-Chiropractor Explains How Functional Medicine can Help you Survive Flu Pandemic

When this pandemic started is I searched to find the most qualified physicians with the most experience in the field of infectious diseases, to learn from, so I could give our patients the best recommendations for success in combating this virus, should any of you get infected.    I found Dr. Alex Vazquez one of the top doctors in the field of functional virology.   We are now including his strategies as part of our recommendations to our patients in our Sunrise and Coral Springs Offices.

Many people suffer from many kinds of viruses that don’t have a vaccine or a specific drug to cure it, such as Herpes, West Nile Virus, and Dengue Fever.  The specialty of functional virology looks at the type of virus, then through clinical experience and scientific studies devises protocols that improve immunity, prevent infection, and in the event of infection prevent viral replication.  Functional medicine uses mostly nutritional supplements herbs that have been scientifically proven to improve the function of your immune system and other critical systems to reduce your risk of fatality.

Allopathic medicine looks for a particular drug or vaccine for each specific pathogen.  A lot of people can die before the vaccine, or the drug becomes available.

This is part of his recommendations for dealing with C-19.  I did find may other recommendations, from many other qualified functional medicine practitioners.  However, Dr. Vazquez is the most qualified physician, I could find.  He has decades of clinical experience treating patients with all types of viral infections. I am re-posting his protocol.  I chose practice over theory.  There is a difference between thinking something is going to work or having the experience of it working over and over again.

This list is here to give you an idea of what you need to have on hand if you get infected.  It is beginning to look more like when you get infected.  You may have health conditions that handling them would be one of the best ways to improve your immune system.

Selenium 200 mcg per day – 600-800 if infected

Vitamin D3, 2,000-5,000 preventative 50,000 per day if infected for 3 days then back to 10k per day

Zinc 20-30 mg per day 2 times per day if infected

Melatonin 3 mg per day

Whey protein isolate – see bottom of the page

Licorice – Sip and enjoy licorice tea

Viamin D  5,000-10,000 per day, 50,000 per day if infected for 3 days then back to 10k per day.  Please use our vitamin D.  I have not seen anything but a professional grade vitamin D increase blood levels of vitamin D for 20 years.  Vitamin D is critical for your survival should you get infected.

Alpha Lipoic Acid – 300 mg per day, 300 mg per every 4 hours if infected

Glutathione   100-250 mg per day – Glutathione and N-Acetyl Cystine are just one biochemical reaction away from each other.  NAC is much less expensive.  If you are infected you may not be able to swallow anything so using emulsions and liposomals enable you to get a lot of supplements in without having to swallow.  It is more expensive, save money by taking NAC for prevention, but have the liposomal glutathione on hand in case of infection.

Vitamin C 1 gram per day prevention one gram per hour if infected

NAC  500-1500 per day up to 8,000 per day if infected

Vitamin A   1500 mg per day.  During acute infection, Dr. Vasquez, recommends using 300,000 IU for 3-5 days and followed by 30 -50k per day until well.   This heads of infection from becoming more severe.  This amount is so high that some organizations refused to publish his recommendation. This is due to their lack of training or experience in nutritional protocols.

Lysine 1 to 3 grams per day as a side note, many people take arginine supplements for heart disease.  Viruses love it and it aids viral replication.

Resveratrol 250 mg per day if acute 1,000, 2 times per day.

Avoid Licorice if suffering from hypertension.

None of these statements have been approved by the FDA but studies on the efficacy of these supplements may be found on the NIH’s own website.  You probably have many effective supplements at home already just google them along with the word influenza.     Your body has been making antibodies since the day you were born.  It knows how to make them very well.  Give your body the best chance to make all the anti-bodies it needs to keep you and your family healthy. 

Telemedicine appointments are available for our patients in Coral Springs/Parkland area.  Call us with your questions on staying healthy.  (786)391-3853.

 HOW FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE CAN REDUCE YOUR HEALTH RISK FROM COVID-19!
The bottom line is health experts expect that 60% of us will become infected with Covid-19 over the next 2 years. Many people will get it before there is a Vaccine. At the present time our most promising drug shortens our time in the hospital from 15 to 11 days, without reducing the death rate.  

