consciouslifenews--2020-03-31--Nutrition and Natural Strategies Offer Hope Against COVID-19

In this interview , repeat guest Dr. Andrew Saul , editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service , reviews what we currently know about vitamin C ( ascorbic acid ) for the prevention and treatment of .
As noted by Saul , much of the information about vitamin C for the coronavirus is currently coming out of China .
Meanwhile , in the U.S. , a lot of nutritional advice is being censored and tagged as “ fake news.
” At the time of this interview , March 17 , 2020 , COVID-19 has triggered mass hysteria — in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world , including the U.S. , are also quarantining , closing down borders , implementing curfews and generally recommending or enforcing isolation of the populace .
But this is all for the most part a preventive strategy .
Are people infected ?
Yes .
Are people dying ?
Yes .
But we 're talking about deaths in the thousands , not hundreds of thousands or millions , as in pandemics of the past ( think the 1918 flu pandemic , for example , which killed tens of millions around the world ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the past few weeks reading articles and listening to podcasts about the pandemic , and what hardly is ever mentioned — other than a tiny blurb — is that a massive part of the equation is the need for testing .
Testing is the central core of a strategy aimed at flattening the curve , i.e.
, preventing or slowing the spread of the virus .
Why ?
Because testing would give you a more accurate account of how many are actually infected .
At present , mortality rates simply are n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than they are .
We 're being told what the mortality rate is based only on confirmed or suspected cases .
When I interviewed Francis Boyle — whose background includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago , a Juris Doctor ( lawyer ) degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science — he said the mortality rate could be as high as 17 % , whereas conventional estimates now say it 's between 2 % and 3 % .
I believe all of these are wrong , and probably wrong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The reason I say this is because there are a limited number of tests and very few people have been tested .
Hundreds of millions of tests are needed to get a real idea of how many people are infected , which would then give us a better understanding of the mortality rate , meaning how many of those who get infected actually die .
At present , they 're only testing those who present symptoms , which automatically skews the mortality statistics , giving us a falsely elevated mortality rate .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ may have a very large number of people … that are carrying the COVID-19 virus and having no symptoms whatsoever .
And I would argue that if they eat right and take their vitamins , that 's going to stop it from spreading.
” There is not even a micro doubt in my mind that , by the time everything is said and done , more people will have died from car accidents than will die from COVID-19 in the U.S. this year .
Natural Immunity Is Lifelong ; Artificial Immunity Is Not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presented a shockingly distorted view of this pandemic , creating unnecessary fear .
The entire world is now rapidly heading toward economic collapse , and the question is why seeing how the death toll does n't seem to warrant it .
More than likely , we 'll end up with a COVID-19 vaccine that will be added to the list of mandated annual inoculations .
The problem with that is that even if the vaccine works well , it will only confer limited immunity to a virus that 's going to mutate anyway @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ideal .
As noted by Saul : The reason for why recovering from infection confers lifelong immunity while vaccination does not has to do with the fact that your immune system has two branches — the cellular ( T-cells ) and the humoral ( B-cells ) — and both need to be activated for long-term immunity to be secured .
When you get a vaccine , you only stimulate your humoral immunity , the B-cells .
The T-cells are not stimulated .
So , scary as it may sound , the best thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a strong immune system to defend against it so you wo n't even display any symptoms .
While COVID-19 is a very nasty virus that can do a lot of damage , most people , and I 'm thinking probably more than 98 % of infected people , will not die or suffer long-term damage from it .
With everything that 's currently happening , and media increasing readership and profits by blowing things out of proportion , it 's very easy , even rational , to be afraid and anxious , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A simple technique that can help activate your parasympathetic nervous system , thus calming you down , is the Neuro-Emotional Technique 's First Aid Stress Tool , or NET FAST , demonstrated in the video above .
Firstaidstresstool.com also provides an excellent printable summary with visuals of the technique , which even a young child can do .
Here is a summary of the FAST procedure : • While thinking about an issue that is bothering you , place your right wrist , palm up , into your left hand .
Place three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ area of your right wrist where you can feel your pulse .
• Place your open right hand on your forehead .
Gently breathe in and out several times while concentrating on feeling the issue that bothers you .
Saul offers another free and simple stress-reducing technique he learned from a Native American .
Simply go out , sit on the ground and lean against a pine tree .
For now , the only real defense against COVID-19 is your own immune system .
There 's no vaccine , and even if one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for caution , as we 'd have no proof of effectiveness or safety .
“ Your immune system is infinitely adaptable .
This is how nature made us , ” Saul notes .
“ However , your immune system works better when it 's fed right.
” While changing your diet is a more long-term solution , a rapid-response strategy would be to use vitamin C. More recently , Dr. Paul Marik has shown a protocol of intravenous ( IV ) vitamin C with hydrocortisone and thiamine ( vitamin B1 ) dramatically improves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Since sepsis is one of the reasons people die from COVID-19 infection , Marik 's vitamin C protocol may go a long way toward saving people 's lives in this pandemic .
That protocol calls for 1,500 mg of ascorbic acid every six hours and appears radically effective .
However , I would recommend taking even higher doses using liposomal vitamin C if you 're taking it orally .
Liposomal vitamin C will allow you to take much higher dosages without getting loose stools .
You can take up to 100 grams of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really high blood levels , equivalent to or higher than intravenous vitamin C. I view that as an acute treatment , however .
I discourage people from taking mega doses of vitamin C on a regular basis if they 're not actually sick because it is essentially a drug — or at least it works like one .
Saul adds : The Chinese researchers are also using other traditional Chinese medicines in addition to vitamin C , as well as conventional treatments you would expect to be done for anyone having breathing issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Saul suggests perusing the Shanghai government 's website using an online translator ( as the website is in Chinese ) .
You can find pertinent web links on the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service website , which has published 12 reports on various research findings in the past six weeks .
According to Saul , vitamin C at extremely high doses is an antiviral , it actually kills viruses , but to get that amount , you typically need an IV .
So , just how does it kill viruses ?
Some believe vitamin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of its anti-inflammatory activity .
Inflammation contributes to the massive cytokine cascade that can ultimately be lethal .
However , that 's not the whole story .
Saul explains : Personally , I do n't think this is the whole story , either , as vitamin C is a relatively weak electron donor .
I 'll be interviewing Levy about this shortly .
But , in my view , the top electron donor of the body is NADPH .
So , boosting your NAD+ and NADPH levels is really important for health , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as NOX ) .
You can learn more about this in “ Glycine Quells Oxidative Damage by Inhibiting NOX and Boosting NADPH.
” NOX is what the enzyme in your lysosomes inside your white blood cells use to generate chemicals that actually kill viruses and bacteria .
In the process , NADPH is being used up , so while inhibiting NOX is useful , increasing NADPH is key .
If you have a genetic disorder known as G6PD deficiency , it means the pathway your body uses to make NADPH is impaired and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be careful taking high-dose vitamin C. Another crucial nutrient that maybe even more important than vitamin C is vitamin D. The required dosage will vary from person to person here as well , and largely has to do with how much sun exposure you get on a regular basis .
I 've not taken oral vitamin D for over a decade , yet my level is right around 70 nanograms per milliliter , thanks to daily walks in the sun wearing nothing but a hat and shorts .
So , the best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to get tested and to take whatever dosage you need to maintain a vitamin D level between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL year-round .
In the video above , pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult discusses the importance of vitamin D for the prevention of COVID-19 .
While there are no clinical trials investigating vitamin D for coronavirus specifically , there 's plenty of data showing it 's an important component in the prevention and treatment of influenza and upper respiratory tract infections .
As noted by Seheult , while vitamin D does not appear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus itself , it strengthens immune function , thus allowing the host body to combat the virus more effectively .
It also suppresses inflammatory processes .
Taken together , this might make vitamin D quite useful against COVID-19 .
As explained by Seheult , robust immune function is required for your body to combat the virus , but an overactivated immune system is also responsible for the cytokine storm we see in COVID-19 infection that can lead to death .
He goes on to cite research published in 2017 — a meta-analysis of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that vitamin D supplementation helps protect against acute respiratory infections .
Studies have also shown there 's an apparent association between low vitamin D levels and susceptibility to viral infections such as influenza .
In one GrassrootsHealth analysis , those with a vitamin D level of at least 40 ng/mL reduced their risk of colds by 15 % and flu by 41 % , compared to those with a level below 20 ng/mL .
Magnesium is another important immune booster .
In addition to taking oral magnesium or eating lots of vegetables that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your magnesium level is to take Epsom salt ( magnesium sulfate ) baths .
Yet another little-known way to get magnesium is through molecular hydrogen tablets .
