clinical symptoms than SOC alone in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 without receiving antiviral treatment, possibly through anti-inflammatory effects. Adverse events were significantly increased in HCQ recipients but no apparently increase of serious adverse events.”

Limitations of This Study
A few things are worthy to note about this study. Aside from its small size, the patients received a far higher dose of hydroxychloroquine than typically used in the U.S. — 1,200 milligrams for the first three days, followed 800 mg per day for two to three weeks, compared to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s suggested dosage of 800 mg on Day 1, followed by 400 mg per day for four to seven days, depending on severity.7

Secondly, most patients had mild disease with little hypoxemia, and thirdly, treatment was administered quite late, on average 16 to 17 days after the onset of disease. Commenting on the findings, Josh Fargas, associate professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Vermont writes:8

“Much of the pathogenesis of critical illness seems to result from dysregulated inflammation, rather than direct viral cytopathic effect. This raises a question of whether any antiviral treatment will be beneficial for late-presenting patients with severe illness.

Of course, it is possible that earlier use of hydroxychloroquine could be beneficial (e.g., perhaps at the first signs of illness on an out-patient basis). This is under investigation and additional data is likely to be forthcoming soon. Even if this does work in the outpatient clinic, it would probably have little impact on the management of these patients within the intensive care unitThis Study Failed to Use Zinc
Perhaps most importantly, however, is the absence of zinc, which Fargas does not mention. We now know that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine act as zinc ionophores,9,10 meaning they shuttle zinc into your cells, and zinc appears to be a “magic ingredient” required to prevent viral infection.11

If given early, zinc along with a zinc ionophore should, at least theoretically, help lower the viral load and prevent the immune system from becoming overloaded. Without zinc, hydroxychloroquine may be more or less useless.

So, in my view, I doubt this study is worth placing too much stock in, seeing how it did not administer supplemental zinc. As noted in the preprint paper, “Does Zinc Supplementation Enhance the Clinical Efficacy of Chloroquine / Hydroxychloroquine to Win Todays Battle Against COVID-19?” published April 8, 2020:12

“Besides direct antiviral effects, CQ/HCQ [chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine] specifically target extracellular zinc to intracellular lysosomes where it interferes with RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity and coronavirus replication.

As zinc deficiency frequently occurs in elderly patients and in those with cardiovascular disease, chronic pulmonary disease, or diabetes, we hypothesize that CQ/HCQ plus zinc supplementation may be more effective in reducing COVID-19 morbidity and mortality than CQ or HCQ in monotherapy. Therefore, CQ/HCQ in combination with zinc should be considered as additional study arm for COVID-19 clinical trials.”

Chloroquine Trial Stopped Due to Side Effects
In related news, a Brazilian chloroquine trial13,14 stopped the high-dose arm of the study early due to patients developing ventricular tachychardia, a dangerous heart rhythm problem. As reported by Live Science:15

“The Brazilian researchers planned to enroll 440 people in their study to test whether chloroquine is a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19. Participants took either a ‘high dose’ of the drug (600 milligrams twice daily for 10 days) or a ‘low dose’ (450 mg for five days, with a double dose only on the first day) …

However, after enrolling just 81 patients, the researchers saw some concerning signs. Within a few days of starting the treatment, more patients in the high dose group experienced heart rhythm problems than did those in the low dose group. And two patients in the high dose group developed a fast, abnormal heart rate known as ventricular tachychardia before they died.”

As explained in my previous article, “Antimalarial Medications: A COVID-19 Treatment Option?” chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have been shown to be effective in the lab against the SARS coronavirus that appeared in 2003.16,17,18 Laboratory testing also suggests chloroquine is effective in cell cultures against COVID-19 when combined with an antiviral drug, remdesivir.19

However, chloroquine (Aralen) appears to be a more hazardous choice than hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), which is a derivative of chloroquine.20 Both use the same pathway, but hydroxychloroquine is thought to be about 40% less toxic21 and, overall, has a safer side effect profile.22,23

Quercetin — A Safer Alternative to Hydroxychloroquine?
Considering the risks of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, and the evidence suggesting the reason these drugs work for COVID-19 is because they act as zinc ionophores, it’s worth questioning whether other more natural zinc ionophores can be used.

One prime example would be quercetin, which is a naturally occurring zinc ionophore.24 As reported by the Green Stars Project,25 “Researchers from Oak Ridge National Lab used the world’s most powerful supercomputer, SUMMIT, to look for small molecules that might inhibit the COVID-19 spike protein from interacting with human cells and, interestingly, quercetin is fifth on that list.”26

Quercetin is one of only three natural products found to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The only natural product found to be slightly more effective is luteolin, a polyphenol found in radicchio, green peppers, serrano and green hot chili peppers, chicory, celery and many other foods.27

Quercetin is another flavonols compound found in a variety of foods, including apples, Brassica vegetables, capers, onions, tea and tomatoes, just to name a few. It’s also contained in medicinal products such as Ginko biloba, St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) and elderberry (Sambucus canadensis).

Research has already demonstrated that quercetin is a powerful immune booster and broad-spectrum antiviral. As noted in a 2016 study28 in the journal Nutrients, quercetin’s mechanisms of action include the inhibition of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) production in macrophages.

TNF-α is a cytokine involved in systemic inflammation, secreted by activated macrophages, a type of immune cell that digests foreign substances, microbes and other harmful or damaged components. Quercetin also inhibits the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and histamine by modulating calcium influx into the cell.29

According to this paper, quercetin also stabilizes mast cells and has “a direct regulatory effect on basic functional properties of immune cells,” which allows it to inhibit “a huge panoply of molecular targets in the micromolar concentration range, either by down-regulating or suppressing many inflammatory pathways and functions.”30

Another 2016 study31 concluded it helps modulate the NLRP3 inflammasome, an immune system component involved in the uncontrolled release of pro-inflammatory cytokines that occurs during a cytokine storm.

In vitro studies32,33,34 have shown quercetin exerts antiviral activity against SARS-CoV, and preliminary findings35 suggest quercetin can inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 main protease as well. You can get even more details about the anti-inflammatory and antiviral powers of quercetin in “Quercetin Lowers Your Risk for Viral Illnesses.”

Quercetin Being Studied for Its Use Against COVID-19
The good news is researchers are in fact planning to study the use of quercetin against COVID-19.36 As reported by Maclean’s,37 Canadian researchers Michel Chrétien and Majambu Mbikay began investigating quercetin in the aftermath of the SARS epidemic that broke out across 26 countries in 2003.

They discovered a derivative of quercetin provided broad-spectrum protection against a wide range of viruses, including SARS.38,39 The Ebola outbreak in 2014 offered another chance to investigate quercetin’s antiviral powers and, here too, they found it effectively prevented infection in mice, “even when administered only minutes before infection.”

So, when the COVID-19 outbreak was announced in Wuhan City, China, in late December 2019, Chrétien contacted colleagues in China with an offer to help. In February 2020, Chrétien and his team received an official invitation to begin clinical trials. According to Maclean’s:40

“The Canadian and Chinese scientists would collaborate on the trials, which would include about 1,000 test patients. Chrétien and Mbikay plan to join colleagues from the non-profit International Consortium of Antivirals — which Chrétien co-founded with Jeremy Carver in 2004 as a response to the SARS epidemic — in manning a 24/7 communications centre as soon as clinical trials go ahead.

The U.S.-based Food and Drug Administration has already approved quercetin as safe for human consumption, which means the researchers can skip testing on animals. If the treatment works, it’ll be readily available … Chrétien’s team says their treatment would cost only $2 a day.”

Dosage Recommendations for Quercetin and Zinc
While the COVID-19 pandemic is in full swing — and for any future influenza season — supplementing with quercetin and zinc may be a good idea for many, in order to boost your immune system’s innate ability to ward off infectious illness. As for dosage, here are some basic recommendations:

•Quercetin — According to research from Appalachian State University in North Carolina, taking 500 mg to 1,000 mg of quercetin per day for 12 weeks results in “large but highly variable increases in plasma quercetin … unrelated to demographic or lifestyle factors.”41

•Zinc (and copper) — When it comes to zinc, remember that more is not necessarily better. In fact, it can backfire. When taking zinc, you also need to be mindful of maintaining a healthy zinc-to-copper ratio. As noted by Chris Masterjohn, who has a Ph.D. in nutritional sciences,42 in an article43 and series of Twitter posts:44

“In one study, 300mg/day of zinc as two divided doses of 150 mg zinc sulfate decreased important markers of immune function, such as the ability of immune cells known as polymorphonuclear leukocytes to migrate toward and consume bacteria.

The most concerning effect in the context of COVID-19 is that it lowered the lymphocyte stimulation index 3 fold. This is a measure of the ability of T cells to increase their numbers in response to a perceived threat. The reason this is so concerning in the context of COVID-19 is that poor outcomes are associated with low lymphocytes …

The negative effect on lymphocyte proliferation found with 300 mg/day and the apparent safety in this regard of 150 mg/d suggests that the potential for hurting the immune system may begin somewhere between 150-300 mg/d …

It is quite possible that the harmful effect of 300 mg/d zinc on the lymphocyte stimulation index is mediated mostly or completely by induction of copper deficiency …

The negative effect of zinc on copper status has been shown with as little as 60 mg/d zinc. This intake lowers the activity of superoxide dismutase, an enzyme important to antioxidant defense and immune function that depends both on zinc and copper …

A study done with relatively low intakes of zinc suggested that acceptable ratios of zinc to copper range from 2:1 to 15:1 in favor of zinc. Copper appears safe to consume up to a maximum of 10 mg/d.

Notably, the maximum amount of zinc one could consume while staying in the acceptable range of zinc-to-copper ratios and also staying within the upper limit for copper is 150 mg/d.”

How Much Zinc Do You Need?
Masterjohn goes into even greater detail in his zinc article, discussing maximum absorption rates and much more.45 In summary, he recommends taking 7 mg to 15 mg of zinc four times a day, ideally on an empty stomach, or with a phytate-free food.

The recommended dietary allowance in the U.S is 11 mg for adult men and 8 mg for adult women, with slightly higher doses recommended for pregnant and breastfeeding women,46 so we’re not talking about taking significantly higher dosages.

Additionally, you can take one zinc acetate lozenge per day, which will provide you with an additional 18 mg of zinc. If you’re exposed to the virus, take one additional lozenge after the exposure.

Masterjohn stresses that you’ll want to keep your total zinc intake below 150 mg per day to avoid negative effects on your immune system. He also recommends getting at least 1 mg of copper from food and supplements for every 15 mg of zinc you take.

Keep in mind that there are many food sources of zinc, so a supplement may not be necessary. I eat about three-fourths of a pound of ground bison or lamb a day, which has 20 mg of zinc. I personally don’t take any zinc supplement other than what I get from my food, which is likely in an optimal form to maximize absorption."

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44 Twitter, Chris Masterjohn April 10, 2020
46 NIH Zinc Fact Sheet

Thanks for this post. This is very important as it emphasises that the zinc stops cell virus reproduction, the cells need elevated levels of zinc and the quinine assists to get the zinc in. What this strongly implies is that for any virus pandemic people need to go on a low dose quinine and zinc regime (or maybe Quercetin) to prevent spread. There you have it, the cheap supplement that chokes off virus production in our body is being excluded from the research - putting people on such a preventative regime for a few weeks would likely cost less that a covid test or the vax

onawah

31st May 2020, 18:50

COVID-19 Critical Care
Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked
May 29, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/29/dr-paul-marik-critical-care.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20200529Z1&et_cid=DM547464&et_rid=882417554

(Vimeo at the link)

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Despite the fact that many critical care specialists are using treatment protocols that differ from standard of care, information about natural therapeutics in particular are still being suppressed by the media and is not received by critical care physicians
Five critical care physicians have formed the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group (FLCCC). The group has developed a highly effective treatment protocol known as MATH+
Of the more than 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients treated with the MATH+ protocol as of mid-April, only two died. Both were in their 80s and had advanced chronic medical conditions
The protocols call for the use of intravenous methylprednisolone, vitamin C and subcutaneous heparin within six hours of admission into the hospital, along with high-flow nasal oxygen. Optional additions include thiamine, zinc and vitamin D
COVID-19 kills by triggering hyperinflammation, hypercoagulation and hypoxia. The MATH+ protocol addresses these three core pathological processes
"Why is success in critical care being ignored?" the Alliance for Natural Health rightly asks.1 The organization claims "much more could be done to save lives" if critical care protocols were to take into account what critical care doctors are finding in practice. A May 14, 2020, article reads, in part:2

"After around 8 weeks in lockdown and 3 months since the spectre of Covid-19 loomed large in our media headlines, why is it that a team of frontline critical (intensive) care doctors in the USA who have delivered close to 100% survival with their unique protocol being roundly ignored?

Wouldn't you think that hospitals and governments would be biting their hands off to get a hold of their protocol? Or clamoring for more information and training to understand why their own outcomes from standard care fall so far short, delivering around just 50% survival in most critical care settings? …

It's now very clear that the outcomes among the very seriously ill patients in critical care units (also referred to as ICU [intensive care units]/ITU [intensive therapy units] in the UK) are being used to inform lockdown (or lock up!) strategy and keep the fear levels sufficiently high to ensure citizen compliance …

Why is there such widespread censorship of anything but the party line by online platforms which lack sufficient expertise to adjudicate on matters of science and medicine?

The public-facing narrative continues to profess that there is nothing you can do to support your immune system, there is nothing in the natural arsenal for Covid-19 … social distancing must be maintained at all times and that the only cure for this terrifying infection will magically come from a vaccine created at warp speed.

When you add these untruths to the plans being rolled out for ramping up citizen surveillance through test, track and trace, the erosion of our rights and freedoms through the emergency coronavirus legislation, the destruction of economies and the forced reliance of so many on the state for survival handouts, you realize how much we might lose whilst much of the world cowers behind closed doors in fear."

Front-Line Critical Care Working Group
As noted by the Alliance for Natural Health, despite the fact that "the obstacle course posed by the peer review process to scientific publication has been removed," and despite many critical care specialists using treatment protocols that differ from standard of care, information about natural therapeutics in particular are still being suppressed by the media and is not received by those who need it most — critical care physicians.

"We all need to be asking why. After all, people are dying. How would it make relatives feel if it was found that their loved one had died needlessly just because the doctors who were having greatest success were not being listened to and their innovative protocols had been systematically ignored?" Alliance for Natural Health states.3

According to the article, efforts by Dr. Pierre Kory — medical director at the Trauma & Life Support Center and a faculty member in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health — to share the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group's4 (FLCCC) successes with other health care professionals have so far come to naught.

Kory was one of five doctors participating in a May 6, 2020, roundtable discussion5 on COVID-19 with ranking senate committee member Gary Peters, D-Mich. In his testimony, Kory states, in part:6

"I want to start by saying that I am part of a group of physicians which include several of the most highly published and well-known critical care experts in the country and world (Drs. Paul Marik, Umberto Meduri, Joseph Varon and José Iglesias). In response to the COVID crisis we formed the Front-Line Critical Care Working group …

Members of our group have now treated in excess of 100 hospitalized patients with our treatment protocol. Nearly all survived. The two that died were in their 80s and had advanced chronic medical conditions.

None of the patients have had long stays on the ventilator nor become ventilator dependent. The patients generally have a short hospital stay and are discharged in good health …

Our protocol has been out over four weeks. It is not unique, in fact, we are not alone in what we propose or have been trying … In fact, we are seeing an increasing number of similar protocols with nearly identical therapeutics come out from various institutions and countries, including the Italian guidelines, Chinese guidelines, Yale protocol, Montefiore protocol and others.

We are doctors, trained to diagnose and treat illness, we are experts in our field with decades of experience and hundreds of publications … We have clearly devised an effective treatment for use, prior to the publication of randomized controlled trials.

Those trials are critical for sure, as they will help us further refine and/or perfect our treatment doses, durations, and indications, but waiting for the perfect is and will be the enemy of the good, which we are already achieving … We just want to save lives, and we know how to do it."COVID-19 Early Intervention Protocol
According to Kory, the FLCCCs MATH+ protocol has been delivered to the White House on four occasions, yet no interest has been shown. Worse, he says they continue to be stonewalled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute for Health. Why?

Isn't saving lives, right now, and by any means possible, more important than pushing for a vaccine? If the MATH+ protocol works with near-100% effectiveness, a vaccine may not even be necessary. The MATH+ protocol gets its name from:

Intravenous Methylprednisolone

High-dose intravenous Ascorbic acid

Plus optional treatments Thiamine, zinc and vitamin D

Full dose low molecular weight Heparin

Kory's testimony transcript reviews and summarizes the MATH+ protocol, and explains why the timing of the treatment is so important. As explained by Kory, there are two distinct yet overlapping phases of COVID-19 infection.

Phase 1 is the viral replication phase. Typically, patients will only experience mild symptoms, if any, during this phase. At this time, it's important to focus on antiviral therapies.
In Phase 2, the hyperinflammatory immune response sets in, which can result in organ failures (lungs, brain, heart and kidneys). The MATH+ protocol is designed to treat this active phase, but it needs to be administered early enough.
The MATH+ Protocol
The MATH+ protocol7 calls for the use of three medicines, all of which need to be started within six hours of hospital admission:

Intravenous methylprednisolone, to suppress the immune system and prevent organ damage from cytokine storms — For mild hypoxia, 40 milligrams (mg) daily until off oxygen; moderate to severe illness, 80 mg bolus followed by 20 mg per day for seven days. On Day 8, switch to oral prednisone and taper down over the next six days.
Intravenous ascorbic acid (vitamin C), to control inflammation and prevent the development of leaky blood vessels in the lungs — 3 grams/100 ml every six hours for up to seven days.
Subcutaneous heparin (enoxaparin), to thin the blood and prevent blood clots — For mild to moderate illness, 40 mg to 60 mg daily until discharged.
Optional additions include thiamine, zinc and vitamin D. In addition to these medications, the protocol calls for high-flow nasal oxygen to avoid mechanical ventilation, "which itself damages the lungs and is associated with a mortality rate approaching nearly 90% in some centers," Kory notes.8

Together, this approach addresses the three core pathological processes seen in COVID-19, namely hyperinflammation, hypercoagulability of the blood, and hypoxia (shortness of breath due to low oxygenation).

COVID-19 Should Not Be Treated as ARDS
In the video, Dr. Paul Marik points out that it's crucial for doctors to treat each patient as an individual case, as COVID-19 is not conventional acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

If the patient is assumed to have ARDS and placed on a ventilator, you're likely going to damage their lungs. Indeed, research has now shown that patients placed on mechanical ventilation have far higher mortality rates than patients who are not ventilated. While not discussed here, some doctors are also incorporating hyperbaric oxygen treatment in lieu of ventilation, with great success.

The reason for this is because the primary problem is inflammation, not fluid in the lungs. So, Marik says, they need anti-inflammatory drugs. "It's not the virus that is hurting the host, it's the acute inflammatory dysregulated response," he says. "That's why you need to use vitamin C and steroids." He points out that steroids play a crucial role, as it creates synergy with vitamin C.

COVID-19 patients also have a hypercoagulation problem, so they need anticoagulants. In addition to using the proper medication, they must also be treated early. "You have to intervene early and aggressively to prevent them from deteriorating," Marik says.

Methylprednisolone May Be a Crucial Component
Kory expresses concerns over the fact that health organizations around the world are warning doctors against the use of corticosteroids, calling this a "tragic error"9 as "COVID-19 is a steroid-responsive disease."10 In his testimony, he points out:11

"Sorin Draghici, CEO of Advaita Bioinformatics, just reported12 that their incredibly sophisticated Artificial Intelligence platform called iPathwayGuide, using cultured human cell lines infected with COVID-19, is able to map all the human genes which are activated by this virus …

Note almost all the activated genes are those that express triggers of inflammation. With this knowledge of the specific COVID inflammatory gene activation combined with knowledge of the gene suppression activity of all known medicines they were able to match the most effective drug for COVID-19 human gene suppression, and that drug is methylprednisolone.

This must be recognized, as the ability of other corticosteroids to control inflammation in COVID-19 was much less impactful. This is, we believe, an absolutely critical and historic finding. Many centers are using similar but less effective agents such as dexamethasone or prednisone."

As noted by Kory in his senate testimony, Marik, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, is a member of the FLCCC.13 You may recall that Marik was the one who in 2017 announced he had developed an extraordinarily effective treatment against sepsis.

Marik's sepsis protocol also calls for intravenous vitamin C and a steroid, in this case hydrocortisone, along with thiamine. I for one am not surprised that the two protocols are so similar, seeing how sepsis is also a major cause of death in severe COVID-19 cases.

Safe and Effective Treatments Must Not Be Ignored
As noted by Marik in the video, COVID-19 is not regular ARDS and should not be treated as such. What kills people with COVID-19 is the inflammation, and steroids in combination with vitamin C work synergistically together to control and regulate that inflammation. The heparin, meanwhile, addresses the hypercoagulation that causes blood clots, which is a unique feature of COVID-19. As for the "lack of studies" supporting their protocol, FLCCC notes:14

"A number of official guidelines, such as those of the WHO and several other U.S. agencies, recommend limiting treatment for … critically ill patients to 'supportive care only' — and to allow the therapies described here to be studied in randomized controlled trials where half of the patients would receive placebo and where the results would come in months or years.

Our physicians agree that while a randomized controlled trial (RCT), under normal circumstances, might be considered, the early provisions of MATH+, which must be given within hours of critical illness, would inevitably be delayed by such a study design, rendering the validity of the RCT questionable.

Furthermore, while the results of an RCT would not be available for months or more, well-designed observational studies of the protocol could yield timely feedback during this pandemic, to improve the treatment process much more quickly."

I believe this information needs to be shared far and wide, if we are to prevent more people from dying unnecessarily. More and more, as doctors are starting to speak openly about their clinical findings, we're seeing that there are quite a few different ways to tackle this illness without novel antivirals or vaccines, using older, inexpensive and readily available medications that are already known to be safe. "

+ Sources and References
1, 2, 3 Alliance for Natural Health May 14, 2020
4, 13 covid19criticalcare.com
5 US Senate May 6, 2020
6, 8, 9, 11 Dr. Pierre Kory Senate Testimony May 6, 2020 (PDF)
7 MATH+ Protocol (PDF)
10, 14 Vimeo COVID-19 Early Intervention Treatment Protocol
12 Wayne State University April 30, 2020

Gwin Ru

3rd June 2020, 12:26

Yale Epidemiologist: Hydroxychloroquine Should Be 'Widely Available And Promoted Immediately' As Standard Treatment (https://www.zerohedge.com/health/yale-epidemiologist-hydroxychloroquine-should-be-widely-available-and-promoted-immediately)

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Sun, 05/31/2020 - 17:20

Hydroxychloroqine - a cheap, widely-prescribed anti-malaria drug which was deemed safe for decades until it showed efficacy treating coronavirus - needs to be made "widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe," according to Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch.

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In a Wedensday manuscript detailing how high-risk COVID-19 patients should be treated, Risch notes that the combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and the antibiotic azithromycin (AZ) "has been widely misrepresented in both clinical reportsand public media," and that "Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy."
Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been used as standard-of-care in more than 300,000 older adults with multi comorbidities, with estimated proportion diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmias attributable to the medications 47/100,000 users, of which estimated mortality is <20%, 9/100,000 users, compared to the 10,000 Americans now dying each week. These medications need to be widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe.
- Dr. Harvey Risch
Risch recommends the combination of HCQ+AZ "preferably with zinc" as a "standard outpatient treatment, at least until we find or add something better, whether that could be remdesivir or something else."

The manuscript flies in the face of mainstream health authorities, which has staged a full court press against HCQ, while promoting Gilead's (very expensive) remdesivir as the only viable option to treat the COVID-19. Medical experts - including Dr. Anthony Fauci of the White House coronavirus task force have cautioned against taking the drug despite its successful use by doctors around the world, who have claimed dramatic improvement in patients with coronavirus.
"Every patient I've prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within 8 to 12 hours, they were basically symptom-free," said Los Angeles doctor Dr. Anthony Cardillo, adding

"So clinically I am seeing a resolution."
In mid-May, President Trump admitted to taking HCQ + Zinc right around the time VP Mike Pence's Press Secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for the virus.

Read Risch's manuscript below:

https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa093/5847586

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/yale-epidemiologist-hydroxychloroquine-should-be-widely-available-and-promoted-immediately

Gwin Ru

5th June 2020, 12:10

Lancet, New England Journal retract Covid-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs (https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retracts-major-covid-19-paper-that-raised-safety-concerns-about-malaria-drugs/)

Andrew Joseph
Stat News (https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retracts-major-covid-19-paper-that-raised-safety-concerns-about-malaria-drugs/)
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

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The Lancet, one of the world's top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext#articleInformation) that raised alarms about the safety of the experimental Covid-19 treatments chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine amid scrutiny of the data underlying the paper.

Just over an hour later, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a separate study (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007621), focused on blood pressure medications in Covid-19, that relied on data from the same company.

The retractions came at the request of the authors of the studies, published last month, who were not directly involved with the data collection and sources, the journals said.

"We can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources," Mandeep Mehra of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Frank Ruschitzka of University Hospital Zurich, and Amit Patel of University of Utah said in a statement issued by the Lancet. "Due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted."

The retraction of the Lancet paper is sure to add fuel to contentious arguments about the potential of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, two old malaria drugs, in Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. President Trump has touted them as valuable treatments, despite a lack of rigorous data showing they have a benefit.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, researchers reported the results (https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/03/hydroxychloroquine-does-not-prevent-covid-19-infection-in-people-who-have-been-exposed-study-says/) of the first gold-standard clinical trial of hydroxycholoroquine in Covid-19, concluding that it did not prevent infections any better than placebo. Other clinical trials, including some looking at the drugs as treatments, are ongoing.

The Lancet study gained so much attention because it went further than other observational studies that had similarly found the drugs were not associated with improved outcomes for patients. The study, which was purportedly based on patient data from 671 hospitals on six continents, reported the drugs also corresponded to higher mortality.

The findings led to the pause of some global clinical trials (https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/03/who-resuming-hydroxychloroquine-study-for-covid-19/) studying hydroxychloroquine so researchers could check for any safety concerns. Outside experts, however, quickly raised concerns (https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/02/top-medical-journals-raise-concerns-about-data-in-two-studies-related-to-covid-19/) after noticing inconsistencies in the data. They asked the company that compiled and analyzed the data, Surgisphere, to explain how it sourced its data.

As scrutiny grew, the authors on the paper not affiliated with Surgisphere called for an independent audit. In their Lancet statement Thursday, they said that Surgisphere was not cooperating with the independent reviewers and would not provide the data.

"As such, our reviewers were not able to conduct an independent and private peer review and therefore notified us of their withdrawal from the peer-review process," the researchers wrote.

Related:

Governments And WHO Changed Covid-19 Policy Based on Suspect Data From Tiny US Company (https://www.sott.net/article/435647-Governments-And-WHO-Changed-Covid-19-Policy-Based-on-Suspect-Data-From-Tiny-US-Company)

Global survey reveals hydroxychloroquine rated 'most effective therapy' by doctors for coronavirus (https://www.sott.net/article/432346-Global-survey-reveals-hydroxychloroquine-rated-most-effective-therapy-by-doctors-for-coronavirus)

Study on early hydroxychloroquine treatment of COVID-19 patients shows 98.7% cure rate (https://www.sott.net/article/434583-Study-on-early-hydroxychloroquine-treatment-of-COVID-19-patients-shows-98-7-cure-rate)

Los Angeles doctor reports remarkable success treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine & zinc (https://www.sott.net/article/432189-Los-Angeles-doctor-reports-remarkable-success-treating-COVID-19-patients-with-hydroxychloroquine-zinc)

Results from a controlled trial of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 (https://www.sott.net/article/432048-Results-from-a-controlled-trial-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-COVID-19)

Hydroxychloroquine rated 'most effective' coronavirus treatment, poll of doctors finds (https://www.sott.net/article/431818-Hydroxychloroquine-rated-most-effective-coronavirus-treatment-poll-of-doctors-finds)

Bahrain, Belgium successfully treating coronavirus with hydroxychloroquine (https://www.sott.net/article/431377-Bahrain-Belgium-successfully-treating-coronavirus-with-hydroxychloroquine)

Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a randomized clinical trial - Renmin Hospital, Wuhan (https://www.sott.net/article/431796-Efficacy-of-hydroxychloroquine-in-patients-with-COVID-19-results-of-a-randomized-clinical-trial-Renmin-Hospital-Wuhan)

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons: Hydroxychloroquine has about 90 percent chance of helping COVID-19 patients (https://www.sott.net/article/434712-Association-of-American-Physicians-and-Surgeons-Hydroxychloroquine-has-about-90-percent-chance-of-helping-COVID-19-patients)

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has now treated 699 coronavirus patients with 100% success using Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate, Zinc and Z-Pak (https://www.sott.net/article/431959-Dr-Vladimir-Zelenko-has-now-treated-699-coronavirus-patients-with-100-success-using-Hydroxychloroquine-Sulfate-Zinc-and-Z-Pak)

spade

6th June 2020, 09:46

onawah

7th June 2020, 15:46

Lancet Editor Spills the Beans
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection
6/7/20
(MORE HYPERLINKS IN THE ARTICLE)
Editors of The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine: Pharmaceutical Companies are so Financially Powerful They Pressure us to Accept Papers
https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/editors-of-the-lancet-and-the-new-england-journal-of-medicine-pharmaceutical-companies-are-so-financially-powerful-they-pressure-us-to-accept-papers/
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Philippe Douste-Blazy, MD, is a cardiologist and former French Health Minister who served as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations. He was a candidate in 2017 for Director of the World Health Organization.

"In a videotaped interview on May 24, 2020, Dr. Douste-Blazy provided insight into how a series of negative hydroxychloroquine studies got published in prestigious medical journals.

ZYgiCALEdpE
He revealed that at a recent Chatham House top secret, closed door meeting attended by experts only, the editors of both, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine expressed their exasperation citing the pressures put on them by pharmaceutical companies.

He states that each of the editors used the word “criminal” to describe the erosion of science.

He quotes Dr. Richard Horton who bemoaned the current state of science:

“If this continues, we are not going to be able to publish any more clinical research data because pharmaceutical companies are so financially powerful; they are able to pressure us to accept papers that are apparently methodologically perfect, but their conclusion is what pharmaceutical companies want.”

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Dr. Douste-Blazy supports the combination treatment –hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZ) for Covid-19 recommended by Dr. Didier Raoult. In April, 2020

Dr. Douste-Blazy started a petition that has been signed by almost 500,000 French doctors and citizens urging French government officials to permit physicians to prescribe hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus patients early, before they require intensive care.

The issue has become highly politicized; the left-leaning politicians and public health officials are adamantly against the use of HCQ, whereas those leaning toward the right politically are for the right of doctors to prescribe the drug as they see fit.

The journal SCIENCE described the response to French President Emmanuel Macron trip to Marseille to meet Dr. Raoult who prescribes the combination drug regimen and he has documented their effectiveness.

However, public health officials, academic physicians and the media – all of who are financially indebted to pharmaceutical companies and their high profit marketing objectives – vehemently oppose the use of HCQ, and use every opportunity to disparage the drug by derisively referring to President Trump as its booster.

The Lancet Published a Fraudulent Study: Editor Calls it “Department of Error”
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection

On May 22, 2020, The Lancet published “Hydroxychloroquine or Chloroquine With or Without A Macrolide For Treatment of COVID-19: a Multinational Registry Analysis”. It was described as an observational study purportedly involving more than 96,000 hospitalized Covid-19 patients in 671 hospitals across six continents. What was not disclosed is the fact that the two lead co-authors have significant, relevant financial conflicts of interest that just may have biased the reported findings.

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The database belongs to Surgisphere Corporation whose founder and CEO, is Dr. Sapan Desai, who is a lead co-author of the study. Dr. Desai has refused to disclose the data – for independent confirmatory review. In fact, he refuses to identify the participating hospitals, or even the countries.
Dr. Mandeep Mehra, the lead co-author is a director at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, which is credited with funding the study. Dr. Mehra and The Lancet failed to disclose that Brigham Hospital has a partnership with Gilead and is currently conducting TWO trials testing Remdesivir, the prime competitor of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19, the focus of the study.
https://www.brighamhealthonamission.org/2020/03/26/two-remdesivir-clinical-trials-underway-at-brigham-and-womens-hospital/The Lancet report claimed that COVID-19 “patients treated with hydroxychloroquine (with or without a macrolide) were at increased risk of de-novo ventricular arrhythmia and ‘a greater hazard for in-hospital death.’” Such an alarming finding from an inaccessible dataset should have raised concerns for the editor of the Lancet, about the integrity of the study and the accuracy of the claimed findings. In fact, within days of the Lancet publication, concerns about that dataset were raised on social media, on PubPeer, the post-publication discussion website, and in newspapers.
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Within days of publication, Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) declared on CNN

“The scientific data is really quite evident now about the lack of efficacy.”

A media blitz against hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) created panic: clinical trials aimed at testing hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 were suspended by International public health institutions including the World Health Organization the UK government regulatory agency and the French government.

The chief scientist at the WHO, Soumya Swaminathan, stated that although the Lancet data weren’t from a randomized controlled trial, the data were compelling because they

“came from multiple registries and quite a large number of patients, 96,000 patients.”

Knowledgeable scientists and experienced clinicians around the world were skeptical
The alarming findings and serious negative impact of the Lancet report led numerous scientists around the globe to scrutinize the report in detail. That scrutiny by legitimate, independent scientists has led to many serious questions about the integrity of the study, the authenticity of the data, and the validity of the methods the authors used.

An Open Letter posted online, is addressed to the authors of the report: Mandeep R Mehra, MD, Sapan S Desai, MD, Frank Ruschitzka, MD, Amit N Patel, MD, and to the editor, Dr. Richard Horton. The letter was signed by more than 200 prominent scientists across the world, including 17 from institutions in Africa.

The scientists question the evidence for claimed serious risks posed from the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients. Among the concerns raised by the scientists are the following:

A range of gross deviations from standard research and clinical practices, such as: patients were prescribed inexplicably high daily doses of hydroxychloroquine –far higher than the FDA-recommended doses.
There was no ethics review.
The number of patients reportedly from Australia far exceeded the number of patients in the Australian government database;.
Gross misrepresentation of the numbers of deaths in Australia.
“Both the number of cases and deaths [the claimed 40% deaths in Africa], and the details provide seem unlikely.”
Refusal to identify the hospitals that contributed patient data.
The ratios of patients who received chloroquine (49 %) to those who received hydroxychloroquine (50% ) are implausible; in Australia chloroquine is not available without special government authorization.
The Guardian reported on May 28th that it could not confirm that UK’s health agencies had even provided data for the study.

On May 29th The New York Times reported that 100 scientists and clinicians raised serious questions about the validity of the The Lancet report findings. It reported that on May 29th Dr. Mehra issued the following statement:

“We leveraged the data available through Surgisphere to provide observational guidance to inform the care of hospitalized Covid-19 patients”

[Perhaps someone can translate what “leveraged the data” means ….? The Times understated the number of scientists who signed the open letter; it is closer to 220.]

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Dr. James Watson, senior scientist at the MORU-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand doubts that any research organization could have obtained such detailed massive records for so many people in Africa that quickly. Based on healthcare workers’ descriptions of medical record-keeping, at many hospitals in Africa, he indicated:

“I just find it very hard to believe.”
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Dr. Watson contributed concerns regarding the African data to the Open Letter. He had to suspend a just-launched trial of HCQ to comply with UK regulators following the Lancet report.
Dr. Anthony Etyang, a consultant physician and clinical epidemiologist with the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya, who is also a signatory to the Open Letter, wrote to The Scientist expressing his doubts about the numbers of African patients in the Surgisphere dataset, noting that even private hospitals on the continent have poor medical records.

Rather than investigating the serious issues raised about the integrity of the report, The Lancet editor posted the authors’ claimed to “correction” of the numbers of patients in Asia and Australia on a page designated “Department of Error” – whatever that means!
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The nature and number of the serious “discrepancies” that have emerged following the Lancet publication of the Surgisphere “study,” lead one to suspect out-and-out FRAUD.Disputed
Hydroxychloroquine Study Brings Scrutiny to Surgisphere, Disputed Hydroxychloroquine Study Brings Scrutiny to Surgisphere, an investigative report by Catherine Offord in The SCIENTIST, May 30, 2020, looked deeper than others and uncovered background information about Dr. Desai and the changes in Surgisphere’s product line and his marketing methods. In 2008, Surgisphere was the publisher of medical textbooks that ran afoul when physicians complained about falsified rave reviews. In 2010, Surgisphere became a high impact, online medical journal, whose website boasts that it

“accrued over 50,000 subscribers spanning almost every country around the world… with almost one million page views per month.”

The Journal of Surgical Radiology had a three-year run; its last issue was published in January 2013.

The Scientist reports that Dr. Desai is named in three medical malpractice lawsuits that were filed during the second half of 2019.

Additional disturbing facts about Surgisphere have been uncovered by a team of investigative reporters — Melissa Davey, Stephanie Kirchgaessner, and Sarah Boseley – for The Guardian. an investigative report by Catherine Offord in The SCIENTIST, May 30, 2020, looked deeper than others and uncovered background information about Dr. Desai and the changes in Surgisphere’s product line and his marketing methods. In 2008, Surgisphere was the publisher of medical textbooks that ran afoul when physicians complained about falsified rave reviews. In 2010, Surgisphere became a high impact, online medical journal, whose website boasts that it

“accrued over 50,000 subscribers spanning almost every country around the world… with almost one million page views per month.”

The Journal of Surgical Radiology had a three-year run; its last issue was published in January 2013.

The Scientist reports that Dr. Desai is named in three medical malpractice lawsuits that were filed during the second half of 2019.

Additional disturbing facts about Surgisphere have been uncovered by a team of investigative reporters — Melissa Davey, Stephanie Kirchgaessner, and Sarah Boseley – for The Guardian.

Surgisphere, the company that provided the database for studies published by two of the world’s leading medical journals – The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine – based on Surgisphere data. The studies were co-authored the hydroxychloroquine studies.

“Surgisphere’s employees have little or no data or scientific background. An employee listed as a science editor appears to be a science fiction author and fantasy artist. Another employee listed as a marketing executive is an adult model and events hostess… until Monday, the “get in touch” link on Surgisphere’s homepage redirected to a WordPress template for a cryptocurrency website, raising questions about how hospitals could easily contact the company to join its database.”

The fiasco of the publication of essentially fraudulent reports in the journals with the greatest impact on both clinical treatment and public health policies, reveals how thoroughly corrupted so-called peer review has become because it lacks external, independent review by scientists who have NO STAKE in the study outcome. It was only after the reports by The Scientist andThe Guardian, that the editors of The NEJM and The Lancet were compelled to issue an: “Expression of concern.” This fiasco demonstrates why intelligent people seek alternative sources for reliable information.

The website, Science Defies Politics exposes numerous scientifically invalid studies that were essentially “hit jobs” against the use of hydroxychloroquine.

WHY are very powerful corporate-government stakeholders so intent on killing a drug with a 70 year track record? Because the drug works against the pandemic; it is readily available, and costs very little. Therefore, it poses a financial threat to both pharma companies and their partners in government and academia, those who are intent on profiting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

As uncovered by Science Defies Politics: 16 of the panel members selected by NIH to formulate the official COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines – including two of the three co-chairs – were paid by Gilead. They issued guidelines that raised fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the use of HCQ combined with AZ, while raising no fear, doubt, or uncertainty about using Gilead’s unproven, unapproved, drug remdesivir; a drug that has shown mediocre performance in clinical trials. Seven of the NIH panelists failed to disclose their financial ties to Gilead. They are listed here.

The medical scientific literature is infested with financially motivated, shoddy, studies aimed at promoting products and, when a life-saving, non-patentable product, proves effective, scientists are hired to author study reports that are designed to tarnish scientists’ reputations, and to proclaim findings that refute legitimate findings. In this case, studies designed to “debunk” the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19.

Examples of countries and physicians who have witnessed the effectiveness of the HCQ – Az combination as a treatment for covid-19, are viewed by corporate-government collaborating partners as posing a major threat to their marketing agendas.

For example, Senegal and India are putting their hopes in hydroxychloroquine, marketed by Sanofi, under the trade name Plaquenil. A Sanofi spokesperson stated:

“We are providing the drug to hospitals and doctors to enable them to carry out clinical trials to determine whether hydroxychloroquine is effective or not, but not to treat Covid-19.”

On May 23rd the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued expanded revised guidelines for use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19:

“The Joint Monitoring Group and the NTF have recommended prophylactic use of HCQ in asymptomatic frontline workers, such as surveillance workers deployed in containment zones and paramilitary/police personnel involved in Covid-19 related activities, asymptomatic household contacts of laboratory confirmed cases and all asymptomatic healthcare workers involved in containment and treatment of Covid-19 and working in non-Covid hospitals/non-Covid areas of Covid hospitals/blocks.”
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Didier Raoult, MD, PhD — “a Science Star” — as the NYT described him in a recent profile, who has identified 500 novel species of human-borne bacteria; a scientist known all over the world as the discoverer of the first giant virus, a discovery that earned him the Grand Prix, one of France’s most prestigious awards.Dr. Raoult is the founder and director of the research hospital, the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection (IHU). He is a professor on the faculty of Medicine of Ais-Marseille University, and since 2008, he has been the director of the Infectious and Tropical Emergent Diseases Research Unit), which employs more than 200 people and runs a hospital with 3,700 patients. He has more than 2,300 indexed publications and was classified among the ten leading French researchers by the journal Nature. Dr. Raoult has a reputation for bluster but also for creativity that others lack. As the Times noted, “He looks where no one else cares to, with methods no one else is using, and [he] finds things.”

Since publishing favorable reports about a treatment combination of two cheap, widely prescribed medicines: hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, as a treatment of choice against Covid-19, Dr. Raoult has become the subject of intense demonization by the corporate-influenced medical establishment, the media, and the who resort to this tactic whenever they lack evidence or legitimate grounds to support public health policies that cause people harm. Their fallback tactic is to demonize every doctor who challenges them and refuses to adhere to their financially – driven prescribing decrees.

Dr. Raoult’s latest scientific report about HCQ, Early Diagnosis and Management of COVID-19 Patients: A Real-Life Cohort study of 3,737 Patients, Marseille, France was posted on May 27, 2020,

It is a retrospective study report of the clinical management of 3,737 patients, including 3,054 (81.7%) treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin (HCQ-AZ) for at least three days and 683 (18.3%) patients treated with other methods. Outcomes were death, transfer to the intensive care unit (ICU), ≥ 10 days of hospitalization and viral shedding.

“Treatment with HCQ-AZ was associated with a decreased risk of transfer to the ICU or death (HR 0.19 0.12-0.29), decreased risk of hospitalization ≥10 days (odds ratios 95% CI 0.37 0.26-0.51) and shorter duration of viral shedding (time to negative PCR: HR 1.27 1.16-1.39). QTc prolongation (>60 ms) was observed in 25 patients (0.67%) leading to the cessation of treatment in 3 cases. No cases of torsade de pointe or sudden death were observed.

Conclusion
Early diagnosis, early isolation and early treatment with at least 3 days of HCQ-AZ result in a significantly better clinical outcome and contagiosity in patients with COVID-19 than other treatments.”
In France, doctors who have followed the research of Dr. Raoult, and have themselves witnessed the effectiveness of the HCQ-AZ combination, are suing the government. They demand the right to treat their patients with these drugs before easing of the lockdown. They seek to prevent complications and deaths from a second wave of Covid-19.

Dr. Violaine Guérin, an endocrinologist who conducted a trial on 100 doctors infected with COVID-19, and their families, reported her study findings that demonstrated the effectiveness of prescribing HCQ combined with azithromycin at the first sign of symptoms. The drugs substantially reduced the viral load of Covid-19:

“Taking hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin on the outset of flu symptoms can prevent Covid-19 from getting worse. We can treat people now before they end up on a ventilator.”

Her findings replicated those Dr. Didier Raoult.

Dr. Guérin recommends prescribing hydroxychloroquine for health workers infected by the coronavirus, which is outside of its approved uses. Health unions in France warned that almost 12,000 health care professionals out of 550,000 – roughly a quarter of the country’s health force – were sick with Covid-19. Dr. Guérin recommends its use on compassionate grounds, stating:

“From the very beginning, doctors have been calling for the right to self-prescribe because they are the ones on the frontline of the coronavirus battle. We cannot waste time when we can treat Covid-19 now, as long as this is done in the early stages of the virus and patients are screened for pre-existing medical conditions.”

Soon after this favorable study was published, the Minister of Health Olivier Veran in bald political arm twisting fashion, asked the highest health authority to review its authorization for the use of HCQ to treat Covid, suggesting further restriction.

Read the full article at AHRP.org.https://ahrp.org/the-lancet-published-a-fraudulent-study-editor-calls-it-department-of-error/

Also posted here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?110505-Covid19-Global-reports-news-and-updates&p=1359817&viewfull=1#post1359817

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8th June 2020, 17:28

Lancet & NEJM Retract Studies Finding HCQ Deadly & Ineffective
Medical Scandal of the Decade Erupts as Lancet and NEJM Both Retract Studies Finding Hydroxychloriquine Deadly and Ineffective
Politicized Science: Lancet, NEJM retract studies on Hydroxychloriquine
BY Celia Farber
6/6/20

"At 3:15 pm on June 4, I got a text from my friend Josh in Los Angeles that stopped me in my tracks.

The text read: “The fake Lancet Hydroxychloroquine study has been retracted.”

I called Josh. “Are you serious?”

He’d already texted me the retraction, but still I could barely believe it. Turns out NEJM had also retracted. This was huge.

Dr. James Todaro, who runs a website, MedicineUncensored, which publishes the results of HCQ studies, tweeted yesterday:

“This is exploding into one of the most twisted and unbelievable medical scandals of the decade.” Todaro (and social media “sleuths”) were the first to expose the truth, in late May on his site:

https://twitter.com/JamesTodaroMD/status/1268616979344056330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1268619396177526784&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Funcoverdc.com%2F2020%2F06%2F06%2Fpoliticized-science-lancet-nejm-retract%2F

James Todaro, MD
@JamesTodaroMD
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Jun 4
BOOM. Lancet study on hydroxychloroquine retracted.

Published study existed for only 13 days.

Did Twitter peer-review result in the quickest retraction ever for a study of this magnitude? #LancetGate
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The Lancet
@TheLancet
· Jun 4
Today, three of the authors have retracted "Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis" Read the Retraction notice and statement from The Lancet https://hubs.ly/H0r7gh50
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James Todaro, MD
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@JamesTodaroMD
First detailed investigation into Surgisphere reported here:
https://www.medicineuncensored.com/a-study-out-of-thin-air
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UncoverDC reached out to Dr. Todaro to confirm that he was the first to expose the scandal.

“Yes that is correct,” he wrote. “My report was the first to make a detailed investigation into Surgisphere. [The data company.] My report came out May 29.”

6 days later, on June 4, the two most prominent medical journals in the world had both retracted the HCQ papers; Two ships hitting the same iceberg.

It is very rare for a major medical journal to retract a paper, especially one that supports an entire orthodoxy. This paper pinned together the very trinity of Covid-19’s economic and political faith: By taking down HCQ, as “dangerous,” it took direct aim also at President Trump.

Based on this research team’s data, in lockstep, the WHO halted global trials for Hydroxychloroquine, (HCQ.) Word went out through controlled global media that HCQ was ineffective and even deadly.

Why? Because the researchers entrusted with collecting and interpreting the data concluded that HCQ a) did not work and b) was associated with increased deaths.

The paper, numbingly titled: “Hydroxychloroquine or Chloroquine with or without a Macrolide for treatment of Covid-19: a multinational registry analysis” was published online on May 22, 2020, and it claimed to draw on cohorts of a staggering 96,000 patients (more than two packed Shea Stadiums) in 671 hospitals worldwide.

The truth now emerging is that the data was never vetted, either by the authors of the paper or by the journals that published its conclusions.

The Lancet retraction was requested by three of the study’s authors: Mandeep Mehra, Frank Ruschitzka, and Amit Patel, and read in part: “After publication of our Lancet Article, several concerns were raised with respect to the veracity of the data and analyses conducted by Surgisphere Corporation and its founder and our co-author, Sapan Desai.”

Here is an interview with Desai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVoYZXPUS7w

The NEJM retraction was signed by all five authors, including Desai. It read:

TO THE EDITOR:
BECAUSE ALL THE AUTHORS WERE NOT GRANTED ACCESS TO THE RAW DATA AND THE RAW DATA COULD NOT BE MADE AVAILABLE TO A THIRD-PARTY AUDITOR, WE ARE UNABLE TO VALIDATE THE PRIMARY DATA SOURCES UNDERLYING OUR ARTICLE, “CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, DRUG THERAPY, AND MORTALITY IN COVID-19.”1 WE THEREFORE REQUEST THAT THE ARTICLE BE RETRACTED. WE APOLOGIZE TO THE EDITORS AND TO READERS OF THE JOURNAL FOR THE DIFFICULTIES THAT THIS HAS CAUSED.
Mandeep R. Mehra, M.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Boston, MA
mmehra@bwh.harvard.edu

Sapan S. Desai, M.D., Ph.D.
Surgisphere, Chicago, IL

SreyRam Kuy, M.D., M.H.S.
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Timothy D. Henry, M.D.
Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

Amit N. Patel, M.D.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Incredibly, after The Lancet paper was published, after The WHO stopped all HCQ studies. “Independent peer reviewers” informed the paper’s authors that the private data collection company “Surgisphere,” owned by co-author –Sapan Desai–would not provide the full dataset for analysis. “As such,” they wrote, “our reviewers were not able to conduct an independent and private peer review and therefore notified us of their withdrawal from the peer-review process.”

That’s medical journal Latin for “We published despite having no idea if our data was real.”

The Guardian Newspaper, in addition to Dr. Todaro, actually did excellent reporting leading to yesterday’s sudden retractions, after their investigation led to findings of potential data fraud. Surgisphere claimed to run “one of the largest and fastest hospital databases in the world,” (a global total of 1200 hospitals) but when The Guardian reached out to five hospitals in Australia, they said they had never heard of Surgisphere, never mind submitted patient data to them. One red flag was that Surgisphere was reporting that as of April 21 they said there had been 73 deaths in Australia from Covid-19, but there had only been 67, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Desai, a vascular surgeon based in Chicago, had also been named in at least three malpractice lawsuits, had raised funds for a shady “human augmentation device” that never came to fruition; His company lists only 11 employees, one of whom, The Guardian points out, is an X rated model, another, a science fiction writer. And to make matters even more unsettling, Desai’s Wikipedia page has been deleted, and he is stonewalling investigators.

The Guardian quoted Peter Ellis, a data scientist from Nous Group, which does data integration for governments. He said that the Surgisphere database was “…almost certainly a scam.” He said there was no evidence that Surgisphere had any analytical software “earlier than a year ago,” and that it would have taken possibly years to achieve data collection and hospital participation on the scale they claimed. The Lancet study was not only questioned by The Guardian, but also by 120 doctors, who penned a protest. Soon it emerged on Twitter that Surgisphere was placed in liquidation in 2015.

One thing that troubles me is how the authors requested the retraction of their own article, from both Lancet and NEJM. Note how both journals stood back as impervious as hospital walls, or parents whose only task is to quietly witness their children’s shameful confession before them. The journals take no responsibility for the utter lack of vetting. Not a word. The authors of the fake study are wearing shame-caps and marched before the reader, while the journal editors stand back. Kind of like Buzzfeed with the “Russian dossier.”

We are seeing the Emperor’s naked body. We are seeing that what stands between the world’s most prestigious medical journals and the world at large on matters of international life-and-death importance is essentially nothing. They ran with it because it was fashionable. It was the thing to think and say in the era of Covid V. Trump, Covid as the new Russiagate and Impeachment.

But only in the US is the good news about HCQ held hostage by political fervor. It has gotten Covid-19 under control in many countries, including France, South Korea, India, and Turkey.

Here are studies proving the safety and efficacy of HCQ that any honest journalist could have accessed online in seconds:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1545C_dJWMIAgqeLEsfo2U8Kq5WprDuARXrJl6N1aDjY/preview

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/French-researcher-in-Marseille-posts-successful-Covid-19-coronavirus-drug-trial-results

“How do you get so much data that quickly? It’s extremely difficult and time consuming to negotiate data sharing agreements with hospitals,” said Dr. Jonathan Fishbein, President of Veracuity, a bio-pharmaceutical safety, informatics and analytics firm based in PA. “That should have set off alarm bells. It would have been an issue to pursue before deciding to publish what seemed to be such a seminal paper.”

“The whole HCQ thing has turned from being a medical thing to a political one. Anybody who is anti Trump will be anti HCQ,” he said in a phone interview. “The real tragedy here is that The WHO acted rapidly on Surgisphere’s findings. As a result, there may have been patients who should have received hydroxychlorquine but didn’t, and paid with their lives.”

The conflicts of interest are also rather shocking.

The research teams’s lead author, Dr. Mehra, is a director at Boston’s Bingham & Women’s Hospital, credited with funding the study. Both Mehra and The Lancet failed to disclose that the hospital has a “partnership” with Gilead, and is running trials of competing Covid-treatment, Remdesivir, “touted” by Anthony Fauci. Remdesivir costs $1,000 per pill, whereas HCQ’s generic price is $0.64.

The day before The Lancet retracted the paper, The WHO announced it would resume trials of HCQ, suddenly discovering that it did not in fact increase the risk of death in patients. Little detail.

How did this disaster come to pass? How did HCQ go from being a 65 year old malaria drug with no issues to being, by April of 2020, the new Trump attackology, in pill form? The media–that’s how. Medicine is now utterly weaponized in the all engulfing anti-Trump media-driven pogrom. It happened very fast:

President Trump had come out at more than one press conference, singing the drug’s praises, and saying he himself was taking it. The media began its breast-beating right on cue: It was fish tank cleaner. It was deadly. Trump was killing people. Jimmy Kimmel said Trump was “trying to kill himself,” while Neil Cavuto flatly insisted: “This will kill you.”

Chris Cuomo thundered that the “numbers are black and white, they don’t lie.” Numbers don’t lie, Mr. Cuomo, but research scientists do. And they did.

As soon as Trump backed HCQ, in line with his consistent message that he would rather see a successful treatment than a vaccine, because a vaccine can “destroy a person,” absurd and cartoonish fear mongering around this time tested medication erupted through the mass media, designed to crush the hopes of the world, that HCQ could solve the problem, and we could re-open the world for business. They ignored a vast body of medical evidence going back over half a century proving the drug safe for human use, and years of studies proving it worked against SARS, and months of studies from several countries, proving it was effective both a prophylactic and yes, cure, for Covod-19, when used with zinc. The zinc is the thing–the HCQ opens the cellular pathway for the zinc to get into cells.

“Zinc is the bullet. HCQ is the gun. Treat Covid-19 early and live. Reopen the world economy now,”

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a strong advocate of HCQ who uses it successfully in his practice, wrote on Twitter.

Dr Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko
@zev_dr
Zinc is the bullet and hydroxychloroquine is the gun. @ZelenkoProtocol @realDonaldTrump @RudyGiuliani @MarkMeadows

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The debate about HCQ’s safety has always been baseless and fake. It’s been used safely for 65 years, and the CDC’s website (CDC.gov) lists it as a medication that can safely be prescribed to “adults and children of all ages.”

“CDC has no limits on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of malaria, ” the site states.

The only risk the CDC website lists, apart from transient symptoms such as headache, nausea, and itching, is that if you take high doses over many years you have to get your eyes checked as it can lead to a rare eye condition called retinopathy.

But despite the truth being out in the open for all to access, a psy-op of terror and recrimination formed around the drug, along with a “major study,” appearing way too quickly, that served to puncture not only the drug’s future as a Covid-treatment but also, re-write its entire history, safety profile, and branding. Voila.

There it was–the ” large scale study” that proved that Trump was wrong, dangerous, and crazy, and that NIH head Anthony Fauci, was correct to dismiss it, (though he was on record advocating it as safe and effective against SARS.) Fauci was of course the good father, warning us all; Trump was the bad father, raising “false hope” about a “deadly drug.” Good father Fauci, was pushing Gilead’s anti-viral HIV drug Remdesivir, claiming it reduced recovery times for Covid-19 patients.

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Meanwhile, Remdesivir is both proven unsafe and proven unproven. From MedPage Today:

“For Remdesivir, one review in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine cited concern about cardiac arrhythmias, but another in Cardiovascular Research called CV effects and toxicities unknown.”

Another astonishing line from the same article cites Remdesivir’s use in an experimental Ebola study. You will have to read this sentence twice to believe it:

“The only adverse events reported in that trial were deaths, and the only one adjudicated as possibly related to Remdesivir was one case of hypotension followed rapidly by cardiac arrest.”

The side effects for the drug on its lengthy Wikipedia page are hardly reassuring:

“The most common adverse effects in studies of remdesivir for COVID‑19 include respiratory failure and organ impairment, including low albumin, low potassium, low count of red blood cells, low count of platelets that help with clotting, and yellow discoloration of the skin.[12][unreliable medical source?]Other reported side effects include gastrointestinal distress, elevated transaminase levels in the blood (liver enzymes), and infusion site reactions.[3]

Why does Anthony Fauci think Remdesivir is safer than HCQ? Why does he have a job at all, protecting “public health” when he thinks we should all be taking a drug that is associated with liver failure and heart attacks, as most anti-HIV drugs are? I’m glad Trump has not spoken to him in two weeks. Make it two months. I feel safer each day POTUS does not speak to Fauci.

The truth of HCQ, ironically, were captured in the NYT Magazine’s cover story on famous French microbiologist Didier Raoult, which caught my eye when it was published a month ago. The “dek” which sums up the zeitgeist perfectly, reads: “He Was A Science Star. Then He Promoted A Questionable Cure For Covid-19: The man behind Trump’s favorite unproven treatment has made a great career assailing orthodoxy. His claim of a 100 percent cure rate shocked scientists around the world.”

For the record, and as the article concedes, Raoult’s star has only brightened after his HCQ successes. His face is on coffee cups, in France. Raoult has won every major science award in France, is the most cited microbiologist in Europe, and the 7th most cited worldwide.

From the NYT Magazine feature, by Scott Sayare:

“Raoult, who founded and directs the research hospital known as the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, or IHU, has made a great career assailing orthodoxy, in both word and practice. “There’s nothing I like more than blowing up a theory that’s been so nicely established,” he once said. He has a reputation for bluster but also for a certain creativity. He looks where no one else cares to, with methods no one else is using, and finds things. In just the past 10 years, he has helped identify nearly 500 novel species of human-borne bacteria, about one-fifth of all those named and described. Until recently, he was perhaps best known as the discoverer of the first giant virus, a microbe that, in his opinion, suggests that viruses ought to be considered a fourth and separate domain of living things. The discovery helped win him the Grand Prix Inserm, one of France’s top scientific prizes. It also led him to believe that the tree of life suggested by Darwinian evolution is “entirely false,” he told me, and that Darwin himself “wrote nothing but inanities.” He detests consensus and comity; he believes that science, and life, ought to be a fight.

It is in this spirit that, over the objections of his peers, and no doubt because of them, too, he has promoted a combination of Hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, and Azithromycin, a common antibiotic, as a remedy for Covid-19. He has taken to declaring, “We know how to cure the disease.” Trump was not the only one eager to embrace this possibility.”

Twitter, last night, raged at The Lancet, NEJM, WHO and Fauci.

Indy Jones tweeted: “Willful fraud…someone needs to be prosecuted for this.”

The Lancet
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@TheLancet
· Jun 4, 2020
Today, three of the authors have retracted "Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis" Read the Retraction notice and statement from The Lancet https://hubs.ly/H0r7gh50

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Indy Jones
@indy_jones3
Willful Fraud... Someone needs to be prosecuted for this 🤬🤬

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Mark F. McCarty wrote: “The people who have died, or will die, because of the idiotic and craven over-reaction of certain health authorities to this fraudulent report, likely consider the situation more than “an embarrassment or inconvenience.”

He also tweeted:

Mark F. McCarty
@markfmccarty
· Jun 2, 2020
#LancetGate Even if the Mehra paper were true, health authorities who used it to denounce HCQ have disgraced themselves. The study could not determine causation; the clinical significance of the arrhythmias was not established; the study was not pertinent to outpatient care.

Mark F. McCarty
@markfmccarty
They must not be allowed to wriggle off the hook by claiming - "Oops, we were tricked!" Everyone who based regulatory decisions on this should be forced to resign.
6:35 PM - Jun 2, 2020

“You have lost all credibility. The Lancet is turning into political propaganda,” wrote Ben Golan.

“This is a disgrace,” wrote Woman in Science. “The obscene power of Big Pharma…”

“Mass Murder,” wrote Frente Civico.

“RIP # The Lancet” wrote Cybertempus.

“How long does it take,” wondered Stephen W. Shipman, “for people to understand that Fauci is a Deep State tool?”

Subhash Kak
@subhash_kak
Fauci changed policy on #HCQ based on an apparently fraudulent paper published in @TheLancet . That kind of bad judgment means that he should resign.#LancetGate https://twitter.com/swshipman/status/1266777789375614979 …

Stephen W. Shipman
@swshipman
#FireFauci Fauci told @CNNnewsroom that this Lancet study provided him with the evidence to dismiss the efficacy of HCQ treatments. How long does it take for people to understand that Fauci is a Deep State tool? #Lancetgate https://twitter.com/JamesTodaroMD/status/1266773063405907969 …

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Horton remained blithe and sarcastic in his tweets.

“Resign,” one tweet said.

“Sorry,” Horton tweeted. “The best editors get fired. I’m waiting.”

“How much did The Lancet get paid to publish this paper in the first place?” asked Jeu Decisif.

“Not enough, obviously,” Horton replied.

Renato Lopes tweeted: “I feel ashamed to publish anything in The Lancet..Political agenda ahead of the science. Embarrassed.”

richard horton
@richardhorton1
· Jun 4, 2020
It’s retracted. Here is a statement from three of the authors. https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1268613313702891523 …

The Lancet
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@TheLancet
Today, three of the authors have retracted "Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis" Read the Retraction notice and statement from The Lancet https://hubs.ly/H0r7gh50Renato Lopes
@renatopllopes
I feel ashamed to publish anything in The Lancet and NEJM from now. The reputation and integrity of two magazines and their editors are in check. Politically biased and no qualified to peer review a study. Political agenda ahead of the science. Embarrassed.

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“Ah, we’ll miss you,” Horton tweeted back.

I asked Andrew Wakefield, famously persecuted after a 1998 paper he co-authored on the MMR vaccine was retracted from The Lancet, for comment.

He texted:

“Horton confuses honest science such as my 1998 Lancet paper with allegedly corrupt science such as that on Hydroxychloroquine.Both instances serve to advance the vaccine industry narrative.”

By Friday morning, Horton was sounding more contrite. He tweeted:

“All published papers using the Surgisphere database now need to be investigated as a matter of urgency. Based on our experience, no Surgisphere paper can be regarded as reliable until the primary data have been independently audited.”

richard horton
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All published papers using the Surgisphere database now need to be investigated as a matter of urgency. Based on our experience, no Surgisphere paper can be regarded as reliable until the primary data have been independently audited. https://twitter.com/travishinson/status/1268874466114695168 …

Travis Hinson
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Additional papers by all authors should be investigated for similar concerns as this may be a bigger problem than two studies. This lack of oversight could be plaguing other papers by Mehra et al. https://twitter.com/richardhorton1/status/1268668505777463296 …

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Asked to place the scandal in context, Dr. Todaro told UnCoverDc:

“This medical scandal directly embarrassed the world’s most prestigious medical institutions including Harvard, The Lancet and the World Health Organization as well as countless government officials, including Dr. Fauci, who all touted the study’s findings.”

Meanwhile, how many have, as Dr. Fishbein said, “paid with their lives?” How many will, at the very least, pay with their jobs?

Celia Farber is half Swedish, raised there, so she knows “socialism” from the inside. She has focused her writings on freedom and tyranny, with an early focus on the pharmaceutical industry and media abuses on human liberties. She is the recipient of the Semmelweis International Society Clean Hands Award For Investigative Journalism, and the author of “Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS”

Twitter: @CeliaFarber
Web: www.truthbarrier.com
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Rhydwyn

9th June 2020, 06:44

People with the coronavirus infection often have crackling sounds in their lungs. (https://knowledgeofhealth.com/likely-caused-more-than-one-pathogen-missing-antidote/) People with beriberi, a vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency, also have crackling sounds in their lungs. The cure for beriberi is thiamine supplementation. Also, pneumonia is a common complication (https://www.consumerreports.org/coronavirus/understanding-pneumonia-a-dangerous-coronavirus-complication/) of the coronavirus infection, and thiamine has been used to cure pneumonia. (https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/484699)

In a study measuring thiamine levels in red blood cells (erythrocytes), (https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article-abstract/23/1/49/183727) 250 mg/day of thiamine was given to two groups of patients, one group was given the thiamine orally, and the other by injection. Thiamine levels rose slower with oral administration than with injection, but after five days they were similar. In order to get thiamine levels quickly up to therapeutic levels with oral administration, thiamine could be given twice on the first day, then once a day thereafter. For acute infections, a reasonable dose schedule to quickly get thiamine up to therapeutic levels but not overdose, is 250 mg twice on the first day, then 250 mg/day for five days, then around 125 mg/day until the infection ends. By using 125 mg capsules (total from thiamine HCl and benfotiamine), (https://www.amazon.com/Life-Extension-Benfotiamine-Thiamine-Vegetarian/dp/B000MYXVTQ) this can be done by giving two 125 mg capsules twice a day, for a total of four, on the first day, then using two capsules once a day for five days, then one capsule a day until the infection ends.

Oral thiamine should be taken with a meal, in which case it is relatively safe. Possible side effects of thiamine include nausea, diarrhea, stomach ache, or an allergic reaction. (https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/thiamine-vitamin-b1/)

Thiamine is a great addition to a treatment plan, because it supports the lungs. Some patients who recover from the coronavirus have a loss of lung capacity. (https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3074988/coronavirus-some-recovered-patients-may-have) If those patients were given thiamine, they might have their full lung capacity today.

Gwin Ru

10th June 2020, 18:12

COVID: Fake study, Fake drug, Fake land of loons (https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/06/10/covid-fake-study-fake-drug-fake-land-of-loons/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/author/jonrappoport/)
Jun10, (https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/06/10/covid-fake-study-fake-drug-fake-land-of-loons/) 2020

As many of you know, a major study on the drug, Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), has been retracted by the Lancet, a mere 13 days after it was published. That might be a world record.

The study, using a gigantic data set of 96,000 patients in 671 hospitals, concluded the drug was useless for treating COVID-19 patients, and posed health dangers.

The study (briefly) had the effect of convincing medical professionals, governments, media, and the public that HCQ was a total failure. A COVID drug would have to come from somewhere else.

Only one problem:

The authors of the study and the Lancet reviewers now confess the data can’t be found. The strong suggestion is, the data never existed.

The relentless and brilliant journalist, Celia Farber, covers the whole sordid story at uncoverdc.com. She points out that “Remdesivir, [the toxic COVID drug] ‘touted’ by Anthony Fauci…costs $1,000 per pill, whereas HCQ’s generic price is $0.64.” That’s called a clue.

And, of course, the plan is to keep the whole COVID farce going long enough to make the Bill Gates vaccine the primary instrument of treatment, through “prevention.”

The next part of this article was prompted by a story a friend told me: a graduate student, when informed about the Lancet retraction, blew up and said, “Don’t you care about SCIENCE?” Scratching an inch below the surface of his non-sequitur outburst, his meaning was clear—he hates Trump, Trump said he was taking HCQ, so HCQ must be terrible, so the discredited Lancet study must actually be accurate. And that’s science. Isn’t this charming? And how many thousands of dollars did this student’s education cost?

So let’s focus on one sector of the massive population of loons who are dutifully wearing masks and trudging down life’s path hypnotized by the COVID myth:

College students.

Several years ago, I posted a staggering statistic from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI):
“More than 25 percent of college students have been diagnosed or treated by a professional for a mental health condition within the past year.”
Aside from the zombifying effects of the psychiatric drugs (made even more dangerous by any effort to quickly withdraw from them), the students gain a new perspective from the mental-disorder diagnosis: they’re victims. And now a COVID pandemic? They can wear their masks and deepen that self-image. Wonderful.

Big Brother has given them a psychiatric diagnosis, meds, and an excuse for not succeeding in life. Big Brother has also given millions of them student loans. An illusion of a free ride.

Victim mindset, free ride. Perfect.

Throw off those COVID masks? Not a chance. That would suggest the possibility of independence. Goes against victimhood.

Victims try and whine and moan but never really succeed. That lifestyle sounds interesting. Put it on. Have fun with it. Adjust attitudes. Become a “heroic victim.” Who knew there was such an option?

Who is Big Brother? The college students hazily think about who is supplying them with the “free” psychiatric meds, who is issuing orders about the pandemic, and who is handing out their loans. Seems to be the government on all counts. OK, love Big Brother, love the government. Done.

If these students are learning anything at all in college, what is it? Well, at the top of the list would be: “science is truth.” Simple, easy, graspable.

In this “pandemic,” who is the main figure? Who is the one who SEEMS to be on the side of science, with no political ax to grind? Fauci.

Well, good. Fauci represents the government, Big Brother. Love Fauci. Follow Fauci.
Where are the students’ brothers and sisters in the cult of victims? Where are they to be found, whining and bitching and moaning? On Twitter. Good. Love Twitter. Quick, easy, no thinking necessary. Type three sentences, that’s work for the day. Whew. Relax.

Watch YouTube videos. Let the images and the voiceover flow by.

Creative vision, energy, ambition, logic? Empty words from a gone world.

Besides, AI is taking over everything. An automatic system from Big Brother. No effort necessary.
“Going outside for a few minutes now. Put on my mask. No problem. When I’m out on the street, all I do is look at my cell phone anyway. Just need to stay six feet apart. I can do that. Victim hero behind the mask.”
The student vaguely remembers a moment last year when he was at the museum and stopped at a painting by Goya. It ripped his heart out. It sent torrents of energy up his spine. But…the memory passes. The meds kick in. That was life as it used to be.

No more. Now it’s signs and signals of social justice and the cell phone and twitter and the drugs and the mask and the victimhood and the loans and Fauci and the pandemic, etc., etc.

SOURCES:

https://uncoverdc.com/2020/06/06/politicized-science-lancet-nejm-retract/

https://twitter.com/CeliaFarber

https://consumer.healthday.com/mental-health-information-25/anxiety-news-33/more-college-students-seeking-mental-health-care-738933.html

Note: the NAMI figure of 25%, which I found several years ago and cited above in this article, seems to have been scrubbed from search engines. NAMI is now pegging the figure at closer to 20%.

Instead of accepting diagnoses of made-up mental disorders, parents seeking to understand their children’s anxieties at college ought to consider the following:
“…National Center for Education Statistics [is] reporting that many 12th grade students in the United States are reading and writing at a fifth grade level. Many college students take transitional coursework to improve their literacy skills in their first year of college. The National Center for Education Statistics reported that about one third of first-year college students take transitional courses… At some post-secondary institutions [colleges], the percentage of first-year students who enroll in transitional classes is as high as 60%…”: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ972863.pdf
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spade

12th June 2020, 06:26

In the region where I am from, it has been found internally that this covid CCP virus is a blood coagulation problem, and not a respiratory problem at all. This is 100%

the white patches in the lungs are a result of not enough oxygen getting to the lungs because the blood delivery is coagulated before reaching the lungs. The blood clots occur throughout the body gradually, and when it occurs in the brain stem, seizures can occur.

All any treatment has to do is the anti-coagulate the blood. HCQ is a form of that, Aspirin will also do the trick. China has found that out already and has been busy issuing their own form of anti-coagulants and fever reduction remedy "Lianhua Qingwen".

Anything to do with ventilators / intubation is a hoax.

I'm sharing what I know from the hospital grapevines around here, unlike the complicit goon doctors / murderers in the NYC med system, and not any BS news propaganda outlets.

Gwin Ru

14th June 2020, 13:13

In the comment section following this article:

Recovered 'coronavirus patients' report health issues months later (https://nltimes.nl/2020/06/12/shocking-nearly-recovered-covid-19-health-issues-months-later)

Reader Comments (https://www.sott.net/article/436312-Recovered-coronavirus-patients-report-health-issues-months-later)
https://www.sott.net/avatar/friend/30805 (https://www.sott.net/user/30805-Joyly) Joyly (https://www.sott.net/user/30805-Joyly) · about 12 hours ago

My personal experience of having contracted CV19 and after a history of bronchial infections which would typically take up to a month to recover from and get rid of the build up of congestion, was that as soon as I started taking Vit C and Bicarbonate soda and olive leaf extract five times a day plus hot ginger lemon and honey teas, I started to feel better within a couple of days and greatly improved after 7-10 days. Then I stopped. I also started sunbaths because I know my deficiency in Vit D most like played a part. I noticed shortness of breath about once a week and immediately went back to the above treatment.

These people definitely need help but not drugs; they need help to support their immune system, which is all I did. Give them tests for Vit D deficiency and dose them up with Vit C and then nature will take care of them.
https://www.sott.net/avatar/friend/30805 (https://www.sott.net/user/30805-Joyly) Joyly (https://www.sott.net/user/30805-Joyly) · about 12 hours ago

Joyly (https://www.sott.net/user/30805-Joyly) how many people particularly in the West and specifically in the over 60 age group have a healthy diet, 3 litres of water daily, appropriate exercise like dancing, sunbath 3 times a week. And do things for fun. Watch movies to have a good laugh. Maybe these are the reasons why they are in the high risk group.

I am 76 and my state of health (my immunity) is my responsibility. And I do not take any drugs (meds).

https://www.sott.net/avatar/friend/605 (https://www.sott.net/user/605-Finch) Finch (https://www.sott.net/user/605-Finch) · about an hour ago

Joyly (https://www.sott.net/user/30805-Joyly) Great advice! For me (58), hitting in middle of -10 F weather, vitamin D was likely at lowest for the year. Experienced CV1984 in late January while living in a house with 15 others (also with CV1984) from ten countries. In late January when CV1984 was stronger (subsequent generations of transmission, given natural mutations, is always weaker). Here is what I used as protocol ):

1. Grated Ginger and tumeric tea, all day every day

2. IV vitamins C, Magnesium, Zinc, Glutathione, and german homeopathic liver support through IV (even a 9 year old girl asked for one)

3. An herbalist (aka taxi driver) went into forest for 30 minutes to get herbs to treat my bad cough

4. Kambo (jungle vaccine, is what it is called, lol)

5. Lots of freshly picked fruit (again, thanks to amazing taxi driver, who could reach fruit out his car window)

6. Andean "medicine" designed to treat low O2 saturation (because I was in the mountains, and normally live at 600 ft above sea level)

Upon arriving home:

7. After 24 hours travel to get home, experienced a little pneumonia. VERY odd because I've NEVER experienced that before! Have an industrial O2 generator at home (who doesn't, lol, it lives next to our mass spec, yes, a little geek in all of us?), and did actually spend an hour, twice a day, for two days, using a nasal canula. It honestly felt so good! O2 never dropped, just didn't like needing to clear lungs of fluid, it DOES feel a little like drowning. But NEVER EVER had breathing difficulties, just a bad cough and like a 1 degree temp on and off for 2-3 weeks.

8. Teas made out of maybe 20-30 fresh and dried herbs, daily, along with TWO JARS of Chyawanprash (aryuvedic) in two days (lol you are supposed to use one spoon a day, oops), very high in vitamins and minerals.

9. Sunbathing in 36-38 F degree weather (you put your sun lounger firmly in snow, on top of a rug if there is also ice). At least one hour a day, while shivering and nose running because it is COLD even if you lay directly under the sun. On days that reached a balmy 42 F, two hours outside.

10. Total duration, maybe 5 weeks. I was up and about (all pre-lockdown), even went to an AMAZING restaurant 200 miles away, in between my and my daughter's birthday, 1 March - and remember wishing I felt a little bit better than I did, so I guess 5 weeks to feel 85%, and another 1-2 weeks to get back to 100%. But throughout the 5 weeks, the symptoms were more aggravating than serious, Odd symptoms came and went, some days even initially I felt 85%,thought I was recovering, then others 50% than back to 90%, it took a lot of patience. Sidenote: my much older husband picked me up from the airport, took care of me, and never caught it!
https://www.sott.net/avatar/friend/30805 (https://www.sott.net/user/30805-Joyly) Joyly (https://www.sott.net/user/30805-Joyly) · 42 minutes ago

Finch (https://www.sott.net/user/605-Finch) well you certainly threw everything at it. Do you know from tests whether you got your Vit D up? I have just had blood test, get results tomorrow. I think the D is more important than previously thought.

