Posted on 02/27/2020 6:29:44 AM PST by blam
Nothing is more beneficial than physical activity, period.
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Supplements: fish oil for vitamin D adn jint health, elderberry extract fort eh immune system, grape seed resveratrol for antioxidant/anti-tumor effect.
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A balanced low carb diet will give you all the other vitamins you need.
The sun is the best way to get Vit D (IMO), but it’s just too cold right now to be outside. My 97 year old dad needs D - on “warm” days he sits outside against the house, but since he’s on blood thinners, he stays pretty bundled up, which defeats the purpose. Plus, his age works against him since as people age they lose some of their ability to synthesize vitamin D from sunlight. Vitamin D also needs to be activated in the kidney before it can be used by the body and this function also decreases with age. During the late fall/winter/early spring is when his Vit D levels especially need to be higher as that is ‘flu’ season around here. He’s on a ‘minimum’ level of D ... needs more. If he gets sick, I have some 5,000 IU & will give him a “hammer”!!
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One more thing about Vit D .... I suffer from chronic urticaria (hives). I’m finding a lot of it is food & mold just ‘slays’ me, but something that works to keep the outbreaks to a minimum is Vit D!! While scrounging around online, I found this study & applied it to myself with REALLY good results (I take only D3 at 5K IU/day, no other allergy meds). Just an FYI - using (successfully!) a mostly carnivore diet as an ‘elimination’ diet to also deal with hives, insulin resistance, etc. but that’s a whole ‘nother patch of weeds that I’ll stay out of for now:
Excerpt:
The latest I’ve seen on treatment for chronic hives comes from the University of Nebraska Medical Center where researchers found that adding vitamin D3 supplements to a combination of allergy medications (one prescription and two over-the-counter drugs) could provide relief for patients who had experienced severe chronic hives for five to 20 years. Some had been treated medically and some had not. Standard therapy for chronic hives is to control symptoms with antihistamines and other allergy medications. Many of these are expensive, and some have significant side effects, the team leader noted.
For the study, half of the 38 patients participating took 600 IUs of vitamin D3 daily while the other half took 4,000 IUs. The researchers reported that after just one week, the severity of symptoms decreased by 33 percent for both groups of patients. However, at the end of three months, those taking 4,000 IUs of vitamin D3 had a further 40 percent decrease in severity of their hives, while after the first week, no further improvement occurred in the patients taking the lower dose.
The researchers termed the study results “a significant improvement,” and noted that the higher dose of readily available vitamin D3 could be considered a safe and potentially beneficial therapy. They wrote that those patients taking the higher dose of D3 also had less severe hives during the study – they didn’t have as many hives, and reported a decrease in the number of days a week they had outbreaks.
Link where study is mentioned:
https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/allergy-asthma/had-it-with-hives/
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Lastly, I feel I should draw attention to this because several folks we know have died of SEPSIS over the last couple of years ... it looks like Vit C plus steroids will get people over it in many cases .... here’s the link:
Has sepsis met its match?
New treatment may save millions around the world
https://www.evms.edu/about_evms/administrative_offices/marketing_communications/publications/issue_9_4/has-sepsis-met-its-match.php
“Dr. Marik has developed a brilliant and elegantly simple hypothesis in the treatment of sepsis,” says Richard Homan, MD, President and Provost of EVMS and Dean of the School of Medicine. “The implications of the findings are profound and, if replicated, may transform the treatment of sepsis worldwide.”
As a critical-care physician and head of the general intensive care unit (GICU) at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Dr. Marik used to be locked in a life-and-death struggle with sepsis. Despite his efforts, one to two people under his care died each week from the disease. That all changed unexpectedly Jan. 5, 2016.
The breakthrough came as Dr. Marik struggled to save a woman dying from overwhelming sepsis. He had recently read about vitamin C as a potential treatment for sepsis, and he recalled that steroids, a common treatment for sepsis, might work well in concert with the vitamin C.
Aware that both were safe and would not harm the patient, he gave her the vitamin C and steroid combination ntravenously.
Within hours, his patient was recovering. Two days later she was well enough to leave the ICU.
Dr. Marik and his colleagues were astonished. “We said,‘What just happened?’”
In the following days they used the combination therapy on two more patients seemingly destined to die of sepsis. Twice more the patients recovered. Dr. Marik and his team quickly adopted the combination therapy as standard practice.
Despite the continued successes, Dr. Marik found that many colleagues were skeptical. For one thing, pharmaceutical companies have conducted more than 100 clinical trials and spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last 25 years in an unsuccessful search for a sepsis treatment.
And then there is vitamin C. It has been purported as a cure or treatment for a wide range of conditions — with little scientific evidence of its effectiveness.
To strengthen his case and to allay his own apprehensions that this was too good to be true, Dr. Marik worked with colleagues to study the interaction in a lab setting. Two separate biological tests proved that vitamin C and steroids were effective against sepsis — but only when used together.