The tablets contain metallic magnesium and when you put them in water , they dissociate into ionic elemental magnesium and form molecular hydrogen gas ( which you then drink ) .
You can get about 80 mg of ionic elemental magnesium from each tablet , which is a considerable amount .
For comparison , taking 400 mg of an oral magnesium supplement might only give you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Magnesium oxide has the lowest absorption rate at only 5 % or so , which is why Saul recommends avoiding this form of magnesium .
Chances are , you know zinc lozenges are recommended when you have a cold or sore throat .
Remarkably , prominent physicians have been paraded in the media saying it 's impossible to strengthen your immune system to beat this virus .
It 's hard to fathom this kind of ignorance still pervades our medical system — and that they can get away with criticizing people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from nutrients , if you own a sauna , now 's the time to put it to regular use .
By increasing your core body temperature , which is what happens when you have a fever , your body becomes more efficient at killing pathogens .
So , by taking a daily sauna , you can preventatively treat any lingering pathogens in your system .
That 's a very useful strategy and something I do pretty much every day I am home .
Saul agrees , saying : If you 're in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your research , as many ( if not most ) emit very high electromagnetic fields ( EMFs ) .
Unfortunately , many advertised as low-EMF saunas still have high magnetic fields , which are just as bad .
I agree with Saul when he says “ We have to get the word out to people that prevention is working ; vitamin C is working and we have n't heard about it.
” For example , in Korea , where the death rate for the COVID-19 virus is below 1 % , they 've @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part of your preventive measures is to educate yourself about simple measures you can take from the comfort of your own home .
Resources , where you can find more information , including Saul 's website , doctoryourself.com , which is free , non-commercial and peer-reviewed .
The article has been updated to reflect the spelling of Dr. Cheng 's name .

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If you own a sauna, now’s the time to put it to regular use. By increasing your core body temperature, which is what happens when you have a fever, your body becomes more efficient at killing pathogens
A Korean doctor who’s giving patients and hospital staff 100,000 IUs of vitamin D and 20 to 24 grams of vitamin C by IV reports virus-infected patients are getting well in a matter of days
The only real defense against COVID-19 is your own immune system, which works best when fed right. While changing your diet is a commonsense solution for the long term, a rapid-response strategy would be to use vitamin C
In this interview, repeat guest Dr. Andrew Saul, editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, reviews what we currently know about vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for the prevention and treatment of novel coronavirus COVID-19.
As noted by Saul, much of the information about vitamin C for the coronavirus is currently coming out of China. Meanwhile, in the U.S., a lot of nutritional advice is being censored and tagged as “fake news.”
Mortality Rate Is Likely Vastly Overestimated
At the time of this interview, March 17, 2020, COVID-19 has triggered mass hysteria — in the United States at least. Countries around the world, including the U.S., are also quarantining, closing down borders, implementing curfews and generally recommending or enforcing isolation of the populace.
But this is all for the most part a preventive strategy. Are people infected? Yes. Are people dying? Yes. But we're talking about deaths in the thousands, not hundreds of thousands or millions, as in pandemics of the past (think the 1918 flu pandemic, for example, which killed tens of millions around the world).
I've spent hours each day for the past few weeks reading articles and listening to podcasts about the pandemic, and what hardly is ever mentioned — other than a tiny blurb — is that a massive part of the equation is the need for testing. Testing is the central core of a strategy aimed at flattening the curve, i.e., preventing or slowing the spread of the virus.
Why? Because testing would give you a more accurate account of how many are actually infected. At present, mortality rates simply aren't accurate and may appear far more severe than they are. We're being told what the mortality rate is based only on confirmed or suspected cases.
When I interviewed Francis Boyle — whose background includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, a Juris Doctor (lawyer) degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science — he said the mortality rate could be as high as 17%, whereas conventional estimates now say it's between 2% and 3%.
I believe all of these are wrong, and probably wrong by two or three orders of magnitude. The reason I say this is because there are a limited number of tests and very few people have been tested.
Hundreds of millions of tests are needed to get a real idea of how many people are infected, which would then give us a better understanding of the mortality rate, meaning how many of those who get infected actually die. At present, they're only testing those who present symptoms, which automatically skews the mortality statistics, giving us a falsely elevated mortality rate.
As noted by Saul, “We may have a very large number of people … that are carrying the COVID-19 virus and having no symptoms whatsoever. And I would argue that if they eat right and take their vitamins, that's going to stop it from spreading.”
There is not even a micro doubt in my mind that, by the time everything is said and done, more people will have died from car accidents than will die from COVID-19 in the U.S. this year.
Natural Immunity Is Lifelong; Artificial Immunity Is Not
In my view, the media have presented a shockingly distorted view of this pandemic, creating unnecessary fear. The entire world is now rapidly heading toward economic collapse, and the question is why seeing how the death toll doesn't seem to warrant it.
More than likely, we'll end up with a COVID-19 vaccine that will be added to the list of mandated annual inoculations. The problem with that is that even if the vaccine works well, it will only confer limited immunity to a virus that's going to mutate anyway. Developing natural immunity is far more ideal. As noted by Saul:
“When you have natural exposure, whether you get sick or you don't, you have not only immunity to that [viral strain], but you have an applicable broad immunity to more viruses in general. There's nothing like being sick to keep you from getting sick, which sounds a little bit weird but that's the way the human body works.
When we were children we got measles, mumps, chicken pox — you name it, we got it. We were home for two weeks, we watched daytime TV, we went back to school and we have lifetime immunity …
The fact of the matter is that natural immunity really does protect you very well, and your own immune system is the only way you fight any virus. And, the way to make your immune system strong is not, unfortunately, by vaccinating or taking a drug.”
The reason for why recovering from infection confers lifelong immunity while vaccination does not has to do with the fact that your immune system has two branches — the cellular (T-cells) and the humoral (B-cells) — and both need to be activated for long-term immunity to be secured.
When you get a vaccine, you only stimulate your humoral immunity, the B-cells. The T-cells are not stimulated. So, scary as it may sound, the best thing is to get the infection and have a strong immune system to defend against it so you won't even display any symptoms.
While COVID-19 is a very nasty virus that can do a lot of damage, most people, and I'm thinking probably more than 98% of infected people, will not die or suffer long-term damage from it.
“I agree with that,” Saul says, “because we're automatically going to be exposed to it and a lot of people aren't going to show symptoms. Some people will have a light case; in fact quite a few people who get it will have a very light case … The danger is the escalation to SARS and pneumonia, and this is the biggest threat for immune-compromised people and the elderly. This is where we have the fatalities; this is the biggest concern.”
A Simple Technique to Quell Fear
With everything that's currently happening, and media increasing readership and profits by blowing things out of proportion, it's very easy, even rational, to be afraid and anxious, which will dysregulate your autonomic nervous system.
A simple technique that can help activate your parasympathetic nervous system, thus calming you down, is the Neuro-Emotional Technique's First Aid Stress Tool, or NET FAST, demonstrated in the video above. Firstaidstresstool.com also provides an excellent printable summary with visuals of the technique,1 which even a young child can do. Here is a summary of the FAST procedure:
While thinking about an issue that is bothering you, place your right wrist, palm up, into your left hand. Place three fingers of your left hand onto the area of your right wrist where you can feel your pulse. Place your open right hand on your forehead. Gently breathe in and out several times while concentrating on feeling the issue that bothers you. Switch hands and repeat Steps 1 and 2.
Saul offers another free and simple stress-reducing technique he learned from a Native American. Simply go out, sit on the ground and lean against a pine tree.
Vitamin C Boosts Immunity and Reverses Viral Pneumonia
For now, the only real defense against COVID-19 is your own immune system. There's no vaccine, and even if one is fast-tracked, there would be cause for caution, as we'd have no proof of effectiveness or safety.
“Your immune system is infinitely adaptable. This is how nature made us,” Saul notes. “However, your immune system works better when it's fed right.” While changing your diet is a more long-term solution, a rapid-response strategy would be to use vitamin C.
“Vitamin C is going to strengthen your immune system. This is in every nutrition textbook ever written, so we start with that,” Saul says. “The RDA in the United States is about 90 milligrams; in Korea and China it's 100 mg; in the United Kingdom it's a miserable 40 mg a day and we are sometimes not even getting that.
Studies have shown that even 200 mg of vitamin C a day will reduce the death rate in elderly people with severe pneumonia by 80%. Studies have shown babies with pneumonia, when they get 200 milligrams of vitamin C — the adult equivalent of about 2,000 to 3,000 mg — they have an improvement in their oxygen levels in less than a day. The mortality goes down and the duration and severity of the illness is less.
