On this interview, repeat visitor Dr. Andrew Saul, editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medication Information Service, opinions what we at the moment find out about vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for the prevention and remedy of novel coronavirus COVID-19.
As famous by Saul, a lot of the details about vitamin C for the coronavirus is at the moment popping out of China. In the meantime, within the U.S., a number of dietary recommendation is being censored and tagged as “faux information.”
Mortality Fee Is Probably Vastly Overestimated
On the time of this interview, March 17, 2020, COVID-19 has triggered mass hysteria — in the US no less than. International locations all over the world, together with the U.S., are additionally quarantining, closing down borders, implementing curfews and usually recommending or implementing isolation of the populace.
However that is all for essentially the most half a preventive technique. Are individuals contaminated? Sure. Are individuals dying? Sure. However we’re speaking about deaths within the hundreds, not a whole lot of hundreds or hundreds of thousands, as in pandemics of the previous (suppose the 1918 flu pandemic, for instance, which killed tens of hundreds of thousands all over the world).
I’ve spent hours every day for the previous few weeks studying articles and listening to podcasts in regards to the pandemic, and what hardly is ever talked about — aside from a tiny blurb — is {that a} huge a part of the equation is the necessity for testing. Testing is the central core of a technique geared toward flattening the curve, i.e., stopping or slowing the unfold of the virus.
Why? As a result of testing would offer you a extra correct account of what number of are literally contaminated. At current, mortality charges merely aren’t correct, and should seem way more extreme than they’re. We’re being advised what the mortality fee is predicated solely on confirmed or suspected circumstances.
After I interviewed Francis Boyle — whose background contains an undergraduate diploma from the College of Chicago, a juris physician (lawyer) diploma from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science — he mentioned the mortality fee might be as excessive as 17%, whereas standard estimates now say it is between 2% and three%.
I consider all of those are incorrect, and possibly incorrect by two or three orders of magnitude. The explanation I say it is because there are a restricted variety of assessments and only a few individuals have been examined.
Tons of of hundreds of thousands of assessments are wanted to get an actual concept of how many individuals are contaminated, which might then give us a greater understanding of the mortality fee, which means what number of of those that get contaminated really die. At current, they’re solely testing those that current signs, which routinely skews the mortality statistics, giving us a falsely elevated mortality fee.
As famous by Saul, “We might have a really massive variety of individuals … which might be carrying the COVID-19 virus and having no signs in any respect. And I might argue that in the event that they eat proper and take their nutritional vitamins, that is going to cease it from spreading.”
There’s not even a micro doubt in my thoughts that, by the point all the things is alleged and carried out, extra individuals could have died from automotive accidents than will die from COVID-19 within the U.S. this yr.
Pure Immunity Is Lifelong; Synthetic Immunity Is Not
In my opinion, the media have offered an incredibly distorted view of this pandemic, creating pointless worry. The complete world is now quickly heading towards financial collapse, and the query is why, seeing how the dying toll would not appear to warrant it.
Greater than seemingly, we’ll find yourself with a COVID-19 vaccine that might be added to the listing of mandated annual inoculations. The issue with that’s that even when the vaccine works nicely, it would solely confer restricted immunity to a virus that is going to mutate anyway. Growing pure immunity is way extra ideally suited. As famous by Saul:
“When you will have pure publicity, whether or not you get sick or you do not, you haven’t solely immunity to that [viral strain], however you will have an relevant broad immunity to extra viruses generally. There’s nothing like being sick to maintain you from getting sick, which sounds slightly bit bizarre however that is the way in which the human physique works.
After we had been youngsters we obtained measles, mumps, hen pox — you title it, we obtained it. We had been residence for 2 weeks, we watched daytime TV, we went again to highschool and we’ve lifetime immunity …
The very fact of the matter is that pure immunity actually does defend you very nicely, and your individual immune system is the one approach you battle any virus. And, the way in which to make your immune system robust isn’t, sadly, by vaccinating or taking a drug.”
The explanation why recovering from an infection confers lifelong immunity whereas vaccination doesn’t has to do with the truth that your immune system has two branches — the mobile (T-cells) and the humoral (B-cells) — and each must be activated for long-term immunity to be secured.
If you get a vaccine, you solely stimulate your humoral immunity, the B-cells. The T-cells are usually not stimulated. So, scary as it could sound, the perfect factor is to have a powerful immune system to defend towards this virus so you will have minimal signs or probably be asymptomatic.