I was also having a lot of fruit 2 - 3 bananas, oranges, and apples everyday plus blueberries and grapes or melons. With barley greens and spirulina. More fruit than I have ever had in my life before.

onawah

15th June 2020, 20:28

Magnesium and K2 Optimize Your Vitamin D Supplementation
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
June 15, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/15/vitamin-d3-k2-and-magnesium.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20200615Z1&et_cid=DM567263&et_rid=894654363

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
If you take supplemental vitamin D3, you also need to be mindful of taking extra vitamin K2 and magnesium
It’s important to increase your vitamin K2 intake when taking high-dose supplemental vitamin D to avoid complications associated with excessive arterial calcification
You need 146% more vitamin D to achieve a blood level of 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/L) if you do not take supplemental magnesium, compared to taking your vitamin D with at least 400 mg of magnesium per day
Vitamin D improves magnesium absorption, but taking large doses of vitamin D can deplete magnesium, as magnesium is required in the conversion of vitamin D into its active form
Combined intake of both supplemental magnesium and vitamin K2 has a greater effect on vitamin D levels than either individually. You need 244% more oral vitamin D if you’re not concomitantly taking magnesium and vitamin K2
Optimizing your vitamin D level is ideally done through sensible sun exposure. However, many simply are unable to obtain sufficient levels from the sun alone and need supplemental vitamin D. In this case, nutritional synergies become an important factor.

According to research by GrassrootsHealth,1 “combined intake of both supplemental magnesium and vitamin K2 has a greater effect on vitamin D levels than either individually,” and “those taking both supplemental magnesium and vitamin K2 have a higher vitamin D level for any given vitamin D intake amount than those taking either supplemental magnesium or vitamin K2 or neither.”

You Need 2.5 Times More D if Not Taking Magnesium and K2
GrassrootsHealth is a nonprofit, independent public health research institute that has been conducting large-scale population-based nutrient research since 2007.2 While a significant focus is on vitamin D, the organization has also branched into other nutrients.

Its D*action project includes a global cohort of over 10,000 self-subscribed individuals who, anonymously, provide information about their supplement use and overall health status.

GrassrootsHealth research shows blood levels in the range of 40 nanograms per milliliter to 60 ng/ml (100 nanomoles per liter to 150 nmol/L) are safe, effective and will lower overall disease incidence and health care costs.3

That said, other nutrients have been shown to work synergistically with vitamin D, and being deficient in them can significantly influence your vitamin D status as well. Importantly, data from nearly 3,000 individuals reveal you need 244% more oral vitamin D if you’re not also taking magnesium and vitamin K2. As reported by GrassrootsHealth:4

“… 244% more supplemental vitamin D was needed for 50% of the population to achieve 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/L) for those not taking supplemental magnesium or vitamin K2 compared to those who usually took both supplemental magnesium and vitamin K2.”

What this means in practical terms is that if you take all three supplements in combination, you need far less oral vitamin D in order to achieve a healthy vitamin D level.

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How Magnesium Affects Vitamin D
I’ve previously written about the importance of taking vitamin K2 when you’re taking high-dose supplemental vitamin D to avoid complications associated with excessive calcification in your arteries. In fact, relative vitamin K2 deficiency is typically what produces symptoms of “vitamin D toxicity.”

That said, magnesium is also a crucial part of the equation, as it is a component necessary for the activation of vitamin D. Without sufficient amounts of it, your body cannot properly utilize the vitamin D you’re taking.5,6,7,8

This actually helps explain why many need rather high doses of vitamin D to optimize their levels — it could be that they simply have insufficient amounts of magnesium in their system to activate the vitamin D. As noted by Mohammed Razzaque, professor of pathology at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pennsylvania:9

"People are taking vitamin D supplements but don't realize how it gets metabolized. Without magnesium, vitamin D is not really useful. By consuming an optimal amount of magnesium, one may be able to lower the risks of vitamin D deficiency, and reduce the dependency on vitamin D supplements.”

According to a scientific review10,11 published in 2018, as many as 50% of Americans taking vitamin D supplements may not get significant benefit as the vitamin D simply gets stored in its inactive form, and the reason for this is because they have insufficient magnesium levels.

Research published in 2013 also highlighted this issue, concluding that higher magnesium intake helps reduce your risk of vitamin D deficiency by activating more of it. As noted by the authors:12

“High intake of total, dietary or supplemental magnesium was independently associated with significantly reduced risks of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency respectively.

Intake of magnesium significantly interacted with intake of vitamin D in relation to risk of both vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency … Our preliminary findings indicate it is possible that magnesium intake alone or its interaction with vitamin D intake may contribute to vitamin D status.”

Similarly, GrassrootsHealth has found13 you need 146% more vitamin D to achieve a blood level of 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/L) if you do not take supplemental magnesium, compared to taking your vitamin D with at least 400 mg of magnesium per day.

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The interplay between magnesium and vitamin D isn’t a one-way street, though. It goes both ways. Interestingly, while vitamin D improves magnesium absorption,14 taking large doses of vitamin D can also deplete magnesium.15 Again, the reason for that is because magnesium is required in the conversion of vitamin D into its active form.Vitamins D, B12 and Magnesium May Affect COVID-19 Outcomes
While vitamin D and magnesium are important for overall health year-round, they may be of particular importance right now, as we’re still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in many areas of the world, and a second wave is expected in the fall.

According to preliminary research,16,17 that is still undergoing peer review, older COVID-19 patients given a combination of vitamin D, magnesium and vitamin B12 fared significantly better than those who did not receive the supplements:

“Between 15 January and 15 April 2020, 43 consecutive COVID-19 patients aged ≥50 were identified. 17 patients received DMB [vitamin D, magnesium and B12] and 26 patients did not. Baseline demographic characteristics between the two groups were similar.

Significantly fewer DMB patients than controls required initiation of oxygen therapy subsequently throughout their hospitalization (17.6% vs 61.5%). DMB exposure was associated with odds ratios of 0.13 … and 0.15 … for oxygen therapy need and/or intensive care support on univariate and multivariate analyses respectively.

Conclusions: DMB combination in older COVID-19 patients was associated with a significant reduction in proportion of patients with clinical deterioration requiring oxygen support and/or intensive care support. This study supports further larger randomized control trials to ascertain the full benefit of DMB in ameliorating COVID-19 severity.”

Signs of Vitamin D Deficiency
The idea that vitamin D might play a role in COVID-19 severity makes sense considering its importance in infections, including viral infections, in general. Vitamin D helps regulate your immune function, and deficiency is associated with more frequent infections and inflammation-related illnesses of all types. Other common signs and symptoms of vitamin D deficiency include:18

Muscle weakness and fatigue
Bone and joint pain, as well as fractures
Depression
Impaired cognition and headaches
Slow wound healing
To improve your immune function and lower your risk of viral infections, you’ll want to raise your vitamin D to a level between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL by fall. In Europe, the measurements you’re looking for are 150 nmol/L and 200 nmol/L. Optimizing your vitamin D is particularly important if you are older or have darker skin.
Long-term deficiency can also contribute to more chronic health problems, including rickets, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune disease.19 Risk factors for vitamin D deficiency include:

Rarely spending time outdoors and/or always wearing sunscreen
Having darker skin
Being over the age of 50
Obesity
Having gastrointestinal problems
Optimize Your Vitamin D Before Fall
Aside from age and comorbidities such as diabetes, obesity and heart disease, vitamin D deficiency has also been identified as an underlying factor that significantly impacts COVID-19 severity and mortality. I discuss this in “Vitamin D Is Directly Correlated to COVID-19 Outcome.”

The following graph is from a May 18, 2020, letter20 to the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, from retired biochemist Bernd Glauner and Lorenz Borsche, in which they highlight studies21 showing a clear correlation between COVID-19 mortality and vitamin D levels.

https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2020/June/correlation-covid-19-death-rate.jpg

It’s important to note that experts are already warning SARS-CoV-2 may reemerge in the fall when temperatures and humidity levels drop, thereby increasing the virus’ transmissibility.

To improve your immune function and lower your risk of viral infections, you’ll want to raise your vitamin D to a level between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL by fall. In Europe, the measurements you’re looking for are 150 nmol/L and 200 nmol/L. Optimizing your vitamin D is particularly important if you are older or have darker skin.

One of the easiest and most cost-effective ways of measuring your vitamin D level is to participate in the GrassrootsHealth’s personalized nutrition project, which includes a vitamin D testing kit, either alone or in combination with the omega-3 test. This is done in the convenience of your home.

To make sure your vitamin D level and immune system function are optimized, follow these three steps:

1.First, measure your vitamin D level — Once you know what your blood level is, you can assess the dose needed to maintain or improve your level. The easiest way to raise your level is by getting regular, safe sun exposure, but if you’re very dark-skinned, you may need to spend about 1.5 hours a day in the sun to have any noticeable effect.

Those with very light skin may need only 15 minutes a day, which is far easier to achieve. Still, they too will typically struggle to maintain ideal levels during the winter. So, depending on your situation, you may need to use an oral vitamin D3 supplement. The next question then becomes, how much do you need?

2.Assess your individualized vitamin D dosage — To do that, you can either use the chart below, or use GrassrootsHealth’s Vitamin D*calculator. To convert ng/mL into the European measurement (nmol/L), simply multiply the ng/mL measurement by 2.5. To calculate how much vitamin D you may be getting from regular sun exposure in addition to your supplemental intake, consider using the DMinder app.22

https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2020/May/vitamin-d-serum-level.jpg

3.Retest in three to six months — Lastly, you’ll need to remeasure your vitamin D level in three to six months, to evaluate how your sun exposure and/or supplement dose is working for you.

Not only will optimizing your vitamin D be an important strategy for you and your family, but it would be really helpful to start thinking about your community as well.

If you can, speak to pastors in churches with large congregations of people of color and help them start a program getting their congregation on vitamin D, and if you have a family member or know anyone who is in an assisted living facility, meet with the director of the program and encourage them to get everyone tested or at least start them on vitamin D.

I am currently in the process of writing a comprehensive resource book to help you in this effort. We really need an army of people to make a difference and build up the immune resiliency of the population before the next wave hits in the fall. This will work FAR better than any unsafe and untested vaccine that will most likely never be ready by the fall anyway.

+ Sources and References1, 4 GrassrootsHealth Magnesium and Vitamin K2 Combined Important for Vitamin D Levels
2, 3 GrassrootsHealth.net
5 Live Science February 26, 2018
6 Medicalxpress.com February 27, 2018
7 News-Medical.net February 26, 2018
8 Wellandgood.com February 26, 2018
9 Eurekalert February 27, 2018
10 Journal of the American Osteopathic Association March 2018; 118: 181-189
11 Science Daily February 2018
12 BMC Medicine 2013; 11: 187
13 GrassrootsHealth Is Supplemental Magnesium Important for Vitamin D Levels?
14 Magnesium Research March 1995; 8(1): 19-26
15 American Journal of Therapeutics Jan/Feb 2019; 26(1): e124-e132
16 Medrxiv.org June 2, 2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.01.20112334
17 News-medical.net June 4, 2020
18, 19 Medical News Today, About Vitamin D
20 Letter to Dr. Angela Merkel from Bernd Glauner and Lorenz Borsche, May 18, 2020 (PDF)
21 Selected Publications on the Role of Vitamin D Regarding the Mortality of COVID-19 Patients (PDF)
22 DMinder app

onawah

15th June 2020, 21:33

What You Need to Know About Vitamin C Dosage
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
June 15, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/15/optimal-dosage-of-vitamin-c.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2ReadMore&cid=20200615Z1&et_cid=DM567263&et_rid=894654363

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"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Vitamin C boosts the immune system, lessens cognitive decline, improves cardiovascular function, reduces oxidative stress, mineralizes bones and may be toxic to cancer cells
The adult RDA for vitamin C, 90 mg a day for men and 75 mg for women, should be much higher, according to a video from James DiNicolantonio, PharmD
Studies have calculated vitamin C saturation on the basis of excretion, which caused them to incorrectly conclude that higher doses are not effective
Optimal doses of vitamin C can be as high as 1,250 mg twice daily; even 2.5 grams per day does not produce full saturation and may have benefits
Vitamin C has been shown to kill lymphoma cells and help fight prostate, pancreatic, hepatocellular, colon, mesothelioma and neuroblastoma cancers

Oral and Intravenous Vitamin C Treatment Differs
Research conducted by Dr. Mark Levine and colleagues and cited in DiNicolantonio's video established a clear difference in saturation levels between orally administered and intravenous administered of vitamin C, which likely explains the different trial results. According to the National Cancer Institute:11

"[T]he oral vitamin C doses used in the Mayo Clinic studies would have produced peak plasma concentration of less than 200 μM [micromolars]. In contrast, the same dose given intravenously, as used in the Pauling studies, would produce peak plasma concentrations of nearly 6 mM, more than 25 times higher.

When given orally, vitamin C concentration in human plasma is tightly controlled by multiple mechanisms acting together: intestinal absorption, tissue accumulation, renal reabsorption and excretion, and potentially even the rate of utilization."

Administering vitamin C intravenously bypasses these tight controls and significantly higher vitamin C plasma concentrations can be achieved, says the Institute:12

"Given the fact that cancer patients were only treated with vitamin C orally in the Mayo Clinic studies, the studies do not disprove high dose vitamin C's efficacy as a cancer treatment."

Virtually all high-dose vitamin C treatments, whether used as monotherapy or in combination with cancer drugs, show improved quality of life, minimized pain and protection of normal tissues, says the Institute.13

Vitamin C Saturation Has Been Misunderstood
According to DiNicolantonio, optimal vitamin C levels have long been misunderstood. If a dose of vitamin C did not greatly increase blood levels, researchers have claimed that saturation had been produced and higher doses were redundant.14

The problem was, the video notes, researchers did not realize the apparent "redundancy" stemmed from the fact that some of the vitamin C had been excreted just as salt and water are excreted.15 It did not mean more vitamin C was not being absorbed.

Moreover, some researchers have used white blood cells to ascertain how much vitamin C has been absorbed, even though white blood cells can register high levels of the nutrient when supplies elsewhere in the body are low, according to Medical News Today.16

Because of the faulty doses rendered by misread saturation levels, DiNicolantonio agrees with Levine and colleagues that the recommended dose of daily vitamin C should be much higher than has been established. The adult RDA for adults is currently 90 milligrams (mg) a day for men and 75 mg for nonlactating women.17

Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Levine and his group comment on results from a vitamin C trial:18

"The steep portion of the curve occurred between the 30- and 100-mg daily dose, the current RDA of 60 mg daily [when the paper was written] was on the lower third of the curve, the first dose beyond the sigmoid portion of the curve was 200 mg daily, and complete plasma saturation occurred at 1000 mg daily …

Bioavailability was complete for 200 mg of vitamin C as a single dose. No vitamin C was excreted in urine of six of seven volunteers until the 100-mg dose. At single doses of 500 mg and higher, bioavailability declined and the absorbed amount was excreted … Based on these data … the current RDA of 60 mg daily should be increased to 200 mg daily."

Vitamin C Requirements Could Be as High as 2.5 Grams a Day
Referring to other vitamin C research in his video, DiNicolantonio says he believes the optimal dose may well be much higher than 200 mg daily. Research shows there is a huge gap between the amount of vitamin C ingested and the blood levels that are achieved, and that divided doses are also crucial in achieving optimal levels.19

For example, to achieve 80 μM of vitamin C you need to take 1,250 mg twice a day, says DiNicolantonio, and to achieve 250 μM of vitamin C, you need to take 5 grams a day. Even 2.5 grams of vitamin C per day does not produce fully saturated vitamin C blood levels, he notes.20

Research that DiNicolantonio cites in the video verifies his stance that vitamin C RDAs need to be increased to achieve more of its benefits. A paper published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine stated:21

"Numerous studies have demonstrated that vitamin C consumption higher than the RDA enhances the immune system and decreases the risk of DNA damage. Vitamin C greater than 400 mg/day can improve protection against oxidative stress, certain cancers, and degenerative and chronic diseases."

In one study of high-dose vitamin C supplementation cited in the paper, improvements in male fertility were seen:22

"A recent study has shown that vitamin C supplementation (1000 mg twice daily, for a maximum of 2 months) in infertile men might improve sperm count, sperm motility, and sperm morphology and might have a place as an additional supplement to improve the semen quality leading to conception."

There is another reason for vitamin C supplementation, wrote the researchers. Contemporary farming practices, which are so reliant on GMOs, pesticides, herbicides and heavy processing of the food, all deplete nutrients and add to the increased need many have for vitamin C. According to the article:23

"… modern farming leads to a lowering in food quality, inducing a considerable loss of micronutrients, and not allowing a sufficient intake of vitamin C simply through food consumption."

Vitamin C Offers Many Benefits
Vitamin C offers many impressive benefits for your immune system and other important systems in your body. That's why it is so important to achieve the correct dose; suboptimal levels of vitamin C will probably not produce the many available benefits.

According to The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, vitamin C enhances the immune system by stimulating leukocyte function, antimicrobicidal and natural killer cell activities and lymphocyte proliferation.24 High levels of vitamin C, according to the journal, also protects:25

"… against damage to blood vessels and very significantly reduce mortality rates in the elderly. Indeed, Fletcher et al. have measured that men (mean age 80 years) with 100 mg daily vitamin C intake presented a mortality risk nearly half that compared to peer men with a consumption of 50 mg/day.

Moreover, men with low serum ascorbate concentrations may have an increased risk of mortality. A large body of evidence demonstrates that high dietary vitamin C supplementation (between 1 and 10 g/day or more …) can enhance resistance to and improve recovery from infectious, degenerative diseases, and certain types of cancer …

Large doses of ascorbate have been found to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, lengthen the lifespan of patients with cancer, and … lengthen lifespan in general. Moreover, daily supplementation with 1000 mg of ascorbic acid results in a significant decrease of blood-lead levels associated with the general population."

Oxidative stress that is associated with so many diseases may increase your need for vitamin C, the research also stated.26 Special populations may also require higher doses. According to the journal Health:27

"The safety and benefit of vitamin C supplements is of critical importance, especially for those in war zones at risk for brain trauma or of advancing years at risk for chronic disease and stroke."

Vitamin C May Help Fight Cancers
There is strong scientific evidence that high doses of vitamin C are a tool against some cancers. According to DiNicolantonio's video, liposomal vitamin C can produce blood levels that have a 50% kill rate against lymphoma cells in vitro — a dramatic finding.28

Vitamin C has shown effectiveness against prostate, pancreatic, hepatocellular, colon, mesothelioma and neuroblastoma cell lines.29 According to the Stephenson Cancer Center:30

"The potential mechanisms through which treatment with high-dose ascorbic acid may exert its effects on cancer cells have been extensively investigated. Several studies have demonstrated that the in vitro direct cytotoxic effect of ascorbic acid on various types of cancer cells is mediated through a chemical reaction that generates hydrogen peroxide.

Treating colon cancer cells with 2 mM to 3 mM of ascorbic acid resulted in downregulation of specificity protein (Sp) transcription factors, iron metabolism disruption, and Sp-regulated genes involved in cancer progression.

One study suggested that ascorbate-mediated prostate cancer cell death may occur through activation of an autophagy pathway … Another in vitro study found that ascorbic acid killed colorectal cancer cells with KRAS or BRAF mutations by inhibiting the enzyme glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase."

Vitamin C Benefits May Be Downplayed
With benefits from immune enhancement and fighting cancers to improving cardiovascular function, reducing oxidative stress, mineralizing bones and lessening cognitive decline,31 why is vitamin C not a staple of mainstream medicine?

The answer is that since vitamin C is not "patentable," drug makers see no profit in pursuing its therapeutics or performing clinical trials. That means doctors and practitioners are told about high-priced and likely less effective treatments more frequently than they are told about lower-priced and accessible vitamin C.

Just as the public often doesn't know about vitamin C benefits, the optimal doses of vitamin C are also often hidden, as DiNicolantonio points out in his excellent video. Clearly, the RDAs for vitamin C need to be much higher."

+ Sources and References1, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26 The Journal Of Alternative And Complementary Medicine Volume 14, Number 10, 2008, pp. 1291–1298
2, 27, 31 Health Vol.2, No.8, 819-823 (2010)
3, 14, 15, 19, 20, 28 What Is An Optimal Dose of Vitamin C? May 29, 2020
4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 National Cancer Institute January 24, 2020
6, 7 Oregon State University 2020
16 Medical News Today 2020
17 NIH 2020 (graph)
18 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 1996 Apr 16; 93(8): 3704–3709
22 Journal of Medicinal Food February and June 2005
29, 30 Stephenson Cancer Center 2020

Gwin Ru

21st June 2020, 15:31

Covid-19 psychosis defeated: How Belarus ignored the WHO and beat coronavirus (https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/06/covid-19-psychosis-defeated-how-belarus-ignored-the-who-and-beat-coronavirus/)

Natalya Grigoryeva
Fort Russ News (https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/06/covid-19-psychosis-defeated-how-belarus-ignored-the-who-and-beat-coronavirus/)
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 06:02 UTC

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Alexander Lukashenko © Sputnik

Speaking to Grodno labor collectives on June 16, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko explained that his country's experience in combating coronavirus infection has already become "the property of the whole world", and the World Bank is even ready to allocate $ 300 million to Minsk to share the details of its tactics.

Such statements by the Belarusian leader during the Covid-19 pandemic are not new. He had previously said that the situation in Belarus had become interesting to the world community, since they didn't go along the path recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), preferring not to quarantine the country. At the same time, Minsk always reminded that not only Belarus decided to act according to a similar scenario, citing Sweden as an example.

The Belarusian authorities have repeatedly emphasized that they managed to prevent high mortality from coronavirus in the country due to the fact that the Soviet health care system was preserved here, and all necessary measures were taken to fight for every human life. According to the official position of the head of the Belarusian Ministry of Health, Vladimir Karanik, it helps to cope with the disease by the fact that "unlike most European countries, Belarus has maintained a sanitary and epidemiological service, the country is also provided with doctors, a bed facility, oxygen access points, and mechanical ventilation devices (mechanical ventilation) , an adequate level of laboratory diagnosis. "
"In general, low mortality in patients with coronavirus infection in the republic is explained by early diagnosis and detection of infection in people who do not have symptoms, effective measures to isolate patients and contacts. Effective epidemiological measures to protect vulnerable groups of the population - the elderly and senile, as well as those with some chronic diseases, also explain the low mortality from Covid-19 infection, " the Belarusian department noted earlier. Formally, the fact that Belarus really managed to turn the tide, and since the end of May the country has been on a plateau, is confirmed by official statistics. Over the past weeks, the incidence rate in the republic of coronavirus began to decrease gradually, and the number of people who recovered, on the contrary, increased sharply. For example, by June 19, Belarus already officially had an excess of the number of people recovering from Covid-19 over newly diagnosed cases for two weeks running.

Only 57,333 cases of infection were recorded, which amounted to an increase of 676 people per day (+ 1.2%). At the same time, 35,275 patients recovered, or 1,252 over the past day (+ 3.6%). 337 patients died at this incidence rate. In total, 821,887 tests were carried out in the country, which is still one of the highest indicators in the post-Soviet space. It's worth noting that the mortality rate of 4-7 people per day, even despite a decrease in the incidence rate, remains the same. This, together with a number of other reasons, including the stable increase of about 900 people a day since the end of April, has long called into question the veracity of the information given by the Belarusian authorities about the real situation in the country.

It is worth recalling that Belarus did not officially declare a state of emergency due to the spread of coronavirus infection, although the first case was recorded before the pandemic was announced in late February. Against the backdrop of a panicking Europe, Belarus actually turned into almost the most liberal country, where human rights and freedoms were not curtailed. As you know, Belarusian educational institutions formally continued to work, a number of major public events were held, including the Republican community work day and the Victory Parade in Minsk, most sports championships continued, and the republic left the borders open.

This was officially explained by the fact that quarantining the country would lead to serious problems in the economy, because of which there would be nothing to "eat". And this position of the Belarusian leader at the beginning of the pandemic was explained quite simply - against the backdrop of the ongoing economic recession and the upcoming August 9 presidential election, stopping any non-political activity in the country threatened with serious socio-economic upheavals. Moreover, it must be remembered that in Belarus, about half of those employed work at state enterprises or are civil servants, and sending them to quarantine should have been paid by the state, which simply does not have money for it.

Together with the inability to go out, this could give rise to a high level of tension in Belarusian society, which could well provoke massive protests and problems in the presidential election. Therefore, the republic's authorities decided not to officially impose quarantine, publicly showing people that there is no serious danger in the country, and all this is "coronapsychosis," which is beneficial to someone. Alexander Lukashenko personally became the leader of this opinion, speaking publicly without wearing a mask, greeting him as before, and advising Belarusians, either as a joke or seriously, to be treated with vodka, butter, breathe the smoke of a fire and ride a tractor.
"Wash your hands more often, have breakfast in time, have lunch and dinner, you need to not only wash your hands with vodka, but also, taking into account pure alcohol, take 40-50 grams and poison this virus. But not at work ... No panic, just work. Especially now in the countryside, it's nice to see how people work on the tractor and no one talks about viruses. The tractor will cure everyone, "the Belarusian leader said in March. At the same time, while the official media and the leadership of the republic said that the coronavirus was no worse than other diseases, the healthcare system and the Belarusians themselves were embroiled in a serious struggle with it. Despite the fact that quarantine was not officially introduced, the country in one form or another switched to it. So, since mid-March, many private companies on their own initiative transferred workers to remote work. After a three-week vacation, the schools were allowed not to attend classes and study remotely. A similar approach was organized in most Belarusian universities. According to various surveys, about two-thirds of Belarusians began to wash their hands more often, and half stopped attending social events. There are fewer people on the streets and in public transport. Due to the lack of spectators, most concerts and performances were canceled, and cafes, bars and cinemas either began to close or shorten their time.

At the same time, Belarusian doctors took a number of measures aimed at preventing the spread of infection. In Belarus, they began to be hospitalized not only with pneumonia, but also all patients, even with mild symptoms of coronavirus. In addition, people began to bring people of the first and even second level of contacts to hospitals. At the same time, many volunteer initiatives arose in the country, which were involved in raising funds for doctors, cooking food, sewing personal protective equipment, and more. In general, the Belarusian society and the Ministry of Health showed solidarity, despite any statements from officials. And, according to experts, this is precisely what allowed without official quarantine to avoid the development of a negative scenario in Belarus, which many drew for it. According to official figures,

The situation began to change from the end of May - beginning of June and began to have a dual character. On the one hand, as mentioned above, according to official statistics, the incidence of Covid-19 has declined. This has already led to the fact that more and more Belarusians have appeared on the streets and in public places, bars and restaurants have again begun to fill up with visitors, amusement rides, cinemas and entertainment centers have begun to work. After a two-month break, first one water park opened in Minsk, and then a second one in the open.

In parallel, the state media continued to talk about how the Belarusian health care system copes with the situation, and citizens can not worry about anything. Moreover, demonstrating full control over the situation, the Ministry of Health of Belarus began to gradually change the rules for the provision of medical services to combat coronavirus. For example, at the end of May, the agency amended the protocols for treating patients with Covid-19, as well as the testing principles. It was noted that with a mild course of coronavirus, the patient can close the sick-list already 14 days after the onset of clinical symptoms, as "the literature does not describe cases of infection of patients 21 days after the diagnosis of the appearance of the clinic in mild forms of the disease.

It is noteworthy that later there was another decision stating that before discharge from the hospital PCR testing would be only if the person was transferred to medical rehabilitation or to spa treatment. If the patient was treated in the hospital and does not have clinical symptoms of the disease, then he can be discharged or transferred to outpatient treatment after an express antibody test.

It is worth noting that on June 15 the government of Belarus decided that coronavirus was included in the list of diseases that give the right to free provision of medicines, as well as medical nutrition. The Ministry of Health, commenting on this provision, noted that at present, some patients with Covid-19 infection "receive treatment at home." To them in Belarus began to include "patients with mild and moderate forms of the disease, including mild pneumonia." Given this circumstance, the fact that the Belarusian hospitals have ceased to experience excessive load due to the coronavirus epidemic becomes quite understandable.

The latter, as well as the fact that the authorities of Belarus began to talk more and more about a possible repeated wave of coronavirus and problems in the future, is the second side of what is happening today in Belarus. Despite official statistics showing positive dynamics, statements and actions of the Belarusian authorities began to cause concern, which was not even in April or May. Thus, the Ministry of Education of the Republic actually banned all entertainment events for graduation parties, allowing only the solemn presentation of certificates. Minister of Health of Belarus stating that there may be a second wave, he prefers not to talk about what kind of mortality from pneumonia is observed in the country, referring to the need for calculations based on the results of six months. Leading epidemiologists, in particular doctor of medical sciences, professor, epidemiologist Natalya Kolomiets , began to emphasize that in the country one cannot refuse social distance and other measures, since "nothing will go away by itself". In her opinion, in Belarus there are only "sprouts of hope that have sprouted and are still too weak for us to behave carelessly."

In addition, a number of Belarusian cities suddenly began to officially introduce a mask regime. For example, from June 19, this provision is introduced in Bobruisk. Now in public places where it is impossible to ensure social distance, people should be masked. Earlier, a similar regime was introduced on its own initiative in the Ivyevsky district of the Grodno region (it is advisory in nature), the Kirovsky district of the Mogilev region, the Braslavsky region of the Vitebsk region, etc. In all these cases, the need to introduce such measures was caused by "worsening of the epidemiological situation in the region," than they don't report to the central media of the republic.

The position of international organizations, especially the World Health Organization, does not add much optimism. As the official representative of WHO in Belarus Batyr Berdyklychev noted on June 12 , the situation with Covid-19 in the republic looks serious, and the country itself is "at the stage of local transmission of the virus." Moreover, in the spring, statements by officials of this organization were much more optimistic, and official statistics were not called into question by WHO. Now, though indirectly, Berdyklychev doubted that the methods for counting cases of coronavirus infection and mortality from it in Belarus correspond to reality.

The situation is warmed up by persistent media reports that it is practically impossible to get treatment for coronavirus in the country, local doctors make a diagnosis of coronavirus infection extremely rare, and stubbornly refuse to indicate Covid-19 death certificates. The latter is officially in Belarus due to the fact that the basis for the pathologists to pose the cause of death from coronavirus is the presence of a pathomorphological picture with laboratory confirmation of Covid-19. In this case, in contrast to the WHO instructions for coding the cause of death, where it is recommended to use the codes U07.1 (Covid-19 and the virus is identified) and U07.2 (Covid-19 and the virus are not identified, but there are also suspicions) use code B97.2, which means that coronavirus has become the leading cause of death.

The Ministry of Health of the Republic explains the low mortality by the fact that the country conducts early diagnosis and detection of infection in people who do not have symptoms, as well as "effective measures to isolate the sick and contacts" and "effective epidemiological measures to protect vulnerable groups of the elderly and senile age, as well as having some chronic diseases. " At the same time, they plan to conduct a detailed analysis of mortality in the country only when the pandemic is over.

The situation in Belarus with the Covid-19 has repeatedly become the topic of the most heated debate, including in Russia. For example, the incident occurred on June 10 at an international online conference held by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Guzel Ulumbekova, rector of the Higher School of Health Care Organization and Management, criticized the modern organization of Russian health care, including the work of Rosportebnadzor, setting Belarus and its experience in the fight against coronaviruses as an example.

In response, in a harsh form, the former head of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko said that she is "not the specialist who will discuss the place and role of Rospotrebnadzor", advising her not to give lectures "to the professor, academician and former first deputy minister". According to analysts, the main reason for such disputes is that, without introducing quarantine, Belarus, according to official figures, is going through a pandemic relatively calmly. It is not possible to obtain any other data on the real situation in the country today. At the same time, relying on various kinds of messages in telegram channels and opposition media is not at risk either in Russia, or in the EU, or in WHO, being content only with the information that the Belarusian state brings to them.

Thus, it can be stated that in the situation with coronavirus infection, the authorities of Belarus officially made a bet on preventing the deterioration of the socio-economic situation in the country. This is due not only to the impossibility of paying for the downtime of state enterprises, but also to political necessity. In anticipation of the presidential election to be held in the country on August 9, the creation of additional tension in society due to the Covid-19 pandemic was recognized as unacceptable. Moreover, a gradual decrease in the number of patients with coronavirus may indicate that by the day the vote is held, the authorities may well declare victory over the disease, which, in their opinion, will only strengthen their authority among ordinary citizens.

At the same time, the real actions of local officials and representatives of the healthcare system make it extremely cautious to say that official information about the situation with Covid-19 in Belarus is in line with the real situation. At the same time, the Belarusian authorities, in fact, managed to defeat the coronapsychosis.

Related:

Why Belarus hasn't faced massive spike in deaths despite lack of coronavirus lockdowns (https://www.sott.net/article/435387-Why-Belarus-hasnt-faced-massive-spike-in-deaths-despite-lack-of-coronavirus-lockdowns)

Gwin Ru

24th June 2020, 14:34

Rapid response to: (https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m810/rr-0)

Preventing a covid-19 pandemic

BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m810 (Published 28 February 2020)

Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m810
Read our latest coverage of the Coronavirus outbreak (https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus)

Rapid Response:

Flu shots and the risk of coronavirus infections

John Watkins is right; we need to think beyond containment, but he overlooks the possibility that seasonal flu shots are potential contributors to the current outbreak. (BMJ 2020;398:m810—February 28)….
A randomized placebo-controlled trial in children showed that flu shots increased fivefold the risk of acute respiratory infections caused by a group of noninfluenza viruses, including coronaviruses. (Cowling et al, Clin Infect Dis 2012;54:1778)

From Table 3, vaccine recipients had 20 noninfluenza virus-positive ARIs and 19 virus-negative ARIs; non-recipients had 3 noninfluenza virus-positive ARIs and 14 virus-negative ARIs. These figures yield an odds ratio of 4.91 (CI 1.04 to8.14).

Such an observation may seem counterintuitive, but it is possible that influenza vaccines alter our immune systems non-specifically to increase susceptibility to other infections; this has been observed with DTP and other vaccines. (Benn et al, Trends in Immunology, May 2013) There are other immune mechanisms that might also explain the observation.

To investigate this possibility, a case-control study is in order as we study and care for the victims of covid-19. Influenza vaccines have become sacred cows in some quarters, but they shouldn’t be.

ALLAN S. CUNNINGHAM 2 March 2020

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I couldn't find back a report about a clear decrease of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) correlated to parents being lockdowned and therefore unable to get their kids vaccinated...

Related:

"Suicided" Neurologist Andrew Moulden Exposed Vaccine Fraud (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?110506-Covid19-Cui-Bono-Is-there-an-agenda&p=1356675&viewfull=1#post1356675)

onawah

29th June 2020, 18:16

Is This Vitamin Better Than a Mask for COVID-19?
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
June 29, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/29/dark-skin-and-vitamin-d-deficiency.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20200629Z1&et_cid=DM580166&et_rid=904991041

"Considering the benefits of a mask are questionable, shouldn't a vitamin that makes it more and more difficult for viruses to gain entry through your eyes, ears, lungs and mucous membranes be promoted? So why is the government refusing to investigate?

(STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Vitamin D helps regulate immune function and prevent respiratory illnesses in general, and data analyses show clear parallels between vitamin D levels and the risk of infection, severity and mortality from COVID-19 as well
While U.S. authorities are still trying to debunk (and even instill fear) of vitamin D supplementation, British and Scottish authorities appear to be embracing recommendations to improve public vitamin D levels
The British Frontline Immune Support Team is providing health care workers with free nutritional supplements known to bolster and regulate immune function
Public Health Scotland and the British NHS are also assessing the evidence to determine whether vitamin D should be prescribed to in-hospital patients and as a prevention to high-risk groups
Darker skin requires far more sun exposure to produce adequate vitamin D, so much so that dark-skinned individuals living north of the equator are virtually guaranteed to be chronically deficient
As health officials continue to expect a second wave of COVID-19 this fall, spreading information about how to prevent it is becoming crucial. One of the most important strategies in this regard is to optimize your vitamin D level.

Vitamin D not only helps regulate immune function and prevent respiratory illnesses in general, but mounting data analyses show clear parallels between vitamin D levels and the risk of infection, severity and mortality from COVID-19 as well.

While U.S. authorities are still trying to debunk (and even instill fear) of vitamin D supplementation, British and Scottish authorities appear to be embracing a more sensible approach.

The British Frontline Immune Support Team, founded "to make available some of the best quality immune supportive products … to help keep those on the NHS (UK National Health Service) frontline resilient and strong," is already providing health care workers with free nutritional supplements known to bolster and regulate immune function.

This includes liposomal vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc. As noted on frontlineimmunesupport.com, the group's fundraiser page:1

"Immune supportive packs are sent directly to each individual NHS healthcare worker who signs up for this initiative — and they receive all products for FREE. We currently have hundreds of NHS staff already signed up ready to go; and with your contributions we can supply and reach thousands more."

The Frontline Immune Support Team point out that vitamin D:2

"… plays a critical role in your immune defense system, both in reducing flu-like days of illness if your blood level is sufficient, and in helping your immune system respond when under viral attack. It speeds up recovery from pneumonia.

Two in five adults have a level of vitamin D below 25nmol/l, especially in late winter months such as February and March, that is likely to almost double their risk of flu. A vitamin D level above 100 nmol/l correlates with the lowest numbers of flu-like days. The moral of the story is to get your level up as quickly as possible."

Public Health Scotland and the British NHS are also assessing the evidence to determine whether vitamin D should be prescribed to in-hospital patients and as a prevention to high-risk groups.3

Vitamin D Level Correlates With Risk of Respiratory Infection
Clinical trials using vitamin D against COVID-19 are currently underway,4 but we don't need to wait for results to know that vitamin D optimization is a good idea. SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped virus, which means it's more difficult for your immune system to identify and destroy it.

Vitamin D could almost be thought of as a designer drug for helping the body to handle viral respiratory infections. It boosts the ability of cells to kill and resist viruses and simultaneously dampens down harmful inflammation, which is one of the big problems with Covid. — Adrian Martineau, professor of respiratory infection and immunity.
However, as noted by The Frontline Support Team, we already know higher vitamin D levels are inversely associated with infection by many other enveloped viruses, including dengue, hepatitis, herpes, HIV, rotavirus, respiratory syncytial virus and influenza.5,6

Vitamin D also strengthens cellular junctions, thereby making it more difficult for viruses to gain entry through your eyes, ears, lungs and mucus membranes. This in turn makes the infection less likely to migrate down into your lungs.7 Importantly, vitamin D also strengthens the adaptive arm of your immune system, and its ability to produce antibodies.8 According to a June 17, 2020, report by The Guardian:9

"Public health officials are urgently reviewing the potential ability of vitamin D to reduce the risk of coronavirus. It comes amid growing concern over the disproportionate number of black, Asian and minority ethnic people contracting and dying from the disease, including a reported10 94% of all doctors killed by the virus …

The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) began this work last month and is considering recent evidence on vitamin D and acute respiratory tract infection in the general population. Evidence will be considered on specific population groups, including those of different ages and BAME [black, Asian, minority ethnic] groups.

In a parallel development, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) is conducting a 'rapid' evidence review on vitamin D 'in the context of Covid-19' with support from Public Health England (PHE)."Vitamin D — 'Designer Drug' Against Viral Infections
Adrian Martineau, a professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London, is currently leading the "Covidence UK Study,"11 an effort to collect data about how vitamin D deficiency impacts your COVID-19 risk. If you live in the UK, you can sign up for the Covidence UK study here.

Martineau tells The Guardian that COVID-19 deaths among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff within the NHS raises important questions about vitamin D status.12

"Vitamin D could almost be thought of as a designer drug for helping the body to handle viral respiratory infections. It boosts the ability of cells to kill and resist viruses and simultaneously dampens down harmful inflammation, which is one of the big problems with Covid," he told the paper.

Why People of Color Are at Increased Risk
There's a simple reason why BAME groups are more susceptible to COVID-19. Darker skin requires far more sun exposure to produce adequate vitamin D, so much so that dark-skinned individuals living north of the equator are virtually guaranteed to be chronically deficient.

According to data collected by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between 2005 and 2006, and published in 2018, 82.1% of black American adults and 62.9% of Hispanic adults are deficient in vitamin D.13 As noted in that paper, lower melanin levels are protective of vitamin D deficiency, and the darker your skin, the more likely you are of having a low vitamin D level.

The good news is that this predisposition is easily and inexpensively remedied. The Frontline Support Team has made good strides toward protecting health care workers, so far supplying about 750 NHS frontline staff with free supplement packs. But the general public also needs it, too. At bare minimum, the public needs the information.

Scotland Issues Guidance on Vitamin D
In Scotland, government COVID-19 guidance now includes taking a daily vitamin D supplement. As reported by the Scotland Herald:14

"Official Scottish Government guidance issued on June 3 states that everyone, including children, 'should consider taking a daily supplement containing 10 micrograms of vitamin D.'

However, it is 'specifically recommended' to all pregnant and breastfeeding women; infants and children under five years old; people from minority ethnic groups with dark skin such as those of African, African-Caribbean and South Asian origin, who require more sun exposure to make as much vitamin D; and people who are confined indoors."

US Ignores Vitamin D Impact
In stark contrast, U.S. health agencies appear to have little interest in helping the public support their immune system through appropriate nutrition, but would rather have you rely on drugs and vaccines.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health recommends15 getting your vitamin D from food and beverages only, despite the fact that dietary intake of vitamin D is insufficient to reach and maintain the level required to prevent viral illnesses and other chronic diseases.

That said, some health experts are speaking out. Among them is former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, who wrote an opinion piece for Fox News in which he suggests vitamin D may reduce COVID-19 mortality rates, especially in those who are deficient.16

He goes on to say supplementation has reduced the "risk of respiratory infections, regulates cytokine production and can limit the risk of other viruses such as influenza." Much of the damage from COVID-19 occurs with a "cytokine storm," during which the body's inflammatory system goes into high gear, damaging organs and increasing mortality rates. He writes:17

"We can do lots of things to improve our resistance to infection. These include getting regular physical activity, getting enough sleep, stopping smoking and other tobacco use, and, for people living with diabetes, getting it under control.

Taking a multivitamin that includes Vitamin D, or a Vitamin D supplement, probably can't hurt, and it might help. As we continue to work to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, anything we can do to strengthen our resistance is a step in the right direction."

Similarly, Dr. John C. Umhau, a public health specialist at the NIH, has argued that vitamin D is one of the "most studied and most important host factor impacting survival from COVID-19."18 He also points out that "A government-sponsored research strategy to address this issue has not been developed, as officials explained that there was no mandate to explore an alternative to the existing vaccination program."

Considering the hazards inherent in fast-tracking a COVID-19 vaccine, and seeing how previous attempts at creating a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine have all failed, putting all of the public health eggs in the vaccine basket is questionable in the extreme.

What Science Says About Vitamin D

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By now, there's a very long list of scientific evidences pointing toward vitamin D optimization as being a crucial component for preventing another spike in COVID-19 deaths.

In the video above, Ivor Cummins, chief program officer for Irish Heart Disease Awareness, explains how higher levels of vitamin D may reduce your risk of negative outcomes from COVID-19. Studies supporting this view include but are not limited to the following:

A scientific review19 in the journal Nutrients concluded vitamin D can reduce the risk of infection by lowering the rate at which the virus replicates and reduce the pro-inflammatory cytokines that damage the lungs, leading to pneumonia. Vitamin D also helps increase concentrations of anti-inflammatory cytokines that may help protect the lungs. The researchers recommended those at risk take:

"… 10,000 IU/d of vitamin D3 for a few weeks to rapidly raise 25(OH)D concentrations, followed by 5000 IU/d. The goal should be to raise 25(OH)D concentrations above 40–60 ng/mL (100–150 nmol/L)."

Vitamin D is an important component in the prevention and treatment of influenza20 and upper respiratory tract infections21 — While vitamin D does not appear to have a direct effect on the virus itself, it strengthens immune function, thus allowing the host body to combat the virus more effectively.22

As detailed in "Vitamin D Prevents Infections," research shows high-dose vitamin D supplementation lowers the risk of respiratory illnesses and lung infections in the elderly by 40%. As noted by an author of that study, "Vitamin D can improve the immune system's ability to fight infections because it bolsters the first line of defense of the immune system."

Importantly, vitamin D also suppresses inflammatory processes. Taken together, this might make vitamin D quite useful against COVID-19, because while robust immune function is required for your body to combat the virus, an overactivated immune system is also responsible for the cytokine storm we see in COVID-19 infection that can lead to death. As noted by pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult in the video below:

"What we want is a smart immune system — an immune system that takes care of the virus but doesn't put us into an inflammatory condition that could put us on a ventilator."
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Research23 published in 2009 suggests fatality rates during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic were influenced by season, with greater numbers of people dying during the winter (when vitamin D levels are at their lowest) than the summer. According to the authors:24

"Substantial correlations were found for associations of July UVB dose with case fatality rates and rates of pneumonia as a complication of influenza. Similar results were found for wintertime UVB.

Vitamin D upregulates production of human cathelicidin, LL-37, which has both antimicrobial and antiendotoxin activities. Vitamin D also reduces the production of proinflammatory cytokines, which could also explain some of the benefit of vitamin D since H1N1 infection gives rise to a cytokine storm."

Research25 published in 2017 — a meta-analysis of 25 randomized controlled trials — confirmed that vitamin D supplementation helps protect against acute respiratory infections.

Importantly, this analysis also discovered daily or weekly supplementation of vitamin D had the greatest protective effect in those with the lowest vitamin D levels.26 In other words, large, infrequent bolus doses do not work well.

Those with severe vitamin D deficiency who took a daily or weekly supplement cut their respiratory infection risk in half, whereas the acute administration of high bolus doses of vitamin D had no significant impact on infection risk.

Data analysis27 by GrassrootsHealth shows people with a vitamin D level of at least 40 ng/mL reduced their risk of colds by 15% and flu by 41%, compared to those with a level below 20 ng/mL.

Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)28,29 suggest vitamin D deficiency could have serious implications for COVID-19. The researchers recommend adults over 50 take a vitamin D supplement year-round (not just in winter) if they don't get enough sun exposure to optimize their levels.

According to the vitamin D review paper30 "Evidence That Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Death," published in the journal Nutrients, April 2, 2020:

"Through several mechanisms, vitamin D can reduce risk of infections. Those mechanisms include inducing cathelicidins and defensins that can lower viral replication rates and reducing concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines that produce the inflammation that injures the lining of the lungs, leading to pneumonia, as well as increasing concentrations of anti-inflammatory cytokines …

To reduce the risk of infection, it is recommended that people at risk of influenza and/or COVID-19 consider taking 10,000 IU/d of vitamin D3 for a few weeks to rapidly raise 25(OH)D concentrations, followed by 5000 IU/d.

The goal should be to raise 25(OH)D concentrations above 40–60 ng/mL (100–150 nmol/L). For treatment of people who become infected with COVID-19, higher vitamin D3 doses might be useful."

A GrassrootsHealth review of an observational study involving 212 COVID-19 patients in Southeast Asia identified a correlation between vitamin D levels and disease severity. Those with the mildest disease had the highest vitamin D levels, and vice versa.

In the initial study group of 212 patients (see Table 1 below), 55 had normal vitamin D levels, which was defined as greater than 30 ng/ml; 80 had insufficient levels of 21 to 29 ng/ml and 77 had deficient levels of less than 20 ng/ml.

According to the research done by GrassrootsHealth, 40 ng/mL is the lower edge of optimal, with 60 ng/mL to 80 ng/mL being ideal for health and disease prevention. Despite that, the benefit of having a vitamin D level above 30 ng/mL was clear.

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In a study31,32 that looked at data from 780 COVID-19 patients in Indonesia, those with a vitamin D level between 20 ng/mL and 30 ng/mL had a sevenfold higher risk of death than those with a level above 30 ng/mL. Having a level below 20 ng/mL was associated with a 12 times higher risk of death.

Research33,34 posted on the preprint server MedRxiv June 10, 2020, reports a combination of vitamin D3, B12 and magnesium inhibited the progression of COVID-19 in patients over the age of 50, resulting in "a significant reduction in proportion of patients with clinical deterioration requiring oxygen support and/or intensive care support."

Check Your Level Before You Start Downing Supplements
On the upside, news about vitamin D appears to be reaching the masses. According to Foodnavigator-Asia, sales of the Japanese FANCL brand of vitamin D were 2018% higher in April 2020 compared to April 2019.35 While that's a good sign, it's important to remember to get your vitamin D level tested before you start supplementing.

The reason for this is because you cannot rely on blanket dosing recommendations. The crucial factor here is your blood level, not the dose, as the dose you need is dependent on several individual factors, including your baseline blood level.

Data from GrassrootsHealth's D*Action studies suggest the optimal level for health and disease prevention is between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL, while the cutoff for sufficiency appears to be around 40 ng/mL. In Europe, the measurements you're looking for are 150 to 200 nmol/L and 100 nmol/L respectively.

I recently published a comprehensive vitamin D report in which I detail vitamin D's mechanisms of action and how to ensure optimal levels. I recommend downloading and sharing that report with everyone you know. A quick summary of the key steps is as follows:

1.First, measure your vitamin D level — One of the easiest and most cost-effective ways of measuring your vitamin D level is to participate in the GrassrootsHealth's personalized nutrition project, which includes a vitamin D testing kit.

Once you know what your blood level is, you can assess the dose needed to maintain or improve your level. If you cannot get enough vitamin D from the sun (you can use the DMinder app36 to see how much vitamin D your body can make depending on your location and other individual factors), then you'll need an oral supplement.

2.Assess your individualized vitamin D dosage — To do that, you can either use the chart below, or use GrassrootsHealth's Vitamin D*calculator. To convert ng/mL into the European measurement (nmol/L), simply multiply the ng/mL measurement by 2.5. To calculate how much vitamin D you may be getting from regular sun exposure in addition to your supplemental intake, use the DMinder app.37

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3.Retest in three to six months — Lastly, you'll need to remeasure your vitamin D level in three to six months, to evaluate how your sun exposure and/or supplement dose is working for you.

Dr. Mercola's report: https://media.mercola.com/assets/pdf/ebook/vitamin-d-in-the-prevention-of-covid-19.pdf

Take Your Vitamin D With Magnesium and K2
As previously detailed in "Magnesium and K2 Optimize Your Vitamin D Supplementation," it's strongly recommended to take magnesium and K2 concomitant with oral vitamin D. Data from nearly 3,000 individuals reveal you need 244% more oral vitamin D if you're not also taking magnesium and vitamin K2!38

What this means in practical terms is that if you take all three supplements in combination, you need far less oral vitamin D in order to achieve a healthy vitamin D level.

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Help Us Spread the Word!
Remember, while vitamin D is important for everyone, key target populations are the elderly and people of color. It's now beyond evident that COVID-19 affects the elderly far more severely, on average, than younger individuals, and those living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities seem to be at an extraordinarily increased risk of dying from COVID-19.

Add to that the increased hospitalization rate and mortality among people of color, and it should be easy to see that targeting these two groups with commonsense strategies such as vitamin D optimization can, and most likely will, have a tremendous impact on COVID-19 mortality rates in the future. As Robert Brown with the McCarrison Society, a nutrition think tank, told the Scotland Herald:39

"The biological pathways by which vitamin D can help reduce severity of Covid-19 are well established and the real-life evidence from within this pandemic is growing. What's needed now is for government to be bold and act now to mitigate the risk of a second wave returning in the winter."

That said, don't let government's failure to address vitamin D to stop you from taking control of your own health. Vitamin D supplements are inexpensive and readily available, as are vitamin K2 and magnesium. If we can get the word out, we are likely to significantly quell any reemergence of COVID-19, and eliminate most of the racial disparities we see among patients with severe illness.
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A growing body of evidence shows that vitamin D plays a crucial role in disease prevention and maintaining optimal health. There are about 30,000 genes in your body, and vitamin D affects nearly 3,000 of them, as well as vitamin D receptors located throughout your body.

Vitamin D May Help Protect Against Cancer and Other Diseases
According to one large-scale study, having optimal vitamin D levels can slash your risk of cancer and can help prevent at least 16 different types of cancer, including pancreatic, lung, ovarian, prostate and skin cancers.

Vitamin D from sun exposure also radically decreases your risk of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) and Type 1 diabetes. Sun exposure also helps prevent osteoporosis, which is a significant concern for women in particular.

Magnesium Is Important for Heart Health
Magnesium is involved in the regulation of blood sugar and insulin sensitivity, which is important for the prevention of many chronic diseases, including Type 2 diabetes and heart disease and dementia. It also supports your brain and heart health via other mechanisms.

It supports healthy heart function by relaxing your blood vessels and normalizing blood pressure, for example. Magnesium also has anti-inflammatory activity, support your endothelial function, and the function of your muscles and nerves, including the action of your heart muscle.

Low magnesium has been linked to a higher risk for hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arrhythmias, stroke and sudden cardiac death. According to one scientific review, which included studies dating as far back as 1937, low magnesium actually appears to be the greatest predictor of heart disease, and other recent research shows even subclinical magnesium deficiency can compromise your cardiovascular health.

Omega-3 Fats Are Crucial to Your Well-Being
Meanwhile, recent research suggests high doses (4 grams) of the omega-3 fats EPA and DHA may help improve healing after a heart attack. Other benefits of omega-3 fats include prevention of lupus and Parkinson’s disease, decreased anxiety, healthier and stronger bones, as well as fighting fats in the body.

However, you can’t tell by looking in a mirror if you are deficient in vitamin D, magnesium or omega-3s. The only real way to know if you are deficient in these nutrients is to get tested.

How to Test Your Levels
I’m really pleased GrassrootsHealth Nutrient Research Institute has expanded its research projects to include a range of different tests, seeing how deficiency may be needlessly affecting the health of so many. Like its Vitamin D*action Project, the Magnesium*PLUS Focus Project will allow us all to take action on known science with a consensus of experts without waiting for institutional lethargy.

The Vitamin D*action Project has truly demonstrated the value measurement can have on public health, and there’s no doubt in my mind that the Magnesium*PLUS Focus Project will have the same impact. As in earlier projects, once the study of a community is completed, all that information can be used to push for public health recommendations that will benefit everyone.

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You have the ability to participate in a variety of different tests, including:

Vitamin D
Vitamin D and Omega 3
Vitamin D, Omega 3 and Magnesium
Vitamin D, Magnesium & Omega 3 PLUS Elements. Remember, by participating in this public research project, you not only are identifying your own levels, but allowing yourself to make decisions about your diet and supplements to improve your health.
Your data (which is anonymous) will also help GrassrootsHealth researchers to determine the ideal levels for the prevention of various diseases, and what kind of dose-response relationship exists among the general population.

With the data from this project, individuals will be able to see what works for them, and, researchers will be able to demonstrate just to what extent health care costs may be reduced simply by getting people into an optimal range."

Sources and References
1, 2 Frontlinesupport.com
3, 9, 12 The Guardian June 17, 2020
4 Clinicaltrials.gov Vitamin D Trials
5, 7, 8 Frontline Support Team Vitamin D Evidence (Studies) (PDF)
6 vitamindwiki.com
10 Twitter The BMA June 13, 2020
11 Covidence UK Study
13 Cureus 2018 Jun; 10(6): e2741
14, 39 Scotland Herald June 17, 2020
15 Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2018;9:373
16, 17 Fox News, March 23, 2020
18 MedPageToday, March 25, 2020
19 Nutrients, 2020;12:988
20 Can Fam Physician. 2015 Jun; 61(6): 50
21 Endocr Pract. 2009 Jul–Aug; 15(5): 438–449
22 Clinical Therapeutics 2017; 39(5): 930-945 (PDF)
23 Derma Endocrinology 2009 Jul-Aug; 1(4): 215–219
24 Derma Endocrinology 2009 Jul-Aug; 1(4): 215–219, Abstract
25 The BMJ 2017;356:i6583
26 Youtube, Coronavirus Epidemic Update 30, 7:58 minutes
27 GrassrootsHealth.net, Vitamin D Reduces Colds and Flu
28 TILDA.tcd.ie Vitamin D deficiency in Ireland — Implications for COVID-19. Results from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
29 Medical Xpress April 6, 2020
30 Nutrients April 2, 2020; 12(4): 988
31 SSRN April 30, 2020
32 JoanneNova.com.au May 2020
33 MedRxiv June 10, 2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.01.20112334
34 News Medical Life Sciences June 4, 2020
35 Food Navigator Asia June 16, 2020
36, 37 DMinder app
38 GrassrootsHealth Magnesium and Vitamin K2 Combined Important for Vitamin D Levels

EFO

30th June 2020, 07:21

Bizarre Google search by Dr. John Bergman D.C.
"Type any 3 digit number then type cases and see what happens, this is what a controlled media looks like"
(1:46 min.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg4ytUGmg2A

Gwin Ru

30th June 2020, 12:32

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I couldn't find back a report about a clear decrease of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) correlated to parents being lockdowned and therefore unable to get their kids vaccinated...
Here is one:

Infant mortality down; number of vaccinations down (https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/06/29/infant-mortality-down-number-of-vaccinations-down/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/author/jonrappoport/)
June 29, 2020

The reference here is an analysis of mortality data by Mark Blaxill and Amy Becker, “Lessons from the Lockdown,” (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/lessons-from-the-lockdown-why-are-so-many-fewer-children-dying/) posted at Children’s Health Defense on June 18:
“But the pandemic experience has brought on a surprising effect on this expected death rate among children. Starting in early March, expected deaths began a sharp decline, from an expected level of around 700 deaths per week to well under 500 by mid‐April and throughout May.”
“As untimely deaths spiked among the elderly in Manhattan nursing homes and in similar settings all over the country, something mysterious was saving the lives of children. As springtime in America came along with massive disruptions in family life amid near universal lockdowns, roughly 30% fewer children died.”

“Virtually the entire change came from infants. Somehow, the changing pattern of American life during the lockdowns has been saving the lives of hundreds of infants, over 200 per week.”

“One very clear change that has received publicity is that public health officials are bemoaning the sharp decline in infant vaccinations as parents are not taking their infants into pediatric offices for their regular well‐baby checks. In the May 15 issue of the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), a group of authors from the CDC and Kaiser Permanente reported a sharp decline in provider orders for vaccines as well as a decline in pediatric vaccine doses administered. These declines began in early March, around the time infant deaths began declining.”
Mustn’t report that on the nightly news. A leak of truth might turn into a river.

The very thought that vaccines are harmful enough to cause death, and withholding them would align with the Hippocratic Oath?
“Say Bob, here’s an interesting item we could run on the broadcast tonight. Deaths of infants are down during the pandemic, and so are vaccinations.”

“I see. So you want to end up announcing Frisbee contests during picnics in the park? And I’ll be producing free YouTube videos featuring cats doing somersaults? You’re drinking again, right?”
For those who can’t bring themselves to even stick a toe in the waters of the evidence against vaccines, because their cult of science forbids it on pain of death…and who, likewise, salute all public health directives concerning the “pandemic,” like good little boys and girls, here is a backgrounder I call…

To the “educated” potato heads: science is not a political hierarchy

[...]

Jon Rappoport

See full article (https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/06/29/infant-mortality-down-number-of-vaccinations-down/).

Gwin Ru

7th July 2020, 23:46

Complications from COVID-19 may depend on von Willebrand factor in the blood (https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-complications-covid-von-willebrand-factor.html)

St. Petersburg State University
Medical Xpress (https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-complications-covid-von-willebrand-factor.html)
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Anna Aksenova, a senior research associate at the Laboratory of Amyloid Biology at St Petersburg University, has advanced a hypothesis that the severe course of COVID-19 may be associated with the von Willebrand factor, one of the main components of the blood coagulation system. As the researcher suggests, the replication of the virus stimulates the development of microdamage on vessel walls. In its response to this, the body releases von Willebrand factor into the blood, trying to 'patch' possible holes. As a result, the risk of thromboses increases. It is with this clotting that a significant part of the deaths from COVID-19 are associated.

Nowadays, doctors throughout the world report (https://medicalxpress.com/tags/world+report/) that the novel coronavirus infection COVID-19 occurs in different people in completely different ways. Combinations of symptoms that are dissimilar, ranging from coughing to digestive disorders, make diagnosis difficult. Additionally, scientists and doctors still do not understand why people of the same age and with comparable health indicators can transmit the infection so differently from each other: some require ventilator support to stay alive, while others do not feel sick at all. One of the possible causes of this phenomenon may be a different level of von Willebrand factor (VWF) in the blood of patients.

"This protein is synthesized in endothelial cells and platelets, and its main function is to form a framework for platelet adhesion," explains Anna Aksenova. "To date, the way in which the level of VWF is regulated in the blood has not yet been fully studied. However, it is known to be stored in vascular endothelial cells in special organelles, where it secretes in the form of multimers. As soon as some damage to the vessel occurs, then in order to eliminate it, a cascade of blood coagulability is launched in the body, in which VWF takes an active part."

The level and activity of VWF in the blood in people can be different. The lowest values are associated with von Willebrand disease. It is a hereditary blood disease that is characterized by spontaneous bleeding. Additionally, it differs markedly among healthy people. For example, it is higher among: African Americans than among Europeans; in men than in women; in adults than in children; and in the elderly than in middle-aged people. Also, academic papers (https://medicalxpress.com/tags/academic+papers/) have described the VWF and blood group relationship — its level is lower among people with blood group 0, and is higher among those with blood group A. The different amount and activity of VWF in people with different blood groups has a very interesting explanation: this protein is modified by oligosaccharide chains of antigenic determinants of the AB0 system (one of the blood group (https://medicalxpress.com/tags/blood+group/) systems), and this affects its stability and activity.

Earlier, it was believed that the new type of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 affects mainly the lungs by binding with ACE2 receptors on the surface of alveolocytes (cells lining the lungs). Today, there is more and more information that something similar happens with endothelial cells (https://medicalxpress.com/tags/endothelial+cells/) — the internal surface of blood vessels. Anna Aksenova explains that since the ACE2 receptor belongs to the renin-angiotensin system (it regulates blood pressure), the virus cannot but affect the blood vessels. Apparently, it is capable of causing local inflammation of the walls of blood vessels and capillaries. This results in an increased release of VWF into the blood, which, in turn, provokes clotting.

"Acute respiratory distress syndrome, which often develops in patients with COVID-19, can also be associated with VWF," said Aksenova. "There are studies that use the example of model animals and people and suggest: the higher VWF, the higher the probability of respiratory distress. Why does this happen? Because capillaries run through the lungs, and if any thrombotic events occur there, this adversely affects the tissue functions. Excessive production of VWF can lead to the development of thrombosis, including in the capillaries of the lungs."

Additionally, as Anna Aksenova notes, this hypothesis explains why the drug chloroquine, which is usually used to treat malaria, in preliminary trials has shown efficacy in COVID-19 treatment as well. The fact is that chloroquine affects the process of autophagy in cells. This process regulates the secretion of certain factors into the extracellular environment, including the secretion of VWF.

"I hypothesize that the level and activity of VWF might be important predictors for COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. It might also itself be involved in the disease process," said Anna Aksenova. "In order to confirm this hypothesis, it is necessary to carry out large-scale and comprehensive research into the level and activity of VWF in people infected with SARS-CoV-2, who have a mild or severe course of infection."

In different countries throughout the world, academic papers currently continue to come out in favor of this hypothesis. For example, there have recently been reports that VWF is significantly increased in patients with severe COVID-19 who receive mechanical ventilation or who have thromboembolic complications. Moreover, rigorous research using GWAS (genome-wide association study) has confirmed the association of COVID-19 complications with a locus that determines AB0 blood groups. Also, the ways to reduce the amount of VWF in the blood (https://medicalxpress.com/tags/blood/) plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 complications has begun to be discussed in scientific literature. The attention of researchers from all over the world is now starting to focus on VWF, its role in COVID-19, and new treatment regimens that will take into account the individual characteristics of the human body associated with von Willebrand factor.
More information: Anna Yi. Aksenova, von Willebrand factor and endothelial damage: a possible association with COVID-19, Ecological Genetics (2020). DOI: 10.17816/ecogen33973 (http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/ecogen33973)
Provided by St. Petersburg State University (https://medicalxpress.com/partners/st--petersburg-state-university/)

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Bill Ryan

22nd July 2020, 12:14

Look at this: it's a chart assembled by one of Chris Martenson's subscribers. Not published in the media. It shows each country's CFR (Case Fatality Rate) against their use of HCQ (hydroxychloroquine).

It's not a formal medical study, but it sure looks like a slam-dunk. The source video (published 12 hours ago) is here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8GEqv_X-no&t=1386s).

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Gwin Ru

24th July 2020, 12:32

Top epidemiologist – Up to 100,000 American lives could be saved with hydroxychloroquine

by Robert (https://www.iceagenow.info/author/xilef/)
July 23, 2020 (https://www.iceagenow.info/top-epidemiologist-up-to-100000-american-lives-could-be-saved-with-hydroxychloroquine/)
“There has never been a medical deception so vast.”

“HCQ has become a political drug, not a medical drug.”

“State medical boards are threatening doctors over its use. The doctors are being targeted for actually saving lives.”
21 Jul 2020 – Dr. Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, the top epidemiologist at Yale University at the Yale School of Public Health, made this stunning announcement on Laura Ingraham’s show on Fox last night; that if the FDA would allow all U.S. physicians to do what many of them are already doing – that is treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine – up to 100,000 American could be saved in the next 6 months.
“We’re basically fighting a propaganda war against the medical facts,” says Dr Risch.
“(Hydroxychloroquine’s use) would be game changing.”

“I didn’t know you could have so much corruption in the medical field,” says Laura Ingraham.
“Hydroxychloroquine has been in use for more than 65 years.”

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So why would HCQ be so important?
“Because if it becomes widely believed that there is a cure – and possibly a preventative for COVID-19, then this entire debate about masks – what masks – and shutting down the economy and not reopening schools – all of that becomes moot instantly.

“And what does that do? Kills off this main exploit the Chinese communists have been using to cripple the United States and to cripple President Trump – their strongest enemy among American Presidents ever!”

“Never before in human history has such a huge percentage of the world of medicine been deceptively swayed by the world of politics. They claim to still follow the scientific method – but they are not! They have been pressured into not following the scientific method – not following the science.”

“It’s incredible that thousands of physicians on the front-line of this war against COVID-19 know it works. They take it for themselves and their families, yet so many will not speak out for fear losing their medical licenses.

“That’s why it’s taken so long to sink in – because it’s unprecedented that physicians at the top would lie to the American public on such a dangerously large scale.”

“Wow! There has never been a medical deception so vast that it will deliberately cost up to 100,000 additional American lives – that could easily be saved – if only President Trump would place one call to the new head of the FDA, Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn … and tell him to rescind his order which forbade physicians from using their own best judgments with their patients when it comes to legacy drugs already proven to be safe and effective for other indications like HCQ and Ivermectin.

“This will eventually come out. Dr. Faustus will not be able to hide the facts forever.”

“Thank God, Dr. Risch is sticking to his guns at Yale!”
See video on The Still Report:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/QFxLsJtmsRNK/#video-watch

Gwin Ru

24th July 2020, 15:41

Top medical org demands FDA make COVID treatment hydroxychloroquine more widely available (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/top-medical-org-demands-fda-make-hydroxychloroquine-more-widely-available)

By Calvin Freiburger
Thu Jul 23, 2020 - 4:55 pm EST

Recent evidence shows the drug to be effective and to drastically reduce the mortality rate in countries where the medication is used.

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July 23, 2020 (LifeSiteNews (https://www.lifesitenews.com/)) – The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) has submitted additional evidence to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in hopes of compelling the agency to relax its restrictions on the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to treat COVID-19 among the general public.

Last month, AAPS filed (https://aapsonline.org/preliminary-injunction-sought-to-release-hydroxychloroquine-to-the-public/) a motion for a preliminary injunction to compel HHS and CDC to release more of the tens of millions of doses in the government’s possession to the public. The FDA has not officially cleared the drug for COVID-19 treatment (it has long been approved for malaria, autoimmune conditions, and arthritis), but has allowed (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fda-approves-use-of-trump-supported-drug-to-fight-coronavirus-as-positive-results-emerge) it “to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible.” (At the same time, the FDA warns (https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or) not to use it outside of trials or hospitals.)

This week, AAPS followed up by submitting (https://aapsonline.org/more-evidence-presented-for-why-hydroxychloroquine-should-be-made-available-in-a-new-court-filing-by-aaps/) to the court additional evidence of the drug’s safety and effectiveness.
“As confirmed by another recent study of thousands of patients at the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan, HCQ is both very safe and highly effective in treating COVID-19, reducing mortality by 50 percent,” the group argued. “Countries with underdeveloped healthcare systems are using HCQ early and attaining far lower mortality than in the United States, where (HHS and the FDA) impede access to HCQ.”

“The mortality rate from COVID-19 in countries that allow access to HCQ is only one-tenth the mortality rate in countries where there is interference with this medication, such as the United States,” AAPS general counsel Andrew Schlafly said, citing easier access to the drug in Philippines, Poland, Israel, Turkey, and even Venezuela.
Yet the group laments that a “perfect storm of politics in this presidential election year, along with conflicts of interest at the defendant federal agencies, has resulted in unjustified obstacles to access to HCQ, an inexpensive medication having a track record of more than 75 years of safety.”

In the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists began researching HCQ’s potential applications in treating the new virus – a development that was quickly promoted by President Donald Trump, after which partisans in media and government began a push to discredit the drug, from outlandish stories (https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/story-of-man-who-died-eating-fish-tank-cleaner-hoping-to-cure-covid-19-makes-no-sense) about a man who died after drinking fish tank cleaner to a junk study falsely claiming (https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-stephen-smith-study-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-treatment) HCQ killed Veterans Administration patients.

Several early studies showed promise (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/medical-establishment-opposes-potential-covid-19-drug-as-dueling-studies-continue) as a COVID-19 treatment, but a May study published in The Lancet purported to not only find “no benefit” to using HCQ, but instead finding “decreased in-hospital survival and an increased frequency of ventricular arrhythmias,” leading several countries to ban it (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-idUSKBN233197). However, that study was retracted upon the discovery (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lancet-forced-to-retract-influential-study-discrediting-malaria-drugs-success-in-treating-covid-19) that the company that provided its data was very likely fraudulent.
“The interference with public access to hydroxychloroquine is disrupting our political processes,” Schlafly said. “Perhaps that is what some want, in order to deter Americans from attending political conventions and even voting, but it is unconstitutional for the FDA to infringe on these constitutional rights by blocking access to this safe medication.”

Bill Ryan

29th July 2020, 00:56

A study published last month shows that (simply!) Quercetin + Vitamin C can treat Covid-19 patients very effectively.

Hydroxychloroquine is not an OTC (over-the-counter) medicine in the US. But Quercetin is... you can buy it cheaply on Amazon (https://amazon.com/s?k=quercetin&i=hpc&ref=nb_sb_noss_1), and many other online stores. The doses of Vitamin C used varied between 2 g and 10 g per day, given over a period of 8–10  hours.

Here's a good summary article:

https://collective-evolution.com/2020/07/20/new-study-strongly-suggests-giving-covid-19-patients-vitamin-c-quercetin

And here's the original study, titled Quercetin and Vitamin C: An Experimental, Synergistic Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Related Disease (COVID-19).

https://researchgate.net/publication/342312272_Quercetin_and_Vitamin_C_An_Experimental_Synergistic_Therapy_for_the_Prevention_and_Treatme nt_of_SARS-CoV-2_Related_Disease_COVID-19

Gwin Ru

29th July 2020, 14:27

From Jim Stone (http://www.jimstone.is/pages/.xh7.html#hydroxychloroquine):

This Hydroxychloroquine video is getting deleted (https://www.brighteon.com/717a7b06-3194-4ec2-84e4-c3f449d71689) and banned on all mainstream platforms as soon as people put it up

It is not hard to understand why. At least brighteon has it.

I REPEAT AND HAVE ALREADY REPEATED THIS: The current push against hydroxychloroquine is only being done because they are about to release the next more deadly virus, and as a safeguard they made the virus curable with hydroxychloroquine, the same way the first one was. That is ALL there is to this story, sometimes the entire plot can be stated that efficiently.

AND ZINC.

As a side note I'd like to add that to be fully effective, it has to be taken with zinc. I don't trust supplements, too many are fake now. So I have already thought of how I will make the zinc when I need it IF there are not foods available that have the appropriate amount of zinc. First, the foods:

Political correctness has wrecked zinc info in foods. Here is the cold hard fact: all you need to get ALL the zinc you need is to eat a quarter pound hamburger. That's about 100 grams. All the common foods that are promoted as being "great sources of zinc" can't compare to beef, it is on a daily basis the #1 prime source. If I knew I had Corona, I'd eat at least half a kilo, let it soak in real good and then take the hydroxychloroquine.

So they say spinach is good. Well, I guess, if you want to eat six cups of it to match 100 grams of beef. So they say wheat bran and other grains are good. MAYBE to a robot, that analyzes chemical content and then does not sort out facts, the problem with grain based sources of zinc is that grains have a chemistry that permanently binds the zinc, so even though they have 5X what is in beef, you'll get zero. A cow's gut can release the zinc. Your gut cannot.

And then, there's the champion of zinc - cooked oysters. I put beef before these because beef is more common and some people don't like oysters. If you can get them fresh, they'll give you so much zinc your body won't know what to do with it and eventually, if you eat too many over time you'll get sick. 100 grams of drained oysters will give you 6X what your body would want, (if you don't have a deficiency, and you probably do.) and it is perfectly rational to conclude that canned oysters will do the same. Let's say you are all out of oysters and beef, and need other options.

What then?

Any nut, bolt, nail, or screw that appears to not be the color of steel, and is bright and shiny is usually coated in zinc. Roofing nails will always be coated in zinc, but those are not shiny. The inside of a modern penny is zinc once you scrape the copper off.

This link discusses clearly how zinc can be released from the sources I listed, (https://periodictable.com/ZincSafety.html) - all you do is put a zinc plated item in direct flame until the zinc boils off in white smoke and then capture that smoke. Rather than breathe it in (which will not hurt you in small amounts) I'd probably opt to catch it in a perfectly clean (And I mean CLEAN) wet rag that had the smoke rise directly into it and then wring it into water. It will make you feel a little sick but you'll get over it. The linked page has enough info on it for you to be able to figure it out. Do that only in an emergency, when you don't have a known good supplement or any of the truly good foods available to get your zinc from

One last thing: I'd almost be willing to bet that simply scraping a metal nail file that is usually part of a fingernail clipper on one of the zinc pennies edgewise would get enough available zinc from that penny to work, that's the easiest thing anyone could ever do - scrape off a little pile of zinc from a penny, mix it in with something and eat it. It will probably work, but I can't guarantee it, it may need to be an oxide or combined with an acid to work (then again, your stomach might provide the right acid) so who knows, if I had to, I'd surely try it.

Zinc can poison you in high amounts but it is not toxic. It would be tough to get enough to kill you. And it will wear off with no after effects eventually.

mountain_jim

29th July 2020, 15:00

^ Have not eaten beef in 45 years - ordered Zinc and Quercetin supplements today, plus adding to my Vitamin C stocks.

happyuk

30th July 2020, 23:29

When it comes to dietary advice I still hark back to two simple lessons given by the late great Dr Magnus Pyke, OBE:

1. Don't eat so much you get enormously fat; or so little that you waste away.
2. Mix it.

As discussed between 4:48 and 5:40 of this marvellous talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL1kT3-BPuo&t=1105s

(Pyke was one of the senior scientists put in charge of making sure the UK was kept adequately fed during the war years 1939-1945 while we were surrounded by U-boats and could no longer import food)

Gwin Ru

2nd August 2020, 14:01

From Jim Stone (http://82.221.129.208/.vg4.html):

August 1 2020
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Update to below: This is getting hacked, I never spelled it "chinchona", I know the correct spelling for that, I did not spell it wrong in every case all the way through especially after writing it down correctly today several times while looking for it. A Chincha is a bed bug. I am not that stupid but if people already copied it out of here and posted it elsewhere before I caught that, "officially" I am!!!

ADDITIONALLY, Claudia got a video from a group of insiders (white hat insiders) and attempted to send it out, and the contents of the message she sent got changed to family photos she has not even accessed recently.