Now, it is not coronavirus per se that actually kills people, it is the pneumonia and the SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome, that can follow it. Most people that get coronavirus will have a mild case; some will have the virus and not have any symptoms at all. We don't even know how many those people are because they have no symptoms.
Those who get COVID-19 that actually are sick are going to have the flu and it's going to be a nasty flu — it's going to be miserable. People will be sick for a week or two. The people at risk of dying tend to be the elderly and those that are immune-compromised.
The media sort of skirts around this but this is where we have to start because the fear is based on dying. And when we have even a small amount of vitamin C, our risk of dying — even in the most severe cases — goes down.
It is pneumonia and SARS that kills people and vitamin C has been known to be effective against viral pneumonia since the 1940s when Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner published a series of papers and was able to reverse viral pneumonia in 72 hours. Now, Klenner was a board-certified chest physician. He was a specialist and he published over 20 papers on this. The media has been silent on this therapy.”
On Vitamin C Dosing
More recently, Dr. Paul Marik has shown a protocol of intravenous (IV) vitamin C with hydrocortisone and thiamine (vitamin B1) dramatically improves survival rates in patients with sepsis. Since sepsis is one of the reasons people die from COVID-19 infection, Marik's vitamin C protocol may go a long way toward saving people's lives in this pandemic.
That protocol calls for 1,500 mg of ascorbic acid every six hours and appears radically effective. However, I would recommend taking even higher doses using liposomal vitamin C if you're taking it orally. Liposomal vitamin C will allow you to take much higher dosages without getting loose stools.
You can take up to 100 grams of liposomal vitamin C without problems and get really high blood levels, equivalent to or higher than intravenous vitamin C. I view that as an acute treatment, however.
I discourage people from taking mega doses of vitamin C on a regular basis if they're not actually sick because it is essentially a drug — or at least it works like one. Saul adds:
“What I suggest, and have for some 44 years of professional life, is to take enough vitamin C to be symptom free, and when you're well, that isn't very much. I knew one lady who would take 500 mg of vitamin C a day and she was just fine. [Another person] with multiple chemical sensitivity, she needed 35,000 mg a day. Any less and she wasn't fine …
And, while we're [on this topic], a nice little charitable uplifting note is that Dutch State Mines or DSM of the Netherlands has donated 50 tons of vitamin C to [the city of] Wuhan [in China] — 106 million vitamin C tablets. And in China they are running three studies on using high-dose vitamin C as therapy, focusing primarily on people in intensive care.
I'm in contact with Dr. Richard Cheng. Cheng is a Chinese American physician … He was in Shanghai for Chinese New Year visiting his family when all of this exploded.
So, Cheng has stayed in China and has been talking to hospitals and Chinese physicians who are showing tremendous interest in using vitamin C as prevention and cure. He's been so effective that the government of Shanghai has issued official recommendations that vitamin C should be used for treating COVID-19.
They are testing up to 24,000 mg a day by IV. Some of us think that's a little on the low side for people that are in the ICU. I would like to see 50,000 mg a day and there is a doctor … who has used 50,000 mg [on] quite a few people and we're getting more reports as we go.
The updates will be at my Facebook page, The MegaVitamin Man. As they come in I put them up there. We can't get this into the mainstream media quite yet, but it's probably going to break and possibly by the time this report airs, it'll be all over the U.S media. Editor's note: The New York Post, the fourth-largest newspaper2 in the U.S., broke this news March 24, 2020.3
I would like to see that, but real doctors are using vitamin C right now. They're also doing it in Korea. Right in the center of the outbreak in Korea we're in contact with a doctor who has a small hospital and he has given a single shot of vitamin D — a big shot of about 100,000 units to each patient and every staff member — and also about 20 to 24 grams (24,000 mg) of vitamin C by IV. And he's reporting that these people are getting well in a matter of days.”
Valuable Research Resources
The Chinese researchers are also using other traditional Chinese medicines in addition to vitamin C, as well as conventional treatments you would expect to be done for anyone having breathing issues or pneumonia.
For more information, Saul suggests perusing the Shanghai government's website using an online translator (as the website is in Chinese). You can find pertinent web links on the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service website,4 which has published 12 reports on various research findings in the past six weeks.
“We're constantly updating and we have references to the literature and also links to the studies in China, and the names of the doctors doing this. If you go to my website, doctoryourself.com, you can click over and sign up for a free subscription to the peer-reviewed, noncommercial Orthomolecular Medicine News Service …
We even have the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service releases on this available now in French and Italian … and German, and some are now available in Korean and Chinese and Japanese. It's also available in Spanish. So, this information is worldwide and it's been everywhere except on the United States television set,” Saul says.
High-Dose Vitamin C Kills Viruses
According to Saul, vitamin C at extremely high doses is an antiviral, it actually kills viruses, but to get that amount, you typically need an IV. So, just how does it kill viruses? Some believe vitamin C's antiviral potential is the result of its anti-inflammatory activity.
Inflammation contributes to the massive cytokine cascade that can ultimately be lethal. However, that's not the whole story. Saul explains:
“Dr. Robert Fulton Cathcart, a physician in California, is much more knowledgeable about this than I ever will be, so I always go to him. And Cathcart wrote in his papers — a number of which I have at doctoryourself.com so people can read them — [that] vitamin C is a non-rate-limited free radical scavenger …
He and Dr. Thomas E. Levy also emphasize … that vitamin C is donating electrons and reducing free radicals, and this is primarily what's going on. Now, there are exceptions to that. When vitamin C gets into a cancer cell, it actually acts as if it were a pro-oxidant and that's because of the Fenton reaction. Checked; it is.
And vitamin C will kill a cancer cell because cancer cells are different. They absorb vitamin C because it's very similar to glucose, it's almost the same size … With viruses, it's the same idea. Cathcart's view is that you simply push in vitamin C to provide the electrons to reduce the free radicals, and this is the way Cathcart and Levy look at vitamin C's function (at very high doses) as an antiviral.
At modest doses, normal supplemental doses … vitamin C strengthens the immune system because the white blood cells need it to work. White blood cells carry around in them a lot of vitamin C … So, vitamin C is very well-known to directly beef up the immune system through the white blood cells.”
Boosting NADPH Is Also Important
Personally, I don't think this is the whole story, either, as vitamin C is a relatively weak electron donor. I'll be interviewing Levy about this shortly. But, in my view, the top electron donor of the body is NADPH.
So, boosting your NAD+ and NADPH levels is really important for health, as is inhibiting NADH oxidase (known as NOX). You can learn more about this in “Glycine Quells Oxidative Damage by Inhibiting NOX and Boosting NADPH.”
NOX is what the enzyme in your lysosomes inside your white blood cells use to generate chemicals that actually kill viruses and bacteria. In the process, NADPH is being used up, so while inhibiting NOX is useful, increasing NADPH is key.
If you have a genetic disorder known as G6PD deficiency, it means the pathway your body uses to make NADPH is impaired and, in this case, you have to be careful taking high-dose vitamin C.
“At the Riordan Clinic, founded by Dr. Hugh Riordan, one of my mentors some years ago, they do screen for this,” Saul says.
“And the Riordan clinic has actually said in their protocol — which I have in its entirely as a free download at doctoryourself.com, that People who have G6PD [deficiency syndrome] can take some vitamin C, and they have had safe success at around 15,000 mg a day. Dr. Suzanne Humphries, a nephrologist and internist, has also said that for short periods of time it's not an issue.”
The Importance of Vitamin D
Another crucial nutrient that maybe even more important than vitamin C is vitamin D. The required dosage will vary from person to person here as well, and largely has to do with how much sun exposure you get on a regular basis.
I've not taken oral vitamin D for over a decade, yet my level is right around 70 nanograms per milliliter, thanks to daily walks in the sun wearing nothing but a hat and shorts. So, the best way to determine your personal dosage is to get tested and to take whatever dosage you need to maintain a vitamin D level between 60 ng/mL and 80 ng/mL year-round.
In the video above, pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult discusses the importance of vitamin D for the prevention of COVID-19. While there are no clinical trials investigating vitamin D for coronavirus specifically, there's plenty of data showing it's an important component in the prevention and treatment of influenza5 and upper respiratory tract infections.6
As noted by Seheult, while vitamin D does not appear to have a direct effect on the virus itself, it strengthens immune function, thus allowing the host body to combat the virus more effectively.7 It also suppresses inflammatory processes. Taken together, this might make vitamin D quite useful against COVID-19.
As explained by Seheult, robust immune function is required for your body to combat the virus, but an overactivated immune system is also responsible for the cytokine storm we see in COVID-19 infection that can lead to death.