The most deadly flues H1N1, the flu of 1918, swine flu as well as many other deadly viruses have been genetically re-engineered and given to mice, other animals thousands of times so scientists could study these viruses to find out what makes them so fatal and what works to destroy them. Many of these studies have also been done on humans. Unlike drugs that have to be designed for specific illnesses. Most herbs and supplements that impact one type of influenza virus will impact all.  Many viruses we have treated before are similar to C-19.  We have studied corona viruses before too, 18-25% of the colds and flues we have had before were from corona viruses.  Here are some exerts for these studies you will find helpful.

For example, in a Double Blind, controlled trial Zinc Supplementation of 10 mg/d reduced the incidence of lower respiratory infection in infants and preschool children by 45%(1)

“Vitamin A contributes to preservation of airway function during and in recovery after upper respiratory infection in children. “ (2)

Vitamin D is so powerful that “each 10 n/ML increase in 25(OH)D was associated in a 7% reduction in the risk of infection.” (3) This is a very small dose, we usually recommend 5,000 mg for prevention of viral infections.

“The trace element Selenium stands out as probably the most important factor when you have to survive and recover from infection with HIN1.
In one study those with higher levels of selenium recovered in less than half the time of people with lower selenium levels. (4)

Whey protein has been shown to have inhibit every respiratory virus that we tested. (5)
“Testing clearly shows that curcumin interrupts virus cell attachment, which leads to inhibition of influenza virus propagation”

Curcuminoids (found in tumeric) showed significant effect against H1N1 Virus (6)

In one controlled study, such a lethal influenza virus was given to mice that It killed 100% of the control group. However, 60% of the mice given Resveratrol survived. The resveratrol group were also sick for a shorter period of time, and had fewer symptoms. (7) This shows that resveratrol can substantially increase the survival rate from even the most lethal virus.

In one study, the control group of mice were infected with an even more lethal deadly influenza virus that killed 100% of the control group within 11 days. At the same time, the group given a Licorice derivative all survived past 15 days and were considered recovered. (8)

In a controlled study on seniors involving N acyl-Cystine found only 25% of the NAC group developed the symptomatic form of an influenza virus while 79% of the placebo group developed symptoms. (9)

In one small study on senior Covid-19 infected patients in China found that the 30 day survival rate in patients taking Alpha lipoic acid was 77.9% and in the placebo group the survival rate was 37% ( 3 out of 8) the placebo group. The 30-day all-cause mortality was numerically lower in the ALA group than in the placebo group. (10)

A probiotic combination in one study provided a test group with 73% reduction in incidence of fever – shortened length of illness and reduced symptoms. (11)

Another set of mice were given such a lethal influenza that 100% of the controls died, however the group taking the Beta Glucan (comes from mushrooms) survived at a rate of 60%. (12)

The above is a short list.  Covid-19 isn’t killing 100% of the people that get infected.   It is killing 1-3%, I studied probability theory.  I got an A.  The chances of your dying if you are taking a combination of these supplements are probably much lower than if you got a corona virus vaccine right now.  The chances of a vaccine being developed according to most scientific journals are slim.    Check out Dr. Vazquez protocol for combating Covid-19.  As far as I know he is the worlds leading expert on anti-viral strategies using functional medicine.  All our formulas have been developed through decades of clinical research and the experience of professional clinical Virologists. Some of them are variations of traditional Ayuvedic and Traditional Chinese medicinal formulas that have been used to treat illness similar viruses for millennia.

Doctors back in 1918 used some of these herbs during the Flu of 1918 some of them were very successful they wrote down what worked.  We have medical records of the doctors that were successful in treating viral infections going back for thousands of years.  Suddenly we are letting thousands of people die because of the tunnel vision of the people that are making public health policy.  Does it have to be a drug or a vaccine?  Where is the science?  Why are we throwing out all of our past knowledge, scientific studies and experience to wait for something we don’t yet have?  People are dying from ignorance while so called scientists get excited over antibodies in llama urine?   The best drug they have to test so far only decreases the time you are ill, not your survival rate.