If you think you are passing information to people you probably are not, YES, they'll "get a message" but it won't be the one you sent! So when you call and ask if they got it, they'll say YES and if you don't clarify what you sent, they'll never know it was supposed to be more than puppy pics. This is the same crap the Bolsheviks pulled in Russia, you'd get a mail and half of it would be blacked out or missing or it would be re-written entirely by a spook.

Cinchona/Quina - the answer to hydroxychloroquine bans

I went out and found this stuff. Here is how it went.

Last night I saw a post to a popular forum that stated Cinchona was what Quinine was derived from. Quinine is the root component of hydroxychloroquine.

Back in 1935, it was well known that quinine prevented malaria, so attempts to make it synthetically were successfully carried out, with the result being hydroxychloroquine. Quinine is the natural version, hydroxychloroquine is the synthetic version. Both are considered equal, but the synthetic version is more popular because it is cheaper and easier. Or should I say, "should" be cheaper, now that it is known the next generation of designer viruses can be killed by hydroxychloroquine unscrupulous types are charging 10X or higher markups. The usual $2 for a pack of pills now costs whatever price they put on it, (I paid $25 for mine).

So I set out to find Cinchona today, to find out how it is priced relative to how hydroxychloroquine is now priced, and perhaps buy some. I found it, and bought some. There is a lot I learned, even if you have this stuff you probably ought to read this.

I found it labeled as "Quina" bark, was not sure that was Cinchona but it said it was anti-malarial so I figured "Quina" ment Quinone and bought a 250 gram sample. Good move, it was the right stuff. In Mex, it's called "Quina". Prior to going out looking for this stuff, I made sure it was available in powdered form. And it is. This is important because I saw many people were simply boiling the big bark pieces and that's no way to get any benefit out of it and seeing it in powder form made it clear it was OK to grind it down like that.

When I got back I put it in the blender and blended it down to "cappuchino", perhaps more, it was such a fine powder that the dust in the blender never settled out, I ended up simply pouring it into the bag with a dust waterfall coming out of the pitcher.

When it is that fine, it is obvious a little will go a very long way. I got every last bit of it out of the blender I possibly could, and then took a coffee cup full of water and rinsed the rest out with that, and poured it back into the coffee cup. I then microwaved it for 3 minutes and poured it through a coffee filter.

The tiny amount left in the blender made a FILTERED brew that looked like this:

http://82.221.129.208/quinine.jpg

Dosing: I was cruising through this, figuring I'd drink it all because it was like a really good tea. I was wrong. I felt the physiological effects in my kidneys only a few ounces into it and knew I dosed it good, this stuff is not tea!

I figured I'd gauge how much was the right amount by how it felt in my system and figured "there's no way the gram or so left in the blender could possibly be too much" and I appear to have been wrong (so far) which is really good news. No one wants any sort of survival item that runs out lickety split, and from what it looks like, when prepared as I prepared it, this small 250 gram bag that cost a little less than $2 would probably last a whole year if taken daily.

I was only about 3 ounces into the brew made from residual dust when I clearly had enough despite enjoying sipping away at it, surprised at how good it tasted. It smells really nice too. The only bad thing I have to report is that I threw ALL OF IT into the blender so I can't get a picture of how it should look like if you manage to buy it. Not to worry, tomorrow we are going to the main mercado to see if we can get it cheaper. I'll have another sample tomorrow, even if I have to go back to the first place to get it.

I have something very curious on this topic to show, get a load of this!!!

Want proof this Cinchona bark is something the NWO fears? Here it is! (https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-quinine-idUSKBN2370R9)

That report, by Reuters, has them stating that quinine is not the same as hydroxychloroquine.

The reason they give is because one is synthetic and one is natural.

They even state that hydroxychloroquine was made as a synthetic version of the natural stuff, and then after stating that, claim alt media is lying when they claim it is the same because the man made version is synthetic.

That's the same as lying. THEY LIED THEIR BUTTS OFF. Because anyone with an IQ above 73 ought to be able to figure out that the natural version is probably better than the synthetic version, and that both do the same job. Any idiot ought to be able to figure out that when alt media says they are "the same" that it is a reference to function, not form!

I will have more on this tomorrow, as far as I see it this was a day well spent. I'll definitely be able to get enough to ensure no one in the family dies of the new virus, that is now priority number one.

Did I say new virus??? Yes, I did. It is coming. You can damn well bet it is coming, because that Reuters post was such a scam in it's presentation that clearly they intended to discredit and cause confusion. Chloroquine, quinone, whatever you manage to get, is definitely the remedy for their new virus and they don't want the public to know that. They fully intend to try to kill us off on the rebound, every action they are taking proves it.

By the way, Claudia managed to get ahold of an insider video via one of her contacts, where the insiders disagreed with the current plot to kill people off while slamming communism down. They discussed in depth how other insiders were getting the chloroquine banned and when Claudia tried forwarding it to other people they instead got a picture of her with one of the more popular kids at a party.

They actually browsed her phone for that, she has NEVER sent that picture out. So there was confirmation the message was sent and received, and if she had not called and confirmed what actually arrived she'd never have been the wiser.

They are getting THAT NASTY with this, folks:
When you send information to people, it is not good enough to ask them if they got your message, you now have to ask them what was in it because the censors are switching the contents.
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andyangel1205

2nd August 2020, 15:29

I find it amazing (and extremely troubling) that front line doctors are getting censored just for bringing up hydroxychloroquine. Just unbelievable.
My wife channeled a mantis being (who goes by Lightkeeper) last February and the being talked about the parasitic nature of coronavirus, specifically referencing "mosquitoes." At the time, we found this interesting, but it hit home after hydroxychloroquine (an anti-malaria drug) was introduced as an effective treatment. Just recently, Lightkeeper returned unexpectedly and shared more information about Coronavirus, vaccines, masks, how we can cope moving forward, etc...

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leavesoftrees

4th August 2020, 11:50

From Jim Stone (http://82.221.129.208/.vg4.html):

August 1 2020
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Cinchona/Quina - the answer to hydroxychloroquine bans

I went out and found this stuff. Here is how it went.

Last night I saw a post to a popular forum that stated Cinchona was what Quinine was derived from. Quinine is the root component of hydroxychloroquine.

Back in 1935, it was well known that quinine prevented malaria, so attempts to make it synthetically were successfully carried out, with the result being hydroxychloroquine. Quinine is the natural version, hydroxychloroquine is the synthetic version. Both are considered equal, but the synthetic version is more popular because it is cheaper and easier.

Cinchona (also known as China, pronounced keena) was the first homeopathic remedy developed by Hahneman in the 1700s

https://www.homeopathycenter.org/homeopathy-today/remedy-month-chinacinchona-officinalis

Gwin Ru

6th August 2020, 11:23

Simple, cheap rapid solution to the pandemic – Video (https://www.iceagenow.info/simple-cheap-rapid-solution-to-the-pandemic-video/)

by Robert (https://www.iceagenow.info/author/xilef/)
August 5, 2020 (https://www.iceagenow.info/simple-cheap-rapid-solution-to-the-pandemic-video/)

More than 25 million people live in Taiwan, 25 million people practically stacked on top of each other. If they practiced social distancing they’d be out in the ocean floating around. There’s not enough room for them to do social distancing.

But guess how many people have died to date of the pandemic in Taiwan?

Seven! Only seven!

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Only seven! (Yes, I confirmed this on worldometers.com (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/). As of today, August 5, the number is only seven.)

Texas physician Dr. Richard Bartlett has had a 100 percent success rate with his patients, many with life-threatening co-morditities, but the media has been ignoring it.

In this video, Dr. Bartlett shares the stories people who he has treated using a steroid called budesonide, inhaled through a nebulizer. Dr. Bartlett has previously referred to his treatment as a “silver bullet” for the coronavirus. Worth watching at least the first 5 minutes.
Budesonide: That’s bu as in blue, des as in dess, o as in oh, nide as in hide) – Budesonide
Only seven deaths of Covid-19 in Taiwan!
“Same situation in Japan,” says Dr Bartlett.

“One hundred and twenty-one million people in Japan, and they’ve had less than a thousand people die during the whole pandemic. In Singapore, only 12 people have died in the entire country during the whole pandemic.”
What is the secret to these low death counts?

People in those countries are using an inhaled steroid called budesomide, says Dr Bartlett, who calls budesomide the “silver bullet.”
“It’s super cheap,” say Dr. Bartlett.

“It’s about $200 for the entire treatment if you use cash. Many of my patients who use insurance pay nothing out of pocket.”
Budesomide is an asthma medicine, says Dr Bartlett. It’s a respiratory anti-inflammatory, and Covid-19 is a respiratory inflammation disease.
“And it works,” says Dr Bartlett.

“A hundred percent of my (Covid-19) patients are alive.

”You use a nebulizer machine.

“People start feeling better after the first treatment,” Bartlett adds.
Note: This was first posted on YouTube more than a month ago. But have you seen any word about this in the mainstream media?

Every person in the entire world should be made aware of this simple, cheap rapid solution to the pandemic. They should know about Dr Bartlett’s “silver bullet.”

Please help spread the word.

Gwin Ru

9th August 2020, 13:06

Following on post # 318 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?109824-Covid-19--and-flu---Treatment-and-Prevention&p=1370098&viewfull=1#post1370098):

From Jim Stone:

http://82.221.129.208/quina2.jpg

onawah

14th August 2020, 17:57

Glutathione Deficiency May Be Associated With COVID Severity
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
August 14, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/14/glutathione-deficiency-linked-to-covid-severity.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2ReadMore&cid=20200814Z1&mid=DM621212&rid=940126833

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
A glutathione deficiency may be at the root of severe illness, as it leads to significant oxidative stress, lung inflammation and multiorgan failure with COVID
One scientist linked glutathione deficiency with many of the comorbid conditions that raise COVID-19 severity, including age, diabetes, gender and smoking
The researcher also found data indicating that glutathione deficiency can impact your ability to synthesize vitamin D, another risk factor for severe disease
NAC supplementation, foods rich in glutathione precursors, aerobic exercise and strength training can help support healthy levels

Coronaviruses were identified in the mid-1960s and so named for the crown-like spikes on the surface of the cell. Until the first SARS-CoV arrived in 2003, there were four common coronaviruses.1 The CDC’s list of symptoms for these viruses shows that they are the same as those of the common cold.2 They include a runny nose, sore throat, headache, fever and cough.

However, from what scientists have discovered since the start of the global pandemic, the symptoms and long-term effects are far different for SARS-CoV-2. Initial symptoms include fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue and loss of taste or smell.3 However, unlike a natural coronavirus, the additional complications can affect the cardiovascular system, kidney, liver and lungs.4

One of the identified underlying dysfunctions that trigger shortness of breath and severe lung complications is hypercoagulability. In one study, patients who were admitted to Padova University Hospital in Italy for acute respiratory failure showed "markedly hypercoagulable thromboelastometry profiles." The researchers said:5

"In conclusion, COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure present a severe hypercoagulability rather than consumptive coagulopathy. Fibrin formation and polymerization may predispose to thrombosis and correlate with a worse outcome."

Clot formations throughout the body may be associated with other complications arising after the illness has resolved. It appears that the difference between people who have a mild or severe illness may be related to the body’s ability to reduce the hypercoagulability and the hyperimmune response that leads to a cytokine storm.

How Glutathione Works — A ‘Master Antioxidant?’
An antioxidant is a molecule that keeps other molecules from oxidizing. Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant that may play a significant role in the COVID-19 illness process. There are 20 amino acids that can bind together in different formations to create a protein molecule.6

However, glutathione is a tripeptide, which means there are only three amino acids that line up to form a glutathione molecule. These are cystine, glycine and glutamate. Together they help use and recycle other antioxidants, such as vitamin C and CoQ10.7,8

This means your body uses glutathione to increase the effectiveness of these antioxidants and it helps to recycle the molecules. Without glutathione, the antioxidant capacity is significantly reduced. This function may be what earned glutathione the nickname “master antioxidant.”9

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) plays a role as a precursor to glutathione.10 Clinical evidence has also demonstrated the effects NAC has, independent of its role with glutathione, including a thrombolytic effect. It also improves oxidative stress and the inflammatory response.11,12,13,14

In late March 2020, one medical student put this theory to the test when his mother, 48-year-old Josephine Bruzzese, was diagnosed with pneumonia at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn. Without an available COVID-19 test, they sent her home as a suspected case. She was prescribed hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, which helped improve some symptoms, but not her breathing.

When she was unable to stand, and had severe respiratory problems,15 her son contacted Dr. Richard Horowitz, a specialist who was treating his sister for Lyme disease, who suggested using glutathione to help reduce the inflammation and protect Bruzzese's lung tissue. The results were dramatic.

Within one hour after receiving a 2,000 mg dose of glutathione, her breathing was better, and she could stand. She continued to take glutathione for five days and has not had a relapse. Speaking to a reporter from the New York Post, Horowitz shared that he is working to design an extensive clinical trial to prove the effectiveness of what he calls "an easy treatment that is not expensive."

May 5, 2020, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center posted a trial to Clinicaltrials.gov announcing a study involving the use of NAC in patients with COVID-19. In this first-of-its-kind research, the study team plans to enroll patients with severe disease: One group in the study will receive 6 grams of NAC intravenously each day in addition to other treatments.16

Scientists Propose Deficiency Is Linked to Severe COVID-19
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About the same time the study was announced by Memorial Sloan Kettering, a Russian scientist published papers proposing that glutathione plays a crucial role in a person's ability to respond to a COVID-19 infection and the resulting severity of disease.17,18,19 In this short video, Dr. Roger Seheult explains the science.

Additionally, Dr. Alexey Polonikov, from Kursk State Medical University, theorizes glutathione can be used as a preventive against, and treatment of, the illness. Polonikov studies human molecular genetics and oxidative stress.20

Based on the exhaustive literature analysis he conducted, he later said he believes glutathione deficiency is a plausible reason for serious illness with COVID-19:21

“(1) oxidative stress contributes to hyper-inflammation of the lung leading to adverse disease outcomes such as acute respiratory distress syndrome, multiorgan failure and death;

(2) poor antioxidant defense due to endogenous glutathione deficiency as a result of decreased biosynthesis and/or increased depletion of GSH is the most probable cause of increased oxidative damage of the lung, regardless which of the factors aging, chronic disease comorbidity, smoking or some others were responsible for this deficit.”

As Polonikov writes22 and Seheult describes in the video, oxidative damage from reactive oxygen species (ROS) plays a significant role in severe disease with COVID-19. In another video, Seheult explains how COVID-19 sets the stage for significantly increasing oxidative stress by increasing superoxide, a damaging ROS.23

Importantly, this raises superoxide in people who start with high levels due to chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. As the virus uses the ACE2 enzyme, it generates angiotensin II, which in turn generates more superoxide.

The virus also attracts a type of neutrophil (polymorphonuclear leukocytes) that can also raise the production of superoxide. The superoxide then produces other hydroxyl radicals, including hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).

These ROSs, which cause cellular damage, can be reduced with glutathione peroxidase as it oxidizes glutathione in the process of reducing H2O2 to water. As you can see, a deficiency of glutathione would create a build-up for ROS as Polonikov describes.

Comorbid Risk Factors Linked to Glutathione Deficiency
Antioxidant defense against ROS damage is crucial for whole body homeostasis. Polonikov believes a higher rate of severe illness from the virus in older adults and those with comorbidities suggests there are related biological processes that make these specific individuals more sensitive. He writes:24

“Specifically, impaired redox homeostasis and associated oxidative stress appear to be important biological processes that may account for increased individual susceptibility to diverse environmental insults.”

In one evaluation of COVID-19 patients from six hospitals in Atlanta, researchers found independent factors that raised the risk of hospitalization. These included smoking, having Type 2 diabetes, being male, being Black, being of advanced age and being obese.25 Polonikov found evidence that a glutathione deficiency may be implicated in these comorbidities.

In his paper he identifies the progressive reduction in endogenous glutathione with aging. This, he believes, makes “the elderly more susceptible to oxidative damage caused by different environmental factors compared to younger individuals.”26 He points out that deficiencies in endogenous glutathione are also found in people who have other comorbid conditions.

He proposes these decreased levels with chronic disease could begin a shift toward oxidative stress and exacerbate pulmonary inflammation, ultimately leading “to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), multiorgan failure and death.”27 Some men and some smokers also have lower levels of glutathione, which increases their risk.

In another ongoing study on the genetics of redox homeostasis and Type 2 diabetes, four patients from the control group contracted COVID-19. Blood samples were collected and used to measure ROS and glutathione levels.28

All four were female nonsmokers without chronic disease who had a confirmed positive PCR test. In cases of individuals who recovered quickly, the ROS-to-glutathione ratio was 2.075-to-0.712 or less.

In patients with more significant disease, the ratio was 3.677-to-0.531 in one patient and as high as 2.73-to-0.079 in the second. In the first patient with significant disease the ratio was more than double that in patients who recovered quickly. In the second patient the ratio was more than 11 times greater.

Glutathione and Vitamin D Relationship
In terms of vitamin D, Polonikov proposes the relationship between vitamin D and severe disease may have more to do with a glutathione deficiency. He points to several studies that correlate glutathione levels with vitamin D29,30 and another in which scientists found that lower levels of l-cysteine, a glutathione precursor, correlated with lower vitamin D levels in people with Type 2 diabetes.31

In a recent animal study researchers also looked at whether glutathione deficiency could induce changes that impaired the metabolism of vitamin D.32 They found the deficiency could alter the biosynthesis and explained the mechanism for vitamin D deficiency that occurs with a glutathione deficiency.

The researchers suggest there's a potential benefit to supplementing with glutathione in order to reduce vitamin D deficiency. Polonikov writes that this study supplies information on the importance glutathione plays in the control of endogenous vitamin D biosynthesis and demonstrates the benefits of treatment in reducing vitamin D deficiency.

I believe both nutrients are vital for protection against severe disease. While a glutathione deficiency may impact your ability to synthesize vitamin D, this is applicable only when you have enough sun exposure or supplements to raise your vitamin D level.

However, we know it is difficult to get enough sun in the Northern Hemisphere, especially during the winter months. Additionally, most people use copious amounts of sunscreen or avoid the sun altogether, which can make the deficiency problem worse.

Strategies to Support Optimal Glutathione Levels
Your glutathione levels can be optimized using food, supplements and exercise. Polonikov believes that NAC taken orally may be a preventive strategy to help support your levels. In his paper he concluded:33

“Therefore, oral administration of N-acetylcysteine as a preventive measure against viral infections, as well as intravenous injection of NAC or reduced glutathione (GSH is highly bioavailable) in patients with serious illness may be effective options against novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection."

As he discusses in the video, Seheult believes there is more to the damage by COVID-19 than oxidative stress.34 He points out that the clots removed from patients with confirmed COVID are rich with platelets, indicating another mechanism involving disulfide bonds. He goes on to explain:35

“And, as we've already talked about N-acetylcysteine and reduced glutathione will break these disulfide bonds and cause them to lyse and potentially relieve the obstruction and the hypoxemia with COVID-19. Again, this is all a hypothesis, but it looks as though it's fitting together."

Foods that have had a positive impact on glutathione production include cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, green tea, curcumin, rosemary and milk thistle.36 Getting quality sleep may also help.37,38

Different types of exercise can influence your levels. In one study researchers enrolled 80 healthy but sedentary volunteers to measure the type of exercise that may have the greatest effect.39 They found that aerobic training in combination with circuit weight training showed the greatest benefit.

Sources and References
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Human Coronavirus Types
2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Symptoms of Coronavirus
4 BMJ Best Practice
5 Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2020;120(6):998
6 University of Arizona
7 MindBodyGreen, July 7, 2017
8, 9 ANF Therapy, July 5, 2018
10 Journal of Scientific and Technical Research, 2019;12(4)
11 Blood Coagulation Fibrinolysis, 2006;17(1):29
12 Redox Biology 2018;14:218
13 Biochemical Pharmacology, 2009;79 (3):413
14 Medicine, 2018;97(45)
15 New York Post, May 9, 2020 para 6
16 ClinicalTrials.gov, May 5, 2020
17, 22, 26 American Chemical Society Infectious Disease, 2020, doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00288
18, 21, 28, 33 Researchgate, April 2020 [Preprint]
19, 24 ACS Infectious Disease, 2020;6(7)
20 Researchgate, Alexey Polonikov
23 Youtube
25 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, June 26, 2020; 69(25)
27 American Chemical Society Infectious Disease, 2020, doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00288 comorbidity 30% down the page
29 Clinical Endocrinology, 2014;81(3)
30 European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2014;68(10)
31 Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, 2015;23(8)
32 Scientific Reports, 2019;9(1)
34, 35 YouTube, May 14, 2020, Min 12:00
36 Nutrients, 2019;11(9)
37 Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 2012;37(2)
38 Annals of Neurosciences, 2012;19(4)
39 European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, 2007;14(5)

Gwin Ru

19th August 2020, 16:57

Hydroxychloroquine is why Uganda, with a population of 43M, has only 15 COVID-19 deaths (https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/hydroxychloroquine-is-why-uganda-with-a-population-of-43m-has-only-15-covid-19-deaths)

Posted on Aug 19, 2020 at 09:42

Uganda, a country in east-central Africa, has a 2018 population of 42.729 million, which is 13% of the United States’ population of 328.239 million in 2019.

And yet Uganda has 1,603 COVID-19 cases and just 15 deaths, wherease the U.S. has 5,656,744 COVID-19 cases and 175,105 deaths.

That means:
Uganda’s number of COVID-19 cases is only 0.028% of the number of U.S. COVID-19 cases; and

Uganda’s number of COVID-19 deaths is only 0.008% of the number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths.

onawah

20th August 2020, 04:51

Overemphasis on Deep Cleaning Can Backfire
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
August 19, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/19/back-to-school-deep-cleaning.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20200819Z1&mid=DM627869&rid=944004058

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
The U.K. prime minister’s decision to reopen primary schools in June was met with “alarm.” One suggestion brought forth by the teachers’ union was to spray pupils down with disinfectant mist before entering school buildings to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In the end, such disinfection protocols do not appear to have been passed
Many parents in the U.K. are still resisting the reopening of all schools in September, as Public Health England COVID-19 surveillance reports suggest the limited school openings in June may have contributed to an increase in positive cases
Data from dozens of other countries show school openings have not resulted in any significant increases among students, parents or staff
Some U.S. school districts are implementing comprehensive disinfection protocols, but not of students directly. Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District in southern Arizona will use a Power Breezer fan to disperse disinfectant in classrooms and on buses
The World Health Organization advises against trying to kill SARS-CoV-2 with disinfectants, both outdoors or across large indoor spaces, stating it may do more harm than good. They also strongly advise against spraying disinfectants on people
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to reopen primary schools in June was met with "alarm" back in mid-May. According to the British National Education Union (NEU), 85% of its 49,000 members "disagreed with plans to restart lessons from June 1" and 92% said they "would not feel safe with the proposed wider opening of schools."

As reported by The U.S. Sun,1 one suggestion brought forth by the teachers' union at that time was to spray pupils down with disinfectant mist before entering school buildings to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Mary Bousted, joint general-secretary of the NEU, told The Sun:2

"'In China, children stand outside the school gates and are sprayed front and back with disinfectant, their shoes are sprayed, they wash their hands with sanitizer, they must take off their mask and replace it with a new one, and their temperature is taken remotely.'

Asked if a similar regime should be introduced here, she said: 'Yes. They're doing that in China and South Korea and they have a minuscule number of new cases.'"

In the end, such disinfection protocols do not appear to have been passed. Either way, reopening of schools in the U.K. didn't quite go as planned. Opposition was so great, the government conceded, limiting the reopening to specific primary schools on a part-time basis only, starting June 15.3

Now, reopening of all schools is planned for September, and parents who refuse to send their children back to school face a £60 fine. If not paid within 21 days, the fine is doubled.

Many parents in the U.K. are still resisting the reopening of all schools in September, as Public Health England COVID-19 surveillance reports suggest the limited school openings in June may have contributed to an increase in positive cases.4

By the end of June, 10 schools in Lincolnshire reportedly had to re-close due to outbreaks of positive cases.5 Curiously, data from dozens of other countries show school openings have not resulted in any significant increases among students, parents or staff.6

US School District Uses Fans to Disinfect Students
In related news, some U.S. school districts are implementing comprehensive disinfection protocols, but not of students directly. For example, Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District in southern Arizona will use a Power Breezer fan to disperse disinfectant in classrooms and on buses. Bryan Hoadley, chief revenue officer with Power Breezer explained the process to Fox 13 News:7

"We mixed EPA approved disinfectants following the CDC guidelines, we dilute it to about a point one solution in water… and then we disperse it over 5 to 6 minutes…You get a microfilm of that disinfectant on all the surfaces, you let it sit for the dwell time anywhere from 5 to 8 minutes depending on the product you're using …

You're not going to have anybody in the room while you're doing the disinfecting. We recommend that you start the machine, you vacate the room, let the machine do its work and then come and turn it off with a mask on or something like that. So then once it's ventilated, it's very safe."

New Normal: Toxic Disinfectants and Social Distancing Pods
Environmental health experts are expressing concern, however. Some worry that anxious staff may resort to disinfecting rooms and areas when children are present, thereby raising the potential for harmful health effects. As reported by E&E News:8

"Stephanie Holm, who co-directs the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, which is funded by both EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … is especially concerned about the use of hospital-grade disinfectants like bleaches or quaternary ammonium compounds, often called quats.

Studies have found exposure to such chemicals can create chronic respiratory conditions, like asthma, in cleaning workers and farmers who commonly use them. Using such chemicals in schools, which are often poorly ventilated, and around kids with vulnerable, developing respiratory systems could create a toxic result …

Alexandra Gorman Scranton, director of science and research at Women's Voices for the Earth … is worried that underfunded schools with overtaxed custodial staff will be tempted to get students involved in the cleaning by, for example, giving kids disinfectant wipes to use on their own desks. 'Kids and teachers aren't trained in how to use these products — kids aren't supposed to be near those wipes,' she said.

Many school systems — including New York City schools — have invested in electrostatic disinfectant sprayers to make cleaning more efficient. But Holm said she is concerned about plans to 'mist' cleaning products, especially if it is done while children are present or shortly before their arrival — an idea that was floated by her own California district.

'They had a plan at one point where half the kids would come in the mornings and half in the afternoons and the custodial staff would just mist it all in between, and I was like, 'Oh, my God' … I ended up at a school board meeting saying, 'I'm a national expert on this, please let me offer my services.''

Misting chemicals lets them linger in the air longer, making it more likely they will be inhaled by students and staff. It's also not effective, Holm said."

In related news, images in Mirror9 show just how far some schools are going to insulate the children against the virus. Kindergarteners in the Wat Khlong Toey School in Bangkok, Thailand, are literally penned into small individual plastic "pods," inside of which they also have to wear a face mask.

WHO Advises Against Disinfectants
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has actually advised against trying to kill SARS-CoV-2 with disinfectants, both outdoors or across large indoor spaces, stating it may do more harm than good. They also strongly advise against spraying disinfectants on people.

This is one time where it actually appears that the WHO got it right, which is beyond shocking as they have been dead wrong on virtually every other issue. Just like it is unwise to use antibacterial soap, it is even worse to inhale toxic disinfectants that are targeting the virus. As noted by the WHO:10

"Spraying disinfectants can result in risks to the eyes, respiratory or skin irritation and the resulting health effects. Spraying or fogging of certain chemicals, such as formaldehyde, chlorine-based agents or quaternary ammonium compounds, is not recommended due to adverse health effects on workers in facilities where these methods have been utilized.

Spraying or fumigation of outdoor spaces, such as streets or marketplaces, is also not recommended to kill the COVID-19 virus or other pathogens because disinfectant is inactivated by dirt and debris and it is not feasible to manually clean and remove all organic matter from such spaces."

Disinfection Efforts Won't Quell Spread of Infection
Similarly, scientists warn that making deep-cleaning a priority is not going to have a significant impact on the spread of the virus, as surface transmission appears to be minimal in the first place. As reported by Becker's Hospital Review:11

"Businesses … are making a big to-do about cleaning … New York City even closed down its subway system to deep clean the seats, walls and poles with antiseptics. But this might not be helping curb the spread of the new coronavirus at all.

The CDC updated its guidelines in May to say that surface transmission 'isn't thought to be the main way the virus spreads.' Another scientist, Emanuel Goldman, Ph.D., a microbiology professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark told The Atlantic:12 'Surface transmission of COVID-19 is not justified at all by the science' …

By and large scientists agree that the virus primary spread through the air through droplets expelled when a person sneezes or coughs or via aerosolized droplets expelled during conversations."

As noted in Derek Thompson's article13 in The Atlantic, "Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time," the emphasis on sanitation really only results in a false sense of security, and doesn't actually lower the risk of the disease overall:

"There is a historical echo here. After 9/11, physical security became a national obsession, especially in airports, where the Transportation Security Administration patted down the crotches of innumerable grandmothers for possible explosives. My colleague Jim Fallows repeatedly referred to this wasteful bonanza as 'security theater.'

COVID-19 has reawakened America's spirit of misdirected anxiety, inspiring businesses and families to obsess over risk-reduction rituals that make us feel safer but don't actually do much to reduce risk — even as more dangerous activities are still allowed. This is hygiene theater."

Surface Transmission Risk Has Been Exaggerated
According to microbiology professor Goldman, cited above, early research suggesting SARS-CoV-2 could remain viable on various surfaces for hours or even days were based on unrealistically potent concentrations of the virus.

In a study in which the authors tried to mimic actual conditions in which a surface might be contaminated by a patient, no viable SARS-CoV was detected on surfaces.
To mimic the experimental conditions used, upward of 100 infected people would need to sneeze on the surface in question, which is highly unlikely to happen in the real world. Goldman reviews this and other discrepancies in a July 3, 2020, article in The Lancet:14

"In a study in which the authors tried to mimic actual conditions in which a surface might be contaminated by a patient, no viable SARS-CoV was detected on surfaces," he notes, adding: "I do not disagree with erring on the side of caution, but this can go to extremes not justified by the data.

Although periodically disinfecting surfaces and use of gloves are reasonable precautions especially in hospitals, I believe that fomites that have not been in contact with an infected carrier for many hours do not pose a measurable risk of transmission in non-hospital settings. A more balanced perspective is needed to curb excesses that become counterproductive."

Real-World Example of How Low Fomite Transmission Risk Is
In his Atlantic article,15 Thompson highlights a study16,17 that looked at the spread of infection in a 19-story skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea, that housed a mix of apartments and offices, including a busy call center on the 11th floor. Tenants and staff shared a lobby and several elevators. March 8, 2020, it was discovered a call center worker had contracted COVID-19.

Surprisingly, only 97 of the more than 1,000 people in the building ended up testing positive for the disease, and 94 of them worked in the call center. Moreover, the majority of those infected in the call center also sat on the same side of the office as patient zero.

This strongly suggests COVID-19 primarily spreads via airborne transmission. Despite the many opportunities for fomite transmission (i.e., via contact with contaminated surfaces), such contacts simply didn't result in widespread illness.

"The scientists I spoke with emphasized that people should still wash their hands, avoid touching their face when they've recently been in public areas, and even use gloves in certain high-contact jobs.

They also said deep cleans were perfectly justified in hospitals. But they pointed out that the excesses of hygiene theater have negative consequences," Thompson writes.18

Negative consequences include forgoing more effective prevention strategies such as hand-washing, and building a false sense of security — both of which can lead to higher infection rates.

Safe and Effective Disinfectants for Your Home
As noted by the WHO, some disinfectants can also trigger health problems, especially if inhaled, which is why fogging students, as proposed in England, is both unwarranted and unwise. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, poisonings related to cleaning solutions have also risen by as much as 20%, which speaks to the hazards of these products.

Excessive use of disinfectants may ultimately worsen bacterial drug resistance as well. For years, scientists and health professionals have talked about how excessive cleanliness and widespread use of antibacterial products are harming public health, especially that of children. It remains to be seen just how long it'll take to ease the unreasonable fear of germs instilled during the COVID-19 pandemic once it's officially over.

That said, if someone in your household is sick, wiping off commonly used surfaces may certainly be advisable. As reviewed in "What Is the Best Disinfectant for Surfaces?" your best bets include:

Alcohol-based disinfectant containing between 60% and 80% alcohol.19,20
3% hydrogen peroxide. Please note that this is the concentration for topical disinfectant, not for nebulization. The recommended concentration for nebulization is 30 times lower at 0.1%.
Accelerated hydrogen peroxide (AHP), sold under the brand name Rescue and some others. Compared to pharmaceutical grade 3% hydrogen peroxide, AHP works much faster, so you don't need to wet the surface for as long. AHP can kill viruses in as little as 30 seconds.21
If your aim is to disinfect and sterilize, remember to clean the surface first. Soap and water is likely one of the best alternative strategies here, as the soap will effectively inactivate viruses.

Once the surface is clean of dirt and sticky grime, spray your chosen disinfectant on the surface and let sit for up to several minutes before wiping. The time required will depend on the disinfectant you use. For hand sanitation, soap and warm water are the most effective. Only use alcohol-based hand sanitizers if soap and water are unavailable."

+ Sources and References
1, 2 The U.S. Sun May 11, 2020
3, 4, 5 WSWS.org June 30, 2020
6 The Guardian May 18, 2020
7 Fox 13 News July 17, 2020
8 E&E News August 10, 2020
9 Mirror August 10, 2020
10 WHO.int, Cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces in the context of COVID-19, May 15, 2020 (PDF)
11 Becker’s Hospital Review July 31, 2020
12, 13, 15, 18 The Atlantic July 27, 2020
14 The Lancet July 3, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/ S1473-3099(20)30561-2 (PDF)
16 CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases August 2020; 26(8)
17 The Atlantic May 22, 2020
19 WHO.int WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (PDF), Page 32
20 CDC.gov, Chemical Disinfectants
21 EPA.gov, September 18, 2018, Label Language Notification for Oxivir Wipes with AHP Technology (PDF), Page 5

Bill Ryan

20th August 2020, 11:50

Tintin

20th August 2020, 12:21

I'm uncertain whether anyone has yet posted up anything from Jennifer Margulis?

Either way she has some very good advice and suggestions here in her Natural Treatments for Coronavirus That Actually Work

Source: https://jennifermargulis.net/natural-treatments-for-coronavirus/

A sample from the article:

Natural treatments for coronavirus
Vitamin C liposomal (this is the most highly absorbable form): 1000 mg a day preventatively or 3000 mg daily if exposed or infected. Option: Ascorbic acid in powder or capsule form, 2000-3000 mg daily preventatively and to bowel tolerance* if you are infected you may be taking as much as 10,000mg a day.*bowel tolerance refers to the appearance of diarrhea with an increase in dosage–it simply indicates that the body is taking in more than it can use. Back down by 1000mg until your bowel movements are back to normal.In this meta-analysis researchers found that “Vitamin C Can Shorten the Length of Stay in the ICU.”
Vitamin A: 25,000iu a day is a common dosage. According to this article, “Vitamin A Deficiency and the Lung,” Vitamin A deficiency can compromise lung health.

According to the Lung Health Institute: “Vitamin A is a second vitamin that may be helpful for chronic lung disease patients. This vitamin is critical to the functioning of your immune system. It’s also a vital player in the ability of your cells to grow and differentiate, which means to become different types of cells as they grow. Thanks to these properties, getting enough vitamin A in your diet through foods or supplements may help your body initiate its natural repair process in the lungs.Of note: You need to be careful while taking it though: “While vitamin A can be helpful, it’s also fat-soluble, which means it can build up in your body and become toxic. Prolonged overdosing on vitamin A can even lead to liver and bone issues. Therefore, it’s critical that you speak to your doctor or dietitian before beginning a vitamin A supplement.”

Vitamin D: 5,000iu a day preventatively or 10,000iu if infected. It’s best to get a blood test to see if you are vitamin D deficient, as most Americans are. If you are in the 60-80ng/mL range, there is no need to take vitamin D unless you become sick. Most Americans, especially if you are a person of color, will benefit from 10 to 20 minutes of direct sun exposure on your body a day. Nude sunbathing on the roof!There has been a tremendous amount of peer-reviewed research showing the benefits of vitamin D. Here’s a good article about Vitamin D and the immune system to get you started.

Zinc: 15-30 mg daily preventatively or 60 mg a day if infected. A common symptom of COVID-19 is loss of sense of smell and taste. These are also symptoms of zinc deficiency. This article asks Could zinc protect against COVID-19? Naturopathic doctors and alternative practitioners say that it absolutely can. In an N = 1 experiment, a family member included zinc supplementation in her regime to fight coronavirus. She had a very mild case that cleared up quickly.

NAC (N-acetyl cysteine): 600 mg daily preventatively or 600 mg 3 times a day if infected. N-acetyl cysteine is a very helpful antioxidant. It is a precursor to glutathione and it breaks up mucus in lung infections, a good antidote to the potentially devastating problem of “cytokine storm syndrome.” This article, and this one, will help you understand the benefits of NAC.

Glutathione: liposomal 200 mg daily preventatively or 200 mg 2 to 3 times a day if infected. Glutathione is a master antioxidant in the body and very helpful in fighting breathing difficulties and combatting “cytokine storm syndrome.” Two case studies have shown that it can be one of the helpful alternative treatments for coronavirus: Efficacy of glutathione therapy in relieving dyspnea associated with COVID-19 pneumonia: A report of 2 cases.

Stopping blood clots
One of the sequelae showing up in some people with Covid-19 is a tendency to blood clotting. This is dangerous. The last thing you want is blood clots that create blockages of blood flow to your organs or tissues. Which is why hospitals use those annoying wraps that intermittently squeeze your legs all night when you are bed bound.

Movement is the best way to prevent blood clots. Go for a slow walk once every hour or two, stand up and stretch when you can, and do some light exercises when you feel up for it. Massage can also help.

In addition, fish oil, pycnogenol (pine bark extract), Vitamin E, turmeric, a Chinese herb called Dan Shen, and Gingko all support blood circulation and work as natural blood thinners.

But you don’t want to take them all at once or they could thin your blood by inhibiting platelet aggregation. Instead, just choose one or two.

Please note: You must consult with your physician if you’re taking blood thinners, or are being treated for stroke prevention or cardiovascular issues.

Do not take blood thinners if you’re using NSAIDs.

Choose 1 or 2 from the following list to prevent blood clots:
Fish oil: 2000 to 3000 mg daily
Pycnogenol: 50 mg 2 times a day for a week and then 50 mg 1 time per day
Vitamin E: 400iu daily
Turmeric: In the form of curcumin, take 500 mg daily or use organic powdered turmeric or the fresh root liberally in your food (which you should be doing anyway), or as a tea!
Gingko biloba: 120 mg 2 times a day
Dan Shen: 1-2 capsules 2 times a day

Adding anti-coagulants to your diet
Ginger, garlic, dark chocolate, cinnamon, dark green leafy vegetables, fish, cayenne, beets, grapes, and organic red wine in moderation (a glass a day) all have anticoagulant properties. These foods make a great addition to your diet.

Help from herbs
Herbs can play an important part in any treatment protocol, especially when you are looking for natural treatments for coronavirus. Stephen Harrod Buhner is an accomplished herbalist. He was very successful in working with patients through the SARS epidemic. He uses a similar protocol with SARS-Cov-2 (Covid-19) patients. This paper includes protocols and dosages for herbal treatments (https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/coronavirus.txt.pdf).

*I recommend you print it out or save it as a PDF to your desktop in case it gets censored. One doctor I interviewed has been using Buhner’s protocols with excellent results. - now in the Avalon Library >> http://avalonlibrary.net/Coronavirus_%28Wuhan_2019-nCov%29/Herbal_Treatment_for_coronavirus_infections_%28Buhner%2C%20Stephen%29.pdf

A note about herbs: there was originally some concern about the induction of a cytokine storm by using certain antivirals, particularly elderberry. But despite the headlines and the social media frenzy, there has been no quality evidence that elderberry induces cytokine storm. In this article, Donnie Yance details the benefits of elderberry (Sambucus nigra). In fact, antiviral herbs and mushrooms have proven to be very useful in case of infection. Helpful antiviral herbs and mushrooms include: echinacea, andrographis, reishi, elderberry, astragalus root, turkey tail, cordyceps, olive leaf, shiitake, chaga, oregano, and licorice.

Chinese herbal protocols
In addition, some Chinese herbal protocols have been successfully used as natural treatments for coronavirus. One traditional Chinese formula is Jade Windscreen (Yu Ping Feng San (玉屏風散). It is available at many health food stores. Chinese medical practitioners use Jade Windscreen as an effective preventative specifically for colds and flus that affect the lungs.

Yin Chiao San is another remedy that is readily available. It is a component of Source Naturals’ “Wellness Formula” or “Herbal Resistance Tincture”. If you’re feeling sick, especially if you have a fever, sore throat, difficulty breathing, or body aches, Yin Chiao San can be taken up to 4 or 5 times a day.

Supporting the immune system
All of the recommendations above are based on supporting the immune system. Responsible doctors make no claim to be able to prevent or cure Covid-19 but strive, instead, to offer our immune systems the best support possible.

For an individualized protocol that will keep you safe and healthy during these trying coronavirus times, contact your naturopath, homeopath, integrative physician, or Chinese medicine practitioner for more information.

What about budesonide?

Richard Bartlett, M.D., has been prescribing budesonide in a nebulizer to COVID-19 patients with great success. He believes this inexpensive pharmaceutical treatment is a silver bullet for the disease. He argues that Taiwan, a country of nearly 24 million people, has only had 7 COVID-19 deaths total party because of their use of budesonide. How long before YouTube videos discussing this treatment are also scrubbed from the internet?

___________________

Stephen Buhner herbal treatments

http://avalonlibrary.net/Coronavirus_%28Wuhan_2019-nCov%29/Herbal_Treatment_for_coronavirus_infections_%28Buhner%2C%20Stephen%29.pdf

Rawhide68

20th August 2020, 15:00

Interview with a nurse from Devon UK

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onawah

20th August 2020, 22:03

Simple Solutions to Contain COVID Costs
AUGUST 20, 2020
https://anh-usa.org/simple-solutions-to-contain-covid-costs/

"Lawmakers can help keep Americans healthy by expanding access to dietary supplements through health savings accounts. Action Alert!
https://anh-usa.org/simple-solutions-to-contain-covid-costs/

For years now, ANH-USA has supported expanding qualified HSA expenses to include dietary supplements. The current bill, S 4463, is sponsored by Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and allows Health Savings Account (HSA) funds to go toward dietary supplements without having to get a doctor’s prescription; the same would apply to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs). The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of expanding access to supplements and natural products that can help in the fight against this virus—we must support this bill, either on its own or as part of larger COVID-19 relief efforts.

Given what we know about the virus so far, simple supplements like vitamin D, zinc, quercetin, and vitamin C can be lifesaving. We won’t solve COVID or other diseases or get healthcare costs down until the crony alliances that keep natural treatments out of the medical system are ended. As we have pointed out, even doctors are being gagged by the FTC and FDA and told they cannot tell patients about natural treatments because they are not FDA approved. The regulators know perfectly well that it is impossible to pay billions to win FDA approval for an unpatentable treatment. It is bad enough that this wink and nod system ruled before COVID, but now it is quite clear that it is killing people who could have been saved with natural treatments.

At-risk consumers should not be denied access to sound science on natural COVID treatments. And they should have the flexibility to utilize their HSA for these health products.

Let’s also keep in mind a number of advantages of HSAs. First, contributions to them are tax-deductible. Second, the interest earned on money in the account is tax-free. Third, tax-free withdrawals can be made for qualified medical expenses. HSAs are a good way to put money aside for health expenses later in life, when these costs may increase, and, best of all, may also be used for other retirement expenses.

Keep in mind that HSAs have contribution limits. In 2019, the limit for an individual account is $3,500; for a family HSA, the limit is $7,000.

Tell Congress to support this bill either on its own or as part of larger COVID-19 relief efforts.

Action Alert! Write to Congress and urge them to support S 4463. Please send your message immediately. By sending this message, you will also be supporting our petition to ungag doctors so that they can share with patients the benefits of supplements and natural treatments for Covid." https://anh-usa.org/simple-solutions-to-contain-covid-costs/

Bill Ryan

20th August 2020, 22:24

Overemphasis on Deep Cleaning Can Backfire
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
Potentially important and valuable: Dr Mercola also recommends Quercetin (which you can buy cheaply at most vitamin stores, including Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Quercetin-supplements/s?k=Quercetin+supplements)) as an over-the-counter alternative to Hydroxychloroquine/HCQ.

Chris Martenson recommends it, too, at the close of every video he makes. Quercetin does the same kind of job as HCQ, escorting zinc into the cells. And a major study has already reported that Quercetin + Vitamin C seems to be an effective Covid remedy... see post #314 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?109824-Covid-19--and-flu---Treatment-and-Prevention&p=1369421&viewfull=1#post1369421).Dr Mercola enlarged on exactly this, in a new article published today.

It might be important, as Quercetin is readily available to anyone. The virus is real (no matter how much it's been hyped and statistics falsified), and if it does hit you, you may wish it hadn't.

According to the research, Quercetin + Zinc can be used safely and at home as an over-the-counter protocol. (A preventative one, too: you don't have to wait till you have the thing to get zinc into your cells.)

Here's Dr Mercola:

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/20/swiss-protocol-for-covid-quercetin-and-zinc.aspx

Swiss Protocol for COVID — Quercetin and Zinc

20 August, 2020

Story at-a-glance

A recently published Swiss Policy Research (SPR) protocol recommends people at high risk of COVID-19 or exposure to it use quercetin and zinc to treat the virus, in addition to other commonly available medications.
Hydroxychloroquine studies with negative outcomes were marred by a delay in administering the drug, excessive doses of the drug, skewed data and contraindications that were not honored, according to SPR.
Simple, safe and inexpensive COVID-19 treatments could render more complex medications and vaccinations obsolete.

Swiss Policy Research (SPR), formerly known as Swiss Propaganda Research, which describes itself as “an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media,” has published numerous articles on COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

While SPR’s critics have accused it of promoting “unproven” theories, their work focuses on using published studies, case reports and actual physician testimonies for its reporting.

In regard to the pandemic, they have focused on the origin of COVID-19, the effectiveness of face masks, the lethality of an infection and misinformation from mainstream media sources. Most recently, SPR has released a summary of the scientific evidence they’ve found for treating COVID-19 with simple, safe and inexpensive ingredients.

Zinc, quercetin, hydroxychloroquine, bromhexine, azithromycin and heparin are all treatments that scientific evidence or practical use by physicians have shown can be used successfully against COVID-19, SPR says. U.S. physicians, for example, using zinc, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin:
"… reported an 84% decrease in hospitalization rates, a 50% decrease in mortality rates among already hospitalized patients (if treated early), and an improvement in the condition of patients within 8 to 12 hours. Italian doctors reported a decrease in deaths of 66%."
Iranian doctors using bromhexine, a drug which breaks down mucus but is not available in the U.S., have:
"… reported in a study with 78 patients a decrease in intensive care treatments of 82%, a decrease in intubations of 89%, and a decrease in deaths of 100%. Chinese doctors reported a 50% reduction in intubations."
The Suggested Treatment Protocol

Reminding readers to be sure to check with their doctors before beginning any treatment, SPR chose the following protocols for early treatment of COVID-19 over a five- to seven-day regimen of:

Zinc — 50 milligrams [mg] to 100 mg per day.
Quercetin — 500 mg to 1,000 mg per day.
Azithromycin — up to 500 mg per day.
Hydroxychloroquine — 400 mg per day.
Bromhexine — 50 mg to 100 mg per day.
Heparin — usual dosage.

The rationale for the protocols is backed by data from prior research involving treatments that SPR said was found to be effective:
"The efficacy of HCQ [hydroxychloroquine] against SARS coronaviruses was established in 2005 in the wake of the SARS-1 epidemic. The efficacy of zinc in blocking RNA replication of coronaviruses was discovered in 2010 by world-leading SARS virologist Ralph Baric.

The efficacy of HCQ in supporting the cellular uptake of zinc was discovered in 2014 as part of cancer research. The efficacy of the flavonoid quercetin in supporting the cellular uptake of zinc was also discovered in 2014. The efficacy of bromhexine in blocking cell entry of coronaviruses was established in 2017.”
The goal of treating COVID-19 with the six suggested supplements and medications is to nip the virus in the bud and avoid hospitalization, says the organization. Starting the protocol as soon as symptoms emerge may prevent progression of the illness.

Data Show Hydroxychloroquine is Effective, SPR Found

Many people have heard about hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 and much of what they’ve heard recently in mainstream news is negative. That's because the media have focused on negative outcomes from selected studies and subsequent warnings from the FDA.

SPR contends, however, that those studies were marred by a delay in administering the drug, excessive doses of the drug, skewed data and contraindications that were ignored.

According to notes which accompany the protocol, hydroxychloroquine and quercetin (which can be substituted for hydroxychloroquine) "support the cellular absorption of zinc and have additional anti-viral properties."

In treating COVID-19, the use of hydroxychloroquine and other common medications and supplements has become so politicized, patients may end up being denied inexpensive and effective treatments which have been studied and found to be effective in multiple investigations from around the world.

Even The Lancet (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/07/08/the-lancet-retraction-hydroxychloroquine-clinical-trial.aspx), a well-respected medical journal, found itself embroiled in COVID-19 misinformation — possibly partisan — and had to retract research that claimed hydroxychloroquine had no benefit.

Still, top doctors have not been afraid to speak out about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/08/hydroxychloroquine-protocol-continues-getting-censored.aspx) in treating patients who contract the virus. In an op-ed in Newsweek magazine, Dr. Harvey A. Risch from the Yale School of Public Health, wrote:
"When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective, especially when given in combination with the antibiotics azithromycin or doxycycline and the nutritional supplement zinc.

On May 27, I published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) entitled, 'Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk COVID-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis.'

That article, published in the world's leading epidemiology journal, analyzed five studies, demonstrating clear-cut and significant benefits to treated patients, plus other very large studies that showed the medication safety."
In his op-ed, Risch cites hydroxychloroquine studies in U.S. nursing homes and clinics, and trials in Brazil and France that had positive outcomes with few to no deaths.

Zinc is an Important Part of the COVID-19 Fight

Zinc (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/04/29/are-you-getting-enough-zinc.aspx) plays a vital role in immunity as well as in blood clotting, cell division, thyroid health, smell and taste, vision and wound healing. It can effectively inhibit the replication of viruses in a cell, but it needs "ionophores" to shuttle it into the cell where it puts up its fight. You may also need to take zinc daily because the body does not store it.

Luckily, both hydroxychloroquine and quercetin are ionophores that usher zinc into the cells where it is needed. Zinc is so basic to fighting infections, some research suggests that it is zinc rather than hydroxychloroquine or quercetin that does the "heavy lifting" of inhibiting viral replication when they are given together.

In research published in the International Journal for Infectious Diseases, both hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin were effective and "associated with reduction in COVID-19 associated mortality." In a study of 2,541 patients with an average age of 64 and who spent an average of six days in the hospital, Michigan scientists found:
"In this multi-hospital assessment, when controlling for COVID-19 risk factors, treatment with hydroxychloroquine alone and in combination with azithromycin was associated with reduction in COVID-19 associated mortality."
However, zinc was not included in this trial and most doctors fail to add zinc and an antibiotic for secondary bacterial infections in their hydroxycholoroquine regimens. Despite FDA warnings about hydroxychloroquine-related heart rhythm problems, the researchers in this study report that:
"A review of our COVID-19 mortality data demonstrated no major cardiac arrhythmias … observed with hydroxychloroquine treatment."
In addition to strengthening your immune system through activating your body's T cells, zinc has cognitive and mood effects. It protects your hippocampus, which is involved in depression, emotion, memory and learning. It also helps your brain release brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) which counteracts brain inflammation and depression.

Signs that your zinc levels are low include loss of appetite, impaired immune system, sluggish metabolism and thinning hair.

Quercetin Helps Fight COVID-19

Quercetin is a natural antihistamine (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/01/quercetin-lowers-your-viral-infections-risk.aspx) and anti-inflammatory plant pigment that boosts your immune system and may work to control viral replication, according to some research. It allows zinc to exert its proven antiviral properties; in treating COVID-19, quercetin may also lower inflammation, help clear mucus, prevent ventilator-induced damage and support immunity.

According to the research, quercetin has been shown to help fight obesity (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/07/can-obesity-cause-respiratory-failure.aspx), Type 2 diabetes, circulatory dysfunction, chronic inflammation and mood disorders. It has even been found to help lower blood pressure (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/04/24/could-fasting-lower-high-blood-pressure.aspx).

Researchers have found that quercetin can trigger tumor regression and begin the process of apoptosis. This is programmed cell death, without which cells can grow uninterrupted and develop into cancerous growths.

Arcturian108

22nd August 2020, 11:43

The following protocol to treat Covid-19 is from Dr. David Brownstein, a board-certified family physician located in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The medical mafia have made him take down his protocol from the net, but Lynne McTaggart reposted it:

At the first sign of COVID symptoms, take orally:

100,000 IUs of vitamin A

1 g of Vitamin C per hour until bowel tolerance was reached

50,000 IU of vitamin D per cent

25 mg/day of Lugol’s iodine (sometimes 50-100 mg/day)

Use as a nebulizer:

For each 259 cc bag of saline (salt water) inject:

3 cc of food grade hydrogen peroxide

1 cc of magnesium sulfate

Patient should then top up the mixture with a one drop of 5 percent Lugol’s iodine and to nebulize hourly until symptoms improve.

If oral and nebulizer aren’t resolving symptoms:

Practitioner should administer intravenous injections each of of:

Vitamin C 2.5 g of sodium ascorbate (5 cc of 500/mg/cc ascorbic acid solution) mixed with an equal amount of sterile water as intravenous push over 2-3 minutes
Hydrogen peroxide 30 cc of 0.03% solution of dilute H2O2 as intravenous push over 2-3 minutes
Plus: 20 cc of 18 mcg/cc ozone (as an oxygen/ozone gas mixture) given in each buttock as an intramuscular injection

Here is the original article posted on Lynne Mctaggart's Facebook blog (https://lynnemctaggart.com/a-heros-unwelcome/?utm_campaign&utm_content=A+hero%E2%80%99s+unwelcome&utm_medium=email&utm_source=lynmctaggart&fbclid=IwAR3L15q4ryc6zozevYf2p3R4dK1KF78MiArsOz_g5J8WRFC1da23YXYsdVQ)

Agape

22nd August 2020, 12:13

I would also like to recommend -to anyone with easy access- Dr Schulze’s herbal formulas , there are multiple options to choose from to boost your immunity:

https://www.herbdoc.com/specifics

I’ve had several bottles to try down in Uruguay and they’re very strong, times more than most traditional Ayurvedic formulae here in India,
prepared from pure herbal concentrates , very efficient and effective against all kinds of internal parasites.

If you apply a dose you get to feel effect almost immediately.

Specifically for coronavirus prevention I would recommend using this strong herbal oral mouthwash regularly:

https://www.herbdoc.com/daily-oral-therapy

Since mouth and the nose are the easiest ways for any microbe to enter, gargling and destroying these invaders and flushing them out as soon as possible is important.

Dr Schulze’s are based in California but they may be shipping worldwide , even at discount rates at the moment.

🙏🌟🌟🌟🌟

Gwin Ru

23rd August 2020, 14:54

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Several new studies have shown efficacy if used early, while countries that have deployed HCQ in just that manner have significantly fewer deaths per million residents (via c19study.com (https://c19study.com/), which tracks HCQ studies).

https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/EgDhy61UYAAfWRM.png?itok=9jC_y7mb (https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/EgDhy61UYAAfWRM.png?itok=9jC_y7mb)

HCQ's efficacy was known by mid-July, when the FDA removed its authorization:

onawah

23rd August 2020, 17:27

Government Officials’ Collusion to Demonize HCQ Created a False COVID-19 Pandemic That is Terrorizing the Country
August 23, 2020
https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/government-officials-collusion-to-demonize-hcq-created-a-false-covid-19-pandemic-that-is-terrorizing-the-country/

Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

"ter·ror·ism | \ ˈter-ər-ˌi-zəm \ – the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

ter·ror·ist | \ ˈter-ər-ist \ – an advocate or practitioner of terrorism as a means of coercion (source)

Is the U.S. Government and their Medical Tyrants dictating COVID orders on the American public guilty of terrorism and murder?

And if so, how long will the public be compliant to their own destruction?

How a False COVID-19 Narrative Was Created & Sustained for Six Months
by Vera Sharav
Alliance for Human Research Protection

Dr. Meryl Nass has compiled a damning checklist that keeps increasing; it currently lists 47 fully documented facts that constitute a case against government officials’ collusion to demonize an effective existing medicine.

They even designed clinical trials that required high doses of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine that were known – to the medical profession – to be toxic and potentially lethal. These officials bear responsibility for causing preventable deaths of possibly hundreds of thousands of patients.

Following publication by The Lancet of a demonstrably FRAUDULENT study, the World Health Organization suspended its hydroxychloroquine studies and urged countries around the world to suspend both their clinical trials, and prevent doctors from using the drug for Covid.

Several governments did ban the use of the drug. Some, like Switzerland, lifted the ban after the Lancet study was retracted two weeks after publication.

Switzerland, which had been using the drug for months, banned Hydroxychloroquine from May 27th until June 11th. Here is the Johns Hopkins graph documenting the precipitous increase in the case fatality rate (CFR) – i.e., preventable deathshat occurred in Switzerland during the 13-day period during which patients were denied this life-saving treatment.
https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Covid-Deaths_Swiss_French.jpg

The graph charting high Covid-19 deaths in Switzerland during the 13 day ban, following the fraudulent Lancet report proves that the drug had reduced the rate of deaths; that rate increased precipitously when the drug was withheld. The Swiss death rate from Covid-19 dropped as soon as patients were again treated with Hydroxychloroquine.

This constitutes scientific proof of the curative effect of Hydroxychloroquine for patients with Covid-19, by means of challenge-dechallenge-rechallenge. In this case, it was not an experiment by design, but rather the result of government edicts.
The graph further demonstrates that France whose government issued a series of regulations to restrict the use of this effective treatment, such as changing the drugs’ status from over-the-counter to prescription only on January 13th, followed by a ban on the use of the drug two months later.

In contrast to Switzerland, France has a high 19.12% Covid-19 mortality rate.

Further evidence demonstrating the life-saving benefit of Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 infected patients comes from clinical trials conducted by the world renowned virologist, Didier Raoult, MD, PhD: patients treated with Hydroxychloroquine were at minimal risk of death: 0.52%.
The US government, like France, issued draconian restrictions on the use of Hydroxychloroquine – nationally and through numerous state edicts that resulted in exceedingly high death rates.

The US tops the world with the most reported COVID-19 deaths. (as of August 9th) This evidence of a smoking gun; providing grounds for legal action.
On August 18th US Senators Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz wrote a letter to FDA Commissioner, Stephen Hahn, requesting substantiating scientific evidence in support of FDA’s withdrawal of the Emergency Use Authorization for Hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of the coronavirus. And they requested outcome studies, reports, and data from the US and internationally, about the treatment of patients with HCQ or Chloroquine under a doctor’s supervision outside of hospitals. They request a response by Aug.25th
As more and more Frontline Doctors and honest scientists have become convinced by the evidence that Hydroxychloroquine is a life-saving, safe treatment against Covid-19, calling it a cure for COVID-19– the drug became a political battlefield.

Honest doctors who dispute the official Covid-19 narrative are under siege; they are subjected to a coordinated government-media censorship campaign. Medical doctors are being threatened for using their professional judgment which is supported by both scientific and clinical evidence.

Doctors are being vilified for putting the lives of their patients first – which is their sworn duty under the Hippocratic Oath, “First, do no harm.”
Frontline Doctors who speak publicly about the evidence from their own clinical experience of having saved hundreds of lives by use of hydroxychloroquine in combination with Zinc, and Azithromycin, are being threatened by state Medical Licensing Boards and by Congressional representatives.
http://https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Frontline-Doctors_-DCSupreme-Court.jpg
On July 27, America’s Frontline Doctors held a “White Coat Summit” in Washington D.C., during which they exposed a “massive disinformation campaign” against the life-saving ability of Hydroxychloroquine.

The Big Tech cartel totally blacked out the event from the Internet and shut down America’s Frontline Doctors’ website in a grotesque effort to prevent the truth from reaching the public. This is the equivalent of Nazi book burning. Indeed the tactics of Big Tech follow closely the Goebel’s Propaganda playbook

These tech giants are financially intertwined with Big Pharma; they have captured the media narrative, deliberately preventing the public from gaining access to the truth.
https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Corona_Money-GreenMedInfo.jpg
The truth about Covid-19, and the truth about an existing effective treatment, poses a serious financial threat to the projected market of 7 billion people – for a yet undeveloped vaccine.
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s narrative about Covid-19 is identical to that of Bill Gates, who has billions of dollars invested in a yet to be developed vaccine – and investment in technology aimed at tracking compliance with vaccination mandates that he promotes. The Gates – Fauci false market-driven narrative is parroted by the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Health, and the Center for Disease Control – all of who have private-public partnerships with the Gates Foundation.

This marketing propaganda juggernaut has paralyzed much of the Western world for over six months; it has devastated economies, and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths!

Read more here: US ‘frontline’ doctors’ website exposes ‘criminal’ campaign by tech giants, govt agencies to block COVID med, Aug. 5, 2020
Dr. Nass’ itemized checklist of false claims that have been refuted by a growing body of evidence – both published scientific evidence, and empirical evidence from emergency care physicians and medical doctors in clinical practice.

The evidence led an initial 600 doctors to sign a letter of protest against unfounded restrictions on the use of a life-saving therapy. The overwhelming evidence refutes the carefully scripted false narrative about the danger posed by Hydroxychloroquine.

Thousands of patients in the real world were cured when treated early with hydroxychloroquine in combination with other, FDA-approved, available cheap drugs. People who were prescribed hydroxychloroquine prophylactically, avoided serious symptoms from the infection.

Read the White Paper on Hydroxychloroquine by Simone Gold, MD, JD in which she documents the indisputable safety of the drug that has been FDA-approved for 65 years.
Examine also, a compilation of medical studies in support of prescribing Hydroxychloroquine for Early Stage Covid-19 by Vladimir Zelenco, MD, Harvey A Risch, MD, PhD and George C Fareed, MD; and a list of 78 global studies (47 peer reviewed and 31 preprints). These studies demonstrate that early treatment with Hydroxychloroquine is effectove, whereas late treatment shows mixed results.
You can sign a petition in support of medical freedom. Tell the FDA to release hydroxychloroquine as a possible cure for COVID-19.
Physicians – not government bureaucrats – must be free to use their professional judgement to prescribe what’s best for their patients. So far, there are 41,462 co-signatories to the petition.
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Dr. Nass’ checklist begins with government edicts that were issued to prevent medical doctors from using the drug in ways it is most likely to be effective (in outpatients at onset of illness).

Government prohibitions against the use of the drug outside of controlled clinical trials – that were designed to show no benefit – included 3 large, randomized, multi-center clinical trials — Recovery, Solidarity and REMAP-Covid) – each of them controlled the dose by specifying extremely high doses of hydroxychloroquine; doses that were known to be toxic and potentially lethal. [Dr. Nass’ previous articles analyzed these trials in detail here and here.]

A 4th study, conducted in China also used comparable toxic high doses of hydroxychloroquine (3.6 g HCQ in the first three days and 800mg/day thereafter). This study also reported no benefit from HCQ.

Why would scientists design clinical trials that subject thousands of patients to known to be toxic doses of a drug? And why would governments support these unethical trials?
Dr. Nass points out in #41 of her checklist: Hydroxychloroquine use is truly the wedge issue for understanding and turning around the pandemic. If hydroxychloroquine works reasonably well as a prophylactic and treatment for Covid-19, it could potentially end the seriousness of the pandemic and return us to life as we knew it.

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How a false hydroxychloroquine narrative was created, and more by Meryl Nass, MD
Saturday, June 27, 2020; Updated August 18th

It is remarkable that a large series of events taking place over the past 3 months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine, and produced similar policies about the drug in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and western Europe. The message is that generic, inexpensive hydroxychloroquine is dangerous and should not be used to treat a potentially fatal disease, Covid-19, for which there are no (other) reliable treatments.

Hydroxychloroquine has been used safely for 65 years in many millions of patients. And so the message was crafted that the drug is safe for its other uses, but dangerous when used for Covid-19. It doesn’t make sense, but it seems to have worked.

In the US, “Never Trump” morphed into “Never Hydroxychloroquine,” and the result for the pandemic is “Never Over.” But while anti-Trump spin is what characterized suppression strategies in the US, the frauds perpetrated about hydroxychloroquine and the pandemic include most western countries.

Were these acts carefully orchestrated? You decide.

Might these events have been planned to keep the pandemic going? To sell expensive drugs and vaccines to a captive population? Could these acts result in prolonged economic and social hardship, eventually transferring wealth from the middle class to the very rich? Are these fully documented events evidence of a conspiracy?"

Continue reading here.https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020/06/how-false-hydroxychloroquine-narrative.html

Read the full article at AHRP.org: https://ahrp.org/how-a-false-covid-19-narrative-was-created-sustained-for-six-months/

Comment on this article at HealthImpactNews.com.

mountain_jim

24th August 2020, 20:37

https://speakwithanmd.com/

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-improving-rural-health-telehealth-access/

During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), hospitals curtailed elective medical procedures and access to in-person clinical care was limited. To help patients better access healthcare providers, my Administration implemented new flexibility regarding what services may be provided via telehealth, who may provide them, and in what circumstances, and the use of telehealth increased dramatically across the Nation. Internal analysis by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showed a weekly jump in virtual visits for CMS beneficiaries, from approximately 14,000 pre-PHE to almost 1.7 million in the last week of April. Additionally, a recent report by HHS shows that nearly half (43.5 percent) of Medicare fee-for-service primary care visits were provided through telehealth in April, compared with far less than one percent (0.1 percent) in February before the PHE. Importantly, the report finds that telehealth visits continued to be frequent even after in-person primary care visits resumed in May, indicating that the expansion of telehealth services is likely to be a more permanent feature of the healthcare delivery system.

Rural healthcare providers, in particular, need these types of flexibilities to provide continuous care to patients in their communities. It is the purpose of this order to increase access to, improve the quality of, and improve the financial economics of rural healthcare, including by increasing access to high-quality care through telehealth.

Bill Ryan

25th August 2020, 09:48

In Chris Martenson's last video (20 August), he reports a new very successful protocol using both HCQ and Ivermectin.

The development comes from the impeccably qualified Professor Thomas Borody, MB, BS, BSc (Med), MD, PhD, DSc, FRACP, FACP, facG, AGAF, FRS(N). (He must have a business card 6 inches wide. :) ). Prof. Borody, from Sydney, Australia, calls it Ivermectin Triple Therapy.

It'll be interesting to see how the Australian government responds. The section begins at 19:10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMr_X63tUN0

leavesoftrees

25th August 2020, 11:00

mountain_jim

26th August 2020, 09:58

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gop-senators-demand-fda-explain-hydroxychloroquine-stance-amid-positive-studies-and

GOP Senators Demand FDA Explain Hydroxychloroquine Stance Amid Positive Studies And Physician Advocates

The debate over hydroxychloroquine has faded from the forefront as big tech has worked to suppress information and silence the voices of doctors and researchers promoting it. However, it appears the controversy over the drug has encouraged some senators to take a closer look, and it seems they are asking the FDA the right questions.

Doctors and researchers advocating for hydroxychloroquine are recommending it be used in high-risk outpatients.

Texas Congressman Louis Hohmert, who was recently diagnosed positive for COVID-19, tweeted just this morning about the benefits of hydroxychloroquine:

Hydroxychloroquine protocols worked for me. Americans suffering from the Wuhan Virus deserve the right to consult with their doctors and try HCQ if deemed a safe and appropriate fit. Keep Big Govt out of this. Thank you Dr. Risch for your work and research on this.

In the letter to Hahn, the senators are asking about specific actions the agency has taken regarding hydroxychloroquine. The current FDA guidance is that it should not be used outside the hospital setting for COVID-19, and the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) has been withdrawn. Given the safety profile of the medication and the fact it is used daily on an outpatient basis around the world for malaria prevention, malaria treatment, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, this guidance is ridiculous on its face.

The recommended duration of hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19 is between five and seven days at FDA approved dosages. In a sane world, a doctor may prescribe drugs off-label at approved dosages if they think a medication may be useful for a patient’s symptoms. However, 2020 is not sane, and now the FDA interference has led to medical boards, hospital systems, and politicians banning the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. These actions are unprecedented in the doctor-patient relationship.

Finally, these senators are standing up for that relationship and demanding clarity from the FDA. From the letter:

However, we have heard from licensed physicians that have had a far different experience with the FDA’s approach. The physicians are concerned about the FDA’s decision to revoke the March 28th EUA for HCQ and CQ for treatment of COVID-19. They have described the clear differences between inpatient and outpatient treatments and how this decision has affected their ability to treat patients in different settings. The physicians have warned that the FDA’s EUA revocation of HCQ and CQ has led to misinformation and confusion across the country. Some states have restricted the ability of physicians to write and pharmacies to fill HCQ and CQ prescriptions under longstanding and well-established authority to prescribe FDA approved drugs off-label with a patient’s informed consent and according to their clinical judgement.

To better understand the FDA’s actions, the letter requests four specific pieces of information:

Studies or data that definitively shows prescribing hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine within seven days of COVID-19 symptoms is ineffective or harmful.

Produce studies or data on the use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for COVID-19 in outpatient settings under a doctor’s care, including as a preventative. They specifically exclude late-stage studies involving hospitalized patients.

Provide any public statements issued by the FDA to clarify the agency does not regulate the practice of medicine and explaining state governments may not regulate or prohibit the sale of the drugs.

Information on potential treatments for COVID-19 that have been used internationally and whether the FDA has approved those for use in the United States. If not, the senators want to know what steps are being taken to ensure they are.

These requests are a kick in the derriere to the bureaucracy. It is unconscionable for the FDA not to clarify their role in the practice of medicine and even worse for them to remain silent in the face of other entities trying to interfere with it. While it does not appear they have ever made a statement like the one the senators are requesting, hopefully, one will be forthcoming.

It would be even more concerning if the agency withdrew the EUA based on the debunked Lancet study and has done nothing to correct their position. In an extensive search, I can find no studies indicating that short-term outpatient use of hydroxychloroquine at approved dosages is dangerous or deadly. It will be surprising if the FDA has one.

Dr. Harvey Risch, an epidemiologist from Yale, has done a review of these studies and arrived at the conclusion that treatment with hydroxychloroquine is effective for high-risk outpatients. Dr. Risch told Mark Levin on “Life, Liberty, and Levin” Sunday that it was some of the most convincing data he has seen in his career:

Clearly, President Trump has not given up on the potential this drug combination may hold. Dr. Risch’s assessment is clear. For high-risk patients over 65 or with pre-existing conditions, the outpatient use of the hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and azithromycin combination has shown a significant reduction in hospitalizations and death rates.

He asserts that we have let politics overrule science, and it is costing thousands of lives. Hopefully, senators pressuring the FDA will cause significant movement and clarity. The FDA owes its response by the end of business tomorrow. If the misinformation can be effectively cleared up, it will be a game-changer. The senators must continue to press the FDA and restore the doctor-patient relationship.

Bill Ryan

27th August 2020, 20:07

This is pretty interesting. Dr John Campbell, whose daily updates I watch but who is naive, not always all that bright, and often eye-rollingly mainstream, published a video a few hours ago called Hydroxychloroquine, Evidence of Efficacy.

It was presenting this study, which had already been cited by Chris Martenson in his 18 August video update. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7TWiweluwA)

https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920303125

The study included these headline highlights:

Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin seems to improve outcome of admitted patients.
We report no major cardiac adverse event of this combination therapy.

No sooner than he'd uploaded the video, it disappeared and is now "private". The many new comments on his previous video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUfuF3Il4ik&t=3s) (the only one viewers could comment on) are interesting. :)

The best, and most pertinent, might be this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUfuF3Il4ik&lc=UgxRZdW7Sg14mvZqPhh4AaABAg):
Dr. Campbell. You Finally realize that hydroxychloroquine is effective....and You Tube removes the video. Do you understand now????
The now-private video has just been reuploaded (by a viewer, not DrCampbell) on Bitchute:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/7mMKum9qvR2U

7mMKum9qvR2U

It'll be VERY interesting to see how Dr Campbell responds to this. It might well wake him up to other factors he needs to consider.

Constance

28th August 2020, 02:34

onawah

29th August 2020, 05:20

IV High-Dose Vitamin C Saves Critically Ill COVID-19 Patient
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
August 28, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/28/iv-vitamin-c-coronavirus.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20200828Z1&mid=DM634656&rid=951139942

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Vitamin C is an essential component of immune cell function, it has potent anti-inflammatory effects and at high doses even works as an antiviral
Vitamin C is a foundational component of two distinct and highly effective treatment protocols developed by Dr. Paul Marik — one for sepsis and another, called MATH+, specifically for COVID-19
According to a recent case history, high-dose IV vitamin C was successfully used to save the life of an elderly patient with critical COVID-19 infection, sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome
According to the doctors who reported the case, she was the first patient to successfully discontinue mechanical ventilation early at that hospital. The median duration of mechanical ventilation for COVID-19 patients is 10 days, whereas this patient was able to get off it in five
Previous research found IV vitamin C at a dose of 50 mg per kilo every six hours for 96 hours significantly reduced mortality and shortened ICU stays among patients with sepsis and ARDS
While U.S. media and self-appointed “fact checkers” claim the use of vitamin C against COVID-19 is nothing but fake news and dangerous nonsense, the Chinese have been hard at work looking at vitamin C against this pandemic illness.

One source where you can find pertinent research material is the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service website,1 which has published more than a dozen reports on this topic.

Earlier this year I interviewed Dr. Andrew Saul, editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, about vitamin C against viral illnesses such as COVID-19, in which he reviewed some of its established benefits. Importantly, vitamin C is an essential component of immune cell function, it has potent anti-inflammatory effects and at high doses even works as an antiviral.

Vitamin C is a foundational component of two distinct and highly effective treatment protocols developed by Dr. Paul Marik — one for sepsis and another, called MATH+, specifically for COVID-19. I’ve reviewed both protocols in previous articles.

COVID-19 Patient Brought From Brink of Death by Vitamin C
An August 10, 2020, MedPage Today article2 highlights a recent case3 history in which high-dose IV vitamin C was successfully used to save the life of an elderly patient.

A 74-year-old woman was admitted to a Flint, Michigan, hospital after suffering with low-grade fever, dry cough and shortness of breath for two days. She’d recently undergone a knee replacement procedure, and her knee is now red, swollen and painful, suggesting infection has set in.

Over the next 24 hours, her condition continued to worsen, despite treatment with oxygen, antibiotics and other drugs. Her RT-PCR test also came back positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection. As reported by MedPage Today:4

“Clinicians start treatment with oral hydroxychloroquine 400 mg once and then 200 mg twice a day, along with intravenous azithromycin 500 mg once a day, zinc sulfate 220 mg three times a day, and oral vitamin C 1 g twice a day.

When blood and sputum cultures are negative for any organisms, broad-spectrum antibiotics are discontinued. The patient's dyspnea rapidly worsens, and oxygen requirements increase to 15 liters. She is drowsy, in moderate distress, and her airways remain unprotected …

By day 6 … Bilateral alveolar infiltrates are evident on chest x-ray, due to pneumonia and interstitial edema, consistent with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Given her rapid deterioration, the patient is intubated on an emergent basis and started on pressure-regulated volume-controlled mechanical ventilation.”

By day 7, the woman’s family requested she be placed on high-dose IV vitamin C, and over the next 24 hours, she received 11 grams total. Two days later, her condition began to gradually improve, and on day 10, a second chest x-ray revealed considerable improvement of both the pneumonia and interstitial edema, at which point she was extubated. The patient’s breathing continued improving over the following five days.

“On day 16, she shows significant recovery, with oxygen saturation of 92% while breathing ambient air, and chest radiography reveals almost complete resolution of the infiltrates,” MedPage Today reports.5

“During her hospitalization, the patient received a total of 5 days of treatment with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin along with 4 days of colchicine. Treatment with high-dose vitamin C infusion and oral zinc sulfate were continued for a total of 10 days.”Take-Home Message: Fight for the Treatment You Want
Remarkably, while suffering from severe COVID-19 infection, septic shock and ARDS — and being on mechanical ventilation — this elderly woman made a full recovery.

According to the doctors who reported the case, she was the first patient to successfully discontinue mechanical ventilation early at that hospital. The median duration of mechanical ventilation for COVID-19 patients is 10 days, whereas this patient was able to get off it in five.

