Posted on 03/11/2020 6:56:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
Vitamin C is extremely unlikely to help people fight off the new coronavirus.
When afflicted with the common cold, many people chug orange juice and swallow vitamin C supplements in an attempt to "boost" their immune systems. But vitamin C supplements don't ward off the common cold in most people, and there's even less evidence that they grant immunity against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, became known as an immune-boosting supernutrient after two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling touted the substance's supposed benefits in a series of books, Live Science previously reported. Pauling claimed that taking large doses of vitamin C could not only prevent the common cold, but also help thwart more severe illnesses like cancer and heart disease.
Since Pauling published his books, in the 1970s, his bolder claims have not stood up to scientific scrutiny. However, recent research does suggest that vitamin C supplements reduce the duration of colds in the general population, according to a 2013 review of several dozen studies.
The review found that vitamin C supplements taken during a cold can reduce the duration of the illness by 8% in adults and 14% in children. Practically, that means that supplementing vitamin C can shorten the duration of a cold by about one day. Participants in each study supplemented vitamin C for varying periods, but generally, the daily dose was at least 200 milligrams.
Several of the reviewed studies included people under intense physical stress, including marathon runners and soldiers training in the Arctic. Among these individuals, those who took vitamin C were about half as likely to catch a cold as those who did not take such supplements. But in the general population, the supplements did not prevent the common cold.
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Vitamin D3 in a multi-vitamin along with vitamin K2 is the best defense against flu bugs.
Here’s why: if this virus doesn’t go out of control, they’ll have to think up something else to get rid of trump, and they’re on a roll right now.
Vermin.
For supplements, yes.
Otherwise, self-quarantine helps.
I read they were using intravenous Vitamin C in China with good success. Don’t have references, though I believe I’ve seen them.
I also wonder about vitamin D and A. As well as NAC.
I ordered the sublingual Vitamin C 3000mg liquid. It is now out of stock and they don’t know when it will be replenished.
The ‘Colloidal Silver’ guy should be here any minute....................
All I know is that when I was in my teens, when I was diagnosed with mononucleosis and the doctor told me and my mom that I would have it for about a month, mom megadosed me with Vitamin C and garlic and within a week I was retested and had no trace of the disease in me. The doctor was absolutely flabbergasted.
Anecdotal, but it’s possible that my body reacts well to Vitamin C. These tests often fail to take into account the wide variety of reactions any particular human body has to certain chemicals.
I can see why..................
I make sure I get plenty of sunshine when I am sick. It definitely helps me recover more quickly. When I got sick in Hawaii with the flu last year I was over it in 2 days. I was out in the sun every day (usually morning and late afternoon, so I wouldn’t need sunscreen) and even swam in the ocean. Bam, cured quickly.
I saw that vitamin C was wiped out at Walmart the other day.
I got the last one. A box of Ester C with citrus compounds. They didn’t know what they were buying or that should have been gone first.
Yes, garlic is VERY good when you’re sick! The rawer the better. I figure if I’m laid up anyway apart from people, I won’t kill people with my odor :-)
They’ve done that with a lot of the D studies too. Low supplementation, then declaring it ineffective.
Garlic will kill infection bacterias...............
I should take out my homemade vitamin C I.V. drip then
I C what they are trying to do.Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
But Corona is a virus.
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