“What we want is a smart immune system — an immune system that takes care of the virus but doesn't put us into an inflammatory condition that could put us on a ventilator,” Seheult says.
He goes on to cite research8 published in 2017 — a meta-analysis of 25 randomized controlled trials — which confirmed that vitamin D supplementation helps protect against acute respiratory infections.
Studies have also shown there's an apparent association between low vitamin D levels and susceptibility to viral infections such as influenza. In one GrassrootsHealth analysis,9 those with a vitamin D level of at least 40 ng/mL reduced their risk of colds by 15% and flu by 41%, compared to those with a level below 20 ng/mL.
Magnesium Calms Nerves and Boosts Immune Function
Magnesium is another important immune booster. In addition to taking oral magnesium or eating lots of vegetables that contain it, another way to increase your magnesium level is to take Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) baths.
“This is a wonderful way to relax,” Saul says. “At the end of the day, have a nice hot Epsom salts bath. You do get absorption through the skin. Plus, it feels good, calms you down, it's inexpensive, and no one can tell you that you're going to overdose on Epsom salt [through bathing] … So, an Epsom salts bath is a very pleasant way to get some magnesium.”
Yet another little-known way to get magnesium is through molecular hydrogen tablets. The tablets contain metallic magnesium and when you put them in water, they dissociate into ionic elemental magnesium and form molecular hydrogen gas (which you then drink).
You can get about 80 mg of ionic elemental magnesium from each tablet, which is a considerable amount. For comparison, taking 400 mg of an oral magnesium supplement might only give you 40 mg due to their poor absorption. Magnesium oxide has the lowest absorption rate at only 5% or so, which is why Saul recommends avoiding this form of magnesium.
Zinc Lozenges to Treat Sore Throat and Colds
Chances are, you know zinc lozenges are recommended when you have a cold or sore throat.
“Just last night — again, this is the 17th of March — CBS Evening News in Chicago, Illinois, had a short segment on nutritional prevention of coronavirus, recommending you take vitamin D, vitamin C and zinc. So, we have finally, after seven weeks, gotten past the accusation of false information and fake news, and now it is on CBS.”
Remarkably, prominent physicians have been paraded in the media saying it's impossible to strengthen your immune system to beat this virus. It's hard to fathom this kind of ignorance still pervades our medical system — and that they can get away with criticizing people who offer proof to the contrary.
Simulating Fever Can Help Kill Viruses
Aside from nutrients, if you own a sauna, now's the time to put it to regular use. By increasing your core body temperature, which is what happens when you have a fever, your body becomes more efficient at killing pathogens.
So, by taking a daily sauna, you can preventatively treat any lingering pathogens in your system. That's a very useful strategy and something I do pretty much every day I am home. Saul agrees, saying:
“Nearly 100 years ago, Jethro Kloss, who wrote ‘Back to Eden,' one of the early health nut books, recommended artificial fevers. They would bundle people up and put them in a hot bath … because fever can be that beneficial.
Or you can do what the native Americans did and do … a sweat lodge, kind of the genuine American version of a sauna. Just one suggestion. When you pick the rocks that you're going to superheat, make sure they are all igneous rocks and not sedimentary rocks, because if they have the layered sediment, they will explode, and that is bad!
So, make sure you have volcanic rocks, igneous rocks … they glow a nice red. It takes a long time to get the glow going, but then it lasts a long time as well. And while they are heating, you can build the lodge. This is a group activity. You're going to need help to build the lodge.”
If you're in the market for an electric sauna, do your research, as many (if not most) emit very high electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Unfortunately, many advertised as low-EMF saunas still have high magnetic fields, which are just as bad.
More Information
I agree with Saul when he says “We have to get the word out to people that prevention is working; vitamin C is working and we haven't heard about it.” For example, in Korea, where the death rate for the COVID-19 virus is below 1%, they've disseminated information about vitamin C.
So, part of your preventive measures is to educate yourself about simple measures you can take from the comfort of your own home. Resources, where you can find more information, including Saul's website, doctoryourself.com, which is free, non-commercial and peer-reviewed.
“It's been up for 21 years now,” Saul says. “Doctoryourself.com has a very good search engine and it is not a Google search engine. You can use it as a site search and find whatever you're looking for. Without even scrolling down, the screen will show you a series of articles on COVID-19 — nutritional protocols with references to the doctors and the parts of the world where this is being used successfully right now.
You can also go to Andrewsaul.com which is my commercial site. That's where I have my tuition-based courses that I offer, called the Megavitamin Formula Course. And you can go to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service … and sign up free of charge.
This is peer-reviewed, and I'm happy to say that Dr. Mercola is a member of our 42-member editorial review board. So, when I say peer-reviewed, we really mean it and I love having association with doctors who use, recommend and live good nutrition.
For the most up-to-date information on the COVID-19 situation and nutritional therapies, see my Facebook page. But that will not come to you because it's restricted by Facebook, so you have to go to The Megavitamin Man or my name on Facebook. We have updates several times a day.”
The article has been updated to reflect the spelling of Dr. Cheng's name.


consciouslifenews--2020-03-31--Planet Coronavirus: Survival, Resistance and Regeneration

“ There are times in history when sudden events—natural disasters , economic collapses , pandemics , wars , famines—change everything .
They change politics , they change economics and they change public opinion in drastic ways .
Many social movement analysts call these “ trigger events.
” During a trigger event , things that were previously unimaginable quickly become reality , as the social and political map is remade .
Coronavirus is a historic trigger event—and it needs a Movement to Respond.
” Paul Engler , March 16 , 2020 The frightening COVID-19 pandemic , slowly but surely infecting millions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and metastasizing in the midst of a global Climate Emergency , has pushed a critical mass of us all to the brink .
Words can barely convey our waking nightmare , or fully expose the cabal of monsters and the degenerate “ business-as-usual ” practices that have brought on this disaster .
Like a horror movie rerun , every night I wake up .
How did we ever let this happen ?
What can we do to protect ourselves and others ?
Can we rise to the occasion and organize a massive Grassroots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take advantage of this tragic “ trigger moment ” ?
Can we deal with the degenerative practices that have unleashed this mega-crisis and bring to heel the perpetrators , the greedy elite who created and/or abetted this catastrophe ?
As an international chorus of climate , environmental and political leaders warned this week , it ’ s now or never “ to harness our fears , build hope and drive action to respond to the human health , economic , climate and biodiversity crisis with solutions that build resilient societies on the longer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Take control of your health .
Force governments to provide necessary resources .
We must protect ourselves and others , especially the most vulnerable .
Solidarity and common sense dictate that we change what up until now has been considered “ normal ” behavior .
In North America , and all over the world , we need to maintain and step up the social hygiene , distancing and quarantine procedures that are absolutely necessary to reduce infections , to “ flatten the curve ” of disease 10 times more lethal and three times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But to flatten the curve we need to demand that our governments put money in the hands of workers and their families ( and small businesses ) so that they can afford to stay home for months , or for as long as it takes .
We must provide emergency funds and resources to hospitals , healthcare workers , and clinics so they can test , separate , isolate and treat those infected and exposed to the Coronavirus .
Constant hand-washing and spatial distancing are absolutely necessary , even if we ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ’ ve been exposed to those carrying the virus .
Stay away from elderly people and those with fragile health .
My extended family and our activist staff and networks have suspended face-to-face contact and are using email , text messages , shared photos and Zoom calls to stay in touch .
Beyond spatial distancing , we all need to strengthen our immune systems and preserve our physical and mental health for the challenges that lie ahead .
Even though we ’ ve all heard it before , now is the time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as natural health leader Dr. Joseph Mercola tells us , to “ Take control of your health.
” Here ’ s some of what we all need to do , today and every day .
• Cook at home .
Learn new recipes .
Stop going out to restaurants until the pandemic is over .
Buy local and organic whenever possible .
Eliminate factory-farmed meat and animal products , GMOs and all the other nutritionally deficient and poisonous products of industrial agriculture from your diet .
Purchase , prepare and consume as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as possible .
This means lots of organic fruits and vegetables , including fermented foods .
Cut down on sugar and sugary desserts and reduce your alcohol consumption .
Start growing your own sprouts indoors and get ready to plant an organic garden this spring if you have a patio or outdoor space .
Consume whole organic grains and healthy carbs , not processed food .
If you eat meat and animal products , search out organic , grass-fed , and pasture-raised products .
But of course , not everyone has access to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Ethics and solidarity require us to help others in our community gain access to organic and healthy foods .
Support mutual aid projects such as food hubs , food banks , and food delivery projects in your local community .
• Take this opportunity to stop smoking tobacco .