Vitamin C has been recognized as an essential component of immune cell function with a critical role in numerous immune system mechanisms. Severe vitamin C deficiency is also known to increase the risk for … pneumonia and other infections.
A key take-home message from this story is that the IV infusion of vitamin C was done at the insistence of her family. It’s an excellent example demonstrating that when things are going sideways, you need to step in and push for the care you want. You have that right.

It’s also an example of why it’s so important to have an advocate to speak up for you when you’re admitted to the hospital. This woman was placed on mechanical ventilation, which means she was sedated and was in no position to make any of her own decisions. Fortunately, her family knew about the potential benefits of vitamin C and insisted it be tried. In doing so, they saved her life. As noted by MedPage Today:6

“Vitamin C infusion is not approved as a standard treatment for SARS-CoV-2 and thus was not part of the hospital's COVID-19 treatment regimen.

Nevertheless, the case authors point out that for decades, vitamin C has been recognized as an essential component of immune cell function with a critical role in numerous immune system mechanisms. Severe vitamin C deficiency is also known to increase the risk for … pneumonia and other infections.

Vitamin C enhances neutrophil motility, phagocytosis, microbial killing by activating reactive oxygen species, and apoptosis, and prevents oxidative damage by its antioxidant properties.

It also promotes the proliferation of B and T lymphocytes and antibody production. More recent research suggests that vitamin C also prevents the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including interleukin-6, a component of the cytokine release syndrome associated with severe COVID-19 that results in lung injury and leads to ARDS.”

Yes, Doctors Are Using Vitamin C Against COVID-19
While the U.S. media continues to censor claims that vitamin C can be useful against COVID-19, many practicing physicians and medical researchers are taking it seriously, primarily based on previous studies showing benefit against sepsis, viral illnesses and ARDS.

For example, in one 2019 trial7 involving 167 ICU patients with sepsis and ARDS, IV vitamin C at a dose of 50 mg per kilo every six hours for 96 hours significantly reduced mortality and shortened ICU stays.

At day 28, mortality was 46.3% in the placebo group compared to 29.8% in the vitamin C group, and the number of ICU-free days was 7.7 in the placebo group compared to 10.7 in the vitamin C group. The mean difference in ICU stay was 3.2 days.

Back in March 2020, Northwell Health, the largest hospital system in New York, also reported that vitamin C was being “widely used” against COVID-19 within its 23 hospitals, in conjunction with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin (an antibiotic). As reported by the New York Post, March 24, 2020:8

“Seriously sick coronavirus patients in New York state’s largest hospital system are being given massive doses of vitamin C … Dr. Andrew G. Weber, a pulmonologist and critical-care specialist affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, said his intensive-care patients with the coronavirus immediately receive 1,500 milligrams of intravenous vitamin C.

Identical amounts of the powerful antioxidant are then re-administered three or four times a day, he said … The regimen is based on experimental treatments administered to people with the coronavirus in Shanghai, China …

‘The patients who received vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get vitamin C,’ he said. ‘It helps a tremendous amount, but it is not highlighted because it’s not a sexy drug’ …

Weber … said vitamin C levels in coronavirus patients drop dramatically when they suffer sepsis, an inflammatory response that occurs when their bodies overreact to the infection. ‘It makes all the sense in the world to try and maintain this level of vitamin C,’ he said.”

COVID-19 Studies Underway
In China, improvements among COVID-19 patients receiving vitamin C have been so consistently observed that they’re actually looking into it as a stand-alone treatment.9 The trial,10 which began in February 2020, is expected to have results by the end of September 2020. As detailed in the clinical trial description:

“Vitamin C … has antioxidant properties. When sepsis happens, the cytokine surge caused by sepsis is activated, and neutrophils in the lungs accumulate in the lungs, destroying alveolar capillaries. Early clinical studies have shown that vitamin C can effectively prevent this process.

In addition, vitamin C can help to eliminate alveolar fluid by preventing the activation and accumulation of neutrophils, and reducing alveolar epithelial water channel damage. At the same time, vitamin C can prevent the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps, which is a biological event of vascular injury caused by neutrophil activation.”

Research is also underway at the Cleveland Clinic in Florida.11 Here, they will investigate whether newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients are less likely to require hospitalization when given vitamin C and zinc. They’ll also assess whether the combo might reduce disease severity and duration. The goal is to enroll 520 patients and start them on the supplements within two days of diagnosis.

Vitamin C Recommendations and Guidance
For the actual treatment of sepsis and/or COVID-19, the dosages needed generally require IV administration. That said, Dr. Robert Rowen, whom I’ve interviewed about the use of vitamin C and ozone therapy for COVID-19, suggests taking upward of 6 grams (6,000 mg) per hour for acute illness, to simulate intravenous administration levels.

While doses higher than 20 grams per day of oral non-liposomal vitamin C typically result in loose stools, you can take up to 100 grams (100,000 mg) of liposomal or IV vitamin C without encountering such problems.

Prophylactically, it is not recommended to take such high doses, however. In fact, I discourage people from taking mega doses of vitamin C on a regular basis if they're not actually sick, because in high doses it is essentially a drug — or at least it works like one — and doing so could result in nutritional imbalances.

For example, taking large doses of vitamin C on a regular basis lowers your level of copper, so if you are already deficient in copper and take high doses of vitamin C, you can actually compromise your immune system. So, instead of taking it all the time, simply start mega-dosing at the first sign of symptoms of illness, and continue until symptoms recede.

Yet another alternative that I’m starting to think might be even better than vitamin C is nebulized hydrogen peroxide at 0.1% dilution. You can find more information about this in “Could Hydrogen Peroxide Treat Coronavirus?” I’ve recently come across examples of people with moderate to severe COVID-19 illness who rapidly recovered after this simple treatment. I’ll be discussing that in a future article.

Contraindications
The only contraindication to high-dose vitamin C treatment is if you are glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficient, which is a genetic disorder.12 G6PD is required for your body to produce NADPH, which is necessary to transfer reductive potential to keep antioxidants, such as vitamin C, functional.

Because your red blood cells do not contain any mitochondria, the only way it can provide reduced glutathione is through NADPH, and since G6PD eliminates this, it causes red blood cells to rupture due to inability to compensate for oxidative stress.

Fortunately, G6PD deficiency is relatively uncommon, and can be tested for. People of Mediterranean and African decent are at greater risk of being G6PD deficient. Worldwide, G6PD deficiency is thought to affect 400 million individuals, and in the U.S., an estimated 1 in 10 African-American males has it.13

- Sources and References
1 Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
2, 4, 5, 6 MedPage Today August 10, 2020 (Archived)
3 American Journal of Case Reports July 25, 2020; 21:e925521
7 JAMA 2019 Oct 1; 322(13): 1261–1270
8 New York Post March 24, 2020
9 California Institute for Human Science March 20, 2020
10 Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT04264533
11 MSN May 23, 2020
12, 13 NIH.gov Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency

Gwin Ru

29th August 2020, 13:49

Weird science: Covid-19 does NOT cause heart damage, as blockbuster study had basic calculation errors (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/499357-science-covid-19-heart-damage/)

By Peter Andrews
28 Aug, 2020 18:11
Get short URL (https://on.rt.com/apb1)

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FILE PHOTO: Health officials check tomography datas displaying Covid-19 symptoms on lungs and the overall damage of the virus to the body received with radiological testing method at a state hospital in Moscow, Russia on May 22, 2020 © Getty Images / Sefa Karacan / Anadolu Agency

A widely circulated scientific study reported that Covid-19 causes long-term heart problems. Its authors have been forced to issue major corrections after they wildly miscalculated the risk, but the damage has already been done.

The scientific establishment wields a lot of power these days. The emergence of the novel coronavirus has elevated many career scientists and academics to positions of great influence, acting as advisors and commissars to governments on all things Covid-related. Which, it turns out, is everything. That is why it is so important that they conduct rational, unbiased research, and analyse all findings with great scepticism, taking nothing for granted.

Weird science
Alas, that was never going to happen. Unless you follow the right Twitter accounts (such as Alex Berenson (https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1298631105998917632) who has been indefatigable in his criticism of shoddy Covid-19 ‘science’), you won’t read about this anywhere else. But what should be a pretty big scandal resulting in a major inquiry into publishing practices is currently underway in the field of cardiology.

Just over a month ago, a paper (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768916) from Germany entitled, ‘Outcomes of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Recently Recovered From Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)’, was published in the journal JAMA Cardiology. It was based on 100 people recently recovered from Covid-19, who underwent MRI scans to find factors associated with damage to their hearts.

The article quickly became a smash hit, going viral, inasmuch as academic research can. It racked up hundreds of thousands of interactions on its Altmetric score (https://jamanetwork.altmetric.com/details/86606550), a tool that tracks how much a piece of research is being clicked, shared and talked about online. No doubt, this was owing to the paper’s bombshell conclusions. If Covid-19 was strongly linked to long-lasting heart disease in a significant proportion of those who survive it, that would be a hugely important thing to know.

A comedy of errors
The only problem with the conclusion of the paper is that almost every piece of data given to support it was wrong. As more and more media breathlessly reported that Covid-19 will eventually kill everyone with heart attacks, the mathematically minded on Twitter – including Darrel Francis, a Professor of Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute – began to point out (https://twitter.com/ProfDFrancis/status/1288246926392070145) obvious miscalculations and mismatches in the results of the study.

The authors appeared to confuse medians for means, and data points present in the graphs were absent elsewhere. In essence, the paper was riddled with remedial mistakes that the first few hundreds of thousands of people who read it (or scan the last few sentences) failed to notice.

But Professor Francis is still not happy with the reissued article, launching another scathing attack on his Twitter account. He has more than the layman’s knowledge of statistics, but he lays out (https://twitter.com/ProfDFrancis/status/1298499595056668673) in no uncertain terms that the authors are still, even after their extraordinary climb down, fudging the numbers. He is adamant that the corrected figures show that while people who have recovered from Covid-19 do show markers of heart disease in their MRI scans, so do people of similar health profiles who have not had the virus. That is, Covid-19 had absolutely nothing to do with the heart damage seen in the people in the study.

The authors of the study, meanwhile, have not taken kindly to the egg on their faces. They have lashed out at Twitter’s dismantling of their less-accredited math skills, (not sure people outside UK will know what these are) griping (https://www.tctmd.com/news/signs-cardiac-damage-even-younger-nonhospitalized-covid-19-patients) that a letter to the editor “would indeed be more appropriate.” It only took them a month to correct their substandard article, but by that point the damage was done. Just the other day I actually had someone casually inform me that “Covid causes heart damage.” Clearly the study’s reach has been wide. Whether its debunking will have as wide a reach remains to be seen.

Goba

31st August 2020, 01:22

Effect of bromhexine on clinical outcomes and mortality in COVID-19 patients: A randomized clinical trial:

https://bi.tbzmed.ac.ir/Files/Inpress/bi-23240.pdf

Agape

1st September 2020, 03:59

I know of several people privately who have used oils with high levels of turpentine to flush various kinds of critters ( recall the so called Morgelloan’s disease of unknown origin causing extreme suffering to the victims ).

Here in Himalayas the cedar oil is told to be very efficient against all classes of viruses ,bacteria as well as internal parasites.

Australian Tea Tree Oil has similar properties,
so does wild oregano oil mentioned by Bill Ryan
in his first post.

I have also found concentrated Tulsi oil ( occimum sanctum ) very efficient and it’s known to be a curative for congested lungs and bronchi.

In case of uncommon pathogens or long lasting infections the dosage can be increased to 10-20 drops under tongue upto 30 drops a time provided some get spitted out and some swallowed followed by glass of water.

This protocol can be used several times a day and as long as symptoms persist.

Remember the first patient in the UK who arrived from Wuhan and was hospitalised for Covid 19 cured himself with two bottles of whiskey and refused to take antibiotic even.

As alcohol or fasting can not be recommended to everybody due to their health condition,

I still see the best way with all microbes: keep flushing them out. Don’t accumulate them by billions in your system.

Keep flushing them out. It’s safer, cheaper and easier to go with in effect than probiotics and inoculations.

I’m against transplanting one person to another and their pops.

I think that God has created us clean and beautiful.

We have dug to this Earth, dived to oceans, tunnelled through considerably opening the proverbial Pandora box. We have cut through the jungles and burned the jungles and the smoke has carried all the life out to the atmosphere well mixing with noble gases.

There is no therapy than prevention in this case.

And the decisions taken will be often on the ethical side and on inside. Some people now voluntarily give in to the mesh by millions.
Some pass away since it was their due time.

But what is really important, take steps ..prevention is also the therapy and cure is prevention to us and the Planet.

🙏🌈🙏

leavesoftrees

1st September 2020, 11:08

Bill Ryan

1st September 2020, 14:15

I'd be careful with taking Tea tree oil internally.

https://www.teatreewonders.com/eating-or-drinking-tea-tree-oil.htmlYes, it's super-strong, and very probably way too strong to be safely taken internally. It can really burn.

Much better for internal use (and really effective for any virus) is Oregano Oil, which can be taken in capsules, or simply up to 12 drops at a time in a spoonful of olive oil (or any oil). And if I ever get a little tickle in my throat, I apply one drop of Peppermint Oil right to the back of my throat, and that always works just fine. :muscle:

Agape

1st September 2020, 14:31

Goba

2nd September 2020, 04:02

Maybe this was already published here, things have a way to come back in circles.

Very interesting, cheap method to relieve flu symptoms in general:

Attenuation of influenza-like symptomatology and improvement of cell-mediated immunity with long-term N-acetylcysteine treatment

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9230243/

Agape

2nd September 2020, 04:31

Here I found one worthy article with links to particular clinical studies to Tea Tree Oil resourcing in 2018 after the WHO and global medical community already declared predictable state of emergency in the war with microbes as hospital cases of MRSA, sepsis in general and other pertinent viral and bacterial clans surged beyond our capacity to stop them and the stress on finding new types of antibiotics and antivirotics lead to rediscovery and testing of many traditional and untraditional herbal remedies.

https://eatbeautiful.net/how-why-safely-use-tea-tree-oil-internally/

The article contains some more detailed information with regards to Tea Tree Oil and how to use it safely internally.

They recommend wrapping one or two drops in gelatine capsule or a cream in order to avoid direct exposure to sensitive digestion systems,
while it could be probably safely combined with sweet almond oil in my opinion which itself has excellent benefits.

If I forgot to say that I would recommend drinking glass or two of water after ingesting small amount of Tea Tree or any kind of concentrated oil ( I’ve tried the same with Rosemary , Clove oil etc. - all by drops very carefully diluted in half glass water - on empty stomach preferably ) and then drinking as much water as required during that day.

The principle of taking any reactive remedy works to our benefits only once it’s also pushed and flushed through the system.

Prolonged or repeated use in high amounts has to be warned against ( but so is the truth with many other herbal remedies considered comparatively innocent) as it could cause liver toxicity and organ damage in predisposed individuals in case of overdose.

🐨

Eva2

2nd September 2020, 06:05

I hope this video hasn't been posted elsewhere. Australians tout new wonder drug as potential cure for Coronavirus (well at least the present "version").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xklE0jTgaw

After doing a quick review of the last couple of pages of posts, I have noticed that this drug has already been mentioned.

Agape

2nd September 2020, 07:52

Some more helpful links on the benefits of Tulsi ( occimum sanctum , holy basil ) with longest scriptural record and use here in India though I now suspect different kinds of basils were or can be used with beneficial effects on respiratory and digestion system and restoring metabolically and mental well being.

26 amazing benefits of Tulsi:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/parenting.firstcry.com/articles/magazine-incredible-benefits-and-uses-of-holy-basil-tulsi-queen-of-herbs/%3famp

Frontline research on antimicrobial activity of Tulsi
carried by Australian researchers jointly with California state labs in Santa Clara:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00681/full

It can be obtained in natural form as tea leaves for infusion, powder, tablets, concentrated drops or water infusion, in India it can be also found in cough syrups, various Ayurvedic preparations and at places of worship.

The fresher and purer the extract the more benefit it creates.

I wonder it’s available in many countries now even transcontinentally

but worth the effort

https://www.srisritattva.com/products/shop-tulasi-arka-30-ml

🙏

Franny

2nd September 2020, 08:44

Thought I would clean up this article mentioned above by Agape and remove the adverts and images. It could have been written to indicate Tulsi supports these health issues rather than implying it can cure or solve them...

Incredible Benefits and Uses Of Holy Basil (https://parenting.firstcry.com/articles/magazine-incredible-benefits-and-uses-of-holy-basil-tulsi-queen-of-herbs/)

26 amazing benefits of Tulsi:

March 13, 2019

Incredible Benefits and Uses Of Holy Basil (Tulsi) - Queen of Herbs

In this Article

What are the Benefits of Tulsi?
How to Use Basil in Cooking?
How to Consume Tulsi Leaves on a Daily Basis?

FAQs
There are three varieties of tulsi found in India – Rama Tulsi, Krishna Tulsi, and Vana Tulsi. The herb has been used for over 5000 years in treating various illnesses and falls under the mint family. Besides being delectable in taste, it’s a powerhouse of nutrients loaded with antioxidants and offers plenty of health benefits.

What are the Benefits of Tulsi?

If you’re wondering what a few fresh basil leaves can do for you every day, you’d be surprised. Here’s a list of the health benefits of tulsi leaves.

1. Boosts Cardiovascular Health

Basil is known to help people with hypertension and high blood cholesterol by preventing the formation of clots in your arteries. This lowers your risk of heart disease and there are various studies that show that it does help (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296439/). Treats Respiratory Illnesses

Did you know that the humble tulsi is a natural remedy for sore throat and various respiratory illnesses? Yes, just boil the leaves in water and drink up. You can gargle it too.

3. Lowers Cortisol Levels

The higher your cortisol levels are, the more stressed out you’ll be. Basil is known to bring your cortisol levels down and make you feel relaxed. It’s essentially an adaptogen and is loaded with antioxidants that calm you down. And it’s not just psychological stress that basil relieves, it safeguards your body from physiological, metabolic, and chemical stress too.

4. Beats Cancer

Basil extracts are known to possess radioactive properties which help fight off tumour cells. The eugenol in basil has been said to have the potential to beat different types of cancers according to various studies by researchers. Besides being able to prevent cancer when taken long-term, the leaves reduce tumorigenicity and are known to slow down or delay breast cancer development.

5. Soothes Indigestion

There’s a reason basil is popularly used in so many cuisines. It soothes your stomach and relieves indigestion issues. If you’ve been facing constipation or bloating, just add half a teaspoon of fresh basil leaves to your smoothies or meals and notice the difference.

6. Controls Blood Glucose Levels

Basil contains phytochemical compounds like saponins, triterpenes, and flavonoids, which produce a hypoglycaemic effect. This makes it beneficial for treating type 2 diabetes. According to studies, when people consumed this herb, their fasting blood glucose level and post-meal level became lower than usual.

7. Improves Liver Function

Fresh basil leaves give you hepatoprotective benefits. They stimulate the production of the Cytochrome P450 enzyme which helps with detoxification and removing metabolic wastes (and toxic chemicals) from the body. Thus, tulsi prevents liver damage.

8. Helps with Weight Loss

A study revealed the usage of tulsi in helping support weight loss. This is because of its cholesterol and blood glucose regulation effects, both of which end up influencing the BMI. In the study, patients who were supplemented with 250 mg of holy basil noted a reduction in their BMI and lipid profiles.

9. Prevents Hair Loss

Basil leaves pack a lot of nutrition and nourish your scalp. Besides supplying your hair follicles with the required nutrients, the paste has hydration properties too and moisturizes your hair. This eliminates itching and boosts blood circulation to the scalp, thus stimulating hair growth and leading to strong and shiny hair. If you add coconut oil to basil leaves and massage your scalp regularly, it’ll eliminate dandruff too.

10. Prevents Greying of Hair

The benefits of tulsi for skin and hair are evident. If you’re worried about your hair greying too fast, here’s a natural remedy that works like a charm – take a few fresh basil leaves and mix it with amla (Indian gooseberry) powder. Make the paste the night before and apply it in the morning before you wash your hair for good results.

11. Improves Immunity

If your immunity is low, you’ll are more likely to catch a common cold, flu, and various other infections or illnesses. During the cold or rainy days when you’re most likely to catch a fever, boiling a few fresh basil leaves and consuming them is a good way to protect yourself. A strong immune system also means that you’d be less likely to contract respiratory infections like bronchitis and lung infections since it liquifies phlegm. The extracts of this herb have also been medicinally used over the years to heal wounds faster and treat any infections post medical treatment and surgeries.

12. Reduces Inflammation

Pain in the joints, stiff knees, and longer recovery times after workouts are signs of inflammation in the body. Basil leaves beat inflammation as they have a compound known as eucalyptol which is popular for relieving inflammation. It boosts your blood circulation, stimulates the production of fluids in the joints and lubricates them making it a natural analgesic.

13. Removes Plaque

Plaque build-up in the arteries is one of the biggest causes of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis. The antioxidant activity of basil leaves is known to dilate and contract your blood vessels, thus removing the plaque and lowering your risk of such lifestyle diseases. Research is still not conclusive in this regard and is still progressing currently.

14. A Natural Mouth Freshener

You’d be happy to know that basil leaves can remove oral plaque, according to studies conducted by researchers. This is due to the leaves having antibacterial properties, thus preventing the build-up of oral plaque. Unlike OTC antibacterial medications which come with side effects, basil effectively removes plaque naturally with zero complications.

15. Improves Eye Health

Poor eye health is due to numerous problems like conjunctivitis, irritation in the eyes, infections and inflammatory responses. Basil scavenges and protects the eyes from damage caused by free radicals and oxidative stress. It prevents macular degeneration too and plays a role in the treatment of cataracts and various vision disorders.

16. Good for Headaches

The use of tulsi in Ayurveda and other circles had been recognised centuries ago. The herb has been used to treat headaches and migraines too. To reap its benefits, you just have to consume it by boiling the leaves or by using the herbal powder in your meals and smoothies.

17. Improves Gut Health

The nutrients in basil feed the good bacteria in your gut, giving you better abdominal health. Good abdominal health means you won’t be prone to stomach aches, flatulence, and constipation. It’ll get rid of the gassiness too.

18. Gets Rid of Acne

Basil leaves are known to unclog the pores in your skin and hydrate them. They get rid of the dirt, grime, and flush out the toxins from your skin, thus cleansing and revitalizing your face. The result is no more acne and your face glows, giving you that flawless look you’ve always wanted. You can make a powder of tulsi leaves and leave it on for a few minutes every day. Adding turmeric and lime juice to the powder and rinsing with cold water makes it more effective too.

19. Protects You From Insect Bites

Fresh basil leaves protect you from stings and bites from bugs and other insects. Just chewing on these leaves and applying on the bitten areas helps reduce the pain and extracts the poison injected. In addition to insect bites, tulsi leaves can treat skin infections too which are caused by bacteria like B. anthracis and E. coli. Making a blend of grounded basil leaves with lime juice is known to help ringworm too.

20. Helps Anti-Aging

Basil leaves pack a lot of antioxidants which carry anti-ageing benefits. Eating basil leaves raw or using them in salads, smoothies, or using them in any dish can help you get its anti-aging benefits. Plus, the leaves have anti-microbial properties too which means your skin looks young and stays that way for a longer time too.

How to Use Basil in Cooking?

You can use fresh organic basil leaves in cooking in the following ways:

You can use it as a garnish for dishes.
You can add it to vegetable soup to ensure your child gets its benefits.
Puree fresh basil leaves, olive oil and lemon to add to salmon as a sauce.
Use it as a topping on pizzas.

How to Consume Tulsi Leaves on a Daily Basis?

You can consume fresh tulsi or holy basil leaves every day by boiling two to three of them early in the morning. Swallow the leaves after boiling by making a herbal tea out of them. If you’re eating basil raw, make sure it’s organic and chew them well. If you don’t want to chew or drink, your third option is to use a powdered version of this herb which is known to be more nutritionally dense too.

FAQs

Our readers asked us a bunch of questions last time. We’re answering them now below and debunking some of the myths and misconceptions about this herb. Yes, the benefits are true but there’s more to them as well.

1. Are There Any Side Effects of Basil Leaves?

Basil is okay when eaten directly in the form of leaves. However, it does pose some side effects when taken in the form of supplements.

Basil supplements may lead to low blood sugar levels when taken in larger doses.
Some supplements contain a chemical known as estragole which is known to cause liver cancer

Besides supplements, taking too much basil oil is known to slow down blood clotting and cause more bleeding instead.

2. How Can I Store Tulsi Leaves?

Storing tulsi leaves for later use is easy. Here’s a simple way to do that:

Pluck the leaves and wash them to get rid of the dust and dirt.
Sun-dry them (you don’t have to keep them in shade necessarily).
Wipe with a clean cloth and wait a week or so.
After they get dehydrated, just store the leaves in an airtight container for later use.

3. Is Basil Water Good for My Health?

Yes, basil water is good for you. It contains a lot of antioxidants and delivers anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial benefits too. When you infuse water with lime juice and fresh basil leaves, you get your daily dose of Vitamin C and give a boost to absorption of other nutrients too.

4. Can Tulsi Be Taken With Milk?

Yes, Tulsi can be taken with milk and works wonders. Take a few fresh basil leaves and boil them in a pan with milk. Drain this blend to a cup and drink early in the mornings on an empty stomach.

5. Should I Chew Tulsi or Gulp It Down?

If you’re eating the leaves raw, you should chew them. If you boil them, just gulp them down. Don’t gulp down the leaves if you’re planning to eat them raw though.

6. Can I Give Tulsi Water to My Infant?

Yes, you can give tulsi water to your infant but only after the first six months. Talk to your doctor for more information about this.

7. Is Tulsi Safe to Consume During Pregnancy?

No, tulsi is not safe to take during pregnancy. This is because the herb contains a compound known as estragol which is known to cause uterine contractions. This could lead to premature birth and cause other complications.

Tulsi (holy basil) is indeed a wonder herb with numerous health benefits when taken in moderation every day. Give it a try and watch how your life changes for the better steadily.

Also Read:

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Reasons to Use Ghee Every Day (https://parenting.firstcry.com/articles/benefits-of-ghee-15-reasons-to-use-it-every-day/?ref=interlink)

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2nd September 2020, 21:51

I've been taking a small scoop of bee pollen along with my oatmeal I usually have for breakfast. Out of curiosity, I decided to find nutritional benefits of bee pollen. What I found was that among its many benefits, it can boost cardiovascular health (https://facty.com/food/nutrition/10-health-benefits-of-bee-pollen/8/). Blood clots in many areas of the body is one complication that Covid-19 can cause.

8. A cardiovascular boom

Bee pollen offers benefits for every facet of your health. Cardiovascular health is affected by this magical super-food. The reason for that is ruin – an essential antioxidant bioflavonoid. It makes blood vessels stronger and improves blood circulation. Not only that, but it also corrects existing health issues and helps you move on from them. It removes excess cholesterol and destroys even the smallest blood clots and blockages. It’s crucial to add bee pollen to your diet to ensure health even at an old age.
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onawah

3rd September 2020, 17:59

FDA Wants to Ban NAC Now That It Combats COVID-19
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
September 03, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/09/03/n-acetylcysteine-fda.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20200903Z1&mid=DM641343&rid=955799112
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"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has a long history of use as a first-aid remedy for acetaminophen poisoning. Compelling research suggests it may also be useful against COVID-19
By raising glutathione, NAC combats oxidative stress, which is a main cause of the cytokine storm associated with COVID-19. NAC also inhibits hypercoagulation and breaks up blood clots, which is another complication seen in some COVID-19 cases
NAC helps loosen thick mucus in the lungs and improves a variety of lung-related problems, including pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), both of which are common characteristics of COVID-19
NAC has been shown to inhibit replication of influenza virus
Aside from increasing glutathione, NAC may also prevent or improve COVID-19 infection by improving T cell response and modulating inflammation
N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has a long history of use as a first-aid remedy for acetaminophen poisoning. Emergency room physicians will administer it in cases when you've taken an overdose of Tylenol or other acetaminophen products. The way it neutralizes the toxic effects of the drug is by recharging glutathione, thereby preventing liver damage.

Interestingly, NAC may also be useful against COVID-19, as explained by pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult in the MedCram lecture above. By raising glutathione, it helps combat oxidative stress, which is a main factor in the cytokine storm associated with COVID-19.

A recent literature analysis1 linked glutathione deficiency to COVID-19 disease severity, leading the author to conclude that NAC may be useful both for prevention and treatment. NAC may also combat the abnormal blood clotting seen in many cases, and helps loosen thick mucus in the lungs.

FDA Cracks Down on NAC
Interestingly, with COVID-19 treatment as a new indication, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now suddenly cracking down on NAC, claiming it is excluded from the definition of a dietary supplement, as it was approved as a new drug in 1985.2 As such, NAC cannot be marketed as a supplement.

You certainly would not suspect this looking at the supplement market. As reported by Natural Products Insider,3 there are no fewer than 1,170 NAC-containing products in the National Institutes of Health's Dietary Supplement Label Database.

Be that as it may, July 29, 2020, FDA announced4 it has issued warning letters to seven companies that market NAC as a remedy for hangovers. According to the FDA:

"A hangover can occur after alcohol intoxication. Alcohol intoxication, like all poisonings, causes dose-related dysfunction and damage, ranging from mild impairments to death … The products outlined in these letters, which are labeled as dietary supplements, are unapproved new drugs and have not been evaluated by the FDA to be safe and effective for their intended use."

Members of the Council for Responsible Nutrition have expressed concern that the warning letters may indicate the FDA is considering targeting NAC more widely.

While the FDA makes no mention of COVID-19 in its warning letter, the timing of its crackdown on NAC marketed for hangovers is interesting, seeing how news of its potential benefits against the viral infection have come into circulation, and research is now underway to assess whether it might be used in the treatment of COVID-19.

At present, seven studies involving NAC for COVID-19 are listed on Clinicaltrials.gov.5 Time will tell whether the FDA ends up trying to block access to NAC supplements, similarly to the way hydroxychloroquine access has been stifled.

NAC Inhibits Viral Replication
The idea that NAC can be helpful against viral infections is not new. Previous studies have found it reduces viral replication of certain viruses, including the influenza virus. As reported by board-certified nutritionist Joseph Debé:6

"NAC was tested in a 6-month human study7 of influenza. It was a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial involving 262 people. Half of the subjects received 600 mg of NAC, the other half received placebo, twice daily for 6 months.

NAC was found to improve immune function and reduce the severity of influenza infections. Both groups had similar infection rates with A/H1N1 virus influenza. However, whereas 79% of placebo-treated people had symptomatic infections, only 25% of subjects treated with NAC were symptomatic!

There were a total of 99 flu-like episodes (symptomatic periods) that occurred in 62 people in the placebo group over the 6 month study. 48% of these were classified as mild, 47% were moderate, and 6% were severe.

In the NAC group, 46 flu-like episodes occurred in 37 subjects. 72% of these were mild, 26% were moderate and only 2% severe. There were many fewer days of being bedridden in the NAC group."

It's worth noting that the number needed to treat (NNT) in the study8 cited by Debé is 0.5, which means for every two people treated with NAC, one will be protected against symptomatic influenza.

That's significantly better than influenza vaccines, which have an NNV (number needed to vaccinate) of 71,9 meaning 71 people must be vaccinated to prevent a single case of confirmed influenza. It's even better than vitamin D, which has an NNT of 33.10 Even among those with severe vitamin D deficiency at baseline, taking vitamin D still had an NNT of 4.

NAC Inhibits Proinflammatory Cytokines
NAC has also been shown to inhibit the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines in cells infected with highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus. According to the authors of such a study:11

"The antiviral and anti-inflammatory mechanisms of NAC included inhibition of activation of oxidant sensitive pathways including transcription factor NF-kappaB and mitogen activated protein kinase p38 ...

NAC inhibits H5N1 replication and H5N1-induced production of pro-inflammatory molecules. Therefore, antioxidants like NAC represent a potential additional treatment option that could be considered in the case of an influenza A virus pandemic."

Proinflammatory cytokines play a crucial role in COVID-19 severity. Researchers have confirmed that in severe cases, cytokines such as interleukin-6 (IL6), interleukin-10 (IL10) and TNF-ɑ are all elevated.12 Once they reach excessive levels, a so-called cytokine storm develops, causing significant tissue damage. NAC may be able to inhibit this damaging cascade.

NAC — Potential Therapeutic Agent for SARS-CoV-2
A paper13 published in the October 2020 issue of Medical Hypotheses reviews the potential therapeutic benefits of NAC in the battle against COVID-19 specifically. According to the authors:

"COVID-19 … continues to spread across the globe. Predisposing factors such as age, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and lowered immune function increase the risk of disease severity.

T cell exhaustion, high viral load, and high levels of TNF-ɑ, IL1β, IL6, IL10 have been associated with severe SARS-CoV-2. Cytokine and antigen overstimulation are potentially responsible for poor humoral response to the virus.

Lower cellular redox status, which leads to pro-inflammatory states mediated by TNF-ɑ is also potentially implicated. In vivo, in vitro, and human clinical trials have demonstrated N-acetylcysteine (NAC) as an effective method of improving redox status, especially when under oxidative stress.

In human clinical trials, NAC has been used to replenish glutathione stores and increase the proliferative response of T cells. NAC has also been shown to inhibit the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway (IL1β and IL18) in vitro, and decrease plasma TNF-ɑ in human clinical trials.

Mediation of the viral load could occur through NAC's ability to increase cellular redox status via maximizing the rate limiting step of glutathione synthesis, and thereby potentially decreasing the effects of virally induced oxidative stress and cell death.

We hypothesize that NAC could act as a potential therapeutic agent in the treatment of COVID-19 through a variety of potential mechanisms, including increasing glutathione, improving T cell response, and modulating inflammation."

A second report14 reviewing the evidence for using NAC in the treatment of COVID-19 was published April 14, 2020, by The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford.

How NAC May Protect Against COVID-19
To fully understand how NAC might protect against COVID-19, a short lesson in biochemistry is useful. Following is a summary of Seheult's presentation, featured in the video above.

When you add an electron to an oxygen (O2) molecule, you get superoxide (O2), a reactive oxygen species (ROS). When you add another electron (for a total of two electrons), you get hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). An oxygen molecule with three electrons added becomes hydroxyl (O3), and oxygen with four electrons added becomes harmless water (H2O).

Not only does superoxide play a crucial role in the oxidative stress associated with the comorbidities for COVID-19, such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes, but superoxide-driven oxidative stress is also at the heart of serious COVID-19 infection. Now, your body has built-in defenses against oxidative stress. These defenses include:

•Superoxide dismutase (SOD), which converts damaging superoxide into hydrogen peroxide15

•Catalase, which converts hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water

•Glutathione peroxidase (GSHPX), which does two things simultaneously: While reducing hydrogen peroxide into water, it also converts the reduced form of glutathione (GSH) into glutathione disulfide (GSSG), the oxidized form of glutathione.

In other words, as GSHPX turns hydrogen peroxide into harmless water, glutathione becomes oxidized. The oxidized GSSG is then "recharged" or regenerated by NADPH (the reduced form of NADP+), turning it back into GSH (the reduced form of glutathione). NADPH is also converted into NADP+ through an enzyme called GSH reductase

As noted by Seheult, serious COVID-19 infection triggers a perfect storm of superoxide-driven oxidative stress, as SARS-CoV-2 attaches to the ACE2 receptor, triggering angiotensin 2 (AT-2), which stimulates superoxide. Simultaneously, there's a deficiency of AT-1,7, which inhibits superoxide. This deficiency allows superoxide to accumulate further.

SARS-CoV-2 also attracts polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), a type of white blood cell, which also produces superoxide in its efforts to destroy pathogens. All of that superoxide is then converted into other ROS that destroy endothelial cells.

This down-spiral can be inhibited by NAC, as it boosts GSSG. As illustrated in Seheult's graphic below, when you add two GSH molecules and hydrogen peroxide together, you end up with oxidized glutathione and harmless water, thereby alleviating the oxidative stress.

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NAC Reduces Lung Injury
Previous studies have also shown NAC helps improve a variety of lung-related problems, including pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS),16 both of which are common characteristics of COVID-19. It's also been shown to speed recovery, reduce intensive care unit (ICU) stays and reduce the need for mechanical ventilation among those with respiratory problems. Such studies include:

A 2017 meta-analysis,17 which found a significant reduction in ICU stays among ARDS patients treated with NAC, even though there was no significant difference in short-term mortality risk.
A 2007 study,18 which concluded that NAC improves ARDS by "increasing intracellular glutathione and extracellular thiol molecules" along with general antioxidant effects.
Research19 published in 2018 found NAC reduces oxidative and inflammatory damage in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
Another 2018 study20 found NAC improves post-operative lung function in patients undergoing liver transplantation.
A 1994 study21 found NAC enhances recovery from acute lung injury, significantly regressing patients' lung injury score during the first 10 days of treatment, and significantly reducing the need for ventilation. After three days of treatment, only 17% of those receiving NAC needed ventilation, compared to 48% in the placebo group.

NAC Protects Against Blood Clots Too
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In this MedCram video, Seheult reviews the abnormal blood clotting aspects of COVID-19. Interestingly, NAC addresses this problem too, as several studies22,23,24,25 have confirmed it counteracts hypercoagulation and reduces the risk of blood clots and stroke.

As noted in one of these studies,26 "NAC has anticoagulant and platelet-inhibiting properties." It also has potent thrombolytic effects, meaning it breaks down blood clots that have already formed.27 According to another study,28 NAC protects against stroke in part by enhancing GSH and correcting antioxidant levels.

NAC — which recharges glutathione — not only reduces superoxide (oxidative stress) but also appears to reduce von Willebrand factors that form blood clots.
Seheult's hypothesis for why NAC may be useful against COVID-19 can be summarized as follows: SARS-CoV-2 attaches to and reduces the ACE2 receptor, which causes AT-2 to increase and AT-1,7 to decrease. This in turn increases damaging superoxide that causes oxidative stress and endothelial cell dysfunction.

It is important to note that COVID-19 is not just a respiratory disorder, but also a vascular disorder that causes blood clots, which impair the ability to exchange oxygen in the lungs.

Fortunately, the sulfur in NAC (from cysteine) also reduces the intrachain disulfide bonds by von Willebrand factors that have polymerized by dissociating the sulfur bonds holding them together thus contributing to the clot. Once von Willebrand factor sulfur bonds are broken, the clots starts to dissolve and the blood vessels open up again allowing for exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Interestingly, NAC's mechanism of action does not appear to increase bleeding disorders like heparin or coumadin would, and appears to provide a safer alternative to these agents. This suggests that the "H" of heparin in the MATH+ protocol could simply be replaced with NAC.

Overall, the more we learn about COVID-19, the more we come to find there may be simple and inexpensive ways to treat this perplexing illness. NAC in particular looks like a good candidate for consideration. An added boon is NAC's excellent safety profile. As noted by Seheult, many studies have shown there are no serious adverse effects associated with its use."

Sources and References
1 Researchgate, April 2020 [Preprint]
2, 3 Natural Products Insider August 11, 2020
4 FDA.gov July 29, 2020
5 Clinicaltrials.gov
6 Drdebe.com April 2, 2020
7, 8 European Respiratory Journal 1997 Jul;10(7):1535-41
9 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews March 13, 2014, Main Results
10 BMJ 2017;356:i6583
11 Biochemical Pharmacology 2010 Feb 1;79(3):413-20
12, 13 Medical Hypotheses October 2020; 143: 109862
14 CEBM April 14, 2020
15 Alexandria Journal of Medicine December 2018; 54(4): 287-293
16, 17 Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 2017 Oct; 14(4): 2863–2868
18 Hum Exp Toxicol. 2007 Sep;26(9):697-703
19 Medicine 2018 Nov; 97(45): e13087
20 Bioscience Reports October 2018; 38(5): BSR20180858
21 Chest Journal January 1994; 105(1): 190-194
22 J Med Toxicol. 2013 Mar; 9(1): 49–53
23, 28 Redox Biology 2018 Apr; 14: 218–228
24, 26 Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis. 2006 Jan;17(1):29-34
25, 27 Circulation 2017 Aug 15;136(7):646-660

Maybe this was already published here, things have a way to come back in circles.

Very interesting, cheap method to relieve flu symptoms in general:

Attenuation of influenza-like symptomatology and improvement of cell-mediated immunity with long-term N-acetylcysteine treatment

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9230243/

Gwin Ru

5th September 2020, 14:54

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Gwin Ru

9th September 2020, 17:52

Another breakthrough? New Russian drug means fewer Covid-19 patients need ventilators, has significantly reduced mortality (https://www.rt.com/russia/500158-new-covid19-drug-reduce-mortality/)

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8 Sep, 2020 19:01
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A new Russian medicine being used on Covid-19 patients has reduced the mortality rate by up to five times, according to its developer, Oleg Rosenberg, of Surfactant-BL. The drug is most commonly used to treat severe lung lesions.

Speaking to Moscow newspaper Izvestia, Rosenberg noted that his creation has not only improved the chances of coronavirus patients staying alive, but it has also kept them off ventilators.
“Patients who are treated with Surfactant are reliably less likely to be transferred to an intensive care unit for mechanical ventilation, and mortality among them is 3-5 times lower,” he said, being careful to clarify that data is still being collected. During the pandemic, 120 patients were treated with the drug.
After speaking to various medical centers, Izvestia discovered that usage of Surfactant-BL has been a success. At Sechenov University in Moscow, 30 out of 32 patients with a severe form of Covid-19 managed to recover. At Tyumen Perinatal Center, all 16 pregnant and postpartum women with the illness survived.

According to Andrey Bautin, the head of the anesthesiology and resuscitation lab at Saint Petersburg's Almazov Medical Center, the mortality rate of seriously ill patients reduced from about 80% to 14.3%.

Surfactant-BL is formed from a natural substance, found in the lungs of cattle, which lines the inside of a cow's pulmonary alveoli. Developed initially to help premature babies with immature lungs, there are now around ten surfactant drugs globally.

Sergey Avdeev, the country's chief pulmonologist, explained that a randomized trial of the drug has already begun, with a total of 90 patients due to be treated. If the test goes well, Surfactant-BL will be included in the Ministry of Health's official Covid-19 recommendations.
“Foreign colleagues are going in the same direction as we are. But we are one step ahead,” Avdeev said.

Related:

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Access to Covid-19 vaccine means Russia could totally defeat coronavirus by next summer, according to creator of Sputnik V (https://www.rt.com/russia/500084-russia-vaccine-country-defeat-covid19-summer2021/)

Bill Ryan

9th September 2020, 18:05

In Chris Martenson's video update yesterday, he analyzes a huge study very clearly showing the effectiveness of Vitamin D — not only as a prophylactic, but also as a remedy.

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onawah

13th September 2020, 07:11

How Nebulized Peroxide Helps Against Respiratory Infections
by Dr. Joseph Mercola]
September 13, 2020

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/09/13/how-to-nebulize-hydrogen-peroxide.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2ReadMore&cid=20200913Z1&mid=DM654172&rid=963502808
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"Dr. David Brownstein, who has a clinic just outside of Detroit, has successfully treated over a hundred patients with what has become my favorite intervention for COVID-19 and other upper respiratory infections, namely nebulized hydrogen peroxide. He has published the results of his work in a study that you can download here.

Since I first wrote about it at the beginning of April 2020, I've received impressive testimonials of its effectiveness from friends and acquaintances who got severely ill and used it.

Brownstein is probably best known for his promotion of iodine and its supplementation. He was also an early adopter of vitamin D optimization and nebulized peroxide. He explains the background that led him to his current regimen:

"The history goes back about 28 years when I began practicing holistic medicine. Of course, we would see people with influenza and influenza-like illnesses every fall and winter, so I started searching for things that would help people's immune systems …

We initially started using vitamin C and vitamin D. I started to check vitamin D levels in 1992. What I found was the vast majority of my patients, well over 90%, were deficient in vitamin D, and those who had more chronic issues and were sicker in general, they usually had lower levels of vitamin D ...

Then I came across vitamin A. I originally read the research on how vitamin A helped third world countries when they had measles infections and helped … [patients] recover uneventfully if they had enough vitamin A, so I quickly added vitamin A to the regimen.

A few years later, I learned about iodine. Iodine has direct viricidal effects. It has immune system effects. It helps the white blood cells produce hydrogen peroxide to fight viral and bacterial infections, as well as thyroid effects. Iodine got added to the regimen, and so the original treatment of our patients was vitamins A, C, D and iodine at high doses for about four days.

What we found was our patients did not develop pneumonia, did not get hospitalized, did not die from flu and other influenza-like illnesses at anywhere near the rates that they should have when you looked at the published rates of problems with these illnesses."

Hydrogen Peroxide and Ozone
While attending an oxidative medicine course, Brownstein learned about hydrogen peroxide. At that point, he and his staff started using nebulized hydrogen peroxide and intravenous (IV) hydrogen peroxide. That was back in the mid-1990s. So, he has been using nebulized peroxide clinically for 25 years now, which is longer than anyone I know of.

With each revision of his original protocol, patients seemed to fare better. Fast-forward another couple of years, at another medical course, he learned about the benefits of ozone.

"That was the latest addition to it. What we found over 28 years of using this therapy is that our patients did well. I never made a claim that this cured any influenza or influenza-like illness. What it does is it supports the immune system in multiple ways, and people get over it just like they've gotten over it for eons of time," Brownstein says.

"If we didn't get over these viral illnesses, we wouldn't survive as a human species, so it certainly makes sense we'd want a strong immune system in place when we get exposed to these pathogenic organisms.

When COVID-19 came around … we were warned that we're going to have millions of deaths, and this is going to be the biggest medical catastrophe in our lifetimes …

Everyone was on edge, and I had a meeting with my staff at the end of a work week. It was the last Thursday in February. And I told the staff that the first 28 years of our holistic practice was truly practice for this pandemic … And I said, 'I think we've got this covered.'

I said, 'I can't guarantee anyone anything, but we've treated coronavirus in past years' … Coronavirus is known to be part of the influenza-like illnesses … I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work for this illness as it has worked for the other viral/coronavirus illnesses that we've been treating.'"107 Patients — One Hospitalization, Zero Deaths
Brownstein and the other physicians in his practice first started treating COVID patients in the middle of a Detroit winter under full social distancing and lockdown restrictions. As a result, he had to treat patients who were ill in a drive-through manner in his clinic parking lot. They'd stick their arm out their car window, and Brownstein and his colleagues would do an IV of hydrogen peroxide and vitamin C and intramuscular shots of ozone.

"I vividly remember the snow coming down on my face mask as I'm shaking my head like a dog in order to clear my face shield, trying to put the IV in," he says. "At the end of the treatment, we would do ozone. We didn't want to do IV ozone outside because the elements weren't good, so we decided to do intramuscular ozone.

People who were sick, who couldn't breathe, we'd meet them in the parking lot. At the end of the IVs, we'd open their car door and have them stick their rear end out the car door. We'd put ozone in each [butt] cheek and send them on their way.

We got them hooked up on a nebulizer too, nebulizing hydrogen peroxide and iodine. After they started the therapies, usually after the first nebulized treatment, their airways would open up, and they could breathe again. We ended up treating 107 patients that I wrote about in the published, peer-reviewed [paper]. We had one hospitalization, no ventilators, no deaths."

The case report,1 "A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-19 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies," was published in Science, Public Health Policy, and The Law in July 2020. For a couple of months, Brownstein would post video interviews with his patients, in which they told their story.

He removed all of them after receiving a warning letter from the Federal Trade Commission, saying that because there's no established prevention, treatment or cure for COVID-19, any mention thereof falls in violation of FTC law.

"In their first letter to me, they said, 'Because there's no human clinical studies documenting what you say works, you need to remove it.' So, after we published the [case review], my lawyer wife sent the FTC a letter saying, 'Here's a published study. We'd like to put my study on my website without comment.' And they said, 'No, it's not a randomized. We want a randomized controlled study.'

So, we felt like we had punched the ball into the end zone, and then they moved the goal post back 30 yards, but that's where we stand right now with it. And we're still treating patients with it. The study was on 107 patients. We've probably treated 10 more patients since then, still with good success.

I wrote in the article that the reason I didn't do a randomized study was it's unethical for me to withhold that treatment from people when I'm as certain as I can be that the therapy was going to work. There's no way I could sleep at night if I was randomizing people to get the therapy, and others to not get the therapy.

COVID was a new illness. We had never seen it. Nobody had ever seen it. There were no randomized studies. There's no reason to. Too many people were dying. We've already had over 100,000 deaths. It's just tragic, and it's really going to be a stain on medicine when the final autopsy is written on this."

Boosting Your Immune Function Is Imperative
Interestingly, as explained by Brownstein, in addition to having direct viricidal effects, iodine also stimulates and supports the immune system. It increases the killing effect of hydrogen peroxide production in your white blood cells by improving white blood cell and thyroid function, which is one way our immune system works to kill pathogens. Vitamin C directly increases hydrogen peroxide production when used at high doses, he says, while vitamin A helps modulate your immune system.

"Perhaps instead of just relying on masks and social isolation, we should be talking about the immune system," Brownstein says. "How do we support it? And I'd like to throw out the question: Since when did talking about supporting the immune system become illegal? Since when do you have to be quiet about it?

Unfortunately, in this time and age, this is where we're at right now, and it's a sad time … I've been writing a book on a holistic approach to viruses. And in this book … I say that this illness is an example of what's wrong with our country.

The health of our country is in such decline, we finish last or nearly last in every single health indicator when compared to other Western countries, and this is why we've got hit so hard with this. And nobody talks about our health. All they're talking about is masks, social isolation and wait for a vaccine.

What about the next virus that comes around? What are they going to do about that one? And my comments on this warp speed vaccine to the world is, I hope it's safe and effective, but I don't think I'll be first in line getting this thing, not when it's bypassing all the safety studies …

What I'd be first in line with is trying to figure out how I'm going to support my immune system, so when I'm confronted with these different viruses — because after this one, there's going to be the next one — you're not going to depend on another warp speed project. You're going to depend on yourself to get over these things. We can do it."

How to Do Nebulized Hydrogen Peroxide — The Basics
Nebulized hydrogen peroxide is extremely safe. Brownstein has used it for 25 years with no ill effects being found. It's also incredibly inexpensive, and you can administer it at home, without a prescription. In my view, it is one of the absolute best therapies for viral infections like SARS-CoV-2 or even worse respiratory viruses that will likely be unleashed in the future.

You need to buy a desktop nebulizer (it needs to produce a very fine mist and desktop versions are stronger than handheld battery operated models). The one I use is the Pari Trek S Compressor Aerosol System, which is available on Amazon or less expensively on eBay. The large battery option is unnecessary as you can simply plug in the device to run it when you need it.

Please understand, though, that the Pari Trek S is designed to treat asthmatics and as such only comes with a mouthpiece. While this would get the peroxide in the lungs where it is needed, it does nothing to reach the sinuses, which are also likely infected. This is why it would be worth pick up some face masks on Amazon to use instead of the mouthpiece as they are only about $10.

It is important to acquire this BEFORE you need it, as the sooner you treat the infection the better your results will be, although the testimonials are unbelievably impressive even in late stage illness. It is not necessary to treat yourself preventively, but only if you are sick or exposed to someone who is.

While I've been using a 0.1% dilution, Brownstein uses an even lower concentration of just 0.04%. Neither Brownstein nor I recommend using commercial 3% hydrogen peroxide found in most grocery stores, however, as it has potentially toxic chemical stabilizers in it. Then take 3-5 ml and put that into the nebulizer and inhale the entire amount. You can do this every hour when you are sick until you start to notice improvement and then back down to every 4-6 hours and continue until you are over the illness.

Since you are not using full strength 3% peroxide and diluting it by 30 to 50 times, it is unlikely the stabilizers will present a problem, but to be safe it is best to use FOOD-GRADE peroxide. Also remember not to dilute it with plain water as the lack of electrolytes in the water can damage your lungs if you nebulize that. You will need to use saline or add a small amount of salt to the water to eliminate this risk.

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Brownstein also dilutes the peroxide with sterile water and saline rather than distilled water. Using saline prevents the osmotic differential that can cause damage to lung cells. Brownstein dilutes the 35% food-grade peroxide as follows. When nebulizing, Brownstein also adds one drop of 5% Lugol's solution to the nebulizer as well.

Dilute 35% food-grade peroxide down to 3% by mixing 1 part peroxide with 10 parts sterile water
Take 3 cubic centimeters (CCs) of that 3% dilution and add it to a 250CC bag of normal saline. This brings it down to a .04% hydrogen peroxide concentration
Sample Case History
Brownstein relates the case of a 67-year-old male patient. The man developed COVID-19 symptoms, and after seven or eight days could not breathe and went to the hospital where he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia. After two days of treatment, which included oxygen, he felt only slightly better, but was released from the hospital due to a shortage of beds.

"They sent him home on oxygen and told him, 'Only come back if you can't breathe.' So he goes home, and he calls me on the phone, crying, 'I'm going to die. They sent me home to die.'

I said to him, 'You're not going to die. Do you have a nebulizer?' And he said, 'No.' And I'm like, 'We need to start nebulizing right away … Send your wife over. We'll put a nebulizer in the car and tell you how to do it.' So, we mixed up the solution for him, and she brought the nebulizer home.

I called him up at the end of the day. He had done three nebulizer treatments, and he said that after the second nebulizer treatment his lungs started to open up. He felt about 70% better and didn't feel like he was going to die at that point.

He was still coughing and short of breath, but not like he was. After the third treatment, he said he was even better … So, this nebulizer thing really does work.

The one thing I'd like your readers to know, the handheld nebulizers don't work as well. I had a handful of patients who were using a handheld nebulizer and trying it with the same solution.

They were calling me back saying, 'It's not working.' When they got a desktop model, a little stronger model, it worked. So, I encourage people not to use a handheld nebulizer. Use a desktop model. It's a little bit stronger."

Nebulized Peroxide Typically Improves Symptoms Within Hours
This story echoes the experiences of personal acquaintances who have tried the treatment. After two treatments, they felt significantly better. After the third treatment, their breathing was restored and they were well on their way to a full recovery.

You'd be hard-pressed to find another treatment that works within hours. Brownstein agrees that this scenario is consistent with what he has encountered among his own patients.

"Usually, everything feels better within a couple of hours of starting nebulizing," he says. When asked about how others in the medical community have responded to his blog posts about the treatment, he replies:

"In the middle of the crisis as I was posting … I started hearing from doctors all over the country, especially in New York and New Jersey. They were hospital physicians … They didn't know what to do. The therapies weren't working.

No. 1, they want the therapy for their family, and No. 2, they want to help their patients. So, I was hearing from doctors. They were interested. I heard from a couple of local doctors who sent patients to us whom they couldn't help.

They had nothing to offer them ... and [those patients] got better … It was really the first time I got a bunch of emails, messages and phone calls from doctors saying, 'Hey, tell me how it works. Tell me what you're doing.'"

Hydrogen Peroxide Facts
In my April 2020 article, "Could Hydrogen Peroxide Treat Coronavirus?" I reviewed some of the basic science of how hydrogen peroxide works, as well as some of the studies assessing its therapeutic potential.

The most relevant study2 was published in March 2020 in the Journal of Hospital Infection. They studied 0.5% hydrogen peroxide, and found it killed human coronaviruses, including the coronaviruses responsible for SARS and MERS. Here are a few additional facts that explain how and why hydrogen peroxide works so well for respiratory infections:

1.Hydrogen peroxide freely crosses cell membranes and does not readily oxidize biological molecules, including lipids and proteins.3 It does however react with iron. The presence of free, unbound iron in high concentrations in pathogens is what allows them to be selectively targeted by hydrogen peroxide.

High concentrations of iron result in a rapid breakdown of hydrogen peroxide into hydroxyl radicals and water. The hydroxyl radical, a potent oxidizing agent, kills any pathogens present. (Under normal, healthy circumstances, hydrogen peroxide merely breaks down into oxygen and water.)

2.Peroxide is generated by activated phagocytes (pathogen-killing immune cells) at sites of inflammation.4 Phagocytes also contain high amounts of ascorbate (vitamin C), which directly donate electrons to peroxide to generate the pathogen-killing hydroxyl radical inside the infected cells. Vitamin C also helps generate increased amounts of extracellular hydrogen peroxide, which further boosts the elimination of pathogens.5

3.Hydrogen peroxide is continually generated inside all cells in your body, including the epithelial lining of your lungs. (Hydrogen peroxide is present in the air exhaled by healthy human subjects, and when inflammation is present, more peroxide is found in the exhaled breath.6) The presence of excreted peroxide on these surface cells in the airways is part of a healthy, at-the-ready immune response.7

4.Aside from its anti-pathogen properties, hydrogen peroxide is also recognized as an important signaling molecule, both intracellular and extracellular, influencing and modulating multiple metabolic processes.8

In summary, hydrogen peroxide sits inside and outside your cells in low levels, ready and waiting to be generated in greater amounts as soon as a pathogen is detected by the immune system by NADPH Oxidase (NOX).

Its presence in your human body (at varying amounts depending on whether infection is present), and the lack of toxic metabolites, are indicative of its safety and nontoxic nature.

Similarly, as noted by Brownstein, hydrogen peroxide is extremely safe to use and nebulize at the diluted levels suggested. It's also effective. All pathogens studied to date have been found to succumb to hydrogen peroxide, albeit at varying concentrations and for different amounts of exposure.

So, nebulizing hydrogen peroxide into the sinuses, throat and lungs is a simple, straightforward way to augment your body's natural expression of hydrogen peroxide to combat infection.

"There are cheap and effective ways to treat patients suffering from [COVID-19], and we should be studying this. We should be allowed to report on it, and we should be allowed to study it. [If we were], we wouldn't have the travesty that's happened to our country." ~ Dr. Brownstein
While individual sensitivities to inhaled peroxide vary, even very low concentrations (below 3%) have been shown to reliably kill most pathogens.9,10,11,12 Through trial and error, Brownstein found 0.04% was the lowest concentration at which patients report significant improvement, which is why he recommends that level of dilution.

Summary of Treatment
To summarize, here's how I would treat myself or a family member:

At the very first signs of a respiratory infection, dilute food-grade hydrogen peroxide down to a 0.1% (my recommendation) or 0.04% solution (Dr. Brownstein's recommendation). If you want, you can add one drop of 5% Lugol's iodine solution, and nebulize using a desktop nebulizer.
Start taking quercetin and zinc, as an adjunctive therapy as soon as you know you have an infection, as the earlier you start the better. This treatment is likely ineffective late in the course of the illness as it works to inhibit viral replication. If the virus has already reproduced, it is too late and the horse is out of the barn.
The key is to have everything you need readily available. Have it in your possession before you need it. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so procure the nebulizer, peroxide and iodine before you get ill.

If you're exposed to someone who is sick, you can use the nebulized peroxide as a prophylactic, but if you're healthy, it's not recommended to nebulize daily. For prevention, also make sure your vitamin D level is above 40 ng/mL.

In the later stages of disease, NAC may be really useful. The MATH+ protocol developed by Dr. Paul Marik uses methylprednisolone, vitamin C, thiamine (vitamin B1) and heparin. Heparin is administered because COVID-19 is a blood disorder too. There are clotting complications, and the heparin seems to improve that.

NAC also prevents platelet aggregation and abnormal blood clotting. It also reduces oxidative stress and increases glutathione levels, both of which play important roles in this disease. In my view, quercetin, zinc, glutathione, vitamin D and nebulized peroxide is a home run.

"There are cheap and effective ways to treat [COVID-19], and we should be studying this," Brownstein says. "We should be allowed to report on it, and we should be allowed to study it. [If we were], we wouldn't have the travesty that's happened to our country."

- Sources and References
1 Science, Public Health Policy, and The Law in July 2020; 2(4): 22 (PDF)
2 J Hosp Infect. 2020 Mar;104(3):246-251
3 FEBS Letters December 2000; 486(1): 10-13
4 The Journal of Clinical Investigation May 1975;55(5):945-955
5 Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy January 2019; 109:2119-2127
6 Respiration 2012; 84:291-298
7 The Israel Medical Association Journal May 2020; 22(5):278
8 Neuroscientist May 12, 2012;17(4):389-406
9 Infect Immun. 1983 Jan; 39(1): 456–459
10 Appl Environ Microbiol. 1997 Oct; 63(10): 3916–3918
11 Appl Microbiol. 2011 May;52(5):555-8
12 Journal of Hospital Infection April 2014; 86(4): 255-259

Gwin Ru

16th September 2020, 14:19

Discovery: Autopsies Prove that COVID-19 is a Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (Pulmonary Thrombosis) (https://www.gistflash.com/discovery-autopsies-prove-that-covid-19-is-a-disseminated-intravascular-coagulation-pulmonary-thrombosis/)

By Chinonyerem Emmanuella (https://www.gistflash.com/author/lefineg/) https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/013d16a365ee882e61eed5eb7482e7eb?s=46&d=identicon&r=g
Published 5 months ago on May 1, 2020

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It is now clear that the whole world has been attacking the so-called Coronavirus Pandemic wrongly due to a serious pathophysiological diagnosis error.

According to valuable information from Italian pathologists, ventilators and intensive care units were never needed.

Autopsies performed by the Italian pathologists has shown that it is not pneumonia but it is Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (Thrombosis) which ought to be fought with antibiotics, antivirals, anti-inflammatories and anticoagulants.

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If this is true for all cases, that means the whole world is about to resolve this novel pandemic earlier than expected.

However, protocols are currently being changed in Italy who have been adversely affected by this pandemic.

The impressive case of a Mexican family in the United States who claimed they were cured with a home remedy was documented:

three 500 mg aspirins dissolved in lemon juice boiled with honey, taken hot.
The next day they woke up as if nothing had happened to them! Well, the scientific information that follows proves they are right!

This information was released by a medical researcher from Italy:
“Thanks to 50 autopsies performed on patients who died of COVID-19, Italian pathologists have discovered that IT IS NOT PNEUMONIA, strictly speaking, because the virus does not only kill pneumocytes of this type, but uses an inflammatory storm to create an endothelial vascular thrombosis.”
In disseminated intravascular coagulation, the lung is the most affected because it is the most inflamed, but there is also a heart attack, stroke and many other thromboembolic diseases.

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In fact, the protocols left antiviral therapies useless and focused on anti-inflammatory and anti-clotting therapies. These therapies should be done immediately, even at home, in which the treatment of patients responds very well.

If the Chinese had denounced it, they would have invested in home therapy, not intensive care! So, the way to fight it is with antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and anticoagulants.

An Italian pathologist reports that the hospital in Bergamo did a total of 50 autopsies and one in Milan, 20, that is, the Italian series is the highest in the world, the Chinese did only 3, which seems to fully confirm the information.

In a nutshell, the disease is determined by a disseminated intravascular coagulation triggered by the virus; therefore, it is not pneumonia but pulmonary thrombosis, a major diagnostic error.

Some world leaders doubled the number of resuscitation places in the ICU, with unnecessary exorbitant costs.

According to the Italian pathologist, treatment in ICUs is useless if thromboembolism is not resolved first.
“If we ventilate a lung where blood does not circulate, it is useless, in fact, nine (9) patients out of ten (10) will die because the problem is cardiovascular, not respiratory.”

“It is venous microthrombosis, not pneumonia, that determines mortality.”
According to the literature, inflammation induces thrombosis through a complex but well-known pathophysiological mechanism.

Unfortunately, what the scientific literature said, especially Chinese, until mid-March was that anti-inflammatory drugs should not be used.

Now, the therapy being used in Italy is with anti-inflammatories and antibiotics, as in influenza, and the number of hospitalized patients has been reduced.

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He also discovered that many deaths, even in their 40s, had a history of fever for 10 to 15 days, which were not treated properly.

The inflammation does a great deal of tissue damage and creates ground for thrombus formation. However, the main problem is not the virus, but the immune hyperreaction that destroys the cell where the virus is installed.

In fact, patients with rheumatoid arthritis have never needed to be admitted to the ICU because they are on corticosteroid therapy, which is a great anti-inflammatory.

With this important discovery, it is possible to return to normal life and open closed deals due to the quarantine, though not immediately, but with time.

Kindly share so that the health authorities of each country can make their respective analysis of this information, prevent further deaths and redirect investments appropriately; the vaccine may come later.

leavesoftrees

17th September 2020, 11:24

In fact, patients with rheumatoid arthritis have never needed to be admitted to the ICU because they are on corticosteroid therapy, which is a great anti-inflammatory.

RA patients can be treated with Hydoxychloroquine which might explain why they dont need ICU treatment

onawah

18th September 2020, 17:32

Gargling With Iodine Beats COVID
Published on September 17, 2020
by Dr. Sircus
https://drsircus.com/general/gargling-with-iodine-beats-covid/

"A small randomized controlled trial suggesting that gargling with povidone-iodine clears the virus from the nose and throat within four days. This result comes as no surprise because, for a century, doctors have known that iodine is effective, not only for bacterial and fungal infections but for viruses as well.

20 asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic COVID-19 patients from a Malaysian university hospital were randomly allocated into four groups:

Group A gargled with 10 milliliters of 1% povidone-iodine for 30 seconds, three times per day.
Group B did the same with 20 milliliters of Listerine.
Group C did the same thing, with 100 milliliters of tap water.
Group D acted as untreated controls.

On day 4, 100% of those in the povidone-iodine group had cleared the virus. By contrast, 80% of those in the Listerine group, 40% of those in the tap water group, and 20% of those in the control group had cleared the virus.

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On May 26, another study was released, providing the first direct evidence that povidone-iodine, a widely used antiseptic, is capable of killing SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. As little as 0.5% povidone-iodine completely inactivated the virus in 60 seconds, comparable to 70% alcohol. Greater concentrations were equally effective but provided no additional benefit.

This second was an in vitro study, testing the ability to inactivate the virus when infecting isolated cells from the kidneys of African green monkeys. Povidone-iodine is traditionally used topically. This study does not provide any basis to suggest it should be swallowed orally, which might cause diarrhea or worse in large amounts because Povidone-iodine is not for oral consumption, but Lugols and Nascent Iodine are.

This suggests that 0.5% povidone-iodine solutions (which can be made by diluting 10% solutions) can be used inside the nose with a sterile swab, nasal irrigation system, or nasal spray that they can be swished in the mouth for 60 seconds to kill the virus.

Seventeen clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were tested. Povidone-iodine (PVP-I) at a concentration of 0.2% killed 99.9% or more of all strains tested within 30 seconds. All of the strains tested with PVP-I were killed almost entirely within 60 seconds. There was no difference in bactericidal activities of PVP-I between standard strain H37Rv and MDR-TB. It was concluded that the commercially available PVP-I product is a useful antiseptic against MDR-TB similar to other M. tuberculosis.

Iodine kills 90 percent of bacteria on the skin within 90 seconds; however, its use as an antibiotic has been ignored. Iodine exhibits activity against bacteria, molds, yeasts, protozoa, and many viruses; indeed, of all antiseptic preparations suitable for direct use on humans and animals and upon tissues, only iodine is capable of killing all classes of pathogens: gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, mycobacteria, yeasts, and protozoa. Most bacteria are killed within 15 to 30 seconds of contact.

Iodine is a mineral; human life cannot exist without it. Minerals are the building blocks of our bodies. They are required for body structure, fluid balance, protein structures, and hormone production. Minerals are key to the health of everybody system and function. They act as co-factors, catalysts, or inhibitors of all enzymes in the body. Iodine is the mineral most important to our immune system, which cannot work without it. Iodine is also incredibly crucial for people who want to avoid thyroid, breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer.

Iodine supports our immune systems in fending off invaders while it improves our immunity, so we are less susceptible to symptoms and illness. Someone who is iodine sufficient has a lower chance of catching MRSA in a hospital because superbugs like this will not thrive in a body with enough iodine. Similarly, the virus responsible for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis—the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and all other viruses do not like iodine because it gets in the way of their advancement.

In the early 1900s, the Encyclopedia Britannica described iodine as being “of definite value” for treatment of multiple conditions including “metallic poisonings, as by lead and mercury, asthma, aneurism, arteriosclerosis, angina pectoris, gout, goiter, syphilis, hemophilia, Bright’s disease (nephritis) and bronchitis” with “usual doses” of iodide salts ranging from “five to thirty grains or more” (324mg to 1,944mg), though this is hundred of times higher than what is considered generally safe per today’s tolerable UL.[1]

Dr. Gabriel Cousens states, “Historically, as early as 1911, people normally took between 300,000-900,000 micrograms daily without incident,” translating into between 300 and 900 milligrams. Most people today, even if they are fighting cancer, only have the courage to use between 50 to 100 milligrams. Still, if you are fighting a life-threatening infection, we should remember medical history and how iodine has been used in the past. When we read that 30 to 60 times, these amounts have been used; one should consider using a gram (1,000 milligrams) or even more when it is either that or death.

Conclusion

Iodine was known by many medical doctors in the 19th century as an empirical remedy, a real “heroic remedy” —-a real present from the science of medicine to humanity. Nobel Laureate Albert Szent Györgyi, the physician who discovered Vitamin C in 1928, commented: “When I was a medical student, iodine in the form of universal medicine. Nobody knew what it did, but it did something and did something good.”

Dr. Cousens concludes, “In 1950 the Japanese had 100 times more iodine in their diet than Americans. In 2001 they had 202 times more iodine than Americans and were using up to 13.8 milligrams daily instead of the average U.S. intake of 425 micrograms. Unfortunately, there has been no real study, ever, about what is the optimal safe dosage of iodine. But, again, no one has ever died from iodine overdose or allergic reactions.” "

Gwin Ru

21st September 2020, 16:48

From Jim Stone:

I did more "study" of the Quina we have (Cinchona) but it's real name is Quina, for "Chloroquina" (http://82.221.129.208/.vd5.html)

Here are a few tips for if you find this stuff and get it: First of all, the really raunchy huge pieces we got have about 3X the chloroquine in them than the nicely presented pieces, it seems to me that in the process of making them look and smell nice whoever prepped it stole about 70 percent of the goodness from it. It still produces something, but it's not that great. Cost in Mex? $8 per kilo. That would be about $3.75 a pound. The really raunchy huge pieces totally kick butt and produce an ENORMOUS amount of "chloroquina", leading to a super raunchy bitter drink - this stuff cost, in quantity, $3 per kilogram, which is about $1.35 a pound. We got quantity. We're set.

Price does not make a difference in the quality you get, GO CHEAP.

So here are the tips regarding this: Paying more gets you nothing. You'll probably end up with a stripped out product if you pay more. There's no reason for it to cost a lot, this stuff is obviously abundant. Additionally: I have discovered that even if you brew it and take all you can from it, if you re-brew it after draining it off, it looks like it works and still colors the water. So there's plenty of room for scammers to rip the goodness out of it.

Guideline: If, in a large coffee cup you put five grams of this stuff, and BOIL IT, (watch out for boil overs in the microwave, and you do have to boil it) this stuff acts weird, it won't be appearing to boil at all and suddenly in five seconds the entire cup will erupt and throw all of it in FIVE SECONDS, you have to really watch this or perhaps put the cup in a bowl it can overflow into - anyway, keep this stuff boiling hot for at least 10 minutes while stirring - if after that, you can casually drink it, you probably got ripped off. Five grams makes the most bitter cup you'll ever taste. It's not friendly bitter, it's knock your socks off bitter. There's nothing nice at all about this stuff when it's right. If it's not mega bitter, you have to use more until it is.

Second thing: Don't throw it away if your supply is limited. I'll call "limited" two whole pounds. You can re-brew it and it will keep leeching out "chloroquina" in a useful amount for several cycles, even if you follow my previous instructions and grind it to a fine powder in a blender, which will sound hideous, obviously take it little by little. If your supply is limited you don't want to throw away any of it's capabilities. For the second brewing, all you need to do is get it up to boiling again and then let it sit for a day, perhaps stirring once every couple hours. It won't be as strong as the first brew but it is obviously still useful.

It will be all downhill after that, but take it on a case by case basis (until you know what your stash will do)

I just had a major case of fatigue (after that bad gut infection) and I solved it. This is important enough to post, to help others get over fatigue

First of all, when searching for answers online, it's nothing but a bunch of snowflake B.S. like going for walks, stop eating meat, and read books. There was nothing at all useful I found. Here is what worked: First of all, a while ago I had a leg infection that I at least partially treated with Cipro. I did not realize at the time that cipro does permanent damage to mitochondria, which saps the life out of people. And it is PERMANENT. Fortunately, there's a secondary pathway that mitochondria can use to bypass the cipro damage and that is to get LOTS of magnesium. I figured that's what it was, and took lots of magnesium (in addition to the supplemental levels I already take) and nothing happened. Still dead to the world.

Here is what worked:

First: Rather than drink coffee throughout the day, I shifted it to one big dose in the morning, so it would be out of my system before bed. Deadline: 11 AM. Nothing after that. The insomnia went away and I slept a solid 10 hours for the first time since (ever), prior to doing this I had not slept well for about half a year, and it added up to a level of fatigue that had me totally depersonalized and walking through a fog life. When I woke up, I knew things were different, but still felt totally drained.

So I then put 21 grams of salt (measured on the kitchen scale) in a liter of water and managed to drink about a third of it. That launched me out of the haze mostly, and I finished the job with a half kilo of salty meat. Took 5 grams of vitamin C and did not hit bowel tolerance so I needed that too. I went like superman until 12:30 at night, doing all the yearly maintenance on the car in one whack. Oil change, coolant change, brake inspection, hunted down a mystery noise, determined that the exhaust leak was coming from between the head and the header pipe on cylinder 2, plus re-built the wiper motor that had failed and got it working perfect despite having to remove it 3 times to get "zero" right (that ate a pile of time) but now they park perfect and work like new. Fortunately I had the brushes for it. That much in one day would have been impossible during the fatigue, and after that I only got about five hours of sleep and today is NORMAL, FULL POWER.Bottom line: If you're feeling sapped, cover the basics: Last cup of coffee by 11 AM. Sleep a good solid night. Eat meat, and get lots of salt. Take vitamin C. IGNORE THE B.S. online, you probably just need the basic measures to fix fatigue if you are not normally fatigued.

onawah

22nd September 2020, 22:08

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Gwin Ru

24th September 2020, 13:34

From Jim Stone:
Another cinchona/quina update (http://82.221.129.208/.vd4.html)

A good guideline: Three grams in 300 grams of water should make a brew so bitter only Rambo would want to drink it. It is not "casual" nasty if it has not been robbed. A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down . . . . and don't use 10 grams in a dose, all 3 of these samples were poured into the same liter container for multiple doses.

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onawah

29th September 2020, 22:52

Three New Studies Support Vitamin D’s Role in Preventing and Treating COVID-19
by Barbara Cáceres
Published September 29, 2020
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2020/09/three-new-studies-support-vitamin-ds-role-in-preventing-and-treating-covid-19/

"Three new studies have reported the positive role of vitamin D in preventing COVID-19 and reducing the severity of illness in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 infection.

Researchers at Boston University conducted a retrospective, observational analysis1 of over 190,000 U.S. patients from 50 states with SARS-CoV-2 results performed mid-March through mid-June, 2020 and who had 25(OH)D (vitamin D) results from the preceding 12 months. Residential zip code data was matched with U.S. Census data to perform analyses of race/ethnicity proportions and latitude.

Vitamin D Deficiency Associated With 54 Percent Higher Risk for COVID-19
Those who had a circulating level of 25(OH)D below 20 ng/mL had a 54 percent higher positivity rate compared to those who had a blood level of 30–34 ng/mL. The risk of SARS-CoV-2 positivity continued to decline until the serum levels reached 55 ng/mL. The inverse relationship between SARS-CoV-2 positivity and 25(OH)D levels was most striking in predominately black non-Hispanic zip codes, followed by predominately Hispanic zip codes.