Even Dr. Fauci admitted this virus won’t be eradicated and would require herd immunity to be managed. Optimizing your metabolism and immune system is nice normal observe, and completely important for the coronavirus as it’s inevitable that we are going to all be uncovered in some unspecified time in the future. And, as we already discovered, there have been no ensures the fast-tracked vaccine could be protected or profitable.
Coronavirus vaccines have been tried beforehand however by no means confirmed profitable. Whereas COVID-19 is a really nasty virus that may do a number of harm, most individuals, most likely greater than 98% of contaminated individuals, won’t die or endure long-term harm from it.
“I agree with that,” Saul says, “as a result of we’re routinely going to be uncovered to it and lots of people aren’t going to indicate signs. Some individuals could have a lightweight case; actually fairly a number of individuals who get it would have a really mild case … The hazard is the escalation to SARS and pneumonia, and that is the most important risk for immune-compromised individuals and the aged. That is the place we’ve the fatalities; that is the most important concern.”
A Easy Method to Quell Worry
With all the things that is at the moment occurring, and media growing readership and income by blowing issues out of proportion, it’s extremely simple, even rational, to be afraid and anxious, which is able to dysregulate your autonomic nervous system.
A easy method that may assist activate your parasympathetic nervous system, thus calming you down, is the Neuro-Emotional Method’s First Assist Stress Instrument, or NET FAST, demonstrated within the video above. Firstaidstresstool.com additionally offers a superb printable abstract with visuals of the method,1 which even a younger baby can do. Here’s a abstract of the FAST process:
- Whereas enthusiastic about a difficulty that’s bothering you, place your proper wrist, palm up, into your left hand. Place three fingers of your left hand onto the realm of your proper wrist the place you’ll be able to really feel your pulse.
- Place your open proper hand in your brow. Gently breathe out and in a number of instances whereas concentrating on feeling the difficulty that bothers you.
- Change fingers and repeat Steps 1 and a couple of.
Saul gives one other free and easy stress-reducing method he discovered from a Native American. Merely exit, sit on the bottom and lean towards a pine tree.
Vitamin C Boosts Immunity and Reverses Viral Pneumonia
For now, the one actual protection towards COVID-19 is your individual immune system. There isn’t any vaccine, and even when one is fast-tracked, there could be trigger for warning, as we would don’t have any proof of effectiveness or security.
“Your immune system is infinitely adaptable. That is how nature made us,” Saul notes. “Nonetheless, your immune system works higher when it is fed proper.” Whereas altering your weight-reduction plan is a extra long-term answer, a rapid-response technique could be to make use of vitamin C.
“Vitamin C goes to strengthen your immune system. That is in each vitamin textbook ever written, so we begin with that,” Saul says. “The RDA in the US is about 90 milligrams; in Korea and China it is 100 mg; in the UK it is a depressing 40 mg a day and we’re generally not even getting that.
Research have proven that even 200 mg of vitamin C a day will cut back the dying fee in aged individuals with extreme pneumonia by 80%. Research have proven infants with pneumonia, after they get 200 milligrams of vitamin C — the grownup equal of about 2,000 to three,000 mg — they’ve an enchancment of their oxygen ranges in lower than a day. The mortality goes down and the period and severity of the sickness is much less.
Now, it isn’t coronavirus per se that really kills individuals, it’s the pneumonia and the SARS, the extreme acute respiratory syndrome, that may observe it. Most individuals that get coronavirus could have a light case; some could have the virus and never have any signs in any respect. We do not even know what number of these persons are as a result of they don’t have any signs.
Those that get COVID-19 that really are sick are going to have the flu and it may be a nasty flu — it may be depressing. Individuals might be sick for every week or two. The individuals susceptible to dying are usually the aged and people which might be immune-compromised.
The media form of skirts round this however that is the place we’ve to start out as a result of the worry is predicated on dying. And when we’ve even a small quantity of vitamin C, our threat of dying — even in essentially the most extreme circumstances — goes down.
It’s pneumonia and SARS that kills individuals and vitamin C has been identified to be efficient towards viral pneumonia for the reason that Nineteen Forties when Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner printed a collection of papers and was capable of reverse viral pneumonia in 72 hours. Now, Klenner was a board-certified chest doctor. He was a specialist and he printed over 20 papers on this. The media has been silent on this remedy.”
On Vitamin C Dosing
Extra lately, Dr. Paul Marik has proven a protocol of intravenous (IV) vitamin C with hydrocortisone and thiamine (vitamin B1) dramatically improves survival charges in sufferers with sepsis. Since sepsis is among the causes individuals die from COVID-19 an infection, Marik’s vitamin C protocol might go a great distance towards saving individuals’s lives on this pandemic.
