I’m not a doctor but I can read medical articles, and what I’ve read suggest that HCQ has two properties of value here. One, it alters the pH of the cell making it more difficult for the virus to take over the cell and reproduce (viruses can’t reproduce on their own) and two, it acts to modulate the immune response, which helps to prevent the cytokine storm which often results in death as the body attacks its own organs. The first is the reason that it is being taken by healthcare workers as a prophylactic to keep from getting the disease and the second seems beneficial for those who have it.
The point being, it seems that HCQ ought to be used across the spectrum of covid-19 not on just the sickest. Of course Michigan is lucky to be able to use it at all, thanks to their idiot governor.
So, if you hydrate your body with more alkaline water ( add lemons, although acid, cause upswing in pH ) - and add Zinc, might be a great first line of defense
“thanks to their idiot governor.”
You ought to hear my logger friends and what they got to say about her.
As for Washington State. MY nieces got some real choice words to say about that one up there. And they are democrats.
Agreed. They’re using it, but they don’t appear to be using it for the full benefit. They’re sending mild patients home without a script that may have accelerated recovery, reduced shedding, and lowered the risk of them spreading it to others.
While they been cherrypicking FDA statements to push that point of view, the have not publicized this recent FDA statement:
In its approval letter, the FDA wrote that "[b]ased on the totality of scientific evidence available to FDA, it is reasonable to believe that chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate may be effective in treating COVID-19."
True. 100%.
Changing your body’s pH is biologically impossible. The fact is that cell and blood pH must stay tightly controlled (at about 7.4) to sustain life. Here is an essay I wrote on the impact of hydroxychloroquine on the disease and those infected with Covid-19... which includes a link to a fabulous video presentation on how the drug works.
Hydroxychloroquine impedes the ability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to replicate by allowing zinc, which interferes with the replication process, to more easily penetrate the cell wall and attack the virus inside the cell. Hydroxychloroquine is an ionophore that acts as a gateway for the zinc ions to more easily pass through the cell membrane and prevent the virus from hijacking the RNA sequencing mechanism of the infected cell in order to replicate itself...which the virus cannot do on its own.
In this video, Dr. Roger Seheult, Pulmonologist and Associate Professor at UC-Riverside, explains exactly how hydroxychloroquine allows zinc to penetrate infected cells to prevent the Covid-19 virus from replicating. Extremely interesting, invaluable knowledge:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=U7F1cnWup9M
Here is something you should also know; it is often not the virus that is killing people, it is an overactive immune response triggered by this virus, called a “cytokine storm”, that kills them. A cytokine storm is when the body’s immune system becomes over-stimulated and, in this case, floods the lungs with so many pro-inflammatory cytokines that healthy cells as well as infected cells are indiscriminately attacked and damaged, causing the lungs to fill with fluid...killing the patient.
Hydroxychloroquine regulates the immune system response and prevents too many pro-inflammatory cytokines from being released at one time. That is why a drug originally developed for treating malaria, hydroxychloroquine, is now prescribed to people with autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. HCQ helps protect healthy cells from an overactive immune system and, in the process of treating the coronavirus, helps prevent the lungs from being further damaged.
Azithromycin is prescribed with the hydroxychloroquine to control secondary infections attacking a compromised respiratory system. It has also been demonstrated in clinical trials that azithromycin has antiviral properties of its own. The pairing of these two drugs along with a zinc supplement is helping almost everyone that is given these drugs recover and go back to their homes and their families.