Here’s what Dr. Brownstein suggests ( no, don’t ask me if it has been shown to work 100% of the time, I don’t know ):
Vitamins A, C, and D along with iodine have proven benefit. At the first sign of any illness, He suggests his patients take 100,000 U of vitamin A (NOT beta-carotene), 50,000 U of vitamin D3 and 5-10,000 mg of vitamin C per day for four days.
Pregnant women should not take high doses of vitamins A and D. Vitamin C can be increased to bowel tolerance.
Then he wants everyone to eat a healthy diet free of refined sugar, salt, oils, and flour. And, perhaps the most important thing is to maintain optimal hydration. That means taking your weight in pounds, divide the number by two and the resultant number is the minimum amount of water to drink in ounces per day.
He said he cannot stress the importance of drinking optimal amounts of water.
Add in B complex vitamins to protect lungs.
Bill Sardi had an interesting discussion of Spanish flu victims exhumed and studied in Alaska, over at lewrockwell. Victims tested positive for two influenza strains, but also had tuberculosis infection in the lungs and Staph bacterial infection on the lung lesions. Sounds like a deadly mixture to me. One might think that hitting the infection early, before it moves into the lungs, would be critical?
Polar bear liver contains toxic levels of Vit A.
Obscure “fact” from 40+ yrs ago.