Calling the results “remarkable,” researcher Michael Holick, MD, PhD, summarized, “If you’re vitamin D deficient, you have a 54 percent higher risk of acquiring this infection compared to people who were vitamin D sufficient,” he said. “This was for all ages, for all ethnicities and for all latitudes in the United States in all 50 states. So whether you’re in California, Florida, or Alaska this still remained the same.”2

Vitamin D Supplementation Can Maintain Healthy Levels of Vitamin D
Approximately 42 percent of the US population is vitamin D deficient3 but 82 percent of blacks and 61 percent of Hispanics are deficient,4 and 60 percent of nursing home residents are deficient.5 Dr. Holick says that vitamin D insufficiency is very common in sunny states like California and Florida because of sunscreen use and the fact that people avoid the midday sun when UVB rays trigger a reaction in skin cells that makes vitamin D. He states that supplementation is a safe and effective way to maintain healthy levels of vitamin D, and that infants need 400-1000 units a day, children 600-1000 units a day, and teens and adults need 1500-2000 units a day, but “if you’re obese you need two to three times more.”6

Vitamin D Status Can Affect Risk of Mortality from COVID-19
A second study,7 also co-authored by Dr. Holick, is a cross sectional analysis of 235 hospitalized patients infected with COVID-19 that found those with sufficient vitamin D status had significantly better outcomes. Of patients over 40 years of age, 9.7 percent of patients who were vitamin D sufficient died compared to 20 percent who were vitamin D insufficient or deficient. Only 6.3 percent of the patients over 40 years died with a blood level of 25(OH)D of 40 ng/mL or higher. The data analyses also revealed that the severe decrease in infection was less prevalent in patients who had sufficient levels of vitamin D. The authors suggest that anti-inflammatory role of vitamin D helps modulate the immune response by reducing the risk for cytokine storm in response to this viral infection.

A pilot study conducted in Cordoba, Spain, and published in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology found that the administration of high dose calcifediol (a main metabolite of Vitamin D endocrine system) significantly reduced the need for ICU treatment of patients requiring hospitalization due to proven COVID-19.8

The study evaluated 76 consecutive patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection and randomly assigned two thirds of the patients to receive oral calcifediol in addition to standard care (per hospital protocol). One third of the patients received only standard care.

Of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2 percent), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50 percent). Of the patients treated with calcifediol, none died, and all were discharged without complications. The 13 patients not treated with calcifediol, who were not admitted to the ICU, were discharged. Of the 13 patients admitted to the ICU, two died and the remaining 11 were discharged.

The study authors suggested that activation of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) signaling pathway may generate beneficial effects in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) by decreasing the cytokine/chemokine storm; regulating the renin‑angiotensin system; modulating neutrophil activity and by maintaining the integrity of the pulmonary epithelial barrier; stimulating epithelial repair, and tapering down increased coagulability of the blood."

References:

acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS, Barbara Cáceres, Boston University, calcifediol, COVID-19, Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Holick, National Vaccine Information Center, NVIC, SARS-CoV-2, The Vaccine Reaction, VDR, Vitamin D, vitamin D receptor

onawah

3rd October 2020, 04:34

Deadly Serious
From Organic Consumers Assoc.
10/2/20

https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/OHkaQywDElrby9EvdP2E42SWgXJ4iwrUOyLKLR75XSItL7X70RrOVPzY33ETJRot-dUuYbqinQv6R7aXU5vucPFmZIm2mhm9Dn-7ffnioqFSd7iYNJa-rBYGf0lfZBDvtrRJSS_wle-zYdtqUkkopjew3KJg4tncLySM3u5uMZ0=s0-d-e1-ft#https://www.organicconsumers.org/sites/default/files/styles/250x250/public/junkfood_250x250.png?itok=ouupqqHF

"As COVID-19 claims its 1 millionth death, one thing has become clear: We can’t solve this global health crisis by throwing more vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs at it.

The greatest risk factor for death from COVID-19 is poor health. According to the CDC, 94 percent of death certificates for COVID-19 victims in the U.S. were in people with pre-existing health conditions including diabetes, obesity, heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease, dementia and hypertension.

In fact, people who are obese, who also have the coronavirus, are more than twice as likely to end up in the hospital and nearly 50 percent more likely to die.

These health conditions are the real 21st century plague, caused by the non-stop consumption of addictive junk foods that make-up 60 percent or more of the calories in the typical American diet. Calorie- and chemical-laden, they destroy our health, our gut microbiomes and our immune systems, leaving us, as individuals, vulnerable to disease and our world vulnerable to destructive pandemics.

We must stop believing the industry propaganda spouted by Big Food, Big Ag and Big Pharma that chronic disease and the co-morbidities that accompany the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths are “normal” or “natural.” They’re not!

Our global health emergency cannot be solved without a fundamental change in our diets and our industrialized Big Ag and Big Food practices."

Read: ‘Genetic Engineering, Bioweapons, Junk Food and Chronic Disease: Hidden Drivers of COVID-19’
https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/genetic-engineering-bioweapons-junk-food-and-chronic-disease-hidden-drivers-covid-19?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+677&utm_content=OB+677

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(As we know, the testing statistics are grossly exaggerated, but the idea that junk food is one BIG reason why people are susceptible to viruses is no exaggeration. )

onawah

3rd October 2020, 04:43

B Vitamins Might Help Prevent Worst COVID-19 Outcomes
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
October 02, 2020

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/10/02/b-vitamins-might-help-prevent-worst-covid19-outcomes.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20201002Z1&mid=DM667091&rid=978118812
STORY AT-A-GLANCE

"While no studies using B vitamins have been performed on COVID-19 patients, researchers stress that, based on B vitamins’ effects on your immune system, immune-competence and red blood cells, supplementation may be a useful adjunct to other prevention and treatment strategies
One of the factors that make COVID-19 so dangerous to those with underlying conditions or old age is its ability to overactivate your immune system, triggering a cytokine storm
B vitamins — B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9 and B12 — play important roles in cell functioning, energy metabolism and proper immune function, and can play important roles in minimizing your risk of cytokine storm
B vitamins are involved in the activation of both the innate and adaptive immune responses. They help reduce proinflammatory cytokine levels, improve respiratory function, maintain endothelial integrity, prevent hypercoagulability and can reduce the length of hospital stays
Dietary source for B vitamins are listed, along with suggestions if you need supplementation
I’ve written many articles reviewing how nutrients such as vitamins C and D can help prevent and even play a role in the treatment of COVID-19. Now, researchers have highlighted the value of yet another vitamin or, rather, complex of vitamins, namely B vitamins.

The paper,1,2,3,4 “Be Well: A Potential Role for Vitamin D in COVID-19,” was published online August 15, 2020, in the journal Maturitas. The paper is the result of a joint collaboration between researchers at the University of Oxford, United Arab Emirates University and the University of Melbourne, Australia.

While no studies using B vitamins have been performed on COVID-19 patients, the researchers stress that, based on B vitamins’ effects on your immune system, immune-competence and red blood cells (which help fight infection), supplementation may be a useful adjunct to other prevention and treatment strategies. They are not suggesting B vitamins might prevent or treat COVID-19 by themselves.

Why Well-Regulated Immune Function Is Essential
One of the factors that make COVID-19 so dangerous to those with underlying conditions or old age is its ability to overactivate your immune system, triggering cytokine and/or bradykinin storms.

In a poorly regulated immune system, the body’s cytokine storm induced by COVID cause lots of inflammation in the body, just as if little grenades were being tossed around. This is what causes the worst outcomes and death in COVID. ~ Dr. Uma Naidoo
By strengthening and modulating immune function, in other words, making it function more appropriately and effectively, nutrients such as vitamins B, C and D can play important roles in minimizing your risk of this deadly development. As explained by Dr. Uma Naidoo, a nutrition expert at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the paper:5

“You can think of the immune system as an army. Its job is to protect the body. But if the immune system army isn’t well-regulated, it can overreact and actually cause more damage — this overreaction is what often happens in COVID-19 and is referred to as the cytokine storm.

Cytokines are inflammatory molecules released by immune cells. They are like the weapons of the immune system army. So, if immune cells are soldiers, cytokines are guns and grenades.

And in a poorly regulated immune system, the body’s cytokine storm induced by COVID cause lots of inflammation in the body, just as if little grenades were being tossed around. This is what causes the worst outcomes and death in COVID.

It follows that anything that improves immune system function and decreases the chances that an infected person will have a catastrophic cytokine storm may improve the outcome of COVID-19 cases and decrease the overall death rate. Therefore, it’s quite feasible that B-vitamin supplementation could contribute to preventing the worst COVID outcomes.”

B Vitamins for Healthy Immune Function
As noted by the authors of “Be Well: A Potential Role for Vitamin D in COVID-19”:6

“There is a need to highlight the importance of vitamin B because it plays a pivotal role in cell functioning, energy metabolism, and proper immune function.

Vitamin B assists in proper activation of both the innate and adaptive immune responses, reduces pro-inflammatory cytokine levels, improves respiratory function, maintains endothelial integrity, prevents hypercoagulability and can reduce the length of stay in hospital.

Therefore, vitamin B status should be assessed in COVID-19 patients and vitamin B could be used as a non-pharmaceutical adjunct to current treatments …

Vitamin B not only helps to build and maintain a healthy immune system, but it could potentially prevent or reduce COVID-19 symptoms or treat SARS-CoV-2 infection. Poor nutritional status predisposes people to infections more easily; therefore, a balanced diet is necessary for immuno-competence.”

The graphic below illustrates the roles various B vitamins play in the COVID-19 disease process. As you can see, B vitamins are involved in several disease aspects, including viral replication and invasion, cytokine storm induction, adaptive immunity and hypercoagulability.

https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2020/September/b-vitamins-covid-19.jpg

B Vitamins Play Many Roles in COVID-19 Disease Process
The paper goes on to detail how each B vitamin can be used to manage COVID-19 symptoms:

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) — Thiamine improves immune system function, protects cardiovascular health, inhibits inflammation and aids in healthy antibody responses. Vitamin B1 deficiency can result in an inadequate antibody response, thereby leading to more severe symptoms. There’s also evidence suggesting B1 may limit hypoxia.

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) — Riboflavin in combination with ultraviolet light has been shown to inhibit replication of the MERS-CoV virus, and the combination has also been shown to decrease the infectious titer of SARS-CoV-2 below the detectable limit in human blood, plasma and platelet products.

Vitamin B3 (niacin/nicotinamide) — Niacin is a building block of NAD and NADP, which are vital when combating inflammation. As explained in “Be Well: A Potential Role for Vitamin D in COVID-19”:7

“NAD+ is released during the early stages of inflammation and has immunomodulatory properties, known to decrease the pro-inflammatory cytokines, IL-1β, IL-6 and TNF-α.

Recent evidence indicates that targeting IL-6 could help control the inflammatory storm in patients with COVID-19. Moreover, niacin reduces neutrophil infiltration and exhibits an anti-inflammatory effect in patients with ventilator-induced lung injury …

In addition, nicotinamide reduces viral replication (vaccinia virus, human immunodeficiency virus, enteroviruses, hepatitis B virus) and strengthens the body’s defense mechanisms. Taking into account the lung protective and immune strengthening roles of niacin, it could be used as an adjunct treatment for COVID-19 patients.”

Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) — Vitamin B5 aids in wound healing and reduces inflammation.

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxal 5′-phosphate/pyridoxine) — Pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP), the active form of vitamin B6, is a cofactor in several inflammatory pathways. Vitamin B6 deficiency is associated with dysregulated immune function. Inflammation increases the need for PLP, which can result in depletion.

According to the authors, in COVID-19 patients with high levels of inflammation, B6 deficiency may be a contributing factor. What’s more, B6 may also play an important role in preventing the hypercoagulation seen in some COVID-19 patients:8

“In a recent preprint it is suggested that PLP supplementation mitigates COVID-19 symptoms by regulating immune responses, decreasing pro-inflammatory cytokines, maintaining endothelial integrity and preventing hypercoagulability. In fact, it was shown three decades ago that PLP levels reduce abnormalities in platelet aggregation and blood clot formation.

Recently researchers at Victoria University reported that vitamin B6 (as well as B2 and B9) upregulated IL-10, a powerful anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive cytokine which can deactivate macrophages and monocytes and inhibit antigen-presenting cells and T cells.

COVID-19 patients often respond to the virus by mounting an excessive T cell response and secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines. It may be that PLP is able to contribute to dampening the cytokine storm and inflammation suffered by some COVID-19 patients.”

Vitamin B9 (folate/folic acid) — Folate, the natural form of B9 found in food, is required for the synthesis of DNA and protein in your adaptive immune response.

Folic acid, the synthetic form typically found in supplements, was recently found9 to inhibit furin, an enzyme associated with viral infections, thereby preventing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from binding to and gaining entry into your cells. The research10 suggests folic acid may therefore be helpful during the early stages of COVID-19.

Another recent paper11 found folic acid has a strong and stable binding affinity against SARS-CoV-2. This too suggests it may be a suitable therapeutic against COVID-19.

Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) — B12 is required for healthy synthesis of red blood cells and DNA. A deficiency in B12 increases inflammation and oxidative stress by raising homocysteine levels. Your body can eliminate homocysteine naturally, provided you’re getting enough B9 (folate), B6 and B12.12

Hyperhomocysteinemia — a condition characterized by abnormally high levels of homocysteine — causes endothelial dysfunction, activates platelet and coagulation cascades and decreases immune responses.

B12 deficiency is also associated with certain respiratory disorders. Advancing age can diminish your body’s ability to absorb B12 from food,13 so the need for supplementation may increase as you get older. According to “Be Well: A Potential Role for Vitamin D in COVID-19”:14

“A recent study showed that methylcobalamin supplements have the potential to reduce COVID-19-related organ damage and symptoms. A clinical study conducted in Singapore showed that COVID-19 patients who were given vitamin B12 supplements (500 μg), vitamin D (1000 IU) and magnesium had reduced COVID-19 symptom severity and supplements significantly reduced the need for oxygen and intensive care support.”

How to Improve Your Vitamin B Status
As a general rule, I recommend getting most if not all of your nutrition from real food, ideally organic to avoid toxic pesticides, and locally grown. Depending on your situation and condition, however, you may need one or more supplements.

To start, review the following listing of foods that contain the B vitamins discussed in this article. If you find that you rarely or never eat foods rich in one or more of these nutrients, you may want to consider taking a high quality, ideally food-based supplement.

Also consider limiting sugar and eating fermented foods. The entire B group vitamin series is produced within your gut, assuming you have healthy gut flora. Eating real food, including plenty of leafy greens and fermented foods, will provide your microbiome with important fiber and beneficial bacteria to help optimize your internal vitamin B production.

Vitamin B1

Pork, fish, nuts and seeds, beans, green peas, brown rice, squash, asparagus and seafood.15

The recommended daily allowance for B1 is 1.2 mg/day for men and 1.1 mg/day for women.16

Vitamin B2

Eggs, organ meats, lean meats, green vegetables such as asparagus, broccoli and spinach.17

The RDA is 1.1 mg for adult women and 1.3 mg for men.

Your body cannot absorb more than about 27 mg at a time, and some multivitamins or B-complex supplements may contain unnecessarily high amounts.18

Vitamin B3

Liver, chicken, veal, peanuts, chili powder, bacon and sun-dried tomatoes have some of the highest amounts of niacin per gram.19

Other niacin-rich foods include baker’s yeast, paprika, espresso coffee, anchovies, spirulina, duck, shiitake mushrooms and soy sauce.20

The dietary reference intake established by the Food and Nutrition Board ranges from 14 to 18 mg per day for adults.

Higher amounts are recommended depending on your condition. For a list of recommended dosages, see the Mayo Clinic’s website.21

Vitamin B5

Beef, poultry, seafood, organ meats, eggs, milk, mushrooms, avocados, potatoes, broccoli, peanuts, sunflower seeds, chickpeas and brown rice.22

The RDA is 5 mg for adults over the age of 19.

Pantothenic acid in dietary supplements is often in the form of calcium pantothenate or pantethine.23

Vitamin B6

Turkey, beef, chicken, wild-caught salmon, sweet potatoes, potatoes, sunflower seeds, pistachios, avocado, spinach and banana.24,25

Nutritional yeast is an excellent source of B vitamins, especially B6.26

One serving (2 tablespoons) contains nearly 10 mg of vitamin B6.

Not to be confused with Brewer’s yeast or other active yeasts, nutritional yeast is made from an organism grown on molasses, which is then harvested and dried to deactivate the yeast.

It has a pleasant cheesy flavor and can be added to a number of different dishes.

Vitamin B9

Fresh, raw, organic leafy green vegetables, especially broccoli, asparagus, spinach and turnip greens, and a wide variety of beans, especially lentils, but also pinto beans, garbanzo beans, kidney beans, navy and black beans.27

Folic acid is a synthetic type of B vitamin used in supplements; folate is the natural form found in foods.

(Think: Folate comes from foliage, edible leafy plants.)

For folic acid to be of use, it must first be activated into its biologically active form (L-5-MTHF).

Nearly half the population has difficulty converting folic acid into the bioactive form due to a genetic reduction in enzyme activity.

For this reason, if you take a B-vitamin supplement, make sure it contains natural folate rather than synthetic folic acid.

Nutritional yeast is an excellent source.28

Research29 also shows your dietary fiber intake has an impact on your folate status.

For each gram of fiber consumed, folate levels increased by nearly 2%.

The researchers hypothesize that this boost in folate level is due to the fact that fiber nourishes bacteria that synthesize folate in your large intestine.

Vitamin B12

Vitamin B12 is found almost exclusively in animal tissues, including foods like beef and beef liver, lamb, snapper, venison, salmon, shrimp, scallops, poultry, eggs and dairy products.

The few plant foods that are sources of B12 are actually B12 analogs that block the uptake of true B12.

Nutritional yeast is high in B12, and is highly recommended for vegetarians and vegans.

One serving (2 tablespoons) provides nearly 8 mcg of natural vitamin B12.30

Sublingual (under-the-tongue) fine mist spray or vitamin B12 injections are also effective, as they allow the large B12 molecule to be absorbed directly into your bloodstream."

Sources and References
1, 6 Maturitas August 15, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.08.007 [Epub ahead of print]
2 AOL August 28, 2020
3 MSN August 28, 2020
4, 5 Yahoo August 27, 2020
7 Maturitas August 15, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.08.007 [Epub ahead of print], 1.3. Vitamin B3
8 Maturitas August 15, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.08.007 [Epub ahead of print], 1.5. Vitamin B6
9, 10 ChemRxiv March 30, 2020 DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.12034980.v1 (PDF)
11 Research Square May 26, 2020 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-31775/v1
12 PLoS ONE 5(9): e12244
13 New York Times September 6, 2016
14 Maturitas August 15, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.08.007 [Epub ahead of print], 1.7. Vitamin B12
15 My Food Data, Thiamine
16 Dietary Reference Intakes for B Vitamins
17, 18 NIH.gov Riboflavin
19 Healthaliciousness.com, Top 10 High Niacin Foods
20 Healthaliciousness.com, Niacin-Rich Foods
21 Mayo Clinic Niacin Dosing
22, 23 NIH.gov Pantothenic Acid
24 Worlds Healthiest Foods, Vitamin B6
25 Healthalisciousness.com, Top 10 Foods High in Vitamin B6
26, 30 Self Nutrition Data, Nutritional Yeast
27 Worlds Healthiest Foods, Folate
28 Chalkboard, Nutritional Yeast
29 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1997 Dec;66(6):1414-21

Gwin Ru

5th October 2020, 00:58

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The Quantum Biofeedback Device (starting at 00:12:10):

LF MEETING 8/23/2020 -MEGA, COVID SOLUTION, & FDA BUSTED! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJC3zrAMDiw) 1:16:37

Aug 24, 2020

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rJC3zrAMDiw

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Agape

5th October 2020, 15:23

Just stumbled upon something accidentally but wonder if it’s been tested with the Covid 19.

Antiviral activity of itraconazole against type I feline coronavirus infection (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6339390/)

Itraconazole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itraconazole?wprov=sfti1) is antimycotic type of medicine used against number of fungal infections including respiratory infections.

Itraconazole was approved for medical use in the US in 1992.

Despite all the side effects described it is generally considered “low risk medication”. It’s said to be difficult to swallow and leaves some after taste.

In the research paper above it was found to be effective against several types of viruses including coronavirus in cats.

We have lots of fungus here in the mountains especially around rainy season. Even though people keep white washing and repainting their houses every so often,
all kinds of fungus grow on everything, they love wood of course but also stones, cloths and books.
We disinfect and clean everything in high UV Sunlight after the rainy season however the fungal spores come to be breathed (.)

Sun of course, ultimately heals and dries everything cleansing it to white bones.

While underlying fungal infections of lungs are almost very common and can go long undetected causing only occasional fevers but large formation of sputum
they are fairly difficult to get rid off without knowing the right protocol.

In any case, wonder if it’s been tested already

🙏🌸🙏

For Mind-Only School philosophers, there is a way out I hope

by repeating y-dracon-azole 3 times a Day instead.

Notice it’s draconian measure .

Keep smiling

🙂

rgray222

5th October 2020, 18:57

Back in 1962 (when this was created) here is what they thought disease prevention would look like in the year 2022.

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Gwin Ru

8th October 2020, 12:44

Why did the media stop talking about Sweden? Because no lockdowns looks like this: (https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/why-did-the-media-stop-talking-about-sweden-because-no-lockdowns-looks-like-this/)

by IWB (https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/author/maizipeng/)
October 6, 2020 (https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/why-did-the-media-stop-talking-about-sweden-because-no-lockdowns-looks-like-this/)
https://preview.redd.it/chy3t40toir51.png?width=821&auto=webp&b3b9258d
by UKILL3R

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https://preview.redd.it/chy3t40toir51.png?width=821&auto=webp&b3b9258d
Not only that, Sweden never made masks mandatory. They literally never had to wear masks to this day. This ‘little’ fact is completely suppressed in the news, and now they have the lowest lethality in all of Europe.

Tintin

24th October 2020, 20:37

It's entirely possible that some of these may already have been mentioned on this thread, but, here's a great resource all in one place that reinforces the treatment protocols that can and should be used to counter Covid-19.

Source: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=34225D6F64DEA848!3117&ithint=file%2cdocx&authkey=!AGSm-oWkaownkzo

I'll endeavour to add these to the library over the next day or so, probably in a 'Treatment' folder under the Coronavirus directory.

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Extracted:

May 8, 2020 10am. Low dose Hydroxychloroquine and daily Zinc. Feel free to share this link. https://1drv.ms/w/s!Akio3mRvXSI0mC1kpvqFpGqMJ5M6

This will be updated as time goes by and the link to the updating document is below: Suggested weekly and then perhaps monthly dosing treatment regimens for consideration at bottom of document in consultation with your physician. Caution perhaps refrain from Advil Motrin perhaps other NSAIDS and maybe Tylenol… if able… may potentiate virus replication…unsure- developing.

Proposed early outpatient treatment regimens using Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc- : https://1drv.ms/w/s!Akio3mRvXSI0mSKNeP8T822ka8Fn

Begin Daily Zinc Supplements as soon as possible low/normal daily dose of 11mgto 50mg. Vitamin C and D3 are helpful. Begin use of zinc Ionophore such as moderate low doses of elderberry, blueberries, or quercetin until you can get Hydroxychloroquine and take low dose at least 200mg per month and take one pill daily if showing signs of Covid max 5 days in a row then back to one pill per month. Consult your physician and ask for at least 28 pills. Prepare for “Darkest Winter, 2020”

Darkest Winter 2020 Operation Dark Winter, what is it and how to hopefully prevent it.
Updated: June 15, 2020
Food Supply is Critical- watch out for the middlemen and slaughterhouse bottlenecks.
https://1drv.ms/w/s!Akio3mRvXSI0mk8lB_P3mXINL_fY shareable hyperlink.

Operation Dark Winter was the original name for the Anthrax release of 2001 from Ft Dietrich who’s originator was covered up by the investigators from the Dept of Justice, Robert Mueller and FBI rep James Comey from 2001 to 2010 or so. The actual culprit was perhaps Dr. or Lt. Col Philip Zack Zackerie, not Dr. Hatfill nor the man who was suicided, Bruce Ivins.

Rick Bright alluded to it in his testimony- A Promise and a Threat? https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1260945933476470790?s=21

All roads lead to dark winter
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/all-roads-lead-dark-winter/

Redfield says fall may be worse
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-winter-idUSKCN2233E8

Fauci says we may never get rid of Coronavirus? Or Covid?
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/22/dr-anthony-fauci-warns-the-coronavirus-wont-ever-be-totally-eradicated.html

If this is all true, then should we all not be prophylaxing with the known items that help and will not hurt in Covid-19 such as Zinc D3 C and a zinc ionophore such as elderberry Quercetin or the longest acting and most efficient Hydroxychloroquine at least one 200mg pill a month for an adult.

How to avoid Dark Winter 2020
1. Secure Zinc supplies, don’t overdose, just get 11mg to 50mg per day for everyone within the United States and throughout the hard hit countries advocating for use of hydroxychloroquine.
2. Use in conjunction with a Zinc Ionophore which is Elderberry or Quercetin or Blueberries or best of all, Hydroxychloroquine also in low or moderate dose. If taking hydroxychloroquine in conjunction with a physician ask for at least 28 pills of HCQ 200mg and take one per month however increase to one pill per day if get symptoms of Covid-19/20 such as diarrhea or sore throat and take until symptoms go away, not to exceed 5 days, then back to monthly. This dose will be modified as more is learned about the covid and may vary by weight and size of patient. Children may need very little or small pieces of a pill, no need to take too much.
3. Secure Food Supply Zinc, Vitamin C and Vitamin D3 sources:
a. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10213643624484239&id=1812861901 Shad Sullivan makes a plea- must watch.
b. We hope the President acts to protect independent supply chains of all products including livestock and farm produce and medications.
c. https://massie.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/reps-massie-and-pingree-introduce-bill-to-revive-local-meat-processing
d.
i. Smithfield farms is Chinese owned 100%
ii. JBS industry’s majority Brazilian owned.
iii. Fruit companies and other large processing companies set prices
iv. Farmers cannot sell boxed beef yet USA imports boxed beef from Africa and removed COOL (Country of origin Labeling) now just Grass Fed Free range Hormone Free.
e. The Food supply is an integral part of Operation Darkest Winter and in order to have social unrest the USDA is paying farmers to destroy their crops rather than harvesting them and saving them or exporting them to starving populations and countries throughout the world.
i. Destroy our US milk supply rather than storing it as dry milk or providing it to the children at home and not attending school and fortifying it with vitamin D etc. .
1. Children are depressed and need Vitamin D or replacement vitaminD3 which not only helps prevent depression but protects against influenza and other viruses.
2. Children’s Depression is also prevented with Zinc which is in the chicken and beef and pork etc
3. Producing dried fruits and vegetables and storing or selling them in the world markets.
4. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/04/15/yes-the-us-could-face-minor-local-food-shortages-but-they-will-be-temporary/#47b24ed47f34
ii. Food Riots and blame the President when it was indeed the executive branch- the USDA and FDA who caused the food shortages along with the judiciary who allowed boxed beef imports from Namibia Africa, next to SouthAfrica.
iii. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/30/unit-m30.html
f. Other infections may be on the rise such as West Nile virus
i. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/16/michigan-mosquito-jamestown-canyon-virus/5451248002/
ii.
Second Wave of Covid begins in September:
http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/ihme-models-show-second-wave-covid-19-beginning-september-15-us

Covid seems to be from the Anthrax playbook

Very important to learn about Bioport aka Emergent Biosolutions

And operation Dark Winter (http://avalonlibrary.net/?dir=Dark_Winter_%28Johns_Hopkins_University_simulation%29_2001) (< Admin note :added Avalon Library link)

That June 2001 exercise, known as “Dark Winter,” also predicted many aspects of government pandemic response that would later re-emerge in last October’s simulation “Event 201,” which predicted a global pandemic caused by a novel Coronavirus just months before the Covid-19 outbreak.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-emergent-solutions-plans-corner-covid-19-cure-market/266615/ This is a must read document.

1. Release anthrax from Military Ft Dietrich and pretend it was someone else
2. Shut down Gov and scare people with death- post offices and others
3. Blame wrong people and never identify the real perpetrators. Real perpetrators work for Corporations within gov facilities ie Gilead within Ft Dietrich.
a. Wrong Dr Hatfill was not responsible nor was Ivins,
b. ,Lt. Col. Philip Zack, (Zakerie) who at the time no longer worked at Fort Detrick. A surveillance camera recorded Zack being let in at 8:40 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1992, apparently by Dr. Marian Rippy, a lab pathologist and close friend of Zack's, according to a report filed by a security guard.
4. https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/all-roads-lead-dark-winter/
Rick Bright Fired by Trump warns of Darkest Winter 2020
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1260945933476470790?s=21

5. Bioport makes money now called Emergent Biosolutions

6. https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-anth-day4-bioportdec06-story.html

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2004/10/court-ruling-again-stops-anthrax-shots-us-soldiers

Bioport producer of “treatment” was ready to go with the vaccine- Bioport a Michigan company that was bought and
pilots refused anthrax vaccine

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2002/11/gao-military-anthrax-shots-caused-many-reactions-prompted-some-pilots-quit

vaccine eventually made mandatory again so who is Bioport or now Emergent medical solutions? It is the company that makes Narcan as well as the antrax vaccine.

Is there a new law that mandates inhalable Narcan be given to everyone on opioids? More money for Emergent Biosolutions? Or some other company?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_BioSolutions

and now emergent biosolutions is working on the covid vaccne with Jand J

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/emergent-biosolutions-ceo-on-trumps-wishes-to-develop-a-vaccine-by-year-end-nobody-can-guarantee-anything/ar-BB13AW5K

Articles of interest:

Long-lasting Covid 19 symptoms
https://www.mdedge.com/chestphysician/article/226833/coronavirus-updates/long-lasting-covid-19-symptoms-patients-want/page/0/2?ecd=wnl_evn_200812_mdedge_8pm&uac=67592ST&utm_source=News_MDedge_eNL_081220_A&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Long-lasting%20COVID-19%20symptoms%3A%20Patients%20want%20answers

longstanding lung damage
https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-can-cause-lasting-lung-damage-but-the-effects-may-ease-over-time-140398

reduced lung function
https://m.dw.com/en/covid-19-recovered-patients-have-partially-reduced-lung-function/a-52859671

risk factors for mottality in NYC
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-05983-z

Goba

26th October 2020, 10:36

This kills covid 98% in 48h

V4fEBK1inj4

Tintin

26th October 2020, 10:59

Tintin

28th October 2020, 13:08

Here's some more up to date information relating to Vitamin D from new recent research undertaken at Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital in Spain. As we are all aware Spain has been hit particularly hard and this research seems to shed more light on the likely efficacy of Vit D as a weapon and seems to confirm - again - that a deficiency here leads to complications.

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Source: 21st Century Wire (https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/10/28/new-spanish-study-shows-covid-patients-are-deficient-in-vitamin-d/)

Spain: Study Shows 80% COVID Patients Deficient in Vitamin D
OCTOBER 28, 2020 BY NEWS WIRE

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A new study has all but confirmed the link between COVID sufferers and Vitamin D deficiency. This latest study lends additional support to the argument that cheap therapeutics are already readily available to public – a key point which further demolishes the US, UK government and Big Pharma narrative that “only a vaccine” can save the population from a rapidly waning ‘novel’ coronavirus which is still being used by politicians and the World Economic Forum to justify the continuation of highly damaging lockdown policies.

Results of new research done by the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital in Spain shows that a large number of COVID-19 patients – 82% of them, were found to have low levels of vitamin D, according to this new peer reviewed study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Evidence seems to suggest that out of the 216 tested, more men were affected by this condition than women.

Conversely, a control group showed that only 47% of people who didn’t have the virus were Vitamin D deficient.

Vitamin D is a hormone produced in the kidneys which aids in the regulation of calcium in the bloodstream.

According to researchers, one possible mechanism for the high risk to serious illness in low Vitamin D sufferers could be a clear increase in serum levels of inflammatory markers like D-dimer and ferritin used by the body to fight off an infection.

One specific note: researchers did not find a clear association with the levels of vitamin D and the severity of COVID, or a need to be sent to intensive care, or placed on a ventilator, or death.

According to researcher Dr Jose Hernandez, from the University of Cantabria, “One approach is to identify and treat vitamin D deficiency, especially in high-risk individuals such as the elderly, patients with comorbidities, and nursing home residents, who are the main target population for the COVID-19.”

Regarding the issue of treatment, Dr Hernandez added that, “Vitamin D treatment should be recommended in COVID-19 patients with low levels of vitamin D circulating in the blood since this approach might have beneficial effects in both the musculoskeletal and the immune system.”

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The online-only published research document (https://watermark.silverchair.com/dgaa733.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAArswggK3BgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggKoMI ICpAIBADCCAp0GCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMHEfCsr6mYrVVs926AgEQgIICbmYBflbOiM4Uh1_pCbJSj_F-XBKdXMIOdMMdmLY06yaIpKsbTD5JEjkTVrvJLNeFIc2mjR4MM1wJPo7DkjitMIbNmNv7weZ6aEDXlZKU5_wlGNsY1d0RfLPlRHMM ZLodV-10w2OLJXjpmMPHWreXAt8sgS83BgAVknWqlksoSWWsUUPeVlmI_Xmle4yqNk6ffjjOn3IdloQenqsZA7TuCmYDDUNs9O_VphAxNS eE6BZ4-t1QUefGuZPiKGaTGoDUIrayO9yZyQS5287xnfrbPCnaVUcVqfLNH6-Z8bMW1aR6iusftNDoeU3qpKz_9e2aguWF-RQ9KNCqK1f6GYiWFu97Li0t2EDK7b2cxGp78qpMoBEGmXFOPkCGeIsfLzQJlKHvGmUGDHFIWOFT29e83i0XWxOZ2Kp1tQ1-62iySSE4UDa0sn2EJExX7ae5NAk9ep59r8epKEIb2l9vlQKvItdKTN5bdwc7syCf1bnE1XRtNuqGhytD5Gw9aKoWWvJw12eNVAC3 DefDkxKY17AnwqlC-k_Zb5vcf0UCSPGvpMRRm9V1MLkc5o8_7E6fJS8y40TcaJS4TcuyGyCYzLUZPLjH3AFhaW0XIW4gHSwrFnzDcj3A_bQ9N4wO2XFA8 Uxqqd1_l37KY1nC9_mZzJUwjXlFzdCAJvXmlnYf_2pIvv0nP7qGcNQhljKUTc8gjRbQCsRBwUofeU1lciNZVMCqQG9M5UqMqcu0T VnrKr3jigC7hf8nIYiF2k0d6JsSMapAR_ojTPSj73iBqMvpKGTQMHC0oXSQ05KblhV6ZLdW6TI7xKF0URlWiIphTw-gVQ0) which should go to print soon.

Tintin

10th November 2020, 12:19

Dr. Zev Zelenko treatment and prophylaxis protocols

Dr. Zev Zelenko has today linked via his Twitter feed a latest research study which he has co-authored, linked below, along with his Treatment and Prophylaxis protocols.

I'll attempt to get these in the library before the week is out.

In the meantime these are downloadable via Google docs here:

- Treatment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TaRDwXMhQHSMsgrs9TFBclHjPHerXMuB87DUXmcAvwg/edit

- Prophylaxis: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i7C_6H1Yq0u8lrzmnzt5N1JHg-b5Hb0E3nLixedgwpQ/edit

- The study: COVID-19 outpatients: early risk-stratified treatment with zinc plus low-dose hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: a retrospective case series study

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920304258

Tintin

17th November 2020, 18:12

Bill Ryan

18th November 2020, 12:33

A very interesting new video from Chris Martenson arguing, from detailed case studies, that while hydroxychloroquine is an effective Covid treatment, Invermectin is even better.

:muscle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwJq4u_120U[/url]

Agape

18th November 2020, 13:29

I would still always return to the first page of this thread for list of best of possible treatments.

I’ve just recently had something awful, bronchitis type of cough and cold, it’s cold November after all but it was worse than Covid 19 I swear 🙄
Lots of so called productive cough and nose stuffed continuously, if I did not have skills in cleaning it up it sure would ended badly. Broke down with cough while at bookstore so ran back home. It just misreacted all the time.

Had antibiotic and herbals like Tulsi, Ashwagnada, vitamins and excellent cough syrup with honey but it would never work out without :

oregano - garlic - ginger infusion

lemons and oranges

and glass of whiskey

at the end of the story.

The last item seemed to activate all the previous so finally all symptoms started receding and though I’m probably not on my best performance, I was able to get out for two days now.

The rest of the village too are suffering from the seasonal colds, unavoidably so, it’s always been here, it’s the Himalayas.

But they looked rather surprised I’m out of the worst so soon.

( Insh’Allah)

🙏🌟🙏

Franny

23rd November 2020, 09:00

From Dr Joseph Mercola, another article on how Melatonin can help with CV19. It would be interesting and valuable to know if it helps with other corona viruses as well.

Cleveland Clinic Identifies Melatonin as COVID-19 Treatment
November 23, 2020

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

Melatonin has been shown to play a role in viral infections and research suggests it may be an important adjunct to COVID-19 treatment
Data analysis by Cleveland Clinic found patients who used supplemental melatonin had a 28% lower risk of testing positive for COVID-19. Blacks who used melatonin were 52% less likely to test positive for the virus
Melatonin attenuates several pathological features of COVID-19, including excessive inflammation and oxidation, exaggerated immune response resulting in a cytokine storm, acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome
A case series reports patients given 36 mg to 72 mg of intravenous melatonin per day as an adjunct therapy to standard of care improved within four to five days; all survived
Texas urgent care clinics using high-dose melatonin in combination with vitamin C and vitamin D say they’ve successfully treated hundreds of COVID-19 patients. Melatonin enhances vitamin D signaling and the two work synergistically to enhance your mitochondrial function

Melatonin is a hormone synthesized in your pineal gland and many other organs.1 While it is most well-known as a natural sleep regulator, it also has many other important functions.2

For example, melatonin (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/06/16/health-benefits-melatonin.aspx):

Is a potent antioxidant3 with the rare ability to enter your mitochondria,4 where it helps “prevent mitochondrial impairment, energy failure and apoptosis of mitochondria damaged by oxidation.”5 It also helps recharge glutathione,6 and glutathione deficiency has been linked to COVID-19 severity (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/14/glutathione-deficiency-linked-to-covid-severity.aspx)
Plays an important role in cancer prevention7
Is important for brain, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal health (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/10/02/optimized-gut-health-benefits.aspx)8
Boosts immune function in a variety of ways
May improve the treatment of certain bacterial diseases, including tuberculosis9
Helps quell inflammation (https://articles.mercola.com/inflammation.aspx)
May prevent or improve autoimmune diseases, including Type 1 diabetes10
Is an important energy hormone that can influence your energy level11
Helps regulate gene expression via a series of enzymes12
Has anticonvulsant and antiexcitotoxic properties13

Melatonin Also Has Important Role in COVID-19 Treatment

Melatonin has also been shown to play a role in viral infections14 and according to a June 2020 research paper15,16,17 in Life Sciences journal, it may be an important adjunct to COVID-19 treatment. According to the authors, melatonin attenuates several pathological features of COVID-19, including:18

Excessive oxidative stress and inflammation
Exaggerated immune response resulting in a cytokine storm
Acute lung injury
Acute respiratory distress syndrome

They point out that melatonin is also “effective in critical care patients by reducing vessel permeability, anxiety, sedation use, and improving sleeping quality, which might also be beneficial for better clinical outcomes.”19

The scientific review paper,20 “Melatonin Potentials Against Viral Infections Including COVID-19: Current Evidence and New Findings,” published October 2020 in Virus Research journal, also summarizes the many potential mechanisms by which melatonin can protect against and ameliorate viral infections.

The authors review research looking at melatonin’s beneficial effects against a variety of viruses, including respiratory syncytial virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, viral hepatitis, viral myocarditis, Ebola, West Nile virus and dengue virus. Based on these collective findings, they believe melatonin may offer similar protection against SARS-CoV-2.

Melatonin Reduces Risk of Positive COVID-19 Test

Data 21,22 from Cleveland Clinic also supports the use of melatonin. Here, the researchers analyzed patient data from the Cleveland Clinic’s COVID-19 registry using an artificial intelligence platform designed to identify drugs that may be repurposed.23,24

Patients who used melatonin as a supplement had, on average, a 28% lower risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. Blacks who used melatonin were 52% less likely to test positive for the virus.

By identifying clinical manifestations and pathologies shared by COVID-19 and 64 other diseases, they were able to conclude that certain proteins associated with chronic diseases are highly connected with SARS-CoV-2 proteins. Put another way, a number of proteins appear to play a key role in the pathologies seen both in COVID-19 and other chronic diseases. For example:25

“Analyses of single-cell RNA sequencing data show that co-expression of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 is elevated in absorptive enterocytes from the inflamed ileal tissues of Crohn disease patients compared to uninflamed tissues, revealing shared pathobiology between COVID-19 and inflammatory bowel disease.

Integrative analyses of metabolomics and transcriptomics (bulk and single-cell) data from asthma patients indicate that COVID-19 shares an intermediate inflammatory molecular profile with asthma (including IRAK3 and ADRB2).”

The diagram below illustrates (among other things) the basic pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 (figure A) and the network of disease manifestations associated with the infection (figure C).

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These connections suggest that drugs already in use for a chronic disease may be repurposed and used in the treatment of COVID-19, as it acts on one or more shared biological targets. Melatonin stood out in this regard. Patients who used melatonin as a supplement had, on average, a 28% lower risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. Blacks who used melatonin were 52% less likely to test positive for the virus.

Confounding variables adjusted for in the calculations included age, sex, race, smoking history and several known comorbidities. The authors point out that while the findings look promising, large observational studies and randomized controlled trials are still needed to validate the clinical benefits of melatonin.

Two key data points missing from the analysis are the dosage used and the length of supplementation. These data were not included in the patient registry, so we don’t know how much melatonin is required to lower your risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection to the degree found in this study.

High-Dose Melatonin Successfully Treats COVID-19

It’s possible that higher doses than those used for sleep may be needed, at least when treating an active infection. A recent case series26 published in the journal Melatonin Research details how high-dose intravenous melatonin can benefit patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

Here, patients were given 36 mg to 72 mg per day in four divided doses as an adjunct therapy to standard of care. Most supplements contain between 0.5 mg and 5 mg, and when used for sleep, you’d typically start with the lowest dose and work your way up as needed.

All of the patients given melatonin improved within four to five days, and all survived. On average, those given melatonin were discharged from the hospital after 7.3 days, compared to 13 days for those who did not get melatonin. This is far better than the expensive treatment Remdesivir, which costs over $3,000 and doesn’t produce anywhere near this improvement.

Other Doctors Are Also Using Melatonin Against COVID-19

Dr. Richard Neel and colleagues at Little Alsace and Uvalde Urgent Care clinics in Texas also report using high-dose melatonin in combination with vitamin C and vitamin D, and had as of the last week of July 2020 successfully treated more than 400 patients.27

As reviewed in a section below, melatonin enhances vitamin D signaling and the two work synergistically to enhance your mitochondrial function. Melatonin and vitamin C are both also involved with ACE2, the receptor that SARS-CoV-2 uses to gain entry into the cell.

Together, melatonin and vitamin C help reduce SARS-CoV-2 virulence by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasomes, which in turn inhibits cytokine storms. The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group (FLCCC)28 also lists melatonin as an optional addition to their MATH+ protocol for COVID-19.

How Melatonin Combats COVID-19

Research suggests melatonin may have the ability to combat COVID-19 via several different mechanisms. For example, it’s been shown to regulate immune responses and prevent cytokine storms.29 As explained by the authors of one such study,30 when your immune cells are in a hyper-inflammatory state, their metabolism changes in a way similar to that of cancer cells:

“Similar to cancer cells … immune cells such as macrophages/monocytes under inflammatory conditions abandon mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation for ATP production in favor of cytosolic aerobic glycolysis (also known as the Warburg effect) …

The change to aerobic glycolysis allows immune cells to become highly phagocytic, accelerate ATP production, intensify their oxidative burst and to provide the abundant metabolic precursors required for enhanced cellular proliferation and increased synthesis and release of cytokines ...

Because of melatonin's potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities, it would normally reduce the highly proinflammatory cytokine storm and neutralize the generated free radicals thereby preserving cellular integrity and preventing lung damage.”

Cytokine storm is one of the reasons why sepsis (blood poisoning) is so lethal, and studies have confirmed melatonin has a favorable influence on sepsis. (Sepsis is also a feature of severe COVID-19.) As reported in a 2010 study in the Journal of Critical Care:31

“Melatonin is an effective anti-inflammatory agent … Its anti-inflammatory action has been attributed to inhibition of nitric oxide synthase with consequent reduction of peroxynitrite formation, to the stimulation of various antioxidant enzymes thus contributing to enhance the antioxidant defense, and to protective effects on mitochondrial function and in preventing apoptosis.

In a number of animal models of septic shock, as well as in patients with septic disease, melatonin reportedly exerts beneficial effects to arrest cellular damage and multiorgan failure …

Apart from action on the local sites of inflammation, melatonin also exerts its beneficial actions through a multifactorial pathway including its effects as immunomodulatory, antioxidant and antiapoptotic agent.”

More recently, a 2019 animal study32 in the journal Frontiers in Immunology discusses how melatonin can protect against polymicrobial sepsis — i.e., sepsis caused by more than one microbial organism — which has a twofold higher lethality than unimicrobial sepsis (sepsis caused by a single microbe).33

In this case, melatonin appears to offer protection by having an antibacterial effect on white blood cells called neutrophils. A high neutrophil count is an indicator for infection. Melatonin may also combat SARS-CoV-2 infection by:34

Suppressing oxidative stress35
Regulating blood pressure (a risk factor for severe COVID-19)
Improving metabolic defects associated with diabetes and insulin resistance (risk factors for severe COVID-19) via inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS)
Protecting mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs, which have been shown to ameliorate severe SARS-CoV-2 infection) against injuries and improving their biological activities
Promoting both cell-mediated and humoral immunity
Promoting synthesis of progenitor cells for macrophages and granulocytes, natural killer (NK) cells and T-helper cells, specifically CD4+ cells
Inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasomes36

General Guidance for Supplementation

As mentioned, it’s very difficult to make dosage recommendations based on the limited evidence currently at hand, but since Cleveland Clinic looked at the supplements patients reported using, it seems reasonable to assume they were using it as you typically would. Most melatonin supplements contain between 0.5 mg and 5 mg.

In the case report mentioned earlier, patients were given 36 mg to 72 mg of melatonin intravenously per day, which would likely be excessive for prophylactic use. That said, research37 has found no adverse effects for dosages ranging from 20 mg up to 100 mg.

Whatever dose you take, and I recommend starting low, at 1 mg or less, be sure to take melatonin at night, before bed. Rising melatonin levels is the reason you feel sleepy in the evening, so it’s ill advised to take it in the morning or during the day, when your natural level is (and should be) low. If you happen to wake up in the middle of the night, especially if you’re exposed to a light source, you could also take some then, to help you go back to sleep.

Melatonin is also best taken sublingually, either in the form of a spray or sublingual tablet. Sublingually, it can enter your blood stream directly and doesn’t have to go through the digestive tract. As a result, its effect will be felt more rapidly.

Melatonin and Vitamin D Are a Winning Combo

Another supplement of crucial importance in the age of COVID-19 is vitamin D. Interestingly, melatonin enhances vitamin D signaling, and optimizing your vitamin D may be one of the most beneficial steps you can take to lower all of the risks associated with COVID-19, from reducing your risk of testing positive to lowering your risk of severe infection and death.

To learn more about this, download my free vitamin D report from StopCovidCold.com (https://www.stopcovidcold.com/). Together, melatonin and vitamin D synergistically act to optimize your mitochondrial function. In fact, your mitochondria are the final common target for both.38

A deficiency in either vitamin D or melatonin has been associated with the pathogenesis of several chronic diseases, including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and diabetes, just to name a few.39

These conditions have also emerged as comorbidities that significantly raise your risk of death from COVID-19. Synthesis of both vitamin D and melatonin is also dramatically reduced with advancing age, and old age is a primary risk factor for COVID-19 death. So, while vitamin D3 and melatonin supplementation may be beneficial for most people, it’s particularly important for the elderly.

Support Your Body’s Production of Melatonin and Vitamin D

Keep in mind, however, that it makes little sense to take a supplement unless you’re also seeking to optimize your body’s natural production. In the case of melatonin, this includes making sure you get good sleep on a regular basis.

You also need a good dose of natural sunlight around midday to synchronize your circadian clock so that your body produces melatonin at the appropriate time (i.e., in late evening). As the evening wears on and the sun sets, you’ll want to avoid bright and all blue lighting, as blue light inhibits melatonin synthesis. Blue lighting is predominant in LED and fluorescent bulbs that are “cool white.”

Sun exposure, of course, is also the ideal way to optimize your vitamin D. I recommend getting sensible sun exposure on large portions of your body on a regular basis, ideally daily. For further guidance, see “The Risks and Benefits of Sun Exposure.” (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/04/04/sun-exposure-benefits-risks.aspx)

If for whatever reason you cannot get sufficient amounts of sun exposure, consider taking a vitamin D3 supplement (along with a little extra vitamin K2 to maintain a healthy ratio between these two nutrients).

I personally have not taken any oral vitamin D for well over 10 years and my levels are typically over 60 ng/mL, even in the winter. I have, however, started taking sublingual melatonin a few years ago as I am now in my mid-60s, even though I sleep in pitch dark and get bright sun exposure during the day.

Tintin

25th November 2020, 11:14

Dr Zev Zelenko open letter to President Trump - November 23rd

It can also be downloaded from here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/190obP8Wt02YaCQfp0HBrFNqRmOnWm-uTHgeFw1Yi6U8/edit

________________________________

Dr. Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko
Board Certified Family Practitioner
Office: 845-782-0000

November 23, 2020

Dear President Trump:

I humbly offer the following observations:

1. Based on my front-line experience, it is essential to start treatment against Covid-19 immediately upon clinical diagnosis of the infection and not to wait for confirmatory testing. There is a very narrow window of opportunity to eliminate the virus before pulmonary complications begin. Delaying treatment is the essence of the problem. My treatment regime is attached and please know that as of today it has saved thousands of patients without serious complications or negative side effects. Hundreds of top doctors across the world have embraced prehospital treatment of Covid-19 in high risk patients.

2. Based on my front-line experience, the emphasis must be on preemptive treatment for high-risk patients in the outpatient setting - primary care and urgent care settings. It makes no sense to wait until a patient is admitted to a hospital and put on a ventilator. High-risk patients are those over the age of 45, those with underlying health conditions or compromised immune systems, and anyone with symptoms and shortness of breath.

In addition, we should consider immediate prophylactic treatment of very high-risk individuals.

Very high-risk individuals are front-line health care providers, nursing home residents, police officers, etc.

3. Based on my direct observations, the risk of side effects to this treatment regime is exaggerated. The theoretical risk of heart arrhythmia (QT prolongation) is 1 in a 10000. However, the actual risk of death from Covid-19 in the high-risk population is between 5 to 10%. The risk versus benefit analysis overwhelmingly favors treatment. And in my clinical experience, I have seen no negative side effects.

4. This is World War lll (virus vs humanity). Under these circumstances, we don’t have the luxury of operating as we do in peacetime for studies and research. Millions will die and the economy will collapse while we wait.

Dear Mr. President:

I humbly request the following:

1. We need an executive order to override any state obstacles and to (a) allow all physicians to prescribe the above regime without the fear of liability or retribution; and (b) permit pharmacies to dispense this medication without the fear of liability or retribution.

2. The pharmacies need an immediate supply of sufficient medicine to dispense the above regime to at least 150 million people. Please do everything in your power to achieve this.

4. The Task Force, CDC, FDA, NIH should all issue strong recommendations to physicians to treat their patents early and aggressively based on clinical diagnosis, without the delay caused by confirmatory testing.

5. Any bureaucratic/man made obstacles that interfere with doctors’ ability to treat their patients with these well known, field tested, inexpensive and life saving medications in my humble opinion is inexcusable and should be treated as a crime against humanity.

With much respect,

Dr. Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko

Alan

6th December 2020, 21:09

This is an important update from Dr. Chris Martenson, where he goes so far to say that the evidence for using Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 is now so compelling, that NOT using is should be considered malpractice. The video describes treatment protocols for prevention without exposure, prevention after exposure, and treatment after diagnosis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-S49EqCJ8

This is an example of the treatments:

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From Bill:
The video, about the effectiveness of Ivermectin (carefully citing good research papers), was censored by YouTube. So here it is in the Avalon library:

Ivermectin: Best Covid Treatment To Date By Far!
http://avalonlibrary.net/Coronavirus_(Wuhan_2019-nCov)/Chris_Martenson/Ivermectin_Best_Covid_Treatment_To_Date_By_Far.mp4 (http://avalonlibrary.net/Coronavirus_(Wuhan_2019-nCov)/Chris_Martenson/Ivermectin_Best_Covid_Treatment_To_Date_By_Far!.mp 4)

http://avalonlibrary.net/Coronavirus_(Wuhan_2019-nCov)/Chris_Martenson/Ivermectin_Best_Covid_Treatment_To_Date_By_Far.mp4

Alan

6th December 2020, 21:21

Here is the treatment PDF referenced in the video:

https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf

Gwin Ru

9th December 2020, 12:17

UV Sterilization: Far-UVC light kills airborne flu viruses without danger to humans (https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/16555364/uv-sterilization-faruvc-light-kills-airborne-flu-viruses-without-danger-to-humans)

Use of overhead far-ultraviolet C light in public spaces could provide a powerful check on seasonal influenza epidemics, as well as influenza pandemics.
John Wallace (https://www.laserfocusworld.com/home/contact/16572277/john-wallace)

Apr 1st, 2018

https://img.laserfocusworld.com/files/base/ebm/lfw/image/2018/05/content_dam_lfw_print_articles_2018_04_1804lfw_wn_f5.png?auto=format&w=250

Antiviral effectiveness of 222 nm far-UVC light produced by an excimer lamp (inset) is shown in terms of fractional survival as a function of dose; the means and standard deviation for each dose are shown in blue.

Continuous low doses of far-ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light can kill airborne flu viruses without harming human tissues, according to a new study at the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (New York, NY).1 The findings suggest that use of overhead far-UVC light in hospitals, doctors’ offices, schools, airports, airplanes, and other public spaces could provide a powerful check on seasonal influenza epidemics, as well as influenza pandemics.

Scientists have known for decades that broad-spectrum UVC light, which has a wavelength between 200 and 400 nm, is highly effective at killing bacteria and viruses by destroying the molecular bonds that hold their DNA together. This conventional UV light is routinely used to decontaminate surgical equipment. “Unfortunately, conventional germicidal UV light is also a human health hazard and can lead to skin cancer and cataracts, which prevents its use in public spaces,” says study leader David Brenner.

Several years ago, Brenner and his colleagues hypothesized that far-UVC could kill microbes without damaging healthy tissue. “Far-UVC light has a very limited range and cannot penetrate through the outer dead-cell layer of human skin or the tear layer in the eye, so it’s not a human health hazard. But because viruses and bacteria are much smaller than human cells, far-UVC light can reach their DNA and kill them,” Brenner said.

Excimer lamp sources
Brenner and his group use filtered excimer lamps emitting in the 207–222 nm wavelength range (see figure). For example, 207 nm light is emitted by a krypton-bromine excimer lamp, while 222 nm is emitted by a krypton-chlorine excimer lamp. Brenner’s group started with the 207 nm lamp, publishing results on sterilization of bacteria in 2013 (https://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2013/10/narrow-spectrum-uv-light-at-207-nm-may-reduce-surgical-infections.html)2—in 2017, the results at 222 nm for bacteria were reported.3
The latest study showed that far-UVC at 222 nm inactivates more than 95% of airborne aerosolized H1N1 influenza viruses at a low dose of 2 mJ/cm2. Because light at wavelengths from 207 to 222 nm are completely absorbed by the dead outer layer of skin and by the outer tear layer of the eye, these wavelengths are safe for humans (unlike the commonly used 254 nm germicidal wavelength that can cause skin cancers, including deadly melanoma).

As a result, continuous very low-dose-rate far-UVC light could be integrated into overhead lamps for hospitals, schools, airports, and so on—potentially drastically reducing influenza. As a bonus, UVC light could prevent the spread of airborne microbial diseases such as tuberculosis.

While the use of UV germicidal irradiation to kill germs is not new, the use of conventional (not far) UVC requires some way of greatly limiting peoples’ light exposure, such as the addition of louvers to prevent direct exposure to UV. These setups intrinsically are more limited in their usefulness, as they don’t irradiate the entire room. In contrast, use of low-level far-UVC fixtures safely irradiate areas full of humans and their clouds of viruses.

At a price of less than $1000 per lamp, a cost that would likely decrease if the lamps were mass-produced, far-UVC lights are relatively inexpensive. “And unlike flu vaccines, far-UVC is likely to be effective against all airborne microbes, even newly emerging strains,” Brenner says.

REFERENCES
1. D. Welch et al., Sci. Rep. (2018); doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21058-w.
2. M. Buonanno et al., PLOS One (2013); see https://goo.gl/MqJT5V.
3. M. Buonanno et al., Radiat. Res. (2017); see https://doi.org/10.1667/rr0010cc.1.

Gwin Ru

14th December 2020, 15:56

While the world is going on a vaccine frenzy, the Indian government is distributing a home COVID kit with: Zinc, Doxycycline, and Ivermectin (https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/while-the-world-is-going-on-a-vaccine-frenzy-the-indian-government-is-distributing-a-home-covid-kit-with-zinc-doxycycline-and-ivermectin/)

December 12, 2020 (https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/while-the-world-is-going-on-a-vaccine-frenzy-the-indian-government-is-distributing-a-home-covid-kit-with-zinc-doxycycline-and-ivermectin/) by IWB (https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/author/maizipeng/)
by i-technology
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World news on how different countries are managing the pandemic.

Personally I’d love to see more countries investing into nutrition and lifestyle education

Some of you may wonder if this is available in the USA.

Yes via some doctors, they actually do have the right to prescribe whatever they think can help a patient, but it’s mainly a question of education.

See US Senate hearing
youtu.be/Tq8SXOBy-4w (https://youtu.be/Tq8SXOBy-4w)

Eastern Virginia Medical School
www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/ (https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/)

Tintin

14th December 2020, 16:56

Here is the treatment PDF referenced in the video:

https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf

This protocol has been removed from the EVMS page. Has it been downloaded by anyone? That said I have sourced a half dozen Ivermectin studies this week, it may be among them.

I routinely access these when they are cited but not on this occasion - I haven't quite yet seen the video although it's right up there on my list for viewing properly this week..

Alan

14th December 2020, 17:22

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Wow! I saved it.

Alan

15th December 2020, 13:19

I searched the evms.edu web site, interestingly they still have this other treatment summary PDF. Screen shots are included below.

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Alan

15th December 2020, 18:14

Looks like that PDF still exists on that web site, was just moved.

https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID_19_Protocol.pdf

onawah

18th December 2020, 05:28

Campaign to Put the C Into COVID
DECEMBER 16, 2020
CATEGORY: STOP CRONY HEALTHCARE
https://anh-usa.org/campaign-to-put-the-c-into-covid/

(Hyper links in the article not embedded here.)
"Landmark paper triggers launch of international vitamin C campaign. Action Alert!

By Rob Verkerk PhD, founder, executive and scientific director of ANH-International

If you’re a human, gorilla, chimp, fruit bat or guinea pig (among the few species that have lost the ability to make vitamin C within the body), you live in the northern hemisphere, and you’re not taking vitamin C more than once a day, you’re likely to be putting yourself at unnecessary risk from respiratory infections.

If you’re older, or you suffer from underlying conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes or obesity, these could be life threatening. Covid-19 is but one virus, of over 200, known to infect the human airway and cause respiratory diseases.

Not only can we not make our own vitamin C, we also don’t get anything like enough from our diet. More than that, our vitamin C requirement increases 10 times or more when our immune system is challenged by infection.

But there’s more still. There’s mounting research on the importance of high dose vitamin C as an adjunct therapy for those seriously ill with covid disease – and, those who suffer the worse impacts from the disease, have very low vitamin C status. Their circulating levels of vitamin C are so low – they’re likely to be firmly within the levels that cause the vitamin C deficiency disease, scurvy. Yes, scurvy may be a historic disease, but it’s very much with us in this modern world in which the vitamin C content of our industrialised food supply is so low that, for most of us, our only option is now to take vitamin C as a supplement. Or if we get really sick, have it administered intravenously by forward-thinking medics.

This all sets the scene for why a global campaign – something we’re thrilled to be a part of – is so necessary and why it’s been launched this week, on the back of a review article published in the journal Nutrients that puts all the arguments and science in one, neat place. See:
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/12/3760

That makes it harder for those who’re not keen to accept that a humble vitamin, like vitamin C, has so much to offer, at such low cost, and with such an extraordinary safety profile. Put as simply as we can: taking vitamin C as a preventative and then, upping your intake if you’re infected, is a no brainer. So is using vitamin C intravenously for those with acute respiratory infections, or sepsis, in critical care.

So much so, that we argue – given the now available evidence – that doctors and other health professionals who avoid recommendations on vitamin C in relation to covid disease prevention and treatment, should be considered medically negligent.

On 7th December, a landmark paper on the importance of vitamin C was published. Lead author and instigator of the international campaign is none other than nutritionist and best-selling author Patrick Holford. Patrick has pulled together many of the leading scientists and clinicians working with vitamin C and other vitamins, including Dr Paul Marik, leading the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance in the US, and Ass Prof Anitra Carr from the University of Otago in New Zealand, both of whom have been working with vitamin C in both sepsis and covid-19 patients.

I’m honoured to have been asked by Patrick to join the scientific advisory board and act as campaign advisor for the newly launched Vitamin C 4 Covid campaign.

Editor’s note: As we’ve been saying for some time, there is ample evidence to show that supplements like zinc, vitamin C, and vitamin D can help prevent and treat COVID-19, but we’re prevented from learning about these benefits by the federal government. Because supplements are not, and can never become, FDA-approved, they cannot claim to have an impact on disease, even when we know they can. This nonsense has to stop.

Action Alert! Sign our petition that seeks to reform a healthcare system that blocks access to natural treatments that generally cannot go through FDA approval. Also sign this petition to support Vitamin C 4 COVID. Please send your message immediately."
https://anh-usa.org/campaign-to-put-the-c-into-covid/

onawah

18th December 2020, 20:01

The AMA Quietly Admits They Lied About Hydroxychloroquine
Dec 15, 2020
By Rush Limbaugh
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/12/15/the-ama-quietly-admits-they-lied-about-hydroxychloroquine/

"RUSH: I’m old enough to remember when hydroxychloroquine was a kook theory from a kook president. Now all of a sudden it is amazing the things that are happening after an election where this kook, this so-called kook, Donald Trump, has lost, allegedly lost. Now all of a sudden the AMA — although very quietly — that hydroxychloroquine is okay. It’s perfectly fine. Go ahead and use it if you want. It can be helpful.

How many people do you think — we’ll never know — how people do you think died needlessly because they were sent home to ride it out or were afraid to go to the doctor or were afraid to take hydroxychloroquine because of what they were hearing about it in the Drive-By Media?

Now, if you doubt the corruption in the numbers of COVID cases, consider that the AMA, the American Medical Association, lied to us about using hydroxychloroquine. Here’s the headline. “AMA Rescinds Previous Statement Against Prescription of Hydroxychloroquine to COVID-19 Patients. The AMA, in a surprising move, has officially rescinded -” for those of you in Rio Linda, that means they’ve taken it back “–a previous statement against the use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, giving physicians the okay to return to utilizing the medication at their discretion.”

Wait a minute. I remember when we were told that this stuff could kill you. Do you remember, in fact, when Trump talked about hydroxychloroquine during… oh, was it when he had it? When he had COVID-19 or was it before? Might have been before. Who was it that was on television that went nuts, saying, “Mr. President, you’re killing people, you’re killing people, you’re asking people to die.” Who was it? It was some prominent cable news person that accused Trump of killing people by suggesting that hydroxychloroquine was okay to use. I can’t remember who it was, but it’ll come to me.

But now it’s perfectly fine. You see, “Previously, the AMA had issued a statement in March that was highly critical of HCQ in regards to its use as a proposed treatment by some physicians in the early stages of COVID-19. In addition to discouraging doctors from ordering the medication in bulk,” they suggested that there was no reason to prescribe it, that it could kill, that it could seriously damage. And now that Trump is gone, they think, now that Trump is fini, oh, guess what? Hydroxychloroquine is perfectly fine to use.

RUSH: We found the audio.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CAVUTO-IT-WILL-KILL-YOU-e1608061224617.jpeg

This is Neil Cavuto. This is back in May. May 19th, 2020.

CAVUTO: A VA study showed that among a population of uhhh veterans in a hospital receiving this treatment, those with vulnerable conditions, respiratory conditions, heart ailments, they died. It will kill you! I cannot stress enough: This will kill you.

RUSH: Trump took hydroxychloroquine. That’s what prompted Neil Cavuto to tell people, “Don’t do it! It’ll kill you! It’s gonna kill you.” Now, the AMA, the reason we’re making a deal out of this, the AMA has rescinded all of this. The AMA has rescinded every critical thing they ever said about hydroxychloroquine. Do you realize how much money we could have saved? Do you realize how many lives could have been saved if this drug would have been free to be prescribed?

It’s a moot point now.

RUSH: Let me ask you a question. How much did it hurt Trump that the American Medical Association was literally lying about hydroxychloroquine? Trump comes out and advocates it. “You’re killing people! You’re going to kill people. Hydroxychloroquine is a killer! You’re irresponsible!” How much of that do you think cost Trump some votes?

In other words, the AMA knowingly lying about hydroxychloroquine, could you say that it’s another form of election meddling? I mean, how many people didn’t vote for Trump because of what they thought hydroxychloroquine would do based on what he said?

How many people bought into the idea that hydroxychloroquine could kill you and Trump is advocating that you take it? And there are countless other examples of this kind of distortion of things that Trump has said. But now all of a sudden, guess what? They’re perfectly fine. Everything’s okay."
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UPDATE: American Medical Association Considers Resolution On Statement Against Prescription Of Hydroxychloroquine For COVID-19 Patients
By Christopher Boyle On Dec 11, 2020
https://www.publishedreporter.com/2020/12/11/american-medical-association-rescinds-previous-statement-against-prescription-of-hydroxychloroquine-to-covid-19-patients/

"Previous to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hydroxychloroquine has been known as a safe, generic drug that has been FDA approved for 65 years, given to pregnant women, breastfeeding women, children, the elderly and the immune-compromised for years and decades without complication.
UPDATE/CORRECTION DECEMBER 14 2020: This article was corrected. A previous version of this story did not include the meeting results for either ADOPTION or NON-ADOPTION of the resolution. This RESOLUTION was included with many others presented at a Special Meeting of the AMA in November 2020. RESOLUTIONS are generated by AMA delegates/delegations, the AMA Board of Trustees, AMA Councils and AMA Sections. The RESOLUTION must be accepted and this resolution was not accepted. The RESOLUTION was reaffirmed. See the disclosure on this page referencing items to be considered by the House. https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-12/resolutions-not-considered-november-2020.pdf

CHICAGO, IL – The American Medical Association (AMA) was considering rescinding a previous statement against the use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Previously , the AMA had issued a statement in March that was highly critical of HCQ in regards to its use as a proposed treatment by some physicians in the early stages of COVID-19. In addition to discouraging doctors from ordering the medication in bulk for “off-label” use – HCQ is typically used to treat diseases such as malaria – they also claimed that there was no proof that it was effective in treating COVID, and that its use could be harmful in some instances.

“We caution hospitals, health systems, other entities, and individual practitioners that no medication has been FDA-approved for use in COVID-19 patients,” the AMA’s March statement reads in regards to HCQ and similar unconventional treatments. “Definitive evidence for the role of these drugs in treating COVID-19 patients has not been determined through robust clinical trials; decisions to use these medications off-label must be made with extreme caution and careful monitoring. Physicians, pharmacists, patients and policymakers must understand that these medications have dangerous side effects that may lead to patient harm, including fatal cardiac arrhythmias.”

Recently, included in materials presented for adoption (Resolution 509), the organization was considering a resolution to reverse their stance on HCQ, stating that its potential for good may supersede the threat of any potential harmful side effects.

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“RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association rescind its statement calling for physicians to stop prescribing hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine until sufficient evidence becomes available to conclusively illustrate that the harm associated with use outweighs benefit early in the disease course,” the memo reads.

Nonetheless, the recommendation still left the door open for more research into HCQ and other alternative COVID-19 treatments in corporation with two national associations representing pharmacists.

“RESOLVED, That our AMA rescind its joint statement with the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health System Pharmacists, and update it with a joint statement notifying patients that further studies are ongoing to clarify any potential benefit of hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for the treatment of COVID-19,” the memo said.

UPDATE: RECOMMENDED FOR NON ADOPTION
RESOLUTION 509 – HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND 7 COMBINATION THERAPIES – OFF-LABEL USE WAS RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION BUT WAS REAFFIRMED – HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE COMBINED WITH ZINC AND AZITHROMYCIN REMAINS A HOTELY DEBATED TOPIC WITH ONE STUDY SET TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS THIS MONTH, DECEMBER.

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RESOLUTION 509 – HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND 7 COMBINATION THERAPIES – OFF-LABEL USE WAS RECOMMENDED FOR NON ADOPTION AND WAS REAFFIRMED
Dr. Simone Gold, widely known for her involvement in America’s Frontline Doctors and her mostly censored press conferences called “White Coat Summit’s” on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C., Gold, a board certified emergency physician and attorney called the association a “corrupt organization representing only a tiny number of physicians.”

IT IS CURRENTLY NOT KNOWN IF DOCTOR GOLD TWEETED THE RESOLUTION WHILE AWARE THAT IT WAS NOT YET OFFICIALLY ADOPTED BY AMA OR IF SHE KNEW IT WAS ONLY PROPOSED AND USED ITS PROPOSAL INTENTIONALLY TO CALL ATTENTION TO THE ISSUE. WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO GOLD AND HAVE NOT YET HEARD BACK. WE WILL ADD HER RESPONCE IF ONE IS FORTHCOMING.
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In a recent interview Dr. Gold opined that a suppression of truth is an effort “coordinated at the highest levels” saying that experimental vaccines should be reserved for instances where there is a serious threat.

“It is fundamentally irrational to take an untested, unproven, untried, brand new medication of any sort when you have a tried and true medicine that has been around for decades.” Dr. Gold continued, “It is irrational to take an untested medication that is shielded from liability when you are perfectly healthy and the virus you are trying to prevent is non-lethal and you are highly likely to recover from it.”

The AMA, founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897, is the largest association of physicians and medical students in the United States.

Related: Ingraham: The Truth About Hydroxychloroquine – Apr 22, 2020

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UPDATE/CORRECTION DECEMBER 14 2020: This article was corrected. A previous version of this story did not include the meeting results for either ADOPTION or NON-ADOPTION of the resolution. This RESOLUTION was included with many others presented at a Special Meeting of the AMA in November 2020. RESOLUTIONS are generated by AMA delegates/delegations, the AMA Board of Trustees, AMA Councils and AMA Sections. The RESOLUTION must be accepted and this resolution was not accepted. The RESOLUTION was reaffirmed. See the disclosure on this page referencing items to be considered by the House."https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-12/resolutions-not-considered-november-2020.pdf

https://www.publishedreporter.com/2020/12/11/american-medical-association-rescinds-previous-statement-against-prescription-of-hydroxychloroquine-to-covid-19-patients/

( I think we may need someone who speaks "Legalise" to interpret this: "The RESOLUTION must be accepted and this resolution was not accepted. The RESOLUTION was reaffirmed.") ...Although the fact the resolution was at least considered should be enough for anyone who understands that the so-called "trials" on hydroxychloroquine were doomed to fail because the dosages were much too high.)

Gwin Ru

19th December 2020, 19:16

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... preventing GMO mosquito bites...

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meat suit

19th December 2020, 19:41

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... preventing GMO mosquito bites...

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they dont all have MRC-5 in it..

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/15/aborted-fetal-cells-in-coronavirus-vaccines.aspx

from article:
Vaccine makers using either "ethically derived" cell lines, meaning cell lines that do not originate from aborted human fetuses, or no cell lines at all, include Moderna, Merck, Novavax, Sanofi Pasteur, Pfizer, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline and Sinovac.

Gwin Ru

2nd January 2021, 01:58

Twitter blocks European MEDICAL JOURNAL after it published study on promising ivermectin treatment for Covid-19 (https://www.rt.com/usa/511259-twitter-censors-ivermectin-journal-covid/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/usa/511259-twitter-censors-ivermectin-journal-covid/)
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Twitter has blocked a link to an article in a peer-reviewed scientific journal that suggested the antiparasitic drug ivermectin could be useful against Covid-19. The platform claims the journal's website is "potentially unsafe."

Twitter user Karl Denninger (@TickerGuy) posted a link to an observational stud (https://www.ejmed.org/index.php/ejmed/article/view/599/337)y (https://www.ejmed.org/index.php/ejmed/article/view/599/337) in the European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences that found healthcare workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh who were treated with ivermectin as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) were markedly less likely to become infected with Covid-19. Just 6.9 percent of those given the drug tested positive for Covid-19, while a whopping 73.3 percent of those who did not became infected.

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No sooner had his tweet slamming the "GHOULS" in charge of the US response to the pandemic (and telling doubters to stick the study where the sun doesn't shine) gone live on Thursday morning, however, than Denninger discovered Twitter had blocked the link with a warning screen advising users "this site may be unsafe."

Users who attempted to access the peer-reviewed journal were confronted with an alert that the link was "identified by Twitter or partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe" and could potentially "steal personal information or harm electronic devices." This would be quite an accomplishment for a static text-only page with no links or scripts running.

Twitter's fondness for blocking traffic to "wrongthink" sites with spurious warning pages is a well-established headache for the alternative media, but ejmed.org (http://ejmed.org/) is no ZeroHedge or BitChute. Indeed, it's not political at all, let alone pro- or anti-establishment. Nevertheless, the social media behemoth saw fit to block not just that one article, but the whole ejmed.org (http://ejmed.org/) site.

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Even in the face of such a significant difference between the experimental and control trial group, the authors were tentative in their conclusions, stating only that ivermectin "should be subjected to large-scale trials all over the world to ascertain its effectiveness as pre-exposure prophylaxis for Covid-19."

While the off-patent drug is best known as a deworming medicine, it also has an established reputation as an antiviral drug. Over two dozen trials (https://ivmmeta.com/) have suggested it is effective in treating even late-stage Covid-19, including one successful study by the same Bangladeshi researchers who published the ivermectin-as-PreP paper.

Were such a drug to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment of Covid-19, however, it could jeopardize the newly-released vaccines' emergency use authorization, which requires there be no safe and approved treatments for a disease before a vaccine can be deployed on an emergency basis. Ivermectin is FDA-approved — like another controversial drug, hydroxychloroquine, it's been on the market for decades for use treating other conditions. However, the agency has thus far refused to consider approving ivermectin to treat coronavirus.

While Twitter has not explained its decision to block the entire website of the [I]European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, the platform declared earlier this month that it would be removing all "misleading" tweets about vaccines. Any post that suggests vaccines intentionally cause harm, "control populations," or have side effects is fair game, as is any tweet that suggests Covid-19 is not serious. While most of these guidelines are subjective, Twitter plans to double down on them in the new year, adding warning labels to tweets with "disputed" claims about vaccines.

For now, however, Denninger seems to have found a way around Twitter's mysterious outburst of anti-academic bigotry, posting a screen-cap of another study that came to similar conclusions as the censored paper in addition to the link.

palehorse

2nd January 2021, 15:15

Hello folks, today after talk to a farmer, he told me about this root called (Thai name: กระชาย Kra-cha; Botanical name: Boesenbergia rotunda; English popular name: fingerroot, lesser galangal, Chinese ginger), could help with CoV-19 treatment, I was wondering where it is true or just people's belief. I did a little research on the root name and I found a very interesting document that I am going to share here.

They compare the efficacy of these plant extracts against Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.

"Boesenbergia rotunda (fingerroot) belongs to the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).. This herb is widely used culinarily in China and Southeast Asia. Extracts of fingerroot rhizomes are well-known for its various pharmacological effects such as anti-allergic, antibacterial, antioxidant, and anti-tumor activities. Among the major active ingredients found in fingerroot, panduratin A, a prenylated cyclohexenyl chalcone, has been reported to possibly exhibit the antiviral activity against HIV-1 and dengue virus (DENV)."

Here is the entire research for anyone interested in read it all.
https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-32489/v1/53842599-3254-41fe-a706-0ecd8318e87b.pdf

Here is the plant I am talking about, the useful part is the rizhome. This plant is very popular here in Thailand and Indonesia. You can find it easily on people's garden, also available in fresh markets.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Boon_Chin_Tan2/publication/275050139/figure/fig2/AS:317521040298017@1452714323701/Different-segments-of-Boesenbergia-rotunda-L-Mansf-for-conventionally-propagated-and.png
Boesenbergia-rotunda - lesser galangal

Here is the conclusion of that research
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I have another .doc from the same researches, there is a table with 122 plants with potential for treatments, once I figure out how to make an image of it I will edit this post.