That protocol requires 1,500 mg of ascorbic acid each six hours, and seems radically efficient. Nonetheless, I might advocate taking even greater doses utilizing liposomal vitamin C in case you’re taking it orally. Liposomal vitamin C will permit you to take a lot greater dosages with out getting free stools.
You may take as much as 100 grams of liposomal vitamin C with out issues and get actually excessive blood ranges, equal to or greater than intravenous vitamin C. I view that as an acute remedy, nevertheless.
I discourage individuals from taking mega doses of vitamin C frequently if they don’t seem to be really sick, as a result of it’s primarily a drug — or no less than it really works like one. Saul provides:
“What I recommend, and have for some 44 years {of professional} life, is to take sufficient vitamin C to be symptom free, and while you’re nicely, that is not very a lot. I knew one woman who would take 500 mg of vitamin C a day and she or he was simply fantastic. [Another person] with a number of chemical sensitivity, she wanted 35,000 mg a day. Any much less and she or he wasn’t fantastic …
And, whereas we’re [on this topic], a pleasant little charitable uplifting notice is that Dutch State Mines or DSM of the Netherlands has donated 50 tons of vitamin C to [the city of] Wuhan [in China] — 106 million vitamin C tablets. And in China they’re operating three research on utilizing high-dose vitamin C as remedy, focusing totally on individuals in intensive care.
I am involved with Dr. Richard Cheng. Cheng is a Chinese language American doctor … He was in Shanghai for Chinese language New 12 months visiting his household when all of this exploded.
So, Cheng has stayed in China and has been speaking to hospitals and Chinese language physicians who’re exhibiting large curiosity in utilizing vitamin C as prevention and treatment. He is been so efficient that the federal government of Shanghai has issued official suggestions that vitamin C must be used for treating COVID-19.
They’re testing as much as 24,000 mg a day by IV. A few of us suppose that is slightly on the low facet for those that are within the ICU. I wish to see 50,000 mg a day and there’s a physician … who has used 50,000 mg [on] fairly a number of individuals and we’re getting extra stories as we go.
We will not get this into the mainstream media fairly but, but it surely’s most likely going to interrupt and probably by the point this report airs, it will be throughout the united statesmedia. Editor’s notice: The New York Submit, the fourth-largest newspaper2 within the U.S., broke this information March 24, 2020.3
I wish to see that, however actual medical doctors are utilizing vitamin C proper now. They’re additionally doing it in Korea. Proper within the middle of the outbreak in Korea we’re involved with a physician who has a small hospital and he has given a single shot of vitamin D — an enormous shot of about 100,000 models to every affected person and each employees member — and likewise about 20 to 24 grams (24,000 mg) of vitamin C by IV. And he is reporting that these persons are getting nicely in a matter of days.”
Helpful Analysis Assets
The Chinese language researchers are additionally utilizing different conventional Chinese language medicines along with vitamin C, in addition to standard therapies you’ll count on to be carried out for anybody having respiratory points or pneumonia.
For extra data, Saul suggests perusing the Shanghai authorities’s web site utilizing a web based translator (as the web site is in Chinese language). Yow will discover pertinent net hyperlinks on the Orthomolecular Medication Information Service web site,4 which has printed 12 stories on varied analysis findings up to now six weeks.
“We’re continuously updating and we’ve references to the literature and likewise hyperlinks to the research in China, and the names of the medical doctors doing this. Should you go to my web site, doctoryourself.com, you’ll be able to click on over and join a free subscription to the peer-reviewed, noncommercial Orthomolecular Medication Information Service …
We even have the Orthomolecular Medication Information Service releases on this out there now in French and Italian … and German, and a few at the moment are out there in Korean and Chinese language and Japanese. It is also out there in Spanish. So, this data is worldwide and it has been in all places besides on the US tv set,” Saul says.
Excessive-Dose Vitamin C Kills Viruses
In response to Saul, vitamin C at extraordinarily excessive doses is an antiviral, it really kills viruses, however to get that quantity, you usually want an IV. So, simply how does it kill viruses? Some consider vitamin C’s antiviral potential is the results of its anti-inflammatory exercise.