Coronavirus death rates are substantially higher for smokers .
If you smoke pot , stop sharing joints—or better yet switch to homemade edibles .
Supplement your diet with vitamins and nutritional supplements , such as Vitamin C and D to strengthen your body @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• Start getting regular exercise , outdoors if at all possible , but indoors if necessary .
My daily regimen includes yoga stretches , light calisthenics and an hour or more of walking outdoors .
Walking and/or exercising for an hour will calm you down as well as boost the microphages in your body that kill pathogens .
• Get seven to eight hours of sleep every night .
If you wake up in the middle of the night as I do , don ’ t take sleeping pills , search out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
For 3 a.m. insomnia , I take a four or five spray shots in my throat of Dr. Mercola ’ s Melatonin and put two tiny pills ( 30c ) under my tongue of a homeopathic remedy called Nux Vomica .
You can find these over-the-counter sleep supporters in your local co-op or natural food store , or else online .
• Try to reduce mental stress , which increases the inflammation that weakens your body ’ s defense mechanisms .
Think positive .
Remind yourself that this disaster can change politics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ways .
If we can unite our networks for healthy food and natural health , and create synergy with those all over the world organizing for a just transition to a green economy , we can not only overcome this pandemic , but we can solve the even more catastrophic threat posed by our Climate Emergency .
Even in this time of social distancing , people all over the world are starting to collectively resist and get organized .
Search out the positive news of rebellion and mutual aid online and you ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surely building up a compassionate and sane response to the pandemic and mobilizing to turn back racist , xenophobic and elitist government policies such as bailing out the wealthy “ one percent , ” instead of the rest of us , the “ 99 percent.
” Stop spending so much time reading or watching the commercial mass media , which is filled with corporate propaganda and doom and gloom , and tune in instead to the positive information you can find in the alternative media .
Go to the websites of Organic Consumers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Common Dreams and natural health sites like Mercola .
Watch the news every day on Democracy Now !
If you want a positive roadmap showing how we can reverse global warming and mobilize a critical mass to implement an organic and regenerative Green New Deal , you can read my new book : “ Grassroots Rising : A Call to Action on Climate , Farming , Food , and a Green New Deal.
” ( The audio version is available here ) .
• Now is the time to strengthen friendships and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change .
If we ’ re going to survive the current crisis , avoid catastrophic climate change , and build the kind of world we all want and need , we need to exponentially increase solidarity and trust among heretofore separate communities and activist networks isolated in their separate silos .
Please step up communications with your friends and fellow activists over the phone and the Internet and accentuate the positive .
Sign up for our newsletter and stay in touch .
The upside of this terrible catastrophe is that it is creating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global Grassroots Rising and Regeneration Revolution .
Let ’ s talk about the real roots of this pandemic Here ’ s what Jane Goodall recently said about the pandemic crisis : “ All over the world , we ’ ve been destroying the places where animals live in order to get materials to build our homes , our cities and to make our own lives more comfortable .
And as a result , we ’ ve brought the climate crisis on ourselves .
Many species of animals and plants have become extinct .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the markets , or when we use them for entertainment , has unleashed the terror and misery of new viruses.
” The coronavirus pandemic , like the climate crisis , is not an accident , nor an act of God .
Both of these existential threats have arisen out of the U.S. and global food , farming , energy , resource extraction , economic , militaristic “ national security ” and trading system that is degenerative , unethical , inequitable and as we see now , self-destructive .
“ New diseases are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inefficient food and agriculture model is invading the ecological habitat of other species and manipulating animals and plants with no respect for their integrity and their health .
.
.
The health emergency that the coronavirus is waking us up to is connected to the emergency of extinction and disappearance of species , and it is connected to the climate emergency .
All emergencies are rooted in a mechanistic , militaristic anthropocentric world view of humans as separate from , and superior to other beings whom we can own , manipulate and control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed .
.
.
.
” Unless we can stop large corporations and desperate people from destroying the habitats of wild animals , such as bats , pangolins , and civets .
.
.
unless we can shut down the animal factories where pigs , poultry and other hapless creatures are crammed together in filthy disease-ridden environments , stuffed with genetically engineered animal feeds and dosed with drugs guaranteed to spread antibiotic resistance and virulent pathogens .
.
.
unless we can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cut down their forests and hunt and consume and bring to market wild creatures .
.
.
unless we as conscious global citizens can stop buying and consuming the inhumane and dangerous factory-farmed foods and products made from forest-killing commodities such as industrial palm oil and GMO soybeans .
.
.
unless we can stop multinational corporations from clearcutting tropical rainforests , plowing up grasslands and savannas and destroying wetlands and marine ecosystems , and instead reforest , regenerate and restore damaged ecosystems .
.
.
unless we can break down the walls @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billion confined farm animals back out on the land grazing and foraging in a holistic and regenerative fashion that sequesters carbon and reduces rural poverty .
.
.
unless we can carry out global food , farming , land-use , energy , and political regeneration , we will have more emerging viruses and diseases , an out-of-control climate emergency and the endless wars , poverty , and conflict that arise out of our militarized “ profit at any cost ” economic system .
In Sonia Shan ’ s recent article in The Nation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who once said , “ Outbreaks are inevitable , but pandemics are optional.
” But , as Shan points out : “ .
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.
pandemics only remain optional if we have the will to disrupt our politics as readily as we disrupt nature and wildlife .
In the end , there is no real mystery about the animal source of pandemics .
It ’ s not some spiky scaled pangolin or furry flying bat .
It ’ s populations of warm-blooded primates : The true animal source is us.
” The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the global military-industrial complex : disturbing information The whole notion of “ national security ” ( i.e .
“ my army or my nuclear weapons or my biological weapons are more potent than yours ” ) is exposed as insanity when pandemics such as the coronavirus , or looming catastrophes such as runaway global warming ( which will require global cooperation to stop greenhouse gas emissions and draw down excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and sequester them in our soils , plants , and forests ) , rise up and pose existential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s not clear yet whether COVID-19 was weaponized in one of the world ’ s numerous , and secretive , chemical and biological warfare laboratories ( such as the ones in Fort Detrick , Maryland , or the one in Wuhan , China ) and then was accidentally or deliberately released , or whether its toxic potency was accelerated by “ normal ” genetic mutations as it passed from bats and pangolins through humans .
But there are disturbing facts about coronavirus , biowarfare and lax security in the world ’ s growing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the commercial mass media and world governments aren ’ t telling us about .
Francis Boyle , a legal expert on chemical and biological weapons , who authored the U.S .
Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989—passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law—and which bans offensive chemical and biological weapons and research , has stated that he believes the COVID-19 virus was weaponized and then accidentally released .
Boyle suspects COVID-19 is a weaponized pathogen that escaped from Wuhan City ’ s Biosafety Level 4 facility , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and SARS .
According to Boyle , the COVID-19 virus is a chimera .
It includes SARS , an already weaponized coronavirus , along with HIV genetic material and possibly flu virus .
It also has “ gain of function properties ” that allow it to spread a greater distance than normal .
Last year ( February 27 , 2019 ) the Washington Post published a disturbing article entitled “ The U.S. is funding dangerous experiments it doesn ’ t want you to know about.
” The newsletter WanttoKnow.info summarizes and comments upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( which is now behind a paywall ) : “ In 2014 , U.S. officials imposed a moratorium on experiments to enhance some of the world ’ s most lethal viruses by making them transmissible by air , responding to widespread concerns that a lab accident could spark a global pandemic .
Apparently , the government has decided the research should now move ahead .
In the past year , the U.S. government quietly greenlighted funding for two groups of researchers .
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to conduct transmission-enhancing experiments on the bird flu virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or judgments that supported it were announced publicly .
This lack of transparency is unacceptable .
Making decisions to approve potentially dangerous research in secret betrays the government ’ s responsibility to inform and involve the public when approving endeavors .
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that could put health and lives at risk .
Hundreds of researchers .
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publicly opposed these experiments when they were first announced .
In response to these concerns , the government issued a framework in 2017 for a special review of ‘ enhanced ’ pathogens that could become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ framework .
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requires that experts in public health preparedness and response , biosafety , ethics , and law , among others , evaluate the work , but it is unclear from the public record if that happened .
This secrecy means we don ’ t know how these requirements were applied , if at all , to the experiments now funded by the government.
” On August 5 , 2019 , the New York Times reported that the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ) had closed down ( since reopened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warfare laboratory in the U.S. at Fort Detrick , Maryland , for biosecurity lapses , “ problems with disposal of dangerous materials.