[EDIT] here it is

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Trisher

3rd January 2021, 11:42

Here is a video from Dr Klinghart for prevention, treatment during and treatment after for "long Covid".
I made a summary of his recommendations and have kept to herbals and non medicals.
Cistus tea..both prevents and treats.
HOCL for disinfecting and spraying in eyes nose and throat both preventing and treating.
Andrographis to prevent virus from sticking. Use this with Quercetin and zinc to get zinc into the cells.
Japanese Knotweed which blocks proteins necessary for virus to attach.
Artemesia Annua for treating pulmonary fibrosis and scarring of lungs.
Licquorice root for prevention and treatment.
Nitric Oxide which is effective for the accute form. He suggest humming and breathing out at the same time to raise these levels.
Vitc as ascorbic acid 1-2 grams every hour to treat.
Chlorine Dioxide look up Anreas Kalcker for more info on this but it is an effective covid remedy.
Vit A sterilises mucous membranes
Vit D with K
Inhaling HOCL and also propolis through vapouriser for effective lung treatment.
Scutelaria which reduces inflammation
Broccoli extract.
He says that people who get really ill with this in his experience are in a high EMF environment and/or have a high level of toxins in their bodies. He also notes that areas with high levels of chlorine in the drinking water have more severe cases so recommends filtered water.

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Another important video here from Dr Seneff who looks at the glyphosate levels in the body and Covid connection. She suggests some remedies for getting it out of the body.

https://theconsciousresistance.com/is-there-a-glyphosate-covid19-connection-w-dr-stephanie-seneff/

Alan

3rd January 2021, 14:20

Alan

3rd January 2021, 14:42

Speaking of Ivermectin, just saw this on lewrockwell.com:

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TomKat

3rd January 2021, 18:12

This has probably been mentioned before, but here in the USA you can buy Ivermectin for horses with no prescription, either on Amazon or other places like Tractor Supply (which is where I bought some, it comes in an apple flavored paste).

It is interesting to read the reviews on Amazon for these products, they're filled with testimonials of people consuming the horse medicine to successfully treat their scabies.

I got some horse paste on Amazon. It's a tube that's marked for every 250 lbs of horse. I guess a 200 lb human dose would 4/5ths of a 250 lb horse dosage?

I also heard that Ivermectin will kill cats and dogs, so horse owners don't allow their pets around when the horses are getting their doses.

Alan

3rd January 2021, 18:23

I also heard that Ivermectin will kill cats and dogs, so horse owners don't allow their pets around when the horses are getting their doses.

We have given our dogs a monthly dose of Heartgard for years, as a heartworm preventative. It's active ingredient is Ivermectin.

palehorse

4th January 2021, 02:38

Airelle77

4th January 2021, 03:41

Carry on using Vic's mate!

onawah

5th January 2021, 03:27

Artemisinin From Sweet Wormwood Inhibits SARS-CoV-2
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
January 04, 2021
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/01/04/artemisinin-from-sweet-wormwood-inhibits-sars-cov-2.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20210104&mid=DM765304&rid=1051167904

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"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
An antimalarial treatment made from the plant Artemisia annua (Sweet Wormwood) shows promise as a COVID-19 treatment
The drug artesunate — which contains two compounds found in Artemisia annua: artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin — is a first-line treatment for malaria
In a recent in vitro study, both pretreatment and treatment with artemisinin extracts, synthetic artemisinin and the drug artesunate were able to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, artesunate was the most potent in terms of treatment, and from a clinical perspective may be the only one worth pursuing
Artesunate’s mechanism of action against SARS-CoV-2 is as yet unknown, but artemisinin does have confirmed antiviral activity
The World Health Organization has come out in opposition to artemisinin-based products, warning their use can bolster drug-resistant strains of malaria parasites. For this reason, people living in malaria-prone areas should be cautious about using this plant remedy

A second antimalarial treatment is now being seriously considered and evaluated for its efficacy against COVID-19. The treatment is made from the plant Artemisia annua, which most people know as Sweet Wormwood. Other names for this plant include Annual Sagewort and Sweet Annie.

Research over the past few decades has revealed multiple health benefits from this medicinal herb, which has a centuries-long history of use in folk medicine. In 2015, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou received a partial Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin,1 both of which have potent malaria-fighting properties.

As reported by the University of Kentucky,2 “The popular malaria drug artesunate was developed from those compounds and is still used as a first-line treatment for the disease today.”

Artemisinin — A Viable COVID-19 Remedy?
Interestingly, in addition to having a long-standing history of being used as a highly effective antiparasitic, it also has anticancer properties. Additionally, artemisia annua has antiviral activity that might be helpful against SARS-CoV-2.

In an April 8, 2020, press release Mateon Therapeutics reported3 that “Artemisinin is highly potent at inhibiting the ability of the COVID-19 causing virus (SARS-CoV-2) to multiply while also having an excellent safety index.”

After testing the plant’s antiviral effects in a laboratory setting for a couple of years, University of Kentucky researchers are also exploring its use for the treatment of COVID-19,4 as are researchers in Denmark and Germany.5 According to the University of Kentucky:6

“Surprisingly, results showed that the plant’s leaves, when extracted with absolute ethanol or distilled water, provided more antiviral activity than the actual drug itself — meaning that an Artemisia annua-blended coffee or tea could possibly be more effective than taking the drug.”

Based on these findings, researchers have decided to test artemisinin in patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Some of the first human studies, set to investigate both the extract blended into coffee and tea, as well as the drug artesunate, were implemented by UK HealthCare.

University of Kentucky researchers have founded a company called ArtemiFlow to develop and manufacture the drug, in collaboration with the Kentucky Tobacco Research & Development Center.7 A sister company, ArtemiLife, is marketing Artemisia tea and coffee to raise research funds.

Mechanism of Action Remains Unknown
As for its mechanism of action, such details still remain to be discovered. C&EN explains:8

“When countering malaria, artemisinin exploits the parasite’s taste for hemoglobin in its host’s blood. As the parasite digests hemoglobin, it frees the iron-porphyrin heme complex from the protein.

Because this heme is toxic to the parasite, the organism normally converts the complex to a more benign crystalline form. ‘But artemisinin corrupts this heme-detoxification pathway,’ says Paul O’Neill, a medicinal chemist at the University of Liverpool.

If artemisinin does have any effect against SARS-CoV-2, though, it likely relies on a completely different mechanism than the one it uses against the malaria parasite, Harvard’s [malaria researcher Dyann F.] Wirth says.”

In Vitro Study Reports Positive Results
An in vitro study9,10 looking at the efficacy of artemisinin-based treatments against SARS-CoV-2, posted on the prepublication server bioRxiv, October 5, 2020, report promising results.

Both pretreatment and treatment with artemisinin extracts, synthetic artemisinin and the drug artesunate were able to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, artesunate was the most potent in terms of treatment, and from a clinical perspective may be the only one worth pursuing.
The study was a collaboration between researchers from Germany, Denmark and Hong Kong, led by Kerry Gilmore, Ph.D., from the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany.

Three artemisinin extracts, as well as pure, synthetic artemisinin, artesunate and artemether were evaluated. During the initial screening for antiviral activity, a German SARS-CoV-2 strain obtained from Munich was used.

Later on, during the concentration-response phase of the trial, they used a Danish SARS-CoV-2 strain from Copenhagen. These two strains are said to be “more closely related to the majority of SARS-CoV-2 strains circulating worldwide than the Wuhan strain.”11,12

In summary, they found that both pretreatment and treatment with artemisinin extracts, synthetic artemisinin and the drug artesunate were able to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection of Vero E6 cells and human hepatoma Huh7.5 cells. That said, artesunate was the most potent in terms of treatment, and from a clinical perspective may be the only one worth pursuing.13,14

World Health Organization Warns Against Its Use
While the world is eager to add another remedy to its COVID-19 treatment list, the World Health Organization has come out in opposition to artemisinin-based products. In a May 27, 2020, article, C&EN reported:15

“One of the most high-profile advocates for using the herbal remedy against the novel coronavirus is Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina, who has been touting Covid-Organics, a tonic containing A. annua that the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research developed …

But health officials are deeply concerned about the promotion and use of these herbal remedies for three principal reasons. First, no evidence exists that A. annua extracts can prevent or cure COVID-19 …

Second, A. annua preparations such as teas, tonics, or herbal capsules also contain a cocktail of bioactive compounds in addition to artemisinin that can have side effects such as dizziness, hearing problems, and vomiting.

Third, and perhaps most worrying of all, widespread use of A. annua herbal extracts could bolster drug-resistant strains of malaria parasites such as Plasmodium falciparum.16

For people living in regions where malaria is endemic, exposure to subtherapeutic doses of artemisinin in A. annua may be enough to kill off some of the parasites in their bodies, but not all of them. Clearing out weakling parasites leaves more room for drug-resistant siblings to proliferate, rendering vital ACTs [artemisinin-based combination therapies] ineffective.”

According to Pascal Ringwald, who heads up the drug resistance and response unit of the WHO Global Malaria Program, artemisinin resistance is a significant problem in Southeast Asia, where Artemisia readily grows and is commonly used.17

That said, this risk is bound to be slight for Americans and people in many other Western countries where malaria is exceedingly rare. According to C&EN,18 “Scientists interviewed by C&EN agree that although this use is against WHO recommendations, it does not risk accelerating resistance because there are so few cases of malaria in the U.S.” "

+ Sources and References
1 NobelPrize.org Tu Youyou
2, 4, 6 University of Kentucky August 11, 2020
3 Mateon Therapeutics April 8, 2020
5, 7, 8, 15, 17, 18 C&EN May 27, 2020
9, 11, 13 bioRxiv October 5, 2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.05.326637
10, 12, 14 News-medical.net October 6, 2020
16 WHO.int Use of Non-Pharmaceutical Forms of Artemisia October 10, 2019

Franny

5th January 2021, 06:39

I was looking at the horse paste and the amount of Ivermectin in each 250 pound section is about 22.75 mg.

The dose for a human is either 3 mg or 12 mg depending on circumstances, most I have seen recommend 12 mg.

Take a look at the information below for where you might fit into this early treatment protocol or check other sources that would suit you better.

The FDA does not recommend veterinary ivermectin for humans. When I worked with horses I used several vet remedies with success and no ill effects that I noticed but never used any oral remedy.

Dr. George Fareed and Dr. Brian Tyson share early treatment protocol

Early treatment protocol (https://www.thedesertreview.com/content/tncms/live/)

Dr. George Fareed, Imperial Valley frontline doctor fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic locally, has been fielding phone calls from across the nation helping those afflicted but unable to get early treatment from their medical establishments.

“I’m really busy, but I’m willing to help anyone,” Fareed said.

The doctor reached out to The Desert Review suggesting publication of the Protocol he and Dr. Brian Tyson have refined for their local patients that has been so successful. Fareed also included in his material what Dr. Zelenko, a pioneer in repurposing medicines for the virus has developed as a prophylaxis, a preventative subscription.

Also included in the material submitted, is a follow up to Dr. Fareed’s U.S. Senate hearing, “Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution” held November 19 in the Capitol.

Senator Josh Hawley submitted questions to Dr. Fareed to clarify his testimony for the record. Here is the correspondence between the Senator and Fareed on December 10:

Sen. Hawley: In your testimony, you say that timing is everything when it comes to treatment and that the best time for outpatient treatment to prevent hospitalization comes when “the virus is in a period of maximum replication in the upper respiratory tract.” Can you explain what this would mean for a patient? Would this be five days after exposure, or ten days? Or is it based on symptoms?

Dr. Fareed: The earlier the treatment can be started after the start of the infection, the better and more rapid the recovery (as well as the reduction in the risk of spread/contagious period). This would mean that the patient should optimally start the treatment in the first 4 days of the infection and within five days of exposure. It usually is based on symptoms which start within 1-4 days of viral entry into the upper respiratory system. Even starting the multi-faceted treatment later (7-10 days after infection) is also very worthwhile if severe pneumonia necessitating hospitalization has not yet set in.

Sen. Hawley: In your experience, are patients typically coming in to get treated at this point in their illness? And if not, what do you think we need to do to encourage high-risk individuals to seek outpatient treatment and care?

Dr. Fareed: More patients are coming in to get treated or contacting me from afar for treatment when they can’t receive the treatment in their local communities. Sadly, many infected people and primary care doctors and doctors in ERs follow the NIH and Dr. Fauci stipulations with no effective treatments offered. We need to have the NIH/FDA/CDC formally acknowledge the importance of early treatment with moderately acting, safe anti-virals so readily available. When (if ever) that happens, everything would improve dramatically. Thank you, Senator Hawley, for all your efforts and for allowing me to respond to these excellent questions.

The following is the protocol Drs. Fareed and Tyson have jointly developed as most effective for their COVID-19 patients:

Fareed/Tyson COVID-19 Treatment Protocol

HCQ 200 mg tabs #16 (HCQ = hydroxychloroquine)

Zinc sulfate 22O mg (or elemental Zinc 50 mg) # 15

Azithromycin 500 mg # 5 (or Z pack) or

Doxycycline 100 mg # 10)

Ivermectin 3 mg tabs #8

Aspirin 325 mg tabs #30

Day 1 - HCQ 2 tabs twice a day

Zinc sulfate tab twice a day

(Azithromycin tab one per day or doxycycline cap twice a day)

Ivermectin 12 mg on day 1 only

Aspirin 325 mg

Days 2-5

HCQ tab 3 times a day

Zinc sulfate 3 times a day

(Azithromycin tab daily or doxycycline cap twice a day)

Aspirin 325 mg daily

Ivermectin 12 mg on day 3 if symptoms warrant

Prednisone 60 mg daily x 5-7 days or

Dexamethasone 4 mg bid if wheezing /SOB

Budesonide 0.5-1mg/2ml vía nebulizer bid

Vitamin D3 5000 iu daily

Pepcid 20 mg daily

Continue daily Aspirin 325 mg

Over the counter prevention:

Elemental Zinc 25 mg once a day

Vitamin D 4000 iu once a day

Vitamin C 1000 mg once a day

Quercetin 500 mg once a day

If Quercetin is unavailable, then use Epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) 400mg once a day

Dr. Fareed also included Dr. Zelenko’s (Twitter: @zev_dr) COVID-19 Prophylaxis Protocol:

Prophylaxis is an action taken to prevent or protect against a specified disease. Greek in origin, from the word "phylax", meaning "to guard" and "watching."

Low Risk Patients

Young healthy people do not need prophylaxis against COVID-19. In young and healthy people, this infection causes mild cold-like symptoms. It is advantageous for these patients to be exposed to COVID-19, build up their antibodies and have their immune system clear the virus. This will facilitate the development of herd immunity and help prevent future COVID-19 pandemics. However, if these patients desire prophylaxis against COVID-19, then they should take the protocol noted below.

Moderate-Risk Patients

Patients from this category are healthy but have high potential viral-load exposure. This group includes medical personnel, caregivers of high-risk patients, people who use public transportation, first responders and other essential personnel who are crucial to the continued functioning of society. These patients should be encouraged to take prophylaxis against COVID-19 in accordance with the protocol noted below.

High-Risk Patients

Patients are considered high risk if they are over the age of 60, or if they are younger than 60 but they have comorbidities, that is, they have other health conditions that put them at risk. These patients have between a 5 to 10 percent mortality rate if they are infected with COVID-19. These patients should be strongly encouraged to take prophylaxis against COVID-19 in accordance with the protocol noted below.

Protocol for Low and Moderate Risk Patients:

Elemental Zinc 25 mg once a day[1]

Vitamin C 1000 mg once a day[2]

Quercetin 500 mg once a day

If Quercetin is unavailable, then use Epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) 400 mg once a day[3]

Protocol for High-Risk Patients:

Elemental Zinc 25 mg once a day

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ[4]) 200 mg once a day for five days, then once a week

If HCQ is unavailable, then use the Protocol for Low and Moderate Risk Patients.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365891/

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7318306/

[3]https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf5014633

[4]https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202007.0025/v1

Trisher

5th January 2021, 10:34

Lomatium Dissectum is also being used as a preventative and treatment for Covid. It has many beneficial properties including supporting the immune system.

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Lomatium Dissectum Health Benefits
1. Respiratory Support

In modern herbal medicine, lomatium dissectum has been used as a respiratory aid for its ability to reduce irritation in airways and for its soothing properties. Lomatium dissectum’s role as an effective agent for respiratory relief is partly due to its incredible antioxidative powers (6).

Antioxidants are vital for supporting healthy organs and overall wellbeing – especially in the presence of pro-oxidants, or dangerous free radicals, which polluted air is, unfortunately, chock full of.
2. Immune Support

Lomatium dissectum contains antioxidants, which help to fight free radicals. This is great for your immune system and general health. Lomatium dissectum is also antifungal, antibacterial, and antimicrobial, so it’s good at knocking out any kind of crud you’ve got going on (7). It’s thought to stimulate the immune system and boost the efficacy of white blood cells, though studies are inconclusive.
3. Anti Viral

Lomatium dissectum health benefits come from its antiviral/antibiotic properties. It also contains anti-bacterial/anti-fungal properties, with a viro-static effect, meaning that it stops the growth of all viruses, bacteria, and fungus in the body and eliminates the lethal micro-organisms without harming the ones necessary to good health (8).

Lomatium dissectum reduces the replication of viruses and halts their ability to penetrate replicate inside healthy cells. It has been noted to be effective in the treatment of many viral illnesses.

4. Joint Support

Joint pain can keep you from going about your everyday activities. The pain and inflammation may still persist despite medical intervention. Lomatium dissectum has anti-inflammatory properties that can help with ease the pain.

Lomatium dissectum is a great herb for those with all types of arthritis and joint pain. Its anti-inflammatory benefits combined with its minerals help ease pain while helping to build strong bones (9).

While NSAIDs are often a necessary evil for most with joint pain, using lomatium dissectum may help you to decrease the amount you need to take.
5. Healing Skin

Lomatium dissectum has been known for its anti-microbial and antibiotic properties; that is, it can help stop bleeding, reduce pain and promote healing. The natural plant oils can speed the rate of healing by helping your skin regenerate fresh tissue (10).

Lomatium dissectum contains multiple beneficial components that are antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and stimulate the immune responses and collagen formation. Lomatium dissectum is applied as a dressing to treat sores, cuts, boils, bruises, sprains, and broken bones (11).
Lomatium Dissectum Usage

Powdered lomatium dissectum is applied to the skin to treat burns, boils, and other skin wounds.
Lomatium dissectum is added to steam baths to treat joint problems, sprains, pain, and pneumonia.
A few drops of the tincture can be added to a pad or cloth to treat topical issues.
To receive benefits internally using a tincture with 1 full squeeze of the dropper bulb to 2 oz. of water or juice, 2 to 4 times per day is effective.
Lomatium dissectum tea, pour one cup of boiling water over 1–2 tsp. of the dried herb. Steep for 25 minutes and then strain. This tea can be taken three times a day.

Lomatium Dissectum Side Effects

When applied to the skin, lomatium dissectum might cause rash or hives in as many as 1% of the people who take it. If a rash is seen, reduce dosage, and it should subside in a few days.
When taken by mouth, lomatium dissectum might cause nausea.
It may also intensify the effects of anticoagulants (blood thinners) and immunostimulants.

From another link here
https://barlowherbal.com/blogs/blog/the-super-natural-power-of-lomatium

A couple of wonderful things to know about Lomatium.
1) Your body doesn’t appear to build an immunity to the plant Lomatium. So, you can take it for long periods of time while your body is healing from long standing systemic, viral/fungal/yeast issues.
It is common for many people to take a preventative dose every day during cold and flu season or when they travel. Especially when getting on an airplane. A solid preventative dose for an adult is 1/2 dropperful (approx. 25 drops) once or twice a day.
2) You can safely increase the dosage until it does the job. Due to our extensive, lifelong use of Lomatium we have used LDM-100 (25-50 drops each time) every hour on the hour to clear up UTI’s, ear infections, cold, flu and other acute
infections.

Here are some of the issues I've used it for during my more than 40 years experience with Lomatium.

1) on Warts and toe/fingernail Fungus (topically and internally)
2) to Knock down cold sores caused by the Herpes virus
3) to clear up a tooth abscess
4) to gargle with before swallowing to keep mouth bacteria-free
5) for UTI’s (Urinary tract infections)
6) for Ear infections (taken internally and a drop or two directly in the ear)
7) for Strep infections
8) for the Common Cold, Flu, Congestion, runny nose, etc…
9) for Asthma
10) for Bacterial infections
11) for Respiratory tract infections
12) for tonsillitis (early stages)
13) for Bronchitis
14) for Vaginal infections (douche and internally)
15) for Candidas
16) for Chronic fatigue syndrome
17) for Skin infections (topical in the form of Golden Salve or extract)
18) for Hay fever
19) for EBV (Epstein-Barr virus)
20) for Mononucleosis
21) for HPV (Human Papillomavirus)

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onawah

9th January 2021, 19:59

Vitamin D and COVID 19: The Evidence for Prevention and Treatment of Coronavirus (SARS CoV 2)
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UK Authorities Shut Down Vitamin D Recommendation for COVID
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
January 09, 2021
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/01/09/uk-vitamin-d-and-coronavirus.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20210109&mid=DM769978&rid=1055100803

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"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
According to new COVID-19 guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Public Health England and the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, there’s insufficient evidence to support the recommendation to take oral vitamin D for the sole reason of preventing or treating COVID-19
While the panel agreed low vitamin D was associated with more severe COVID-19 outcomes, they claim it’s impossible to confirm causality due to inconsistencies between the studies and because vitamin D deficiency and severe COVID-19 share many of the same risk factors
With that, they are backtracking on previous recommendations issued by British health officials who, in November 2020, urged people to take supplemental vitamin D this winter to reduce their risk of respiratory infections, including COVID-19
While the new guidance does urge Britons to take a vitamin D supplement between October and March, it only recommends a dose of 400 IUs a day, which is easily 10 times lower than what most people would require for general health and immune function
There’s compelling evidence suggesting optimizing your vitamin D level can significantly reduce your risk of COVID-19 and improve your outcome if you do get infected
I've written many articles detailing the roles vitamin D plays in COVID-19, from how it can help prevent initial infection, to how it can reduce your risk of complications and death. One of the reasons I've been pushing for vitamin D optimization as a way to minimize the risks associated with this infection is because the evidence for it is overwhelming.

British Health Authorities Disparage Vitamin D Claims
British health authorities, however, disagree.1 According to new COVID-19 guidance2 from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Public Health England and the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), there's insufficient evidence to support the recommendation to take oral vitamin D for the sole reason of preventing or treating COVID-19.

With that, they are backtracking on previous recommendations issued by British health officials who, in November 2020, urged people to take supplemental vitamin D this winter to reduce their risk of respiratory infections, including COVID-19.3

What's more, while the new guidance does urge Britons to take a vitamin D supplement between October and March, it only recommends a dose of 400 IUs a day, which is easily 10 times lower than what most people would require for general health and immune function.

While the panel agreed low vitamin D was associated with more severe COVID-19 outcomes, they claim it's impossible to confirm causality due to inconsistencies between the studies (such as dosing, setting, populations, duration and definitions of outcomes), and because vitamin D deficiency and severe COVID-19 share many of the same risk factors.

According to professor Ian Young, who chairs SACN, "This evidence review confirms that currently there is not enough available evidence to determine that there is a causal relationship between vitamin D and COVID-19."

However, if vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 share the same risk factors, wouldn't it make more sense to urge people to address their vitamin D deficiency instead of using this as a justification for why vitamin D supplementation cannot be recommended?

It's really hard to imagine that scientists with a genuine concern for public health would come out with this kind of guidance, especially when you consider that vitamin D supplementation — at whatever dosage required to get your blood level above 40 ng/mL (100 nmol/L) — won't make your health any worse. There's absolutely no downside to it.

Vitamin D Is Important for Optimal Immune Function
In the video above, Dr. Roger Seheult reviews how vitamin D works, and the benefits of vitamin D, both for respiratory infections in general and as it pertains to COVID-19.

Importantly, vitamin D is a steroid hormone that can pass through cellular membranes into the nucleus and controls the expression of genes. So, it's not just a mere vitamin required as a cofactor. It can actually modify how the cells in your body behave and function.

Vitamin D receptors are found in a large number of different tissues and cells, including your immune cells. This means vitamin D plays an important role in your immune function specifically. If vitamin D is lacking, your immune system will be impaired, which in turn makes you more susceptible to infections of all kinds. As noted by Seheult, vitamin D:

Stimulates "the innate immune response, which provides frontline protection against infectious agents"
Increases expression of antimicrobial peptides in your monocytes and neutrophils — both of which play important roles in COVID-19
Enhances expression of an antimicrobial peptide called human cathelicidin, "which is of specific importance in host defenses against respiratory tract pathogens"
Click here to learn more
Vitamin D for COVID-19
While Seheult also reviews a number of studies looking at vitamin D in relation to respiratory illnesses other than COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2-specific investigations have found:

•COVID-19 is far more common in vitamin D deficient individuals — In one study,4,5,6 82.2% of COVID-19 patients tested were deficient in vitamin D, compared to 47.2% of population-based controls. (Mean vitamin D levels were 13.8 ± 7.2 ng/ml, compared to 20.9 ± 7.4 ng/ml in controls.)

They also found that blood levels of vitamin D inversely correlated to D-dimer levels (a measure of blood coagulation). Many COVID-19 patients have elevated D-dimer levels, which are associated with blood clots.

•Vitamin D status influences COVID-19 severitys — COVID-19 patients who have higher vitamin D levels tend to have milder illness and better outcomes. One study7,8 found the risk of severe COVID-19 and related deaths virtually disappeared when vitamin D levels were above 30 ng/mL (75 nmol/L).

In another study,9 COVID-19 patients with a vitamin D level between 21 ng/mL (50 nmol/L) and 29 ng/mL (75 nmol/L) had a 12.55 times higher risk of death than those with a level above 30 ng/mL. Having a level below 20 ng/mL was associated with a 19.12 times higher risk of death.

My scientific review,10 "Evidence Regarding Vitamin D and Risk of COVID-19 and Its Severity," published October 31, 2020, also lists data from 14 observational studies that show vitamin D blood levels are inversely correlated with the incidence and/or severity of COVID-19.

This makes sense when you consider that vitamin D regulates inflammatory cytokine production — a lethal hallmark of COVID-19 — and is an important regulator of your immune system. Dysregulation of the immune system is another hallmark of severe COVID-19.

Seheult also reviews studies showing COVID-19 outcomes appear to be linked to UVB exposure. For example, in one such study,11 they found a marked variation in mortality depending on whether the patients lived above or below 35 degrees North latitude. As noted by the authors:12

" … the hypothesis is not that vitamin D would protect against SARS‐CoV‐2 infection but that it could be very important in preventing the cytokine storm and subsequent acute respiratory distress syndrome that is commonly the cause of mortality."

Now, as noted by Seheult, it's also possible that COVID-19 itself might be the cause of the lower vitamin D levels seen in these patients. This was reviewed in a letter to the editor, titled, "Vitamin D Deficiency in COVID-19: Mixing Up Cause and Consequence," published in Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental, November 17, 2020.13 What they found was that as plasma cytokine levels increased in COVID-19 patients, vitamin D levels modestly dropped.

•Vitamin D influences infection risks — Vitamin D has also been linked to a lower risk of testing positive for COVID-19 in the first place.

The largest observational study14 to date, which looked at data for 191,779 American patients, found that of those with a vitamin D level below 20 ng/ml (deficiency), 12.5% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, compared to 8.1% of those who had a vitamin D level between 30 and 34 ng/ml (adequacy) and 5.9% of those who had an optimal vitamin D level of 55 ng/ml or higher. According to the authors:

"SARS-CoV-2 positivity is strongly and inversely associated with circulating 25(OH)D levels, a relationship that persists across latitudes, races/ethnicities, both sexes, and age ranges."

How to Improve Your Vitamin D Absorption
The specific dosage required to maintain an optimal vitamin D level can vary widely from person to person depending on a variety of factors, including age and weight. Your gut health can also play an important role in how well you absorb the vitamin D you take, according to recent research.15

When you have a healthy gut, beneficial bacteria produce butyrate by breaking down dietary fiber. Butyrate, in turn, helps increase vitamin D, so the more butyrate you have, the more vitamin D your body can absorb.

Another factor that can influence your vitamin D absorption is your magnesium level.16 Magnesium is required for the conversion of vitamin D into its active form.17,18,19,20 According to a scientific review21,22 published in 2018, as many as 50% of Americans taking vitamin D supplements may not get significant benefit as the vitamin D simply gets stored in its inactive form, and the reason for this is because they have insufficient magnesium levels.

More recent research by GrassrootsHealth23 shows you need 146% more vitamin D to achieve a blood level of 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/L) if you do not take supplemental magnesium, compared to taking your vitamin D with at least 400 mg of magnesium per day.

Vitamin D Dose-Response by Supplemental Magnesium Intake
Your vitamin K2 intake can also affect your required vitamin D dosage. According to GrassrootsHealth,24 "combined intake of both supplemental magnesium and vitamin K2 has a greater effect on vitamin D levels than either individually," and "those taking both supplemental magnesium and vitamin K2 have a higher vitamin D level for any given vitamin D intake amount than those taking either supplemental magnesium or vitamin K2 or neither."

Data25 from nearly 3,000 individuals revealed 244% more oral vitamin D was required to get 50% of the population to achieve a vitamin D level of 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/L) if they weren't concurrently also taking magnesium and vitamin K2.
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Safeguard Your Immune System With Vitamin D
In summary, if you cannot get sufficient amounts of sun exposure to maintain a vitamin D blood level of 40 ng/mL (100 nmol/L) to 60 ng/mL (150 nmol/L), a vitamin D3 supplement is highly recommended. Just remember that the most important factor here is your blood level, not the dose, so before you start, get tested so you know your baseline.

If you live in the northern hemisphere, now is the time to check your vitamin D level and start taking action to raise it if you're below 40 ng/mL (100 nmol/L).
This will help you determine your ideal dose, as it can vary widely from person to person. Also remember that you can minimize your vitamin D requirement by making sure you're also getting enough magnesium and vitamin K2. I'm convinced optimizing your vitamin D can go a long way toward minimizing your chances of contracting a respiratory infection, be it the common cold, seasonal influenza or COVID-19.

If you live in the northern hemisphere, now is the time to check your vitamin D level and start taking action to raise it if you're below 40 ng/mL (100 nmol/L). Experts recommend a vitamin D level between 40 and 60 ng/mL (100 to 150 nmol/L).

An easy and cost-effective way of measuring your vitamin D level is to order GrassrootsHealth's vitamin D testing kit. Also, if you haven't already visited www.stopcovidcold.com please do so now so you can take your free COVID risk test and grab a free PDF copy of my vitamin D report.

Once you know your current vitamin D level, use the GrassrootsHealth vitamin D calculator26 to determine how much vitamin D you might need to reach your target level. Retest your vitamin D level in three to four months to make sure you've reached your target level. If you have, then you're taking the correct dosage. If you're still low (or have reached a level above 80 ng/mL), you'll need to adjust your dosage accordingly and retest again in another three to four months.

A growing body of evidence shows that vitamin D plays a crucial role in disease prevention and maintaining optimal health. There are about 30,000 genes in your body, and vitamin D affects nearly 3,000 of them, as well as vitamin D receptors located throughout your body.

For a more detailed and comprehensive analysis of the connection of vitamin D and COVID-19, please review the report I created that could be used to address any health care professionals who would disagree with this recommendation. Also included is a shortened version of the document which will be better to educate those that you would like to convince of the importance of getting your vitamin D levels optimized.Vitamin D Helps Protect Against Cancer and Other Diseases
According to one large-scale study, having optimal vitamin D levels can slash your risk of cancer and can help prevent at least 16 different types of cancer, including pancreatic, lung, ovarian, prostate and skin cancers.

Vitamin D from sun exposure also radically decreases your risk of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and Type 1 diabetes. Sun exposure also helps prevent osteoporosis, which is a significant concern for women in particular.

Magnesium Is Necessary to Activate Vitamin D
Since over half the population does not get enough magnesium and far more are likely deficient, magnesium supplementation is recommended when taking vitamin D supplements. This is because magnesium helps to activate vitamin D, as the enzymes that metabolize vitamin D in your liver and kidneys require magnesium.

What GrassrootsHealth observed in testing and analyzing nutrient intakes from over 15,000 patients is that about half of those taking vitamin D supplements were unable to normalize their vitamin D levels until they started to take supplemental magnesium.

They also found that those who do not take supplemental magnesium need, on average, 146% more vitamin D per day to achieve a healthy blood level of 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/L), compared to those who take at least 400 mg of magnesium along with their vitamin D supplement.

Omega-3 Fats Are Crucial to Your Well-Being
Meanwhile, recent research suggests high doses (4 grams) of the omega-3 fats EPA and DHA may help improve healing after a heart attack. Other benefits of omega-3 fats include prevention of lupus and Parkinson’s disease, decreased anxiety, healthier and stronger bones, as well as fighting fats in the body.

However, you can’t tell by looking in a mirror if you are deficient in vitamin D, magnesium or omega-3s. The only real way to know if you are deficient in these nutrients is to get tested.

How Much Vitamin D Should You Take
If you know your vitamin D level you can use the calculator below to find the best dose to take.

Vitamin D*calculator™
Need more help on what to do with your D calculator results? Read here

Current Weight
lbs
Current Serum Level
ng/ml
Desired Serum Level
40
ng/ml
Calculate Reset
© 2020 GrassrootsHealth

If you are unable or unwilling to get a vitamin D test, they have found that the average dose to achieve a healthy vitamin D level of 40 ng/ml is about 8,000 units per day. If you are underweight you will want to reduce this dose to 6-7,000 units per day as heavier people tend to need more vitamin D.

How to Test Your Levels
I'm really pleased GrassrootsHealth Nutrient Research Institute has expanded its research projects to include a range of different tests, seeing how deficiency may be needlessly affecting the health of so many. Like its Vitamin D*action Project, the Magnesium*PLUS Focus Project will allow us all to take action on known science with a consensus of experts without waiting for institutional lethargy.

The Vitamin D*action Project has truly demonstrated the value measurement can have on public health, and there’s no doubt in my mind that the Magnesium*PLUS Focus Project will have the same impact. As in earlier projects, once the study of a community is completed, all that information can be used to push for public health recommendations that will benefit everyone.You have the ability to participate in a variety of different tests, including:

Vitamin D
Vitamin D and Omega 3
Vitamin D, Omega 3 and Magnesium
Vitamin D, Magnesium & Omega 3 PLUS Elements. Remember, by participating in this public research project, you not only are identifying your own levels, but allowing yourself to make decisions about your diet and supplements to improve your health.

Your data (which is anonymous) will also help GrassrootsHealth researchers to determine the ideal levels for the prevention of various diseases, and what kind of dose-response relationship exists among the general population.

With the data from this project, individuals will be able to see what works for them, and, researchers will be able to demonstrate just to what extent health care costs may be reduced simply by getting people into an optimal range."

- Sources and References
1 Medscape News UK December 17, 2020 (Archived)
2 NICE.org.uk COVID-19 Rapid Guideline: Vitamin D, December 17, 2020 (PDF)
3 BBC November November 28, 2020
4 The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism October 27, 2020; dgaa733 [Epub ahead of print]
5 Endocrine.org October 27, 2020
6 Science Daily October 27, 2020
7 Infectious Diseases April 8, 2020 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-21211/v1
8 Orthomolecular Medicine News Service June 22, 2020
9 Emerginnova.com June 4, 2020
10 Nutrients October 31, 2020;12, 3361; doi:10.3390/nu12113361
11, 12 Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2020; doi.org/10.1111/apt.15777
13 Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental November 17, 2020
14 PLOS ONE September 17, 2020 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239252
15 Nature Communications 2020; 11 Article number: 5997
16 BMC Medicine 2013; 11: 187
17 Live Science February 26, 2018
18 Medicalxpress.com February 27, 2018
19 News-Medical.net February 26, 2018
20 Wellandgood.com February 26, 2018
21 Journal of the American Osteopathic Association March 2018; 118: 181-189
22 Science Daily February 2018
23 GrassrootsHealth Is Supplemental Magnesium Important for Vitamin D Levels?
24, 25 GrassrootsHealth Magnesium and Vitamin K2 Combined Important for Vitamin D Levels
26 GrassrootsHealth Vitamin D Calculator

Gwin Ru

16th January 2021, 14:02

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... foxy faucille Fauci:

https://www.unn.today/?wix-vod-video-id=12866de172ea4ff7a2e04955ad347634&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-kiwx5v5d

^^^ Fauci in his own published words on HCQ...

Tintin

17th January 2021, 12:13

Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy - Press releases

Quietly yet robustly there seems now, where I am in the UK, more obvious action taking place concerning the proven efficacy of Ivermectin and a little more pressure is beginning to be brought to government attention. Given the extraordinary power (sic) of the pharmaceutical and vaccine lobbies it remains to be seen whether this will bear any fruit.

I'm hopeful. The more that people know about prophylaxes such as these the better empowered they will be, and equally healthier as a result.

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Resource link (https://www.e-bmc.co.uk/)
Site: https://www.e-bmc.co.uk/

13 January 2021
British Ivermectin Recommendation Development (BIRD) formed. Meeting held Wednesday 13th.

The BIRD meeting was convened by Dr. Tess Lawrie in order to present the findings from her rapid systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on the use of ivermectin to prevent and treat COVID-19.

Dr. Lawrie presented evidence in the form of a DECIDE evidence-to-decision framework, a format used by the World Health Organization for the development of guidelines and recommendations in medical practice.

Twenty experts from around the world and the UK attended the meeting, including 13 clinicians, and seven representatives from the public.

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January 13th release (https://b3d2650e-e929-4448-a527-4eeb59304c7f.filesusr.com/ugd/593c4f_dd211f8ce1a5493eacc37aa0824d82a4.pdf)

Delight

18th January 2021, 18:02

Ivermectin 2021 Update Dr. Pierre Kory
Jan 16, 2021

Dr. Jack and Dr. Pierre Kory discuss NEW SCIENCE on Ivermectin - prophylactic efficacy, effective across populations - Fact Checkers take NOTE - this is NEW science, NEW information that cannot be "Fact Checked" using OLD INFORMATION.

Support WWDNYK Studios, Unbreaking Science, Talk Nerdy to Me, and Uncanny Valley on Patreon! http://patreon.com/wwdnyk

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onawah

19th January 2021, 01:22

Could Most COVID-19 Deaths Have Been Prevented?
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
January 18, 2021

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/01/18/vitamin-d-prevents-coronavirus-death.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20210118&mid=DM778523&rid=1062250153

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
More than 100 doctors, scientists and leading authorities have signed an open letter calling for increased use of vitamin D in the fight against COVID-19
The letter recommends taking enough vitamin D to achieve a blood level of at least 30 ng/mL (75 nmol/L). They also urge testing of all hospitalized COVID-19 patients and adding vitamin D to the treatment protocol for any patient whose level is below 30 ng/mL
The Irish Covit-D Consortium is also calling for greater use of vitamin D against COVID-19, citing evidence showing it can lower the risk of death from COVID-19 in the elderly by as much as 700%
Research shows giving critically ill COVID-19 patients high doses of vitamin D significantly reduced the number of days they had to spend in the ICU. They were also less likely to need ventilation
Another recent study found high-dose vitamin D supplementation sped up viral clearance; 62.5% of participants in the intervention group became SARS-CoV-2 RNA negative within 21 days, compared to just 20.8% of controls who did not receive vitamin D
In recent weeks and months, there's been an upshot of studies1 demonstrating the benefits of vitamin D against COVID-19. The evidence is so compelling, more than 100 doctors, scientists and leading authorities have signed an open letter2 calling for increased use of vitamin D in the fight against COVID-19.

"Research shows low vitamin D levels almost certainly promote COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Given its safety, we call for immediate widespread increased vitamin D intakes," the letter states, adding:3 "Vitamin D modulates thousands of genes and many aspects of immune function, both innate and adaptive. The scientific evidence shows that:

•Higher vitamin D blood levels are associated with lower rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Higher D levels are associated with lower risk of a severe case (hospitalization, ICU, or death).

•Intervention studies (including RCTs) indicate that vitamin D can be a very effective treatment. Many papers reveal several biological mechanisms by which vitamin D influences COVID-19.

•Causal inference modelling, Hill's criteria, the intervention studies & the biological mechanisms indicate that vitamin D's influence on COVID-19 is very likely causal, not just correlation."

The letter recommends taking enough vitamin D to achieve a blood level of at least 30 ng/mL (75 nmol/L). They also urge testing of all hospitalized COVID-19 patients and adding vitamin D to the treatment protocol for any patient whose level is below 30 ng/mL. Many other doctors are also urging government health agencies to get onboard with vitamin D recommendations. As reported by NL Times:4

"'There is a growing consensus in the scientific world about the important role of vitamin D,' says Manfred Eggersdorfer, professor of Healthy Aging at the University Medical Center Groningen. He argues that 'it can reduce the chance that you will get corona and the infection can last shorter.'

The wait-and-see attitude adopted by governments does not sit well in the scientific community. Professor of immunology at Wageningen University, Huub Savelkoul, called the attitude 'frustrating.'

He states that 'there are more and more studies showing the benefit of vitamin D. I think it is a kind of arrogance that the government wants to wait for a meta-study first. It seems as if we don't care that people come to the hospital and die in the meantime. You have to be careful with that comment, but that's where my frustration lies.'"

Vitamin D Optimization Is Powerful Prevention
In a December 23, 2020, Fox News interview5,6 (above), Dr. Peter Osborne with the Origins Nutrition Center stated that the most recent studies suggest 9 out of 10 COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented had people had adequate vitamin D levels.

While I suspect this might be an overestimation, there's no doubt in my mind that optimizing vitamin D levels among the general population would significantly lower COVID-19 incidence and death.

"At the East Virginia School of Medicine there's a COVID protocol that includes Vitamin D," Osborne said. "So, if you're hospitalized for COVID, they're automatically putting you on between 20,000 and 60,000 units of vitamin D. This is part of their standard of care protocol in that hospital system."

Osborne also recommends using vitamin C and zinc, as well as quercetin, which allows for greater zinc absorption. Quercetin also boosts type 1 interferon, which signals infected cells to produce proteins that stop the virus from replicating, and works synergistically with vitamin C. This is all good advice. As noted in a December 2020 Frontiers in Nutrition review:7

"… Zinc and vitamins C and D stand out for having immunomodulatory functions and for playing roles in preserving physical tissue barriers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the adequate intake of zinc and vitamins C and D may represent a promising pharmacological tool due to the high demand for these nutrients in the case of contact with the virus and onset of the inflammatory process."

However, vitamin D is not my first choice for acute illness that requires immediate treatment. While high-dose vitamin D loading may be helpful in some respects, my No. 1 choice for treating acute respiratory illness is nebulized hydrogen peroxide, which I'll discuss at the end of this article. It goes to work immediately, while vitamin D requires time, at bare minimum, days, to make a difference.

With respect to preventing COVID-19 deaths, I strongly believe that nebulized hydrogen peroxide could easily prevent at least 90% of the deaths if administered properly. It deeply saddens me to see so many die needlessly because they don't use this incredibly inexpensive and safe therapy.

Click here to learn more
Vitamin D Improves COVID-19 Outcomes
Now, bear in mind that prevention and treatment are not the same. I firmly believe that vitamin D optimization will help prevent COVID-19 infection and reduce your risk of severe symptoms should you contract it.

In fact, I launched an information campaign about vitamin D back in June 2020, which included the release of a downloadable scientific report that detailed the science behind vitamin D. This report, as well as a two-minute COVID risk quiz is available on StopCovidCold.com.

There's also evidence to show high-dose vitamin D loading can improve COVID-19 outcomes even in acute and severe cases. According to a December 2020 randomized, double-blind study8 in the European Journal of Integrative Medicine, giving critically ill COVID-19 patients high doses of vitamin D significantly reduced the number of days they had to spend in the ICU. They were also less likely to need ventilation. According to the authors:9

"Thirty patients completed the study. The results show that injection of vitamin D leads to a significant increase in the mean changes of vitamin D level on the seventh day of the study and TAC [total antioxidant capacity] levels.

ICU length of stay was 18.3±8.4 and 25.4±6.6 days in the intervention and placebo arms of the study. Twelve patients in the placebo group and 5 in the vitamin D group died within the 28-day study period. The duration of mechanical ventilation was 15.7± 9.3 vs. 22.6± 9.1 days in vitamin D and placebo arms, respectively."

Similarly, a mathematical reanalysis10 of a calcifediol trial concluded there's a "strong role for vitamin D in reducing ICU admissions of hospitalized COVID-19 patients." The analysis looked at data from an earlier trial11 done on hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Córdoba, Spain. As explained by the authors of the analysis:12

"… the treatment was associated with reduced ICU admissions with very large effect size and high statistical significance, but the study has had limited impact because it had only 76 patients and imperfect blinding, and did not measure vitamin D levels pre- and post-treatment or adjust for several comorbidities."

In an effort to account for these shortcomings, they reanalyzed the data using statistical techniques, concluding that "the randomization, large effect size, and high statistical significance address many of these concerns."

For starters, they found that "random assignment of patients to treatment and control groups is highly unlikely to distribute comorbidities or other prognostic indicators sufficiently unevenly to account for the large effect size."

They also demonstrated that the imperfect blinding did not have a negative impact, as it would have had to have "an implausibly large effect to account for the reported results."

To double-check their findings, they also compared the data with two other randomized clinical trials of vitamin D supplementation for COVID-19, one from India and another from Brazil. In conclusion, the authors stated that:

"… the Córdoba study provides sufficient evidence to warrant immediate, well-designed pivotal clinical trials of early calcifediol administration in a broader cohort of inpatients and outpatients with COVID-19."

Irish Experts Call for Increased Recognition of Vitamin D
In addition to the open letter mentioned earlier, the Irish Covit-D Consortium is also calling for greater use of vitamin D against COVID-19, citing evidence showing it can lower the risk of death from COVID-19 in the elderly by as much as 700%.13

Studies … show an increased risk of infection in those with low vitamin D levels and a 25 to 30-fold reduced risk of ICU admission and a substantial reduction risk of death in older COVID-19 patients supplemented with vitamin D. ~ Dr. Dan McCartney
In a position statement14 published in the Irish Journal of Medical Science, the team urges health professionals and policy-makers "to recognize the importance of enhanced vitamin D in … the optimization of immune response" and to "Develop explicit population guidance and clinical protocols for vitamin D supplementation at … effective doses." As reported by the Herald:15

"Dr. Dan McCartney, programme director of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at TU Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, said 'the accumulation of evidence linking low vitamin D levels and COVID-19 is now considerable.

This evidence includes studies which show an increased risk of infection in those with low vitamin D levels and a 25 to 30-fold reduced risk of ICU admission and a substantial reduction risk of death in older COVID-19 patients supplemented with vitamin D.'"

Vitamin D Speeds Viral Clearance
Another recent study,16 published in November 2020 in the Postgraduate Medical Journal, looked at oral vitamin D supplementation on SARS-CoV-2 viral clearance. This study included only asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals who also had vitamin D deficiency (a vitamin D blood level below 20 ng/mL).

Participants were randomly assigned to receive either 60,000 IUs of oral cholecalciferol (nano-liquid droplets) or a placebo for seven days. The target blood level was 50 ng/mL. Anyone who had not achieved a blood level of 50 ng/mL after the first seven days continued to receive the supplement until they reached the target level.

Periodically, all participants were tested for SARS-CoV-2 as well as fibrinogen, D-dimer, procalcitonin and CRP, all of which are inflammatory markers. The primary outcome measure of the study was the proportion of patients testing negative for COVID-19 before day 21 of the study, as well as changes in inflammatory markers. As reported by the authors:17

"Forty SARS-CoV-2 RNA positive individuals were randomized to intervention (n=16) or control (n=24) group. Baseline serum 25(OH)D was 8.6 and 9.54 ng/mL, in the intervention and control group, respectively.

10 out of 16 patients could achieve 25(OH)D>50 ng/ml by day-7 and another two by day-14 … 10 (62.5%) participants in the intervention group and 5 (20.8%) participants in the control arm became SARS-CoV-2 RNA negative. Fibrinogen levels significantly decreased with cholecalciferol supplementation unlike other inflammatory biomarkers.

[A] greater proportion of vitamin D-deficient individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection turned SARS-CoV-2 RNA negative with a significant decrease in fibrinogen on high-dose cholecalciferol supplementation."

Vitamin D Slows COVID-19 Spread

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As mentioned earlier, while vitamin D is certainly important, if you develop symptoms of COVID-19, or any other respiratory infection for that matter, downing vitamin D may be too little, too late. I believe your best option at this point is to use nebulized peroxide. This is a home remedy I recommend everyone familiarize themselves with, as in many cases it can improve symptoms in mere hours.

Nebulizing hydrogen peroxide into your sinuses, throat and lungs is a simple, straightforward way to augment your body's natural expression of hydrogen peroxide to combat infections and can be used both prophylactically after known exposure to COVID-19 and as a treatment for mild, moderate and even severe illness.

Dr. David Brownstein, who has successfully treated over 100 COVID-19 patients with nebulized peroxide, published a case paper32 about this treatment in the July 2020 issue of Science, Public Health Policy and The Law. He also reviews its benefits in "How Nebulized Peroxide Helps Against Respiratory Infections."

Nebulized hydrogen peroxide is extremely safe, and all you need is a desktop nebulizer and food-grade hydrogen peroxide, which you'll need to dilute with saline to 0.1% strength. I recommend buying these items beforehand so that you have everything you need and can begin treatment at home at the first signs of a respiratory infection. In the video above, I go over the basics of this treatment.
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A growing body of evidence shows that vitamin D plays a crucial role in disease prevention and maintaining optimal health. There are about 30,000 genes in your body, and vitamin D affects nearly 3,000 of them, as well as vitamin D receptors located throughout your body.

For a more detailed and comprehensive analysis of the connection of vitamin D and COVID-19, please review the report I created that could be used to address any health care professionals who would disagree with this recommendation. Also included is a shortened version of the document which will be better to educate those that you would like to convince of the importance of getting your vitamin D levels optimized.

dr. mercola's report
Vitamin D Helps Protect Against Cancer and Other Diseases
According to one large-scale study, having optimal vitamin D levels can slash your risk of cancer and can help prevent at least 16 different types of cancer, including pancreatic, lung, ovarian, prostate and skin cancers.

Vitamin D from sun exposure also radically decreases your risk of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and Type 1 diabetes. Sun exposure also helps prevent osteoporosis, which is a significant concern for women in particular.

Magnesium Is Necessary to Activate Vitamin D
Since over half the population does not get enough magnesium and far more are likely deficient, magnesium supplementation is recommended when taking vitamin D supplements. This is because magnesium helps to activate vitamin D, as the enzymes that metabolize vitamin D in your liver and kidneys require magnesium.

What GrassrootsHealth observed in testing and analyzing nutrient intakes from over 15,000 patients is that about half of those taking vitamin D supplements were unable to normalize their vitamin D levels until they started to take supplemental magnesium.

They also found that those who do not take supplemental magnesium need, on average, 146% more vitamin D per day to achieve a healthy blood level of 40 ng/ml (100 nmol/L), compared to those who take at least 400 mg of magnesium along with their vitamin D supplement.

Omega-3 Fats Are Crucial to Your Well-Being
Meanwhile, recent research suggests high doses (4 grams) of the omega-3 fats EPA and DHA may help improve healing after a heart attack. Other benefits of omega-3 fats include prevention of lupus and Parkinson’s disease, decreased anxiety, healthier and stronger bones, as well as fighting fats in the body.

However, you can’t tell by looking in a mirror if you are deficient in vitamin D, magnesium or omega-3s. The only real way to know if you are deficient in these nutrients is to get tested.

How Much Vitamin D Should You Take
If you know your vitamin D level you can use the calculator below to find the best dose to take.

Vitamin D*calculator™
Need more help on what to do with your D calculator results? Read here: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/time-vitamin-d-testing-changes-supplementation/

Current Weight
lbs
Current Serum Level
ng/ml
Desired Serum Level
40
ng/ml
Calculate Reset
© 2020 GrassrootsHealth

If you are unable or unwilling to get a vitamin D test, they have found that the average dose to achieve a healthy vitamin D level of 40 ng/ml is about 8,000 units per day. If you are underweight you will want to reduce this dose to 6-7,000 units per day as heavier people tend to need more vitamin D.

How to Test Your Levels
I'm really pleased GrassrootsHealth Nutrient Research Institute has expanded its research projects to include a range of different tests, seeing how deficiency may be needlessly affecting the health of so many. Like its Vitamin D*action Project, the Magnesium*PLUS Focus Project will allow us all to take action on known science with a consensus of experts without waiting for institutional lethargy.

The Vitamin D*action Project has truly demonstrated the value measurement can have on public health, and there’s no doubt in my mind that the Magnesium*PLUS Focus Project will have the same impact. As in earlier projects, once the study of a community is completed, all that information can be used to push for public health recommendations that will benefit everyone.

Vitamin D Kit

You have the ability to participate in a variety of different tests, including:

Vitamin D
Vitamin D and Omega 3
Vitamin D, Omega 3 and Magnesium
Vitamin D, Magnesium & Omega 3 PLUS Elements. Remember, by participating in this public research project, you not only are identifying your own levels, but allowing yourself to make decisions about your diet and supplements to improve your health.

Your data (which is anonymous) will also help GrassrootsHealth researchers to determine the ideal levels for the prevention of various diseases, and what kind of dose-response relationship exists among the general population.

With the data from this project, individuals will be able to see what works for them, and, researchers will be able to demonstrate just to what extent health care costs may be reduced simply by getting people into an optimal range."

Tintin

20th January 2021, 15:51

A new legal attempt to have ivermectin approved in France, through a Temporary Recommendation for Use, will be presented this Monday January 25 to the Council of State.

In France, the Temporary Recommendation for Use is the regulatory instrument which aims precisely to allow, on a temporary basis, the use of a medicinal product, here generic and repositioned drug, and to allow its effectiveness to be evaluated on the basis of its use.
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I'd need to see what is constitutionally possible to press for here in the UK, so that's a research job for me, but our cousins in so many ways in France have shown great mettle here - I do hope for a positive outcome.

France: the Ivermectin Dossier Before the Council of State
Posted on January 19, 2021
Source: Covexit (https://covexit.com/france-the-ivermectin-dossier-before-the-council-of-state/)

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The move aims to force the French government, and more specifically the National Medicines Agency, to formally look at the ivermectin dossier – something it has avoided so far, despite two previous legal processes.

On November 6, Maître Jean-Charles Teissedre, criminal lawyer, representing the Association of COVID-19 Coronavirus Victims in France, pleaded in favor of Ivermectin before an administrative tribunal, with a view to seizing the competent authorities of the urgency to approve a Temporary Recommendation for Use. The request was rejected by the judge, although neither the ministry nor the drug agency were present at the hearing.

On December 28, a preliminary filing was forwarded to the Minister of Solidarity and Health, Olivier Véran, and to the National Medicines Agency, requesting a Temporary Recommendation for Use. As of January 15, the date of this new filing, Maître Teissedre had not received any response. The absence of a response from the authorities constitutes, according to Mr. Teissedre, proof of the authorities’ failure to deal with the emergency.

This third legal filing, which is addressed to the Council of State, is on a larger scale, with 18 doctors as plaintiffs, as well as two associations of doctors, – the Syndicat des Médecins d’Aix et Région and the International Association for Scientific, Independent and Benevolent Medicine – and the “Bon Sens” (good sense) association, which has among its members the highly mediatic Professor Christian Perronne, MD, also a defender of ivermectin.

One item that may prove to be important is the recent decision, on January 14, of the influential National Institute of Health (NIH) in the United States, which has now taken a position to recommend neither for nor against ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. This neutral position succeeds to a previous recommendation against its use, except in clinical trials.

In France, the Temporary Recommendation for Use is the regulatory instrument which aims precisely to allow, on a temporary basis, the use of a medicinal product, here generic and repositioned drug, and to allow its effectiveness to be evaluated on the basis of its use.

This new filing is made to the Council of State, the highest administrative tribunal in the country, founded by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte.

Overview of the Legal Filing

(translation from the original French here (https://covexit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/refere_conseil_etat_ivermectine.pdf) )

“The object of this request is to request, on the basis of article L.5121-12-1 V of the public health code, the Minister of Solidarity and Health, the National Security Agency Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) and the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) to take measures to treat patients suffering from Covid-19 with the ivermectin molecule, in particular by developing, as an emergency, ‘a Temporary Recommendation for Use (RTU) in favor of this molecule. ” …

“When the operators of the rights to a medicinal product do not request an RTU, the legislator has expressly provided that the minister in charge of health or social security can refer the matter to the ANSM for this purpose, in order to compensate for a possible failure of pharmaceutical companies, it being specified that the ANSM can also take action ex officio. ” …

“It is clear that the ANSM was not seized in this regard and neither did it self-refer as it has the power to do.” …

“Since the authorities have chosen to interfere in unprecedented proportions in the doctor-patient relationship, they must in return mobilize the legal instruments suitable for securing the prescription of non-approved drugs.” …

“The freedom to prescribe, enshrined in law, is seriously questioned by the health authorities in the broad sense since a number of doctors have been, or are the subject of disciplinary proceedings which are regularly reported by the media.”

“The Temporary Recommendations for Use are specifically intended to secure the prescription and dissemination of information so that it can benefit the greatest number of patients in accordance with the requirements of the Hippocratic Oath.”

“All the applicants ask the competent authorities that the development of an RTU in favor of the ivermectin molecule be considered without further delay.” …

“The applicants are particularly concerned that certain treatments, which are presumed to be favorable, receive very little public attention while there are treatments which are inexpensive, available and safe.” …

“As this is a new disease that affects all countries in the world including France, it is indeed reasonable as much as it is imperative that the public authorities facilitate the prescription and repositioning of old molecules without the prescribing doctors having to fear to be prosecuted for seeking to obey their Hippocratic Oath. ” …

Gwin Ru

20th January 2021, 17:06

FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug ivermectin can kill the coronavirus within 48 hours, reports new study (https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-01-18-ivermectin-can-kill-coronavirus-within-48-hours.html)

by: Evangelyn Rodriguez (https://www.naturalnews.com/author/dominguez)
Monday, January 18, 2021

Bypass censorship by sharing this link: https://www.hangthecensors.com/485568.html

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(Natural News (https://www.naturalnews.com)) An anti-parasitic medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be used against the Wuhan coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), reports a new study. Australian researchers discovered that ivermectin, a semi-synthetic drug commonly used to treat head lice, scabies, ascariasis and other parasitic infections, can effectively kill SARS-CoV-2 within 48 hours (https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200406/Antiparasitic-drug-Ivermectin-kills-coronavirus-in-48-hours.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0hd_IVvb2mdLat9rWSw_iwNeDofLKwfXmX33xE1cQWH0KL7sCik-GNPZQ) in culture.
“We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours, there was a significant reduction in it,” said Dr. Kylie Wagstaff, a senior research fellow at Monash University (https://www.monash.edu/) in Australia and the senior author of the study.
As one of the widely available and cost-effective medications included in the World Health Organization‘s (WHO) model list of essential medicines (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHOMVPEMPIAU2019.06), the researchers believe that ivermectin warrants further investigation for its beneficial activities against the virus responsible for COVID-19.

Ivermectin, the anti-parasitic drug that exhibits anti-viral activity
Ivermectin was first discovered in the 1960s by Satoshi Omura, a microbiologist at Tokyo’s Kitasato Institute (https://www.kitasato-u.ac.jp/en/about-kitasato/institute.html), and William Campbell, an American biologist and parasitologist who, at the time, was working at Merck Research Labs in New Jersey. As part of the research agreement between the institute and Merck, Omura isolated microorganisms from soil samples collected around Japan and conducted preliminary evaluation of their bioactivities in hopes of discovering a new anti-parasitic. Promising samples were then sent to Campbell’s lab in the U.S. for further testing.

Among those Campbell received from Omura was a single soil sample that contained an unknown potent compound (https://www.isglobal.org/en/healthisglobal/-/custom-blog-portlet/ivermectina-del-suelo-a-las-lombrices-y-mas-alla/3098670/0) later named avermectin. Avermectin is produced by the bacterium Streptomyces avermitilis and showed potential as an anthelmintic. To this day, no other source of avermectin has ever been found except for S. avermitilis. Hence, it is considered an industrially important bacterial species and used exclusively for the production of avermectin and its derivatives.

To improve the safety and biological activity of avermectin, scientists chemically modified the compound to produce the now popular anti-parasitic drug, ivermectin. Initially introduced as a commercial product for use in animals in 1981, ivermectin proved useful against a wide range of parasites (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/87/2/87_2_13/_pdf/-char/en), such as lungworms, mites, lice (https://naturalpedia.com/lice-causes-side-effects-and-treatments-at-naturalpedia-com.html), gastrointestinal roundworms, horn flies and ticks.

But the benefits offered by ivermectin are not limited to only cattle and pets. Soon enough, researchers found that this anti-parasitic drug can do wonders for human health. For instance, ivermectin can improve nutrition as well as overall health and well-being. It is also an effective treatment for two disfiguring neglected tropical diseases, namely, onchocerciasis (river blindness) (https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/onchocerciasis/index.html) and lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lymphatic-filariasis). These two diseases are caused by parasitic roundworms.

Recently, a series of studies on ivermectin reported another useful activity displayed by the drug. Australian researchers found that ivermectin exerts potent anti-viral effects (https://portlandpress.com/biochemj/article/443/3/851/80615/Ivermectin-is-a-specific-inhibitor-of-importin) against two viruses that cause life-threatening human diseases, namely, the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1 (https://naturalpedia.com/hiv-causes-side-effects-and-treatments-at-naturalpedia-com.html)) and the dengue (https://naturalpedia.com/dengue-causes-side-effects-and-treatments-at-naturalpedia-com.html) virus (DENV). According to their report, which appeared in the Biochemical Journal, ivermectin can prevent infection (http://infections.news) by both viruses by inhibiting the transport of viral proteins to the nucleus of target cells — a process that’s critical to the life cycle of many RNA viruses.

Besides HIV-1 and DENV, ivermectin has also been found to limit infection by other viral pathogens, such as the West Nile virus, the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus and the influenza (https://naturalpedia.com/influenza-causes-side-effects-and-treatments-at-naturalpedia-com.html) virus. Because of these reports, Wagstaff and her team decided to test the activity of ivermectin against the Wuhan coronavirus. (Related: Melatonin therapy a promising coronavirus treatment – study (https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-10-melatonin-therapy-promising-coronavirus-treatment.html).)

Ivermectin can control coronavirus replication in vitro
For their experiment, the researchers infected cells commonly used for virus isolation experiments (Vero/hSLAM cells) with SARS-CoV-2 isolates. After two hours, they treated the infected cells with ivermectin. Analysis and quantification of viral RNA harvested at different time points revealed that ivermectin reduced the amount of viral RNA (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011?via%3Dihub) present in the sample 24 hours after treatment. After 48 hours, the researchers found a 99.8 percent reduction in cell-associated viral RNA, indicating that the anti-parasitic drug can effectively kill the coronavirus.

To further test ivermectin’s effectiveness, the researchers conducted another experiment that involved treating SARS-CoV-2-infected cells with serial dilutions of ivermectin. Similar to their earlier results, ivermectin significantly reduced viral RNA at all tested concentrations of the drug without being toxic to cells. These findings further cement ivermectin’s role as a potent inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2, which, like HIV-1 and DENV, is also an RNA virus.
“Taken together. these results demonstrate that ivermectin has antiviral action against the SARS-CoV-2 clinical isolate in vitro, with a single dose able to control viral replication within 24–48 h in our system,” wrote the researchers in their report.

“We hypothesize that this is likely through inhibiting IMP [I]a/B1-mediated nuclear import of viral proteins, as shown for other RNA viruses.”
Based on the drug’s mode of action, the researchers are positive that it could help reduce viral load, prevent COVID-19 progression (http://prevention.news) and limit person-to-person transmission if given to patients in the early stages of infection. The critical next step, they said, is to further evaluate the benefits of ivermectin treatment in COVID-19 patients by conducting clinical trials. They also proposed examining a multiple addition dosing regimen that mimics the approved usage of the drug in humans.

For the latest updates on coronavirus research, visit Pandemic.news (http://pandemic.news).

Sue (Ayt)

21st January 2021, 01:03

Saw this intriguing abstract recently about niacin, but unfortunately I have not been able to find the full study:

Sufficient Niacin Supply: The Missing Puzzle Piece to COVID-19, and beyond?

Kats D
Preprint from Preprints.org, 10 Jan 2021

Abstract
Definitive antiviral properties are evidenced for niacin, i.e., nicotinic acid (NA), as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) therapy for both health restoration and prevention, to the level that progression of COVID-19 pathology may follow as an intrinsic function of NA supply. This detailed investigation proposes thorough disentanglement of how the downstream inflammatory propagation of ensuing severe acute respiratory virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can either be prohibited or reversed upstream out the body to expeditiously restore health with well-tolerated dynamic supplementation of sufficient NA (i.e., ~1-3 grams per day). Culmination of this research leads to realization of the potentially ubiquitous therapeutic and preventive powers of NA against inflammatory disease, in general.

https://europepmc.org/article/PPR/PPR263764

**found another news article about this study
https://www.livetradingnews.com/niacin-may-be-the-missing-piece-of-the-covid-19-puzzle-206983.html

Gwin Ru

21st January 2021, 11:30

Three Steps To Obtain COVID-19 Medication (https://www.iceagenow.info/three-steps-to-obtain-covid-19-medication/)

by Robert (https://www.iceagenow.info/author/xilef/)
January 20, 2021

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India Home Covid Kit

After I posted the video yesterday with Dr Simone Gold speaking on the EXPERIMENTAL mRNA vaccine, (https://www.iceagenow.info/dr-simone-gold-speaking-on-the-experimental-mrna-vaccine-video/) many readers expressed an interest in obtaining hydroxychloroquine.

I would therefore like to share this information with you.

Now, first, a disclaimer. Let me be very clear here. I am not a doctor. I don’t have a medical background, and I am not saying that you should, or should not, do this. This is for informational purposes only.

I copied these three steps directly from the Americas Frontline Doctors website.
Three Steps To Obtain COVID-19 Medication

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), Ivermectin, and other COVID-19 medications can be obtained by prescription in the USA in almost every state. AFLDS-trained and licensed physicians are available via telemedicine for a short consultation. Our physicians know that HCQ and Zinc are effective both prophylactically and when used early. The telemedicine physician will review your history. Almost all patients can safely take these medications.

Click on the Contact A Physician (https://speakwithanmd.com/americasfrontlinedoctors/) button. Fill out the form and pay $90. The physician will call you typically within 24 to 48 hours. Please keep your phone with you. After your telemed appointment, the pharmacy will contact you for your payment information and mailing address to send the prescription to you. If you have questions for the pharmacy, please contact Ravkoo Pharmacy at 863-875-5700 (tel:8638755700) or email them at support@ravkoo.com.

If you miss the telemed call, you can either wait for the second call (which will come), send an email to info@speakwithanmd.com, or call their customer service at (855) 503-2657 (tel:8555032657).

https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/how-do-i-get-covid-19-medication/

Good luck with your health, whatever your decision.

Matthew

21st January 2021, 20:12

Use of overhead far-ultraviolet C light in public spaces could provide a powerful check on seasonal influenza epidemics, as well as influenza pandemics.

...

Found this article about a Tel Aviv University study on this subject. Thought I'd add it for good measure

Tel Aviv research: 99.9% of COVID-19 virus dead in 30 seconds with UV LEDs
“We discovered that it is quite simple to kill the coronavirus using LED bulbs that radiate ultraviolet light,” said Prof. Hadas Mamane, head of the Environmental Engineering Program at Tel Aviv University's School of Mechanical Engineering, who led the study with Prof. Yoram Gerchman and Dr. Michal Mandelboim.
She said that the UV-LED bulbs require less than half a minute to destroy more than 99.9% of the coronaviruses.

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/tel-aviv-research-999-percent-of-covid-19-germs-dead-in-30-seconds-with-uv-leds-653315

:heart:

Gwin Ru

22nd January 2021, 19:38

...

From Jim Stone:

I don't know how they are doing it but again today they hid the new reports. Thank you Operation Talpiot!

LANCET: "OOPS, SORRY:" Hydroxychloroquine works GREAT against Coronavirus! right on cue!!! (http://82.221.129.208/.uu7.html)

SURPRISE SURPRISE: This got buried totally by all media outlets until AFTER Biden was sworn in, so everyone missed it!

Meanwhile the MSM kept quoting there was no science for hydroxychloroquine and that it had been fully debunked by The Lancet all the while they bashed Trump right to the bitter end. Guess what? NOW THAT BIDEN IS IN THE REPORT AGAINST HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE HAS BEEN REDACTED WITH APOLOGIES FOR HOW POORLY IT WAS DONE, AND IT IS BACK DATED TO JUNE!!!!!

I don't believe this was retracted for that long, yet there are supporting stories even in the MSM that are back dated, stating that they knew about this all the way back then, and WE DID NOT KNOW????

That's how communists roll, I DOUBT I MISSED THIS. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext) NOW THE LANCET IS CLAIMING HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE WORKS GREAT AT CURING COVID. Gee, a LOT of people said they'd do this the minute they ousted Trump, and now, VOILA! right as the coup is complete and Biden is sworn in, THERE IT IS.

http://82.221.129.208/lancetcovid.png

HEY EVERYBODY, we have been stating the report was bogus and Hydroxychloroquine was GREAT, EVER SINCE JUNE. Gosh, you did not know that? YOU MEAN YOU EVEN MISSED ALL THE MSM REPORTS SAYING SO? BY GOSH! HOW???? WHY ON EARTH did they even bother with a vaccine? the problem has been licked for 8 months!!!

Welcome to life under communism!

And by the way, keep social distancing and wear your mask.

Now we know for certain:

The entire Covid hoax was run for the sole purpose of getting Trump out of power. Whether or not they continue to run this hoax after the main objective has been accomplished will be anyone's guess.

Sue (Ayt)

28th January 2021, 04:30

Andrographis is what I took immediately upon suspecting I had covid. I have taken this in the past at the slightest hint of a cold or flu, and it seriously has always worked well for me for nipping it in the bud. I make sure to always have it on hand. I get it on Amazon.

Thailand Approves Use of Andrographis as Herbal Treatment for COVID-19

The Government of Thailand has approved the use of the traditional herb, andrographis (Andrographis paniculata) in a pilot study aimed at reducing the initial symptoms and subsequent severity of COVID-infected individuals. Initial studies reported by the Thai government demonstrated what traditional herbalists have known for a long time; when andrographis is given within the first 72 hours of experiencing symptoms, the symptoms subside and patient conditions are improved within three days, without side effects and with reduced costs.

Thailand reported 250 new cases on Dec. 27, 2020, taking the nation’s total to almost 7,000, a rate of increase in local transmissions that alarmed government officials to urge people to stay at home to prevent the virus from spreading further. The government has also banned large gatherings in high-risk areas, said Taweesilp Witsanuyotin, a spokesperson for the national Covid-19 response center.

• The herbal treatment will be on a voluntary basis for those in the 18-60 age group with minor symptoms and should be within 72 hours of confirming infections.

• The extract from the plant, known as Fah Talai Jone in Thai, can curb virus and reduce severity of inflammation, ministry says citing studies.

• Human trials showed patient conditions improved within three days of the treatment without side effects if the medicine is administered within 72 hours of testing positive.

According to Roy Upton, president of The American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, “Mobilizing immune defenses as soon as symptoms arise is critically important for management of any upper respiratory infection. It is a strategy employed by Chinese herbal practitioners for centuries and is a formal part of treatment protocols in China where more than 90% of COVID patients are treated with herbs.”

“Conversely, formal policies in the US for COVID patients is take a test, wait three days for the results as the disease progresses, stay away from everyone, wear a mask, and wash your hands. It is about time the American medical system paid attention to Asian experience.”

This approval has a strong foundation as numerous studies, including at least one meta-analysis, have demonstrated the antiviral potential of andrographis in reducing symptoms and severity of influenza in adults and children. This may be especially important considering that the new variants of COVID, unlike the original strain, reportedly is targeting children.

Andrographolide, a primary compound of andrographis, has been shown to reduce the inflammatory response associated with influenza as well as reduce bacteria that causes pneumonia, a primary need for management of COVID.

According to Upton, “COVID patients in the US are at a distinct disadvantage in not integrating herbal medicines into the management of COVID. Luckily, Americans have access to herbal supplements if they have the education of their benefits.”

Link (https://nutritionreview.org/2021/01/thailand-approves-use-of-andrographis-as-herbal-treatment-for-covid-19/)
Source: Bloomberg

Baby Steps

28th January 2021, 13:58

ALSO THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT TELOMERES ARE A FACTOR

People who suffer badly from a Covid-19 infection have one thing in common—and it’s not their age or having underlying health problems.

They all tend to have much shorter telomeres, the caps on the end of DNA strands that have been closely linked to ageing.

Researchers from Spain’s National Cancer Research Centre started to suspect that severe Covid cases had short telomeres after they read that long-lasting damage to the lung and kidneys was a common legacy for the worst affected. The organs were unable to regenerate, which pointed to a telomere problem.

Telomeres protect chromosomes in cells, and each time a cell divides, its telomeres shorten until they can no longer protect the cell’s function. Once the damaged cell stops dividing, new tissue is no longer being generated. The result is bodily ageing and health problems such as pulmonary fibrosis when lung tissue starts to stiffen and harden.

Fibrosis-like problems of the lungs and kidneys are common among serious Covid patients, and the Spanish researchers confirmed their suspicions when they analysed tissue samples from 89 Covid patients who needed hospital care.

The good news is that telomere shortening isn’t an inevitable consequence of ageing. Studies have discovered that dietary changes can reverse the process, including foods such as legumes, nuts, seaweed and fruit, while avoiding red and processed meats. Being overweight, not exercising and chronic stress all speed up telomere shortening.

(Source: Aging, 2021; doi: 10.18632/aging.202463)

Tintin

28th January 2021, 22:29

Very encouraging development from Slovakia. Note The Spectator hides behind a subscription wall so this is the available text only here.

Use of parasite medication to treat coronavirus patients approved in Slovakia
The Health Ministry approved the therapeutic use of Ivermectin for six months.

Health Minister Marek Krajčí (Source: TASR)

Ivermectin, a medication used to treat many types of parasite infestations, can now be used to treat coronavirus patients in hospitals and obtained from pharmacies with a prescription.

The Health Ministry approved the therapeutic use of this medication for six months. It will be used with other treatments, its spokesperson Zuzana Eliášová said, as reported by the TASR newswire.

The medication can be legally imported to Slovakia and given to patients. With such a step, the ministry fulfilled the request of the association of Slovak anaesthetists, the Denník N daily reported.

Čítajte viac: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22583299/use-of-parasite-medication-to-treat-coronavirus-patients-approved-in-slovakia.html

Anna70

29th January 2021, 15:13

This looks extremely interesting, thank you ever so much for sharing this information!! The bit that really got me was the mention of CFS.

Has anyone here had personal experience using this product (LDM-100/Lomatium)?

EDIT: After watching several videos about this product, I felt convinced I must try this. Not just for CFS and anti-viral properties, but also as it is antifungal and I've spent years in a flat that has damp and mould issues, which won't have helped my condition.

Found a UK supplier (www.mandimart.co.uk) whose prices seem good, as they charge less for a 4oz bottle here, than another company did for a 2oz one. And they also sell the MunityBoost, which is meant to help limit the unpleasant (but good, as it's a detoxification one) rash some people experience, by supporting the liver and getting the body used to the Lomatium prior to taking the LDM-100. They will probably send it out on Monday, so I'll be able to update on the experience as and when. :)

ANOTHER EDIT: Just to say the parcel has arrived already, and the LDM-100 bottles are indeed 4oz ones! I've started taking the MunityBoost right away. It may sound odd, but there seems to be a really nice and 'light' vibe about this.

Gwin Ru

31st January 2021, 14:56

Ivermectin – A new way of defeating Covid-19 (https://www.iceagenow.info/ivermectin-a-new-way-of-defeating-covid-19/)

by Robert (https://www.iceagenow.info/author/xilef/)
January 30, 2021

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On day four I was cured, had my energy back and was able to work from Daylight to Dark.
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Ivermectin – A new way of defeating Covid-19

David Christian
I came down with Covid-19 over the Christmas weekend and was sick for almost 2 weeks and couldn’t get over it.

