Posted on 11/02/2021 3:03:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Quercetin has been in the news lately, particularly as one of many potential therapeutics that might have some benefit in the prevention or treatment of COVID infection. Is there anything to this?
Big media and the medical establishment are quick to pounce on any “unapproved” potential therapeutics that haven’t gone through large prospective randomized clinical trials and don’t have the seal of FDA approval. Even FDA approval is not enough if the medications are being used off-label as in the case of hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. Decades ago, both were deemed safe and effective by the FDA and approved for human use, although not for COVID or similar viral infections as COVID didn’t even exist when the FDA approved these medications.
Today there is a peculiar hostility toward these medications, both of which are on the list of the World Health Organization’s essential medicines. A Fox News host told viewers that hydroxychloroquine “will kill you” and the FDA told its Twitter followers that ivermectin is for horses and cows and to stop using it. This must have been shocking news to millions around the world who take these medications, some for many years, in the U.S. prescribed by a physician, and elsewhere in the world readily available over the counter.
I am not advocating for or against these drugs, instead referring interested readers to other sources of information on the science and potential benefits of these medications in our fight against COVID. Quercetin appears to be the third in this line of potential therapeutics, not yet being called horse paste, but if history is a guide, it may soon be maligned as dog and cat medicine, the same of which can be said for many drugs taken by humans but also used in animals.
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It has been part of our family’s COVID cocktail including D3, and Zinc, for almost a year. We’ll be including ivermectin if we can find a doctor who will write the script.
Quercetin works mostly in conjunction with the zinc ion, acting as a Zn++ ionophore. If there is a very low level or an actual zinc deficiency in the diet, quercetin would have no effect at all.
Taking daily doses of 50 mg of the zinc ion, as zinc gluconate, provides an ample amount of Zn++ ion without becoming toxic. Over-the-counter preparations like Airborne, Cold-Eeze, or Zicam provide abut 7 mg of Zn++ ion. This may not be enough to effectively curb action of the coronavirus if there is an infection already getting established.
I just looked, I ordered my first bottle in May of 2020, so it has been in the supplements along with Zinc and D3 since then. Also bought some Ivermectin horse paste in November of last year.
Seeing the comments in this article, that the powers that be might take aim at it, makes me wonder if I shouldn’t buy a couple bottles to put on the shelf.
I used it when I had the rona 2 months ago.
My wife, who had rona the same time, used Ivermectin.
Our symptoms were very similar, as well as the duration.
Her headaches were more severe, but lasted 3 days. My headaches, which were legendary, but not as intense, lasted 5 or 6 days.
It's well past over, bud. COVID isn't a threat anymore than is a deer jumping through your windshield in the middle of the day. At this point, the threats are about control. It's all the Democrats have left. Their policies are abject failures. Their people are detestable. And their emperor has no clothes brains.
I was using quercetin long before C19, as it helps with seasonal allergies. For the last year and a half, I’ve been on a daily antiviral regime of quercetin, zinc, D3, and C — and haven’t had one viral sickness, not even a cold. I’ve researched the science, learning all about its mechanism as a zinc ionophore blocking the replicase enzyme, and I’ve passed that information along to many others, who adopted the same prophylaxis. A few said “I did that and got covid anyway” — and it turned out that each had omitted the quercetin.
My wife had a breakthrough case of COVID a couple of weeks ago. She had been vaccinated with J&J back in March. We’ve both been on a lot of supplements for about a year and a half, including quercetin, zinc, NAC, Vitamins D, C, and K. Her case was mild—slight fever, bronchial inflammation, sporadic cough, loss of taste & smell about 6 days in.
Because she qualified, she decided to get Regeneron infusion. We had ivermectin, but she decided to skip using it since she was going to get Regeneron. Was delayed slightly because COVID test result was slow. No problem getting a referral from her doc, but the infusion center wasn’t able to get to her until Day 8 of symptoms. Symptoms were still mild that time. Infusion went fine, and whether a result of the infusion or coincidence, her sense of taste and smell came back a couple of hours after being infused. Seems completely recovered now.
I don’t know how much the course of her COVID was affected by already having been vaccinated, the supplements, or the infusion. I had the J&J vaccine in early April. Even being in the same house with no real attempt as isolating, I did not get COVID, not even an asymptomatic case. I expected my COVID test to come back positive, but it didn’t.
I have been using quercetin for more than thirty years. It was recommended as a prophylaxis against hardening of the arteries — which had been a killer in my family. I have taken an aspirin a day since a NIH (!) doctor suggested in 1969 it was the world wonder drug. My carotids are still pumping loud and clear. I think I can thank both for the generally good health I have had.
When you can’t use HCQ, you can use Quercetin.
How to Improve Zinc Uptake to Boost Immune Health
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/joseph-mercola/how-to-improve-zinc-uptake-to-boost-immune-health/
Other Natural Zinc Transporters — Quercetin and EGCG
The good news is drugs like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine probably would not be necessary either (except for perhaps the most serious cases), as other natural compounds can do the same job.
A comparative study11 published in 2014 looked at two zinc ionophores: quercetin and epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG found in green tea), noting many of the biological actions of these compounds may in fact be related to their ability to increase cellular zinc uptake.
Quercetin is also a potent antiviral in its own right, and both quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate also have the added advantage of inhibiting the 3CL protease12 — an enzyme used by SARS coronaviruses to infect healthy cells.13 As explained in a 2020 paper in Nature, 3CL protease “is essential for processing the polyproteins that are translated from the viral RNA.”
And, according to another 2020 study,14 the ability of quercetin, epigallocatechin gallate and certain other flavonoids to inhibit SARS coronaviruses “is presumed to be directly linked to suppress the activity of SARS-CoV 3CLpro in some cases.”
A friend of mine and his family was on that cocktail and they still caught covid. It was all mild cases, less than a normal flu in severity. Not sure if it would have been different without it.
Human grade ivermectin seems to be almost as rare as hen’s teeth in the US.
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In actual lab testing, quercetin can help stabilize the cells that release histamine in the body and thereby have an anti-inflammatory and antihistamine effect. Allergies, asthma, hay fever and hives. In test tubes, quercetin prevents immune cells from releasing histamines, which are chemicals that cause allergic reactions. Unlike ivermectin, you can actually show repeated lab results that quercitin can have a beneficial effect.
I'll be sure and tell my neighbor that today when I check on him in the hospital. He'll be thrilled. At least, he appears to be getting better after being hospitalized for nearly two weeks now. And, he is an otherwise very healthy individual.
That is one thing that DOES work. But, they needed to get that to her sooner.
The FDA is taking aim at NAC. Amazon stopped selling it. I bought several bottles directly from the manufacturer.
Daily regimen....850mg Quercetin/Bromelain 50mg Zinc, 10,000IU Vitamin D, 2000mg vitamin C, 12oz Tonic water. Horse paste on hand for emergency use.
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