Irritation contributes to the huge cytokine cascade that may in the end be deadly. Nonetheless, that is not the entire story. Saul explains:
“Dr. Robert Fulton Cathcart, a doctor in California, is far more educated about this than I ever might be, so I all the time go to him. And Cathcart wrote in his papers — a variety of which I’ve at doctoryourself.com so individuals can learn them — [that] vitamin C is a non-rate-limited free radical scavenger …
He and Dr. Thomas E. Levy additionally emphasize … that vitamin C is donating electrons and lowering free radicals, and that is primarily what is going on on. Now, there are exceptions to that. When vitamin C will get right into a most cancers cell, it really acts as if it had been a pro-oxidant and that is due to the Fenton response. Checked; it’s.
And vitamin C will kill a most cancers cell as a result of most cancers cells are completely different. They soak up vitamin C as a result of it is similar to glucose, it is nearly the identical measurement … With viruses, it is the identical concept. Cathcart’s view is that you just push in vitamin C to supply the electrons to cut back the free radicals, and that is the way in which Cathcart and Levy take a look at vitamin C’s operate (at very excessive doses) as an antiviral.
At modest doses, regular supplemental doses … vitamin C strengthens the immune system as a result of the white blood cells want it to work. White blood cells carry round in them a number of vitamin C … So, vitamin C may be very well-known to immediately beef up the immune system by way of the white blood cells.”
Boosting NADPH Is Additionally Necessary
Personally, I do not suppose that is the entire story, both, as vitamin C is a comparatively weak electron donor. In my opinion, the highest electron donor of the physique is NADPH.
So, boosting your NAD+ and NADPH ranges is admittedly essential for well being, as is inhibiting NADH oxidase (often called NOX). You may study extra about this in “Glycine Quells Oxidative Harm by Inhibiting NOX and Boosting NADPH.”
NOX is what the enzyme in your lysosomes inside your white blood cells use to generate chemical substances that really kill viruses and micro organism. Within the course of, NADPH is getting used up, so whereas inhibiting NOX is helpful, growing NADPH is vital.
In case you have a genetic dysfunction often called G6PD deficiency, it means the pathway your physique makes use of to make NADPH is impaired and, on this case, it’s a must to watch out taking high-dose vitamin C.
“On the Riordan Clinic, based by Dr. Hugh Riordan, one among my mentors some years in the past, they do display for this,” Saul says.
“And the Riordan clinic has really mentioned of their protocol — which I’ve in its totally as a free obtain at doctoryourself.com, that Individuals who have G6PD [deficiency syndrome] can take some vitamin C, and so they have had protected success at round 15,000 mg a day. Dr. Suzanne Humphries, a nephrologist and internist, has additionally mentioned that for brief durations of time it isn’t a difficulty.”
The Significance of Vitamin D
One other essential nutrient which may be much more essential than vitamin C is vitamin D. The required dosage will fluctuate from individual to individual right here as nicely, and largely has to do with how a lot solar publicity you get frequently.
I’ve not taken oral vitamin D for over a decade, but my degree is correct round 70 nanograms per milliliter, due to each day walks within the solar sporting nothing however a hat and shorts. So, one of the best ways to find out your private dosage is to get examined and to take no matter dosage it is advisable preserve a vitamin D degree between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL year-round.
Within the video above, pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult discusses the significance of vitamin D for the prevention of COVID-19. Whereas there are not any scientific trials investigating vitamin D for coronavirus particularly, there’s loads of knowledge exhibiting it is an essential part within the prevention and remedy of influenza5 and higher respiratory tract infections.6
As famous by Seheult, whereas vitamin D doesn’t seem to have a direct impact on the virus itself, it strengthens immune operate, thus permitting the host physique to fight the virus extra successfully.7 It additionally suppresses inflammatory processes. Taken collectively, this would possibly make vitamin D fairly helpful towards COVID-19.
As defined by Seheult, sturdy immune operate is required in your physique to fight the virus, however an overactivated immune system can be answerable for the cytokine storm we see in COVID-19 an infection that may result in dying.
“What we wish is a great immune system — an immune system that takes care of the virus however would not put us into an inflammatory situation that would put us on a ventilator,” Seheult says.
He goes on to quote analysis8 printed in 2017 — a meta-analysis of 25 randomized managed trials — which confirmed that vitamin D supplementation helps defend towards acute respiratory infections.
Research have additionally proven there’s an obvious affiliation between low vitamin D ranges and susceptibility to viral infections comparable to influenza. In a single GrassrootsHealth evaluation,9 these with a vitamin D degree of no less than 40 ng/mL diminished their threat of colds by 15% and flu by 41%, in comparison with these with a degree under 20 ng/mL.
Magnesium Calms Nerves and Boosts Immune Perform
Magnesium is one other essential immune booster. Along with taking oral magnesium or consuming numerous greens that include it, one other technique to improve your magnesium degree is to take Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) baths.