A friend of my wife at work told her about a new way of defeating Covid-19.

This friend, like us, owns a farm and raises cattle. As it happens, her husband back in mid December tested positive for Covid-19 and was placed on antibodies by his doctor. Like me, he couldn’t get over it.

While outside treating his cattle with the veterinarian, he explained he had tested positive 2 weeks earlier and was still trying to recover from the Covid-19.

The Vet laughed and said,
“I’ve got something which will knock that Covid bug right out. You will think I am joking but it works.”
The Vet told him to use Ivermectin Injection for Cattle and Swine 1% Solution. To use 2-3mL by mixing it in some Juice or Gatorade. Then repeat 3 days later and he would be cured.

When My wife came home from work and told me this story, I went to our local feed store and bought some Durvet Ivermectin 1% Solution. Cost $34.95. I took the recommended rate and mixed it with Gatorade.

The next morning I woke up coughing my head off for about 20 minutes. Each time I coughed up green and yellow mucus, and I felt better later that day.

On day three I took my second dose.

On day four I was cured, had my energy back and was able to work from Daylight to Dark.

I personally know numerous farmers in the area who have taken this treatment along with Vitamin C and it cured them in 4-5 days by taking it at the first signs of sickness.

The best thing is now we know another way to treat colds and Flu in the event the SHTF happens.

iota

2nd February 2021, 00:22

iota

2nd February 2021, 00:33

but i came in here to post this news:

https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1354936464254107650

amazing!

Tintin

2nd February 2021, 16:26

The University of Oxford soon kicks “the PRINCIPLE Trial” into a higher gear now, in what they consider a pathbreaking “high-quality trial” of Ivermectin, a generic drug already evidencing significant efficacy in over two dozen clinical trials around the world, according to some researchers. The UK government also backs this pivotal study via the Department of Health and Social Care. Searching for early-onset, home-based ambulatory treatments for COVID-19, the PRINCIPLE Trial seeks to meet a gap in research in the world’s richest nations to date.

Nearly all of the taxpayer-financed research-based expenditures of governments in the US, UK and Europe, for example, have gone into vaccines, novel monoclonal antibodies, and novel therapeutics, with an emphasis on treating severely ill patients. Ivermectin, hailed as the “wonder drug” or “the People’s medicine” for COVID-19, gains growing attention worldwide made more widely available, frankly, partly due to TrialSite’s consistent chronicling of these trials around the world since the original University of Monash breakthrough.

The team discovered that in a lab cell culture, Ivermectin obliterates the novel coronavirus within 48 hours. Since then, TrialSite has covered most studies worldwide, whereas, by the summer, groups in the U.S., such as the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), commenced meta-analysis covering the dozens of Ivermectin studies around the world.

According to these physician/scientists, the results reveal compelling data that Ivermectin actually reduces the COVID-19 death rate while accelerating viral clearance and transmission reduction.

Enter the preeminent University of Oxford and the PRINCIPLE Trial: the globe’s top investigators now seek to finally test if Ivermectin and antiviral Favipiravir, both low-cost, orally-administered, generally available generic drugs, can be proven safe and effective in a “properly designed trial.” Led by Co-Chief investigator Chris Butler, Professor of Primary Care, Nuffield Department of Primary Care, Health Services at Oxford, the study team is generally upbeat about the prospects. Still, Dr. Butler notes the “gap in the data.”

A critically important trial, the PRINCIPLE Trial, is also causing a stir. Groups such as the FLCCC raise the Helsinki Accords: from their vantage, they remind all about the question of ethical conduct—is it right and proper to conduct a randomized placebo-controlled trial when there is sufficient evidence that a drug can save lives? Couldn’t a dose control study or well-designed observational study be run instead to both generate data and protect patients? On the other hand, that Oxford is the first major center to embrace this important generic drug is truly game-changing and demonstrates the leadership position of that research institution again.

‘Not a Great Place to be’

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Oxford’s PRINCIPLE Trial: Bringing Ivermectin Directly into the Developed World in the Battle Against COVID-19

By TrialSite Staff January 25, 2021

Source: TrialSite News (https://trialsitenews.com/oxfords-principle-trial-bringing-ivermectin-directly-into-the-developed-world-in-the-battle-against-covid-19/)

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On Saturday, The Times’ scientific correspondent Rhys Blakely rightly identified growing frustration worldwide with apex research agencies such as the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a number of funding governments use of taxpayer money. In the U.S., for example, Operation Warp Speed, in conjunction with the NIH’s ACTIV, has spent over $13 billion of taxpayer money on just a handful of vaccine and novel monoclonal antibody developers, yet the nation has experienced a staggering amount of death from the pandemic.

A growing cry by physicians and other medical professionals for drugs that can be used at the early onset of the virus, to impede the progression of infectious severity, hasn’t been reflected in the research spent to date.

But other nations have commenced with programs to treat early-onset treatments with antivirals or Ivermectin. Albeit, these tend to be low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs) with far fewer resources than would be available in America, Britain or Europe, for that matter. These poorer countries must be ever more resourceful—they don’t have many billions of dollars to spend during a pandemic on lengthy, randomized, placebo-controlled studies.

Russia led a series of agile studies that led to the approval of Favipiravir (https://trialsitenews.com/russia-ministry-of-health-approves-avifavir-favipiravir-for-covid-19-patients-cuts-duration-of-illness-by-over-50/), as has India (with multiple generic versions), and several other countries. Ivermectin is used in India’s state of Uttar Pradesh (https://trialsitenews.com/northern-indian-state-of-uttar-pradesh-drops-hydroxychloroquine-replaces-with-ivermectin-for-covid-19-patients/), with 210 million people, health officials there swear by the results. The same is occurring in some Brazilian states (https://trialsitenews.com/an-old-drug-tackles-new-tricks-ivermectin-treatment-in-three-brazilian-towns/), Bangladesh, and for that matter, Peru and Argentina. TrialSite commissioned a documentary (https://trialsitenews.com/trialsite-news-original-documentary-in-peru-about-ivermectin-and-covid-19/) about this unfolding situation in Peru. In Europe, at least in the south eastern fringe, the use of Ivermectin gains steam in Greece and the Balkan Peninsula (https://trialsitenews.com/macedonia-nears-approval-of-ivermectin-for-covid-19-as-word-of-the-drug-spreads-in-the-balkan-peninsula/?fbclid=IwAR3AOokwIN5AfpaT0KgTNMHzzWJkednO21cQfEsiutwxAwDnf6gHjlu4AYg).

Frustration Enters the “First World”

But the “First World” that is the wealthiest Western nations have experienced some of the most horrific losses from this pandemic. The U.S. has been the epicenter of the pandemic, with over 400,000 deaths.

The Times’ Blakely spoke with Wellcome Trust’s Nick Cammack (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-cammack-55520717/?originalSubdomain=uk), who shared that there are only “…two strong new antiviral candidates in the pipeline to date. One is called molunpiravir (EIDD-2801) from Merck.” Taken via tablet form and reported on by TrialSite, it is apparently designed to actually “…interfere with an enzyme that the virus relies on to replicate.” Cammack shares that if the clinical trials perform, the drug could be available toward Q3 2021.

Dr. Cammack also introduced Roche’s AT-527, another antiviral drug that is early in the pipeline. This gap, Cammack frets is, “…worrying.” That is, “To have only a few potential therapeutics for a nasty disease during a global pandemic—it’s not a great place to be. We need a big push in R&D.”

In the United States, TrialSite was one of the only media at the time to report on the breakthrough findings of the ICON study in Broward County, Florida. There, Dr. Jean-Jacques Rajter and the team from Broward Health discovered amazing results from the ICON observational study, which evidenced, among other things, that Ivermectin could lower the COVID-19 death rate. The results were finally published in CHEST, but they were not considered strong enough as ICON was observational and not a randomized, placebo controlled study.

Many doctors in the U.S. started prescribing off-label, and with every trial result that TrialSite reported on, the data gained strength. There was some mounting evidence that Ivermectin definitely could inhibit the coronavirus. TrialSite for months called out for NIH funding of Ivermectin studies: the online media platform’s founder even wrote an urgent email communication to NIH Director Francis Collins (https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/biographical-sketch-francis-s-collins-md-phd).

Article continues (https://trialsitenews.com/oxfords-principle-trial-bringing-ivermectin-directly-into-the-developed-world-in-the-battle-against-covid-19/)

Gemma13

8th February 2021, 14:25

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9228317/Experimental-cancer-drug-hailed-coronavirus-cure-Israeli-hospital.html

EXPERIMENTAL CANCER DRUG COULD HELP HOSPITALIZED CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS RECOVER IN 5 DAYS - ISRAELI TRIAL CLAIMS

PUBLISHED: 03:44 AEDT, 6 February 2021 | UPDATED: 04:06 AEDT, 6 February 2021

An experimental cancer drug could help hospitalised coronavirus recover quicker, researchers believe.

Israeli academics today claimed 29 of 30 patients with moderate to severe case of Covid treated with EXO-CD24 made a full recovery within five days.

Further human trials are now needed to prove that the inhaled drug - designed as a medication to fight ovarian cancer - actually works.

The study did not compare the drug to a placebo, meaning scientists cannot say for certain that the medicine was behind the patients' speedy recovery.

However, data shows the average coronavirus patient needing hospital treatment spends up to three weeks in a bed.

Scientists gave 30 patients with serious or moderate Covid infections a dose of the drug.

It is not clear how old the patients were but data shows younger patients are much less likely to die from coronavirus and recover quicker.

Twenty-nine showed significant improvement within three to five days. It is not clear whether the patients were also receiving other drugs or treatment.

The thirtieth patient's symptoms also got better but outside of the five-day window, Israeli media claimed.

The trial's sample size was also too low to draw any note-worthy conclusions about the drug's efficacy. The data was not published in a journal.

Professor Nadir Arber, of Ichilov's Integrated Cancer Prevention Center, spent years developing the drug for ovarian cancer before trialling it on coronavirus patients.

EXO-CD24 is taken once every five days and is relatively inexpensive, according to Professor Arber, but he did not reveal exactly how much it costs.

It was initially developed to treat ovarian cancer before researchers considered its potential for coronavirus treatment.

It works by reducing the immune system's overreaction to the virus.

Coronavirus can trigger a brutal immune response that shuts down the body's main organs known as a cytokine storm.

The drug uses tiny carrier sacs called exosomes that shuttle materials between cells to deliver a protein called CD24 straight to the lungs.

Researcher Shiran Shapira told the Times of Israel: 'This protein is located on the surface of cells and has a well known and important role in regulating the immune system.'

Professor Arber told Israeli news site Arutz Sheva: 'Even if the vaccines do their job, and even if there aren't any new mutations, one way or another, the coronavirus will be staying with us.

'That's why we developed this special medication: EXO-CD24. This is unprecedented.

'It's been about half a year from the time the idea was hatched and the technologies created, to the first human trials conducted and phase one of testing completed.'

The researchers are planning to carry out studies of the drug on hundreds of patients and compare the results to a placebo.

Israel announced today it will ease lockdown measures but keep its international airport and land borders closed following a slight fall in the spread of coronavirus cases.

The government has accepted a proposal from the prime minister and the health minister to ease lockdown measures from 7am on Sunday,' their offices said in a joint statement.

Despite what has been termed the world's fastest vaccination campaign per capita, Israel has still been registering a daily average of 6,500 new Covid-19 cases, down from around 7,000 last week, official figures show.

A strict nationwide lockdown in force since December 27 has been extended four times to combat the infection rate, but January was the deadliest month with more than 1,000 Covid fatalities.

According to latest figures from the health ministry, Israel has registered a total of more than 675,000 cases of Covid-19, including 5,019 deaths.

Journeyman

8th February 2021, 14:53

[I][INDENT][INDENT]
Many doctors in the U.S. started prescribing off-label, and with every trial result that TrialSite reported on, the data gained strength. There was some mounting evidence that Ivermectin definitely could inhibit the coronavirus. TrialSite for months called out for NIH funding of Ivermectin studies: the online media platform’s founder even wrote an urgent email communication to NIH Director Francis Collins (https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/biographical-sketch-francis-s-collins-md-phd).

Article continues (https://trialsitenews.com/oxfords-principle-trial-bringing-ivermectin-directly-into-the-developed-world-in-the-battle-against-covid-19/)

So I see this and think, 'at last, they're going to heed the news from India and elsewhere and give sick people a safe, cheap, antiviral treatment that can make a difference.

Then I read on via the link you included:

The Times reports that some experts such as Penny Ward, visiting professor in pharmaceutical medicine at Kings’ College London critiques the study, sharing with The Times’ Rhys Blakely that, “They’re allowing a recruitment window 14 days from the onset of symptoms, but the virus peaks on day three—and it’s too late to use an antiviral after the peak of virus replication.”

Dr. Ward continued for The Times, “And if you don’t intervene very rapidly with an antiviral, you will have a failed trial—even though the drug itself might, in fact, have been effective if given correctly. If they do get the skates on and get patients into those trials within two or three days of the first onset of symptoms, then there’s a fighting chance that one or two of those might actually be effective.”

Do you recall what happened in the early days of the pandemic as Hydroxochloroquine was showing good results? There was a NHS Recovery (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/researchers-halt-trial-hydroxychloroquine-found-useless-against/) that rubbished it, said it was worse than placebo:

“These data convincingly rule out any meaningful mortality benefit of hydroxychloroquine in patients hospitalised with COVID-19”

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.15.20151852v1

The Lancet published a report that said it was dangerous then retracted it when they failed to provide sources:

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200605/lancet-retracts-hydroxychloroquine-study

So the cheap, widely available and clinically tested over many years drug is rubbished in favour of experimental vaccines.

And yet:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32418114/

and then it turns out that they ignored NICE's own dosing instructions for HCQ and were giving people 4 times the highest recommended dose in the Recovery trial.

See the comments under this report:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/06/05/the-recovery-trial-reports-on-hydroxychloroquine

See also: (https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2670)

The trial’s hydroxychloroquine dosage
The high doses of hydroxychloroquine used in RECOVERY—800 mg at 0 and 6 hours followed by 400 mg at 12 hours and then every 12 hours for up to nine additional days—have raised concern among experts.

David Jayne, professor of clinical autoimmunity at Cambridge University, said that current recommended doses for rheumatologic disease are typically 300-400 mg/day and that the maximum dose for malaria has been 800 mg in the first 24 hours. “The reasons behind the dose selection in the RECOVERY trial are unclear,” he says. “Hydroxychloroquine overdose is associated with cardiovascular, neurological, and other toxicities, occurring with doses over 1500 mg, and higher doses are associated with fatality.” He is concerned that hydroxychloroquine toxicity may have contributed to the adverse outcomes and that conclusions based on these results may be unreliable.

Martin Landray, RECOVERY’s deputy chief investigator, says, “We did not choose these doses by accident. The dose comes from modelling by Nick White, professor of tropical medicine at the University of Oxford, and his team, who have extensive experience with this drug. They developed detailed pharmacokinetic models, considering the best way in which to rapidly achieve drug levels that might be high enough to kill the virus but not so high as to trigger toxicity. Their work has recently been published as a preprint on medRxiv.

Were they deliberately sabotaging the test? Killing people to ensure that a viable treatment option was ignored so the death figures would rise and they could achieve their goals? Are they doing the same now with Ivermectin?

I wonder if some of these people have broken the oaths they took when they took up medicine, or if they've sworn other oaths they consider more sacrosanct?

Eva2

19th February 2021, 07:51

A humorous look at homemade options (not trying to take away from the seriousness of this virus)
'Feeling under the weather? Have a look at these flu remedies.

Disclaimer: no responsibility taken for any side effects you may experience after putting an old sweaty sock around your throat, rubbing mustard and lard on your chest or any other remedy herein mentioned.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpLEbYW3Mqw

onawah

22nd February 2021, 04:06

The Insanity of the PCR Testing Saga
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
February 19, 2021
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/02/19/covid-pcr-test-fraud.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&sd=20110604&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20210219_HL2&mid=DM809083&rid=1087896723

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Curative offers a PCR test using spit rather than swabs from the back of your nasal cavity. Initially only authorized for use on symptomatic patients, the company has requested the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expand its authorization for use on asymptomatic individuals
According to company data, the spit test accurately identifies about 90% of positive cases when compared against a nasopharyngeal PCR test set to 35 CT
According to the FDA, that comparative CT is too low, and will produce too many false negatives. This, despite the scientific consensus, which states anything over 35 CTs is scientifically unjustifiable as it produces enormous amounts of false positives
According to an April 2020 study, a CT of 17 must be used to obtain 100% confirmed real positives. Above 17 cycles, accuracy drops dramatically. At 33 cycles, the false positive rate is 80%. Beyond 34 cycles, the false positive rate reaches 100%
Because the PCR test cannot discern between live virus and dead, noninfectious viral debris, the timing of the test is important. Recent research shows the median time from symptom onset to viral clearance confirmed by viral culture is seven days, whereas the PCR test continues to detect nonviable (noninfectious) SARS-CoV-2 for a median of 34 days

For several months, experts have highlighted the true cause behind the COVID-19 pandemic, namely the incorrect use of PCR tests set at a ridiculously high cycle count (CT), which falsely labels healthy people as “COVID-19 cases.” In reality, the PCR test is not a proper diagnostic test, although it has been promoted as such.

An important question that demands an answer is whether the experts at our federal health agencies and the World Health Organization were really too ignorant to understand the implications of using this test at excessive CT, or whether it was done on purpose to create the illusion of a dangerous, out-of-control pandemic.

Regardless, those in charge need to be held accountable, which is precisely what the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (Außerparlamentarischer Corona Untersuchungsausschuss,1 or ACU),2,3 intends to do.

They’re in the process of launching an international class-action lawsuit against those responsible for using fraudulent testing to engineer the appearance of a dangerous pandemic in order to implement economically devastating lockdowns around the world. I wrote about this in “Coronavirus Fraud Scandal — The Biggest Fight Has Just Begun” and “German Lawyers Initiate Class-Action Coronavirus Litigation.”

FDA Demands Higher False Positives

An interesting case detailed in a January 21, 2021, Buzzfeed article4 that raises those same questions in regard to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is its recent spat with Curative, a California testing company that got its start in January 2020. It has since risen to become one of the largest COVID-19 test providers in the U.S.

Curative’s most popular PCR test differs from other providers in that it uses spit swabbed from the patient’s tongue, cheek and mouth rather than from the back of the nasal cavity.

In April 2020, the FDA issued an accelerated emergency use authorization5 for the Curative spit test, but only for patients who had been symptomatic within the two weeks prior to taking the test, as the data available at that time showed it failed to catch asymptomatic “cases.”

However, the test was subsequently used off-label on individuals without symptoms anyway, and the company has been urging the FDA to expand its authorization to include asymptomatic individuals based on newer data.

In December 2020, Curative submitted that data,6 showing its oral spit test accurately identified about 90% of positive cases when compared against a nasopharyngeal PCR test set to 35 CT.7

The FDA objected, saying that Curative was comparing its test against a PCR that had a CT that was too low, and would therefore produce too many false negatives.8 According to the FDA, the bar Curative had chosen was “not appropriate and arbitrary,” Buzzfeed reports.9

This is a curious statement coming from the FDA, considering the scientific consensus on PCR tests is that anything over 35 CTs is scientifically unjustifiable.10,11,12

From the start, the FDA and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended running PCR tests at a CT of 40.13 This was already high enough to produce an inordinate number of false positives, thereby labeling healthy people as “COVID-19 cases,” but when it comes to Curative’s spit test, the FDA is demanding they compare it against PCR processed at a CT of 45, which is even more likely to produce false positives.

Medically speaking, a “case” refers to a sick person. It never ever referred to someone who had no symptoms of illness.
The FDA’s concern is that Curative’s test is missing infections and giving infectious people a clean bill of health. However, in reality, it’s far more likely that the test is accurately weeding out people who indeed are not infectious at all and rightly should be given a clean bill of health. It seems the FDA is merely pushing for a process that will ensure a higher “caseload” to keep the illusion of widespread infection going.

When Are You Actually Infectious?
A persistent sticking point with the PCR test is that it picks up dead viral debris, and by excessively magnifying those particles with CTs in the 40s, noninfectious individuals are labeled as infectious and told to self-isolate. In short, media and public health officials have conflated “cases” — positive tests — with the actual illness.

Medically speaking, a “case” refers to a sick person. It never ever referred to someone who had no symptoms of illness. Now all of a sudden, this well-established medical term, “case,” has been arbitrarily redefined to mean someone who tested positive for the presence of noninfectious viral RNA.

The research is unequivocal when it comes to who’s infectious and who’s not. You cannot infect another person unless you carry live virus, and you typically will not develop symptoms unless your viral load is high enough.

As it pertains to PCR testing, when excessively high CTs are used, even a minute viral load that is too low to cause symptoms can register as positive. And, since the test cannot distinguish between live virus and dead viral debris, you may not even be carrying live virus at all.

These significant drawbacks are why PCR testing really only should be done on symptomatic patients, and why a positive test should be weighed as just one factor of diagnosis. Symptoms must also be taken into account. If you have no symptoms, your chances of being infectious and spreading the infection to others is basically nil, as data14 from 9,899,828 individuals have shown.

Of these, not a single person who had been in close contact with an asymptomatic individual ended up testing positive. This study even confirmed that even in cases where asymptomatic individuals had had an active infection, and had been carriers of live virus, the viral load had been too low for transmission. As noted by the authors:15

“Compared with symptomatic patients, asymptomatic infected persons generally have low quantity of viral loads and a short duration of viral shedding, which decrease the transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2.

In the present study, virus culture was carried out on samples from asymptomatic positive cases, and found no viable SARS-CoV-2 virus. All close contacts of the asymptomatic positive cases tested negative, indicating that the asymptomatic positive cases detected in this study were unlikely to be infectious.”

PCR Picks Up Dead Virus for Weeks After Infection Has Cleared
Because the PCR test cannot discern between live virus and dead, noninfectious viral debris, the timing of the test ends up being important. One example of this was presented in a letter to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine,16 in which the author describes an investigation done on hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Seoul, South Korea.

Whereas the median time from symptom onset to viral clearance confirmed by cultured samples was just seven days, with the longest time frame being 12 days, the PCR test continued to pick up SARS-CoV-2 for a median of 34 days. The shortest time between symptom onset to a negative PCR test was 24 days.

In other words, there was no detectable live virus in patients after about seven days from onset of symptoms (at most 12 days). The PCR test, however, continued to register them as “positive” for SARS-CoV-2 for about 34 days. The reason this matters is because if you have no live virus in your body, you are not infectious and pose no risk to others.

This then means that testing patients beyond, say, Day 12 to be safe, after symptom onset is pointless, as any positive result is likely to be false. But there’s more. As noted in that New England Journal of Medicine article:17

“Viable virus was identified until 3 days after the resolution in fever … Viral culture was positive only in samples with a cycle-threshold value of 28.4 or less. The incidence of culture positivity decreased with an increasing time from symptom onset and with an increasing cycle-threshold value.”

This suggests symptomology is a really important piece of the puzzle. If no viable virus is detectable beyond Day 3 after your fever ends, it’s probably unnecessary to retest beyond that point. A positive result beyond Day 3 after your fever breaks is, again, likely to be a false positive, as you have to have live virus in order to be infectious.

Even more important, these results reconfirm that CTs above 30 are inadvisable as they’re highly likely to be wrong. Here, they found the CT had to be below 28.4 in order for the positive test to correspond with live virus. As noted by the authors:18

“Our findings may be useful in guiding isolation periods for patients with Covid-19 and in estimating the risk of secondary transmission among close contacts in contract tracing.”

Testing for Dead Viruses Will Ensure Everlasting Lockdowns
To circle back to the Curative PCR test, the company argues that the test is accurate when it comes to detecting active infection, and as CEO Fred Turner told Buzzfeed:19

“If you’re screening for a return to work and you’re picking up everyone who had COVID two months ago, no one’s going to return to work. If you want to detect active COVID, what the ‘early’ study shows is that Curative is highly effective at doing that.”

Again, this has to do with the fact that the Curative spit test has a sensitivity resembling that of a nasopharyngeal PCR set at a CT of 30. The lower CT count narrows the pool of positive results to include primarily those with higher viral loads and those who are more likely to actually carry live virus. This is a good thing. What the FDA wants Curative to do is to widen that net so that more noninfectious individuals can be labeled as a “case.”

In an email to Buzzfeed, Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, stated that using a CT of 45 is “absolutely insane,” because at that magnification, you may be looking at a single RNA molecule, whereas “when people are sick and are contagious, they literally can have 1,000,000,000,000x that number.”20

Mina added that such a sensitive PCR test “would potentially detect someone 35 days post-infection who is fully recovered and cause that person to have to enter isolation. That’s crazy and it’s not science-based, it’s not medicine-based and it’s not public health-oriented.”21

While the FDA has issued a warning not to use the Curative spit test on asymptomatic people, Florida has dismissed the warning and will continue to use the test on symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals alike. Only Miami-Dade County is reconsidering how it is using the test, although a definitive decision has yet to be announced.22

The Lower the CT, the Greater the Accuracy
While the FDA claims high sensitivity (meaning higher CT) is required to ensure we don’t end up with asymptomatic spreaders in our communities, as reviewed above, this risk is exceedingly small. We really need to stop panicking about the possibility of healthy people killing others. It’s not a sane trend, as detailed in “The World Is Suffering from Mass Delusional Psychosis.”

According to an April 2020 study23 in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, to get 100% confirmed real positives, the PCR test must be run at just 17 cycles. Above 17 cycles, accuracy drops dramatically.

By the time you get to 33 cycles, the accuracy rate is a mere 20%, meaning 80% are false positives. Beyond 34 cycles, your chance of a positive PCR test being a true positive shrinks to zero.

Similarly, a December 3, 2020, systematic review24 published in the journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases, which assessed the findings of 29 different studies, found that “CT values were significantly lower … in specimens producing live virus culture.” In other words, the higher the CT, the lower the chance of a positive test actually being due to the presence of live (and infectious) virus.

“Two studies reported the odds of live virus culture reduced by approximately 33% for every one unit increase in CT,” the authors noted. Importantly, five of the studies included were unable to identify any live viruses in cases where a positive PCR test had used a CT above 24.

In cases where a CT above 35 was used, the patient had to be symptomatic in order to obtain a live virus culture. This again confirms that PCR with a CT over 35 really shouldn’t be used on asymptomatic people, as any positive result is likely to be meaningless and simply force them into isolation for no reason.

PCR Testing Based on Erroneous Paper
In closing, the whole premise of PCR testing to diagnose COVID-19 is in serious question, as the practice appears to be based on an erroneous paper that didn’t even undergo peer-review before being implemented worldwide.

November 30, 2020, a team of 22 international scientists published a review25 challenging the scientific paper26 on PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 written by Christian Drosten, Ph.D., and Victor Corman (the so-called “Corman-Drosten paper”).

According to Reiner Fuellmich,27 founding member of the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee mentioned at the beginning of this article, Drosten is a key culprit in the COVID-19 pandemic hoax.

The scientists demand the Corman-Drosten paper be retracted due to “fatal errors,”28 one of which is the fact that it was written, and the test itself developed, before any viral isolate was available. The test is simply based on a partial genetic sequence published online by Chinese scientists in January 2020. In an Undercover DC interview, Kevin Corbett, Ph.D., one of the 22 scientists who are now demanding the paper’s retraction, stated:29

“Every scientific rationale for the development of that test has been totally destroyed by this paper … When Drosten developed the test, China hadn’t given them a viral isolate. They developed the test from a sequence in a gene bank. Do you see? China gave them a genetic sequence with no corresponding viral isolate.

They had a code, but no body for the code. No viral morphology … the bits of the virus sequence that weren’t there they made up. They synthetically created them to fill in the blanks …

There are 10 fatal errors in this Drosten test paper ... But here is the bottom line: There was no viral isolate to validate what they were doing. The PCR products of the amplification didn’t correspond to any viral isolate at that time. I call it ‘donut ring science.’ There is nothing at the center of it. It’s all about code, genetics, nothing to do with reality …

There have since been papers saying they’ve produced viral isolates. But there are no controls for them. The CDC produced a paper in July … where they said: ‘Here’s the viral isolate.’ Do you know what they did? They swabbed one person. One person, who’d been to China and had cold symptoms. One person. And they assumed he had [COVID-19] to begin with. So, it’s all full of holes, the whole thing.”

The critique against PCR testing is further strengthened by the November 20, 2020, study30 in Nature Communications, which found no viable virus in any PCR-positive cases. I referenced this study earlier, noting that not a single person who had been in close contact with an asymptomatic individual ended up testing positive.

But that’s not all. After evaluating PCR testing data from 9,899,828 people, and conducting additional live cultures to check for active infections in those who tested positive, using a CT of 37 or lower, they were unable to detect live virus in any of them, which is a rather astonishing finding.

On the whole, it seems clear that mass testing using PCR is inappropriate, and does very little if anything to keep the population safe. Its primary result is simply the perpetuation of the false idea that healthy, noninfectious people can pose a mortal threat to others, and that we must avoid social interactions. It’s a delusional idea that is wreaking havoc on the global psyche, and it’s time to put an end to this unhealthy, unscientific way of life."

onawah

22nd February 2021, 19:29

Bicarbonate Proves to be Cheapest Fastest Safest COVID Treatment
February 22, 2021
Dr. Sircus
https://drsircus.com/general/bicarbonate-proves-to-be-cheapest-fastest-safest-covid-treatment/?fbclid=IwAR0lioBfN5t1k8Im9jnlhFbCvzmN4q3Gx-SAge_XKt0rhRGsMEqZ9HKJIRs

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"One does not have to be an anti-vaxxer to see and understand that COVID vaccines are not needed. They are not required legally or for any medical or public health reason to treat or prevent COVID-19. There is a broad range of both natural and pharmaceutical treatments widely available, many already proven to be very useful.

Now comes some excellent news for the human race. There is an official study in Acre, Brazil that has doctors amazed at how fast COVID infected patients got better after nebulizing with 3 grams of sodium bicarbonate (widely available baking soda) in 100 ml of water administered in a nebulizer.

However, the bad news is that there are powerful forces, which we will discuss below, that hate good news and will do everything in their power to censor useful medical information.

Some people and organizations will do everything to push dangerous experimental vaccines over safer, cheaper, and more effective methods of treating viruses. This is in full view in the news from the White House, where they are not even trying to hide their fascist activities. They and the big tech giants need to know that baking soda has nothing to do with "dangerous conspiracy theories, COVID-19 disinformation, and malign foreign propaganda."

The new bicarbonate research adds to the lengthening list of treatments. And it is no surprise to anyone who knows how and why bicarbonates work. Doctors and health care officials should, but do not know or even want to know, that viral infections are unanimously sensitive to pH changes. The simple alkalinization of the blood reduces the cells’ susceptibility to viruses. Meaning bicarbonates can be taken orally as a preventative, and as we find out below, can be nebulized and even pumped into the lungs in ICU patients when their lungs are impaired.

The research was carried out by the Federal University of Acre (Ufac) in partnership with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), an organization dedicated to viral and vaccine research. The study was approved by the National Ethics and Research Commission (Cnep). The treatment, which seeks to improve oxygen saturation in the blood, has already been done in about 300 people in Acre.
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Researcher Dr. Carolina Pontes, says that the solution based on bicarbonate leaves the lung secretion more fluid. In patients with mild symptoms, treatment is done with nebulization. In more severe cases, the bicarbonate is injected directly into the lung and sucked back.

Dr. João Rodrigues, 32 years old, underwent the treatment. He had 80% of his lungs compromised and had already spent five days in the hospital. "The improvement was extremely significant, something that even as a doctor, I was surprised because I had never seen such a rapid improvement."

Coronavirus infectivity is actually exquisitely sensitive to pH. The MHV-A59 strain of coronavirus is quite stable at pH 6.0 (acidic) but becomes rapidly and irreversibly inactivated by brief treatment at pH 8.0 (alkaline). Human coronavirus strain 229E is maximally infective at pH 6.0. Infection of cells by coronavirus A59 at pH 6.0 (acidic) rather than pH 7.0 (neutral) yields a tenfold increase in the infectivity of the virus.

Data suggests that the coronavirus IBV employs a direct, low-pH-dependent virus-cell fusion activation reaction. "Fusion of the coronavirus IBV with host cells does not occur at neutral pH, and that fusion activation is a low-pH-dependent process, with a half-maximal rate of fusion at pH 5.5. Little or no fusion occurred above a pH of 6.0."

Bicarbonate is also a critical fungicide and is the only medicine for Candida Auris, which is resistant to pharmaceutical fungicides. This is a highly lethal infection threatening the world even more than COVID, which is benign by comparison, yet hardly a word is said about it.

This information about bicarbonates will not see the light of day in the mainstream, which is sad. Doctors worldwide have struggled to help patients with intelligent treatments since the pandemic started. The system itself, the mainstream press and governmental agencies, and people like Dr. Fauci have insisted on promoting the mainstream narrative, which is always against the truth that there already are safe and effective treatments for COVID-19 and its mutations.

They are only interested in selling vaccines to the public and could not care less for public health or safe vaccines. They have terrorized an entire generation of children to the point where a considerable percentage are contemplating suicide, and they are getting away with it.
Commentary

Many people have made health and safety their gods—over freedom, over luxury, over progress and ingenuity, over God, over everything, at least that is what they think they are doing. During the "Age of Covid," we have seen people sacrifice everything (jobs, family, religion, social life); however, in the places where this is the most intense, death and infection rates are higher, and ignorance and fear far greater.

Fear and ignorance are the watchwords of the day, and this is nowhere more apparent than in medicine and public health. The public has been preyed upon by pharmaceutical interests that have exploited our tendency for fear and ignorance both. No words can describe how pharmaceutical terrorism, medical ignorance, and medical hype gang up on humanity, keeping us as far away as possible from helpful natural treatments and into medicines and dangerous vaccines that kill.

"Both the HCQ/zinc/antibiotic treatment and the Ivermectin/zinc/antibiotic treatment are proven, safe, and inexpensive. Yet, the evidence has been kept from the public. Even the most knowledgeable experts are de-platformed when they say anything that conflicts with the vaccination/lockdown agenda. The media are complicit in keeping the public uninformed," writes Paul Craig Roberts.

COVID vaccine reactions are painfully high, higher than for any other vaccine to date, yet the CEOs and owners of the terrorist press has not a word to say about it, but the truth is leaking out anyway, scaring the witts out of people, making almost half the public into COVID vaccine skeptics.

The information and power behind bicarbonate medicine offer a clear view of how bad things are in the field of public health. Public health officials are more like death and destruction angels than providers of health and safety because of their professional training, which stimulates them to provoke fear and solidifies them against real answers to threats against public health.

In Nepal, which is doing great in the Age of COVID, "public health experts" are livid that they’ve been ignored. "The government has been very inefficient," says Dr. Anup Subedi, an infectious disease physician. "There has been a reluctance to engage experts and use data and science." The entire world should learn a lesson and ignore these experts who have led the world into a new form of hell. They are not to be trusted.

If one does not think for oneself in the Age of COVID, one is in for a rough time. If one does not think for oneself, one becomes a virtual slave to people and organizations with evil (ignorance) in their hearts, meaning they do not have our best interests at heart.

Though it is not new, we do have a form of terrorism loose on the planet, and we can easily see what it is doing to the children. COVID-minded health officials are guilty of massive child abuse with their lockdown, mask, and social distancing madness, none of which have been necessary for a disease that over 99.6 percent survive even without the best treatments, most of which have been repressed.

Death eventually comes to everyone, but it will come later rather than sooner if the truth of bicarbonate medicine was ever released to the world.

We should all be alarmed when prominent voices such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are censored, silenced, and made to disappear from social media for voicing ideas that are deemed politically incorrect, hateful, dangerous, or conspiratorial.

His level headed views about vaccines confronts the terrorism I speak of, so beware and take care. or you and your children will be added to the long list of victims who have been hurt and died at the hands of medical terrorists who have been trained to smile no matter what they do.

One might ask what happens after such prominent targets are muzzled? But in the case of medicine, it is better to study what has been happening since the Rockefellers took over the field of medicine 100 years ago. In the history of baking soda, we find that in 1918 doctors used bicarbonates successfully to treat the Spanish Flu.

Conclusion

There are three forms of bicarbonate. There are sodium, potassium, and magnesium bicarbonates. They are nontoxic primary alkalizing agents for the prevention and treatment of cancer, liver disease, Type I & Type II diabetes, Lupus, heart disease, pharmacological toxicosis, vascular surgery operation, tonsillar herniation due to cerebral edema, lactic acid toxicosis, and hyponatremia or low salt or loss of salts due to excessive or over-exercise. Research by British scientists at the Royal London Hospital shows that sodium bicarbonate can dramatically slow chronic kidney disease progression. Yet, the debate and ignorance around these simple medicines continue.

The United States army acknowledges that sodium bicarbonate is the medicine of choice to clear Uranium toxicity from the kidneys. It is the only medicine rated to do that. Bicarbonates are also the ultimate form of chemotherapy, and one can only laugh (or cry) at the mile-deep lunacy that prevents all doctors from accepting this fact.

At about three dollars a pound, sodium bicarbonate will outperform chemotherapy and radiation treatments because it targets acidity and low oxygen conditions. Treating cancer with bicarbonates treats the fundamental reasons cancer cells form and get aggressive, so it’s a medically sound therapy that should be denied to no one. Bicarbonate administration also makes these traditional cancer therapies safer and more effective.

Sodium, potassium, and magnesium bicarbonate are miracle medicines not because of any mumbo jumbo but because of hard medical science, medical history, and basic physiology. It continues to be a medical tragedy that the least expensive, most widely available safe, and effective medicine is overlooked.

Important After Thought

An important point is that bicarbonates work with other medicines in perfect harmony, whether pharmaceutical or natural. Even when the most toxic drugs are used, like in chemo or radiation therapy, bicarbonates will soften the poisonous effects. When used with other natural medicines, its healing power will only be amplified."

Constance

22nd February 2021, 19:33

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onawah

23rd February 2021, 19:32

Note today from Dr. Sircus on Facebook
"Some of you might have noticed that Facebook just up and deleted yesterday's post on the use of sodium bicarbonate in the treatment of ICU patients with COVID. Not sure what to do but will not be able to publish much here anymore since Facebook, Google, Tweeter and Youtube have turned fully into fascism and medical terrorism."

(That's in reference to the article by him which I posted just above, in post #429 )

Tintin

7th March 2021, 14:30

.....

Effective March 4th, 2021

Decision on the provisional authorization of the distribution, supply and use of the unregistered human medicinal product HUMEVEC 3 mg tablets containing the active substance ivermectin

Source: Czech Ministry of Health (https://www.mzcr.cz/rozhodnuti-o-docasnem-povoleni-distribuce-vydeje-a-pouzivani-neregistrovaneho-humanniho-leciveho-pripravku-humevec-s-obsahem-lecive-latky-ivermektin)

Link to PDF (https://www.mzcr.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Rozhodnut%C3%AD-o-do%C4%8Dasn%C3%A9m-povolen%C3%AD-distribuce-v%C3%BDdeje-a-pou%C5%BE%C3%ADv%C3%A1n%C3%AD-neregistrovan%C3%A9ho-hum%C3%A1nn%C3%ADho-l%C3%A9%C4%8Div%C3%A9ho-p%C5%99%C3%ADpravku-HUMEVEC-s-obsahem-l%C3%A9%C4%8Div%C3%A9-l%C3%A1tky-ivermektin.pdf)

onawah

16th March 2021, 06:23

FDA Warns Dr. Mercola to Stop Writing About Vitamin D
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
March 15, 2021
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/15/fda-warns-dr-mercola-to-stop-writing-about-vitamin-d.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&sd=20110604&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20210315&mid=DM830259&rid=1107573125

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"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
In the summer of 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) launched a social media campaign to put an end to Mercola.com. It now admits it pressured the FDA to issue me a warning letter to stop writing about nutritional products that can lower your risk of respiratory infections such as COVID-19
CSPI is a consumer advocacy group bankrolled by billionaires and their corporate ties to Monsanto, the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund and Bloomberg Philanthropies
CSPI rails against published science demonstrating certain nutrients can boost your immune function and help lower your risk of severe infection, saying it discourages mask wearing, which has no published scientific evidence to back its universal use
CSPI has a history of promoting industry science and propaganda, having supported artificial sweeteners, trans fats, GMOs, fake meat and the low-fat myth. They’ve also actively undermined transparency in labeling efforts
We have fully addressed the warning letter, and put the FDA on notice that it cannot stop speech it does not like

In the summer of 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) — a consumer advocacy group partnered with Bill Gates’ agrichemical PR group, the Cornell Alliance for Science,1 and bankrolled by billionaires with ties to Monsanto, the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund and Bloomberg Philanthropies2 — launched a social media campaign to put an end to Mercola.com.

July 21, 2020, CSPI issued a press release3 in which they accused me of falsely claiming “that at least 22 vitamins, supplements and other products available for sale on his web site can prevent, treat, or cure COVID-19 infection.” This despite the fact that their Appendix of Illegal Claims4 clearly show no COVID-19-related claims exist on any of the product links.

The group also testified in a Senate hearing on the topic of COVID-19 scams and urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to take regulatory action against me.

In an August 12, 2020, email, CSPI president Dr. Peter Lurie5 — a former FDA associate commissioner6 — made the spurious claim that I “profit from the COVID-19 pandemic” through “anti-vaccine fearmongering” and reporting of science-based nutrition shown to impact your disease risk.

Former FDA Official Pulls Strings to Target Natural Health
Seeing how Lurie is a former FDA official, it’s disheartening, but not surprising, that the FDA has now issued us a warning letter7 for “Unapproved and misbranded products related to COVID-19.” Lurie has publicly taken credit for the FDA’s action,8 thereby establishing the potential that CSPI is pulling strings under the new administration through relationships they did not have back in August when they first launched their assault on my free speech.

According to the FDA, vitamin C, vitamin D3 and quercetin products are “unapproved new drugs sold in violation of section 505(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.” The agency is also listing Mercola.com on its Fraudulent COVID-19 Products page.

Lurie seems to be hinting that he also wants federal authorities to remove my StopCOVIDCold site, where you can download a free scientific report detailing the benefits of maintaining appropriate vitamin D levels to protect against viral infections. He’s also urging “state attorneys general to investigate how they may further protect consumers from Mercola’s illegal marketing.”9

“Americans are justifiably concerned about becoming infected with the coronavirus and contracting COVID-19. Being misled to believe that supplements could prevent or treat COVID-19 could cause consumers to fail to take protective measures such as mask-wearing, putting themselves and others at risk, or fail to seek actual medical treatment if sick,” Lurie writes.10

It’s ironic that Lurie dismisses offhand peer-reviewed published science demonstrating certain nutrients can boost your immune function and help lower your risk of severe infection — be it from SARS-CoV-2, the seasonal flu or anything else — and touts mask wearing, which has no published scientific evidence to back its universal use, as one of the most important prevention strategies against COVID-19.

Sadly, this is where we are nowadays. “Trust the science,” they say, while simultaneously promoting scientifically unverified claims and trying to eradicate anyone who simply reports the findings that are actually published in the medical literature that may negatively impact the pharmaceutical industry.

CSPI and FDA Cannot Censor Speech
The CSPI is trying to censor my efforts to educate people on how to avoid vitamin D deficiency which, without doubt, places them at far higher risk of complications and death from respiratory infections. Well, I am not going to allow people to die from COVID-19 and other respiratory infections due to vitamin D deficiency.

In October 2020, I co-wrote a paper together with William Grant, Ph.D.,11 and Dr. Carol Wagner,12 both of whom are on the GrassrootsHealth vitamin D expert panel, demonstrating the clear link between vitamin D deficiency and severe cases of COVID-19. This paper was published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Nutrients.13

With that, I have established my medical and scientific merit, and will continue to express my professional opinions, based on the available science, and defend my freedom of speech as the U.S. Constitution provides for.

The FDA’s warning letter highlights statements in articles on my website that are fully referenced and supported by published science. I am committed to providing truthful information, for free, to anyone that wants it, and I’m all for having a rigorous scientific debate when necessary. CSPI has taken credit for pressuring the FDA to issue this warning letter to suppress free speech. The FDA’s warning letter is simply another attempt by CSPI to smear me with false accusations.

If scientists and researchers are publishing these studies, how can it be a crime to report their findings? At the end of the day, the CSPI’s attacks on this website amounts to an effort to suppress science itself.
As CSPI well knows, thanks to the U.S. constitution and the first amendment, I have every right to speak publicly on matters regarding health, so this is nothing but another attempt to “cancel” me while concealing its own duplicity. For the record, we have fully addressed the warning letter; the FDA cannot simply stop free speech that CSPI does not like.

This Is NOT the First Time CSPI Has Endangered Public Health
CSPI continues to be a vitamin D denier even though overwhelming evidence points to its ability to reduce the risk of developing severe COVID-19. This isn’t surprising, coming from a Rockefeller-funded organization that pushed deadly trans fats on the American public until the facts became undeniable, at which point they simply rewrote the organization’s history on this subject to hide its past stance.

In 1986, CSPI described trans fat as “a great boon to Americans’ arteries.”14 Two years later, in 1988, they still praised trans fats,15 saying "there is little good evidence that trans fats cause any more harm than other fats" and that "much of the anxiety over trans fats stems from their reputation as 'unnatural.'" Meanwhile, in the real world, the CSPI’s highly successful trans fat campaign resulted in an epidemic of heart disease.

The CSPI’s role in the promotion of trans fats and its influence on the food industry was discussed in David Schleifer’s article, “The Perfect Solution: How Trans Fats Became the Healthy Replacement for Saturated Fats,”16 in which he noted that:

“Scholars routinely argue that corporations control US food production, with negative consequences for health … However, the transition from saturated to trans fats shows how activists can be part of spurring corporations to change.”

It wasn't until the 1990s that CSPI started reversing its position on synthetic trans fats, but the damage had already been done, and it never admitted its error. In fact, rather than openly admitting it had misled the public with erroneous claims, CSPI simply deleted sections of its previous support of trans fat from the web.17 Notice how their historical timeline18 of trans fat starts at 1993 — the year CSPI realized the jig was up and they had to support the elimination of trans fat.

CSPI then started raising money for campaigns to stop the heart disease causing substance they first promoted. How diabolical is that? Create the problem and then take money from others for the solution.

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This obfuscation was noted by Mary Enig, Ph.D., in a 2003 article, in which she wrote:19

“On October 20, 1993, CSPI had the chutzpah to call a press conference in Washington, DC and lambast the major fast-food chains for doing what CSPI coerced them into doing, namely, using partially hydrogenated vegetable oils in their deep fat-fryers.

On that date, CSPI, an eager proponent of partially hydrogenated oils for many years, even when their adverse health effects were apparent, reversed its position after an onslaught of adverse medical reports linking trans fatty acids in these processed oils to coronary heart disease and cancer …

Thanks to CSPI, healthy traditional fats have almost completely disappeared from the food supply, replaced by manufactured trans fats known to cause many diseases. By 1990, most fast food chains had switched to partially hydrogenated vegetable oil …

Who benefits? Soy, or course … [and] in CSPI’s January, 1991 newsletter, Jacobson notes that ‘our effort was ultimately joined … by the American Soybean Association.’”

Even more egregious is the CSPI’s continued recommendation to eat unsaturated fats like soy and canola oils20 and avoid butter and other healthy saturated fats, saying that “changing fats doesn’t lower the risk of dying.”21

This wholly disregards the compelling evidence showing that industrial vegetable oils, omega-6 linoleic acid in particular, pose significant health risks and contribute to chronic disease. And chronic disease, in turn, impacts mortality.

CSPI Primarily Protects Big Business
This tendency to fall in line with industry science and propaganda has become a trend within CSPI. For example, it wasn’t until 2013 that CSPI finally downgraded the artificial sweetener Splenda from its former “safe” category to one of “caution.”22

In 2016, they downgraded it again, from “caution” to “avoid.”23 Despite that, CSPI continues to promote diet soda as a safer alternative to regular soda, saying it “does not promote diabetes, weight gain or heart disease in the way that full-calorie sodas do.”24

The group has also taken a strong pro-GMO stand and actively undermined the GMO labeling movement,25 which resulted in the U.S. being the only country in the world that does not have clear GMO labeling. In August 2001, the organization actually urged the FDA to take enforcement action against food companies using non-GMO labels, claiming such labels could “deceive consumers.”26

In a similar vein, the group opposes clear labeling of ultraprocessed fake meat. In a May 2018 letter to the FDA,27 CSPI urged the agency “to reject efforts by the United States Cattlemen’s Association to prohibit use of the terms ‘meat’ or ‘beef’ on plant-based and cultured proteins marketed as alternatives to traditional meat.” All in all, it appears the CSPI is completely against the idea of a well-informed public.

The CSPI has also been a promoter of the thoroughly debunked low-fat myth. In 1995, they launched a “1% or Less” campaign that urged everyone over the age of 2 to switch from whole and 2% milk to skim milk (also known as nonfat or fat-free milk) in order to reduce their saturated fat intake.28,29,30

It was another successful campaign that resulted in the doubling of skim milk sales.31 However, just like their trans fat campaign, this was equally ill advised, seeing how research32,33 shows full-fat dairy actually lowers your risk of death from diabetes and cardiovascular causes such as stroke.

CSPI Has Repeatedly Violated Its Mission Statement
Considering the suspected, and in some cases well-verified, health hazards of trans fats, artificial sweeteners, soy, GMOs, low-fat diet and fake meat, CSPI’s intent to protect and advance public health is questionable to say the least.

It seems they’re more interested in protecting profitable industries, and the CSPI’s efforts to destroy companies selling vitamins and supplements with natural antiviral effects34 is simply more evidence of that.

The fact is, they’re seeking to bring an end to Mercola.com because we are such a serious threat to their agenda and they want to eliminate as many of the truth tellers as they can.

How to Optimize Your Vitamin D
While most people would probably benefit from a vitamin D3 supplement, it’s important to get your vitamin D level tested before you start supplementing. The reason for this is because you cannot rely on blanket dosing recommendations. The crucial factor here is your blood level, not the dose, as the dose you need is dependent on several individual factors, including your baseline blood level.

Data from GrassrootsHealth’s D*Action studies suggest the optimal level for health and disease prevention is between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL, while the cutoff for sufficiency appears to be around 40 ng/mL. In Europe, the measurements you’re looking for are 150 to 200 nmol/L and 100 nmol/L respectively.

I’ve published a comprehensive vitamin D report in which I detail vitamin D’s mechanisms of action and how to ensure optimal levels. I recommend downloading and sharing that report with everyone you know. A quick summary of the key steps is as follows:

First, measure your vitamin D level — One of the easiest and most cost-effective ways of measuring your vitamin D level is to participate in the GrassrootsHealth’s personalized nutrition project, which includes a vitamin D testing kit.
Once you know what your blood level is, you can assess the dose needed to maintain or improve your level. If you cannot get enough vitamin D from the sun (you can use the DMinder app to see how much vitamin D your body can make depending on your location and other individual factors), then you’ll need an oral supplement.

Assess your individualized vitamin D dosage — To do that, you can either use the chart below, or use GrassrootsHealth’s Vitamin D*calculator. To convert ng/mL into the European measurement (nmol/L), simply multiply the ng/mL measurement by 2.5. To calculate how much vitamin D you may be getting from regular sun exposure in addition to your supplemental intake, use the DMinder app.

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Retest in three to six months — Lastly, you’ll need to remeasure your vitamin D level in three to six months, to evaluate how your sun exposure and/or supplement dose is working for you.

Take Your Vitamin D With Magnesium and K2
As detailed in “Magnesium and K2 Optimize Your Vitamin D Supplementation,” it’s strongly recommended to take magnesium and K2 concomitant with oral vitamin D. Data from nearly 3,000 individuals reveal you need 244% more oral vitamin D if you’re not also taking magnesium and vitamin K2.

What this means in practical terms is that if you take all three supplements in combination, you need far less oral vitamin D in order to achieve a healthy vitamin D level."

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- Sources and References
1 Common Dreams January 7, 2019
2 Influence Watch CSPI
3 CSPI July 21, 2020
4 Illegal Claims Pertaining to Mercola Group Products (PDF)
5 CSPI July 19, 2017
6 CSPInet.org Peter Lurie Bio
7 FDA.gov Mercola.com warning letter February 18, 2021
8, 9, 10 SCPInet.org March 4, 2021
11 SUNARC.org William Grant Bio
12 MUSC Carol Wagner MD Bio
13 Nutrients 2020; 12(11): 3361
14 The Atlantic November 8, 2013
15 CSPI, The Truth About Trans Fats 1988
16 Academia.edu, The Perfect Solution: How Trans Fats Became the Healthy Replacement for Saturated Fats
17, 19 Weston A Price January 6, 2003
18 CSPI Timeline for Trans Fat
20 CSPInet.org Canola Oil
21 CSPInet.org Big Fat Myths
22 CSPInet.org June 12, 2013
23 CSPInet.org February 8, 2016
24 CSPInet.org Sugary Drinks
25 Center for Food Safety July 10, 2013
26 CSPInet.org August 14, 2001 (archived)
27 CSPInet.org May 17, 2018
28 The 1% or Less Social Marketing Campaign (PDF)
29 The 1% or Less Handbook (PDF)
30 CSPI The 1% or Less School Kit
31 The 1% or Less Social Marketing Campaign (PDF), Effectiveness Page 2
32 The Lancet September 11, 2018; 392(10161): 2288-2297
33 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition July 11, 2018; 108(3): 476-484
34 CSPInet.org June 4, 2020

onawah

17th March 2021, 22:27

NVIC, the Latest Victim in the War on Truth

"This organization has been around for nearly four decades, and worked with US Congress to establish the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. They make no recommendations regarding vaccines, but publish fully referenced information. Why have they been taken out?"

'Digital Anti-Hate' Group
Dr. Joseph Mercola
March 17, 2021
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/17/digital-anti-hate-group-puts-dr-mercola-on-hit-list.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&sd=20110604&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20210317_HL2&mid=DM832153&rid=1109215388

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
One of the frontrunners in the comprehensive attack on freedom of speech online is a U.K.-based group with opaque funding called the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)
The CCDH has been one of the most vocal organizations calling for the deplatforming of anyone who might have the ability to influence public opinion about vaccines
The CCDH recently posted a hit list on Twitter, listing the “Top 10 anti-vaxxers” it wants digital platforms to eradicate, including yours truly and the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), which worked with the U.S. Congress to establish the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986
March 2, 2021, Facebook complied with CCDH’s request, removing NVIC’s account. CCDH is also calling on Facebook to eliminate NVIC from Instagram, which Facebook owns
While you wait for a decentralized, censorship-free internet, consider ditching all social media networks that erode our civil liberties, and to join those that promote freedom of speech instead

As detailed in “Spy Agencies Threaten to ‘Take Out’ Mercola,” https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/01/anti-vaccine-propaganda-censorship.aspx...this website has been labeled a national security threat by British and American intelligence agencies that are collaborating to eliminate “anti-vaccine propaganda” from public discussion using sophisticated cyberwarfare tools.1,2,3

One of the public frontrunners in this comprehensive attack on my freedom of speech is a U.K.-based group with opaque funding called the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), led by Imran Ahmed, a member of the Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force under the British government’s Commission for Countering Extremism.

In its report, “The Anti-Vaxx Playbook,”4 the CCDH identifies me as one of the six most influential “anti-vaxxers” online that must be silenced for good. The other five are Barbara Loe Fisher, Del Bigtree, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sherri Tenpenny and Andrew Wakefield.

The CCDH also admits tracking and spying on 425 vaccine-related Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter accounts that, together, have 59.2 million followers.5

The CCDH has been one of the most vocal organizations calling for the deplatforming of anyone who might have the ability to influence public opinion about vaccines.6 This despite the fact that public discourse and debate is a requirement not only for a well-informed public but also to protect scientific integrity and public health.

Anti-Hate Group Publishes Digital Hit List
More recently, the CCDH published an updated hit list on Twitter,7 now listing the “Top 10 anti-vaxxers” it wants digital platforms to eradicate. The list shows, by way of crossing out names, which have already been successfully deplatformed, and from which social media.

As of March 3, 2021, Kennedy Jr. has been banned from Instagram, and the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), co-founded and led by Fisher, has been removed from Facebook.

“Facebook has removed the NVIC, another page spreading vaccine misinformation run by Barbara Loe Fisher,” CCDH said in its Tweet.8 “But Facebook has allowed the NVIC to carry on spreading misinformation on Instagram, which it owns. Facebook, it’s time for action across your platforms.”

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Good News: People Are Seeing Through the Propaganda
The irony of an “anti-hate” group posting a hit list — the only purpose of which is to seed public outrage and hate against those listed — did not escape unnoticed, and that’s part of the good news. More and more people are indeed starting to see the 1984-style double-think propaganda for what it is.

As pointed out by one Twitter follower: “You've posted what appears to be a digital hit list. Do you not see anything ironic about this considering your brand is ‘countering digital hate’?” “Project much?” said another. A third replied back to the CCDH saying “You should be on this list,” and a fourth said “It appears that by the word ‘hate’ you include uncomfortable truths.” Other responders wrote:

“I have personally benefited from the free TRUE loving information that at least seven on your list have given me since 2011. I have only gratitude and love for them. No regular doctor could help me back then and thanks to the info I got I didn’t die and I have helped others too.”
“’Misinformation’ … what a joke!! These people are putting their careers and livelihoods on the line to share the TRUTH, to empower us to take our health in our own hands and realize it’s the only way!! This is more a top list of who to follow!!!”
“This is nonsense at the extreme. Censorship has gone mad and needs to be heavily questioned and stopped — this is what all dictators and extremists themselves do! How ironic! The CCDH are extremist dangerous hate criminals themselves for doing this!”
“Stop the censorship! We are seeing through this failed attempt to spread valuable information from people.”
“Congratulations to every hero on that list.”
I could keep going, but you can read the comments for yourself. I encourage you to do so if you feel downtrodden, thinking the dark side is winning the information war. They’re not, but they get an “A” for effort. We, in turn, cannot let up our own efforts to spread the truth. We must be just as persistent.
NVIC — The Latest Victim in the War on Truth
NVIC, the latest victim of the CCDH’s organized attack on the U.S. First Amendment, had maintained a Facebook page since 2008. The organization itself has been around for nearly four decades, and worked with the U.S. Congress to establish the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Facebook deleted NVIC’s account March 2, 2021.

NVIC does not make recommendations when it comes to the use of vaccines, its sole aim being to “defend the ethical principle of informed consent to medical risk taking, including vaccine risk taking.” Part of that work includes publishing fully referenced information about vaccines so that consumers can make an informed decision either way.

If NVIC had not done such a good job educating the public about vaccination and health for four decades, our Facebook page would still be up. ~ Barbara Loe Fisher
Considering few doctors, and none of the pro-vaccine front groups, are transparent about reported side effects and science raising red flags, NVIC serves a truly crucial public health service. You simply cannot make an informed decision if you’re only ever told one side of the equation — the supposed benefit side — while potential adverse effects, which may be lifelong, are hidden or denied. As reported by independent journalist Sharyl Attkisson:9

“Far from a fringe group, as propagandists try to convince the public, Fisher has provided consumers with crucial vaccine safety information for decades and served as an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee as part of the Vaccine Safety Writing Group, on the agency's Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative, on the Blue Ribbon Panel on Vaccine Safety, and Chair of the Subcommittee on Vaccine Adverse Events.

Additionally, Fisher has served as a member of the FDA's Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. And she has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum.”

NVIC Responds to Deplatforming
In an official statement, Fisher responded to the deplatforming by Facebook saying:10

“We are not surprised that Mark Zuckerberg views the truthful information that NVIC publishes about vaccine science, policy and law as a threat to perpetuating false narratives about vaccine safety created by the pharmaceutical industry and its business partners.

The U.S Congress has encouraged the creation of public-private business partnerships between vaccine manufacturers and federal agencies for the past three decades.

In order to be part of those lucrative partnerships, Silicon Valley companies like Facebook are clearly happy to engage in censorship. If NVIC had not done such a good job educating the public about vaccination and health for four decades, our Facebook page would still be up.

NVIC encourages everyone to leave social media networks eroding civil liberties, which include freedom of thought, speech and conscience, and join those that protect freedom of speech.

To stay connected with NVIC, become a registered user of the free online NVIC Advocacy Portal and defend vaccine choices in your state; become a subscriber of our free NVIC Newsletter and free weekly journal digital newspaper, The Vaccine Reaction; and interact with our followers on MeWe, Telegram, Gab and Parler.”

Decentralized Uncensorable Web Is Part of the Answer
As more and more truth-tellers, public health watchdogs, civil rights advocates and investigative journalists are censored and deplatformed, it’s easy to get discouraged. However, there is light on the horizon. Part of the answer, apart from calling on our political representatives to take a firm stand against censorship at every turn, is the creation of a decentralized web.

I am currently working with some of the brightest minds in the tech space — cybersecurity experts and billionaire philanthropists who are very well networked. These individuals are committed to preserving your personal freedoms and liberties. We aim to redo of the entire internet by implementing a strategy proposed by Tim Berners-Lee.

For those of you who don’t know, Berners-Lee invented the world wide web graphical interface of the internet 30 years ago, and he didn’t take a penny for it. Had he licensed this technology, he surely would be the richest person in the world today.

You can read more about Berners-Lee’s plan in this February 5, 2021, article in The Conversation,11 https://theconversation.com/tim-berners-lees-plan-to-save-the-internet-give-us-back-control-of-our-data-154130
... but essentially, it focuses on maintaining data sovereignty, giving you control over your data and privacy and undoing the current system of surveillance capitalism where Big Tech profits off your personal data and uses it against you at the same time. In this Web 2.0, tech monopolies also will no longer have the ability to censor.

While you wait for a decentralized, censorship-free internet, I second Fisher’s suggestion to ditch all social media networks that erode your civil liberties, and to join those that promote freedom of speech instead.

For example, free-speech alternatives to Facebook and Twitter include Gab, MeWe, Minds and Parler. Uncensored alternatives to YouTube include Bitchute, Rumble, Brighteon, Banned.video and Thinkspot.

For content creators and alternative news sources that no longer have a social media presence due to censoring, subscribe to their newsletter if available, and/or mark their website in your favorites and check back on a regular basis.

Take Control of Your Online Presence
Beyond that, consider safeguarding your own online privacy if you haven’t done so already. To encrypt your text messages and keep them from becoming data mining fodder, download the Signal or Telegram app and/or use a virtual private network (VPN) on your desktop, laptop and mobile devices.

Telegram has grown in popularity as many who have been banned on other social media platforms have migrated there. In addition to encrypting your text messages, the app also allows you to subscribe to channels. Read-only messages (although some also have the ability to comment) are sent to your phone from any channel you subscribe to.

Lastly, if you care about privacy and free speech, stop using any and all Google products, including its search engine, browser, email service, Google docs, Google Home devices, Fitbit and Android phones. There are alternatives to all of them.

For search, check out DuckDuckGo and SwissCows. For a browser, consider Brave or Opera. From a security perspective, Opera is far superior to Google Chrome and even includes a free VPN service. For encrypted email, sign up with ProtonMail, which is based in Switzerland. As for online document sharing, Digital Trends has published an article listing a number of alternatives to Google Docs.12"

- Sources and References
1 The Times November 9, 2020
2 UK Defense Journal November 10, 2020
3 The National News November 9, 2020
4 The Anti-Vaxx Playbook (PDF)
5 The Anti-Vaxx Playbook (PDF), Page 9
6 The Anti-Vaxx Playbook (PDF), Page 43
7, 8 Twitter CCDH March 3, 2021
9, 10 Sharylattkisson.com March 8, 2021
11 The Conversation February 5, 2021
12 Digital Trends April 28, 2017

Tintin

18th March 2021, 10:13

1371921245298696195

Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of
Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19

Link to the paper: FLCC (https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Ivermectin-in-the-prophylaxis-and-treatment-of-COVID-19.pdf)

https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Ivermectin-in-the-prophylaxis-and-treatment-of-COVID-19.pdf

Tintin

19th March 2021, 16:05

Some encouraging 'noise' here - let's see what actually transpires. I along with countless tens of thousands of others I expect may also have written to their MPs about this - perhaps that's bearing a little fruit here; we'll see:

1372939781286600713

Apologies folks. It seems that the embedded tweet was removed by Anna Brees, the poster, for reasons unknown. It related to the Covid Treatment Taskforce UK government group beginning to take more seriously the benefits of Ivermectin and other pharmaceutical interventions. We await any outcomes. One of the major stumbling blocks is that the usual process here is that government allocates - or not! - research funding before sanction of medical treatments such as these, which implies a lengthy process which may just not get off the ground. At least they're unable to ignore the pressure that's been brought to bear - that's some light to pierce the long-Covid dark night - Tintin @23:37 March 19th 2021

The Covid-19 Therapeutics Taskforce (https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/the-covid-19-therapeutics-taskforce)

Additional information that provides some more clarification on where the UK clinical trials are at: copy of a letter from MP for Gloucester to a constituent - it's helpful information I think:

1372834999918067712

Tintin

26th March 2021, 15:46

Although I might not agree entirely with their conclusions regarding HCQ here the case for Ivermectin continues to strengthen all around the world now.

Here's a good article from Japan. Note, it is a comprehensive analysis running to 52 pages and too large to embed here.

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Global trends in clinical studies of ivermectin in COVID-19

Morimasa Yagisawa, Ph.D.1,2, Patrick J. Foster, M.D.2, Hideaki Hanaki, Ph.D.1
and Satoshi Ōmura, Ph.D.1
1 Kitasato University Ōmura Satoshi Memorial Institute
2 Keio University Faculty of Pharmacy
(Received for publication March 10, 2021)

THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS

Source: http://jja-contents.wdc-jp.com/pdf/JJA74/74-1-open/74-1_44-95.pdf

Delight

28th March 2021, 03:34

HELPFUL SUMMARY

This page has links to ALL of the key scientific articles about HCQ, Ivermectin, Vitamin D3, etc:
(https://c19early.com/)

Bill Ryan

3rd April 2021, 19:05

This is the extracted conclusion of a long post I made here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111599-The-Plandemic-Resistance-thread&p=1419892&viewfull=1#post1419892), presenting the article (https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/censored-dr-peter-mccullough-md-testifies-how-successful-home-treatments-for-covid-make-experimental-vaccines-unnecessary) entitled

CENSORED: Dr. Peter McCullough, MD testifies How Successful Home Treatments for COVID Make Experimental Vaccines Unnecessary

https://projectavalon.net/A_Guide_to_Home-based_COVID_Treatment.jpg (https://aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/)
(https://aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/)
The home treatment protocol mentioned by Dr. McCullough that was published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (https://aapsonline.org) you can download for free here (https://aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/).

Alan

4th April 2021, 11:24

A new interview with Dr. Thomas Levy by Dr. Mercola, discussing nebulized hydrogen peroxide. Includes a link to download for free Dr. Levy's new ebook on the subject.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/04/04/nebulized-hydrogen-peroxide.aspx

Ron Mauer Sr

4th April 2021, 14:58

Sue (Ayt)

4th April 2021, 18:36

I am looking for a pointer to where I can get these questions answered.

Mixing instructions. What ratio is used to dilute hydrogen peroxide with water?

Can a CPAP machine function as an effective nebulizer while sleeping?

Hi Ron - Dr. Mercola has a dilution ratio chart for hydrogen peroxide at this link, and also a video about it:
Landmark Publication on Vitamin C for COVID-19 (https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/01/07/high-dose-vitamin-c-for-coronavirus.aspx)

I would like to know the answer about the CPAP too.

samildamach

4th April 2021, 18:44

"Health Canada issues advisory for face masks containing graphene" https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/health/2021/4/2/1_5372822.html
Many Canadian news sources reporting the same.
Low quality import masks from China containing graphine fibre strands,which could cause long term lung damage.
No masks have been tested before this anywhere

Alan

5th April 2021, 16:44

What ratio is used to dilute hydrogen peroxide with water?

Ron, there is info in the Mercola interview on this, and also in the free ebook by Dr. Levy. Dr. Levy actually suggests no dilution is required when using 3% HP, but I would definitely start out with a diluted solution, HP can burn.

Also, it's best to dilute with a saline solution and not water, according to these guys.

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Chlorine Dioxide is an effective treatment
for COVID 19. This paper showed the following at 7 days.

Fever - control - 70%, MMS group 0%
Chills - control - 70%, MMS group 0%

https://www.hilarispublisher.com/open-access/determination-of-the-effectiveness-of-chlorine-dioxide-in-the-treatment-of-covid-19.pdf

"In conclusion, we can affirm without a doubt, based on test of
comparison of proportions and its confidence interval, as well as the
paired tests where we used the Wilcoxon – Mann – Whitney test (α: 95%),
that the data in most of the variables (P < 0.05) obtained indicate that
chlorine dioxide is effective in the treatment of COVID 19, making
RT-PCR negative in one hundred percent of cases at 7 days, ..."

Delight

5th April 2021, 21:55

Critically ill people need calcifediol. I think the implications are that scripts of calcididiol are needed.

Dr. Paul Frank reviews the highlights of the New Spanish Study suggesting Hospitals should utilize Calcifediol in COVID-19 patients. He also covers why Vitamin D stops blood clotting and the cytokine storm. Briefly, the synergy of Zinc, Magnesium and Vitamin A are covered

Vitamin D (Calcifediol) Decreases COVID-19 Deaths by 64%
Feb 16, 2021

B3W4e3s4xhs

pyrangello

19th April 2021, 22:14

Romanian doctor says she cures ‘100 percent’ of COVID patients

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/romanian-doctor-says-she-cures-100-percent-of-covid-patients

Tintin

22nd April 2021, 12:29

Here's the EBMC (https://www.e-bmc.co.uk/) rebuttal to the European Medicines Agency's pronouncement on ivermectin published March 28th.

Source: Rebuttal PDF (https://b3d2650e-e929-4448-a527-4eeb59304c7f.filesusr.com/ugd/593c4f_c12195d52477491a9bd070ca0b702837.pdf)

British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Panel – Response to EMA Statement on Ivermectin for Covid-19

The British Ivermectin Recommendation Development (BIRD) panel was set up in January 2021. by Dr Tess Lawrie of the Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd (E-BMC), an independent medical research company based in Bath, UK

https://b3d2650e-e929-4448-a527-4eeb59304c7f.filesusr.com/ugd/593c4f_c12195d52477491a9bd070ca0b702837.pdf

Gwin Ru

23rd April 2021, 13:35

... here is something that might cut it:
4-22-2021 Live at 5 Special Tank & Lisa VAX Solutions (https://www.unitednetwork.news/content/detail/60822b98fbb27f001833874f/4-22-2021-Live-at-5-Special-Tank-and-Lisa-VAX-Solutions) 43:51

Nutritional Supplement, Immune System Support: Folium pX (https://foliumpx.com/)

https://projectavalon.net//external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/foliumpx.com.ico (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=follium%20XP+site:foliumpx.com&t=ffnt)https://foliumpx.com (https://foliumpx.com/)

Folium pX, is an all-natural, liquid preparation created by master herbal scientists in a region of the former Soviet Union known for its excellence in alternative medicine.

Tintin

28th April 2021, 13:32

Here's some really encouraging news, for a change :flower:

More proof that Ivermectin continues to work wonders and probably not just with Covid either:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0A4yZXXEAAWgfO?format=jpg&name=large

Gwin Ru

28th April 2021, 15:02

...

... on the side of improving one's own "Terrain":

SODIUM CHLORITE WITH DR ROBERT YOUNG, ALPA SONI (https://www.bitchute.com/video/zTSr8WQwvOyn/) 53:22

zTSr8WQwvOyn

This as a correction of a previous Charlie's show where Charlie completely confused HCQ with MMS/CDS

Related:

DR ANDREAS KALCKER & LAURA ABOLI CHAT TO CHARLIE WARD on SODIUM CHLORITE NACL02 (https://www.bitchute.com/video/9kdOtlVUHoi1/)

TomKat

29th April 2021, 18:24

Israel finds yoghurt prevents cytokine storms:

https://greatgameindia.com/yogurt-cytokine-storm-covid-19/

oombaloo333

1st May 2021, 19:03

Greetings good people.

I have lurked for years on and off here, but now is the time to speak up. I just found this thread whilst looking for solutions to what is at hand with the jab, 5G, and everything else. I'll share more completely later but first off. I want to say that i LOVE what you all are sharing, and how positively-focused you are in a sea of fear and panic.

Here's something that I came across just now on the latest Russian research into the CV. Decide for yourself to take it on or not. I think it's worth considering to add to the arsenal!

https://t.me/NicholasVeniamin/1815

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One more site to add (the Bollingers' site): https://thetruthaboutvaccines.com/stop-damage-mrna-vaccines/

Good, solid solutions.

Delight

2nd May 2021, 00:23

Greetings good people.

I have lurked for years on and off here, but now is the time to speak up. I just found this thread whilst looking for solutions to what is at hand with the jab, 5G, and everything else. I'll share more completely later but first off. I want to say that i LOVE what you all are sharing, and how positively-focused you are in a sea of fear and panic.

Here's something that I came across just now on the latest Russian research into the CV. Decide for yourself to take it on or not. I think it's worth considering to add to the arsenal!

https://t.me/NicholasVeniamin/1815[COLOR="red"]

.

Very interesting and important info that covid is a bacterium that is exposed to EMF and creates blood clots.

This is off topic but how did you post that from Telegram? Thanks.

Bill Ryan

2nd May 2021, 00:41

Mod note from Bill:

I moved the two posts immediately above from one of the 'vaccination' threads to here, as it seemed primarily to be about effective treatment — assuming Covid-19 is actually a bacterial infection, as the claimed Russian research seems to suggest.

I do have to say that I very profoundly doubt this, or else any strong antibiotics would have worked a long time ago. And electron microscopy seems to suggest it is indeed a coronavirus very similar to the other known coronaviruses. But what the thing is isn't the topic of this thread: just how best to treat it, based on good studies.

:focus:

Eva2

9th May 2021, 06:14

I had posted this on COVID 19: Global News.... thread but this is probably a better spot for it.

'Possible Antidote for the V-Serum and the Current Spike Protein Contagion

History:

From 1906, the German Bayer pharmaceutical company supplied the French bacteriologist Maurice Nicolle and the French zoologist Felix Mesnil from the Pasteur Institute with benzopurpurin dyes to be tested for trypanocidal activities . One blue benzopurpurin derivative, Trypan Blue , was found to be very effective in eliminating all trypanosomes from the blood of infected animals but as the drug stained the skin of the animals bluish it was unacceptable for use in patients . For this reason Wilhelm Roehl, a former assistant of Ehrlich who had joined the Bayer research group at Elberfeld in 1905, sought a colourless compound with trypanocidal activities. The chemists Oskar Dressel and Richard Kothe of Roehl's team synthesised derivatives of Afridol Violet , a naphthalene urea compound that was less colour-intensive but also less trypanocidal in screens carried out by Nicolle and Mesnil. Several derivatives, however, displayed better activity against trypanosomes than the parent compound. In 1917, after the synthesis and screening of more than 1000 naphthalene ureas, the breakthrough came in the form of Bayer 205 (Fig. 1 ), later named Germanin, a colourless compound that cured trypanosomiasis in both experimental animals and in humans . The Bayer Company understood the political importance of Bayer 205 for the commercial exploitation of African colonies and offered the formula of the drug to the British Government in exchange for the return of Germany's lost African territories . When the British declined the offer, the Bayer Company refused to disclose the chemical structure of the drug. Eventually, in 1924, the French pharmacist Ernest Fourneau published the structure of Bayer 205 Four years later, the Bayer Company confirmed that Fourneau's structure was identical with that of Germanin. The drug was later renamed suramin and is still in use in the therapy of early-stage T. b. rhodesiense sleeping sickness.

parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/ar....1186/1756-3305-3-15

100 Years of SuraminABSTRACTSuramin is 100 years old and is still being used to treat the first stage of acute human sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. Suramin is a multifunctional molecule with a wide array of potential applications, from parasitic and viral diseases to cancer, snakebite, and autism. Suramin is also an enigmatic molecule: What are its targets? How does it get into cells in the first place? Here, we provide an overview of the many different candidate targets of suramin and discuss its modes of action and routes of cellular uptake. We reason that, once the polypharmacology of suramin is understood at the molecular level, new, more specific, and less toxic molecules can be identified for the numerous potential applications of suramin.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7038244/

I thought this presentation was very good, it talks about various subjects, metabolism, mitochondria, genetics and the use of this medication for autism. I also think it's important for those who live in California because they are researching polluting markers in their blood that may lead to autism.

