What’s All The Buzz About Quercetin?

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.

It is difficult to determine who has “natural” immunity and who doesn’t get Covid due to their various protocols.

The cruise ships and other studies seem to indicate that 80% of people won’t be affected by Covid.

OTOH, I know a gal that was taking IVM, quercertin, zinc, D3 etc. Her husband and child got Covid (neither one taking her protocol) and she was in the same bed with the husband and taking care of them both and she didn’t get it.

I bought some Brocco Max a few months ago and have taken it occasionally. It sounds like it may be better than NAC or reduced glutathione, but I don’t really know. I also had some reduced glutathione on hand that I added to the supplement regimen when my wife tested positive. I was keeping it in reserve in case one of us actually got COVID. Something I like about NAC is that it’s less expensive than the others. I stocked up on NAC early in the pandemic, so I don’t know if the supply issues have driven up the price of NAC.

I think there is more going on with both IVM and quercertin than just the zinc delivery.

Italian researchers demonstrated that quercetin helps to treat the wuhan coronavirus. They used only quercetin.

Groups at higher risk for the wuhan coronavirus have more stored iron. Some claim quercetin removes iron from the body.

I have been a nutrition devotee for 50 years and currently am a healthy 83. I started seriously following Covid-19 last March—both the news and researching science. When we were told loss of smell and taste was an early Covid symptom, I researched and discovered that was a symptom of ZINC deficiency, and then I read Dr. Vladimir Zelenko’s March, 23, 2020 cc to the White House. He identified Zinc as the virus stopper, HCQ as the IONOPHORE that helps get zinc into infected cells, and Azithromycin as protection against bacterial infection of lungs that become more vulnerable if cytokyne storms are triggered by large quantities of virus.

As I have continued to remain informed and read relevant science research I have come to the impression that HCQ’s main utility if taken alone is to mobilize whatever zinc a person has when HCQ is taken, but if zinc is not added or the person is already zinc deficient, HCQ looses its utility. Ivermectin seems somewhat more effective alone, but far better with zinc. Quercetin is slower but also effective and so far can be bought at health food and nutrition stores like the other vitamins and supplements on the GRAS (generally recognized as safe) List. Since Quercetin is a member of the C complex family, Large amounts of Vitamin C can also be helpful. Dr. Robert Cathcart recommends healthy people take 4 GRAMS of Vitamin C a day at 6 hour intervals. I have taken from 3 to 7 grams a day for 50 years to help several allergic responses. Dr. Cathcart also has a protocol for using high levels of C to what he calls Bowel Tolerance. At the point when you start to get diarrhea from too much C, reduce the amount a bit to a level that gives relief but no diarrhea. Over 8 hours I once gave 50 grams of C to a woman stung by yellow jackets who had forgotten her bee sting allery kit. The 10 grams of crushed C tablets dissolved in a glass of water opened her throat and swollen eyes in 20 minutes. After 8 hours together she said I could leave her with some C and she felt much better. The next day she hiked 3 miles out of the encampment. She never had any diarrhea from 50 grams in 8 hours.

Dr. Z has also recommended Doxycycline instead of Azithromycin, but I think he should recommend more Vitamin C and Vitamin D for long term optimum health.

Thanks.

My daily regimen is this:

Vitamin C
Vitamin D3
Zinc
Magnesium
Quercetin
Sulforaphane/Glutathione Reduced (alternate daily)

When I know I'm going out to a busy place, I also use a nasal spray made up of saline/sodium bicarbonate mixed with Povidone-Iodine 10% solution as an antiseptic barrier to kill COVID-19 particles that might enter the sinuses.

-PJ

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