” Shortly thereafter , the Guardian UK newspaper linked to a video in which the CDC Director , Robert Redfield seemed to admit at a Congressional hearing that “ some cases ” i.e .
deaths from the coronavirus , had been discovered in the U.S. before being identified in Wuhan—no doubt due to the previously documented inability of the U.S. to test and verify differences compared with the flu .
Watch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virologist , Judy Mikovits , who previously worked at Fort Detrick on weaponizing , and you ’ ll see why we desperately need to stop the madness before it ’ s too late .
I could go on and on with other disturbing “ coincidences.
” Hopefully , COVID-19 was not weaponized in a CBW lab such as Fort Detrick or Wuhan , or at worst it was an accidental release due to a biosecurity lapse , rather than an act of war , as the Chinese , Russians , and Iranians are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s belligerent characterization of COVID-19 as the “ Chinese Virus.
” The point is that we need to stop weaponizing viruses and other pathogens in our so-called “ defensive ” chemical and biological weapons laboratories across the world , as international treaties dictate .
We need to drop all U.S.- imposed economic sanctions across the world immediately , including those hampering current anti- COVID-19 measures in Russia , Cuba , Iran , Venezuela , Syria , North Korea , and other nations .
We are all in this together .
We need to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We need to stop spending trillions of dollars on bombs and missiles and chemical and biological warfare programs and cooperate on waging war against the real monsters that are staring us in the face : COVID-19 and the global Climate Emergency .
The year 2020 will hopefully be remembered by our children and grandchildren as the transformational time when the global grassroots finally awakened to the existential threat of a Climate Emergency and the coronavirus pandemic and forced our governments to cooperate and take decisive action .
Hopefully , 2020 will be recorded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when we mobilized , as never before , to overcome a national and global emergency , and launched a long-overdue political and social revolution , the U.S. and global Green New Deal .
Hopefully , the future generations will be inspired by the unprecedented public education , grassroots lobbying , marketplace pressure , civil protest , mutual aid and farmer , energy , community and land-use innovation that will now be unfolding , galvanizing radical political and system change on a wartime scale , with a massive transfer of public and private investment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not , future generations will look back on 2020 as the beginning of the end .
We have an opportunity .
As Paul Engler points out : “ Trigger events can create confusion and unease .
But they also present tremendous opportunities for people who have a plan and know how to use the moment to push forward their agendas .
These agendas can be reactionary , as when conservatives and fascists pass harsh austerity measures and spread xenophobia—the type of activity documented in Naomi Klein ’ s ‘ The Shock Doctrine .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ not prevail .
With a counter-agenda rooted in a commitment to democracy and a deep sense of collective empathy , communities can flourish , even amid a crisis .
”

“There are times in history when sudden events—natural disasters, economic collapses, pandemics, wars, famines—change everything. They change politics, they change economics and they change public opinion in drastic ways. Many social movement analysts call these “trigger events.” During a trigger event, things that were previously unimaginable quickly become reality, as the social and political map is remade. Coronavirus is a historic trigger event—and it needs a Movement to Respond.” Paul Engler, March 16, 2020
The frightening COVID-19 pandemic, slowly but surely infecting millions, fueling an economic and political meltdown and metastasizing in the midst of a global Climate Emergency, has pushed a critical mass of us all to the brink.
Words can barely convey our waking nightmare, or fully expose the cabal of monsters and the degenerate “business-as-usual” practices that have brought on this disaster. Like a horror movie rerun, every night I wake up.
How did we ever let this happen? What can we do to protect ourselves and others? Can we rise to the occasion and organize a massive Grassroots Rising, head off disaster, and take advantage of this tragic “trigger moment”?
Can we deal with the degenerative practices that have unleashed this mega-crisis and bring to heel the perpetrators, the greedy elite who created and/or abetted this catastrophe?
As an international chorus of climate, environmental and political leaders warned this week, it’s now or never “to harness our fears, build hope and drive action to respond to the human health, economic, climate and biodiversity crisis with solutions that build resilient societies on the longer term.”
The Global Socioeconomic Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic
There’s no sugar-coating the fact the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting the very foundations of the global economy and our society. Trillions of dollars are being wiped off the market, hundreds of millions are either laid off or furloughed, families and friends are forced to isolate themselves from each other, and businesses everywhere are either collapsing or hanging by a thread. Although there’s still hope for our economy as the prospect of doing business online is giving hope to many businesses owners amid the coronavirus pandemic. People are slowly but surely adapting to their telecommuting and learning online lifestyle. However, not much can be said for other people and industries that are suffering greatly from the socioeconomic crisis.
Protect yourself and others. Take control of your health. Force governments to provide necessary resources.
We must protect ourselves and others, especially the most vulnerable. Solidarity and common sense dictate that we change what up until now has been considered “normal” behavior.
In North America, and all over the world, we need to maintain and step up the social hygiene, distancing and quarantine procedures that are absolutely necessary to reduce infections, to “flatten the curve” of disease 10 times more lethal and three times more infective than recent flu epidemics.
But to flatten the curve we need to demand that our governments put money in the hands of workers and their families (and small businesses) so that they can afford to stay home for months, or for as long as it takes.
We must provide emergency funds and resources to hospitals, healthcare workers, and clinics so they can test, separate, isolate and treat those infected and exposed to the Coronavirus. Constant hand-washing and spatial distancing are absolutely necessary, even if we’re healthy, with strict spatial isolation if we’ve been exposed to those carrying the virus. Stay away from elderly people and those with fragile health.
My extended family and our activist staff and networks have suspended face-to-face contact and are using email, text messages, shared photos and Zoom calls to stay in touch.
Beyond spatial distancing, we all need to strengthen our immune systems and preserve our physical and mental health for the challenges that lie ahead. Even though we’ve all heard it before, now is the time for action. Now is the time, as natural health leader Dr. Joseph Mercola tells us, to “Take control of your health.”
Here’s some of what we all need to do, today and every day.
• Cook at home. Learn new recipes. Stop going out to restaurants until the pandemic is over. Buy local and organic whenever possible. Eliminate factory-farmed meat and animal products, GMOs and all the other nutritionally deficient and poisonous products of industrial agriculture from your diet. Purchase, prepare and consume as many fresh and healthy, nutritionally-dense foods as possible. This means lots of organic fruits and vegetables, including fermented foods. Cut down on sugar and sugary desserts and reduce your alcohol consumption. Start growing your own sprouts indoors and get ready to plant an organic garden this spring if you have a patio or outdoor space. Consume whole organic grains and healthy carbs, not processed food. If you eat meat and animal products, search out organic, grass-fed, and pasture-raised products. But of course, not everyone has access to or can afford to buy healthy food. Ethics and solidarity require us to help others in our community gain access to organic and healthy foods. Support mutual aid projects such as food hubs, food banks, and food delivery projects in your local community.
• Take this opportunity to stop smoking tobacco. Coronavirus death rates are substantially higher for smokers. If you smoke pot, stop sharing joints—or better yet switch to homemade edibles. Supplement your diet with vitamins and nutritional supplements, such as Vitamin C and D to strengthen your body’s immune system and disease-fighting capabilities.
• Start getting regular exercise, outdoors if at all possible, but indoors if necessary. My daily regimen includes yoga stretches, light calisthenics and an hour or more of walking outdoors. Walking and/or exercising for an hour will calm you down as well as boost the microphages in your body that kill pathogens.
• Get seven to eight hours of sleep every night. If you wake up in the middle of the night as I do, don’t take sleeping pills, search out natural sleep supplements with no side effects. For 3 a.m. insomnia, I take a four or five spray shots in my throat of Dr. Mercola’s Melatonin and put two tiny pills (30c) under my tongue of a homeopathic remedy called Nux Vomica. You can find these over-the-counter sleep supporters in your local co-op or natural food store, or else online.
• Try to reduce mental stress, which increases the inflammation that weakens your body’s defense mechanisms. Think positive. Remind yourself that this disaster can change politics, economics and public opinion in drastic ways. If we can unite our networks for healthy food and natural health, and create synergy with those all over the world organizing for a just transition to a green economy, we can not only overcome this pandemic, but we can solve the even more catastrophic threat posed by our Climate Emergency. Even in this time of social distancing, people all over the world are starting to collectively resist and get organized. Search out the positive news of rebellion and mutual aid online and you’ll see that people are slowly but surely building up a compassionate and sane response to the pandemic and mobilizing to turn back racist, xenophobic and elitist government policies such as bailing out the wealthy “one percent,” instead of the rest of us, the “99 percent.” Stop spending so much time reading or watching the commercial mass media, which is filled with corporate propaganda and doom and gloom, and tune in instead to the positive information you can find in the alternative media. Go to the websites of Organic Consumers Association or Regeneration International, news sites like Common Dreams and natural health sites like Mercola. Watch the news every day on Democracy Now!