1) Sazwal et al. Zinc supplementation reduces the incidence of acute lower respiratory infections in infants and preschool children. Pediatrics. 1988 jul.102 (1 pt1)
(2) Pediatric Pulmonology, 2003 May;48(5);481-9;doi 10.1002.Epub 2012
(3) Refs. Moya M, et al. Potentially-toxic and essential elements profile of AH1N1 patients in Mexico City. Sct Rep. 2013. E-pub ahead of print. Beck MA, et al. Host nutritional status and its effect on a viral pathogen. J Infect Dis.2000;182 Suppl 1:S93-6.
(4) Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, . 2015 Sep;99(17):6997-7008.
doi: 10.1007/s00253-015-6818-4. Epub 2015 Jul 22.
(5) Food chemistry 119(2010)1346-1351
(6) (1) Palamara AT, Nencioni L, Aquilano K, et al. Inhibition of influenza A virus replication by resveratrol. J Infect Dis 2005 May 15;191(10):1719-29 [Abstract]
(7) In one study, the control mice were infected with such a lethal influenza virus that 100% of the control group died within 11 days. At the same time, the group given a licorice derivative all survived past 15 days
(8) Eur Resp J. 1977 July
(9) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.20066266v1
(10) O.Volska, D.Zabolotna. Study of the mechanisms of antagonistic activity of the Probiotics. Journal of ear, nose and throat diseases, No3-c, 2003,p.164-165.
(11) Fill in
(12) Ann Transl Med. 2015 Feb; 3(2): 22.doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2015.01.08

WHAT WE LEARNED BY GENETICALLY RE-ENGINEERING THE FLU OF 1918! – Warning for people of Color!

A 2014 study in Scientific American found Black Americans had just 3 % of the required Vitamin D levels for normal body function and whites 23 percent(1). Mathematically this correlates to the seven times the death rate from Covid-19 in blacks.  The body takes sunlight and converts it to vitamin D in the skin, liver and various other cells in the body. In follow up studies, they found that darker skin may retard the conversion of sunlight to vitamin D (1). Many people who spend a lot of time in the sun and have darker skin are shocked to find out that they have very low levels of vitamin D.

The deadly H1N1 and the 1918 flu were genetically re-engineered to find out just why they were such deadly killers. Scientists found three important mechanisms of death, all caused by Vitamin D deficiency.

First Vitamin D stops inflammation. Part of the immune system’s normal response to dangerous pathogens is to produce large amounts of cytokines. Though, cytokines are part of a normal immune response, in the event of a severe attack the response becomes overwhelming and inflammation goes out of control. It is this disorganized response that destroys the cells, especially in the lungs resulting in difficulty breathing and death. According to National Institutes of Health, cytokines were significantly higher in those with a fatal outcome” (2). Covid19 also kills the same way.

Secondly, without Vitamin D immune cells do not mature. Immune cells are supposed to mature and develop specific antigens to kill specific viruses. If you are out to fight the biggest enemy your immune system will face in a lifetime wouldn’t you want your entire army? Would you show up with 3% of your most inexperienced troops?

Most importantly Vitamin D stimulates your body to make lots of its own natural antiviral substances, known as antimicrobial peptides. Vitamin D stimulates the epithelial cells in places like the lung to make important anti-viral substances like Hydrogen Peroxide. Our own natural Antiviral substances have no side effects. Lots of people are dying because 3% of what is needed is not cutting it. If you stay in all summer and don’t take Vitamin D, fall could be even more deadly.

According to the National Institute of Health’s own website. Vitamin D is so powerful that “each 10 n/ML increase in 25(OH)D was associated in a 7% reduction in the risk of infection.” What would happen if you took 100 n/ML? Does that mean that you would achieve a 70% reduction of your risk of infection? (3)

Health experts expect the re-occurrence of Covid-19 in the fall. That is to be expected if we continue to stay doors through the summer causing Vitamin D levels to drop further. We may have a more malnourished population, with more people reduced to eating noodles due to financial hardship. Reduced sunlight is of course a major reason for the increase in influenza cases(5). I am not sure of the science of staying in without being advised to take vitamin D is? This is contrary to the influenza studies published on NIH’s own website. We need sunlight to live.

How Much Vitamin D Should you take?
“Vitamin D supplementation should stabilize 25(OH)D concentrations consistent with levels obtained by natural summertime sun exposure (50 ng/ml) while avoiding toxic levels. Those with large amounts of melanin in their skin, the obese, those who avoid the sun, and the aged may need up to 5000 IU/day to obtain such levels, especially in the winter.” -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870528/

Many people could need much more, I came across a weight loss protocol used by a Naturopathic Physician in Northern England who found she could not get her patients to lose weight until they have taken 5,000 IU/day. Some darker-skinned people could need even more. If you are in this category you may want to have a VITAMIN D test before going back out to work or make sure that you have been taking extremely high doses.   Call our office in Miami or Sunrise for a consultation if you have questions.

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vitamin-d-deficiency-united-states/
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870528/
3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121423/
4. https://cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect
5. https://www.nber.org/aginghealth/2018no2/w24340.shtml
6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121423/