The Antibiotic Vitamin (Antiviral Too)

Science News ^ | 2-27-2010 | Janet Raloff

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In April 2005, a virulent strain of influenza hit a maximum-security forensic psychiatric hospital for men that’s midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. John J. Cannell, a psychiatrist there, observed with increasing curiosity as one infected ward after another was quarantined to limit the outbreak. Although 10 percent of the facility’s 1,200 patients ultimately developed the flu’s fever and debilitating muscle aches, none did in the ward that he supervised.

WINTER WOES. Cold-weather wear and the sun’s angle in the winter sky limit how much ultraviolet light reaches the skin. This can add up to a deficiency in production of vitamin D, which might explain why respiratory infections are common and severe in winter.

“First, the ward below mine was quarantined, then the wards on my right, left, and across the hall,” Cannell recalls. However, although the 32 men on his ward at Atascadero (Calif.) State Hospital had mingled with patients from infected wards before their quarantine, none developed the illness.

Cannell’s ward was the only heavily exposed ward left unaffected. Was it by mere chance, Cannell wondered, that his patients dodged the sickness?

A few months later, Cannell ran across a possible answer in the scientific literature. In the July 2005 FASEB Journal, Adrian F. Gombart of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his colleagues reported that vitamin D boosts production in white blood cells of one of the antimicrobial compounds that defends the body against germs.

Immediately, Cannell says, the proverbial lightbulb went on in his head: Maybe the high doses of vitamin D that he had been prescribing to virtually all the men on his ward

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[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Thanks!

[gleeaikin]

Dr. Fauci mentions in a video he takes 8000 to 9000 IU of Vitamin D in winter. Wow, the hypocracy of the man. Late spring on 2020, soon after Covid was known by the public to be serious, someone asked Fauci if it would help to take Vitamins C and D3. His comment was he did not think so.

He had already brushed off Dr. Zelenko’s recommendation in his 3/23/2020 letter to the White House that taking Zinc, HCQ, and Azithromycin to treat early Covid symptoms could be a lifesaver. I suspect President Trump never even read that short letter which explained the importance of Zinc as a virus killer, and early treatment as important to prevent the killing lung symptoms. Then in Nov. 2020 he finally publicly admitted that D3 might be useful. So now he admits he is taking high doses in winter, but has he ever made any effort to let the American people or the whole world know he has made this important life and health saving decision? Apparently not. Someone here at FR reported that taking the Covid “miracle drug” Paxlovid had made him quite ill, I never heard or saw any report of that in the public media either. Does he still feel it is important to help his friends at Big Pharma by not reporting important new information?

[Grampa Dave]

An update on our friend with Parkinson’s, the basic drug plus daily workouts and 30 minute midday walk in the sun in a Floriduh day. Plus normal vitamins and minimal daily vitamin D”!

He is doing great and survived a west coast trip to see friends and family.

He did take a train back to Floriduh.