If you want a positive roadmap showing how we can reverse global warming and mobilize a critical mass to implement an organic and regenerative Green New Deal, you can read my new book: “Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal.” (The audio version is available here).
• Now is the time to strengthen friendships and build up a stronger movement for radical change. If we’re going to survive the current crisis, avoid catastrophic climate change, and build the kind of world we all want and need, we need to exponentially increase solidarity and trust among heretofore separate communities and activist networks isolated in their separate silos. Please step up communications with your friends and fellow activists over the phone and the Internet and accentuate the positive. Sign up for our newsletter and stay in touch. The upside of this terrible catastrophe is that it is creating the objective and subjective conditions for a global Grassroots Rising and Regeneration Revolution.
Let’s talk about the real roots of this pandemic
Here’s what Jane Goodall recently said about the pandemic crisis:
“All over the world, we’ve been destroying the places where animals live in order to get materials to build our homes, our cities and to make our own lives more comfortable. And as a result, we’ve brought the climate crisis on ourselves. Many species of animals and plants have become extinct. And our too-close relationship with wild animals in the markets, or when we use them for entertainment, has unleashed the terror and misery of new viruses.”
The coronavirus pandemic, like the climate crisis, is not an accident, nor an act of God. Both of these existential threats have arisen out of the U.S. and global food, farming, energy, resource extraction, economic, militaristic “national security” and trading system that is degenerative, unethical, inequitable and as we see now, self-destructive.
As Vandana Shiva points out:
“New diseases are being created because a globalized industrialized, inefficient food and agriculture model is invading the ecological habitat of other species and manipulating animals and plants with no respect for their integrity and their health . . . The health emergency that the coronavirus is waking us up to is connected to the emergency of extinction and disappearance of species, and it is connected to the climate emergency. All emergencies are rooted in a mechanistic, militaristic anthropocentric world view of humans as separate from, and superior to other beings whom we can own, manipulate and control. It is also rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed . . . .”
Unless we can stop large corporations and desperate people from destroying the habitats of wild animals, such as bats, pangolins, and civets . . . unless we can shut down the animal factories where pigs, poultry and other hapless creatures are crammed together in filthy disease-ridden environments, stuffed with genetically engineered animal feeds and dosed with drugs guaranteed to spread antibiotic resistance and virulent pathogens . . . unless we can alleviate the poverty that forces people to cut down their forests and hunt and consume and bring to market wild creatures . . . unless we as conscious global citizens can stop buying and consuming the inhumane and dangerous factory-farmed foods and products made from forest-killing commodities such as industrial palm oil and GMO soybeans . . . unless we can stop multinational corporations from clearcutting tropical rainforests, plowing up grasslands and savannas and destroying wetlands and marine ecosystems, and instead reforest, regenerate and restore damaged ecosystems . . . unless we can break down the walls of the factory farms and get 50 billion confined farm animals back out on the land grazing and foraging in a holistic and regenerative fashion that sequesters carbon and reduces rural poverty . . . unless we can carry out global food, farming, land-use, energy, and political regeneration, we will have more emerging viruses and diseases, an out-of-control climate emergency and the endless wars, poverty, and conflict that arise out of our militarized “profit at any cost” economic system.
In Sonia Shan’s recent article in The Nation magazine, she quotes epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who once said, “Outbreaks are inevitable, but pandemics are optional.”
But, as Shan points out:
“ . . . pandemics only remain optional if we have the will to disrupt our politics as readily as we disrupt nature and wildlife. In the end, there is no real mystery about the animal source of pandemics. It’s not some spiky scaled pangolin or furry flying bat. It’s populations of warm-blooded primates: The true animal source is us.”
The myth of ‘national security’ and the global military-industrial complex: disturbing information
The whole notion of “national security” (i.e. “my army or my nuclear weapons or my biological weapons are more potent than yours”) is exposed as insanity when pandemics such as the coronavirus, or looming catastrophes such as runaway global warming (which will require global cooperation to stop greenhouse gas emissions and draw down excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and sequester them in our soils, plants, and forests), rise up and pose existential threats to us all.
It’s not clear yet whether COVID-19 was weaponized in one of the world’s numerous, and secretive, chemical and biological warfare laboratories (such as the ones in Fort Detrick, Maryland, or the one in Wuhan, China) and then was accidentally or deliberately released, or whether its toxic potency was accelerated by “normal” genetic mutations as it passed from bats and pangolins through humans.
But there are disturbing facts about coronavirus, biowarfare and lax security in the world’s growing network of chemical and biological warfare labs that the commercial mass media and world governments aren’t telling us about.
Francis Boyle, a legal expert on chemical and biological weapons, who authored the U.S. Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989—passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law—and which bans offensive chemical and biological weapons and research, has stated that he believes the COVID-19 virus was weaponized and then accidentally released.
Boyle suspects COVID-19 is a weaponized pathogen that escaped from Wuhan City’s Biosafety Level 4 facility, which was specifically set up to research coronaviruses and SARS. According to Boyle, the COVID-19 virus is a chimera. It includes SARS, an already weaponized coronavirus, along with HIV genetic material and possibly flu virus. It also has “gain of function properties” that allow it to spread a greater distance than normal.
Last year (February 27, 2019) the Washington Post published a disturbing article entitled “The U.S. is funding dangerous experiments it doesn’t want you to know about.”
The newsletter WanttoKnow.info summarizes and comments upon the implications of the Washington Post article (which is now behind a paywall):
“In 2014, U.S. officials imposed a moratorium on experiments to enhance some of the world’s most lethal viruses by making them transmissible by air, responding to widespread concerns that a lab accident could spark a global pandemic. Apparently, the government has decided the research should now move ahead. In the past year, the U.S. government quietly greenlighted funding for two groups of researchers . . . to conduct transmission-enhancing experiments on the bird flu virus. Neither the approval nor the deliberations or judgments that supported it were announced publicly. This lack of transparency is unacceptable. Making decisions to approve potentially dangerous research in secret betrays the government’s responsibility to inform and involve the public when approving endeavors . . . that could put health and lives at risk. Hundreds of researchers . . . publicly opposed these experiments when they were first announced. In response to these concerns, the government issued a framework in 2017 for a special review of ‘enhanced’ pathogens that could become capable of causing a pandemic. The framework . . . requires that experts in public health preparedness and response, biosafety, ethics, and law, among others, evaluate the work, but it is unclear from the public record if that happened. This secrecy means we don’t know how these requirements were applied, if at all, to the experiments now funded by the government.”
On August 5, 2019, the New York Times reported that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had closed down (since reopened) the most important chemical and biological warfare laboratory in the U.S. at Fort Detrick, Maryland, for biosecurity lapses, “problems with disposal of dangerous materials.” Shortly thereafter, the Guardian UK newspaper linked to a video in which the CDC Director, Robert Redfield seemed to admit at a Congressional hearing that “some cases” i.e. deaths from the coronavirus, had been discovered in the U.S. before being identified in Wuhan—no doubt due to the previously documented inability of the U.S. to test and verify differences compared with the flu.
Watch this video interview with an experienced U.S. virologist, Judy Mikovits, who previously worked at Fort Detrick on weaponizing, and you’ll see why we desperately need to stop the madness before it’s too late.
I could go on and on with other disturbing “coincidences.” Hopefully, COVID-19 was not weaponized in a CBW lab such as Fort Detrick or Wuhan, or at worst it was an accidental release due to a biosecurity lapse, rather than an act of war, as the Chinese, Russians, and Iranians are now claiming in response to Trumps’s belligerent characterization of COVID-19 as the “Chinese Virus.”
The point is that we need to stop weaponizing viruses and other pathogens in our so-called “defensive” chemical and biological weapons laboratories across the world, as international treaties dictate. We need to drop all U.S.- imposed economic sanctions across the world immediately, including those hampering current anti- COVID-19 measures in Russia, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Syria, North Korea, and other nations.
We are all in this together. We need to stop bullying and threatening one another. We need to stop spending trillions of dollars on bombs and missiles and chemical and biological warfare programs and cooperate on waging war against the real monsters that are staring us in the face: COVID-19 and the global Climate Emergency.
The year 2020 will hopefully be remembered by our children and grandchildren as the transformational time when the global grassroots finally awakened to the existential threat of a Climate Emergency and the coronavirus pandemic and forced our governments to cooperate and take decisive action.
Hopefully, 2020 will be recorded in the history books as a time when we mobilized, as never before, to overcome a national and global emergency, and launched a long-overdue political and social revolution, the U.S. and global Green New Deal.