“This can be a great technique to calm down,” Saul says. “On the finish of the day, have a pleasant scorching Epsom salts tub. You do get absorption by way of the pores and skin. Plus, it feels good, calms you down, it is cheap, and nobody can inform you that you’ll overdose on Epsom salt [through bathing] … So, an Epsom salts tub is a really nice technique to get some magnesium.”
One more little-known technique to get magnesium is thru molecular hydrogen tablets. The tablets include metallic magnesium and while you put them in water, they dissociate into ionic elemental magnesium and kind molecular hydrogen fuel (which you then drink).
You may get about 80 mg of ionic elemental magnesium from every pill, which is a substantial quantity. For comparability, taking 400 mg of an oral magnesium complement would possibly solely offer you 40 mg as a consequence of their poor absorption. Magnesium oxide has the bottom absorption fee at solely 5% or so, which is why Saul recommends avoiding this type of magnesium.
Zinc Lozenges to Deal with Sore Throat and Colds
Likelihood is, you realize zinc lozenges are beneficial when you will have a chilly or sore throat.
“Simply final evening — once more, that is the seventeenth of March — CBS Night Information in Chicago, Illinois, had a brief section on dietary prevention of coronavirus, recommending you’re taking vitamin D, vitamin C and zinc. So, we’ve lastly, after seven weeks, gotten previous the accusation of false data and pretend information, and now it’s on CBS.”
Remarkably, distinguished physicians have been paraded within the media saying it is inconceivable to strengthen your immune system to beat this virus. It is arduous to fathom this sort of ignorance nonetheless pervades our medical system — and that they’ll get away with criticizing individuals who supply proof on the contrary.
Simulating Fever Can Assist Kill Viruses
Apart from vitamins, in case you personal a sauna, now’s the time to place it to common use. By growing your core physique temperature, which is what occurs when you will have a fever, your physique turns into extra environment friendly at killing pathogens.
So, by taking a each day sauna, you’ll be able to preventatively deal with any lingering pathogens in your system. That is a really helpful technique and one thing I do just about each day I’m residence. Saul agrees, saying:
“Almost 100 years in the past, Jethro Kloss, who wrote ‘Again to Eden,’ one of many early well being nut books, beneficial synthetic fevers. They might bundle individuals up and put them in a scorching tub … as a result of fever could be that helpful.
Or you are able to do what the native Individuals did and do … a sweat lodge, sort of the real American model of a sauna. Only one suggestion. If you decide the rocks that you’ll superheat, be sure they’re all igneous rocks and never sedimentary rocks, as a result of if they’ve the layered sediment, they are going to explode, and that’s dangerous!
So, ensure you have volcanic rocks, igneous rocks … they glow a pleasant crimson. It takes a very long time to get the glow going, however then it lasts a very long time as nicely. And whereas they’re heating, you’ll be able to construct the lodge. This can be a group exercise. You are going to need assistance to construct the lodge.”
Should you’re out there for an electrical sauna, do your analysis, as many (if not most) emit very excessive electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Sadly, many marketed as low-EMF saunas nonetheless have excessive magnetic fields, that are simply as dangerous.
Extra Info
I agree with Saul when he says “Now we have to get the phrase out to those who prevention is working; vitamin C is working and we have not heard about it.” For instance, in Korea, the place the dying fee for the COVID-19 virus is under 1%, they’ve disseminated details about vitamin C.
So, a part of your preventive measures is to coach your self about easy measures you’ll be able to take from the consolation of your individual residence. Assets the place you’ll find extra data embrace Saul’s web site, doctoryourself.com, which is free, noncommercial and peer-reviewed.
“It has been up for 21 years now,” Saul says. “Doctoryourself.com has an excellent search engine and it isn’t a Google search engine. You should utilize it as a website search and discover no matter you are searching for. With out even scrolling down, the display will present you a collection of articles on COVID-19 — dietary protocols with references to the medical doctors and the components of the world the place that is getting used efficiently proper now.
You too can go to Andrewsaul.com which is my business website. That is the place I’ve my tuition-based programs that I supply, referred to as the Megavitamin Components Course. And you may go to the Orthomolecular Medication Information Service … and join freed from cost.
That is peer-reviewed, and I am pleased to say that Dr. Mercola is a member of our 42-member editorial assessment board. So, after I say peer-reviewed, we actually imply it and I like having affiliation with medical doctors who use, advocate and dwell good vitamin.”
