Health Update: Zinc + zinc ionophores (from foods and off-patent medications) significantly prevent or weaken many viral infections in addition to Covid viruses, polio, and influenza.
In my post on natural anti-infectives of March 6, 2022, I reported that zinc ionophores (2010 study) carry zinc ions into human cells and interfere with the replication of Covid viruses (forms of SARS viruses), influenza, and polio. (Think of zinc ions as contraceptives for these viruses). Zinc ions do this by blocking the action of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). I also reported that quercetin (from various fruits and vegetables) and EGCG (from green tea) acted as zinc ionophores (2014 study).
I can now add that a lot of other RNA viral infections—not retroviruses, not DNA viruses—are inhibited too, because RdRp acts in them all, though in different ways.
For example, from covid19.onedaymd.com:
“Other single stranded RNA viruses include Flu virus, RSV and dengue. They may use similar pathways for replication i.e. RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RDRP) to make copies of their genome.”
From Wikipedia: “An RNA virus is a virus—other than a retrovirus—that has ribonucleic acid (RNA) as its genetic material. The nucleic acid is usually single-stranded RNA, but it may be double-stranded. Notable human diseases caused by RNA viruses include the common cold, influenza, SARS, MERS, Covid-19, Dengue Virus, hepatitis C, hepatitis E, West Nile fever, Ebola virus disease, rabies, polio, mumps, and measles.”
Also from covid19.onedaymd.com: “Based on the database on C19Early.org (as of July 2022), quercetin performs better than hydroxychloroquine for prevention but hydroxychloroquine is superior in terms of early treatment:
—Prevention: Quercetin (93%) vs Hydroxychloroquine (32%)
—Early Treatment: Hydroxychloroquine (63%) vs Quercetin (38%)”
I checked C19Early.org. It does a meta analysis involving 48 Covid early treatments, approvals in 80 countries, with a database of 2,227 treatments. (A meta analysis collects data from many studies of similar quality and focus, and then analyses the collected data.) It has several graphs with lots of different substances tested, both from foods and pharmaceuticals. And there are a lot of qualifications.
Of note for me, after quercetin, ivermectin was listed third at 82% effective as prophylaxis (preventive) against Covid-19. And, early treatments, in the first two days, were found to be dramatically more effective against Covid-19.
The data on quercetin as prophylaxis comes from 3 studies totaling 346 patients, which is deemed “very little data.” True, but not to be dismissed lightly. No mention was made of the amount of zinc in the diet or as a supplement.
Several very curious aspects of the C19Early meta analysis of prophylaxis are:
EGCG is not in the list.
Vitamin C was judged to be only 28% effective.
Vitamin D was judged only 21% effective.
Zinc was listed as an agent all by itself, but not mentioned in complement with zinc ionophores.
This points to the limitations of any meta analysis: It depends on what the original researchers look at, and on what the meta analysis includes.
They ignored EGCG.
They likely used far too little vitamin C, since allopathic medicine (see Allopathic Medicine vs. Complementary Health) sees value in vitamin C only in preventing the fatal disease scurvy, and for this only in hundreds of milligrams, while experience and practice show a lot of benefit in preventing infections by using several thousand or more milligrams of vitamin C.
Ditto for vitamin D: allopathic says 400 IUs (to avoid rickets, I presume); experience says 3,000 to 10,000 IUs for optimal health (adjusted to get 50+ on the blood test for vitamin D). Also, allopathic ignores the need for vitamin K2 and magnesium.
Ditto for zinc beyond an amount only to avoid disease, not for optimal health.
Further, I know from following critiques of many medical studies, that many Covid studies were done as if to prove ineffectiveness: too little; too late; and/or with other treatments that were harmful. (For example, the vaunted “ventilators” proved to do more damage than they helped and have been reportedly used much less frequently.)
Finally, all these nutrients work as teams, vitamin c plus zinc plus zinc ionophores plus vitamin D, etc. etc. etc. (see natural anti-infectives), but allopathic medicine looks at them only in isolation, one at a time.
In particular, relevant to fighting off viruses, vitamin C and zinc (independent of ionophore action), along with other antioxidants, mobilize, activate, and protect the front-line white blood cells that start to attack infections from within an hour after the body detects them.
In regard to vitamin C’s effectiveness: Taking more vitamin C immediately after symptoms start and continuing at higher doses is most important to its action. Wait too long after symptoms start and it’s too late for vitamin C to prevent the avalanche of viral multiplication. Further, it’s easy to see how allopathic researchers would totally fail to find vitamin C’s effectiveness in this regard; they don’t look at hourly timing.
Despite the caveats, it appears that many terrible or just very annoying viral infections can be significantly weakened or outright prevented by just getting enough zinc plus zinc ionophores (in diet or supplements), with even better results using other natural anti-infectives.
Meanwhile, doctors who are allowed (!!) to use ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine properly report excellent results to prevent or treat Covid viruses (See the FLCCC website, for example).
FYI, the people at C19Early also report on results of outcomes of treatments for Covid infections. My main concern however is to avoid getting sick in the first place, so I haven’t analyzed these meta analyses of outcomes—and they are hard to decipher.
However, I absolutely trust the treatments recommended by FLCCC, for I have followed them and their Wednesday evening webcasts for well over a year, and I have checked out a lot of what they do. In particular, they increasingly use many of the natural anti-infectives that I have long found effective.
Addendum: Summary of viruses mentioned:
Clearly vulnerable to Zinc + Zinc Ionophores: SARs viruses (includes Covid viruses, and all corona-cold-viruses), influenza, polio, dengue, RSV
Likely Vulnerable to Zinc + Zinc Ionophores: Common Cold, MERS, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis E, West Nile, Ebola, Rabies, Mumps, Measles
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