Suramin Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Cell Culture by Interfering with Early Steps of the Replication Cycle.

Abstract:
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has impacted public health, society, the global economy, and the daily lives of billions of people in an unprecedented manner. There are currently no specific registered antiviral drugs to treat or prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections. Therefore, drug repurposing would be the fastest route to provide at least a temporary solution while better, more specific drugs are being developed. Here, we demonstrate that the antiparasitic drug suramin inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication, protecting Vero E6 cells with a 50% effective concentration (EC50) of ∼20 μM, which is well below the maximum attainable level in human serum. Suramin also decreased the viral load by 2 to 3 logs when Vero E6 cells or cells of a human lung epithelial cell line (Calu-3 2B4 [referred to here as "Calu-3"]) were treated. Time-of-addition and plaque reduction assays performed on Vero E6 cells showed that suramin acts on early steps of the replication cycle, possibly preventing binding or entry of the virus. In a primary human airway epithelial cell culture model, suramin also inhibited the progression of infection. The results of our preclinical study warrant further investigation and suggest that it is worth evaluating whether suramin provides any benefit for COVID-19 patients, which obviously requires safety studies and well-designed, properly controlled randomized clinical trials.

I don't know if this can work or not. But, when we see BIG PHARMA hiding and banning medication it has smoke. As I understand it SURAMIN is prohibited in America. Below is the article I read in State of The Nation.

The expert’s consensus is that the Covid shots are not vaccines but experimental bioweapons. The cells of the vaxxed are now producing a synthetic spike protein from the pathogen they were injected with. It was also determined by the experts that the vaxxed must be quarantined because transmission is airborne.There is a potential antidote to the current spike protein contagion which is called Suramin. It’s found in many forests around the world, in Pine needles. Suramin has inhibitory effects against components of the coagulation cascade and against the inappropriate replication and modification of RNA and DNA. Excessive coagulation causes blood clots, mini-clots, strokes, and unusually heavy menstrual cycles. Pine needle tea is one of the most potent antioxidants there is and it’s known to treat cancer, inflammation, stress and depression, pain and respiratory infections. Pine tea also kills parasites. Chemical analysis, all about Suramin pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Suramin-sodium

Possible Antidote for the V-Serum and the Current Spike Protein Contagion

Dr. Judy Mikovits (1 min. MP4 is attached) has revealed that the medical establishment has known all along about the antidote to the contagion – a contagion that is now being seen today by thousands of people who have not taken the serum, but have merely come within proximity to others who have taken the jab.
(The word “serum” is being used here since, evidently, the way to avoid taking the jab is to say “I am allergic to the serum”.)
When the medical establishment and political promoters want to exempt themselves from taking inoculations, they always give themselves a legal way out, while pushing the “citizenry” to take the jabs.

“I am allergic to the serum” is one of their solutions.
Taking the serum is one thing. The spike protein contagion now being experienced in large numbers by those who did not take the serum, but just visited with a relative or friend who did, is entirely new and unprecedented.

The Antidote to the Contagion
This antidote to the contagion, that has been known by the upper levels of the medical establishment and insiders of the elitist class for almost 100 years, is called Suramin, an isolated compound originally derived from an extract of pine needle oil.
It is only available by injection, and has been a closely guarded secret not made openly available to the masses during this “pandemic”, yet is an effective solution for parasites and viruses of several kinds, along with a large number of other conditions.
Yet anyone can now take advantage of this solution by tapping its root origin, pine needle tea, an antidote that is freely available today in evergreen forests and in many people’s backyards.

How can this simple remedy work so well in the face of such a seemingly insurmountable condition?
There is a direct relationship between Suramin (the isolated extract), pine needle tea (a hot water extract of the pine, fir, cedar, and spruce needles), and pine oil (which is derived from the needles though an essential oil steam distillation process).

All three are derived from the properties of the conifer needle.
My personal take on this is that it is far better to get Nature’s whole herb source than just a tiny fraction of an extract. There are many other benefits that can be derived from the whole herb that will be missing from the isolated chemical.

My observation is that those who maintain high levels of health are not affected by either the serum nor the transference contagion. Their immune system seems to be warding off side effects at this point. Come winter when the spike protein in their bodies will be challenged with new pathogens, we will all discover our true levels of health.
Anyone on the fence health-wise, or depleted (which can be said of many of us today), are being affected to varying degrees.

The Trail from Suramin to Pine Needle Tea
Here is the trail of science and data that shows the derivative relationship between pine needles and Suramin (“the elist’s antidote” to microbial illnesses) – and which also provides a potential antidote for those affected by the spike protein contagion (for reasons explained within the following data):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin
Suramin is used for treatment of human sleeping sickness caused by trypanosomes .[a parasite] Specifically, it is used for treatment of first-stage African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense without involvement of central nervous system. It is considered first-line treatment for Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense , and second-line treatment for early-stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense , where pentamidine is recommended as the first line.
It has been used in the treatment of river blindness (onchocerciasis).

Suramin has been available to the medical profession for almost 100 years. A summary of its antioxidant benefits are outlined in this report – 100 Years of Suramin.
The most relevant parts of the summary are outlined below with supportive evidence:

SURAMIN, O FRUTO DA QUÍMICA MEDICINAL INICIAL
Quando a suramina foi introduzida para o tratamento da doença do sono africana em 1922, foi um dos primeiros agentes anti-infecciosos desenvolvidos em um programa de química medicinal. A partir da atividade antitripanossômica do corante azul tripano , sintetizado em 1904 por Paul Ehrlich, a Bayer fez uma série de derivados incolores e mais potentes. A molécula 205 era suramina (Fig. 1), sintetizada por Oskar Dressel, Richard Kothe e Bernhard Heymann em 1916. A doença do sono (também conhecida como tripanossomíase humana africana [HAT]) estava na vanguarda da pesquisa naquela época, não sendo negligenciada doença como é hoje, e o desenvolvimento de suramina foi um avanço para o campo emergente da quimioterapia.

Agora leia o seguinte parágrafo dentro do subtítulo (Too) Many Targets in the 100 Years of Suramin PDF para entender suas propriedades de antídoto para o contágio da proteína spike (derivado do mRNA que dá instruções para replicar uma proteína spike em outras células):
A suramina diminui ainda mais as atividades de um grande número de enzimas envolvidas na síntese e modificação de DNA e RNA : DNA polimerases (103, 104), RNA polimerases (103, 105, 106), transcriptase reversa (18, 103), telomerase (67) , e as enzimas envolvidas no enrolamento / desenrolamento do DNA (107, 108) são inibidas pela suramina, bem como enzimas modificadoras de histona e cromatina, como proteínas cromobox (109), metiltransferases (110) e sirtuína histona desacetilases (111)

Esta é a linguagem médica para inibir a replicação e modificação inadequadas de RNA e DNA.

This comment in the PDF also reveals Suramin’s ability to inhibit micro-clots:
Suramin also showed inhibitory effects against components of the coagulation cascade (71, 130)…

Excessive coagulation causes blood clots, mini-clots, strokes, and unusually heavy menstrual cycles.

This is why so many people are dying today of blood clots after receiving the serum, and why others are now showing unexplained bruising after coming in contact with one that has taken the serum.
Something is being transferred from one to the other, likely through the breath, complemented by a type of sympathetic resonance, or pheromone emanation. The method of transfer is unclear at this point, but is certainly happening.

This phenomenon is not an accident, these symptoms were known well in advance of unleashing this serum on the public. Vaccine trials have been going on for decades. Why did they decide to test a completely new approach with the mRNA without animal trials, thus using humans as the first test case for their effectiveness?

Any natural medicine with 0.01% of these deaths and side effects would have been pulled from the market immediately
The upper echelon of the medical profession promote this program to the people, while they exempt themselves from it, and then take their personal antidote to prevent being affected by the transference contagion.
Since when is it acceptable to kill thousands of people and maim hundreds of thousands more with a “medicine”??? Why are we finding this OK? Why are we still trusting the media and the medical wizards that dreamed up this sham? When will enough be enough?

Suramin is a derivative of the oils in pine needles.
The whole herbal source (needles) is superior to the single compound extract (Suramin) – because the needles possess a full complement of phytonutrients providing numerous additional benefits that the extract is incapable of.

Now, here is the direct connection between Suramin and Pine Needle Tea:

Suramin is Derived from Trypan Blue
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypan_blue
Trypan blue is derived from toluidine , that is, any of several isomeric bases, C14H16N2, derived from toluene . Trypan blue is so-called because it can kill trypanosomes , the parasites that cause sleeping sickness . An analog of trypan blue, suramin , is used pharmacologically against trypanosomiasis . Trypan blue is also known as diamine blue and Niagara blue…

Trypan red and trypan blue were first synthesized by the German scientist Paul Ehrlich in 1904.

Trypan Blue is a derivative of toluene which is a derivative of pine oil.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluene
The compound was first isolated in 1837 through a distillation of pine oil by the Polish chemist Filip Walter , who named it rétinnaphte. [10]

I personally recall many years ago one health professional was using a Pine Sol bath to rid the body of parasites.
Pine-Sol was based on pine oil when it was created in 1929 and during its rise to national popularity in the 1950s. However, as of 2016, Pine-Sol products sold in stores no longer contain pine oil to reduce costs. Wikipedia

Yet pine needle tea provides a similar, if not superior, benefit, due in part to the fact that it is a direct mild extract of the whole herb leaving many of its properties still intact that might be destroyed by excessive heat during distillation and further dissection of its many nutrient components.

I harvested some young Dougles Fir needles last fall and have been adding it to my morning tea blend for the last couple of months. It must have been an instinctive call. I discovered the Suramin info just last week.

The Douglas fir needle tea I have been drinking provides an energetic lift and a nice boost to the immune system.
Pine needles are high in vitamin C and A among numerous other compounds which provide a long list of benefits:A 2011 Korean study demonstrated using pine needles in tea was the best way to access the antioxidant benefits from pine needles. The study demonstrated that the hot water extract of pine needle proanthocyanidins and catechins offer the highest levels of antioxidant benefits compared with chemical extract processes.

There are other known benefits that pine needle tea and the tea made from other conifers share, which include:
Analgesic
Antibacterial
Antifungal
Anti-inflammatory
Antimicrobial
Antioxidant
Antiseptic
Antitumor
Antitussive
Antiviral
Aromatic
Astringent
Decongestant
Detoxifying
Disinfectant
Diuretic
Expectorant
Immuno-modulating
Improves circulation
Invigorating
Lymphatic
Relaxing
Relieves nervous exhaustion and fatigue
Relieves sore muscles
Restorative
Tonic

Herbalists the world over have known all along about the benefits of this simple natural tea. Pine needle tea has been used medicinally worldwide for thousands of years.

A few notes of caution:
Be careful with the yew pine (which is not a true pine) and can be toxic, although it does have a few medicinal properties ).The cypress is not to be used as an essential oil in high doses, but normally safe otherwise. The ponderosa pine is not good for cows mostly due to the observation when pregnant cattle eat the needles the loss of the calf has been observed, but has a long history of health benefits for humans for respiratory conditions, cuts, wounds, and burns, etc.
By far the vast majority of conifers have been used medicinally for thousands of years with an excellent track record. Get to know your trees. They may provide a medicine cabinet full of health benefits to you and your family. Pine, spruce, cedar, and fir needle tea may end up being the easiest way to gain the numerous benefits of the evergreen trees, along with a natural protection against unhealthy replications of spike proteins today. Combine with other herbs as desired to obtain further benefits and flavors

Dosage: 3 cups per day or more of any desired strength (based on the quantity of needles added to a french press or teapot) with an approximate 1-3 tablespoons of needles per cup of near boiling water. This is a maintenance health-building dose.

Stronger amounts of needles to water can be used therapeutically. If it feels too acidic (due to the vitamin C) for your system, moderate the quantity and complement the tea with alkalizing food and dark green herbs or sea vegetables.
— — —
In order to grasp the seriousness of the situation we are in, and to understand why, we need to look back in history to the times in which this very day had been forecast, obviously planned for, and now created.
Here is one clear example:
“Jacques Attali was an advisor to François Mitterrand (former President of France) and wrote this in 1981:
“In the future it will be a question of finding a way to reduce the population. We will start with the old man, because once he is over 60-65 years old, man lives longer than he produces and it costs society dearly.
Then the weak and then the useless who do not contribute anything to society because there will be more and more, and especially finally the stupid.
Euthanasia directed at these groups; euthanasia must be an essential instrument of our future societies, in all cases.
Of course, we will not be able to execute people or organize camps. We will get rid of them by making them believe that it is for their own good.
Too large a population, and for the most part unnecessary, is something economically too expensive. Socially, it is also much better for the human machine to stop abruptly rather than gradually deteriorate.
We won’t be able to pass intelligence tests on millions and millions of people, you can imagine!
We will find something or cause it; a pandemic that targets certain people, a real economic crisis or not, a virus that will affect the old or the elderly, it does not matter, the weak and the fearful will succumb.
The stupid will believe it and ask to be treated. We will have taken care of having planned the treatment, a treatment that will be the solution.
The selection of idiots will therefore be done by itself: they will go to the slaughterhouse alone. “ This fragment is excerpted from his book “Brief History of the Future”, published in France in 2006.”

Understand that we are smart enough to find our own solutions, and apply them. Those willing to take proactive protective measures, maintain their health, and become more self-reliant will rise from this period of change and transformation successfully.

We will be the ones to structure the world to come with a new focus on the common good of all life everywhere. The old mindset expressed by that limited soul above will not be tolerated. That mindset, and those that harbor it, will vanish like the darkness before the approaching dawn.

It is true that many will go with the passing night, yet those that remain will then shine all the brighter. Do your part. Take care of yourself first, then look to assist any willing to listen and join in the reconstruction.

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=63895

Last
Antioxidant, antimutagenic, and antitumor effects of pine needles (Pinus densiflora)

These results demonstrate that pine needles exhibit strong antioxidant, antimutagenic, and antiproliferative effects on cancer cells and also antitumor effects in vivo and point to their potential usefulness in cancer prevention. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17474862/

Effect of extracts from pine needle against oxidative DNA damage and apoptosis induced by hydroxyl radical via antioxidant activity
These data indicate that water extracts from pine needle (WEPN) possesses a spectrum of antioxidant and DNA-protective properties common to cancer chemopreventive agents. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19500637/'

meat suit

9th May 2021, 08:11

excellent post,
I am surprised that 'turpentine' isnt mentioned in this context. thats what you get when you distill pine needles...

avid

9th May 2021, 15:30

I am allergic to pine - what can I do??

avid

9th May 2021, 15:34

Is that the same as parabens? Any touching of wood, /xmas trees causes awful rash.

Bill Ryan

9th May 2021, 16:37

From Mike Adams at https://naturalnews.com, today:

https://www.brighteon.com/7c129e86-7e2b-47a7-bc74-dd19621e4042

7c129e86-7e2b-47a7-bc74-dd19621e4042

Trisher

9th May 2021, 18:30

I am allergic to pine - what can I do??

Here is the homeopathic version available in the UK.

https://www.equilibrium-health.com/product/eh-energy-medicine-mito-30ml/

Delight

9th May 2021, 21:01

excellent post,
I am surprised that 'turpentine' isnt mentioned in this context. thats what you get when you distill pine needles...

I think there may be lots of good info here

100% Pure Gum Turpentine & Kerosene - Kill deadly Candida, leave healthy bacteria alone! (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?63907-100-Pure-Gum-Turpentine-Kerosene-Kill-deadly-Candida-leave-healthy-bacteria-alone-&highlight=turpentine)

How to carry out turpentine detox / healing the safe way. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?108768-How-to-carry-out-turpentine-detox-healing-the-safe-way.&highlight=turpentine)

The incredible story of Dr Jennifer Daniels and her rediscovery of healing with turpentine (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?99439-The-incredible-story-of-Dr-Jennifer-Daniels-and-her-rediscovery-of-healing-with-turpentine&highlight=turpentine)

BUMP Mike Adams lays out so much good info here. He explains that turpentine is possibly medicinal or toxic on its own depending on health (terrain) of the person using and how to evaluate effects.

7c129e86-7e2b-47a7-bc74-dd19621e4042

Trisher

10th May 2021, 08:41

From Mike Adams at https://naturalnews.com, today:

https://www.brighteon.com/7c129e86-7e2b-47a7-bc74-dd19621e4042

7c129e86-7e2b-47a7-bc74-dd19621e4042

Having watched this video I had a few thoughts on ways to make the pine needle tea. Mike seems to use a lot of alcohol to do different extractions. That would make it really expensive even if the pine needles were free. I would therefore move towards making a pine needle tincture with the needles to extract whatever can be extracted with alcohol. He mentioned the expresso machine extraction and no doubt the same thing could be achieved through a pressure cooker. If whatever we need from the pine needles can be extracted with water, which he seems to think is the case, then simple boiled water and steeping the needles should be enough.

silverfish

10th May 2021, 09:25

If you use vodka and your fresh plant matter and let it sit in a dark place for about 6-8 weeks to make a tincture. No heat no grain alcohol . She of the woods is very informative on YouTube she hasn't done a pine tincture as far as I know but has detailed vids on how easily to make tinctures

https://youtube.com/c/ColdCreekHomestead

ExomatrixTV

10th May 2021, 13:30

Pine Needle Tea: Possible Antidote for Spike Protein Transmission

Front line doctors and medical experts (https://ambassadorlove.wordpress.com/2021/04/28/world-doctors-warning-stay-away-from-the-vaxxed/) have come forward recently and revealed that transmission between the Covid vaxxed and unvaxxed is causing Adverse Reactions in people who did not take the Covid injection. Transmission is happening at a rapid rate without skin to skin contact. The expert’s consensus is that the Covid shots are not vaccines but experimental bioweapons. The cells of the vaxxed are now producing a synthetic spike protein from the pathogen they were injected with. It was also determined by the experts (https://ambassadorlove.wordpress.com/2021/05/02/the-covid-vaxxed-must-be-quarantined-expert-consensus/) that the vaxxed must be quarantined because transmission is airborne.

There is a potential antidote to the current spike protein contagion which is called Suramin. It’s found in many forests around the world, in Pine needles. Suramin has inhibitory effects against components of the coagulation cascade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coagulation#The_coagulation_cascade) and against the inappropriate replication and modification of RNA and DNA. Excessive coagulation causes blood clots, mini-clots, strokes, and unusually heavy menstrual cycles.
Pine needle tea is one of the most potent anti-oxidants there is and it’s known to treat cancer, inflammation, stress and depression, pain and respiratory infections. Pine tea also kills parasites.

Article begins:
Possible Antidote for the V-Serum and the Current Spike Protein Contagion
Dr. Judy Mikovits (1 min. MP4 is attached) has revealed that (https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu/msg/16539359/) the medical establishment has known all along about the antidote to the contagion – acontagion that is now being seen today by thousands of people who have not taken the serum, but have merely come in close proximity with others who have taken the jab.
(The word “serum” is being used here since, evidently, the way to avoid taking the jab is to say “I am allergic to the serum”.)

When the medical establishment and political promoters want to exempt themselves from taking inoculations, they always give themselves a legal way out, while pushing the “citizenry” to take the jabs.

“I am allergic to the serum” is one of their solutions.

Taking the serum is one thing. The spike protein contagion now being experienced in large numbers by those who did not take the serum, but just visited with a relative or friend who did, is entirely new and unprecedented.

What are the side effects being seen by this contagion?

massive headaches
micro-clots and sudden bruising throughout the body
exceptionally heavy menstrual cycles among both the young and post menopausal
miscarriages
reduction in breast milk
sterility among both women and men
household pets dying shortly after the owners get the serum.

Listen to 5 doctors discuss this unusual onset of symptoms being experienced now by thousands:

URGENT! 5 Doctors Agree that COVID-19 Injections are Bioweapons and Discuss What to do About It (https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/44-year-old-pastor-dead-after-moderna-covid-shot-wanted-other-pastors-and-african-americans-to-follow-her-example-and-take-the-shot/)

The Antidote to the Contagion

This antidote to the contagion, that has been known of by the upper levels of the medical establishment and insiders of the elitist class for almost 100 years, is called Suramin, an isolated compound originally derived from an extract of pine needle oil.
It is only available by injection, and has been a closely guarded secret not made openly available to the masses during this “pandemic”, yet is an effective solution for parasites and viruses of several kinds, along with a large number of other conditions.

https://ambassadorlove.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/img_20210506_205901__02-4.jpg?w=1024Pine and Spruce needles

Yet anyone can now take advantage of this solution by tapping its root origin, pine needle tea, an antidote that is freely available today in evergreen forests and in many people’s backyards. (Sources for buying it are also listed here (https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu/msg/16539359/).)
How can this simple remedy work so well in the face of such a seemingly insurmountable condition?

There is a direct relationship between Suramin (the isolated extract), pine needle tea (a hot water extract of the pine, fir, cedar, and spruce needles), and pine oil (which is derived from the needles though an essential oil steam distillation process).
All three are derived from the properties of the conifer needle.

My personal take on this is that it is far better to get Nature’s whole herb source than just a tiny fraction of an extract. There are many other benefits that can be derived from the whole herb that will be missing from the isolated chemical.
My observation is that those who maintain high levels of health are not affected by either the serum nor the transference contagion. Their immune system seems to be warding off side effects at this point. Come winter when the spike protein in their bodies will be challenged with new pathogens, we will all discover our true levels of health.

Anyone on the fence health-wise, or depleted (which can be said of many of us today), are being affected to varying degrees.

The Trail from Suramin to Pine Needle Tea

Here is the trail of science and data that shows the derivative relationship between pine needles and Suramin (“the elist’s antidote” to microbial illnesses) – and which also provides a potential antidote for those affected by the spike protein contagion (for reasons explained within the following data):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin
Suramin is used for treatment of human sleeping sickness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_trypanosomiasis) caused by trypanosomes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosoma).[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin#cite_note-Drugs.com_consumer-1) [a parasite] Specifically, it is used for treatment of first-stage African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosoma_brucei_rhodesiense) and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosoma_brucei_gambiense) without involvement of central nervous system.[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin#cite_note-9)[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin#cite_note-Kap2016-10) It is considered first-line treatment for Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosoma_brucei_rhodesiense), and second-line treatment for early-stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosoma_brucei_gambiense), where pentamidine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentamidine) is recommended as first line.[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin#cite_note-Kap2016-10)

It has been used in the treatment of river blindness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_blindness) (onchocerciasis).[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin#cite_note-PMH2016-2)
Suramin has been available to the medical profession for almost 100 years. A summary of its antioxidant benefits are outlined in this report – 100 Years of Suramin (attached as a PDF (https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu/msg/16539359/)).

The most relevant parts of the summary are outlined below with supportive evidence:
SURAMIN, THE FRUIT OF EARLY MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
When suramin was introduced for the treatment of African sleeping sickness in 1922, it was one of the first anti-infective agents that had been developed in a medicinal chemistry program. Starting from the antitrypanosomal activity of the dye trypan blue, synthesized in 1904 by Paul Ehrlich, Bayer made a series of colorless and more potent derivatives. Molecule 205 was suramin (Fig. 1), synthesized by Oskar Dressel, Richard Kothe, and Bernhard Heymann in 1916. Sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis [HAT]) was at the forefront of research at that time, not a neglected disease as it is today, and the development of suramin was a breakthrough for the emerging field of chemotherapy.
Now read the following paragraph within the subtitle (Too) Many Targets in the 100 Years of Suramin PDF to understand its antidote properties to the spike protein contagion (derived from the mRNA that gives instructions to replicate a spike protein in other cells):
Suramin further decreases the activities of a large number of enzymes involved in DNA and RNA synthesis and modification: DNA polymerases (103, 104), RNA polymerases (103, 105, 106), reverse transcriptase (18, 103), telomerase (67), and enzymes involved in winding/ unwinding of DNA (107, 108) are inhibited by suramin, as well as histone- and chromatin-modifying enzymes like chromobox proteins (109), methyltransferases (110), and sirtuin histone deacetylases (111)
This is medical-speak for inhibiting the inappropriate replication and modification of RNA and DNA.

This comment in the PDF also reveals Suramin’s ability to inhibit micro-clots:
Suramin also showed inhibitory effects against components of the coagulation cascade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coagulation#The_coagulation_cascade) (71, 130)…

Excessive coagulation causes blood clots, mini-clots, strokes, and unusually heavy menstrual cycles.

This is why so many people are dying today of blood clots after receiving the serum, and why others are now showing unexplained bruising after coming in contact with one that has taken the serum.

Something is being transferred from one to the other, likely through the breath, complemented by a type of sympathetic resonance, or pheromone emanation.
The method of transfer is unclear at this point, but is certainly happening.
This phenomenon is not an accident, these symptoms were known well in advance of unleashing this serum on the public. Vaccine trials have been going on for decades.
Why did they decide to test a completely new approach with the mRNA without animal trials, thus using humans as the first test case for their effectiveness?

US Center for Disease Control: 3,486 DEATHS – 86,080 Injured in the U.S. through April 17, 2021 Following COVID Injections in 4 Months: More Vaccine Deaths Recorded Than the Past 15 Years COMBINED (https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/mass-murder-3486-deaths-in-the-u-s-following-covid-injections-in-4-months-more-vaccine-deaths-recorded-than-the-past-15-years-combined/)
European Medicines Agency: 7,766 DEAD 330,218 Injuries: European Database of Adverse Drug Reactions for COVID-19 “Vaccines” (https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/7766-dead-330218-injuries-european-database-of-adverse-drug-reactions-for-covid-19-vaccines/)

An Obvious Sham

Any natural medicine with 0.01% of these deaths and side effects would have been pulled from the market immediately. That our professionals and decision-makers have continued to allow this sham to continue reveals that this sham is intentional.
The upper echelon of the medical profession promote this program to the people, while they exempt themselves from it, and then take their personal antidote to prevent being affected by the transference contagion.

Since when is it acceptable to kill thousands of people and maim hundreds of thousands more with a “medicine”??? Why are we finding this OK? Why are we still trusting the media and the medical wizards that dreamed up this sham? When will enough be enough?

The People’s Antidote

Now the people have the antidote, and it is readily available in the form of pine needle tea. How do we know this? Because Suramin is a derivative of the oils in pine needles.
The whole herbal source (needles) is superior to the single compound extract (Suramin) – because the needles possess a full complement of phytonutrients providing numerous additional benefits that the extract is incapable of.

Now, here is the direct connection between Suramin and Pine Needle Tea:
Suramin is Derived from Trypan Blue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypan_blue
Trypan blue is derived from toluidine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluidine), that is, any of several isomeric bases, C14H16N2, derived from toluene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluene). Trypan blue is so-called because it can kill trypanosomes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosomes), the parasites that cause sleeping sickness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_trypanosomiasis). An analog of trypan blue, suramin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suramin), is used pharmacologically against trypanosomiasis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosomiasis). Trypan blue is also known as diamine blue and Niagara blue…

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypan_blue#cite_note-4)Trypan red and trypan blue were first synthesized by the German scientist Paul Ehrlich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich) in 1904.
Trypan Blue is a derivative of toluene which is a derivative of pine oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluene
The compound was first isolated in 1837 through a distillation of pine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine) oil by the Polish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles) chemist Filip Walter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Neriusz_Walter), who named it rétinnaphte.[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluene#cite_note-10)
I personally recall many years ago one health professional was using a Pine Sol bath to rid the body of parasites.
Pine-Sol was based on pine oil when it was created in 1929 and during its rise to national popularity in the 1950s. However, as of 2016, Pine-Sol products sold in stores no longer contain pine oil to reduce costs.Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine-Sol)
Yet pine needle tea provides a similar, if not superior, benefit, due in part to the fact that it is a direct mild extract of the whole herb leaving many of its properties still intact that might be destroyed by excessive heat during distillation and further dissection of its many nutrient components.

I harvested some young Dougles Fir needles last fall and have been adding it to my morning tea blend for the last couple of months. It must have been an instinctive call. I discovered the Suramin info just last week.

The Douglas fir needle tea I have been drinking provides an energetic lift and a nice boost to the immune system.

Pine needles are high in vitamin C and A among numerous other compounds which provide a long list of benefits:

A 2011 Korean study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180677/) demonstrated using pine needles in tea was the best way to access the antioxidant benefits from pine needles.

The study demonstrated that the hot water extract of pine needle proanthocyanidins and catechins offer the highest levels of antioxidant benefits (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180677/) compared with chemical extract processes.

There are other known benefits (https://joybileefarm.com/pine-needle-tea/) that pine needle tea and the tea made from other conifers share, which include:

Analgesic
Antibacterial (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16619365)
Antifungal (https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/PDIS.1997.81.2.204)
Anti-inflammatory
Antimicrobial
Antioxidant (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180677/)
Antiseptic
Antitumor (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12802719)
Antitussive
Antiviral
Aromatic
Astringent
Decongestant
Detoxifying
Disinfectant
Diuretic
Expectorant
Immuno-modulating
Improves circulation
Invigorating
Lymphatic
Relaxing
Relieves nervous exhaustion and fatigue
Relieves sore muscles
Restorative
Tonic

Herbalists the world over have known all along about the benefits of this simple natural tea. Pine needle tea has been used medicinally worldwide for thousands of years.

Pine Needle Tea Video (3 min)

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Wild Food Foraging – Pine / Spruce / Cedar / Fir – Evergreen Teas

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A few notes of caution:

Be careful with the yew (https://www.coniferousforest.com/plants-trees/yew) pine (which is not a true pine) and can be toxic, although it does have a few medicinal properties (http://naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/t/taxus-baccata=yew.php)).

The cypress (https://www.botanical-online.com/en/medicinal-plants/cypress-toxicity) is not to be used as an essential oil in high doses, but normally safe otherwise.

The ponderosa pine (http://www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/p/pinus-ponderosa=ponderosa-pine.php) is not good for cows mostly due to the observation when pregnant cattle eat the needles the loss of the calf has been observed, but has a long history of health benefits for humans for respiratory conditions, cuts, wounds, and burns, etc.
By far the vast majority of conifers have been used medicinally for thousands of years with an excellent track record. Get to know your trees. They may provide a medicine cabinet full of health benefits to you and your family.

Pine, spruce, cedar, and fir needle tea may end up being the easiest way to gain the numerous benefits of the evergreen trees, along with a natural protection against unhealthy replications of spike proteins today.

Combine with other herbs as desired to obtain further benefits and flavors.

Sources for Pine Needles

There is one primary American supplier (Etsy) for the pine needles (besides harvesting your own) that I am aware of at this point with 3 quality listings, each from a different East Coast wildcrafter:

eastern-white-pine-needles-1-lb (https://www.etsy.com/listing/966522916/eastern-white-pine-needles-1-lb)
blue-ridge-mountains-pine-needles (https://www.etsy.com/listing/728484784/blue-ridge-mountains-pine-needles)
north-eastern-appalachian-white-pine-tea (https://www.etsy.com/listing/681617302/north-eastern-appalachian-white-pine-tea)

Here is the main reference link for new wildcrafters when they post their harvests:
pine-needles-fresh-cut-or-dried (https://www.etsy.com/listing/235866986/pine-needles-fresh-cut-or-dried)

Dosage: 3 cups per day or more of any desired strength (based on the quantity of needles added to a french press or teapot) with an approximate 1-3 tablespoons of needles per cup of near boiling water. This is a maintenance health-building dose.
Stronger amounts of needles to water can be used therapeutically. If it feels too acidic (due to the vitamin C) for your system, moderate the quantity and complement the tea with alkalizing food and dark green herbs or sea vegetables.
— — —
In order to grasp the seriousness of the situation we are in, and to understand why, we need to look back in history to the times in which this very day had been forecast, obviously planned for, and now created.

Here is one clear example:

“Jacques Attali was an advisor to François Mitterrand (former President of France) and wrote this in 1981:

“In the future it will be a question of finding a way to reduce the population. We will start with the old man, because once he is over 60-65 years old, man lives longer than he produces and it costs society dearly.

Then the weak and then the useless who do not contribute anything to society because there will be more and more, and especially finally the stupid.

Euthanasia directed at these groups; euthanasia must be an essential instrument of our future societies, in all cases.

Of course, we will not be able to execute people or organize camps. We will get rid of them by making them believe that it is for their own good.
Too large a population, and for the most part unnecessary, is something economically too expensive. Socially, it is also much better for the human machine to stop abruptly rather than gradually deteriorate.

We won’t be able to pass intelligence tests on millions and millions of people, you can imagine!

We will find something or cause it; a pandemic that targets certain people, a real economic crisis or not, a virus that will affect the old or the elderly, it does not matter, the weak and the fearful will succumb.

The stupid will believe it and ask to be treated. We will have taken care of having planned the treatment, a treatment that will be the solution.

The selection of idiots will therefore be done by itself: they will go to the slaughterhouse alone. “ This fragment is excerpted from his book “Brief History of the Future”, published in France in 2006.”

Understand that we are smart enough to find our own solutions, and apply them. Those willing to take proactive protective measures, maintain their health, and become more self-reliant will rise from this period of change and transformation successfully.
We will be the ones to structure the world to come with a new focus on the common good of all life everywhere. The old mindset expressed by that limited soul above will not be tolerated. That mindset, and those that harbor it, will vanish like the darkness before the approaching dawn. It is true that many will go with the passing night, yet those that remain will then shine all the brighter. Do your part. Take care of yourself first, then look to assist any willing to listen and join in the reconstruction.

Editors Pine Tea Recipe

For a strong immune booster I recommend simmering pine needles with any other combination of cedar, spruce. I am using for example, a combination of two thirds pine and one third spruce needles at the moment because that’s what grows in the forest next to my home.

https://ambassadorlove.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/img_20210506_205107__01__01.jpg?w=1024Pine and spruce needles

I bring water to a boil, enough to cover the needles and deposit the needles into the hot water. I remove it from the hot burner and immediately cover the pan and turn the burner down to low heat. After a minute, I return the pan to simmer on low heat for 15-20 minutes. Keep the lid on while it brews and that will trap the essential oils inside the water and prevents them from evaporating out.

https://ambassadorlove.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/img_20210506_144118-2.jpg?w=775Pine needle tea

For normal health I would recommend 3 glasses per day but since we are being hit with bioweapons, I suggest doubling your intake to 6 glasses per day. You may want to alternate between the lighter pine needle tea specified here (https://youtu.be/MY4UNrjnoLA) and the stronger tea I’m recommending for immunity boosting.
If you have a strong detox reaction use less tea at first until your body is able to handle a stronger amount.

source (https://ambassadorlove.wordpress.com/2021/05/06/pine-tea-possible-antidote-for-spike-protein-transmission)

PINE NEEDLE TEA - 18th century treatment for scurvy | HARD TIMES - recipes from times of hardship
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Let's make some pine pitch infused oil & glycerin!:

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In this little video I'm gana show you how to make two things at one! Pitch infused oil & pitch infused glycerin! Any pitch gathered from conifer trees will do the trick! • Pitch infused oil/glycerin is amazing for: • 🌲Skin infections . 💜Minor wound healing . 🌲Fungal issues . 💜Acne . 🌲Eczema . 💜Psoriasis . 🌲Antibacterial . 💜Antimicrobial . 🌲Antiviral . 💜And so much more!

onawah

12th May 2021, 03:55

Does anyone know if Pine Essential Oil would be effective?

pueblo

12th May 2021, 10:31

Does anyone know if Pine Essential Oil would be effective?

I would think if you get good quality organic pine oil it should be full of all the goodies used to extract the compound Suramin, which is what actually works against the spike protein.

The Antidote to the Contagion

This antidote to the contagion, that has been known of by the upper levels of the medical establishment and insiders of the elitist class for almost 100 years, is called Suramin, an isolated compound originally derived from an extract of pine needle oil.

It is only available by injection, and has been a closely guarded secret not made openly available to the masses during this “pandemic”, yet is an effective solution for parasites and viruses of several kinds, along with a large number of other conditions.

Yet anyone can now take advantage of this solution by tapping its root origin, pine needle tea, an antidote that is freely available today in evergreen forests and in many people’s backyards. (Sources for buying it are also listed below.)

How can this simple remedy work so well in the face of such a seemingly insurmountable condition?

There is a direct relationship between Suramin (the isolated extract), pine needle tea (a hot water extract of the pine, fir, cedar, and spruce needles), and pine oil (which is derived from the needles though an essential oil steam distillation process).

All three are derived from the properties of the conifer needle.

My personal take on this is that it is far better to get Nature’s whole herb source than just a tiny fraction of an extract. There are many other benefits that can be derived from the whole herb that will be missing from the isolated chemical.

My observation is that those who maintain high levels of health are not affected by either the serum nor the transference contagion. Their immune system seems to be warding off side effects at this point. Come winter when the spike protein in their bodies will be challenged with new pathogens, we will all discover our true levels of health.

Anyone on the fence health-wise, or depleted (which can be said of many of us today), are being affected to varying degrees.

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=63895

Trisher

12th May 2021, 12:36

Mike Adams is pointing to the Shikimic acid in the pine needles and Star Anise and also now Fennel seeds.

Interesting that the Shikimic acid affects the Shikimic pathway that the gut bacteria etc use and which Glyphosphate destroys. No accident then.

One of the primary means of transmission is also by frequency through the programming of the nano bots in the vaxx. It behoves us to turn off as much tech as we can. I have mentioned before that using the Spooky2 on remote can protect you from this frequency as you are out and about and also reverse the damage done to the energy field for as long as you stay on the remote Spectrum Sweep frequencies.

TravelerJim

12th May 2021, 12:48

FWIW, only a few days ago before people began writing about Suramin wrt Covid and the Vax I had been reading up on possible treatments for Autism and came across information from UCSD.

The link below has to do with a new study but they had done a study in the past and it showed the injection of Suramin on children with Autism had remarkable effects.

https://health.ucsd.edu/news/topics/Suramin-Autism/Pages/default.aspx

I have read why these researchers think Suramin works for ASD but will not try to explain it here as my explanation would be inadequate.

Gwin Ru

12th May 2021, 13:28

Trisher

12th May 2021, 14:40

...

... extremely fascinating, interesting and revolutionary:
Life Force Special Report with Dr. Richard Presser on Nano Soma (https://www.unitednetwork.news/content/detail/609b606176f2160018a82b00/Life-Force-Special-Report-with-Dr.-Richard-Presser) 33:08

Link to Order Your Nano Soma or click on the button above:
https://www.magicdichol.com/store/mdusa/?aff_id=6029

This is making huge claims. I wonder how the original molecule can still be present in highly GM'd foods like sugar, wheat and rice? Has anyone tried this out?

avid

12th May 2021, 15:12

Worth looking at what we are supplementing with anti-oxidants etc, turmeric, silymarin atm. Just ordered fennel extract capsules, but beware, those already on high doses of silymarin (milk thistle) could be damaging ones thyroid function and blood pressure meds. Anti-oxidants in plethora may contra-indicate. Worth checking out scientific researches. Visions of supplement-stuffing organic survivalists ‘shooting themselves in the foot’ :confused:
(Passes cups of really refreshing fennel tea around)

Eva2

15th May 2021, 15:27

From "Great News International" - May 7
I hope this hasn't already been posted - I thought this was a good page with useful info for COVID antidote(s) covering the pine needle tea and a good interview with 5 doctors on the symptoms being experienced. Some good products to boost your health
https://www.greatnewsreport.com/natural-antidote-to-the-covid-contagion/?fbclid=IwAR2NE9rk34TwaVmLAOJWV-rhwiKM0nI-SlbKhwya_Mfb6Ni8IqoeC9oGqb0

Anna70

16th May 2021, 10:41

Just saw a post on Twitter, about NAC (N-acetylcysteine) (https://www.healthyandnaturalworld.com/nac-n-acetylcysteine/), a powerful antioxidant amino acid and a precursor to glutathione (vital in detoxification & lessening oxidative stress) being reclassifed by the FDA, making it hard to get hold of. People who need it are urged to stock up while they can. I don't know very much about this supplement myself, but it is supposed to be very effective, and interestingly plays a role in cell repair and fertility as well as immune function and respiratory conditions (https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/nac-benefits#TOC_TITLE_HDR_3)...

I don't know how true it is that this product is disappearing from the shelves, but if you use it, it may be a good idea to check this out.

Edit: Seems like they've been planning this for a while. Article from last year (https://fda.news/2020-08-21-fda-trying-make-n-acetylcysteine-illegal-could-help-treat-covid19.html#) mentions it can treat Covid and also help fight cancer (https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-05-09-nac-is-a-powerful-antioxidant-that-stops-cancer-cell-growth.html).

Another edit: Just found another article (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/10/04/n-acetyl-cysteine-a-warning-shot) that suggests things are not quite so straightforward, and that NAC and other antioxidants may actually accelerate tumour growth. Goodness, what a minefield.... :facepalm:

kfm27917

16th May 2021, 18:23

Possible Antidote
read
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia3/ciencia_coronavirus356.htm

onawah

16th May 2021, 19:48

Is pine needle tea the answer to covid vaccine shedding / transmission?
Learn about suramin, shikimic acid and how to make your own extracts
By Mike Adams
May 14, 2021
https://thetruthaboutvaccines.com/pine-needle-tea/

"Word is spreading that pine needle tea may offer a solution against covid vaccine “shedding” or transmission, which appears to be a phenomenon where vaccinated people are spreading harmful particles or substances to others around them. See this article from a WordPress blog site called “Ambassador Love.”

That article states:

There is a potential antidote to the current spike protein contagion which is called Suramin. It’s found in many forests around the world, in Pine needles. Suramin has inhibitory effects against components of the coagulation cascade and against the inappropriate replication and modification of RNA and DNA. Excessive coagulation causes blood clots, mini-clots, strokes, and unusually heavy menstrual cycles.

Pine needle tea is one of the most potent anti-oxidants there is and it’s known to treat cancer, inflammation, stress and depression, pain and respiratory infections. Pine tea also kills parasites.

Below, find a full podcast and video that reveals two extraction methods, both of which are simple, low-tech, low-cost methods that can be used almost anywhere.

Fresh pine needles from appropriate trees have been used for centuries as sources of vitamin C and other phytochemicals that Native Americans used to treat respiratory infections and other ailments. Vitamin C is a known cure for scurvy, as scurvy is a disease of vitamin C deficiency. Pine needles contain many other substances that appear to reduce platelet aggregation in the blood, potentially preventing blood clots that lead to strokes, heart attacks and pulmonary embolism diagnoses. (See published science sources below.)

Pine needles have been used by indigenous populations around the world as both food and medicine for thousands of years. Many people now believe pine needles may be able to offer protection from covid spike proteins — which are engineered bioweapons found in covid vaccines — as well as covid vaccine “shedding” particles, which also appear to be biological weapons designed to achieve global depopulation.

Dr. Judy Mikovits asserts that globalists are well aware that pine needle tea is the answer to covid depopulation weapons, and they are secretly using pine needle tea to protect themselves from the very plague they have unleashed upon the world, Mikovitz explains.

Digging into the science behind pine needles and covid
As a published laboratory scientist, I decided to dig into this question with the help of my laboratory knowledge and experience. Boiling fresh pine needles in order to make a tea is an extraction method that’s commonly used in food science as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

Water acts as a solvent, and through heat and time, some phytochemicals in the pine needles are extracted into the water, making a pine needle tea. (This is how all tea is made.)

As I poured over the published science research on this topic, I had two primary questions:

1) What molecules are found in pine needles, and what are their functions in relation to halting blood clots or protecting the unvaccinated from covid vaccine shedding?

2) What is the best extraction method to pull these molecules out of pine needles? Is there a low-tech extraction method that almost anyone can use, without needing a laboratory?

Through research, I found that pine needles not only contain suramin, a large molecule that’s touted for various medicinal effects, but also shikimic acid.

Shikimic acid is the basis for Tamiflu, and it’s the molecule found in Chinese Medicine herb Star Anise, that cures plagues
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that pine needles contain shikimic acid, the same molecule found in Star Anise herb used in Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat plagues and respiratory illness.

The Boston Herald published a story in 2010 that revealed researchers were studying extraction techniques to harvest shikimic acid from pine needles in order to provide this raw material to the pharmaceutical industry to manufacture anti-viral, anti-flu, anti-pandemic prescription medicines. From that story:

Researchers at the University of Maine at Orono say they’ve found a new and relatively easy way to extract shikimic acid — a key ingredient in the drug Tamiflu — from pine tree needles.

Shikimic acid can be removed from the needles of white pine, red pine and other conifer trees simply by boiling the needles in water, said chemistry professor Ray Fort Jr.

But the extracted acid could be valuable because Tamiflu is the world’s most widely used antiviral drug for treating swine flu, bird flu and seasonal influenza. The major source of shikimic acid now is the star anise, an unusual star-shaped fruit that grows on small trees native to China.

The research has been funded from a variety of sources, including the Maine Technology Institute, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation and the university’s chemistry department.

One study published in ResearchGate confirms that shikimic acid offers antiplatelet-aggregating activity, meaning it helps halt blood clots: Content Analysis of Shikimic Acid in the Masson Pine Needles and Antiplatelet-aggregating Activity.

From the study:

Shikimic acid, when separated by HPLC, exhibited a dose-dependent inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation induced by adenosine diphosphate and collagen in rabbits. Because of the relative high content and good antiplatelet-aggregating activity of shikimic acid, the Masson pine needles can be used as a potential source of shikimic acid.

…achieved about a 6% yield of shikimic acid from Masson pine needles, which is possibly the highest extracted yield from any pine species till now (Chen et al. 2014). Since pine needles are inexpensive and readily available in North Asia, North America, and Europe, there is a strong possibility to utilize them as a drug manufacturer against less available star anise species.

That study found that pine needles provide about two-thirds the shikimic acid of star anise herb:

Masson pine needles = 5.71% shikimic acid
Star anise = 8.95% shikimic acid

So we know that pine needles, which are extremely common across North America, China and Europe, provide shikimic acid, a kind of “miracle” molecule that may prove incredibly useful for halting blood clots and defending people from respiratory infections.

Further research led me to a study that used neural networking research to optimize the extraction conditions in order to carry out a highly efficient extract from pine needles: 17 Optimization of Extraction Conditions of Shikimic Acid in Pine Needles Based on Artificial Neural Network.

That study offers the following recipe for extraction optimization:

Use roughly 75% alcohol (such as vodka) and 25% water
Use an ultrasonic cleaning machine with a stainless steel vessel
Set the temperature to 65 degrees C.
Use 280 mL of extraction solution for every 10 grams of pine needles
Use a duration of 25 minutes for the ultrasonic extraction
This finished “tea” should be filtered through a coffee filter or other paper filter in order to remove large particles. The resulting liquid will contain shikimic acid, suramin, pigments and various terpenes, and will typically show some coloration and have a rather pungent taste.
Watch this video to see how I used an ultrasonic cleaning machine to create a water extract of rosemary herb:

Brighteon video here:

How to extract shikimic acid using a common espresso machine
The most exciting finding in this research was discovering a published science paper that describes using a common espresso machine to carry out a highly efficient extraction of shikimic acid from star anise herb.

That paper is published in Science Direct: Total quantification and extraction of shikimic acid from star anise (llicium verum) using solid-state NMR and cellulose-dissolving aqueous hydroxide solutions.The paper was published in Organic Letters in 2015, and also appears as a PDF at the University of Oregon website. (This link may be problematic in some browsers because it contains spaces in the URL.)https://pages.uoregon.edu/chendon/coffee_literature/2015%20Org.%20Lett.,%20Shikimic%20acid%20extraction%20from%20anise%20using%20espresso%20machine.pdf

From the abstract of that study:

ABSTRACT: A new, practical, rapid, and high-yielding process for the pressurized hot water extraction (PHWE) of multigram
quantities of shikimic acid from star anise (Illicium verum) using an unmodified household espresso machine has been developed.
This operationally simple and inexpensive method enables the efficient and straightforward isolation of shikimic acid and the facile
preparation of a range of its synthetic derivatives.

In other words, they are taking advantage of the pressurized chamber of an espresso machine to conduct a heat + pressure extraction of shikimic acid from star anise.

In my experience, the star anise herb can be replaced with ground fresh pine needles (green, not brown) to achieve a similar result, extracting shikimic acid from pine needles. To support efficient extraction, you would want to grind the pine needles first, using a low-cost herb grinder.

I intend to reproduce this result in my own lab, but thought that I should share this publicly as soon as possible due to the deadly threat currently posed to humanity from the weaponized covid vaccines.

The study authors further confirm that shikimic acid shows efficacy as an antiviral molecule that also inhibits viral replication in the body:

Shikimic acid derivatives have also been shown to exhibit useful biological activity. Most notably, the well-known antiviral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu), which acts as a viral neuraminidase inhibitor, is used to treat seasonal influenza and has been deployed during H1N1 influenza outbreaks.

Furthermore, fluorinated shikimate analogues have been shown to inhibit P. falciparum and have been tested as antimalarial drugs. In addition, shikimic acidderived (?)-zeylenone (3) displays anticancer, antiviral and antibiotic behavior, and triacetylshikimic acid exhibits
anticoagulant and antithrombotic activity.

Notice the key term “anticoagulant” in the sentence above.

The study, which was carried out in Tasmania, Australia, deliberately sought a low-cost, low-tech method of extracting shikimic acid from common botanicals (pine needles):

[This method is a] low cost, rapid, pressurized hot water extraction (PHWE)… the first example of the laboratory use of a simple
espresso machine to facilitate the extraction of natural products (other than caffeine) from plant material.

We sought to specifically utilize relatively cheap, unsophisticated, and commercially available equipment to achieve the extraction of multigram quantities of star anise.21 Consequently, given that the pump in an espresso machine enables the continuous flow of water at temperatures up to 96 °C and at pressures of typically 9 bar, we believed that such a system would be suitable for our purposes.

Indeed, this idea is pure genius in its simplicity. And the study authors were able to extract and then purify shikimic acid crystals through a relatively simple process.

This may mean the “cure” for covid is freely available and grows across many continents
The upshot of all this is that a possible “cure” for covid — or at least a defense against covid shedding / transmission — appears to be already provided by Mother Nature and is readily available across multiple continents.

Without having to rely on patented, controlled pharmaceuticals and weaponized vaccines that are clearly designed to spread disease and achieve global depopulation through mass death, people who want to survive the covid vaccine holocaust can simply harvest and process pine needles using espresso machines, and they can potentially make their own anti-plague medicine.

Naturally, we would like to see more research on all this — and please heed the safety precautions below — but it’s clear the science & medicine establishment has lost all credibility or interest in protecting humanity and is now deliberately working to exterminate billions of human beings. Thus, waiting for that industry to study common medicinal plants is a fool’s errand. There will never be funding available for such research, as these findings don’t enhance Big Pharma’s vaccine and drug profits.

Yet for those who are able to access the correct types of pine needles — and who aren’t pregnant or expecting to be pregnant, see below — this simple, natural remedy may ultimately prove to be a “miracle” treatment that saves lives from both covid and covid vaccines.

For the record, we don’t sell pine needles or pine needle extracts, so regulators looking to ban this article will have to go harass someone else. We offer this information as-is, without warranty, in the interests of “emergency authorization publication” for the benefit of humanity and with the intention of saving lives from the deadly vaccine.

Listen to my full podcast here to learn even more about this exciting topic and possible remedy against covid vaccines:

Another Brighteon video here:

Safety precautions when using pine needles
Before you consume any tea or extract made from plants, be sure you know what plants you’re using. Not all pine trees are suitable, and some conifers — such as yew trees — are toxic.

Cattle have been widely known to experience spontaneous abortions when consuming fresh pine needles as a food source, so anyone expecting to become pregnant (or already pregnant) should obviously avoid consuming pine needle tea, just as a precaution.

The entire “woke” science morons in America and around the world have forgotten that only women can get pregnant, so this particular precaution obviously does not apply to men. If you think men can get pregnant, you may have already suffered cognitive damage from covid vaccines and should seek immediate medical care.

Norfolk Island Pine and Ponderosa Pine trees are also believed to cause spontaneous abortions and should likely be avoided. We don’t know the full composition of various pine species, so we cannot in good conscience tell anyone to drink any tea made from pine needles. Should you choose to do so, exercise common sense and all necessary precaution, and work with a qualified naturopath to design an herbal strategy that’s compatible with your own biology and particular health goals.

Also be aware pine needle tea may interact in unexpected ways with prescription medications, most of which are toxic all by themselves.

We are going to confirm this extraction process using an espresso machine and a single quad mass spec instrument at CWC Labs
The good news in all this is that it appears everyday people can harvest shikimic acid from pine needles using a common espresso machine. Or, for a more thorough extraction of a broad spectrum of terpenes, people can use an ultrasonic clear to achieve such extractions (see my video above).

As a public service, I am now in the process of initiating a laboratory project in my private lab to reproduce this shikimic acid extraction method, but using pine needles instead of star anise herb:

We are purchasing shikimic acid standards and researching an HPLC / Mass spec method for quantitation of shikimic acid.
We are purchasing a simple herb grinder and a clean, new espresso machine to test the extraction.
When completed, we plan to release a video from our lab, showing you the results of our extraction attempts.
We are likely going to be using loblobby pine needles, as that’s what’s common in the central Texas area. I do not know the shikimic acid content of loblobby pines.

Stay tuned to NaturalNews.com and my Brighteon.com channel for more updates on this hugely important topic for humanity:

https://www.brighteon.com/channels/hrreport

And thank you for all your support that allows us the funding necessary to pursue this research for humanity.

Editor’s Note: Fennel seeds have also been shown to be a source of shikimic acid, which can fight covid vaccine shedding. Check out the video below to learn more,

Another Brighteon video here:

This article was originally published by Mike Adams on NaturalNews.com. https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-05-09-is-pine-needle-tea-the-answer-to-covid-vaccine-shedding-suramin-shikimic-acid.html
...it has been reposted here with permission from the author. "

Bill Ryan

20th May 2021, 17:44

At 16:30 in this new video, Dr. Christiane Northrup explains how to make HCQ (hydroxychloroquine) at home — though in a second reference, after the recipe, she refers to it as quercetin.

It sounds totally simple. I have NO idea of the biochemistry of this, and I'm merely posting what she said:

Take 3 organic grapefruit and 3 organic lemons, take the rind off them, put them in a pot with a glass top, then simmer for 3 hours. Then let it cool down, strain it, then you can freeze it or put it in the fridge. Take 2 tablespoons (30 ml) twice a day, and it'll be very helpful.

https://brighteon.com/2aaed9bc-aa22-4da2-bdf8-2b0f2059983a

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Bill Ryan

29th May 2021, 14:21

From Dr Christiane Northrup, at 15:24 in the new 'Five Doctors' video here (https://rumble.com/vhqzsr-5-holistic-doctors-discuss-what-they-are-doing-to-protect-themselves-from-t.html).

Fasting (or an extremely hot 170ºF/ 77ºC heat-shock sauna for 20 mins) will induce autophagy — a term for the body's magical and automatic self-healing in which it scavenges and destroys abnormal cells. There's quite a lot about autophagy in the Water Fasting (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101104-Water-Fasting&highlight=fasting) thread, easily searched.

Tintin

3rd June 2021, 11:01

As good a thread as any to share this, and it may reach a very wide audience, and it may need to.

I'm at work which precludes me from immersing myself in this possible gem right away, but, any of you with a good couple of hours spare may enjoy this:

Source: FLCCC (https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-releases/covid-ivermectin-and-the-crime-of-the-century-podcast-with-dr-pierre-kory/)

Dr. Pierre Kory, Chief Medical Officer of the FLCCC Alliance, joins Bret Weinstein, host of The DarkHorse Podcast to discuss “Covid, Ivermectin and the Crime of the Century.” This program, which many quickly called “the best podcast I have ever listened to” lays out the truth about ivermectin and how the suppression of its efficacy against COVID-19 has cost hundreds of thousands of people their lives.https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/COVID19-Ivermectin-and-the-Crime-of-the-Century-Podcast-with-Pierre-Kory-Bret-Weinstein.mp4

https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/COVID19-Ivermectin-and-the-Crime-of-the-Century-Podcast-with-Pierre-Kory-Bret-Weinstein.mp4

Alan

4th June 2021, 18:31

I've listened to most of the Weinstein/Kory interview, not done yet, but it's quite fantastic and convincing. I have personally purchased Horse Ivermectin locally and have taken it occasionally as a preventative.

Delight

7th June 2021, 16:35

Italian Physician DR. ANDREA STRAMEZZI describes the role of early treatment and role of Inflammation with Covid... and the resistance he faced.

Italian physician Dr. Andrea Stramezzi defied his government by continuing to use hydroxychloroquine on his patients even after it was banned based on the World Health Organization’s recommendation which was based on a fraudulent study published in the Lancet medical journal.

Stramezzi gives a detailed explanation of covid as a disease, it’s progression, and how to treat it while naming the culprits responsible, he says, for killing millions by ignoring and suppressing proper treatment of covid (which he says could have been brought under complete control by now), while promoting dangerous, unnecessary vaccines instead.https://www.bitchute.com/embed/6A09m8DYpiRL/

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mountain_jim

14th June 2021, 19:12

https://principia-scientific.com/breakthrough-ivermectin-inhibits-covid-spike-protein-binding/

(more links in text at link)

Breakthrough: Ivermectin Inhibits Covid Spike Protein Binding
Published on June 14, 2021

Written by afinalwarning.com

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Ivermectin, a common anti-parasite drug, has shown great efficacy in the fight against covid-19. For the first time, medical researchers have documented how ivermectin docks to the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain that is attached to the ACE2 receptor.

In this way, ivermectin effectively inhibits viral attachment and replication, assisting a precise antiviral response that can target the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein at its most advantageous cleavage site. The researchers showed how ivermectin interferes with the attachment of the spike protein to the human cell membrane. Ivermectin is a simple medicine derived from the bacterium Streptomyces avermitilis.

It weakens and kills parasites by interfering with their nervous system and muscle function. Ivermectin targets the glutamate-gated chloride channels in the parasite’s nerve and muscle cells, bolstering inhibitory effects in the parasite’s own neurotransmission. As the chloride ions permeate, the parasite’s cells are hyper-polarized and then paralyzed, resulting in their demise. In this study, ivermectin docked in region of leucine 91 of the spike protein and at the histidine 378 of the ACE2 receptor.

The binding energy and constancy of ivermectin was also measured and found to be sufficient at the ACE2 receptor, proving the anti-parasitic molecule a powerful force for blocking viral attachment of SARS-CoV-2.

Ivermectin Blocks SARS CoV-2 At The ACE2 Receptor In Humans

The 17 randomized controlled trials that use ivermectin for early treatment and prophylaxis report positive effects, with an estimated improvement of 73 percent and 83 percent, respectively. Out of 37 early treatment and prophylaxis studies for ivermectin, 97 percent report positive effects. One of the studies documents how ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro and displays broad-spectrum anti-viral activity against the causative virus (SARS-CoV-2).

This study showed a 5,000-fold reduction in viral RNA after just 48 hours. The study also proves that effective treatments and prophylactics can mitigate the replication and spread of a virus thousands of times faster than the paranoid, isolationist approach of social distancing and lockdowns. If antivirals were encouraged early and often, then the spread of actual infectious virus would have been mitigated at rates thousands of times faster than the insane method of treating everyone as if they are infectious.

By treating actual infections where symptoms are present, the spread is reduced at magnitudes thousands of times greater, while conveying immunity instead of terror. The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is designed to attach to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in humans. To see whether ivermectin could dock at this receptor site and block viral attachment, the researchers used a program called AutoDock Vina Extended. This docking study showed the crystal structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain.

The researchers looked specifically at the human ACE2 receptor and calculated the root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) of its atomic positions. A lower RMSD value indicates a more accurate docking capacity. When the RMSD value is three or greater, no docking has occurred at the receptor site. Ivermectin did not dock at nine of the locations; however, it did dock at the leucine 91 region of the spike and histidine 378 at the intersection of proteins between SARS CoV-2 and the ACE2 receptor complex.

Previous studies proved ivermectin’s efficacy, but had to use high concentrations of the drug because the study relied on African green monkey kidney epithelial cells, which do not express the human ACE2 receptor. SARS-CoV-2 is specifically equipped to infect human ACE2 receptors, so this study could prove ivermectin to be effective in much smaller dosages. Clinical trials are now underway to determine if ivermectin is an effective treatment for covid-19.

The Global Conspiracy To Suppress Effective Anti-Viral Medicines

The World Health Organization, the FDA, and the NIH have repeatedly suggested that no antiviral treatments exist for covid-19, even though multiple antiviral herbs and drugs have been studied during previous SARS and MERS epidemics and found to be effective. This time around, many of these antivirals were used with great effectiveness by doctors who were willing to go out on a limb and save lives. Chinese hospitals used various antiviral herbs to treat covid-19 patients.

These hospitals studied the effects of the herbs for impeding virus-cell receptor binding, for stimulation of the host’s immunity, for blocking virus entry into host cells through action on the host’s enzymes, and for prevention of SARS-CoV-2 RNA synthesis and replication. The research found numerous phytochemicals to be effective, including: quercetin, ursolic acid, kaempferol, isorhamnetin, luteolin, glycerrhizin, and apigenin.

The top three most effective plants for treating covid-19 included licorice root, (Glycyrrhiza glabra) chicory root, (Cichorium intybus) and hibiscus flowers (Hibiscus sabdariffa). A number of antiviral plants contain compounds that target all three antiviral targets, including olive leaf (Olea europaea), white horehound (Marrubium vulgare), black cumin seed (Nigella sativa), garden cress (Lepidium sativum), Judean wormwood (Artemisia Judaica), guava (Psidium guajava), chrysanthemum (Glebionis coronaria), and Maryam’s flower (Anastatica).

Medical systems around the world are not properly equipped to strengthen the human immune response or understand what individuals need to overcome an infection. When it comes to fighting infections, the US FDA and European drug regulators parrot the same narrative of ignorance and apathy, withholding viable antivirals from the public.

By the way, this is the only legal way to bring experimental vaccines to the global marketplace, by proving that no effective treatments exist.

This suppression of science on antiviral treatments has paved the way for emergency use authorization of experimental vaccines and forced countless patients to suffer (and die) on ventilators, without treatment.

Tintin

24th June 2021, 15:34

From Adam Gaertner on Twitter and this sadly reinforces my suspicions from the outset on the IVM trial protocol being used at Oxford University.

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It's more than appalling and I would like to know who designed the trial. As has been pointed out by Pierre Kory we don't need an RCT to demonstrate this prophylactic's effectiveness; it's already been done in real time treatments (10s of millions in India for starters) and proven :facepalm:

Delight

25th June 2021, 22:50

Richard Cheng MD was one of the first voices to share that vitamin C is effective treatment to support the immune system resist the covid syndrome. He also is concerned about the medical system's failure.

Richard Cheng MD PhD
1 day ago
The best defense against diseases is our good health and our immune system. Our human body has a built in defense system. We the human race survived and thrived over the past hundreds of thousands of years if not millions of years before any antibiotic or vaccine was invented. The rapidly changing environment, particularly the pollution in our food, water, air and our personal health products and our unhealthy lifestyle have weakened our health and our immunity.

What happened and is happening in America since the pandemic broke is disappointing. Our top medical and public health authorities have been failing us Americans. Dr. Fauci, America’s top medical advisor on Covid-19 management, was caught more than once lying to the public and lying to the US lawmakers. He even went on to say publicly “attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science” . He thinks he represents Science! More and more are being revealed that he’s been corroborating with foreign forces (even anti-American forces). Public health is America’s national security issue. How can we trust our national security with such an arrogant narcissistic Liar!? Dr. Fauci should resign immediately.

https://www.drwlc.com/blog/2021/06/23/you-can-protect-yourself-from-covid-19-with-a-better-health-and-better-immune-system/

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Bill Ryan

28th June 2021, 20:02

A preprint research paper, published on 21 March this year. Natural News also has an article on this. (How common are dandelions!)

https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.19.435959v1.article-info
https://naturalnews.com/2021-06-28-dandelion-leaf-extract-blocks-spike-proteins-binding-to-ace2-receptor.html

Common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) efficiently blocks the interaction between ACE2 cell surface receptor and SARS-CoV-2 spike protein D614, mutants D614G, N501Y, K417N and E484K in vitro

All is one

30th June 2021, 22:09

Has anyone used MMS (Miracle Mineral Supplement/Sodium Chlorite) themselves when being ill of covid?

If so did it help?

Delight

30th June 2021, 22:42

Has anyone used MMS (Miracle Mineral Supplement/Sodium Chlorite) themselves when being ill of covid?

If so did it help?

Not I but others have and Apparently Yes it helps...

Chlorine Dioxide in COVID-19: Hypothesis about the Possible Mechanism of Molecular Action in SARS-CoV-2 (https://www.hilarispublisher.com/open-access/chlorine-dioxide-in-covid19-mechanism-of-molecular-action-in-sarscov2.pdf)

Tintin

2nd July 2021, 14:42

Tintin

2nd July 2021, 15:05

I think this is appropriate here as it relates to immunity, another of those deplorable (sic) words that mainstream media avoid :)

It's a good 38 pages or so long but the main takeaway here is more evidence of natural prior immunity.

Pre-existing polymerase-specific T cells expand in abortive seronegative SARS-CoV-2 infection

Source: MedRXIV (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.26.21259239v1.full.pdf)

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Tintin

5th July 2021, 15:12

...and continuing the theme of immunity neé prevention...

Natural immunity vs Covid-19 vaccine-induced immunity – Marc Girardot of PANDA
28th June 2021 by Nadya Swart

Source: BizNews (https://www.biznews.com/health/2021/06/28/covid-19-vaccine-immunity) - many links in this article below from Mark Girardot that I haven't linked to this time, but yet another well informed and re-educational on immune system function :muscle:

A must read. Here's Nadya Swart's preface:

Covid-19 brought about an age of misinformation like never before. With this, the responsibility of journalists to provide informed, well-researched and objective news to the public has never been of more paramount importance. This article by Marc Girardot, a member of PANDA, is loaded with hyperlinks – each of which provide the source of those facts asserted in the article. The links and pictures are an integral part of this article, which takes a deep dive into the issue of natural immunity and Covid-19 vaccination. This article is not and should not be construed as ‘anti-vax’. Rather, it provides evidence of natural immunity. It is impeccably researched and well worth reading. And spontaneously endorsed by Prof Michael Levitt, the only living South African Nobel Prize winning scientist (see below). – Nadya Swart

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Should people who have recovered from COVID take a vaccine?

Epidemiology, immunology and the clinical data all say a clear “No!”. There is no good reason to vaccinate the recovered.

By Marc Girardot*

A British friend, recovered from COVID, decided to get vaccinated despite being naturally immune. This is the email he recently sent me:

“Marc I suffered a mild stroke on Wednesday 8 days after taking the Astrazeneca 2nd dose. Since I am a marathon runner I am a very ‘rare case’. I don’t smoke, have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, family history or come into any of the risk categories for blood clots…

You did warn me against taking the second dose and I wished I’d heeded your advice. I’ve taken a totally unnecessary risk with my life and I bitterly regret doing it.”

Contrary to most, Tony was informed; he had been told about the power of natural immunity, about the long – if not lifelong – duration of immunity, of the risk inherent to any medical procedure (yes, vaccination is a medical procedure!), as well as of the rising levels of adverse events. He admitted he hadn’t imagined it could happen to him…

Though it is hard to assess precisely the actual severity and breadth of vaccine-related adverse events, it is very clear that vaccination against COVID-19 isn’t as harmless (https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1372) as pharmaceuticals, mainstream media, academia, health authorities and the medical community have been saying. And, in contrast to high risk individuals who are still susceptible, recovered people have no real benefit to balance the additional risks of vaccination.

For over a year, mainstream media, health authorities as well as many “experts” have been downplaying the power of the immune system, dismissing natural immunity and proclaiming that immunity to COVID-19 was short-lived. Simultaneously, vaccines have been portrayed as the silver bullet to this crisis, an incidental procedure with no risk whatsoever. The data shows a different picture and many are coming forward, to challenge the official narrative. We will demonstrate that this is a fallacy.

The human immune system is one of the most sophisticated achievements of evolution. The survival of our species has depended on it for millenia. And today, we are still very much relying on it. For the record, 99% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 recover without treatment. Only 1% of SARS-CoV-2 patients, who did not receive early home-based treatment, end up hospitalised. In other words, the immune system overwhelmingly protects. Even vaccines depend entirely on the immune system: vaccines essentially teach our immune systems what viral markers to be prepared for, they are not cures per se. Without a functional immune system, there can be no effective vaccine.

On the waning immunity fallacy

Once recovered, the immune response recedes, notably via a decrease in antibodies. It is not only natural; it is indispensable to restore the body to a normal balanced state. Just as a permanent state of fever would be harmful, a high number of targetless antibodies or T-cells constantly circulating throughout the body could create serious complications such as autoimmune diseases. Taking an evolutionary perspective, only those whose antibody and T-cells count waned post-infection survived. So, a dropping number of antibodies and T-cells is reassuring, even healthy.

But this decrease in T-cells and antibodies doesn’t mean at all that immunity is gone. It means the immune system has adapted to the new situation, and is now just on sentinel mode: Memory B- and T-cells, circulating in the blood and resident in tissues, act as vigilant and effective sentinels for decades:

- survivors of the Spanish Flu epidemic were tested for their immunity to the 1918 influenza virus 90 years after, and still demonstrated immunity;
- people recovered from the 2003 SARS infection demonstrated robust T-Cell responses seventeen years later;
-the wide-spread prevalence of high cross-immunity – gained from past common cold infections – further demonstrates the resilience of natural immunity for coronaviruses.

Indeed, all recent studies show the specific anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunity remains effective – possibly for a lifetime. Our immune system is a modular platform, it can combine in an infinite number of ways to address a multitude of threats in a variety of contexts. As such, it is neutral to the viral threats it faces. In other words, there is absolutely no reason to believe that those recovered from Covid-19 would lose their immunity over the years, or even the decades to come.

On the reinfection fallacy

You might have also heard of people becoming reinfected by SARS-CoV-2. Indeed, immunity, natural or vaccine-induced, isn’t the impenetrable shield described by many. Essentially harmless and asymptomatic reinfections do take place. That is, in fact, the very mechanism by which adaptive immunity is triggered.

However, symptomatic reinfections are very rare. Like an army which adapts its response to the size and the progression of its enemy forces, adaptive immunity provides a specific, rapid and resource-optimised response. As such, reinfections are mostly asymptomatic and recovered patients are protected from severe disease.

In fact, innocuous reinfections can play a positive public health role as continuous immune updates of the population. They can help a seamless and progressive adaptation to emerging new variants and strains. And indeed a recent study showed that couples with children were more frequently asymptomatic than couples without, most likely because children acted as natural and harmless immunisation vehicles. The likely reason high density countries all have very low death tolls is that they have asymptomatic reinfections that regularly and widely update the immunity of the population.

On the variant fallacy

As demonstrated by the low numbers of reinfections mentioned above, but also by multiple studies, so far variants have not escaped acquired immunity. Just as Americans can speak and interact seamlessly in England, unhindered by a few word variants, natural or vaccine-induced immunity is unhindered by variants, possibly more so than vaccine-induced immunity. There is ample evidence of the sophistication and breadth of the human immune system, and it is clear that its arsenal cannot be evaded by a few minor changes in the genes of the virus.

Across the world (countries: Canada, Ecuador, Gabon, Germany, India, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA, Tanzania, Zambia), multiple studies demonstrate high-levels of pre-existing cross-reactive T-cells and antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. In other words, many were already largely immune via other coronaviruses. This is the likely explanation for the unexpectedly high level of asymptomatics during the pandemic. More importantly, this demonstrates that even with large genetic differences, prior immunity to related coronaviruses is sufficient to avoid severe Covid. Therefore, it is quite evident [that] variants are not a concern for the general population who have already recovered.

[article continues... (https://www.biznews.com/health/2021/06/28/covid-19-vaccine-immunity)]

mountain_jim

8th July 2021, 19:27

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https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/pharmacy-plaintiff-intake-form/

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mountain_jim

8th July 2021, 20:46

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"We DID write articles about it but nobody cared!" Hidden in entertainment section:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cheap-hair-lice-pill-uk-102800289.html

Cheap hair lice pill from the UK 'cures' Covid, according to new research
Tue, July 6, 2021, 6:28 AM

A hair lice pill costing just £1.50 is an effective cure for Covid, according to new research. Ivermectin - which destroys nits - also kills the coronavirus and slashed death rates dramatically in a study of thousands of patients. Users were less likely to become infected and the medication also speeds up recovery. The report by Dr Pierre Kory, of Front-Line Covid-19 Critical Care in Washington DC, is the latest in a number of studies which have reported positive results for Ivermectin. He said: "Ivermectin should be globally and systematically deployed in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19." The prescription-only therapy, which also comes as a cream and costs as little as £1.50 - has been hailed as the key to ending the pandemic. The findings in The American Journal of Therapeutics are based on data pooled from across the world. Dr Kory said: "Meta-analyses based on 18 randomised controlled treatment trials have found large, statistically significant reductions in mortality and time to clinical recovery and viral clearance. "Furthermore, results report significantly reduced risks of contracting Covid-19 with the regular use of ivermectin." Earlier this year a study by Liverpool University suggested it cut the risk of death for hospitalised Covid patients by up to 80 per cent. In a trial in Egypt, 100 patients with mild symptoms were cleared of the virus within five days, on average, when they got the drug. For comparison, the figure stood at around 10 days for 100 patients who did not receive the drug. And in 100 patients battling severe symptoms they removed Covid within six days when they got the drug, on average, compared to 12 days for the 100 control patients. Similar results were also seen in a study carried out in Bangladesh. The studies commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) were carried out mainly in developing countries. Dr Tess Lawrie (MBBCh, DFSRH, PhD), Director of The Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd in Bath, Somerset, is also calling for the immediate rollout of Ivermectin as a Covid cure. She said: "There have been at least 10 reviews on the evidence of ivermectin and researchers around the world agree that it reduces Covid death substantially. "What people need to remember is that the vaccines are aimed at only preventing Covid, they do not treat Covid. "Doctors need the tools to treat their patients and ivermectin is the number one tool that every doctor needs in their tool kit." Dr Lawrie, a founder member of the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development (BIRD) Group, added: "For me, it's clear that Ivermectin is the key to ending the pandemic. "Its effects are so dramatic, and it's so safe, and it can be used at all stages of the disease, and it can be used for prevention, and we know it's safe for the elderly, and we know it's safe from the immunocompromised and we know it works against variants. "It's just common sense. Oh, I forgot, it's also very cheap." Ivermectin has been promoted as a Covid treatment across Latin America and in South Africa. Dr Kory said experiments show ivermectin combats SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, by hooking onto its 'spike protein' - dousing inflammation. He said: "Since 2012, a growing number of cellular studies have demonstrated Ivermectin has antiviral properties against an increasing number of viruses including influenza, Zika, HIV, Dengue and most importantly, SARS-CoV-2. "Insights into the mechanisms of action by which ivermectin both interferes with the entrance and replication of SARS-CoV-2 within human cells are mounting." However, some experts are sceptical - saying previous studies have generally been small or low quality. A further trial of British patients has been launched to test Ivermectin's efficacy. The therapy is being added to the UK's large scale PRINCIPLE Trial - for Covid patients at home who are at most risk of hospitalisation. Over 65s - and those aged 18 to 64 with underlying health conditions or shortness of breath - will be eligible. They will be given a three-day course of ivermectin and tracked for 28 days. Individuals will be enrolled within the initial 14 days of symptoms or a positive test. Joint chief investigator Prof Chris Butler, of the Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit at Oxford, said: "Ivermectin is readily available globally. "It has been in wide use for many other infectious conditions so it is a well known medicine with a good safety profile. "Because of the early promising results in some studies it is already being widely used to treat Covid-19 in several countries. "By including ivermectin in a large-scale trial like PRINCIPLE, we hope to generate robust evidence to determine how effective the treatment is against Covid-19, and whether there are benefits or harms associated with its use." It may even hold the key to conquering 'Long Covid' - a post-viral syndrome including constant fatigue, shortness of breath, 'brain fog' and joint and chest pain. A study of 33 patients in Peru found most symptoms cleared up after two doses with almost all cured after additional ones. Added Dr Kory: "Their experience suggests the need for controlled studies to better test efficacy in this vexing syndrome." Ivermectin was discovered in the 1970s and has fast become an essential medicine for a vast number of parasitic infections. It is branded as Stromectol, an oral tablet for scabies and Soolantra, a skin cream for rosacea and Sklice for treating head lice. The WHO has said vaccines alone will not be enough to end the pandemic. Effective treatments are equally important.