A year after Dr. Marik’s chance discovery, sepsis has become a controllable infection in his ICU. Other hospitals and ICUs are beginning to adopt the combination treatment.
Dr. Marik’s findings are published in CHEST, the journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.
“We haven’t seen a patient die of sepsis since we began using the combination therapy a year ago,” Dr. Marik said one year to the day after treating the first patient. “We have completely changed the natural history of sepsis.”
Thanks. I understood that. I'm not sure everyone else did though.
Science News Magazine is a reputable magazine that has been in business since 1921. I have been a subscriber for over thirty years. Until the last 3-4 years, they published a 5-6 page weekly of the highlights in science for the week. They've had to reduce that to every two weeks recently, I believe, because of the internet. I highly recommend it to everyone. I'm just a subscriber and not affiliated with them in any other way.
Here's a current article from there: To Tackle The New Coronavirus, Scientists Are Accelerating The Vaccine Process
Great - just wanted to be sure we were “good”!! :-)
The only advice I give my 52 year old son anymore (Dr blam, a physicist) is exercise, exercise & more exercise.
Yep. Unfortunately, I get “This article is only available to Science News subscribers.” when I click the link. I’ll read your earlier post.
I was reading a lot about Vit D yesterday and found it very fascinating.
We bought a place up in North Idaho a couple years ago and there is far less sunlight during the winter here than at our other place in California. I spend about twice as much time outdoors in the winter in CA than I do in ID, so I worry about immune system suppression due to insufficient sunlight.
Last year I got the worst bout of bronchitis of my entire life which turned into what the docs thought was pneumonia — even though I’ve had the pneumonia vaccine. Maybe it was a “mild” case having received the vaccine, but it was awful. At it’s worst, my lungs were gurgling on all inhalations and exhalations. Truly scary!
Having experienced that, the thought of COVID-19 is worrisome.
It would certainly seem so...
“Going predominately indoors usually means being in closer contact with other vectors...so that is another reason why infection rates go up.”
Again as you noted, it’s common sense, re increases in flus/colds/whatever as we go in doors mixing with other vectors.
I used to go to Cozumel every Christmas for two weeks for this.
No more with adequate levels of Vitamin-D.
Shoveling snow dressed in winter clothes is only going to get me the exercise.....
For decades YOUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT told you that daily consumption of more than 400 iu of Vitamin D would kill you.
Also, they told us not to go out into the sunlight without sunscreen, hats and maybe gloves.
No wonder a lot of Americans are depressed with their low dopamine levels.
Have you tried any of the lights for SAD?
So..... my question is -— Flu-rate of S.Westeners VS NorEasters…..!? Or would preventive treatment require much
higher “doses” of Vit.D ??
“Then one day like I heard a little voice to just walk to the mailbox. So I courage myself and stepped outside to the mailbox and stood there. Then I heard this voice say “look up”. I did and wow I felt the warmth of the sun and I bathed myself in it for a few minutes. I kept doing it every day until my Agoraphobia went away. Amazing what the warmth of the Sun can do. No medications or therapy helped but nature did.”
The sunlight increased your vitamin D levels and your dopamine levels. So your phobia and probably depression disappeared.
You felt better. When you feel better, guess what?
Your health is better.
No. I don't have the problem anymore. I think Vitamin-D cured it.
Great info.
The good rest homes here have a lot of south facing windows.
In the winter time they roll their patients up in their wheelchairs and park them in the sunlight from the windows.
That helps the patients in many ways. Many patients crack the code and go to the sunny spot insides in the winter and outside on warm days without any help.
Dr. Marik’s findings are published in CHEST, the journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.
“We haven’t seen a patient die of sepsis since we began using the combination therapy a year ago,” Dr. Marik said one year to the day after treating the first patient. “We have completely changed the natural history of sepsis.”
A couple of $’s per treatment for these vitamins versus Thousands for Iv antibiotics with maybe a 50% cure rate.
That reminds me of pictures that I've seen of the old TB sanitoriums where everyone is often seen sitting out in the sun.
——She bought him a kayak so he could continue to fly fish.——
Aahh..... a kayak and fly fishing.
At 77, I try to go twice a week in spring and summer in my kayak with my trusty fly rod called “the Blue Gill Slayer”. I paddle a while and then rest while catching the bluegills.
In the winter in East Tennessee, it is difficult to get out and have enough exposed skin to receive the sun shine benefits. So, I take 7,000 iu per day or ~50,000 per week. If there is a flu scare, I increase to 10,000 units per day.
It’s easy to tell the correct dosage. If I take less than 5,000 per day I soon begin to hack up stuff and cough and cough in the morning. The D3 just eliminates all that. If is don’t take it, it takes me about 2 hours of hacking to rid my lungs of the crap.
Seldom mentioned is pneumonia. When the respiratory system gets burdened with junk as happens with the flu, pneumonia can follow quickly. Pneumonia kills.
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