Hopefully, the future generations will be inspired by the unprecedented public education, grassroots lobbying, marketplace pressure, civil protest, mutual aid and farmer, energy, community and land-use innovation that will now be unfolding, galvanizing radical political and system change on a wartime scale, with a massive transfer of public and private investment from degenerative to regenerative practices.
If not, future generations will look back on 2020 as the beginning of the end.
We have an opportunity. As Paul Engler points out:
“Trigger events can create confusion and unease. But they also present tremendous opportunities for people who have a plan and know how to use the moment to push forward their agendas. These agendas can be reactionary, as when conservatives and fascists pass harsh austerity measures and spread xenophobia—the type of activity documented in Naomi Klein’s ‘The Shock Doctrine. Yet, this type of response need not prevail. With a counter-agenda rooted in a commitment to democracy and a deep sense of collective empathy, communities can flourish, even amid a crisis.”


consciouslifenews--2020-03-31--Wim Hof’s Respiratory Techniques: How To Use The Iceman’s Breathing Methods To Help Combat COVID-19

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consciouslifenews--2020-03-31--April 1: HeartMath Special Care Focus: Rise of the Human Spirit

Welcome to a Special Care Focus # 2 – Rise of the Human Spirit .
In order for everyone around the world to participate in a synchronized Care Focus , beginning Wednesday , April 1st we have chosen three convenient times : 4 a.m. , 12 p.m. ( noon ) , and 8 p.m. Pacific Time ( GMT/UTC minus 7 hours ) * .
Please join with others on the Global Coherence App or the Global Care Room .
We will do a special care focus every Wednesday until the Coronavirus pandemic subsides .
Thank you for joining with us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could help .
We are providing a Special Care Focus # 2 because people are asking us for our insights into the greater possibilities for humanity that can come from the coronavirus and for more helpful suggestions on what they can do .
The coronavirus pandemic is awakening multi-millions to the reality of our interconnectedness .
The virus doesn ’ t discriminate race , nationality , religion , political beliefs or financial status .
We are all in this together , which can turn out to be the bright side of it all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in place ” or separated by “ social distancing , ” yet sensing that it ’ s now time to care for each other more than ever .
At the same time , people report feeling lonely in social isolation but using the time to slow down , go deeper into reflection , and reach out online to connect with family , friends and social groups .
Collective online participation of people sharing and sending heart and compassion lifts our spirit while boosting our confidence , immune system and resilience .
The rise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ air , along with high anxiety and insecurity from uncertainty .
That ’ s understandable .
As individuals and countries collaborate , while fading out blame and separation , humanity will increasingly get onto the power of collective heart intention for drawing the best outcomes for present and future situations .
Many people are sharing that they strongly sense from within that life is calling for the next level of care and authentic connection with each other .
Caring and genuine connection helps to offset stress accumulation from anxiety , fear or panic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reasoning , especially when confronted with health , financial or other challenges .
Increasing our kindness , compassion and cooperation will soon be realized as highly intelligent and efficient street sense , not just spiritual disciplines .
The new spiritual is to bring these qualities of the heart to the street in our interactions with each other .
Most of us feel we want more harmonious interactions , but we have to step into it with our heart ’ s intention in order to change the old habit imprints .
We can and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s who we are at the core .
Compassion and helpfulness feel natural in our present situation .
That ’ s because it is natural .
The objective is for humanity to go for sustaining this without needing stress to remind us .
This will activate next level consciousness .
Isn ’ t this what spiritual advancement is about ?
The door is wide open for a fresh start .
Solutions are within our hearts .
Caring for each other is what increases the connection with our heart ’ s intelligent guidance and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and love through your heart area for a few minutes to set a calm and genuine tone .
• Now connect in the heart with all people around the planet who are radiating love and care to people affected by the challenges of the coronavirus .
See the rise of the human spirit helping to reduce fear while magnetizing needed solutions for personal , community and global .
• Let ’ s send our most sincere appreciation , love and compassion to all the health care providers and others on the front lines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ putting themselves at risk .
by our love , care and compassion as they selflessly care for others .
• Let ’ s close by radiating love and compassion into the planetary field environment , seeing our collective heart energy easing and softening the impact of the coronavirus .
As we do this , hold a vision of the coronavirus inspiring deeper connections among people and more harmonious cooperation for the good of the whole .
Let ’ s sustain a vision for the highest best outcome and for people moving into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ love and compassion .
Let ’ s remember that it ’ s the deeper connection with our own heart and with the hearts of others that can help to magnetize intuitive solutions for our personal and collective challenges .
You can continue to do this Special Care Focus , if convenient , for a few minutes each day and help lift the energy field environment that surrounds you , your family and our planet .
Thank you for your participation in this Special Care Focus .
* The following website – https : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for determining the exact time the Care Focus will take place in your Local Time Zone .

By Doc Childre | HeartMath.org
Welcome to a Special Care Focus #2 – Rise of the Human Spirit. In order for everyone around the world to participate in a synchronized Care Focus, beginning Wednesday, April 1st we have chosen three convenient times: 4 a.m., 12 p.m. (noon), and 8 p.m. Pacific Time (GMT/UTC minus 7 hours)*. Please join with others on the Global Coherence App or the Global Care Room. We will do a special care focus every Wednesday until the Coronavirus pandemic subsides. Thank you for joining with us.
Share with those you feel it could help.
We are providing a Special Care Focus #2 because people are asking us for our insights into the greater possibilities for humanity that can come from the coronavirus and for more helpful suggestions on what they can do.
The coronavirus pandemic is awakening multi-millions to the reality of our interconnectedness. The virus doesn’t discriminate race, nationality, religion, political beliefs or financial status. We are all in this together, which can turn out to be the bright side of it all. Millions are isolated by “shelter in place” or separated by “social distancing,” yet sensing that it’s now time to care for each other more than ever. At the same time, people report feeling lonely in social isolation but using the time to slow down, go deeper into reflection, and reach out online to connect with family, friends and social groups. Collective online participation of people sharing and sending heart and compassion lifts our spirit while boosting our confidence, immune system and resilience.
The rise of the human spirit is in the air, along with high anxiety and insecurity from uncertainty. That’s understandable. As individuals and countries collaborate, while fading out blame and separation, humanity will increasingly get onto the power of collective heart intention for drawing the best outcomes for present and future situations. Many people are sharing that they strongly sense from within that life is calling for the next level of care and authentic connection with each other. Caring and genuine connection helps to offset stress accumulation from anxiety, fear or panic, while clearing our mind for effective reasoning, especially when confronted with health, financial or other challenges.
Increasing our kindness, compassion and cooperation will soon be realized as highly intelligent and efficient street sense, not just spiritual disciplines. The new spiritual is to bring these qualities of the heart to the street in our interactions with each other. Most of us feel we want more harmonious interactions, but we have to step into it with our heart’s intention in order to change the old habit imprints. We can and will eventually do this. It’s who we are at the core.
Compassion and helpfulness feel natural in our present situation. That’s because it is natural. The objective is for humanity to go for sustaining this without needing stress to remind us. This will activate next level consciousness. Isn’t this what spiritual advancement is about? The door is wide open for a fresh start. Solutions are within our hearts. Caring for each other is what increases the connection with our heart’s intelligent guidance and solutions.
Care Focus – Rise of the Human Spirit
Breathe feelings of peace and love through your heart area for a few minutes to set a calm and genuine tone. Now connect in the heart with all people around the planet who are radiating love and care to people affected by the challenges of the coronavirus. See the rise of the human spirit helping to reduce fear while magnetizing needed solutions for personal, community and global well-being . Let’s send our most sincere appreciation, love and compassion to all the health care providers and others on the front lines and behind the scenes helping people while putting themselves at risk. See them surrounded by our love, care and compassion as they selflessly care for others. Let’s close by radiating love and compassion into the planetary field environment, seeing our collective heart energy easing and softening the impact of the coronavirus. As we do this, hold a vision of the coronavirus inspiring deeper connections among people and more harmonious cooperation for the good of the whole. Let’s sustain a vision for the highest best outcome and for people moving into the next level of their capacity for unconditional love and compassion.
Let’s remember that it’s the deeper connection with our own heart and with the hearts of others that can help to magnetize intuitive solutions for our personal and collective challenges.
You can continue to do this Special Care Focus, if convenient, for a few minutes each day and help lift the energy field environment that surrounds you, your family and our planet.
Thank you for your participation in this Special Care Focus.
Doc Childre
* The following website – https://timeanddate.com/s/33sd – is a time conversion site for determining the exact time the Care Focus will take place in your Local Time Zone.